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  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unpublished research papers in this area.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)