ICGST International Conference on Graphics, Vision and Image Processing, (GVIP-05)

Cairo, Egypt -- 19-21 December 2005,

Sessions Supervised by Dr. A. E. Hassannien

Committee:

• Koki Abe, Japan
• Osman Hegazy, Egypt
• Hajime Nobuhara, Japan
• Mike Nachtegael, Belgium
• Dietrich Van der Weke n, Belgium
• Karen Egiazarian (Tampere U) Finland
• Ayed Salman, Kuwait
• Ibrahim Farag,  Egypt
• Ibrahim El Henawe, Egypt
• Neamat El Gayar, Egypt
• Khaled Nagaty, Egypt

Soft Computing in Image Processing

• edge detection and segmentation

•  feature extraction

•  noise reduction in images

• image enhancement

• image compression

• similarity between images

• image analysis

Mathematical Morphological Image Processing

• geometrical image analysis

• order-statistics image filtering

• geometrical and topographical segmentation

• colour and multi-channel morphology

• morphological pattern recognition

• motion analysis

• texture analysis

• shape analysis

• image coding

• algorithms and data structures for morphology

• Applications on geoscience and remote sensing, bio-medical imaging, materials science, document processing, etc.

Computer Animation

• autonomous characters

• Image Warping and Morphing

• Physically-based animation

• facial animation

• real-time animation, animation for games

• group and crowd behavior

• expressive motion / communication

• nonphotorealistic animation

• physical realism / measuring the real world for animation

• nature in motion (natural phenomena, plants, clouds...)

• planning / learning / optimization for animation

• intuitive interfaces for creating and editing animations

• sound and speech for animation

• perceptual metrics for animation

• mathematical foundations of animation

• new time-based art forms on the computer

3D Data Visualization and Transmission

• 3D photography

• 3D view registration and surface modeling

• Surface reflectance recovery and modeling

• 3D texture processing

• Image-based rendering and multi-view image processing

• Augmented reality

• Compression, transmission and distributed visualization of 3D information

• 3D Content-based retrieval and recognition

• Man/machine interaction with 3D data

• 3D printing and rapid prototyping

• Psychophysics of 3D sensing and haptics

• 3D imaging in biomedicine

• Structural analysis and pattern discovery in bioinformatics

• 3D imaging in virtual heritage and virtual archeology

• 3D imaging in e-commerce.

Wavelet   Applications in Signal and Image Processing

• wavelet compression, coding

• wavelet theory and multirate filter banks

• frames and over-complete representations

• multiresolution algorithms

• Gabor transforms and space-frequency localization

• wavelet-based noise reduction and restoration

• wavelet-based feature extraction and detection

• wavelet texture analysis and segmentation

• wavelet-based fractal analysis

• multiscale random processes

• wavelets and approximation theory

• image representations from wavelet maxima or zero-crossings

• wavelets in medical imaging.

Content based Image Retrival

• Feature extraction and representation

• Image search and browsing techniques

• Query models, paradigms and languages for image retrieval

• Similarity retrieval of images and video

• Semantic retrieval of images and video

• Evaluation and user issues

• Neural network techniques for image retrieval

• Image retrieval applications and systems

• User interface issues

• Database architectures for image retrieval

• Image crawling and the net