FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS QCAV'2001 - BOURGOGNE - FRANCE 5th International Conference on Quality Control by Artificial Vision May 21 - 23, 2001, Le Creusot, France in cooperation with IEEE Signal Processing Society French Chapter, CNRS PRC-ISIS http://www-le2i.u-bourgogne.fr/qcav2001 Following QCAV'98 in Japan and QCAV'99 in Canada, the objective of the QCAV'2001 conference is to provide a forum for researchers, industry, and users of vision systems to present and discuss the state-of-the-art in machine vision and image processing techniques, with an emphasis on industrial applications for quality control of manufactured products. The presentations will include contributed papers, poster sessions and invited speakers for state-of-the-art talks in specialized subjects related to the conference topics. Papers describing original work concerning the theoretical and experimental aspects of image processing are invited. The Program Committee invites authors to submit original unpublished paper proposal which present industrial quality control applications. The major topics include, but are not limited to, the following : Semiconductor industry, printing industry, wood industry, paper industry, plastic industry, textile industry, farm-produce industry, metallurgy, radiography, satellite imaging, biomedical field, pharmaceutical industry, manufacturing industry Topics Defect detection Part Classification Photogrammetry Control by Infrared thermography Computed imaging Dedicated image sensors 2D and 3D dimensional control Aspect control Real time control Color imaging Methods Image segmentation Pattern recognition Texture analysis Wavelets transforms Genetic algorithms Data fusion Mathematical morphology Stochastic modeling 3D representations Neural networks Fuzzy logic P.D.E. Submission of summaries Prospective authors are invited to submit to the secretariat of QCAV'2001, an electronic version (pdf encouraged) or three copies of an extended abstract (2000 words + references) in English in single column and A4 or equivalent format. Names of the authors, affiliations, postal and electronic mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers will appear on the first page. The summary must point out the originality of the work compared to other work done in the same field. The authors are requested to indicate their preference for "oral" or "poster" presentation format. Deadlines Deadline for submission of summaries: January 25, 2001 Notification of acceptance and manuscript instructions: March 05, 2001 Deadline for final manuscripts: April 9, 2001 Proceedings will be published and made available on the conference dates. Best papers will be presented for publication in a peer review journal. Secretariat of QCAV'2001 QCAV'2001 Secretariat - I.U.T. Le Creusot 12, rue de la fonderie 71200 Le Creusot, FRANCE Tel: (+33) 3 85 73 10 90 Fax: (+33) 3 85 73 10 97 email: qcav2001@iutlecreusot.u-bourgogne.fr http://www-le2i.u-bourgogne.fr/qcav2001 Organizing Committee General chair: F. Meriaudeau, Finance: B. Lamalle Registrations: Y. Voisin Publishing: S. Kohler Univ. of Bourgogne, France International Scientific Committee Chair: Ph. Bolon, Univ. of Savoie, France Co-Chair : K. W. Tobin, O. R. N. L., USA M. A. Abidi, Univ. of Tennessee, USA A. Baskurt, Univ. of Lyon1, France R. Benslimane, EST de Fčz, Morocco P. Bonton, Univ. Blaise Pascal, France B. Chalmond, ENS. Cachan, France J.M. Chassery, LIS\ENSIEG, France Ch. Dumont, Univ. of Bourgogne, France H. Emptoz, Lab RFV - INSA of Lyon, France C. Fernandez, Univ. Polytecnica Madrid, Spain A. Gonzaga, Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil P. Gorria, Univ. of Bourgogne, France S. Hata, Univ. Kagawa, Japan M. Hunt, nLine Corp, Austin, USA M. Khoudeir, Univ. of Poitiers, France A. Ishii, Univ. of Kagawa, Japan H. Jender, EST Oujda, Morocco H. Koshimizu, Chukyo University, Japan L. Lew Yan Voon, Univ. of Bourgogne, France J. Moysan, Univ. Aix Marseille, France V. Murino, Univ. of Udine, Italy T. Newman, Nuiv. of Alabama, USA H. Niemann, U. Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany C. Odet, INSA of Lyon, France S. Oe, Tokushima University, Japan W.G. Oh, ETRI, South Korea S. Ozawa, Keio University, Japan M. Paindavoine, Univ. of Bourgogne, France J.C. Pinoli, Pechiney, France J.G. Postaire, Univ. of Lille, France D. Prémel, ENS Cachan, France F. Preteux, INT, France T. Redarce, INSA of Lyon, France P. Boulanger, Institut tech. Of Inform., Canada P. Salembier, Univ. Polytec. Catalunya, Spain O. Silven, Univ. of Oulu, Finland F. Truchetet, Univ. of Bourgogne, France K. Yamamoto, Gifu University, Japan H. Zha, Kyushu University, Japan