SPECIAL SESSIONS

SPECIAL SESSION TOPICS

1. Security in wireless sensor networks
2. RF Positioning Technologies
3. Computer Vision algorithms using Intelligent Agents
4. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Images Analysis
5. Advances in Biomedical Signal and Image Processing

1. Security in wireless sensor networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are expected to form an integral part of the foreseen ubiquity intelligent, future mobile network and are envisaged to play a key role in the vision of offering mobile, personalised services, in-home and out-doors, whenever and wherever needed. However, security and resilience across WSN, especially across insecure, heterogeneous and multi-administration domains like the augmented home environment, face essential limitations mainly stemming from their infrastructure-less operation and the limited node and network resources. Thus, the design of new protocols and architectures exploiting the available and emerging technologies is dictated. The proliferation of wireless sensor network applications also raises new challenges such as scalability.
The areas of interest for possible contributions include (but are not limited to):
• Security architectures for next generation wireless networks
• Secure routing
• Trust models
• Secure Service Discovery
• Cross-layer security protocol design
• Intrusion Detection Systems
• Identity management and authentication
• Key management
Original papers addressing either the protocol design aspect or the implementation technology aspect are encouraged.
 
Organized by dr. Helen-Cathrine Leligou
Tecnological Educational Institute of Chalkida, Hellas

2. RF Positioning Technologies

RF technologies, a hot research topic over the last decade, is a fast emerging technology in the market world growing at an average annual rate of 33%. A major component in RF applications are the RF positioning technologies on which this session is focused. More particularly, the session aims to bring together researchers from the academic and industry world and to be a discussion forum on the latest scientific and technological advances in RF positioning technologies as well as their research and commercial applications. Topics to be covered may include:
• RTLS
• Two- and three- dimensional tracking
• WiFi Asset Tracking and Tags
• RF positioning in health care
• RFID tags and applications
• GPS positioning & applications
• Positioning in sensor networks
• Signal Processing and RF positioning
 
Organized by dr. Afrodite Ktena
Tecnological Educational Institute of Chalkida, Hellas

3. Computer Vision algorithms using Intelligent Agents

Software agents are computer programs capable of flexible, autonomous action and may support a wide range of different behaviours, defined as rules using for example machine learning algorithms such as neural networks. Agents also, generally, monitor their operating environment and respond to events in a timely fashion, utilising internal scheduling and planning engines to formulate a response.
In this special session, we present recent advances in the area of Artificial Agents Components with respect to several aspects of Image/Multimedia Processing including Computer Vision, Media Annotation, Content based Media retrieval techniques. In particular the first research papers present the recent innovative aspects for a) an on the fly media of multimedia content and b) a distributed metadata tracking algorithm oriented to improve the products supply chain. The other papers involve intelligent agents algorithms for a) evaluation planning combined with computer vision tools, b) for image and associated keywords retrieval, c) industrial planning and d) health monitoring.
As a result this special session will present the new advances in the area of intelligent agents with combined with computer vision tools and machine intelligence algorithms.

Organizers:
Emmanuel Sardis (National Technical University of Athens)
Nikolaos Doulamis (National Technical University of Athens)
Anastasios Doulamis (Technical University of Crete)

4. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Images Analysis

In recent years new achievements have been obtained in the field of SAR image analysis. Additionally new sensors with improved properties (i.e resolution, temporal revisit time, different polarizations, etc.) appeared (TerraSAR-X, CCOSMO-SkyMed, ALOS, RADARSAT-2, SAC-D). New algorithms adapted to the data of these new sensors were developed as well new applications became possible ranging from environmental applications, risk management and damage assessments to military applications. This special session calls for papers that present new research and application results of SAR image analysis in the domain of remote sensing. The papers should be related to the following topics, but are not limited to:
• SAR and InSAR image analysis and applications
• Multimode operation: multiangle, multipolarisation, multfrequency (multispectral) SAR and InSAR
• SAR images and scene modeling
• Inversion and information extraction algorithms: despeckling, superresolution and segmentation
• Modeling and simulation of ocean waves
• Application of SAR images to risk prevention and disaster management
 
Organized by dr. Dusan Gleich
University of Maribor, Slovenia

5. Advances in Biomedical Signal and Image Processing

The proposed special session intends to focus on recent advances in the field of biomedical signal/image processing and bioinformatics which encompasses techniques for the acquisition, processing, classification, and analysis of digital biomedical information. High quality papers in all areas of processing biomedical signals, images, and related information, classification, and analysis of biomedical data, and decision support of clinical processes are solicited. Sample applications include: (1) digital imaging research utilizing modalities ranging from x-ray imaging, NMR and CT, to SPECT and PET, to optical microscopy, to combinations such as PET/NMR; (2) signal processing research utilizing modalities ranging from biomedical data like MRS to biomedical data retrieved from wireless sensors; (3) medical and imaging informatics research, including content-based image retrieval from databases and clinical information infrastructures and knowledge engineering and (3) bioinformatics research, such as correlation of clinical findings with genomic markers.  
Organized by Dr. D.A. Karras
TEI of Chalkida, Hellas

Short CV
Dimitrios A. Karras received his Diploma and M.Sc. Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1985 and the Ph. Degree in Electrical Engineering, from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1995, with honours. From 1990 and up to 2004 he has collaborated as visiting professor and researcher with several universities and research institutes in Greece. Since 2004, after his election, he has been with the Chalkis Institute of Technology, Automation Dept., Greece as associate professor in Digital Systems and Signal Processing as well as with the Hellenic Open University, Dept. Informatics as a visiting professor in Communication Systems (since 2002). He has published more than 50 research Journal papers in various areas of pattern recognition, image/signal processing and neural networks as well as in bioinformatics and more than 140 research papers in International Scientific Conferences. His research interests span the fields of pattern recognition and neural networks, image and signal processing, image and signal systems, biomedical systems, communications, networking and security. He has served as program committee member in many international conferences, as well as program chair and general chair in several international workshops and conferences in the fields of signal, image and automation systems. He is, also, editor in chief of the International Journal in Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering (IJSISE).