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              SEVENTH BRITISH MACHINE VISION CONFERENCE

                         9-12 September 1996

                     The University of Edinburgh


           GENERAL CHAIR                PROGRAMME CHAIR
           Robert B Fisher              Emanuele Trucco
           University of Edinburgh      Heriot-Watt University
           rbf@aifh.ed.ac.uk            mtc@cee.hw.ac.uk

           LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS           INDUSTRIAL LINKS
           Gillian M Hayes              Paul Siebert
           University of Edinburgh      The Turing Institute
           gmh@aifh.ed.ac.uk            P.Siebert@turing.gla.ac.uk


The British Machine Vision Conference is the main UK conference for machine
vision and related topics. High quality contributed papers are sought
describing recent and novel research in the areas of computer vision,
image analysis and processing or pattern recognition. Papers describing
research being undertaken throughout national or international collaborative
projects are particularly welcome. The conference is a single-track meeting
with both oral and poster presentations. In addition to the contributed papers,
there will be talks by invited speakers and a pre-conference tutorial
programme (free to registered students).

SUBMISSIONS AND FORMAT

Contributions are sought on any novel aspect relating to machine vision and
pattern analysis,  including:

*       image processing and feature extraction
*       object recognition and scene analysis
*       reconstruction of 3D shape
*       computational issues in perception
*       robotic vision and sensory fusion 
*       advanced pattern analysis
*       practical applications
*       model-based coding
*       architectures
*       active vision
*       motion analysis
*       neural network

Four copies of full papers not exceeding 10 pages (approx. 5000 words if no
figures), three of which anonymous, should be submitted for review.
Please include two title pages, each containing title, authors' names
(on one copy only) and an abstract. Papers will be reviewed by the elected
BMVA  Committee with a small number of specially coopted members.
By submitting a paper to BMVC, the author(s) warrant that it, and any related
paper with essentially the same technical content, has not been and will not
be submitted to any other conference during the BMVC review period.
Papers will be accepted either for oral presentation or for presentation as
posters. A printed copy of the Proceedings will be available to delegates at
the conference and a selection of the best papers will be published separately
in a special issue of 'Image and Vision Computing'.

Guidelines for the format of papers can be found on the PEIPA at:
FTP:    peipa.essex.ac.uk  in  ipa/info/conferences/bmvc  (login: anonymous)
WWW     (under BMVC96)

Papers should be submitted to the Conference Secretary:
Mrs Judith Gordon
Department of Artificial Intelligence
The University of Edinburgh
5 Forrest Hill
Edinburgh EH1 2QL
Tel: +44 131 650.3094
Fax: +44 131 650.6899
Email: BMVC96@aifh.ed.ac.uk

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     | *** IMPORTANT DATES ***                                        |
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     | Deadline for paper submission                    29 April 1996 |
     | Notification of acceptance                       10 June 1996  |
     | Deadline for camera-ready copy                   8 July 1996   |
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The British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition
is a Company limited by guarantee, No.2543446, registered in England and Wales.
Registered Office: Granta Lodge, 71 Graham Road, Malvern, Worcs. WR14 2JS.
The Association is a non-profit-making body and is registered as charity
No. 1002307.