To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, we are organizing a Panel at ICIP98 to assess the past achievements and current status of Image Processing, and to ascertain future research directions. The Panel will be held on Sunday, October 4, 1998, 4:30-6 pm. A tentative list of Panelists: W. F. Schreiber, MIT Rama Chellappa, U. Maryland W. K. Pratt, Photon Dynamics Murat Kunt, EPFL Y. Yasuda, Waseda University M. Takagi, Science University of Tokyo T. S. Huang, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Chair) Audience participation in the discussions will be particularly encouraged.