CALL FOR PAPERS for the Special Session on "Parallel and Distributed Image and Video Processing" (ParIm '01) Naples, Italy, September 4-7, 2001 to be held in conjunction with the 2001 International Conference on Parallel Computing (ParCo 2001) http://www.parco.org Extended Papers due: June 30 2001 Motivation ---------- The International Conference on Parallel Computing ParCo '2001, aims to provide a medium for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners to address the important issues in the state-of-the-art of the development, application and future trends in parallel computing, including recent developments in cluster and metacomputing. A special session of the conference is devoted to "Parallel and Distributed Image and Video Processing". In recent years much attention has been paid to the computing with visual data as a key technology in many areas. However, the creation, processing and management of these data types require an enormous computational effort, often too high for single processor architectures. Therefore, this fact taken together with inherent data parallelism in these data types makes image processing, video processing and multimedia natural application areas for parallel and distributed computing. Our goal within this session is to provide a forum for researchers from all of these communities to present and exchange ideas on the latest research results in parallel and distributed image and video processing, in order to give an overview of the state-of-the-art of the developments, applications and future trends. We intend this session to cover a range of domains, from more traditional ones such as image analysis at low, medium and high level on multiprocessor architectures, to parallel multimedia image processing and retrieval, to soft-computing techniques in parallel image processing. Scope ----- We solicit abstracts of original research including, but not limited to, the following areas: * Parallel algorithms for digital image processing, coding and encryption * Parallel algorithms for video content-based indexing and retrieval * Advanced techniques for parallel image and video processing: soft-computing, quantum computing, etc. * Parallel and distributed architectures for image and video processing and retrieval * Coprocessors and multimedia Instructions Set Architecture extensions * Special purpose circuits and systems for MPEG codecs and digital imaging for films and television * Performance evaluation * Multimedia data analysis and visualization: texture, color, content, etc. * Applications, i.e. face recognition, event detection, lip-reading analysis, interactive human-machine vision, vehicles guidance, etc. All these topics are usually investigated and probed independently from each other and making use of different assumptions and techniques. The organizers believe it is necessary to enforce a higher level of cross-interaction among these issues, making use of all the computational tools we have available. Moreover, special attention will be given to application domains. We hope, also, to be able to discuss some application cases where to verify the basic ideas emerged in the literature and in the session's discussion itself. Submission ---------- Authors are invited to submit 5-page extended abstracts that demonstrate original and unpublished research in the areas of parallel image and video processing. All submissions should be sent to Dr. A. Petrosino by e-mail, in PostScript or PDF format, to the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Common compression utilities (such as gzip, compress, or winzip) can be used. To download the template files (LaTeX, Word, etc.) please visit the site of the conference http://www.parco.org. One of the authors will be required to attend the session and present the work. Publication ----------- Selected submissions will be considered for publishing in the upcoming special issue of the journal "Parallel Computing", published by Elsevier. To know more about the journal please visit http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/5/0/5/6/1/7/. Important Dates --------------- June 30, 2001: Extended abstracts due. July 10, 2001: Notification sent to authors. August 31, 2001: Final paper due Special Session Organizers -------------------------- Luisa D'AMORE University of Naples "Federico II", Dept. of Mathematics Via Cintia, I-80126 Naples, ITALY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alain MERIGOT Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale Universite Paris Sud 91405 Orsay, Paris, FRANCE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alfredo PETROSINO CPS, National Research Council Complesso Monte Sant'Angelo Via Cintia, I-80126 Naples, ITALY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact ------- Please, send any questions or comments about the session to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
