TC18 - Newsletter #7 - July 2006 http://www.tc18.org/ ===================================== Contents: ========= 1. Next DGCI conference in Szeged (Hungary) - 25-27 October 2006 2. Events related to Discrete Geometry and TC18 3. "Challenges" in Discrete Geometry 4. Focus on another IAPR TC: "TC5 Benchmarking and Software" 5. Miscellaneous ===================================== Contents: ========= 1. Next DGCI conference in Szeged (Hungary) - 25-27 October 2006 The Call for paper has been a great success: 99 papers have been submitted. The selection process ended the first of June. 24 papers have been selected for oral presentations; 28 papers have been selected for poster sessions. Then the selection rate is 52.5% Congratulation if your work has been selected; if not you can be consoled due to the severe selection process. In all cases we expect to see you at the conference in Szeged. The organizing committee provides some information on: http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/dgci/ Invited speakers are: Laszlo Lovasz from Budapest, T. Yung Kong from New York, and Jean-Marc Chassery from Grenoble. Do not forget to register: early registration until August 14, 2006. 2. Events related to Discrete Geometry and TC18 - IWCIA (Int. Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis) took place in Berlin, 19-21 June 2006: http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/IWCIA/ - ICPR'06 (Int. Conf. of Pattern Recognition): the 18th ICPR will take place in Hong Kong, 20-24 August 2006. See: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~icpr06/index.php. During this conference, there will be a meeting for TC chairs and activities of TC18 will be presented. - A point in the coming months will be to decide who will chair IAPR-TC18 next years (as TC18 was created 4 years ago, Annick Montanvert cannot continue). David Coeurjolly is currently vice-chair. Just tell us if you have any suggestion; the decision will be taken during DGCI'06 in Szeged. - At ISVC'06 (Int. Symp. On Visual Computing) a special track on Discrete and Computational Geometry and their Applications in Visual Computing will take place. Lake Tahoe, Nevada, 6-8 November 2006. See http://www.isvc.net/ 3. "Challenges" in Discrete Geometry A long term purpose of the TC18 web page was to encourage collaborations between researchers in the Discrete Geometry field. We are pleased to announce a new structure on the TC18 webpages: the TC18 challenges. The idea is to provide benchmarks and references to obtain comparative evaluations of classical problems in Discrete Geometry. More precisely, a challenge should contain: - a precise topic (see below for an example) - a group of identified researchers with a contact person - a unified framework to perform a comparative evaluation. To illustrate this point, a first Challenge has been created: "Comparative Evaluation of Digital Plane Segment Recognition Algorithms". Go to the Challenges web pages to have more details. If you want to organize another Challenge on a specific topic, contact the TC18 chairs. If you want to join an active challenge, you can contact the challenge contact person. 4. Focus on another IAPR TC: "TC5 Benchmarking and Software" The aim of TC-5 is to provide resources to assist researchers in implementing and benchmarking pattern recognition systems. While other IAPR Technical Committees are concerned with particular areas of pattern recognition, TC-5 is unusual in that its remit is to provide benchmarking and software services to all fields of pattern recognition. TC-5 aims to serve the benchmarking needs of the community by providing a one-stop evaluation service. TC-5 aims to serve the software needs of the community by providing worked exa! mples of how to interact with evaluation service. URL: http://algoval.essex.ac.uk:8080/tc5/intro/default.jsp?op=1 Chair: Simon Lucas 5. Miscellaneous A nice award event for our research domain: Valentin Brimbov and Reneta Barneva received the Wilkes Award of the British Computer Society for the best paper published in 2005 in The Computer Journal on : 'Analytical honeycomb geometry for raster and volume graphics' 48 (2), 180-199. See : http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.1418 Hope to see you in Szeged July 13th 2006 - Annick and David