<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>*** Call for Papers and Announcement ***</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Wavelet Applications in Industrial Processing V (SA109)</DIV><DIV>Part of SPIE’s International Symposium on Optics East 2007</DIV><DIV>9-12 September 2007 • Seaport World Trade Center • Boston, MA, USA</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>--- Abstract Due Date Deadline prolongation: 4 March 2007 ---</DIV><DIV>--- Manuscript Due Date: 13 August 2007 ---</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Web site</DIV><DIV><A href="http://spie.org/Conferences/Calls/07/oe/submitAbstract/index.cfm?fuseaction=SA109">http://spie.org/Conferences/Calls/07/oe/submitAbstract/index.cfm?fuseaction=SA109</A></DIV><DIV>ABSTRACT TEXT Approximately 500 words.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Conference Chairs: Frédéric Truchetet, Univ. de Bourgogne (France); Olivier Laligant, Univ. de Bourgogne (France)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Program Committee: Patrice Abry, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France); Radu V. Balan, Siemens Corporate Research; Atilla M. Baskurt, Univ. Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (France); Amel Benazza-Benyahia, Ecole Supérieure des Communications de Tunis (Tunisia); Albert Bijaoui, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (France); Seiji Hata, Kagawa Univ. (Japan); Henk J. A. M. Heijmans, Ctr. for Mathematics and Computer Science (Netherlands); William S. Hortos, Associates in Communication Engineering Research and Technology; Jacques Lewalle, Syracuse Univ.; Wilfried R. Philips, Univ. Gent (Belgium); Alexandra Pizurica, Univ. Gent (Belgium); Guoping Qiu, The Univ. of Nottingham (United Kingdom); Hamed Sari-Sarraf, Texas Tech Univ.; Peter Schelkens, Vrije Univ. Brussel (Belgium); Paul Scheunders, Univ. Antwerpen (Belgium); Kenneth W. Tobin, Jr., Oak Ridge National Lab.; Günther K. G. Wernicke, Humboldt-Univ. zu Berlin (Germany); Gerald Zauner, Fachhochschule Wels (Austria)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The wavelet transform, multiresolution analysis, and other space-frequency or space-scale approaches are now considered standard tools by researchers in image and signal processing. Promising practical results in machine vision and sensors for industrial applications and non destructive testing have been obtained, and a lot of ideas can be applied to industrial imaging projects.</DIV><DIV>This conference is intended to bring together practitioners, researchers, and technologists in machine vision, sensors, non destructive testing, signal and image processing to share recent developments in wavelet and multiresolution approaches. Papers emphasizing fundamental methods that are widely applicable to industrial inspection and other industrial applications are especially welcome.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Papers are solicited but not limited to the following areas:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>o New trends in wavelet and multiresolution approach, frame and overcomplete representations, Gabor transform, space-scale and space-frequency analysis, multiwavelets, directional wavelets, lifting scheme for:</DIV><DIV>- sensors</DIV><DIV>- signal and image denoising, enhancement, segmentation, image deblurring</DIV><DIV>- texture analysis</DIV><DIV>- pattern recognition</DIV><DIV>- shape recognition</DIV><DIV>- 3D surface analysis, characterization, compression</DIV><DIV>- acoustical signal processing</DIV><DIV>- stochastic signal analysis</DIV><DIV>- seismic data analysis</DIV><DIV>- real-time implementation </DIV><DIV>- image compression</DIV><DIV>- hardware, wavelet chips.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>o Applications:</DIV><DIV>- machine vision</DIV><DIV>- aspect inspection</DIV><DIV>- character recognition</DIV><DIV>- speech enhancement</DIV><DIV>- robot vision </DIV><DIV>- image databases</DIV><DIV>- image indexing or retrieval</DIV><DIV>- data hiding</DIV><DIV>- image watermarking</DIV><DIV>- non destructive evaluation</DIV><DIV>- metrology</DIV><DIV>- real-time inspection. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>o Applications in microelectronics manufacturing, web and paper products, glass, plastic, steel, inspection, power production, chemical process, food and agriculture, pharmaceuticals, petroleum industry.</DIV><DIV>All submissions will be peer reviewed. Please note that abstracts must be at least 500 words in length in order to receive full consideration.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV>! Abstract Due Date Deadline prolongation: 4 March 2007 !</DIV><DIV>! Manuscript Due Date: 13 August 2007 !</DIV><DIV>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>------------- Submission of Abstracts for Optics East 2007 Symposium ------------</DIV><DIV>Abstract Due Date Deadline prolongation: 4 March 2007 - Manuscript Due Date: 13 August 2007</DIV><DIV>Abstracts, if accepted, will be distributed at the meeting.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>* IMPORTANT! </DIV><DIV>- Submissions imply the intent of at least one author to register, attend the symposium, present the paper (either orally or in poster format), and submit a full-length manuscript for publication in the conference Proceedings.</DIV><DIV>- By submitting your abstract, you warrant that all clearances and permissions have been obtained, and authorize SPIE to circulate your abstract to conference committee members for review and selection purposes and if it is accepted, to publish your abstract in conference announcements and publicity.</DIV><DIV>- All authors (including invited or solicited speakers), program committee members, and session chairs are responsible for registering and paying the reduced author, session chair, program committee registration fee. (Current SPIE Members receive a discount on the registration fee.)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>* Instructions for Submitting Abstracts via Web</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- You are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to submit abstracts using the “submit an abstract” link at:</DIV><DIV><A href="http://spie.org/events/oe">http://spie.org/events/oe</A></DIV><DIV>- Submitting directly on the Web ensures that your abstract will be immediately accessible by the conference chair for review through MySPIE, SPIE’s author/chair web site. </DIV><DIV>- Please note! When submitting your abstract you must provide contact information for all authors, summarize your paper, and identify the contact author who will receive correspondence about the submission and who must submit the manuscript and all revisions. Please have this information available before you</DIV><DIV>begin the submission process.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- First-time users of MySPIE can create a new account by clicking on the create new account link. You can simplify account creation by using your SPIE ID# which is found on SPIE membership cards or the label of any SPIE mailing.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- If you do not have web access, you may E-MAIL each abstract separately to: <A href="mailto:abstracts@spie.org">abstracts@spie.org</A> in ASCII text (not encoded) format. There will be a time delay for abstracts submitted via e-mail as they will not be immediately processed for chair review.</DIV><DIV>IMPORTANT! To ensure proper processing of your abstract, the SUBJECT line must include only:</DIV><DIV>SUBJECT: SA109, TRUCHETET, LALIGANT</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- Your abstract submission must include all of the following:</DIV><DIV>1. PAPER TITLE</DIV><DIV>2. AUTHORS (principal author first) For each author: </DIV><DIV> o First (given) Name (initials not acceptable)</DIV><DIV> o Last (family) Name</DIV><DIV> o Affiliation</DIV><DIV> o Mailing Address</DIV><DIV> o Telephone Number</DIV><DIV> o Fax Number</DIV><DIV> o Email Address</DIV><DIV>3. PRESENTATION PREFERENCE "Oral Presentation" or "Poster Presentation." </DIV><DIV>4. PRINCIPAL AUTHOR’S BIOGRAPHY Approximately 50 words.</DIV><DIV>5. ABSTRACT TEXT Approximately 500 words.</DIV><DIV> Accepted abstracts for this conference will be included in the abstract CD-ROM which will be available at the meeting. 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