Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

o Software tools for imaging
o Image-based modeling and algorithms
o Illumination and reflectance modeling
o Motion and tracking algorithms and applications
o Biometric authentication
o Event recognition techniques in image sequences
o Medical image processing and analysis
o Image geometry and multi-view geometry
o Segmentation techniques
o Geometric modeling and fractals
o Scene and object modeling
o Image data structures and databases
o Image compression, coding, and encryption
o Image display techniques
o Digital imaging for film and television
o Image formation techniques
o Image generation, acquisition, and processing
o Image feature extraction
o Novel document image understanding techniques + OCR
o Enhancement techniques
o Novel noise reduction algorithms
o Mathematical morphology
o 3D imaging
o Watermarking methods and protection
o Wavelet methods
o Mosaic, image registration and fusion methods
o Color and texture
o Image restoration
o Printing technologies
o Interpolation techniques
o Shape representation
o Video analysis
o Indexing and retrieval of images (image databases)
o Signal and speech processing
o Object recognition
o Multi-resolution vision techniques
o Face and gesture
o Stereo vision
o Soft computing methods in image processing and vision
o Machine learning technologies for vision
o Performance analysis and evaluation (real-time vision)
o Camera networks and vision
o Sensors and early vision
o Active and robot vision
o Cognitive and biologically inspired vision
o Fuzzy and neural techniques in vision
o Graph theory in image processing and vision
o Special-purpose machine architectures for vision
o Dimensionality reduction methods in pattern recognition
o Classification and clustering techniques
o Symbolic learning
o Statistical pattern recognition
o Invariance in pattern recognition
o Knowledge-based recognition
o Structural and syntactic pattern recognition
o Applications including: security, medicine, robotic, GIS, remote sensing, industrial inspection, nondestructive evaluation (or NDE), ...
o Case studies
o Emerging technologies
o Workshop on Multimedia Systems and Applications:
- Media blending technologies
- Multimedia retrieval methods
- Multimedia documents and authoring
- Coding and compression techniques
- Annotation and visualization
- Multimedia databases and archival systems
- Video surveillance and sensor networks
- Content analysis and data mining
- User interface challenges
- Operating system support for multimedia systems
- Network architectures and protocols
- Content protection methods
- Synchronization (inter-media and intra-media) technologies
- Security and privacy
- Capture and sensor systems (embedded, multi-sensors, ...)
- Multimedia processing techniques (audio, image, video, ...)
- Data storage and management
- Server design issues for multimedia systems
- Distributed multimedia
- Multimedia programming
- Multimedia interface design
- Multimedia computing
- Interactive multimedia applications
- Benchmarking systems
- Interactive television (video-on-demand, home shopping, voting, and games)
- Hypermedia systems
- Video conferencing and groupware
- Fundamentals of human perception
- Audio and music processing for multimedia
- Multimedia tools
- Multimedia and education
- Real world applications and emerging technologies