First Call for Papers

      15th International Conference on Vision Interface
                            VI'2002

             (jointly with AI'2002 and GI'2002)
              May 27-29, 2002, Calgary, Canada

           http://www.visioninterface.org/vi2002

 Sponsored by
 Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (CIPPRS)

 Vision Interface is a single track conference consisting of high quality,
 previously unpublished papers, presented either orally or as a poster.
 Contributions are sought on any aspect of computer vision, image
 processing or pattern recognition, including but not restricted to the
 following topics:

 Image Segmentation, Texture, Illumination
 Shape, Surface geometry
 Calibration and Rectification
 Motion and Video Analysis, Optical Flow
 Stereo Vision, Depth, 3D Scene Analysis
 Active and Real-time Vision
 Object, Event, and Scene Recognition
 Face and Gesture Recognition
 Document Processing and Handwriting Recognition
 Learning and Classification Methods in Vision
 Biological and Psychological aspects of Vision
 Neural Networks for Vision and Image Understanding
 Computer Vision for HCI and Computer Graphics
 Image databases and Multi-Media Applications
 Biomedical and Robotics Applications

 The conference provides an excellent environment for interdisciplinary
 interaction as well as for networking of students and scientists in
 computer vision and image understanding.
 In addition to regular sessions, there will be also invited sessions.
 Two awards: for the best paper and for the best student paper, will be
 presented.

 SUBMISSIONS:
 Papers are welcomed in either French or English language and must
 submitted electronically through the conference website. Submissions in
 French should be accompanied by an abstract in English. The size of the
 papers is limited to six (6) double-column pages (Extra pages are $100
each).
 All papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the Program Committee. The
 accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, the
 hardcopy of which will be distributed at the conference. The proceedings
 will also be made available on-line at the CIPPRS and VI websites.

 IMPORTANT DATES:
   PAPER SUBMISSION                     December 1, 2001
   Acceptance/Rejection Notification    February 1, 2002
   Revised camera-ready papers due      April 1, 2002
   Proceedings put online               May 1, 2002
REGISTRATION:
   - For a single registration fee participants can attend presentations
   at either of AI/GI/VI conferences.
   - The conference promotes participation of students by reducing
   significantly the student registration fee.

 INDUSTRY CONNECTION:
 The conference welcomes the participation and sponsorship from industry
 companies. The booth and/or time slot will be allocated at the conference
 for industrial presentations. Further requests should be sent to the
program chair.

 Program Chair:
   Dmitry O. Gorodnichy, National Research Council, Canada
   dmitry.gorodnichy@nrc.ca, chair@visioninterface.org

 Program Cochairs:
   Martin J�ägersand, University of Alberta, Canada
   jag@cs.ualberta.ca,    cochair2@visioninterface.org
   Hong Zhang, University of Alberta, Canada
   zhang@cs.ualberta.ca,  cochair@visioninterface.org

 Registration Chair:
   John Barron, University of Western Ontario, Canada
   barron@csd.uwo.ca, treasurer@visioninterface.org

 PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
 Peter Allen, Columbia University, USA
 Naoki Asada, Hiroshima City University, Japan
 Steven Beauchemin, U. of Western Ontario, Canada
 Boubakeur Boufama, U. of Windsor, Canada
 Dmitry Chetverikov, Hungarian Ac.Sc., Hungary
 Kostas Daniilidis, U. of Pennsylvania, USA
 Fadi Dornaika, York U., Canada
 Gregory Dudek, McGill U., Canada
 Georgy Gimel'farb, Auckland U., New Zealand
 Jiri Grim, Czech Ac. Sc., Czech Republic
 Greg Hager, Johns Hopkins U., USA
 Rolf Henkel, U. of Bremen, Germany
 Rainer Herpers, York U., Canada
 Radu Horaud, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France
 Yunde Jia, Beijing I. of Technology, China
 Reinhard Klette, Auckland U., New Zealand
 Stanislav Kovacic, U. of Ljublana, Slovenia
 George Lashkia, Okayama U. of Science, Japan
 Ales Leonardis, U. of Ljublana, Slovenia
 Jim Little, U. of British Columbia, Canada
 Dave Lowe, U. of British Columbia, Canada
 Peter Meer, Rutgers U., USA
 Jean Meunier, U. de Montreal, Canada
 Amar Mitiche, INRS, Canada
 Fathallah Nouboud, U. de Quebec a TR, Canada
 Tomas Pajdla, Czech Tech. U., Czech Republic
 Marc Parizeau, U. Laval, Canada
 Pierre Payeur, U. of Ottawa, Canada
 Lubov Podladchikova, Rostov U. KRINC, Russia
 Gerhard Roth, National Research Council, Canada
 Ilya Rybak, Drexel U., USA
 Yoshiaki Shirai, Osaka U., Japan
 Harry Shum, Microsoft, USA
 Georges Stamon, U. Rene Descartes, Paris, France
 Peter Sturm, INRIA Rh�ône-Alpes, Montbonnot, France
 Ching Y. Suen, Concordia U., Canada
 Djemel Ziou, U. de Sherbrooke, Canada
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