V i s i o n I n t e r f a c e ' 9 7 Kelowna, BC., Canada 19-23 May 1997 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Vision Interface '97 is the eleventh Canadian conference devoted to computer vision, signal and image processing, and pattern recognition. This conference, held in various Canadian cities, is sponsored by the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society. The 1997 conference will be held in Kelowna, BC., May 19-23, 1997 in conjunction with Graphics Interface '97. INVITED SPEAKERS: Richard Szeliski Microsoft Research Brian Funt Simon Fraser University Program Committee: Anup Basu, University of Alberta Steven_Beauchemin, University of Quebec at Trois Riviers Robert Bergevin, Universite Laval Greg Dudek, McGill University Frank Ferrie, McGill University David Fleet, Queens University Mike Jenkins, York University Denis Laurendeau, Universite Laval Neils Lobo, Central Florida University, U.S.A. Alan Mackworth, University of British Columbia Worthy N. Martin, University of Virginia, U.S.A. Minas Spetsakis, York University Naokazu Yokoya, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan IMPORTANT DATES: Four copies of a Full Paper due: Nov. 15 - 1996 Workshop/Tutorial Proposals due: Jan. 15 - 1997 Authors Notified: Jan. 20 - 1997 Final Paper due: Mar. 31- 1997 TOPICS: Contributions are are solicited (English or French) describing unpublished research results and applications in any area of computer vision, signal and image processing, and pattern recognition. Topics will include, but are not limited to: Robot Perception Biomedical Applications Intelligent Autonomous Systems Modeling Human Perception and Movement Multi-sensor Perception On-line and Off-line Document Processing Active Perception Industrial Applications S/W and H/W Architecture 3-D Vision Methods for Image and Scene Analysis Remote Sensing Neural Network Motion Representation Knowledge Representation Robust Methods for Signal and Image processing Four copies of full papers should be submitted to the Program Co-chairmen before Nov. 15 1996 Include with the paper full name, address, phone number, fax number and electronic mail address of the contact author. Submit papers to: Gerhard Roth John Barron Visual Information Technology Dept. of Computer Science National Research Council The University of Western Ontario Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0R6 London, Ontario,Canada N6A 5B7 Tel: (613) 993-1219 Tel: (519) 679-2111 Fax: (613) 952-0215 Fax: (519) 672-7775 email:roth@iit.nrc.ca email: barron@csd.uwo.ca See also the internet site: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/conf/VI97 for uptodate information on the conference, including registration information when it becomes available.