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Today's Topics:

 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS:
 =========================
 CVPR Call for Papers reminder
 AI Symposium in Israel: Program
 CFP - 6TH SCANDINAVIAN CONFERENCE ON IMAGE ANALYSIS
 IEEE 1989 Int Conf on Image Processing
 Symposium on Chinese Text Processing

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Date: Sun, 06 Nov 88 20:46:25 EST
From: "Worthy N. Martin" <wnm@uvacs.cs.virginia.edu>
Subject: CVPR Call for Papers reminder


The following call for papers has appeared before,
however, it is being reissued to remind interested
parties of the first deadline, namely:

---->
----> November 16, 1988 -- Papers submitted
---->

This deadline will be held to firmly with the submission
date determined by postmark.
Thank you for your interest in CVPR89
   Worthy Martin



                      CALL FOR PAPERS

              IEEE Computer Society Conference
                            on
          COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION

                    Sheraton Grand Hotel
                   San Diego, California
                      June 4-8, 1989.



                       General Chair


               Professor Rama Chellappa
               Department of EE-Systems
               University of Southern California
               Los Angeles, California  90089-0272


                     Program Co-Chairs

Professor Worthy Martin          Professor John Kender
Dept. of Computer Science        Dept. of Computer Science
Thornton Hall                    Columbia University
University of Virginia           New York, New York  10027
Charlottesville, Virginia 22901


                     Program Committee

Charles Brown         John Jarvis            Gerard Medioni
Larry Davis           Avi Kak                Theo Pavlidis
Arthur Hansen         Rangaswamy Kashyap     Alex Pentland
Robert Haralick       Joseph Kearney         Roger Tsai
Ellen Hildreth        Daryl Lawton           John Tsotsos
Anil Jain             Martin Levine          John Webb
Ramesh Jain           David Lowe



                    Submission of Papers

Four copies of complete  drafts,  not  exceeding  25  double
spaced  typed  pages  should be sent to Worthy Martin at the
address given above by November 16, 1988  (THIS  IS  A  HARD
DEADLINE).   All reviewers and authors will be anonymous for
the review process.  The cover page will be removed for  the
review  process.   The  cover  page  must contain the title,
authors'  names,  primary  author's  address  and  telephone
number, and index terms containing at least one of the below
topics.  The second page of the  draft  should  contain  the
title  and  an abstract of about 250 words.  Authors will be
notified of notified of acceptance by February 1,  1989  and
final  camera-ready  papers, typed on special forms, will be
required by March 8, 1989.  Submission of Video Tapes  As  a
new  feature  there  will  be  one or two sessions where the
authors can present their work using video tapes only.   For
information  regarding  the  submission  of  video tapes for
review purposes, please contact John Kender at  the  address
above.



                 Conference Topics Include:

          -- Image Processing
          -- Pattern Recognition
          -- 3-D Representation and Recognition
          -- Motion
          -- Stereo
          -- Visual Navigation
          -- Shape from _____ (Shading, Contour, ...)
          -- Vision Systems and Architectures
          -- Applications of Computer Vision
          -- AI in Computer Vision
          -- Robust Statistical Methods in Computer Vision



                           Dates

      November 16, 1988 -- Papers submitted
      February 1, 1989  -- Authors informed
      March 8, 1989     -- Camera-ready manuscripts to IEEE
      June 4-8, 1989    -- Conference


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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 88 19:15:01 JST
From: Shmuel Peleg <peleg%humus.Huji.AC.IL@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: AI Symposium in Israel: Program

         Fifth Israeli Symposium on Artificial Intelligence
                   Tel-Aviv, Ganei-Hata`arucha
                      December 27-28, 1988


Preliminary Program

Tuesday,  December 27.

08:00-09:00     Registration

09:00-12:00     Openning Session, Joint with ITIM/CASA
Openning addresses.
Invited Talk:   Three dimensional vision for robot applications
David Nitzan, SRI International


12:00-13:30     Lunch Break

13:30-15:15     Session 2.4     Constraints

Invited Talk:  An Overview of the Constraint Language CLP(R)
Joxan Jaffar, IBM TJW Research Center

Belief maintenance in dynamic constraint networks
Rina Dechter, UCLA, and Avi Dechter, California State University


13:30-15:15     Session 2.5     Vision

Multiresolution shape from shading
Gad Ron and Shmuel Peleg, Hebrew University

Describing geometric objects symbolically
Gerald M. Radack and Leon S. Sterling, Case Western Reserve University

A vision system for localization of textile pieces on a light table
(short talk)
H. Garten and M. Raviv,  Rafael

15:15-15:45     Coffee Break

15:45-17:45     Session 3.4     Reasoning Systems


A classification approach for reasoning systems - a case study in
graph theory
Rong Lin, Old Dominion University


Descriptively powerful terminological representation
Mira Balaban and  Hana Karpas, Ben-Gurion University


Bread, Frappe, and Cake: The Gourmet's Guide to Automated Deduction
Yishai A. Feldman and Charles Rich, MIT


15:45-17:45     Session 3.5     Vision

Invited Talk:  Cells, skeletons and snakes
Martin D. Levine, McGill University

The Radial Mean of the Power Spectrum (RMPS) and adaptive image restoration
Gavriel Feigin and Nissim Ben-Yosef, Hebrew University

Geometric and probabilistic criteria with an admissible cost structure
for 3-d object recognition by search
Hezekiel Ben-Arie, Technion

17:45-18:15     IAAI Bussiness meeting


Wednesday, December 28.

09:00-10:30     Session 4.4     Computer Aided Instruction

The implementation of artificial intelligence in computer based training
Avshalom Aderet and Sachi Gerlitz, ELRON Electronic Industries

A logical programming approach to research and development of a
student modeling component in a computer tutor for characteristics of
functions
Baruch Schwarz and Nurit Zehavi, Weizmann Institute

Meimad --- A database integrated with instructional system for retrieval
(in Hebrew)
Avigail Oren and David Chen, Tel-Aviv University

09:00-10:30     Session 4.5     Robotics/Search

Invited Talk: Principles for Movement Planning and Control
Tamar Flash, Weizmann Institute

Strategies for efficient incremental nearest neighbor search
Alan J. Broder, The MITRE Corporation

10:30-11:00     Coffee Break

11:00-13:00     Session 5.4     Legal Applications/Language

Towards a computational model of concept acquisition and
modification using cases and precedents from contract law
Seth R. Goldman, UCLA

Expert Systems in the Legal Domain
Uri J. Schild, Bar-Ilan University

Machinary for Hebrew Word Formation
Uzzi Ornan, Technion

What's in a joke?
Michal Ephratt, Haifa University

11:00-13:00     Session 5.5     Expert Systems

Explanatory Meta-rules to provide explanations in expert systems
C. Millet, EUROSOFT, and M. Gilloux, CNET

Declarative vs. procedural representation in an expert system: A perspective
Lev Zeidenberg, IET,  and Ami Shapiro IDF

Automatic models generation for troubleshooting
Arie Ben-David, Hebrew University

A general expert system for resource allocation (in Hebrew)
Zvi Kupelik, Ehud Gudes, Amnon Mizels, and Perets Shoval, Ben-Gurion University


13:00-14:30     Lunch Break

14:30-16:00     Session 6.4     Logic Programming

Invited Talk: The CHIP constraint programming system
Mehmet Dincbas, ECRC

Time constrained logic programming
Andreas Zell, Stuttgart University

Automatic generation of control information in five steps
Kristof Verschaetse, Danny De Schreye and Maurice Bruynooghe,
Katoliche Universitet Leuven


14:30-16:00     Session 6.5     Data Structures for Vision

Invited Talk:   An Overview of Hierarchical Spatial Data Structures
Hanan Samet, University of Maryland

Optimal Parallel Algorithms for Quadtree Problems
Simon Kasif, Johns Hopkins University


16:00-16:30     Coffee Break

16:30-18:00     Session 7.4     Reasoning and Nonmonotonic Logic

Preferential Models and Cumulative Logics
Daniel Lehmann, Hebrew University

Invited Talk: Baysian and belief-functions formalisms for evidential
reasoning: A conceptual analysis
Judea Pearl, UCLA

16:30-18:00     Session 7.5     Pattern Matching

Scaled pattern matching
Amihood Amir, University of Maryland

Term Matching on a Mesh-Connected Parallel Computer
Arthur L. Delcher and Simon Kasif, The Johns Hopkins University


18:00-18:15     Closing remarks


For registration information please contact:

5th ISAI Secretariat
IPA, Kfar Maccabiah,
Ramat Gan 52109
Israel
(972) 3-715772

Or by e-mail:
udi@wisdom.bitnet
hezy@taurus.bitnet



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Date: Thu, 3 Nov 88 08:26:40 +0200
From: jjr@tolsun.oulu.fi (Juha R|ning)
Subject: CFP - 6TH SCANDINAVIAN CONFERENCE ON IMAGE ANALYSIS


      The 6th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis
      =================================================

      June 19 - 22, 1989
      Oulu, Finland

      Second Call for Papers



      INVITATION TO 6TH SCIA

      The 6th Scandinavian Conference on Image  Analysis   (6SCIA)
      will  be arranged by the Pattern Recognition Society of Fin-
      land from June 19 to June 22, 1989. The conference is  spon-
      sored  by the International Association for Pattern Recogni-
      tion. The conference will be held at the University of Oulu.
      Oulu is the major industrial city in North Finland, situated
      not far from the Arctic Circle. The conference  site  is  at
      the Linnanmaa campus of the University, near downtown Oulu.

      CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

      Erkki Oja, Conference Chairman
      Matti Pietik{inen, Program Chairman
      Juha R|ning, Local organization Chairman
      Hannu Hakalahti, Exhibition Chairman

      Jan-Olof Eklundh, Sweden
      Stein Grinaker, Norway
      Teuvo Kohonen, Finland
      L. F. Pau, Denmark

      SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

      The program will  consist  of  contributed  papers,  invited
      talks  and special panels.  The contributed papers will cov-
      er:

              * computer vision
              * image processing
              * pattern recognition
              * perception
              * parallel algorithms and architectures

      as well as application areas including

              * industry
              * medicine and biology
              * office automation
              * remote sensing

      There will be invited speakers on the following topics:

      Industrial Machine Vision
      (Dr. J. Sanz, IBM Almaden Research Center)

      Vision and Robotics
      (Prof. Y. Shirai, Osaka University)

      Knowledge-Based Vision
      (Prof. L. Davis, University of Maryland)

      Parallel Architectures
      (Prof. P. E. Danielsson, Link|ping University)

      Neural Networks in Vision
      (to be announced)

      Image Processing for HDTV
      (Dr. G. Tonge, Independent Broadcasting Authority).

      Panels will be organized on the following topics:

      Visual Inspection in the  Electronics  Industry  (moderator:
      prof. L. F. Pau);
      Medical Imaging (moderator: prof. N. Saranummi);
      Neural Networks and Conventional  Architectures  (moderator:
      prof. E. Oja);
      Image Processing Workstations (moderator: Dr.  A.  Kortekan-
      gas).

      SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

      Authors are invited to submit four  copies  of  an  extended
      summary of at least 1000 words of each of their papers to:

              Professor Matti Pietik{inen
              6SCIA Program Chairman
              Dept. of Electrical Engineering
              University of Oulu
              SF-90570 OULU, Finland

              tel +358-81-352765
              fax +358-81-561278
              telex 32 375 oylin sf
              net scia@steks.oulu.fi

      The summary should contain sufficient  detail,  including  a
      clear description of the salient concepts and novel features
      of the work.  The deadline for submission  of  summaries  is
      December  1, 1988. Authors will be notified of acceptance by
      January 31st, 1989 and final camera-ready papers will be re-
      quired by March 31st, 1989.

      The length of the final paper must not exceed 8  pages.  In-
      structions  for  writing the final paper will be sent to the
      authors.

      EXHIBITION

      An exhibition is planned.  Companies  and  institutions  in-
      volved  in  image analysis and related fields are invited to
      exhibit their products at demonstration stands,  on  posters
      or video. Please indicate your interest to take part by con-
      tacting the Exhibition Committee:

              Matti Oikarinen
              P.O. Box 181
              SF-90101 OULU
              Finland

              tel. +358-81-346488
              telex 32354 vttou sf
              fax. +358-81-346211

      SOCIAL PROGRAM

      A social program will be arranged,  including  possibilities
      to  enjoy  the  location  of the conference, the sea and the
      midnight sun. There  are  excellent  possibilities  to  make
      post-conference  tours  e.g.  to Lapland or to the lake dis-
      trict of Finland.

      The social program will consist of a get-together  party  on
      Monday June 19th, a city reception on Tuesday June 20th, and
      the conference Banquet on Wednesday June 21st. These are all
      included  in the registration fee. There is an extra fee for
      accompanying persons.

      REGISTRATION INFORMATION

      The registration fee will be 1300  FIM  before  April  15th,
      1989  and 1500 FIM afterwards. The fee for participants cov-
      ers:  entrance  to  all  sessions,  panels  and  exhibition;
      proceedings; get-together party, city reception, banquet and
      coffee breaks.

      The fee is payable by
              - check made out to 6th SCIA and mailed to the
                Conference Secretariat; or by
              - bank transfer draft account or
              - all major credit cards

      Registration forms, hotel information and  practical  travel
      information  are  available from the Conference Secretariat.
      An information package will be sent to authors  of  accepted
      papers by January 31st, 1989.

      Secretariat:
              Congress Team
              P.O. Box 227
              SF-00131 HELSINKI
              Finland
              tel. +358-0-176866
              telex 122783 arcon sf
              fax +358-0-1855245

      There will be hotel rooms available for  participants,  with
      prices  ranging  from  135 FIM (90 FIM) to 430 FIM (270 FIM)
      per night for a single room (double room/person).

------------------------------

Date:     Fri, 4 Nov 88 12:26 H
From: <CHTEH%NUSEEV.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject:  ICIP'89 : IEEE 1989 Int Conf on Image Processing


     IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE PROCESSING
                         (ICIP'89)

               5-8 September, 1989, Singapore

                  CALL FOR PAPERS (Updated)


     The  1989  IEEE  International  Conference   on   Image
Processing  (ICIP'89)  will  be  held  in  Singapore  on 5-8
September, 1989.  The conference is jointly organized by the
Computer  Chapter, IEEE Singapore Section and the Department
of Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore.
The  conference will include regular sessions on all aspects
of the theory and  applications  of  image  processing.   In
addition,  tutorials  by  eminent  speakers  presenting  the
state-of-the-art in selected areas of image processing  will
be  offered.  An exhibition will be held in conjunction with
the conference.

     Papers describing original work in all aspects of image
processing   are   invited.   Topics  for  regular  sessions
include, but are not limited to, the following :

  Image analysis/modeling          Office image processing
  Image restoration/enhancement    Machine vision
  Video communications             AI vision techniques
  Image pattern recognition        VLSI implementation
  Remote sensing                   System architecture
  Biomedical imaging               Color image processing

     Authors  are  invited  to  submit  four  copies  of  an
extended summary of at least 1000 words to :

           Technical Program Chairman, ICIP'89
           c/o Meeting Planners Pte Ltd
           100 Beach Road, #33-01
           Shaw Towers, Singapore 0718
           Republic of Singapore
           Telex : RS40125 MEPLAN
           Fax : (65) 2962670
           E-mail : OSH@NUSEEV.BITNET

     The summary should contain sufficient detail, including
a  clear  description  of  the  salient  concepts  and novel
features of  the  work.   The  summary  should  include  the
authors'  names,  addresses,  affiliations,  and  telephone,
telex and fax numbers.  The authors should also indicate one
or  more of the above topics that best describe the contents
of the paper.

     Proposals for tutorials and special sessions  are  also
welcome  and  should  be  addressed to the Technical Program
Chairman before 16 January 1989.


AUTHORS' SCHEDULE
   Submission of summary              1 February 1989
   Notification of acceptance        31 March    1989
   Submission of final manuscripts    1 June     1989

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Date: 2 Nov 88 17:58:33 GMT
From: uflorida!proxftl!francis@gatech.edu (Francis H. Yu)
Subject: 1989 Symposium on Chinese Text Processing
Organization: Proximity Technology, Ft. Lauderdale


                   *************************************
                   *           CALL FOR PAPER          *
                   *************************************


                 1989 Symposium on Chinese Text Processing
                     Boca Raton, FL, March 16-17, 1988
                                Sponsored by
              The Chinese Language Computer Society of Florida


       The Symposium's objective is to serve as an international
       forum for the presentation of research conducted in the area
       of ideographics.

       Papers describing original work in all aspects of
       ideographics are invited.

       A non-exclusive sample of the included topics follows:

       *    Charactor Input and Display
       *    Charactor Encoding
       *    Disign of Ternimals and Keyboards
       *    Chinese Language Lexicon
       *    Chinese Language Parsing
       *    Machine Translation
       *    Optical Charactor Recognition
       *    Computer Ideographics in 90's
       *    Speech Recognition
       *    Application
               Word Processors
               Electronic Typewriters
               Desk Top Publishing
               Typesetting

       Authors please submit 3 copies of proposed paper to
            Paper Review Committee
            1989 Symposium on Chinese Text Processing
            Florida Atlantic University
            Department of Computer Engineering
            500 NW 20 Street
            Boca Raton, FL 33486

       Symposium Chairman
            Dr George Kostopoulos
            (407) 393-3463

       Paper Submission Deadline:     December 1, 1988
       Notification of Acceptance:    January  1, 1989
       Final Manuscript Due:          February 1, 1989
 
FRANCIS H. YU  (305)-566-3511
Proximity Technology, Inc., Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
Domain:	francis@proxftl.uucp
Uucp:	...!{ uunet, uflorida!novavax }!proxftl!francis


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