ICIAR 2020 IS NOW A VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

Based on the opinion of a majority of those who participated in the poll last week, and the news released by the health authorities regarding COVID-19, the conference chairs and the organizing committee decided to move ICIAR 2020 to a virtual conference. We want to thank you for supporting and understanding this change for a virtual conference.

We are now working on this new modality, and the full details will be announced as soon as we have prepared all the conditions to held an exciting and a rewarding new way of networking and presentation of scientific work.

Although all the conditions are not yet fully defined, we are now able to guarantee the following:

All the papers will be presented by an author of an accepted paper in a time slot depending on the type of paper, with a maximum of 15 min. Details will be provided soon;
Authors will be also asked to be available for Q&A, after the paper presentations;
The conference will be held on the dates already established for the conference, between 24th to 26th, June 2020;
All the accepted papers will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and the conference proceedings will be available online during the conference;
Certificate of participation will be issued for those who presented their papers, or registered and attended the virtual conference;
The registration fees are reduced by approximately 40%.


ICIAR 2020 - 17th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION
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CALL FOR PAPERS
NEW PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE (now synchronized with the submission deadline
with the ICIAR 2020 challenge: https://lndb.grand-challenge.org/): *February 10, 2020*
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GENERAL INFORMATION: (https://www.aimiconf.org/iciar20)
• Conference dates: June 24-26, 2020
• Venue: Axis Vermar Conference & Beach Hotel, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal
(https://www.aimiconf.org/iciar20/venue.php)
• Call for papers: https://www.aimiconf.org/iciar20/cfp.php
• Important dates: https://www.aimiconf.org/iciar20/dates.php


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
• ICIAR 2020 will award the three best papers and the best student paper.
• Extended versions of awarded papers will be published in Pattern Recognition Letters
(https://www.journals.elsevier.com/pattern-recognition-letters)
• The proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series
(http://www.springer.com/lncs).
• The LNDb challenge will take place during the conference
(https://lndb.grand-challenge.org/)


GENERAL CHAIRS: (https://www.aimiconf.org/iciar20/committees.php)
• Aurélio Campilho, University of Porto, Portugal
• Fakhri Karray, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Zhou Wang, University of Waterloo, Canada


PROGRAM CHAIRS: (https://www.aimiconf.org/iciar20/committees.php)

Image Processing and Analysis
• Armando Pinho, University of Aveiro, Portugal
• Ed Vrscay, University of Waterloo, Canada

Computer Vision
• J. Santos Victor, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of de Lisbon, Portugal
• Petia Radeva, University of Barcelona, Spain

Machine Learning
• Jaime Cardoso, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
• J. Salvador Sanchez Garreta, University of Jaume I, Spain

Medical Image Analysis
• Ana Mendonça, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
• Roberto Hornero, University of Valladolid, Spain


INVITED SPEAKERS: (https://www.aimiconf.org/iciar20/talks.php)
• Daniel Rueckert, Imperial College London, UK
• Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK
• Ioannis Pitas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece


IMPORTANT DATES:
• Paper submission deadline February 10, 2020
• Novel imaging methods ofophthalmic
diseases Paper submission deadline March 6, 2020
• Author notification March 16, 2020
• Camera-ready version May 30, 2020
• Paper registration April 10, 2020
• Conference June 24-26, 2020

GRAND CHALLENGE (LNDb) - Automatic Lung Cancer Patient Management:
(https://lndb.grand-challenge.org/)
• Train/validation set prediction submission February 10, 2020
• ICIAR 2020 paper submission deadline February 10, 2020
• Test set release February 11, 2020
• Test set prediction submission deadline February 17, 2020
• Results announcement February 18, 2020

OTHER DATES:
• Hotel Axis Vermar rooms reserved until May 18, 2020