CALL FOR PAPERS
                       SPECIAL ISSUE OF PATTERN RECOGNITION ON
                      IMAGE DATABASE: CLASSIFICATION & RETRIEVAL

         Papers are solicited for a special issue of  PATTERN  RECOGNITION
         which  will address the subject of Image Database: Classification
         and Retrieval. The Guest Editors for the special  issue  will  be
         Dr.  John  C.  M.  Lee  of  the Hong Kong University of Science &
         Technology and Prof. Anil Jain of Michigan State University.
         
         The growth in the volume, complexity, and  interrelationships  of
         video information has created an urgent need for more intelligent
         video  manipulation  tools.  However,   tools   for   organizing,
         querying, and retrieving information in image database still need
         to be developed. This special issue will  comprise  papers  which
         are  concerned  with novel and significant tools and tech- niques
         relevant to content-based image classification and retrieval.
         
         Manuscripts that report  flexible  classification  and  retrieval
         based  on  image  content  in a domain-independent fashion are of
         primary interest. Manuscripts will not be accepted if  they  have
         been  previously  published,  or if they describe algorithms that
         have not been carefully evaluated  on  large  database.  Possible
         topics include, but are not limited to:
           o     Automatic identification  and  classification  of  scenes
                 according  to  their  content (e.g., indoor, outdoor, 
                 action, car racing, sports).
           o     Automatic break detection or video partitioning.
           o     Automatic full-video search for objects of interest, such
                 as "find all frames which contain frogs".
           o     Image  feature  representations  for   efficient   object
                 detection and classification.
           o     Quantitative measures of aspects of perception,  such  as
                 texture, shape, and color, that have been evaluated on 
                 large sets of data.
           o     Image processing and pattern recognition methods used  in
                 image database, such as "seg- mentation of optical flow 
                 to detect camera movement".
           o     Computational  measures  of  perceptual  similarity   for
                 matching image features, especially texture, shape and 
                 color.
           o     Scene retrieval  methods  for  video  database  by  using
                 spatio-temporal logic.
           o     Methods for real-time object extraction from and tracking
                 in a moving video image.
           o     Creating image database with functions such as  efficient
                 querying, indexing, retrieval and browsing.
         
         All papers will be reviewed according to the  guidelines  of  the
         Pattern Recognition journal, and the submitted papers must follow
         the instructions for the  style  of  manuscript  printed  on  the
         inside  of  the  back  cover  of the Pattern Recognition journal.
         Please submit 4 copies of your paper to:

                 Dr. John C. M. Lee
                 Department of Computer Science
                 The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology,  
                 Kowloon,  Hong Kong
         
         PUBLICATION SCHEDULE:

         Deadline for submission of manuscripts: September 1, 1995
         First set of reviews to authors: December 1, 1996
         Deadline for submission of final manuscripts: February 1, 1996
         Publication of the special issue: September 1996
         
         For further information, please contact 
                 Dr.  John  C.  M.  Lee  (cmlee@cs.ust.hk)  
                 Prof.  Anil   Jain (jain@cps.msu.edu)