TC18 "Discrete Geometry" Newsletter (July 2011) =============================================== Contents: ========= 1. DGCI 2013 in Seville 2. Call for Papers: Special Issues on Discrete Geometry 3. Short Report from DGCI 2011 in Nancy ===================================================== 1) DGCI 2013 in Seville ------------------------ The steering committee recently decided that the next DGCI conference will take place 20-22 March, 2013 in Seville, Spain A two-year interval between DGCI Nancy and DGCI Seville (Spring 2011 - Spring 2013) was chosen in order to avoid recurring conflicts with our sister conference IWCIA. The conference will be organized by the Andalusian research group Combinatorial Image Analysis (“CIA” research group) in the Applied Math Department of Seville University. Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz and Maria Jose Jimenez will act as co-chairs of the organizing committee. The official Call for Papers will be issued in Spring 2012, and will cover the classical topics of discrete geometry: * Models for Discrete Geometry (grids, discrete objects, discrete model properties, digitization schemes, metrics,...) * Discrete and Combinatorial Topology * Geometric Transforms (image mappings, distance transformation, skeletons and medial axis,...) * Discrete Shape Representation, Recognition and Analysis * Discrete Tomography * Morphological Analysis * Discrete Modelling and Visualization * Discrete and Combinatorial Tools for Image Segmentation and Analysis I also hope that DGCI 2013 will again include a demo session for the newest software, given that this new presentation form was implemented very successfully at DGCI 2011. 2) Call for Papers: Special Issues on Discrete Geometry ------------------------------------------------------- As usual, two special journal issues on discrete geometry are organized after DGCI, this time in the journals "Discrete Applied Mathematics" and "Computer Vision and Image Understanding". In contrast to previous DGCIs, submission to these special issues is OPEN FOR ALL (not just for invited DGCI authors). If you have an interesting paper on the classical DGCI topics, we'd like to encourage you to submit. When you plan to submit an extended version of your conference paper, be aware that publishers are now requesting about 50% new material in the journal version. The deadlines for submission of full papers are Discrete Applied Mathematics: September 15, 2011 Computer Vision and Image Understanding: October 15, 2011 See dgci2011.loria.fr/cfpDAM.php and dgci2011.loria.fr/cfpCVIU.php respectively for the complete call for papers and further submission details. In addition to traditional paper publications, DGCI organizers and TC 18 are also planning to participate in a new form of publication: peer-reviewed executable code. The new journal "Image Processing On Line" (see www.ipol.im) which promotes this form of publication, is an ideal forum for disseminating your ideas in a form that can be directly tried and used by your readers. Negotiations about a special issue on discrete geometry are currently under way. Stay tuned for this exiting new opportunity! 3) Short Report from DGCI 2011 in Nancy --------------------------------------- The 16th Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2011) took place in Nancy, France from April 6-8, 2011. It was organized by Isabelle Debled-Rennesson, Eric Domenjoud, Bertrand Kerautret and their team in the nice conference hall of the Lorraine research center in computer science and its applications. Many thanks to the organizers for a very enjoyable conference! In total, 92 participants from all over the world attended and listened to 23 oral and 20 poster presentations. The proceedings were published by Springer as LNCS vol. 6607 (see http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19867-0). Authors presented many new ideas in the central areas of discrete geometry. Keynote talks were given by Jean Serra (Center of Mathematical Morphology, Fontainebleau, France) on hierarchical segmentations, Jarek Rossignac (Georgia Tech, USA) on ball-based shape processing, and Agnès Desolneux (Paris Descartes University, France) on probabilistic grouping principles. The newly introduced demo session presented the latest developments in reusable software for discrete geometry and related areas. I enjoied this session very much and hope that it will be continued at the next DGCI. As a result, this conference was equally appealing to both theoreticians and practitioners. The "Best Student Paper Award" was awarded for the second time. The jury had a tough job selecting the best among several very good candidates. The prize was won by the paper Wagner Fortes, Kees Joost Batenburg, Lajos Hajdu, Robert Tijdeman: "Bounds on the difference between reconstructions in binary tomography", but there were many interesting papers and the competition was very challenging. We believe that this prize helps attracting young researchers to our field and promoting their work, and we will continue the competition at the next DGCI. Best regards Ulli (with Joost and Guillaume)