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Special Issue on Computational Intelligence in Computer Vision and Image Processing

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Background

Vision in general and images in particular have always played an important and essential role in human life. Nowadays, the field of computer vision and image processing has been applied to a high number of real-world problems ranging from remote sensing to medical imaging, artificial vision, and computer-aided design. Aspects such as the presence of noise in images, image discretization, and orders of magnitude, among others, cause difficulties for the success of the optimization process applied by traditional methods, which are prone to be trapped in local minima. Recently, there is an increasing interest on the application of the evolutionary computation paradigm to this field in order to solve such ever recurrent drawbacks of traditional methods. Specially, evolutionary algorithms have demonstrated their ability as robust approaches to cope with each of the fundamental steps of the computer vision and image processing pipeline (e.g. restoration, segmentation, registration, or tracking). A large number of research activities have arisen in the topic in the last few years including international contributions, book chapters, special sessions in conferences, and special issues in journals.

Mission

Although the number of events bringing together evolutionary computation and computer vision has risen, most of them have been announced in isolation, without a common track to relate them. The new ECVIP Task Force would become an outstanding tool permitting to create a coordinated body to interconnect these kinds of previously developed activities. Individual conferences and other kinds of specific activities only provide limited means to open a fruitful exchange of ideas, transfer of tools, and generation of new research lines, while our objectives require a supervised and integrated series of actions with the participation of recognized researchers. The ECVIP Task Force will provide not only excellent opportunities to keep on organizing the previous activities, especially in the framework of IEEE journals and IEEE supported conferences, but also to define the research agenda for the future in advanced evolutionary algorithms in computer vision and image processing.

Topics

• Evolutionary computer vision

• Evolutionary image processing

• Evolutionary image understanding

• Evolutionary models of vision and cognition

• Computational intelligence in computer vision

• Computational intelligence in image processing

• Computational intelligence in signal processing