ISVC 2008, December 1-3

Las Vegas, Nevada

ISVC08 Special Tracks   Extended Submission Deadline: July 28, 2008 (midnight, Pacific Standard Time) Papers submitted to a special track must not have been previously published, and must not be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. For paper submission guidelines, please click here. 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: Semi-supervised Learning for Visual Computing: Theory and Applications        Organizers:        Yunqian Ma, Honeywell Labs, USA        Ming Dong, Wayne State University, USA        Committee:        William Grosky , University of Michigan at Dearborn, USA        Jing Hua, Wayne State University, USA        Manjeet Rege, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA        Zhanping Liu, Mississippi State University, USA        Haiyang Liu, Honeywell Labs, USA ST2: Object Recognition        Organizers:        Andrea Selinger Salgian, The College of New Jersey, USA        Fabien Scalzo, University of Rochester, USA        Committee:        Boris Epshtein, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel        Svetlana Lazebnik, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA        Bastian Leibe, ETH Zurich, Switzerland        Vincent Lepetit, EPFL, Switzerland        Ales Leonardis, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia        Bogdan Matei, Sarnoff Corporation, USA        Raphael Maree, Universite de Liege, Belgium        Randal Nelson, University of Rochester, USA        Justus Piater, Universite de Liege, Belgium        Bill Triggs, INRIA, France        Tinne Tuytelaars, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium        Michel Vidal-Naquet, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan ST3: Real-time Vision Algorithm Implementation and Application        Organizers:        D. J. Lee, Brigham Young University, USA        James Archibald, Brigham Young University, USA        Brent Nelson, Brigham Young University, USA        Doran Wilde, Brigham Young University, USA        Committee:        Jiun-Jian Liaw, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan        Che-Yen Wen, Central Police University, Taiwan        Yuan-Liang Tang, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan        Hsien-Chou Liao, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan ST4: Visualization and Simulation on Immersive Display Devices        Organizers:        Daniel Coming, Desert Research Institute, USA        Darko Koracin, Desert Research Institute, USA        Laura Monroe, Los Alamos National Lab, USA        Rachael Brady, Duke University, USA        Committee:        Andy Forsberg, Brown University, USA        Bernd Hamann, University of California, Davis, USA        Arie Kaufman, Stony Brook University (SUNY), USA        Phil McDonald, Desert Research Institute, USA        Dave Modl, LANL/LAVA/Worldscape, USA        Patrick O'Leary, Desert Research Institute, USA        Dirk Reiners, LITE, USA        Bill Sherman, Desert Research Institute, USA        Steve Smith, LANL/LAVA/Worldscape, USA        Oliver Staadt, University of Rostock, Germany ST5: Analysis and Visualization of Biomedical Visual Data        Organizers:        Irene Cheng, University of Alberta, Canada        Anthony Maeder, University of Western Sydney, Australia        Committee:        Walter Bischof, University of Alberta, Canada        Pierre Boulanger, University of Alberta, Canada        Ross Brown, Queensland University of Technology, Australia        Pablo Figueroa, Universidad de los Andes, Columbia        Carlos Flores, University of Alberta, Canada        Paul Jackway, CSIRO, Australia        Shoo Lee, iCARE, Capital Health, Canada        Tom Malzbender, HP Labs, USA        Mrinal Mandal, University of Alberta, Canada        Steven Miller, University of British Columbia, Canada        Jiambo Shi, University of Pennsylvania, USA        Claudio Silva, University of Utah, USA        Dimitris Gramenos, Institute of Computer Science-FORTH, Greece        Lijun Yin, University of Utah, USA        Xenophon Zabulis, Institute of Computer Science-FORTH, Greece        Jeffrey Zou, University of Western Sydney, Australia ST6: Soft Computing in Image Processing and Computer Vision        Organizers:        Gerald Schaefer, Nottingham Trent University, UK        Mike Nachtegael, Ghent University, Belgium        Aboul-Ella Hassanien, Cairo University, Egypt        Committee:        Hüseyin Çakmak, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany        Emre Celebi, Louisiana State University, USA        Kevin Curran, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland        Mostafa A. El-Hosseini, Mubarak City for Science and Technology, Egypt        Hajime Nobuhara, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan        Samuel Morillas, Technical University of Valencia, Spain        Daniel Sanchez, University of Granada, Spain        Mayank Vatsa, University of Virginia, USA        Ioannis Vlachos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece        Huiyou Zhou, Brunel University, UK ST7: Computational Bioimaging and Visualization        Organizers:        João Manuel R. S. Tavares, University of Porto, Portugal        Renato Natal Jorge, University of Porto, Portugal        Goswami Samrat, University of Texas at Austin, USA        Committee:        Alberto De Santis, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy        Ana Mafalda Reis, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal        Arrate Muñoz Barrutia, University of Navarra, Spain        Chang-Tsun Li, University of Warwick, UK        Christos E. Constantinou, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA        Mrinal Mandal, University of Alberta, Canada        Daniela Iacoviello, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy        Dinggang Shen, University of Pennsylvania, USA        Eduardo Borges Pires, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal        Enrique Alegre Gutiérrez, University of León, Spain        Filipa Sousa, University of Porto, Portugal        Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden        Hélder C. Rodrigues, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal        Hemerson Pistori, Dom Bosco Catholic University, Brasil        Jorge M. G. Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal        Jorge S. Marques, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal        Jose M. García Aznar, University of Zaragoza, Spain        Luís Paulo Reis, University of Porto, Portugal        Manuel González Hidalgo, Balearic Islands University, Spain        Michel A. Audette, University of Leipzig, Germany        Patrick Dubois, Institut de Technologie Médicale, France        Reneta P. Barneva, State University of New York, USA        Roberto Bellotti, University of Bari, Italy        Sabina Tangaro, University of Bari, Italy        Sónia I. Gonçalves-Verheij, VU University Medical Centre, The Netherlands        Valentin Brimkov, State University of New York, USA        Yongjie Zhan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA        Xavier Roca Marvà, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain ST8: Focus of Attention in Vision Systems        Organizers:        Frederic CHAUSSE, Clermont Universite, France        Roland CHAPUIS, Clermont Université, France        Committee:        Laurent Itti, University of Southern California, USA        Noel Trujillo, Clermont Université, France 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:        K. Joost Batenburg, University of Antwerp, Belgium        Bedrich Benes, Purdue University, USA        Isabelle Debled-Rennesson, Institut Univ de Formation des Maitres de Lorraine, France        Christophe Fiorio, LIRMM, University Montpellier II, France        Gisela Klette, University of Auckland, New Zealand        Reinhard Klette, University of Auckland, New Zealand        Kostadin Koroutchev, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain        Benedek Nagy, University of Debrecen, Hungary        Kalman Palagyi, University of Szeged, Hungary        Arun Ross, West Virginia University, USA        K.G. Subramanian, Universiti Sains, Malaysia        João Manuel R. S. Tavares, University of Porto, Portugal ST10: Image Analysis for Remote Sensing Data        Organizers:        Jose A. Malpica, Alcala University, Spain        Maria A. Sanz, Technical University of Madrid, Spain        Maria C. Alonso, Alcala University, Spain        Committee:        Hossein Arefi, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Germany        Manfred Ehlers, University of Osnabrueck, Germany        María J. García-Rodríguez , University of Madrid, Spain        John L.van Genderen, ITC, The Netherlands        Radja Khedam, Technology and Sciences University, Algeria        José L. Lerma, Technical University of Valencia, Spain        Qingquan Li, Wuhan University, China        Dimitris Manolakis, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA        Farid Melgani, University of Trento, Italy        Jon Mills, University of Newcastle, UK        Francisco Papí, IGN, Spain        Karel Pavelka, Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic        William D. Philpot, Cornell University, USA        Daniela Poli, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland        Mohammad-Reza Saradjian, University of Tehran, Iran        Sriparna Saha, Indian Statistical Institute, India Please send comments to admin@isvc.net.