ICIAP 2001 11th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing September 26-28, 2001 - Palermo, Italy http://www.cere.pa.cnr.it/ICIAP The International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing is organized biennially by the Italian Chapter of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR-IC) since 1981, with the aim to be an international forum for presentation and discussion of advances in the field and new perspective research areas. The scientific program of the Conference will include plenary lectures given by invited speakers, and contributed papers presented in the Conference sessions. Papers will be accepted for both oral and poster presentation. All papers will be revised by three international referees and carefully selected, in order to maintain the high scientific level of the conference. Application papers addressed to industrial applications are also encouraged. EARLY VISION AND IMAGE ANALYSIS. Visual processing starts from measurements (feature extraction and representation) on which image operators are applied to extract shape and motion primitives, texture and color information. In this phase the active vision paradigm plays a relevant role in image segmentation and grouping as well in image and video sequence analysis. PATTERN RECOGNITION AND IMAGE INFERENCE. Higher level of visual processing regards statistical, structural and syntactic pattern recognition. Neural networks are considered useful tools for learning and classification. Genetic algorithms are becoming of great interest in the search of global solutions. Model acquisition, digital geometry and shape reconstruction techniques are important for 2D and 3D object recognition. Spatial reasoning needs new spatial data structure and flexible inference rules. VISUAL PROCESSING FOR COMMUNICATION. Multimedia databases, digital and video libraries need efficient image and video methods for compression and coding. Image databases and video processing require suitable indexing and retrieval solutions. Visual languages allows the natural and optimized formulation of visual computing. Both visual communication and human-computer interaction are based on advanced visual interfaces. APPLICATIONS. Wide spectra of image analysis applications are welcome (astronomy, biology and biomedicine, cultural heritage, OCR and document analysis, mobile robots and visual navigation, remote sensing and GIS, surveillance, smart sensors and dedicated architectures, visual inspection and quality control,...). More emphasis will be done to real cases and working prototypes. The first announcement poster is available at http://www.cere.pa.cnr.it/ICIAP The Conference Proceedings book will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. Submission of full papers (<= 10 pages): February 28, 2001 Notification of the acceptance: April 15, 2001 Camera ready manuscript due: May 31, 2001