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Today's Topics:
Q&A : Large overhead camera person tracking dataset
JOB : PhD position - ECSC Asturias - Spain
JOB : Postdoc/Long-term Internship - Huawei R&D office - Bridgewater, NJ
JOB : Postdoc - Boston Univ - Boston, MA
JOB : Postdoc positions - UPenn - PA
JOB : Postdoc - Australian Centre for Visual Tech - Adelaide, AUS
JOB : Postdoc - UPenn - PA
JOB : 3 PhD studentships - Erasmus MC - Netherlands
JOB : PhD studentships - Cranfield Univ - UK
JOB : Imaging Research Engineer - Buhler India - Bangalore, India
CFP : ECCV'2014 Prposals - Greece - 15AUG2010
CFP : IEEE T Affective Computing - Special Issue - 01OCT2010
CFP : EURASIP J IVP - Special Issue submision extended to 17SEP2010
CFP : Image Annotation Retrieval WS - Puebla, Mexico - 15AUG2010
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From: Bob Fisher <r...@inf.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Q&A : Large overhead camera person tracking dataset
We have been contructing a video dataset of detected people walking
through the atrium of a building, where the data comes from an overhead
camera. Because of the data volume, we are not recording the video
images, but are doing target detection on the images and save the
detection records. The records include a bounding box and a colour
histogram for each detected target. Because of lighting, camera jitter
and stationary objects, there are detections of non-people, too. After
detection, we also have applied our person tracker, recording the
trajectories as both lists of detections and splines.
By July 19, 2010, there were 29 million target detections, of which an
estimated 8.3 million were real targets, resulting in 96K observed
trajectories. And we're still acquiring data!
You might find it interesting to use the data. It's at:
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/FORUMTRACKING/
The data was acquired in the Informatics Forum, the main building of the
School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.
By the way, there are over 120 public image and video datasets
on CVonline at:
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/cgi/rbf/CVONLINE/entries.pl?TAG363
Best wishes,
Prof. Robert B. Fisher, School of Informatics, Univ. of Edinburgh
1.26 Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton St, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK
+44-(131)-651-3441 (direct line), +44-(131)-651-3443 (secretary)
Fax: +44-(131)-650-6899 E-MAIL: r.b.fisher A@T ed.ac.uk
http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/Robert_Fisher.html
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From: Sergio Damas <sergio...@softcomputing.es>
Subject: JOB : PhD position - ECSC Asturias - Spain
Early Stage Researcher (PhD position)
A 3-year position (starting as soon as possible in summer 2010) as Early
Stage Researcher (ESR) is available to work in the Medical Imaging Using
Bio-inspired and Soft Computing (MIBISOC) European project in the
European Centre for Soft Computing located in Mieres, Asturias, Spain
( http://www.softcomputing.es/ ).
MIBISOC is a Marie Curie International Training Network granted by the
European Commission within the Seventh Framework Program (FP7
PEOPLE-ITN- 2008). The main goal of the project is to create a training
programme where 16 enrolled early-stage researchers (ESRs) will be
exposed to a wide variety of soft computing (SC) and bio-inspired
computing (BC) techniques, as well as to the challenge of applying them
to different situations and problems within the different medical
imaging (MI) stages. More information is available in
http://www.mibisoc-itn.eu .
We were looking to recruit an ESR with less than 4 years of research
experience after graduation. The selected candidate will have the
opportunity to study for a research-level degree (PhD) and work within a
highly collaborative and interdisciplinary network of leading
researchers. The call will be opened until the position is covered.
JOB DESCRIPTION
The MIBISOC network offers to the selected ESRs an intensive research
training programme between 12 participating institutions. The
successful candidate will be expected to take part actively in the
training activities organized by MIBISOC (on-line and face-to-face
courses, secondments, workshops, a final conference, etc.) and to
develop her/his research project.
RESEARCH PROJECT (PhD dissertation topic)
The selected candidate will work in one of the two following projects:
Deformable Registration of Medical Images Using Soft Computing: The
overall aim of the subproject is to investigate the use of Soft
Computing to tackle the deformable registration of medical images
following a two-stage approach. First, a rigid and affine registration
process is tackled using bio-inspired computing and different voxel
similarity measures. Then, a deformable IR method aims to refine the
results from the previous stage Genetic Fuzzy Systems and Deformable
Models for Medical Image Segmentation: This subproject aims at
investigating the use of fuzzy systems and deformable models for the
segmentation of objects of interest in medical images. Besides,
following an evolutionary learning process, we aim to customize the
latter systems to allow them to be applied to a wide branch of medical
imaging scenarios.
BENEFITS
Employment contract with full social security. The contract will be
with the European Centre for Soft Computing. The salary of the PhD
positions is set in accordance with the regulations of the Marie Curie
Initial Training Network
( http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/careers_en.htm )
within the European Commission?s 7th Framework Programme, the labour laws
and regulations of the hosting institution and its country. In any
case, the gross salary will be higher than 30000 euros per year.
Additional, non-salaried, non-taxable contributions toward moving and travel
to MIBISOC activities and conferences are available from MIBISOC's
funds.
The selection of ESR followed a process based on:
Equal access opportunities between men and women
The academic and scientific skills and the relevance of their
experience with the research area
The expected impact of the proposed training on the researchers? career
The conformity with the required criteria for eligibility of the
researchers within Marie Curie Initial Training Networks.
The EU has strict eligibility criteria for ESRs:
Applicants should be in the first 4 years (full-time equivalent) of
their research careers, including the period of research training,
starting at the date of obtaining the degree which would formally
entitle them to embark on a doctorate. Students who are completing
their master?s degree during the current semester, with the intention
of starting the doctoral position in the spring semester of 2010, are
also invited to apply. The qualifying education must be completed
before enrolment in the MIBISOC project.
The researcher shall not be a national of a State in which the
beneficiary's research team appointing her/him is located.
At the time of appointment, the researcher should not have resided or
carried out her/his main activity in the country of the beneficiary
for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to her/his
appointment
Applicants need to have a good working knowledge of English, as all
the scientific communication and the MIBISOC events will be in
English.
We particularly encourage women to apply for these positions.
Send the following documents:
- Curriculum Vitae (maximum 2 pages)
- Letter of motivation, including aptitude for pursuance of the programme
- Summary (1 page) of the most relevant previous experience (if any) in related fields
- Scanned copies of academic transcripts and degree certificates
- Proof of English proficiency (E.g. IELTS, TOEFL)
- Letters of recommendation are welcomed
to this e-mail address: mailto:applic...@mibisoc-itn.eu
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From: Yu Huang <yhu...@huawei.com>
Subject: JOB : Postdoc/Long-term Internship - Huawei R&D office - Bridgewater, NJ
The Multimedia Content Networking (MCN) R&D Group of Core-network Dept.
at Huawei Technologies USA has one 12-months internship or postdoc
position opening. We are specifically interested in motivated Ph.D.s or
students in the areas of multimedia, computer vision, pattern
recognition and machine learning.
The MCN group of Core-network department at Huawei Technologies USA is
located at Bridgewater, NJ. It delivers media processing, media format,
media security and media networking software applications for CDN and
IPTV etc.
The postdoc/internship provides valuable work experience to enhance your
academic pursuits. As an intern/postdoc, you will join MCN's team of
scientists in solving exciting and challenging research problems with
real-world multimedia applications. You will learn from the best while
working in a fun and creative environment. The ideal candidate should
major in computer science, electrical engineering or a related field.
The candidate is required to have knowledge and experience in at least
one of computer vision, information retrieval and machine learning.
Prior experience with object detection, object recognition/
categorization, object tracking, scene classification, action/event
recognition and content-based image/video retrieval is a plus. Prior
experience of Window/Linux GUI development with C/C++ is also a plus.
You will be expected to stay at our office for ONE year, in Sept. 2010 -
Aug. 2011. We provide competitive salaries (with relocation package) and
also strongly encourage all interns to publish.
If interested, please email your CV (with reference names) and cover letter
as Word attachments to Dr. Yu Huang, mailto:yhu...@huawei.com for
consideration with subject "MCN R&D Internships".
ABOUT HUAWEI
Huawei is a leading telecom solutions provider, owned entirely by its
employees. Through continuous customer-centric innovation, we have
established end-to-end advantages in telecom network infrastructure,
application & software, devices and professional services. With
comprehensive strengths in wireline, wireless and IP technologies,
Huawei has gained a leading position in the All-IP convergence age. Our
products and solutions have been deployed in over 100 countries and have
served 45 of the world's top 50 telecom operators, as well as one third
of the world's population.
Huawei's vision is to enrich people's lives through communication. By
leveraging our experience and expertise in telecom sector, we help
bridge the digital divide and give people the opportunity to join the
information age, regardless of their geographic origin. In order to
tackle increasing climate challenges, Huawei has deployed a wide range
of green solutions that enable customers to reduce power consumption and
carbon emissions, contributing to the sustainable development of the
social economy and the environment.
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From: "Sclaroff, Stan" <scla...@bu.edu>
Subject: JOB : Postdoc - Boston Univ - Boston, MA
Post-Doctoral Position in Computer Vision and Machine Learning
Boston University
A university-funded post-doc position is available in the Image and Video
Computing Research Group, in the Department of Computer Science at Boston
University. The successful candidate will have a research track record in
formulating machine learning algorithms and building computer vision systems
for: (1) gesture analysis, recognition and retrieval, e.g., for sign language,
and/or (2) video-based analysis of human motion, activity and communication,
and/or (3) indexing and mining of very large video data sets. The position
is funded for up to three years, and renewable annually based on
performance.
To apply, please send a CV, research statement, three relevant peer-reviewed
publications, and the names of two references to Stan Sclaroff
( mailto:scla...@cs.bu.edu ).
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From: "Verma, Ragini" <Ragini...@uphs.upenn.edu>
Subject: JOB : Postdoc positions - UPenn - PA
Postdoctoral positions in facial expression and voice analysis applied
to neuropsychiatric disorders are available at the Section of Biomedical
Image Analysis (SBIA), Department of Radiology, University of
Pennsylvania. The successful candidates must have background in Applied
Math, Electrical or Computer Science. No background in medical imaging
is necessary. The candidate needs to have actively worked in facial and
voice analysis in the past. The Face-Voice projects involve work on face
detection, tracking, expression analysis, pattern classification of
emotions in face and voice with application to neuropsychiatric
disorders. SBIA is a dynamically growing medical image analysis group,
including researchers and collaborators from diverse fields and offers
exciting opportunities to researchers with interests in applying math,
computer vision and engineering knowledge to the rapidly growing
biomedical imaging field. Details of SBIA activities can be found at
http://www.rad.upenn.edu/sbia. Please contact, Ragini Verma, Asst Prof.
Radiology, UPenn at Ragini...@uphs.upenn.edu.
Ragini Verma, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Section of Biomedical Image Analysis, Department of Radiology
University of Pennsylvania
3600 Market St. Suite 380, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel : 215 662 7471, Fax : 215 614 0266
mailto:Ragini...@uphs.upenn.edu
http://www.rad.upenn.edu/sbia/rverma
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From: Anton van den Hengel <Anton.van...@adelaide.edu.au>
Subject: JOB : Postdoc - Australian Centre for Visual Tech - Adelaide, AUS
The ACVT has the following position available:
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Search in large image sets
Australian Centre for Visual Technologies
University of Adelaide, Australia
http://www.acvt.com.au
Duration: 2 years
The Australian Centre for Visual Technologies (ACVT) is one of the
largest computer vision and image analysis research groups in Australia,
with expertise in image based modelling, video search and video
surveillance. Based in Adelaide, we currently number over 30 members
including academics, research staff and students, working on a mixture
of "blue sky" and commercially oriented research projects.
The applicant will work as part of a research team focussing on image
search and classification within large image databases.
Applicants should have a PhD in a relevant discipline with a background
in computer vision and image search. Experience in C++ and Python is
and advantage. Written and oral English communication skills are essential.
The ACVT provides many opportunities for collaboration within the
Centre, with visitors and with international partners. The primary
output of the project will be high-quality research and publications,
but the practicality and usability of the results are also a consideration.
Salary: University Level B (AU$73,228 - 86,960 depending on
qualifications), plus benefits. Funding for relocation and conference
travel is available.
Please email any queries or applications, including CV and publications, to:
Ms Kathy Cooper
mailto:kathy....@adelaide.edu.au
School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide,
North Terrace, South Australia 5005, Australia
Applications received by Friday, 21 August 2010 will be considered
immediately, but later applications will also be accepted.
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From: Kilia...@uphs.upenn.edu
Subject: JOB : Postdoc - UPenn - PA
Postdoctoral Position at UPenn to Analyze Medical Images to Advance
Personalized Medicine
A postdoctoral position in medical image analysis is available at the
Section of Biomedical Image Analysis (SBIA) of the Department of
Radiology, University of Pennsylvania. SBIA has been a dynamically
growing medical image analysis group, including 30 researchers and
many collaborators from diverse fields. Our newest effort is to
enhance personalized medicine by creating a comprehensive and robust
methodology for automatically quantifying and generalizing the
information latent in images for tasks such as disease analysis and
surgical planning.
The position will support our efforts in advancing personalized
medicine by developing novel methods for analyzing MR or CT scans for
applications in neuroscience, cardiology, and oncology. Possible
research topics include but are not limited to exploring parameters of
registration algorithms, segmenting longitudinal medical scans,
capturing the shape of organs in the torso. We are seeking highly
motivated individuals who have demonstrated academic excellence,
including publications in first-class journals and conferences.
Successful candidates should have a PhD (or equivalent) in Computer
Science, Applied Mathematics/Statistics, Electrical or Biomedical
Engineering, or related field.Competence in programming beyond Matlab
is essential. Experience in medical image analysis, machine learning,
and probabilistic modelling is highly desirable. Starting date for the
position is within the next three month.
Applications should include a cover letter indicating the research area
of interest, a curriculum vitae, and the contact information of three
references.
For more information or to submit your application please contact
Kilian M. Pohl, Assistant Professor
Section of Biomedical Image Analysis, Department of Radiology
University of Pennsylvania
3600 Market Street, Suite 380, Philadelphia, PA 19104
mailto:Kilia...@uphs.upenn.edu
https://www.rad.upenn.edu/sbia/Kilian.Pohl
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From: Marleen de Bruijne <marleen....@erasmusmc.nl>
Subject: JOB : 3 PhD studentships - Erasmus MC - Netherlands
The Biomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam ( http://www.bigr.nl ) of the
Departments of Medical Informatics and Radiology of the Erasmus MC –
University Medical Center Rotterdam in the Netherlands is looking for
candidates for 3 PhD-Student Projects in Biomedical Image Analysis:
1. BioStress: Assessment of Biomechanical Stress on Atherosclerotic Plaques
2. 4D Ultrasound for improved image guidance
3. Developing tools for hyperthermia treatment planning
For more information about these projects please visit
http://www.bigr.nl/page/opportunities
REQUIREMENTS
Applicants should have a Master's degree in physics, electrical
engineering, mathematics, biomedical engineering, computer science, or a
related field. Experience with biomedical image analysis is an
advantage. You should be familiar with programming. You should be able
to work in a multi-disciplinary team. Strong theoretical skills and
affinity with experimental work are required.
CONDITIONS
Our institute is internationally at the forefront of biomedical imaging,
and offers a dynamic, challenging, and cooperative research environment.
As a PhD student you will get a temporary position of four years
(full-time), with a salary according to the PhD salary scale of the
University Medical Centers in the Netherlands (gross monthly salary ca €
2086 in the first year increasing to ca € 2673 in the final year).
APPLICATION
Please send your motivation letter, curriculum vitae, list of passed
courses and grades, and copies of papers that you have written and/or
your M.Sc. thesis (in English), by email to vaca...@bigr.nl before
August 15th, 2010.
In case you are interested in more than one of the vacancies in our
group, please send a single application and indicate your preference of
projects.
Marleen de Bruijne
http://image.diku.dk/marleen
Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Assistant Professor, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Room Ee 2112, Erasmus MC, ph +31 10 704 3049
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From: Toby Breckon <toby.b...@cranfield.ac.uk>
Subject: JOB : PhD studentships - Cranfield Univ - UK
PhD: Cranfield University, UK (computer vision - 3D / automotive / UAV)
We are currently recruiting for several funded PhD studentship
opportunities in the following areas:
PhD studentship - 3D Computer Vision
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/soe/postgraduatestudy/phd/page49294.html
PhD studentship - Image Processing for Automotive Applications
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/soe/postgraduatestudy/phd/page49296.html
PhD studentship - Image Processing for UAV Applications
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/soe/postgraduatestudy/phd/page49295.html
Applicants should have good background in computer science, artificial
intelligence, electrical engineering or a related discipline with a
strong programming ability in a high level language (preferably C/C++,
Java or Matlab). Please note that the above positions are only open to
UK/EU students. Candidates should hold at least a 2:1 honours degree
or equivalent in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related
discipline.
Scholarship awards are available to cover both tuition fees and a
stipend in the form of a tax-free bursary for UK applicants (in line
with EPSRC recommendations). UK applicants should be eligible for both
tuition fees and stipend maintenance support. Scholarship awards are
available to cover tuition fees only for EU-applicants. EU-applicants
are eligible for fees only support unless they can demonstrate a
relevant connection to the UK, in which case they should qualify for
full tuition fees and maintenance support. Unfortunately non-EU
applicants are not eligible for this award unless they can demonstrate
a relevant connection to the UK. Scholarship availability is limited
in any given academic year.
Applicants can make initial informal enquiries with Dr. Toby Breckon
( http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/~toby.breckon/ ).
Application details available at the above URLs.
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From: <gabrie...@buhlergroup.com>
Subject: JOB : Imaging Research Engineer - Buhler India - Bangalore, India
Buhler India Pvt. Ltd. (Bangalore) is seeking an imaging research engineer/
scientist to work on the research and development of a new generation of
sensors for use in the food industry.
JOB DETAILS:
The role is within a fast-paced R&D centre of the Buhler Group. The
job combines both practical experimentation with new prototype
sensors and the development of new image processing and computer
vision algorithms for food inspection.
COMPANY DETAILS:
Buhler is a global technology partner for the food industry, chemical
processing and die casting. The headquarters is in Switzerland, with
~7500 employees worldwide and 300+ based in India.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor degree in relevant science, preferably Masters or PhD degree
in the area of opto-electronics/ sensor design / computer vision or
related areas.
Interested candidates please send CV to
mailto:hr.ban...@buhlergroup.com
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From: Nikos Paragios <nikos.p...@ecp.fr>
Subject: CFP : ECCV'2014 Prposals - Greece - 15AUG2010
Call for proposals for the organization of ECCV 2014
The European Conference on Computer Vision is one of the top three
events in the field of computer vision. It consists of an excellent
forum (single track) for dissemination of new ideas in the field and
accommodates a highly selective number of papers accepted through
double-blind review process. It is organized biannually in Europe from
well-established researchers in the field who have support of an
established institution which provides financially guarantees for the
event.
The 2010 edition will take place at Heraklion, Greece
( http://www.ics.forth.gr/eccv2010/intro.php ) and has received a record
of submissions (1,165) with approx 27% acceptance rate. The next edition
will take place at Florence, Italy ( http://eccv2012.unifi.it/ ), The next
ECCV organizers will be selected by the ECCV Board, which consists of
the representatives of previous ECCV organizers.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
The candidates will be asked by the ECCV Board to present their proposal
at the ECCV 2010 conference in Heraklion where the final decision will
be taken and announced.
STRUCTURE OF THE PROPOSAL
Please discuss the following issues in your proposal:
* People: general chair, program chairs, AC committee, ..
* Dates: conference, submission, notification, conflicts with other
conferences..
* Venue: main room capacity, poster area, exhibition space,
workshops & tutorial rooms, ...
* Hotel: main hotel capacity and accommodation costs, additional
hotels, student accommodation, etc.
* Budget: registration fee, financial guarantees, ...
* Travel: connections, air-fare costs, transportation from the
airport, ...
If you are willing to organize ECCV 2014, please send your proposal by
email before August 15th, 2010 to Nikos Paragios, Kostas Daniilidis &
Petros Maragos ( mailto:nikos.p...@ecp.fr ,
mailto:kos...@cis.upenn.edu , mailto:mar...@cs.ntua.gr ).
We are looking forward to your proposals.
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From: albert <a.a....@cwi.nl>
Subject: CFP : IEEE T Affective Computing - Special Issue - 01OCT2010
CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
Special Issue - Affect Based Human Behavior Understanding
DESCRIPTION:
Emotion is an important aspect of human behavior that is relevant for
interpreting complex behavioral patterns between interacting humans and
for improving human-computer interaction. Analysis of affect for a
better understanding of human behavior is a challenging problem where
many issues are still open.
We solicit contributions to a special section on IEEE Transactions on
Affective Computing that focuses on the problems of modeling and
analyzing human affective behavior. The topics include, but are not
restricted to:
-Facial expression analysis
-Multimodal affective behavior analysis
-Affective social signals
-Display of affect for personality judgments
-Analysis of emotion in speech
-Analysis of non-verbal affective behaviors
-Automatic assessment of emotional responses
-Natural/spontaneous vs. acted affective responses
-Temporal dynamics of emotion
-Novel sensory modalities for analysis of affect
-Long-term analysis of affective responses
SUBMISSIONS:
Submissions must represent original material. Papers are accepted
for review with the understanding that the same work has been neither
submitted to, nor published in, another journal or conference. The
special issue follows the International Workshop on Human Behavior
Understanding (HBU@ICPR) held in association with ICPR 2010. Workshop
papers must be significantly enhanced and revised to be considered in
the special issue, which is also open to work not presented in the
workshop. All manuscripts will undergo a rigorous review process by
at least three experts.
IMPORTANT DATES:
October 1, 2010: Submission of full paper
November 7, 2010: First round of reviews
December 7, 2010: Submission of revised papers
December 30, 2010: Second round of reviews
January 15, 2011: Notification of acceptance
The tentative publication date is mid-February 2011.
EDITOR IN CHIEF:
Jonathan Gratch, University of Southern California
GUEST EDITORS:
Albert Ali Salah, University of Amsterdam
Theo Gevers, University of Amsterdam
Nicu Sebe, University of Trento
Alessandro Vinciarelli, University of Glasgow
To submit a paper, go to
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/taffc-cs
and select "Affect Based Human Behavior Understanding" special issue.
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing is published in cooperation
with: IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, IEEE Signal Processing
Society, IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology, IEEE
Consumer Electronics Society, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.
For more information contact:
Dr. Albert Ali Salah
Informatics Institute, Faculty of Science,
University of Amsterdam, Science Park 107, 1098XG, The Netherlands
phone: +31 (0) 20 525 7550
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~asalah/
mailto:a.a....@uva.nl
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From: <sidahmed...@orange-ftgroup.com>
Subject: CFP : EURASIP J IVP - Special Issue submision extended to 17SEP2010
DUE TO MANY REQUESTS, WE KEEP THE SUBMISSION WEBSITE OPEN UNTIL
SEPTEMBER 17, 2010.
EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing Special Issue on Video
Analysis for Novel TV Services
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ivp/si/ntvs.html
CALL FOR PAPERS
The significant increase in the amount of digital video content (TV
channels, in particular) and the diversification of broadcast
possibilities and storage devices have recently given rise to the
emergence of many new services and novel TV program-consumption schemes.
These new services are basically aimed at making TV content available to
users without any constraint on location and/or time. The idea is also
to present TV programs in different ways in order to increase their
audience, automatically creating summaries, building novel browsing
models, and allowing users to perform semantic queries. Examples of such
services are TVoD, interactive TV, Network PVR, catch-up TV, start-over,
and many others.
In order to build on these services, highly time-consuming preprocessing
steps of TV content are required. TV content is generally available as
continuous streams of audio-visual frames. Useful TV programs and
interprograms (like commercials, trailers) are concatenated and
broadcasted without any precise and reliable flags that identify the
boundaries of useful segments and times of interest. Therefore, in order
to be useful, TV streams have to be macrosegmented and segments must be
classified and mined. Programs need to be described, structured,
summarized, classified following their genre and theme, indexed, stored,
and retrieved. Events of interest also need to be detected in programs.
Events may concern, for instance, goals and important actions in soccer
footage, and also each time a specific person appears on screen.
On the other hand, making use of TV program content raises important IPR
issues. Efficient techniques for copyidentification and also
watermarking are, therefore, required in order to trace the content.
The objective of this special issue is twofold. First, it aims at
highlighting the need for powerful and automatic audio and video
content-based techniques in building novel TV services. The second
objective is to present the recent advances in the field.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* TV stream structuring
* Content-based audio/video analysis of TV content
* TV program classification
* Event detection in TV streams
* Search engines for TV streams
* Program summarization
* Thematic and semantic clustering of TV programs
* Human machine interfaces for browsing and retrieving TV content
* Metadata extraction and mining from TV content
* Duplicate video detection
* Video and audio fingerprinting/watermarking
Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's
Author Guidelines, which are located at
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ivp/guidelines.html . Prospective authors
should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscripts through
the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/
according to the following timetable:
Manuscript Due: September 17, 2010
Publication Date: December 31, 2010
LEAD GUEST EDITOR
Sid-Ahmed Berrani, Orange Labs, France Telecom, Rennes, France
GUEST EDITORS
Patrick Gros, INRIA, The French National Institute for Research in
Computer Science and Control, Rennes, France
Shin'ichi Satoh, The National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
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From: hugo escalante <hugo...@gmail.com>
Subject: CFP : Image Annotation Retrieval WS - Puebla, Mexico - 15AUG2010
CALL FOR PAPERS
AUTOMATIC IMAGE ANNOTATION AND RETRIEVAL WORKSHOP 2010
----- AIAR 2010 ------
October 6 - 8, Puebla, Mexico
http://ccc.inaoep.mx/~tia/AIAR2010
Submission deadline: August 15, 2010 (extended abstract)
GENERAL INFORMATION
AIAR 2010 is organized by the TIA research group at INAOE Mexico.
http://ccc.inaoep.mx/~tia/TIA/
AIAR 2010 focuses on image annotation and on the combination of both
textual and visual information into the multimedia image retrieval
task. We invite researchers and students to submit extended abstracts
of their work.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
You are invited to submit a paper in one of the following topics:
* Automatic image segmentation
* Automatic image annotation
* Annotation-based image retrieval
* Visual concept detection and object retrieval
* Image retrieval combining textual and visual information
* Methods that use spatial context and/or semantic information for
image annotation
* Relevance feedback in multimedia image retrieval
* Object detection and recognition
* Ground-truth data for image annotation and retrieval
PRESENTATION & PUBLICATION
Accepted works will be presented in the workshop and full versions of
accepted abstracts will be published on-line in CEUR Workshop
Proceedings (see
http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/ ).
Additionally, extended versions of a selection the best papers will be
invited for a special issue of a Journal to be announced.
PAPER FORMAT & SUBMISSION
Extended abstracts must be prepared according to the EasyChair class
style, available from http://www.easychair.org. The length of the
extended abstract must be of at least one and at most two pages. The
full versions of accepted papers can have a maximum length of 10
pages. Invited papers for the Journal's special issue will be free
length.
Papers must be submitted online using EasyChair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Daiar2010 .
Submission of the paper assumes that at least one author will register
at the workshop and present an accepted paper or poster.
TUTORIALS
The format of the workshop includes keynote tutorials in the morning
and oral presentations and posters in the afternoon. We have confirmed
the following keynote speakers:
* Stefan R=FCger (Multimedia and Information Systems group, The Open
University of London)
* More to be announced ....
SCHOLARSHIPS
AIAR 2010 organizers are pleased to announce the availability of a
limited number of Scholarships for students, who are the principal
authors of accepted papers, attending AIAR 2010. Scholarships will
cover accommodation, foods and registration.
A certificate will be granted to the author(s) of the best student paper
award.
IMPORTANT DATES
* Extended abstract submission: August 15, 2010
* Acceptance notification: September 15, 2010
* Camera ready: September 30, 2010
* Electronic publication: October 4, 2010
* Workshop: October 6-8, 2010
* Journal Special Issue Publication Mid-2011
CULTURAL PROGRAM
Puebla is a beautiful colonial city recognized by UNESCO. It is two
hours by road from Mexico City, with direct buses from Mexico City's
Airport. We plan to have excursions to Puebla City Center, Cholula
and to the ancient pyramids of Teotihuacan (one of the most important
archaeological sites in America).
GENERAL INQUERIES AND CONTACT INFORMATION
see http://ccc.inaoep.mx/~tia/AIAR2010
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
* Aurelio L=F3pez ( mailto:all...@inaoep.mx )
* Eduardo Morales ( mailto:emor...@inaoep.mx )
* Manuel Montes y G=F3mez( mailto:mmon...@inaoep.mx )
* Luis Villase=F1or ( mailto:vill...@inaoep.mx )
* L. Enrique Sucar ( mailto:esu...@inaoep.mx )
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