ISVC 2006, Nov. 6-8

Lake Tahoe, Nevada

ISVC06 Special Tracks   Papers submitted to a special track must not have been previously published, and must not be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Special track papers should be submitted thourgh the one-line submission management system and will go through the same review process. When submiting a special track paper, please choose the appropriate special track from the list of topics. All special track papers will be published in the symposium proceedings. Authors contributing to a special track would be required to register for the symposium.   ST1: Intelligent Environments: Algorithms and Applications        Organizers:        Paolo Remagnino, DIRC, Kingston University, UK        How-Lung Eng, IIR, Singapore        Wei-Yun Yau, IIR, Singapore        Guoliang Fan, Oklahoma State University, USA        Yunqian Ma, Honeywell Labs, USA        Monique Thonnat, INRIA, France * Selected papers from this special track will be considered for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems. ST2: Multimodal Data Understanding and Visualization for Industrial Applications        Organizers:        Fatih Porikli, MERL, USA        Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary, University of London, UK        Committee:        Rama Chellapa, University of Maryland, USA        Yuri Ivanov, MERL, USA        Swarup Medasani, HRL, USA        Ron Miller, Ford Motor Company, USA        Chris Wren, MERL, USA ST3: Pattern Analysis and Recognition Applications in Biometrics        Organizers:        Ali Erol, University of Nevada, Reno, USA        Mark Nixon, University of Southampton, UK        Salil Prabhakar, DigitalPersona, USA        Arun Abraham Ross, West Virginia University, USA ST4: Analysis and Synthesis of Multimodal Human Communications for Perceptual Interface        Organizers:        Mohammed Yeasin, University of Memphis, USA        Max M. Louwerse, University of Memphis, USA        Kuntal Sengupta, AuthenTec Inc., USA        S. Kettebekov, Keane Inc., USA ST5: Biomedical Image Analysis        Organizers:        Tao Ju, Washington University, USA        Ioannis Kakadiaris, University of Houston, USA        Shi Pengcheng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China        Tomas Gustavsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden ST6: Understanding and Imitating Nature: Analysis, Interpretation, Rendering and Inspiration of Biological Forms        Organizers:        Paolo Remagnino, DIRC, Kingston University, UK        Richard Boyle, NASA Ames, USA        Paul Wilkin, The Royal Botanic Gardens, UK        Jonathan Clark, University of Surrey, UK        Sarah Barman, Kingston University, UK ST7: Visual Computing and Biological Vision        Organizers:        Jeff Mulligan, NASA Ames, USA        Michael Webster, University of Nevada, Reno, USA        Alice O'Toole, University of Texas at Dallas, USA ST8: 4D Medical Data Modeling, Visualization and Measurement        Organizers:        Irene Cheng, University of Alberta, Canada        Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada        Lijun Yin, State University of New York, USA        Committee:        Walter Bischof, University of Alberta, Canada        Pierre Boulanger, University of Alberta, Canada        Paul Major, University of Alberta, Canada        Brian Maraj, University of Alberta, Canada        Jana Rieger, Misericordia Community Hospital, Canada        Carol Boliek, University of Alberta, Canada ST9: Discrete and Computational Geometry and their Applications in Visual Computing        Organizers:        Valentin Brimkov, State University of New York, USA        Reneta Barneva, State University of New York, USA        Committee:        Eric Andres, Universite de Poitiers, France        David Coeurjolly, Universite Claude Bernand Lyon, France        Isabelle Debled-Rennesson, IUFM de Lorraine, France        Guillaume Damiand, Universite de Poitiers, France        Christophe Fiorio, Ecole Polytechnique Universitaire de Montpellier, France        Atushi Imiya, Chyba University, Japan        Reinhard Klette, Auckland University, New Zealand ST10: Soft Computing in Image Processing and Computer Vision        Organizers:        Gerald Schaefer, Nottingham Trent University, UK        Muhammad Sarfraz, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia        Lars Nolle, Nottingham Trent University, UK ST11: Energy Minimization Approaches in Image Processing and Computer Vision        Organizers:        Jose M. Bioucas-Dias, Instituto Superior Tecnico Torre Norte, Portugal        Antonin Chambolle, CMAP Ecole Polytechnique, France        Jerome Darbon, EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, France Please send comments to admin@isvc.net.