Call for Paper Conference

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IEEE Region 8, in partnership with the IEEE Education Society, is
beginning a new global engineering education conference, IEEE EDUCON,
held each year in selected cities throughout Europe, the Middle East,
and Africa. The conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for
academic, government and industrial collaboration on teaching methods,
practical experiences and research toward improving the future of global
engineering education.

In 2010, the conference will be held on April 14-16 in Madrid, Spain on
the campuses of UNED and UPM. The deadline to submit a one page abstract
of your proposed conference paper, or a two-minute video abstract that
proposes your paper and demonstrates your presentation skills, is
September 7, 2009.

Final one-page abstracts will be published in a program book distributed
at the conference. Paper proceedings with an appropriate ISBN number
will be distributed electronically on CD-ROM or memory USB. Papers will
also be available through IEEE Xplore.

There will be some selected award papers that will be recommended for
publication in IEEE Transactions on Education and in the IEEE-RITA
Electronic Journal.

Examples topic areas for paper submission are:
* Area 1: Infrastructure and Technologies for Engineering Education
* Area 2: Innovative Materials, Teaching and Learning Experiences
in Engineering Education
* Area 3: Knowledge and Competencies in Engineering
* Area 4: Educational Methods and Learning Mechanisms in
Engineering Education
* Area 5: Attracting, Engaging and Retaining Human Talent to
Engineering

Complete information about submissions for peer review can be found at
the conference website:

http://www.educon-conference.org/educon2010/

Please consider submitting a paper for peer-review and also mark in your
agenda a visit to Madrid in Spring 2010!

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IEEE EDUCON 2010 is organized by:

IEEE Education Society (http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/es/),
UNED (http://www.uned.es/),
UPM (http://www.upm.es/),
and CTI (http://www.cti.ac.at/)

IEEE Intelligent Systems seeks original papers describing research on the special topic "AI in Space". This topic has been the focus of special issues, but the present call is interested in a glimpse of the future from our standpoint in 2010, and hence the theme AI Space Odyssey.

In anticipation of long duration space exploration missions to the Moon and Mars, likely by many nations, we are looking for papers describing how AI has made missions possible and will help make missions a success. Whereas in the 1980s and 1990s, researchers saw AI as a panacea for intelligent autonomous systems, the AI technology used today in space applications is often regarded differently. The editors of this special issue solicit papers that describe new and
novel use of AI technology for space applications.

Papers may cover a variety of topics, listed here in no particular order:

• · semantics, ontologies, and knowledge representation,
• · pattern recognition and scientific discovery,
• · Intelligent System-Health Management (ISHM),
• · teleoperation and telerobotics,
• · planning, scheduling, constraint-satisfaction,
• · adjustable autonomy,
• · agent-based and multi-agent systems,
• · machine learning,
• · procedure-execution monitoring and aiding,
• · natural language processing and dialogue systems,
• · decision-support, and
• · history of AI applications in astronautics and space exploration.

In addition, the special issue will consider original papers on innovative, knowledge-based approaches to complex implementation challenges such as:

AI-driven simulations, virtual reality, virtual worlds and games for engineering, operations, management, training, and so on, software engineering, development, and verification and validation approaches for high-reliability autonomy, innovative approaches to security issues in autonomous software systems, software life-cycle issues with respect to very long-duration (10+ year) missions, decision and workflow support systems for planetary exploration and
extra-vehicular activities, AI-driven robotics and approaches for human-robot teamwork, Smart sensor systems for situational awareness, and ubiquitous computing environments.

Submission Guidelines
Papers should situate the work within the field of AI, cite related work, and indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its direct contribution to the special challenges of space missions. We will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for
or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. All papers will undergo peer and editorial review. Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work and should be 3,500 to 7,500 words (counting a standard figure or
table as 200 words) and should follow the magazine’s style and presentation guidelines (see www.computer.org/portal/pages/intelligent/mc/author.html) . References should be limited to 10 citations. To submit a manuscript, access the IEEE Computer Society Web-based system, Manuscript Central, at https://mc.manuscriptcentral/cs-ieee.

Questions?
Contact Guest Editors Mike Shaft, mike.shafto@nasa.gov; Maarten Sierhuis, maarten.sierhuis@nasa.gov; and Robert Hoffman, rhoffman@ihmc.us

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI)

Special Issue on

"Multi-Camera Imaging, Coding and Innovative Display: Techniques and Systems"

Manuscript Submission Deadline: July 1, 2009

http://ees.elsevier.com/jvci/

Recently, the importance of three-dimensional (3D) imaging technology has been significantly increased. With its capability of offering richer experience, 3D imaging systems are expected to replace traditional systems in near future in many different areas of industry, business, education, and entertainment. Especially, multi-camera imaging is a practical approach to construct 3D imaging systems, since multi-view images or videos can provide different views of the same scene, offering interactivity as well as 3D perception. However, in spite of the advantages, there are various challenges that should be overcome to deploy multi-camera imaging techniques in practical visual communication systems.

All aspects of image processing systems should be redesigned to communicate multi-view images efficiently: acquisition, representation, coding, and display. First, the acquisition step requires the calibration of multiple cameras and the post-processing procedure to compensate for various discrepancies, such as illumination differences. Second, it is essential to develop efficient tools to represent and compress multi-view images or videos compactly, which require a huge amount of storage space and transmission bandwidth in general. Third, innovative 3D display technologies should be developed to enable viewers to experience full 3D parallax without restrictions

The goal of this special issue is to solicit the state-of-the-art approaches and technical solutions in the area of multi-camera imaging, coding, and 3D display. The special issue will provide a convincing forum for researchers and practitioners to present their latest research results.

Scope

The scope of this special issue is to cover all aspects that relate to multi-camera imaging, coding, and 3D display. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

• * Acquisition of multi-view and 3D images
• * Calibration and synchronization of multiple cameras
• * Depth estimation and view synthesis from multi-view images or videos
• * Compact representation and compression of multi-view images or videos
• * 3D representation tools: meshes, points, and voxels
• * Error resilient multi-view video compression
• * Design of 3DTV systems and free viewpoint TV systems
• * Stereoscopic, auto-stereoscopic, and holographic display techniques
• * Novel applications and constructions of multi-camera and 3D imaging systems

Information for Authors

Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Guide for Authors available from the online submission page of the 'Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation' at http://ees.elsevier.com/jvci/.

When submitting via this page, please select “MultiCameraImaging” as the Article Type. Prospective authors should submit high quality, original manuscripts that have not appeared, nor are under consideration, in any other journals. All submissions will be peer reviewed following the JVCI reviewing procedures.

Important Dates

Manuscript Submission Deadline: July 1, 2009

Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: October 1, 2009

Final Manuscript Due to JVCI: November 1, 2009

Expected Publication Date: February, 2010

Guest Editors

Minh N. Do, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Chang-Su Kim, Korea University, Korea

Karsten Muller, HHI, Germany

Masayuki Tanimoto, Nagoya University, Japan

Anthony Vetro, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs., USA