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Recognition Society (CIPPRS) Vision Interface is a single track conference consisting of high quality, previously unpublished papers, presented either orally or as a poster.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 Jägersand, 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 Rhône-Alpes, Montbonnot, France Ching Y. Suen, Concordia U., Canada Djemel Ziou, U. de Sherbrooke, Canada ========================================================