CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
                                    and
                              CALL FOR PAPERS

                           21st Workshop of the
               AUSTRIAN ASSOCIATION FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION

          in the historic lakeside village of Hallstatt, Austria
                             May 26 - 27, 1997

          visit us at http://www.cast.uni-linz.ac.at/oagm/oagm97

   TOPICS                         INVITED GUEST SPEAKER

   Topics include, but are                   Dr. Terry Caelli
   not limited to:                  (Curtin University of Technology,
                                                Australia)
      * Pattern Recognition                         on
        (Signal Analysis,         "Uses of Machine Learning in Computer
        Statistical/Structural       Vision and Pattern Recognition"
        Methods, Speech, OCR,
        Texture, Compression,     PAPER SUBMISSION
        ...)
      * Computer Vision           We solicit contributions in the form
        (Object Modelling and     of extended abstracts of up to 3 pages
        Recognition, 3D           including illustrations, results and
        Reconstruction,           references. Abstracts must contain
        Geometrical Methods,      sufficient content for peer review.
        ...)                      Please use the OAGM LaTeX Style
      * Image Processing          available from our site for document
        (Filtering,               formatting:
        Segmentation,            
ftp.cast.uni-linz.ac.at/pub/oagm/oagm.sty
        Enhancement,              
        Restauration, ...)        Please send 3 copies of your paper to
      * Applications              the Conference Chairman:
        (Industrial, Remote       
        Sensing, Biomedical,       |   Dr. Wilhelm Burger
        Document Analysis,         |   Johannes Kepler University Linz 
        Multimedia, ...)           |   Dept. of Systems Science
                                   |   Altenbergerstr. 69
   PROGRAM COMMITTEE               |   A-4040  Linz, Austria
                                       
      * Walter Kropatsch               mailto:wilbur@cast.uni-linz.ac.at
        (TU Wien)                      
      * Axel Pinz                 IMPORTANT DEADLINES:     
        (TU Graz)
      * Ernst Schuster                 Submission of extended abstracts:
        (AKH/Univ. Wien)                  Friday, March 14, 1997.
      * Vaclav Hlavac             
        (TU Prag)                      Acceptance notification: Monday,
      * Gerhard Paar                      April 14, 1997.
        (Joanneum Research)       
      * Ales Leonardis                 Final camera-ready paper: due at
        (TU Wien/Ljubljana)               the conference.
      * Mark J. Burge             
        (Univ. Linz)              REGISTRATION:
                                  
   LOCAL ORGANIZATION                  A registration fee of ATS
                                       500.- (approx. US$ 50.-) is
      * Wolfgang Mayr                  payable on site. No early
        (Univ. Linz)                   registration is required but
                                       please indicate your interest by
PROCEEDINGS                            sending e-mail to
                                         mailto:wm@cast.uni-linz.ac.at
Workshop proceedings will be           also to receive the latest 
published as a special volume          conference information.
of the "OCG Schriftenreihe"       
by R. Oldenbourg, Vienna.