CFP: ACIVS 2004, Brussels (Belgium), Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2004

[Wilfried Philips (philips@telin.ugent.be)]

Acivs 2004 Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2004 Brussels, Belgium http://acivs.org/acivs2004

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Acivs 2004 is a conference focusing on techniques for building adaptive, intelligent, safe and secure imaging systems. Acivs 2004 will consist of four days of lecture sessions, both regular (25 mns) and invited presentations, and poster sessions.

Acivs 2004 will also feature a conference dinner, and other social activities. Last year, these consisted of a "culinary visit" and a boat trip in the historic city center of Ghent. Details of the social activities will be announced later.

The conference fee includes the social program (conference dinner, coffee breaks, snacks and cultural activities) and a copy of the CDROM conference proceedings. Students and IEEE members can register at a reduced fee.

Topics include (but are not limited to)

• Image and Video Processing (linear/non-linear filtering and enhancement, restoration, segmentation, wavelets and multiresolution, Markovian techniques, color processing, modeling, analysis, interpolation and spatial transforms, motion, fractals and multifractals, structure from motion)
• Pattern Analysis (shape analysis, data and image fusion, pattern matching, neural nets, learning, grammatical techniques) and Content-Based Image Retrieval
• Remote Sensing (techniques for filtering, enhancing, compressing, displaying and analyzing optical, infrared, radar, multi- and hyperspectral airborne and spaceborne images)
• Still Image and Video Transmission (still image/video coding, model-based coding, synthetic/natural hybrid coding, quality metrics, image watermarking, image and video databases, image search and sorting, video indexing, multimedia applications)
• System Architecture and Performance Evaluation (implementation of algorithms, vision systems, benchmarking, evaluation criteria, algorithmic evaluation)

Venue

The conference will take place in the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium on Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2004. The venue can be easily reached by train from Brussels main airport.

Paper submission and review process

Prospective authors should prepare a full paper and submit it electronically. The paper should consist of 4-8 pages in A4 format and should conform to the style guidelines outlined on the Acivs 2004 website. LaTeX style sheets, MSWord templates and more detailed information on the submission process can be found on the Acivs 2004 website (http://acivs.org/acivs2004).
All submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the Program Committee; additional reviewers will be consulted if needed. The papers should provide sufficient background information and should clearly indicate the original contribution. They should state and discuss the main results and provide adequate references. Paper submission implies that one of the authors will present the paper if it is accepted.

Conference proceedings

Accepted papers will be published in the CD-Rom conference proceedings in pdf-format. Authors may optionally include a directory containing additional multimedia content, e.g., sound files, demo's or video sequences, subject to space availability. Authors wishing to take advantage of this possibility should contact the Steering Committee for additional instructions.

Important deadlines

April 9, 2004		Full paper submission
June 1, 2004		Notification of acceptance
June 21, 2004		Camera-ready papers due
June 21, 2004		Registration deadline for authors of accepted papers
July 16, 2004		Early registration deadline
August 15, 2004		Late registration deadline
Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2004		Acivs 2004

Steering Committee

Jacques Blanc-Talon, DGA/DCE/CTA, Arcueil, France.
Edgard Nyssen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium.
Wilfried Philips, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Dan Popescu, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Canberra, Australia.

Program committee

Fritz Albregtsen, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Philippe Bolon, University of Savoie, Annecy, France.
Don Bone, Mediaware Solutions, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Mike Brooks, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
Pamela Cosman, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, USA.
Mihai Datcu, German Aerospace Center DLR, Wessling, Germany.
Jennifer Davidson, Iowa State University, USA.
Christine Fernandez Maloigne, Université de Poitiers, Chasseneuil, France.
Don Fraser, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia.
Georgy Gimel'farb, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Daniele Giusto, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
Christine Guillemot, IRISA, Rennes, France.
John Illingworth, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
Jean-Michel Jolion, INSA, Villeurbanne Cedex, France.
Andrzej Kasinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland.
Richard Kleihorst, Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Hamid Krim, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA.
Murat Kunt, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Hideo Kuroda, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
Kenneth Lam, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
Bruce Litow, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia.
Wojciech Mokrzycki, IPIPAN, Poland.
Mads Nielsen, IT University Of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Marcin Paprzycki, Oklahoma State University, Tulsa, USA.
Jussi Parkkinen, University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland.
Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal.
Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu, ENST, Paris, France.
Matti Pietikäinen, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
Gianni Ramponi, Trieste University, Trieste, Italy.
Thierry Ranchin, Ecole des Mines de Paris, Paris, France.
Jocelyn Serot, Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Georges Stamon, Paris V University, Paris, France.
Wojciech Szpankowski, Purdue University, USA.
Murat Tekalp, Rochester University, Rochester, USA.
Frederic Truchetet, Le2i, Le Creusot, France.
Dimitri Van De Ville, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland.

[Associated event]

Aug 31-Sep 03 2004, Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS 2004) [Brussels, Belgium]
Submission deadline: Apr 09 2004