IEEE CIT 2008

Session: Image- and Video-based Pattern Analysis and Applications (IVPAA'08)

Scopes:
IEEE the 8th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (CIT2008) is an IEEE supported international conference. IVPAA'08 is a subgroup of CIT2008 conference specializing in Image- and Video-based Pattern Analysis and Applications. Image- and video-based pattern analysis methods have started migrating from academic institutions to industrial laboratories, and onward into deployable systems, and have become increasingly important in real world systems for commercial, industrial and military applications.

The goal of this event is to bring together worldwide academic and industrial researchers working on image/video analysis for pattern recognition applications to present their latest research results and commercialization activities and to discuss and exchange their ideas with other participants. We are soliciting original contributions which address a wide range of theoretical and application issues in vision-based pattern analysis and applications. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Biometrics Recognition and Fusion
Image/Video Segmentation and Grouping
Object Detection and Tracking
Feature Extraction and Representation
Human Motion Capture, Modelling and Classification
Gesture and Gait Recognition
3D Pose Recovery and Animation
Video Surveillance and Monitoring
Image/Video Indexing and Retrieval
Affective Computing for Human-Machine Interaction
Object Recognition and Categorization
Event Detection and Recognition
Visual Navigation
Video Summarization and Semantics
Performance Evaluation of Algorithms and Systems
Human-centred Visual computing (HCC)
Mobile Video Computing
Relevant Applications

Submission:
Papers should be in the IEEE CS single-space double-column format up to six pages. Prospective authors must submit an electronic copy (in Acrobat PDF format) of their complete manuscript directly to the session organizer Dr Xin Geng (xge@deakin.edu.au). The submission email should be entitled "IVPAA'08".

Publication:
Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers from the program committee members and external reviewers for originality, significance, clarity, soundness, relevance and technical contents. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society in proceedings of CIT 2008. The papers will be included in IEEE digital library and indexed by EI. Selected papers will be invited to submit to special issue, PA&HCI, in Pattern Recognition Letters and special issue, Video Analysis and Understanding for Surveillance Applications, in International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence after conference.

Important Dates:

~~11 January, 2008~~ 25 January, 2008:	Submission deadline
6 March, 2008:	Notification of acceptance
31 March, 2008:	Camera-Ready papers & Pre-registration
8-11 July 2008:	CIT2008/IVPAA'08

Organizers:
Dr. Liang Wang (lwwang@csse.unimelb.edu.au)
Dept. Computer Science and Software Engineering
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic 3010, Australia

Dr. Ming Li (ming@deakin.edu.au)
Dr. Xin Geng (xge@deakin.edu.au)
School of Engineering and Information Technology
Deakin University, Melbourne, Vic 3125, Australia

Dr. Jiali Cui (cuij@childpsych.columbia.edu)
New York State Psychiatric Institute & Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA