CEC 2012  Special Session: Evolutionary Computer Vision --- Call for Papers


                Special Session: Evolutionary Computer Vision
            2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2012)
    Part of 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence WCCI 
2012
                     Brisbane, Australia, 10-15 June, 2012
        http://homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~mengjie/ecv12.html


Computer vision is a major unsolved problem in computer science and
engineering. Over the last decade there has been increasing interest
in using evolutionary computation approaches to solve vision
problems. Computer vision provides a range of problems of varying
difficulty for the development and testing of evolutionary algorithms.

The theme of the proposed special session is the use of evolutionary
computation for solving computer vision and image processing
problems. The proposed special session aims to bring together theories
and applications of evolutionary computation to computer vision and
image processing problems. Topics of interest include, but are not 
limited to:

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New theories and methods in different EC paradigms to computer vision
and image processing including

   * Evolutionary algorithms such as Genetic algorithms, genetic 
programming,
evolutionary strategy and evolutionary programming;
   * Swarm Intelligence such as particle swarm optimisation, ant colony
optimisation, and differential evolution; and
   * Other approaches such as learning classifier systems, harmony search,
and artificial immune systems.
   * Cross-fertilization of evolutionary computation and other techniques
such as neural networks and fuzzy systems is also encouraged.


Applications in computer vision and image processing including

   * Edge detection in noisy images
   * Image segmentation in biological images
   * Automatic feature extraction, construction and selection in 
complex images
   * Object identification and scene analysis for medical applications
   * Object detection and classification in security scenarios
   * Handwritten digit recognition and detection
   * Vehicle plate detection
   * Face detection and recognition
   * Texture image analysis
   * Automatic target recognition in military services
   * Gesture identification and recognition
   * Robot vision
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Important Dates:
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The initial submission dates are as follows (subject to change)

    * Paper Submission: 19 Dec 2011
    * Decision Notification: 20 Feb 2012
    * Camera-Ready Submission: 02 April 2012


Submission Details
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You should follow the IEEE WCCI/CEC 2012 Web Site .

   * Please submit papers to the Special Session (S01:Evolutionary
     Computer Vision) according to the instructions on the submision
     website:

             http://ieee-cis.org/conferences/cec2012/upload.php


Special Session Organisers
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    Vic Ciesielski,
    School of Computer Science and Information Technology,
    RMIT University, City Campus, GPO 2476V, VIC, Australia.
    Email: vc@cs.rmit.edu.au

    Mario Koeppen
    Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Kyushu Institute of Technology,
    680-4, Kawazu, Iizuka, Fukuoka 820-8502 JAPAN.
    Email: mkoeppen@ieee.org

    Mengjie Zhang
    School of Engineering and Computer Science,
    Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington,
    New Zealand.
    Email: mengjie.zhang@ecs.vuw.ac.nz


Special Session Website:
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     http://homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~mengjie/ecv12.html