In conjunction with the first IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision , to be held June 26 in Santa Barbara, we are pleased to announce the

Special Issue of

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

on

Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision

Guest Editors: Kim L. Boyer and Sudeep Sarkar

THEME

As recognized by the Gestalt school, the importance of perceptual organization (PO) in human vision cannot be overestimated; it imparts both efficiency and robustness to the visual process. Since early demonstrations in the 1980s underscored its usefulness in object recognition, the computer vision community has seen various applications of PO in artificial vision systems such as in stereo matching, model indexing, contour completion, figure-ground segmentation, change detection, and more. Indeed, it can be argued that a reasonable computational model of perception can be built around the notion of repeated detection and classification of organized structure. PO represents much of the often overlooked intermediate level processing in computer vision systems. So, despite these observations, the full potential of PO in artificial vision systems is yet to be realized.

While the Special Issue is being planned to coordinate with the Workshop, the Guest Editors invite submissions from anyone working in the broad area of perceptual organization in computer vision. Topics on which submissions would be welcomed include, but are by no means limited to:

Send six copies of your manuscript (marked CVIU Special Issue) by October 30, 1998 to the following address. Please refer to the Author Guidelines. for details regarding format.

Sudeep Sarkar 
Computer Science and Engineering 
4202 E Fowler Ave., ENB 118 
University of South Florida; 
Tampa, FL 33620, USA;
Phone: 813-974-2113 
email: sarkar@csee.usf.edu 


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Deadline for submission of manuscripts:  October 30, 1998 
First reviews back to the authors:  March 15, 1999
Revised manuscripts due:  April 30, 1999
Second reviews (if required):  June 1, 1999
Publication date:  October 1999.

Sudeep Sarkar

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