International Workshop on

               Image Analysis and Information Fusion

                            (IAIF'97)
               6-7 November 1997, Adelaide, Australia

                         Host and Sponsors: 
           Cooperative Research Centre for Sensor Signal and 
               Information Processing (CSSIP), Australia
    Defence Science and Technology Organization (DSTO), Australia

Keynote Speeches:

     "Sensor Signal and Information Processing" 
     Henry d'Assumpcao, Director of CSSIP

     "Semantic Modelling for Image Analysis" 
     Wolfgang Foerstner, University of Bonn, Germany 

     "Intelligent Agents with Belief, Intention and Desire" 
     Michael P. Georgeff, Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute, 
         Melbourne, current chair of International Joint Conference on 
         Artificial Intelligence 

     "Cool Fusion - key themes in designing information fusion systems" 
     Daniel McMichael, Data and Information Fusion Program, CSSIP


Workshop Chair and Co-Chairs:
    Heping Pan, Mike Brooks, Daniel McMichael and Garry Newsam 

Program Committee: 
    Mike Brooks, University of Adelaide
    Wolfgang Foerstner, University of Bonn, Germany 
    Armin Gruen, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
    Douglas J. Kewley, DSTO 
    Deren Li, School of Information Engineering, WTUSM, Wuhan, China
    Yan Lue, GDE Systems, San Diego, USA
    Daniel McMichael, CSSIP
    Mark Nelson, DSTO 
    Ram Nevatia, University of Southern California, USA
    Garry Newsam, DSTO
    Heping Pan, CSSIP
    Vittala Shettigara, DSTO 
    John Trinder, University of New South Wales, Sydney


CALL FOR PAPERS

Hosted by  Australia's Cooperative Research Centre  for  Sensor  Signal 
and  Information Processing   (CSSIP),   and  sponsored  by Australia's 
Defence  Science and  Technology Organization (DSTO),  IAIF'97  is  the 
first  international workshop on  theoretical, experimental and applied 
research and development in  image analysis and information fusion.  It
provides a unique forum for  presentation of research and technological
advances by  scientists and  engineers   working in   image   analysis, 
computer vision, photogrammetry, statistical inference, knowledge-based   
inference, and information fusion, as well as  related applications  in     
industry, defence, medicine, and geoinformation.

      
SCOPE:

1. GEOMETRIC IMAGING SITUATION RECOVERY:
   aspects of geometric situation of image formation, single and stereo 
   camera calibration and image orientation, image network recovery and 
   adjustment, structure and motion from image sequence.   

2. IMAGE ANALYSIS AND FEATURE EXTRACTION:
   multiresolution image analysis,  scale space, wavelets,  phase-based 
   representation, polymorphic features, feature detection and tracking.  

3. STEREO VISION AND MULTIPLE IMAGE FUSION:
   stereo image matching, phase-based matching, feature-based matching, 
   object-space image matching,   fusion of visual modules,    multiple 
   image matching, surface reconstruction,  disparity discontinuity and 
   occlusion, horizontal and hierarchical disparity propagation. 

4. INFORMATION FUSION THEORIES AND ARCHITECTURES:
   interfacing signals with symbols, Bayesian networks,   probabilistic 
   knowledge representation and inference,    Blackboard architectures, 
   neural networks,     intelligent agents  with  belief,  desire   and 
   intention. 

5. APPLICATIONS:
   active vision systems, photogrammetry and remote sensing, monitoring 
   and control  of  dynamic engineering systems,   situation and threat 
   assessment for defence,  battlefield  information  fusion,   medical 
   expert systems with sensors, geographic information systems, etc.


SUBMISSION PROCEDURES:

Prospective   authors are  invited   to submit papers   in  any of the
technical areas listed  above.  To  submit  a proposal, prepare a  3-6
page   extended  abstract of the   paper   including text, figures and
references.  The abstract should be headed by paper title, authors and
their  affiliations, including the contact  author's name and address,
including telephone number, fax number, and email address. Attached to
the  back   of the extended   abstract should  be  an  additional page
containing  a   short   paragraph  on  biographical   details  of each
author. Four copies should then be sent to:

    Pamela Mibus, IAIF'97
    CSSIP, SPRI Building 
    Technology Park Adelaide
    The Levels, SA 5095
    Australia.

Phone: +61 8 83025019, Fax: +61 8 83023124 
Email: pamela.mibus@cssip.edu.au, CC: heping@cssip.edu.au
Web Site: http://www.cssip.edu.au/Conferences/IAIF/Welcome.html.

Submission by Fax is acceptable, if the received submission is clearly
readable. Alternatively, submission  of a postscript  file may be made
via  Email.  All submissions   will   be  reviewed  by at  least   two
reviewers.  The final  version of a paper  is limited to  12 pages and
will be published in the edited Proceedings of IAIF'97.  Longer papers
will be charged Aus$30 for each extra page.  Style files in LaTeX will
be provided for the convenience of the authors.


SCHEDULE:

Extended abstracts due:      1 June 1997
Notification of acceptance:  1 August 1997
Camera-ready papers:         1 October 1997
Workshop:                    6-7 November 1997

Note: Attached with this Workshop will be the first course  on  Image 
Analysis, Information Fusion and Java (IAIFJ'97),  3-5 November  1997, 
by CSSIP (Web site: 
http://www.cssip.edu.au/CssipEducation/ShortCourses/IAIFJ/Welcome.html).     
For more information,      contact   Pamela Mibus (administration)  or  
Dr. Heping Pan (technical) at the above address.  Dr. Pan may also  be 
reached by phone on +61 8 83023925 or email at heping@cssip.edu.au.



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