The Ninth Asian Conference on Computer Vision, 2009 (http://www.accv2009.org/) will be held in Xi'an, P.R. China, on Sep.23-27, 2009. ***** Important Dates ***** Paper Submission Deadline: Apr. 1, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: Jul. 15, 2009 Camera-Ready Papers: Aug. 15, 2009 ACCV'09 Conference: Sep.23-27, 2009 Papers in the main technical program must describe original research. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. To encourage high quality submissions, various paper prizes will be awarded at the conference. The award-winning papers will be selected to appear in a future special issue of the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) and IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications (CVA). The topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following: * Object Detection and Recognition * Statistical Methods and Learning * Motion and Tracking * Feature Extraction, Segmentation and Grouping * Face and Gesture Analysis * Remote Sensing * Shape Representation and Matching * Video Analysis and Event Recognition * Image ideo Retrieval * Representation * Super-resolution * Medical Image Analysis * Shape-from-X * Image-Based Modeling * Computational Photography and Video * Stereo and Omnidirectional Vision * Color and Texture * Early, Cognitive/Physics-based and Active Vision * Structure from Motion * Vision for Robotics * Biometrics and Surveillance * Camera Calibration * Multi-view Geometry * Illumination and Reflectance Modeling * Sensors * Vision for Graphics * Performance Evaluation * Systems and Applications, Real Time * Vision for HCI * Range Image Analysis * Vision for Internet Best regards, ACCV'09 Program Committee Chairs: Hongbin Zha (Peking University, China) Rin-ichiro Taniguchi (Kyushu University, Japan) Stephen Maybank (University of London, UK)