SIBGRAPI - Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images is a traditional forum bringing together researchers, students and professionals in Computer Graphics, Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and related areas. The conference is annually promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) through its special interest group on Graphics and Image Processing (CEGRAPI).
The 29th edition of SIBGRAPI will take place in the city of São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil. One of the leading industrial and research centers in Latin America, the city is located in the Paraíba Valley, between the two most active production and consumption regions in the country, São Paulo (80 km) and Rio de Janeiro (320 km). It is the main city of the Metropolitan Region of the Paraíba Valley and the Northern Coast.
In 2016, the conference is being organized by the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) and by the Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE). We are delighted to introduce an exciting program, with six internationally renowned researchers as invited speakers and a honor to the senior researcher, Luiz Velho. Apart from the traditional full-papers track and the workshops of Theses and Dissertations (WTD), Undergraduate Works (WUW) and Works in Progress (WIP), this year we announce three workshops: the Workshop on Industry Applications (WIA), which aims at describing solutions based on graphics, patterns, and images, for industry applied problems; the Workshop on Face Processing Applications (WFPA), which aims at gathering research and technological initiatives that process facial information not only as a key to security but also as a fundamental and singular pattern in human perception, social, medical and forensic contexts; and the Workshop on Pattern Recognition for Earth Observation (WPREO), which aims at providing information about processes occurring at the Earth surface by exploiting airborne and spaceborne sensors data.
We are very grateful to all the chairs for their excellent work leading SIBGRAPI 2016 activities. We also would like to thank the invited speakers and the authors of technical papers, tutorials, and workshops for their invaluable collaboration to the success of SIBGRAPI 2016. Finally, we would like to thank the support from the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), SBC, NVIDIA, IBM, and Google.
We wish all participants a time full of opportunities for sharing their work and learn from others. Welcome to SIBGRAPI 2016!
Fábio Cappabianco, Fabio Augusto Faria, Jurandy Almeida, and Thales Sehn Körting
General Chairs
Welcome to the 2016 SIBGRAPI Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images. This is the 29th edition of the conference that is annually promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) through its special interest group on Graphics and Image Processing (CEGRAPI). This event gathers students, researchers and professionals to exchange experiences and research ideas regarding Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Scientific Visualization.
The conference will be held in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil. This city is one of the leading industrial and research centers in Latin America and is located in the Paraíba Valley, between the two most active production and consumption regions in the country, São Paulo (80 km) and Rio de Janeiro (320 km). It is the main city of the Metropolitan Region of the Paraíba Valley and the Northern Coast.
In 2016, SIBGRAPI will have, for the first time, an alternative track for paper submission to a Special Section in the Computers & Graphics Journal (CAG). The first round of revision for the CAG track was earlier, providing enough time for authors of rejected papers to revise and submit them to the conference main track. In addition, there is an excellent opportunity for publishing industrial based applications, with the return of the Workshop on Industry Applications (WIA) that did not take place since the 2012 SIBGRAPI edition.
This year, we received 138 valid submissions to the conference main track, a significant increase compared to the previous editions, resulting in high quality papers. After the peer-reviewing process, 60 papers were accepted to the conference, leading to a similar acceptance rate of previous editions (43%). We are very grateful to the reviewers that provided important feedback to the authors, either to prepare their camera-ready version or to improve their works.
Welcome to São Jose dos Campos! We hope that SIBGRAPI 2016 will be a great opportunity for participants to discuss their research and create new collaborations.
Daniel Aliaga, Larry S. Davis, Leandro A. F. Fernandes, and William Robson Schwartz
Program Chairs
Tutorials of SIBGRAPI 2016 received proposals in Image Processing (IP) and Pattern Recognition (PR). All tutorials were blindly reviewed by at least two experts in the topic and judged by some criteria as: relevance for the conference, expected size of the audience, potential to attract participants to the conference, originality and qualification of the instructors in the topic of the tutorial. The four accepted tutorials are going to be presented in the first day of the conference (October 4th, 2016), and will be free of charge to all conference attendees. In addition, the authors of the selected tutorials prepared a survey paper in English, in the tutorial’s topic, and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
We would like to thank all authors and the reviewers for the nice performed work! And we wish a very productive day to all attendees!
Laercio Namikawa and Soraia Raupp Musse
Tutorial Chairs
The Workshop of Theses and Dissertations (WTD) aims to motivate discussions among graduate students and experts around the graduate-level research related to the topics covered by the SIBGRAPI. Accepted works are included in the electronic proceedings, formatted in six-page papers and written in Portuguese or in English.
This year, we received 23 submissions. During the review phase, each paper was evaluated by two different referees, leading to 19 final accepted works for poster presentation during the event.
We would like to thank the authors, for their invaluable contribution, and the reviewers, who dedicated a lot of their valuable time in the revision. Finally, we would like to congratulate the local organizing committee and the program committee for their excellent work leading the SIBGRAPI activities.
João Paulo Papa and Ricardo Farias
WTD Chairs
The main goals of the Workshop of Undergraduate Works (WUW) are to motivate undergraduate students involved in research projects on Computer Graphics, Image Processing and Computer Vision to attend the SIBGRAPI conference and to provide opportunities and environment for these students to present and discuss their research among them and with experts in the area. Accepted works are included in the electronic proceedings, formatted in four-page papers and written in Portuguese or in English.
This year, we accepted 15 out of 17 submissions for poster presentation during the event. In the review phase, each paper was evaluated by at least two different referees.
We would like to thank the authors, for their contribution, and the reviewers, who dedicated a lot of their valuable time. Finally, we would like to congratulate the local organizing committee and the program committee for their excellent work leading the SIBGRAPI activities.
Anderson Maciel and Jefersson dos Santos
WUW Chairs
The Workshop of Works in Progress (WIP) provides a forum for discussing ongoing research, development projects, issues on transferring research to industrial applications and general technical information in all areas of Computer Graphics, Image Processing and Computer Vision. We received and accepted 15 ongoing studies to be presented in a poster session. Through the review phase, each work was evaluated by at least two reviewers.
We would like not only to congratulate the authors but also encourage them to deepen their exciting studies. We also thank the reviewers for their important comments. Finally, we would like to acknowledge the local organization committee and the program committee for their excellent work leading the SIBGRAPI activities.
João Paulo Gois and Mauricio Pamplona Segundo
WIP Chairs
The Workshop on Industry Applications (WIA) is a forum dedicated to solutions based on graphics, patterns, and images, for industry applied problems. Contributions feature innovative use of original or known methods and/or tools from interactive graphics and visualization, machine vision, and image processing.
In 2016, WIA receives two invited speakers: Paulo Cavalin, from IBM Research (Brazil), and Leonardo Nunes, from Microsoft’s Advanced Technology Labs (Brazil). This year, we received 5 paper submissions, and each paper was evaluated, double-blind, by at least two reviewers (the majority of them by four reviewers). All of them were accepted and will be presented orally.
We now urge the academic and industrial research communities to attend the workshop, and enjoy this under development environment to showcase research efforts describing visualization and/or graphics-based solutions for applied problems.
We look forward to seeing you at WIA - SIBGRAPI!
David Menotti and Paulo A. V. Miranda
WIA Chairs
We would like to welcome all participants of the 2016 SIBGRAPI Workshop on Face Processing Applications: Biometrics and Beyond (WFPA). The main scope of WFPA is to gather research and technological initiatives that process facial information not only as a key to security, but also as a fundamental and singular pattern in human perception, social, medical and forensic contexts.
We were very pleased and honored to promote this workshop, with the sponsorship of Royal Society (UK) and the participation of the following two invited speakers: Dr. Josh Davis, from the Department of Psychology, Social Work and Counselling of the University of Greenwich, London, UK, and Dr. Ruth Guinsburg, from the Department of Pediatrics, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Both scientists have developed very interesting and multidisciplinary work on face processing applications.
All papers submitted to WFPA were reviewed by at least two program committee members. With their very constructive comments, we were able to accept 8 papers for oral presentation, representing a range of research in the areas of Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Biometrics and Anthropometry.
We would like to express our sincere thanks to all program committee members for their cooperation in the reviewing process and all authors for their time and effort in submitting their work to WFPA. Additionally, we would like to congratulate the local organizing committee and general chairs for their hard work on leading the SIBGRAPI activities.
Carlos E. Thomaz, Gilson A. Giraldi, and Stuart J. Gibson
WFPA Chairs
We would like to welcome all participants of the Workshop on Pattern Recognition for Earth Observation (WPREO). The main objective of this workshop is to stimulate collaboration between the Computer Vision and Remote Sensing communities in Brazil, by putting together researchers from both areas. We expect to encourage new initiatives for automated interpretation of Earth Observation data, and raise knowledge inside the vision community for this highly challenging and quickly evolving field of research with a big impact on human society, economy, industry, and the planet.
In its first edition, the workshop is supported by GRSS, ISPRS and Brazilian Society of Cartography. This year, it will feature four lectures by distinguished researchers, covering different subjects, such as remote sensing image analysis and hyperspectral imaging through unmanned aerial vehicles.
We would also to take this opportunity to acknowledge the tematic workshops chairs and the local organization committee for their support and the excellent work leading the SIBGRAPI activities.
We look forward to seeing you at the Workshop on Pattern Recognition for Earth Observation!
Jefersson dos Santos, Raul Feitosa, and Thales Körting
WPREO Chairs
