General Chair

Aurelio Campilho, University of Porto, Portugal  

  General Co-chair

Mohamed Kamel, University of Waterloo, Canada  

  Local Organizing Committee

Ana Maria Mendonça, University of Porto, Portugal
Jorge Alves Silva, University of Porto, Portugal
Pedro Quelhas, INEB - Biomedical Engineering Institute, Portugal
Gabriela Afonso, Secretariat

  Conference Secretariat

Viagens Abreu SA

Av. dos Aliados nr. 207
4000-067 Porto
Portugal

Telefone: + 351 22 2043570
Fax: +351 22 2043693
Email: congresses.porto@viagensabreu.pt

  Advisory Committee

Majid Ahmadi	University of Windsor	CA
Prabir Bhattacharya	Concordia University	CA
Tien Dai Bui	Concordia University	CA
Mohamed Cheriet	University of Quebec	CA
Vito Di Gesú	Università degli Studi di Palermo	IT
Eric Dubois	University of Ottawa	CA
Zoran Duric	George Mason University	US
Masakazu Ejiri		JP
Gösta Granlund	Linköping University	SE
Ling Guan	Ryerson University	CA
Michal Haindl	Institute of Information Theory and Automation	CK
Edwin Hancock	The University of York	GB
Jelena Kovacevic	Carnegie Mellon University	US
Murat Kunt	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)	CH
Jorge Padilha	University of Porto	PT
Konstantinos N. Plataniotis	University of Toronto	CA
Alberto Sanfeliu	Technical University of Catalonia	ES
Mubarak Shah	University of Central Florida	US
Maher Sid-Ahmed	University of Windsor	CA
Ching Y. Suen	Concordia University	CA
Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos	University of Toronto	CA
Max Viergever	University of Utrecht	NL
Bhagavatula Vijayakumar	Carnegie Mellon University	US
Juan Villanueva	UAB, Barcelona	ES
Rabab Ward	University of British Columbia	CA
David Zhang	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	HK

  Program Committee

Wael Abd-Almageed	University of Maryland	US
Pedro M. Q. Aguiar	Institute for Systems and Robotics / Instituto Superior Técnico	PT
Maher Ahmed	Wilfrid Laurier University	CA
Naif A. Alajlan	King Saud University	SA
Javad Alirezaie	Ryerson University	CA
Dimitri Androutsos	Ryerson University	CA
Helder Araujo	University of Coimbra	PT
Nafiz Arica	Turkish Naval Academy	TR
Teresa Barata	Instituto Superior Técnico	PT
Jorge Barbosa	University of Porto	PT
John Barron	University of Western Ontario	CA
Otman Basir	University of Waterloo	CA
Jorge Batista	University of Coimbra	PT
Christian Bauckhage	York University	CA
Alexandre Bernardino	IST	PT
Prabir Bhattacharya	Concordia University	CA
Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau	École Polytechnique de Montréal	CA
Jose Bioucas	Instituto Superior Técnico	PT
Boubakeur Boufama	University of Windsor	CA
Tien Dai Bui	Concordia University	CA
Jaime Cardoso	INESC	PT
Eva Cernadas	University of Vigo	ES
Farida Cheriet	École Polytechnique de Montréal	CA
Mohamed Cheriet	University of Quebec	CA
Miguel Coimbra	University of Porto	PT
Miguel Correia	University of Porto	PT
Luís Corte-Real	University of Porto	PT
João Paulo Costeira	Instituto Superior Técnico	PT
Amer Dawoud	University of South Alabama	US
Vito Di Gesú	Università degli Studi di Palermo	IT
Jorge Dias	University of Coimbra	PT
Fadi Dornaika	Institut Geographique National (IGN)	FR
Zoran Duric	George Mason University	US
Mahmoud El-Sakka	University of Western Ontario	CA
Reza Fazel	University of Manitoba	CA
Marco Ferretti	Università degli studi di Pavia	IT
Paul Fieguth	University of Waterloo	CA
Mário Figueiredo	Instituto Superior Técnico	PT
Ana Fred	Instituto Superior Técnico	PT
George Freeman	University of Waterloo	CA
Raymond Yun Fu	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	US
Vicente Grau	University of Oxford	GB
Michael Alan Greenspan	Queen's University	CA
Massimo de Gregorio	Istituto de Cibernetica	IT
Ling Guan	Ryerson University	CA
François Guibault	École Polytechnique de Montréal	CA
Michal Haindl	Institute of Information Theory and Automation	CK
Edwin Hancock	The University of York	GB
Cheung King Hong	Hong Kong Polytechnic	HK
Kaiqi Huang	Chinese Academy of Sciences	CN
Benoit Huet	Institut Eurecom	FR
Jianmin Jiang	University of Bradford	GB
Joaquim Jorge	INESC-ID	PT
Joni-Kristian Kamarainen	Lappeenranta University of Technology	FI
M-Tahar Kechadi	University College Dublin	IE
Gul Khan	Ryerson University	CA
Yasuyo Kita	National Institute AIST	JP
Adams Kong	Nanyang Technological University	SG
Adam Krzyzak	Concordia University	CA
Matthew Kyan		CA
Jorma Laaksonen	Helsinki University of Technology	FI
Robert Laganière	University of Ottawa	CA
Qi Li	Western Kentucky University	US
Rafael Dueire Lins	Universidade Federal de Pernambuco	BR
Laura Liu	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	HK
Juan Valentín Lorenzo-Ginori	Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas	CU
Guangming Lu	Harbin Institute	CN
Rastislav Lukac	University of Toronto	CA
Alamin Mansouri	Université de Bourgogne	FR
Andre Marcal	University of Porto	PT
Jorge Marques	Instituto Superior Técnico	PT
Mahmoud Melkemi	Univeriste de Haute Alsace	FR
Ana Maria Mendonça	University of Porto	PT
Jean Meunier	University of Montreal	CA
Oleg Michailovich	University of Waterloo	CA
Max Mignotte	University of Montreal	CA
Antonio Miguel Monteiro	University of Porto	PT
Samar Mohamed	University of Waterloo	CA
Paisarn Muneesawang		TH
Armando Padilha	University of Porto	PT
Pierre Payeur	University of Ottawa	CA
Francisco J. Perales	Universitat de les Illes Balears	ES
Fernando Pereira	Instituto Superior Técnico	PT
Nicolás Peres de la Blanca	University of Granada	ES
Euripides Petrakis	Technical University of Crete	GR
Pedro Pina	Instituto Superior Técnico	PT
Armando J. Pinho	University of Aveiro	PT
J. Caldas Pinto	Instituto Superior Técnico	PT
Filiberto Pla	Universitat Jaume I. Castelló	ES
Konstantinos N. Plataniotis	University of Toronto	CA
Pedro Quelhas	Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica	PT
Maria Paula Queluz	Instituto Superior Técnico	PT
Tamer Rabie	University of Toronto	CA
Petia Radeva	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	ES
Bogdan Raducanu	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	ES
Vitorino Ramos	Instituto Superior Técnico	PT
Eraldo Ribeiro	Florida Institute of Technology	US
Luis Rueda	University of Concepcion	CL
Faramarz Samavati	University of Calgary	CA
João Sanches	Instituto Superior Técnico	PT
Javier Sánchez	University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	ES
Beatriz Sousa Santos	Instituto de Engenharia Electrónica e Telemática de Aveiro	PT
Angel Sappa	Computer Vision Center (CVC)	ES
Gerald Schaefer	Aston University	GB
Paul Scheunders	University of Antwerp	BE
Jean Sequeira	Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Luminy	FR
Jialie Shen	Singapore Management University	SG
Augusto Silva	University of Aveiro	PT
Jorge Silva	University of Porto	PT
Natasa Sladoje	University of Novi Sad	RS
Bogdan Smolka	Silesian University of Technology	PL
Mingli Song	Hong Kong Polytechnical University	HK
João Sousa	Instituto Superior Técnico	PT
Herbert Suesse	Friedrich-Schiller University Jena	DE
Shamik Sural	Indian Institute of Technology	IN
Alberto Taboada-Crispí		CU
Gabriel Thomas	University of Manitoba	CA
Dirk Vandermeulen	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	BE
Mario Vento	Università di Salerno	IT
Jordi Vitria	Computer Vision Center, Barcelona	ES
Yvon Voisin	Universiti de Bourgogne	FR
Edward Vrscay	University of Waterloo	CA
Liang Wang	University of Melbourne	AU
Zhou Wang	University of Waterloo	CA
Yi Wei	University of Waterloo	CA
Michael Andrew Wirth	University of Guelph	CA
Jonathan Wu	University of Windsor	CA
Fatos Yarman-Vural	Middle East Technical University	TR
Yuan Yuan	Aston University	GB
John Zelek	University of Waterloo	CA
Tianhao Zhang	Shanghai Jiaotong University	CN
Guoyan Zheng	University of Bern	CH
Huiyu Zhou	Queen Mary College	GB
Djemel Ziou	University of Sherbrooke	CA