CALL FOR PAPERS

INFOS 2008


 

 

 Special Track on

Computational Intelligence in Multimedia Processing

 

This track  is organized as a part of  

The 6th International Conference on Informatics and Systems

http://www.fci-cu.edu.eg/INFOS2008/

 27 – 28 March, 2008 Cairo, EGYPT

by

Submissions extended to

25 January 2008

 

      

      

Aboul-Ella Hassanien and Neamat El-Gayar

 

    Information Technology Department

      Faculty of Computer and Information

    Cairo University

     Giza, Egypt

Devoted to the top best ten articles presented in this track. will published as  a special issue of the Telecommunication Systems Journal, on Computational Intelligence in Multimedia Processing .

Selected papers will be fast-track reviewed for special issues in the following  international journals

Keynote Speaker

 

Engineering Hybrid Soft Computing Systems

By

Professor Ajith Abraham
 

Norwegian Center of Excellence
Center of Excellence for Quantifiable Quality of Service
Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
O.S. Bragstads plass 2E,
N-7491 Trondheim
Norway
http://www.softcomputing.net
email: ajith.abraham@ieee.org




Abstract:  The emerging need for hybrid soft computing systems is currently motivating important research and development work. It is well known that the intelligent systems, which can provide human like expertise such as domain knowledge, uncertain reasoning, and adaptation to a noisy and time varying environment, are important in tackling practical computing problems. The integration of different learning and adaptation techniques, to overcome individual limitations and achieve synergetic effects through hybridization or fusion of these techniques, has in recent years contributed to a large number of new intelligent system designs. These ideas have led to the emergence of several different kinds of intelligent system architectures.  This talk presents some of the generic hybrid architectures which have evolved over the past decade in the hybrid intelligent systems community. We further attempt to discuss the importance of these architectures with an emphasis on the best practices for selection and combination of intelligent methods. Two application examples will be presented to demonstrate how such systems could be used for solving real world problems.

 

  Biography

Dr. Abraham received Ph.D. degree from Monash University, Melbourne Australia and a Master of Science Degree from Nanyang technological University, Singapore. His research and development experience includes over 16 years in the Industry and Academia spanning different continents in Australia, America,  Asia and Europe. He works in a multi-disciplinary environment involving computational intelligence, network security, sensor networks, e-commerce, Web intelligence, Web services, computational grids, data mining and applied to various real world problems. He has authored/co-authored over 350 refereed journal/conference papers and book chapters and some of the works have also won best paper awards at international conferences and also received several citations. Some of the articles are available in the ScienceDirect Top 25 hottest articles. http://top25.sciencedirect.com/index.php?cat_id=6&subject_area_id=7 His research interests in advanced computational intelligence include hybridizing intelligent techniques involving connectionist network learning, fuzzy inference systems, rough set, swarm intelligence, evolutionary computation, bacterial foraging, distributed artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems and other heuristics. He has given more than 20 plenary lectures and conference tutorials in these areas.

He serves the editorial board of several reputed International journals and has also guest edited 23 special issues on various topics. He is actively involved in the Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) ; Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA) and Information Assurance and Security (IAS) series of International conferences. He is the General Co-chair of the Second Asia International Conference on Modelling & Simulation (AMS 2008), Malaysia; Eight International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA'08), Taiwan, Fourth International Symposium on Information Assurance and Security (IAS'07), Italy; Eighth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS'08), Spain; and the Program Chair/Co-chair of Third International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM'08), UK; Second European Conference on Data Mining (ECDM 2008), Netherlands and The 16th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2008), New Zealand. He is a senior member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEE (UK), ACM etc. More information at: http://www.softcomputing.net


 

The past years have witnessed a large number of interesting applications of various Computational intelligence techniques, such as fuzzy logic, rough sets, neural networks, and evolutionary computation, to multimedia processing.  With the advances in production, communication and storage techniques, the amount of digital multimedia content is experiencing a huge increase in recent years. This track will focus mainly on the problems and applications that deal with the multimedia computing using computational intelligence techniques as an emerging research area.  

Topics

 

Topics include, but are not limited to:-

§  Computational Intelligence in Multimedia Computing

 

·        Image, speech and video storage and compression

·        Image, speech and video browsing and searching

·        Multimedia recommender systems

·        Multimedia summarization

·        Multimedia applications in education, health care, bio-imaging and digital libraries

·        Multimedia in E-social networks

·        Multimedia annotation and sharing

·        Natural interfaces and human computer interaction

·        Automated video surveillance

·        Biometrics (face, hand, gesture)

·        Improving multimedia user experience

·        Multimedia enhancement and editing

·        Mobile video applications

·        Multimedia personalization

·        Multimedia categorization

·        Document processing

·        Handwriting recognition

·        Object detection and recognition (including faces)

·        Video activity analysis (body, gait and gesture)

·        Video object tracking

·        Speech recognition

·        Microphone arrays

·        Image, audio and video segmentation

·        Intelligent agents for multimedia

·        Multimedia feature extraction and matching

·        Extracting syntax and semantics from multimedia

·        Scalable video and rate adaptation

·        Shape analysis and recognition

·        Structure from motion

·        Stereo imaging

·        Image registration

§  Computational Intelligence in  Multimedia Communications

  • Real-time protocols,

  • End-to-end streaming media,

  • resource allocation,

  • multicast protocols,

  • Mobile multimedia communications

  • Multimedia semantic characteristics in wireless, mobile and ubiquitous environments,

  • Extraction and usage of semantic information

  • Performance evaluation of multimedia services,

  • Multimedia Retrieval in wireless and mobile environments,

  • P2P multimedia streaming in wireless and mobile networks,

  • multimedia-on demand servers,

  • multimedia composition,

  • multimedia services,

  • multimedia data Compression techniques,

  • Mobile Multimedia Applications & Services, 

  • Communication and Cooperation through Mobile Multimedia, 

  • Mobile Multimedia Software Architectures,    

  • Mobile Virtual and Augmented Reality

  • Next generation multimedia communications

  • Audio signal processing for next-generation multimedia communication

     

§  Computational Intelligence in Multimedia Applications

  • Education,

  • Electronic Commerce,

  • Mobile Commerce,

  • Internet Banking,

  • Business,

  • Medicine,

  • Engineering,  

  • Entertainment,

  • Databases,

  • Distributed collaboration,

  • Video conferencing,

  • 3D virtual environments,

  • Distributed virtual reality,

  • multimedia authoring,

  • Environmental Systems Military Systems,

  • Games

  • Ambient Intelligence: A Multimedia Perspective

  • Biometrics

  • Digital Watermarking

  • Security

  •  etc. 

 

International Program Committee  

 

 

  • Ali Farag, USA

  • Ajith Abraham,  Korea

  • Amir Atiya, Egypt

  • Chang-Wook Han, South Korea

  • Costas Pattichis, Cyprus

  • Daniela Zaharie, Romania

  • Dianhui Wang, AU

  • Dominik Slezak, Canada

  • Eman El-Azab , Egypt

  • Emilio Corchado, Spain

  • Fatos Xhafa, Spain

  • Friedhelm Schwenker, Germany

  • Gerald Schaefer, UK

  • Hala Own, Egypt         

  • Hajime Nobuhara, Japan

  • Hesham El-Mahdy ,Egypt

  • anusz Kacprzyk , Poland

  • Karen Egiazarian, Finland

  • Lars Nolle, UK

  • Mario Koeppen, Japan

  • Mike Nachtegael, Belgium

  • Moataz El-Sabban, Egypt

  • Milind Naphade, USA                                      

  • Neamat El-Gayar,Egypt

  • Qiangfu Zhao, Japan

  • Sanjit Mitra, USA

  • Sherif Mahdy Abdou ,Egypt

  • Sudhirkumar Barai, India

  • Tomasz G. Smolinski, USA

  • Vasile Palade, UK

  • Yassine Ruichek, France

  • Yuan-Liang Tang, TW 

  • Zhi-Hua Zhou, China

  • Priti Rege, India

  • Ayman Adel, Egypt

  • Fadi Sibai, AEU

  • Jemal H. Abawajy, AU

  • Ayoub Al-Hamadi, German

  • Ibrahiem El Emary, Jordon

 

 

 

  Submission Guidelines and important dates

            Submission Requirements

  Papers should be original, previously unpublished work and should not identify the author(s). Submissions should be no longer than 8 pages (including figures and references) in IEEE format. Email submissions (doc or pdf) are preferred and should be sent to abo@cba.edu.kw  by midnight of the due date (Cairo Local Time +2GMT). Submissions should be in English. Please submit two copies of the paper: one with author(s) information and another one anonymous (i.e. without the author(s)' information). The papers should be attached to an email indicating contact information for the author(s) and paper’s title. Formatting requirements for the final version of accepted papers will be posted as soon as they become available. Accepted papers will appear in the INFOS2008 conference proceedings.  All papers will be peer reviewed by two independent reviewers.

 

  Important Dates

Submissions due:

13 January 2008

Notification of acceptance:

13 Feb 2008

Camera ready submissions:

15 February 2008

  Track Sessions Location

This session will take place as part of the Sixth International Conference on Informatics and Systems (INFOS 2008) 27-28 March 2008 at Cairo University Conference Building, and organized by Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

 

List of Accepted papers

Paper #   Title
CIMC1 Developing change detection system using multi-scale approach
  Comparison between Discrete Wavelet Transform and Dual-Tree Complex wavelet Transform in Video Sequences Using Wavelet-Domain
  Visualizing Mappings of Semantic and Syntactic Functions
  A FAST IMAGE ENCODING ALGORITHM USING VECTOR FEATURES
  Interaction Interoperability in X3D Mobile Collaborative Virtual Environments
  Automatic Alignment between Speech Records and Their Text Transcriptions for Audio Archive Indexing and Searching
  A FAST SEARCH ALGORITHM FOR MEAN PYRAMIDS VECTOR QUANTIZATION USING HADAMARD TRANSFORM
  Real time Eyes Tracking and Classification for Driver Fatigue Detection
  A Self Error Detecting Method for H.264 Motion Vector Watermarking
  A New Fingerprint Classification Approach Based On Fast Fourier Transformer
 

Various Method for Visual Speaker Identification for Automatic Continuous Speech Recognition in TV Broadcast Programs
 

The Formal Definition About Self-adaptive Classifier-Tree and Its Processing Evolution’s Algorithm
 

Complex Object Matching Using Polynomial Regression Technique Based on Pixels Distance
 

Generating Uniformly Distributed Pareto Optimal Points for Constrained and Unconstrained Multicriteria Optimization
 

Contourlet Denoising of Natural Images
 

Hybrid Extreme Learning Machine with Levenberg- Marquardt Algorithm using AHP Method
 

A Proposed Framework for Distributed Decision Support Multi-Agent Intelligent System
 

USING FUZZY IN CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL
  Lossless Image Compression Using a Fast and Efficient Discrete Tchebichef Transform Algorithm
   

  Registration Information

At least one author of an accepted paper must register for the workshop and the paper must be presented in the conference.

  Registration Fees

Registration before 15 February 2008:

For Egyptians: 400 L.E.

For Non-Egyptians: 250 US$

 Registration from 15 February 2008:

For Egyptians: 500 L.E.

For Non-Egyptians: 300 US$

 With 40% Discount for Students

 Accommodation-Hotel guide

 With reference to hotel accommodation, we regret that we are neither booking hotels for speakers nor promise any price reduction, however, some hotels may offer you the Cairo University discount with the submission of a letter from Faculty of Computers and Information. Please ask us for such letter and we suggest that you do try the following links: 

 For further information

            Track Organizing Committee Chair

Dr. Aboul Ella Hassanien Abo@cba.edu.kw and Dr. Neamat El-Gayar hmg@link.net

 

Contact Information

 

Aboul-Ella Hassanien (Abo )

 Kuwait University
College of Business Administration
Quantitative and Information System Department
P.O. Box 5486 Safat
Code No. 13055
Kuwait
E-mail: Abo@cba.edu.kw

http://www.cba.edu.kw/abo

 

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