****************** 6th Open German - Russian Workshop *****************
on
PATTERN RECOGNITION and IMAGE UNDERSTANDING:
(OGRW-6-2003)
August 25-30, 2003, Katun village, Russian Federation
Dear Colleagues,
Please find enclosed "Call for Participation" for the 6-th Open German
- Russian Workshop "Pattern Recognition and Image Understanding"
(OGRW-6-2003).
The Workshop will be held August 25 - 30, 2003 in Katun village (near
Gorno-Altaisk), Altai resort area, at the south of Western Siberia.
The recommended date of arrival is August 24, 2003.
The recommended date of departure is August 31, 2003.
IMPORTANT DETAILS
1. The OGRW-6-2003 is sponsored by the International Association
for Pattern Recognition.
2. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRMEN:
Prof. Dr. Heinrich Niemann, Chair for Pattern Recognition, University
of Erlangen-Nuenberg, Erlangen, Germany,
niemann@informatik.uni-erlangen.de;
Prof. Yuri Zhuravlev, full member of the RAS (Scientific Council
"Cybernetics", RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation), zhur@ccas.ru.
3. The scientific program will include contributed as well as
invited papers. The program of the workshop will also include a
meeting of the Technical Committee No. 16 of the International
Association for Pattern Recognition "Algebraic and Discrete
Mathematics Techniques in Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis". For
MAIN TOPICS OF INTEREST see Call for Participation.
4. Two versions of OGRW-6-2003 Proceedings will be published:
1) extended Abstracts will be distributed at the workshop;
2) OGRW-6-2003 Proceedings - full papers (in English) - special issue
of the international journal "Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis"
(MAIK "Nauka (International Academic Publishing Concern
"Science")/Interperiodica" Publishing, Moscow) - will be prepared and
published after the workshop (PRIA, 2004, V. 14, No. 2).
5. ALTAI REPUBLIC
Altai is located approximately 3000 km to the East from Moscow,
between 50 and 54 degrees of northern latitude and 82 and 90 degrees
of eastern longitude. Altai is one of the most wonderful places on
Earth. This mountain country contains the ranges of mountains that
form the watershed of Ob, Irtish and Enisei rivers. People use to call
Altai the Siberian Switzerland (rather weak and clumsy parallel).
Altai is unique. Nowhere else you could find such quaint mountains,
rapid rivers and dense forests. More than 3500 lakes are in Altai,
each like is a pearl.
6. There will be organized charter flights from Novosibirsk to
Gorno-Altaisk (August 24, 2003) and back (August 31, 2003).
Novosibirsk is connected by direct flights ("Siberia" flight company)
with Beijing, Frankfurt, Hanover, Seoul, Tel Aviv. The participants
could arrive to Novosibirsk before August 24, 2003, and visit
Novosibirsk Academic City, and also to spend several days in
Novosibirsk Academic City after August 31, 2003. The visits to the
institutes of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences will
be organized.
7. The Workshop is open to all scientists and professionals
working and/or interested in one of the. The number of participants
will be limited to 100.
8. The participants are suggested to use the package covering
hotel accommodation, meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner), transfer
Novosibirsk - Katun (charter flight + bus) (24.08.2003) and
Katun-Novosibirsk (bus + charter flight) (31.08.2003), 3 excursions.
9. Foreign participants of OGRW-6-2003 need visa to enter the
Russian Federation
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS EXTREMELY INTERESTING
SCIENTIFIC AND SOCIAL EVENT, WILL YOU PLEASE:
1) now - registrate yourself at the OGRW-6-2003 site
http://iae.nsk.su/~ares/;
2) submit the extended abstract maximum 4 pages (in English, 12 pts)
as soon as possible, but not later than 15.07.2003;
3) pay your Registration Fee and OGRW-6-2003 Package Fee (the details
of payment see in the Call for Participation);
4) come to OGRW-6-2003.
For details, please, visit workshop website: http://iae.nsk.su/~ares/.
OGRW-6-2003 SECRETARIAT
All issues concerning OGRW-6-2003 should be directed to:
MOSCOW: OGRW-6-2003 Secretariat
Scientific Council "Cybernetics", 40, Vavilov str., Moscow GSP-1,
119991 Russian Federation
Phone: +7 (095) 135 90 33; Fax: +7 (095) 135 90 33
E-mails: priu03@ccas.ru
Ms Irina Koryabkina
NOVOSIBIRSK: OGRW-6-2003 Local Secretariat
Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Siberian Branch of the RAS
1, Academician Koptyug prospect, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russian
Federation
Tel: +7(3832) 34-38-86, Fax: +7 (3832) 33-3863
E-mail: priu03@iae.nsk.su
Ms Galina Ivanchenko
ERLANGEN: German branch of OGRW-6-2003 Secretariat
Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
Lehrstuhl fuer Informatik 5 (Mustererkennung)
Martensstr. 3
91058 Erlangen, Germany
Tel: +49 / (0)9131 / 85 27824
Fax: +49 / (0)9131 / 303 811