The 12th International Conference on Information Fusion will be held in Seattle, Washington, USA, at the Grand Hyatt Seattle Hotel. The objective of the conference is to provide a forum to discuss advances and applications for fusion technologies. The conference will feature keynote speeches, special sessions on topics of current interest, a tutorials program to assist new researchers in the field, and both regular and student paper awards. For this year, the conference theme is "From Low to High Level Information Fusion in the 21st Century!"

Consistent with the quality standards for Fusion 2009, all papers for both regular and special sessions will undergo the same review process. Authors are invited to submit papers describing advances and applications in information fusion, with submission of non-traditional topics encouraged.

For the conference location, the Pacific Northwest is one of the most scenic parts of United States and Seattle is the home of some of the world’s biggest technology companies such as Boeing and Microsoft. Seattle is easily accessible from other parts of North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.

The Grand Hyatt Seattle has been selected as the site of Fusion 2009 as it is nestled conveniently in the heart of downtown's thriving retail and theatre district. Grand Hyatt Seattle redefines luxury, design and technology.