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Dear colleagues,

We are organising a special session on

"Imprecision and uncertainty in image processing and analysis”

to be held at the

20th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU 2024) Lisbon (Portugal), July 22-26, 2024 (https://ipmu2024.inesc-id.pt/)

Session topic and goal

This session aims at gathering researchers interested and involved in uncertainty issues in processing and analysis of images, in various applications. The uncertainty (understood in a broad sense) considered here can pertain to data, to knowledge guiding their analysis, to processing steps and to the analysis results. Examples of possible topics include:

• Representation models (including but not limited to deep learning ones), types of uncertainties (epistemic, aleatoric, impre-cision...).

• Reasoning under uncertainties or conflict, approximate reasoning.

• Integration of imprecision, uncertainty and inconsistency in the analysis process, either by repairing, by dealing with them (e.g. as metadata), by ignoring them, etc.

• Evaluation of uncertain results, making them useful to the users.

• Discussion about the necessity or opportunity to quantify uncertainty.

• Applications involving some of the above topics

The theoretical issues are at the core of many IPMU topics. Here the aimof the session would be to address them in the specific context of image analysis,and more generally spatial information processing

Reviewing process

All papers of the special session will undergo the same review and editing process as standard IPMU track papers.

Dates

Paper submission: February 23, 2024 Notification of Acceptance: March 29, 2024 Conference: July 22-26, 2024

Organizers

We would be obliged if you would let us know in case you intend to submit a paper to this session, at your earliest convenience. Any questions or remarks can be addressed to:

Isabelle Bloch, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, LIP6, France (isabelle.bloch@sorbonne-universite.fr) Sébastien Destercke, CNRS, Université de technologie de Compiègne, Heudiasyc, France (sebastien.destercke@hds.utc.fr) Roman Malinowski,Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales, France (roman.malinowski@cnes.fr) Olivier Strauss, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, LIRMM, France (olivier.strauss@umontpellier.fr)