---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Second International Conference on Scale-Space Theories in Computer Vision: Geometric Image Flows, Nonlinear Diffusion, Functional Minimisation, and Linear Scale-Space Corfu, Greece September 26-27, 1999 --Corfu Holiday Palace-- In conjunction with ICCV '99 Scale-Space '99, Call For Papers Scale-space theory has developed into an important branch of multiscale techniques. The foundations are mathematically well established, and its applications cover all areas of digital imaging. Scale-Space '99 is a forum for presentation of advances in scale-space theories in computer vision. It is the successor of Scale-Space '97, held in Utrecht. The emphasis is on partial differential equations and variational techniques for image analysis, and their applications in industry and medicine. SCOPE: Methods: Geometric image flows, level set methods, continuous-scale morphology, nonlinear diffusion, functional minimisation, total variation methods, regularisation, linear scale-space, multi-channel evolutions. Special Topics of Interest: Axiomatic foundations, invariances, well-posedness, generalised solutions, approximation and convergence, discrete theories, fast algorithms, deep structure, singularity theory, evolution properties, unification of theories, interrelations of methods. Applications: Shape analysis, segmentation, reconstruction, motion, stereo, matching and registration, colour image analysis, feature detection, scale selection, medical applications, industrial applications. INVITED SPEAKERS: We are pleased to announce the two following invited speakers from the adjacent scientific fields of neuroscience and wavelet theory. Professor Rudiger von der Heydt, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, will give a lecture on nonlinear mechanisms in the first stages of the primate visual system. Professor David L. Donoho, Statistics Department, Stanford University will give a lecture entitled "Anisotropy Scaling and Discontinuities along curves". SUBMISSION PROCEDURES Authors are invited to submit four (4) copies of original so far unpublished papers for oral or poster presentation. Papers must be no longer than 12 pages in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science format plus a cover sheet stating: (1) paper title, (2) key words, (3) name, address, fax, and e-mail address of the contact author. Due to the tight publishing schedule, papers must be at the conference secretariat no later than April 8th, 1999: Scale-Space '99, Department of Computer Science University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 1 DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark E-Mail: scalespace99@diku.dk Papers received later than April 15th may be returned unopened to the authors. All submissions will be reviewed by three members of the programme committee. Authors warrant by submission that the paper or any paper with similar contents has not and will not be submitted to any other conference during the Scale-Space 99 review period. The only exception is that we, in accordance with ICCV, allow for submission of papers already submitted to ICCV on the following terms: (i) Authors indicate ICCV submission number. (ii) Authors indicate preference of publication in the four cases of oral or poster acceptance at the two conferences. Papers also submitted to ICCV will only be accepted at one conference. Papers also submitted to ICCV may be submitted to Scale-Space 99 following the ICCV submission format of paper body. PROCEEDINGS Proceedings will be published in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag. LaTeX style files may be obtained at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/. A selection of the best papers will be published in a special issue of "Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation." IMPORTANT DATES Paper proposals due April 8, 1999 Notification of Acceptance May 31, 1999 Camera-ready papers due July 1, 1999 Conference September 26-27, 1999 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Additional information on Scale-Space '99 may be obtained at http://www.diku.dk/scalespace99/. General Board Mads Nielsen, Olivier Faugeras, Pietro Perona, Bart ter Haar Romeny, Guillermo Sapiro Programme Board Mads Nielsen, Joachim Weickert, Peter Johansen, Ole Fogh Olsen Programme Committee Luis Alvarez, Rein van den Boomgaard, Alfred Bruckstein, Vicent Caselles, Tony Chan, James Damon, Rachid Deriche, Luc Florack, Lewis Griffin, Frederic Guichard, Ben Kimia, Ron Kimmel, Jan Koenderink, Tony Lindeberg, Ravi Malladi, Farzin Mokhtarian, Wiro Niessen, Eric Pauwels, Steve Pizer, Joachim Rieger, Christoph Schnoerr, Jayant Shah, Jon Sporring, Luc Van Gool