ICPR '98

14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on PATTERN RECOGNITION
	    BRISBANE CONVENTION CENTRE,
	Brisbane, Queensland.,  AUSTRALIA,
  	     17  --  20 August 1998

Web site:         http://www.cssip.elec.uq.edu.au/~icpr98/

Paper submission deadline: 15 December, 1997
Notification of acceptance: 16 March, 1998
Camera-ready copy: 4 May, 1998

CALL FOR PAPERS 
ICPR'98 is the international conference sponsored by the International 
Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). The conference is held
every two years and, in 1998, it will be held in Brisbane, Australia.
In the tradition of the IAPR organization, ICPR'98
covers a broad range of topics related to the development of
representations and techniques for the encoding, recognition
and interpretation of information in most sensing modalities, primarily
visual information. Presentations will be made by experts from many different
countries and the conference has a strong
multicultural flavor.

General Co-Chairs:
Terry Caelli, Curtin University;
Anthony Maeder, University of Ballarat.

Technical Co-Chairs:
Anil Jain, Michigan State University; 
Svetha Venkatesh, Curtin University.
Local Organization Chair: 
Brian Lovell, University of Queensland
Tutorial Co-Chairs: 
Athula Ginige, University of Technology, Sydney;
Paul Jackway, University of Queensland


Conference Track Chairs

Conference Track Chairs

     COMPUTER VISION: 
     Ray Jarvis, Monash University, Australia
     Robert Bolles, SRI International, USA
     Giulio Sandini, University of Genova
     Nicholas Ayache, INRIA, France
     Yoshiaki Shirai, Osaka University, Japan

     PATTERN RECOGNITION and ANALYSIS: 
     Moidin Mohiuddin, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
     Yasuaki Nakano, Shinshu University, Japan 
     Jianchang Mao, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA 
     Bob Duin, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands 
     Dov Dori, Technion, Israel

     ALGORITHMS and TECHNIQUES: 
     Gunilla Borgefors, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
     Horace Ip, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
     Steven L. Tanimoto, University of Washington, USA
     Ari Visa, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
     Ian T. Young, Delft Univeristy of Technology, The Netherlands

     SYSTEMS and APPLICATIONS: 
     Saburo Tsuji, Wakayama University, Japan
     Gerard Medioni, University of Southern California 
     Heinrich Niemann, Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg 
     Alex Pentland, The Media Laboratory, MIT 
     Ching Y. Suen, Concordia University 

ICPR'98 will consist of four parallel tracks where previously 
unpublished papers will be presented either  orally or as posters and 
include invited papers and special tracks. The program for each 
stream will be organized by the corresponding Program Commitee. 
The official opening and social events are common for all participants.
In addition, a set of tutorials/workshops will be given by prominent
researchers the day before the conference.


There will also be a competition involving the running and evaluation
of computer vision and pattern recognition techniques on different
data sets with known ground truths. Details on this will appear
shortly and, for more details, contact Professor Robert Haralick at
haralick@ptah.ee.washington.edu or visit
http://george.ee.washington.edu.

Papers should not exceed 10 pages (12 pt, double-line spacing) and on the
first page the authors  should indicate their names along with
affiliations and e-mail addresses, a list of key words and the preferred
conference track. Send six copies of the paper to:

14th ICPR'98, c/o Conventions Queensland,
PO Box 4044,
St. Lucia South, 
Queensland 4067, 
AUSTRALIA,
Ph. +61 7 3870 8831
Fax +61 7 3371 9514 

E-mail: icpr14@convqld.org.au

Tracks include the following topics:
                    Pattern
Computer Vision     Recognition    Algorithms        Systems
                    and Analysis   and Techniques    and Applications
Active-Passive      Feature                             Document
Sensing             Extraction     Image Coding         Analysis
Curves-Shape        Statistical
Analysis            Methods        Image Signals        Surveillance
Active Shape        Morphology     Wavelets             Character
                                                        Recognition
Shape from X        Machine        Image Mappings       Robotics
                    Learning
Active Vision       Connectionist  Visualisation        Face/Gesture
                    Models                              Recognition
Biological Vision   Fuzzy Models   Auditory Signals     Handwriting
Robotics/Automation Hierarchical   Software/Archit.     Multi-Media
                    Models
Invariance and      Picture
Geometry            Grammars       AI Techniques        Content Queries
Functional Vision   Geometric      Distributed Systems  Image
                    Reasoning                           Interpretation
Grouping and                                            Digital
Segmentation        Optimisation   Parallel Systems     Libraries
Object Models       Object         Syntactic Models     Biometry
                    Recognition
Motion Analysis     Invariance in  Statistical Models   GIS -Remote
                    Recognition                         Sensing
                    Validation
                    and            Geometric Methods    Medical
                    Verification                        Applications