CALL FOR PAPERS
 
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        International Symposium on Pattern Recognition
                "IN MEMORIAM PIERRE DEVIJVER"
 
 
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                                February 12, 1999
                                Brussels, Belgium
 
Organized by
 
SOGESCI-B.V.W.B. (Belgian IAPR Society)
ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY
 
With the collaboration of
 
 
PHILIPS BELGIUM
The SIGNAL & IMAGE CENTRE of the Royal Military Academy
THOMSON-CSF ELECTRONICS BELGIUM
 
 
 
Prof. Pierre Devijver graduated in Telecommunications Engineering
>from the Royal Military Academy of Brussels in 1962.
 He left the Belgian army to join the Philips Research Laboratory
in Brussels where he assumed the responsibility for research in
pattern recognition with applications to speech and image
interpretation.
He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Paris VI in 1977
under
the supervision of Prof. Jean Claude Simon. In 1989 he moved to Brest in
France where he became the Scientific Director at the Ecole Nationale
Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST).
Prof. Devijver gained international recognition for his contributions
to statistical approaches of pattern classification. He was one of the f
ounding members of IAPR (International Association for Pattern
Recognition).
He served in the capacity of IAPR Secretary, 1st Vice-President and he
became IAPR President in 1986 for a period of two years.
Prof. Pierre Devijver died in Brest on 28 December 1996.
 
(Extracted from a text written by Prof. Josef Kittler, IAPR Newsletters
Vol. 19.)
 
 
The SOGESCI-B.V.W.B. and the Royal Military Academy of Brussels invite
you to attend the International Symposium on Pattern Recognition
"In Memoriam Pierre Devijver" which will take place on
 
Friday, February 12, 1999
 
at the
 
Royal Higher Institute for Defense
Drève St-Anna 90
B-1020 BRUSSELS (Belgium)
 
The SOGESCI-B.V.W.B. is the Belgian Operations Research
Society and the Belgian representative in IFORS and in IAPR.
 
The Royal Military Academy (RMA) is providing a Basic Training
for career officers of all Arms and Services of the Belgian Armed
Forces.
This training consists of intellectual education at university level,
military training, physical education and character building.
 
 
 
Conference Committee
Chairman : Paul GEORIS  (Commander of the RMA)
Secretary : Christiaan PERNEEL (RMA)
Members: see Program Committee
 
Program Committee
Chairman : Christiaan PERNEEL (RMA)
Members :
Marc ACHEROY (RMA)
Jan CORNELIS (VUB)
Henri LEICH (FPMs)
Philippe VAN HAM (ULB)
Ignace LEMAHIEU (RUG)
Luc VAN GOOL (KUL)
Edgard NYSSEN (VUB)
Paul DELOGNE (UCL)
Jean-Jacques QUISQUATER (UCL)
Claude VLOEBERGHS (RMA)
Christian WELLEKENS (EURECOM, Fr)
Dirk VAN DYCK (RUCA)
Vinciane LACROIX (RMA)
 
 
 
Objectives of the symposium
 
The symposium is intended to be a meeting place for everybody
who has known Pierre Devijver as a person or as a scientist.
Also, the symposium is intended to be a meeting place for
researchers, users and potential users of pattern recognition.
During the symposium, only the invited speakers will give an
oral presentation. The other presentations will be presented
during Poster sessions.
 
 
Invited Speakers
 
Following personal friends of Prof Devijver agreed to give an invited
presentation
* Prof Josef Kittler (Surrey, UK)  about "Multiple Expert Fusion"
* Prof Jean-Claude Simon (Paris, FR) about "Handwritten Character
Recognition"
* Prof Jean-Paul Haton (Nancy, FR) about "Statistical Models for Speech
Recognition"
* Prof Erik Backer (Delft, The Nederlands) about  "Machine Intelligence"
 
Symposium Topics
 
High quality papers in the field of the theory/applications of
pattern recognition in the large sense are welcome (the list is not
exhaustive) :
 
Feature Extraction      Statistical Models      Machine Learning
Fuzzy Models            Optimisation            Object Recognition
Hierarchical Models     Image Interpretation    Speech Interpretation
Medical Applications    Computer Vision         Morphology
 
Call for Papers
 
* Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts or full papers (up to
6 A4 pages).
The abstract/paper should include a list of keywords and the name,
address and Email of the author(s)
* Dead-line for submission of abstracts : October 15, 1998.
* Authors will be notified of acceptance of their presentation before
December 1, 1998.
* Dead-line for the camera-ready paper  : January 15, 1999.
* The final length of the accepted paper will be 6 pages A4. Papers
longer than 6 pages may be rejected.
* The camera-ready copy must be accompanied by registration and payment
by presenting author.
* The number of accepted papers will be limited.
 
 
 Registration and Submission of Abstracts/Papers
 
The enclosed registration form and submitted abstracts should be mailed
to :
C.PERNEEL
Royal Military Academy - TWMA
30 Av de la Renaissance
B-1000 BRUSSELS (Belgium)
Or by Email to Christiaan.Perneel@twma.rma.ac.be
 
Registration Fee
 
The registration fee is limited to 600 BEF for registration, coffee
breaks, lunch and
proceedings. The registration fee has to be transferred to the account
number
210-0620424-64
of ASBL Renaissance VZW
co/ ERM-KMS
Av de la Renaissance 30
B-1000 BRUSSELS
Belgium
 
with the mention : "Devijver-ELEC-A11-" and the name of the person(s)
for whom the payment
is being made. All bank costs are in charge of the participant.
After February 1st , 1999, registration fees are raised to 1000 BEF.
 
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Reply Form "In Memoriam Pierre Devijver"
To be mailed to
 
Royal Military Academy
Christiaan PERNEEL
30 Av de la Renaissance
B-1000 Brussels
BELGIUM
 
Or
 
Christiaan.Perneel@twma.rma.ac.be
 
 
* I enclose an extended abstract of the following paper that I wish
to present (as a Poster) during the "In Memoriam Pierre Devijver"
 
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