First Call for Papers
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International Workshop on
"Online Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Techniques for
Computer-Vision Applications" (OPRMLT),
Island of Madeira, Portugal
In conjunction with the VISAPP 2008 conference, 22-25 January, 2008 Date:
22 January, 2008
Chairs: Bogdan Raducanu, Jordi Vitrià, Ales Leonardis

http://www.visapp.org/OPRMLT.htm

Scope:
In real life, visual learning is supposed to be a continuous process.
Opposite to this, in machine vision,
learning has been so far considered in a limited and isolated way. Most of
the nowadays approaches,
with very few exceptions, require the intervention of the human operator
to collect, segment and store
hand-picked data and train pattern classifiers with them. However, for
real world scenarios, it is unlikely
to know beforehand the number of total classes or the exact number of
instances per class. There is a recent
trend in pattern recognition represented by online learning approaches,
which treat to continuously update the
data representation when new information arrives. Starting with a minimal
set, the initial knowledge is expanded,
by incorporating incoming instances, some of them which have not been
previously available or foreseen at
the application creation stage. An interesting characteristic of this
strategy is that the train and test phases take
place simultaneously. Given the increasing interest on this subject, the
current call for papers is intended to offer
the possibility to discuss the most recent advances in the area.

Topics:
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
- feature extraction and representation
- incremental/decremental learning strategies
- online classification
- unsupervised clustering
- novelty detection
- knowledge discovery
- optimal data representation to manage large datasets
- extraction and creation of semantic content from data
- contextual representation and reasoning
- developmental architectures
- modelling of cognitive processes

Program Committee:
Kap Luk Chan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Antonio Torralba, MIT, USA
Fernando de la Torre, CMU, USA
Fatih Porikli, MERL, USA
Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP, Switzerland
Artur Arsenio, Nokia Siemens, Portugal
Tae-Kyun Kim, University of Cambridge, UK
Petia Radeva, Computer Vision Center, Spain
Horst Bischof, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Justus H. Piater, Universite de Liege, Belgium
Danijel Skocaj, University of Ljubliana, Slovenia
Manuel Graña, University of The Basque Country, Spain
Barbara Caputo, IDIAP, Switzerland
Modesto Castrillón Santana, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,
Spain Shaogang Gong, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
J. Salvador Sanchez, Universitat Jaume I, Spain

Important Dates:
Full Paper Submission: October 15, 2007
Authors Notification: November 7, 2007
Final Paper Submission and Registration: November 19, 2007

Submission:
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics
listed above. All papers must
be written in English, and the length should not exceed 10 pages
(including figures and tables).
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are
available at the following web
page (http://www.visapp.org/paper_templates.htm). Papers (preferably in
PDF format) should be submitted
electronically via the web-based submission system at:
http://www.visapp.org/paper_submission.htm.

Workshop Proceedings:
All accepted and registered papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings book (under an ISBN reference,
 issued by INSTICC Press). A CD-ROM with the proceedings will also be
available. A selection of the best selected
papers will be considered for improvement and publication in a special
issue of Image and Vision Computing Journal.

Registration Information:
At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the workshop.

Organizing Committee:
Dr. Bogdan Raducanu:     bogdan@cvc.uab.es 	          (Computer Vision
Center, SPAIN)
Prof. Jordi Vitrià:   	    jordi@cvc.uab.es   	          (Computer Vision
Center, SPAIN)
Prof. Ales Leonardis:        ales.leonardis@fri.uni-lj.si   (University of
Ljubliana, SLOVENIA)