CVPRIP'98 http://www.cs.usu.edu/Conferences/CVPRIP/ First International Workshop on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition & Image Processing in 1998 Joint Conference On Information Sciences Honorary Chair: Thomas S. Huang, U. of Illinois, USA Chair: Heng-Da Cheng, Utah State U., USA Program Committee: Sergey Ablameyko, Belarusian Academy of Sciences, Belorussia Terry Caelli, Curtin U. of Technology, Australia Atul K. Chhabra, NYNEX Sci. \& Tech., USA Carlo Colombo, U. of Brescia, Italy Bruce Flinchbaugh, Texas Instruments, USA Michal Haindl, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic Nahum Kiryati, U. of Technion, Israel Adam Krzyzak, Concordia U., Canada Ales Leonardis, U. of Ljubljana, Slovinia Xiaobo Li, U. of Alberta, Canada Wei-Chung Lin, Northwestern U, USA Cettina Maccarone, IFCAI/CNR, Italy Pavel Pudil, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic Gabriella Sanniti di Baja, CNR, Italy. Frank Y. Shih, New Jersy Ins. of Technology, USA Ventzelav Valev, U. of Iowa, USA Albert M. Vossepoel, Delft U. of Technology, Netherlands Andrew K. C. Wong, Waterloo U., Canada Edward Wong, Polytechnic U., USA Enhua Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Papers are invited for, but not limited to the following areas: I. Algorithms: I.1: Image enhancement, segmentation, filtering, restoration, texture, analysis, understanding, compression, color image processing, etc. I.2: Feature Extraction, Feature Selection, statistical approach, syntactic approach, clustering, etc. I.3: Motion, Stereo vision, physics-based vision, CAD-based vision, target/object recognition, etc. I.4: Fuzzy Logic, Neural Network, Genetic Algorithm, Wavelet, Fractal, Morphology to CVPRIP. II. Architectures: VLSI and application-driven architectures for CVPRIP. III. Applications: Applying CPPRIP to medical science, industry, finance, environment, agriculture, transportation, etc. Authors should submit a summary for each paper. The summary shall not exceed 4 pages of 10 point font, double-column, single spaced text with figures, tables and references. Otherwise, additional page charge will be imposed. In addition to the summary, authors should provide a cover page to indicate: 1. CVPRIP'98 2. Area (see the detail from the web site) 3. Originality 4. Contact Author (Name, Address, Telephone, Fax and E-mail) CVPRIP'98 also solicits tutorial proposals for the related fields. The proposal should consist of: 1. A cover page (Name, Address, Telephone, Fax, and E-mail), 2. Abstract should not exceed 500 words 3. Supporting materials (outline of the content, objectives, audience, and a bio with no more than 3 pages) All paper submissions should be sent to: P. P. Wang Dept. of Electrical Engineering Duke University P. O. Box 90291 130 Hudson Hall, Science Drive Durham, NC27708-0291 USA or H. D. Cheng Dept. of Computer Science Utah State University Logan, UT84322-4205 USA and all tutorial proposal submissions should be sent to: M. B. Ghalia Dept. of Electrical Engineering Duke University P. O. Box 90291 130 Hudson Hall, Science Drive Durham, NC27708-0291 USA or H. D. Cheng Dept. of Computer Science Utah State University Logan, UT84322-4205 USA and be received by the corresponding deadlines. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their submissions by Aug. 1, 1998. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Camera-ready paper due is Sept. 10, 1998. Selected papers will be published in Information Sciences, An International Journal. Best paper will be decided by the Best Paper Selection Committee. Special Event: Dr. Lotfi A. Zadeh and Dr. Azriel Rosenfeld will receive the Information Science Award for their pioneer works, and their foundmental and influential contributions to the related fields. Important Dates: For PAPERS: June 1, 1998: Paper summary due. Aug. 1, 1998: Letter of acceptance/rejection to authors. Aug. 23, 1998: US$160 check deposit. Sept. 10, 1998: Camera-ready summary papers due. For TUTORIAL PROPOSALS: May 1, 1998: tutorial proposal due. June 29, 1998: Notification of decision and tutorials announcement Sept. 4, 1998: Camera-ready copy of the tutorial material. Oct. 23, 1998: Tutorials date. This can also be found from: http://www.cs.usu.edu/Conferences/CVPRIP/