Sponsored by: EURASIP IEEE Region 8 IEEE CAS & SP Society Croatia Section Chapter IEEE Computer Society Croatia Section Chapter University of Zagreb Chair, Image Processing: Sven Loncaric University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia e-mail: sven.loncaric@fer.hr Chair, Signal Processing: Hrvoje Babic University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia e-mail: hrvoje.babic@fer.hr Program Committee: N. Ayache, France H. Babic, Croatia A. del Bimbo, Italy I. Bloch, France G. Borgefors, Sweden J.-L. Coatrieux, France A. P. Dhawan, USA J. Duncan, USA B. Jeren, Croatia J. Kittler, United Kingdom W. Kropatsch, Austria A. Kuba, Hungary M. Kunt, Swiss F. Leberl, Austria A. Leonardis, Slovenia S. Loncaric, Croatia W. Mecklenbräuker, Austria S. K. Mitra, USA H. Niemann, Germany M. Petrou, United Kingdom A. Pinz, Austria I. Pitas, Greece S. Ribaric, Croatia R. A. Robb, USA V. Roberto, Italy A. Santos, Spain T. Saramäki, Finland G. Sicuranza, Italy F. Solina, Slovenia M. Sonka, USA S. Theodoridis, Greece A. Todd-Pokropek, UK J. Udupa, USA A. Uhl, Austria M. Vannier, USA M. Viergever, Netherlands Call for Papers 2nd IEEE Region 8-EURASIP Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis ISPA'01 June 19-21, 2001, Pula, Croatia in conjunction with 23rd Int’l Conf. ITI'01 Int'l Workshop on Spectral Methods and Multirate Signal Processing 2001 http://www.isispa.org ISPA'01 is sponsored by EURASIP, IEEE Region 8, CAS & SP Society Chapters, and Computer Society Chapter of the IEEE Croatia Section, and by University of Zagreb. The scientific program of the symposium will consist of lectures presented by invited speakers and contributed papers. The aim of the symposium is to foster interaction of researchers and exchange of new ideas. Topics of interest Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • • • • • • • • • • • • image processing computer and machine vision medical imaging image and video coding image formation pattern recognition knowledge-based vision visualization techniques multimedia content-based image retrieval image scanning and printing applications • • • • • • • • • • • • digital filter design and structures analog SP and circuits multirate filtering and wavelets adaptive signal processing spectral analysis blind separation of signals radar and sonar signal processing speech coding and processing DSP in communications speech analysis and synthesis array signal processing architectures and software Invited speakers Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy Arild Lacroix, University of Frankfurt, Germany Sanjit K. Mitra, University of California Santa Barbara, USA Rudolf Rabenstein, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Andreas Uhl, University of Salzburg, Austria Special sessions Special sessions will be organized on the following topics: Machine Vision; Medical Image Analysis; Multimedia Content Protection; Nonlinear Image Processing; Telemedicine; Unsupervised Adaptive Filtering; and Wavelets, Filter Banks, and Their Applications. Please see ISPA web site for respective Calls for Papers. Instructions to authors Final (camera -ready) papers should not exc eed 6 A4 pages. Detailed instructions and templates for electronic submission are available on ISPA web site. All papers will be peer-reviewed. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings. Important dates Final (camera-ready) papers: April 1, 2001 Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2001 Symposium registration: May 31, 2001 Venue The symposium will be held in a 3000-years-old town of Pula which is located on the penisula of Istria in the northwest part of Adriatic coast. Istria is a popular Mediterranean resort with many attractive tourist destinations.