Call for Papers

Scope and Aim:

In image analysis and pattern recognition, the quality of the input data determines the quality of the output (e.g. accuracy), which is known as the GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out) principle. For a given problem, the input data to any machine learning or data mining algorithm is almost always expressed by a number of features (attributes or variables) showing different properties of the problem. Therefore, the quality of the feature space is a key for successfully solving any image analysis and pattern recognition problem.

Computational intelligence techniques, mainly evolutionary computation, neural networks, and fuzzy logic, have been shown to be effective tools in image analysis and pattern recognition. However, their performance is still limited or influenced when the feature space is of poor quality, which may be that the dimensionality is too high (i.e. the number of features is too big) leading to the "curse of dimensionality", features are not equally important, some features are irrelevant, redundant or even noisy, the original features are not informative enough, the features are not linearly separable, and so on. All these factors may lead to various performance limitations. For example in image classification problems, these will lead to low classification accuracy, a long training time, a complex classifier, etc.

The IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Feature Analysis, Selection, and Learning in Image and Pattern Recognition (FASLIP) aims to offer world-wide academic researchers in those fields as well as people from industry an opportunity to present their latest research and to discuss current developments and applications, besides fostering closer future interaction between members of the academic and industry communities. FASLIP welcomes contributions that investigate the new theories, methods or applications of different computational intelligence paradigms to feature analysis, selection, and learning in solving various image and pattern recognition tasks.

Topics:

• Feature ranking/weighting
• Feature selection
• Feature extraction
• Feature construction
• Dimensionality reduction
• Multi-objective feature selection, construction or extraction
• Feature analysis on high-dimensional and large-scale data
• Analysis on computational intelligence for feature selection, construction, and extraction algorithms
• Evolutionary computation for feature analysis
• Neural networks for feature analysis
• Fuzzy logic for feature analysis
• Hybridisation of evolutionary computation, neural networks, and fuzzy logic for feature selection, construction, and extraction
• Hybridisation of evolutionary computation and machine learning, information theory, statistics, mathematical modelling, etc., for feature analysis
• Feature analysis in classification, clustering, regression, image analysis, and other tasks
• Real-world applications of computational intelligence for feature analysis, e.g. image sequences/analysis, face recognition, gene analysis, biomarker detection, medical data classification, diagnosis, and analysis, handwritten digit recognition, text mining, instrument recognition, power system, financial and business data analysis, etc.

Important Dates:

• Special session proposals: 15th April 2018
• Paper submission: 15th June 2018
• Paper acceptance: 15th August 2018
• Final submission: 15th September 2018
• Early registration: 15th September 2018

Special Session Proposal Submission:

Paper Submission:

Organisers:

Bing Xue
School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand.
Email: Bing.Xue@ecs.vuw.ac.nz
Phone: +64-4-463 5542; Fax: +64-4-463 5045.

Mengjie Zhang
School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand.
Email:Mengjie.Zhang@ecs.vuw.ac.nz

Hisao Ishibuchi
Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan. Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China
Email: hisaoi@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp

Brijesh Verma
School of Engineering and Technology, Central Queensland University, Australia
Email:b.verma@cqu.edu.au

PC Members (TBA)

• Hisao Ishibuchi, Tohoku University, Japan
• Bing Xue, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
• Brijesh Verma, Central Queensland University, Australia
• Mengjie Zhang, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
• Stefano Cagnoni, Universita degli Studi di Parma, Italy
• Krzysztof Krawiec, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
• Zexuan Zhu, Shenzhen University, China
• Kai Qin, RMIT University, Australia
• Kourosh Neshatian, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
• Andy Song, RMIT University, Australia
• Ivy Liu, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
• Lin Shang, Nanjing University, China
• Yi Mei, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
• Zhongyi Hu, Wuhan University, China
• Yue Xue, Nanjjing University of Information Science & Technology, China
• Emrah Hancer, Department of Computer Engineering, Erciyes University, Kayseri 38039, Turkey
• Ben Niu, Shenzhen University, China
• Aaron Chen, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
• Harith Al-Sahaf, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
• Urvesh Bhowan, IBM, Ireland
• Mark Johnston, Worcester University, UK