CALL FOR PAPERS =============== SPECIAL ISSUE ON PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (PDE's) AND GEOMETRY-DRIVEN DIFFUSION IN IMAGE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS IEEE Transactions on Image Processing A special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing will be devoted to the topic of Partial Differential Equations (PDE's) and Geometry-Driven Diffusion in Image Processing and Analysis. This relatively new area provides a strong theoretical framework for image processing and analysis. Attention to these methods has increased lately due to important theoretical and practical results that have been obtained. The basic idea is to obtain the processed image as the solution of PDE's, being in general the initial condition a function of the original image. The PDE approach permits to unify and extend existent algorithms, as well as to develop novel ones. Extensive research on numerical analysis allows the implementation of these equations, obtaining accurate image processing algorithms. Authors are encouraged to submit original, unpublished research papers in this area. Papers on both theory and applications will be welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to * scale-space theory * anisotropic diffusion * vector-valued diffusion * systems of coupled PDE's * PDE based segmentation, image and video enhancement, shape analysis * axiomatic and PDE based theoretical approaches to image analysis * variational and PDE's-from-energy approaches to image processing * curve and surface evolution * PDE's in hybrid systems * comparison of models * image and noise models and adaptation of PDE's * implementations and numerical analysis * applications The special issue will be edited by the following team of guest editors: Dr. Guillermo Sapiro Hewlett Packard Laboratories 1501 Page Mill Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Tel: (1-415) 857-8183 Fax: (1-415) 857-4691 Email: guille@hpl.hp.com Prof. Jean-Michel Morel CEREMADE Universite Paris IX - Dauphine Place du Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny 75775 Paris CEDEX 16, FRANCE Tel: (33-1) 4405-4677 Fax: (33-1) 4405-4599 Email: morel@paris9.dauphine.fr Prof. Allen Tannenbaum Department of Electrical Engineering University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA Tel: (1-612) 625-6395 Fax: (1-612) 625-4583 Email: tannenba@ee.umn.edu Prospective authors should follow the regular guidelines of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, except submit 6 copies of their manuscript to Dr. Guillermo Sapiro at the address listed above. Both regular papers and correspondences will be considered. The deadline for submission is November 1, 1996. It is planned that the special issue will appear in early 1998. (Updated Mon Aug 19 1996)