ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS

                        2nd International Symposium on
           "Brain, Vision and Artificial Intelligence" (BVAI 2007)
                       Naples-Italy, October 10-12, 2007

BVAI 2007 is organised by researchers of the Institute of Cybernetics
"E. Caianiello" of the Italian National Research Council, and will be
held in Naples, Italy, 10-12 October 2007.

The scientific program will include, besides eight invited talks,
contributed
papers that will be presented in plenary oral or poster sessions.
Original
and unpublished papers on BVAI 2007 main research areas and related
topics
are welcome.
 
Main research areas
 
The basic Brain:            Neurobiology, Biophysics and Computational
Theories
Natural Vision:             Visual Neuroscience, Visual Perception and
Visual Cognition
Artificial Vision:            Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision,
Biometrics
Artificial Intelligence:      Intelligent Systems, Robotics and Human
Computer Interaction.
 

Invited Speakers:

       Michael Arbib (USA)                          Matteo Carandini
(USA)
       Karl Gegenfurtner (Germany)            Jos illan (Switerland)
       Petr Lansky (Czech)                          Oliviero Stock
(Italy)
       John K. Tsotsos (Canada)                Massimo Tistarelli (Italy)

Important Dates:
        Paper Submission                   1 March 2007
        Acceptance Notification         11 May 2007
        Camera-ready Papers           11 June 2007

BVAI 2007 Proceedings, including all accepted contributions, will be
published by Springer-Verlag in the series Lecture Notes in Computer
Science ( www.springer.com/lncs). In addition, two special issues of
international journals are
planned, which will include extended versions of selected BVAI 2007
papers.


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more details and updated information.

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