13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on PATTERN RECOGNITION
                 Technical University of Vienna, Austria
                        August 25 - 30, 1996


General Chair:    Walter Kropatsch, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Honorary Chair:   Azriel Rosenfeld, University of  Maryland, USA
Program Chair:    Yiannis Aloimonos, University  of Maryland, USA
Program Co-Chair: Ruzena Bajcsy, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Local Organizer:  Horst Bischof, Technical University of Vienna, Austria

Contributions are sought on new research in all aspects of the broad field
of Pattern Recognition. The ICPR'96 will consist of four parallel
conferences of previously unpublished contributed papers, delivered either
orally or as a poster, as well as invited papers of general or specific
interest. The program for each individual conference will be organized by
its own Program Committee.  The opening session and the social events are
common to all four conference parts.  In addition, a set of tutorial
sessions, given by prominent researchers in the field, will be offered
during the day prior to the actual conference (Sunday).  Specialized
workshops, organized by technical committees, will be held in the local
surroundings of Vienna during the week before the conference.  The results
of these workshops will be reported during the conference.  The conference
proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

PAPER SUBMISSION
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Paper submission deadline:    January 15th, 1996
Notification of acceptance:   April 1996
Camera-ready copy:            May 1996

Send six copies of the paper to: 13th ICPR'96, c/o AUSTROPA Interconvention
                            A- 1043 Vienna, Friedrichstrasse 7, PoB 30, 
                            Austria/Europe

Papers should not exceed 15 pages (12 pt, 1 1/2 line spacing) and in the
first page they should include the names of the author(s) along with
affiliations and e-mail addresses. In addition to the manuscript the
submission should include a summary page answering the following questions
(please answer each question separately):

(a)  What is the original contribution of this work?
(b)  What is the most closely related work by others and how does this 
     work differ?
(c)  Which track or tracks and which topics within a track are most 
     appropriate for the submission? (The Conference is not limited to
     these topics and authors may specify that a paper falls in two or
     more categories not listed. Categories are used to best match papers
     with the expertise of the reviewers.)

Test data  will be made available by
    WWW
This WWW page provides pointers to  data around the world which should
facilitate a comparison of results. 
Authors are kindly requested to register before submitting their final paper.

For futher information on all ICPR conferences contact the secretariat at the 
above address or use e-mail: icpr@prip.tuwien.ac.at


CONFERENCE DESCRIPTIONS
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COMPUTER VISION
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Program Chairs:     Alex Pentland (MIT, USA)
                    James L. Crowley (INPG, France)

Topics: 
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     Action Recognition                 
     Active Vision
     Analysis of Visual Motion
     Biological Models for Machine Vision
     Control of Perception
     Invariants and Geometry
     Learning in Computer Vision                                    
     Object Recognition
     Real-Time Vision                                       
     Shape Representation and Computation                           
     Vision Systems that Learn                                   
     Visual Computation of Range and Geometry                    
                                   
                                                            
Program Committee Members:
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          F. Ade                      T. Huang                                 
          M. Asada                    M. Inoue
          P. Bhouthemy                R. Jain
          M. Bichsel                  K. Mase
          A. Blake                    S. Nayar
          P. Burt                     S. Peleg
          R. Chellappa                R. Picard
          B. Draper                   T. Poggio
          R. Deriche                  G. Sandini
          S. Dickinson                S. Sclaroff
          J. O. Eklundh               M. Shah
          F. Ferrie                   L. Shapiro
          W. F"orstner                S. Smoliar
          E. Granum                   G. Sullivan
          I. Guerevitch               C. Thorpe
          D. Hogg                     L. Van Gool
PATTERN RECOGNITION AND SIGNAL ANALYSIS
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Program Chairs:     Josef Kittler (Univ. of Surrey, U.K.)
                    Harry Wechsler (G. Mason Univ., USA)
     
Topics: 
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     Feature Detection                  
     Filtering
     Mathematical Morphology
     Multiresolution Methods
     Signal Coding, Compression,   
     Enhancement and Restoration
     Speech Analysis
     Statistical and Syntactical
     Pattern Recognition
     Texture Analysis    
     Wavelets                                                    
                                                     
                                                            
Program Committee Members:
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          J. Ben-Arie                 P. Meer
          J. Bigun                    H. Niemann
          H. Bunke                    M. Petrou
          D. Chetverikov              M. Pietikaienen
          S. De Ma                    R. Plamondon
          P. Devijver                 P. Pudil
          R. Duin                     T. Pun
          E. Hancock                  B. Radig 
          R. Haralick                 S. Raudys
          A. Jain                     A. Sanfeliu
          M. Kidode                   G. Sanniti di Baja
          H. Knutsson                 J. Sklansky
          M. Kunt                     H. Tsui
          S. W. Lee                   R. Wilson
         

APPLICATIONS AND ROBOTIC SYSTEMS
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Program Chairs:     Ruud Bolle (IBM, USA)
                    E. Dickmanns (Univ. d. Bundeswehr,Germany)
     
Topics:          
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     Automation                             
     Image Database Systems       
     Medical Applications 
     Mobile Robots
     Multi-media Systems
     OCR and Document Processing
     Quality Control                              
     Range Imaging
     Real-Time Systems
     Remote Sensing Applications
     Smart Sensors
                                              
          
                                                            
Program Committee Members:
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          K. Abe                    K. Mohuidin
          H. Araujo                 R. Nelson
          E. Backer                 W. Niblack
          A. Basu                   H. Niemann
          S. Castan                 S. Orphanoudakis
          H. Christiansen           M. Pietikainen
          J. Connell                Y. Shirai
          K. Daniilidis             M. Spetsakis
          M. Ejiri                  S. Tamura
          G. Garibotto              T. Taxt
          D. Grossmann              R. Taylor   
          L. P. Kaelbling           S. Tsuji
          A. Kak                    B. Vemuri
          R. Kasturi                L. Warnstam
          F. Leberl                 M. Yachida
          G. Medioni
          
          
                  
PARALLEL AND CONNECTIONIST SYSTEMS
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Program Chairs:     Michael Seibert (MIT, USA)
                    Georg Hartmann (Univ. of Paderborn, Germany)

Topics:        
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     Associative Memories
     Biological Models
     Cellular Structures
     Highly Parallel Architectures
     Learning Systems
     Multiprocessor Systems                     
     Multisensor Architectures                                      
     Neural Networks
     Parallel Algorithms and Languages
     Perceptual Models
     VLSI Architectures
Program Committee Members:
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          I. Aleksander                C. v. d. Malsburg
          E. Bienenstock               J. Marshall
          H. Buelthoff                 E. Mingolla
          J. M. Buhmann                E. Oja
          G. Carpenter                 S. Omohundro
          K. Fukushima                 G. Palm
          S. Gielen                    H. Ritter
          M. Gross                     S. Rogers
          D. Hammerstrom               W. v. Seelen 
          K. Johnson                   D. Stork
          J. Koenderink                J. Taylor
          R. Linsker                   Y. Zeevi
          R. Lippmann