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Message from <strong>the</strong> Conference ChairsIt is our great pleasure to welcome all ofyou to <strong>the</strong> IAPR 2005Conference onMach<strong>in</strong>eVision Applications (IAPR <strong>MVA</strong>2005). This workshop is co-sponsored by <strong>MVA</strong>Conference Committee, IAPR TC-8, and National Institute ofAdvanced IndustrialScience andTechnology (AIST).This is <strong>the</strong> n<strong>in</strong>th conference s<strong>in</strong>ce <strong>the</strong> first one was held<strong>in</strong>Tokyo <strong>in</strong>1988.W e holdthisworkshop <strong>in</strong>Tsukuba Science City. The city, with beautiful Mt.Tsukuba to <strong>the</strong> north,is well knownas <strong>the</strong> locationofTsukuba Science Expo '85.It currently functions as an<strong>in</strong>ternationally-known center ofscience and technology;both <strong>the</strong> government andprivate firms cont<strong>in</strong>ue to establish new R & D centers andeducational <strong>in</strong>stitutes.Recently <strong>the</strong> area ofvision applications has been grow<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> factory automation,medical diagnosis, security, <strong>in</strong>telligent transport system, geographic <strong>in</strong>formationsystem,humancomputer <strong>in</strong>teraction, andwearable comput<strong>in</strong>g. Then, we have receivedmorethan200extendedabstracts from 25countries <strong>in</strong><strong>the</strong> world.Among <strong>the</strong>m, 43and102papers have beenselectedfor oral andposter presentations, respectively.Unfortunately,however, some excellent papers have not been accepted due to <strong>the</strong> limitation ofpresentationslots. Inadditionto <strong>the</strong> acceptedpapers, three dist<strong>in</strong>guishedresearchershave been<strong>in</strong>vitedto give <strong>the</strong>ir fruitful presentations. W e thankthose three speakers:Prof.Nobuyuki Otsu, Prof.Giulio Sand<strong>in</strong>i, andProf.AlexW aibel, for accept<strong>in</strong>g our<strong>in</strong>vitations. W e have also selected three papers from those presented <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> 1994workshop, which is most <strong>in</strong>fluential to <strong>the</strong> Mach<strong>in</strong>e Visionresearch field<strong>in</strong>this decade.Organiz<strong>in</strong>g a workshop is a challeng<strong>in</strong>g and<strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>g job.W e wouldlike to expressour gratitude to <strong>the</strong> members of<strong>the</strong> <strong>MVA</strong> Organiz<strong>in</strong>g Committee who have done such awonderful job oforganiz<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> <strong>MVA</strong> 2005 workshop so successfully. Lastly, weexpress our hearty gratitude to all participants, andwe hope that this workshop will bean<strong>in</strong>formative andmemorable one to all ofyou.Mikio TakagiCo-Chair, <strong>MVA</strong>2005Shibaura Institute ofTechnologyKatsuhiko SakaueCo-Chair, <strong>MVA</strong>2005AISTYosh<strong>in</strong>ori KunoProgram Co-Chair,<strong>MVA</strong>2005Saitama UniversityInSo KweonProgram Co-Chair,<strong>MVA</strong>2005KAIST