[visionlist] Second CFP - IEEE SMC-PartA: Special Issue "Decision Making in Human and Machine Vision"

[Alfredo Petrosino]

Apologies for cross-posting.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and 
Humans
 
Special Issue on 
DECISION MAKING IN HUMAN AND MACHINE VISION

Submission Deadline: *January 13, 2012*

http://www.ieeesmc.org/publications/2013%20Special%20Issue%20V2_re1.pdf

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*_Scope:
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In many applications such as medical imaging, computer-aided diagnosis 
and other mission-critical applications, fully automatic solutions may 
be even undesirable, and human intervention and incorporating knowledge 
in the decision process may be necessary. For example, humans, by virtue 
of their remarkable ability in recognizing, perceiving and interpreting 
the visual world, can effortlessly distinguish different image regions 
or separate the different classes of objects. Reflecting the finite 
ability of the sensory organs and (finally the brain) to resolve 
details, perceptions are inherently imprecise. This means, boundaries of 
perceived classes are unsharp, and the values of attributes they can 
have are granulated. Therefore, it is both helpful and sometimes 
necessary to incorporate high-level perceptual knowledge and 
humanintervention to solve problems in decision-making related to image 
analysis, vision and pattern recognition. To achieve this goal, the 
theory of (mainly soft) decision making techniques, integrated with 
perception based models, may provide useful approaches and methodologies 
because of their inherent characteristics like adaptivity, robustness, 
flexibility, speed, searching, uncertainty handling, and human like 
decision-making.
Scientists, researchers and practitioners are invited to present their 
current research results in the area of the decision making for imaging 
and vision, psychophysical and neuro-visual models in visual perception, 
and biologically inspired computer vision like scale space theory 
modelling, especially taking into account the modern Information and 
Communication Technologies.
 

*_Topics of particular interest to this special issue include, but are 
not limited to:_ *
Active learning                                     Rough-fuzzy modelling
Granular computing                             Dempster Shafer theory
Multi criteria decision making              Monte Carlo modelling
Graphical modelling                             High level knowledge 
modelling
Neuro-visual modelling                        Psychophysical modelling
Scale-space modeling                           Visual Attention mechanisms
Applications:                                        - Video 
surveillance                       
- Multimedia recognition                      - Content-based image 
retrieval
- Biomedical imaging                           - 3D object recognition
 

*_Submission format:_*
All manuscripts should be submitted electronically to the IEEE SMCA 
Electronic Submission System/Manuscript Central at 
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/smca-ieee. The authors should put the 
following sentence in the "Cover Letter to Editor-in-Chief" section: 
"This manuscript is submitted for the Special Issue on DECISION MAKING 
IN HUMAN AND MACHINE VISION (editors: S.K. Pal, A. Petrosino)". For 
detailed submission information, please refer to "Information for 
Authors" at http://www.ieee-smc.org/publications/index.html

 
_*Timeline: *_ 
Open for submissions: November 1st, 2011
Closing for submissions: January 13th, 2012
First review decision: May 1st, 2012 (approximate)
Revision due: August 1st, 2012
Revised review decision: February 1st, 2012 (approximate)
Final manuscript due: May 1st, 2013
Expected publication: November 2013 (approximate)


*_Guest Editors:
_*Sankar K. Pal                                      Alfredo Petrosino
Machine Intelligence Unit                   Department of Applied Science
Indian Statistical Institute                    University of Naples 
Parthenope
Kolkata 700108, India                        Naples, Italy
(sankar at isical.ac.in)                           (petrosino at uniparthenope.it)


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