CALL FOR PAPERS

     Special Issue of COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE UNDERSTANDING on
       PHYSICS-BASED MODELING AND REASONING IN COMPUTER VISION

Physics-based techniques have emerged as a major trend in computer
vision and related fields because of their effectiveness in object
representation, image segmentation, shape estimation, motion analysis,
and object recognition, as well as in application areas such as
medical imaging.

Papers are solicited for a special issue of Computer Vision and Image
Understanding on the subject of Physics-Based Modeling and Reasoning
in Computer Vision.  The Guest Editors for the special issue are
Dimitri Metaxas of the University of Pennsylvania and Demetri
Terzopoulos of the University of Toronto.

The purpose of the special issue will be to showcase new physics-based
methodologies for the analysis of complex scenes.  Of particular
interest is research on the integration of physics-based modeling and
reasoning techniques to improve the results of shape and motion
estimation and object recognition in scenes with multiple objects and
significant occlusion.

All submissions will be refereed in accordance with the CVIU
guidelines.  Manuscripts will not be accepted if they have been
previously published, or if they present algorithms that have not been
evaluated on complex scenes.  Possible topics for submitted papers
include, but are not limited to

1) physics-based segmentation and shape representation of multiple
   objects in complex scenes with occlusion;

2) physics-based motion estimation and object tracking in scenes with
   multiple rigid and/or nonrigid objects;

3) integration of physics-based modeling, reasoning and recognition techniques;

4) applications: medical image analysis; analysis and recognition of 
   faces, gestures, etc.

Please submit four copies of your paper to:

        Professor Dimitri Metaxas
        Dept. of Computer and Information Science
        University of Pennsylvania
        200 South 33rd St.
        Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389
        U.S.A.

Schedule:

        Deadline for submission of manuscripts:         October 30, 1995 
        First set of reviews to authors:                January 30, 1996 
        Final manuscripts due:                          April 30, 1996 
        Publication of special issue:                   December, 1996 

For further information, please contact 

        Dimitri N. Metaxas (dnm@central.cis.upenn.edu) 
or 
        Demetri Terzopoulos (dt@vis.toronto.edu)