This is an ANNOUNCEMENT and a CALL FOR PARTICIPATION concerning the conference CAIP'97 and the workshop AFPAC'97. CAIP'97 is the seventh event of a biennial international conference series devoted to all aspects of image analysis and processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition. The conference will take place at Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet Kiel, Germany, from Wednesday, Sept. 10, until Friday, Sept.12, 1997. The official language of the conference is English. The program consists of 61 oral and 31 poster presentations and one invited talk. The presentations were carefully selected on the basis of a double blind reviewing process. Before CAIP'97 a two days workshop on Algebraic Frames for the Perception--Action Cycle (AFPAC'97) will take place. The workshop program consists of 25 oral presentations of several invited speakers and high quality submissions. We have updated the WWW pages now including the final programs, a map of Kiel with the relevant places, and information concerning public transportation. Registration forms can be obtained as well. http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~caip97/ http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~caip97/afpac/ Further Information: contact: for CAIP: Dr. J. Pauli, for AFPAC: Dr. E. Bayro-Corrochano e-mail: caip97@informatik.uni-kiel.de, afpac@informatik.uni-kiel.de phone: +49.431.560484, +49.431.560477, fax: +49.431.560481 Address: Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet Institut fuer Informatik, Preusserstr. 1-9, 24105 Kiel, Germany