Figure 1: Scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Left: catalyst section with cracks and inclusions. Right:
polymer-charged concrete (©Florent Moreau, IFP Energies nouvelles).
Call for interest: Special session proposal on
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
ICIP 2014 (Paris-La Défense):
http://www.icip2014.com/
The International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, is the premier forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied image and video processing. ICIP 2014, the 21st in the series that has been held annually since 1994, brings together leading engineers and scientists in image and video processing from around the world.
Materials science is evolving from materials discovered by chance to made-to-measure materials, that repair themselves, adapt to their environment, capture and store energy or information, help elaborate new devices, etc. Materials are now designed from scratch with initial blueprints, as formerly for buildings or electronic circuits, starting from atoms and molecules. This evolution, at the confluence of science, technology, and engineering, is driven by the synergy of materials science and physics, mechanics, chemistry, biology and engineering, with image processing being a part of the challenge.
Indeed, designing, analyzing and modeling materials from images (or generally two-dimensional modalities) yields important contributions. Their appearance changes significantly with imaging techniques, depending both on imaging settings, scale of analysis, physical properties and preparation of materials. Understanding these aspects turns out to be crucial for material analysis and modelization.
In particular, we face challenges regarding the characterization of the physical formation process of materials, the formation process of images, of imaging techniques interacting with materials (geometry, transmission, illumination, reflection, scattering). Answering these problematics is important to separate the material appearance from intrinsic morphology and properties.
The purpose of this special session is to report on recent progresses performed and emerging trends material analysis and modelization through image processing, in the course of a special issue to be proposed to ICIP 2014 organizing committee.
Interested contributors are suggested to send a white paper (up to 3 pages) with authors’ names, title, abstract, key results and references to the organizers by November 1, 2013 (pdf format preferred). A selection will be performed based on the relevance of contributions to propose 6 papers to the special session. Other contributions are encouraged to be submitted to ICIP 2014.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):