Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS) 2005 
31 August, 3 September - VUB, Brussels, Belgium 
The full program is available online: http://acivs.org

TOPICS 
Some of the topics covered by this year's conference are: 
* Image and video segmentation 
* Image analysis, feature extraction and classification 
* Object tracking and motion estimation in video sequences 
* Imaging hardware and smart camera's 
* Object recognition 
* Multi-spectral image processing 
* Real-time video processing 
* ... 

INVITED SPEAKERS: 
Ingrid Daubechies (Princeton University) 
Donald Geman (Johns Hopkins Univ and CMLA, Ecole Normale Superieure) 

SPECIAL SESSIONS: 
Understanding high resolution satellite images (organised by Mihai 
Datcu, DLR, Wessling) 
Non-linear multiresolution analyses for image processing and coding 
(organised by Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu (ENST, Paris), Henk 
Heijmans (CWI, Amsterdam) and Gemma Piella (CWI, Amsterdam) 

STEERING COMMITTEE 
Jacques Blanc-Talon, DGA/DCE/CTA, Arcueil, France. 
Edgard Nyssen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium. 
Wilfried Philips, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. 
Dan Popescu, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia. 

ORGANISING COMMITTEE 
Karin De Bruyn, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium. 
Edgard Nyssen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium. 
Wilfried Philips, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

Fritz Albregtsen, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. 
Philippe Bolon, University of Savoie, Annecy, France. 
Don Bone, Mediaware Solutions, Canberra, ACT, Australia. 
Mike Brooks, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia. 
Pamela Cosman, University of California at San Diego, USA. 
Mihai Datcu, German Aerospace Center DLR, Wessling, Germany. 
Jennifer Davidson, Iowa State University, USA. 
Christine Fernandez Maloigne, Université de Poitiers, France. 
Don Fraser, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia. 
Georgy Gimel'farb, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. 
Daniele Giusto, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy. 
Christine Guillemot, IRISA, Rennes, France. 
John Illingworth, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. 
Jean-Michel Jolion, INSA, Villeurbanne Cedex, France. 
Andrzej Kasinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland. 
Richard Kleihorst, Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. 
Hamid Krim, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA. 
Murat Kunt, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. 
Hideo Kuroda, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan. 
Kenneth Lam, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. 
Bruce Litow, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia. 
Wojciech Mokrzycki, IPIPAN, Poland. 
Mads Nielsen, IT University Of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. 
Marcin Paprzycki, Oklahoma State University, Tulsa, USA. 
Jussi Parkkinen, University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland. 
Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal. 
Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu, ENST, Paris, France. 
Matti Pietikäinen, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. 
Gianni Ramponi, Trieste University, Trieste, Italy. 
Thierry Ranchin, Ecole des Mines de Paris, Paris, France. 
Jocelyn Serot, Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France. 
Georges Stamon, Paris V University, Paris, France. 
Wojciech Szpankowski, Purdue University, USA. 
Murat Tekalp, Rochester University, Rochester, USA. 
Frederic Truchetet, Le2i, Le Creusot, France. 
Dimitri Van De Ville, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, 
Sitzerland.