BMVA
British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition

Colour in Computer Vision

One Day BMVA/Colour Group/IEE Technical Meeting to be held on 12th Jan 2000 at British Institute of Radiology, 36 Portland Place, London.

As part of the symposium we are also organising a poster session. The poster session is open to all. If you are interested in submitting a poster then please write a 1 page abstract (approx 200 words) and send it by Email to: graham@sys.uea.ac.uk. Submissions must arrive by 1st December 1999. All abstracts will be reviewed by the organising committee. Authors will be notified about acceptance by December 10th.

Chairpersons:    Dr. Graham Finlayson (Colour Group of GB)
                                 Dr. Tim Ellis (BMVA)
                                 Dr. Richard Harvey (IEE)

10:30 Registration and coffee

11:00 Introduction and Welcome

Session Chair: Dr. Graham Finlayson (Colour Group of GB)

11:10 Colour invariance: theory and practice, Dr. Theo Gevers (Uni. of Amsterdam)

12:00 Colour Calibration for computer vision, Dr. Steve Hordley (Uni. of East Anglia)

12:30 Lunch and Poster Session

Session Chair: Dr. Tim Ellis (BMVA)

13:45 Computational models of colour texture, Prof Maria Petrou (Uni. of Surrey)

14:15 Statistical Colour Models, Prof Bernard Buxton (UCL)

14:45 Natural and Un-natural Reflectance Spectra, Dr. Steve Westland (Uni of Derby)

15:15 Tea and Poster Session

Session Chair: Dr. Richard Harvey (IEE)

15:45 Colour-constant object recognition and image retrieval, Dr. George Matas (Uni of Surrey)

16:15 Colour profiling, Nikla Duffy (INRIA, France)

16:45 Summary and discussion

16:50 Closing remarks and finish

REGISTRATION FORM: 12th January 2000 Meeting

Please return this form to Richard Bowden, Dept Systems Engineering, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH or via email to richard.bowden@brunel.ac.uk. The meeting is free to members of the BMVA/Colour Group or IEE but a charge of £20 is payable by non-members. A sandwich lunch is bookable on the day. When registering please enclose a cheque for the appropriate amount made payable to "The British Machine Vision Association".

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The BMVA is an accredited provider for the IEE/IMechE Continuous Professional Development scheme: attendance at this meeting will earn delegates 3 CPD points