1.    Machine Learning, Pattern Analysis, Signal and Image Processing

• Image De-nosing/Restoration/Segmentation/Grouping
• Color and Texture
• Image-Based Modeling
• Shape Representation and Matching
• Shape modeling and encoding
• 3D shape recovery
• Occlusion and shadow detection
• Stereo and multiple view geometry
• Reconstruction and camera motion estimation
• Object Detection/Recognition/Tracking/Categorization
• Face and Gesture Analysis
• Medical Image Analysis
• Feature Selection, Dimensionality Reduction, Manifold Learning
• Active and ensemble learning
• Deep learning
• Transfer learning
• Semi-supervised learning and spectral methods
• Model selection
• Reinforcement learning and temporal model
• Statistical/Kernel Methods and Support Vector Machines

2.    Information security and Anti-Counterfeit

• Digital Watermarking
• Multidimensional Code
• Cryptography
• Network penetration
• Anti-Counterfeit Material
• Internet protocol

3.    Big Data Processing and Application

• Big data storage and management, parallel computing
• Cloud computing
• Ranking and recommendation
• social networks analysis and web mining

4.    Artificial intelligence and Cybernetics

• Robotics & control systems
• Fuzzy Systems and Applications
• Expert and Knowledge-Based Systems
• Cybernetics for Informatics

This conference is technical sponsored by IEEE SMC Society and all accepted full papers should be listed in IEEE Xplore. In addition, revised and extended versions of 25 selected papers will be recommended for publication in special issues of SCI indexed journals.