ISVC 2005, Dec. 5-7

Lake Tahoe, Nevada

Scheduled Special Track   Papers submitted to a special track should be submitted thourgh the one-line ISVC05 conference management system. For each paper, please send a brief message to admin@isvc05.net including the title of the paper, the authors, and the special track where the paper is being submitted.   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 considered for publication in a special issue of the Image and Vision Computing which is scheduled to appear in the first quarter of 2007. Intelligent Vehicles and Autonomous Navigation        Organizers:        Fatih Porikli, MERL, USA        Ara Nefian, Intel, USA        Swarup Medasani, HRL Laboratories, USA        Riad Hammoud, Delphi Electronics and Safety, USA 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 * Invited Speaker: Tieniu Tan, CAS Institute of Automation, China * IEEE Trans on PAMI has scheduled a special issue on Biometrics: Progress and Directions (to appear in May 2007). Please, note that the PAMI special issue and this ISVC05 special track are independent from each other. Visual Surveillance in Challenging Environments        Organizers:        Wei-Yun Yau, 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        Tieniu Tan, CAS Institute of Automation, China Virtual Reality and Medicine        Organizers:        Fabio Ganovelli, VCG ISTI-CNR, Italy        Cesar Mendoza, University Politécnica de Madrid, Spain        Min-Hyung Choi, Computer Science and Engineering University of Colorado at Denver        John Dingliana, Image Synthesis Group. Trinity College, Dublin 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 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   Please send comments to admin@isvc05.net.