--- SCANDINAVIAN CONFERENCE ON IMAGE ANALYSIS 2009 June 15-18, 2009 Radisson SAS Scandinavia Hotel Oslo, Norway http://www.scia2009.org Following the long line of Scandinavian Conferences on Image Analysis the 16th in the series is to take place in Oslo, Norway on June 15-18, 2009. The conference invites paper submissions presenting original work within a range of topics related to digital images: Image Analysis Computer Vision Machine Vision Image Processing Pattern Recognition Neural Networks Systems and Architectures Color Imaging Industrial Applications Remote Sensing Biometric Person Identification Multimedia Biomedical Applications Future Technologies Astronomy and Astrophysics Applications Multispectral Imaging, Systems and Architectures Since 2009 has been proclaimed the ``International Year of Astronomy´´ by the United Nations General Assembly we are planning a session on the topic ``Image and Pattern Analysis in Astronomy and Astrophysics´´. We are also pleased to announce that the 11th International Symposium on Multispectral Colour Science (MCS\'09) is collocated with SCIA 2009 PAPER SUBMISSION All submissions will be handled electronically. Submission instructions will be posted on the conference website http://www.scia2009.org. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers. Papers will be accepted for oral or for poster presentation. Submissions (as well as accepted papers) are limited to 10 pages. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of electronic abstract: December 7, 2008 Submission of full paper: December 14, 2008 Notification of acceptance: February 22, 2009 Camera-ready paper: March 8, 2009 Registration for paper presenters: March 14, 2009 No further extension of deadlines will be given. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS The conference organizers are extremely proud to present the following list of invited speakers and we are truely honored by them having accepted the invitation. - Prof. Rama Chellappa University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA - Prof. Samuel Kaski Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland - Prof. Peter Sturm INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Montbonnot, France - Prof. Sabine Süsstrunk Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland - Prof. Peter Gallagher Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland TUTORIALS Monday June 15th will be a full day of tutorials, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Registration for tutorials is handled alongside the general SCIA registration process. The conference organizers are extremely proud to present two excellent tutorial speakers for SCIA 2009. - Prof Jan Flusser The Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Praha, Czech Republic - Prof. Robert P.W. Duin Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands WORKSHOPS Gjøvik Color Imaging Symposium 2009 will be organized in collaboration with SCIA 2009 on Friday June 19.