The Ninth IMDSP Workshop will be held in Belize on March 3-6, 1996. In addition to providing an intimate setting for interaction with your IMDSP colleagues, Belize offers unparalleled opportunities for recreation, ranging from snorkling on coral reefs to exploration of spectacular rain forests and Mayan ruins. Belize is a British Commonwealth country with a stable, democratic government. Most Belizeans speak English. I am writing to encourage you to submit a paper to this workshop. In response to complaints that our original submission date came at a very difficult time, we have extended the deadline to October 1, 1995. In addition, for those who are concerned about the difficulty and cost of reaching Belize, we have the following information: Economy airfare from continental U.S. (Saturday stay required) $650 Lodging (Sunday - Tuesday, including all meals, based on single occupancy) $350 Approximate registration $300 Total cost $1300 Belize City is approximately a 2 hour flight from Los Angeles, Houston, or Miami. The Call for Papers follows. More information about the workshop and Belize can be found at our web site. Don't miss this unique event. Plan to join us in Belize in March. Sincerely, Jan Allebach and Jelena Kovacevic, General Co-chairs ============================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS ============================================================= IEEE Signal Processing Society IS&T The Society for Imaging Science and Technology Ninth IMDSP Workshop March 3-6, 1996. Radisson Hotel Belize City, Belize General Co-Chairs: Jan P. Allebach Purdue University Jelena Kovacevic AT&T Bell Laboratories Program Chair: Edward J. Delp Purdue University The Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society has established a tradition of biennial workshops that have been intellectually stimulating and held in interesting places. The Ninth Workshop, to be held in cooperation with the Society for Imaging Sceince and Technology continues this tradition. It will be held in Belize which is located on the Caribbean Sea directly south of the Yucatan Peninsula and east of Guatemala, just two hours by plane from Miami. Belize has a subtropical climate. The workshop will take place in the dry season when temperatures will average 22C. There are beautiful Mayan ruins in Belize and the longest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere. The workshop will be held in Belize City at the Radisson Hotel. The theme of the workshop is ``Model-Based Methods in Imaging: From Content to User.'' This was partly motivated by the NSF-sponsored workshop on Future Directions in Signal Processing that was held in Keystone, Colorado in November 1991. At this workshop, the task group in the IMDSP area identified a need for more emphasis on model-based methods, including models for signal content and models for the human viewer. In addition, it was felt that there was a need for more work on image quality metrics. It is the intention of this workshop to address these topics: Physics-based models Multiresolution models Models for the human visual system Color models Image and video quality metrics Image and video compression Image and video analysis Image rendering for printing and display Color imaging Radar imaging Medical imaging Participation in the workshop will be both by invitation and application. Prospective attendees will submit a 2-page summary in final form. If the paper is accepted the summary will appear in the workshop digest as submitted. Authors should obtain the author's kit via anonymous ftp to skynet.ecn.purdue.edu (128.46.154.48) in the directory /pub/dist/imdsp96. The author's kit provides complete information relative to the submission process. It is the intention of the Committee to conduct all communication with authors electronically. Questions should be directed to imdsp96@ecn.purdue.edu. The General Co-Chairs can be reached at: Jan Allebach +1 317 494 3535 Jelena Kovacevic +1 908 582 6504 Authors' Schedule October 1, 1995 Submission of two page summaries October 15, 1995 Notification of acceptance November 15, 1995 Registration due with deposit Program Committee: Jan Biemond Delft University of Technology Michelle M. Covell Interval Research Scott Daly Eastman Kodak Company King N. Ngan University of Western Australia Thrasyvoulos Pappas AT&T Bell Laboratories Zygmunt Pizlo Purdue University Jerry L. Prince Johns Hopkins University Kannan Ramchandran University of Illinois Eve A. Riskin University of Washington Robert L. Stevenson University of Notre Dame Local Arrangements: Robert J. Safranek AT&T Bell Laboratories Publicity/Registration: Charles A. Bouman Purdue University Publications: Christine Podilchuk AT&T Bell Laboratories Finance: Ping Wah Wong Hewlett-Packard Laboratories European Liaison: Jan Biemond Delft University of Technology Far East Liaison: King N. Ngan University of Western Australia Sponsored by: IEEE Signal Processing Society In Cooperation with: IS&T The Society for Imaging Science and Technology