Call for Papers 15th International Conference on Vision Interface (VI'2002) May 27-29, 2002, Calgary, Canada http://www.visioninterface.org/vi2002 Sponsored by Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (CIPPRS), and International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Vision Interface is a single-track conference consisting of high quality, previously unpublished papers, presented either orally or as a poster. Contributions are sought on any aspect of computer vision, image processing or pattern recognition, including but not restricted to the following topics: Image Segmentation, Texture, Illumination Shape, Surface geometry Calibration and Rectification Motion and Video Analysis, Optical Flow Stereo Vision, Depth, 3D Scene Analysis Active and Real-time Vision Object, Event, and Scene Recognition Face and Gesture Recognition Document Processing and Handwriting Recognition Learning and Classification Methods in Vision Biological and Psychological aspects of Vision Neural Networks for Vision and Image Understanding Computer Vision for HCI and Computer Graphics Image databases and Multi-Media Applications Biomedical and Robotics Applications The conference provides an excellent environment for interdisciplinary interaction as well as for networking of students and scientists in computer vision and image understanding. In addition to regular sessions, there will be also invited sessions. Two awards: for the best paper and for the best student paper, will be presented. SUBMISSIONS: Papers are welcomed in either French or English language and must be submitted electronically through the conference website. Submissions in French should be accompanied by an abstract in English. The size of the papers should be limited to eight double-column pages. Refereeing will be blind. Only the title should be included on the submitted manuscripts. Authors' identities will be tracked by the web-based submission system. All papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the Program Committee. The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, the hardcopy of which will be distributed at the conference. The proceedings will also be made available on-line at the CIPPRS and VI websites. IMPORTANT DATES: PAPER SUBMISSION December 1, 2001 Acceptance/Rejection Notification February 1, 2002 Industrial presentation requests due March 15, 2002 Revised camera-ready papers due April 1, 2002 Proceedings put online May 1, 2002 JOINT CONFERENCES: VI'2002 will be held in conjunction with GI'2002 (Graphics Interface) and AI'2002 (Artificial Intelligence) REGISTRATION: - For a single registration fee participants can attend presentations at either of AI/GI/VI conferences. - The conference promotes participation of students by reducing significantly the student registration fee. INDUSTRY PARTICIPATION: The conference welcomes the participation and sponsorship from industry companies. The booth and/or time slot will be allocated at the conference for industrial presentations. Further requests should be sent to the program chair. Program Chair: Dmitry O. Gorodnichy, Computational Video Group, Institute of Information Technology, National Research Council, Montreal Road, M-50, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A 0R6 Fax: (613) 952-0215, Tel: (613) 998-5298 dmitry.gorodnichy@nrc.ca, chair@visioninterface.org Program Cochair: Hong Zhang, University of Alberta, Canada zhang@cs.ualberta.ca, cochair@visioninterface.org Registration Chair: John Barron, University of Western Ontario, Canada barron@csd.uwo.ca, treasurer@visioninterface.org Local Chair: Jim Parker, University of Calgary, Canada parker@cpsc.ucalgary.ca, local@visioninterface.org INVITED SPEAKERS: John Aloimonos, University of Maryland, College Park Matthew Turk, University of California, Santa Barbara Georges Stamon, Université René Descartes, Paris PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Peter Allen, Columbia University, USA Naoki Asada, Hiroshima City University, Japan Steven Beauchemin, U. of Western Ontario, Canada Boubakeur Boufama, U. of Windsor, Canada Dmitry Chetverikov, Hungarian Ac.Sc., Hungary Kostas Daniilidis, U. of Pennsylvania, USA Fadi Dornaika, York U., Canada Gregory Dudek, McGill U., Canada Georgy Gimel'farb, Auckland U., New Zealand Jiri Grim, Czech Ac. Sc., Czech Republic Greg Hager, Johns Hopkins U., USA Rolf Henkel, U. of Bremen, Germany Rainer Herpers, York U., Canada Radu Horaud, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France Martin Jägersand, U. of Alberta, Canada Yunde Jia, Beijing I. of Technology, China Reinhard Klette, Auckland U., New Zealand Stanislav Kovacic, U. of Ljublana, Slovenia George Lashkia, Okayama U. of Science, Japan Ales Leonardis, U. of Ljublana, Slovenia Jim Little, U. of British Columbia, Canada Dave Lowe, U. of British Columbia, Canada Peter Meer, Rutgers U., USA Jean Meunier, U. de Montreal, Canada Amar Mitiche, INRS, Canada Fathallah Nouboud, U. de Quebec a TR, Canada Tomas Pajdla, Czech Tech. U., Czech Republic Marc Parizeau, U. Laval, Canada Pierre Payeur, U. of Ottawa, Canada Lubov Podladchikova, Rostov U. KRINC, Russia Gerhard Roth, National Research Council, Canada Ilya Rybak, Drexel U., USA Yoshiaki Shirai, Osaka U., Japan Harry Shum, Microsoft, USA Peter Sturm, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Montbonnot, France Ching Y. Suen, Concordia U., Canada Djemel Ziou, U. de Sherbrooke, Canada