************************************************************************ IMAGE AND VISION COMPUTING Special Issue on ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS=20 FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS AND COMPUTER VISION CALL FOR PAPERS=20 Due to the reduced costs of image acquisition devices and the increasing computational power of the current computer systems, the analysis of images is nowadays popular and particularly suited to applications involving tasks computationally intensive, ranging from robotics and visual inspection to autonomous vehicle driving and automated surveillance. Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), with their massive parallelism, have proved to be promising in a wide variety of vision application areas and to be particularly useful in solving problems where traditional techniques have failed or proved inefficient. This special issue aims to bring together papers presenting original research work on applications of ANNs to image analysis and computer vision. The special issue is planned to be published in the year 2000. TOPICS Areas of interest are targeted for artificial neural networks for image analysis and computer vision applications, but are not limited to:=20 =B7 Feature extraction =B7 Texture analysis =B7 Segmentation and grouping =B7 Tracking, stereo and motion analysis=20 =B7 Data fusion and multisensor processing =B7 Object recognition and scene interpretation =09 =B7 Visual perception =B7 Reconstruction =B7 Range image understanding=20 =B7 Inspection and surveillance =B7 Vision-based guidance of autonomous vehicles =B7 Miscellaneous applications All manuscripts should be submitted to Prof. Vittorio Murino at the address below. All manuscripts should conform to the standard format as indicated in the Information for Authors of the IMAGE AND VISION COMPUTING journal=20 (http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/imavis). Prospective authors are invited to send an email to murino@sci.univr.it indicating their interest in submitting a paper and the specific topics addressed. DEADLINES October 1, 1999 : Paper submission February 20, 2000 : Notification May 10, 2000 : Final submission GUEST EDITORS: Prof. Vittorio Murino=20 Dipartimento Scientifico Tecnologico=20 Facolta' Scienze MM. FF. NN., University of Verona Ca' Vignal 2, Strada Le Grazie, 37134 Verona, Italy Tel. +39 45 8098996, Fax +39 45 8098928 e-mail: murino@sci.univr.it=09 Dr. Gian Luca Foresti Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science (DIMI) University of Udine,=20 Via delle Scienze 206, 33100 Udine, Italy Tel. +39 432 558406, Fax +39 432 558499 e-mail: foresti@dimi.uniud.it Special Issue WWW page:=20 http://www.sci.univr.it/~swan/ivc.html