Call for Papers for IJCV Special Issue on Stochastic Image Grammars

Original, high-quality submissions are solicited on the topics of interest that include, but are not limited to the following:

• Learning vocabularies of visual primitives and parts
• Stochastic hierarchical models of events, activities, scenes and 2D/3D objects
• Hierarchy of classifiers for categorizing events, activities, scenes, and 2D/3D objects
• Taxonomies of a large number of events, and objects
• Stochastic context-sensitive image grammars
• Statistical and graph-theoretic learning/inference algorithms for image grammars
• Image grammars augmented with semantic relationships (e.g., hyponymy, antonymy, meronymy, etc.) available from lexical databases (e.g., WordNet)
• The use of grammars for image parsing, and generating sentences of image interpretation at different levels of abstraction
• Image databases and benchmarks for learning and evaluating stochastic image grammars

Important Dates:

Submission deadline	September 15, 2009

Submissions should adhere to the same formatting specifications as manuscripts submitted to the IJCV. If preliminary results of the submitted work have been previously published, the new aspects and results of the submission should be clearly stated. When submitting your manuscript to IJCV, please choose the article type: Special Issue on Stochastic Image Grammars.