Welcome to Gvteborg and SCIA 2003

You are cordially welcome to Gvteborg and SCIA 2003.

We are delighted to present an excellent scientific program including
not only conventional scientific sessions (oral and poster), but also
tutorials on Hidden Markov Modeling and Active Shape Models, and a
workshop on Deformable Models. For this, we are bringing together some
of the most outstanding investigators in the field of image processing
and analysis.

We have received 224 submitted papers and accepted 152 for presentation
at the oral (75) and poster (77) sessions. Our PC committee has,
together with other reviewers, done an excellent job in editing these
contributions. We would like to thank all of you who contributed one way
or the other to creating an exciting SCIA program.

Besides the scientific activities, we have arranged several social
events (boat trip, city tour, conference dinner, etc.). We hope that
these will contribute in making your stay at the conference and in
Gvteborg both pleasant and rewarding. The dark night picture of the
Gvteborg harbor and opera house that decorated the SCIA Call for Papers
is beautiful, but let us hope that the famous Northern light will shine
on us all during these few midsummer days.

Again, very welcome to SCIA 2003 and looking forward to seeing you all
in Gvteborg.


Tomas Gustavsson                Josef Bigun



For more information please visit: www.hh.se/scia2003