FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

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****        Second International Conference on        ****
****        Scale Space and Variational Methods       ****
****               in Computer Vision                 ****
****                 Voss, Norway                     ****
****             June 1 - June 5, 2009                ****
****    http://www.math.uio.no/conference/ssvm2009/   ****
****           email: ssvm-2009@math.uio.no           ****
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This international conference is a result of merging the Scale Space
conferences and the Variational Level Set Methods conference and is the
second in the series. The conference attempts to bring together two  
different
communities with joint research interests: the one on scale space
analysis and the one on variational, geometric and level set methods and
their applications in image interpretation and understanding. Such a
conference serves several purposes: International researchers and
students may be exposed to state-of-the-art research on mathematical,
physical and computational aspects of imaging, computer vision, graphics
and inverse problems with applications.

GENERAL CHAIR:
Xue-Cheng Tai, University of Bergen, Norway.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:
Alfred M. Bruckstein, Technion IIT, Israel
Tony F. Chan, University of California at LA, USA
Mads Nielsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Stanley Osher, University of California at LA, USA
Nikos Paragios, Ecole Centrale de Paris, France
Bart M. ter Haar Romeny, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Christoph Schnoerr, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Fiorella Sgalarri, University of Bologna, Italy
Joachim Weickert, Saarland University, Germany

CONFERENCE TOPICS:
This conference covers areas that include computer vision, image
processing and analysis, signal processing, mathematical imaging and
numerical analysis. Industrial applications related to medical imaging,
visualization, scientific computing and inverse problems are all suited
for this conference.

PROCEEDINGS
As for the first conference in the series, the proceedings will be
published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. All
papers will undergo a thorough refereeing process and the proceedings
will be available at the conference.

DEADLINES
Abstract submission...........   8th October  2008
Full paper submission.........	15th October  2008
Notification of acceptance....	15th January  2009
Deadline for final paper......	15th February 2009
Early registration............. 15th March    2009

CONFERENCE LOCATION
The conference will take place at Fleischer's Hotel in Voss, Norway.
Voss is a very beautiful town surrounded by mountains in a very quiet
and relaxing enviroment. It can be reached by train or bus, most easily
from Bergen, but also from Oslo.

MORE INFORMATION
Details on the conference proceedings, contributed lectures, and other
information about the conference, will be made available on the
conference website. Submissions for the conference will be through the
webpage. For inquiries, please use email: ssvm-2009@math.uio.no.

We look forward to seeing you in Voss, Norway, in June 2009.

ORGANIZERS
Knut-Andreas Lie, Marius Lysaker, Knut Morken and Xue-Cheng Tai