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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.po...@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 cvgappl...@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:merts...@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....@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:shu...@ge.com
Please mention "GE-London-Postdoc" in the subject line.
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From: "petia radeva" <rade...@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...@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: Justu...@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_anno...@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.to...@isti.cnr.it
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione - CNR, Pisa, Italy
Luc Van Gool
mailto:van...@vision.ee.ethz.ch
Computer Vision Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and
ESAT/PSI/Visics, Katholieke Un. Leuven, Belgium
Nikos Nikolaidis
mailto:niko...@aiia.csd.auth.gr
Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Vincent Charvillat
mailto:vincent.c...@enseeiht.fr
ENSEEIHT et Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse IRIT CNRS 5505
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From: "Sander Koelstra" <sander....@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" <caifen...@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:da...@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:caifen...@gmail.com
http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~cfshan
Dr. Dacheng Tao
Department of Computing
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
mailto:dache...@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....@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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