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                       CALL FOR PAPERS - ISPA 2001
                  2nd IEEE Region 8-EURASIP Symposium on 
                 Image and Signal Processing and Analysis
                        June 19-21, 2001, Pula, Croatia

             Extended paper submission deadline: April 1, 2001


                         URL: http://www.isispa.org
      
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ISPA'01 is sponsored by EURASIP, IEEE Region 8, IEEE CAS & SP 
Chapter, and IEEE CS Chapter of the IEEE Croatia Section, and by University 
of Zagreb. The scientific program of the symposium will consist of lectures 
presented by invited speakers and contributed papers. The aim of the symposium 
is to foster interaction of researchers and exchange of new ideas.

INVITED SPEAKERS
Alberto del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy
Sanjit K. Mitra, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Rudolf Rabenstein, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

o image processing
o computer and machine vision
o medical imaging
o image and video compression
o pattern recognition
o knowledge-based vision
o content-based image retrieval
o visualization techniques                
o virtual and augmented reality
o remote sensing and GIS                   
o multimedia
o neural networks    
o image processing applications

o digital filter design and structures     
o analog signal processing and circuits
o multirate filtering and wavelets 
o adaptive signal processing               
o spectral analysis 
o blind separation of signals
o radar and sonar signal processing        
o speech coding and processing 
o DSP in communications
o speech analysis and synthesis
o array signal processing
o hardware architectures and implementations
o signal processing applications 

SPECIAL SESSIONS
Special Session on Machine Vision
Special Session on Medical Image Analysis
Special Session on Nonlinear Image Processing
Special Session on Telemedicine
Special Session on Unsupervised Adaptive Filtering 


SPONSORED BY
o EURASIP - European Association for Signal Processing
o IEEE Region 8
o IEEE CAS & SP Society Croatia Section Chapter 
o IEEE Computer Society Croatia Section Chapter
o University of Zagreb

CHAIR, IMAGE PROCESSING 
Sven Loncaric
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of  Zagreb
Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Tel: +385 1 6129 891,  Fax: +385 1 6129 652
E-mail: sven.loncaric@fer.hr

CHAIR, SIGNAL PROCESSING 
Hrvoje Babic, Croatia
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of  Zagreb
Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Tel: +385 1 6129 948,  Fax: +385 1 6129 652
E-mail: hrvoje.babic@fer.hr

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
N. Ayache, France                   
H. Babic, Croatia
A. del Bimbo, Italy                 
I. Bloch, France
G. Borgefors, Sweden                
J.-L. Coatrieux, France             
A. P. Dhawan, USA 
J. Duncan, USA                      
B. Jeren, Croatia 
J. Kittler, United Kingdom
W. Kropatsch, Austria               
A. Kuba, Hungary                    
M. Kunt, Swiss
F. Leberl, Austria
A. Leonardis, Slovenia              
S. Loncaric, Croatia 
W. F. G. Mecklenbraeuker, Austria   
S. K. Mitra, USA                    
H. Niemann, Germany
M. Petrou, United Kingdom           
A. Pinz, Austria 
I. Pitas, Greece                    
S. Ribaric, Croatia
R. A. Robb, USA
V. Roberto, Italy 
A. Santos, Spain 
T. Saramaki, Finland
G. Sicuranza, Italy
F. Solina, Slovenia                 
S. Theodoridis, Greece
J. Udupa, USA                       
A. Uhl, Austria 
M. Vannier, USA                     
M. Viergever, Netherlands

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
Full camera-ready papers should not exceed 6 A4 pages, 12 pt letter size. 
The submission should be done electronically at the ISPA web site
(http://www.isispa.org). Detailed instructions for authors
including LaTeX style files and Word templates are available
on ISPA web site. All papers will be peer-reviewed. At least 
one author of each accepted paper is required to register. Accepted 
papers will be published in ISPA symposium proceedings, which will 
distributed during the meeting and available through the IEEE Publications.

IMPORTANT DATES
Final (camera-ready) papers:  April 1, 2001 
Notification of acceptance:   May 15, 2001
Registration:                 May 31, 2001