PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS Special Session on MACHINE VISION FOR INTELLIGENT VEHICLES AND AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS Dedicated Conference on Robotics, Motion, and Machine Vision in the Automotive Industries Florence, Italy - June 16-19, 1997 Papers are invited for the special session on ``Machine Vision for Intelligent Vehicles and Autonomous Robots'' as part of the Dedicated Conference on Robotics, Motion, and Machine Vision in the Automotive Industries at the 30th ISATA Conference. PURPOSES Due to the reduced costs of image acquisition devices and to the increasing computational power of current computer systems, Machine Vision has recently become a very popular method to sense the surrounding environment. Its powerful characteristics make Artificial Vision particularly suited for tasks such as scene interpretation, obstacle detection and recognition, motion computation, while the availability of low-cost processors and sensors justifies the enormous interest it raises among scientists and industries. The Dedicated Conference on Robotics, Motion, and Machine Vision in the Automotive Industries will provide a forum for users, researchers, and developers of robotics and machine vision systems with special emphasis on automotive applications. The conference will address user needs as well as cutting-edge research and development issues and accomplishments in a number of relevant topics. The conference is set to bring together all the experts worldwide on the subject of robots and their application to the automotive industry. ADDRESSED TOPICS Papers are solicited on all major aspects of machine vision for autonomous agents, including: * Image Segmentation * Image Sequence Analysis * Active and Real-Time Vision * Low-level Vision * Object Recognition * Pattern Analysis * Vision-based Real-time Robot and Vehicle Navigation * Massively Parallel Architectures for Low-level Vision * Intelligent Sensors for Low-level Vision * Vision-based Guidance of Unmanned Vehicles * Hardware Neural Solutions * Applications SPECIAL SESSION COORDINATOR Alberto BROGGI Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione Universita` di Parma I-43100 Parma, Italy Fax: +39 - 521 905723 Email: broggi@CE.UniPR.IT ROBOTICS CONFERENCE COORDINATOR Claire FARRUGIA ISATA 32A Queen Street, Croydon Surrey CRO 1SY, England Fax: +44 - 181 686 1490 Email: 100270.1263@compuserve.com FURTHER AND UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION The special session on Machine Vision for Intelligent Vehicles and Autonomous Robots will be held during the 30th ISATA conference. For more information please contact: ISATA Secretariat 32A Queen Street, Croydon, London, CRO 1SY, UK Phone: +44 181 681 3069 Fax: +44 181 686 1490 Email: 100270.1263@compuserve.com WWW: http://WWW.spincom.com/isata Further information about the special session is available via WWW: http://WWW.CE.UniPR.IT/isata INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS * Submit 6 (six) copies of the full paper, consisting of 8 single-spaced typewritten pages including title page, abstract, references, and diagrams to the conference secretariat. * Each paper must have a tile page which includes the title, full name of all authors, their complete address(es) including affiliation(s), telephone number(s) and Email address(es). * Electronic and fax submissions will not be considered. DEADLINES * OCTOBER 31, 1996 Submission of a preliminary abstract (title and summary) of about 150 words * DECEMBER 20, 1996 Submission of draft manuscripts for refereeing * FEBRUARY 15, 1997 Notification of accepted papers mailed to authors * MARCH 15, 1997 Accepted manuscripts are due for inclusion in the conference proceedings * JUNE 16-19, 1997 Conference venue CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS The conference Proceedings will be published and distributed by ISATA and will be available at the conference. Program Committee Chairman: R. C. Mann, Head Intelligent Systems Section, Oak Ridge National Lab., USA Program Committee Co-Chairman: A. Goldenberg, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Robotics and Automation Laboratory, University of Toronto, Canada Program Committee: P. Bhattacharya, University of Nebraska, USA W. Friedrich, Automation Technology, New Zealand Y. Ishiguro, Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan H. Cristensen, Swedish Centre for Autonomous Systems, Sweden H. Asama, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Japan A. Broggi, University of Parma, Italy G. Dodds, The Queen's University of Belfast, UK A-J. Baerveldt, Halmstead University, Sweden C. Sun, CSIRO, Australia S. Okuma, Nagoya University, Japan Y. Sato, Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine, Japan K. Itoh, Osaka University, Japan L. Bennet, US Army, USA N. Ahuja, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA T. Roska, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary Z. Ras, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA M. J. Varga, Defence Research Agency, UK W. Von Seelen, Ruhr University, Germany L. Joskowicz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel M. Profirescu, Politechnica University of Bucharest, Romania M-K. Hor, Academia Sinica, Rebublic of China E. Dragan, Romania