EUROMEDIA 2014, April 28-30, 2014, Novotel, Bruges, Belgium, Workshops


Conference Workshops

Medical Imaging Systems

Efficient and powerful medical imaging systems have been assuming a growing and crucial importance in medicine, allowing to deeply examination and understanding on the human body and, therefore, playing an essential role for adequate diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.
To accomplish more efficient and powerful medical imaging systems, many research works have been done in many domains, such as the ones related with medical image devices, signal processing, image processing and analysis, biomechanical simulation and data visualization.
The main goal of the Workshop “Medical Imaging Systems” is to bring together researchers involved in the related domains, in order to set the major lines of development for the near future.
The Workshop “Medical Imaging Systems” will consist of researchers representing various fields related to Medical Devices, Signal Processing, Computational Vision, Computer Graphics, Computational Mechanics, Scientific Visualization, Mathematics, Medicine, Medical Imaging and Hardware Manufacturers. The Workshop endeavours to the contribution of obtaining better solutions for more efficient and powerful medical imaging systems, and attempts to establish a bridge between clinicians, researchers and manufacturers from these diverse fields.

The Workshop "Medical Imaging Systems" will cover topics related with (not exhaustive):

  • image acquisition
  • signal processing
  • image processing and analysis
  • modelling and simulation
  • computer aided diagnosis
  • surgery, therapy, and treatment
  • computational bioimaging and visualization
  • software development
  • virtual reality
  • telemedicine systems and their applications
  • assistive technology
  • computational anatomy
  • medical robots
  • imaging devices
  • hardware systems

Organized by:

Joao Manuel R. S. Tavares
Institute for Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management (INEGI)
Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (FEUP), Porto, Portugal
Email: tavares@fe.up.pt, web: www.fe.up.pt/~tavares

Daniela Iacoviello
Department of Computer and System Sciences "A.Ruberti"
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Email: Daniela.Iacoviello@dis.uniroma1.it, web: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~iacoviel/

You can download the Call for Papers here (not yet linked)

Submissions for the Medical Imaging Systems can be sent in here

Interactive Intelligent Systems

The main focus of the Interactive Intelligent Systems track is to highlight research using the best technologies that push the envelope of both interface and interaction.
When the main source of computing power was located in central computing facilities, those systems were evaluated by their throughput, accuracy, reliability, etc. Today’s computing power resides in true end users. The methods for assessing human-machine systems need to evolve along with the technology. Novel interfaces (e.g. virtual environments and wearable devices) and novel interactions (e.g. haptic devices, touch screens, speech) require novel evaluation methods and new metrics for measuring the effectiveness of these human-machine systems. The problem is hard because new technologies are appearing faster than ever and appropriate methods need to keep up.

One part of the evaluation problem has been addressed through attention to the principles of usability; the usability metrics are efficiency, effectiveness and user satisfaction. The major part of the problem, however, involves assessing whether novel technologies actually provide utility to the end user.

Submissions for the Interactive Intelligent Systems track can be sent in here

Cloud Computing

As one of the fastest growing fields in present-day media cloud computing will constitute for the first time a dedicated track at EUROMEDIA'2013.

  • Software and computing architectures for SaaS and PaaS
  • Programming models for cloud applications and virtualization
  • Cloud application deployment tools and Application Clouds
  • Public, private, hybrid and Community cloud application and data integration architectures
  • Portability of applications and data between different cloud providers
  • Programming tools, plug-ins, and technologies for application monitoring, provisioning
  • Software architectures for cross-cloud integration and inter-operability
  • Web portals for provisioning, monitoring, and deploying Cloud applications
  • Privacy and security in Clouds
  • Experiences with cloud SaaS and PaaS systems
  • Infrastructure as a Service Clouds
  • Software Clouds
  • Maintenance and Management of Cloud Computing
  • Case study involving enterprise, business, and government services deployment on cloud
  • Space Travel (In-Cloud Security)

Organized by:

Jan Broeckhove
University of Antwerp, Belgium
Email:jan.broeckhove@ua.ac.be.

Submissions for the Cloud Computing can be sent in here

Social Networks

This workshop will look at the applications to search, retrieval, recommendation, and navigation within social networks and covers the following topics:

  • Explicit vs. inferred social links (e.g. mining query logs)
  • Integration of different social networks (e.g. links between blogs and bookmarking systems)
  • Socially induced measures of similarity, relatedness, or distance
  • Co-evolution of social, information, and semantic networks
  • Analysis of the structure and the dynamics of social information networks
  • Behavioral patterns of social linking
  • Linguistic analysis of social annotation spaces
  • Formal and generative models of social annotation
  • Unstructured vs. structured social knowledge representations
  • Implementation and scalability of social link representations
  • Automatic and user-based evaluation
  • Emergent semantics in social networks
  • Robustness against spam and other forms of social abuse
  • Design of collaborative annotation mechanisms
  • Critical mass and incentives of social participation (e.g. games)
  • User interfaces for collaborative annotation

Submissions for the Social Network Track can be sent in here

Cyber Security

Access Control, Applications of Cryptography, Attacks and Viral Software, Polymorphic Threats, Authentication and Authorization, Biometrics and Applications, Critical ICT Resources Protection, Data and System Integrity, Data Protection, Ethics, Digital Content Security, Identity Management, Information Hiding, Information Warfare, Internet and Web Security, Intrusion Detection, Password Protection(alfanumeric, mnemonic and disposable passwords), Peer-to-Peer Security, Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Risk Analysis and Management, Secure Electronic Voting, Secure Sensor Networks, Secure Systems Development, Security Architectures, Security Economics, Security Education, Security Management, Security Metrics, Smart Cards, SPAM, SPIT, SPIM, Trust Management and Models

Submissions for the Cyber Security Track can be sent in here

Computer Graphics

Computer Graphics applied into every day appliances and multimedia hardware/ software.

  • Fundamental algorithms for computer graphics and computer vision
  • Model representation and simplification
  • Parametric curves and surfaces
  • Illumination techniques
  • Colors and color systems
  • Virtual and augmented reality, haptic systems
  • Human-computer interaction (haptic devices, virtual mission boards, tablets, cell-phones)
  • Real time rendering
  • Image processing, image reconstruction
  • Pattern recognition
  • 3D scene reconstruction
  • Segmentation
  • Motion detection
  • Scientific and technical visualization
  • Information visualization
  • Mobile graphics and vision system
  • Industrial application of computer graphics and vision

Submissions for the Graphics Track can be sent in here