In conjunction with the first IEEE Computer Society Workshop on
 Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision, which was held June 26,
 1998 in Santa Barbara (USA), we are pleased to announce the 
 
 SPECIAL ISSUE OF
 COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE UNDERSTANDING on
 
 PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZANIZATION IN COMPUTER VISION
 (http://marathon.csee.usf.edu/~sarkar/cviu_po.html)
  
 Guest Editors:  Kim L. Boyer  and  Sudeep Sarkar 
 kim@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu, sarkar@csee.usf.edu
 
 THEME: As recognized by the Gestalt school, the importance of
 perceptual organization (PO) in human vision cannot be overestimated;
 it imparts both efficiency and robustness to the visual process. Since
 early demonstrations in the 1980s underscored its usefulness in object
 recognition, the computer vision community has seen various
 applications of PO in artificial vision systems such as in stereo
 matching, model indexing, contour completion, figure-ground
 segmentation, change detection, and more.  Indeed, it can be argued
 that a reasonable computational model of perception can be built
 around the notion of repeated detection and classification of
 organized structure.  PO represents much of the often overlooked
 intermediate level processing in computer vision systems.  So, despite
 these observations, the full potential of PO in artificial vision
 systems is yet to be realized.
  
 While the Special Issue is being planned to coordinate with the
 Workshop, the Guest Editors invite submissions from anyone working in
 the broad area of perceptual organization in computer vision. Topics
 on which submissions would be welcomed include, but are by no means
 limited to:
    Perceptual organization of photometric primitives in 2D and 3D 
    Perceptual organization of motion sequences 
    Algorithms and methodologies 
    Formalisms and representations 
    Organization hierarchies 
    Performance comparisons, evaluations, or measures 
    Applications of perceptual organization in vision systems 
    Use of context and domain knowledge  
    Role of learning in perceptual organization. 
 
 Send six copies  of your manuscript (marked CVIU Special Issue)
 by October 30, 1998 to the following address. Please refer to author
 guidelines at http://RVL4.ecn.purdue.edu/~kak/cviu.html for
 details regarding format.
 
 Sudeep Sarkar
 Computer Science and Engineering, 4202 E Fowler Ave., ENB 118
 University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA;
 Phone: 813-974-2113,
 email: sarkar@csee.usf.edu 
 
 Submission deadline:  October 30, 1998 
 First reviews back to the authors:  March 15, 1999 
 Revised manuscripts  due:  April 30, 1999 
 Second reviews (if required): June 1, 1999 
 Final manuscript due:     July 1, 1999 
 Publication date: October 1999.