Should you be looking to purchase your monitors straightaway I’m not sure how useful this information will be to you but I thought I would reply anyway.

A colleague (Ben Motz) and I are currently following up on the work of Wiens et al. (2004) and Wang & Nikolic (2011) to address your concern, which we share, about the decline of CRT production and the Samsung 2233RZ. We are currently testing a variety of 120Hz LCDs/LEDs (Viewsonic, Acer, Samsung etc), 60Hz LCDs and older CRTs for their suitability in vision research. The only concrete result I can provide you with at the moment is that the Viewsonic V3D245 ( http://www.viewsonic.com/products/v3d245.htm ) really does produce 120Hz reliably and appears to produce little motion blur. If you are in no rush, in the near future we should be able to provide you with more detail on a variety of monitors. 

Good luck finding a suitable monitor!

Scott

Wiens S, Fransson P, Dietrich T, Lohmann P, Ingvar M, et al. (2004) Keeping it short: a comparison of methods for brief picture presentation. Psychological science 15: 282-5. doi:10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.00667.x 

Wang P, Nikolic D (2011) An LCD Monitor with Sufficiently Precise Timing for Research in Vision. Frontiers in human neuroscience 5: 85. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2011.00085

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Call for Participation
The 11th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
Nov 5 – 8, 2012, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA

http://ismar.vgtc.org/

*************************************************************************

The fields of Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) seek to
interactively mix virtual media with a person’s perception of the
physical world around them. Whether interactively combining physical
and virtual objects and environments in 3D, or reacting to location or
other aspects of a users context, these paradigms enable fascinating new
types of user interfaces, and are beginning to show significant impact
on industry and society. The field is highly interdisciplinary, and
MR/AR concepts are applicable to a wide range of applications. Since
1998, ISMAR and its forerunner events, IWAR/ISAR and ISMR, have been the
premier forums in this vital field.

This year we are proud to present the 11th IEEE International Symposium
on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2012). The symposium will be held
on Nov. 5 – 8, 2012 at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, USA. We invite you all
to participate in this great event for the exchange of new ideas in this
exciting field!

* ISMAR 2012 now invites contributions to a range of categories: *

– Papers and Posters to the Science & Technology (S&T) program
– Papers and Posters to the Arts, Media and Humanities (AMH) program
– Innovation Workshops
– Informative Tutorials
– Demonstrations
– Art Exhibits
– Tracking Competition

* Science and Technology Program: *

In recent years, Mixed and Augmented Reality has been expanding from an
exciting research field into a commercially viable technology. The field
is highly interdisciplinary, combining work in diverse disciplines,
ranging from human centered research into user interfaces, interaction
techniques, education, design, human factors, wearable computing and
mobile computing, through more technology oriented research including
computer graphics, display technology, computer vision, sensors, signal
processing and computer networking. The growing interest in MR/AR
applications is creating new challenges for research in all of these
areas. We invite papers, posters, workshops, panels, tutorials
submissions in the general field of Mixed and Augmented Reality.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, MR/AR aspects of:

* Sensors
– Acquisition of 3D scene descriptions
– Calibration methods
– Position and orientation tracking technology
– Sensor fusion
– Vision-based registration and tracking

* Information presentation
– Aural, haptic and olfactory augmentation
– Display and view management
– Mediated and diminished reality
– Object overlay and spatial layout techniques
– Photo-realistic rendering
– Real-time rendering

* User interaction
– Collaborative MR/AR
– Interaction techniques for MR/AR
– Multi-modal input and output

* System architecture
– Display hardware
– Distributed and collaborative MR/AR
– Performance issues [real-time approaches]
– Wearable and mobile computing
– Online services and MR/AR

* Human factors
– Acceptance of MR/AR technology
– Social implications
– Usability studies and experiments

* MR/AR Applications
– MR/AR for Architecture
– MR/AR for art, cultural heritage, or education and training
– MR/AR for entertainment
– Industrial and military MR/AR applications
– Medical MR/AR applications
– Personal MR/AR information systems

* Arts, Media & Humanities Program: *

The 2012 ISMAR Arts, Media and Humanities (AMH) program invites artists,
designers, and scholars to explore the potential of Mixed and Augmented
Reality. Artists and designers are invited to present and contextualize
creative work in MR or AR media forms and to reflect on the place of
these technologies in various fields of art and design. Scholars are
invited to present work that analyzes or critiques AR/MR in the contexts
of current social forms or the history of art and media. We welcome
papers, posters, and demos, as well as proposals for panels and workshops.

Topics of interest include Mixed and Augmented Reality works in relation
to, but not limited to:

* Media art
– Performing arts
– Art History
– Architecture
– Urban design
– Game and toys
– Cultural Heritage
– Social media

* Fields and approaches of interest include, but are not limited to:
– Media Studies
– Cultural Studies
– Literary Studies
– Game Studies
– Practitioner Case Studies
– Design research
– Communications

* Submission Categories *

Submissions in the following categories are solicited. For detailed
information on topics, submission and formatting, visit the website at
http://ismar.vgtc.org/ .

* Papers and Posters (S&T and AMH)

Regular written papers and posters are solicited. All accepted papers
and posters will be published in the ISMAR 2012 Proceedings and included
in the IEEE Xplore digital library. Papers must have a minimum of four
pages and maximum of ten pages, while posters are limited to two pages.

Note, that there is only one category for papers – there is no
distinction between full and short papers. The acceptance for
publication will be partly based on the contribution per page of the
paper. For example, a paper in six pages will be expected to have more
contribution than one with four pages. Material simultaneously submitted
to ISMAR 2012 and another venue will be rejected without review. Please
see the web site at http://ismar.vgtc.org/ for full details.

* Workshops

ISMAR 2012 will have a series of workshops the day before the conference
to cover innovative applications and newly emerging areas of MR/AR.
ISMAR 2012 workshops are a complementary forum to the main conference.
We invite you to submit workshop proposals with pioneering research and
fresh application areas at themes from both Science & Technology as well
as Arts, Media, & Humanities tracks. Please visit http://ismar.vgtc.org/
for detailed information on workshop proposals.

* Panels

We welcome panel proposals that address current challenges and
opportunities in fields related to ISMAR, in a format that engages the
audience in ways not possible in standard presentation formats.

* Informative Tutorials

The purpose of the tutorials is to expand the knowledge of the AR/MR
community. Topics can range from introductory for AR/MR novices to
highly technical for AR/MR researchers. We invite individuals or teams
interested in presenting a tutorial to submit proposals.

* Demonstrations and Exhibits

ISMAR 2012 will provide exhibition space for demonstrations of MR/AR to
the community. These demonstrations can take the shape of live,
interactive demos, lab/corporate exhibitions, interactive art
exploration, or combination of these.

* Tracking Competition

The first Tracking Competition at ISMAR’08 caught much attention. For
ISMAR 2012, we will continue this tradition in collaboration with
Georgia Tech’s Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines.

* Important Deadlines *

Paper and Poster Abstracts – ** Required **: May 18, 23:59 US Pacific Time
Paper and Poster Submission : May 25, 23:59 US Pacific Time
Notification for Papers and Posters: Aug 8
Camera-ready copy: Sept 7

Workshop Proposals : April 10
Tutorial & Panel Proposals : June 15
Demonstrations : August 10
Art Exhibits: August 10
Tracking Competition: TBA

* Further Information *

Visit the website at http://ismar.vgtc.org/ for detailed information on
– Submission guidelines for the different categories
– Author guidelines and formatting instructions for S&T and AMH programs
– Reviewing guidelines

* Organization and Contact *

If you have further questions, feel free to email info@ismar12.org, or
contact the appropriate chairs at the email addresses given below.

General chairs: general_chairs@ismar12.org
Blair MacIntyre, Georgia Tech
Greg Welch, University of Central Florida

Science and Technology chairs: scitech_chairs@ismar12.org
Maribeth Gandy, Georgia Tech
Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Osaka University
Gerhard Reitmayr, TU Graz

Arts, Media and Humanities chairs: amh_chairs@ismar12.org
Jay Bolter, Georgia Tech
Henry Duh, NUS
Sean White, Nokia

Workshop chairs: workshops_chairs@ismar12.org
Denis Kalkofen, TU Graz
Carson Reynolds, University of Tokyo
Hartmut Seichter, TU Graz

Tutorials and Posters chairs: tutorials_chairs@ismar12.org
Matt Adcock, CSIRO, Australia
John Quarles, UTSA
Andreas Simon, FHRW

Demonstration chairs: demos_chairs@ismar12.org
Winyu Chinthammit, HIT Lab AU
Iulian Radu, Georgia Tech

Tracking competition chairs: tracking_chairs@ismar12.org
Changhyun Choi, Georgia Tech
Henrick Christensen, Georgia Tech
Manuel Huber, TU Munich

* Venue *

ISMAR 2012 will be held November 5-8, 2012 at the Georgia Tech Hotel and
Conference Center, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The hotel is located on the
Georgia Tech campus in midtown Atlanta, providing a central location and
all facilities for the conference.

http://www.gatechhotel.com/

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http://ipta12.ibisc.univ-evry.fr/

October 15-18, 2012 Instanbul, Turkey

Overview

========

With the growth of Internet and the advances in computer power, computer vision techniques are developing at impressive rates. 

Although most of the existing approaches are mainly focused at achieving high accuracy, efficiency is still a major concern of

the whole machine vision community. The development of efficient techniques that perform either on-the-fly or in real-time in 

almost all the fields of computer vision from image formation to image coding to image analysis to multimedia processing makes

the design/adoption of high performance solutions a pressing demand. Moreover, the application of high performance computing (HPC)

to computer vision field is straightforward, due to the inherent parallelism of images, as demonstrated by the fact that computer 

vision has been one of the most common areas of HPC application.

The main limit to the development of HPC applications to image process- ing/computer vision has been the lack of an acknowledged market. 

With the development of emerging technologies such as GPU and multicore CPUs, this is rapidly changing and we expect an exponential increase

in computer vision applications using HPC. In fact, the ability of developing effective computer vision methods that also provide scalable 

and efficient processing solutions is becoming more and more an attractive and innovative R&D area for its potential applicability in several

scientific, technological and industrial sectors.

The goal of this special session is two fold. First we aim to present and report on the following topics: High-Performance Computing, 

parallel and distributed algorithms/systems, parallel languages, hybrid parallel programming with GPUs and accelerators, Grid, Cluster 

and Cloud for computer vision methods. Second, it is aimed at bringing together practitioners and researchers both in computer vision 

and in HPC and in multimedia research to share ideas and experiences in designing and implementing HPC solutions for improving efficiency 

of computer vision applications, thus promoting interdisciplinary research between computer vision, HPC and multimedia research

Topics of interest

==================

The list of possible topics includes, but is not limited to, the application of High-Performance Computing, 

Parallel and Distributed Systems, Multicore programming, Hybrid Parallel Programming with GPUs and Accelerators, 

Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing in the following fields of computer vision:

* Image Formation, Image Enhancement and Restoration

* Image and Video Analysis 

* Image and Video Understanding 

* Motion, Tracking and Stereo Vision

Important dates

===============

Regular paper submissions: March 26th 2012

Regular papers notification: May 14th 2012

Final Paper Submission and Registration: June 1st 2012

Date of the conference: October 15-18, 2012

Paper Submission

================

Authors should submit a paper in English of up to 6 A4 format pages, according to the IPTA 2012 procedure.

All accepted papers and presented by one of the authors will be indexed by IEEE Xplore, published in conference 

proceeding under an ISBN reference and in CD-ROM support.

The best THREE (3) papers will be published in ongoing/upcoming issue of the International Journal of Image Processing.

Extended versions of selected papers will be also published in special issues of a ISI HPC international journal. 

Special Session Organisers

==========================

* Concetto Spampinato, University of Catania, Italy

* Tommaso Mazza, Bioinformatics unit – Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, Italy

* Marco Aldinucci, University of Turin, Italy

Please contact us at ipta_hpc2012@dieei.unict.it

Program committee

=================

* Jenny Benois-Pineau (France)

* Gabriella Sanniti di Baia (Italy)

* Roberto Barbera (Italy)

* Fang-Pang Lin (Taiwan)

* Bob Fisher (UK)

* Vasileios Mezaris (Greece)

* Anna Rue Borsch (Spain)

* Bas Boom (UK)

* Paolo Ballarini (France)

* Davide Prandi (Italy)

* Marco Grangetto (Italy)

* Marco Fargetta (Italy)

* Sotirios Tsaftaris (Italy)

* Marco Danelutto (Italy)

* Isaak Kavasidis (Greece)

* Simone Palazzo (Italy)

The Image Mining Group is a group of scientists and software engineers in charge of developing specific methods, algorithms and software applications in tight collaboration
with biologists during assay development. The successful candidate would contribute with image processing methods that – combined with multivariate modeling – characterize and identify unique visual phenotypic features that describes a biological change in
cells.

The successful candidate should have extensive knowledge about one or more of the following (or related) fields: Image Processing; Analysis and Understanding; Multivariate
Statistics; Classification; Machine Learning; and Signal Processing.  S/He should also have a Ph.D. degree in one of the following (or related) fields: Computer Science; Pattern Recognition; Image Processing/Analysis; Applied Mathematics; or (Multivariate)
Statistics.  Previous experience in collaboration with cell biologists would be a plus, especially in image analysis.  Fluency in English is required as it is the working language of the institute.This
position comes with an attractive salary and benefits package.

How to apply

To apply for this position, detailed Curriculum Vitae with contact information of three references, and a letter describing your past research experience and your motivation
should be submitted electronically to recruit@ip-korea.org.
Please indicate “Application for Post-doc/ Scientist in Image Mining” in subject of your email. Applications should be written in English. We will only be able to contact those candidates who we will invite for interviews.

  for Ground Truth Collection in Computer Vision Applications   Workshop at AVI2012 – Capri, Italy, May 21-25, 2012   http://vigta2012.dieei.unict.it/   Overview   ========   The importance of having image/video database containing high quality   ground truth annotations generated by humans for a variety of computer   vision applications is recognized by the whole machine vision   community. Indeed, one of the most significant efforts during the   evaluation process is represented by the development of accurate truth   and comparing this truth to the decision of image and video processing   applications.  For example, datasets with ground truth labels are   necessary for supervised learning of object categories. However, the   cost of providing labelled data, which implies asking a human to   examine images and provide labels, becomes impractical as training   sets grow. The computer vision community has mainly directed its   attention to develop methods for collecting large scale datasets by   exploiting the collaborative effort of a large population of   annotators. Although there exist functional, task-oriented   requirements for tools supporting ground truth labeling,   the research still lacks in following human computer interaction   paradigm to develop user-oriented tools. In fact, annotators, must be   at the centre of such tools since the ground truth needs to be   established by humans who, for example, on a video sequence of five   minutes captured at 30 fps, have to annotate manually   a total of 9000 frames. Therefore, tools for ground truth annotation   must be user-oriented, providing advanced visual interfaces able to   speed-up the process of ground truth creation by helping users,   through the integration of computer vision methods and multi-users   ground truth annotations, to finish the task in a reasonable amount of   time with less effort.   The workshop aims at bringing together practitioners and researchers   both in computer vision and in HCI and in multimedia research to share   ideas and experiences in designing and implementing visual interfaces   for ground truth data generation, thus promoting interdisciplinary   research between computer vision, HCI and multimedia research.   Topics of interest   ==================   The list of possible topics includes, but is not limited to:   * Adaptive and multimodal interfaces   * Comparative analysis of existing tools   * Interactive and Collaborative Interfaces   * Mobile and Web 2.0 Interfaces   * Computer vision methods supporting automatic or semi-automatic   machine tagging for ground truth data annotation   * Incorporation of Semantic Data in Interfaces   * Web Semantic approaches for ground truth representation and sharing   * Tools and Applications   Important dates   ===============   * Deadline for paper submission: March 22, 2012.   * Notification of acceptance: April 08, 2012   * Camera Ready Paper and Registration: April 15, 2012   * Date of the workshop: May 21, 2012   Submission   =========   Submissions to VIGTA 2012 workshop must be original and have not been   published or submitted elsewhere. All papers must be written in English.   The submissions will be reviewed in a double-blind procedure by at   least two members of the Program Committee. The papers must contain no   information identifying the author(s) or their organization(s).   All papers must strictly have page limit of 6 pages, which conforms to   the ACM SIG Proceedings format   (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html).   To submit your research paper, please send it to vigta2012@dieei.unict.it   All accepted papers will be published on the workshop website.   Extended versions of selected papers will be published in special   issues of international journals.   Workshop Organizers   ===============   * Concetto Spampinato, University of Catania, Italy   * Bas Boom, University of Edinburgh, UK   * Jiyin He, Center of Mathematics & Informatics (CWI), the Netherlands   Please contact us at vigta2012@dieei.unict.it   Program committee   ===============  * Emmanuelle Beauxis-Aussalet, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (Netherlands)  * Bob Fisher, University of Edinburgh (UK)  * Lynda Hardman, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (Netherlands)  * Xuan Huang, University of Edinburgh (UK)  * Isaak Kavasidis, University of Catania (Italy)  * Vasileios Mezaris, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (Greece)  * Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (Netherlands)  * Simone Palazzo, University of Catania (Italy)  * Jenny Benois-Pineau, University Bordeaux (France)  * Anna Bosch Rue, University of Girona (Spain)  * Simona Ullo, IIT – Genova (Italy)

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

H-DIBCO 2012 –
Handwritten Document
Image
Binarization Contestin conjunction with the 13th International
Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR’12), September 18-20,
2012, Bari, Italy.

http://utopia.duth.gr/~ipratika/HDIBCO2012/

Document image binarization is an important step
in the document image analysis and recognition pipeline. In this respect, it is
imperative to have a benchmarking dataset along with an objective evaluation
methodology to capture the efficiency of current document image binarization
methodologies. Following the success of DIBCO series (DIBCO 2009 organised in
conjunction with ICDAR’09, H-DIBCO 2010
organized in conjunction with ICFHR 2010 and DIBCO 2011 organised in
conjunction with ICDAR’11) the follow-up of this contest is organised in
conjuction with ICFHR 2012. In H-DIBCO 2012
(Handwritten Document Image Binarization Contest), the general objective is to
record recent advances in handwritten document image binarization using
established evaluation performance measures. The benchmarking dataset that will
be used in the contest will augment the existing dataset of the DIBCO series
containing handwritten document images that are representative of the potential
problems which are challenging in the binarization process.

All researchers in the field of
Document Image Binarization are invited to register and participate in
H-DIBCO 2012. An agreement will be signed by the participants and the organizers
in order to protect the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of the submitted
software. The description of the methods and the evaluation scores will be
presented during a dedicated ICFHR 2012 session. A report on the competition
will be published in the ICFHR 2012 conference proceedings. At the end of the
competition, the testing dataset along with the required program to run the
evaluation measures will become publicly available.

Note: You may participate in this contest
even if you do not plan to attend the ICFHR 2012 conference.

Important
Dates

Registration is open due to 23/3/2012Submission of
executables due to 30/3/2012

The H-DIBCO 2012 Organizing
Committee

I.
Pratikakis1, B.
Gatos2 and K.
Ntirogiannis2

1Democritus
University of Thrace, Greece

2National Center
for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Greece

Robust Vision Challenge for Stereo and Optical Flow