CALL FOR PAPERS
 
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
 
                            SPECIAL ISSUE
                                 on
                 GRAPH ALGORITHMS IN COMPUTER VISION
 
               (Submission Deadline: December 1, 1999)
 
 Guest editors:
   Sven Dickinson, Rutgers University, sven@cs.rutgers.edu
   Marcello Pelillo, University of Venice, pelillo@dsi.unive.it
   Ramin Zabih, Cornell University, rdz@cs.cornell.edu
 
 Graphs have long been an important tool in computer vision, especially
 because of their representational power and flexibility.  There is now
 a renewed interest towards explicitly formulating computer vision
 problems as graph problems.  This is particularly advantageous because
 it allows vision problems to be cast in a pure, abstract setting with
 solid theoretical underpinnings, and also permits access to the full
 arsenal of graph algorithms developed in computer science and
 operations research.  Graph problems which have proven to be relevant
 to computer vision include maximum flow, minimum spanning tree,
 maximum clique, shortest path, maximal common subtree/subgraph, etc.
 In addition, a number of fundamental techniques that were designed in
 the graph algorithms community have recently been applied to computer
 vision problems.  Examples include spectral methods and fractional
 rounding.
 
 Papers are solicited that address theoretical as well as practical
 issues related to the Special Issue's theme.  Topics of interest
 include (but are not limited to):
 - energy minimization
 - grouping and visual organization
 - indexing of image databases
 - object recognition
 - segmentation and restoration
 - shape matching and recognition
 - stereo and motion
 
 Authors are invited to submit eight (8) copies of their manuscript to:
   Professor Sven Dickinson, Department of Computer Science
   Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
   110 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019
   Tel: 732-445-3546
 
 Manuscripts must be received by December 1, 1999 and
 must follow the IEEE T-PAMI submission guidelines.