We welcome you to the Third Paci?c-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT 2009), sponsored by the National Institute of Informatics, MicrosoftResearch, and the Forumfor ImageInformaticsin Japan.PSIVT 2009 washeldinTokyo, Japan, duringJanuary13-16.Themainconferencecomprised eight major themes spanning the ?eld of image and video technology, namely, image sensors and multimedia hardware, graphics and visualization, image and video analysis, recognition and retrieval, multi-view imaging and processing, computer vision applications, video communications and networking, and m- timedia...

ETVC2008, thefallcolloquiumofthecomputersciencedepartment(LIX)ofthe Ecole Polytechnique, held in Palaiseau, France, November 18-20, 2008, focused ontheEmergingTrendsinVisualComputing.Thecolloquiumgavescientiststhe opportunity to sketch a state-of-the-artpicture of the mathematical foundations of visual computing. We weredelightedto invite andwelcome the followingdistinguishedspeakers to ETVC 2008 (listed in alphabetical order): Shun-ichi AMARI (Mathematical Neuroscience Laboratory, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Wako-Shi, Japan): Information Geometry and Its Applications Tetsuo ASANO (School...

Smartgraphicsarepervasivein ourlives nowadays.Thewaysartistsand desi- ersproduceimagesthate?ectivelysupporthumancognitionandcommunication are continuously changing and evolving as they incorporate novel methods p- vided by the advances in science and technology. As a counterpart, the radically new visions in most art forms have stimulated scientists to breath-taking levels of achievement. This symbiotic relationship between art and science (and technology) is one of the foundations of the technological culture of contemporary society and is...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th IAPR-TC-15 International Workshop on Graph-Based Representations in Pattern Recognition, GbRPR 2009, held in Venice, Italy in May 2009. The 37 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on graph-based representation and recognition, graph matching, graph clustering and classification, pyramids, combinatorial maps, and homologies, as well as graph-based segmentation.

This year's edition of the international federated conferences on Distributed Computing Techniques took place in Lisbon during June 9-11, 2009. It was hosted by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon and formally or- nized by Instituto de Telecomunica, c oes. The DisCoTecconferences jointly coverthe completespectrum ofdistributed computing subjects ranging from theoretical foundations to formal speci?cation techniques to practical considerations. The event consisted of the 11th Inter- tional Conference on Coordination Models and Languages(COORDINATION), the 9th IFIP...

FIMH 2009 was the ?fth international conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart. It was held in Nice, France, during 3-5 June 2009. This biennial scienti?c event presents research and development e?orts in the ?eld of cardiovascularmodeling and image analysis to better understand the physiology and pathologies of the human heart. The ?nal objective is to improve the di- nosis and therapy of cardiac diseases, which remain a major health issue in the western world and in Asia. This internationalconference is fostering the collaborationbetween scientists...

rd It is a pleasure and an honour both to organize ICB 2009, the 3 IAPR/IEEE Inter- tional Conference on Biometrics. This will be held 2-5 June in Alghero, Italy, hosted by the Computer Vision Laboratory, University of Sassari. The conference series is the premier forum for presenting research in biometrics and its allied technologies: the generation of new ideas, new approaches, new techniques and new evaluations. The ICB series originated in 2006 from joining two highly reputed conferences: Audio and Video Based Personal Authentication (AVBPA) and the International Conference on Biometric...

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2009, held in Povoa de Varzim, Portugal in June 2009. The 33 revised full papers and 29 revised poster papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 106 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computer vision, image analysis and processing, as well as pattern recognition.

This volume contains the papers presented at the Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, SCIA 2009, which was held at the Radisson SAS Scandinavian Hotel, Oslo, Norway, June 15-18. SCIA 2009 was the 16th in the biennial series of conferences, which has been organized in turn by the Scandinavian countries Sweden, Finland, D- mark and Norway since 1980. The event itself has always attracted participants and author contributions from outside the Scandinavian countries, making it an international conference. Theconferenceincludedafulldayoftutorialsand?vekeynotetalksprovided by world-renowned...