Scope

The field of pattern recognition (PR) provides many successful examples of systems that have converted from theoretical studies to practical solutions in real-life applications. Since implementations of PR tend to be special-purpose, PR is often realized as some kind of embedded system. The spectrum of PR is vast. Recognized objects or events can be artificial or natural. Deployed methods can be deductive or inductive, analytical or statistical, programmed or hardwired, digital or analogue, supervised or unsupervised, etc. User interaction with such systems can be optical, phonetic, tactile, or based on other kinds of sensors. PR systems often provide multiple modes of interaction and input data processing. IMPRESS 2011 focuses on aspects of embedding, interaction and multimodality of PR systems. The workshop provides a forum for presenting and discussing the state of the art, ongoing research and development, innovative system features and forward-looking ideas in the field. In parallel with the presentation and discussion of written contributions, IMPRESS 2011 also features selected implementations of PR systems and prototypes in a demo showroom.

Topics

We are calling for papers presenting original research results, innovative ideas, work in progress, industrial experience, case studies or position statements. In particular, we welcome submissions that highlight aspects of interaction, multimodality or embedding. In general, submitted work should deal with PR systems in areas including, but not limited to the following topics:

• Analysis of imagess, signals, sounds, tracks, videos
• Applications:
  automotive, biometric, data mining, domotic, forensic, gaming, genomic, medical, etc
• Classification and indexing of items
• Coding and processing
• Computer vision
• Databases and digital libraries for PR
• Descriptors and Representation
• Device- and application-embedded PR
• Distributed, clustered, networked PR
• Enhancement of audio, pics, video
• Feature detection
• Filtering, separation and segmentation
• Formal, mathematical, statistical methods
• Fuzzy and hybrid techniques
• Hardware acceleration of PR algorithms
• Implementations of PR algorithms (DSP, FPGA, SoC, VLSI)
• Machine learning, relevance feedback
• Morphology
• Motion tracking
• Multimedia
• Navigation (aural, tactile, visual)
• On-line and off-line PR
• Performance evaluation
• Recognition of faces, graphics, objects, shapes, sounds, text, voices, writings, etc
• Retrieval of images, patterns, sounds, videos; semantic retrieval
• Robotics
• Sensor systems
• Similarity Metrics
• System design
• Understanding of audio, images, scenes, video
• User interfaces

Submissions

Please login here and submit an electronic copy (preferably .pdf) of your work. For dates and deadlines, click here. Submissions must be neither published nor under revision elsewhere, be written in English, contain an abstract of about 200 words and should not exceed five double-column pages in IEEE format. In case of any problems, please contact the organizers.

Proceedings

All papers submitted to IMPRESS 2011 will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers that are presented at the workshop will be published in an IEEE CSP proceedings volume of the DEXA 2011 workshops. (For example, see bibliographic details of our previous DEXA workshop IMPRESS 2010.)

Workshop Chairs

Juan Carlos Pérez-Cortes Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Spain	Costantino Grana Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Demo Chair Marc Albero Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Spain	Organizing Chair Hendrik Decker Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Spain

Program Committee

	Mohamed Abdel Hady	Univ. Ulm, Germany
	Alexandre Alapetite	Tech. Univ. Denmark
	Marc Albero	Inst. Tecnológ. Informática, Valencia, Spain
	Francisco Casacuberta	Univ. Politéc. Valencia, Spain
	Vincent Charvillat	Univ. Toulouse, France
	Qiang Chen	National Univ. Singapore
	Bertrand Coüasnon	IRISA, Rennes, France
	Andrzej Czyżewski	Univ. Technology, Gdansk, Poland
	Hendrik Decker	Inst. Tecnológ. Informática, Valencia, Spain
	Luis Entrena	Univ. Politéc. Madrid, Spain
	Alexandre Falcão	Univ. Campinas, Brazil
	Francesc Ferri	Univ. Valencia, Spain
	Antonio Gentile	Univ. Palermo, Italy
	Costantino Grana	Univ. Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
	Qingming Huang	Grad. Univ., Acad. Sciences, Beijing, China
	Branislav Kisacanin	Texas Instruments, USA
	Bozena Kostek	Univ. Technology, Gdansk, Poland
	Marco Loog	Tech. Univ. Delft, The Netherlands
	Abelardo López Lagunas	Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
	Luisa Micó	Univ. Alicante, Spain
	Ramon Mollineda	Univ. Jaume I de Castellón, Spain
	Zhichun Mu	Univ. Science and Technology, Beijing, China
	Jean-Marc Ogier	Univ. La Rochelle, France
	Javier Ortega-García	Univ. Autonoma Madrid, Spain
	Juan Carlos Pérez-Cortes	Inst. Tecnológ. Informática, Valencia, Spain
	Cuong Pham-Quoc	Univ. Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
	Filiberto Pla	Univ. Jaume I, Castellon, Spain
	Milan Redžić	CLARITY Centre, Dublin, Ireland
	Sankalita Saha	MCT/NASA Ames Research Center, USA
	Alan Sexton	Univ. Birmingham, UK
	Ken Sharman	Inst. Tecnológ. Informática, Valencia, Spain
	Jean-Philippe Thiran	École Politech. Fed. Lausanne, Switzerland
	Ricardo da Silva Torres	Univ. Campinas, Brazil
	Alejandro Toselli	Inst. Tecnológ. Informática, Valencia, Spain
	Eric Trupin	Univ. Rouen, France
	Roberto Vezzani	Univ. Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy