may21-2004-tc-11-newsletter Dear TC-11 member, this newsletter contains two items. First, I would like to draw your attention to the Opinion Corner, where I would like to share with you some points of concern within the IAPR on the topic of quality assurance. Secondly, the usual list of news items can be found. Best regards, Lambert ======================================================================== - [Opinion Corner] FFT on conference-quality control in the near future The title FFT refers in this case, not to the Fast-Fourier Transform but to: Food For Thought. The upcoming conference season has stimulated a few thoughts among members of this community on a worrying topic: the value of conference publications in this day and age. Your opinions are highly valued. Please send them to me, I will gladly add them to the next issue of this newsletter. ==> http://www.ai.rug.nl/iapr/tc-11/newsletters/2004/opinion-qas-iapr.html - ICPR travel stipends. The IAPR ExCo received 102 applications for a travel stipend to attend ICPR. It is pleased to announce that after careful examination of all applications, it was decided to grant 43 stipends of 500 USD dollars each. - Proposals for ICPR'08 hosting. The ExCo reminds that all proposals for hosting ICPR'08 must be relayed as soon as possible to the Conference and Meetings Committee. The chair of this committee is Larry Spitz. His email address, and also guidelines for preparing a proposal for ICPR hosting, can be found on the IAPR web site www.iapr.org. The ExCo and the C&M committee want to stress that although it is important to name all the key persons in the proposed conference organization scheme, proposers may choose to include or not to include the name of track chairs at this stage. - Special Issue IJDAR Please check the Call for Papers for the Special Issue on 'Detection and Understanding of Tables and Forms for Document Processing Applications' for IJDAR (http://ijdar.cfar.umd.edu/special_issues/CFP-Special-Issue.html). - BNAIC 2004, 21 & 22 October 2004 The BNAIC 2004 will take place in Groningen, The Netherlands. For more information please see: http://www.ai.rug.nl/conf/bnaic2004/index.html Submission deadline June 1st. - IWCIA - Tenth International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis 1 - 3 December 2004, Auckland, New Zealand Sponsored by IAPR Submission deadline: 01 August 2004 More info: http://www.citr.auckland.ac.nz/~IWCIA04/ - ICVGIP 2004 - Fourth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing December 16 - 18, 2004, Kolkata, India Submission of manuscript: May 31, 2004. More information: http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/icvgip/ - INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIDISCIPLINARY IMAGE, VIDEO, AND AUDIO RETRIEVAL AND MINING Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada, October 25-26, 2004 Submission of manuscripts: 28 May 2004 More info: http://www.corimedia.org/workshop2004/ - Document Recognition and Retrieval XII - Part of the IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging 17-20 January 2005 - San Jose, CA, USA Deadline: 5 July 2004 Abstracts More info: http://www.electronicimaging.org/ - 2nd Summer school 'Cognitive Vision' funded by ECVision Activotel, Bonn, Germany - August, 16-20, 2004 http://www.ipb.uni-bonn.de/events/summerschool04/summerschool04.html - 2nd VIPS ADVANCED SCHOOL ON COMPUTER VISION, PATTERN RECOGNITION AND IMAGE PROCESSING June 7-10, 2004 - Verona, Italy More info: http://vips.sci.univr.it/html/VIPSschool2004_2.html - satellite workshops of MICCAI-2004 Rennes, France, September 30 2004 AMI-ARCS 2004 - International Workshop on Augmented Environments for Medical Imaging and Computer-aided Surgery Contact Infos: ami2004@loria.fr DiDaMIC-2004 - Distributed Databases and processing in Medical Image Computing Contact Infos: didamic_info@irisa.fr May 26 : Paper Submission Deadline - SIBGRAPI 2004 / SIACG 2004 17th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing II Ibero-American Symposium on Computer Graphics October 17-20 2004 - Curitiba, Parana, Brazil Submission deadline: May 16, 2004 More info: http://www.inf.ufpr.br/sibgrapi2004 - PRIA-7-2004: PATTERN RECOGNITION and IMAGE ANALYSIS: NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES St.-Petersburg, Russian Federation - October 18-23, 2004 More info: http://www.eltech.ru/pria2004 Submission deadline: 15 June 2004 - MIR 2004 - 6th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval October 15-16, 2004 - New York, NY, USA in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2004 More info: http://www.liacs.nl/~mir Submission deadline: July 5, 2004 - IWVR2004 - Third International Workshop on Virtual Rehabilitation Lausanne, Switzerland September 16 and 17, 2004 Submission deadline: 04 June 2004. More info: http://www.iwvr.org - VRSensors'04 - INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON REAL AND VIRTUAL SENSORS (In conjunction with IWVR2004) Lausanne, Switzerland September 16 and 17, 2004 Submission deadline: June 15, 2004. More info: http://vrlab.epfl.ch/Vrsensors04.html [end of newsletter]