News

• October 12, 2005: Invited talks material has been posted. You can download the presentations given by the invited speakers at the Invited Talks page. Also conference photos have been posted at the Photo Gallery page. Thanks for everyone who contributed to success of ICIAR 2005. We hope to see you again in ICIAR 2006 in Porto, Portugal.
• August 16, 2005: The special discounted rate for the hotel has been extended until August 31. Details are on the Hotel Information page.
• July 22, 2005: The conference program has been announced. Please check the Program Overview page for a summary of the program, or the Program Details page for the detailed program including type of presentation and the allocated session of each paper.
• July 19, 2005: Travel Information page has been posted. A discounted rate is offered by WestJet for north american travellers.
• July 8, 2005: Invited Talks information has been posted.
• May 23, 2005: Registration instructions has been posted. Authors of accepted papers are required to register by June 1, 2005, to have their papers included in the conference proceedings.
• May 16, 2005: Author Registration and Camera-Ready deadline has been extended until June 1, 2005. Registration Fees has been posted. Details on payment methods and instructions will follow soon.
• May 13, 2005: Conference Venue and Hotel Information have been posted. Registration info will be posted soon.
• May 6, 2005: Authors of accepted papers are required to send a signed copyright form by the camera-ready deadline. Please refer to the Camera-Ready instructions page for details.
• May 2, 2005: Acceptance results: 295 total submissions, out of which 166 papers have been accepted (acceptance rate: 56%).
• April 29, 2005: Decision notices have been sent out to authors. Camera-Ready information for authors of accepted papers has been posted. Registration information will be posted soon.
• April 25, 2005: The notification of acceptance date will be delayed a few more days.
• February 21, 2005: Due to many requests, the submission deadline has been extended to March 4, 2005.
• January 7, 2005: Paper submission page is now open. All submissions will be handled only through this page.
• December 22, 2004: Two special sessions announced: Image Secret Sharing and Single-Sensor Imaging.
• October 14, 2004: ICIAR 2005 call for papers posted.

ICIAR – International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition aims to bring together researchers in the fields of Image Processing, Analysis and Recognition.

The conference is a result of discussion between researchers in Portugal and Canada to encourage collaboration and exchange between the two countries with participation of experts and researchers from other countries. The conference addresses recent advances in theory, methodologies and applications. The scientific program will include invited speakers and fully refereed contributions that will be published in the conference proceedings.

ICIAR is organized annually, alternating between Europe and North America. In 2004, the first conference was held in Porto, Portugal. ICIAR 2005 will take place in Toronto, Canada.

The conference aims to provide a forum for presentations and discussions of the recent methodological advances in Image Processing, Analysis and Recognition. Special sessions will be also organized for addressing promising applications in various fields. The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to:

• Image and Video Processing and Analysis
• Image and Video Coding
• Image Retrieval and Indexing
• Image Description and Recognition
• Biometrics
• Color, Texture, and Motion Analysis
• Applications:
• Biomedical
• Document Processing
• Remote Sensing
• Multimedia
• Security Systems
• Visual Inspection
• Sports
• Others
• Special Session: Image Secret Sharing
• Special Session: Single-Sensor Imaging

Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Lab University of Waterloo Canada	Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
INEB — Biomedical Engineering Institute - Portugal

The ICIAR 2005 proceedings will be published as a volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.