Dear colleague,
this is the final call for papers for the Workshop “Computer Vision in the Ocean” to be held in conjunction with ICCV in October 2021. Due to the Covid situation, everything will take place virtually. Submission is open now, until June, 30th, 23:59 AOE.
Accepted papers will be published as workshop proceedings along with ICCV proceedings via IEEE.
Please visit the workshop homepage https://www.geomar.de/en/omv/ocean-vision-2021 for more information regarding submission and pass this email on to other potentially interested persons / parties.
Looking forward to your contributions,
Kevin Köser (GEOMAR)
Derya Akkaynak (Harbor Branch Oceanographic)
Computer Vision in the Ocean
Virtual Workshop in conjunction with ICCV 2021
The challenging setting underwater, and in particular in the oceans, often let standard computer vision approaches struggle or become unsuitable. Refraction at underwater housings can invalidate the pinhole camera model and create focus issues. Scattering and absorption of light drastically change the appearance of objects with viewpoint and typically limit visibility to just a few meters. Deeper waters are inaccessible to divers, making in-situ calibration very difficult and are deprived of natural light, which requires robots to use co-moving spotlights in the dark.
Yet, the oceans cover more than 70% of our planet and more than 50% of Earth's surface lies beyond 1000m depth, most of which we still have to discover. The use of cameras and robotic platforms in the oceans is growing fast, and ocean scientists are gathering huge amounts of visual data with a clear need for robust and reliable methods for quantification, mapping, classification and understanding.
Industry is mining resources from the deep sea and offshore installations are built and need to be maintained. The UN have declared the Decade of the Ocean Science, and countries and international communities want to improve health and keep good status of their waters, increasing the need for understanding, quantification and monitoring.
The vision community has a compelling opportunity to significantly impact this important domain.
The workshop aims to bring together experts and researchers interested in learning about the challenges, current work and opportunities in underwater vision, which include (but are not limited to)
– image restoration and visibility improvement
– refractive geometry and underwater observation models
– physical models, quantitative imaging and visual simulation
– multi-spectral, hyper-spectral imaging or other modalities
– visual underwater robotics
– visual measuring, mapping and monitoring
– appearance, shape and motion of life or structures at the seafloor or in the open water
– habitat, substrate classification or segmentation
– visual characterization or quantification of marine life or processes
– robust algorithms to cope with marine snow, smoke or other nuisances
– detection, tracking and classification, ocean semantics
Submission deadline June 30, 2021, AOE
Decision August 1, 2021
Camera ready August 15, 2021
Workshop mid October (ICCV)
CFP – MDPI Journal of Imaging special issue on “Photometric Stereo”
June 8th, 2021 
Daniela Lopez de Luise ISSN 2313-433X
Special Issue “Photometric Stereo”
Deadline: 30 September 2021
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jimaging/special_issues/photometric_stereo
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Photometric stereo is a well-known technique which estimates the normal surface of objects. Recent trends in 3D printers have widened the range of uses of commercial sensors that measure the 3D coordinates of object surfaces; however, commercial sensors which can measure the normal surface of an object using a photometric stereo are still rare. Photometric stereo is still a hot topic in this field, and various research papers are published on it each year. Recent techniques such as deep learning have also affected the progress of photometric stereo research. This Special Issue aims to collect a wide variety of photometric stereo works and helps the progress of this field.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
photometric stereo and its applications
shape-from-shading and related techniques
photometric stereo using CNN
uncalibrated photometric stereo
example-based photometric stereo
color photometric stereo
photometric stereo under natural illumination
photometric stereo of uncommon lights such as multispectral light, infrared light, or fluorescent light
photometric stereo in hazy weather or underwater
photometric stereo for metals and arbitrary BRDFs
photometric linearization and sparse regression
photometric stereo with multiple cameras
sensor fusion using shading information and other sensors
photometric stereo for various fields such as computer graphics, medical science, or the industrial field
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Guest Editor
Daisuke Miyazaki, Hiroshima City University, Japan
MedPRAI 2021
June 8th, 2021 Daniela Lopez de Luise Dear Colleagues,
We cordially invited you to the 5th Mediterranean Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (MedPRAI 2021) which will be held on December 17-18, 2021 in Istanbul, Turkey. Following the five successful previous editions of MedPRAI (Algeria 2016, Morocco 2018, Turkey 2019, and Tunisia 2020), the 5th edition of MedPRAI will be held in Istanbul (Turkey) from 17 to 18 December 2021. MedPRAI is organized by the Department of Computer Engineering, Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Istanbul, Turkey and sponsored by AIPLUS Inc. The United Kingdom. It aims to provide researchers and practitioners from academia and industry with a forum on the latest pattern recognition and artificial intelligence developments. The conference will also provide a unique opportunity for sharing experiences from different backgrounds with a common interest in advanced methods in the fields mentioned above. The scientific program of MedPRAI 2021 will include the presentation of invited plenary talks, regular sessions, poster sessions and some special sessions.
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Publication and Indexing
The proceedings will be published in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series of (https://link.springer.com/conference/medprai). CCIS is abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus. CCIS volumes are also submitted for inclusion in ISI Proceedings.
Review Process
All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the international program committee. Moreover, additional reviewers will be consulted if needed. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
– Statistical, structural and syntactic pattern recognition,
– Neural networks,
– Machine learning,
– Data mining,
– Graph-based techniques for pattern recognition,
– Object recognition,
– Signal analysis,
– Image coding and processing,
– Shape and texture analysis
– Computer vision,
– Robotics,
– Remote sensing,
– Document processing,
– Text and graphics recognition,
– Digital libraries,
– Speech recognition,
– Music analysis,
– Multimedia systems,
– Natural language analysis,
– Information retrieval,
– Biometrics,
– Biomedical pattern analysis,
– Artificial intelligence.
Important Dates
– Paper Submission: August 15, 2021
– Review Notification: September 15, 2021
– Registration Opens: September 15, 2021
– Final Paper Submission: September 30, 2021
– Early Bird Registration: September 30, 2021
– Conference Dates: December 17-18, 2021
Keynote Speakers
– Prof. Sankar Kumar Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India
– Prof. Faisal Shafait, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), Pakistan
– Dr. Abbas Cheddad, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
– Prof. Fernand Cohen, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University, USA
Hosts and Sponsors
Inquiries
Please forward your inquiries to chawki.djeddi@litislab.fr
Kind regards
Dr. AKHTAR JAMIL
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences,
Department of Computer Engineering,
Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University,
Istanbul, Turkey.
Telefon: 0(212)692-8780
Fax: 0(212)692-8229
Skype: akh.jam
ResearchGate : http://tiny.cc/unlr6y
Google Scholar : https://scholar.google.com.tr/citations?user=dCUDc1oAAAAJ&hl=en
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/akhtar-jamil/
ResearchGate : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Akhtar_Jamil
CONVOCATORIA A PRESENTACION DE ARTICULOS PARA EL N° 14 DE CDS.
June 7th, 2021 Daniela Lopez de Luise En este número, el dossier versará sobre “Transformaciones urbanas en contextos de incertidumbre y pandemia: entre las lógicas de reproducción y apropiación del territorio” y será coordinado por Luisa Mattioli (CILOT/CONICET-UNDAV).
La fecha límite para el envio de trabajos es el 30 de septiembre de 2021.
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