Please find attached the first call for papers for IMVIP 2006. Further information is available at the conference web site: http://www.rince.ie/imvip2006/ IMVIP 2006 - The Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, will take place from the 30th of August to the 1st of September 2006. IMVIP 2006 is the main conference of the Irish Pattern Recognition and Classification Society (IPRCS), a member body of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). The conference will be hosted by the Vision Systems Laboratory, RINCE, Dublin City University, bringing together theoreticians and practitioners, industrialists and academics, from the numerous related disciplines involved in the processing and analysis of image-based information. IMVIP 2006 is a single-track conference consisting of high quality previously unpublished contributed papers, presented orally, and if the numbers demand, there will be poster sessions. The conference emphasises both theoretical research results and practical engineering experience in all areas. Full papers will be subject to a double-blind review process by the Programme Committee. In addition to the contributed programme, there will also be talks by invited speakers. Contributions are sought in all aspects of image processing, pattern analysis and machine vision, including but not restricted to the following topics: * Visually Guided Robot Manipulation and Navigation * Data Clustering and Texture Analysis * Image & Video Representation, Compression and Coding * Medical and Biomedical Imaging * Active Vision, Tracking and Motion Analysis * Object and Event Recognition * 2D, 3D Scene Analysis and Visualisation * Image Processing in Forensic Science * Image/Shape Representation and Recovery * Applications, Architectures and Systems Integration Final date for electronic submission of papers: 31st March 2006 Instructions for submission and templates for the submission of electronic documents can be found at the conference web site: http://www.rince.ie/imvip2006/