12th Scandinavian Conference
                          on Image Analysis
                              SCIA 2001 
 
                 June 11-14, 2001 in Bergen, Norway
Sponsored by:    IAPR  (The International Association 
                                      for Pattern Recognition) 
                                         http://www.iapr.org

Second Announcement and Call for Papers:     

http://www.ux.his.no/scia2001/

Invitation to the 12th SCIA.    
Following the previous conferences in Greenland, SCIA 2001 -  
the 12th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis - will be 
held in Bergen on the west coast of Norway. The conference is 
arranged by the Norwegian Society for Image Processing and 
Pattern Recognition (NOBIM) and sponsored by the International 
Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). The conference  
venue is Grieghallen, located in the city centre.     

Scientific Program:     
The conference will offer internationally acclaimed speakers in 
plenary talks and parallel sessions with selected oral presentations 
and posters. The conference language is English.  
The different presentations will cover unpublished theoretical or 
applied research results.     
      
Invited Speakers:     
Professor Theo Pavilidis, State University of New York at Stony 
Brook, USA:  "History of Image Analysis"      
Professor Josef Begün, University of Halmstad, Sweden: 
  "Biometric Person Authentication"      
Professor Matti Pietikäinen, University of Oulu, Finland:      
  "Machine Vision and Media Processing"      
Associate Professor Torbjørn Eltoft, University of Tromsø, Norway: 
  "Neural Network approaches to Cluster-Detection-and-Labelling"    
   

In addition, we are working to find an invited speaker for the 
subject: "Images in the future mobile terminals".     

Pre-conference Workshop/Tutorial:     
A set of pre-conference half-day workshops/tutorials will be held 
 on June 11, 2001:     
1.   ICA (Independent Component Analysis): Professor Erkki Oja, 
                                 Helsinki University of Technology,
Finland. 
2.   Data fusion: Professor Jon Atli Benediktsson,  
                                 University of Iceland.     

Conference topics:     
* Image analysis     
* Computer vision     
* Pattern recognition     
* Neural networks     
* Statistical methods     
* Industrial applications     
* Multimedia     
* Biomedical applications     
* Remote sensing     
* Future technologies     

Paper submission and registration for presenting authors:     
Only full papers in English will be accepted, and the length should 
not exceed eight pages. All papers will be refereed by two 
reviewers for publication in the conference proceedings.  
Please send four copies of your paper to:      

SCIA2001,     
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,     
Stavanger University College,      
P.O.Box 2557 Ullandhaug,     
N-4091 Stavanger,     
Norway     

Important dates:     

  Paper submission deadline:      November 6, 2000     
  Notification of acceptance:       January 19, 2001     
  *Camera-ready copy:               March 19, 2001     

*Camera-ready copy must be accompanied by registration 
   and payment by presenting author.      
The cover page must contain:     
* Title of the paper      
* Name(s), complete address and e-mail for the author(s)      
* Brief abstract (150-200 words)      
* Keywords describing the main subject of the paper (3-5 words)     
 
* Author's opinion on whether the paper is most suitable for oral  
  or poster presentation      
* Name and address for correspondence      

Papers considerably longer than the final size, risk being rejected. 
The fee for one or two extra pages is NOK 500 per page.  
The fee for colour illustrations is NOK 4000 per page.  
The decision on oral or poster presentation will be taken solely on 
suitability, not on paper quality. Paper submission information is 
available at http://www.ux.his.no/scia2001/, where the LaTeX style 
file and an example file in the recommended two-column LaTeX 
format is available.     

Enquires:     
If you have scientific questions, please contact 
 Ivar.Austvoll@tn.his.no. The program with further information about 
registration and payment will be send to you February 1, 2001. 
If you occasionally have seen this announcement, and want to have 
the program sent to you, please contact scia@plus-convention.no. 

Program Committee:     
Dr. Ivar Austvoll (Chairman), Norway     
Prof. Jussi Parkkinen, Finland     
Prof. Fritz Albregtsen, Norway     
Dr. Alfred Hanssen, Norway     
Prof. Gunilla Borgefors, Sweden     
Dr. Anne Solberg, Norway     
Dr. Bjarne Ersbøll, Danmark     

Organized by: Norsk forening for bildebehandling og 
mønstergjenkjenning (NOBIM) 
 (Norwegian Society for Image Processing and  
Pattern Recognition)    http://www.nobim.no/

SCIA2001 web site:

http://www.his.no/scia2001/   or  http://www.ux.his.no/scia2001/