[visionlist] extended deadline for Intl Symposium on Visual Computing

[Jeff Mulligan]

The International Symposium on Visual Computing is an
interdisciplinary meeting, started last year by Prof.
George Bebis (Computer Science), from the University of 
Nevada at Reno.  This year Mike Webster, Alice O'Toole and myself are 
organizing a "special track" on Visual Computing and Biological Vision.  
An overview of our special track is reproduced below, please see the 
conference website (www.isvc.net) for complete details.

The submission deadline for the symposium (including the special tracks) 
has been extended to June 30th.

We hope to see some of you in S. Lake Tahoe this November!
Please don't hesitate to contact me or any of the other organizers
if you have any questions.

-Jeff Mulligan

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	Visual Computing and Biological Vision

A special track of the International Symposium on Visual Computing 2006

			Rationale

This special track aims to explore the interplay between research in 
visual computing and human visual perception. Developments in computer 
vision and graphics continue to provide new stimuli and techniques for 
probing and analyzing human vision and its neural bases. In turn, studies 
of biological vision have revealed processes that are fundamental to 
efficient and optimal coding, and human performance remains a benchmark 
for assessing machine vision.  Finally, techniques in areas such as 
visualization and virtual reality must be informed by the capacities and 
limits of human observers. Papers in this track are sought that focus on 
these many links between computational and biological information 
processing.


			Topics

Topics of interest include all aspects of visual computing applied to (or 
inspired by) biological systems, including, but not limited to, the 
following areas:

• Neuroscience applications of graphics and visualization
	      (such as neuro-imaging and psychophysics)
• Computational models and empirical constraints in biological vision
• Design principles motivated by biological systems
• Human factors in visualization and virtual reality


			Submission/Proceedings

This is an open call-for-papers.  Only original, high-quality papers, in-line
with the ISVC '06 standard guidelines (http://www.isvc.net/author.html) will
be considered for publication in this special track.  Prospective authors should
submit electronically their contributions through the website of ISVC '06.
Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings, which will be
published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.



			Important Dates

Submission deadline:			June 30, 2006
Notification of acceptance:		August 4, 2006
Camera-ready version:			August 14, 2006
Advance Registration (authors):		August 14, 2006


			Organizers

Jeff Mulligan, NASA Ames Research Center, jmulligan at mail.arc.nasa.gov
Alice O'Toole, University of Texas at Dallas, otoole at utdallas.edu
Michael Webster, University of Nevada at Reno, mwebster at unr.edu