First Call for Papers


                    DAGM 2009 in Jena, Germany
                      Sept. 09th-11th, 2009

                submission deadline: March 30th, 2009

                    http://www.dagm2009.org


The German Association for Pattern Recognition (Deutsche Arbeits-
gemeinschaft fuer Mustererkennung, DAGM) invites authors and guests to
their 31st annual pattern recognition symposium. The meeting will take
place in the current "City of Science" Jena, Germany, on
September 9th-11th, 2009.

The organizers are looking forward to welcome both renowned experts
and newcomers in all areas of pattern recognition and image processing
to present and discuss recent progress and advances. The single-track
program will leave ample space for discussion; particular importance
will be given to the poster sessions to allow for intensive
interaction.

The proceedings will be published in a dedicated volume with
accompanying CD of the Springer Series on Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS). All manuscripts will be subject to a double-blind review
process. The submission deadline is


                      *** March 30th, 2009. ******


Best papers will receive DAGM awards with a total sum of Eur 4000. There
will probably be a contest sponsored by industry, see website for
updates. Finally DAGM invites nominations for the Olympus prize.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

   * Image Analysis and Computer Vision
       Mathematical Foundations
       Low-level Vision, Segmentation
       Biological Vision and Natural Scene Statistics
       Graphical Models and Probabilistic Inference
       Combinatorial Methods, Perceptual Grouping
       Shape Representation and Analysis
       Surface Reflectance Recovery and Modeling
       Motion, Matching and Registration
       Tracking and Video Analysis
       Multi-View Geometry and 3D Reconstruction
       Object (Class) Recognition and Detection
       Knowledge Representation and High-Level Vision
   * Machine Learning and Statistical Data Analysis
   * Speech Recognition and Language Understanding
   * Biomedical Data Analysis and Imaging, Biometrics
   * Applications of Pattern Recognition in Natural Sciences
   * Industrial and Technical Applications of Pattern Recognition and
     Image Processing

The confirmed invited speakers are up to now (see update on webpage):
   * Reinhard Klette (The University of Auckland, New Zeeland)
     http://citr.auckland.ac.nz/~rklette/
   * Kyros Kutulakos (University of Toronto, Canada)
     http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~kyros/


The members of the Program Committee are
 Beyerer J.            Universität Karlsruhe
 Bischof H.            TU Graz
 Buhmann J.            ETH Zürich
 Burkhardt H.          Universität Freiburg
 Cremers D.            Universität Bonn
 Denzler J.            Universität Jena
 Fink G.               Universität Dortmund
 Förstner W.           Universität Bonn
 Franke U.             Daimler-Chrysler
 Franz M.              FH Konstanz
 Gavrila D.            Daimler-Chrysler
 Hamprecht F. A.       Universität Heidelberg
 Hornegger J.          Universität Erlangen
 Jähne B.              Universität Heidelberg
 Jiang X.              Universität Münster
 Koch R.               Universität Kiel
 Linß G.               TU Ilmenau
 Mayer H.              Universität der Bundeswehr München
 Mester R.             Universität Frankfurt
 Michaelis B.          TU Magdeburg
 Mueller K.-R.         Universität Potsdam
 Prätzel-Wolters       Fraunhofer Institut
 Rätsch G.             MPI Tuebingen
 Rigoll G.             TU Muenchen
 Rosenhahn B.          MPI Saarbruecken
 Roth V.               Universität Basel
 Sagerer G.            Universität Bielefeld
 Schiele B.            Universität Darmstadt
 Schnörr C.            Universität Mannheim
 Schölkopf B.          MPI Tuebingen
 Sommer G.             Universität Kiel
 Vetter T.             Universität Basel
 Wahl F. M.            Universität Braunschweig
 Weickert J.           Universität des Saarlandes

As local organizers we would be happy to welcome you in Jena and are looking
forward to a stimulating meeting full of discussions.

Joachim Denzler
Gunther Notni