SinFra’09 - Singaporean-French IPAL Symposium 18–20 February 2009, Fusionopolis, Singapore Tutorials and Scientific Sessions Image Perception, Access & Language Lab http://ipal.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/SinFra09/index.htm Supported by IPAL organizations: CNRS – French National Research Center UJF – University of Joseph Fourier, France NUS – National University of Singapore I2R / A*STAR – Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Keynote Lectures: Dr Joseph SIFAKIS Verimag, UJF, France 2007 A.M. Turing Award Winner Prof. Tat-Seng CHUA NUS SoC, Singapore This Singaporean-French Symposium aims to strengthen existing research collaboration between French and Singapore scientists, and to explore and develop new collaboration in IPAL. SinFra’09 welcomes researchers and collaborators under IPAL organizations and those who wish to collaborate with IPAL. The symposium proposes Tutorials and Scientific Sessions in relevant Singaporean – French common interest fields, related to the present and possible future activities in IPAL. We seek submissions of high-quality, original work in the following areas: Actual Areas of Collaboration New Potential Areas of Collaboration • Medical Image Analysis and Access − medical image analysis and quantification, computeraided diagnosis, surgery planning and simulation, optical and ultrasound imaging, elastography. • • • • • • • • • Mobile Information Access − scene modeling & recognition, mobile HCI, contextual information retrieval, augmented reality, mobile gaming. Tutorials • Test Collections for still images retrieval Dr Philippe MULHEM, LIG, UJF, Grenoble, France • Quantum Informatics Dr Iordanis KERENIDIS, CNRS, LRI, Univ. Paris Sud • Medical Image Analysis A/Prof. Wee-Kheng LEOW, NUS, SoC, Singapore Interactive digital media Cognitive vision and audio Video surveillance and security Real-time / embedded systems Media and sensors networks Programming languages Language-based security Quantum Informatics • Protection of Visual Data by Encryption and Watermarking A/Prof. William PUECH, LIRMM, Univ. Montpellier, France • Computer-Aided Provable Security Prof. Yassine LAKHNECH, Verimag, UJF, Grenoble, France • Video Surveillance and Security Prof. Mohan KANKANHALLI, NUS, SoC, Singapore Registration: http://ipal.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/SinFra09/registration.htm Organizing Committee Co-Chairs: Joo-Hwee LIM, Daniel RACOCEANU Assistant: Julie FLOCH Members: Wee Kheng LEOW, Wei Tsang OOI, Sheng GAO, Christian MINIATURA Advisory Board Véronique DONZEAU-GOUGE (CNRS), Yassine LAKHNECH (UJF), Kin Mun LYE (I2R), Lim Soon WONG (NUS) For more details, please contact IPAL Admin. Assistant, Ms. Julie FLOCH Tel: (65) 6408 2542 , Fax: (65) 6779 6458 e-mail: visjf@i2r.a-star.edu.sg Student Non student Tutorials Sessions Early-bird registration (15/01/09) 50 SGD 100 SGD 100 200 120 240 Program Committee Co-Chairs: Wee Kheng LEOW, Daniel RACOCEANU Members: Fréderic ALEXANDRE, Attila BASKURT, Hugues BENOIT-CATTIN, Jenny BENOIS-PINEAU, Isabelle BLOCH, Nicolas CHAILLET, Jean-Pierre CHEVALLET, Yves CHIARAMELLA, Wei Ngan CHIN, Tat-Seng CHUA, Matthieu CORD, Michel DIAZ, Eric FLEURY, Mohan KANKANHALLI, Claude KIRCHNER, Joo-Hwee LIM, Nicolas LOMENIE Laurence NIGAY, Isabelle MAGNIN, Mounir MOKHTARI, Philippe MULHEM, Wei Tsang OOI, Marc POUZET, William PUECH, Miklos SANTHA, Joseph SIFAKIS, David SIMPLOT-RYL, Lonce WYSE, Roger ZIMMERMANN