Announcement
Pattern Recognition:
Call for Papers Special Issue on Agent based Computer Vision
Guest Editors: Dr. Paul Rosin and Dr. Omer Rana, University of Cardiff
Submission Deadline: 1 October 2002

Vision is one ofthe most important sources ofinformation for
supporting intelligent human behaviour, as well as a key competence
for designing new types ofintelligent computers and machines. Over the
period ofthe past 40 years or so, computer vision has evolved into a
mature subject including many topics and applications which range from
the automatic interpretation ofdocuments to the image recognition for
the automatic guidance ofvehicles. In reality, however, current
computer vision systems are vastly different from, and in most ways
inferior to, biological vision systems.

Software agents are computer programs capable of exible, autonomous
action and may support a wide range of different behaviours, defined as
rules, or based on machine learning algorithms such as neural
networks. Agents also, generally, monitor their operating environment
and respond to events in a timely fashion, utilising internal
scheduling and planning engines to formulate a response. Perhaps the
most significant advantage that an agent-based approach provides is the
ability to design systems based on decoupled units based on the
particular role that such a unit is likely to play within a
multi-agent system.


Authors are encouraged to submit papers which cover some ofthe
following issues (although this list is not exhaustive):

Agent-based image processing
Visual queries in semantic search
Real-time image analysis using agents
Target tracking using agent approaches
Scene interpretation using agents
Agent societies to support semantic queries
Image-based content retrieval

Application papers which demonstrate these ideas and in particular,
show how the agent-based approach is beneficial (or not) are
especially encouraged.


Submissions Authors are encouraged to submit their manuscripts (there
is no length limit on the initial submission)to either:
Paul.Rosin@cs.cf.ac.uk or omer@cs.cf.ac.uk by electronic mail
(preferred) in PDF or PostScript. The paper should be formatted to
print on A4 paper, using a minimum of 12pt font size. Surface mail
submissions are also welcome;please send three copies ofyour paper to
Dr. Paul Rosin or Dr. Omer Rana at
Department of Computer Science,
Cardiff University,
P. O. Box 916,
Cardiff CF24 3XF, UK.

Important dates
Papers due: October 2002
Notification to authors: February 2003
Revised Manuscripts: May 2003
Special issue to publisher:July 2003