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the Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, is a biennial and international scientific conference organized by the national pattern recognition societies in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden). The conference series was established
by pattern recognition, image analysis and computer vision pioneers in the universities of the Nordic countries. SCIA is a well known international conference acknowledged by the researchers in the fields of computer vision, image analysis, pattern recognition,
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3D vision</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Human-centered computing</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Motion analysis</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.44;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">General Chair: Robert Jenssen, UiT Machine Learning Group (<a href="mailto:robert.jenssen@uit.no" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 17, 204); cursor: pointer;">robert.jenssen@uit.no</a>)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.44;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Program Chairs: Puneet Sharma (<a href="mailto:puneet.sharma@uit.no" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 17, 204); cursor: pointer;">puneet.sharma@uit.no</a>)
and Filippo M. Bianchi (<a href="mailto:filippo.m.bianchi@uit.no" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 17, 204); cursor: pointer;">filippo.m.bianchi@uit.no</a>), UiT - The Arctic
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