Call For Paper: VIS2003

                           Call For Papers
The 6th Internatinoal Conference on VISual Information Systems (VIS'2003)
                    Florida International University
                          Miami, Florida, USA
                        September 24 -- 26, 2003                                
                

Following the successes of the previous International Conferences of VISual 
Information System which had been held in Melbourne, San Diego, Amsterdam, 
Leon and Taiwan, the 6th International Conference on VISual information 
systems is a particularly special event in that it will be held in conjunction 
with the 9th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, 
DMS'03, at Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA.

The synergy of the two closely related research communities of distributed 
multimedia computing and visual information systems is expected to generate 
exciting discussions and lively exchanges that will lead to new paradigms 
and approaches in the respective fields.

Conference Web-site:
http://icg.cityu.edu.hk/UserfulLinks/VIS2003/VIS2003.htm

Related Topics:
The conference will include, but is not restricted to, the following topics:    
                                                        
        Content-based indexing, search and retrieval
        Semantic features and semantic-based retrieval
        Benchmarking
        2D and 3D graphical visual data retrieval
        Relevance feedback approaches
        Image and video databases
        Visual data modeling
        Visual data-mining
        Visual information system architectures
        Visual query browsers
        Feature (invariant) retrieval
        Picture representation languages
        Query models and languages
        Optimization of pictorial queries
        Gestural queries and visual queries
        Compression and image content
        Visualizing pictorial and non-pictorial information
        Hypermedia of picture and text
        Parallel processing in visual information systems
        Image crawling the web
        Picture book browsing
        Delivery of visual information
        Fusion of pictorial and non-pictorial information
        Visual information handling in e-learning
        Application areas of visual information systems
        Interactive segmentation  

Steering Committee of the VISual Information Systems conference series:
        S K Chang, University of Pittsburgh, USA
        Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy
        Horace Ip, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
        Ramesh Jain, University of California at San Diego, USA
        Tosiyasu Kunii, University of Hosei, Japan
        Robert Laurini, Claude Bernard University of Lyon, France
        Clement Leung, Victoria University of Technology, Australia
        Arnold Smeulders, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 
Program Chair: Horace H S Ip, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
 
Program Committee:
        Josef Bigun
        S. K. Chang 
        Shih Fu Chang  
        Kent K. T. Cheung 
        Tat-seng Chua
        David Forsyth
        Alberto Del Bimbo
        Borko Fuhrt
        Theo Gevers
        William Grosky
        Horace Ip
        Ramesh Jain
        Erland Jungert
        Irwin King 
        T. Kunii
        Inald Lagendijk
        Robert Laurini
        Clement Leung
        Michael Lew
        Paul Lewis
        Yanxi Liu
        Jinhua Ma
        Mario Nascimento
        Kingsley Nwosu
        Stelios Orphanoudakis
        Fernando Pereira 
        Masao Sakauchi
        Hanan Samet
        Simone Santini
        Raimondo Schettini
        Timothy Shih
        Arnold Smeulders
        Hemant Tagare
        H Lilian Tang 
        Marcel Worring
        Jian Kang Wu

Important Dates:
Technical Papers due:                                                   March 
1, 2003
Notification of paper acceptance:                               June 1, 2003
Final version of papers due:                                    July 1, 2003
Conference Date:                                                                
September 24 -- 26, 2003

Paper Submission:
Paper must be written in English. Please send four copies of the complete 
manuscript with a 200-word abstract and no more than 8 pages of IEEE double
column text (include figures and references) to:
 
        Prof. Horace H S Ip
        Department of Computer Science
        City University of Hong Kong
        Kowloon,
        Hong Kong
        Email: vis2003-Lv77qCvetoqYwlIiWXL0Uw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 
Alternatively, electronic submissions are encouraged. Send a copy of your
paper in one of the following file formats to the 
vis2003-Lv77qCvetoqYwlIiWXL0Uw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Postscript, PDF, MS Word                                                        
                                                                        

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