We are pleased to distribute the 2nd Call for Papers for the ICVS2008. ICVS 2008 is the 6th International Conference dedicated in advanced research on Computer Vision Systems (http://icvs2008.info). The conference, continuing a series of successful events in Las Palmas, Vancouver, Graz, New York and Bielefeld, will now take place in Santorini, Greece on 12-15 May 2008. This year the theme of the conference is "Vision for Cognitive Systems". In the past years, with the advances in microelectronics and digital technology, cameras became a widespread media. This gave thrust to the development of new and fast computer vision systems. To further encourage the research in this area, this conference aims to gather researchers and developers from academic fields and industries worldwide to explore the state-of-the-art. The program committee invites you to attend the conference, which will be held in the sunlit island of Santorini, and submit papers on all aspects of computer vision systems including, but not limited to: -Computer vision from a system perspective: paradigms, applications, architectures, integration and control; -Cognitive vision techniques for recognition and categorization, knowledge representation, learning, reasoning, goal specification and context awareness; -Methods and metrics for performance evaluation and benchmarking. Besides the main conference program, workshops and keynote speeches will allow practitioners building computer vision systems to exchange knowledge and ideas. Keynote speakers: Dr. P. Anandan, Managing Director of Microsoft Research India. Prof. Heinrich H. Buelthoff, director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. The Proceedings of the ICVS 2008 conference will be published by Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series, which is indexed by several major international indexers (e.g. ISI, INSPEC, DBLP). Submitted papers will be double-blind reviewed (by at least three reviewers). Important Dates Paper submission deadline: 11 November 2007 Notification of acceptance: 13 January 2008 Camera ready deadline:: 15 February 2008 Santorini, is a sunlit volcanic island of immense natural beauty. It is a popular tourist destination and offers vacation activities for everybody. We look forward to receiving a paper from you and meet you at Santorini. Kind regards, Antonis Gasteratos, Conference Chair Markus Vincze & John Tsotsos, Program Chairs Please visit http://icvs2008.info for further details.