ISMM'2007 Call for Papers

8th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
October 10-13, 2007
http://ismm.dpi.inpe.br


This symposium is the eighth in a series of international workshops 
devoted to the area of mathematical morphology and its applications in 
image and signal processing. The scientific program will include invited 
talks, tutorials, contributed papers and poster presentations. 
Participants will have the opportunity to be exposed to the most recent 
developments in the field and meet colleagues from all around the world. 
In addition, the city of Rio de Janeiro is internationally renowned for 
its tourist attractions and natural beauty, displaying a unique 
combination of beach, mountain, and tropical rain forest all in one place.

THEMATIC AREAS

Topics of interest to the conference include:

1. Lattice Theory
· Algebraic models of images and operators
· Lattice dynamical systems
· Morphology on semilattices
· Nonlinear systems related to mathematical morphology
· Representation of morphological operators
· Fuzzy morphology

2. Geometry and Topology
· Discrete topology
· Geometrical measures and integral geometry
· Metrics and distance transforms
· Random sets and geometrical probability

3. Signal Processing
· Level set methods
· Morphological PDEs
· Morphological wavelets
· Multiresolution and scale spaces

4. Image Processing
· Color and multi-channel morphology
· Granulometries
· Image coding, compression and transmission
· Image filtering
· Image registration
· Image restoration
· Image retrieval
· Motion analysis and tracking
· Shape analysis
5. Connectivity
· Attribute-based connected filters
· Connected operators
· Connectivity theory
· Reconstructive filters

6. Segmentation
· Color image segmentation
· Geometrical and topographical segmentation
· Texture segmentation
· Watershed segmentation

7. Machine Learning
· Statistical design of morphological operators
· Morphological correlation
· Morphological similarity
· Morphological clustering
· Morphological pattern recognition

8. Algorithms and Architectures
· Efficient implementation of morphological operators
· Data structures for morphology
· Performance evaluation of algorithms

9. Applications
· Biomedical imaging
· Data analysis
· Document processing
· Geoscience and remote sensing
· Materials science
· Quality control

CONFERENCE INFORMATION

The conference website for ISMM’2007 is hosted by the Brazilian National 
Institute of Space Research (INPE), at the URL: 
http://ismm.dpi.inpe.br/. It contain updated information about all 
aspects of the conference, as well as author instructions for electronic 
submission. It also contains the Call for Donations to the Henk Heijmans 
Solidarity Fund. Upon registering for the conference, participants will 
be given the option to contribute to this fund. Additionally, the 
Organization Committee can be reached at the e-mail address: 
ismm2007@ime.usp.br

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES

There will be three classes of submission to ISMM’2007:

· Tutorials
· Full Papers
· Abstracts (to be presented as posters)

Prospective authors are invited to submit contributions in one or more 
of the categories above, using the electronic procedure described on the 
conference web site. All submissions must be written in English and 
include the names, addresses, and e-mail addresses of the authors. 
Document length (including artwork and references) is limited to 12 
pages for full papers and 2 pages for abstracts, with no a-priori length 
limit for tutorial proposals (initial submission of tutorial proposals 
may consist of extended summaries). Authors are strongly encouraged to 
adopt the LaTeX typesetting system for submission (appropriate style 
files are available from the conference website).

In case of problems with the electronic procedure, the authors are 
advised to contact the Organization Committee at the address: 
ismm2007@ime.usp.br

Acceptance of papers will be based on appropriateness of the topic, 
quality, novelty, and clarity of exposition. Each paper will be reviewed 
by at least two referees appointed by the Program Committee. The reviews 
will be returned to the authors. Abstracts are held to a lower 
requirement of novelty and completeness, and will be reviewed by the 
Poster Session chairpersons. Tutorials will be evaluated by the 
Organizing Committee for merit, breadth, timeliness, and usefulness to 
the ISMM’2007 targeted audience.

All accepted contributions will appear in the online proceedings, 
whereas accepted papers will also appear in a printed book. Both will be 
available at the start of the conference. Final submissions of accepted 
contributions will have to be prepared by the authors in camera-ready 
form using LaTeX, according to style files provided on the conference 
web site (final submissions do not include any audiovisual materials to 
be presented during the conference). There are plans for a special issue 
of a peer-reviewed journal in the field of image analysis, containing 
expanded versions of the best papers, as judged by the Program Committee 
(details to be announced on the website).

IMPORTANT DATES

The following table gives the deadlines for all three submission categories:


Tutorials Papers Abstracts
Initial Submission March 2 2007 March 2 2007 May 25 2007
Notification of acceptance March 16 2007 May 9 2007 June 20 2007
Camera-ready submission August 31 2007 July 6 2007 July 27 2007

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Junior Barrera, USP, Brazil (Conference Chair)
Gerald Banon, INPE, Brazil (Program Committee Co-Chair)
Ulisses Braga-Neto, Texas A&M University, USA (Program Committee Co-Chair)
Nina Hirata, USP, Brazil (Poster Session Co-Chair)
Marcos d'Ornellas, UFSM, Brazil (Poster Session Co-Chair)
Roberto Hirata Jr., USP, Brazil (Local Organization Chair)
Roberto Marcondes Jr., USP, Brazil (Special Issue Chair)
Roberto Lotufo, UNICAMP, Brazil
Ronaldo Hashimoto, USP, Brazil
Carlos Morimoto, USP, Brazil

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Arnaldo Araújo, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Gerald Banon, INPE, Brazil (Co-Chair of Program Committee)
Gilles Bertrand, ESIEE, France
Isabelle Bloch, École Ingénieur Télécom Paris, France
Gunilla Borgefors, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
Ulisses Braga-Neto, Texas A&M University, USA (Co-Chair of Program 
Committee)
Michael Buckley, CSIRO, Australia
José Crespo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Etienne Decencière, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France
Marcos d’Ornellas, UFSM, Brazil
Alexandre Falcão, UNICAMP, Brazil
John Goutsias, The Johns Hopkins University, USA
Ronaldo Hashimoto, USP, Brazil
Nina Hirata, USP, Brazil
Roberto Hirata, USP, Brazil
Dominique Jeulin, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France
Renato Keshet, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Israel
Christer Kiselman, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
Neucimar Leite, UNICAMP, Brazil
Roberto Lotufo, UNICAMP, Brazil
Petros Maragos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Roberto Marcondes, Jr., USP, Brazil
Laurent Najman, ESIEE, France
Pedro Pina, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Jean François-Rivest, Defense R&D Canada, Canada
Jos Roerdink, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Christian Ronse, Université Louis Pasteur, France
Philipe Salembier, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Pierre Soille, Joint Research Centre, Italy
Hugues Talbot, ESIEE, France
Marc Van Droogenbroeck, Université de Liège, Belgium
Iván Terol-Villalobos, CIDETEQ, México
Luc Vincent, Google Inc., USA
Joachim Weickert, Universität Saarland, Germany