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Special Issue on Selected Papers from 25th ICPR - Computer Vision, Robotics and Intelligent Systems
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Machine Vision and applications

The special issue will showcase the best submissions from Track 2 (Biometrics, Human Analysis and Behavior Understanding) and Track 3 (Computer Vision, Robotics and Intelligent Systems) of the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) for the proposed special issue.  The issue welcomes submissions independent from ICPR also alongside articles invited from ICPR.

Topics of ICPR 2021 under two tracks for consideration under this SI:
Track 2: Biometric systems and forensics applications:
hard biometrics: face, iris, gait, fingerprint, speech-based recognition
soft biometrics: skin, hair, facial and body measurements, behavior, facial expression-based recognition
multi-biometrics
closed set, open set, open world identity recognition
gesture, action and event recognition and tracking
human computer interaction: human body motion and gesture-based interaction, speech and natural language-based interaction
affective computing
pattern recognition for surveillance and security

Track 3: Computer Vision, Robotics and Intelligent Systems
early and low-level vision
physics-based vision and perceptual organization
stereo and multiple view geometry, 3D shape recovery
2D/3D object detection and recognition
motion, tracking and video analysis
deformable object tracking and registration
object recognition and manipulation
image and video analysis and understanding
vision for autonomous driving
vision for robotics, robot navigation and SLAM

Timeline:
Submission window opens: February 1st 2021
Submission Deadline: March 15th 2021
First Round decision: May 31st 2021
Revision Due: June 30th 2021
Final decision: August 15th 2021
Publication: upon acceptance papers are published in the current volume/issue

Guest Editors:
Michele Nappi, University of Salerno, Italy (mnappi@unisa.it)
Stefano Ricciardi, University of Molise, Italy (stefano.ricciardi@unimol.it)
Richard Guest, University of Kent, UK (R.M.Guest@kent.ac.uk)
Sambit Bakshi, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India (sambitbaksi@gmail.com) (Managing / Lead GE)
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