CALL FOR PAPERS

EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION, MIT PRESS
Special Issue on
Evolutionary Computer Vision

Guest Editors

Gustavo Olague, CICESE Mexico
Evelyne Lutton, INRIA, France
Stefano Cagnoni, Univ. degli Studi di Parma, Italy

Submission Deadline: *December 15, 2006*

Extended Deadline: *January 15, 2007*

   First review:  March 1, 2007

Revision due:  May 1, 2007

Final decision:   August 1, 2007.

 In recent years, the evolutionary computation community has shown an increasing interest in what is now called "Evolutionary Computer Vision" due to the rich source of problems in which evolutionary algorithms can be used to develop theoretical and applied solutions in areas of human endeavor that matter. We strive to provide a highest quality special issue on behalf of the Evolutionary Computation Community, which illustrates the state-of-the-art in Evolutionary Computer Vision.

We are soliciting papers on this topic to appear in a special issue of Evolutionary Computation, MIT Press. Papers appropriate to this issue will have theoretical and experimental evaluation of vision algorithms as their central focus, with the application cutting across the following areas, but which are not necessarily limited to:

1) Low-level vision

Evolutionary optimization, adaptation and learning algorithms for edge detection,
image segmentation, figure-ground separation, texture analysis, feature selection,
shape-from-shading, denoising and surface reconstruction.

2) High-level vision

Evolutionary computation for object recognition, scene analysis, indexing and search
of model/image databases, and high-level learning of symbolic descriptions.

3) Active vision

Evolutionary computation for autonomous vision-guided navigation, path planning, sensing
strategies, sensor integration, visual servoing, vergence and gaze control, hand-eye
coordination, active tracking and vision-guided task planning.

4) Neural vision

Evolutionary computation for learning, adaptation and optimization of neural network
structure and topology for computer vision problems.

All submitted papers will be reviewed according to the guidelines and standards of Evolutionary Computation MIT Press. The submissions must be made electronically on the Evolutionary Computation paper submission and review Web site at http://ecj.lri.fr/ before the deadline (please also send an email with the assigned paper I.D. to the guest editors). Submitted papers must describe previously unpublished and original research, and must not exceed 20 pages including figures and tables. The submission format is flexible, but the final version of all accepted papers has to be written in LaTex and has to meet the Journal format (see http://ecj.lri.fr/Formats/).

Gustavo Olague
Computer Science Department
Applied Physics Division
CICESE, Research Center
e-mail: olague@cicese.mx

Evelyne Lutton
Complex Team
INRIA Rocquencourt
e-mail: Evelyne.Lutton@inria.fr

Stefano Cagnoni
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
Università degli Studi di Parma
e-mail: cagnoni@CE.UniPR.IT