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International Workshop
on
Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition

IBaI Leipzig /Germany

July 25-27, 2001

Co-chairs

Petra Perner
IBaI Leipzig / Germany

Maria Petrou
University of Surrey / United Kingdom

Program Committee

Adnan Amin      Uni of New South Wales / Australia
Bir Bhanu       Uni of California, Riverside / USA
Terri Caelli    Ohio State University / USA
Irwin King      Chinese Uni / Hong Kong
Donato Malerba  University of Bari / Italy
Petra Perner    IBaI / Germany
Maria Petrou    University of Surrey / United Kingdom
Fabio Roli      University of Cagliari / Italy
Arnold Smeulders University of Amsterdam/The Netherlands
Sholom Weiss    IBM Yorktown Heights / USA
Ari Visa        Tampere University/Finnland


The Aim of the Workshop
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers from all over the
world dealing with machine learning for image processing, image interpretation
and computer vision in order to discuss the recent status of the research
and to
direct further developments in machine learning for image related topics. It
is the second workshop of a series of workshops dealing with this specific
topic.
The first workshop was published in P. Perner and M. Petrou Machine
Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition MLDM99, lnai 1715, Springer
Verlag 1999 and in a special issue of Pattern Recognition Letters.
Paper submissions should be related but not limited to any of the following
topics:

- inductive learning including decision tree and rule
induction learning
- conceptual learning
- case-based learning
- statistical learning
- neural net based learning and
- organisational learning
- probabilistic information retrieval

related to image processing, image analysis, image interpretation, pattern
recognition and computer vision.
Applications can be medical applications, industrial applications, biological
applications but are not limited to these
topics.
     Researchers from the machine learning community are invited to present
new topics in learning, which might be
interesting to our research field.
     Participants should submit three copies of their contribution to:
Institut für Bildverarbeitung und angewandte
Informatik,  Arno-Nitzsche-Str. 45, 04277 Leipzig Germany.  In addition,
participants should submit an electronic
version of the manuscript to: < ibaiperner@aol.com >.  For the latest news
look for
http://members.aol.com/ibaiperner/mldm2.htm.
     The paper should have no more than 15 pages (double-spaced) and present
original work of the authors. Papers will
be reviewed by the program committee. It is under consideration to publish
workshop papers in Springer Verlag's
Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences and an extended version of selected papers
will be published in a special issue of
the Pattern Recognition Letters after the workshop.
Important Dates

Deadline for paper submission   March, 1st 2001
Final Paper submission          May  15 th, 2001

Conference Location
The workshop will be held at Kloster Seeon/Munich Germany. The former
Benedictine convent - boasting over 1000
years of history - was thoroughly renovated and turned into an ideal setting
for conferences and seminars. For further
infomation see: http://www.kloster-seeon.de.