Extended deadline

Please note that the submission deadline has been extended.

Call for extended abstract

Biologically-inspired Machine Vision, Theory and Application

An AISB'03 symposium
Computer Science department
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
7^th - 11^th April 2003

Contents

• Background of the symposium
• Scope of the symposium
• Keynote speaker
• Symposium chair
• Programme committee
• Important dates
• Submission

Background of the symposium

This call for extended abstracts is for one of five symposia offered by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) under the theme of:

"Cognition in Machines and Animals".

All the symposia will take place at the AISB'03 convention, to be held at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 7^th -11^th April 2003, in parallel and serial sessions.

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Scope of the symposium "Biologically-inspired Machine Vision, Theory and Application"

Computer vision has developed into a mature science over the last 40 years, but current computer vision systems are vastly different from, and in most cases lack the efficiency of, biological vision systems. Biological vision therefore remains a strong metaphor for the design of machines that simulate intelligent behaviour in visually sensed environments. Immensely rewarding applications in human-machine interaction await advances in the multi-disciplinary threads of machine vision, perception and cognition.

To promote a strong multi-disciplinary interaction, the symposium aims to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of the state-of-the-art and opening directions of research and technology related to biologically-inspired machine vision and visualisation. Papers are sought that advance the theoretical foundations or present applications on this topic. Presentations including, but not limited to the following, are encouraged from both industry and academia:

• Computational models of animal visual systems
• Representations needed for high-level vision
• Role of learning and applications of perception in vision systems
• Human-machine interaction
• Motion tracking and 3-D reconstruction
• Behaviour simulation and understanding
• Face and gesture recognition
• Biometrics and recognition
• Recognition and interpretation
• Architectures and languages for image processing
• Real time image analysis
• Segmentation
• Performance comparisons, evaluations, or measures
• Software tools, associated resources and application (e.g. humanoid robot)
• Visualisation

Contributions bringing together two or more of the above themes, to give a better understanding of a framework towards a more intelligent machine interpretation of images, are especially welcome.

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Keynote speaker

There will be a range a exciting talks given by keynote speakers from all over the world. More details are available here.

For the "Biologically-inspired Machine Vision, Theory and Application" symposium, the keynote speaker will be Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos. Interesting discussions are expected!

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Symposium chair

Department of Computer Science, UW Aberystwyth, UK.

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Programme committee

Prof Eduardo Bayro C., Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Dr Yonghuai Liu, Department of Computer Science, UW Aberystwyth, UK
Dr Derek J Paddon, Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, UK
Dr Dimitris Rigas, Department of Computing, University of Bradford, UK
Dr Marcos Rodrigues, Computing Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

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Important dates

Authors of accepted extended abstracts will have the chance to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a final electronic version of their manuscripts by 7^th March 2003 (see Submission).

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Submission

Electronic manuscripts for an extended abstract (2 pages), or the full paper if available, should be submitted as an attachment to the co-chair, Dr Fred Labrosse, by email at ffl@aber.ac.uk.

Please follow the following submission guidelines.

• For the purpose of anonymous review, the authors should not be identifiable on the extended 2-page abstract (or full paper), but all authors details and a repeat of the paper title should be given on an extra front page.
• The preferred format is pdf, but postscript is acceptable. Here is a short example in pdf of the style.
• A L^AT_EX style is available here while an example of L^AT_EX file is here. An example of a BibT_EX file is here.
• The character size is to be not less than 10pt for the body of the text.
• Double column pagination is to be used.
• A maximum page limit of 20 pages is imposed on the final paper.
• References should be given in alphabetical order.

Accepted papers will be included in proceedings published by AISB with an ISBN number.

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