*LAST CALL FOR PAPERS*
                       
 
   FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES IN IMAGE AND PATTERN ANALYSIS
                            FSPIPA'99
 
                       International workshop
 
       organised by Computer and Automation Research Institute,
 
               Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA SZTAKI)
 
                  Budapest, Hungary, 6-8 September, 1999 
 
            Homepage: http://visual.ipan.sztaki.hu/FSPIPA99
 
 
FSPIPA'99 addresses major problems and results related to the role of symmetry, 
self-similarity, anisotropy, regularity and structural complexity in computer 
vision and human perception. The workshop is planned as a highly professional, 
friendly and low-cost event with participation limited to maximum 50 persons.
 
FSPIPA'99 is held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on 
Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP'99), Ljubljana, Slovenia. 
(http://razor.fer.uni-lj.si/CAIP99/).
 
 
Deadlines:
 
Submission of draft paper: 15 March, 1999 
Preliminary registration:  15 March, 1999
 
 
Program Committee
 
F. Bruckstein Israel 
D. Chetverikov Hungary 
X. Descombes France 
T. Ebrahimi Switzerland 
L. Florack Holland 
W. Kropatsch Austria 
T. Lindeberg Sweden 
G. Sommer Germany 
T. Sziranyi Hungary
 
 
Organisers and Supporters
 
Workshop co-organisers:
 
Dmitry Chetverikov 
MTA SZTAKI Budapest, Kende u. 13-17, 1111 Hungary.
Tel: (+36-1) 209-6510, Fax: (+36-1) 466-7503
E-mail: csetverikov@sztaki.hu
 
Tamas Sziranyi  
MTA SZTAKI Budapest, Lagymanyosi u. 11, 1111 Hungary.
Tel: (+36-1) 209-5265, Fax: (+36-1) 466-7503 
E-mail: sziranyi@lutra.sztaki.hu 
 
FSPIPA'99 is jointly organised by Analogical and Neural Computing Systems 
Laboratory of MTA SZTAKI and Image and Pattern Analysis Group of MTA SZTAKI.
 
FSPIPA'99 is supported by International Association for Pattern Recognition,
Hungarian Acedemy of Sciences,
Hungarian Association for Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition, 
and European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (approval 
pending)
 
 
Submission 
 
Authors wishing to present a paper at the workshop should 
mail four copies of their draft paper to one of the co-organisers. 
The length of a contribution should be 4 to 6 pages.
The first page should contain title, author's name, affiliation and address, 
telephone, fax and e-mail, abstract of max. 100 words, and up to three keywords.
 
Electronic submission of a compressed PostScript or PDF paper
is also allowed. See the workshop homepage for instructions or
just send the file by email, as attachment, to one of the co-organisers.
 
 
Preliminary Registration 
 
The prospective participants are encouraged to electronically submit a completed 
preliminary registration form. 
See the workshop homepage for instructions.
 
 
Venue 
 
The workshop will be held at the Computer and Automation Research Institute (MTA 
SZTAKI)
in Budapest, the capital of Hungary. MTA SZTAKI is a leading research institute 
of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, situated close to the historical centre 
of the Pearl of the Danube. Accommodation in nearby hotels will be offered 
at reasonable price.
 
 
Invited Talks
 
Tony Lindeberg: 
Automatic Scale Selection for Interpreting the Visual World
 
Hagit Zabrodsky Hel-Or: 
Quantitative Analysis of Continuous Symmetry in Shapes and Objects
 
Dietmar Saupe: 
>From Statistical Self-Similarity in Natural Images to Fractal Image Encoding 
(to be confirmed)