PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS Second International Workshop on ENERGY MINIMIZATION METHODS IN COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION York, England, July 26-29, 1999 _______________________________________________________________________________ __ Energy minimization methods represent a fundamental methodology in computer vision and pattern recog- nition, with roots in such diverse disciplines as Phy sics, Psychology, and Statistics. Recent manifestations of the idea include Mar kov random fields, relaxation labeling, various types of neural networks, etc. These techniques are finding application in areas such as early vision, graph m atching, motion analysis, visual reconstruction, etc. This workshop is the seco nd in a series that aims to consolidate research efforts in this area, and to p rovide a discussion forum for researchers and practitioners interested in this important yet diverse subject. The scientific program of the workshop will incl ude the presentation of invited talks and contributed research papers. The work shop is sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAP R) and organized by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Yor k. Topics Papers covering (but not limited to) the following topics are solicited: Theory: (e.g., Bayesian contextual methods, a discrete optimization, informatio n theory and statistics, learning and parameter estimation, Markov random field s, neural networks, relaxation processes, statistical mechanics approaches, sto chastic methods, variational methods) Methodology: (e.g., deformable models, ea rly vision, matching, motion, object recognition, shape, stereo, texture, visua l organization) Applications: (e.g., character and text recognition, face proce ssing, handwriting, medical imaging, remote sens- ing) Program co-chairs Edwin R. Hancock, University of York, UK Marcello Pelillo, University of Venice, Italy Program committee Patrick Bouthemy INRIA, France Joachim Buhmann University of Bonn Mario Figueiredo, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal Davi Geiger, New York University, USA Anil K. Jain, Michigan State University, USA Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, UK Stan Z. Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Maria Petrou, University of Surrey, UK Anand Rangarajan, Yale University, USA Kaleem Siddiqi, McGill University, Canada Shimon Ullman, Weizmann Institute, Israel Lance Williams, University of New Mexico, USA Alan L. Yuille, Smith Kettlewell Institute, USA Josiane Zerubia, INRIA, France Steven W. Zucker, Yale University, USA Invited speakers There will be one keynote speaker and four invited speakers. Details are curren tly being finalised. Venue The workshop will be held at the King's Manor in the historic center of York. A ccommodation will be provided in nearby hotels and on the campus of the Univers ity of York. Submission procedure Prospective authors should submit four copies of their contribution(s) by Febru ary 1, 1999 to: Edwin Hancock (EMMCVPR'99) Department of Computer Science University of York Heslington, York, Y01 5DD, UK. E-mail: erh@cs.york.ac.uk The manuscripts submitted should be no longer than 15 pages, and the cover page should contain: ti- tle, author's name, affiliation and address, e-mail addres s, fax and telephone number, and an abstract no longer than 200 words. In case of joint authorship, the first name will be used for correspondence unless othe rwise requested. All manuscripts will be reviewed by at least two members of th e program committee. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings which will again be published in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer- Verlag, and will be distributed to all participants at the workshop. In order t o get a high-quality book with a uniform and professional appearance, prospecti ve authors are strongly encouraged to use the LaTeX style file available at the WWW site indicated below. Important dates Paper submission deadline: 1 February, 1999 Notification of acceptance: April 1999 Camera-ready paper due: May 1999 Homepage Information on the workshop will be maintained at http://cs.york.ac.uk/"erh/EMMCVPR99.html This page will include information on accepted papers and the final program.