Dear Net Manager,
Please, publish the following Call for Papers via your mailing list(s).
Thank you in advance.
Best regards
N. Kn=F6fel
(Secretary to Prof. Eckmiller)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Session on Visual System Models and Prostheses
at the
International Conference on Neural Networks ICNN'97
Westin Galleria Hotel Houston, Texas 9-12 Juni, 1997
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SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30 November, 1996
ORGANIZERS: Prof. Dr.-Ing. R. Eckmiller Prof. Dr. Shiro Usui
TOPICS AND RATIONALE:
The development of intelligent neuroprosthetic devices urgently needs stronger communication and cooperation between biomedical engineering, computer science, and neuroscience.
Our Special Session is intended to attract more experts into this goal-oriented field to combine modeling research with visual prosthetics research. The following material describes the goals and scope of the special session as well as details of ICNN'97 and instructions for author= s.
The visual system of higher vertebrates is the best studied part of the brain. In particular, numerous physicists, mathematicians, and engineers are developing models of the visual system and its functional modules bas= ed on neurobiological and psychophysical data.
This research forms a strong bridge between neuroscience and computer science.
The visual system is the best research object for the=20 - understanding of neurobiological information processing and - development of technical neural information processing systems.
Furthermore, significant efforts are being made to develop prosthetic devices for various types of blind human subjects. Such visual prostheses emphasize the coupling of learning neural systems to bypass=20 - the retina (retina implant) or - the retina plus lateral geniculate nucleus (visual cortex implant).
The proposed special session provides a high level forum for computationa= l neuroscientists, biomedical engineers, biophysicists, and neurobiologists to discuss the state-of-the-art in=20 - visual information processing especially from the computer science perspective and - compensation of functional deficits of the visual system with neural prostheses with implanted microcontacts.
INVITED SPEAKERS:=20
G. Dagnelie, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA) =20 tentative gislin@lions.med.jhu.edu Tel 001-410-550-6445 FAX 001-410-955-1829
R. Eckmiller, University of Bonn (FRG) confirmed eckmiller@nero.uni-bonn.de Tel xx49-228-734 422 FAX xx49-228-734-425
F.T.Hambrecht, NIH, Bethesda (USA) tentative fh2@cu.nih.gov Tel 001-496-5746 FAX 001-496-1501
R. Normann,University of Utah, Salt Lake City (USA) confirme= d normann@cc.utah.edu Tel 001-801-581-7645 FAX 001-801-585-5361
S. Usui, Toyohashi University of Technology (Japan) confirme= d usui@bpel.tutics.tut.ac.jp Tel xx81-532-46-7806 =20 FAX xx81-532-46-7806
F. Werblin, UC Berkeley (USA) confirmed werblin@mander.berkeley.edu Tel 001-510-642-7236 FAX 001-510-643-6791
F. Woergoetter, University of Bochum (FRG) confirmed worgott@neurop.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Tel xx49-234-700-4940 FAX xx49-234-709-4192
J. Wyatt, MIT, Cambridge (USA) tentative wyatt@rle-vlsi.mit.edu Tel 001-617-253-6718 FAX 001-617-258-7864
PAPER SUBMISSION:
Six copies (one original and five copies) of the paper must be submitted. Papers must be camera-ready on 8 1/2 by 11 white paper, one-column format in Times or similar font style, 10 points or larger with one inch margins on all four sides. Do not fold or staple the original camera-ready copy. Four pages are encouraged; however, the paper must not exceed six pages, including figures, tables, and references, and should be written in English. Submissions that do not adhere to the guidelines above will be returned unreviewed. =20
Centered at the top of the first page should be the complete title, autho= r name(s), and postal and electronic mailing addresses. In the accompanying letter, the following information must be included:=20
- Full Title of the Paper=20 - Technical Area (First and Second Choices) - Corresponding Author (Name, Postal and E-Mail Addresses, Telephone & FAX)=20
Your papers should be RECEIVED at the following address by 30 November 1996:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. R. Eckmiller University of Bonn Dept. Computer Science VI Neuroinformatics R=F6merstr. 164 D-53117 Bonn Germany Phone: ++49-228-73-4422
If you have already submitted a relevant paper in response to the origina= l ICNN '97 call for papers, please notify the ICNN '97 technical program coordinator (Prof. J. M. Keller, keller@ece.missouri.edu) that you would like to be considered for this session.
PAPER REVIEW:
The papers will undergo a review process similar to the other papers bein= g considered for ICNN '97. Accepted papers will also appear in the proceedings of the ICNN '97.
TIMETABLE:
Paper sumission: 30 November 1996 Review complete: 20 December 1996 Revised sumission: 1 February 1997
FEES FOR ICNN '97:
In Advance-IEEE/INNS Members: $375 In Advance-Nonmembers: $425 In Advance-Students: $110 At Conference-IEEE/INNS Members: $450 At Conference-Nonmembers: $550 At Conference-Students: $150
HOTELS:
The Westing Galleria will charge conference participants $110 per night. Other hotels in the Galleria area charge from $80 and up.
ICNN'97 is sponsored by: IEEE Neural Network Council (NNC) and International Neural Network Society (INNS).
URLs:
this CFP: http://wisdom.arl.psu.edu/People/akg/NNMonCS.html ICNN'97: http://www.eng.auburn.edu/department/ee/ICNN97/icnn.htm http://www.mindspring.com/~pci-inc/ICNN97/ http://wwweng.uwyo.edu/icnn97/ IEEE NNC: http://www.ieee.org/nnc/ INNS: http://cns-web.bu.edu/inns/
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Rolf Eckmiller, Bonn (FRG) and Shiro Usui, Toyohashi (Japan)=20 eckmiller@nero.uni-bonn.de usui@bpel.tutics.tut.ac.jp=20 FAX: xx49-228-734-425 FAX: xx81-532-46-7806