%\documentclass[landscape,a0b,final,a4resizeable]{a0poster}
\documentclass[portrait,a0b,final]{a0poster}
%\documentclass[portrait,a0b,final,a4resizeable]{a0poster}
%\documentclass[portrait,a0b,final]{a0poster}
%%% Option "a4resizeable" makes it possible to resize the
%   poster by the command: psresize -pa4 poster.ps poster-a4.ps
%   For final printing, please remove option "a4resizeable" !!

\usepackage{pstricks,pst-grad}

\usepackage{longtable} 
\usepackage{amsfonts} % maths fonts
\usepackage{graphicx} 
\usepackage{mathrsfs} 
\usepackage{tipa} % IPA fonts 
\usepackage{multicol} 
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{stmaryrd} %more symbols, I used it to get one for mapfrom
\usepackage{bm} % bold math
\usepackage{epsfig} 


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% Definition of some variables and colors
%\renewcommand{\rho}{\varrho}
%\renewcommand{\phi}{\varphi}
\setlength{\columnsep}{3cm}
\setlength{\columnseprule}{2mm}
\setlength{\parindent}{0.0cm}



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\newcommand{\background}[3]{
  \newrgbcolor{cgradbegin}{#1}
  \newrgbcolor{cgradend}{#2}
  \psframe[fillstyle=gradient,gradend=cgradend,
  gradbegin=cgradbegin,gradmidpoint=#3](0.,0.)(1.\textwidth,-1.\textheight)
}



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%%%                Poster                        %%%
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\newenvironment{poster}{
  \begin{center}
  \begin{minipage}[c]{0.98\textwidth}
}{
  \end{minipage} 
  \end{center}
}


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%%%                myfig                         %%%
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% \myfig - replacement for \figure
% necessary, since in multicol-environment 
% \figure won't work

\newcommand{\myfig}[3][0]{
\begin{center}
  \vspace{1.5cm}
  \includegraphics[width=#3\hsize,angle=#1]{#2}
  \nobreak\medskip
\end{center}}



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%%%                mycaption                     %%%
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% \mycaption - replacement for \caption
% necessary, since in multicol-environment \figure and
% therefore \caption won't work

%\newcounter{figure}
\setcounter{figure}{1}
\newcommand{\mycaption}[1]{
  \vspace{0.2cm}
  \begin{quote}
{{\sc Figure} \arabic{figure}: #1}
  \end{quote}
  \vspace{0.4cm}
  \stepcounter{figure}
}


\setcounter{table}{1}
\newcommand{\mytabcaption}[1]{
  \vspace{0.2cm}
  \begin{quote}
{{\sc Table} \arabic{table}: #1}
  \end{quote}
  \vspace{0.4cm}
  \stepcounter{table}
}
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%%%                pcolumn                       %%%
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\newenvironment{pcolumn}[1]{
  \begin{minipage}{#1\textwidth}
  \begin{center}
}{
  \end{center}
  \end{minipage}
}



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%%%                pbox                          %%%
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\newrgbcolor{lcolor}{0. 0. 0.80}
\newrgbcolor{gcolor1}{1. 1. 1.}
\newrgbcolor{gcolor2}{.80 .80 1.}

\newcommand{\pbox}[4]{
\psshadowbox[#3]{
\begin{minipage}[t][#2][t]{#1}
#4
\end{minipage}
}}
% reference heading
\renewcommand{\refname}{\normalsize \begin{center} REFERENCES \end{center}}

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%%% Begin of Document
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\begin{document}

\background{1. 1. 1.}{1. 1. 1.}{0.5}

\vspace*{2cm}


\newrgbcolor{lightblue}{0. 0. 0.80}
\newrgbcolor{white}{1. 1. 1.}
\newrgbcolor{whiteblue}{.80 .80 1.}


\begin{poster}


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%%% Header
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\begin{center}
\begin{pcolumn}{0.98}

\pbox{0.95\textwidth}{}{linewidth=2mm,framearc=0.3,linecolor=lightblue,fillstyle=gradient,gradangle=0,gradbegin=white,gradend=whiteblue,gradmidpoint=1.0,framesep=1em}{

%%% Unis coat of arms
\begin{minipage}[c][9cm][c]{0.1\textwidth}
  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=7cm,angle=0]{crest}
  \end{center}
\end{minipage}
%%% Titel
\begin{minipage}[c][9cm][c]{0.78\textwidth}
  \begin{center}
{\sc \Huge Your title}\\[10mm]
{\Large Authos\\[7.5mm]
    Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K.}
  \end{center}
\end{minipage}
%%% Logo
\begin{minipage}[c][9cm][c]{0.1\textwidth}
  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=10cm,angle=0]{logo}
  \end{center}
\end{minipage}

}
\end{pcolumn}
\end{center}

\vspace*{1.5cm}



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%%% Content
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\setlength\columnseprule{0pt} 
\begin{multicols}{3}

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%%% Abstract
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\begin{center}\pbox{0.8\columnwidth}{}{linewidth=2mm,framearc=0.1,linecolor=lightblue,fillstyle=gradient,gradangle=0,gradbegin=white,gradend=whiteblue,gradmidpoint=1.0,framesep=1em}{\begin{center}Abstract\end{center}}\end{center}
 \vspace{10cm}
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%%%Background
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\begin{center}\pbox{0.8\columnwidth}{}{linewidth=2mm,framearc=0.1,linecolor=lightblue,fillstyle=gradient,gradangle=0,gradbegin=white,gradend=whiteblue,gradmidpoint=1.0,framesep=1em}{\begin{center}\section{Background}\end{center}}\end{center}
\vspace{10cm}
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%%% section 1
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\begin{center}\pbox{0.8\columnwidth}{}{linewidth=2mm,framearc=0.1,linecolor=lightblue,fillstyle=gradient,gradangle=0,gradbegin=white,gradend=whiteblue,gradmidpoint=1.0,framesep=1em}{\begin{center}\section{section }\end{center}}\end{center}
\vspace{10cm}

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%%% section 2
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\begin{center}\pbox{0.8\columnwidth}{}{linewidth=2mm,framearc=0.1,linecolor=lightblue,fillstyle=gradient,gradangle=0,gradbegin=white,gradend=whiteblue,gradmidpoint=1.0,framesep=1em}{\begin{center}\section{section }\end{center}}\end{center}
\vspace{10cm}
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%%% section 3
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\begin{center}\pbox{0.8\columnwidth}{}{linewidth=2mm,framearc=0.1,linecolor=lightblue,fillstyle=gradient,gradangle=0,gradbegin=white,gradend=whiteblue,gradmidpoint=1.0,framesep=1em}{\begin{center}\section{section }\end{center}}\end{center}
\vspace{10cm}

\end{multicols}

\end{poster}

\end{document}

