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2nd International Workshop on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition
Swiss Grand Hotel, Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia, August 11-13, 1998
First call for papers and participation
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* ! DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION EXTENDED UNTIL 15 JANUARY 1998 ! *
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You are invited to participate in the 2nd International workshop on
Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR'98) to be held on August
11-13. 1998 at the Swiss Grand Hotel, Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia.
Honorary Chairman:
Professor Herbert Freeman
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
Co-chairmen:
Adnan Amin Pavel Pudil
School of Computer Science&Eng. Inst. of Inform. Theory and
Automation
University of New South Wales Academy of Sciences of Czech
Republic
2052 Sydney, NSW, Australia 182 08 Prage 8, Czech Republic
amin@cse.unsw,edu.au pudil@utia.cas.cz
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Program Committee
* H. Asada, Toshiba Corp. Kansai Lab. Japan
* L. P. Cordella, Naples University, Italy
* R. P.W. Duin, Delft University of Technology. The Netherlands
* F. Ferri, University of Valencia, Spain
* D. Geiger, Courant Institute, New York University, USA
* M. Gilloux, SRTP, France
* N. Gorsky, USSR Academy of Science, USSR
* J. Grim, UTIA Acad. of Sciences, Prague
* T. M. Ha, University of Berne, Switzerland
* L. Hamey Macquarie University, Australia
* J. P. Haton, INRIA CRIN France
* V. Hlavac, Czech Technical University, Prague
* A. Hoffmann, University of New South Wales, Australia
* A. K. Jain, Michigan State University, MI, USA
* J. Jin, University of New South Wales, Australia
* J. Kittler, University of Surrey, U.K.
* A. Maeder, University of Ballarat, Australia
* J. Novovicova, UTIA Acad. of Sciences, Prague
* S. Raudys, Vilnius University, Lithuania
* M. Schlesinger, Academy of Sciences, Ukraine
* J. Sklansky, University of California, CA, USA
* C. Y. Suen, Concordia University, Canada
* T. Taxt, University of Bergen, Norway
* H. Yan, Sydney University, Australia
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Aim and Scope of the Workshop
The workshop aims to promote interaction and collaboration not only among
researchers working directly in Statistical Pattern Recognition but also
among those specialized in other fields but using or developing statistical
techniques. In this relation it is of particular interest to encourage links
with many mathematical statisticians, theoreticians and practitioners alike
who work at present outside the pattern recognition community. These issues
include, but are not limited to, the following issues:
* General methodology
* Statistical Classification Techniques
* Feature Extraction and Feature Selection
* Density Estimation
* Approximation by Mixtures
* Neural Networks
* Clustering Techniques
* Contextual Methods
* Syntactical and Hybrid Methods
* Learning Systems
* Random Fields
* 2D and 3D Object Recognition
* Statistical techniques in image processing
* Speech and one-dimensional signal analysis.
* techniques on document image analysis: handwriting, maps,etc...
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Submission Procedure
Papers should describe original and unpublished work. Prospective authors
should submit five copies of their contribution(s) by December 1, 1997 to:
Adnan Amin (SPR'98)
School of Computer Science and Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney, 2052, NSW, Australia
Fax: (61 2) 9 385 5995
Email: amin@cse.unsw.edu.au
The manuscript submitted should be no longer than 10 pages (double space).
The first page should contain: title, author's name, affiliation and
address, phone/fax number and e-mail address of the contact author. The
second page should include a title, a 150-word abstract, and keywords. All
manuscripts will be reviewed by at least two members of the program
committee. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings which are expected
to be published in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science by
Springer-Verlag, and will be distributed to all participants at the
workshop. We do not review papers submitted by facsimile or e-mail.
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Special Issue of Pattern Recognition
Selected papers from the workshop will be published in a special edition of
the journal PATTERN RECOGNITION scheduled for July 1999. Prospective authors
will be asked to submit enhanced papers for review at the workshop.
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Homepage
Information on the workshop is maintained at
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~amin/spr98.html
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Important Dates
Manuscript submission deadline: January 15, 1998
(not more than 10 pages - see the note above)
Notification of acceptance: April 1, 1998
Camera-ready paper due: May 15, 1998
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