TC-11 newsletter, December 2003 Dear TC-11 member, I have a number of collected items of possible interest for you. Best regards, Lambert - ICDAR'03 photos: http://www.essex.ac.uk/ese/icdar2003/photos/photos.htm http://www.ai.rug.nl/iapr/tc-11/conf/icdar/2003/photos/ http://www.ai.rug.nl/iapr/tc-11/conf/icdar/2003/ Thanks to Jason Yi Li and Elisa Barney Smith who kindly provided their digital photos. [Items received by way of Karl Tombre:] - ICPR'2004 - 17th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION The major conference of IAPR hosted by the British Machine Vision Association (BMVA) CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM 23 - 26 August 2004 Second CFP Full paper submissions due: December 15th, 2003 More info: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/icpr2004/ - FACE VERIFICATION COMPETITION In order to promote evaluation of pattern recognition algorithms using publicly available datasets and standard performance assessment methodology, a competition for the best face verification algorithms will take place in conjunction with the ICPR 2004 conference. Details can be found at: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/banca/icpr2004/ - VRCAI 2004 - ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum & Its Applications in Industry http://www.seagraph.org/VRCAI2004 and GRAPHITE 2004 An ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and Southeast Asia http://www.seagraph.org/graphite2004 (colocated) Venue: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Conference Dates: 15-18 June, 2004 Submission deadline: December 16, 2003 - EUSIPCO 2004 September 7-10 2004, Vienna, Austria Proposal for Special Sessions and Tutorials: November 28, 2003 Submission of Camera-Ready, Final Papers: January 16, 2004 More info: http://www.nt.tuwien.ac.at/eusipco2004 - CIFED 2004 - Huitième Colloque International Francophone sur l’Ecrit et le Document (French speaking internationl conference on document analysis) La Rochelle, France - 21-25/6/2004 Deadline: 31/1/2004 More information: http://www.univ-lr.fr/Cifed2004.htm - Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing Special issue on Advances in Intelligent Vision Systems: Methods and Applications More information: http://asp.hindawi.com/ Manuscript Due: January 1, 2004 - Many of you already know CVonline - a free computer vision "encyclopedia": http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/CVonline/ There have been several improvements over the past year: - folding the content into a database so that the tree of topics is more easily visible - 200 additional topics with content (now 1100 topics out of 1400 have content). - a keyword search facility The out of print Ballard & Brown "Computer Vision" book has also been scanned, put up on the web and indexed into CVonline: see http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/rbf/BANDB/ - JOINT IAPR INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS ON Syntactical and Structural Pattern Recognition (SSPR 2004) and Statistical Pattern Recognition (SPR 2004) A satellite event of ICPR 2004 Lisbon, Portugal, August 18-20, 2004 Full paper submission deadline: January 15, 2004 More information: http://www.ph.tn.tudelft.nl/Organisation/ssspr2004/ - Pierre Devijver Award (IAPR TC1): the winner for 2004 is Professor Erkki Oja who will present the Pierre Devijver Lecture during SPR2004 More info: http://www.ph.tn.tudelft.nl/Organisation/TC1/pda/pda.html Congratulations to prof. Oja! - Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing - Special issue on Advances in Intelligent Vision Systems: Methods and Applications More info : http://asp.hindawi.com/ Manuscript Due: January 1, 2004 - SG04: 4th International Symposium on SMART GRAPHICS May 22-24 2004 - Banff Centre, Canada More info: http://www.smartgraphics.org Submission deadline: Feb 09,2004 Many greetings, Karl Tombre, IAPR secretary