<html><body><div style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]</span></p><span><span><br></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Call for papers: special session on "</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Big Visual Data: Challenges and Applications</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">" at ICIAR 2018</span></p><span><span><br></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; background-color: #ffffff; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; background-color: #ffffff; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">15th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR 2018)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">June 27-29, 2018 - Póvoa de Varzim (Portugal) - </span><a href="https://www.aimiconf.org/iciar18/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" data-mce-href="https://www.aimiconf.org/iciar18/" data-mce-style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.aimiconf.org/iciar18/</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><span><span><br></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Big Visual Data: Challenges and Applications</span></p><span><span><br></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organized by: Beatriz Remeseiro (University of Oviedo, Spain), Veronica Bolon-Canedo (University of A Coruña, Spain), Martin Kampel (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)</span></p><span><span><br></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Visual data is massively stored and processed by different agents in the industrial world, whilst people have changed the way in which they acquire and transmit both images and videos as part of their daily routines. This unprecedented amount of visual data has created new research opportunities and technological challenges. In this context, the combination of computer vision and big data has become an active area of research finding success in many different domains.</span></p><span><span><br></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This special session is focused on large scale computer vision algorithms and large scale machine learning techniques that address the problems derived from the increasing visual data availability. Additionally, it pursues to offer a meeting opportunity for academics and researchers to present their cutting-edge approaches to deal with large scale vision problems and identify unique challenges that need to be faced.</span></p><span><span><br></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We invite authors to contribute with their recent advances derived from the availability of huge amounts of visual data, as well as review papers with the state-of-art techniques and the open challenges encountered in this field. In particular, topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></p><span><span><br></span></span><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-mce-style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline;" data-mce-style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Novel algorithms able to understand big visual data and exploit noisy annotations. </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline;" data-mce-style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scalable algorithms and efficient methods that can handle big visual data.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline;" data-mce-style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Visual models and feature representations of images and videos.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline;" data-mce-style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deep learning algorithms applied to solve image analysis and recognition problems.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline;" data-mce-style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Benchmarks, datasets or data repositories with large volumes of visual data.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline;" data-mce-style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Applications and services: multimedia technologies, medical informatics, video surveillance, marking, etc.</span></p></li></ul><span><span><br></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; color: #333333; background-color: #ffffff; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; color: #333333; background-color: #ffffff; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Authors are invited to submit full papers showing original research contributions. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (Springer LNCS). Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the ICIAR 2018 submission system by</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; color: #333333; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; color: #333333; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> January 22, 2018, selecting the special session topic in their submission.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; color: #333333; background-color: #ffffff; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; color: #333333; background-color: #ffffff; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> For more information please go to </span><a href="https://www.aimiconf.org/iciar18" style="text-decoration-line: none;" data-mce-href="https://www.aimiconf.org/iciar18" data-mce-style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; color: #0563c1; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; color: #0563c1; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.aimiconf.org/iciar18</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IMPORTANT DATES:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paper submission deadline: January 22, 2018</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Author notification: March 12, 2018</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Camera-ready version: March 26, 2018</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paper registration: April 2, 2018</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ICIAR conference: June 27-29, 2018</span></p><span><span><br></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PROGRAM COMMITTEE:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brais Cancela, INESC TEC, Portugal</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Javier Traver, Universitat Jaume I, Spain</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mariella Dimiccoli, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nicola Strisciuglio, University of Groningen, Netherlands</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Noelia Barreira, Universidade da Coruña, Spain</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Peter Roth, Graz University of Technology, Austria</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Robert Sablatnig, Vienna University of Technology, Austria</span></p><div><br></div></div><div><span name="x"></span><br></div></div></body></html>