The International Journal of Multimedia Technology

The International Journal of Multimedia Technology (IJMT) is a scholarly peer-reviewed international scientific journal, focusing on theories, methods, algorithms, and applications in multimedia. It provides a forum for academic researchers, industrial professionals, engineers, consultants, managers, educators and policy makers working in the field to contribute and disseminate innovative new work on multimedia technology.

IJMT covers the breadth of research in multimedia technology. IJMT invites original, previously unpublished, research, survey and tutorial papers, plus case studies and short research notes, on both applied and theoretical aspects of multimedia technology.

Objectives:
IJMT is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement of multimedia technology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of multimedia technology.

http://www.ijmt.org/Index.aspx

Scholarship available for Postgraduate Diploma

There is a scholarship available for Postgraduate Diploma in the Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering of Technical University of Crete, Greece at the Laboratory of Distributed Multimedia Information Systems and Applications (http://www.music.tuc.gr/) in the broader field of Graphics and Virtual Environments.

This research is related to fidelity measures on simulation of light in three dimensional
graphics systems in collaboration with neuroscience. This graduate program will be done in a collaboration with the Medical Faculty of the University of Sussex in Great Britain and includes a visit to England. For more information, contact directly with the scientific program manager,
Assist. Professor Katerina Mania.

http://www.music.tuc.gr/kmania

The scholarship can be given for doctoral studies too.
(12000€ for a year and a half + 3000€ travel budget to Great Britain)

How to see around corners

This video shows how scientists at the MIT Media Lab (www.media.mit.edu/) reconstruct a hidden object using scattered laser light. Future applications may include seeing in dangerous or inaccessible locations, such as inside machinery with moving parts, or in highly contaminated areas.

Read the original research:http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v3/n3/full/ncomms1747.html
Check out the researchers' project URL: http://cornar.info
And first author's web page http://web.mit.edu/~velten/www/

ACRI 2012

Submission Deadline Extended to April 7, 2012

Cellular automata (CA) present a very powerful approach to the study of spatio-temporal systems where complex phenomena build up out of many simple local interactions. They account often for real phenomena or solutions of problems, whose high complexity could unlikely be formalised in different contexts.

Furthermore parallelism and locality features of CA allow a straightforward and extremely easy parallelisation, therefore an immediate implementation on parallel computing resources. These characteristics of the CA research resulted in the formation of interdisciplinary research teams. These teams produce remarkable research results and attract scientists from different fields.

The main goal of the 10th edition of ACRI 2012 Conference (Cellular Automata for Research and Industry) is to offer both scientists and engineers in academies and industries an opportunity to express and discuss their views on current trends, challenges, and state-of-the art solutions to various problems in the fields of arts, biology, chemistry, communication, cultural heritage, ecology, economy, geology, engineering, medicine, physics, sociology, traffic control, etc.

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest about CA and CA-based models and systems include but are not limited to:

• Algebraic properties and generalization
• Complex systems
• Computational complexity
• Dynamical systems
• Hardware circuits, architectures, systems and applications
• Modeling of biological systems
• Modeling of physical or chemical systems
• Modeling of ecological and environmental systems
• Image Processing and pattern recognition
• Natural Computing Quantum Cellular Automata
• Parallelism

This edition of the ACRI conference also hosts workshops on recent and important research topics on theory and applications of Cellular Automata like the following: Crowds and Cellular Automata (4th edition), Asynchronous Cellular Automata (2nd edition), Traffic and Cellular Automata (2nd edition), andCellular Automata Models of Cancer Growth and Invasion (1st Edition).

http://acri2012.duth.gr/

Lecture of Prof. Kowalski

Watch online the latest lecture from Professor Robert Kowalski (Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK) (March 8th, 2012 at 12:00-14:00, Auditorium III, AUTH Research Committee )

Details

Video of the Lecture http://video.auth.gr/kedea_kowalski_2012

Slides of the Lecture in PDF

 

ABSTRACT
Research in AI has built upon the tools and techniques of many different disciplines, including formal logic, probability theory, decision theory, management science, linguistics and philosophy. However, the application of these disciplines in AI has necessitated the development of many enhancements and extensions. Among the most powerful of these are the methods of computational logic. I will argue that computational logic, embedded in an agent cycle, combines and improves upon both traditional logic and classical decision theory. I will also argue that many of its methods can be used, not only in AI, but also in ordinary life, to help people improve their own human intelligence without the assistance of computers

ICPR2012 is the twenty-first conference of the International Association for Pattern Recognition

ICPR2012 is the twenty-first conference of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), which will be held during November 11-15, 2012.

ICPR 2012 will be an international forum for discussions on recent advances in the fields of Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning; Signal, Speech, Image and Video Processing; Biometrics and Human Computer Interaction; Multimedia and Document Analysis, Processing and Retrieval; Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications.

[Paper Submission]

Authors will be requested to submit their papers electronically through the conference website before March 31st, 2012.

http://www.icpr2012.org

Details on paper format for manuscript submission will be available at the conference web site.

[Workshops]

The workshops must be full-day and will be held on November 11th, 2012, immediately before the start of the main conference.

[Tutorials]

ICPR2012 invites interested researchers to send proposals for the Tutorial Program.The tutorials must be half (or full)-day and will be held on November 11th, 2012.

[Important Dates]

Deadline for paper submission March 31, 2012 Deadline for workshop proposal January 6, 2012 Deadline for tutorial proposal April 30, 2012 Notification of paper acceptance June 15, 2012 Camera ready papers and author registration July 15, 2012

[Conference Location]

ICPR2012 will be held at the Tsukuba International Congress Center, Tsukuba, Japan.

http://www.epochal.or.jp/eng/index.html

Tsukuba Science City is about 50 km northeast of Tokyo and 40 km northwest of the Narita International Airport. The Haneda International Airport is 10 km south of Tokyo.

The Tsukuba Express Line connects Tsukuba/Akihabara in 45 min.

[Contact]

secretary@icpr2012.org <mailto:secretary@icpr2012.org>

General Co-Chairs:

Jan-Olof Eklundh (Sweden), Yuichi Ohta (Japan), Steven Tanimoto (USA)

Program-Co-Chairs:

Alberto Del Bimbo (Italy), Kim L. Boyer (USA), Katsushi Ikeuchi (Japan)