EUREKA! 2010 October 14-16 ~ Patras / Ancient Olympia ~ Greece

International Conference
for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students in Computer Engineering, Informatics, related Technologies and Applications.

EUREKA!" is a forum for undergraduate and postgraduate students to present their research, and for community, academic and industry leaders to hear and discuss creative and scholarly work with the students.

Student research from computer sciences and computer engineering disciplines including related applications and technologies can be presented in this conference.

The five best papers will receive an award.

The main goals of the ”EYREKA!” conference are to promote the scientific creativity of the students and to provide a friendly forum for submitting proposals and presenting conference papers. Furthermore, ”EYREKA!” will facilitate the interaction of students with well known specialists in the field of their interest .

EUREKA! 2010 is soliciting contributions from postgraduate and undergraduate students on all aspects of Computer Engineering, Informatics, related Technologies and Applications including applications in Economy, Medicine, Engineering, Education. It is requested that papers submitting by students are written under the supervision of an academic coordinator. Papers can also be joint between students and more senior scientists.

Selected papers from the conference will receive an award and will be considered for publication in CS-URJ, Computer Science Undergraduate Research Journal (http://www.csurj.org).

On October 16^th there will be a visit to the archaeological site of Ancient Olympia; in the evening there will be a gala dinner which will include the award ceremony .

"EUREKA!", which is the initiative of the High Performance Computing Laboratory (HPCLab) of the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department - University of Patras, Greece ,will be co-organised with several Academic institutions.

Important dates:

Paper submission deadline: March 26, 2010

Author notification: May 23, 2010

Final papers due: June 18, 2010

Conference topics include but are not limited to:

1. System Software

2. Computer/Sensor Hardware and Architecture

3. Graphics, Visualization, Multimedia

4. Image and Video Processing

5. Signal Processing and Telecommunications

6. Parallel Processing

7. Information Systems

8. Computer Security

9. Algorithms and Complexity

10. Human-Computer Interaction

11. Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge bases

12. Management of Energy Grids

13. Computational Science

14. Languages and Speech Processing

15. Grid and Cluster Computing

16. Wearable and Mobile Computing

17. Information Retrieval

18. Semantic web

19. Business intelligence

20. Digital libraries

21. e-business & e-government

22. Mobile and wireless computing

23. Medical information systems

24. Medical Applications

25. Bioinformatics

26. Engineering applications (Civil, Electrical, Mechanical,…)

27. CRM & ERP systems

28. Document management

29. Education technologies

30. Internet & intranet systems

31. Web applications

32. Cultural and museum information systems

33. Numerical analysis, numerical methods

For further details and updates, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://eureka.hpclab.ceid.upatras.gr/eureka2010.

Google SIGIR 2010 Conference Grant

As part of Google's ongoing commitment to encouraging women to excel in computing and technology, we are pleased to announce the Google SIGIR 2010 Conference Grant to encourage more female computer scientists to attend and participate in the SIGIR 2010 conference , 19-23 July 2010, Geneva, Switzerland. We encourage all female computer scientists interested in information retrieval to apply.

Two people will be chosen from the applicant pool to receive:

• free registration for the main conference. Accommodation not included.

• up to 300 euros for travel costs from Google (given to the recipients at or after the event)

To be eligible for a conference grant candidates must:

• Be a female working in or studying Computer Science/Information Retrieval

• Maintain a strong academic background with demonstrated leadership ability

• Attend at least 2 full days of the main conference

How To Apply

To apply send, no later than 21 June 2010, an e-mail to europe-events@google.com with the subject heading 'Google SIGIR 2010 Conference grant' containing:

• your full name and email address

• current address, contact phone number and copy of photo ID

• your CV

• 1-page statement (no more than 600 words) about why you wish to attend SIGIR 2010 and why attending is important to your research and/or future career

Winners and claim process

The winners will be notified by e-mail by 25 June 2010. If you are a successful applicant, you will be sent your free ticket and a payment form to expense your travel contribution, to be completed and submitted after the event.

Workshop on Interoperable Social Media Applications WISMA 2010. 11th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community

In the Web 2.0, a growing amount of multimedia content is being shared on Social Networks. Due to the dynamic and ubiquitous nature of this content (and associated descriptors), new interesting challenges for indexing, access, and search and retrieval have arisen.
In addition, there is a growing concern on privacy protection, as a lot of personal data is being exchanged. Teenagers (and even younger kids), for example, require special protection applications; while adults are willing to have a higher control over the access to content.
Furthermore, the integration of mobile technologies with the Web 2.0 applications is also an interesting area of research that needs to be addressed; not only in terms of content protection, but also considering the implementation of new and enriched context-aware applications.
Finally, social multimedia is also expected to improve the performance of traditional multimedia information search and retrieval approaches by contributing to bridge the semantic gap. The integration of these aspects, however, is not trivial and has created a new interdisciplinary area of research.
In any case, there is a common issue that needs to be addressed in all the previously identified social multimedia applications: the interoperability and extensibility of their applications. Thus, the workshop is particularly interested in research contributions based on standards.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Privacy in social networks

• Access control in social networks

• Social media analysis

• Social media retrieval

• Context-awareness in social networks

• Mobile applications scenario

• Social networks ontologies and interoperability

• Security and privacy ontologies

• Content distribution over social networks

• Multimedia ontologies and interoperability

• Multimedia search and retrieval

• Semantic metadata management

• Collaborative tagging

• Interaction between access control and privacy policies

• Social networks and policy languages

• Policy management

Research Papers: Papers should describe original and significant work in the research and industrial practice of related topics. (i) Long papers: up to 8 pages, will normally be particularly focused on research studies, applications and experiments (ii) Short papers: up to 4 pages, will be particularly suitable for reporting work-in-progress, interim results, or as a position paper submission.

Applications and Industrial Presentations: Proposals for presentations of applications and tools, including reports on the application and utilisation of tools, industrial practices and models, or tool/system demonstrations. Abstract: 2 pages.

All submissions and proposals are to be in English and submitted in PDF format at the WISMA paper submission websiteon or before 28th February 2010. Papers should be formatted according to LNCS style. The workshop proceedings are to be published as a volume at CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

http://dmag.ac.upc.edu/conferences/wisma2010/index.php?id=17

Best Paper Award

My paper with Yiannis Boutalis and Mathias Lux

“SPCD - SPATIAL COLOR DISTRIBUTION DESCRIPTOR - A Fuzzy Rule based Composite Descriptor Appropriate for Hand Drawn Color Sketches Retrieval"

awarded as the BEST PAPER at the 2nd International Conference on
Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), Valencia-Spain, January 22-24, 2010.

ICAART received 364 paper submissions from 58 countries, in all continents. To evaluate each submission, a double blind paper review was performed by the Program Committee, whose members are highly qualified researchers in ICAART topic areas. Based on the classifications provided, only 165  were selected to be published in these proceedings and presented at the conference. Of these, 96 papers were selected for oral presentation (31 full papers and 65 short papers) and 69 papers were selected for poster presentation. The full paper acceptance ratio was 9%.

I feel totally honored, thank you :)

IPCV'10 - The 2010 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in the IPCV conference proceedings (in printed book form; later, the proceedings will also be accessible online). Those interested in proposing workshops/sessions, should refer to the relevant sections that appear below.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Software tools for imaging
• Image-based modeling and algorithms
• Illumination and reflectance modeling
• Motion and tracking algorithms and applications
• Biometric authentication
• Event recognition techniques in image sequences
• Medical image processing and analysis
• Image geometry and multi-view geometry
• Segmentation techniques
• Geometric modeling and fractals
• Scene and object modeling
• Image data structures and databases
• Image compression, coding, and encryption
• Image display techniques
• Digital imaging for film and television
• Image formation techniques
• Image generation, acquisition, and processing
• Image feature extraction
• Novel document image understanding techniques + OCR
• Enhancement techniques
• Novel noise reduction algorithms
• Mathematical morphology
• 3D imaging
• Watermarking methods and protection
• Wavelet methods
• Mosaic, image registration and fusion methods
• Color and texture
• Image restoration
• Printing technologies
• Interpolation techniques
• Shape representation
• Video analysis
• Indexing and retrieval of images (image databases)
• Signal and speech processing
• Object recognition
• Multi-resolution vision techniques
• Face and gesture
• Stereo vision
• Soft computing methods in image processing and vision
• Machine learning technologies for vision
• Performance analysis and evaluation (real-time vision)
• Camera networks and vision
• Sensors and early vision
• Active and robot vision
• Cognitive and biologically inspired vision
• Fuzzy and neural techniques in vision
• Graph theory in image processing and vision
• Special-purpose machine architectures for vision
• Dimensionality reduction methods in pattern recognition
• Classification and clustering techniques
• Symbolic learning
• Statistical pattern recognition
• Invariance in pattern recognition
• Knowledge-based recognition
• Structural and syntactic pattern recognition
• Applications including: security, medicine, robotic, GIS, remote sensing, industrial inspection, nondestructive evaluation (or NDE), ...
• Case studies
• Emerging technologies
• Workshop on Multimedia Systems and Applications:
  - Media blending technologies
  - Multimedia retrieval methods
  - Multimedia documents and authoring
  - Coding and compression techniques
  - Annotation and visualization
  - Multimedia databases and archival systems
  - Video surveillance and sensor networks
  - Content analysis and data mining
  - User interface challenges
  - Operating system support for multimedia systems
  - Network architectures and protocols
  - Content protection methods
  - Synchronization (inter-media and intra-media) technologies
  - Security and privacy
  - Capture and sensor systems (embedded, multi-sensors, ...)
  - Multimedia processing techniques (audio, image, video, ...)
  - Data storage and management
  - Server design issues for multimedia systems
  - Distributed multimedia
  - Multimedia programming
  - Multimedia interface design
  - Multimedia computing
  - Interactive multimedia applications
  - Benchmarking systems
  - Interactive television (video-on-demand, home shopping, voting, and games)
  - Hypermedia systems
  - Video conferencing and groupware
  - Fundamentals of human perception
  - Audio and music processing for multimedia
  - Multimedia tools
  - Multimedia and education
  - Real world applications and emerging technologies

MMSP 2011-The Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing

The Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee (MMSP-TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, which is the organizer of the MMSP workshop, invites proposals to host the 2011 workshop edition.

The primary aim of the MMSP workshop is to promote the advancement of multimedia signal processing research and technology with special emphasis on the interaction, coordination, synchronization, and joint processing of multimodal signals.

Proposals are open to all regions, but to keep with the practice of regional rotation, preference will be given to proposals from Region 10 (Asia-Pacific). Proposals should be submitted electronically to MMSP-TC Chair, Dr. Philip A. Chou at pachou@microsoft.com by March 1, 2010.

Proponents are strongly encouraged to present their proposal at the next TC meeting to be held during ICASSP 2010 in Dallas. Further details on the submission requirements and schedule are available here: http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/uploads/TCs/mmsp-tc/MMSP-2011-InviteProposals.pdf

Proponents are also encouraged to visit the MMSP TC web site for an overview of TC activities and history of prior workshops:

http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/technical-committees/list/mmsp-tc/