The Eighth British Machine Vision Conference

			 8-11 September 1997

			 University of Essex

			   CALL FOR PAPERS

The British Machine Vision Conference is the main UK conference for machine
vision and related topics. High-quality papers are sought describing recent
and novel research in the areas of computer vision, image analysis and
processing or pattern recognition. Papers describing research being
undertaken in national or international collaborative projects are
particularly welcome. The conference is a single-track meeting with both
oral and poster presentations. In addition to the contributed papers, there
will be talks by invited speakers and a pre-conference tutorial programme
(free to registered students).

Contributions are sought on any novel aspect relating to machine vision and
pattern analysis, including:

      image processing and feature extraction   practical applications
      object recognition and scene analysis     model-based coding
      reconstruction of 3D shape                architectures
      computational issues in perception        active vision
      robotic vision and sensory fusion         motion analysis
      advanced pattern analysis                 neural networks

Four anonymous copies of full papers not exceeding 10 pages (approx. 5000
words if there are no figures) should be submitted for review. Please
include two separate title pages, one containing title and abstract and the
other containing title, abstract, and authors' names and affiliation. Papers
will be reviewed by the elected BMVA Committee with a small number of
specially co-opted members. By submitting a paper to BMVC, the authors
warrant that it, and any related paper with essentially the same technical
content, has not been and will not be submitted to any other conference
during the BMVC review period. Papers will be accepted either for oral
presentation or as posters. A printed copy of the Proceedings will be
available to delegates at the conference and a selection of the best papers
will be published separately in a special issue of Image and Vision
Computing.

Up-to-date information on BMVC97, including submission guidelines and
information on the format of papers, can be found on the World-Wide Web at

  http://peipa.essex.ac.uk/BMVC97/

Papers should be submitted to the Conference Secretariat:

     BMVC97 Secretariat
     Department of Electronic Systems Engineering
     University of Essex
     Wivenhoe Park
     Colchester
     CO4 3SQ
     United Kingdom

            |                   Important Dates               |
            |                                                 |
            |  Deadline for paper submission   30 April 1997  |
            |  Notification of acceptance      10 June  1997  |
            |  Deadline for camera-ready copy     July  1997  |

The British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition
is a Company limited by guarantee, No. 2543446, registered in England and
Wales. Registered Office: Granta Lodge, 71 Graham Road, Malvern, Worcs. WR14
2JS. The Association is a non-profit-making body and is registered as
charity No. 1002307.

 Dr Adrian F Clark                          http://esewww.essex.ac.uk/~alien/
 EMAIL: alien@essex.ac.uk   PHONE: (+44) 1206-872432   FAX: (+44) 1206-872900
 Dept ESE, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, C04 3SQ, UK