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First Call For Papers
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ACIVS'2001
3rd International Conference on
ADVANCED CONCEPTS FOR INTELLIGENT VISION SYSTEMS
Theory and Applications
Baden-Baden (Germany)
July 30 - August 3, 2001
(in conjunction with the 13th Int. Conf. on
Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics)
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* CONFERENCE SCOPE
ACIVS'2001 is the third of a series of conferences focusing on techniques for
building adaptive, intelligent, safe and secure imaging systems.
Papers are sollicited in the areas of image processing, pattern recognition,
compression and algorithm assessment.
Topics include (but are not limited to):
- Image Processing
(adaptive filtering and image restoration, adaptive segmentation, model-based
algorithms, learning and nonlinear optimization, recurrent networks,
multiresolution and scale-space theory, fractals and multifractals).
- Pattern Recognition
(statistical and structural pattern recognition, robust matching and parsing
algorithms, application of automata and grammars).
- Image and Video Compression Algorithms
(wavelets, vector quantization, fractals, hybrid techniques, semantic image
compression, watermarking).
- Image Quality and Algorithmic Performance Evaluation
(empirical evaluation techniques, image and video quality metrics [objective
and perceptually based metrics], methods [ROC curves, etc.] and professional
applications [medical, military, etc.]).

* PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Scott Acton, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.
Sos S. Agaian, University of Texas, San Antonio, USA.
Mauro Barni, Universita' di Siena, Italy.
Jacques Blanc-Talon, CTA, Arcueil, France.
Philippe Bolon, LAMII, University of Savoie, Annecy, France.
Don Bone, Mediaware Solutions, Canberra, Australia.
Adam Borkowski, IFTP, Warsaw, Poland.
Nikolaos Bourbakis, SUNY, Binghamton, USA.
Horst Bunke, IAM, Bern, Switzerland.
Jennifer Davidson, Iowa State University, Ames, USA.
Edward J. Delp, Purdue University, USA.
Georgy Gimel'Farb, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Daniele Giusto, University of Cagliari, Italy.
Haomin Jin, University of Tokyo, Japan.
Itsuo Kumazawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
Hideo Kuroda, Nagasaki University, Japan.
Bruce Litow, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia.
Hitoshi Maekawa, Saitama University, Japan.
Anamitra Makur, Indian Institute of Science, India.
Masoud Mohammadian, University of Canberra, Australia.
Wojciech S. Mokrzycki, IPIPAN, Warsaw, Poland.
Annick Montanvert, UPMF, Grenoble, France.
Naoya Ohta, Gunma University, Kiryu, Japan.
Andrew P. Paplinski, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Marcin Paprzycki, University of Southern Mississippi, USA.
Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal.
Sylvie Philip, ENSEA, Cergy, France.
Wilfried Philips, Vakgroep TELIN, Gent, Belgium.
Moshe Porat, Dept. of Electrical Eng., Technion, Israel.
Dan Popescu, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia.
Georges Stamon, IARFA, Paris VI University, France.
Wojciech Szpankowski, Purdue University, USA.
Frederic Truchetet, Le2i, Le Creusot, France.
Juan Jose Villanueva, CVC Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.

* IMPORTANT DATES
Expression of interest: December 22, 2000
Tutorials proposal: December 22, 2000
Notification of tutorials acceptance: January 26, 2001
Deadline for paper submission: March 16, 2001
Notification of paper acceptance: May 4, 2001
Camera-ready manuscripts: June 1, 2001
Conference date: July 30/August 4, 2001

* EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
Any person who intends to participate is invited to fill and send a reply
card available at: http://www.etca.fr/CTA/ACIVS01

* CONFERENCE WEB SERVER
Information about the conference can be found at:
http://www.etca.fr/CTA/ACIVS01

* TUTORIAL SUBMISSION
Tutorials are sollicited on the following topics:
- adaptive segmentation
- pattern recognition
- video compression
- watermarking
- algorithmic performance evaluation

* PAPER SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS
All submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the International
Programme Committee; additional reviewers may be consulted if needed. The
papers have to provide sufficient information about the background to the
problem, clearly indicate the original contribution, evaluate the results,
draw conclusions and provide adequate references.
Full regular papers are 5 pages long (including figures) in times 11pt, A4.
There will be an extra cost for any additional page.
We strongly recommend the use of LaTex format; the style macros will be
available soon at the conference web server (see above). Word documents or
other formats are also accepted, but only accompanied by the corresponding
PostScript files. Make sure that PS files are kept within reasonable limits.
The papers can be sent by e-mail to either member of the steering committee.
* PROCEEDINGS
All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings.
Selected papers will be considered for publication in a book series.

* STEERING COMMITTEE
Dr Jacques Blanc-Talon Dr Dan Popescu
Geographie-Imagerie-Perception Mathematical and Information Science
CTA/GIP CMIS/CSIRO
16 bis, Av. Prieur de la cote d'or, GPO Box 664
94114, Arcueil, FRANCE Canberra, ACT 2601, AUSTRALIA
Jacques.Blanc-Talon@etca.fr Dan.Popescu@cmis.csiro.au



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Prof. Dr. D.D.Giusto
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e-mail: ddgiusto@unica.it - ddgiusto@ieee.org

url: http://www.diee.unica.it/~pytheas

ph: +39-070-675-5896/5866 - fax: +39-070-675-5900
mobile: +39-348-8757022 (RAM_CNIT: 302)

mail: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
University of Cagliari, Piazza d'Armi, Cagliari 09123 Italy
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