<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">WEB SITE: <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/iwcia18/" class="">https://sites.google.com/view/iwcia18/</a><br class=""><div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dear Colleague,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am pleased to invite you to IWCIA'18 - <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/iwcia18" class="">https://sites.google.com/view/iwcia18</a>, which is going to be held in Porto, Portugal, in November 22-24, 2018.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">IWCIA'18 is the nineteenth of a series of international meetings on combinatorial image analysis. Image analysis is a scientific discipline providing theoretical foundations and methods for solving problems appearing in a wide range of areas, as diverse as medicine, robotics, defense, and security. As a rule, the processed data are discrete; therefore, the "discrete approach" to image analysis appears to be a natural one and has an increasing importance. It is based on studying combinatorial properties of the considered digital data sets.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Combinatorial image analysis often features various advantages (in terms of efficiency and accuracy) over the more traditional approaches based on continuous models requiring numeric computation.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The scientific program of the workshop consists of keynote talks, contributed papers, and posters.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">TOPICS:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Workshop is a forum for current research on the following (or similar) research subjects which are directly or potentially applicable to image analysis:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Combinatorial problems in the discrete plane and space; Lattice polygons and polytopes</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Digital/combinatorial geometry and topology </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Digital manifolds; Geometry of digital curves and surfaces</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Analysis and processing of digital surfaces with singularities (such as "pinched digital surfaces")</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Homotopy of digital manifolds; Thinning algorithms and skeletons</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Boundary tracking of digital solids; Geometric characteristics of object boundaries</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Multigrid convergence analysis of metric-based descriptors</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Tilings and patterns; Combinatorial pattern matching</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Computational geometry and imaging sciences</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Integer programming, linear programming, and graph theoretic models and approaches to problems of image analysis</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Image representation, segmentation, grouping, and reconstruction</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Processing "very large" digital pictures; Methods for image compression</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Parallel architectures and algorithms</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Fuzzy and stochastic image analysis</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Discrete tomography</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Grammars and models for image or scene analysis and recognition; Cellular automata</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Mathematical morphology and image analysis</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Applications in medical imaging, biometrics, computer vision, image understanding, robotics, metrology, and others</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">KEYNOTES:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Patch-based Inverse Problems in Interferometric Phase Imaging, Prof. José M. Bioucas-Dias, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Geometric Representations of Graphs, Prof. Jan Kratochvil, Charles University, Czech Republic</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Representation learning with trainable COSFIRE filters, Prof. Nicolai Petkov, University of Groningen, The Netherlands</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">DATES:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Full paper submission due - June 15, 2018 (EXTENDED)</div><div class="">Notification of acceptance - July 20, 2018 (EXTENDED)</div><div class="">Final camera-ready papers - August 15, 2018</div><div class="">Workshop dates - November 22-24, 2018, Porto, Portugal</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">PUBLICATION:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer's "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" series.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">REVIEW PROCESS:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The submitted papers are expected to meet high standards satisfying serious evaluation criteria. Each paper will be reviewed thoroughly by at least two members of the Program Committee. Double-blind review process will be applied to ensure maximal objectiveness.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">After the Workshop, the authors can submit extended versions of their works for publication in special journal issues. A thematic special issue of Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization (Taylor & Francis) has already been arranged.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Looking forward to meet you in Porto, in November,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">João Manuel R.S. Tavares - Universidade do Porto, Portugal</div><div class="">(General Chair IWCIA'18)</div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="">
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