CALL FOR PAPERS

                              CAIP '97
                   7'th International Conference              
             COMPUTER ANALYSIS OF IMAGES AND PATTERNS

                         September 10-12, 1997
                            Kiel, Germany

CAIP'97 is the seventh of a biennial international conference devoted
to all aspects of image analysis and processing, computer vision, and
pattern recognition. Traditionally its venue is located in Central
Europe. One of its well-known main goals is to support personal
contacts between the Eastern/Central European research community and
the world research community in the covered fields.

Papers of original work include, but are not limited to, the following
technical areas:

pattern analysis              low level  processing and coding
segmentation and grouping     texture analysis
motion and stereo             shape representation 
invariants, geometry          object recognition
human-machine interfaces      active, real-time vision 
augmented reality             visual information management
vision guided robotics        human vision modelling 
learning and neural networks  in computer vision 

SUBMISSION

Five copies of full-length papers should be received by February 1, 1997 
at the address of the General Chair. The form of the manuscript should
be as follows:

1. Cover page including title, author(s), postal address, e-mail
address, FAX and phone number, an abstract up to 200 words, and one or
more categories as listed above. It should be explicitly stated if the
paper is submitted only for poster presentation.

2. Summary page containing answers to the following questions:
(a) What is the original contribution of this work?
(b) What is the most closely related work by others and  how
    does this work differ?

3. The paper beginning with title and abstract, without authors
and institution, should be no more than 10 pages (12-point fonts)
including text, figures, and references.

All reviewing will be double blind on the responsibility of three
members of the program committee for each paper.

DATES AT A GLANCE
February 1, 1997        Submission of  full papers 
April 15, 1997          Notification of acceptance 
April 15, 1997          Registration of exhibitors  
June 20, 1997           Submission of final camera-ready papers 

GENERAL CHAIR:          Gerald Sommer, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

R. Bajcsy, USA                       I. Bajla, Slovakia 
V. Chernov, Russia                   D. Chetverikov, Hungary
V. Di Gesu, Italy                    J.O. Eklundh, Sweden
A. Gagalowicz, France                G.L. Gimel'farb, Ukraine 
V. Hlavac, Czech Republic            J. Kittler, United Kingdom 
R. Klette, Germany                   J.J. Koenderink, Netherlands 
W. Kropatsch, Austria                I. Pitas, Greece 
R. Mohr, France                      G. Sagerer, Germany 
W. Skarbek, Poland                   F. Solina, Slovenia 
S. Stiehl, Germany                   S.W. Zucker, Canada 

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

G. Sommer (Chair), J. Bruske, K. Daniilidis,
M. Hansen, U. Mahlmeister, F. Maillard (Secretary)

CONFERENCE EVENTS

The scientific program of the conference will consist of oral
presentations and poster sessions as well as plenary and invited
sessions. The official language of the conference is English. A
technical exhibition with contributors from industry and research will
be associated with the conference.  The proceedings will be published
by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series and will be distributed at the
conference. CAIP'97 will be accompanied by a pre-workshop on the topic
Algebraic Frames of Perception-Action Cycle (AFPAC) on Sept. 8-9. A
separate Call for Papers will be issued for this Workshop (see
http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~caip97/afpac).


LOCATION AND TIME

The venue of the CAIP'97 conference will be Kiel.  Kiel is the capital
of Schleswig-Holstein, the most northern state of the Federal
Republic of Germany. Kiel is located at the Baltic Sea and is
well-known from the international sailing regattas attracting
thousands of sailors every year.  The weather in Kiel in September is
rather mild with temperatures 15-20 C and a typical refreshing breeze.
The conference will take place at the Auditorium Maximum of the
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel from Wednesday, Sept. 10 till
Friday, Sept. 12, 1997.

Kiel can easily be reached by train or by car from Hamburg in about
one hour or by ferry from Goteborg, Oslo, or St'Petersburg. National
flights connect Frankfurt and Berlin with Kiel. The closest
international airport is at Hamburg and is directly connected with
Kiel by the airport bus ``Kielius''.

REGISTRATION FEE AND ACCOMMODATION

The organizers plan to follow the policy of former CAIP conferences
supporting participation of Eastern and Central European countries.
There will be several possibilities for stipends of participants with
accepted papers. Furthermore students with accepted papers from any
country may apply for financial support as soon as they receive the
notification of acceptance.  The final policy of registration fees and
up-to-date information on the conference can be found in the
CAIP-WWW-page.

ADDRESS

Prof. Dr.Gerald Sommer  
Institut fuer Informatik
Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet Kiel 
Preusserstr. 1-9
D-24105 Kiel, Germany

email: caip97@informatik.uni-kiel.de
WWW:   http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~caip97/
Tel: +49 431 560473      Fax: +49 431 560481