Dear TC18 members,
Please find some news of the TC18 with the July TC18 newsletter.
Wishing you a pleasant reading and a nice summer break,
With kind regards,
Bertrand and Michael with TC18 board team
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TC18 "Discrete Geometry and Mathematical Morphology" Newsletter (July 2019)
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Contents:
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1. News for next event organisation: DGCI + ISMM
2. DGCI and ISMM reports
3. Special issues
4. List of DG/MM papers for 2018 and the first half of 2019
5. Upcoming events
6. New content of TC18 website
7. Miscellaneous
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1. News for next event organisation: DGCI + ISMM
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After the call for proposals of the first DGCI+ISMM event, the steering
committees are happy to announce that the Uppsala proposal (Sweden)
was retained to organize this new event that will be held in Fall
2020 (December 10-13, date to be confirmed). The event will be chaired by
Filip Malmberg (main chair), Nataša Sladoje (program chair) and Joakim
Lindblad (Organization Chair). The organisation team is completed by
advisors (Robin Strand, Ingela Nyström), honorary chair (Gunilla
Borgefors, Christer Kiselman) and assistant (Johan Öfverstedt).
2. DGCI and ISMM reports
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DGCI report
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The 21th IAPR International Conference on Discrete Geometry for
Computer Imagery, DGCI 2019, was held at ESIEE Paris, France, during
March 26-28 2019. This conference was organized by Michel Couprie,
Jean Cousty, Yukiko Kenmochi and Nabil Mustafa from the ESIEE Paris,
Université Paris-Est, France. The DGCI 2019 conference attracted 76
researchers. The scientific program consisted of 3 invited talks, 26
oral and 10 posters presentations during 3 days. This edition
attracted 50 submissions by authors from 20 countries: Australia,
Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Hungary, India, Iran, Italy,
Japan, The Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden,
UK, and USA
Three keynote speeches were given:
– Alexandre Xavier Falcão, from University of Campinas, Brazil, on “The Role of Optimum Connectivity in Image
Segmentation: Can the Algorithm Learn Object Information During the Process?”
– Longin Jan Latecki, from Temple University, USA, on “Computing Maximum Weight Cliques with Local Search on
Large Graphs with Application to Common Object Discovery”
– János Pach, from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, on “The Blessing of Low
Dimensionality”
Congratulation to Loïc Crombez (from Université Clermont Auvergne - LIMOS, France) who obtains the best DGCI Student
Paper award for his article: Efficient Algorithms to Test Digital Convexity (co authored with Guilherme D. da Fonseca and Yan Gérard).
The full report will available online on the TC website: http://tc18.org/dgci/report_dgci2019.pdf
ISMM report
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The 14th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology (ISMM
2019), was held in Saarbrücken, Germany, during July 8–10, 2019. The event
was organized by Bernhard Burgeth, Andreas Kleefeld, Benoît Naegel,
Nicolas Passat, and Benjamin Perret. The ISMM 2019 symposium attracted 70
researchers. The scientific program consisted of 3 invited talks, 24
oral and 16 posters presentations during 3 days. This edition
attracted 54 submissions by authors from 16 countries: Austria, Brazil,
France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, The Netherlands, Pakistan, Serbia,
South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, UK, and USA.
Three keynote speeches were given:
- David Coeurjolly (CNRS, LIRIS, Lyon, France): Geometry Processing on Voxel Objects
- Fred A. Hamprecht (IWR, HCI, Heidelberg, Germany): Watershed and Friends in the Age of Deep Learning
- Boguslaw Obara (Durham University, Durham, UK): Combining Mathematical Morphology and the Hilbert Transform for Fully
Automatic Nuclei Detection in Fluorescence Microscopy
Other events:
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Proceedings from the last RRPR and CTIC workshops are available in the
Springer LNCS series. (resp. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-23987-9
and https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030108274). The workshop
participants can freely access to the electronic proceedings of RRPR
by following this website link (available until August 15):
https://rrpr2018.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/2
3. Special Issues
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Several special issues were proposed in conjunction to DGCI and ISMM.
- DGCI special issue: JMIV (closed)
Selected papers were invited to extend their DGCI papers.
https://dgci2019.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/13
- ISMM special issue: MMTA (open)
Mathematical Morphology - Theory and Applications - Special Issue on ISMM 2019
Submission period of articles 15 May–15 September 2019
(https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/mathm)
- IPOL - TC18 special issue: DG & MM (special invitation from DGCI and ISMM papers)
Period of submission: postponed to Sept-November.
Publication (tentative date): December/January 2020
4. List of DG/MM papers for 2018 and the first half of 2019
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As usual, you will on the following link the list of DG and MM
papers in major journal for 2018 and the first half of 2019.
If you think that we forgot some papers or some others should not
appear in this list, don't hesitate to let us know. Do the same for
missing references too.
For 2018:
http://tc18.org/files/2018-Papers.txt
For 2019:
http://tc18.org/files/2019-Papers.txt
5. Upcoming events
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A new tutorial on Digital Geometry has been accepted for presentation
during the ACPR2019. It will take place on the first day of the
conference (see https://www.acpr2019.org/tutorials.html and here
https://kerautret.github.io/ACPR19-DGPRTutorial): “Digital Geometry
in Pattern Recognition: Extracting Geometric Features with DGtal and
Applications” presented by Bertrand Kerautret (Université de Lyon 2,
France) and Jacques-Olivier Lachaud (Université Savoie Mont-Blanc,
France).
Also organized in conjunction with ACPR2019, a new workshop
is proposed including discrete geometry in its topics (submission
deadline 5 September): http://www.media.imit.chiba-u.jp/ipaMAC2019/.
The twentieth International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis
will be held on Novi Sad, Serbia, 16-18 July 2020. The first CfP is
attached to this email and is available here:
https://tc18.org/files/divers/callForPapersIWCIA20.pdf and you can
also access to workshop website: https://iwcia2020.wordpress.com
6. New content of TC18 website
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As announced during the TC18 presentations of DGCI a ISMM, a new
Project section was added to the site. The aim of this page is to
provide an overview of existing active (or past) projects with
relation to DG and MM (national, European or international) and also
to add proposition of new collaborations. If you want to add a
project, you can just send us an email with project information or
directly apply a Pull Request on this repository. Moreover, this page
can also be used to announce new project construction plans and help to
facilitate partnership.
see: http://tc18.org/projects.html
The front page of the main site was also improved with a new twitter
feed and new account created. Don't hesitate to follow us on @IAPR_TC18.
By the way, if you are interested in sharing the twitter animation,
please contact us! (we are free to add new roles like "communication
board member").
The page organisation was adjusted to include the new "project" page
and a new "Report" page was added in order to propose a direct access
to all the activity reports written from 2013 (https://tc18.org/reports.html).
7. Miscellaneous
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For the people who miss this information, the new version DGtal 1.0 was released last March!
(see https://dgtal.org)
For people interested in Computer Vision and Machine Learning (CVML)
an new email list for scientific dissemination. See mail in this link:
http://tc18.org/files/mailListCVML.txt
After the two years activity reports written last year (see report
https://tc18.org/files/reportIAPR2018.pdf from the page
https://tc18.org/reports.html) for the ExCo meeting that held at ICPR
2019, this year there are no interim report to do. However, we start
an equivalent draft to simplify the redaction of next final report for
the period 2018-2020.