FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS MVA2000: IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications November 28-30, 2000 The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan The Seventh IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications will be held from November 28 to 30, 2000 at the University of Tokyo, Japan. The workshop is co-sponsored by the IAPR MVA Organizing Committee and the University of Tokyo. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry, and to exchange their knowledge and stimulate each other through intensive discussions on the following research topics.
*Algorithms Feature extraction, Range data and 3D analysis, Motion and/or Image sequence analysis, Neural network applications, Color image analysis, and related technologies. *Architectures Intelligent sensors, VLSI image processor chips, Massively parallel processing, Architectures for 3D and/or motion processing, Image processing systems, Software environment for image processor, and related technologies. *Applications ** FA(Factory Automation): Inspection, Diagnosis, Assembly, Mobile robots, and related technologies. ** ITS(Intelligent Transport Systems): Traffic monitoring, Traffic control, Driving safety assistance, Electric toll collection. ** Multimedia: Image retrieval, Drawing processing, Multimedia database, Artificial reality. ** Medical: Medical examination assistance, Remote medicine, 2D/3D computer tomography. ** GIS(Geographic Information System): Map processing, 3D reconstruction from photographs or maps ** HCI(Human Computer Interaction): Face recognition, Gesture recognition, Multi-modal interface. ** Security: Surveillance, Alarm system, Biometrics, Personal identification. ** Others: Civil and construction engineering, Agriculture/ Forestry/ Fishery, Other applications The workshop will include about 100 papers for oral and poster presentations on the above topics. All presentations will be made in English. Those who wish to present a paper are requested to submit four copies of an extended abstract of 500-1000 words with at least one main figure by May 31, 2000 to Prof. Katsushi Ikeuchi Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo 7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8558, JAPAN Fax: +81-3-3401-1433 The abstract should contain the following on the first page. 1) Title of the paper 2) Name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s) 3) Name and address of the person to be contacted, and also his/her phone/fax number(s) and E-mail address if available 4) Answers to the following questions: a)What is the original contribution of this work? b)Why should this contribution be considered important? The paper must be submitted no later than May 31, 2000. Acceptance of the paper will be notified by July 31, 2000. Final camera-ready papers are due on September 20, 2000. The information about the workshop is available by WWW at http://www.etl.go.jp/etl/gazo/mva2000/ . Workshop Co-chairs Mikio TAKAGI (Science University of Tokyo) Katsushi IKEUCHI (The University of Tokyo) Program Chair Johji TAJIMA (NEC) Committee Members (tentative) Minoru ASADA (Osaka University) Santanuc CHAUDHURY(Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) Atul CHHABRA (NYNEX Science & Technology) Roland T. CHIN (Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology) Per-Erik DANIELSSON (Linkoping University) Dov DORI (Technion) Masakazu EJIRI (Hitachi) Marco FERRETTI (Universita di Pavia) Chiou-Shanu FUH (National Taiwan University) Seiji HATA (Kagawa University) Ki Sang HONG (POSTECH) Yi-Ping HUNG (Academia Sinica) Yoshiharu ICHIKAWA (TI Japan) Kiyoshi IWATA (Fujitsu General) Pieter JONKER (Delft University of Technology) Masataka KAGESAWA (The University of Tokyo) Sing Bing KANG (Microsoft Research) Wu Jian KANG (Kent Ridge Digital Labs) Masatsugu KIDODE (Toshiba) Hiroyasu KOSHIMIZU (Chukyo University) In-So KWEON (KAIST) Hsi-Jian LEE (National Chiao Tung University) Seong-Whan LEE (Korea University) Gerd MADERLECHNER (Siemens) Sang De MA (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Akira MAEDA (Mitsubishi Electric) Takeshi MASUDA (ETL) R.T. MENGKO (Bandung Institute of Technology) Hiroshi NAGAHASHI (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Yuichi NAKAMURA (University of Tsukuba) Shree NAYAR (Columbia University) Heinrich NIEMANN (Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg) Hirobumi NISHIDA (Ricoh) Yuichi OHTA (University of Tsukuba) Shin'ichiro OKAZAKI (NEC) Masatoshi OKUTOMI (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Kazunori ONOGUCHI (Toshiba) Shinji OZAWA (Keio University) Dragutin PETKOVIC (IBM Almaden Research Center) Hideo SAITO (Keio University) Katsuhiko SAKAUE (ETL) Shigeru SASAKI (Fujitsu) Yoichi SATO (The University of Tokyo) Takeshi SHAKUNAGA (Okayama University) Harry SHUM (Microsoft Research China) Yasuhito SUENAGA (Nagoya University) Satoshi SUZUKI (NTT East) Masao TAKATOO (Hitachi Building Systems) Karl TOMBRE (INRIA) Koji WAKIMOTO (Mitsubishi Electric) Heitou ZEN (Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine) For further information, please contact to: Prof. Katsushi IKEUCH Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo 7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8558, JAPAN Phone: +81-3-3401-1433 Fax: +81-3-3401-1433 E-mail: ki@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp