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Media Laboratory, MIT Ching Y. Suen, Concordia University ICPR'98 will consist of four parallel tracks where previously unpublished papers will be presented either orally or as posters and include invited papers and special tracks.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