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