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).