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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ES link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>[</span><span lang=EN-US>Apologies for multiple copies due to cross-posting. Please forward to colleagues who might be interested]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear Colleague,<br><br>We would like to cordially invite you to submit a paper for the </span><span class=MsoHyperlink><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'><a href="http://www.ieee-wcci2014.org/">WCCI 2014</a> <a href="http://www.dtic.ua.es/~jgarcia/IJCNN2014/index.html">2nd Special Session on<span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'> </span>Neural Networks applied to Vision and Robotics (NNVR)</a></span></b></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>News: <a href="http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/NPL_SpecialIssueNNVR_cfp.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-1427015-p35661006">Neural Processing Letters Journal Special Issue</a> (impact factor: 1.240): </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Special Session best papers will be selected.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Beiging International Convention Center • Beiging (China)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>July 6-11, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.ieee-wcci2014.org/">http://www.ieee-wcci2014.org/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>organized within International World Congress on Computational Intelligence sponsored jointly by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and the International Neural Networks Society INNS.<br></span><span lang=EN-US><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Over the last decades there has been an increasing interest in using neural networks and other computational intelligence paradigms combined with computer vision techniques to create autonomous systems that solve vision problems in different fields. This workshop is designed to serve researchers and developers to publish original, innovative and state-of-the art algorithms and architectures for real time applications in the areas of computer vision, image processing, biometrics, virtual and augmented reality, neural networks, intelligent interfaces and biomimetic object-vision recognition. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>This workshop provides a platform for academics, developers, and industry-related researchers belonging to the vast communities of<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>*Neural Networks*, *Computational Intelligence*, *Machine Learning*, *Biometrics*, *Vision systems*, and *Robotics *, to discuss, share experience and explore traditional and new areas of the computer vision and computational intelligence combined to solve a range of problems. The objective of the workshop is to integrate the growing international community of researchers working on the application of Computational Intelligence techniques in Vision and Robotics to a fruitful discussion on the evolution and the benefits of this technology to the society. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The Special Session topics can be identified by, but are not limited to, the following subjects: <o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US>Artificial Vision <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US>Video tracking <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US>3D Scene reconstruction <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US>3D Tracking in Virtual Reality <o:p></o:p></span></li><ul type=circle><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US>Volume visualization <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US>Neural Networks<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US>Computational Intelligence <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US>Intelligent Interfaces (User-friendly Man Machine Interface) <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US>Self-adaptation and self-organisational systems <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US>Multi-camera and RGB-D camera systems <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US>Robust computer vision algorithms (operation under variable conditions, object tracking, behaviour analysis and learning, scene segmentation) <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US>Gesture and posture analysis and recognition <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US>Biometric Identification and Recognition <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US>Extraction of Biometric Features (fingerprint, iris, face, voice, palm, gait) <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US>Surveillance systems <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US>Robotics vision <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US>Hardware implementation and algorithms acceleration (GPUs, FPGA,s,.) <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Submission procedures:</span><span lang=FR><a href="http://www.ieee-wcci2014.org/Paper%20Submission.htm"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.ieee-wcci2014.org/Paper%20Submission.htm</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span></a></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Important - Submission Guidelines: </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'> The authors intended to contribute to IEEE WCCI 2014 Special Sessions are kindly recommended to follow the manuscript style information and templates of regular IEEE WCCI 2014 papers, as described here. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Please note that each Special Session is specifically and exclusively related to one of the three conferences composing the IEEE WCCI 2014, i.e., IJCNN2014, FUZZ-IEEE2014, and IEEE CEC 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>When submitting their manuscripts, authors are recommended to follow these steps: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>1. Go to the related conference submission website;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>2. Select the Special Session <b>NN04</b> “Neural Networks applied to Vision and Robotics” in the Main Research topic dropdown list;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>3. Fill out the input fields, upload the pdf file and finalize the submission by December 20, 2013. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>This guideline is intended to special session organizers for them to forward it to all potential authors.. After your submission notify the chairs of your submission by sending email to: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="mailto:jgarcia@dtic.ua.es"><span lang=EN-US>jgarcia@dtic.ua.es</span></a> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Further information<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>main conference:</span><span lang=EN-US> </span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.ieee-wcci2014.org/">http://www.ieee-wcci2014.org</a></span></span><span lang=EN-US><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Special Session:</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.dtic.ua.es/~jgarcia/IJCNN2014/">http://www.dtic.ua.es/~jgarcia/IJCNN2014/</a></span></span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NPL Special Issue: <a href="http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/NPL_SpecialIssueNNVR_cfp.pdf">http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/NPL_SpecialIssueNNVR_cfp.pdf</a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Important Dates:</span></b><span lang=EN-US><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Paper Submission Deadline<span style='color:#1F497D'>:</span> December<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>20, 2013<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Paper acceptance notification: March 15, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Camera-Ready Paper Submission<span style='color:#1F497D'>:</span> April 15, 2014</span><span lang=EN-US><br><br></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Organizers</span></b><span lang=EN-US><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>José García-Rodríguez - University of Alicante (Spain) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Alexandra Psarrou - University of Westminster (UK) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Andrew Lewis - Griffith University (Australia) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Anastassia Angelopoulou - University of Westminster (UK)</span><span lang=EN-US><br><br>Contact<span style='color:#1F497D'>:</span> </span><a href="mailto:jgarcia@dtic.ua.es"><span lang=EN-US>jgarcia@dtic.ua.es</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=ES-TRAD style='color:#1F497D'>Jose Garcia-Rodriguez, Phd<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=ES-TRAD style='color:#1F497D'>Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Dpt. Computer Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>University of Alicante <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>PO Box. 99. 03080 Alicante (Spain)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>tel: +34 965903400 ext. 2616<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>fax: +34 965909643<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>email: <a href="mailto:jgarcia@dtic.ua.es">jgarcia@dtic.ua.es</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.dtic.ua.es/~jgarcia/">http://www.dtic.ua.es/~jgarcia/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>