The first IASTED International Conference on Visual Communications (VC 2008) will allow international experts who work with the scientific and technological implications of vision to meet with other specialists in spatial, photographic, and mobile imaging.

Visual communication is about more than appearances; it is about designing and imagining the future. Issues surrounding visual communication reach from medical imaging for diagnosis to virtual reality for video games and entertainment. Never before have science and art worked so closely together, or with such far-reaching effect.

The VC 2008 conference will highlight expertise in visual communication, image representation, computer vision, image analysis, and pattern recognition. It will also include experts in visual rhetoric and culture, as well as graphic design, photography, and art. VC 2008 is intended for scientists and critics interested in how visual communications can extend all the way from art to the furthest reaches of scientific thought. The conference will include a wide range of discussions, as well as an opportunity for delegates to enter some of their own visual communications – in the form of photography – in a contest designed to find the most innovative eye.

VC 2008 is sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), with the assistance of:

• Technical Committee on Education

In cooperation with the World Modelling and Simulation Forum (WMSF).

Dr. Piet Kommers is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Educational Science and Technology at Twente University and Lector at Fontys University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. His research field is the design and application of media in learning situations.

Topics covered by VC 2008 include, but are not limited to:

• Computer vision
• Pattern recognition
• Visuals in programming
  
• Mime expression and emotion
• Visual culture and archetypes in art
  
• Medical imaging
• Image representation

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