[HiPEAC-announce] 4th International Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision -- Final Call For Papers

[Nikos Bellas]

ECVW08 - Final Call for Papers 

The Fourth International Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision
Saturday, June 28
Anchorage, Alaska
USA

http://ecvw08.inf.uth.gr/

Recent years have witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of computer 
vision in embedded systems.
Computer vision was successfully used, for example, in mission-critical 
systems such as the landing of the rovers on Mars, and in computer-aided 
surgery.
Computer vision is widely used also in industrial embedded systems, 
taking part in production and inspection processes.
Cameras find their way into everyday appliances and mobile devices such 
as cell phones, PDAs, presentation appliances, and vehicles.
Cameras themselves are becoming "smarter," gaining capabilities for 
processing the acquired images inside the camera.
Furthermore, distributed smart camera systems, which integrate computer 
vision algorithms with embedded processing and computer networking 
techniques, are enabling major advances in areas such as surveillance 
and human identification.
Traditionally, different embedded computer vision domains, such as 
computer aided-surgery and surveillance were treated separately due to 
the different nature of the domains. However, these domains share many 
common problems related to their real-time, embedded-system characteristics.

The *Embedded Computer Vision Workshop (ECVW) *aims to bring together 
researchers working on computer vision problems t
hat share embedded system characteristics.
Particularly, the workshop will address the following questions:
-- What are the current research problems and the applications within 
the computer vision domain that are specific to embedded systems. For 
example, algorithms for efficient utilization of embedded processing 
architectures for computer vision, and conversely, architectures and 
design methods for effectively supporting embedded computer vision systems?
-- What are the specific issues in the embedded systems domain that are 
relevant to computer vision (for example, meeting constraints on 
real-time performance, power consumption, and memory requirements in 
embedded computer vision systems)?

*Research papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following 
topics:*

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      Analysis of computer vision problems that are specific to embedded
      systems.

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      Analysis of embedded systems problems that are specific to
      computer vision.

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      Verification methods for mission-critical embedded computer vision
      systems.

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      New trends in programmable digital signal processors and their
      computational models.

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      Reconfigurable processors and computer vision.

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      Embedded multiprocessor systems and design methods.

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      Hybrid / distributed models and architectures for embedded
      computer vision.

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      Applications of embedded computer vision.

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      Development tools for computer vision applications aimed at
      embedded systems. 

The proposed workshop is the fourth in its series. The first three 
Workshops on Embedded Computer Vision were held in conjunction with 
CVPR. These events were very successful. Selected papers from the first 
workshop are being published in a special issue of the EURASIP Journal 
on Embedded Systems, and we intend to pursue similar special journal 
issues for ECVW 2008.
Reviewing will be blind. The authors should not include their name and 
affiliation in the manuscript they submit.

*General Chairs*

Sek Chai

/Motorola/

Branislav Kisacanin

/Texas Instruments/


*Program Chair
*

Nikolaos Bellas

/University of Thessaly

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*Important Dates*

Paper submission: March 14, 2008

Notification to the authors: April 18, 2008

Receipt of camera ready copy: April 28, 2008

Workshop: June 28, 2008