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Special session: Intelligent Visual IoT: Tools and applications
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With recent advances in Information & Communication Technology (ICT), cost-effective, yet high performance ‘Visual IoT’ applications are within our reach. The gap between "Visual IoT" and "Intelligent Visual IoT" (IVI) is bridged using computer vision and AI techniques which perform the following tasks: object detection, object localization, object tracking, object recognition and scene understanding. The ultimate goal of the IVI would be to provide a scenic understanding of visual information, as the way a human does. Scenic understanding would enable various applications in any domain of interest e.g., transportation, tourism, healthcare, manufacturing, everyday life activities, etc. We invite prospective authors to submit original contributions on the topics including, but not limited to:

Theory and Tools
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Pattern recognition in image processing
Image, video processing, and communication
Deep learning in computer vision
IoT and network techniques for computer vision and image media
Modeling of human visual perception
Scene understanding
Open source computer vision tools

Applications
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Counting tasks e.g., object counting, animal counting, etc
Demographical analysis tasks e.g., visitors sex, age, height profiling, etc.
Psychoanalytic tasks e.g., a collective mood of the crowd.
Searching for people such as lost children, suspects or the terrorists.
Analysis of vehicle speed and other characteristics that might jeopardize safety.
Human activity analysis tasks e.g., lip reading, gesture recognition, suspicious behaviors, anomalous behaviors, video summary, etc.
Applications in creative industries, transportation, tourism, healthcare, manufacturing, agriculture, etc.

Submission
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https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=miwai2018
Please add the following text at the end of your abstract
"submit to Special Session on Intelligent Visual IoT: Tools and applications"


Publications
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All accepted and presented papers will be included in the proceedings of MIWAI 2018 which will be published by Springer in LNAI, a topical subseries of LNCS focusing on artificial intelligence (Indexed in the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Google Scholar, DBLP, etc.)

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their work to be appreciated for publication in a special issue in The Visual Computer (see more information https://link.springer.com/journal/371) ISSN: 0178-2789 (print version) ISSN: 1432-2315 (electronic version)