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Today's Topics:

 JOB  : PhD and Postdoc positions - ETH - Zurich, SW
 JOB  : (Post)Doctoral Research Posts - Univ Paderborn - GER
 JOB  : Postdoc - RPI - Troy, NY
 JOB  : Postdoc Fellowship - GE Healthcare/WR/LHSC - ON, Canada
 JOB  : PhD fellowship - Campus UAB - Barcelona, Spain
 JOB  : PhD Studentships - UAB - Spain
 JOB  : PhD Studentship - Univ Bath/Surry HP Labs - UK
 JOB  : Sr. RA/Post-doctoral Positions - Alcorn State Univ - MS 
 CFP  : ICVS 2009 - Belgium - 06APR08
 CFP  : EURASIP JIVP - 01FEB08
 CFP  : 10th Intl WS on IA - London, UK - 21NOV2008
 CFP  : Book on Video Mining (Springer-Verlag) - 15JAN08
 CFP  : 5th Intl Coll on Signal Processing - Kuala Lampur - 15DEC08

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From: Marc Pollefeys <marc.pollef...@inf.ethz.ch>
Subject: JOB  : PhD and Postdoc positions - ETH - Zurich, SW

 The Computer Vision and Geometry lab is accepting applications for
 PhD and postdoc positions. A few slots are open now, and a steady
 number will be opening during the coming year. Strong communication
 skills in English are absolutely essential.
 
 We are especially looking for really driven individuals who have
 demonstrated talent or expertise in some specific way. Expert
 programming skills are useful, but for example, there could also be
 a good match for mathematicians, physicists, roboticists, or those
 experienced in experimental HCI. Some of the projects have
 significant graphics and machine learning components, and we work
 closely with researchers in related groups here at ETH and abroad.
 We are especially keen for applicants who really have one such area
 "nailed" and are ready to apply/expand what they know.
 
 Broadly speaking, the group is most interested in:
    Scene reconstruction from video
    Visual simultaneous localization and mapping (V-SLAM)
    Robotic and embedded vision
    Modeling of people and events based on their motion
    Segmentation of objects (like the camouflage problem)
    Crowds and sporting events
    Hi-speed vision and GPU-based vision
    Computational photography/videography
 
 This is a well-funded group with some specific projects and goals,
 and the resources to support outstanding researchers who are ready
 to explore open research challenges. Everyone is in charge of their own
 research problem, but collaboration is encouraged. The team reflects
 life in Zurich: English is enough to live and thrive here, the
 majority of us come from abroad, earn/live to a high standard, work
 rather hard and then go out to enjoy various sports and activities
 (not just skiing!).
 
 For more information see http://www.cvg.ethz.ch/
 
 The Computer Vision and Geometry lab is part of the new Institute of 
 Visual Computing of the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich. 
 Zurich offers many more opportunities in the area of visual computing, 
 including Google Zurich (the main Google R&D office outside of the US), 
 the new Disney Research Zurich and start-ups like LiberoVision.  In 
 addition, the group has research collaborations with Microsoft, Nokia 
 and Honda Research.
 
 Send your application to cvgapplicati...@gmail.com  Please, include a 
 CV, research statement and contact information for references.  For 
 prospective PhD students, please also provide your transcripts and a 
 pointer to your Master thesis and publications in case you have any. 
 Students without Masters are encouraged to apply to the Computer Science 
 Master program at ETH.  This internationally recognized program is in 
 English and features a fast-track which makes it possible for excellent 
 students to combine Masters and PhD.

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From: Bob Fisher <r...@inf.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: JOB  : (Post)Doctoral Research Posts - Univ Paderborn - GER

   University of Paderborn
   GET Lab
   One Doctoral/ Post-Doctoral Research Post - Computer Graphics and
                                                     Computer Vision
 
 Applications are invited for one doctoral/ post-doctoral researcher to
 work at GET Lab on a DFG funded project entitled "Attentive Vision for
 Robotic Assistance Machines (AVRAM) --- early clustering approach towards
 artificial visual attention for increasing performance of active vision
 systems".
 
 Project goal: Despite its short history modeling visual attention has
 found many useful applications in different areas such as visual search,
 perceptual grouping, object and gesture recognition, object tracking,
 image and video compression and scene rendering in 3D graphics. We
 intend to broaden the scope to areas such as driver assistance systems,
 rescue robotics, aid systems for the elderly or handicapped, and other
 areas where machine vision could play a helping role for people. In this
 project, we aim to demonstrate attention behaviors on real-time active
 vision systems integrated in mobile robots working in natural 3D
 environments with live sensor data so that this work may become a
 milestone towards the long-term target of biologically inspired human
 assistance machines. For this purpose, we are extending the modalities
 of our existing attention model by adding the necessary feature channels
 of motion and depth, and reformulating the rest of the attention model
 in accordance with the new changes. Moreover we plan to introduce a
 spatial memory infrastructure into the model to store locations and
 features of the learned objects and to allow the vision system to
 operate autonomously for long time spans. In order to quantitatively
 measure the performance of this project in particular and evaluate the
 output of attention models in general, we intend to build a sharable
 resource for performance assessment and benchmarking of visual attention
 models. The tool for attention evaluation will be developed in close
 interaction with leading experts in the field and made available for the
 research community in this area. 
 
 The main activities of the researcher at Paderborn will be to
 investigate how to evaluate different attention models. This research
 will involve generation of 3D testing scenarios, further development of
 our robot simulator, visualization of multimodal attention clues,
 development of metrics for the evaluation of attention models and the
 development of a web based system for the evaluation of different
 attention models. 
 
 Applicants for the post must have completed a master program in an
 appropriate area such as computer science, electrical engineering, or
 physics and should have experience with computer graphics, computer
 vision as well as the C, C++, and Matlab/Simulink programming languages.
 As the project is about 3D data simulation, we will be looking for
 applicants with experience with OpenSceneGraph, OpenGL and ODE.
 
 The position is initially for two years with the possibility of
 extension. It is paid according to the German Public Service Scale
 (TV-L 13). The closing date for applications is November 28, 2008.
 
 The University of Paderborn is an equal opportunity employer:
 Handicapped individuals are strongly encouraged to apply, and so are
 women in areas in which they are underrepresented.
 
 Further particulars are available from, and electronic applications are
 sent to: Prof. Dr.-Ing. B?rbel Mertsching,  GET Lab, Fakult?t EIM-E,
 University of Paderborn, Pohlweg 47-49, 33098 Paderborn, Germany, 
 Tel +49 5251 605293, Fax +49 5251 603238, mailto:mertsch...@upb.de , 
 http://getwww.upb.de . A meaningful application should include a cover
 letter, a CV, a brief summary of research interests, a statement of
 interest in the position offered, and contact information for two
 references.

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From: Qiang Ji <q...@ecse.rpi.edu>
Subject: JOB  : Postdoc - RPI - Troy, NY

 A postdoctoral research associate is available immediately with the
 Intelligent Systems Laboratory (ISL) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
 (RPI) in Troy, NY.  We are looking for candidates with strong experience
 in one or more of the following areas: facial analysis and recognition,
 articulated human body tracking, and human gesture and activity
 recognition.  Knowledge and experience in probabilistic graphical models
 and their application in these fields are especially welcome.
 Interested candidates, please contact Dr. Qiang Ji at
 mailto:q...@ecse.rpi.edu .  Additional information about research at ISL
 may be found at http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~qji/

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From: "Ben Ayed, Ismail (GE Healthcare)" <Ismail.BenA...@ge.com>
Subject: JOB  : Postdoc Fellowship - GE Healthcare/WR/LHSC - ON, Canada

 Postdoctoral Fellowship-Image Registration
 GE Healthcare/ Western/Robarts/ Lawson /LHSC
 -Medical Image Registration
 
 One postdoctoral fellowship is available in GE Healthcare, London, ON,
 Canada.
 
 The successful candidate will conduct cutting-edge research with leading
 researchers in GE Healthcare, the University of Western Ontario
 (Western), Robarts Research Institute, Lawson Health Research Institute,
 and London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) in the field of medical image
 analysis and visualization.  They will also gain opportunities to
 directly interact with radiologists for problem definition, solution
 development, and validation.
 
 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS:
 
 The successful candidate will be an excellent scholar having degrees (or
 will have) from computer science, electrical engineering, computer
 engineering, physics, medical biophysics, or an engineering discipline
 with an inter-disciplinary background in some of the following areas:
 image processing and visualization, computer vision, pattern
 recognition. The candidate should have a proven record in research,
 innovative thinking, real-world problem solving and fast prototyping. 
 
 For consideration, please send a cover letter, resume and three
 representative publications to: mailto:shuo...@ge.com
 Please mention "GE-London-Postdoc" in the subject line.

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From: "petia radeva" <radeva...@gmail.com>
Subject: JOB  : PhD fellowship - Campus UAB - Barcelona, Spain

 PhD Students in Computer Vision (Object Recognition and Medical Imaging
 group)
 
 The Object Recognition and Medical Imaging group from the Computer Vision
 Centre ( http://www.cvc.uab.es ) offers a PhD research position to work in
 the area of medical imaging. Research issues include applications of machine
 learning techniques as well as advanced analysis of medical images.
 
 The thesis will be focused on (but not restricted to):
 - Image-guided coronary vessel intervention.
 - Machine learning techniques for vessel extraction and tracking.
 - 3D reconstruction of coronary vessels.
 
 The research will be developed in a close collaboration with a reference
 hospital from Barcelona.
 
 Duration: 1 year for the Master degree finalization. According to the
 results, a possibility for a renew up to a total of 4 years for the PhD
 completion.
 
 Master degree included in the scholarship.
 
 Salary: 1050 Euros/month
 
 Requirements: Computer Science degree, or related areas such as Mathematics,
 Physics, Telecommunications or Electrical Engineering. Programming skills
 are required (Matlab, C++). English skills and  strong motivation are
 mandatory.
 
 Applicants should submit:
 1) Application letter
 2) Curriculum Vitae and Academic Record stating the degrees obtained
   during the carreer study.
 3) Letters of Reference (if available)
 
 Send required information to:
 Petia Radeva: mailto:pe...@cvc.uab.es
 Campus UAB, Edifici O, 08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

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From: Petia Radeva <pe...@cvc.uab.es>
Subject: JOB  : PhD Studentships - UAB - Spain

 ADMISSION of PhD STUDENTS
 PhD Students in Computer Vision 
 (Object Recognition and Medical Imaging group, CVC)
 
 The Object Recognition and Medical Imaging group from the Computer
 Vision Centre ( http://www.cvc.uab.es ), Barcelona (Spain), invites
 applications for several positions as a pre-doctoral researcher in the
 area of machine learning, human behavior modeling and/or medical
 imaging. 
 
 The work will be focused on (but not restricted to):
 - Advanced machine learning techniques in object recognition problems.
 - Application of advanced Computer Vision techniques for Human Behaviour
   analysis.
 - Image-guided coronary intervention.
 - Analysis of Endoscopic videos from Wireless Capsule Endoscopy.
 
 Duration: Initially, 1 year for a Master degree finalization (Master 
 degree fees are included in the scholarship). According to the results, 
 a renewal up to a total of 4 years for the PhD completion.
 
 Salary: 1100 Euros/month.
 
 Requirements: Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Physics Bachelor
 degree. Programming skills are required (Matlab, C++). English
 proficiency and strong motivation for research are mandatory. 
 
 Applicants should submit:
 1) Application letter
 2) Curriculum Vitae and Academic Record stating the degrees obtained  
    during the carreer study.
 3) Letters of Reference (if available)
 
 Send required information to: 
 Petia Radeva: mailto:pe...@cvc.uab.es

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From: "John Collomosse" <j...@cs.bath.ac.uk>
Subject: CFP  : PhD Studentship - Univ Bath/Surry HP Labs - UK

 PhD Studentship - Computer Vision / Graphics
 University of Bath (UK), University of Surrey (UK), HP Labs Bristol (UK)
 
 This is a unique opportunity for a funded PhD studentship that offers
 exposure to three leading UK research institutions involved in cutting
 edge Computer Vision/Graphics research. 
 
 The 3 year PhD project will develop novel algorithms to create Artistic
 Renderings of consumer video repositories, allowing users to
 effortlessly edit and stylize their video collections (for example,
 transform their videos into a cartoon or moving painting). It will
 explore ways to create compelling displays of casually captured video
 content, and intelligently selecting content for display. 
 
 The project will be based at the University of Bath for the first 6
 months, then at the University of Surrey (CVSSP group) for the remaining
 2.5 years.  Periodically you will have the opportunity to work on site
 with researchers at Hewlett Packard's European Research HQ, in Bristol
 (flexible).  The successful candidate will have opportunities to apply
 to the HP Labs internship programme. 
 
 Full tuition fees (at the UK/EU rate) and an annual stipend are on offer
 to the successful candidate*. 
 
 The project is supervised jointly between Dr John Collomosse and
 colleagues at HP Labs. 
 
 There is no closing date - we are accepting applications from now until
 a suitable candidate is appointed - with an intention to start the
 project 1st January 2009.  Early applications are encouraged as
 competition for studentships is always intense. 
 
 Informal enquiries are welcome, addressed to Dr John Collomosse at
 mailto:j...@cs.bath.ac.uk . 
 
 Application forms are available online at
 http://www.bath.ac.uk/prospectus/postgrad/apply/

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From: "Yufeng Zheng" <Yufeng.Zh...@R2Image.com>
Subject: JOB  : Sr. RA/Post-doctoral Positions - Alcorn State Univ - MS 

 The following positions (supported by the project of Multisensory Image
 Fusion and Colorization and funded by DOD) are open immediately in the
 Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (PRIA) Lab at Alcorn State
 University (ASU; MS 39096):
 
 1. Sr. Research Associate: 1 opening ($40K with benefit package)
 
 *	PhD in Computer Science/Engineering or Electronic and Electrical
 	Engineering; 
 *	Must be a US citizen or Permanent Resident (sponsored by DOD); 
 *	Strong research ability in Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition; 
 *	Two years (or above) of image processing experience; 
 *	One year (or above) of experience in image registration and/or
 	fusion; 
 *	Excellent programming skills in Matlab and C/C++; 
 *	Excellent English communication skills including both oral and
 	writing. 
 
 2. Graduate Research Assistants (Tuition and Allowance are covered*): 2
 openings
 
 *	To pursue a Master degree majoring in Computer Science/Engineering,
 	or Computer Networking 
 *	Must be a US citizen or Permanent Resident (sponsored by DOD); 
 *	B.S. in Computer Science/Engineering, Electronic and Electrical
 	Engineering, or Mathematics; 
 *	Comply with the Graduate
 	http://www.alcorn.edu/graduate/typesadmission.htm  Admissions; 
 *	20 hours or less (per week) RA work in the PRIA Lab 
 *	Familiar with Matlab and C/C++; 
 *	Excellent English communication skills including both oral and
 	writing. 
 
 If you are interested in the above positions, please email a cover letter,
 your uptodate resume and three referees to mailto:yzh...@alcorn.edu . The
 position title should be included in the subject of your application email.
 
 *Tuition and Allowance are covered: The candidates of RAs must satisfy the
 requirements listed in 2, and comply with the admission requirements. The
 tuition will be fully covered and the amount of allowance will be decided
 upon the candidate's qualification and the number of work hours.

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From: Justus-b...@Piater.name
Subject: CFP  : ICVS 2009 - Belgium - 06APR08

 ICVS 2009 1st CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS
 http://icvs2009.intelsig.be/
 
 The 7th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems will take
 place October 12-15 2009 in Liege, the cultural and economic capital
 of Wallonia, Belgium, continuing the established series of conferences
 held so far in Europe and North America.
 
 While most computer vision conferences focus on either algorithms or
 applications, ICVS addresses issues arising in the design and
 deployment of computer vision *systems*. Its scope includes but is not
 limited to the following topics:
 - Building Vision Systems: paradigms, architectures, integration,
   control
 - Vision for the Real World: robustness, learning, adaptability,
   self-assessment, failure recovery
 - Vision for Action: robotics, human-computer interaction,
   perception-action loops
 - Vision in Context: knowledge representations, reasoning, goal
   specification, context awareness
 - Biological Systems: computer vision inspired by biology or
   psychology
 - Implementation Issues: embedded systems, nonstandard hardware,
   real-time systems
 - Performance Evaluation: benchmarks, methods and metrics
 
 ICVS brings together researchers and developers from academe and
 industry around the world. Due to its perspective on systems, it is a
 well-positioned platform for knowledge and technology transfer and for
 the identification of application-driven research questions.
 
 The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer series of
 Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
 
 KEYNOTE SPEAKER confirmed to date:
 
 Jay Yagnik
 Google Inc., Head of Computer Vision and Audio Understanding Research
 
 WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS
 
 We invite workshops and tutorials related to any area of computer
 vision systems. For submission information see the conference Web
 pages.
 
 IMPORTANT DATES
 Workshop/tutorial proposals:     6 April   2009
 Paper submission:                4 May     2009
 Notification of acceptance:     10 July    2009
 Camera-ready paper:              3 August  2009
 Conference:                  12-15 October 2009
 
 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
 General Chair:                Justus Piater, University of Liege, Belgium
 Program Chairs:               Bernt Schiele, TU Darmstadt, Germany, and
                               Mario Fritz, ICSI & UC Berkeley
 Tutorial and Workshop Chair:  Markus Vincze, TU Vienna, Austria
 
 Conference Secretariat: Mich=C3=A8le Delville and Celine Dizier, A.I.M.,
 Belgium 
 
 For more and up-to-date information, see http://icvs2009.intelsig.be/ .

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From: aiia_announceme...@aiia.csd.auth.gr
Subject: CFP  : EURASIP JIVP - 01FEB08

 EURASIP JOURNAL ON IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING
 SPECIAL ISSUE ON  IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE
 
 CALL FOR PAPERS
 
 
 Digital imaging and 3D modeling are nowadays extensively employed to
 capture, conserve, describe and render cultural artifacts such as
 buildings and monuments, archaeological sites, artworks (paintings,
 sculptures, etc.), manuscripts, books and other objects of artistic,
 historical or archaeological interest. Computer vision, graphics, image
 and signal processing are essential instruments for virtual and physical
 restoration, analysis, documentation, classification and recognition of
 the artifact content. The ultimate goal is to facilitate the access and
 study of our cultural heritage by the public and scholars alike, and to
 ensure its preservation for the future. 
 
 Processing and analysis of visual cultural heritage data does not merely
 exploit and apply standard techniques, already developed for other
 applications, but often entails original and challenging research
 specific to this domain. 
 
 The creation of structured digital libraries, delivering to the users
 content that fits their specific needs, without redundancy, and on their
 preferred devices, requires the development of accurate and fast feature
 extraction, and semantically powerful indexing and retrieval tools,
 capable of dealing with different standards and formats. 
 
 Advances in digitization and networking, by facilitating uncontrolled
 distribution and copying of important documents, create a need for
 protection against improper usage and preservation of integrity and
 authenticity. 
 
 The often low quality and high complexity of the content requires high
 resolution, multispectral and multisensory 2D and 3D digital
 acquisition, to enrich documentation and representation, recover hidden
 or masked information, and facilitate analysis and restoration of
 cultural artifacts. 
 
 This Special Issue aims to address these and other challenging issues,
 and will highlight new approaches to the exciting field of cultural
 heritage imaging. High quality, original contributions on the following
 (non-exhaustive) list of topics are solicited:
 * High resolution 2D and 3D digital representations, correction of
   degradations and quality evaluation; 
 * Multispectral, multisensory, multiresolution, multiframe, and high
   dynamic range imaging; data registration, integration and mosaicing;
 * Signal, image processing and 3D modelling to assist physical
   restoration; 
 * Extraction, recognition, classification and enhancement of features, 
   structures and content;
 * Digital restoration of damaged artworks (films, photographs,
   paintings, frescos, manuscripts, etc); 
 * Storage, handling, transmission, processing and visualization of
   large data sets;
 * Visualization of archaeological sites: temporal evolution, uncertainty
   in the model, GIS layers;
 * Large scale multimedia databases of artworks; archival, indexing and
   retrieval;
 * Automatic artist/creator or artistic style recognition, detection of 
   forgery/fakes and dating of artwork;
 * Copyright protection and IPR management;
 * Virtual and augmented reality; user-centered visual applications for 
   museums, digital art repositories and edutainment.
 
 SUBMISSION DETAILS
 
 Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
 manuscript format described at:
    http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ivp/
 
 Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete
 manuscripts through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at:
    http://mts.hindawi.com/
 
 IMPORTANT DATES
 
 Manuscript Due:	February 1, 2009
 First Round of Reviews:	May 1, 2009
 Publication Date:	August 1, 2009
 
 GUEST EDITORS
 
 Anna Tonazzini
 mailto:anna.tonazz...@isti.cnr.it
 Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione - CNR, Pisa, Italy
 
 Luc Van Gool
 mailto:vang...@vision.ee.ethz.ch
 Computer Vision Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and
 ESAT/PSI/Visics, Katholieke Un. Leuven, Belgium
 
 Nikos Nikolaidis
 mailto:nikol...@aiia.csd.auth.gr
 Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
 
 Vincent Charvillat
 mailto:vincent.charvil...@enseeiht.fr
 ENSEEIHT et Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse IRIT CNRS 5505

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From: "Sander Koelstra" <sander.koels...@elec.qmul.ac.uk>
Subject: CFP  : 10th Intl WS on IA - London, UK - 21NOV2008

 Call for Papers
 
 10th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Interactive Services
 
 May 6-8 2009, London, UK
 http://wiamis2009.qmul.net/
 
 The International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services
 (WIAMIS) is one of the main international fora for the presentation and discussion
 of the latest technological advances in interactive multimedia services.
 The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers and developers
 from academia and industry working in all areas of image, video and audio
 applications, with a special focus on analysis. 
 
 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
 * Multimedia content analysis and understanding
 * Content-based browsing, indexing and retrieval of images, video and audio
 * 2D/3D feature extraction
 * Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for audio and video
 * Relevance feedback and learning systems
 * Segmentation of objects in 2D/3D image sequences
 * Motion analysis and tracking
 * Video analysis and event recognition
 * Analysis for coding efficiency and increased error resilience
 * Analysis and tools for content adaptation
 * Multimedia content adaptation tools, transcoding and transmoding
 * Content summarization and personalization strategies
 * End-to-end quality of service support for Universal Multimedia Access
 * Semantic mapping and ontologies
 * Multimedia analysis for new and emerging applications
 * Multimedia analysis hardware and middleware
 * Semantic web and social networks
 * Advanced interfaces for content analysis and relevance feedback
 
 IMPORTANT DATES
 Proposal for Special Session:       November 21, 2008
 Paper Submission:                   December 1, 2008
 Notification of Acceptance:         January 16, 2009
 Camera-ready Papers:                February 06, 2009
 
 SUBMISSIONS
 
 Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the areas listed
 above. All papers must be written in English, and the length should not exceed
 4 pages in IEEE double column, single space format (including figures and
 tables). 
 
 Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are
 available at the following web page: 
 http://wiamis2009.qmul.net/submissions.php
 
 Papers (in PDF format) should be submitted electronically via the web-based
 Easy chair submission system: 
 http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wiamis2009
 
 WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS
 All accepted and registered papers will be published in the workshop proceedings
 which will be indexed and distributed by the IEEExplore. All submissions
 will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the technical program
 committee. 
 
 GENERAL CHAIRS
 Ioannis Patras, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
 Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 
 PROGRAM CHAIRS
 Aggelos Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA
 Mihaela van der Schaar, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
 
 SPECIAL SESSION CHAIRS
 Yiannis Andreopoulos, University College, London, UK
 Benoit Macq, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
 
 INDUSTRY LIAISON
 Jan Nesvadba, Philips Research Laboratories, NL
 
 PUBLICITY and PUBLICATIONS
 Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
 Maja Pantic, Imperial College, UK / Univ. of Twente, NL
 
 LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
 Tijana Janjusevic, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
 Sander Koelstra, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
 Tomas Piatrik, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
 
 TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (tentative)
 Lourdes Agapito (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
 Kiyoharu Aizawa (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
 Luigi Atzori (Univ. of Cagliari, Italy)
 Yannis Avrithis (NTUA, Greece)
 Alberto del Bimbo (Univ. of Florence, Italy)
 Susanne Boll (Univ. of Oldenburg, Germany)
 Adrian Bors (Univ. of York, UK)
 Nozha Boujemaa (INRIA, France)
 Nikolaos Boulgouris (King's College London, UK)
 K. Selcuk Candan (Arizona State Univ., UK)
 Tsuhan Chen (CMU, USA)
 Touradj Ebrahimi (EPFL, Switzerland)
 Moncef Gabbouj (Tampere Univ. of technology, Finland)
 Aphrodite Galata (Univ. of Manchester, UK)
 Nikos Galatsanos (Univ. of Patras, Greece)
 Edwin Hancock (Univ. of York, UK)
 Alan Hanjalic (Delft Univ. of Technology, NL)
 Allan Hanbury (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria)
 Hermann Hellwagner (Klagenfurt University, Austria)
 Thomas Huang (UIUC, USA)
 Ebroul Izquierdo (Queen Mary, Univ. of London, UK)
 Francisca de Jong (Univ. of Twente, NL)
 Joemon Jose (Univ. of Glasgow, UK)
 Moon Gi Kang (Yonsei Univ., Korea)
 Yiannis Kompatsiaris (ITI, Greece)
 Janusz Konrad (Boston Univ. USA)
 Inald Lagendijk Delft UNiv. of Technology, NL)
 Riccardo Leonardi (Univ. of Brescia, Italy)
 Zhu Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ, Hong Kong)
 Rainer Lienhart (Univ. of Augsburg, Germany)
 Dimitris Makris (Kingston Univ., UK)
 Stephane Marchand-Maillet (Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland)
 Ferran Marques (UPC, Spain)
 Jose M. Martinez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
 Majid Mirmehdi(Bristol Univ., UK)
 Rafael Molina (Univ. of Granada, Spain)
 Marta Mrak, University of Surrey, UK
 Milind Naphade (IBM, USA)
 Noel O'Connor (Dublin City University, Ireland)
 Antonio Ortega (USC, USA)
 Nikos Paragios (ENPC, France)
 Fernando Pereira (IST, Portugal)
 Andrea Prati (Univ. of Modena, Italy)
 Philippe Salembier (UPC, Spain)
 Shin'ichi Satoh (NII, Japan)
 Thomas Sikora (Technical Univ. Berlin, Germany)
 John R. Smith (IBM, USA)
 Qi Tian (Microsoft, China)
 Christian Timmerer (Klagenfurt University, Austria)
 George Tziritas (Univ. of Crete, Greece)
 Paulo Villegas (Telefonica, Spain)
 Jacob Verbeek (INRIA, France)
 Yao Wang (Polytechnic Univ., USA)
 Marcel Worring (Univ. of Amsterdam, NL)
 Ying Wu (Northwestern University, USA)
 
 WIAMIS 2009 is sponsored by
 IEEE Signal Processing Society (http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/)
 British Machine Vision Association (http://www.bmva.org/)
 PetaMedia NoE (http://www.petamedia.eu/)
 Visnet II NoE (http://www.visnet-noe.org/)
 WeKnowIt (http://www.weknowit.eu/) 

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From: "Shan, Caifeng" <caifeng.s...@philips.com>
Subject: CFP  : Book on Video Mining (Springer-Verlag) - 15JAN08

 CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
 "Video Mining"
 
 To be PUBLISHED BY
 Springer-Verlag in the series "Studies in Computational Intelligence"
 
 BOOK DESCRIPTION
 
 As cameras become more pervasive in our daily life, vast amounts of video
 are generated. The popularity of YouTube and similar websites provides strong
 evidence for the increasing role of video in our lives. How to effectively
 use the huge and rapidly growing video data accumulating in large multimedia
 archives is one of main challenges we are facing in the era of information
 technology. Innovative video processing and analysis techniques will play
 an increasingly important role in resolving the difficult task of video search
 and retrieval. A wide range of video-based applications will benefit from
 advances in video mining including multimedia search, human-computer interface,
 security and surveillance, copyright protection, and personal entertainment,
 to name a few. This book will provide an overview of emerging new approaches
 to video mining and promising methods being developed in the computer vision
 and image analysis community. 
 
 Video mining aims to discover and describe interesting patterns in video
 data and has become one of the core areas in the data mining research community.
 Compared to mining of other types of data (e.g., text), video mining is still
 in its infancy. There are many challenging research problems facing video
 mining. For example, how to extract knowledge from spatio-temporal data,
 how to infer high-level semantic concepts from low-level features in videos,
 how to exploit unlabeled and untagged video data. Applying data mining techniques
 to video data is difficult due to the large volume of high-dimensional video
 data. To address these challenges, we must develop data mining techniques
 and approaches that are suitable to video data. 
 
 The objective of this book is to present the latest advances in video mining
 and analysis techniques covering both theoretical approaches and real applications.
 The book is expected to provide researchers and practitioners a comprehensive
 understanding of the start-of-the-art of video mining techniques and a resource
 for potential applications and successful practice. This book will also serve
 as an important reference tool and handbook for researchers and practitioners
 in video mining. 
 
 The target audience of this book will be mainly composed of researchers and
 engineers as well as graduate students working on video analysis in various
 disciplines, e.g. computer vision, pattern recognition, information technology,
 image processing, artificial intelligence, etc. The book is meant to be accessible
 to a broader audience including practicing professionals working in video
 applications such as video surveillance, video indexing and retrieval,
 etc.
 
 TOPICS
 
 The call for chapters aims to solicit research contributions that address
 theory and practice in video mining and video-based applications. Tentative
 topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: 
 -- Video clustering and categorization
 -- Video-based object recognition
 -- Video segmentation and summarization
 -- Video feature extraction and representation
 -- Video indexing and retrieval
 -- Video search engines
 -- Video editing and browsing systems
 -- Visual event and activity detection
 -- Statistical techniques for video analysis
 -- Semantic video content analysis
 -- Video processing for HCI
 -- Video surveillance (person identification, abnormal activity labeling,
    etc.) 
 -- Consumer video applications (sports highlight detection, commercial message
    extraction, etc.) 
 
 SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
 
 Authors are invited to submit chapter proposals before January 15, 2009.
 The 1-2 page chapter proposals should contain a title, abstract and a preliminary
 outline of the organization of the chapter. The abstract must clearly explain
 the aim and scope of the proposed chapter. Proposals will be evaluated based
 on the relevance of the chapter to the book, contribution to the video mining
 community, and balance among the topics covered in the book. 
 
 Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by February 1, 2009. Full
 chapters are expected to be submitted no later than May 1, 2009. All submitted
 chapters will be reviewed using a double-blind review. Submissions and inquiries
 should be forwarded by email to the editors. 
 
 Careful preparation of the manuscripts will help keep the production time
 short and ensure publication of the chapter in the book. Please prepare the
 manuscript as instructed in Springer-Verlag's author's guidelines for the
 series "Studies in Computational Intelligence" at
 http://tinyurl.com/3wtqxb . 
 
 IMPORTANT DATES
 
 Deadline for chapter proposals (title, abstract, outline):   January 15, 2009
 Notification of proposal status (acceptance/rejection):      February 1, 2009
 Deadline for submission of full chapters:                    May 1, 2009
 Notification of acceptance/rejection of chapters:            July 1, 2009
 Deadline for submission of final chapters:                   August 1, 2009
 
 EDITORS
 
 Prof. Dan Schonfeld
 Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
 University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607-7053, USA
 mailto:d...@uic.edu 
 http://www.ece.uic.edu/~ds
 
 Dr. Caifeng Shan (main contact)
 Philips Research
 High-Tech Campus 36, 5656 AE, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
 mailto:caifeng.s...@gmail.com
 http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~cfshan
 
 Dr. Dacheng Tao
 Department of Computing
 Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
 mailto:dacheng....@gmail.com
 http://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~csdct
 
 Dr. Liang Wang
 Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
 The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic 3010, Australia
 mailto:lww...@csse.unimelb.edu.au
 http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~lwwang
 
 ABOUT THIS SERIES
 
 The series "Studies in Computational Intelligence" (SCI) publishes new developments
 and advances in the various areas of computational intelligence - quickly
 and with a high quality. The intent is to cover the theory, applications,
 and design methods of computational intelligence, as embedded in the fields
 of engineering, computer science, physics and life science, as well as the
 methodologies behind them. The series contains monographs, lecture notes
 and edited volumes in computational intelligence spanning the areas of neural
 networks, connectionist systems, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation,
 artificial intelligence, cellular automata, self-organizing systems, soft
 computing, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems. Critical to both
 contributors and readers are the short publication time and world-wide distribution
 - this permits a rapid and broad dissemination of research results. 

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From: Ihsan <ihsan.yas...@gmail.com>
Subject: CFP  : 5th Intl Coll on Signal Processing - Kuala Lampur - 15DEC08

 Call for Papers - 5th International Colloquium on Signal Processing &
 Its Applications 2009 (CSPA 2009)
 
 The Advanced Signal Processing (ASP) Research Group, Faculty of
 Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) and UiTM IEEE
 Student Branch, are proud to announce The 5th International Colloquium
 on Signal Processing and its Applications (CSPA 2009) which will be held
 at the beautiful and vibrant city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 6 =96 8
 March 2009. 
 
 This event calls for local and international participations.  The
 colloquium will provide an excellent platform for knowledge exchange
 between researchers, scientists, academicians and engineers working in
 the areas of automation, process, signal processing and analysis.  The
 previous colloquiums has attracted international participants from
 various countries, such as Canada, China, India, Iran, Malaysia,
 Thailand, as well as various other countries. 
 
 Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers on all
 aspects of signal processing including, but not limited to, the
 following technical areas:
     * Sensors and sensing techniques
     * Artificial intelligent and optimization systems
     * Analytical/production techniques
     * Signal processing techniques
     * Industrial Electronics
     * Automation, robotics and control systems
     * Image processing and transformations
     * Bioinformatics
     * Geomatic engineering: digital imagery application
     * Other related areas
 
 Interested participants may download the call for papers at
 http://www.asprg.net/cspa2009/cfp/CFP1.pdf . Abstracts and full papers
 may be submitted online at http://www.asprg.net/cspa2009 .  We look
 forward to your participation. 
 
 Please direct all your enquiries to:
 Mohd Hezri Fazalul Rahiman
 Faculty of Electrical Engineering
 Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia
 mailto:hez...@ieee.org
 phone:+6019-5114010

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