International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA 2020)

July 16 ~ 18, 2020, Novi Sad, Serbia

Scope & Topics

IWCIA’20 is the twentieth of a series of International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis. It will take place in Novi Sad, Serbia, July 16-18, 2020. Previous meetings were held in Paris (France, 1991), Ube (Japan, 1992), Washington DC (USA, 1994), Lyon (France, 1995), Hiroshima (Japan, 1997), Madras (India, 1999), Caen (France, 2000), Philadelphia (USA, 2001), Palermo (Italy, 2003), Auckland (New Zealand, 2004), Berlin (Germany, 2006), Buffalo, NY (USA, 2008), Playa del Carmen (Mexico, 2009), Madrid (Spain, 2011), Austin (Texas, 2012), Brno (Czech Republic, 2014), Kolkata (India, 2015), Plovdiv (Bulgaria, 2017) and Porto (Portugal, 2018).

Image analysis is a scientific discipline providing theoretical foundations and methods for solving problems appearing in a wide range of areas, as diverse as medicine, robotics, defense, and security. As a rule, the processed data are discrete; therefore, the “discrete approach” to image analysis appears to be a natural one and has an increasing importance. It is based on studying combinatorial properties of the considered digital data sets. Combinatorial image analysis often features various advantages (in terms of efficiency and accuracy) over the more traditional approaches based on continuous models requiring numeric computation.

Topics of Interest

• Combinatorial problems in the discrete plane and space; Lattice polygons and polytopes
  
• Digital/combinatorial geometry and topology
  
• Digital manifolds; Geometry of digital curves and surfaces
  
• Analysis and processing of digital surfaces with singularities (such as “pinched digital surfaces”)
  
• Homotopy of digital manifolds; thinning algorithms and skeletons
  
• Boundary tracking of digital solids; Geometric characteristics of object boundaries
  
• Multigrid convergence analysis of metric-based descriptors
  
• Tilings and patterns; Combinatorial pattern matching
  
• Computational geometry and imaging sciences
  
• Integer programming, linear programming, and graph theoretic models and approaches to problems of image analysis
  
• Image representation, segmentation, grouping, and reconstruction
  
• Processing “very large” digital pictures; Methods for image compression
  
• Parallel architectures and algorithms
  
• Fuzzy and stochastic image analysis
  
• Discrete tomography
  
• Grammars and models for image or scene analysis and recognition; cellular automata
  
• Mathematical morphology and image analysis
  
• Applications in medical imaging, biometrics, computer vision, image understanding, robotics, metrology, and others.

Paper Submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit a paper on some of the Workshop’s topics or a closely related topic. The submitted work should contain only results that are unpublished and not included in other work considered for publication elsewhere. Thus by submitting a paper the author(s) warrant that neither it nor any other paper with essentially the same technical content has been published or submitted for publication anywhere else.

All manuscripts must be prepared according to LNCS requirements and submitted electronically by January 15, 2020 in PDF format using the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwcia20. The length should be between 8 and 16 pages. The manuscripts may not contain information revealing authors’ identity.

Papers will be reviewed thoroughly with an emphasis on potential to contribute to the state-of-the-art in the field. Each paper will receive at least two double-blind reviews ensuring maximal objectiveness. Selection criteria will include mathematical depth, accuracy and originality of the ideas, clarity and significance of the results, and presentation quality.

The notification of acceptance will be sent by e-mail by March 8, 2020. The accepted papers should be revised according to the referees’ comments and submitted in camera-ready form by April 5, 2020 together with all the source files and the signed copyright form. The final version should be prepared strictly following LNCS requirements.

The accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings published by Springer Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series.

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