First Announcement and Call for Contributions INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CONTEXT-BASED ACTIVE CONTOUR MODELS CACM 2003 April 3, 2003 Convention Center Graz, Austria http://dib.joanneum.at/icvs03/ActiveContours_2003.htm In conjunction with ICVS 2003 http://dib.joanneum.at/icvs03/ActiveContours_2003.htm - Local organisation by Advanced Computer Vision GmbH. http://www.acv.ac.at SCOPE Active contour models represent a powerful tool to treat physical objects in images. Recently, there has been a trend towards the convergence of active shape-based object description and statistical approaches to interpret objects at a higher level of representation. Examples for emerging techniques are cognition driven active contours, active perception systems, active animals, m-reps, etc. An integration of low and high levels of object representation is crucial in order establish complex models of the real world, which are used in applications such as medical image analysis, recovering motion parameters of moving non-rigid objects, or interpreting a scene. The workshop aims at presenting the latest developments in the field of active shape models within the context of cognitive vision systems. The workshop is thought to provide an adequate setting for researchers in the different applications areas to interact and interchange ideas thus realizing a genuine transfer of specific knowledge. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Increasing the performance of active shape models * Beyond data-driven active contours * Active contours as a basis for cognitive vision systems * Cognition-driven active contours IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for paper submission: February 1, 2003 Notification of acceptance : March 3, 2003 Deadline for final paper : March 15, 2003 Workshop : April 3, 2003 ORGANISING COMMITTEE Ravi Malladi (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA) - program co-chair Helmut Pottmann (Vienna Univ of Technology, Austria) - program co-chair Dieter Hinigmann (Advanced Computer Vision GmbH, Austria) Johannes Ruiz (Advanced Computer Vision GmbH, Austria) Csaba Beleznai (Advanced Computer Vision GmbH, Austria) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Roman Goldenberg (Technion, Israel) Ghassan Hamarneh (Mouse Imaging Centre, Canada) Dieter H=F6nigmann (Advanced Computer Vision, Austria) Ravi Malladi (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) Helmut Pottmann (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Johannes Ruisz (Advanced Computer Vision, Austria) Dinggang Shen (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA) Demetri Terzopoulos (New York University, USA) Joachim Weickert (Saarland University, Germany) AUTHOR INFORMATION DUAL SUBMISSION POLICY: Papers will be considered for review that have also been submitted to the main ICVS conference. Double submission must be indicated by authors. STYLE: The format of the final paper is IEEE two-column. Detailed instructions about the preparation of the paper is available at ftp://ftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/ . Submitted papers should not exceed 8 pages. The paper might be developed in LaTex or MS Word (see IEEE Author Guidelines). However, the submitted file should be in Postscript or PDF format. SUBMISSION: Please submit your paper as an email attachment to mailto:csaba.beleznai@acv.ac.at . In the email body, you have to include the following information: * Title * Authors (first and last names) * Affiliation of authors (institute, address) * Corresponding author (including his/her address, email, phone, fax) * Abstract (200 words maximum) * Indicate double submission Your submission will be confirmed as soon as possible, and you will receive a corresponding paper number, that you have to refer to in the future. Accepted papers will be published in an electronic proceedings to be made available through the WWW from the CACM homepage. The CACM 2003 organizers are considering the possibility of the production of a hard-copy version of the workshop proceedings PROGRAMME INVITED TALKS: Ravi Malladi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA (title TBA). Second invited speaker TBA. PUBLICATION OF PROGRAMME: The provisional set of paper titles (with associated abstracts) will be available (also as PDF file) on March 3, 2003 here. The full advance programme will be available (also as PDF file) after March 15, 2003 here. LOCATION - CACM 2003 will be held at the Convention Center Graz ( http://www.grazercongress.co.at ), Austria. - The workshop is being held in conjunction with ICVS 2003 ( http://dib.joanneum.at/icvs03 ). - Graz will be Cultural Capital of Europe in 2003 ( http://www.graz03.at ). - Graz old city center ( http://www.graztourism.at ) has been recently entered the UNESCO heritage list. For questions CONTACT Dr. Csaba Beleznai, Advanced Computer Vision GmbH - ACV Donaucitystra 1, A-1220 Vienna, Austria Phone: +43-1-269-6255 - 107 / Fax: +43/(0)1 2696255 - 200 mailto:csaba.beleznai@acv.ac.at / http://www.acv.ac.at