IMVIP'97 - Irish Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference 1997

• Picture gallery of the conferences at /imvaipho/
• Copies of the proceedings - 2 volumes, approximately 500 pages - are available for £ 25. Make cheques out to "IMVIP/AI'97 - University of Ulster" and send to Ms Caroline McNutt, Faculty of Informatics, University of Ulster, Magee College, Londonderry BT48 7JL, Northern Ireland.
• Final panel session of the IMVIP'97 and AICS-97 Conferences. What you need is a sound card and RealPlayer v. 4.0.

• Trip to Bushmills and Giants Causeway on Saturday afternoon. [Last update: 15 Aug.]
• The Banquet on Friday evening will be held at the Trinity Hotel. [Last update: 19 Aug.]
• Provisional programme now available. [Last update: 19 Aug.]
• Click-and-See map of the city and surroundings, and of the Magee College campus. [Last update: 20 Aug.]
• There have been a few updates to the programme. [Last update: 1 Sept.]
• Poster panels are about A1 in size, i.e. will accommodate 8 A4-sized pages. [Last update: 3 Sept.]
• If you are registering at the desk, or paying for banquet, etc., it would be highly appreciated if you pay by Sterling GBP cheque or cash only. [3 Sept.]
• Streaming Video Broadcast: Most main sessions were available via a live RealVideo stream. The final panel session was recorded, and is currently available. [15 Sept.]

With support from: IAPR - International Association for Pattern Recognition; ECVnet - European Computer Vision Network of Excellence; IRTU - Industrial Research and Technology Unit of Northern Ireland; and OESI - Optical Engineering Society of Ireland, Cumann Innealtóireacht Optúla (Irish chapter of SPIE).

General Information

The conference has developed from a highly successful Machine Vision and Image Processing Colloquium staged at the Queen's University Belfast in March 1996. The technical programme will comprise tutorials, plenary lectures, an exhibition, and contributed papers, which will be presented in either lecture and poster format.

IMVIP '97 will take place at Magee College, Derry, Northern Ireland, from Wednesday 10th to Saturday 13th September 1997. See the travel information link towards the end of this page for a map, pictures of Magee College, currency coverters, and weather information. The conference, including the registration area and exhibits, will be in the MG building, the second of two long buildings directly city-side (south) of the car park. A conference dinner will be held on the Friday evening. Persons requiring accommodation may avail of the University student residences for bed and breakfast. A list of local hotels and B&Bs is also available.

Deadline (extended) for submission of abstracts: 29 June 1997. Further schedule information below.

Conference Themes Include

• Bio- and medical image processing
• Manufacturing and processing, industrial inspection, document processing
• Remote sensing and space applications
• Multimedia including WWW-based image processing
• Image analysis in security and surveillance, transport
• Video, television, telephony
• Software systems, algorithmics, methodological innovations
• Hardware platforms and architectures

Scientific Committee

Dr E Ambikairajah (Athlone), Prof D Bell (UU), Dr N Black (UUJ), Dr A Bouridane (QUB), Mr J Campbell (UU), Mr T Carew (TSI), Prof D Crookes (QUB), Dr K Dawson-Howe (TCD), Prof A Hashim (UU), Prof J Haslett (TCD), Dr P Horan (Hitachi), Prof C Hussey (UL), Dr J Keating (Maynooth), Dr J Kennedy (Captec), Mr G Lacy (TCD), Prof P McKevitt (Aalborg), Dr N McMillan (Carlow), Dr P Morrow (UU), Dr N Murphy (DCU), Prof F Murtagh (UU), Mr F Shevlin (TCD), Prof F O'Sullivan (UCC), Prof D Vernon (Maynooth), Dr P Whelan (DCU).

Local Organizing Committee

Keynote Presentations

• Prof James L Crowley, INPG, Grenoble, France. Coordinator, European Computer Vision Network of Excellence. "Computer Vision for Man-Machine Interaction".
• Prof Anil Jain, Department of Computer Science, Michigan State University. "Image and Video Databases".
• Dr Jean-Christophe Olivo, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Cell Biophysics Programme, Heidelberg. "Image processing applied to biological images".

Tutorials and Surveys

Submission of Papers and Schedule

Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of IMVIP '97, which will be available at the time of the conference; an eight-page limit will be imposed on the final papers.

Schedule

29 June 1997: Deadline for submission of abstracts.
16 July 1997: Notification of acceptance.
15 August 1997: Submission of camera-ready paper.
15 August 1997: Early registration.
10-13 September: Conference, including Tutorials and Sideline Meetings.
13 September afternoon: trip to Giant's Causeway and Bushmills (NOTE: this has been changed from Sunday afternoon).

Sideline Meetings

Saturday, 13 September 1997: Setting-up meeting of Irish affiliate organisation to IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition).

Exhibition

Vendor and publisher displays & demonstrations are encouraged.

Registration

Early registration, payable before Friday 15 August 1997: £ 120
Late registration: £ 150

Student registration: respectively £ 75 and £ 100 for early and late registration.

Reduction for OESI/SPIE members: £ 20 on either early or late registration.

Payment by cheque to "IMVIP/AI-97, University of Ulster". Note that no distinction is made in regard to the tandem conference AICS-97 - the registration fee entitles participation at both. For registration, please use the form below, sign, and return by regular mail. The registration fee includes conference materials, refreshments, and a copy of the proceedings.

Accommodation: nearby choices for hotel, bed and breakfast, and University student accommodation (price £ 19.00 per night), are all within a short walk of the Magee College campus. For University student accommodation, use the registration form.

To register, return the registration form.