******************************************************************************** Call for Papers SCIA'05 14 th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis June 19-22, 2005 Joensuu, Finland Post-conference tour to St. Petersburg, June 23-25 Deadlines: Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2005 Notification of acceptance: March 28, 2005 Camera-ready paper: April 15, 2005 http://www.cs.joensuu.fi/scia05/ e-mail: scia05@cs.joensuu.fi ******************************************************************************** The ambition of SCIA is to bring together leading researchers in the field of image analysis and present an exciting and advanced scientific program reflecting the state-of-the-art of the discipline. SCIA 2005 is the fourteen in a series of conferences arranged every two years. We look forward to your contributions to this long-standing tradition. Invited Speakers: Prof. Anil Jain, Michigan State University, USA. Prof. Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, UK. Dr. Shigeki Nakauchi, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan Prof. Matti Pietikäinen, University of Oulu, Finland. Prof. Xiaolin Wu, McMaster University, Canada. Prof. Kalle Åström, Lund University, Sweden. Highlights: Tutorials by Erkki Oja, Jussi Parkkinen, and Matti Pietikäinen Social Events: Sauna by the lake, etc Conference Banquet in Finnish orthodox Monastery Topics: Image Analysis Computer Vision Machine Vision Image Processing Pattern Recognition Neural Networks Image Compression Systems and Architectures Industrial Applications Color Vision Biomedical Applications Remote Sensing Multimedia Biometric Person Identification Future Technologies ********************************************************************************