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Special Session on Multispectral and Hyperspectral Image and Video Processing
held in conjunction with the International Conference on Image Analysis and
Recognition (ICIAR 2011)
June 22-24, 2011, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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INTRODUCTION

Recent advances in imaging and computer hardware technology have led to an
explosion in the use of multispectral, hyperspectral, and in particular, color
images/video in a variety of fields including agriculture, ecology, geology,
medicine, meteorology, mining, and oceanography. As a result, automated
processing and analysis of multichannel images/video 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 visual data presents new challenges
for researchers and practitioners as the numerous methods developed for single
channel images/video are often not directly applicable to multichannel images/
video.

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

* Coding and Compression
* Sampling and Interpolation
* Fusion
* Filtering and Enhancement
* Morphology
* Edge Detection and Segmentation
* Feature Extraction
* Indexing and Retrieval
* 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
ICIAR 2011, the authors acknowledge that no paper substantially similar in
content has been or will be submitted to another conference during the
ICIAR 2011 review period. All papers will appear in the conference proceedings,
which will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS) series. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an
extended version of their papers to the Multispectral and Hyperspectral Image
and Video Processing special issue of EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal
Processing.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission of full-length papers: January 24, 2011
* Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2011
* Submission of camera-ready papers: March 18, 2011

SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS

* Bogdan Smolka, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland,
bogdan.smolka@polsl.pl
* M. Emre Celebi, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA,
ecelebi@lsus.edu
* Gerald Schaefer, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK,
gerald.schaefer@ieee.org
* Yong Man Ro, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Daejeon, Korea
ymro@ee.kaist.ac.kr