FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

                       ECCV '96
     Fourth European Conference on Computer Vision

                    14-18 April 1996
            University of Cambridge, England

Following the highly successful conferences held in Antibes, Santa
Margherita Ligure and Stockholm, the Fourth European Conference on
Computer Vision will be held from 14-18 April 1996 in Cambridge,
England. The Conference is to be held under the auspices of the
European Vision Society (EVS) and the British Machine Vision
Association (BMVA).

The programme will consist of a single track of the highest quality,
previously unpublished, contributed papers, delivered either orally or
as a poster. Contributions are sought on new research on any aspect of
computer vision.

All reviewing will be performed double blind by a Programme Committee
of leading international researchers selected by the Conference Board
and, as usual for the European Conference, the proceedings will be
published by Springer-Verlag.

Deadline for submission of papers               1 October       1995
Notification of acceptance                      10 December     1995
Deadline for camera-ready manuscripts           20 January      1996
Conference begins                               14 April        1996        

A call for papers will be issued shortly. For further details of the
call for papers, conference programme, workshop facilities,
registration and local information please contact the Conference
Secretariat:

ECCV'96 Conference Contact
42 Devonshire Road
Cambridge CB1 2BL
England.

tel:    +44/0 1223 323437
fax:    +44/0 1223 460396
e-mail: cc@confcon.demon.co.uk

Reduced registration fees will be available to students and to members
of the EVS and national societies affiliated to the EVS.

In addition, as at previous Conferences, it is planned to hold a small
number of specialised workshops on Friday 19 April, immediately
following the main meeting. Anyone interested in organizing a workshop
is invited to contact the Conference Chairman (b.buxton@cs.ucl.ac.uk).

Conference Chair:
Prof. Bernard Buxton (University College London)

Local Arrangements Chair:
Dr. Roberto Cipolla (University of Cambridge)

Conference Board

N.Ayache        INRIA, Sophia Antipolis
M.Brady         University of Oxford
H.Burkhardt     University Hamburg-Harburg
J.Crowley       INPG, Grenoble
E.Dickmanns     Universitat der Bundeswehr, Munich
J-O.Eklundh     Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
O.D.Faugeras    INRIA, Sophia Antipolis
G.Granlund      Linkoping University
D.Hogg          Leeds University
J.Koenderink    Utrecht State University
J.Mayhew        Sheffield University
R.Mohr          INPG, Grenoble
H-H.Nagel       IITB, Karlsruhe
B.Neumann       Hamburg University
G.Sandini       DIST, University of Genova
V.Torre         University of Genova