CFP: Special Tracks for ISVC05

International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC05)

Lake Tahoe, Nevada
December 5-7 2005

http://www.isvc05.net

Over the last two decades, considerable progress has been achieved
in the broader area of visual computing, mainly as a result of the
exponential growth of processor speed and memory capacity as well
as the rapid explosion of multimedia and the extensive use of
video and image-based communications over the World Wide Web
(WWW). Real time access and sharing of digital information
including text and sound but also powerful realistic or simulated
visuals are now within our capacity, enabling truly interactive
multiparticipant, multimodal and multimedia communication.

The purpose of the International Symposium on Visual Computing
(ISVC) is to provide a common forum for researchers,
scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to
present their latest research findings, ideas, developments and
applications in the broader area of visual computing. The
symposium will consist of invited and contributed presentations
dealing with all aspects of visual computing. In addition to the
main technical program, the symposium will include several keynote
speakers, posters sessions, and special tracks.

All papers accepted will appear in the symposium proceedings which
will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series. Also, a selection of best papers
will be published in a special issue of an archival journal.

ISCV seeks papers describing contributions to the state of the art
and state of the practice in the field of visual computing.. The
symposium will be structured around four central areas of visual
computing: (1) computer vision, (2) computer graphics, (3) virtual
reality, and (4) visualization. In particular, we are interested
in papers that combine technologies from two or more of these
areas. For more information, please visit http://www.isvc05.net


SPECIAL TRACKS
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The following special tracks have been scheduled during ISVC05.
The deadline for paper submissions in on June 13, 2005. More
information can be obtained from http://www.isvc05.net/tracks.html

(1) Computer Vision Methods for Ambient Intelligence

Organizers:
Paolo Remagnino, DIRC, Kingston University, UK
Gian Luca Foresti, DIMI, Universita` di Udine, Italy
Ndedi D. Monekosso, DIRC, Kingston Univeristy, UK
Sergio Velastin, DIRC, Kingston University, UK


* Selected papers from this special track will be published in a
special issue
of the Image and Vision Computing in the first quarter of 2007.


(2) Intelligent Vehicles and Autonomous Navigation

Organizers:
Ara Nefian, Intel, USA
Swarup Medasani, HRL Laboratories, USA
Riad Hammoud, Delphi Electronics and Safety, USA



(3) Pattern Analysis and Recognition Applications in Biometrics


Organizers:
Nello Cristianini, University of California, Davis, USA
Salil Prabhakar, DigitalPersona, USA
Kostas Veropoulos, University of Nevada, Reno USA



(4) Visual Surveillance in Challenging Environments


Organizers:
Wei-Yun Yau, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Weimin Huang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
How-Lung Eng, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
Monique Thonnat, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Kap-Luk Chan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Tele Tan, Curtin University of Technology, Australia



(5) Surgery Simulations


Organizers:
Fabio Ganovelli, VCG ISTI-CNR, Italy
Cesar Mendoza, University Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Min-Hyung Choi, Computer Science and Engineering University of
Colorado at Denver
John Dingliana, Image Synthesis Group. Trinity College, Dublin



(6) Mediated Reality


Organizers:
Reinhold Behringer, Rockwell Scientific, USA
Steve Feiner, Columbia University, USA
Steve Mann, University of Toronto, USA
Jose Molineros, Rockwell Scietific, USA
Mohammed Yeasin, University of Memphis, USA



(7) Visualization Techniques Applied to Geophysical Sciences
Research

Organizers:
Darko Koracin, Desert Research Institute, USA
Robert Rabin, NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, USA
Joseph Scire, Earth Tech, USA
William Sherman, Desert Research Institute, USA

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