News for IAPR TC15

• 2012-02-04
  IAPR News letter(more)

  The January 2012 issue of the IAPR Newsletter is now available at
  
  [HTML] http://www.iapr.org/members/newsletter/Newsletter12-01/
  [PDF] http://www.iapr.org/docs/newsletter-2012-01.pdf
  
  NOTE -- If you are an IAPR Member Society representative, please forward this email to your members.
  ______________________________________________________
  
  IN THIS ISSUE:
  
  1. Getting to know...Theo Pavlidis, IAPR Fellow
  
  2. From the ExCo
  
  3. BooksBooksBooks
  
  4. IAPR Conference and Workshop Reports
  
  5. Non-IAPR Conference and workshop Reports
  
  6. ICPR 2012
  
  7. Of Interest...
  
  8. Conference Planner
  
  
  Link: http://www.iapr.org/members/newsletter/Newsletter12-01/ (close)

• 2012-02-04
  CIARP 2012(more)

  CIARP2012 Call for Papers
  
  The 17th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition CIARP 2012 will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 3 – 6, 2012, and is organized by the Argentine Society for Pattern Recognition (SARP) and the University of Buenos Aires.
  
  This conference is a forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical and applied pattern recognition, for the exchange of scientific results and experiences, and for the growth of the co-operation between research groups.
  
  Important Dates:
  · Deadline for paper submission March 16th, 2012
  · Notification of paper acceptance May 18th 2012
  · Camera ready papers and author registration June 15th 2012
  
  Conference Location:
  · CIARP2012 will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina
  
  Link: http://www.ciarp.org/xvii/(close)

• 2012-01-20
  ACCV 2012 cf Workshop & Tutorial(more)

  11th Asian Conference on Computer Vision
  
  November 5-9, 2012, Daejeon, Korea
  
  http://www.accv2012.org/
  
  
  
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  Workshops
  
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  Proposals for workshops are solicited for the 2012 ACCV.
  
  Workshops will take place on Nov. 5, 2012, at the same venue as the ACCV main conference.
  
  
  Workshops provide an informal setting where the participants have the opportunity to
  discuss cutting-edge research issues and emerging topics in computer vision in an
  atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. We hope to bring together
  researchers from different academic communities as well as from industry or public
  institutions. Each workshop should be well-focused, and encourage collaboration and
  discussions among the participants. Workshop duration may be a half day or full day.
  
  
  Appropriate subjects for workshops include topics from computer vision as well as
  related fields or application areas. We are especially interested in workshops
  exploring new, emergent research directions in computer vision. Workshops may
  consist of talks by invited speakers, panel discussions, presentations by authors
  of submitted papers, or a combination of the above.
  
  
  Workshop proposals can be sent to the Workshops Chairs (workshop@accv2012.org),
  Jong Il Park, Jun Mo Kim, Hideo Saito, Yanxi Liu, and Ming-Hsuan Yang.
  The deadline for all workshop proposal submission is March 20, 2012.
  Decisions will be made by May 2012.
  
  
  
  More details about the workshop proposal process available here
  
  
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  Tutorials
  
  ================
  
  
  Proposals for tutorials are solicited for the 2012 ACCV.
  Tutorials will take place on Nov. 5, 2012, at the same venue as the ACCV main
  conference. We hope to bring together researchers from different academic
  communities as well as from industry or public institutions. Tutorial
  duration may be a half day or full day.
  
  
  Appropriate subjects for tutorials include recent topics from computer
  vision as well as related fields or application areas. We are especially
  interested in tutorials exploring new, emergent research directions in
  computer vision, for example, vision based application for portable device.
  
  
  Tutorial proposals can be sent to the Tutorial Chairs (tutorial@accv2012.org),
  Chang Dong Yoo, Yoshinori Kuno, and Michael S. Brown.
  The deadline for all tutorial proposal submission is March 20, 2012.
  Decisions will be made by May 2012.
  
  
  
  More details of the tutorial proposal process available here
  
  Link: http://www.accv2012.org/(close)

• 2011-12-16
  ICPR 2012(more)

  ICPR2012 Call for Papers
  
  
  
  ICPR2012 is the twenty-first conference of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), which will be held during November 11-15, 2012.
  
  
  ICPR 2012 will be an international forum for discussions on recent advances in the fields of Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning; Signal, Speech, Image and Video Processing; Biometrics and Human Computer Interaction; Multimedia and Document Analysis, Processing and Retrieval; Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications.
  
  
  
  Paper Submission:
  
  Authors will be requested to submit their papers electronically through the ICPR2012 Call for Papers
  
  
  
  
  Details on paper format for manuscript submission will be available at the conference web site.
  
  
  
  
  Important Dates:
  
  Deadline for paper submission March 31, 2012
  
  Deadline for workshop proposal January 6, 2012
  
  Deadline for tutorial proposal April 30, 2012
  
  Notification of paper acceptance June 15, 2012
  
  Camera ready papers and author registration July 15, 2012
  
  conference website before March 31st, 2012.
  
  
  
  Link: http://www.icpr2012.org(close)

• 2011-12-16
  SSPR 2012 cfp(more)

  Technical Committee 1 and Technical Committee 2 of International Assocition for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) jointly with Special Interest Group of Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding of the Institute Electronics, Information and Cmmunication Engineers of Japan (SIG-PRMU, IEICE) organize S+SSPR 2012. The workshop will be jointly hosted Hiroshima University, Hokkaido University, Tohoku University.
  
  Important Dates
  
  Submission deadline 6th July, 2012
  
  Author notification 15th August, 2012
  
  Camera-ready 3rd September, 2012
  
  Workshop 7-9th November, 2012 5, 2012
  
  Camera ready papers and author registration July 15, 2012
  
  
  
  Link: http://www.media.imit.chiba-u.jp/ssspr2012/(close)

• 2011-12-01
  CVPR 2012 Short Courses/Tutorials(more)

  CVPR 2012 Short Courses & Tutorials: Call for Proposals
  
  Deadline: December 2, 2011
  
  Short Courses Chair: Erik Learned-Miller (elm@cs.umass.edu)
  
  
  
  The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) will take place in Providence, Rhode Island, between June 16-21, 2012. Short courses and tutorials will take place on June 16, 17 and/or 21, 2012, at the same venue as CVPR, the Rhode Island Convention Center.
  
  
  Short courses and tutorials are usually half-day with the option of full day courses for wider scope topics. They aim to address a specific topic in computer vision and are supposed to provide a comprehensive overview of the topic. The audience is mostly graduate students. The topic should be of sufficient relevance with respect to the state of the art and the course should be educational rather than just a survey of techniques.
  
  
  
  
  To submit a proposal, please send the following information to the Chair by December 2 (either plain text email or a .pdf file):
  
  
  1) Short course/Tutorial Title.
  
  2) Proposer's name, title, affiliation, and email.
  
  3) Names of additional organizers with name, title, affiliation and email.
  
  4) Short biosketch of each organizer.
  
  5) Course description. Please provide topics covered, with a brief outline and other significant details. Please discuss the target audience and expected number of attendees. Also, provide pointers to relevant publications by the organizers, and to other publications.
  
  6) Describe the relationship to previous tutorials offered at CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV in the last three years.
  
  7) Planned materials (if any) to be distributed to attendees.
  
  
  The selection committee will deliver decisions by January 15, 2012.
  
  Link: mailto:elm@cs.umass.edu(close)

• 2011-12-01
  ICIAR 2012(more)

  ICIAR 2012 - 9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION
  
  
  June 25-27, 2011
  
  
  Aveiro, Portugal
  
  
  
  ICIAR 2012 is the 9th conference of a series of ICIAR conferences organized
  in Portugal and Canada. Authors are invited to submit full papers showing
  original research contributions. The page limit is 8 pages (1-column), plus
  2 extra pages.
  
  The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes
  in Computer Science series. ICIAR series is organized annually, alternating
  between Europe and North America. ICIAR 2012 will be held in Aveiro,
  Portugal.
  
  Aveiro, Portugal
  
  
  Link: http://www.iciar.uwaterloo.ca/iciar12/(close)

• 2011-11-30
  CTW 2011(more)

  Special Issue DAM: CTW 2011
  
  10th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization
  
  Deadline: *November 30, 2011. Extensions may be obtained upon request*.
  
  
  
  
  Following the tradition of previous workshops, a special issue o
  Discrete Applied Mathematics will be devoted to the 10th Cologne-Twente
  Workshop on Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization.
  
  
  All interested researchers are invited to contribute to this special
  volume. The topics should relate to the themes of the workshop (graphs,
  combinatorial optimization and the design and analysis of algorithms).
  Submissions of contributions not presented at the workshop are also welcome.
  
  
  All articles will be thoroughly refereed according to the high standards
  of Discrete Applied Mathematics.
  
  
  The full papers must be submitted through the Elsevier Editorial
  System (http://ees.elsevier.com/dam). When submitting your paper, be
  sure to specify that the paper is a contribution for the Special Issue
  of CTW 2011, so that your paper is assigned to the guest editors.
  
  Link: http://ctw2011.dia.uniroma3.it(close)

• 2011-11-30
  CTW 2012(more)

  CTW 2012
  
  11th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs & Combinatorial Optimization
  UBw Muenchen, Munich, May 29-31, 2012
  
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  The eleventh Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs and Combinatorial
  Optimization 2012 welcomes contributions on theory and applications of
  discrete algorithms, graphs and combinatorial structures in the wide
  sense, discrete and continuous optimization, and Operations Research.
  
  
  Following a well established tradition, the 11th edition of the workhop
  aims to disseminate scientific results, especially by young researchers,
  in a friendly and interactive atmosphere.
  
  submission:
  
  Authors wishing to submit a contribution, should prepare an extended
  stract of at most 4 pages* by February 29, 2012 following the
  guidelines on the conference website.
  
  
  
  
  Important dates:
  
  *Deadline for abstract submission: February 29, 2012;
  
  *Acceptance notice: April 2, 2012;
  
  *Deadline for early registration: April 23, 2012;
  
  *Conference: May 29-31, 2012.
  
  *************************************************************************
  
  
  Participants of the workshop will have the opportunity to submit full-length
  papers to a special issue of Discrete Applied Mathematics and Central
  European
  Journal of Operations Research.
  
  Link: http://www.ctw2012.de(close)

• 2011-11-30
  ICPR call for workshops(more)

  CALL FOR WORKSHOPS (ICPR 2012)
  
  
  
  The ICPR 2012 Workshop Chairs invite workshop proposals for the 21st
  International Conference on Pattern Recognition (www.icpr2012.org).
  The workshops must be full-day and will be held on November 11th,
  2012, immediately before the start of the main conference.
  
  
  
  SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
  
  
  To propose a workshop, a PDF file containing the following
  information must be sent to the ICPR 2012 Workshop Chairs, Yoichi
  Sato (ysato@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp) and Rahul Sukthankar (rahuls@cs.cmu.
  edu) by JANUARY 6, 2012. You should receive an acknowledgment of
  receipt by email within a few working days.
  
  
  1. The title of the workshop
  
  2. A brief description of the workshop, specifying the goals and the
  technical issues that will be addressed.
  
  3. A brief discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest.
  
  4. The names, postal addresses, phone and fax numbers, and email
  
  addresses of organizing committee members. The organizing
  committee members should include at least three experts in the
  technical area.
  
  5. The name of the primary contact person
  
  6. A list of program committee members if available
  
  7. The estimated size of participants
  
  8. Tentative paper submission deadline
  9. A plan for publishing the workshop proceedings if available
  
  Link: http://www.icpr2012.org/cfw.html(close)

• 2011-11-30
  ICPR 2012 cfp(more)

  ICPR2012 Call for Papers
  
  
  
  
  ICPR2012 is the twenty-first conference of the International Conference
  on Pattern Recognition, as organised by the International Association for
  Pattern Recognition (IAPR). It will be held during November 11-15, 2012,
  in Tsukuba, Japan.
  
  
  
  ICPR 2012 will be an international forum for discussions on recent advances
  in the fields of Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning;
  Signal, Speech, Image and Video Processing; Biometrics and Human Computer
  Interaction; Multimedia and Document Analysis, Processing and Retrieval;
  Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications.
  
  
  Paper Submission:
  
  Authors will be requested to submit their papers electronically through
  the conference website before March 31st, 2012.
  
  
  Details on paper format for manuscript submission will be available at
  the conference web site.
  
  
  
  Workshops:
  
  ICPR2012 invites Workshop Proposals. The workshops must be full-day and
  will be held on November 11th, 2012, immediately before the start of
  the main conference.
  
  
  Tutorials:
  
  ICPR2012 invites interested researchers to send proposals for the
  Tutorial Program. The tutorials must be half (or full)-day and will be
  held on November 11th, 2012.
  
  
  Important Dates:
  
  Deadline for paper submission March 31, 2012
  
  Deadline for workshop proposal January 6, 2012
  
  Deadline for tutorial proposal April 30, 2012
  
  Notification of paper acceptance June 15, 2012
  
  Camera ready papers and author registration July 15, 2012
  
  
  
  Conference Location:
  
  ICPR2012 will be held at the Tsukuba International Congress Center,
  Tsukuba, Japan.
  
  Link: http://www.icpr2012.org(close)

• 2011-11-21
  CVIU Special Issue(more)

  Call for papers for a special issue in CVIU in honor of
  Prof. Jake Aggarwal, featuring topics in:
  
  
  Structure from motion
  
  Analysis of range images
  
  Modeling of human motion
  
  Tracking of rigid and non-rigid objects
  
  Human activity modeling and recognition
  Automatic target recognition
  Multi-sensor fusion for computer vision
  
  
  Link: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~rama/CVIUJake/CFPCVIUSpecialIssue.html(close)

• 2011-11-02
  ICIAR 2012(more)

  ICIAR 2012 is the 9th conference of a series of ICIAR conferences
  organized in Portugal and Canada. Authors are invited to submit full
  papers showing original research contributions. The page limit is
  8 pages (1-column), plus 2 extra pages.
  
  
  Focused Topic: BIOMEDICAL IMAGING
  Starting with ICIAR 2012, one of the days of the conference will be
  focused in a special topic. In 2012 the focused topic will be
  "BIOMEDICAL IMAGING". The sessions will comprise invited keynote
  speakers, oral and poster presentations and a panel discussion. Authors
  are invited to submit full papers under this topic, addressing original
  research developments.
  
  
  
  The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ICIAR series is organized annually, alternating between Europe and North America. ICIAR 2012 will be held
  in Aveiro, Portugal.
  
  Link: http://www.iciar.uwaterloo.ca/iciar12/(close)

• 2011-10-26
  CTIC 2012 last cfp(more)

  CTIC 2012 is a workshop devoted to computational methods using topology for the analysis and comparison of images. The involved research fields comprise computational topology and geometry, discrete topology and geometry, geometrical modeling, algebraic topology for image applications, and any other field involving a geometric-topological approach to image processing.
  
  The workshop is intended to offer both young and experienced researchers the opportunity to exchange ideas and start new collaborations and projects.
  
  All the papers accepted for the workshop will be published in LNCS post-proceedings.
  
  Selected papers will be published in a special issue of Computer Vision and Image Understanding.
  
  
  Link: http://ctic2012.dm.unibo.it/(close)

• 2011-10-12
  ICPR 2012 Contests(more)

  Call for participation in the ICPR 2012 Contests
  
  
  
  
  We are happy to announce the opening of the six ICPR 2012 Contests, to be
  held on November 11, 2012 in conjunction with the 21st International
  Conference on Pattern Recognition (www.icpr2012.org). The aim of the contests
  is to encourage better scientific development through comparing competing
  approaches on a common dataset.
  
  The Contests (see www.icpr2012.org/contests.html for full details and links):
  
  
  Gesture Recognition Challenge and Kinect Grand Prize
  
  HEp-2 Cells Classification
  
  Human activity recognition and localization
  
  Kitchen Scene Context based Gesture Recognition
  
  Mitosis Detection in Breast Cancer
  
  People tracking in wide baseline camera networks
  
  
  
  
  
  Link: http://www.icpr2012.org/contests.html (close)

• 2011-10-12
  PASCAL Visual Object Classes Recognition(more)

  We are running the PASCAL Visual Object Classes Recognition Challenge again this year. As in 2010 there are 20 object classes for the main competitions. Participants can recognize any or all of the classes, and there are classification, detection and pixel-wise segmentation competitions. This year the action classification taster competition has a new "other" category, and there is also a taster competition on person layout (detecting head, hands, feet). There is also an associated large scale visual recognition taster competition organized b y www.image-net.org.
  
  We remind users that the PASCAL VOC Challenge evaluation server is available at http://host.robots.ox.ac.uk:8080/ and is currently providing evaluations and downloads for the VOC 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 challenges.
  
  
  Link: http://pascallin.ecs.soton.ac.uk/challenges/VOC/voc2011/index.html (close)

• 2011-10-12
  CVPR 2012 Call for Short Courses/Tutorials(more)

  CVPR 2012 Short Courses & Tutorials: Call for Proposals
  
  Deadline: December 2, 2011
  
  Short Courses Chair: Erik Learned-Miller (elm@cs.umass.edu)
  
  
  
  The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) will take place in Providence, Rhode Island, between June 16-21, 2012. Short courses and tutorials will take place on June 16, 17 and/or 21, 2012, at the same venue as CVPR, the Rhode Island Convention Center.
  
  Short courses and tutorials are usually half-day with the option of full day courses for wider scope topics. They aim to address a specific topic in computer vision and are supposed to provide a comprehensive overview of the topic. The audience is mostly graduate students. The topic should be of sufficient relevance with respect to the state of the art and the course should be educational rather than just a survey of techniques.
  
  
  
  To submit a proposal, please send the following information to the Chair by December 2 (either plain text email or a .pdf file):
  
  
  
  1) Short course/Tutorial Title.
  
  2) Proposer's name, title, affiliation, and email.
  
  3) Names of additional organizers with name, title, affiliation and email
  .
  4) Short biosketch of each organizer.
  
  5) Course description. Please provide topics covered, with a brief outline and other significant details. Please discuss the target audience and expected number of attendees. Also, provide pointers to relevant publications by the organizers, and to other publications.
  
  6) Describe the relationship to previous tutorials offered at CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV in the last three years.
  
  7) Planned materials (if any) to be distributed to attendees.
  
  
  
  
  The selection committee will deliver decisions by January 15, 2012.
  
  
  
  Link: mailto:elm@cs.umass.edu(close)

• 2011-10-03
  Deep Hierarchies in Vision(more)

  The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers from vision, robotics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and neurophysiology to discuss existing obstacles in the design of deep hierarchies, possible solutions as well as perspectives for deep hierarchies in vision and robotics.
  
  
  
  A special issue with contributions from the workshop on 'Deep
  Hierarchies in Vision' in a journal is planned.
  
  Link: http://kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr/%7Esinan/DHV/(close)

• 2011-10-03
  CTIC 2012(more)

  CTIC 2012 is a workshop devoted to computational methods using topology for the analysis and comparison of images. The involved research fields comprise computational topology and geometry, discrete topology and geometry, geometrical modeling, algebraic topology for image applications, and any other field involving a geometric-topological approach to image processing.
  
  The workshop is intended to offer both young and experienced researchers the opportunity to exchange ideas and start new collaborations and projects .All the papers accepted for the workshop will be published in LNCS post-proceedings.
  
  
  Selected papers will be published in a special issue of Computer Vision and Image Understanding.
  
  Link: http://ctic2012.dm.unibo.it/(close)

• 2011-09-02
  VISAPP 2012(more)

  The International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications aims at becoming a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners on the area of computer vision application systems. Five simultaneous tracks will be held, covering all different aspects related to computer vision: Image Formation and Preprocessing; Image and Video Analysis and Understanding; Motion, Tracking and Stereo Vision; and Applications and Services.
  Conference Areas
  1. Image Formation and Preprocessing
  2. Image and Video Analysis
  3. Image and Video Understanding
  4. Motion, Tracking and Stereo Vision
  5. Applications and Services
  
  Important Dates
  Regular Paper Submission: October 11, 2011
  Authors Notification (regular papers): December 2, 2011
  Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: December 15, 2011
  
  
  Link: http://www.visapp.visigrapp.org/(close)

• 2011-09-02
  Special issue DAM: CTW2011(more)

  Following the tradition of previous workshops, a special issue of Discrete Applied Mathematics will be devoted to the recent 10th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization
  All interested researchers are invited to contribute to this special volume. The topics should relate to the themes of the workshop (graphs, combinatorial optimization and the design and analysis of algorithms). Submissions of contributions not presented at the workshop are also welcome. Full papers must be submitted through the Elsevier Editorial System. When submitting your paper, be sure to specify that the paper is a contribution for the Special Issue of CTW 2011, so that your paper is assigned to the guest editors.
  
  Link: http://ees.elsevier.com/dam(close)

• 2011-09-02
  ICPRAM 2012(more)

  The International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods would like to become a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners on the areas of Pattern Recognition, both from theoretical and application perspectives. Contributions describing applications of Pattern Recognition techniques to real-world problems, interdisciplinary research, experimental and/or theoretical studies yielding new insights that advance Pattern Recognition methods are especially encouraged.
  Special Sessions
  Algebraic Geometry in Machine Learning
  Shape Analysis and Deformable Modeling
  Machine Learning for Sequences
  Pattern Recognition Applications in Remotely Sensed Hyperspectral Image Analysis
  High-Dimensional Inference from Limited Data: Sparsity, Parsimony and Adaptivity
  Interactive and Adaptive Techniques for Machine Learning, Recognition and Perception
  Important Dates
  Regular Paper Submission: September 8, 2011 (extended)
  Authors Notification (regular papers): October 17, 2011
  Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: October 31, 2011
  
  Link: http://www.icpram.org/(close)

• 2011-08-28
  New Graph Theory section in DMTCS journal(more)

  Announcing the formation of a new section on Graph Theory in the open-access journal Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DMTCS).
  DMTCS is a high standard peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to rapid publication of innovative research in the fields of Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science with an emphasis on the intersection of the two. It is one of the earliest open-access journal in the fields, and is listed by ISI.
  The Graph Theory section covers research in all aspects of finite graphs but with a slight preference to papers with results showing some connection to computer science. We are very interested in high quality submissions and aim to keep a very high standard for accepted papers.(close)

• 2011-07-27
  GbR'2011 slides and pictures available(more)

  Slidesof almost all presentation and pictures took during the presentation are available on the GbR2011 Web site
  
  Link: http://cvpr.uni-muenster.de/GbR2011/home_page/(close)

• 2011-07-04
  VISAP 2012(more)

  The International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP) aims at becoming a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners in Computer Vision. The conference will be structured along five main tracks, namely Image Formation and Preprocessing, Image and Video Analysis, Image and Video Understanding, Motion, Tracking and Stereo Vision and, Applications and Services.
  
  Link: http://www.visapp.visigrapp.org/(close)

• 2011-07-04
  cfp TCS(more)

  CALL FOR PAPERS [***Deadline extension: September 30, 2011***]
  
  THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
  
  
  Special Issue on ``Theory and Applications of Graph Searching Problems''
  
  
  
  Manuscripts are solicited for a special issue in the journal "Theoretical Computer Science" (TCS) on
  "Theory and Applications of Graph Searching Problems". This special issue will be dedicated to
  the 60th birthday of Lefteris M. Kirousis.
  
  
  Graph searching is often referred to, in a more playful language, as a pursuit-evasion game. This is a kind of
  game where one part is a set of evaders, that hide in a graph representing a network, and the other part is a
  number pursuers, that move systematically in the graph. The game may vary significantly according to the
  capabilities of the evaders and the pursuers. The objective of the game is to capture the evaders in an optimal
  way, where the notion of optimality itself admits several interpretations. The area of Graph Searching has
  become a very active research area in theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics, with impact
  and applications in various domains.
  Submissions should be made in PDF format using the standard TCS submission system
  at http://ees.elsevier.com/tcs/ In the beginning of the submission,
  please choose as an Article Type: "SI TCS-A: Graph Searching (Thilikos)".
  
  
  
  
  
  Link: http://ees.elsevier.com/tcs/(close)

• 2011-07-04
  Summer School on Graphs(more)

  Summer School on Graphs in Computer Graphics, Image and Signal Analysis- Second Announcement
  
  August 14 - 19, 2011 (both days included)
  Rutsker, Bornholm, Denmark
  
  We hereby invite you to participate in the Summer School on Graphs
  and their application in computer graphics, image and signal analysis,
  taking place on the Danish island of Bornholm.
  
  
  The course will consist of lectures given by invited speakers with
  expertise in the field of graphs and their applications as well as
  members of the research groups at DTU Informatics and DIKU. Topics
  will cover introduction to graphs and applications within image and
  signal analysis. Participants will be awarded 2.5 ECTS (an additional
  2.5 ECTS point if a poster is presented and a small written report is
  produced after the summer school).
  
  Link: http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/projects/graph/(close)

• 2011-07-04
  PASCAL challenge 2011(more)

  We are running the PASCAL Visual Object Classes Recognition Challenge
  again this year. As in 2010 there are 20 object classes for the main
  competitions. Participants can recognize any or all of the classes,
  and there are classification, detection and pixel-wise segmentation
  competitions. This year the action classification taster competition
  has a new "other" category, and there is also a taster competition on
  person layout (detecting head, hands, feet).
  There is also an
  associated large scale visual recognition taster competition organized
  by www.image-net.org.
  
  We remind users that the PASCAL VOC Challenge evaluation server
  is available at hosts.robots and is currently
  providing evaluations and downloads for the VOC 2008, 2009 and 2010
  challenges.
  
  
  
  Link: http://pascallin.ecs.soton.ac.uk/challenges/VOC/voc2011/index.html (close)

• 2011-06-08
  GRAPHS Symposium(more)

  Symposium GRAPHS (item 15),
  ICNAAM 2011 (International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2010),
  G-Hotels, Halkidiki, Greece, 19-25 September 2011
  Organizer: Vojislav Petrovic (DMI Novi Sad)
  Topics: scores in graphs and digraphs, Eulerian and Hamiltonian graphs and digraphs, planar graphs, graph factors and decompositions, graph colorings, extremal graphs, graph spectra, tournaments and hypertournaments, graph algorithms
  Please send an email to vojpet@dmi.uns.ac.rs or vojpet@gmail.com to register.
  
  Link: http://www.icnaam.org/(close)

• 2011-05-28
  School on Graphs & Image(more)

  Summer School on Graphs in Computer Graphics, Image and Signal Analysis
  August 14 - 19, 2011 (both days included)
  Rutsker, Bornholm, Denmark
  
  We hereby invite you to participate in the Summer School on Graphs and their application in computer graphics, image and signal analysis, taking place on the Danish island of Bornholm.
  
  The course will consist of lectures given by invited speakers with expertise in the field of graphs and their applications as well as members of the research groups at DTU Informatics and DIKU. Topics will cover introduction to graphs and applications within image and signal analysis.
  
  
  Link: http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/projects/graph/(close)

• 2011-05-13
  ICPR 2012 Contest(more)

  ICPR 2012 Call for contest
  
  The ICPR 2012 Contest Co-Chairs invite proposals for contests, whose results will be presented at the 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition. The aim of the contests is to encourage better scientific development through comparing competing approaches on a common dataset. Each contest needs a contest organizer, who will be responsible for providing the dataset and setting clear competition tasks. The contest organizer should advertise the contest by Oct 1, 2011. The ICPR web site will also publicize the contest. The contest meeting will be a quarter/half day session (organizer s choice) at the conference on November 11, 2012, immediately before the start of the main conference. The format of the meeting is up to the contest organizer, but we anticipate it will include a description of the challenge and dataset, and a summary of performance on the different competition tasks. There could be presentations by the top scoring teams.
  
  Details about how to submit a proposal are avalaible in the link bellow
  
  Link: http://www.icpr2012.org/cfc.html(close)

• 2011-04-28
  King Sun FU Prize(more)

  The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) is pleased to announce
  a call for nominations for the King-Sun Fu Prize in honor of the memory of
  Professor King-Sun Fu.
  (Professor Fu’s biography appeared in the IEEE Trans. PAMI, May 1986 and is
  also available in pdf form at http://dataclustering.cse.msu.edu/KSFu_Biography.pdf .)
  
  
  
  This biennial prize is given to a living person in recognition of an outstanding technical contribution to the field of pattern recognition, and consists of a cash amount and a suitably inscribed certificate. The prize is derived from interest income from a special fund set up for this purpose.
  
  
  
  More details may be found here
  
  Link: http://www.greyc.ensicaen.fr/iapr-tc15/download/KSFu.pdf(close)

• 2011-04-28
  GREC 2011(more)

  We are pleased to announce that the 9th International Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC2011), organized by IAPR TC-10 (Technical Committeeon Graphics Recognition), will be held at the Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea on September 15-16, 2011, just before the 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2011).
  
  
  
  The GREC workshops provide an excellent opportunity for researchers and practitioners at all levels of experience to meet colleagues and to share new ideas and knowledge about graphics recognition methods.
  
  
  Graphics Recognition is a subfield of document image analysis that deals with graphical entities in engineering drawings, maps, architectural plans, musical scores, mathematical notation,tables, diagrams, etc.
  
  Link: http://grec2011.cau.ac.kr/index.html(close)

• 2011-04-22
  DNA 17 cfp(more)

  *** DNA 17 Call for Papers ***
  
  The Seventeenth International Conference on
  DNA Computing and Molecular Programming
  
  September 19-23, 2011
  
  California Institute of Technology
  
  Pasadena, California, USA
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Research in DNA computing and molecular programming draws together
  mathematics, computer science, physics, chemistry, biology, and
  nanotechnology to address the analysis, design, and synthesis of
  information-based molecular systems. This annual meeting is the premier
  forum where scientists with diverse backgrounds come together with the
  common purpose of advancing the engineering and science of biology and
  chemistry from the point of view of computer science, physics, and
  mathematics. Continuing this tradition, the 17th International Conference
  on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming (DNA17), under the auspices of
  the International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation and
  Engineering (ISNSCE), will focus on the most recent experimental and
  theoretical results that promise the greatest impact.
  
  
  
  Link: http://dna17.caltech.edu(close)

• 2011-04-19
  GA 2011(more)

  GA - Graph algorithms and Applications"
  
  Satellite workshop co-located with the 38th International
  Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2011)
  
  GA aims to provide a forum for researchers to discuss the most
  recent trends and results in graph algorithms and their
  applications. One goal is to show how theoretical advances,
  engineering principles and thorough experimental evaluations can help
  developers build efficient, robust, and scalable applications for
  domain-specific scenarios. Another goal is to extract, formalize,
  and model new algorithmic graph problems from modern real-world
  applications, exploring directions for future research.
  
  There will be no proceedings, but a selection of the papers accepted
  for presentation at the workshop will be invited for a special issue
  of Theoretical Computer Science. Indeed, because of the lack of a
  proceedings, submission of work that is intended for publication
  elsewhere is welcome. Such submissions should include details of
  the other submission.
  
  
  Link: http://icalp11.inf.ethz.ch/workshops/ga-graph-algorithms-and-applications(close)

• 2011-04-07
  ICPRAM 2011(more)

  The International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods would like to become a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners on the areas of Pattern Recognition, both from theoretical and application perspectives.Contributions describing applications of Pattern Recognition techniques to real-world problems, interdisciplinary research, experimental and/or theoretical studies yielding new insights that advance Pattern Recognition methods are especially encouraged.
  
  Link: http://www.icpram.org/(close)

• 2011-03-29
  TCS Special Issue(more)

  THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
  
  
  
  Special Issue on ``Theory and Applications of Graph Searching Problems''
  
  
  
  Manuscripts are solicited for a special issue in the journal "Theoretical Computer
  Science" (TCS) on "Theory and Applications of Graph Searching Problems". This special
  issue will be dedicated to the 60th birthday of Lefteris M. Kirousis.
  
  
  
  Submissions should be made in PDF format using the standard TCS submission system
  at http://ees.elsevier.com/tcs/ (doing author login). To ensure that all manuscripts
  are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue you are editing, it
  is important that authors select SI TCS-A: Graph Searching (Thilikos) when they
  reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process.
  
  
  Submissions must be received before July 31, 2011.
  
  
  Papers will be refereed according to the standards of TCS.
  
  
  
  Link: http://users.uoa.gr/~sedthilk/TCS-graph-searching.html(close)

• 2011-03-29
  GD 2011(more)

  CALL FOR PAPERS: 19th International Symposium on Graph Drawing
  September 21-23, 2011, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
  
  
  Graph Drawing is concerned with the geometric representation of
  graphs and networks, and algorithmic methods for drawing graphs.
  It is motivated by applications in which it is crucial to visualize
  structural information as graphs. Advances in graph drawing are
  important in several technological areas such as Web computing,
  e-commerce, VLSI circuit design,.... Researchers and practitioners working
  on any aspect of graph drawing are invited to contribute and
  participate.
  
  
  Paper submission deadline: June 6, 2011.
  
  
  Accepted submissions will be published in the conference proceedings,
  in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series of Springer-Verlag.
  
  
  Selected papers will be invited for submission to a special issue
  of the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications.
  
  
  
  
  Link: www.win.tue.nl/GD2011(close)

• 2011-03-29
  G-COM 2011(more)

  The 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Workshop on
  Graphs and Complex Object Matching (G-COM 2011)
  
  22 - 27 August 2011,
  
  Campus Scientifique de la Doua, Lyon, France
  
  
  
  Applications such as digital libraries, mediation systems or architectures based on Web services produce huge amounts of data that lead to the generation of a large number of models that are to be stored and accessible by users (customers) by means of suitable query interfaces. These models which describe complex objects such as documents, business processes or ontologies related to specific areas of knowledge are usually represented by graphs. Most applications that handle such models use graph techniques such as the matching process to access data by exploring structural and semantic properties of these graphs.
  
  Furthermore, the graph matching is one of the known hard problems in graph theory and optimization. Several algorithms and heuristics have been developed for exact and inexact matchings, embedding and packing of graphs on general graphs and/or graph classes.
  
  The purpose of this workshop is to bring together different communities of academic and industrial researchers working on problems of matching of graph models. Discussions will be held on theoretical and applied aspects of these problems.
  
  Link: http://gcom2011.univ-lyon1.fr/(close)

• 2011-03-20
  GA 2011(more)

  GA - Graph algorithms and Applications
  
  
  Satellite workshop co-located with the 38th International
  Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2011)
  
  
  Sunday, July 3rd, 2011
  Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  
  
  
  
  GA aims to provide a forum for researchers to discuss the most
  recent trends and results in graph algorithms and their
  applications. One goal is to show how theoretical advances,
  engineering principles and thorough experimental evaluations can help
  developers build efficient, robust, and scalable applications for
  domain-specific scenarios. Another goal is to extract, formalize,
  and model new algorithmic graph problems from modern real-world
  applications, exploring directions for future research.
  
  
  
  
  Link: http://icalp11.inf.ethz.ch/workshops/ga-graph-algorithms-and-applications(close)

• 2011-03-04
  CTW'2011 ext. deadline(more)

  10th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs & Combinatorial Optimization
  Frascati (Rome), Italy, June 14-16, 2011.
  
  
  
  Dates
  
  
  - Extended deadline for abstract submission: *March 14th, 2011*;
  
  - Acceptance notice: April 15th, 2011;
  
  - Conference dates: June 14-16th, 2011
  
  
  
  The 10th CTW welcomes contributions on theory and applications of
  discrete algorithms, graphs and combinatorial structures in the wide sense.
  
  Authors wishing to submit a contribution, should prepare an *extended
  abstract of at most 4 pages* by March 14th, 2011 following the
  guidelines on the conference website.
  
  A special proceedings volume of *Discrete Applied Mathematics*,
  containing full length papers, refereed according to the high standards
  of DAM, is planned.
  
  
  
  
  Link: http://ctw2011.dia.uniroma3.it/(close)

• 2011-03-04
  ICIAP ext. deadline(more)

  The International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing ICIAP is organized every two
  years by the Italian group of researchers in pattern recognition (GIRPR), which is the Italian
  IAPR Member Society, with the aim to bring together researchers in image processing and
  pattern recognition from around the world.
  
  
  
  Main topics include:
  
  * Image analysis and processing (Segmentation, feature extraction and representation,
  shape and motion primitives, texture and color information, interactive image analysis
  and interpretation)
  
  *Pattern recognition and Vision (includes Statistical, syntactic and structural pattern recognition,
  )
  
  * Machine Learning and Multimedia
  
  * Cultural Heritage and Applications
  
  
  Link: http://avires.dimi.uniud.it/iciap2011/(close)

• 2011-03-04
  ICDAR'11 deadline ext.(more)

  ICDAR is an outstanding international forum for researchers and practitioners at all levels of experience for identifying, encouraging and exchanging ideas on the state-of-the-art in document analysis, understanding, retrieval, and performance evaluation, including various forms of multimedia documents. ICDAR 2011 will be the 11th Conference in the series.
  
  
  Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
  
  
  Character Recognition, Handwriting Recognition , Graphics Recognition
  , Document Image Analysis
  , Document Understanding
  ,Document Analysis Systems
  , Basic Research and Methodologies for Document Processing
  ,Camera-based Document Processing
  , Document Databases and Digital Libraries
  , Multimedia Documents
  , Sketching Interfaces
  , Performance Evaluation
  , Forensic Documents
  , Historical Documents
  Applications.
  
  
  Link: http://www.icdar2011.org/EN/volumn/home.shtml(close)

• 2011-03-04
  CIARP 2011(more)

  The 16 th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition CIARP 2011 will be held in Pucón, Chile, and is organized by the Chilean Association for Pattern Recognition (AChiRP).
  This conference will be a forum for the exchange of
  scientific results and experiences, as well as the sharing of new knowledge, and the increasing of the co-operation
  betweenresearch groups in pattern recognition and related areas.
  
  
  
  
  Link: http://www.ciarp.org/xvi/index.php(close)

• 2011-03-04
  SIMBAD 2011(more)

  1st International Workshop on Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis and
  Recognition
  
  
  28-30 September, 2011
  
  Venice, Italy
  
  
  
  MOTIVATION:
  
  
  By departing from vector-space representations one is confronted with the
  challenging problem of dealing with (dis)similarities that do not necessarily possess
  the Euclidean behavior or not even obey the requirements of a metric. The lack of the
  Euclidean and/or metric properties undermines the very foundations of traditional pattern
  recognition theories and algorithms, and poses totally new theoretical/computational
  questions and challenges.
  
  
  The aim of this workshop is to consolidate research efforts in this area, and to provide
  an informal discussion forum for researchers and practitioners interested in this important yet diverse subject.
  The discussion will revolve around two main themes, which basically correspond to the two
  fundamental questions that arise when abandoning the realm of vectorial, feature-based
  representations, namely:
  
  
  
  * How can one obtain suitable similarity information from data representations that are more powerful than, or simply different from, the vectorial ?
  
  * How can one use similarity information in order to perform learning and classification tasks?
  
  
  We aim at covering a wide range of problems and perspectives, from supervised to unsupervised learning, from generative to discriminative models, and from theoretical issues to real-world practical applications.
  
  
  
  Accordingly, topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
  
  
  * Embedding and embeddability
  
  * Graph spectra and spectral geometry
  
  * Indefinite and structural kernels
  
  * Game-theoretic models of pattern recognition
  
  * Characterization of non-(geo)metric behaviour
  
  * Foundational issues
  
  * Measures of (geo)metric violations<
  
  * Learning and combining similarities
  
  * Multiple-instance learning
  
  * Applications
  
  
  
  
  Link: http://www.dsi.unive.it/~simbad/(close)

• 2011-03-03
  CAIP 2011(more)

  CAIP2011 is the fourteenth in the CAIP series of biennial international conferences devoted to all aspects of Computer Vision, Image Analysis and Processing, Pattern recognition and related fields. CAIP2011 will be held in August 29-31, 2011, in Seville (Spain). The last CAIP conferences were held in Groningen (2003), Paris (2005), Vienna (2007) and Münster (2009). CAIP2011 will be hosted by Seville University. The scientific program of the conference will consist of several keynote addresses, high quality papers selected by the international program committee and presented in a single track. Poster presentations will allow expert discussions of specialized research topics.
  
  
  
  Link: http://congreso.us.es/caip2011/(close)

• 2011-02-10
  EGC 2011(more)

  During the Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry, to be held in Alcalá de Henares
  (30 km away from Madrid, Spain), on June 27-30, 2011, we are celebrating Ferran
  Hurtado's 60th birthday.
  
  
  
  Authors are encouraged to submit works describing original research in Computational Geometry, in its broadest sense. Topics include, but are not limited to:
  
  
  * discrete and combinatorial geometry;
  
  * linear programming applied to geometric problems;
  
  * geometric algorithms and data structures;
  
  * theoretical foundations of computational geometry;
  
  * questions of interest in the implementation of geometric algorithms;
  
  * applications of computational geometry (computer graphics, virtual reality, robotics, simulation and visualization, solid modelling, CAD, pattern recognition, graph and circuits drawing, image processing, GIS, multimedia and animation, etc.);
  
  
  
  Link: http://www2.uah.es/egc2011/inicio.html(close)

• 2011-01-27
  CRV2011 deadline ext.(more)

  THE EIGHTH CANADIAN CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER AND ROBOT VISION (CRV'11)
  
  May 25-May 28, 2011
  
  St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.
  
  
  
  
  THE EIGHTH CANADIAN CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER AND ROBOT VISION (CRV'11)
  will be held on May 25-May 28, 2011, in St. John's, Newfoundland,
  Canada. Held jointly with the Graphics Interface 2011 (GI) and the
  Artificial Intelligence 2011 (AI) conferences, a single registration
  will permit attendees to attend any talk in the three conferences
  (CRV, GI, AI), which will be scheduled in parallel tracks.
  
  
  CRV seeks contributions of complete, original research papers on any
  aspect of computer vision, robot vision, robotics, medical imaging,
  image processing or pattern recognition.
  
  
  IMPORTANT DATES
  
  Paper Submission Deadline 4 February 2011 (midnight PST)
  
  Acceptance/Rejection notification 28 February 2011
  
  Revised camera-ready papers due 7 March 2011
  
  
  
  
  Link: http://www.computerrobotvision.org/(close)

• 2011-01-17
  ICIAR deadline ext.(more)

  ICIAR 2011 - 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION
  
  June 22-24, 2011
  
  Burnaby, BC, Canada
  
  
  
  News
  
  1) Deadline is extended to January 24, 2011
  
  2) Student Travel Grants are available
  
  
  
  ICIAR - International Conference on Image Analysis and
  Recognition aims to bring together researchers in the
  fields of Image Processing, Image Analysis and Pattern
  Recognition.
  
  
  The conference addresses recent advances in theory,
  methodologies and applications. The scientific program
  includes invited speakers and fully refereed contributions
  that are published in the conference proceedings.
  
  
  
  Link: http://www.iciar.uwaterloo.ca/iciar11/(close)

• 2011-01-03
  ICIAR 2011 cfp(more)

  ICIAR 2011 - 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION
  
  June 22-24, 2011
  
  Burnaby, BC, Canada
  
  
  
  
  ICIAR - International Conference on Image Analysis and
  Recognition aims to bring together researchers in the
  fields of Image Processing, Image Analysis and Pattern
  Recognition.
  
  
  The conference addresses recent advances in theory,
  methodologies and applications. The scientific program
  includes invited speakers and fully refereed contributions
  that are published in the conference proceedings.
  
  
  
  
  Link: http://www.iciar.uwaterloo.ca/iciar11/(close)

• 2011-01-03
  VISAPP 2011 2nd cfp(more)

  VISAPP 2011 (the Int'l Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications )
  
  
  This prestigious conference is sponsored by INSTICC and in cooperation with the WfMC (Workflow Management Coalition). VISAPP 2011 is a component conference of VISIGRAPP - a joint conference that integrates knowledge areas related to Computer Vision, Imaging, Computer Graphics and Information Visualization, which are becoming more and more interrelated and sustain important interdisciplinary R&D work
  
  Conference Areas
  
  1. Image Analysis
  
  2. Image Understanding
  
  3. Motion, Tracking and Stereo Vision
  
  
  Link: http://www.visapp.visigrapp.org/home.asp(close)

• 2010-12-14
  CPM 2011(more)

  22nd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching
  
  Palermo, ITALY, 27-29 June 2011
  
  
  
  Papers in all areas related to combinatorial pattern matching and its applications will be considered. Both papers reporting on original research unpublished elsewhere and surveys of important results are welcome. The proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag series, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
  
  Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics:
  
  
  Bioinformatics,
  Coding and data compression,
  Computational biology,
  Data mining, information retrieval,
  Natural language processing,
  Pattern discovery,
  String algorithms,
  String processing in databases,
  Symbolic computing,
  Text searching
  
  
  Link: http://cpm2011.unipa.it/(close)

• 2010-12-03
  CanaDAM 2011(more)

  The third Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference
  (CanaDAM) will be held May 31 to June 3, 2011 on the campus of the
  University of Victoria in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia,
  Canada.
  
  
  
  The general topic of the conference is the theory and application of
  discrete structures. Its goal is to highlight the most salient trends
  in the field. The conference will bring together researchers from the
  various disciplines with which discrete and algorithmic mathematics
  interact. CanaDAM is held in odd numbered years using a format similar
  to the SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics. Particular areas of
  interest include graphs and digraphs, hypergraphs, matroids, ordered
  sets, designs, coding theory, enumeration, combinatorics of words,
  discrete optimization, discrete and computational geometry, lattice
  point enumeration, combinatorial algorithms, computational complexity,
  and applications of discrete and algorithmic mathematics, including
  (but not limited to) web graphs, computational biology,
  telecommunication networks, and information processing.
  
  
  Link: http://CanaDAM.Math.ca/2011(close)

• 2010-12-02
  ICIAP 2011 cfp(more)

  ICIAP 2011, 16th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing,
  
  to be held in Ravenna, Italy, from September 14 to 16, 2011.
  
  
  
  The 16th edition of the conference is organized by the University of Bologna, Ravenna site with the IAPR endorsement. The main target of ICIAP 2011, will be to provide a place in which the most recent approaches and goals in image analysis can be presented and discussed.
  
  
  Main topics include:
  
  Image analysis and processing (Segmentation, feature extraction and representation, shape and motion primitives, texture and color information, interactive image analysis and interpretation)
  
  Vision and perception (Cognitive vision, active vision, spatial reasoning, 2D and 3D modeling, perceptual learning)
  
  Pattern recognition (Statistical, syntactic and structural pattern recognition, machine learning and data mining, artificial intelligence and symbolic learning, feature reduction, classification and clustering, support vector machines and kernels)
  
  Multimodal Interaction and Multimedia Processing (Multimodal interaction, multimedia analysis, indexing and retrieval, multimedia infrastructure).
  
  Applications (Ambient intelligence and security, biomedicine, biometrics, cultural heritage, OCR and document analysis, acoustic fingerprint, mobile robots and visual navigation, network security, remote sensing and environment control, video surveillance and intelligent transport systems, visual inspection and quality control).
  
  
  Link: http://www.bologna.enea.it/iciap2011/ (close)

• 2010-11-25
  ESANN'11(more)

  "Kernel Methods for Structured Data" - ESANN'11 Special Session.
  
  
  Bruges
  (Belgium) from April 27-29, 2011
  
  Paper submission deadline ext. to December, 1
  
  
  Recently, there has been an increasing interest in the
  research community in kernel functions for structured data (strings, trees,
  relational data just to name a few examples) and particularly
  in kernels for graphs. However, due to the typical very high
  dimensionality of such data, finding the right trade-off between
  expressiveness and computational complexity poses severe challenges.
  This special session looks for original contributions to the topic (particular
  emphasis on kernels for graphs), as well as significant applications of kernel methods to structured data.
  Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
  
  - Kernel algorithms for structured data
  
  - Kernel functions for strings, trees, graphs and generally any non vectorial
  data
  
  - Efficient kernels or learning algorithms
  
  - Significant applications of kernel methods to structured datasets
  
  
  
  Link: http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann(close)

• 2010-11-23
  GbR 2011(more)

  8th IAPR - TC-15 Workshop on Graph-based Representations in Pattern Recognition
  
  May 18-20, 2011
  
  Münster (Germany)
  
  
  
  GbR is a biennial workshop organized by the 15th Technical Committee of IAPR, aimed at encouraging research works in Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis within the graph theory framework. This workshop series traditionally provides a forum for presenting and discussing research results and applications in the intersection of pattern recognition and image analysis on one side and graph theory on the other side. GbR2011 organization encourages researchers in this broad field to actively participate in the workshop. Furthermore, the application of graphs to pattern recognition problems in other fields like social sciences, computational chemistry, and bioinformatics is also highly welcome at the workshop.
  
  
  Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings published in the LNCS series of Springer. A Special Issue with selected best papers will be printed in Pattern Recognition Letters (Elsevier).
  
  Link: http://cvpr.uni-muenster.de/GbR2011/ (close)

• 2010-11-22
  ICIAR 2011 cfp(more)

  ICIAR 2011 - 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION
  
  June 22-24, 2011
  
  Burnaby, BC, Canada
  
  
  ICIAR - International Conference on Image Analysis and
  Recognition aims to bring together researchers in the
  fields of Image Processing, Image Analysis and Pattern
  Recognition.
  
  
  The conference addresses recent advances in theory,
  methodologies and applications. The scientific program
  includes invited speakers and fully refereed contributions
  that are published in the conference proceedings.
  
  
  Link: http://www.iciar.uwaterloo.ca/iciar11(close)

• 2010-11-22
  HIBIT 2011(more)

  The 6th International Symposium on Health Informatics and
  Bioinformatics (HIBIT 2011) will be held in Izmir,
  Turkey. HIBIT aims to bring together academicians, researchers and
  practitioners from the general area of
  health or medical informatics and bioinformatics or computational
  biology. Biomathematics, statisticians
  and people from other related and supporting fields are also welcome
  and have contributed papers and posters
  in the past.
  
  
  Another aim of HIBIT is to create synergy between academicians,
  performing basic research, and those that
  are users of computational methods. In this, HIBIT aims to create an
  interface with the technology sector
  such that research can turn into marketable developments.
  
  
  Link: http://hibit11.iyte.edu.tr(close)

• 2010-11-22
  SOCG 2011 cfp(more)

  The Twenty-Seventh Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry will be
  held in Paris, France. We invite submissions of high-quality papers,
  videos, and multimedia describing original research addressing
  computational problems in a geometric setting, in particular their
  algorithmic solutions, implementation issues, applications, and
  mathematical foundations.
  
  
  Link: http://socg2011.inria.fr/(close)

• 2010-11-22
  DIMAP 2011 cfp(more)

  The recently established Centre for Discrete Mathematics and
  its Applications (DIMAP) at the University of Warwick (UK)
  is organizing a series of workshops on different emerging
  research topics. From 4 to 7 April 2011, we will be holding
  a workshop on
  
  
  "Combinatorics and Graph Theory".
  
  
  
  The idea is to bring together the best people in the field
  to discuss the latest developments as well as future directions.
  
  
  
  Link: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/dimap/events/wcgt2011(close)

• 2010-11-04
  IWCIA cfp(more)

  14th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA'11),
  
  which will be celebrated in
  
  Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid,
  
  Madrid, Spain,
  
  May 23-25, 2011.
  
  
  
  IWCIA'11 is the fourteenth of a series of international meetings on
  combinatorial image analysis.
  
  IMPORTANT DATES:
  
  
  Paper submission due: November 22, 2010
  
  Acceptance notification: January 10, 2011
  
  Camera ready papers due: February 1, 2011
  
  
  
  Link: http://www.uam.es/otros/iwcia11/(close)

• 2010-10-19
  CTIC call for registration(more)

  The aim of CTIC'2010 is to gather researchers dealing with the study of
  topological invariants from the computational point of view,
  and/or those who want to use topological information in image applications.
  Indeed, people from different fields related to these studies share a growing interest in collaborating. These fields include: computational geometry, discrete geometry, geometrical modeling, algebraic topology and image processing. The workshop will provide an opportunity for the world's leading scientists and other participants in these fields, including young researchers, to exchange ideas. It will act as a catalyst for creating new collaborations, and starting new transversal projects.
  
  
  Link: http://congreso.us.es/ctic2010/(close)

• 2010-10-19
  VISAPP'11 2nd cfp(more)

  The International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications aims at becoming a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners on the area of computer vision application systems. Four simultaneous tracks will be held, covering all different aspects related to computer vision, from Image Formation to
  Image Understanding, including Motion Analysis and Stereo Vision.
  
  We welcome papers describing original work in any of the areas listed below.
  Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques as well as
  general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged.
  Paper acceptance will be based on quality, relevance to the conference themes
  and originality. The conference program will include both oral and poster presentations.
  
  Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as technical tutorials, dedicated to technical/scientific topics, are also envisaged. Companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in lecturing a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat.
  
  Link: http://www.visapp.visigrapp.org(close)

• 2010-10-14
  CPM 2011(more)

  CPM 2011
  22nd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching
  June 27-29, 2011, Palermo, Italy
  
  Submission deadline: January 20, 2011
  OVERVIEW: The 22nd Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM) will beheld in Mondello near Palermo, Italy.
  
  Papers in all areas related to combinatorial pattern matching and its applications will be considered, including, but not limited to, coding and data compression, computational biology, data mining, information retrieval,natural language processing, pattern recognition, string algorithms, string processing in databases, symbolic computing, text searching.
  Both papers reporting on original research unpublished elsewhere and surveysof important results are welcome. The proceedings will be published in theSpringer-Verlag series Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
  
  Link: http://cpm2011.unipa.it/(close)

• 2010-10-14
  SoCG 2011(more)

  27th Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2011)
  June 13-15, 2011
  Paris, France
  In cooperation with ACM SIGACT and SIGGRAPH
  
  The Twenty-Seventh Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry will be held in Paris, France. We invite submissions of high-quality papers describing original research addressing computational problems in a geometric setting, in particular their algorithmic solutions, implementation issues, applications, and mathematical foundations.
  
  Link: http://socg2011.inria.fr/(close)

• 2010-10-12
  VISAPP 2nd cfp(more)

  VISAPP 2nd call for paper
  
  The International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP) aims at becoming a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners in Computer Vision. The conference will be structured along three main tracks, namely Image Analysis, Image Understanding, and Motion, Tracking and Stereo Vision.
  Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by several major international indexers, including INSPEC, DBLP, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index and EI. Additionally, a selection of the best papers of the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.Best paper awards will be given during the conference closing session.All presented papers will be also available at the SciTePress Digital Library.
  
  Link: http://www.visapp.visigrapp.org/(close)

• 2010-09-30
  ESANN'11 session on kernels (more)

  Kernel Methods for Structured Data" - ESANN'11 Special Session.
  
  In many applications areas, such as biology, chemistry, natural languageprocessing (just to name a few), data are represented in structured form. Among all learning algorithms, kernel methods can naturally deal with any type of input data, provided an appropriate similarity function, the kernel function, has been defined on any pair of objectsof the domain. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in theresearch community in kernel functions for structured data (strings,trees, relational data just to name a few examples) and particularly in kernels for graphs. However, due to the typical very high dimensionalityof such data, finding the right trade-off between expressiveness andcomputational complexity poses severe challenges.This special session looks for original contributions to the topic(particular emphasis on kernels for graphs), as well as significantapplications of kernel methods to structured data. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
  
  - Kernel algorithms for structured data
  - Kernel functions for strings, trees, graphs and generally any nonvectorial data
  - Efficient kernels or learning algorithms
  - Significant applications of kernel methods to structured datasets
  
  Link: http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann/index.php?pg=submission(close)

• 2010-09-22
  VISAP'11 1st cfp(more)

  The International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP) aims at becoming a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners in Computer Vision. The conference will be structured along three main tracks, namely Image Analysis, Image Understanding, and Motion, Tracking and Stereo Vision.
  
  Workshops and special sessions are also invited. If you wish to propose workshop or a special session, for example based on the results of a specific research project, please contact the secretariat. Workshop chairs and Special Session chairs will benefit from logistics support and other types of support, including secretariat and financial support, to facilitate the development of a valid idea.
  
  Link: http://www.visapp.visigrapp.org(close)

• 2010-09-17
  IWCIA'11(more)

  14th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA'11)
  Madrid, Spain, May 23-25, 2011
  IMPORTANT DATES:
  Paper submission due: November 22, 2010
  Acceptance notification: January 10, 2011
  Camera ready papers due: February 1, 2011
  
  IWCIA'11 is the fourteenth of a series of international meetings oncombinatorial image analysis.
  Image analysis is a scientific discipline providing theoretical foundations and methods for solving problems appearing in a wide range of areas, as diverse as medicine, robotics, defence, and security. As a rule, the processed data are discrete; therefore, the "discrete approach" to image analysis appears to be a natural one and has an increasing importance. It is based on studying combinatorial properties of the considered digital data sets. Combinatorial image analysis often features various advantages (in terms of efficiency and accuracy) over the more traditional approaches based on continuous models requiring numeric computation.
  
  Link: http://www.uam.es/otros/iwcia11/(close)

• 2010-09-14
  GbR'2011 1st cfp(more)

  8th IAPR - TC-15 Workshop on Graph-based Representations in Pattern Recognition
  May 18-20, 2011
  Münster (Germany)
  
  GbR is a biennial workshop organized by the 15th Technical Committee of IAPR, aimed at encouraging research works in Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis within the graph theory framework. This workshop series traditionally provides a forum for presenting and discussing research results and applications in the intersection of pattern recognition and image analysis on one side and graph theory on the other side. GbR2011 organization encourages researchers in this broad field to actively participate in the workshop. Furthermore, the application of graphs to pattern recognition problems in other fields like social sciences, computational chemistry, and bioinformatics is also highly welcome at the workshop.
  
  Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings published in the LNCS series of Springer. A Special Issue with selected best papers will be printed in Pattern Recognition Letters (Elsevier).
  
  Link: http://cvpr.uni-muenster.de/GbR2011/ (close)

• 2010-09-01
  DGCI'2011 deadline ext.(more)

  DGCI'2011
  EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 19 September 2010
  The 16th International Conference on
  DISCRETE GEOMETRY for COMPUTER IMAGERY (DGCI 2011)
  
  April 6th - 8th 2011
  Nancy, France
  
  The aim of the DGCI conference is to gather researchers in discrete geometry, topology, and discrete models, with applications in image analysis and image synthesis.Discrete geometry plays an expanding role in the fields of shape modelling, image synthesis, and image analysis. It deals with topological and geometrical definitions of digitized objects or digitized images and provides both a theoretical and computational framework for computer imaging.This edition of DGCI follows the successful 2009 edition held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. DGCI 2011 is organized by the ADAGIo team of the LORIA laboratory (Nancy, France).
  
  Link: http://www.dgci-conference.org (close)

• 2010-09-01
  CTIC'2011 deadline ext.(more)

  CTIC2010: Workshop on Computational Topology in Image Context
  Chipiona/Cadiz, Spain, November 10-12, 2010
  SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED, New date: 15.September.2010
  
  
  Link: http://congreso.us.es/ctic2010/(close)

• 2010-06-28
  IAPR News letter(more)

  The July 2010 issue of the IAPR Newsletter is now available in [HTML] and PDF
  
  Link: not set(close)

• 2010-06-28
  CTW workshop(more)

  CTW 2011
  10th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs & Combinatorial Optimization
  CALL FOR PAPERS
  University di Roma "Tor Vergata", Villa Mondragone,Frascati (Rome), Italy, June 14-16, 2011.
  
  ***The tenth Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization 2011 welcomes contributions on theory and applications of discrete algorithms, graphs and combinatorial structures in the wide sense.
  
  Link: http://ctw2011.dia.uniroma3.it(close)

• 2010-06-28
  IWOGL 2010 2th cfp(more)

  6th International Workshop on Graph Labelings
  October 20-22, 2010, University of Minnesota Duluth
  2nd Call For Papers
  
  The workshop will cover all aspects of graph labelings.There will be four keynote lectures, several invited lectures,contributed talks by participants, and hopefully enough timefor discussions and collaborative research.
  
  Link: http://www.d.umn.edu/math/iwogl/(close)

• 2010-06-28
  lectures at ICPR 2010(more)

  Two lectures connected with the topics of the TC15 will be provided at ICPR 2010 (Aug 22, 2010).
  One on
  -Game Theory in Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning,
  and one on
  - Building a Topological Pyramid
  
  
  Link: http://www.icpr2010.org/tutorials.php(close)

• 2010-06-18
  CIARP last cfp(more)

  15th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition - CIARP'2010
  November 08-11, 2010, São Paulo, Brazil
  
  This conference will be a forum for the exchange of scientific resultsand experiences, as well as the sharing of new knowledge, and theincreasing of the co-operation between research groups in patternrecognition and related areas.
  
  IMPORTANT DATES
  Submission deadline (no further extensions): June 22nd 2010
  Notification of acceptance: July 29th 2010
  Camera ready: August 15th 2010
  Conference: November 08-11, 2010
  
  Link: http://www.ciarp.org/xv/(close)

• 2010-06-17
  CTIC 2nd cfp(more)

  CTIC2010: Workshop on Computational Topology in Image Context
  Chipiona/Cadiz, Spain, November 10-12, 2010
  General co-Chairs: Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz and Pedro Real
  Papers due: September 5, 2010
  
  The aim of CTIC2010 is to gather researchers dealing with the study of topological invariants from the computational point of view, and/or those who want to use topological information in image applications. Indeed, people from different fields related to these studies share a growing interest in collaborating. These fields include: computational geometry, discrete geometry, geometrical modeling, algebraic topology and image processing. The workshop will provide an opportunity for the world's leading scientists and other participants in these fields, including young researchers, to exchange ideas. It will act as a catalyst for creating new collaborations, and starting new transversal projects. To achieve this goal, participants are encouraged to present their results related to one of the topics of the workshop listed below. Research in progress can also be submitted, as well as results that have been published recently. Works related to image applications using topological invariants are particularly welcome.
  
  Link: http://congreso.us.es/ctic2010/(close)

• 2010-06-11
  IDAMAP 2010(more)

  INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS IN BIOMEDICINE AND PHARMACOLOGY
  Friday November 12, 2010
  
  The IDAMAP series is devoted to computational methods for data analysis in medicine, biology and pharmacology that present results of analysis in the form communicable to domain experts and that somehow exploit knowledge of the problem domain. Such knowledge may be available at different stages of the data-analysis and model-building process. Typical methods include data visualization, data exploration, machine learning, and data mining.
  
  IMPORTANT DATES
  Submission: August 1, 2010
  Notification : September 1, 2010
  Camera-ready: October 1, 2010
  
  
  Link: http://idamap.org/idamap2010(close)

• 2010-06-11
  ICMLA 2010(more)

  The Ninth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2010)
  Hayatt Regency Bethesda, Washing DC., USA, 12-14 Dec. 2010
  
  The Ninth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 10) will be held at Washington D.C., USA on December 12-14, 2010.
  
  The aim of the conference is to bring researchers working in the areas of machine learning and applications together. The conference will cover both theoretical and experimental research results. Submission of machine learning papers describing machine learning applications in fields like medicine, biology, industry, manufacturing, security, education, virtual environments, game playing and problem solving is strongly encouraged.
  
  Important dates
  Special session/workshop proposals due: May 30, 2010
  Tutorial proposals due: July 6, 2010
  Paper Submission Deadline:
  Main Conference: July 6, 2010
  Special Sessions, Workshops & ICMLA Challenge: July 15, 2010
  Notification of acceptance: September 7, 2010
  Camera-ready papers & Pre-registration: October 1, 2010
  The ICMLA Conference: December 12-14, 2010
  
  
  Link: http://www.icmla-conference.org/icmla10/(close)

• 2010-06-09
  GraphQ Workshop.(more)

  First International Workshop on Querying Graph Structured Data
  September 2010, Novi Sad, Serbia
  
  The overall goal of the workshop is to bring people from different fields together, exchange research ideas and results, and encourage discussion about how to efficiently and effectively support graph queries in different application domains and to understand the research challenges of such an area
  
  Important dates
  Paper submission: June 17, 2010
  Notification of acceptance July 10, 2010
  Camera-ready copy due July 25, 2010
  
  
  Link: http://www.isgroup.unimo.it/graphq2010/(close)

• 2010-06-07
  Holding S+SSPR2012(more)

  Expressions of interest to organise S+SSPR 2012
  ICPR is in Tsukuba City (11-15 November), and so S+SSPR would normallybe expected to take place 7-9 November.
  At this stage the chairs of TC1 (Terry Windeatt) and TC2 (Edwin Hancock ), would like to hear expressions of interest to hold S+SSPR. At this stage this only needs to be a rough outline giving the proposed location and the names of the potential organisers. Traditionally, the chairs of TC1+TC2 are programme co-chairs for the two strands ofthe meeting (statistical and structural/syntactic).The organisers need to provide a general chair together with astatistical strand co-chair and a structural/syntactic strandco-chair. A full bid will be required later with details of the venue,estimated costings and the PC structure.If there are multiple bids, these will be put to an open vote at S+SSPR2010.
  
  Link: not set(close)

• 2010-06-07
  SPIRE 2010(more)

  17th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval
  October 11-13, 2010
  Los Cabos, Mexico
  
  SPIRE 2010 covers research in all aspects of string processing, informationretrieval, computational biology, pattern matching, semi-structured data, and related applications.Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to): String Processing, Information Retrieval, Natural language processing, Search applications and usage, Interaction of biology and computation, Efficient implementation of IR systems
  
  Link: http://spire2010.natix.org(close)

• 2010-05-27
  GD 2011(more)

  Graph Drawing is concerned with the geometric representation of graphsand networks and is motivated by those applications where it is crucialto visualize structural information as graphs.
  
  Researchers and practitioners working on any aspect of graph drawingare invited to contribute and participate.
  
  submission deadline: June 7, 2010 - notification: July 23, 2010
  
  Link: http://www.graphdrawing.org/gd2010/(close)

• 2010-05-22
  IWCIA 2011(more)

  14th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA 2011) Madrid, Spain, May 23-25, 2011
  
  Paper submission due: November 22, 2010
  Acceptance notification: January 10, 2011
  Camera ready papers due: February 1, 2011
  
  Link: http://www.uam.es/otros/iwcia11/(close)

• 2010-04-28
  ACM-3DOR(more)

  3D Object retrieval 2010
  In conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2010 - Florence, Italy - Oct 29, 2010
  
  The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in 3D retrieval from different fields (computer vision, computer graphics, machine learning and human-computer interaction). Its goal is to provide a state-of-the-art overview of challenges in the research on 3D retrieval. This workshop seeks original high innovative research in the area of 3D retrieval.
  
  Link: http://www-rech.telecom-lille1.eu/acm3dor/(close)

• 2010-04-21
  WG 2010(more)

  36th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG 2010)
  Zaros, Crete, Greece June 28-30, 2010
  
  WG 2010 aims at uniting theory and practice by demonstrating howGraph-Theoretic concepts can be applied to various areas inComputer Science, or by extracting new problems from applications.The goal is to present recent research results and to identifyand explore directions of future research. The conference iswell-balanced with respect to established researchers and youngscientists. For many years now, the proceedings have beenpublished in the LNCS series of Springer-Verlag. We need thefinal version of accepted papers approximately two months afterthe conference.
  
  Link: http://wg2010.indev.gr/(close)

• 2010-04-19
  BTAS 2010(more)

  Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 10)
  The IEEE Fourth International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 09) is the premier research meeting focused on biometrics. Its broad scope includes advances in fundamental pattern recognition techniques relevant to biometrics, new algorithms and / or technologies for biometrics, analysis of specific applications, and analysis of the social impacts of biometrics technology. Areas of coverage include biometrics based on voice, fingerprint, iris, face, handwriting, gait and other modalities, as well as multi-modal biometrics and new biometrics based on novel sensing technologies.
  
  Paper submission: May 28. Decisions to authors: July 16. BTAS 10: September 27-29, 2010.
  
  Link: http://www.cse.nd.edu/BTAS_10 (close)

• 2010-04-13
  CIARP 2010(more)

  15th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition
  
  The 15th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2010) will be held in São Paulo, SP, Brazil, in November 2010, at the University of São Paulo
  
  The proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science
  
  Link: http://www.ciarp.org/xv/index.php(close)

• 2010-04-07
  CSD 5 (more)

  CSD 5 (Computers in Scientific Discovery 5)
  takes place from July 20 to 23 2010 at the University of Sheffield, UK. This workshop-style meeting brings together researchers active at the interfaces between discrete mathematics, bioinformatics, chemistry and computer science.
  
  Submissions are invited on applications, results and algorithms in
  * Chemistry
  * Bioinformatics
  * Conjecture-making
  * Mathematical Education
  
  
  Link: http://caagt.ugent.be/csd5(close)

• 2010-04-02
  3DPVT'10 call for participation(more)

  5th International Symposium 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission
  Espace Saint Martin, Paris, France, May 17-20, 2010
  This meeting presents new research ideas and results related to the capture, representation, compact storage, transmission, processing, editing, optimization and visualization of 3D data.
  3D registration and matchin belong to the topics.
  
  Link: http://www.3dpvt2010.org(close)

• 2010-03-31
  WADGMM 2010, ext. deadline(more)

  Workshop on
  Applications of Discrete Geometry and Mathematical Morphology
  Istanbul, August 22, 2010 (prior to ICPR 2010)
  
  IMPORTANT DATES
  Submission of extended abstracts (4 pages): April 19, 2010
  Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2010
  Camera-ready manuscripts: June 11, 2010
  Workshop (prior to ICPR 2010): August 22, 2010
  
  Link: http://mdigest.jrc.ec.europa.eu/wadgmm2010/(close)

• 2010-03-15
  S+SSPR special session(more)

  SIMILARITY-BASED PATTERN RECOGNITION: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS
  Saturday, August 21, 2010
  Cesme, Izmir, Turkey
  
  Traditional pattern recognition techniques are centered around the notion of feature. According to this view, the objects to be classified are represented in terms of properties that are intrinsic to the object itself. Hence, a typical pattern recognition system makes its decisions by simply looking at one or more feature vectors provided as input. The strength of this approach is that it can leverage a wide range of mathematical tools ranging from statistics, to geometry, to optimization. However, in many real-world applications a feasible feature-based description of objects might be difficult to obtain or inefficient for learning purposes. In these cases, it is often possible to obtain a measure of the (dis)similarity of the objects to be classified, and in some applications the use of dissimilarities (rather than features) makes the problem more viable. In the last few years, researchers in pattern recognition and machine learning are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of similarity information per se. Indeed, by abandoning the realm of vectorial representations one is confronted with the challenging problem of dealing with (dis)similarities that do not necessarily obey the requirements of a metric. This undermines the very foundations of traditional pattern recognition theories and algorithms, and poses totally new theoretical and computational questions.
  The SIMBAD consortium is planning to hold a half-day meeting on these topics within the S+SSPR Workshop on the morning of Saturday, 21 August 2010. The workshop aims to explore the spectrum of alternative approaches, methodologies and challenges in the area, rather than detailed techniques. Contributions can be of two kinds:a) position papers that aim to stimulate discussion of the philosophy of approach underpinning the field, b) individual technical contributions on a focused topic.
  
  Prospective particpants should send a one-page abstract to Marcello Pelillo by 1st June 2010.
  
  Link: http://www.rvg.ua.es/ssspr2010/special.php(close)

• 2010-03-15
  MLG-2010(more)

  Mining and Learning with Graphs Workshop 2010 (MLG-2010)
  Washington, DC, July, 24-25
  
  This years Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs will be held in conjunction with the 16th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining that will take place in July 25-28, 2010 in Washington, DC.
  There is a great deal of interest in analyzing data that is best represented as a graph. Examples include the WWW, social networks, biological networks, communication networks, and many others. The importance of being able to effectively mine and learn from such data is growing, as more and more structured and semi-structured data is becoming available. This is a problem across widely different fields such as economics, statistics, social science, physics and computer science, and is studied within a variety of sub-disciplines of machine learning and data mining including graph mining, kernel theory, statistical relational learning, etc.
  The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from a variety of these areas, and discuss commonality and differences in challenges faced, survey some of the different approaches, and provide a forum to present and learn about some of the most cutting edge research in this area.
  
  Link: http://www.cs.umd.edu/mlg2010(close)

• 2010-03-10
  CTIC 2010 1st cfp(more)

  CTIC 2010: Workshop on Computational Topology in Image Context
  Chipiona, Cádiz (Spain), November 10-12, 2010
  Co-chairs: Rocío González Díaz, Pedro Real Jurado
  Papers due: September 5, 2010
  
  The aim of CTIC'2010 is to gather researchers dealing with the study of topological invariants from the computational point of view, and/or those who want to use topological information in image applications. These fields include: computational geometry, discrete geometry, geometrical modeling, algebraic topology and image processing. The workshop will provide an opportunity for the world's leading scientists and other participants in these fields, including young researchers, to exchange ideas, create new collaborations, and start new transversal projects.To achieve this goal, participants are encouraged to present their results related to one of the topics of the workshop listed below. Research in progress can also be submitted, as well as results that have been published recently.
  
  Link: http://congreso.us.es/ctic2010(close)

• 2010-03-04
  IWOGL 2010(more)

  6th International Workshop on Graph Labelings
  May 19-22, 2010, University of Minnesota Duluth
  
  The workshop will cover all aspects of graph labelings.There will be four invited lectures, contributed talks by participants, and hopefully enough time for discussionsand collaborative research.
  
  Link: http://www.d.umn.edu/math/iwogl/(close)

• 2010-03-03
  GT 2010(more)

  18th International Symposium
  G R A P H D R A W I N G
  (GD 2010)
  21-24 September, 2010 - Konstanz, Germany
  
  Graph Drawing is concerned with the geometric representation of graphs and networks and is motivated by those applications where it is crucial to visualize structural information as graphs.
  Since graph drawing methods form the algorithmic core of networkvisualization, bridging the gap between theoretical advances and implemented solutions is an important aspect of the conference.
  Indeed, advances in graph drawing are important in several technological areas such as Web computing, e-commerce, VLSI circuit design,information systems, software engineering, computational cartography,visual interfaces, bioinformatics, and networking.
  
  Link: http://www.graphdrawing.org/gd2010/(close)

• 2010-03-01
  DGCI'2011 1st cfp(more)

  First Call for Papers
  The 16th International Conference on
  DISCRETE GEOMETRY for COMPUTER IMAGERY (DGCI 2011)
  April 6th - 8th 2011
  Nancy, France
  
  The aim of the DGCI conference is to gather researchers in discrete geometry, topology, and discrete models, with applications in image analysis and image synthesis.
  
  Discrete geometry plays an expanding role in the fields of shape modelling, image synthesis, and image analysis. It deals withtopological and geometrical definitions of digitized objects or digitized images and provides both a theoretical and computational framework for computer imaging
  
  IMPORTANT DATES
  Submission: 6 September 2010
  Notification: 6 December 2010
  Conference: 6-8 April 2011
  
  
  Link: http://www.dgci-conference.org(close)

• 2010-02-22
  PAR Workshop deadline ext.(more)

  Workshop on Pattern Analysis and Recognition (PAR'2010)
  CALL FOR PAPERS
  
  SCOPE AND OBJECTIVESThe Workshop on Pattern Analysis and Recognition aims to bring together researchers in the fields of Pattern Recognition. The workshop will address recent advances in theory, methodologies and applications. It is meant to promote the discussion and presentation of new research and development in the area of pattern recognition and applications.
  
  IMPORTANT DATES :
  * Extended Full Paper Submission Deadline: - March, 1, 2010
  * Notification of Acceptance: -March 20, 2010
  * Camera-Ready papers and Registration Due: - April 15, 2010
  
  
  
  Link: http://cisedu.us/cis/hpcs/10/main/storageDocs.jsp?doc=/docs/hpcs/10/workshops/W10.PAR.html(close)

• 2010-02-04
  CTW Workshop(more)

  The Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization 2010 welcomes contributions on theory and applications of discrete algorithms, graphs and combinatorial structures in the wide sense.
  
  The series of Cologne Twente Workshops on Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization started with meetings organized every two years by the universities of Cologne and Twente. The organizational base was later expanded by other universities. Since 2003 the workshop has been held every year.
  
  The Cologne Twente workhop welcomes especially doctoral students and young researchers. Research results can be presented in a friendly and highly interactive atmosphere.
  
  Link: http://ctw.uni-koeln.de/index.html(close)

• 2010-02-02
  Jan. IAPR News Letter(more)

  The January 2010 issue of the IAPR Newsletter is now available.
  
  [HTML]
  [PDF]
  
  Link: http://www.iapr.org/members/newsletter/Newsletter10-01/(close)

• 2010-02-01
  ThRaSH'2010(more)

  4th Workshop on Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics (ThRaSH'2010)
  March 24-25, 2010, Paris, France
  
  
  Deadline for abstract submission: February 8, 2010
  Registration deadline: March 5, 2010
  
  Following the workshops in Wroclaw, Poland, Dortmund, Germany, andBirmingham, UK, the 4th workshop on Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics (ThRaSH'2010) will take place in Paris on the 24th and 25th of March 2010. The purpose of the workshop is to addressquestions related to theory of randomized search heuristics such as evolutionary algorithms, ant colony optimization, or simulated annealing for both combinatorial and numerical optimization. The primary focus lies on discussing recent ideas and detecting challenging topics for future work, rather than on the presentation of final results.
  
  Researchers working on theoretical aspects of randomized searchheuristics are invited to submit a short abstract (one single page)by email to "thrash2010@lri.fr". No registration fee will be chargedbut participants are asked to register before the workshop.
  
  Link: http://trsh2010.gforge.inria.fr/(close)

• 2010-01-30
  SSPR deadline ext.(more)

  Latest News : SSPR as extended its submission deadline to 1st MArch 2010
  Submission of papers: 1st March 2010
  Decisions: 1st April 2010
  Camera ready copy: 1st May 2010
  Workshops: 18-20 August 2010
  
  
  
  
  Link: http://www.rvg.ua.es/ssspr2010/(close)

• 2010-01-24
  ICIP 2010 deadline ext.(more)

  Latest News: ICIP 2010 has extended the paper submission deadline to February 8, 2010.
  
  IEEE ICIP 2010
  International Conference on Image Processing
  Conference Dates:
  September 26-29, 2010
  The Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
  
  Important Dates:
  
  Submission of full-length papers: February 8, 2010 (extended)
  Notification of acceptance: April 26, 2010
  Submission of camera-ready papers: May 24, 2010
  
  
  Link: http://www.icip2010.org/(close)

• 2010-01-24
  AMDO 2010 final cfp(more)

  VI Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects (AMDO 2010)
  
  Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
  7-9 July, 2010
  Email: amdo@uib.es
  
  The Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI) and the Mathematics and Computer Science Department of UIB are organising the fifth international conference AMDO 2010.
  
  TOPICS INCLUDE (but not restricted to):
  Track 1: Advanced Computer Graphics (Human Modelling & Animation)
  Track 2: Human Motion (Analysis, Tracking, 3D Reconstruction & Recognition)
  Track 3: Multimodal User Interaction (VR & AR, Speech, Biometrics)
  
  IMPORTANT DEADLINES:
  
  Submission of papers: February 22, 2010
  Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2010
  Camera-ready: April 30, 2010
  Early registration: May 31, 2010
  Late registration: June 30, 2010
  VI AMDO Conference 2010 July 7-9th, 2010
  
  
  Link: http://dmi.uib.es/~ugiv/AMDO2010(close)

• 2010-01-22
  10 Phd Positions(more)

  10 PhD positions - Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Interactive andCognitive Environments (ICE). See the Positions section for more details.
  
  Link: http://www.greyc.ensicaen.fr/iapr-tc15/positions.html(close)

• 2010-01-19
  SSIAI 2010(more)

  The Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation(SSIAI) is a biennial conference dedicated to all aspects ofcomputational analysis and interpretation of images and video.SSIAI brings together researchers and practitioners in academia,industry, and government to share and discuss the latest advancesin this field. SSIAI 2010 will be held at the spectacular OmniAustin Downtown Hotel in Austin, Texas USA. The symposium seeksoriginal contributions reporting novel research directions,results, and applications.
  
  More details here
  
  Link: http://www.ssiai.org(close)

• 2010-01-18
  GbR'2011 Web site(more)

  The GbR 2011 Web site is now online. Please follow this link to see the nice work of Xiaoyi Jiang.
  
  Link: http://cvpr.uni-muenster.de/GbR2011/home_page/(close)

• 2010-01-15
  CAp2010 last cfp(more)

  12ème Conférence francophone sur l'Apprentissage artificiel du 17 au 19 mai 2010 à Clermont-Ferrand.
  Submission deadline : 17Janvier 2010
  More deadline here(close)

• 2010-01-15
  CCCG 2010 1th cfp(more)

  CANADIAN CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY (CCCG 2010)AUGUST 9-11, 2010, WINNIPEG, CANADA
  
  CCCG focuses on the design of efficient algorithms, the development ofsoftware, and the study of the mathematical foundations ofcomputational problems whose formulations involve geometricconstraints. The field of computational geometry is motivated by problems from a broad range of application areas, as diverse as computer graphics and animation, computer vision, computer-aided design and manufacturing, geographic information systems, pattern recognition, wireless communications, robotics, urban planning, graph drawing, or statistical analysis to name just a few.
  
  Submission deadline: May 10, 2010
  More details here.(close)

• 2010-01-14
  ICPR'10 deadline ext.(more)

  Paper submission deadline of ICPR 2010 is extended to 25 January 2010.
  
  ICPR 2010 will be an international forum for discussions on recent advances in the fields of Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning; Signal, Speech, Image and Video Processing; Biometrics and Human Computer Interaction; Multimedia and Document Analysis, Processing and Retrieval; Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications.
  More information regarding the registration fee, procedures, entitlement, hotel accommodations, workshops and tutorials is available in the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition website. (close)

• 2010-01-08
  VISAPP'10 deadline ext.(more)

  VISAPP 2010 is still welcoming the submission of position papers until next January 20 (deadline extended).
  
  VISAPP , to be held in Angers, France, on May 17-21, is a component conference of VISIGRAPP (Int'l Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications), a joint conference that integrates knowledge areas related to Computer Vision, Imaging, Computer Graphics and Information Visualization, which are becoming more and more interrelated and sustain important interdisciplinary R&D work. (http://www.visigrapp.org).
  
  Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and CD-ROM support. The proceedings will be indexed by several major international indexers, including INSPEC, DBLP and Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, and we are awaiting the confirmation of indexation by EI.
  Additionally, a short list of papers, presented at VISIGRAPP, will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book. Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference
  
  .All published papers will be also available at the INSTICC's Digital Library, which will be made available shortly.(close)

• 2009-11-27
  CRV 2010(more)

  CRV seeks contributions of complete, original research papers on anyaspect of computer vision, robot vision, robotics, medical imaging,image processing or pattern recognition. CRV provides an excellentenvironment for interdisciplinary interaction as well as fornetworking of students and scientists in computer vision, roboticvision, robotics, image understanding and pattern recognition. Inaddition to the regular sessions, there will be three invitedspeakers. Four paper awards will be presented: one for the bestoverall paper, one for the best paper with a student as first author,and area awards for the best paper in vision and robotics.
  
  For more detailed information, please consult the CFP .(close)

• 2009-11-23
  VISAPP 2010 deadline ext.(more)

  The paper submission deadline for VISAPP 2010 (the Int l Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications) has been extended to December 9th, which is rapidly approaching in case you re interested in submitting a paper. VISIGRAPP will be held in Angers, France next year, on May 17 - 21.(close)

• 2009-11-17
  BMVC 2010 cfp(more)

  British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2010
  Aberystwyth (Wales, UK), 30 August - 2 September 2010
  
  First call for papersThe British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) is one of the major international conferences on machine vision and related areas. Organized by the British Machine Vision Association, the 21stBMVC will be held in Aberystwyth.
  
  Important dates:
  Paper registration deadline: 17:30 GMT 23rd April 2010
  Submission deadline: 17:30 GMT 30th April 2010
  Notification of acceptance: 14th June 2010
  Camera ready papers: 13th July 2010
  Conference: 30th August-2nd September 2010
  
  Further information
  BMVC 2010 Website
  Contact email (close)

• 2009-11-12
  CTW2010(more)

  The 9th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization (CTW2010) will take place at the University of Cologne (25-27 May, 2010).
  Updated information on submission of presentations, proceedings, registration, deadlines etc. is now available via the workshop homepage.(close)

• 2009-11-10
  IAPR NewsLetter(more)

  October 31, 2009 IAPR News letter available here(close)

• 2009-11-10
  PAR'2010 Workshop(more)

  Workshop on Pattern Analysis and Recognition(PAR’2010)
  
  As part of the International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation (HPCS 2010)
  In conjunction with
  The 6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2010)
  
  June 28 – July 2, 2010
  Le CENTRE DE CONGRÈS de CAEN
  Caen, Normandy, France
  
  Submission Deadline: February 15, 2010
  
  SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES
  The Workshop on Pattern Analysis and Recognition aims to bring together researchers in the fields of Pattern Recognition. The workshop will address recent advances in theory, methodologies and applications. It is meant to promote the discussion and presentation of new research and development in the area of pattern recognition and applications.
  
  Several topics concern the TC15 (Structural methods, matching, classification, clustering,segmentation...) please see the call for paper for more details.(close)

• 2009-11-04
  EuroCG'10 1th Cfp(more)

  The 26th European Workshop on Computational Geometry (EuroCG'10) will be held March 22-24, 2010, at the Technische Universitaet Dortmund (Dortmund, Germany). EuroCG is renown as a friendly workshop, where researchers across Europe and the world can meet and exchange ideas in a delightful atmosphere.
  TOPICS OF INTEREST
  - discrete and combinatorial geometry and topology
  - design and analysis of geometric algorithms and data structures
  - implementation and experimental evaluation of geometric algorithms
  - numerical and algebraic issues arising from implementations
  - analysis of geometric configurations
  - geometric modelling, visualization, and simulation
  - combinatorial optimization
  - computer-aided design and manufacturing
  - structural molecular biology
  - geographic information systems
  - robotics and virtual worlds
  More information here.(close)

• 2009-10-30
  VISAPP Cfp(more)

  VISAPP 2010 (the Int'l Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications) has an open call for papers, which deadline is set to next November 22nd. We hope you can participate in this prestigious conference by submitting a paper reflecting your current research.
  See the call for papers for more details.(close)

• 2009-10-28
  ICPR 2010: Contest on GRAPH EMBEDDING IN PATTERN RECOGNITION(more)

  In Pattern Recognition, statistical and structural methods have been traditionally considered as two rather separate worlds. However, many attempts at reducing the gap between these two approaches have beendone. The idea inspiring these attempts is that of preserving the advantages of an expressive structural representation (such as a graph),while using most of the powerful, vector-based algorithms from Statistical Pattern Recognition.
  A possible approach to this issue has been recently suggested by GraphEmbedding. The latter is a methodology aimed at representing a whole graph (possibly with attributes attached to its nodes and edges) as apoint in a suitable vectorial space. Of course the relevant property isthat of preserving the similarity of the graphs: the more two graphs areconsidered similar, the closer the corresponding points in the space should be.
  Graph embedding, in this sense, is a real bridge joining the two worlds:once the object at hand has been described in terms of graphs, and the latter represented in the vectorial space, all the problems of matching,learning and clustering can be performed using classical Statistical Pattern Recognition algorithms.
  The proposed contest aims at evaluating the effectiveness of the embedding process in the contest of a classical Pattern Recognition application.
  
  For more details please click here(close)

• 2009-10-04
  CompImage deadline extended(more)

  The CompImage 's submission date has been shifted to October 20,2009.
  
  Further details here(close)

• 2009-09-28
  ICPR Call for workshops(more)

  The ICPR 2010 Workshop Chairs invite workshop proposals for the20th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010)that will be held in Istanbul, Turkey during August 23-26, 2010.The workshops will be held immediately before the start of themain conference. The workshops must be full-day.
  More details may be found here(close)

• 2009-09-27
  CVIU Cfp(more)

  CALL FOR PAPERS
  Computer Vision and Image Understanding Special Issue on Graph-Based Representations
  
  http://www.dsi.unive.it/~gbr/SpecialIssue
  
  The manuscripts must be submitted by
  **November 30, 2009**
  Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Please submit through the Elsevier editorial system
  
  Submission should conform to the standard guidelines of the Computer Vision and Image Understanding journal.
  
  All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers.
  
  Graph-based representations are of pivotal importance in computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning. They arise when the objects to be identified are decomposed into parts and relationships between them. Such representations are quite natural and find applications in low level image processing, such as segmentation or image filtering, and in high level vision tasks such as pattern matching. Graph representations also pose unique problems in machine learning, since they are non-vectorial in nature and require new methodology to be developed if they are to be learned from image data.
  
  More generally, the strong and growing interest about graph based algorithms may be explained as follows: Todays pattern recognition tasks are less and less concerned with the analysis of a single image. Images are rather grouped in sequences (video) or in huge databases eventually disseminated over the Internet. This complex background for image analysis involves the use of many image features and the analysis of their relationships, which is typically a graph problem. Further, traditional feature-based approaches cannot satisfactorily deal with data that is naturally divided into part (e.g., shape or text analysis) or where contextual information is essential for the classification process. For these reasons the design of efficient graph-based algorithms for pattern recognition will certainly be one of the major challenge of the next decade.
  The goal of this special issue is to solicit and publish high-quality papers that provide a clear picture of the state of the art of the use of graphs as a representational tool in computer vision and pattern recognition. We aim to appeal to researchers in computer vision who are making non-trivial use of graph algorithms and their underlying theory, and also to interest theoretical computer scientists in the graph problems that arise in vision. Papers are solicited that address theoretical as well as practical issues related to the Special Issue s theme. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
  - Graph matching;
  - Graph-based image segmentation;
  - Irregular (graph) pyramids;
  - Graph representation of shapes;
  - Graph based learning;
  - Graph learning and clustering;
  - Graphs vs rigid structures (quadtrees, pyramids);
  - Graph transformations;
  - Data mining with graphs;
  - Graphs in constellation models;
  - Graphs in computational chemistry and bioinformatics;
  
  Guest Editors:
  Edwin Hancock, University of York, UK
  Andrea Torsello, University of Venice, Italy
  Luc Brun, ENSICAEN, France
  Francisco Escolano, University of Alicante, Spain
  (close)

• 2009-09-03
  DGCI 2009 participation(more)

  CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
  The 15th IAPR International Conference on DISCRETE GEOMETRY for COMPUTER IMAGERY (DGCI 09)
  September 30th - October 2nd 2009
  Montreal (QUE) Canada
  http://dgci2009.lacim.uqam.ca/
  
  Note that TC18 is also searching volonteers to organize DGCI 2011. Proposal should be sent to this address(close)

• 2009-07-20
  GbR2009 Proc online(more)

  The proceedings of the 7th IAPR-TC-15 International Workshop, GbRPR 2009, Venice, Italy, May 26-28, 2009 (GbR 2009) are available on line here(close)

• 2009-03-20
  Machine learning journal special issue(more)

  Machine Learning Journal Special issue on Mining and Learning withGraphs and Relations
  
  Driven by application areas ranging from biology to the World Wide Web,research in Data Mining and Machine Learning is nowadays increasinglyfocusing on the analysis of structured data. Of particular interest isdata that consists of interrelated parts or is characterized bycollections of objects that are interrelated and linked together intocomplex graphs and structures. Dealing with such inter-related data isone of the major research challenges that we are facing. The aim ofthis special issue is to bring together papers from differentsub-disciplines within Machine Learning and Data Mining that focus onthe analysis of structured data. We invite high quality submissions fromresearchers in all areas of machine learning and data mining working on"mining and learning with graphs and relations"
  
  See the full call for papers for more details.(close)

• 2009-03-20
  CVIU special issue(more)

  Computer Vision and Image Understanding
  Special Issue on
  Graph-Based representations
  
  Graph-based representations are of pivotal importance in computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning. They arise when the objects to be identified are decomposed into parts and relationships between them. Such representations are quite natural and find applications in low level image processing, such as segmentation or image filtering, and in high level vision tasks such as pattern matching. Graph representations also pose unique problems in machine learning, since they are non-vectorial in nature and require new methodology to be developed if they are to be learned from image data
  
  The goal of this special issue is to solicit and publish high-quality papers that proivde a clear picture of the state of the art of the use of graphs as a representational tool in computer vision and pattern recognition. We aim to appeal to researchers in computer vision who are making non-trivial use of graph algorithms and their underlying theory, and also to interest theoretical computer scientists in the graph problems that arise in vision. Papers are solicited that address theoretical as well as practical issues related to the Special Issue's theme.
  
  Follow this link for more information.(close)

• 2009-03-19
  IWCIA cfp(more)

  Image analysis is a scientific discipline providing theoretical foundations and methods for solving problems appearing in a range of areas as diverse as biology, medicine, physics, astronomy, geography, chemistry, robotics and industrial manufacturing. The workshop will focus on the analysis of digital images. Besides traditional approaches based on continuous models, which require numeric computation, and which always involve the problem of rounding and approximation, "combinatorial" approaches to image analysis (also named "discrete" or "digital" approaches) have been developed during the last 50 years. These latter approaches are based on studying combinatorial properties of the digital data sets under consideration and generally provide useful algorithms for image analysis which are more efficient and accurate than those based on continuous models. Some recent combinatorial approaches aim at a self-contained digital topology or/and geometry (independent of Euclidean space), which might be of interest and importance, not only for image analysis but also for example, within mathematical physics, for the development of digital models of space-time.
  
  The purpose of the 13th IWCIA is to bring together scientists working on mathematical and computational foundations of digital image analysis as well as on applications, for the interchange of ideas, the reporting of new results and the discussion of open problems.
  
  See the web site(close)

• 2009-03-16
  KDIR 2009 cfp(more)

  Knowledge Discovery is an interdisciplinary area focusing upon methodologies for identifying valid, novel, potentially useful and meaningful patterns from data, often based on underlying large data sets. A major aspect of Knowledge Discovery is data mining, i.e. applying data analysis and discovery algorithms that produce a particular enumeration of patterns (or models) over the data. Knowledge Discovery also includes the evaluation of patterns and identification of which add to knowledge. This has proven to be a promising approach for enhancing the intelligence of software systems and services. The ongoing rapid growth of online data due to the Internet and the widespread use of large databases have created an important need for knowledge discovery methodologies. The challenge of extracting knowledge from data draws upon research in a large number of disciplines including statistics, databases, pattern recognition, machine learning, data visualization, optimization, and high performance computing, to deliver advanced business intelligence and web discovery solutions.
  
  Information retrieval (IR) is concerned with gathering relevant information from unstructured and semantically fuzzy data in texts and other media, searching for information within documents and for metadata about documents, as well as searching relational databases and the Web. Automation of information retrieval enables the reduction of what has been called "information overload".Information retrieval can be combined with knowledge discovery to create software tools that empower users of decision support systems to better understand and use the knowledge underlying large data sets.
  
  See the conference Web site(close)

• 2009-03-14
  CIARP 2th cfp(more)

  The 14th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2009) will be held in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. CIARP 2009 is organized by CINVESTAV, Unidad Guadalajara, México, supported by IAPR and sponsored by the Mexican Association for Computer Vision, Neural Computing and Robotics (MACVNR) and other five PR iberoamerican PR societies CIARP 2009, as all the thirteen previous conferences, will be a fruitful forum for the exchange of scientific results and experiences, as well as the sharing of new knowledge, and the increase of the co-operation between research groups in pattern recognition and related areas.
  
  Follow this link for more information.(close)

• 2009-02-24
  DGCI 2th cfp(more)

  Discrete geometry is emerging as a theory from ground work in automated representation and processing of digitized objects. From image synthesis to image processing, a wide range of concepts have improved the technics leading not only to a better understanding of the mathematical structure of discrete objects but also in faster and more accurate implementations. It covers a wide range of domains from scientific to artistic fields and it mainly deals with topological and geometric descriptions of digitized objects providing both a theoretical and computational framework for computer imaging.
  
  Follow this link for more information.(close)

• 2009-02-16
  CAIP 2009 cfp(more)

  CAIP'09 is the thirteenth in the CAIP series of biennial international conferences devoted to all aspects of Computer Vision, Image Analysis and Processing, Pattern recognition and related fields. The last CAIP conferences were held in Groningen (2003), Paris (2005), and Vienna (2007). CAIP'09 will be hosted by Münster University. The scientific program of the conference will consist of keynote addresses, contributed papers presented in a single track, and posters. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNCS series and selected high-quality papers will be published in a Special Issue of Pattern Recognition Journal . CAIP'09 is the thirteenth in the CAIP series of biennial international conferences devoted to all aspects of Computer Vision, Image Analysis and Processing, Pattern recognition and related fields. The last CAIP conferences were held in Groningen (2003), Paris (2005), and Vienna (2007). CAIP'09 will be hosted by Münster University. The scientific program of the conference will consist of keynote addresses, contributed papers presented in a single track, and posters. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNCS series and selected high-quality papers will be published in a Special Issue of Pattern Recognition Journal .
  
  Follow this link for more information. (close)

• 2009-02-15
  6 PhD Position(more)

  The Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg)
  METHODS FOR DISCRETE STRUCTURES
  http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/MDS/ funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) at the three BerlinUniversities will in 2009 offer SIX SCHOLARSHIPSfor Ph.D. Studies starting October 2009 or later.We will review applications and grant scholarships after the dates/deadlines.
  See the following link for more information.(close)

• 2009-02-05
  ICIAP Deadline extended(more)

  The International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing is organized every two years by the Italian group of researchers affiliated to IAPR (GIRPR), with the aim to bring together researchers in image processing and pattern recognition from around the world.The main target of ICIAP 2009, the 15th edition in the series, will be to provide a place in which the most recent approaches and goals in image analysis can be presented and discussed.
  
  Follow this linkfor more information.(close)

• 2009-01-19
  CTW09 second cfp(more)

  The Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs and CombinatorialOptimization 2009 welcomes contributions on theory andapplications of discrete algorithms, graphs and combinatorialstructures in the wide sense. CTW09 will be organized by LIX,École Polytechnique, and will take place at the ConservatoireNational d'Arts et Métiers (CNAM), in the center of Paris.
  
  Follow this link for more information.(close)

• 2009-01-09
  DGCI 09(more)

  Discrete geometry is emerging as a theory from ground work in automated representation and processing of digitized objects. From image synthesis to image processing, a wide range of concepts have improved the technics leading not only to a better understanding of the mathematical structure of discrete objects but also in faster and more accurate implementations. It covers a wide range of domains from scientific to artistic fields and it mainly deals with topological and geometric descriptions of digitized objects providing both a theoretical and computational framework for computer imaging.
  
  Follow this link for more information.(close)

• 2009-01-05
  GbR 2009 last cfp(more)

  Please visit this link.(close)

• 2008-10-21
  Special session on Graphs in IWANN2009 conference.(more)

  The 10th International Work - Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN2009) (Biological Inspired Systems. Computational and AmbientIntelligence) will take place in Salamanca (Spain) in June 10-12th, 2009. A Special Session on Graph based Representations in Pattern Recognition and Computational Intelligence is organized within this conference. This Special Session will aim at promoting interaction andcollaboration among researchers specialising in these fields:
  -Graph based image segmentation.
  -Irregular Pyramids.
  -Graph based image retrieval.
  -Graph based object recognition.
  -Graph learning and clustering.
  -Graph matching.
  -Graphs in bioinformatics.
  Click here to see the conference web site.(close)

• 2008-10-16
  GbR 2009 Second call for paper(more)

  GbR is a biennial workshop organized by the technical committee 15 of the IAPR, aimed at encouraging research works in Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis within the graph theory framework. GbR 2009 will provide a forum for presenting and discussing research results and applications in the intersection of pattern recognition and image analysis on one side, and graph theory on the other side. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of the workshop published by LNCS. Authors of best papers will be encouraged to submit a revised version to the special issue on graph based representations of the Computer Vision and Image Understanding journal. A call for papers linked to the workshop, but open to external submissions.
  Please find further information on :
  - The full Call for paper
  - The Workshop Web site
  (close)

• 2008-10-15
  ICIAP2009 call for paper(more)

  The main target of ICIAP 2009, the 15th edition in the series, will be to provide a place in which the most recent approaches and goals in image analysis and processing can be presented and discussed. ICIAP 2009 will be held in Vietri sul Mare, Salerno (Italy), from September 8 to 11. The conference will be hosted in the Lloyd s Baia Hotel.
  Please see:
  - The call for paper
  - The web site
  for additional information.(close)

• 2008-09-05
  IAM Graph database avalaible(more)

  Please visit this link for further details(close)

• 2008-06-21
  ClasSpec'2008 meeting(more)

  ClasSpec 2008 meeting: Spectral and fuzzy clustering techniques: application to signal and image segmentation.
  
  Call for poster or demonstration tools by PhD students or young researchers:
  October, 15 2008
  Lens, France
  The travel fees of the student or young researcher presenting the poster in ClasSpec08, will be taken in charge by GRAISyHM. Posters are being solicited in areas including :
  * Unsupervised and semi-supervised spectral classification
  * Graph cutting methods for classification and clustering
  * Applications to signal and image segmentation
  Important dates :
  * Submission: June, 30 2008
  * Notification : June, 30 2008
  * Meeting : October, 15 2008
  Program and updated information of this meeting will be announced at http://classpec08.univ-lille1.fr
  For other questions, please contact the Organizing Chair at classpec08@univ-lille1.fr. (close)

• 2008-05-21
  SSPR Final call for paper(more)

  JOINT IAPR INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR 2008) and Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR 2008)
  
  December 4-6, 2008 - Orlando, Florida, USA
  Call for paper here
  Updated information here(close)

• 2008-05-14
  GMPR First call for paper(more)

  Workshop on Graph Matching and Pattern Recognition (GMPR’08)
  click here for further details. (close)

• 2008-04-01
  CTIC Second cfp(more)

  Second call for paper here
  First Workshop on Computational Topology in Image Context
  June 16-17, 2008
  POITIERS - FRANCE
  Web site of the conference(close)

• 2008-03-31
  EVA 2008 Second cfp(more)

  The Site of the conference here
  Second call for paper here
  The main aim of this EVA Event in Vienna is to create a forum fordiscussions between the cultural heritage research community,technology researchers and cultural institutions. Our mission is toestablish new technical tools for experts in the cultural heritage field. The accompanying motto of this conference is "Digital Cultural Heritage - Essential for Tourism". The conference will focus on image analysis, cultural tourism, speech and communication in cultural heritage, archaeography, and museum and archaeological applications. The focus will be on both applied work as well as theoretical advances. (close)

• 2008-01-14
  ICISP 2008 Second cfp(more)

  Second Call for Papers (here)
  Third International Conference on Image
  and Signal Processing (ICISP 2008)
  
  July 1-3, 2008
  Cherbourg-Octeville, Normandy, France
  http://www.stlo.unicaen.fr/icisp2008
  (close)

• 2008-01-13
  CTIC 2008 First cfp(more)

  CTIC 2008
  FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS(here)
  First Workshop on
  Computational Topology in Image Context
  
  June 16-17, 2008
  
  POITIERS - FRANCE
  
  http://ctic.sic.sp2mi.univ-poitiers.fr/
  (close)

• 2007-12-21
  EVA Vienna 2008(more)

  Following the successful 1st EVA conference in Vienna in 2006, the
  Pattern Recognition and Image Processing (PRIP) Group of the Vienna University of Technology and the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) invites authors and guests to the 2nd EVA conference in Vienna, Austria, August 25th - August 28th, 2008. The conference is endorsed
  by the TC19 Computer Vision for Cultural Heritage Applications of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).
  (close)

• 2007-11-19
  S+SSPR 2008(more)

  The S+SSPR conference will be held in Orlando From Dember 4 to December 6 2008
  See for further details(close)

• 2007-11-13
  Call for Papers : IAPR ICFHR 2008(more)

  1st International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition
  
  (Formerly IWFHR)
  
  Montreal, Canada
  
  August 19-21, 2008
  Please visit the following link for further information.(close)

• 2007-10-25
  IAPR News letter click here(more)

  IN THIS ISSUE:
  . Global Pattern Recognition: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
  
  . Books, Books, Books
  - review of, "Geometric Tomography" by Richard J. Gardner
  - review of, "Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision" a survey journal
  
  3. Report on 1st International Summer School on Computer Vision forCultural Heritage 2007
  
  4. Conference and Workshop Reports
  - 6th International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval
  - 2nd International Conference on Biometrics
  - 12th Int. Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns
  - 2007 Computational Color Imaging Workshop
  - 7th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition
  - 9th Int. Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
  
  
  5. ICPR 2008 Call for Papers
  
  6. Of Interest
  - Free books!
  - CFP for special issue
  7. Conference Planner(close)

• 2007-09-19
  Special session on Graphs within IAPR ICISP conference.(more)

  ICISP 2008 will take place in Cherbourg (France)
  in Normandy on July1-2 2008.
  All the topics usually developed within the TC15
  (Graph segmentation, matching, classification,...)
  are of interest for this special session.
  More information may be found
  here(close)

• 2007-08-30
  Proceedings of GbR'2007 (more)

  The printed version of the proceedings of GbR 2007 are now avalaible. Please visit the following link.(close)

• 2007-07-19
  Videos of GbR'2007(more)

  The video of the talks given during GbR 2007 are now available. See the lecture section.(close)

• 2007-06-21
  GbR'2009 call for proposal is closed. Next GbR in Venice(more)

  The call for proposal for the next GbR (GbR 2009) is now closed. The next GbR workshop will be organized by Andrea Torsello in Venice see this link(close)

• 2007-03-30
  Call for paper for ICPR 2008(more)

  The next ICPR will again be an exciting event where new ideas will be exchanged
  on topics relevant to the seven tracks of the conference. We invite the members of the TC15
  to participate actively in the event by submitting papers and attending the
  conference.
  
  Please visit the Conference Website for updates on this
  important IAPR event.(close)

Last Update : 04 FEBRUARY 2012