Second CfP Special Session on High Performance Computing in Computer Vision Applications (HPC-CVA) - IPTA 2012
http://ipta12.ibisc.univ-evry.fr/
October 15-18, 2012 Instanbul, Turkey

Extended versions of selected papers will be also published in a special issue  of 
Journal of High Performance Computing Applications (http://hpc.sagepub.com/).


**Apologies for cross-posting**


Overview
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With the growth of Internet and the advances in computer power, computer vision techniques are developing at impressive rates. 
Although most of the existing approaches are mainly focused at achieving high accuracy, efficiency is still a major concern of
the whole machine vision community. The development of efficient techniques that perform either on-the-fly or in real-time in 
almost all the fields of computer vision from image formation to image coding to image analysis to multimedia processing makes
the design/adoption of high performance solutions a pressing demand. Moreover, the application of high performance computing (HPC)
to computer vision field is straightforward, due to the inherent parallelism of images, as demonstrated by the fact that computer 
vision has been one of the most common areas of HPC application.
The main limit to the development of HPC applications to image process- ing/computer vision has been the lack of an acknowledged market. 
With the development of emerging technologies such as GPU and multicore CPUs, this is rapidly changing and we expect an exponential increase
in computer vision applications using HPC. In fact, the ability of developing effective computer vision methods that also provide scalable 
and efficient processing solutions is becoming more and more an attractive and innovative R&D area for its potential applicability in several
scientific, technological and industrial sectors.
The goal of this special session is two fold. First we aim to present and report on the following topics: High-Performance Computing, 
parallel and distributed algorithms/systems, parallel languages, hybrid parallel programming with GPUs and accelerators, Grid, Cluster 
and Cloud for computer vision methods. Second, it is aimed at bringing together practitioners and researchers both in computer vision 
and in HPC and in multimedia research to share ideas and experiences in designing and implementing HPC solutions for improving efficiency 
of computer vision applications, thus promoting interdisciplinary research between computer vision, HPC and multimedia research


Topics of interest
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The list of possible topics includes, but is not limited to, the application of High-Performance Computing, 
Parallel and Distributed Systems, Multicore programming, Hybrid Parallel Programming with GPUs and Accelerators, 
Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing in the following fields of computer vision:
* Image Formation, Image Enhancement and Restoration
* Image and Video Analysis 
* Image and Video Understanding 
* Motion, Tracking and Stereo Vision

Important dates
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Regular paper submissions: April 14th 2012
Regular papers notification: June 14th 2012
Final Paper Submission and Registration: July 1st 2012
Date of the conference: October 15-18, 2012

Paper Submission
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Authors should submit a paper in English of up to 6 A4 format pages, according to the IPTA 2012 procedure.
All accepted papers and presented by one of the authors will be indexed by IEEE Xplore, published in conference 
proceeding under an ISBN reference and in CD-ROM support.
Extended versions of selected papers will be also published in a special issue  of Journal of High Performance Computing Applications (http://hpc.sagepub.com/).
Special Session Organisers
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* Concetto Spampinato, University of Catania, Italy
* Tommaso Mazza, Bioinformatics unit – Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, Italy
* Marco Aldinucci, University of Turin, Italy

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Program committee
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* Jenny Benois-Pineau (France)
* Gabriella Sanniti di Baia (Italy)
* Roberto Barbera (Italy)
* Fang-Pang Lin (Taiwan)
* Bob Fisher (UK)
* Vasileios Mezaris (Greece)
* Anna Rue Borsch (Spain)
* Bas Boom (UK)
* Paolo Ballarini (France)
* Davide Prandi (Italy)
* Marco Grangetto (Italy)
* Marco Fargetta (Italy)
* Sotirios Tsaftaris (Italy)
* Marco Danelutto (Italy)
* Isaak Kavasidis (Greece)
* Simone Palazzo (Italy)

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Eng. PhD Concetto Spampinato
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica e Telecomunicazioni
Universita' di Catania
Viale A. Doria 6
95125 Catania, Italy
http://www.diit.unict.it

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