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PSIPS 2004 Call for Papers


An international workshop on Processing Sensory Information for
Proactive Systems (PSIPS 2004) will be arranged in
Oulu, Finland, on June 14-15, 2004, see http://www.psips2004.oulu.fi/.
Oulu is a well-known high-technology city in North Finland,
situated not far from the Arctic Circle. This is the fifth in the series
of machine vision and media processing workshops supported by Infotech
Oulu. The workshop is also supported by the Finnish Artificial
Intelligence Society and Pattern Recognition Society of Finland.

Proactive computing is a new area of research, in which the goal is to
develop systems that can adapt and adjust to the user's
movements and actions without requiring any conscious control. It can
be seen as the next significant step in development
from the current phase of user-oriented information technology, which
is based on interaction between man and machine. A three-year research
program on proactive computing was recently begun
in Finland, financed by the Academy of Finland.

The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for presenting recent
research results and for discussing how to support
application development. The program of the workshop includes plenary
presentations by leading experts and contributed papers describing
recent progress in this field. The papers presented in the workshop will
be published in the workshop proceedings.

Workshop topics:

This workshop focuses on methods, sensors, and networks to view and
interpret the scene and human activities in proactive
systems. Contributions are expected from, but not limited to the
following areas:

- context recognition
- human detection and recognition
- analysis of events and human actions
- sensory signal analysis
- computer vision
- sensor solutions
- system architectures

Important dates:

Deadline for extended summary (>1000 words): January 31, 2004
Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2004
Deadline for camera-ready copy: May 15, 2004
Deadline for early registration: May 15, 2004

Keynote speakers:

Prof. James L. Crowley, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble,
France
Others to be confirmed

Paper submission:

Extended summary (>1000 words) should be submitted electronically via
the workhop web site (http://www.psips2004.oulu.fi/).

Financial support:

Some financial support for the foreign participants presenting a paper
in the workshop is available on request. A free form application should
be addressed to Minna Rautio (minna.rautio@ee.oulu.fi) by March 31,
2004.

Organization:

Workshop chair: Prof. Matti Pietikainen (mkp@ee.oulu.fi)
Program chair: Prof. Olli Silven (olli@ee.oulu.fi)
Local organization chair: Prof. Janne Heikkila (jth@ee.oulu.fi)
Secretariat: Ms. Minna Rautio (minna.rautio@ee.oulu.fi)