Call for Papers

Infotech Oulu Workshop on Texture Analysis in Machine Vision

An international workshop on Texture Analysis in Machine Vision will be arranged in Oulu, Finland, on June 14-15, 1999. Oulu is a world-famous high-technology city in North Finland, situated not far from the Arctic Circle.

Texture analysis is an important generic research area of machine vision. The areas of application include industrial surface inspection, biomedical image analysis, analysis of aerial or satellite images, document analysis, content-based image retrieval, and model-based image coding. Even though there are numerous potential applications, there are only a limited number of successful exploitations of texture so far.

The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for presenting recent research results and for discussing how to make progress in order to increase the usefulness of texture in practical applications. The program of the workshop includes invited presentations by leading experts, contributed papers describing recent progress in this field, and a panel on future research needs. The extended summaries presented in the workshop proceedings are planned to be extended to full papers and edited in a book or a special issue of a journal that will be offered to international publishers.

Invited speakers:

Prof. Anil K. Jain

Texture Analysis of Fingerprint Images

Prof. Rama Chellappa

Texture Analysis: Promises, Accomplishments and Disappointments

Program Committee:

Prof. Matti Pietikäinen, Chairman	Prof. Olli Silven
Prof. Erkki Oja	Dr. Kimmo Valkealahti
Prof. Jussi Parkkinen	Prof. Ari Visa
Prof. Juha Röning

Organizing Committee:

Dr. Timo Ojala, Chairman	Hannu Kauppinen
Satu Heikkilä	Minna Rautio

Timetable:

Call for papers:	November 1998
Deadline for extended summary (> 1000 words):	March 1, 1999
Notification of acceptance:	April 10, 1999
Deadline for camera-ready copy:	May 20, 1999

Authors are invited to submit four copies of an extended summary of at least 1000 words to the chairman of the workshop:

Professor Matti Pietikäinen	Email: mkp@ee.oulu.fi
Dept. of Electrical Engineering	Phone: +358 8 553 2782
University of Oulu	Fax: +358 8 553 2612
P.O. Box 4500
FIN-90401 OULU, Finland

Guidelines for authors

Guidelines for authors available in PDF format and in postscript format.

Workshop Program

Final program

Registration form

Registration form available in PDF format, postscript format and text file. Note! Early registration before May 10.

General information

Information about location, accommodation, presentations etc.

Some financial support for the foreign participants presenting a paper in the workshop is available on request, covering accommodation expenses and the participation fee.

Workshop website: http://www.ee.oulu.fi/mvmp/texture99/

Post-workshop info

Photos of the speakers