CALL FOR PAPERS
The 8th Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation
                         (SSIAI 2008)

                    March 24-26, 2008,
                 Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
                    URL: www.ssiai.org

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on
                   Computational Medicine
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OVERVIEW
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Given the ubiquity of digital images and videos, computational image
and video analysis and interpretation continues to be an exciting and
dynamic research
area. SSIAI-2008 will bring together researchers and practitioners in
academia, industry,
and government to share and discuss the latest advances in this field.
The biennial
symposium seeks original contributions reporting novel research
directions and exploratory applications.


IMPORTANT DATES
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Nov. 26, 2007: Papers due
Jan.  12, 2008: Acceptance notification
Feb.    9, 2008: Camera-ready papers due


PLENARY and KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Charles Bouman, Purdue University;
Alan C. Bovik, University of Texas;
Tsuhan Chen, Carnegie Mellon University;
Ed Delp, Purdue University


TOPICS of INTEREST (not limited to)
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stereo image/video analysis
biomedical image analysis
color image analysis
remote sensing
segmentation
content based image retrieval
features and invariants
automated inspection
boundary detection
real-time image analysis
multiscale analysis applications
multidimensional analysis
multispectral analysis
compressed domain processing
video analysis


PAPER SUBMISSION
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Submit a paper (maximum of 4 pages including figures and references)
in double-column IEEE conference format. Submission will be electronic
using the PDF format. Accepted full papers will be same format with a
four page limit. For further details, please visit the official
website www.ssiai.org.

Each accepted paper will be published in the conference proceedings,
provided at least one author registers in advance at a non-student
rate. No person
may appear as author or coauthor on more than three proposed papers.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chair: Marios S. Pattichis, University of New Mexico
Program Chairs: Joseph Havlicek, University of Oklahoma,
               Scott T. Acton, University of Virginia
Local Arrangements Chair:  Brendt Wohlberg, Los Alamos National Lab
Publicity Chair: Gang Qian, Arizona State University