1. Asian Federation of Computer Vision Societies (AFCV) Katsushi Ikeuchi

2. Motivation u No uniform societies support ACCVs u Each ACCV has different format of proc. u No office to sell all back numbers of previous ACCV proc.

3. Format u Form a loose federation of CV, IP and related societies in Asia u Example of CV & IP societies in Japan – SIG-CVIM in IPSJ (Current Chairman: Ikeuchi) –SIG-PRMU in IEICE (Current Chairman: Yachida)

4. Activities u Chairmen meeting at each ACCV –advice next ACCV –discuss cooperation among societies –fellowship (if any surplus from previous ACCV) u General meeting after each banquet of ACCV –decide important decisions u Permanent ACCV contact office –back number –a contact point of next ACCV

5. Officers u Chairman -- General Chairman of next ACCV u Vice-chairman -- Program Chairman of next ACCV u Secretary -- professor at the ACCV office

6. Committee u Advisory committee -- previous ACCV general chairs u Steering committee -- chairmen of all participating societies u By-law committee -- Chair: Ikeuchi u Award committee -- Chair: Fan u Publication Com -- Chair: Chin

7. Chairmen meeting At each ACCV u Advisory committee -- ex general chairs u Steering committee -- chairmen of the all societies that participate AFCV

8. Member u Members -- who attend the current ACCV u Term -- from the current ACCV through the next ACCV u Each member has one voting right at the general meeting

9. General meeting u All important decisions will be made at the ACCV general mtg (not at chairmen mtg) u ACCV general meeting will be held after the banquet of ACCV u all participants to the meeting have the voting right

10. Action items u Propose this at the general ACCV meeting, if we agree to form AFCV u To select officers at the ACCV meeting u To set up details –by-law, the office, award

11. Contact persons for AFCV u Japan: Ikeuchi ki@cvl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp u Korea: Kweon iskweon@kaist.ac.kr u Taiwan: Hung hung@iis.sinica.edu.tw u Mainland China: Tan tnt@nlpr.ia.ac.cn u Hong Kong ： Pong tcpong@cs.ust.hk u Singapore: Wang hw@ntu.edu.sg u India: Desai ubdesai@ee.iitb.ernet.in u Pakistan: Shah shah@cs.ucf.edu u Australia: Bab-Hadiashiar ali.bab-hadiashar@eng.monash.edu.au

12. Contact Office AFCV office c/o K. Ikeuchi Institute of Industrial Science The University of Tokyo 7-22-1 Roppongi Minato Tokyo Japan http://www.cvl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/afcv