apr08-2004-newsletter Dear colleague, here are some updates, FYI. Best regards, Lambert Schomaker ........................................................................ Book in preparation: Feature extraction, foundations and Applications Guest Editors: Isabelle Guyon, Steve Gunn, Masoud Nikravesh, and Lofti Zadeh A book will be published towards the end of 2004 by Springer, including a tutorial section of feature extraction, the proceedings of the NIPS 2003 workshop on feature extraction and the results of the NIPS 2003 feature selection challenge. ........................................................................ [and, by way of Karl Tombre:] First of all, some IAPPR-related information As the GB members already know, we are very pleased to announce that the 2004 K S Fu Prize is awarded to Professor J. K. Aggarwal, with the citation: For pioneering contributions toward establishing the fundamentals of structure and motion from image sequences and their applications to robot vision and human motion Warm congratulations! We are also very pleased to welcome two new members to the IAPR: - PREMIA - Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association, Singapore - GB representative Prof. Chew Lim TAN - MACVNR – Mexican Association for Computer Vision, Neurocomputing and Robotics - GB representative Prof. Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano Welcome to both new IAPR members, and to both new GB members! In preparation of the GB meeting this summer, the GB members will progressively find reports and related documents in the GB reserved area of the IAPR web site. Let us use this opportunity to remind everybody that if they want to propose organizing ICPR'08, they must urgently get in touch with the chair of the Conferences and Meetings Committee. We also remind everybody about the offer of a limited number of travel stipends to the ICPR - please see the ICPR web page for details, and remember that the deadline for applying to such a stipend is April 30, 2004. Now to some scientific news of interest to the community at large - UKROBRAZ-2004 - Seventh All-Ukrainian International Conference on Signal/Image Processing and Pattern Recognition 11 to 15 of October 2004 - Kyjiv Ukraine More info: http://www.uasoiro.org.ua/ukrobraz2004/ Deadline for submission: 15 July 2004. - DocEng 2004 - ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2004 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA - October 28-30, 2004 More info: http://www.documentengineering.org Abstracts due: April 26, 2004 Full papers due: May 10, 2004 - MICCAI-2004 Satellite Workshops September 30 AMI-2004 (International Workshop on Augmented Environments for Medical Imaging) DiDaMIC-2004 (Distributed Databases and processing in Medical Image Computing) May 26: Deadline for Satellite Workshops Submissions More info: http://miccai.irisa.fr/index2.php?menu=Exhibits_and_Workshops&page=Workshops - SLCV - Workshop on Statistical Learning in Computer Vision in conjunction with ECCV04 Prague, Czech Republic - 15th May, 2004 Program available at: http://slcv.icg.tu-graz.ac.at/ - Summer School on Medical Image Computing 2004 Imperial College London, 19-22 September Deadline for applications to attend Monday 31 May 2004 More info: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~dr/miua/summerschool.html - ADVANCED SCHOOL ON COMPUTER VISION, PATTERN RECOGNITION AND IMAGE PROCESSING May 17-20,2004, Verona, Italy Registration deadline: 30 April 2004 More info: http://vips.sci.univr.it/html/VIPSschool2004.html - ICIAR 2004 - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION September 29 – October 1, 2004, Porto, Portugal Paper submission deadline: April 16, 2004 More info: http://www.iciar.uwaterloo.ca - SIPS'04 - IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems October 13-15, 2004, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Austin, Texas, USA Theme: Systems-on-a-Chip for Wireless Networking More info: http://www.spsworkshops.com/SiPS2004/ Paper Submission April 30, 2004 - UDMS 2004 - 24TH URBAN DATA MANAGEMENT SYMPOSIUM October 27-29, 2004 - CHIOGGIA, VENICE, ITALY Abstract submission deadline: April 30, 2004 More info: http://www.udms.net/ -- Karl Tombre, IAPR secretary