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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MACHINE VISION APPLICATIONS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">The eighteenth International Conference on Machine Vision Applications will be held at ACT CITY Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan from July 23 through 25, 2023. The conference is sponsored by the MVA Organization, co-organized
by IEICE PRMU and IPSJ SIG-CVIM, and endorsed by IAPR.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">The deadline is approaching, so we would like to inform you again.<br>
We look forward to your submission.<br>
Full Paper (4 pages) Submission Deadline: March 31, 2023<br>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry, and to stimulate the exchange of knowledge through intensive discussions on the cutting-edge research topics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Topics-of-interest include, but are not limited to, sensing, algorithms, and applications (Factory automation and robotics, Intelligent Transport Systems, Human computer interaction, biomedical, multimedia, and life)
concerning the image media.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Papers should be prepared in the designated format in four pages, and submitted electronically by the deadline.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Accepted papers will be presented in English either as an oral presentation or a poster presentation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Note that at least one author of an accepted paper must present their work at the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">If you have a reason such as illness or difficulty traveling, we allow you to participate online as well.<br>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Details can be found in the MVA2023 Web site or our twitter and facebook.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.mva-org.jp/mva2023/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://www.mva-org.jp/mva2023/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://twitter.com/MVA_ORG/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://twitter.com/MVA_ORG/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Mva-org/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://www.facebook.com/Mva-org/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Important Dates:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Full Paper (4 pages) Submission Deadline: March 31, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Notification of Acceptance: June 13, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Camera Ready Manuscript Deadline: July 4, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">And, we are pleased to announce MVA2023 IAPR Invited speakers and tutorial speakers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">IAPR Invited speakers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Dima DAMEN (Univ. of Bristol, UK)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Chung-Chieh Jay KUO (Univ. of Southern California, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Kensaku MORI (Nagoya Univ., Japan)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Tutorial spearkers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Michael S. Ryoo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> (SUNY Empire Innovation Associate Professor, Stony Brook University, USA.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> Staff Research Scientist, Robotics at Google, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Shunsuke Saito <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> (Research Scientist, Reality Labs Research (Pittsburgh), USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Contact:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">MVA2023 Organizing Committee (mva2023-sec-AT-mva-org.jp)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">General Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Kyoko Sudo (Toho University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Shunsuke Kudo (The University of Electro-Communications)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Program Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Ichiro Ide (Nagoya University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Wei-Ta Chu (National Cheng Kung University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Callenge</span>$B!'(B<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">In conjunction with MVA2023, we host the Small Object Detection Challenge for Spotting Birds.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">This challenge focuses on Small Object Detection (SOD) problem,
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">which is a hot topic in the Computer Vision community in recent years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Please check the details here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> <a href="https://www.mva-org.jp/mva2023/challenge">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://www.mva-org.jp/mva2023/challenge</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">We look forward to your participation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Megumi Chikano<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Fujitsu Ltd.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">E-mail: <a href="mailto:chikano.megumi@fujitsu.com">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">chikano.megumi@fujitsu.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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