KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Dr. Peter Robinson, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Dr. Ken Perlin, New York University, U.S.A.
Prof. André Gagalowicz, INRIA Rocquencourt,
France
TUTORIAL AND CASE-STUDY SESSIONS
Researchers, business consultants, hardware and software manufacturers
and business companies in general are invited to submit case studies,
regarding their own technology problems and solutions. For this
purpose, VISAPP will have a track for tutorials, case-study sessions
and company presentation sessions. The attendance to these sessions
is free for all the conference participants. All tutorials and case
studies should be submitted by email to the VISAPP secretariat.
EXHIBITION
The conference site will have an area for company stands, where
a number of companies will present themselves and their products.
Companies interested in presenting their products, showing documentation
about them or demonstrating some application, are invited to contact
the secretariat and make a reservation for a display area located
at the conference site. Due to the limited space available it is
recommended to make early reservations. Prices and available spaces
will be provided by the VISAPP secretariat.
VENUE
The conference will be held in Setubal, a town 50-km south of Lisboa,
the Portuguese capital. Setubal and its surroundings are a major
touristic place, in Portugal, where the visitor can find anything
from ancient historical areas, in Palmela, to pleasurable beaches
and modern golf courses, in Troia. Another interesting place in
Portugal - Algarve - is less than two hours away from the conference
site.
PROCEEDINGS AND BOOK PUBLICATION
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings,
under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support. A book
including a selection of the best conference papers will be edited
and published by Springer.
BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
An award will be given to the best paper presented by a student
(graduate, M.Sc or Ph.D). The organizing committee will decide,
based on the feedback provided by the program committee. To qualify
for the best student paper award, the student, besides being one
of the authors, must present the paper at the conference site.
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
Inquiries concerning hotel reservation and touristy aspects can
be directed to the VISAPP secretariat. A local specialized travel
agency will make all arrangements. Free transportation between a
number of hotels and the conference site will be provided by the
conference organization, during the conference days. Coffee breaks
and lunch meals will be provided at the conference site, for conference
participants.
SECRETARIAT CONTACTS
VISAPP Secretariat
Address: Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2º esq.
2910-595
Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
Email:
Web:
http://visapp.visigrapp.org
CONFERENCE CHAIR
Alpesh Ranchordas, E.S.T. Setúbal, Portugal
PROGRAM CHAIR
Helder J. Araújo, University of Coimbra, Portugal
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Henrik Aanæs, Technical University of Denmark ,
Denmark
Samer M. Abdallah, American University of Beirut,
Lebanon
Sergey Ablameyko, The Institute of Engineering
Cybernetics, Republic of Belarus
Rafeef Abugharbieh, University of British Columbia,
Canada
Peggy Agouris, University of Maine, U.S.A.
Selim Aksoy, Bilkent University, Turkey
Helder J. Araújo, University of Coimbra, Portugal
George Bebis, University of Nevada Reno, U.S.A.
Mohammed Bennamoun, School of Computer Science
& Software Engineering, Australia
Prabir Bhattacharya, Concordia University , Canada
Manuele Bicego, University of Sassari, Italy
Stephen A. Billings, University of Sheffield, U.K.
Jacques Blanc-Talon, DGA/MRIS, France
Isabelle Bloch, École Nationale Supérieure des
Télécommunications, France
Pierre Boulanger, University of Alberta, Canada
Alain Bretto, University of Caen, Normandie
Thomas Breuel, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Christopher Brown, University of Rochester, U.S.A.
Hans du Buf, University of Algarve, Portugal
Rob Byrd, Western Kentucky University, U.S.A.
Virginio Cantoni, Pavia University, Italy
Hocine Cherifi, Universite de Bourgogne, France
Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, U.S.A.
Chia-Yen Chen, The University of Auckland, New
Zealand
ShengYong Chen, Zhejiang University of Technology,
China
Chi-kit Ronald Chung, The Chinese University of
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
James J. Clark, McGill University, Canada
Isaac Cohen, University of Southern California,
U.S.A.
Fabio Cuzzolin , University of California, Los
Angeles , U.S.A.
E. Roy Davies, University of London, U.K.
Christian Debrunner, Colorado School of Mines ,
U.S.A.
Patrice Delmas, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Edward J. Delp, Purdue University, U.S.A.
Sven Dickinson, University of Toronto, Canada
John Dingliana, Trinity College Dublin , Ireland
Laurent Duval, Institut Francais du Petrole, France
Ahmed El-Gammal, University of New Jersey, U.S.A.
Moumen El-Melegy, Assiut University, Egypt
Ali Erol, University of Nevada, U.S.A.
Cheong Loong Fah, National University of Singapore,
Singapore
Aly A. Farag, University of Louisville, U.S.A.
Cornelia Fermüller, University of Maryland at College
Park, U.S.A.
Bob Fisher, University of Edinburgh, U.K.
Alejandro Frangi , Pompeu Fabra University , Spain
Sidharta Gautama, Ghent University , Belgium
Bernard Gosselin, Belgium
Michael A. Greenspan, Queen's University, Canada
Jiro Gyoba, Tohoku University, Japan
Henrik Haggren, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University, U.S.A.
Ghassan Hamarneh, Simon Fraser University, canada
Dan Witzner Hansen, IT University of Copenhagen
, Denmark
Allen R. Hanson, University of Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Xiangjian (Sean) He, University of Technology,
Australia
Christian Heipke, Universität Hannover, Germany
Thomas C. Henderson, University of Utah, U.S.A.
Ellen Hildreth, Wellesley College, U.S.A.
Radu Horaud, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France
Hsi-Chin Hsin, National Formosa University, Taiwan
Seth Hutchinson, Beckman Institute, University
of Illinois , U.S.A.
Luca Iocchi, Università di Roma ''La Sapienza'',
Italy
Michael R. M. Jenkin, York University, Canada
Xiaoyi Jiang, University of Muenster, Germany
Tianzi Jiang, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition
, China
Roberto CesarJunior, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, University of Houston, U.S.A.
George Kamberov, Stevens Institute of Technology
, U.S.A.
Gerda Kamberova, Hofstra University, U.S.A.
Esther Koller-Meier, Eidgenössische Technische
Hochschule, Switzerland
Ullrich Köthe, University of Hamburg, Germany
Constantine Kotropoulos, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece
Ivan Laptev, INRIA Rennes, France
Damian M. Lyons, Fordham University, U.S.A.
Ezio Malis, Inria, France
Kyoung Mu Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
Seong-Whan Lee, Korea University, Korea
Ales Leonardis, University of Ljubljana , Slovenia
Michael S. Lew, Leiden University, Netherlands
Baoxin Li , Arizona State University, U.S.A.
Ching-Chung Li, University of Pittsburg, U.S.A.
Peihua Li, Harbin, China
Jianming Liang, Siemens Medical Solutions Inc.,
U.S.A.
Yun-Ting Lin, ActiveEye, U.S.A.
Chan Kap Luk , Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
Roberto Manduchi, University of California, U.S.A.
Bo Markussen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Geovanni Martínez , University of Costa Rica, Costa
Rica
Steve Maybank , Birkbeck College , U.K.
Brendan McCane , University of Otago, New Zealand
Bruce H. McCormick, Texas A&M University, U.S.A.
Gerard Medioni, University of Southern California,
U.S.A.
J. P. Mellor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology,
U.S.A..
Bärbel Mertsching, University of Paderborn, Germany
Majid Mirmehdi, Bristol University , U.K.
Stefan Müller-Schneiders, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany
Vittorio Murino, University of Verona , Italy
Hammadi Nait-Charif, University of Dundee, Scotland
Shawn Newsam , Center for Applied Scientific Computing,
U.S.A.
Heinrich Niemann, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
, Germany
David Nister, University of Kentucky, U.S.A.
Mark Nixon, Southampton, U.K.
Kian Pakzad, University of Hannover, Germany
Yoh-Han Pao, Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A.
Arthur Pece, Heimdall Vision, Denmark
Petra Perner, Institute of Computer Vision and
Applied Computer Sciences, Germany
Ioannis Pitas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
, Greece
Filiberto Pla, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
Dan Popescu, Sydney University, Australia
Tony Pridmore, University of Nottingham, U.K.
David Pycock, The University of Birmingham, U.K.
Hong Qin, Stony Brook University, U.S.A.
Bogdan Raducano , Computer Vision Center , Spain
Eraldo Ribeiro, Florida Institute of Technology,
U.S.A.
Edward M. Riseman, University of Massachusetts,
U.S.A.
Antonio Roblles-Kelly, Autralian National University,
Australia
Gerald Schaefer, Nottingham Trent University, U.K.
Mubarak Shah, University of Central Florida, U.S.A.
Li Shen, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth,
U.S.A.
Franc Solina, University of Ljubljana , Slovenia
José Martínez Sotoca, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
Ioannis Stamos, The City University of New York,
U.S.A.
Chris Stauffer, Cambridge, U.K.
Peter Sturm, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France
Sriram Subramanian, University of Saskatchewan,
Canada
P. N. Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University
, Singapore
Yung-Nien Sun, National Cheng-Kung University,
Taiwan
Eric Sung, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Toshihisa Tanaka, Tokyo University of Agriculture
and Technology, Japan
Songyuan Tang, Beijing Institute of Technology,
China
Qi Tian, University of Texas at San Antonio, U.S.A..
Sinisa Todorovic, University of Illinois, U.S.A..
Godfried T. Toussaint, McGill University , Canada
John Konstantine Tsotsos, York University, Canada
Matthew Turk, University of California, Santa Barbara,
U.S.A.
Namrata Vaswani, Iowa State University , U.S.A.
Konstantinos Veropoulos, University of Nevada ,
U.S.A.
Alessandro Verri, Università di Genova, Italy
Ellen L. Walker, Hiram College, Puerto Rico
Andy Wallace, Heriot-Watt University , Scotland
Frank Wallhoff, Munich University of Technology,
Germany
Junxian Wang, University of Nevada, U.S.A.
Song Wang, University of South Carolina, U.S.A.
Yuan-Kai Wang, Fu Jen Catholic University , Taiwan
Yongmei Michelle Wang, University of Illinois,
U.S.A.
Michael Werman, The Hebrew University of JerU.S.A.lem,
Israel
Jonathan Wu , University of Windsor, Canada
Tao Xiang, University of London, U.K.
Yingen Xiong, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University, U.S.A.
Faguo Yang, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
June-Ho Yi, University of California, U.S.A.
John S. Zelek, University of Waterloo, Canada
Ying Zheng, Sheffield University, U.K.
Zhigang Zhu, City University of New York, U.S.A.
