Following the tradition of the Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA), tutorials on topics related to pattern recognition, image analysis and computer vision will be held on May 23. Proposals are invited for high quality tutorials.

Tutorials are usually half-day with the option of full day courses for wider scope topics. They aim to address a specific topic in image analysis and are supposed to provide a comprehensive overview of the topic. The audience is mostly graduate students. The topic should be of sufficient relevance with respect to the state of the art and the course should rather be educating than just a survey of techniques.

Here are links to Tutorials from past SCIAs:
2009: http://www.scia2009.org/page10.html
2007: http://www.scia2007.dk/tutorials.html
2005: http://cs.joensuu.fi/scia05/index.php?page=tut

Proposals should be emailed as pdf or plain text to the SCIA 2011 organzation committee(scia2011@maths.lth.se) before September 25, 2010. We will notify acceptances by October 1, 2010.

The proposal should include:
- Title
- Proposer’s name, address, email, and short bio-sketch
- A course description in syllabus like form
- Names of other lecturers and short bio-sketches
- Relevant publications of the proposer(s) with respect to the topic
- Length of course (half day/full day)
- Estimated attendance
- Whether there will be a web page about the short course including slides.

Following the tradition of the Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA), one or two workshops on topics related to pattern recognition, image analysis and computer vision will be held on May 27. Proposals are invited for topical high-quality international workshops.

The goal of the workshops is to provide an informal forum for researchers to discuss important research issues and challenges. We aim to build a program that complements the main conference and the tutorials. We encourage workshops to be focused on discussions and on the sharing of ideas, and are especially interested in workshops that promote new emergent research directions, as opposed to workshops that are merely a forum for the presentation of recent results.

Proposals should be emailed as pdf or plain text to the SCIA 2011 Workshops Chair, Jan Erik Solem (solem (AT) maths.lth.se), before 31 May 2010. We will notify acceptances by 15 June 2010.

The full call for proposals is available as pdf here.

We are pleased to welcome you all to Sweden’s southern coast in May 2011 for the 17th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis. Updates will be posted here as new information becomes available.