Welcome to Ottawa and to the Vision Interface 2001 conference. This year, three parallel conferences have joined together to provide participants with a large variety of complementary topics. The event AI/GI/VI stands for these joint conferences, namely: Artificial Intelligence, Graphics Interface and Vision Interface.

The success of the 2001 edition of VI is due to the dedicated work of many people. I would like to thank co-chairs Gerhard Roth and Fathallah Nouboud. In addition, many thanks to our Registration Chair, John Barron, the members of the Organizing Committee, and the members of the Technical Committee. A special thanks goes to Wade Holst for his very valuable efforts to construct the on-line registration software. In closing and on behalf of the organizers, we sincerely hope that this scientific event will greatly profit to all participants.
 
 

                                                            Steven S. Beauchemin
                                                            VI 2001 General Chair