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                          V I P  '93

                  International Conference on 
                    Volume Image Processing
                                      
          University Hospital Utrecht, The Netherlands
                       2 - 4 June 1993


First announcement and Call for papers (abstracts)


AIM,  SCOPE  

VIP '93 is the fourth in a series of annual conferences  held  in
Utrecht,  The  Netherlands. The previous meetings were titled '3D
Image Processing and Visualization'. The main reason for starting 
the conference  series was to make  available  to the  scientific
community  the  results of the  national  priority  programme '3D
Computer Vision'. This programme, carried out by the Universities
of Utrecht, Delft, Amsterdam and the University Hospital Utrecht,
is subsidized by the Netherlands government through a SPIN  grant
and  by  a number of industrial companies (in 1992: Agfa-Gevaert,
Philips  Medical  Systems,  KEMA).   Since   the   programme   is
approaching  the  end  of  its  first (SPIN) phase, it was judged
timely to discuss the research results in a broader  context,  by
calling  for  papers from other groups working in the field of 3D
image processing. The scope of the conference was also broadened,
by  including image measurement and applications in biology among
the main themes, so  as  to  anticipate  on  the  expected  close
cooperation  with  the  groups  working  in  '3D Image Analysis',
another national priority SPIN-programme approaching the  end  of
its  first  phase.  The  new name of the conference was chosen to
reflect the changed scope and set-up.  VIP '93 will be  a  small-
scale  international conference in that a substantial fraction of
the contributions is expected to come  from  Netherlands  groups,
for  reasons  outlined  above.   Another  important aspect of the
meeting is  that  it  will  focus  on  contributions  from  young
scientists,  notably  graduate  students and early post-docs. The
organizers hope that VIP '93, like the previous conferences, will
be  a meeting place for people working in university research and
industrial R & D, and provide a platform  for  exchanging  recent
research results and discussing ideas for future work.


TOPICS

Papers on any topic in three-dimensional image processing in  its
broadest  sense  are  welcome.  The main themes of the conference
will be:

          (i)   image representation
          (ii)  multimodality matching
          (iii) segmentation, classification
          (iv)  volumetric visualization
          (v)   image measurement
          (vi)  applications (clinical, biological, industrial)


FORMAT

The conference will be a  three-day,  single  track  meeting  (no
parallel sessions), with oral presentations and a poster session.


CALENDAR

Indicate whether you prefer an oral presentation or a poster!

Abstracts (2 pages A4) due:  15 February 1993  
Notification of acceptance:  15 March 1993.
Updated abstracts due:       15 April 1993.
Applications to attend due:  1 May 1993.
Conference:                  2-4 June 1993.


PROCEEDINGS

The 2-page abstracts of accepted oral presentations  and  posters
will  appear in the conference proceedings.  At or directly after
the conference, a selection of approximately 10  papers  will  be
made,  for  inclusion  as  a  full paper in a special issue of an
international journal.


PARTICIPATION

Attendance will be limited to about 200 persons.


REGISTRATION FEE

Fees are expressed in Dutch guilders (note that 1 guilder is about $0.57):

                               Before / after 1 May 1993

	Full conference     DFL 450,- / 600,-             ($257 / $343)
	One day             DFL 225,- / 300,-             ($129 / $171)

Employees of universities and sponsoring companies:

	Full conference     DFL 300,- / 400,-             ($171 / $229)
	One day             DFL 150,- / 200,-             ($ 86 / $114)

(Graduate) students         DFL 100,- / 125,-             ($ 57 / $ 71)
                     
This fee includes reception, lunches, coffee and tea, and a copy of the 
Proceedings; the Social Event is not included.


HOTEL RESERVATIONS, SOCIAL EVENT

Information will be given in the second announcement.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE    Nicolas Ayache (INRIA-Sophia)
                     James S. Duncan (Yale University)
                     Bart M. ter Haar Romeny (Univ. Hospital Utrecht)
                     Olaf Kbler (ETH Zrich)
                     Stephen M. Pizer (UNC, Chapel Hill)
                     Richard A. Robb (Mayo Clinic, Rochester)
                     Arnold W.M. Smeulders (University of Amsterdam)
                     H. Siegfried Stiehl (University of Hamburg)
                     Paul L. Suetens (University of Leuven)
                     Andrew E. Todd-Pokropek (University College London)
                     Max A. Viergever (Utrecht University)
                     Ian T. Young (Delft University of Technology)
                     

LOCAL ORGANISATION   Margo Agterberg-Verwoerd
                     Sandra Boeijink-Spaanjaars
                     Bart ter Haar Romeny
                     Max Viergever
                     Koen Vincken


Address for  submission of abstracts,  applications to attend and
information:

                        Secretariat VIP '93
                         SCVR, AZU E 02.222
                           P.O. Box 85500
                          3508 GA  Utrecht
                          The Netherlands
                   Phone:  +31-30-507772/506695
                        Fax:  +31-30-513399
                      e-mail:  scvr@cv.ruu.nl