Connectionists: Special Session on "NEURAL NETWORKS IN IMAGE PROCESSING" at KES2008

[Franco Scarselli]

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	Special Session "NEURAL NETWORKS IN IMAGE PROCESSING"
      		12th International Conference on
  Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems
  			 Zagreb, Croatia
		   3, 4 and 5 September 2008


Call for papers
Neural networks and, more generally, machine learning techniques can be
widely applied to image processing and computer vision for preprocessing,
feature extraction, segmentation, object tracking and recognition. The
adopted machine learning tools include associative memories, kernel
machines, neural networks, evolutionary computations, and statistical
methods. Visual data are difficult to be dealt with, due to noise, such as
light and colour changes, occlusion, and cluttered environments. The
capability of machine learning techniques to incorporate imprecision and
incomplete information, and to model very complex systems makes them a
useful tool in image processing. The aim of this session is to provide an
international forum for presentation of recent results and advances
regarding soft computing methods in image processing.

The scope of this session is, but not limited to:
- Noise reduction in images
- Image compression
- Edge detection and segmentation
- Feature extraction
- Similarity learning in images
- Image analysis and classification
- Object localization and detection


Paper submission
Authors are encouraged to submit high quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other conferences/journals. All submissions will be refereed by experts in the field based on originality, significance, and clarity. The conference preceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in AI as part of the LNCS/LNAI series. When formatting papers - that must be no more than eight (8) pages long, including figures and bibliography - please refer to the Springer-Verlag site and strictly follow the instructions for LNCS authors (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

Important Dates
.	Deadline for paper submission: March 10th 2008
.	Notification of acceptance: April 10th 2008
.	Camera-ready papers: May 1st 2008

Organized by:
Chairs
.       Monica Bianchini, Marco Maggini, Franco Scarselli
        University of Siena, Italy

Program Committee (To be completed)
.       Annamaria Colla - Elsag Datamat, Italy
.	Fabio Roli, University of Cagliari, Italy
.	Carlo Sansone - University of Naples "Federico II", Italy
.	Lorenzo Sarti, University of Siena, Italy
.       Joost van de Weijer, GRAVIR-INRIA, France
.	Ming-Hsuan Yang, Honda Research Institute, USA

Other details are available at:
http://www.dii.unisi.it/~monica/KES2008_SSNNIP/index.html