CALL FOR PAPERS

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

SPECIAL ISSUE ON

Intelligent Vision Systems

Introduction

The explosive number of video cameras and the increasing computing power of computers extend the potential number of applications of vision algorithms. It brings also new challenges to the vision community. In particular the design of intelligent and robust vision systems becomes a rising topic for both researchers and developers from academic fields and industries worldwide. With this special issue we intend to cover all aspects of Intelligent Vision Systems. By this we mean vision systems that interact with or respond to their environment in a dynamic and adaptive manner, with an emphasis put on integrated systems that are robust enough to be deployed in largely unconstrained environments.

We solicit papers for a special issue of Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) relating to Intelligent Vision Systems. This call was motivated by the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS'07) held in 2007 at Bielefeld University, Germany on March 21st-23rd.
We welcome submission from researchers and engineers who did not participate to the conference, as well as from those who did.

Topics

Potential topics include all aspects of intelligent vision systems:

Computer vision from a system perspective: applications, architecture, integration and control
Cognitive vision techniques for scene analysis, semantic interpretation and learning
Methods and metrics for performance evaluation

Review Criteria

Papers will be reviewed by an international program committee according to the following criteria:

Pertinence: Does the paper describe methods or theories concerning the theme of the special issue?
Scientific quality: Does the paper clearly identify a scientific problem, document the state of the art and demonstrate an original technique or method that resolves the problem?
Impact: Is the method/model likely to be adopted for the design or evaluation of computer vision systems?
Generality: Can the method/model be used for a variety of problems? Is it non-specific?
Innovation: Does the method/model demonstrate an improvement in the current state of the art?

Important Dates

Full paper due:	January 1st, 2008
First notification of acceptance:	October 1st 2008
Revised manuscript (for second review)	December 1st 2008
Acceptance notification:	February 1st 2009
Final manuscript due:	March 1st 2009
Publication for the special issue:	mid 2009

Submission procedure

All the papers should be full journal length versions and follow the guidelines set out by CVIU. All the papers will be peer reviewed following the CVIU reviewing procedures. The guide for authors is can be found here.

Note: When you submit papers, you should select Special Issue:Computer Vision Systems as your "Article Type", and indicate in your cover letter: "This manuscript is submitted to the Special Issue on Intelligent Vision Systems".

Guest editors

Corresponding guest editor

Dr Monique Thonnat, INRIA Sophia Antipolis
URL: http://www-sop.inria.fr/orion/personnel/Monique.Thonnat/Monique.Thonnat-eng.html
Email: Monique.Thonnat@sophia.inria.fr
Tel: +33 4 92 38 78 67

Other Guest editor

Prof Gerhard Sagerer,
URL: http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~sagerer
Email: sagerer@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
Tel: +49 521 106-2935