IWCIA'18: International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis Porto, Portugal, November 21-24, 2018 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/view/iwcia18/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwcia18 |
Submission deadline | June 15, 2018 |
IWCIA'18 is the nineteenth of a series of international meetings on combinatorial image analysis. It will take place in Porto, Portugal, November 22-24, 2018. Previous meetings were held in Paris (France, 1991), Ube (Japan, 1992), Washington DC (USA, 1994), Lyon (France, 1995), Hiroshima (Japan, 1997), Madras (India, 1999), Caen (France, 2000), Philadelphia (USA, 2001), Palermo (Italy, 2003), Auckland (New Zealand, 2004), Berlin (Germany, 2006), Buffalo, NY (USA, 2008), Playa del Carmen (Mexico, 2009), Madrid (Spain, 2011), Austin (Texas, 2012), Brno (Czech Republic, 2014), Kolkata (India, 2015), and Plovdiv (Bulgaria, 2017) .
Image analysis is a scientific discipline providing theoretical foundations and methods for solving problems appearing in a wide range of areas, as diverse as medicine, robotics, defense, and security. As a rule, the processed data are discrete; therefore, the "discrete approach" to image analysis appears to be a natural one and has an increasing importance. It is based on studying combinatorial properties of the considered digital data sets. Combinatorial image analysis often features various advantages (in terms of efficiency and accuracy) over the more traditional approaches based on continuous models requiring numeric computation.
The scientific program of the workshop consists of keynote talks, contributed papers, and posters.
The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer's "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" series (pending approval).
After the Workshop, the authors can submit extended versions of their works for publication in special journal issues. A thematic special issue of Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization has already been arranged.
Topics
The Workshop is a forum for current research on the following (or similar) research subjects which are directly or potentially applicable to image analysis:
- Combinatorial problems in the discrete plane and space; Lattice polygons and polytopes
- Digital/combinatorial geometry and topology
- Digital manifolds; Geometry of digital curves and surfaces
- Analysis and processing of digital surfaces with singularities (such as "pinched digital surfaces")
- Homotopy of digital manifolds; thinning algorithms and skeletons
- Boundary tracking of digital solids; Geometric characteristics of object boundaries
- Multigrid convergence analysis of metric-based descriptors
- Tilings and patterns; Combinatorial pattern matching
- Computational geometry and imaging sciences
- Integer programming, linear programming, and graph theoretic models and approaches to problems of image analysis
- Image representation, segmentation, grouping, and reconstruction
- Processing "very large" digital pictures; Methods for image compression
- Parallel architectures and algorithms
- Fuzzy and stochastic image analysis
- Discrete tomography
- Grammars and models for image or scene analysis and recognition; cellular automata
- Mathematical morphology and image analysis
- Applications in medical imaging, biometrics, computer vision, image understanding, robotics, metrology, and others
The submitted papers are expected to meet high standards satisfying serious evaluation criteria. Each paper will be reviewed thoroughly by at least two members of the Program Committee. Double-blind review process will be applied to ensure maximal objectiveness.
Submission Guidelines
Please submit your paper through the link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwcia18
Prospective authors are invited to submit a paper on some of the Workshop's topics or a closely related topic. The submitted work should contain only results that are unpublished and not included in other work considered for publication elsewhere. Thus by submitting a paper the author(s) warrant that neither it nor any other paper with essentially the same technical content has been published or submitted for publication anywhere else.
All manuscripts must be prepared according to LNCS requirements and submitted electronically by June 1, 2018 in PDF format. The length should be between 8 and 14 pages. The manuscripts may not contain information revealing authors' identity.
Papers will be reviewed thoroughly with an emphasis on potential to contribute to the state-of-the-art in the field. Each paper will receive at least two double-blind reviews ensuring maximal objectiveness. Selection criteria will include mathematical depth, accuracy and originality of the ideas, clarity and significance of the results, and presentation quality.
The notification of acceptance will be sent by e-mail by July 15, 2018. The accepted papers should be revised according to the referees' comments and submitted in camera-ready form by August 15, 2018 together with all the source files and the signed copyright form. The final version should be prepared strictly following LNCS requirements.
The accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings published by Springer Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (pending approval).
A paper will be included in the proceedings only if at least one author registers by August 15, 2018 and pays the registration fee. This author takes the obligation to attend the workshop and present the paper.
Keynote Speakers
- Jose M. Bioucas Dias (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
- Jan Kratochvil (Charles University, Czech Republic)
- Nicolai Petkov (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
Contact
All questions about submissions should be sent to Prof. João Manuel R.S. Tavares, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Rua Dr Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto - PORTUGAL, Tel: +351 22 5981487, Fax: +351 22 5981445, E-mail: tavares@fe.up.pt