First International Conference on Scale-Space and Variational Methods in
Computer Vision.  Ischia, Italy, May 30- June 2, 2007

This international conference is a joint edition of the 6th Scale Space and the
4th VLSM and it will be a first attempt to bring together two different
communities with joint research interests, the one of scale space analysis and
the one of variational, geometric and level set methods and their applications
in image interpretation and understanding. Such a conference would serve
several purposes: international researchers and students would be exposed to
state-of-the-art research on mathematical, physical and computational aspects
of imaging, computer vision, graphics and inverse problems with applications.

TOPICS
Linear Scale-Space Theory, Nonlinear Diffusion, Morphological Image Processing,
Differential Geometry & Geometric Flows, PDE-Level Set, Langrangian &
Variational Methods, Statistical and Numerical Methods & Energy-minimization
Approaches

This conference deals with all aspects of these aspects, including
- theoretical foundations
- efficient numerical methods,
- applications in image and surface processing and computer vision
(image restoration, shape analysis, grouping, segmentation, motion, stereo,
registration)
- applications in other fields (biomedical applications, industrial inspection,
security).

IMPORTANT INFORMATIONS
It is planned to publish the proceedings in the Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science Series. Selected papers will appear in a special issue of the
International Journal of Computer Vision.
Prospective authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts of not more than 12
pages in Springer LNCS format by October 23rd, 2006.

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission:               October 16th, 2006
Full paper submission:             October 23rd, 2006
Notification of acceptance:        January 15th, 2007
Deadline for final paper:          February 15th, 2007
Conference:                        May 30 - June 2, 2007

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS and ORGANIZERS
Fiorella Sgallari      University of Bologna Italy
Almerico Murli         University of Naples, Italy
Nikos Paragios         Ecole Centrale de Paris, France

CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Alfred Bruckstein         Technion IIT, Israel
Bart ter Haar Romeny      Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
Guillermo Sapiro          University of Minnesota, USA
Joackim Weickert          Saarland University, Germany

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Luis Alvarez (University of Las Palmas, Spain )
Jonas August (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Benedicte Bascle (France Telecom R&D, France)
Bernhard Burgeth (Saarland University, Germany)
Vicent Caselles (University of Pompeu Fabra, Spain )
Tony Chan (University of Los Angeles, USA)
Yunmei Chen (University of Florida, USA)
Laurent Cohen (University of Paris - Dauphine,France)
Daniel Cremers (University of Bonn, Germany)
Francoise Dibos (CEREMADE, france)
Remco Duits (Eindhoven University of Technology,The Netherlands)
Maurizio Falcone  (University of Rome, Italy)
Michael Felsberg (Linkoeping University, Sweden)
Luc Florack (Eindhoven University of Technology,The Netherlands)
Nicola Fusco (Univeristy of Naples, Italy)
Lewis Griffin (L University College London,UK)
Frédéric Guichard (DxO, France)
Anders Heyden (Lund University, Sweden)
Atsushi Imiya (Chiba University, Japan)
Marie-Pierre Jolly (Siemens Corporate Research, USA)
Ioannis Kakadiaris (University of Houston, USA)
Renaud Keriven (Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees,Paris, France)
Ron Kimmel (Technion University, Israel)
Arjan Kuijper ( IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Petros Maragos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Etienne Mémin (IRISA / INRIA, France)
Dimitris Metaxas (Rutgers University, USA)
Fernand Meyer (Centre de Morphologie Mathématique Fontainebleau, France)
Karol Mikula (Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia)
Farzin Mokhtarian (University of Surrey, England)
Mads Nilsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Mila Nikolova (Ecole Normale Superiore de Cachan, Paris, France )
Ole Fogh Olsen ( IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Stanley Osher (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Emmanuel Prados (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Martin Rumpf (Univerisity of Bonn, Germany)
Otmar Scherzer (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Christoph Schnoerr (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Stefano Soatto (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Nir Sochen (University of Tel-Aviv, Israel)
Xue-Cheng Tai (University of Bergen, Norway)
Hugues Talbot (CMIS, Sydney, Australia)
Allen Tannenbaum (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Demetri Terzopoulos (University of Toronto, Canada)
Jean-Philippe Thiran (EPFL, Switzerland)
David Tschumperle  (INRIA, France)
Michael Unser (EPFL, Switzerland)
Baba C. Vemuri (University of Florida, USA)
Martin Welk (Saarland University, Germany)
James Williams (Siemens Corporate Research, USA)
Anthony Yezzi (Georgia Institute of Technology Florida, USA)
Hongkai Zhao (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Lilla Zollei (MAS, Ecole Centrale de Paris, France)
Stephen Zucker (Yale University, USA)

For more details, see    http://ssvm07.ciram.unibo.it/

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