ACIVS 2006
           Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems
 
                           Sept 18-21, 2006
                     University of Antwerp Belgium
 
                        http://acivs.org/acivs2006/
                     Lecture Notes in Computer Science
 
 Sponsored by: Eurasip, IEEE Benelux Signal Processing Chapter,
                DSP Valley, Philips, Barco.
 
 Acivs 2006 is a conference focusing on techniques for building adaptive,
 intelligent, safe and secure imaging systems. Acivs 2006 will consist of
 4 days of lecture sessions, both regular (25 mns) and invited presentations,
 and poster sessions. The proceedings of Acivs 2006 will be published by
 Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
 
 TOPICS INCLUDE (but are not limited to)
 * Vision systems
 * Image and Video Processing (linear/non-linear filtering and
    enhancement, restoration, segmentation, wavelets and multiresolution,
    Markovian techniques, color processing, modeling, analysis,
    interpolation and spatial transforms, motion, fractals and
    multifractals, structure from motion)
 * Pattern Analysis (shape analysis, data and image fusion, pattern
    matching, neural nets, learning, grammatical techniques) and
    Content-Based Image Retrieval
 * Remote Sensing (techniques for filtering, enhancing, compressing,
    displaying and analyzing optical, infrared, radar, multi- and
    hyperspectral airborne and spaceborne images)
 * Still Image and Video Coding and Transmission (still image/video coding,
    model-based coding, synthetic/natural hybrid coding, quality metrics,
    image watermarking, image and video databases, image search and
    sorting, video indexing, multimedia applications)
 * System Architecture and Performance Evaluation (implementation of
    algorithms, benchmarking, evaluation criteria, algorithmic evaluation)
 
 Both classical research papers and application papers are welcome.
 
 VENUE
 The conference will take place in the Building G, Middelheim campus,
 University of Antwerp, Belgium on Sept 18-21, 2006. The venue can be
 easily reached from Antwerp Airport - Deurne or by train from
 Brussels main airport.
 
 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
 The proceedings of Acivs 2006 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).
 
 IMPORTANT DEADLINES
 April 9, 2006     Full paper submission
 May 22,  2006     Notification of acceptance
 June 16, 2006     Camera-ready papers due
 June 26, 2006     Registration for authors of accepted papers
 July 14, 2006     Early registration deadline
 August 21, 2006   Late registration deadline
 Sept 18-21, 2006  Acivs 2006
 
 STEERING COMMITTEE
 Jacques Blanc-Talon, DGA/D4S/MRIS, 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.
 Attila Baskurt, University of Lyon, Villeurbanne, France.
 Laure Blanc-Feraud, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France.
 Philippe Bolon, University of Savoie, Annecy, France.
 Nikolaos Bourbakis, Wright State University, Dayton, USA.
 Salah Bourennane, EGIM, Marseille, France.
 Patrick Bouthemy, IRISA/INRIA, Rennes, France.
 Jocelyn Chanussot, INPG - ENSIEG, Grenoble, France.
 David Clausi, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
 Pamela Cosman, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, USA.
 Jennifer Davidson, Iowa State University, Ames, USA.
 Ricardo de Queiroz, Universidade de Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil.
 Christine Fernandez Maloigne, Universite de Poitiers, Chasseneuil, France.
 Jan Flusser, Inst. of Information Theory & Automation, Prague, Czech Republic.
 Don Fraser, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia.
 Sidharta Gautama, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
 Jerome Gilles, CEP, Arcueil, France.
 Georgy Gimel'farb, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
 Daniele Giusto, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
 John Illingworth, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
 Pieter Jonker, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
 Andrzej Kasinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland.
 Ashraf Kassim, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
 Richard Kleihorst, Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
 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.
 Jesus Malo, Universitat de Valencia, Burjassot, Spain.
 Gérard Medioni, USC/IRIS, Los Angeles, USA.
 Fabrice Meriaudeau, IUT Le Creusot, Le Creusot, France.
 Ali Mohammad-Djafari, Supelec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
 Rafael Molina, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain.
 Vittorio Murino, Universita degli Studi di Verona, Verona, Italy.
 Stanley Osher, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA.
 Marcin Paprzycki, SWPS, Warsaw, Poland.
 Jussi Parkkinen, University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland.
 Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal.
 Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu, ENST, Paris, France.
 Matti Pietikainen, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
 Aleksandra Pizurica, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium.
 Gianni Ramponi, Trieste University, Trieste, Italy.
 Luis S. A. de Sotomayor, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain.
 Kenneth W. Tobin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA.
 Frederic Truchetet, Universite de Bourgogne, Le Creusot, France.
 Dimitri Van De Ville, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
 Peter Veelaert, Hogeschool Gent, Ghent, Belgium.