Call for papers for special issue of
	  	  Machine Vision and Applications
                                on
         "Performance Characteristics of Vision Algorithms"

	Guest editors: Henrik I. Christensen, Stockholm and
                       Wolfgang Foerstner, Bonn

The special issue is motivated by the belief that the lack of
performance characterization of vision algorithms is responsible for
the hesitation of industry to use computer vision as one of its tools.
Reasons for this situation are manifold: the lack of commonly accepted
criteria for evaluation, the lack of a methodology for testing, the
lack of translating the experience in testing of other engineering
areas to Computer Vision and possibly also the non-acceptance of
empirical or theoretical comparisons of vision algorithms, including
their replication, as original research.

The goal of the special issue is to present the state of the art in
characterizing the performance of vision algorithms in all stages of
the development and use, such as the design of algorithms with a
pre-specified performance, the testing of algorithms with respect to
give specifications and the self-diagnosis of vision algorithms during
their use in an automated process.

We encourage authors to submit papers on the following topics:

*    Theory and strategies for performance analysis of vision algorithms
*    Linking analysis of vision experiments to the theory underlying the 
     algorithms
*    Characterization of the limitations of vision algorithms and/or
     the class of image data for which a vision algorithm is suited or
     not suited
*    Demonstrations of the usefulness of performance characterization
     and/or the limitations of statistical testing in Computer Vision
*    Modularization of vision tasks and the characterization of networks of
     vision algorithms 

General information about the IAPR journal Machine Vision and
Applications published by Springer Verlag kan be found at the URL:
gopher://trick.ntp.springer.de/11/TOC/138/ guidelines for authors and
style files for LaTeX may be retrieved directly from Springer Verlag
at the address gopher://trick.ntp.springer.de/11/tex/latex/ljour2/

Timetable:
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15 August   1996	Deadline for manuscripts
 1 December 1996	Acceptance/Rejection decision and revies
			returned to authors.
31 December 1996	Final manuscript are due at the publisher
   No 1,    1997	Special issue will be published

Please submit papers before 15. August 1996 to:

Dr. Henrik I. Christensen
Center for Autonomous Systems
Numerical Analysis and Computing Science
Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan
S-100 44 Stockholm
Sweden

E-mail: hic@vision.auc.dk