FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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British Machine Vision Conference 2006, Edinburgh

    http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/bmvc2006/

The British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) is the main UK
conference on machine vision and related areas. Organised by the
British Machine Vision Association, the 17th BMVC will be held 
September 4-7 2006 in Edinburgh organised jointly by Heriot-Watt University
and Edinburgh University.

Papers will be refereed on their originality, presentation, empirical
results, and quality of evaluation. All papers will be blind-refereed,
normally by three members of the international programme committee.
The submissions web site is: http://www2.wiau.man.ac.uk/bmvc2006/

Conference topics include both theory and applications
(but are not limited to):

    * Statistics and machine learning for vision
    * Model-based vision
    * Stereo, calibration, and geometry
    * Image processing techniques and methods
    * Object recognition
    * Texture, shape, and colour
    * Motion, flow and tracking
    * Video analysis
    * Segmentation and feature extraction

    * Vision for visualisation and graphics
    * Person, face, and gesture recognition
    * Document processing and recognition
    * Biomedical applications

BMVC2006 will be a single-track meeting with oral and poster
presentations.  The proceedings will be available to delegates at
the conference in hard copy and on CD and a selection of the best
papers will be invited to be published separately in a special issue 
of the journal Image and Vision Computing.

In addition to the contributed papers, BMVC 2006 will include
presentations by invited speakers (to be announced)
and a pre-conference tutorial (to be announced).
Delegates will be able to view poster presentations and see
demonstrations by both industrial exhibitors and researchers.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for paper submission: 12th April 2006
Notification of acceptance: 12th June 2006
Deadline for camera-ready electronic copy: 3rd July 2006

WORKSHOPS
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Proposals for one-day workshops to run on Friday Sept 8 are invited.
Please send requests to Bob Fisher (rbf@inf.ed.ac.uk) by April 1, 2006.



For further details please see the conference website at:
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/bmvc2006/

You can obtain a PDF flyer of the CFP at: 
	http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/cfp1_BMVC2006_v4.pdf