CALL FOR PAPERS
             International Journal of Image and Graphics (IJIG)
 
                              Special Issue on
        Deformable Models for Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition
 
 
 Guest Editors: Jian-Zhong Qian (Siemens Corporate Research)
                Dit-Yan Yeung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
 
 Deformable models are shape-varying models which provide the flexibility
 for modeling intra-class shape variations commonly found in many image
 analysis and pattern recognition problems.  The past 10 to 15 years have
 witnessed major advances in deformable model research.  On the
 theoretical side, a number of different models and the associated
 algorithms for addressing their computational aspects have been
 proposed.  This topic has appealed to a number of serious researchers,
 largely due to its principled theoretical framework which overcomes the
 ad hoc nature of some previous methods.  Besides having a strong
 theoretical foundation, deformable models have also found successes in
 many application areas, including medical image analysis, industrial
 inspection, handwriting recognition, face and gesture recognition, and
 other computer vision tasks. 
 
 The goal of this Special Issue is to solicit and publish high-quality
 research papers that report original research on recent theoretical
 advances and novel applications in this topic.  Issues of interest to
 this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
         Unifying framework              Taxonomy/categorization of models
         Model representation            Geometric invariance
         Model generation                Model initialization
         Coarse-to-fine matching         Bidirectional matching
         Model parameter learning        Model topology adaptation
         Optimization criteria           Regularization
         Convergence analysis            Bayesian methods
         Fuzzy methods                   Dynamic graph matching
         Robust statistics               Spatiotemporal models
         Mixture models                  Efficient implementation
         3D detection and tracking       3D segmentation
         Novel applications
 
 Schedule:
 16 September 2002       Paper due
 15 January 2003         Acceptance notification
 15 March 2003           Final paper due
 
 Submission Procedure:
   Authors should follow the paper preparation guidelines described at
   http://www.worldscinet.com/ijig/ijig.shtml.  All submitted papers will
   be reviewed according to the guidelines and standards of the
   International Journal of Image and Graphics. 
 
 Addresses for Submission:
   Papers should be sent directly to one of the editors.  Electronic
   submission in PS or PDF format (only) via e-mail attachment is
   acceptable. 
 
     Jian-Zhong Qian, Siemens Corporate Research
     755 College Road East, Princeton, NJ 08540  USA
     JianZhong.Qian@scr.siemens.com
 
     Dit-Yan Yeung, Department of Computer Science
     Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
     Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
     dyyeung@cs.ust.hk
     http://www.cs.ust.hk/~dyyeung/
 
 The PDF version of this Call-for-Papers announcement can be downloaded from:
     http://www.cs.ust.hk/~dyyeung/cfp-ijig-dm.pdf