----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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)