BRITISH MACHINE VISION ASSOCIATION AND SOCIETY FOR PATTERN 
RECOGNITION
 
              Joint Technical Meeting  with the 
       Research Section of the Royal Statistical Society on:

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       *  HIGHER-ORDER STATISTICS AND SHAPE REPRESENTATION IN  *
       *       IMAGE ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING            *
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        to be held at the Royal Statistical Society, 
                          12 Errol Street, 
                          London, EC1Y 8LX 
        on WEDNESDAY 29 MAY 1996. 



10.30-10.55  REGISTRATION AND COFFEE 
10.55-11.00  Opening Remarks: Josef Kittler, University of Surrey

11.00-11.45  The use of the Bicoherence in Speech Analysis: The Good News 
              and the Bad News! 
             S McLaughlin, University of Edinburgh 

11.45-12.15  The use of Higher Order Statistics for Detection and 
              Identification of Non-linearities in Mechanical Systems 
             P White, University of Southampton 

12.15-12.45  Higher Order Cepstra for Blind Equalisation and 
              Speech Analysis 
             J Soroghan,  University of Strathclyde 

12.45-13.45  LUNCH 

13.45-14.15  Higher Order Spectral Estimation Techniques in Mammography
             T Stathaki, P Anthousis and T Constantinides, 
              Imperial College London 

14.15-14.45  The use of Kurtosis in Deconvolution 
             A Walden, Imperial College London 

14.45-15.15  Use of a Bayesian Committee to Identify Infrared Targets 
             J Boyce  and D Toulson, King's College London 

15.15-15.45  TEA 

15.45-16.30  The Art and Science of Bayesian Object Recognition 
             K Mardia, University of Leeds 

16.30-17.00  On the use of stochastic geometry models in high-level vision
             M van Lieshout, University of Warwick

17.00-17.30  Eigenface Coding of Human Faces 
             I Craw, University of Aberdeen 

17.30        CLOSE OF MEETING 


Nearest Tube Stations: Barbican and Old Street. 

Registration Fee: 20 pounds (which includes buffet lunch, coffee and tea)

To register please send the form below and a cheque for 20 pounds payable to 
`The Royal Statistical Society' :  

RSS/BMVA meeting, 
The Executive Secretary, 
12 Errol Street, 
London, EC1Y 8LX 

by *** 20th MAY, 1996 AT THE LATEST ****



Research Section of the RSS and BMVA joint meeting: May 29th, 1996 

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