IEEE WORKSHOP SCTV99  CALL  FOR PAPERS 
 
       Statistical and Computational Theories of Vision:
       --- Modeling, Learning, Computing, and  Sampling
 
            Fort Collins, Colorado, June 22, 1999
           ( Associated with Int'l Conf. on CVPR'99) 
 
          http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~szhu/sctv99.html
 
  This workshop will provide an international forum for discussing
recent advances in the statistical and computational theories of vision.
It will brings together highly respected researchers from
computer vision, mathematics, statistics, information theory, and
 psychology to address key issues in Bayesian image analysis, such as 
 
    * Advanced theories for  statistical modeling, 
    * Advanced theories for visual learning, 
    * Advanced techniques for efficient computation and search,
    * Advanced techniques for Markov chain Monte Carlo Sampling.
 
 Original papers are solicited on topics including
  (but are not limited to):
 
   * Analyzing the statistics of natural imagery and patterns,
   * Statistical modeling of natural patterns (textures, shapes,
biometrics...)
   * Statistical modeling of clutter and sensor noise,
   * Statistical modeling of scenes.
   * Visual learning, model estimation and model selection,
   * Information theoretic principles in computer vision,
        (max. entropy, max. mutual info., minimax entropy,...)
   * Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling methods,
        (Importance sampling, stochastic diffusion, jump-diffusion,
           multi-try metropolis, IWIW,...),
   * Algorithms for efficient computation and search 
         (graph partitioning, 20-questions, Markov tree, dynamic
search,...),
   * Scene representation and graph matching,
   * Bayes network,
   * Data Fusion,
   * Image Warping,
   * Pattern theory,
   * Applications: 
         (image segmentation, perceptual organization, object recognition, 
          motion analysis and tracking, medical images, ...).
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE :
 
     Song-Chun Zhu,     Alan Yuille,      David Mumford
 
PROGRAM COMMITTEE :
 
     Edward  Adelson,   Yali     Amit,     Peter    Belhumeur,
     Michael Black,     Andrew   Blake,    Sven     Dickenson,
     Byron   Dom,       David    Forsyth,  David    Heeger,
     Davi    Geiger,    Donald   Geman,    Basilis  Gidas,
     Daniel  Kersten,   Yann     LeCun,    Jitendra Malik,
     Kanti   Mardia,    Michael  Miller,   Anand    Rangarajan,
     James   Rehg       Eero   Simoncelli, Richard  Szeliski,  
     Paul    Viola,     Yingnian  Wu,      Jun      Zhang.
     
IMPORTANT DATES
 
   Paper submission deadline:  Feb.    1, 1999
   Notification of acceptance: April  15, 1999
 
 
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
 
 Prospective authors are invited to submit 4 copies of manuscript,
  no longer than 25 pages, including figures and references to. 
 
     Prof. Song-Chun Zhu
     Dept. of Computer and Information Science
     The Ohio State University
     2015 Neil Avenue
     Columbus, OH 43210
 
  Accepted papers will be published as a book (or a special issue of
  a  journal e.g. IEEE Trans PAMI).
 
CONTACT INFORMATION :
 
   szhu@cis.ohio-state.edu