The goal of this special session is to bring together practitioners and researchers both in computer vision and in HPC and in multimedia research to share ideas and experiences in designing and implementing HPC solutions for improving efficiency of computer vision applications, thus promoting interdisciplinary research between computer vision, HPC and multimedia research. The list of possible topics includes, but is not limited to, the application of High-Performance Computing, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Multicore programming Hybrid Parallel Programming with GPUs and Accelerators, Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing in the following fields of computer vision:

• Image Formation, Image Enhancement and Restoration
• Image and Video Analysis
• Image and Video Understanding
• Motion, Tracking and Stereo Vision

Special Issue

Accepted papers in the special session, presented at the conference by one of the authors, are subject of selection to the following journal: International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, at the SAGE publications (http://hpc.sagepub.com)

Program Committee

Sponsors

The special session sponsored by the EU project fish4Knowledge, http://www.fish4knowledge.eu