ICPR 2008 - Conference Organization - USF



A Proposal for Hosting

International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)’s

International Conference on Pattern Recognition

December 8-11, 2008

Tampa, Florida, USA

Submitted

On behalf of the

IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on

Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

(A Member Society of IAPR)

Technical Sponsor

And

University of South Florida

Conference Host

By

Masakazu Ejiri (Japan), Rangachar Kasturi (USA) and Gabriella Sanniti di Baja (Italy)

General Chairs

Contact Information

Professor Rangachar Kasturi

Computer Science and Engineering

University of South Florida

Tampa, Florida, 33620, USA

R1K@CSEE.USF.EDU

International Conference on Pattern Recognition

December 8-11, 2008

Tampa, Florida, USA

Introduction

The proposed IAPR’s International Conference on Pattern Recognition in 2008 (ICPR-2008) will be hosted in Tampa, Florida by the University of South Florida (USF) with technical support from the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI TC) which is the US member of IAPR. The overarching principle that has governed this proposal is that ICPR 2008 shall be an IAPR organized conference with participation from leading researchers from a large number of IAPR member societies

Hyperlinks embedded in this document provide more detailed information about the items presented in this summary proposal. Many of these documents are also distributed to the Governing Board (GB) members on a CD for off-line viewing. For additional information or clarification on any of the items discussed here, the readers are encouraged to contact the general chairs.

Conference Venue

The City of Tampa (Mayor’s Letter) with a metropolitan area population of about three million is located on the western shores of the State of Florida on a bay of the Gulf of Mexico (Tampa Presentation). It has easy access through its international airport, well connected road network, and even a large cruise port visited by several international cruise lines. Tampa International Airport offers some 550 daily scheduled flights from/to 58 domestic destinations and 44 weekly scheduled international flights from/to seven international markets including London. Frequent direct flights to other US international airports such as Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and Washington make it easy to reach Tampa. Orlando, which is just 100 Kilometers away, provides additional direct international connections. World renowned beaches of Clearwater and Saint Petersburg are parts of the Tampa Bay area. Many hotels provide daily ground transportation to attractions in the Orlando area such as Disney World, Universal Studios, Sea World, and Kennedy Space Flight Center.

The conference venue is the Tampa Convention Center which can handle conventions as large as 5,000 people (Convention Center Presentation). Tampa Convention Center is located directly on the waterfront in the heart of downtown Tampa and includes 60,000 Square Meters of meeting space and 600 Meters of waterfront views. The Center recently completed an expansion project that doubled its number of breakout rooms to 36. The additional meeting rooms complement the Center's 20,000 Square Meters of exhibit hall, and a 3,600 Square Meters ballroom. All meeting rooms are located in close proximity to one another. The Center is conveniently located within walking distance to hotels, restaurants, the cruise terminal and other attractions.

Conference Dates

The proposed dates for the conference are December 8 to 11, 2008. Many factors such as conflicts with other major conferences (e.g., CVPR in US), weather, major holidays, university schedules, and hotel and airfares have been taken into account to arrive at these dates. It is entirely possible, however, if the GB so chooses, to organize the conference at other dates (we have obtained bids from convention center for two alternate dates: August 18-21 and October 13-16). In all cases, the main conference runs from Monday through Thursday with tutorials and workshops organized before and after the main conference.

Conference Tracks

We anticipate that the conference will feature five parallel theme tracks. Each theme track will address an area of interest to the pattern recognition community. The conference themes would cover all topics of interest to our community. These would cover not only traditional tracks such as pattern recognition, computer vision, and image and signal analysis but would also include themes that would emerge over the next few years. For this reason we prefer not to name the tracks at this point but simply identify potential researchers to chair such themes and emerging research areas.

Expected Number of Submissions and Accepted Papers

Recent increases in the number of papers submitted to recent ICPRs clearly indicate that our scientific community is growing rapidly. ICPR 2008 is expected to receive 1,600 to 2,000 submissions which, with a tentative acceptance range of 55 to 65%, would lead to some 1,100 accepted papers. The tentative schedule provided in this proposal includes 360 oral presentations in 75 oral sessions organized as 5 parallel presentation tracks and 740 posters in 7 sessions. Same number of proceedings pages is allocated to both oral and poster papers. Besides regular presentations, the technical program will feature four invited plenary speakers (including the K.S. Fu lecture), one per day, and several invited long papers distributed in the afternoon sessions.

Tutorials and Workshops

Tutorials and workshops will be organized to run before and after the main conference under the direction of respective chairs. These will be organized as per established IAPR practices. These will be self supporting operations from a budgetary point of view but all logistics support will be provided by the conference organizers.

Demos, Exhibits and Contests

We would like to encourage demos, exhibits, and contests during the conference. We emphasize our interest in these events by including chairs for these tasks in the conference organization.

Conference Format

Table below summarizes the tentative schedule for ICPR 2008. The GB-meeting will take place on Tuesday afternoon, possibly partially overlapping with conference sessions. In this event, Program Chairs will try to avoid involvement of potential attendees to the GB-meeting in paper presentation and session chairing.

Tentative Schedule for ICPR 2008

|SUNDAY, 7 December 2008 |

|All day |Tutorials |

|Afternoon |Registration |

|Evening |Welcome Reception |

|MONDAY, 8 December 2008 |

|All day |Registration |

|Morning |Opening Ceremony (Plenary),9.00-9.30 |

| |KSFu Prize Lecture (Plenary), 9.30-10.30 |

| |Coffee-break, 10.30-11.00 |

| |Parallel Oral Sessions (5), 11.00-13.00 |

|Lunch Break |13.00-14.00 |

|Afternoon |Parallel Oral Sessions (5), 14.00-15.30 |

| |Afternoon Poster Session, 14:00-16:00 |

| |Coffee-break, 15.30-16.00 |

| |Parallel Oral Sessions (5), 16.00-17:30 |

|Evening |TC-Meetings, Standing Committee Meetings |

|TUESDAY to THURSDAY, 9 to 11 December 2008 |

|Morning |Parallel Oral Sessions (5), 8:30–10:00 |

| |Morning Poster Session, 8:30-10:30 |

| |Coffee-break, 10:00-10.30 |

| |Invited Talk (Plenary), 10:30-11:30 |

| |Parallel Oral Sessions (5), 11.30-13.00 |

|Lunch Break |13.00-14.00 |

|Afternoon |Parallel Oral Sessions (5), 14:00-15.30 |

| |Afternoon Poster Session, 14:00-16:00 |

| |Coffee-break, 15.30-16.00 |

| |Parallel Oral Sessions (5), 16.00-18.00 |

Rooms & Events for ICPR 2008

|Event |Room(s) |

|Plenary Sessions |Ballroom A-B |

|Poster Sessions |West Hall |

|Demos & Exhibits |West Hall |

|Presentation Track 1 |Meeting Rooms 15-25 |

|Presentation Track 2 |Meeting Rooms 15-25 |

|Presentation Track 3 |Meeting Rooms 15-25 |

|Presentation Track 4 |Meeting Rooms 15-25 |

|Presentation Track 5 |Meeting Rooms 15-25 |

|Conference Reception |To be determined |

|Banquet Dinner |Ballroom A-C |

|Committee Meetings |Various breakout rooms |

Proceedings

The proposed budget includes an electronic copy of proceedings for each attendee. The proceedings will be distributed/published through IEEE Computer Society or a similar large publisher who can provide wide spread dissemination of its content through digital/on-line libraries. We have obtained quotes from IEEE Computer Society for CD production. If there is substantial interest by GB, we will explore costs of print proceedings either for bulk distribution or for a print on demand basis. Metadata of its content will be made available in a searchable form on IAPR web site.

Conference Organization

The conference will be organized by an international team of volunteers under the guidance of an advisory committee comprising senior leaders of IAPR. Whenever possible, we have identified a member from each of the three geographical regions for all key committees: Europe, North America, and Rest of the World. All those listed below (in alphabetical order) have accepted our invitation to participate. A few others have not responded yet and, if they accept, we will include their names in the final list which will be presented at the GB meeting.

Advisory Committee

J.K. Aggarwal (USA), H. Bunke (CH), Z. Chen (Taiwan), D. Duttamajumder (India), H. Freeman (USA), I. Gurevich (Russia), K. Ikeuchi (Japan), J. Kittler (UK), T. Pavlidis (USA), A. Sanfeliu (Spain), C. Suen (Canada), M. Takagi (Japan)

General Chairs

M. Ejiri (Japan), R. Kasturi (USA), G. Sanniti di Baja (Italy)

Program Chairs

R.P.W. Duin (The Netherlands), D. Laurendeau (Canada), B. Lovell (Australia)

Publicity and Sponsorship Chairs

A. Campilho (Portugal), T. Matsuyama (Japan), G. Medioni (USA)

Finance Chairs

J. Bigun (Sweden), S. Tanimoto (USA)

Demos, Exhibits and Contests Chairs

L. Heutte (France), H. Ip (Hong Kong), D. Leandro Borges (Brazil)

Workshops Chairs

T. Caelli (Canada), Y. Ohta (Japan), M. Pietikäinen (Finland)

Tutorials Chairs

S. Ablameyko (Belarus), M. Shah (USA)

Publications Chairs

G. Borgefors (Sweden), P. Flynn (USA)

Local Arrangements Chair

Laura Ellenburg (USA), D. Goldgof (USA)

Theme/Area Chairs and their Areas of Expertise

Europe:

Hans Burkhardt, Germany (IP, PR, CV)

Luigi P. Cordella, Italy (PR&NN, IP, Biomedical appl.)

Erkki Oja, Finland (Statistical PR, NN, Machine Learning)

Thierry Pun, CH (IP, Medical imaging, Multimedia applications)

Vaclav Skala, Czeck Republic (CV: graphics and vizualisation)

Max Viergever, The Netherlands (Biomedical applications)

North-America:

Pierre Boulanger, Canada (Cognitive Approaches and AI, Biomedical and other Applications)

Sven Dickinson, Canada (CV, Cognitive Approaches and AI)

Joydeep Ghosh, USA (PR&NN)

Tin Kam Ho, USA (PR&NN, IP and Signal Proc., Biomedical and other Applications)

Marc Pollefeys, USA (CV)

Rest of the World:

Freddy Bruckstein, Israel (CV, PR, IP)

Georgy Gimelfarb, New Zealand (PR&NN, CV, Cognitive Approaches and AI)

Kenichi Kanatani, Japan (PR&NN)

Seong-Whan Lee, Korea (PR&NN, Biomedical and other Applications)

Hsi-Jian Lee, Taiwan (PR&NN, IP)

Technical Program Committees

The program committee for each theme track will be composed of well-known experts in the field. They will be invited to join the committee by track chairs in consultation with program chairs. GB members and TC chairs will be invited to suggest well known researchers to serve in this role. We anticipate broad international participation in these committees.

Schedule

The following schedule of action items is planned for the organization of ICPR 2008.

|Date |Activity |

|ICPR 2004 |Obtain Approval for ICPR 2008 Proposal, 1st Meeting of Conference Committee |

|2005 |2nd Meeting of Conference Committee at a Convenient Conference |

|ICPR 2006 |3rd Meeting of Conference Committee |1st Call for Papers |Begin Publicity |

|March 2007 |2nd Call for Papers |International Publicity, Seek Sponsorship |

|Nov. 2007 |Last Call for Papers |Closing Date for Tutorials/Workshops Proposals |

|April 2008 |Closing Date for Paper Submissions |Selection of Tutorials |

|July 2008 |Notification of Paper Acceptance |Arrangements for Demos & Exhibitors |

|Aug. 2008 |Camera Ready Papers |Early Registration |Preliminary Program |

|Dec. 2008 |ICPR 2008 |

Budget

The proposed conference fee of $500 (early registration, member rate) and $300 (early registration, student rate) includes admission to sessions, coffee breaks, electronic proceedings, welcome reception, and banquet. Late and on-site registrations will be charged an additional 15% and 30% respectively. These fees are set with a break even attendance of 1,000 (700 member and 300 student registrations). There are no taxes similar to VAT in USA. Since this will be an IAPR conference without any financial involvement by IEEE CS, there will be no other fees. The hosting organization, the University of South Florida, will provide necessary support through its Conferences and Institutes office. IAPR return of 10% on gross income is included. Net income from registrations in excess of break even level on preregistration deadline would be distributed through travel stipends for attendees with financial need. We will work with the IAPR ExCo to identify such candidates.

Financing ICPR 2008

|Budget Item - Income |US Dollars |

|Registration (700 x $500+300 x $300) | 440,000 |

|Sponsorship | 10,000 |

|TOTAL INCOME |450,000 |

|Budget Item – Expenditures |US Dollars |

|Convention Center Rental (Convention Center Presentation) |30,000 |

|Coffee Breaks (Food and Beverage Proposal) |48,000 |

|Welcome Reception |42,000 |

|Banquet + Entertainment |60,000 |

|Publications and Publicity |50,000 |

|Registration Services |30,000 |

|Invited Speakers including KSFu Prize Lecture |30,000 |

|Audio-Visual + Communications |30,000 |

|Conference Software, Conference Planning Meetings |30,000 |

|Conference Secretariat |30,000 |

|Contingency (including insurance) |25,000 |

|IAPR Return (10% of Gross Revenue) | 45,000 |

|TOTAL EXPENDITURE | $450,000 |

Conference Hotels

Several hotels in close proximity to the convention center have quoted special block rates for conference attendees as shown in Table 1. While the rates shown in this table are for 2004, the hotels have guaranteed that the rates will not increase by more than 3% per year between now and 2008. Copies of the quotes are available at Ashley Plaza, Comfort Inn, Hyatt, Marriott, Radisson, Wyndham for your information Many other hotels offering rooms at all price ranges are readily available in Tampa. There are some 19,000 hotel rooms in Tampa with 1,800 within walking distance of the convention center.

Airfares

As noted earlier, Tampa is within easy reach of many international destinations. To obtain an estimate of the prices of air ticket, we searched on the Travelocity () web site for travel from various cities of IAPR member societies to Tampa in December 2004. A summary of these prices are shown in Table 2.

Table 1 Room Blocks and Rates

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Conclusions

We have presented a proposal which was created after much consultation with a large number of researchers representing many IAPR member societies. As always we welcome your comments and suggestions. We very much value your support to make this a reality. In closing we include some images of Tampa Bay and its picturesque surroundings.

Table 2 Airfares to Tampa from IAPR Member Society Cities

|Member Society Country |City (airport) |cost in US Dollars |

|AUSTRALIA |SYDNEY (SYD) |935 |

|AUSTRIA |VIENNA (VIE) |769 |

|BELARUS |MINSK (MSQ) |1,446 |

|BELGIUM |BRUSSELS (BRU) |575 |

|BRAZIL |CURITIBA (CWB) |957 |

|BULGARIA |SOFIA (SOF) |1,326 |

|CANADA |QUEBEC (YQB) |509 |

|CHINA |BEIJING (PEK) |1,276 |

|CUBA |HAVANA (HAV) |878 |

|CZECH REPUBLIC |PRAGUE (PRG) |732 |

|DENMARK |COPHENHAGEN (CPH) |821 |

|FINLAND |HELSINKI (HEL) |949 |

|FRANCE |PARIS (CDG) |584 |

|GERMANY |FRANKFORT (FRA) |577 |

|GREECE |ATHENS (ATH) |1,054 |

|HONG KONG |HONG KONG (HKG) |1,710 |

|HUNGARY |BUDAPEST (BUD) |1,166 |

|INDIA |CALCUTTA (CCU) |2,083 |

|IRELAND |BELFAST (BHD) |835 |

|ISRAEL |TEL AVIV (TLV) |889 |

|ITALY |ROME (ROM) |569 |

|JAPAN |TOYKYO (NRT) |808 |

|KOREA (SOUTH) |SEOUL (ICN) |1,494 |

|MEXICO |GUADALAJARA (GDL) |582 |

|MOROCCO |CASABLANCA (CAS) |867 |

|THE NETHERLANDS |AMSTERDAM (AMS) |516 |

|NEW ZEALAND |AUCKLAND (AKL) |1,877 |

|NORWAY |OSLO (OSL) |852 |

|POLAND |WARSAW (WAW) |821 |

|PORTUGAL |LISBON (LIS) |817 |

|RUSSIA |MOSCOW (SVO) |714 |

|SINGAPORE |SINGAPORE (SIN) |1,248 |

|SLOVENIA |LJUBLJANA (LJU) |777 |

|SOUTH AFRICA |JOHANNESBURG (JNB) |1,576 |

|SPAIN |BARCELONA (BCN) |846 |

|SWEDEN |STOCKHOLM (ARN) |734 |

|SWITZERLAND |BERNE (BRN) |1,030 |

|TAIWAN |TAIPEI (TPE) |1,274 |

|TURKEY |ISTANBUL (IST) |646 |

|UKRAINE |KIEV BORISPOL (KBP) |734 |

|UNITED KINGDOM |LONDON (LHR) |687 |

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Tampa Bay on Florida’s West Coast

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Downtown Tampa (Convention Center in the Foreground, Right)

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A Walkway on the University of South Florida Campus

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Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel & Marina

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Radisson Riverwalk Hotel

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Hyatt Regency

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USF College of Engineering – Hall of Flags

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Convention Center – Meeting Room

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Convention Center Layout

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