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Call for Papers: Special Track on Low-Level Color Image Processing held in
conjunction with the 6th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC10)
November 29 - December 1, 2010, Monte Carlo Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, NV, USA

http://www.lsus.edu/faculty/~ecelebi/isvc10.html
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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 track 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 ISVC10,
the authors acknowledge that no paper substantially similar in content has been
or will be submitted to another conference during the ISVC10 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. Paper submission site:
http://www.isvc.net/openconf.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission of full-length papers: July 12, 2010
* Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2010
* Submission of camera-ready papers: September 15, 2010

SPECIAL TRACK 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
* Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
kostas@comm.utoronto.ca
* Takahiko Horiuchi, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan,
horiuchi@faculty.chiba-u.jp

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ramazan Aygun (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA)
Sebastiano Battiato (University of Catania, Italy)
Jon Y. Hardeberg (Gjøvik University College, Norway)
Sae Hwang (University of Illinois at Springfield, USA)
Michal Kawulok (Silesian University of Technology, Poland)
Sinan Kockara (University of Central Arkansas, USA)
Hiroaki Kotera (Kotera Imaging Laboratory, Japan)
JeongKyu Lee (University of Bridgeport, USA)
Olivier Lezoray (University of Caen, France)
Mutlu Mete (Texas A&M University - Commerce, USA)
Sabine Susstrunk (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland)
Joao Tavares (University of Porto, Portugal)
Gui Yun Tian (Newcastle University, UK)
Quan Wen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Huiyu Zhou (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)