IWCIA'17, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, June 19-21, 2017

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The 18th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis IWCIA'17, will be held June 19-21, 2017, in

Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The Workshop will include keynote talks, contributed papers, and a poster session.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Full paper submission due January 15, 2017
Notification of acceptance February 15, 2017
Final camera-ready papers March 15, 2017
Early workshop registration March 15, 2017
(mandatory for authors)
Workshop dates June 19-21, 2017


PROCEEDINGS:

The proceedings will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer).


SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE:

After the conference, all authors will be invited to submit substantially extended versions of their papers to a special journal issue of Information Sciences (Elsevier) - impact factor 3.364.


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

- Alfred Bruckstein (Technion-IIT, Israel)
- Edwin Hancock (University of York, UK)
- Marc van Kreveld (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
- Christian Ronse (Université de Strasbourg, France)
- Günter Rote (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)


VENUE:

Plovdiv, the second largest Bulgarian city, is one of the oldest cities in Europe with rich cultural heritage.

It has been selected as a European Cultural Capital for 2019.


TOPICS:

IWCIA'17 seeks high quality papers describing contributions to the foundations, methodology, and applications in the field of combinatorial image analysis. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Combinatorial problems in the discrete plane and space; Lattice polygons and polytopes
- Digital/combinatorial geometry and topology
- Digital manifolds; Geometry of digital curves and surfaces
- Analysis and processing of digital surfaces with singularities (such as "pinched digital surfaces")
- Homotopy of digital manifolds; thinning algorithms and skeletons
- Boundary tracking of digital solids; Geometric characteristics of object boundaries
- Multigrid convergence analysis of metric-based descriptors
- Tilings and patterns; Combinatorial pattern matching
- Computational geometry and imaging sciences
- Integer programming, linear programming, and graph theoretic models and approaches to problems of image analysis
- Image representation, segmentation, grouping, and reconstruction
- Processing "very large" digital pictures; Methods for image compression
- Parallel architectures and algorithms
- Fuzzy and stochastic image analysis
- Discrete tomography
- Grammars and models for image or scene analysis and recognition; cellular automata
- Mathematical morphology and image analysis
- Applications in medical imaging, biometrics, computer vision, image
understanding, robotics, metrology, and others


SPECIAL TRACK ON APPLICATIONS:

In addition to the theoretical research papers, a Special Track on Applications will be organized. The accepted papers will be published by Research Publishing Services or by a similar publisher.