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                               Call for Papers

                                   SCIA'05
              14 th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis

                              June 19-22, 2005
                              Joensuu, Finland

             Post-conference tour to St. Petersburg, June 23-25

                                  Deadlines:
                Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2005
                 Notification of acceptance: March 28, 2005
                     Camera-ready paper: April 15, 2005


                      http://www.cs.joensuu.fi/scia05/
                        e-mail: scia05@cs.joensuu.fi

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The ambition of SCIA is to bring together leading researchers in the field
of image analysis and present an exciting and advanced scientific program
reflecting the state-of-the-art of the discipline. SCIA 2005 is the
fourteen in a series of conferences arranged every two years. We look
forward to your contributions to this long-standing tradition.


Invited Speakers:

Prof. Anil Jain, Michigan State University, USA.
Prof. Josef Kittler, University of Surrey, UK.
Dr. Shigeki Nakauchi, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
Prof. Matti Pietikäinen, University of Oulu, Finland.
Prof. Xiaolin Wu, McMaster University, Canada.
Prof. Kalle Åström, Lund University, Sweden.


Highlights:

Tutorials by Erkki Oja, Jussi Parkkinen, and Matti Pietikäinen
Social Events: Sauna by the lake, etc
Conference Banquet in Finnish orthodox Monastery


Topics:

Image Analysis      Computer Vision                   Machine Vision
Image Processing    Pattern Recognition               Neural Networks
Image Compression   Systems and Architectures         Industrial Applications
Color Vision        Biomedical Applications           Remote Sensing
Multimedia          Biometric Person Identification   Future Technologies

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