DAGM 2001 23rd symposium for pattern recognition The German working group for pattern recognition (DAGM e.V.) manifests from 12th until 14th September 2001 in Munich the 23rd symposium for pattern recognition. It is a panel for presentation and discussion of outstanding , newer and interesting works on the field of pattern recognition. The long tradition of the congress warranted a acknowledged and able panel for presentation of technological and important newer research results. The congress topics are: Image recognition & image understanding; speech analysis and speech understanding; sensor fusion; image sequence analysis ; 3D- gathering - visualization; classification; active vision; Applications; medicine, bioinformatics; Additional emphases of 23rd Munich symposium are: Interaction virtual with real worlds, man-machine-interaction, real-time and 3D-reconstruction. As add on program on the congress is planed: Tutorials, Workshops exhibition from firms and institutions. The program committee places with Olympus price for outstanding works on field of pattern recognition (DEM 10.000) and DAGM-prices for outstanding congress contributions once DEM 5.000 and five times DEM 1.000 Important dates: 17.04.2001 Call for Papers (Paper Deadline) 30.05.2001 program-committee-session 07.06.2001 information of authors 06.07.2001 submission of print-ready papers 17.08.2001 submission of extended contributions on CD Publication: The accepted contributions will be published by Springer in the series „Informatik aktuell“ under the title „Mustererkennung 2001“. The congress volume will be a CD attached, on which the particular contributions are represented more detailed and can be completed with additional files for video- and speech demonstration. Submission of papers: Please send your paper electronic to beitrag@dagm2001.de The congress language is German; Articles can be submitted and declaimed in German or English. About form and extent of the papers as well as the referee-procedure you will find information on the web-sites of the congress. Organization-committee: B. Radig, Informatics TU Munich; W. Abmayr, FH Munich; H. Ebner, photogrammetry TU Munich; K.-H. Englmeier, gsf Neuherberg; G. Hirzinger, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen; E. Hundt, Siemens Munich; G. Klinker, Informatics TU Munich; H. Mayer, photogrammetry, UniBW Munich. Contact-address: http://www.dagm2001.de Telephone-Hotline: +49 800-DAGM 2001 ( +49 800-32462001) Mailto: radig@dagm2001.de