Announcement:

At the upcoming conference "Scale-Space'97", 2-4 July 1997 at Utrecht
University, a tutorial on
	"Multiscale Image Analysis and Front-End Vision:
	Introduction to Scale-Space Theory"
will be given on July 1, 1997, in reaction to multiple requests.

NB: This is the afternoon BEFORE the conference Scale-Space'97.
Attendance is free for registrants of the conference.

 Lecturer:	Bart M. ter Haar Romeny, PhD, Utrecht University
 Date:		July 1, 1997
 Place:		University Hospital Utrecht, Room C5
 Time:		14:00 - 17:00

Topics: 

    Notion of scale in physics and mathematics 
    Physics of observation, apertures 
    Axiomatic derivation of some aperture kernels 
    Differentiation, ill-/well-posedness and scale 
    History of scale-space theory development 
    Images as regular distributions 
    The human visual pathway, receptive field (RF) structure 
    Retinal distribution of RF's, feedback in the visual system 
    Gaussian derivatives and the diffusion equation 
    Some differential geometry on images in 2D, 3D, 2D-time 
    Geometric invariants, tensors 
    Applications in medical imaging 
    Multiscale optic flow 
    Nonlinear, geometry-driven diffusion schemes 
        Divergence forms 
	Energy minimization schemes
        Curve evolution 
        Diffusion tensor diffusion 
    Summary 

URL's:
Scale-Space'97: http://www.cv.ruu.nl/Conferences/ScaleSpace97.html
Tutorial:       http://www.cv.ruu.nl/Conferences/Tutorial.html
		(incl. lecture notes)