Call for Papers:

3rd Workshop on Soft Computing in Image Processing and Computer Vision (SCIPCV)
held in conjunction with the International Conference on Image Processing,
Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV 2011)

Las Vegas, July 18-21 2011

http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~cogs/CfP/SCIPCV2011/scipcv2011.html

INTRODUCTION

Vision in general and images in particular have always played an important
and essential role in human life. In the past they were, today they are, and
in the future they will continue to be one of our most important information
carriers. Nowadays, image processing and computer vision have numerous
commercial, scientific, industrial and military applications. All these
applications result from the interaction between fundamental scientific
research on the one hand, and the development of new and high-standard
technology on the other hand.

In order to cope with the variety of image processing and computer vision
challenges, several techniques have been introduced and developed, quite
often with great success. Among the different techniques that are currently
in use, we also encounter soft computing techniques. Soft Computing is an
emerging field that consists of complementary elements of fuzzy logic,
neural computing, evolutionary computation, machine learning and
probabilistic reasoning, and often offers solutions where conventional
approaches fail.

The 3rd Workshop on Soft Computing in Image Processing and Computer Vision
(SCIPCV) aims to provide a forum for current state-of-the-art approaches of
soft computing techniques in image processing, computer vision and related
applications.

TOPICS

High quality submissions are sought; topics include, but are not limited to,
soft computing approaches such as

* fuzzy logic
* neural networks
* evolutionary computing
* rough sets
* swarm intelligence
* etc.

in/for

* image analysis: edge detection, segmentation, pattern recognition,
object recognition, interpretation
* image enhancement: filtering, noise removal, enhancement, restoration
* image compression
* image reconstruction
* image similarity and image retrieval
* satellite image processing
* medical image processing
* mathematical morphology
* wavelets
* video processing and retrieval
* image formation and physics based vision
* 3-d processing
* shape-from-X
* scene understanding
* etc.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Manuscript submission: March 10, 2011
* Notification of acceptance: April 3, 2011
* Camera-ready submission & registration: April 24, 2011

SUBMISSION

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of about 5-7 pages (single
spaced, font size 10-12pt) including results, figures and references. At this
stage all reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, authors of
accepted papers will receive instructions on how to prepare their papers for
publication).

Each paper will be reviewed by at least 2 expert reviewers and based on these
reviews, accepted papers will be assigned either as regular papers (7 typeset
pages) or short papers (4 pages). All accepted papers will be published in the
IPCV conference proceedings (both, in printed conference proceedings/book as
well as online).

To submit your paper please go to the paper submission site:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scipcv2011

Authors of high quality papers relevant to medical image analysis will be
invited to extend their work for a chapter in an edited book in Springer's
Studies in Computational Intelligence series.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

* Gerald Schaefer, Loughborough University, U.K.
* M. Emre Celebi, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, USA

PUBLICITY CHAIR

* Syoji Kobashi, University of Hyogo, Japan