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CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline: January 22, 2018) http://www.aimiconf.org/iciar18
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CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS /WORKSHOPS (Deadline: December 22, 2017)
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ICIAR 2018 - 15th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION
June 27-29, 2018, Póvoa de Varzim, Porto, Portugal
http://www.aimiconf.org/iciar18

General Chairs:
Aurélio Campilho
University of Porto, Portugal
http://www.fe.up.pt/~campilho

Fakhri Karray
University of Waterloo, Canada
http://pami.uwaterloo.ca/~karray

Bart ter Haar Romeny
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
http://bmia.bmt.tue.nl/people/BRomeny


Invited Speakers:
Bram van Ginneken
Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
http://www.diagnijmegen.nl/index.php/Bram_van_Ginneken

Alfredo Ruggeri
University of Padova, Italy
http://www.dei.unipd.it/~ruggeri

(others to be announced)

Focused Topics:
Together with the general topics of ICIAR (listed at the end), the three focused topics are:

• Deep Learning in Biology and Medicine
• Knowledge Discovery in Driver Behavior Recognition
• Retinal Image Analysis for Screening and Diagnosis



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ICIAR 2018 is the 15th conference of a series of ICIAR conferences organized in Portugal and Canada. Authors are invited to submit full papers showing original research contributions. The page limit is 8 pages (1-column - LNCS Springer format), plus 2 extra pages. The sessions will comprise invited keynote speakers, oral and poster presentations. Authors are invited to submit full papers under the topics of the conference, addressing original research developments. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS - Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

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SPECIAL SESSIONS / WORKSHOPS
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Proposals for special invited sessions or workshops are welcome. The proposed sessions must include a title, a short introduction with brief description, main session topics, contact information
for the session chair(s) and their short bio's, and a list of authors already contacted or to be contacted. The papers submitted to the special session will go through the normal review process. Proposals should be submitted to the conference chairs not later than December 22, 2017.

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CONFERENCE TOPICS
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Focused Topics:

• Deep Learning in Biology and Medicine
• Knowledge Discovery in Driver Behavior Recognition
• Retinal Image Analysis for Screening and Diagnosis

General Topics:
• Image and Video Processing and Analysis:
Image restoration and enhancement
Image and video segmentation
Mathematical morphology
Color, texture and motion analysis
3D image analysis
Tracking
Shape and matching
Real time imaging

• Image and Video Coding:
Still image and video coding;
Image and video encryption

• Image Retrieval and Indexing:
Image and video databases
Image and video retrieval and indexing

• Pattern Recognition Methods:
Feature extraction and selection methods
Classification and Clustering techniques
Ensembles and multi-classifiers
Hybrid methods
Syntactical methods

• Applications:
Biomedical Imaging
Biometrics
Document Processing
Remote Sensing
Multimedia
Security Systems
Visual Inspection
Sports
Other applications

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PAPER SUBMISSION
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Authors are invited to submit full papers showing original research contributions. The conference proceedings is planned to be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (Springer LNCS). Only electronic submission will be accepted through the conference paper submission web page. See the conference web site for details.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Special session /Workshops proposals deadline: December 22, 2017
Paper Submission deadline: January 22, 2018
Author Notification: March 12, 2018
Camera-ready version: March 26, 2018
Paper registration: April 9, 2018

Please find the call for papers and more information at the conference website:

http://www.aimiconf.org/iciar18

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