PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

MVA2005: IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications

May 16 - 18, 2005

Tsukuba Science City, Japan

The Ninth IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications will be held at the Tsukuba International Congress Center, Tsukuba Science City, Japan (http://www.epochal.or.jp/), from May 16 through 18. The conference is co-sponsored by the IAPR MVA Organizing Committee, IAPR TC8, and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). The purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry, and to exchange their knowledge and stimulate each other through intensive discussions mainly on (but not limited to) the following research topics.

Main Topic: Machine Vision and its Applications

Algorithms

Feature Extraction, Range Data and 3D Analysis, Surface Reconstruction, Motion and/or Image Sequence Analysis, Neural Network Applications, Color Image Analysis, and related technologies

Architectures

Vision Chips, Vision Sensors with New Optical Systems, Architectures for 3D and/or Motion Processing, Image Processing Systems, Cooperative Distributed Systems, Software Environments for Image Processing and Analysis, and related technologies

Applications

Factory Automation: Inspection, Diagnosis, Assembly
Intelligent Transport Systems: Traffic Monitoring, Traffic Control, Driving Safety Assistance, Electric Toll Collection
Multimedia: Image Retrieval, Drawing Processing, Multimedia Databases, Digital Archiving
Medical: Medical Examination Assistance, Remote Medicine, 2D/3D Computer Tomography
Geographic Information System: Map Processing, 3D Reconstruction from Photographs or Maps
Human Computer Interaction: Face Recognition, Gesture Recognition, Multimodal Interfaces
Wearable Computing: Wearable Image I/O, Personal Imaging, Augmented/Mixed Reality
Security: Surveillance, Alarm Systems, Biometrics, Personal Identification
Robots: Mobile Robots, Service Robots, Space Robots
Digital Home automation: Home Robots, Home Security (Monitoring)
Others: Civil and Construction Engineering, Agriculture/ Forestry / Fishery, Other applications

The conference will consist of oral and poster presentations on the above topics. All presentations will be made in English. Authors should submit an extended summary up to four pages with at least one main figure. The summary submission must be made electronically. Detailed instructions are available on the conference web site: http://www.cvl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/mva/.

Important Dates

The paper must be submitted no later than November 8, 2004.
Acceptance of the paper will be notified by January 17, 2005.

Final camera-ready papers are due on March 14, 2005.

The paper must be submitted no later than	November 8, 2004.
Acceptance of the paper will be notified by	January 17, 2005.
Final camera-ready papers are due on	March 14, 2005.