Special Sessions




Special Session on Visual Media Processing

Visual media analysis is an active research area comprising various fields such as feature extraction and retrieval, media understanding, information hiding and multimedia security. The objective of the special session on Visual Media Processing is to provide a forum for researchers and technologists to present new ideas and contributions in the related areas. Authors should submit their papers online via EDAS Conference Management System. Further instructions for submission are posted at http://acn-conference.org/visionnet2016/submission.html. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings and archived in the ACM Digital Library (ISBN No. 978-1-4503-4301-5). Also, all the papers of the proceedings will be submitted to major database indexers for indexing.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Special Session Organisers

Divya S. Vidyadharan and Soumya T, College of Engineering Trivandrum, India

Important Dates

Full Paper Submission Ends June 20, 2016
Acceptance Notification July 15, 2016
Final Paper Deadline July 31, 2016


Special Session on Advances in Document Processing

Document Analysis is a technique to gather information used in a formal description of the electronic text. It involves recognition of characters, symbols, text, lines, graphics, images, handwriting, signatures, as well as automatic, analysis of overall physical and logical structures of documents. Some of the types of documents are reports, newsletters, information broucher, invitation letters, bussiness plans, bussiness process and procedures, customer contracts, customer suggestions, request for proposals, system specifications, training guides, vision documents, company memos etc.

The various applications of Document Analysis are Security services, Defense organizations, Forensic challenges, Banking, Post offices, Archeological field and historical literature management, Mapping and other geographical applications, weather forecasting, Library automation, reading aids to blind, language processing and multi-media design. By bringing the technology to the process of producing and using documents, one has the opportunity of achieving significant productivity enhancements.  This session highly pore on advances in document image analysis and recognition in meeting the real world problems. 

Authors should submit their papers online via EDAS Conference Management System. Further instructions for submission are posted at http://acn-conference.org/visionnet2016/submission.html. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings and archived in the ACM Digital Library. Also, all the papers of the proceedings will be submitted to major database indexers for indexing.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Special Session Organisers

Dr. V.N. Manjunath Aradhya, Dept. of MCA, S.J. College of Engineering, Mysore, India {aradhya.mysore@gmail.com}

Important Dates

Full Paper Submission Ends June 20, 2016
Acceptance Notification July 15, 2016
Final Paper Deadline July 31, 2016