<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr">CAIP 2021 TO BE ORGANISED AS A VIRTUAL CONFERENCE</div><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div align="center"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;background:#fafafa;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt"><div align="center"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="0" style="width:6.25in;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="border:solid #bbbbbb 1.0pt;border-bottom:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><div align="center"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;background:#f4f4f4;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td style="border:none;border-bottom:solid #f4f4f4 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border-top:none;border-left:solid #bbbbbb 1.0pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid #bbbbbb 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><div align="center"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;background:#f4f4f4;border-collapse:collapse" id="m_-2321466875841049411m_-5404026867443944293m_2411524119549199449templateHeader"><tbody><tr><td style="border-top:solid white 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;border-right:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://cyprusconferences.org/caip2021" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="820" height="244" style="width:8.5416in;height:2.5416in" id="m_-2321466875841049411m_-5404026867443944293m_2411524119549199449_x0000_i1025" src="cid:177afa6ea175b16b25"></span></a><b><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border-top:none;border-left:solid #bbbbbb 1.0pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid #bbbbbb 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><div align="center"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;background:#f4f4f4;border-collapse:collapse" id="m_-2321466875841049411m_-5404026867443944293m_2411524119549199449templatePreheader"><tbody><tr><td style="border:none;border-bottom:solid #f4f4f4 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border-top:none;border-left:solid #bbbbbb 1.0pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid #bbbbbb 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><div align="center"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;background:white;border-collapse:collapse" id="m_-2321466875841049411m_-5404026867443944293m_2411524119549199449templateBody"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="border-top:solid white 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;border-right:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><div align="center"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;background:white;border-collapse:collapse" id="m_-2321466875841049411m_-5404026867443944293m_2411524119549199449templateBody"><tbody><tr><td colspan="3" valign="top" style="border:none;border-top:solid white 1.0pt;background:#dddddd;padding:7.5pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, CAIP 2021 will be held as a virtual conference. The Organizing Committee would like to thank you for your commitment and support and reassure you that they are dedicated to offering the best possible online experience to attendees.</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" valign="top" style="background:#dddddd;padding:7.5pt 0in 7.5pt 0in"><h1 align="center" style="text-align:center">Call for Papers<u></u><u></u></h1><h1 align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://cyprusconferences.org/caip2021" target="_blank">http://cyprusconferences.org/caip2021</a><u></u><u></u></span></i></h1></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" valign="top" style="padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt"><p style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">CAIP 2021 is the 19th in the CAIP series of biennial international conferences devoted to all aspects of computer vision, image analysis and processing, pattern recognition, and related fields.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Previous conferences were held in Salerno, Ystad, Valletta, York, Seville, Münster, Vienna, Paris, etc. The scientific program of the conference will consist of plenary lectures and contributed papers presented in a single track.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Furthermore, CAIP 2021 will feature contests and tutorials preceding the main conference event, as well as workshops following the main conference event. CAIP 2021 will also host a student’s paper competition.<u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" valign="top" style="background:#dddddd;padding:7.5pt 0in 0in 0in"><h2><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Fields of Interest</span></strong><u></u><u></u></h2><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The conference invites novel contributions to the automatic analysis of images and patterns, encompassing both new challenging application areas and substantial new theoretical developments in the field.<u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="background:#dddddd;padding:7.5pt 0in 0in 0in"><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal">3D Vision<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Biomedical image and pattern analysis<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Biometrics<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Brain – inspired methods<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Computer Vision Accelerators<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Deep Learning<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Document analysis<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Egocentric Vision<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Face and gestures<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></li></ul></td><td valign="top" style="background:#dddddd;padding:7.5pt 0in 0in 0in"><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal">Feature Extraction<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Graph-based methods<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">High – dimensional topology methods<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Human pose estimation<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Image restoration<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Image/video indexing & retrieval<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Keypoint detection<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Machine learning for image and pattern analysis<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></li></ul></td><td valign="top" style="background:#dddddd;padding:7.5pt 0in 0in 0in"><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal">Mobile multimedia<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Model-based vision<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Motion and tracking<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Object recognition<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Segmentation<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Shape representation and analysis<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Vision for robotics / drones/ UAVs<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" valign="top" style="background:#beb99e;padding:7.5pt 0in 0in 0in"><h2><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Special Research Award</span></strong><u></u><u></u></h2><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">CAIP 2021 will give a special research award for the best paper of the conference associated to COVID-19 research, in order to honor those who have lost their lives and the heroes and the volunteers associated to the COVID-19 crisis.<u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" valign="top" style="background:#dbdbdb;padding:7.5pt 0in 0in 0in"><h2>Committees<u></u><u></u></h2></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt"><h3><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">General Chairs</span></strong><u></u><u></u></h3><p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Constantinos S. Pattichis</span></strong><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><br><em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">CYENS & University of Cyprus, Cyprus</span></em></span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Andreas Lanitis</span></strong><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><br><em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">CYENS & Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus</span></em></span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Nicolai Petkov</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><br><em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">University of Groningen, Netherlands</span></em><u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td valign="top" style="padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt"><h3><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Program Chairs</span></strong><u></u><u></u></h3><p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Nicolas Tsapatsoulis</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><br><em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus</span></em><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Andreas Panayides</span></strong><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><br><em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">University of Cyprus, Cyprus</span></em></span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Theo Theocharides</span></strong><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><br><em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">KIOS & University of Cyprus, Cyprus</span></em></span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Mario Vento</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><br><em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">University of Salerno, Italy  </span></em><u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td valign="top" style="padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt"><h3><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">LOC</span></strong><u></u><u></u></h3><p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Constantinos S. Pattichis</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><br></span></b><em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">CYENS & University of Cyprus, Cyprus</span></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Constandinos Mavromoustakis</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><br></span></b><em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">IEEE Cyprus Section & University of Nicosia Research Foundation, Cyprus</span></em><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#666666;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white"><u></u><u></u></span></em></p><p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Alexis Polycarpou</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><br></span></b><em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">IET Cyprus</span></em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Toumazis Toumazi</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><br></span></b><em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Cyprus Computer Society</span></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" valign="top" style="background:#dbdbdb;padding:7.5pt 0in 0in 0in"><h2>Important Dates<u></u><u></u></h2></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt"><p align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Tutorial/ Workshop proposal submission</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><br>01 March 2021<u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Tutorial/ Workshop acceptance notification</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><br>15 March 2021<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td valign="top" style="padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt"><p align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Paper Submission</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><br>01 April 2021<u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Author notification</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><br>15 June 2021<u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td valign="top" style="padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt"><p align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Camera-ready paper due</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><br>01 July 2021<u></u><u></u></span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Early bird registration</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><br>31 July 2021<u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" valign="top" style="background:#dbdbdb;padding:7.5pt 0in 0in 0in"><h2>Contact<u></u><u></u></h2></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" valign="top" style="padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt"><h3><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">For Academic Enquiries please contact:</span></strong><u></u><u></u></h3><p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Prof. Constantinos S. Pattichis </span></strong><a href="mailto:pattichi@ucy.ac.cy" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1d8bc8">pattichi@ucy.ac.cy</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><u></u><u></u></span></p><h3><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">For Arrangements and Registration Information:</span></strong><u></u><u></u></h3><p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Easy Conferences </span></strong><a href="mailto:info@easyconferences.eu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1d8bc8">info@easyconferences.eu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt"><p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Organized and Sponsored by</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><img border="0" width="207" height="66" style="width:2.1562in;height:.6875in" id="m_-2321466875841049411m_-5404026867443944293m_2411524119549199449Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:177afa6ea174cff314" alt="cid:image001.png@01D6F3C1.F099B050"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:150%"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050">Endorsed by</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#505050"><img border="0" width="144" height="101" style="width:1.5in;height:1.052in" id="m_-2321466875841049411m_-5404026867443944293m_2411524119549199449Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:177afa6ea17772f6c1" alt="cid:image004.jpg@01D6D496.3800FCA0"><u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td valign="to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