CALL FOR PAPERS

                              CONFERENCE
                                  on
                DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE AND ARCHIVING SYSTEMS

                            Philadelphia,PA
                           October 26-27,1995            

This conference is a part of SPIE's International Symposium on 
INFORMATION, COMMUNICATIONS, & COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES,
APPLICATIONS, & SYSTEMS

To be held as part of Photonics East '95
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
22-27 October 1995

This conference addresses aspects of an image archiving system,
such as "specialized" compression schemes for storage, browsing,
semantic searching, content-based retrieval, data preservation
models, data modeling and representation, system design issues
and applications.

Papers are solicited in all areas of digital image storage and
archival systems:

 - image and video archives/databases
 - design methodologies and system architectures for huge image
    archives
 - hierarchical storage design and management for scalable image
    and video on-demand databases
 - data transfer models for platform-independent Internet access
    via standard network tools
 - long-term preservation methodology and quality assurance
    management
 - lossless and near-lossless compression for archiving purposes
 - compression scheme supporting hierarchical browsing, e.g.,
    multiresolution methods
 - methods facilitating sophisticated search mechanisms such as
    content-based retrieval, e.g., automatic/semiautomatic image
    object recognition, segmentation, image features corresponding 
    to human perception, etc.
 - intelligent compression techniques which will enable semantic
    and perceptual searching on the compressed representation
 - data modeling and representation for images and features
 - fuzzy, object-oriented, feature-based, neural network and
    information theoretic approaches to image and video storage
    indexing and retrieval
 - domain-independent storage techniques and access/index
    structures for images, features and  their logical
    representatives
 - measures for evaluating various aspects or components of an
    image archival system
 - actual experimental systems which embody the state of the art
    in image archival
 - methods related to querying an image archive, e.g., powerful
    query interfaces, algorithms for query processing, incorporation
    of user-relevance feedback to help iterative queries, etc.
 - applications and systems of image archives in areas such as
   telemedicine, remote sensing, GIS, multimedia, etc.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

Authors are invited to submit a 500 word abstract of each paper in one
of the ways described below. Only original material should be submitted
and abstracts should contain enough detail to clearly convey the approach
the results of the research. Papers accepted will be published as part of 
the proceedings of the conference.

Abstracts should contain the following:
|  1.TITLE OF ABSTRACT/PAPER                                              |
|  2.AUTHORS' LISTINGS - Full names and affliations as they will appear   |
|                      in program                                         |
|  3.CORRESPONDENCE for EACH author - Complete address,telephone,fax      |
|                                   number and e-mail address             |
|  4.SUBMIT TO: ______________________________________________            |
|              (Conference Title)         (Conference Chair)              |
|            (Here: Digital Image Storage and Archiving Systems           |
|                   Prof. C. -C. Jay Kuo )                                |
|                                                                         |
|  5. PRESENTATION: Indicate preference for "Oral Presentation"           |
|                   or "Poster Presentation.                              |
|  6.ABSTRACT TEXT: 500 words                                             |
|  7.BRIEF BIOGRAPHY: 50 to 100 words ( principal author only)            |

Abstracts can be submitted in any of the following ways:
  - electronic mail: ( 1 copy) 
                     abstracts@spie.org (ASCII format)
  - fax : (1 copy) to SPIE at (360) 647-1445
  - mail: ( 4 copies)
            Photonics East '95
            SPIE, P.O.Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010 USA
            Shipping address: 1000 20th St.,Bellingham, WA 98225 USA
            Tel: (360) 676-3290
           
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Fax: 360/647-1445
Phone: 360/676-3290


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Abstracts Due from Authors:     March 27, 1995
Notification of Acceptance      :     July  3,  1995
Manuscripts Due from Authors:         September 25, 1995 
          

Conference Chair: 
=================
C. -C. Jay Kuo (Univ. of Southern California)

Program Committee: 
==================
Shih-Fu Chang (Columbia Univ.) 
Ming-Yee Chiu (Siemens Corporate Research Inc.)
Son K. Dao (Hughes Research Lab.)
Navid Haddadi (Univ. of Southern California)
S. Sitharama Iyengar (Louisiana State Univ.) 
Ramesh Jain (Univ. of California/San Diego)
Rangachar Kasturi (Pennsylvania StateUniv.)
Sanjit K. Mitra (Univ. of California/Santa Barbara)
A.Desai Narasimhalu (National Univ. of Singapore)
Wayne Niblack (IBM Almaden Research Ctr.)
R. W. Picard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Arun Sood (George Mason Univ.)
George Thoma (National Library of Medicine)
Asha Vellaikal (Hughes Research Lab.)

SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMS

INFORMATION STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT              MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS 
FULL SERVICE RESIDENTIAL NETWORKS               ENTERPRISE SERVICES
TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT ENGINEERING        COMMUNICATIONS INTERFACING
WIRELESS GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS