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CALL FOR
PAPERS and CALL FOR WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS
Paper
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2015
The 2015 International
Conference on Image Processing,
Computer
Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'15)
July
27-30, 2015, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp15/ws/conferences/ipcv15
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You are invited to submit a paper for consideration. All
accepted papers
will be published in printed conference books/proceedings
(ISBN) and will
also be made available online. The proceedings will be
indexed in science
citation databases that track citation frequency/data. In
addition, like
prior years, extended versions of selected papers (about
35%) of the
conference will appear in journals and edited research
books (publishers
include: Springer, Elsevier, BMC, and others; a list that
includes a
small subset of such books and journal special issues
appear in this
document); some of these books and journal special issues
have already
received the top 25% downloads in their respective
fields. The titles of
proceedings of the federated congress (that this
conference is part of)
have been indexed into the ACM Digital Library (
http://dl.acm.org/ )
which includes bibliographic citations from major
publishers in computing.
The conference is composed of a number of tracks,
tutorials, sessions,
workshops, poster and panel discussions; all will be held
simultaneously,
same location and dates: July 27-30, 2015.
SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to, the following:
Prologue: The
broad area of Imaging Science is a field that is
mainly
concerned with the generation, collection, analysis,
modification,
and visualization of images. The field is multidisciplinary
in that it
includes topics that are traditionally covered in computer
science,
physics, mathematics, electrical engineering, AI, psychology
and information
theory where computer science acts as the topical
bridge between
all such diverse areas (for a formal definition of
Imaging
Science, refer to relevant wiki pages.) From the computer
science
perspective, the core of Imaging Science includes the following
three
intertwined computer science fields, namely: Image Processing,
Computer
Vision, and Pattern Recognition. This conference will cover
the research
trends in these three important areas. The list of topics
of interest
that appears below is not meant to be exhaustive.
o IMAGE
PROCESSING:
(Addresses
ow-level processing as well as imaging fundamentals.)
- Software Tools
for Imaging
- Image
Generation, Acquisition, and Processing
- Image-based
Modeling and Algorithms
- Mathematical
Morphology
- Image Geometry
and Multi-view Geometry
- 3D Imaging
- Novel Noise
Reduction Algorithms
- Image
Restoration
- Enhancement
Techniques
- Segmentation
Techniques
- Motion and
Tracking Algorithms and Applications
- Watermarking
Methods and Protection + Wavelet Methods
- Image Data
Structures and Databases
- Image
Compression, Coding, and Encryption
- Video Analysis
-
Multi-resolution Imaging Techniques
- Performance
Analysis and Evaluation
- Multimedia
Systems and Applications
- Novel Image
Processing Applications
o COMPUTER VISION:
(Addresses mid-
to high-level processing as well as vision
fundamentals.)
- Camera
Networks and Vision
- Sensors and
Early Vision
- Machine
Learning Technologies for Vision
- Image Feature
Extraction
- Cognitive and
Biologically Inspired Vision
- Object Recognition
- Soft Computing
Methods in Image Processing and Vision
- Stereo Vision
- Active and
Robot Vision
- Face and
Gesture Recognition
- Fuzzy and
Neural Techniques in Vision
- Medical Image
Processing and Analysis
- Novel Document
Image Understanding Techniques
-
Special-purpose Machine Architectures for Vision
- Biometric
Authentication
- Novel Vision
Application and Case Studies
o PATTERN
RECOGNITION:
(Addresses
pattern recognition algorithms and methodologies
that are of
value to the image processing and computer vision
research
communities.)
- Supervised and
Un-supervised Classification Algorithms
- Clustering
Techniques
- Dimensionality
Reduction Methods in Pattern Recognition
- Symbolic Learning
- Ensemble
Learning Algorithms
- Parsing
Algorithms
- Bayesian
Methods in Pattern Recognition and Matching
- Statistical
Pattern Recognition
- Invariance in
Pattern Recognition
-
Knowledge-based Recognition
- Structural and
Syntactic Pattern Recognition
- Applications
Including: Security, Medicine, Robotic, GIS,
Remote
Sensing, Industrial Inspection, Nondestructive
Evaluation (or
NDE), ...
- Case studies
and Emerging technologies
IMPORTANT DATES:
January 30, 2015:
Workshop / Session Proposals
March 31, 2015:
Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)
April 24, 2015:
Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 15, 2015:
Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 27-30, 2015:
The 2015 International Conference on Image Processing,
Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'15)
SUBMISSION OF DRAFT PAPERS FOR EVALUATION:
Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by
uploading them
to the evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org . Submissions must
be uploaded by the due date (see IMPORTANT DATES) and
must be in either
MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages including all
figures, tables, and
references.) All reasonable typesetting formats are
acceptable (later,
the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a
particular
typesetting format to prepare their final papers for
publication; these
formatting instructions appear at: http://world-comp.org
and they
conform to the two-column IEEE style format). Papers must
not have been
previously published or currently submitted for
publication elsewhere.
The first page of the paper should include: title of the
paper, name,
affiliation, postal address, and email address for each
author as well
as a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best
represent the content
of the paper. The first page should also identify the
name of the
Contact/Corresponding author together with his/her
professional email
address. A 100 to 150-word abstract should appear on the
first page.
Authors are to conform to the common CODE OF ETHICS FOR
AUTHORS (The
document for the Code of Ethics is available on the
submission web site.)
Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the
field for
originality, significance, clarity, impact, and
soundness. In cases of
contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference
program
committee would be charged to make the final decision
(accept/reject);
often, this would involve seeking help from additional
referees. Papers
whose authors include a member of the conference program
committee will
be evaluated using the double-blinded review process.
(Essay/philosophical
papers will not be refereed but may be considered for
discussion/panels).
The proceedings will be published in printed conference
books (ISBN) and
will also be made available online. The printed
proceedings/books will
be available for distribution on site at the conference.
The proceedings
will be indexed in science citation databases that track
citation
frequency/data. The proceedings/books of the federated
congress that
this conference is part of have been evaluated for
inclusion into major
science citation index databases. We are happy to report
that so far,
the evaluation board of science citation index databases
have approved
the indexing, integrating, and inclusion of the following
conference
tracks into relevant indexing databases (indexing
databases include,
among others: Scopus, Engineering Village, EMBASE, and
others):
BIOCOMP, DMIN, GCA, ICAI, ICOMP, ICWN, IKE, IPCV, PDPTA,
and SAM. All
proceedings are also approved for inclusion into EBSCO
(www.ebsco.com),
one of the largest subject index systems. The titles of
proceedings of the
federated congress have been indexed into the ACM Digital
Library
( http://dl.acm.org/ ) which includes bibliographic
citations from major
publishers in computing.
In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book
series (multiple
books in each series); one with Elsevier publishers
(Emerging Trends in
Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with
Springer
publishers (Transactions of Computational Science and
Computational
Intelligence). After the conference (the process may take
12 to 18
months), a significant number of authors of accepted
papers of our
congress, will be given the opportunity to submit the
extended version
of their papers for publication consideration in these
books. We
anticipate having between 10 and 20 books a year in each
of these
book series projects. Each book in each series will be
subject to
Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which
includes:
Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; SCI Compendex, Engineering
Village,
www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com; and others). For
a recent and
a very small subset of the books (and journal special
issues) that have
been published based on the extended versions of our
congress papers,
see below:
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp15/ws/books_journals
O. Elsevier/MK: Emerging Trends in Image Processing,
Computer Vision and
Pattern
Recognition.
O. Springer: Software Tools and Algorithms for Biological
Systems. Series:
Advances in
Experimental Medicine and Biology, Vol 696.
O. BMC Bioinformatics: Special Journal Issue (Vol 15,
Supp. 17);
Impact Factor:
2.67.
O. Springer: Advances in Computational Biology. Series:
Advances in
Experimental
Medicine and Biology, Vol 680.
O. BMC Systems Biology: Special Journal Issue
"Bioinformatics and
Computational
Biology", (Vol. 5, Supp. 3); Impact Factor: 2.85.
O. Springer: Book: Resilient Computer System Design
(April 2015)
O. Elsevier/MK: Emerging Trends in ICT Security
(Information and
Communications
Technology).
O. BMC Medical Genomics: Special Journal Issue
"Bioinformatics and
Computational
Biology", (Vol. 6, Supp. 1); Impact Factor: 3.91.
O. Springer: Transactions on Computational Science and
Computational
Intelligence
(multiple books).
O. Sringer: Book: Real World Data Mining Applications
(418 pages, 2015)
O. BMC Genomics: Special Journal Issue
"Bioinformatics and Computational
Biology",
(Vol. 9, Supp. 1); Impact Factor: 4.04.
O. Elsevier/MK: Emerging Trends in Computer Science and
Applied Computing
(multiple
books.)
O. BMC Genomics: Special Journal Issue "Advances in
Big Data Analytics",
(Vol. 15, Supp.
11); Impact Factor: 4.04.
O. Elsevier/MK: Emerging Trends in Computational Biology,
Bioinformatics,
and Systems
Biology Publisher.
Some of these books and journal special issues have
already received
the top 25% downloads in their respective fields - we
already have a
number of Elsevier and Springer books in the pipeline.
SUBMISSION OF POSTER PAPERS:
Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow
the same
instructions that appear in section SUBMISSION OF DRAFT
PAPERS FOR
EVALUATION - except that the submission is limited to 2
pages. On the
first page, the author should state that "This paper
is being submitted
as a poster". Poster papers (if accepted) will be
published as such, if
and only if the author of the accepted poster wishes to
do so.
PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS:
The conference is composed of a number of tracks. A track
is a session,
a workshop, or a symposium. A session will have at least
6 papers; a
workshop at least 12 papers; and a symposium at least 18
papers. Track
chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
tracks, including:
soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of
track chairs
will appear as Associate Editors in the conference
proceedings and on
the cover of the printed books (and would be indexed in
science databases
as such). Track chairs who attract a sufficient number of
solid papers
can propose to edit books with a major publisher based on
the extended
versions of the papers accepted in their tracks (the
conference will
facilitate and help such track chairs to get the
publisher's approval).
Proposals to organize tracks (sessions, workshops, or
symposiums) should
include the following information: name and address (+
email) of proposer,
his/her biography, title of track, a 100-word description
of the topic of
the track (also mention the name of this conference), and
a short
description on how the track will be advertised (in most
cases, track
proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers
whose work is
known to the track proposer). E-mail your track proposal
to
editor@world-comp.org . We would like to receive the track
proposals
as soon as possible (see IMPORTANT DATES.)
CO-SPONSORS:
Currently being prepared - The Academic Sponsors of the
last offerings of
the congress included research labs and centers
affiliated with major
government agencies, universities, and institutions from
all continents.
Sponsors At-Large included (corporate, associations,
organizations):
Intel Corporation; Super Micro Computer, Inc.,
California, USA; Microsoft
Research; The International Council on Medical and Care
Compunetics;
International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine;
Chapter of
Associations from five countries; US Chapter of World
Academy of Science;
High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology; World
Academy of Biomedical
Sciences and Technologies (UK); HoIP Telecom (UK); Hodges
Health; OMG;
Aldebaran Robotics Inc.; Federated Council on Science and
Education;
Science Publications and many others.
MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:
Currently being finalized. The members of the Steering
Committee of the
federated congress that this conference is part of
included:
Dr. Selim Aissi, (formerly: Chief Strategist - Security,
Intel Corporation,
USA) Vice President, Global Information Security, Visa
Inc., USA;
Prof. Nizar Al-Holou, Professor and Department Chair, and
Vice Chair of
IEEE/SEM-Computer Chapter, University of Detroit Mercy,
Detroit, Michigan,
USA; Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia, Professor of Computer
Science, Elected Fellow
of ISIBM, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Supercomputing
(Springer),
University of Georgia, USA; Prof. Mary Mehrnoosh
Eshaghian-Wilner,
Professor of Engineering Practice, University of Southern
California,
USA (and Adjunct Professor, University of California Los
Angeles, UCLA,
USA); Prof. Shiuh-Jeng Wang, Department of Information
Management, Central
Police University, Taiwan and Program Chair, Security
& Forensics, Taiwan
and Director, Information Crypto and Construction Lab
(ICCL) & ICCL-FROG;
Prof. Michael Panayiotis Bekakos, Professor of Computer
Systems and
Director of Laboratory of Digital Systems and Head of
Parallel Algorithms
and architectures Research Group, Democritus University
of Thrace, Greece;
Prof. Kevin Daimi, Professor of Computer Science and
Director of Computer
Science and Software Engineering Programs, University of
Detroit Mercy,
Detroit, Michigan, USA; Prof. Patrick S. P. Wang, Fellow
of IAPR, ISIBM,
WASE and Professor of Computer and Information Science,
Northeastern
University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA and Otto-von-Guericke
Distinguished
Guest Professor, University Magdeburg, Germany; Prof.
George Jandieri,
Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia and Chief
Scientist at
The Institute of Cybernetics, Georgian Academy of
Science, Georgia;
Prof. D. V. Kodavade, Head of Computer Science and
Engineering, DKTE
Institute, India; Prof. George Markowsky, Professor and
Associate Director,
School of Computing and Information Science, Chair Int'l
Advisory Board
of IEEE IDAACS, Director 2013 Northeast Collegiate Cyber
Defense
Competition, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA;
Prof. G. N. Pandey,
Vice-Chancellor, Arunachal University of Studies, India
(and Adjunct
Professor, Indian Institute of Information Technology,
India);
Prof. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Professor of Computer
Science and
Engineering, Seoul, Korea and President of KITCS,
President of FTRA,
Editor-in-Chief of HCIS, JoC and IJITCC Journals; Prof.
Fernando G.
Tinetti, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina,
Co-editor, Journal
of CS and Technology (JCS&T); Dr. Predrag Tosic,
Microsoft, Washington,
USA; Prof. Vladimir Volkov, The Bonch-Bruevich State
University of
Telecommunications, Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Dr. Michael
R. Grimaila,
Air Force Institute of Technology, Fellow of ISSA, CISM,
CISSP, IAM/IEM,
Air Force Center of Cyberspace Research, Advisor to the
Prince of Wales
Fellows & Prince Edward Fellows at MIT and Harvard
Universities and PC
member of NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of
Excellence (CCD COE);
Prof. Victor Malyshkin, Head of Supercomputer Software
Department,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; Prof. Andy Marsh,
Director of HoIP,
Director of HoIP Telecom, UK, and Secretary-General of
WABT and
Vice-president of ICET, Visiting Professor, University of
Westminster, UK;
Ashu M. G. Solo, Fellow of British Computer Society,
Principal/Interdisciplinary
R&D Engineer and Mathematician, Maverick Technologies
America;
Prof. Sang C. Suh, Head and Professor of Computer
Science, Vice President,
Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS), Director
of Intelligent Cyberspace
Engineering (ICEL), Texas A&M University, Com.,
Texas, USA; Prof. Layne
T. Watson, IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow
of The National
Institute of Aerospace, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
& State University,
Virginia, USA; Prof. Mary Q. Yang, Director, Mid-South
Bioinformatics
Center and Joint Bioinformatics Ph.D. Program, University
of Arkansas,
USA; Prof. Byung-Gyu Kim, Multimedia Processing
Communications Lab.(MPCL),
SunMoon University, South Korea; Prof. Young-Sik Jeong,
Editor-in-Chief
of Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS),
Dongguk University,
Seoul, South Korea; and others.
The 2015 Program Committee for individual conferences are
currently being
compiled. Many who have already joined the committees are
renowned leaders,
scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of
the highest ranks;
many are directors of research labs., fellows of various
societies, heads/
chairs of departments, program directors of research
funding agencies, as
well as deans and provosts.
Program Committee members are expected to have
established a strong and
documented research track record. Those interested in
joining the Program
Committee should email editor@world-comp.org the following information
for consideration: Name, affiliation and position,
complete mailing address,
email address, a one-page biography that includes
research expertise & the
name of this conference.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
The federated Congress (
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/ ) that
this conference is part of is composed of research
presentations, keynote
lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel
discussions, and poster
presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers
have included:
Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of
California,
Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of
Nanotechnology),
Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic
Algorithms; U. of
Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid
Computing; U. of
Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U.
of California,
Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT
Media Lab, MIT),
Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window
System, xhost;
OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic
Programming, Stanford
U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of
Michigan),
Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern
California), Dr. Jose
L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun
Liu (pioneer,
Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A.
Zadeh (Father of
Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars
Exploration Program/
2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation
& Strategy, Jet
Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL Solar
System
Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE,
ACM, RSC, CAE, GI;
Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U.
of Limerick),
Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and
Professor, Purdue
University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President &
Chief Technology
Officer, SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), Prof. Haym Hirsh
(Dean, Cornell
University - formerly at Rutgers University, New Jersey,
USA and former
director of Division of Information and Intelligent
Systems, National
Science Foundation, USA), Dr. Flavio Villanustre
(Vice-President, HPCC
Systems), Prof. Victor Raskin (Distinguished Professor,
Purdue University,
USA); Prof. Alfred Inselberg (School of Mathematical
Sciences, Tel Aviv
University, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego
Supercomputing Center;
Inventor of the multidimensional system of Parallel
Coordinates and
author of textbook); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed
Chair Distinguished
Professor of ECE and Professor of CS; Director, CSU
Information Science
and Technology Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University,
Colorado, USA);
Prof. Amit Sheth (Fellow of IEEE and LexisNexis Eminent
Scholar;
Founder/Executive Director, Ohio Center of Excellence in
Knowledge-enabled
Computing (Kno.e.sis) and Professor of Computer Science,
Wright State
University, Ohio, USA); Dr. Leonid I. Perlovsky (Harvard
University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and School of Engineering
and Applied
Sciences and Medical School Athinoula Martinos Brain
Imaging Center; and
The US Air Force Research Lab., USA; CEO, LP Information
Technology, USA
and Chair of IEEE Task Force on The Mind and Brain;
Recipient of John
McLucas Award, the highest US Air Force Award for basic
research);
and many other distinguished speakers. The Congress is
among the top five
largest annual gathering of researchers in computer
science, computer
engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have
attendees from
about 85 countries/territories. To get a feeling about
the conferences'
atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at:
http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/
http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6626396 (to see a slide
show, click on
"Start SlideShow" tab at the url above.)
An important mission of The Congress is "Providing a
unique platform for
a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars,
researchers,
developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress
makes concerted
effort to reach out to participants affiliated with
diverse entities
(such as: universities, institutions, corporations,
government agencies,
and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The
congress also
attempts to connect participants from institutions that
have teaching as
their main mission with those who are affiliated with
institutions that
have research as their main mission. The congress uses a
quota system to
achieve its institution and geography diversity
objectives."
One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum
of affiliated
research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a
coordinated
research meeting held in a common place at a common time.
This model
facilitates communication among researchers in different
fields of computer
science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The
Congress also
encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary
research initiatives;
i.e., facilitating increased opportunities for
cross-fertilization across
sub-disciplines.
MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:
As of December 8, 2014, proceedings of the federated
congress that this
conference is part of, have received over 27,878
citations (includes 3,346
self-citations). Citation data is obtained from Microsoft
Academic Search.
The citation data does not even include more than 15,000
other citations
to papers published by conferences whose first offerings
were initiated
by the congress. Individual proceedings/books (2013 &
2014) of the
federated congress can be purchased from major science
book distributors:
(such as: EBSCO and others):
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp14/ws/proceedings
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/proceedings
MISCELLANEOUS:
The information that appears in this announcement is
correct as of
December 8, 2014.
CONTACT:
Inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org