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From: zheng@matilda.vut.edu.au (Zheng Zhi Jie)
Subject: CFP Visual'96
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Summary: The First International Conference of Visual Information Systems
Keywords: Visual Information Systems
Organization: Victoria University of Technology
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 23:17:48 GMT
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			Call for Papers

    First International Conference on Visual Information Systems

			   VISUAL '96
			 5-6 February 1996
			Melbourne, Victoria
			   AUSTRALIA


			Aims and Scope

With the widespread use of multimedia information, there is a pressing
requirement to efficiently manage, store, manipulate and retrieve images 
and pictorial data in a wide spectrum of applications. As many organisations 
currently maintain large collections of images, the need for flexible visual 
information management is already critical. Future information systems in 
commercial and scientific applications will have a high visual content, and 
it is necessary to integrate the visual and image components into the
architecture of organisational information systems. Such visual components 
will tend to permeate all information systems and in time will not be regarded 
as a distinct element, but will form an essential part of any information 
system, working alongside and in harmony with structured information 
processing components. The conference will focus attention on the management 
of visual information and will include, but is not restricted to, the 
following topics:

	* Architecture of visual information systems
	* Data modelling for visual information systems
	* Memory organisation and management
	* Feature recognition and extraction
	* Feature and content indexing
	* Picture description and representation languages
	* Query model and paradigms for visual information
	* Query language for visual information retrieval
	* Content-based search and retrieval
	* Integration of visual and non-visual information
	* Compression and delivery of visual information
	* Image processing and manipulation
	* Parallel processing in visual information systems
	* Specific applications areas of visual information systems

Both work in progress as well as fully developed systems will be of interest 
to the conference. 


Keynote Addresses:

	Shi-Kuo Chang, University of Pittsburgh, USA	
	Tosiyasu Kunii, University of Aizu, Japan


Paper Submission:

Authors should submit three copies of an extended abstract consisting of
between two and four pages to the Program Chair. The abstract should
include the authors' names, affiliation, telephone and fax numbers, postal
and email addresses, and provide sufficient details to allow the merits of
the paper to be assessed. Authors are encouraged to submit the abstracts
electronically in Postscript form to visual96@matilda.vut.edu.au.
Abstracts will be reviewed internationally. Detailed instructions for
manuscript preparation will be sent at the time of acceptance
notification, and are also available from the Web page (see Further
Information). 

Accepted papers must be presented at the Conference with the presenting author
registering as a delegate in order for the paper to be included in the 
proceedings. Conference proceedings will be published and distributed to 
participants at the conference. It is also planned to publish the papers in 
book form after the conference. 


Important Dates:

Expression of interest: 	2 September 1995
Extended abstract due: 		2 October 1995
Notification of acceptance: 	3 November 1995
Camera ready paper due: 	11 December 1995
Conference: 			5-6 February 1996


Organising Chair: 

	Audrey Tam 
	Department of Computer & Mathematical Sciences
	Victoria University of Technology
	PO Box 14428, MMC
	Melbourne, Victoria 3000, AUSTRALIA
	Email: amt@matilda.vut.edu.au


Program Chair: 

	Clement Leung 
	Department of Computer & Mathematical Sciences
	Victoria University of Technology
	PO Box 14428, MMC
	Melbourne, Victoria 3000, AUSTRALIA
	Email: amt@matilda.vut.edu.au


Program Committee:

	David Bell, University of Ulster
	Terry Caelli, Curtin University of Technology
	Alfonso Cardenas, University of California, Los Angeles
	Shi-Kuo Chang, University of Pittsburgh
	Francis Chin, University of Hong Kong
	Roland Chin, Hong Kong University of Science & 	Technology
	Bill Cody, IBM Almaden Research Center
	John Debenham, University of Technology Sydney
	Tharam Dillon, LaTrobe University
	Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University
	Ricki Goldman-Segall, University of British Columbia
	Bill Grosky, Wayne State University
	Ramesh Jain, University of California, San Diego
	Kingsley Nwosu, AT&T Bell Laboratories
	Tosiyasu Kunii, University of Aizu
	Zhi-Qiang Liu, University of Melbourne
	Wo-shun Luk, Simon Fraser University
	Song De Ma, Chinese Academy of Science
	Erich Neuhold, T.H. Darmstadt
	P. Venkat Rangan, University of California, San Diego
	Nalin Sharda, Victoria University of Technology
	Bala Srinivasan, Monash University
	Imants Svalbe, Monash University
	Paul Swatman, Swinburne University of Technology
	Rodney Topor, Griffith University
	Zhi Jie Zheng, Victoria University of Technology


Expression of Interest:

Please respond by 2 September 1995
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Further Information:

Further information and updates are available on the World Wide Web at:
http://dingo.vut.edu.au/~visual96
or by contacting:

	Visual '96 Conference Secretariat
	Department of Computer & Mathematical Sciences
	Victoria University of Technology
	PO Box 14428, MMC
	Melbourne, Victoria 3000, AUSTRALIA
	Email: visual96@matilda.vut.edu.au
	Tel: +61 3 688 4249  Fax: +61 3 688 4050 



