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aber.ac.uk>CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP ON CONCEPTUAL DESCRIPTIONS FROM IMAGES Fourth European Conference on Computer Vision Cambridge, UK 19th April 1996 An international workshop on `Conceptual Descriptions from Images' will be held at the University of Cambridge on April 19th, following ECCV'96. This activity is linked to the ECVNet working group of the same name ECVNet. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Mike Brady (Oxford, UK) Hilary Buxton (Sussex, UK) Tony Cohn (Leeds, UK) Peter Hall (Wellington, New Zealand) David Hogg (Leeds, UK) Jana Kosecka (Pennsylvania, US) Paul McKevitt (Sheffield, UK) Amitabha Mukerjee (Kanpur, India) Hans-Hellmut Nagel (Karlsruhe, Germany) Bernd Neumann (Hamburg, Germany) Patrick Olivier (Aberystwyth, UK) WORKSHOP ISSUES The workshop aims to stimulate collaborative research within the AI subfields of computer vision, natural language, and spatio-temporal reasoning, working towards the goal of deriving meaningful descriptions of scene content. Most current work in computer vision develops automated techniques that extract information from images without high-level knowledge of what is being seen or consideration of the high-level goals of intelligent visual agents. However, to deal with real-world visual tasks, it seems that contextual knowledge of some sort is required. The issues we want to address involve questioning what representation and reasoning is required for such tasks. In particular, for many visual application systems (for example, advanced visual surveillance, multimedia and geographic information systems, even automated driving) there is a general need to generate conceptual descriptions of objects and their behaviour from images. Papers should address this central theme. Research topics that address the issues of representing visual knowledge and processing images to obtain conceptual descriptions include: o Context-based vision. o Integration of vision and natural language. o Spatial and temporal reasoning in images. o Representation and control of visual behaviours. In addition to presenting original research, participants are asked to address the following questions: o How does your work draw upon, differ from, refine or extend existing computer vision, natural language, and AI approaches? What are the limitations and assumptions of your approach? o How should domain knowledge be represented? What is your underlying knowledge representation and reasoning formalism and what issues have motivated your choice? o What are the open questions? ATTENDANCE It is intended that between 30 and 50 people will attend the workshop. All workshop participants are expected to register for the main ECCV conference. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers must be a maximum of 30 pages. Title, abstract, figures and references must be included within this length limit. Four copies should be mailed to the address below. Double sided printing is encouraged. Electronic submission is also encouraged (self-contained LaTeX). Hilary Buxton School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences University of Sussex Falmer Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK E-mail: hilarybMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
phil-fak-3.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de>II CCCC HH HH LL '' 99999 7777777 II C C HH HH LL ' 99 99 7 77 II CC HH HH LL 99 99 77 II CC HHHHHHH LL 99999 77 II CC HH HH LL 99 77 II C C HH HH LL 9 99 77 II CCCC HH HH LLLLLL 9999 77 - FIRST CIRCULAR - The XIII International Conference on Historical Linguistics will be held at Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet of Duesseldorf, Germany 10 - 17 August 1997 Plenary speakers include: Henning Andersen (UCLA) Kate Burridge (Melbourne) Wallace Chafe (Santa Barbara) Konrad Ehlich (Muenchen) Marvin Herzog (Columbia) Dieter Kastovsky (Wien) Donka Minkova (UCLA) Marianne Mithun (Santa Barbara) David Olson (Toronto) John Rickford (Stanford) Suzanne Romaine (Oxford) Brigitte Schlieben-Lange (Tuebingen) Dan Slobin (Berkeley) -------------------------------------------- Papers are invited either for any topic in historical linguistics, or for one of the special topic areas: Media, written language, and language change Norms and change of (linguistic) norms in modern societies Markedness, naturalness, and the invisible hand American Indian languages: relationships and developments Universal and social factors in language contact The development of Yiddish as a contact language Linguistic prehistory and history in Eastern Europe One page abstracts may be submitted either by mail (one hard copy accompanied by an ASCII-file on a diskette) or, preferably, by email (ASCII-file only) so as to arrive no later than 1st October 1996 --- official airline: Lufthansa --- mail: Dieter Stein Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf Anglistik III Universitaetsstr. 1 D-40225 Duesseldorf Germany email: ICHL1997Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue