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<font face="Times New Roman" color="#4F81BD"><span lang="en-US"><strong>Call for Papers</strong></span></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="en-US"><strong>Special session: </strong></span></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#4F81BD"><span lang="en-US"><strong>Metaheuristics for signal and image processing</strong></span></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="en-US"><strong>International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing</strong></span></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="en-US"><strong> (META'2016)</strong></span></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman" color="#4F81BD"><span lang="en-US"><strong>27-31 Oct 2016 Marrakech, Morocco</strong></span></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="en-US"><strong>Scope:</strong></span></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="en-US">The purpose of this session is to provide an overview of the use of metaheuristics optimization algorithms in signal and image processing problems. The application of metaheuristics to image processing has increased
mainly due to the robustness of the approach. Many image analysis tasks like image registration, image classification, image segmentation, have been effectively solved using metaheuristics. Topics of interest include (but are not limited) to the application
of metaheuristics to:</span></font></div>
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<font face="Symbol"><span lang="en-US">·</span></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="en-US">Image segmentation</span></font></div>
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<font face="Symbol"><span lang="en-US">·</span></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="en-US">Image registration</span></font></div>
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<font face="Symbol"><span lang="en-US">·</span></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="en-US">Image reconstruction </span></font></div>
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<font face="Symbol"><span lang="en-US">·</span></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="en-US">Image enhancement</span></font></div>
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<font face="Symbol"><span lang="en-US">·</span></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="en-US">Object recognition </span></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="en-US">For further information (important dates, papers submission), thank you for kindly logging on to the website of the conference: </span></font><a href="http://meta2016.sciencesconf.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="en-US">http://meta2016.sciencesconf.org</span></a><span lang="en-US">/</span></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="en-US">Important dates:</span></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="en-US">- Paper Submission deadline: </span></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#4F81BD"><span lang="en-US">6 May 2016</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="en-US"></span></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="en-US">- Notification of acceptance: </span></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#4F81BD"><span lang="en-US">3 June 2016</span></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="en-US">Looking forward to receive your contributions.</span></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="en-US">Sincerely yours,</span></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="en-US">Patrick Siarry (</span></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="red"><span lang="en-US">siarry@u-pec.fr</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="en-US">)</span></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman">Hamouche Oulhadj (</font><font face="Times New Roman" color="red">oulhadj@u-pec.fr</font><font face="Times New Roman">) </font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="en-US">Ahmed Nasredddine Benaichouche (</span></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="red"><span lang="en-US">ahmed.benaichouche@u-pec.fr</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="en-US">)</span></font></div>
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