First Announcement and Call for Papers
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                  Joint Workshop of ISPRS and DAGM
 
       'Object Extraction for 3D City Models, Road Databases
                        and Traffic Monitoring - 
                Concepts, Algorithms, and Evaluation'
                              (CMRT05) 
                              
                          Vienna, Austria
                         August 29-30, 2005 


              http://www.gmat.unsw.edu.au/wgiii4/ws05

Scope: 
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Automated extraction of topographic objects from remotely sensed data
is an important topic of research in both Photogrammetry and Computer 
Vision. This joint workshop of the ISPRS and the German Association of 
Pattern Recognition (DAGM), held at Vienna University of Technology, 
discuss recent developments, the potential of various data sources, and 
future trends both with respect to sensors and processing techniques 
in automatic object extraction. 


Workshop topics:
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- Building and road extraction from aerial and space-borne images
- Building and road extraction from LIDAR and SAR
- Updating of existing 3D city models and road data bases
- Detection and velocity estimation of vehicles from remote 
  sensing data
- Methods for micro- and macro-scale traffic monitoring
- Detection and modelling of vegetation classes and single trees
- Level-of-detail modelling of topographic objects 
- Data fusion for automatic object extraction
- Integration of terrestrial images and laserscanner data 
  for city modelling
- Quality assessment of automatically extracted topographic objects


Organised by:
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- ISPRS WG III/4 'Image interpretation for city modelling'
- ISPRS WG III/5 'Road extraction and traffic monitoring'
- Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 
  Vienna University of Technology
- Institute of Photogrammetry and Cartography, 
  Technical University of Munich


Conference Chairs: 
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Franz Rottensteiner (University of New South Wales)
Uwe Stilla (Technical University of Munich)


Programme committee:
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Wolfgang Förstner, University of Bonn, Germany
Norbert Haala, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Stefan Hinz, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Helmut Mayer, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
Theo Moons, Catholic University of Brussels, Belgium
Franz Rottensteiner, University of New South Wales, Australia
Uwe Stilla, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Chunsun Zhang, CRC-SI, Melbourne, Australia


Paper Submission: 
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High-quality papers covering one or more of the above topics 
should be e-mailed as PDF files to one of the conference chairmen. 


Deadline for the submission of full papers is  April 15, 2005. 


The papers should be prepared according to the ISPRS guidelines for pre-
paring manuscripts (http://www.isprs.org/documents/orangebook/app5.html) 
and should not exceed 6 pages in length. All papers will be submitted 
to a double blind peer review process. 


The proceedings will appear as a Volume of the International Archives 
of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and the Spatial Information Sciences. 
Provided acceptance by the referees, the camera-ready papers have to 
be submitted in PDF format by 1 July, 2005. Authors have to be 
registered before July 1 to warrant publication of their paper in 
the proceedings. 


Important dates:
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- Submission of full papers               April 15, 2005
- Notification of authors                 June 1, 2005
- Submission of camera ready manuscripts  July 1, 2005
- Early registration deadline             July 1, 2005


Registration:
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The registration fee will to be announced soon. Authors must 
register before July 1, 2005, to warrant publication of their 
paper in the proceedings. A registration form will be provided. 
Visit the WWW site of the workshop for details.



WWW site 
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- of the workshop (CMRT05):
  http://www.gmat.unsw.edu.au/wgiii4/ws05 


- of the 27th Annual Meeting of the DAGM: 
  http://www.prip.tuwien.ac.at/dagm05/index.php


Franz Rottensteiner, Uwe Stilla