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Call for Papers
Vision The 10th International Conference on Information Fusion will be held in Québec City, Canada. Closing the first decade of this series of conferences, Fusion 2007 will be the opportunity to measure the progress and achievements made in Information Fusion over the past ten years, to reflect on the theoretical and technological challenges posed by a world in mutation: asymmetric threats, public security, large volume surveillance, medical diagnosis, humanitarian missions and other related fields.
Conference site Cradle of French civilization in North America, UNESCO world heritage site, Québec City will celebrate its 400th anniversary in 2008. Downtown Québec hosts numerous festivals during the summer season. The Québec City Summer Festival featuring indoor and outdoor performances of local and international artists takes place on 5-15 July 2007. The conference will be held at the hotel Loews Le Concorde. Located between Grande Allée street - known for the diversity of its restaurants - and the Plains of Abraham (Battlefields Park), theater of the decisive battle between the British army led by General Wolfe and the French army under the command of General Montcalm.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Theoretical and Technical Advances Information and knowledge modelling; probabilities and statistics; non-classical set theories; possibility, evidential and other theories; nonclassical logical approaches; graph-based approaches; neural networks; genetic algorithms; artificial life and intelligence; nonlinear estimation and filtering; semiotics and ontologies.
Algorithms and Systems Perception and cognition; detection and tracking; recognition and classification; data association; resource management; image or sensor fusion; database fusion; knowledge-based systems; data mining; distributed systems; system design; measures of performance.
Applications C4ISR; network-centric warfare; networks and communication; robotics and control; autonomous systems; intelligent transportation systems; navigation, positioning and guidance; economy and finance; surveillance and situation analysis; remote sensing; medical and biological diagnosis; decision support; data acquisition and testing; machine vision and learning; security and safety.
Tutorial and special sessions proposals To propose tutorials and special sessions, please submit their title and description, in accordance with the format available on the website. The first day of the conference is devoted to tutorials on information fusion.
Paper submission Prospective authors are invited to submit 6-8 page papers through the online paper submission form . The same review process will be applied to both regular and special session papers.
IMPORTANT NOTE: A completed copyright form is required for all final papers.
Plenary Sessions Each day of conference will begin by a plenary session
- Dr Alain Appriou, ONERA, France
- Dr James Llinas, Center for Multisource Information Fusion, SUNY, Buffalo, USA
- Dr Masatoshi Ishikawa, School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Japan
Important deadlines
| 15 January 2007: | Tutorial and special sessions proposal | |
| 15 February 2007: | Submission of a 6-8 page paper | |
| From April 18 2007: | Notification of acceptance | |
| 1 May 2007: | Early registration | |
| 15 May 2007: | Submission of final papers and speaker registration |
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