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Special Session on Low-Level Color Image Processing held in conjunction with the
16 International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP 2011)
September 14-16, 2011, Ravenna, Italy

http://avires.dimi.uniud.it/iciap2011/
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INTRODUCTION

Color perception plays an important role in object recognition and scene
understanding both for humans and intelligent vision systems. Recent advances
in digital color imaging and computer hardware technology have led to an
explosion in the use of color images in a variety of applications including
medical imaging, content-based image retrieval, biometrics, watermarking,
digital inpainting, remote sensing, visual quality inspection, among many
others. As a result, automated processing and analysis of color images has
become an active area of research, which is witnessed by the large number of
publications during the past two decades. The multivariate nature of color
image data presents new challenges for researchers and practitioners as the
numerous methods developed for single channel images are often not directly
applicable to multichannel images.

The goal of this special session is to bring together researchers and
practitioners working in the area of Color Image Processing. We are soliciting
original contributions, which address a wide range of theoretical and practical
issues related to the early stages of the color image processing pipeline
including, but not limited to:

* Color Image Coding and Compression
* Color Image Quantization and Halftoning
* Color Image Filtering and Enhancement
* Color Morphology
* Color Edge Detection
* Color Image Segmentation
* Digital Camera Image Processing (Demosaicking, Zooming, Postprocessing, etc.)
* Multispectral Image Processing
* Applications and Future Trends

PAPER SUBMISSION

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no more than 10 pages
including results, figures and references. In submitting a manuscript to
ICIAP 2011, the authors acknowledge that no paper substantially similar in
content has been or will be submitted to another conference during the ICIAP
2011 review period. All papers, regardless to whether accepted as orals or
posters, will appear in the symposium proceedings, which will be published by
Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission of full-length papers: March 15, 2011
* Notification of acceptance: May 14, 2011
* Submission of camera-ready papers: May 31, 2011

SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS

* M. Emre Celebi, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA,
ecelebi@lsus.edu
* Bogdan Smolka, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland,
bogdan.smolka@polsl.pl
* Gerald Schaefer, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK,
g.schaefer@lboro.ac.uk
* Raimondo Schettini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milan, Italy,
schettini@disco.unimib.it