PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
8th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (8TH ICIAP)


                         Centro Congressi Ariston
                              Sanremo, Italy
                           September 13-15, 1995

                     organized by  University of Genova
                                   Elsag Bailey, Genova

   sponsored by International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)


The 8th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing is the
eighth of a series of conferences promoted every second year, since 1981,
by the Italian Chapter of IAPR (the International Association for Pattern
Recognition) as an international forum for presentation and discussion of
the most recent advances in the research field of image analysis and
processing.




GENERAL CHAIRS
C. Braccini       DIST, University of Genova
L. De Floriani    DISI, University of Genova
G. Vernazza       DIBE, University of Genova
                  DIEE, University of Cagliari

SCIENTIFIC CHAIR
G. Garibotto      Elsag Bailey - Genova


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

J.K. Aggarwal, U.S.A.                O. Kuebler, Switzerland
C. Arcelli, Italy                    M. Kunt, Switzerland
V. Cantoni, Italy                    S. Levialdi, Italy
V. Cappellini, Italy                 P. Mussio, Italy
L.P. Cordella, Italy                 T. Pavlidis, U.S.A.
J. Desachy, France                   S. Peleg, Israel
V. Di Gesu', Italy                   V. Roberto, Italy
O. Faugeras, France                  H. Samet, U.S.A.
M. Ferretti, Italy                   A. Sanfeliu, Spain
H. Freeman, U.S.A.                   R. Stefanelli, Italy
C. Guerra, Italy                     S. Tanimoto, U.S.A.
T. Huang, U.S.A.                     A. Venetsanopulos, Canada
S. Impedovo, Italy                   S. Vitulano, Italy
Jwwww. Kittler, U.K.                 P. Zamperoni, Germany
W. Kropatsch, Austria                B. Zavidovique, France


                             TECHNICAL PROGRAM


                            TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
17.00 - 20.00     Registration
     "Colombo" room - Ariston Congress Center

                           WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

8.00 - 9.00     Registration
     "Colombo" room - Ariston Congress Center

9.00 - 9.30     Welcome Address

9.30 - 10.15     Invited Talk

     Texture Analysis: Representation and Matching
     A. Jain
     Michigan State University (U.S.A.)

10.15 - 11.05     Session 1.1: Textures

     Region-based Segmentation of Textured Images
     C. Rouquet, P. Bonton
     CNRS-Universite' B. Pascal - Aubiere (France)

     A New Approach to Image Segmentation
     A. Succi, V. Torre
     Universita' di Genova (Italy)

11.05 - 11.30     Coffee Break

11.30 - 12.45      Session 1.2: Segmentation

     Using Hopfield Networks to Segment Color Images
     P. Campadelli, D.Medici, R.Schettini
     Universita' degli Studi di Milano (Italy)
     ITIM CNR - Milano (Italy)

     The Watershed Transformation for Multiresolution Image Segmentation
     S. Wegner, T. Harms, J.H. Builtjes, H. Oswald, E. Fleck
     Deutsches Herzentrum Berlin (Germany)

     Bounds on the Optimal Parameters of Elasticity of a Snake
     O.V. Larsen, P. Radeva
     Aalborg University (Denmark)
     University of Barcelona (Spain)

12.45 - 14.30        Lunch

14.30 - 15.15     Invited Talk

     Efficient Attributed Graph Matching and Its Application
     to Image Analysis
     H.Bunke
     Universitat Bern  (Switzerland)


15.15 - 16.30      Session 1.3: Matching

     A Bayesian Framework for Matching Delaunay Graphs
     A.M. Finch, E.R. Hancock
     University of York (U.K.)

     An Integrated Approach to Grouping and Matching
     R.C. Wilson, E.R. Hancock
     University of York (U.K.)

     An Adaptive Reject Option for LVQ Classifiers
     L.P.Cordella, C.De Stefano, C.Sansone, M.Vento
     Universita' di Napoli (Italy)

16.30 - 17.00      Coffee Break

17.00 - 18.15      Session 1.4: Shape Features

     A Model-Based Method for Characterization and Location of Curved
     Image Features
     T. Blaszka, R. Deriche
     INRIA Sophia Antipolis (France)

     Estimation of Curvature and Tangent Direction by Median Filtered
     Differencing
     J.Matas, Z.Shao, J.Kittler
     University of Surrey (UK)

     Adaptive Elimination of False Edges
     D. Ziou, S. Tabbone
     University of Sherbrooke - Quebec (Canada)
     CRIN-CNRS/Inria Lorraine (France)


                    POSTER SESSIONS (Wednesday, September 13)

11.30 - 12.45    Poster I: Software and Hardware Architectures for
                Image Processing, Neural Networks

1.1  An Image Processing Library Based on Abstract Image Data Types in C++
     D. Koelma, A. Smeulders
     University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

1.2  Spatio-Temporal Data Management for a 3D Graphical Information System
     M. Maruyama, T. Teroaka, T. Tamada, S. Nishida
         Central Research Laboratory
     Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (Japan)

1.3  PhotoPix: an Object-Oriented Framework for Digital Image Processing
     Systems
     A.A. Souza Sol, A. de Albuquerque Araujo
     Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)


1.4  Behavioural Animation for Virtual Reality
     Ik Soo Lim
     National University of Singapore (Singapore)

1.5  Data Packing vs Processing Speed on Low-Cost Massively Parallel
     Systems: an Image Processing Case Study for Shape Evaluation
     on the PAPRICA System
     A.Broggi
     Universita' di Parma (Italy)

1.6 A New Parallel Method Based on a Genetic Approach for Determination and
    Classification of Skin Spots
    A. Kutics, A. Nakagawa
    The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) (Japan)

1.7 A VSLI Scalable Processor Array for Motion Estimation
    P.Baglietto, M.Maresca, A.Migliaro, M.Migliardi
    Universita' di Genova (Italy)

1.8 Evaluating Digital Angles by a Parallel Diffusion Process
    V. Cantoni, L. Cinque, S. Levialdi, L . Lombardi
    Universita' di Pavia (Italy)
    Universita' di Roma (Italy)

1.9  A Pyramidal Approach to Convex Hull and Filling Algorithms
     M.G. Albanesi, M. Ferretti, L. Zangrandi
     Universita' di Pavia (Italy)

1.10 A Visual Speech Model based on Fuzzy-Neuro Methods
     H.-H. Bothe
     University of Berlin (Germany)

1.11 Edge Detection Filters Based on Artificial Neural Networks
     A. J. Pinho, L. B. Almeida
     Universitade de Aveiro (Portugal)
     INESC - Lisboa (Portugal)

1.12 Use of Cortical Images and Neural Networks in a Self-Learning Image
     Classifier
     N. Petkov
     University of Groningen (The Netherlands)

1.13 A Neural Model to Extract Symbolic Representation for Image
     Understanding
     N. Semmar, C. Fluhr
     INSTN CEN/SACLAY  Gif sur Yvette (France)

1.14 Occluded Object Recognition Using Multiscale Features and Hopfield
     Neural Networks
    J.-S. Lee, C.-H.g Chen, Y.-N. Sun, G.-S. Tseng
     National Cheng Kung University Taiwan (Repulic of China)



17.00 - 18.15   Poster II: Image Coding, Biomedical Image Processing
                           Applications



2.1 A Code-Based Approach to Image Processing Teaching
    A. Biancardi, M. Pini
    Universita' di Pavia (Italy)

2.2  Automatic Video Segmentation Through Editing Analysis
     J. M. Corridoni, A. Del Bimbo
     Universita' di Firenze (Italy)
     Universita' di Brescia (Italy)

2.3  Visual Image Retrieval by Elastic Matching of User's Sketches
     A. Del Bimbo, P. Pala
     Universita' di Firenze (Italy)
     Universita' di Brescia (Italy)

2.4  Finding Facial Features Using the HLS Colour Shape
     P. Ranefall, B. Nordin, E. Bengtsson
     Centre for Image Analysis - Uppsala (Sweden)

2.5  A New and Fast Real-Time Implementation of 2-D DCT
     J. Jiang
     Engineering School - Bolton (U.K.)

2.6 A Hybrid Lossless Compression of Still Images Using Markov Models and
    Linear Prediction
    S. Takamura, M. Takagi
    The University of Tokyo (Japan)

2.7  The Impact of Aliasing and Quantization on Motion Compensation
     C. Stiller
     INRS- Telecommunications - Quebec (Canada)

2.8  Rule-Based Method for Tumor Recognition in Liver Ultrasonic Images
     V. A. Kovalev
     Belarus Academy of Sciences (Belarus)

2.9  An Understanding of Muscle Fibre Images
     C.C.Taylor, M.R. Faghihi, I.L.Dryden
     University of Leeds (U.K.)

2.10 A New Plant Cell Image Segmentation Algorithm
     G. Fernandez, J-P. Zryd, M. Kunt
     Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
     University of Lausanne (Switzerland)

2.11 Extraction of Tumours from Magnetic Resonance Images of the Brain by
     Texture and Clustering
     J. Batista, R. Kitney
     Imperial College of Science, London (U.K.)

2.12 Automatic Identification of Brain Contours in Magnetic Resonance
     Images of  the Head
     F. Bello, R. I. Kitney
     Imperial College of Science, London (U.K.)

2.13 Analysis of the Spatial Arrangement of Cells in the Proliferative
     Breast Lesions
     V. Della Mea, C.A. Beltrami
     Universita' di Udine (Italy)

2.14 Application of Image Processing in Neurobiology: Detection of Low
     Signals with High Spatial Resolution and a Non-uniform Variance
     Y. Chitti
     CNRS UPR, Marseille (France)

2.15 Compute-Assisted Analysis of Echocardiographic Image Sequence
     A. Giacchetti, G. Gigli, V. Torre
     Universita' di Genova (Italy)
     Ospedale di Rapallo - Genova (Italy)

2.16 Tissue Segmentation in MRI as an Informative Indicator of Disease
     Activity In the Brain
     S. Vinitski, C. Gonzalez, C. Burnett,
     S. Seshagiri, F. Mohamed, H. Ortega, S. Faro
     Thomas Jefferson University Hospital - Philadelphia (USA)
     Medical College of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia (USA)

                             THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

9.00 -  9.45       Invited Talk

     Analysis of Scenes Containing Multiple Nonpolyhedral 3D Objects
     L. Shapiro
     University of Washington - Seattle (U.S.A.)

9.45 - 11.00     Session 2.1: Scene Understanding

     Fuzzy Segmentation and Structural Knowledge for Satellite Image
     Analysis
     L. Wendling, M. Zehana, J. Desachy
     IRIT - Toulouse (France)

     Learning How to Find Patterns or Objects in Complex Scenes
     W. F. Bischof, T. Caelli
     University of Alberta (Canada)
     Curtin University of Technology (Australia)

     Adaptive Matching Using Object Models Generated From Photometric
     Stereo Images
     G. Bellaire, K. Schluns, A. Mitritz, K. Gwinner
     Technische Universitat Berlin (Germany)

11.00 - 11.30      Coffee Break


11.30 - 12.45      Session 2.2: Robot Vision

     Sensor Planning Techniques and Active Visual Inspection
     V. Roberto, E. Trucco
     Universita` di Udine (Italy)

     Experimently Self-Calibration from Four Views
     R. Enciso, T. Vieville
     INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (France)

     Vision-Based Navigation in Service Robotics
     G. Garibotto, M. Ilic, S. Masciangelo
     Elsag Bailey - Genova (Italy)

12.45-14.30        Lunch


14.30 - 15.15     Invited Talk

     Breaking Up 3D Objects Into Geons
     M.D. Levine
     McGill University - Montreal (Canada)

15.15 - 16.30  Session 2.3: Digital Topology and Morphology

     Delineation of Elongated Sub-Patterns in a Piecewise Constant
     Foreground
     C. Arcelli, G. Ramella
     Istituto di Cibernetica del C.N.R., Arco Felice - Napoli (Italy)

     On a New  Basic Concept and Topological Invariant
     F. Y. Xia
     University of Macau (Macau)

     Line Moments and Invariants for Rea-Time Processing of Vectorized
     Contour Data
     G. Lambert, H. Gao
     Technische Universitat Darmstadt (Germany)

16.30 - 17.00      Coffee Break


17.00 - 18.15     Session 2.4: Range Images and Acoustic

         Restoration of Noisy Underwater Acoustic Images
     Using Markov Random  Fields
     V. Murino, E. Frumento, F. Gabino
     Universita' di Genova (Italy)

     Plausibilistic Processing of Sparse Range Images
     B. Krebs, B. Korn, F.M. Wahl
     Technische Universitat Braunschweig (Germany)

     Segmentation/Reconstruction of Range Images Based on Piecewise-Linear
     Approximation
     E. Puppo
     Istituto per la Matematica Applicata del CNR, Genova (Italy)


                  POSTER SESSIONS (Thursday, September 14)

11.30 - 12.45  Poster III: Low-Level Image Processing, Segmentation,
                           Matching, and Geometric Reasoning

3.1 In-Place Covariance Operators for Computer Vision
    T. Caelli
    University of Technology, Perth (Australia)

3.2 Boundary Detection for Convex Shapes
    M. Hatimi, M. Salotti
    Universite' des Sciences - Corte' (France)

3.3 Sub-Pixel Registration for Super-High Resolution Image Acquisition
    Based on Temporal Integration
    Y. Nakazawa, T. Komatsu, T. Saito
    Kanagawa University (Japan)

3.4 Robust Features for Textures in Additive Noise
    C. Ottonello, S. Pagnan, V. Murino
    Universita' di Genova (Italy)
    Istituto di Automazione Navale - CNR Genova (Italy)

3.5 Decomposing Contours into Curves of Different Families
    V. Caglioti
    Politecnico di Milano (Italy)

3.6  A Proposal on Local and Adaptive Determination of Filter Scale
     for Edge Detection
     D. Sorrenti
     Politecnico di Milano (Italy)

3.7 On the Detection of Step Edges in Algorithms Based on Gradient
    Vector Analysis
    A. Larre', E. Montseny
     Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - Barcelona (Spain)
     Universitat Rovira i Virgili - Carretera de Salou (Spain)

3.8  Direction Analysis in Grey Levels Images
     S. Bres, H. Emptoz
     Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de Lyon -
     Villeurbanne (France)

3.9 An Unsupervised and Nonparametric Bayesian Image Segmentation
    M. Zribi, F. Ghorbel
    Ecole Nouvelle d'Ingenieurs en Communication
    Villeneuve d'Ascq (France)

3.10 A.I. - Based Image Segmentation Using Average, Entropy and Fractal
     Dimension
     S. Vitulano, C. Di Ruberto, M. Nappi
     Universita' di Cagliari (Italy)

3.11 Quality Enhancement in Image Enlargement
     F.Marino, G. Mastronardi
     Politecnico di Bari (Italy)

3.12 Synthesizing Objects and Scenes Using the Reverse Distance
     Transformation in 2D and 3D
     I. Nystrom, G. Borgefors
     Uppsala University  (Sweden)
     Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sweden)

3.13 Texture Segmentation Using Local Phase Differences in Gabor
     Filtered Images
     A.M. Landraud, S. Oh Yum
     Universite' de la Rochelle - La Rochelle (France)

3.14 Disparity Estimation for Stereo Sequences Based on Adaptive Size
     Hierarchical Block Matching
     M. Accame, F. De Natale
     Universita' di Genova (Italy)

3.15 Matching of Stereo Curves - A Closed-Form Solution
     Y. Zhang, J.J. Gerbrands
     TU Delft (The Netherlands)

3.16 Multi-Polygonal Object Tracking
     G. Tascini, P. Puliti, P. Zingaretti
     Universita' di Ancona (Italy)

3.17 Optimal Parameter Estimation of Ellipses
     Y. Cui, J. Weng, H. Reynolds
     Michigan State University - Lansing (USA)
     Ergonomics Research Lab - Lansing (USA)



17.00 - 18.15 Poster IV: Pattern Recognition, Applications of
              OCR and Document Processing


4.1 A Linear Discriminator for Width
    J.A.F. Leite, E.R. Hancock
    University of York (U.K.)

4.2 Line and Cell Searching in Tables or Forms
    E. Turolla, Y. Belaid, A. Belaid
    CRIN/CNRS, Vandouvre Les-Nancy (France)

4.3 Binarization of Inhomogeneously Illuminated Images
    V.V. Kindratenko, B.A. Treiger, P. Van Espen
    University of Antwerpen (Belgium)

4.4 Pruning Discrete Semicontinuous Skeletons
    D. Attali, G. Sanniti di Baja, E. Thiel
    Equipe TIMC-IMAG - IAM-Domaine de la Merci - La Tronche (France)
    Istituto di Cibernetica - CNR - Arco Felice, Napoli (Italy)

4.5 On Commutative Properties of Halftoning and Their Applications
    Y. B. Karasik
    Carleton University - Ottawa (Canada)

4.6 Combining Resolution and Granularity for Pattern Recognition
    P. Bottoni, L. Cinque, S. Levialdi, L. Lombardi, P. Mussio
    Universita' di Roma (Italy)
    Universita' di Pavia (Italy)

4.7 Describing Words by Graphs
    G. Dimauro, S. Impedovo, G. Pirlo
    Universita' di Bari (Italy)

4.8 Selecting Reference Signatures for On-Line Signature Verification
    G.Congedo, G. Dimauro, S. Impedovo, G.Pirlo
    Universita' di Bari (Italy)

4.9 ApOFIS: an A-Priori Optical Font Identification System
    A. Zramdini, R. Ingold
    University of Fribourg (Switzerland)

4.10 Extracting Words and Multipart Symbols in Graphics Rich Documents
     M. Burge, G. Monagan
     Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich (Switzerland)

4.11 A Semi-Automatic Method for Form Layout Description
     S. Bussi, F. Mangili
     Elsag Bailey - Genova (Italy)

4.12 Improving the Use of Contours for Off-Line Cursive Script Segmentation
     G.Boccignone, A. Chianese, M.De Santo, A. Picariello
     Universita' di Salerno (Italy)
     Universita' di Napoli (Italy)

4.13 A Method for Determining Address Format Automated Sorting of
     Japanese Mail
     T.Tsuchiya, N.Nakajima, T.Kamimura
     NEC Corporation Kawasaki (Japan)

4.14 Structural Features by MCR Expression Applied to Printed Arabic
     Character  Recognition
     A.M. Zidouri, S. Chinveeraphan, M. Sato
     Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)

4.15 Genetic Algorithm for Thinning Gray-Scale Images of Characters
     T. Shioyama, A. Okumura, Y. Aoki
     Kyoto Institute of Technology (Japan)

4.16 Blue-Print Document Analysis for Color Classification
     G. Marcu, S. Abe
     Array Corporation (Japan)

                               FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

9.00 -  9.45     Invited Talk

     Document Analysis: What is Missing?
     G.Nagy
     Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY (USA)


9.45 - 11.00 Session 3.1: Optical Character Recognition

     Invariant Features for HMM Based Handwriting Recognition
     Jianying Hu, Michael K. Brown, William Turin
     Murray Hill (USA)

     A Robust Analytical Approach for Handwritten Word Recognition
     G. Dimauro, S. Impedovo, G.Pirlo, D. Sfregola
     Universita` di Bari (Italy)

     Recognition of Rotated Characters by Inexact Matching
     L. Cinque, S. Di Zenzo, S. Levialdi
     Universita` di Roma La Sapienza (Italy)

11.00 - 11.30      Coffee Break

11.30 - 12.45      Session 3.2: Biomedical Applications

     Bayesian Image Reconstruction Using a High-Order Interacting MRF Model
     M. Chan, G. T. Herman, E. Levitan
     University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia (U.S.A.)
     Techion - Haifa (Israel)

     Minimum Spanning Trees (MST) as a Tool for Describing Tissue
     Architecture  When Grading Bladder Carcinoma
     H.-K. Choi, E. Bengtsson, T. Jarkrans,
     J. Vasko,K. Wester, P.U. Malmstrom, C. Busch
     Uppsala University (Sweden)

     Symbolic Indexing of Cardiological Sequences Through Dynamic Curve
     Representations
     M. Baroni, G. Congiu, A. Del Bimbo, A. Evangelisti, E. Vicario
     Universita` di Firenze (Italy)
     Universita` di Brescia (Italy)

12.45-14.30        Lunch

14.30 - 15.15      Invited Talk
    Image Communication
     A.N. Netravali
     AT&T Bell Labs Murray Hill (U.S.A.)


15.15 - 16.30      Session 3.3: Image Coding

     Generalized Square Isometries - An Improvement for Fractal Image
     Compression
     D. C. Popescu, A. Dimca, H. Yan
     University of Sydney (Australia)

     A Fast Algorithm for High-Quality Vector Quantization Codebook Design
     C. Braccini, F. Cocurullo, F. Lavagetto
     Universita' di Genova (Italy)

     Fast Fractal Image Coding Using Pyramids
     H. Lin, A. N. Venetsanopoulos
     University of Toronto - Ontario (Canada)

16.30 - 16.45      Coffee Break


16.45 - 17.35     Session 3.4: Motion

     Hidden MRF Detection of Motion of Objects with Uniform Brightness
     A. Kurianski, M. Nieniewski
     PAS - Warsaw (Poland)

     Motion Analysis and Segmentation for Object-Oriented Mid-Level Image
     Representation
     T. Saito, T. Komatsu
     Kanagawa University - Yokohama (Japan)


                   POSTER SESSIONS (Friday, September 15)


11.30 - 12.45     Poster V: Applications: Remote Sensing, Inspection,
                    Acoustical and SAR Image Processing

5.1 Speckle Noise Filtering in SAR Images Using Wavelets
    L. Boroczky, R. Fioravanti, S. Fioravanti, D. D. Giusto
    Hungarian Academy of Sciences - Budapest (Hungary)
    Saclant Undersea Research Center, La Spezia (Italy)
    Universita' di Cagliari (Italy)

5.2 Prediction of Short-Term Evolution of Cloud Formations Based on
    Meteosat  Image Sequences
    R. Bolla, M. Marchese, C. Nobile, S. Zappatore
    Universita' di Genova (Italy)

5.3 Prototyping of Interactive Satellite Image Analysis Tools Using
    a Real-Time  Data-Flow Computer
    S. Praud, P. Germain, J. Plantier
    Etablissement Technique Central de l'Armement - Arcueil (France)

5.4 Simulation of Aircraft Images for Airport Surface Traffic Control
    F. Marti, M. Naldi
    Universita' di Roma (Italy)

5.5 Cooperation of Knowledge-Based Systems for Galaxy Classification
    J.-C. Ossola, M. Thonnat
    INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (France)

5.6 An Application of Fuzzy Medial Axis on Astronomical Images
    M.C. Maccarone, M. Tripiciano, V. Di Gesu'
    IFCAI/CNR - Palermo (Italy)
    Universita' di Palermo (Italy)

5.7 Fuzzy Segmentation and Astronomical Images Interpretation
    P. Dherete', L. Wendling, J. Desachy
    Universite' Paul Sabatier - IRIT Toulouse (France)

5.9 An Approach to Detect Lofar Lines
    J-C. Di Martino, S. Tabbone
    CRIN/CNRS-INRIA LORRAINE - Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy (France)

5.10 A Fast Object Orientation Estimation and Recognition Technique for
     Underwater Acoustic Imaging
     A. Tesei, A. Trucco, D. Zambonini
     Universita' di Genova (Italy)

5.12 Application of the Hough Transform for Weld Inspection Underwater
     A.R. Greig
     University College London (U.K.)

5.13 Development of an Automated Bond Verification System for Advanced
     Electronic Packages
     M. Darboux, J.-M. Dinten
     DSYS/SCSI- Grenoble (France)

5.14 Crack Detection by a Measure of Texture Anisotropy
     L. Bruzzone, F. Roli, S.B. Serpico
     Universita' di Genova (Italy)

5.15 A Vision System for Automatic Inspection of Meat Quality
     M. Barni, V. Cappellini, A. Mecocci
     Universita' di Firenze (Italy)
     Universita' di Pavia  (Italy)


                          GENERAL INFORMATION


SYMPOSIUM SITE

The 8th ICIAP will be held in the beautiful town of Sanremo, on the
Western Ligurian Riviera, also known as the "Riviera dei Fiori"
for the mild climate, the gorgeous mediterranean vegetation and the
colorful panoramas. The Conference venue will be the Centro Congressi
Ariston, located near the center of Sanremo.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings, published by Springer Verlag GmbH and Co., will be
available at the Conference.

HOTEL ACCOMODATION
Please fill the attached hotel reservation form and send to
Consorzio Sanremo Congressi Turismo
(phone +39 184 530719 - fax +39 184 574574)


SOCIAL EVENTS

A Welcome Reception  will be held at Villa Nobel
on Wednesday, September 13, at 20:30. The Conference Banquet will
be held at a downtown Restaurant on Thursday, September 14, at 21:00.
Both events are included in the registration fee.


BEST PAPER AWARD

During the 8th ICIAP Conference, a prize of Lit. 2,000,000 sponsored by
IAPR and IRST (Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica)
will be awarded, in memory of Prof. Edoardo Caianello, to the best
presented paper.

FURTHER INFORMATION

- SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT
  Ombretta Arvigo     DISI, University of Genova
  phone:     +39 10 353 8032
            (+39 10 353 6600 after July 17)
  fax:       +39 10 353 8028
            (+39 10 353 6699 after July 17)

  e-mail:     iciap@disi.unige.it

- LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
  Sonya Vaccaro     DIBE, University of Genova
  Via all'Opera Pia, 11a
  I-16145 Genova
  phone:     +39 10 353 2755
  fax:     +39 10 353 2134
  e-mail:     iciap@dibe.unige.it

- REGISTRATION
  Filippo Ravaschio Elsag Bailey
  Via Puccini, 2
  I-16154 Genova
  phone:+39 10 658 2375
  fax:+39 10 658 2694

- WWW SITE
  Information about technical program, conference site, travel and
  registration  are available on the WWW site
  http://www.com.dist.unige.it/ICIAP.


HOW TO REACH SANREMO

- By plane: suggested airports are Genova and Nice

- By train: there are direct connections from Nice, Genova,
            Milano and Roma.

- By car
  from Nice:   drive on Motorway A10 towards Genova.
  from Genova: drive on Motorway A10 towards Ventimiglia.


For any additional information about traveling and excursions, please
contact  Consorzio Sanremo Congressi Turismo
(Phone +39 184 530719, Fax +39 184 574574).