Current list of Special Sessions

Visual communications with 6 Degrees of Freedom

Organizers: Francesca De Simone (CWI), Laura Toni (UCL)

Recent advances in 3D capturing technologies and visualization techniques, such as those enabling Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR and AR), are paving the way towards the deployment of visual communications that provide six Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) viewing capabilities to the user.
In a communication framework with 6DoF, the user can freely navigate the scene, changing her/his viewpoint, and spatially interact with the visual signals. Applications exploiting such scenario are of interest in a broad range of fields, from art and entertainment, to medicine and engineering. Thus, the key enabling technologies for these applications are receiving a lot of attention from main technological innovation players, both in academic and industrial communities.
In order to deploy visual communications with 6DoF, many research challenges need to be addressed across the whole signal processing chain: from the capture and representation of the new visual signals involved, namely dynamic and static volumetric signals, 3D models, etc; to their efficient storage and distribution; as well as their rendering via head mounted displays for VR and AR or classical mobile and desktop displays allowing for advanced interaction modalities. Finally, departing from the classical frame-based media consumption, the new modalities involved in 6DoF visual interactions raise new research questions concerning user’s visual perception and Quality of Experience (QoE) at large.
This special session aims at fostering discussions among the EUVIP community about the latest advances on technologies enabling visual communications with 6DoF. Topics of interest will include (being not limited to):

• graph-based representations and processing algorithms for visual signals involved in 6DoF communications (point-clouds, meshes, light fields, etc);
• 3D to 2D projection-based representations and processing algorithms for visual signals involved in 6DoF communications (point-clouds, meshes, light fields, etc);
• signal processing techniques (e.g. denoising, inpanting, compression, etc) for visual communications with 6DoF;
• capture and visualization technologies for visual signals involved in 6DoF communications, e.g., volumetric signals, 3D models, etc;
• applications involving 6DoF, i.e. immersive communications, medical applications, art and immersive media, etc.;
• QoE studies and models in visual communications with 6DoF;
• user studies and models on 6DoF navigation and volumetric perception.

Contact: Francesca de Simone and Laura Toni

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Intelligent Methods and Artificial Intelligence for Biomedical Imaging Systems

Organizers: Jan Kubicek (VSB), Marek Penhaker (VSB), Vladimir Kasik (VSB), Silvia Conforto (Roma Tre), Maurizio Schmid (Roma Tre), and Daniele Bibbo (Roma Tre)

Recent technological trends in the medical informatics and biomedical engineering allow for development of complex intelligent biomedical systems including clinical computer-based decision support systems, medical knowledge acquisition, medical imaging, and computational intelligence in the biomedicine. Artificial intelligence has a significant impact on a field of the biomedicine, and such systems can be implemented for solving real-world applications based on the machine learning, neural computing, expert systems, genetic algorithms and others. Special section IMAIBIS 2019 provides a unique forum for researchers to discuss recent trends of novel aspects of the biomedical intelligent imaging systems. We invite researchers to contribute original research articles, as well as papers describing future directions of the biomedical intelligent imaging systems. Acceptance will be based on the quality, originality, and practical value of the work. Topics of the special section include, but are not limited to:

• Decision support systems, intelligent and recommendation systems;
• Biomedical signal analysis and processing;
• Biomedical image processing and machine vision;
• Biomedical image enhancement;
• Biomedical image filtering;
• Biomedical image segmentation;
• Biomedical image classification;
• Applications of fuzzy logic in image processing;
• Genetic and evolutionary optimization in biomedical image processing;
• Processing of retinal images;
• Processing of CT and MR images;
• Artificial Intelligence for medical information systems.

Contact: Jan Kubicek, Marek Penhaker, Vladimir Kasik, Silvia Conforto, Maurizio Schmid, and Daniele Bibbo.