IWCIA 2024

Dates

Submission System Open August 10, 2023
Submission Deadline November 20, 2023
Notification of Acceptance December 20, 2023
Important Reviewing will be done on a rolling basis. If you submit your paper earlier, the decision will be done sooner than December 20, 2023
Conference Dates January 8-10, 2023
Publication of Papers Expected in March 2024

IWCIA'24 will be collocated with ISAIM-2024. Registration entitles attendees to full crossover between sessions.

Scope

IWCIA'24 is the twenty second of a series of international meetings on combinatorial image analysis. It will take place in Fort Lauderdale, FL, January 8-10, 2024. 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), Porto (Portugal, 2018), Novi Sad (Serbia, 2020), and Messina (Italy, 2022).

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.

The scientific program of the workshop consists of keynote talks and contributed papers.

The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer's "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" series (pending approval).

Topics

The Workshop is a forum for current research on the following (or similar) research subjects which are directly or potentially applicable to image analysis:

  • 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

The submitted papers are expected to meet high standards satisfying serious evaluation criteria. Each paper will be reviewed thoroughly by at least two members of the Program Committee. Double-blind review process will be applied to ensure maximal objectiveness.

IWCIA ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Program Co-Chair Reneta Barneva State University of New York, Fredonia
Program Co-Chair Valentin E. Brimkov State University of New York, Buffalo State University
Local Organizer Frederick Hoffman Florida Atlantic University
Local Organizer Maria Provost Florida Atlantic University
Webmaster Dimitrios I. Diochnos University of Oklahoma

IWCIA STEERING COMMITTEE

Gabor Herman CUNY Graduate Center, USA
Valentin E. Brimkov SUNY Buffalo State, USA
Tibor Lukić University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Renato M. Natal Jorge University of Porto, Portugal
Giorgio Nordo University of Messina, Italy
João Manuel R. S. Tavares University of Porto, Portugal

IWCIA PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Eric Andres XLIM-SIC, University of Poitiers, France
Buda Bajić Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Peter Balazs University of Szeged, Hungary
George Bebis University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Partha Bhowmick Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Arindam Biswas Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India
Boris Brimkov Slippery Rock University, USA
Alfred Bruckstein Department of Computer Science, Technion IIT, Haifa, Israel
Li Chen University of the District of Columbia, USA
Lidija Comic Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Leila De Floriani University of Maryland, USA
Mousumi Dutt St. Thomas’ College of Engineering and Technology, Kolkata, India
Fabien Feschet University of Auvergne, France
Chiou-Shann Fuh National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan
Atsushi Imiya IMIT Chiba University, Japan
Krassimira Ivanova Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Kamen Kanev Shizuoka University, Japan
Kostadin Koruchev Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Walter G. Kropatsch Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Jerome Liang SUNY Stony Brook, USA
Tibor Lukić University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Benedek Nagy Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus
Kálmán Palágyi University of Szeged, Hungary
Meenakshi Paramasivan Department IV – Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Trier, Gemany
Hemerson Pistori Universidade Católica Dom Bosco, Brazil
Konrad Polthier Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Paolo Remagnino Kingston University, UK
Nikolay Metodiev Sirakov Dept. of Mathematics, Texas A&M University Commerce, USA
Josef Šlapal Technical University of Brno, Czechia
Ivan Štajduhar University of Rijeka, Croatia
K.G. Subramanian UGC India Emeritus Fellow, Madras Christian College, India
João Manuel R.S. Tavares FEUP & INEGI, Portugal
D.G. Thomas Madras Christian College, India
László Varga University of Szeged, Hungary
Petra Wiederhold CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
Jinhui Xu State University of New York at Buffalo, USA