CALL FOR PARTICIPATION One Day British Machine Vision Association Technical Meeting Optimisation Issues in Computer Vision Optimisation is the process of finding the best solution to a problem according to a certain criteria. Some typical techniques used for this are Mathematical Programming, Gradient and Newton type approaches, as well as stochastic methods such as Simulated Annealing and Genetic Algorithms. Optimisation in Computer Vision has been attempted in a wide variety of tasks, from low level feature extraction to high level recognition methods. The optimisation process itself may occur on-line or off-line as a training stage. The British Machine Vision Association will be holding a one day Technical Meeting at the BIR, London on May 8th 1997, entitled "Optimisation Issues in Computer Vision" to allow a platform for presentation of new work or "work in progress" both in theoretical development and applications. Prospective contributors should submit a short abstract (50-70 words) describing their current work in this area. The deadline for contributions is 28th February 1997. Submissions should be made by email, fax or post using the details below: Dr Majid Mirmehdi Centre for Vision, Signal & Speech Processing Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University of Surrey Guildford GU2 5XH England Email: M.Mirmehdi@ee.surrey.ac.uk Tel/Fax: (+44) 1483 259842 / 534139 For up-to-date information please see this WWW page: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/People/M.Mirmehdi/CFP.html The WWW address for the Centre for Vision, Signal & Speech Processing at Surrey University is at: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Research/VSSP/