Call for papers: "Analysis of Fluid Motion from Images" Special issue of Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision Fluid motion analysis is receiving more and more attention. This is due to the increasing use of imaging sensors in experimental fluid mechanics, the availability of sophisticated numerical image analysis methods, and the definition of appropriate mathematical models. The development of important applications, both long-standing and more recent ones, is also of key interest in this context. Examples include the processing of satellite image sequences in meteorology and oceanography, bio-fluid imaging in the biomedical domain, or experimental fluid visualization in aero- and hydrodynamics. Furthermore, spatio-temporal image processing is a promising way to support the analysis of complex physical fluid phenomena, in particular the measurement and the understanding of turbulent flows. The analysis of fluid motion from images raises several important theoretical and applied issues related to applied fluid mechanics, computational mathematics, information theory, pattern recognition, image processing and computer vision. These issues encompass problems of modeling, identification, estimation and segmentation, the solution of which are necessary to define appropriate and efficient image analysis tools for the computational evaluation of such difficult real fluid image sequences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - physical models exploitable for fluid image analysis, - efficient fluid parameter identification from images, - energy-based regularization of fluid inverse problems, - large-scale optimization problems related to fluid image analysis, - PDE-based fluid image analysis, - modeling and computation of propagating interfaces, - statistical approaches for fluid image analysis, - computation of fluid velocity and deformation fields from images, - extraction and tracking of the local fluid structures, - measurement of physical quantities from images (vorticity,...), - image processing-based evaluation of visualization of model simulations, - applications within the areas mentioned above. The purpose and interest of this special issue is to provide an attractive interdisciplinary forum for this challenging theme which relies on the combination of physical models, mathematical analysis and computational techniques. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit high quality, original works, which have not appeared, nor are under consideration, in any other journals. Instructions for Authors All manuscripts are subject to review. To be considered for this special issue, prospective authors should submit six copies of their complete manuscript by May 31, 2001 to Ms. Melissa Sullivan, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 101 Philip Drive, Assinippi Park, Norwell, MA 02061, USA; Tel: 781 871 6600; Fax: 617 871 6528; E-mail melissa.sullivan@wkap.com. Please note each submission: Special Issue on Analysis of Fluid Motion from Images for JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL IMAGING AND VISION. All manuscripts should include a title page containing the following information: paper title, full name(s) and affiliation(s), complete postal and electronic address(es), and telephone and fax numbers of the author(s). In addition, the contacting author should be clearly identified on the title page. Manuscripts should include a 300-word abstract and a list of keywords that identify the central issues discussed in the manuscript. Electronic submissions will not be accepted. More information on author instructions can be found at http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0924-9907 (JMIV homepage). Guest Editors Patrick Bouthemy Christoph Schnerr IRISA/INRIA, France University of Mannheim, Germany Submission deadline: May 31, 2001