FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT ********************************************************** **** Second International Conference on **** **** Scale Space and Variational Methods **** **** in Computer Vision **** **** Voss, Norway **** **** June 1 - June 5, 2009 **** **** http://www.math.uio.no/conference/ssvm2009/ **** **** email: ssvm-2009@math.uio.no **** ********************************************************** This international conference is a result of merging the Scale Space conferences and the Variational Level Set Methods conference and is the second in the series. The conference attempts to bring together two different communities with joint research interests: the one on scale space analysis and the one on variational, geometric and level set methods and their applications in image interpretation and understanding. Such a conference serves several purposes: International researchers and students may be exposed to state-of-the-art research on mathematical, physical and computational aspects of imaging, computer vision, graphics and inverse problems with applications. GENERAL CHAIR: Xue-Cheng Tai, University of Bergen, Norway. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Alfred M. Bruckstein, Technion IIT, Israel Tony F. Chan, University of California at LA, USA Mads Nielsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Stanley Osher, University of California at LA, USA Nikos Paragios, Ecole Centrale de Paris, France Bart M. ter Haar Romeny, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Christoph Schnoerr, University of Heidelberg, Germany Fiorella Sgalarri, University of Bologna, Italy Joachim Weickert, Saarland University, Germany CONFERENCE TOPICS: This conference covers areas that include computer vision, image processing and analysis, signal processing, mathematical imaging and numerical analysis. Industrial applications related to medical imaging, visualization, scientific computing and inverse problems are all suited for this conference. PROCEEDINGS As for the first conference in the series, the proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. All papers will undergo a thorough refereeing process and the proceedings will be available at the conference. DEADLINES Abstract submission........... 8th October 2008 Full paper submission......... 15th October 2008 Notification of acceptance.... 15th January 2009 Deadline for final paper...... 15th February 2009 Early registration............. 15th March 2009 CONFERENCE LOCATION The conference will take place at Fleischer's Hotel in Voss, Norway. Voss is a very beautiful town surrounded by mountains in a very quiet and relaxing enviroment. It can be reached by train or bus, most easily from Bergen, but also from Oslo. MORE INFORMATION Details on the conference proceedings, contributed lectures, and other information about the conference, will be made available on the conference website. Submissions for the conference will be through the webpage. For inquiries, please use email: ssvm-2009@math.uio.no. We look forward to seeing you in Voss, Norway, in June 2009. ORGANIZERS Knut-Andreas Lie, Marius Lysaker, Knut Morken and Xue-Cheng Tai