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         Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and
                          Image Processing

                          Dec 20-22, 2000
                          Bangalore, INDIA
                                  
                     Email: icvgip@cair.res.in
                URL: http://www.cair.res.in/~icvgip
            Phone: +91 80 226 5609 Fax: +91 80 225 5615
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                       Call for Participation
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Continuing  in the line  of  ICPIC '95  held at  IIT,  Kharagpur and
ICVGIP '98 held at IIT, Delhi, ICVGIP  2000 will be organized by the
Centre  for Artificial Intelligence   & Robotics at Bangalore during
December 20-22,  2000. The conference  is intended to bring together
the Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing communities together with
a special emphasis on India. A high quality  technical track will be
augmented by presentations    from various R&D   institutions in the
country and the industry.

Important Dates:
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        Submissions due:                May 15, 2000
        Notifiation of acceptance:      Sep 01, 2000
        Final papers due:               Oct 15, 2000
        Conference dates:               Dec 20-22, 2000

Topics:
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We strive to host a high  quality conference in India. An additional
goal his to bring  the community  of  Indian practitioners  of these
areas together  at a  single  forum. We encourage  papers related to
system development,  innovative  applications etc.,  in addition  to
research papers.   We especially encourage papers  by  student.  The
topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

        Computer Vision         Image Processing
        Computer Graphics       Signal Processing
        Virtual Reality         Multimedia
        Document Analysis       Pattern Recognition & Matching
        Applications            Image Processing Architectures
        ASIC Design             Software & Hardware Tools


Submissions:
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Electronic submissions  are  highly encouraged.  Acceptable  formats
are: Acrobat   PDF, standard PostScript,  self-contained LaTeX  with
psfig, and  Word 7.0.  Check  the official web  page for  details on
electronic  submission.    Manuscripts   should   not   exceed    20
double-spaced pages  including figures  and tables.   The submission
should include  a cover page   with the title,  the authors'  names,
abstract   and   keywords.   Those submitting  hard-copy manuscripts
should send four copies to the following address:

        ICVGIP 2000 Secretariat
        Centre for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (CAIR)
        Raj Bhavan Circle, High Grounds
        Bangalore, 560 001. INDIA

Further Information:
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        Email address:          icvgip@cair.res.in
        URL:                    http://www.cair.res.in/~icvgip
        Fax:                    +91 80 225 5615 (Attn: ICVGIP 2000)

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Patrons:
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        Prof. M. Vidyasagar, CAIR
        Prof. R. Narasimha, NIAS

General Chair:
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        Dr. P. J. Narayanan, CAIR               pjn@cair.res.in

Program Co-Chairs:
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        Prof. Ramakant Nevatia, USC             nevatia@usc.edu
        Prof. Jayanta Mukherjee, IIT, KGP       jay@cse.iitkgp.ernet.in

Organizing Chair:
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        Prof. Swamy Manohar, IISc               manohar@csa.iisc.ernet.in

Plenary Chair:
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        Dr. P. Anandan, Microsoft               anandan@microsoft.com

Publications Chair:
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        Dr. C. V. Jawahar, CAIR                 jawahar@cair.res.in

Treasurer:
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        Dr. Subrata Rakshit, CAIR               subrata@cair.res.in

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Organized by Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR)
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