<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><br></font><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4">Call for Papers<br></font></div><font size="2"><br></font></div><font size="2"> <br></font><div style="text-align:center"><font size="2"><font size="4"><b>EMMCVPR 201<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">9</span><br></b><br><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"></span>1<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">2</span>th International Conference on Energy Minimization Methods in<br>Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition<br></b></font><br><br><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">23 – 25</span> October 201<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">9</span><br><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Wuhan</span>, C<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">hina</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><br></font> <br><a href="http://captain.whu.edu.cn/EMMCVPR2019/" target="_blank">http://captain.whu.edu.cn/EMMCVPR2019/</a><br></font></div><font size="2"><br><br><br></font><div style="text-align:center"><font size="2"><b><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">>>>  Submission deadline: 2<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">7</span> July 201<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">9</span>  <<<<br></div></b></font></div><font size="2"><i><br></i><br><br>Energy minimization methods have become an established computational paradigm in computer vision and pattern recognition. EMMCVPR is a regular bi-annual conference<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">, established in 1997,</span> dedicated to advancing the state of the art in this field. <br><br>The scientific program will include the presentation of invited plenary talks and contributed research papers.<br><br>Topics of interest include <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">(</span>but are not limited to<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">)</span>:<br><br>- Discrete and continuous optimization<br>- Convex programming and relaxations<br>- PDE and variational methods<br>- Stochastic optimization<br>- Spectral methods<br>- Graphical models and markov random fields<br>- Statistical methods and learning<br>- Graph-theoretic </font><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="2">and network-based </font></div><font size="2">methods<br>- Analysis of deep architectures<br>- Adversarial and game-theoretic models</font></div><div><font size="2"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">- Combinatorial optimization</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Application areas include <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">(</span>but are not limited to<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">)</span>:<br><br>- Object recognition and detection<br>- Scene understanding<br>- Segmentation and grouping<br>- Restoration and inpainting<br>- Color and texture<br>- Computational photography<br>- Photo and video editing<br>- Motion and tracking<br>- Matching and registration<br>- Medical image analysis<br>- Pose estimation<br>- Action and event recognition<br>- Shape analysis<br>- Shape-from-X<br>- Stereo and 3D reconstruction<br>- Multiview geometry<br>- Vision for graphics<br><br><br></font><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="2"><b>Paper submission<br></b></font></div><font size="2"><br>All papers (not exceeding 14 pages) must be submitted electronically at the <a href="http://captain.whu.edu.cn/EMMCVPR2019/" target="_blank">conference website</a>. All submissions will be subject to a rigorous peer-review process. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, which will be published in Springer’s <a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs" target="_blank">Lecture Notes in Computer Science</a> (LNCS) series</font><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="2"> after the conference<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> (approval pending)</span>.</font></div><font size="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