***************************************************************************** The program for ACIVS 2005 is now available at http://acivs.org/acivs2005/Program.php You can register for the conference at http://acivs.org/acivs2005/register.php >From a total of 200 papers, 91 have been scheduled for oral or poster presentation. Acivs 2005 features the following invited speakers (see below for details): Fernando Pereira, Rafael Molina, Marc Op de Beeck. ***************************************************************************** Acivs 2005 Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems Sept 20-23, 2005 University of Antwerp, Belgium http://acivs.org/acivs2005/ Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer-Verlag) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: Eurasip, IEEE Benelux Signal Processing, DSP Valley, Philips, Barco, IPS Acivs 2005 is a conference focusing on techniques for building adaptive, intelligent, safe and secure imaging systems. Acivs 2005 will consist of four days of lecture sessions, both regular (25 mns) and invited presentations, and poster sessions. The proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The conference fee (350 EUR for IEEE-members, Eurasip-members and students and 430 EUR for other participants) includes the social program (conference dinner, welcoming and closing reception, touristic visit of Antwerp by tram, coffee breaks, snacks and cultural activities) and a hard-copy of the LNCS conference proceedings. Students, IEEE and Eurasip members can register at a reduced fee. Invited speakers Acivs 2005 will feature the following invited talks: * Fernando Pereira (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal): "Processing Challenges in Intelligent Video Adaptation" * Rafael Molina (Universidad de Granada, Spain): "High Resolution Images from a Sequence of low Resolution Observations. A Bayesian perspective" * Marc Op de Beeck (Philips research, Eindhoven, the Netherlands): "A system approach towards 3D-in-the-box" Topics Some of the topics covered by this year's conference are: * Noise reduction and filtering of images and video * Image analysis, feature extraction and classification * Object tracking and motion estimation in video sequences * Image and video coding * Image and video segmentation * Biometrics * ... Venue The conference will take place in the Building G, Middelheim campus, University of Antwerp, Belgium on Sept 20-23, 2005. The venue can be easily reached from Antwerp Airport - Deurne or by train from Brussels main airport. Conference proceedings The proceedings of Acivs 2005 will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. LNCS is published, in parallel to the printed books, in full-text electronic form via Springer Verlags internet platform (http://www.springerlink.com). Steering Committee Jacques Blanc-Talon, DGA/DCE/CTA, Arcueil, France. Wilfried Philips, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. Dan Popescu, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia. Paul Scheunders, University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium. Program committee Fritz Albregtsen University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Philippe Bolon University of Savoie, Annecy, France Don Bone Mediaware Solutions, Canberra, ACT, Australia David Clausi University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada Jean-Pierre Cocquerez UTC, Compiegne, France Pamela Cosman University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, USA Mihai Datcu German Aerospace Center DLR, Wessling, Germany Jennifer Davidson Iowa State University, Ames, USA Christine Fernandez Universite de Poitiers, Chasseneuil, France Jan Flusser Academy of Sciences, Praha, Czech Republic Don Fraser University of NSW, Canberra, Australia Georgy Gimel'farb The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Daniele Giusto University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy Christine Guillemot IRISA, Rennes, France Fred Hamprecht Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany John Illingworth University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jean-Michel Jolion INSA, Villeurbanne Cedex, France Andrzej Kasinski University of Technology, Poznan, Poland Ashraf Kassim National University, Singapore Nahum Kiryati Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Richard Kleihorst Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Ullrich Koethe University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Murat Kunt EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Hideo Kuroda Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan Kenneth Lam Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China Bruce Litow James Cook University, Townsville, Australia Brian Lovell The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Pierre Moulin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Mads Nielsen IT University, Copenhagen, Denmark Edgard Nyssen Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium Marcin Paprzycki Oklahoma State University, Tulsa, USA Jussi Parkkinen University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland Fernando Pereira Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu ENST, Paris, France Matti Pietikaeinen University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland Aleksandra Pizurica Ghent University, Gent, Belgium Gianni Ramponi, Trieste University, Trieste, Italy Thierry Ranchin Ecole des Mines de Paris, Sophia Antipolis, France A. Murat Tekalp University of Rochester, Rochester, USA Frederic Truchetet Universite de Bourgogne, Le Creusot, France Dimitri Van De Ville Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland Peter Veelaert Hogeschool Gent, Ghent, Belgium We look forward to welcoming you at Acivs 2005 ***************************************************************************** Jacques Blanc-Talon