The IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) Transactions on Information and Systems, which is an open journal, announces a forthcoming Special Section on Machine Vision Applications to be published in June 2020.

The Sixteenth International Conference on Machine Vision Applications will be held at National Olympics Memorial Youth Center, Japan, from May 27 through 31, 2019. The conference is sponsored by the MVA Organization. In conjunction with the MVA 2019, we plan to publish the special section that consists of the papers published in the MVA 2019 as well as new contributions with related topics. The submitted papers are expected to be related to Machine Vision and its Applications that include the following topics:

• Algorithms
Feature Extraction, Surface Reconstruction, Range Data and 3D Analysis, Motion and/or Image Sequence Analysis, Color Image Analysis, Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition, and related technologies

• Architectures
Vision Chips, Vision Sensors with New Optical Systems, Architectures for 3D and/or Motion Processing, Image Processing Systems, Cooperative Distributed Systems, Software Environments for Image Processing and Analysis, and related technologies

• Applications
•Factory Automation: Inspection, Diagnosis, Assembly
•Intelligent Transport Systems: Traffic Monitoring, Traffic Control, Driving Safety Assistance, Electric Toll Collection
•Robots: Home Robots, Mobile Robots, Service Robots, Space Robots
•Security Systems: Surveillance, Alarm Systems, Biometrics and Personal Identification, Home Security and Monitoring Systems, Forensic Systems
•Medical Systems: Medical Examination Assistance, Remote Medicine, Image-guided Surgery and Intervention, Analysis of 2D/3D Biomedical Images
•Geographic Information Systems: Map Processing, 3D Reconstruction from Photographs or Maps
•Multimedia: Image Retrieval, Document and Drawing Analysis, Digital Archiving, Multimedia Databases and Analysis
•Action Analysis and Recognition: Gesture Recognition, Behavior Recognition
•Human Computer Interaction: Face Recognition, Wearable Computing, Multi-modal Interface, Personal Imaging
•Vision and Graphics: Augmented and Mixed Reality
•Others: Applications to Civil and Construction Engineering, Agriculture, Forestry, Fishery, etc

Special Section Editorial Committee
Guest chief editor: Atsuto Maki (KTH)
Guest associate editorial: Paolo Favaro (Universität Bern), Ryuzo Okada (Toshiba), Norimichi Ukita (Toyota Technological Institute)
Members: Aurelio Campilho (Universidade do Porto), Boxin Shi (Peking University), Carlo Colombo (University of Florence), Cees Snoek (University of Amsterdam), Federico Tombari (Technical University of Munich), Kazunori Okada (Sun Francisco State University), Ko Nishino (Kyoto University), Kwan-Yee Wong (The University of Hong Kong), Masayuki Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Noriko Shimomura (Nissan), Rei Kawakami (The University of Tokyo), Shin'ichi Satoh (National Institute of Informatics), Tomas Pajdla (Czech Technical University in Prague), Yoichi Sato (University of Tokyo), Yoshihisa Ijiri (Omron)