PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS MVA'98: IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications November 17-19, 1998 Makuhari, Chiba, Japan The Sixth IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications will be held from November 17 through 19, 1998 at Fujitsu Makuhari System Laboratory, Chiba, Japan. The workshop is sponsored by the IAPR MVA Organizing Committee, Fujitsu Ltd.and a few others. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry, and to exchange their knowledge and stimulate each other through intensive discussions on the following research topics. MAIN TOPIC: Machine Vision and its Applications 1 Algorithms Feature extraction, Range data and 3D analysis, Motion and/or Image sequence analysis, Neural network applications, Color image analysis, and related technologies. 2 Architectures Intelligent sensors, VLSI image processor chips, Massively parallel processing, Architectures for 3D and/or motion processing, Image processing systems, Software environment for image processor, and related technologies. 3 Applications *FA(Factory Automation): Factory Automation, Mobile robots, and related technologies. *ITS(Intelligent Transport Systems): Disaster prevention and rescue, Security control,Navigation, and related technologies. *Multimedia: Multimedia data-base, Map and engineering drawing database, Map processing and map-based systems, 3D reconstruction from maps or drawings, and related technologies. *Others: Civil and construction engineering, Agriculture, Forestry, Fishery, and other applications. The workshop will include about 100 papers for oral and poster presentations on the above topics. All presentations will be made in English.Those who wish to present a paper are requested to submit four copies of an extended abstract of 500-1000 words with at least one main figure by May 15, 1998 to Prof. Katsushi Ikeuchi Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo 7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106, Japan Fax: +81-3-3401-1433 (E-mail: ki@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp) The abstract should contain the following information on its first page. 1) Title of the paper 2) Name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s) 3) Name and address of the person to be contacted, and also his/her phone/fax number(s) and E-mail address if available 4) Answers to the following questions: a) What is the original contribution of this work? b) Why should this contribution be considered important? IMPORTANT DATES The paper must be submitted no later than May 15, 1998. Acceptance of the paper will be notified by July 15, 1998. Final camera-ready papers are due on September 15, 1998. IAPR MVA ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Workshop Co-chairs Mikio TAKAGI (Science University of Tokyo) Shigeru SASAKI (Fujitsu) Program Chair Katsushi IKEUCHI (University of Tokyo) FURTHER INFORMATION For further information, please contact Prof. Katsushi Ikeuchi at the above address. Up-dated information will also be available at the following Web page: http://www.etl.go.jp/etl/gazo/mva98/