TOPICS
Track 1 : Image Processing: (Chair:): Image Compression, image Segmentation, image enhancement, image registration, mosaicing, video surveillance, video summarization.
Track 2 : Pattern Recognition (Chair:): Object recognition, distance measures, feature extraction, defeat detection, shape analysis.
Track 3 : Document Processing: (Chair:): Document analysis and recognition, handwriting analysis, character recognition, language recognition, multimedia documents, text classification.
Track 4 : Computer Vision: (Chair :): Image rectification, stereo vision, object detection, motion estimation, and camera calibration.
Track 5 : Biometrics: (Chari: ): Face, fingerprint, iris, signature, gait, multimodal and emerging biometrics.
Track 6 : Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: (Chair: India): Machine learning, Text mining, evolutionary computing, ontologies, spatial knowledge, machine learning, rule mining, intelligent information, dynamic programming.
Track 7 : Information Retrieval: (Chair:): Content based retrieval, indexing, structural data, multimedia database, image retrieval, video retrieval, text retrieval, biometric retrieval, multimodal retrieval.
Track 8 : Information Coding: (Chair:): DCT Coding, water marking, cryptography, Steganography, data hiding, teleradiology, index coding, signal encoding, indexing documents.
Image Processing
- Image Compression
- image Segmentation
- image enhancement
- image registration
- mosaicing
- video surveillance,summarization.
Pattern Recognition
- Object Recognition
- Distance Measures
- Feature Extraction
- Defeat Detection
- Shape Analysis
Document Processing
- Document Analysis and Recognition
- Handwriting Analysis
- Character Recognition
- Language Recognition
- Multimedia Documents
- Text Classification
Computer Vision
- Image Rectification
- Stereo Vision
- Object Detection
- Motion Estimation
- Camera Calibration
Biometrics
- Face
- Fingerprints
- Iris
- Signature
- Gait
- Multimodal
- Emerging Biometrics
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Communication and biomedical signal Processing Signal processing for communication
- Information Forensics and Security
- Internal information processing mechanisms
- Cognitive signal processing
- Neuroscience foundations of information processing
- Cognitive signal processing
- Digital Watermarking and Data Hiding
- Signal Processing for Smart Sensor & Systems
- Optical Signal Processing.
- Advanced Digital Signal Processing in wireless Communication.
- Wireless Sensor Networks Adhoc security
Bio medical signal processing
- Real-Time Signal Processing
- Genomic Signal Processing
- Statistical Signal Processing
- Genetic Algorithm/ Fuzzy Logic
- Nonlinear Signals and Systems
- Digital and Multirate Signal Processing
- Signal and System Modeling
- Wavelet Compression of Signals & Transmission.
- Multidimensional Filters and Transforms
- Time-Frequency Analysis and Representation
Biometrics
- Iris Recognition
- Skin Color Detection
- Fingerprint Recognition
- Fingerprint Identification
- Palmprint Recognition
- Handwritten Signature Verification
- Brain-Computer Interface
VLSI Signal Processing
- VLSI Signal Processing and Re architecture.
- VLSI Signal Processing & Embedded System.
- VLSI Implementation
- FPGA Implementation
- VLSI in DSP
- VLSI in Communication
- VLSI in Bio medical Signal Processing.
- VLSI in Biometrics.
- Reconfigure for Signal Processing
DATAMINING & KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY
- Novel data mining algorithms
- Data mining foundations
- Innovative applications of data mining
- Data mining and KDD systems and frameworks
- Mining data streams and sensor data
- Mining multi-media data
- Mining social networks and graph data
- Mining spatial and temporal data
- Mining biological and biomedical data
- Mining text, Web, semantic web and semi-structured data
- Mining dynamic data
- Pre-processing and post-processing in data mining
- Robust and scalable statistical methods
- Security, privacy, and adversarial data mining
- High performance and parallel/distributed data mining
- Mining tera-/peta-scale data
- Visual data mining and data visualization
- Data integration issues in mining
- Machine Learning
- Text Mining
- Evolutionary Computing
- Ontologies
- Spatial Knowledge
- Machine Learning
- Rule Mining
- Intelligent Information
- Dynamic Programming
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
- IR Theory and Formal Models
- Performance, Scalability, Architectures, Efficiency, Platforms
- Indexing, Query representation, Query reformulation, Structure-based representation, XML
- Metadata, Social tagging
- Evaluation methods and metrics, Experimental design, Test collection
- Interactive IR, User studies, User models, Task-based IR
- User interfaces and visualization
- Web IR (e.g. link analysis, query log analysis, ad targeting)
- Digital libraries
- Enterprise Search, Intranet, Desktop, Adversarial IR
- Distributed IR, peer to peer IR, Mobile IR, Fusion/Combination
- Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval, Machine translation for IR
- Multimedia IR
- Topic detection and tracking, Routing, Content-based filtering, Collaborative filtering, Agents, Spam filtering
- Content Based Retrieval
- Indexing
- Structural Data
- Multimedia Database
- Image Retrieval
- Video Retrieval
- Text Retrieval
- Biometric Retrieval
- Multimodal Retrieval
INFORMATION CODING
- Computational Intelligence
- Artificial Immune Systems
- Biological Computing
- Evolutionary Computation
Intelligent Agents and Systems - Machine Learning Support Vector Machine
- Reinforcement Learning
- Unsupervised Learning
- Autonomy-Oriented Computing
- Co evolutionary Algorithms
- Fuzzy Systems
- Molecular Computing
- Neural Computing
- Swarm Intelligence
- Probabilistic Reasoning
- DCT Coding
- Water Marking
- Cryptography
- Steganography
- Data Hiding
- Teleradiology
- Index Coding
- Signal Encoding
- Indexing Documents
- Cryptographic Protocols
- Detection of Abnormality
- Information Storage and Retrieval System
- Information Security Management
- Information Hiding
- Network & Wireless Security
- Security Models and Architectures
- Web and Wireless Security
- Cryptography and Coding
- Electronic Commerce Security Information
- Data and System Integrity Intrusion Detection
- Mobile Code & Agent Security
- Security Analysis Methodologies
- Steganography and watermarking
- IPSec, VPNs and encryption modes
- Service and Systems Design and QoS Network Security
- Fairness Scheduling and QoS Guarantee
- Reliability and Dependability
- Web Performance and Reliability
- Denial of Service and other attacks
- Data and Systems Security
- Data Access & Synchronization
- GPRS and CDMA Security
- Mobile System Security
- Ubiquitous Computing Security
- Security in Localization systems
- Sensor and Mobile Ad Hoc Network Security
- Wireless Network Security (Wi-Fi, Wi-MAX, Wi-Media and others)
- Security of GSM/GPRS/UMTS systems
- Peer-to-Peer Security
- E-commerce protocols and micropayment schemes
- Information Assurance
- Planning Security
- Risk Assessment
- Security Area Control
- Organizational Security Policies and Responsibility
- Security Through Collaboration
- Human Factors and Human Behavior Recognition Techniques
- Ethical and Legal Implications
- Intrusive, Explicit Security vs. Invisible, Implicit Computing
- Information Hiding
- Information Systems Auditing
- Management of Computing Security
Security in Information Systems
- Security for Grid Computing
- Secure Software Development Methodologies
- Security for Web Services
- Security for Databases and Data Warehouses
- E-Health
- Security Engineering
- Security Information Systems Architectures
- Security requirements
- Security Metrics
- Personal Data Protection
- XML Security
- Workflow and Business Process Security
Applications
- Bioinformatics and Medical Diagnosis
- Copyright Protection
- Data Mining
- Detection of Hidden
- Digital Signatures
- Financial engineering
- Intelligent Information Retrieval
- Financial Engineering
- BSS & ICA
- Cryptography and Its Applications
- Data Privacy
- Communication Channels
Informatics and Technology
- Security for Grid Computing
- Hybrid computing – combining open source and proprietary software to provide up-front economic advantages and increase productivity
- Green’ ICT and management – recycling and reusing ICT (including intangible assets such as software), and reducing wastage
- Cloud computing and networking – sharing resources across a network and improving communication (for tele-health/consultation etc)
- Software engineering and programming – providing design patterns for reusability, and improving usability
- Information system and database – providing integration among different functional areas to ensure proper communication, productivity and efficiency (digital library, geographic information systems, enterprise resource planning, e-commerce, e-learning etc)
- Security and cryptography – improving asset and access security
- Artificial intelligence – detecting financial wellbeing and trends and evaluating rate of spread of crisis
Signal and Image Processing
- Fast Fourier Transforms
- Wavelet Transforms
- Video Signal Processing
- Nonlinear Signals and Systems
- Fuzzy Logic Applications in Signal Processing
- Neural Networks for Signal Processing
- Signal and speech processing
- Image and video processing
- Illumination and Reflectance Modeling
- Signal processing of power quality disturbances
- Joint tracking and recognitions of targets
- Signal processing to improve recognitions, accuracy in difficult acoustical environments such as low SNRS and Reverberation.


