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 The ICPR'96 will consist of four parallel conferences of previously unpublished contributed papers, delivered either orally or as a poster, as well as invited papers of general or specific interest.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 ================= 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 ======================= COMPUTER VISION ================ Program Chairs: Alex Pentland (MIT, USA) James L. Crowley (INPG, France) Topics: ------- 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: -------------------------- 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 ======================================= Program Chairs: Josef Kittler (Univ. of Surrey, U.K.) Harry Wechsler (G. Mason Univ., USA) Topics: ------- 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: -------------------------- 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 ================================ Program Chairs: Ruud Bolle (IBM, USA) E. Dickmanns (Univ. d. Bundeswehr,Germany) Topics: ------- 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: -------------------------- 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 ================================== Program Chairs: Michael Seibert (MIT, USA) Georg Hartmann (Univ. of Paderborn, Germany) Topics: ------- 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: -------------------------- 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