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VISION-LIST Digest 1990 12 11
Vision-List Digest Tue Dec 11 10:30:41 PDT 90
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Today's Topics:
Gaussian Blurring
Autofocus Microscope
Devices for aerial rangefinding
Aerial Photographs
Preliminary CFP: Conference - ICARCV 92
Consciousness & Science Discussion Group/DEC.14 MEETING
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Date: Mon, 3 Dec 90 22:59:11 CST
From: keith@vision.ee.utexas.edu (Keith Bartels)
Subject: Gaussian Blurring
Does anyone have any reference or information on the removal
of Gaussian blur from images? I am specifically interested in blur
that is the result of a diffusion process, but anything on Gaussian
blur would be useful.
Thanks, Keith B.
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Date: Sat, 1 Dec 90 14:17:48 EST
From: frankhua@bart.ads.com (Frank X.J HUANG)
Subject: Autofocus Microscope
We do need some kind of _AutoFocus_ microscope for the upcoming project.
We don't want to spend most of the time on focusing when moving from one
object(probably cell) to another. Does anybody know which company has this
kind of products. I would like to have more detailed information like
company name, price, focusing time, resolution, etc.
Thanks a lot.
| E-mail: || Frank X.J. Huang |
| frankhua@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca || School of Computer Science |
| Tel#: || McGill University |
| Office:(514)398-7086 || Montreal, Canada |
| Home :(514)284-5479 || H3A 2A7 |
| Fax: (514)398-3883 || |
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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 90 18:57:07 CST
From: rraby1@ub.d.umn.edu (Richard E. Raby)
Subject: Devices for aerial rangefinding
I have recently begun a project that involves capturing video images of
arbitrary landscapes from an airplane for input to a Geographic
Information System (GIS). We have the hardware to grab single frames of
video and digitize them in raster form, but what we really need is an
inexpensive, yet accurate rangefinder (RADAR) to indicate our position
above the lanscape. This device should be accurate to within 10 meters
and cost no more than $10,000. It should also be capable of producing a
digital output (I'd settle for analog) that can be inputted to an IBM PC
compatible computer. If anyone knows of such a device and what
company makes it, please conact me directly at rraby1@ub.d.umn.edu.
Thanks in advance,
- Richard Raby
NRGIS CWE NRRI UMD rraby1@ub.d.umn.edu
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Date: 1 Dec 90 18:36:10 -0600
From: cornell@vax1.mankato.msus.edu
Subject: Aerial Photographs
Organization: Mankato State University
I would like to make contact with individuals who have some experience in
working with low-level (10,000 feet) black and white infrared photographs in
relationship to object identification.
Lee Cornell
Dept of Computer Science
Box 225
Mankato State University
Mankato, MN 56002-8400
e-mail: CORNELL@MSUS1.BITNET
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Date: 2 December 90, 09:22:19 UPM
From: FACC005@SAUPM00.BITNET
Subject: Preliminary CFP: Conference - ICARCV 92
SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTOMATION,
ROBOTICS AND COMPUTER VISION (ICARCV '92)
PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
Organised by Nanyang Technological Institute and
Institution of Engineering, Singapore. Cosponsored
by IEEE Singapore chapter, Instrumention and Control
Society, Economics Development Board, National Computer
Board, SDAA and GINTIC, Institute of CIM, Singapore.
To be held in Singapore, on 15-18 September 1992. Authors
are invited to send four copies of the extended summary
(500-1000 words) and a brief abstract to :
A/Prof D P Mital
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Nanyang Technological Institute
Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 2263
Republic of Singapore
Fax: (65)264 1687
E-Mail: EMITAL@NTIVAX.BITNET
The deadline for submission of the abstract and four copies of
the summaries is MARCH 31, 1992.
SUGGESTED AREAS (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) ARE :
ROBOTICS
* Robotic control
* Mobile robots and navigation
* Task planning
* Intellegent sensors
* Micro robots
COMPUTER VISION
* Image processing
* 3-D/Colour/Stereo image analysis
* Dynamic scense analysis
* Machine vision
* Vision systems
INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION
* Instrumentation systems
* Flexible manufacturing systems
* Process Automation
* Man-machine interation
NEURAL NETWORKS & APPLICATIONS
* Network dynamics
* Network architectures
* Learning algorithms
* Hardware implementation
PARALLEL COMPUTING
* Algorithms
* Software
AI & EXPERT SYSTEMS
* Knowledge acquisition
* Knowledge representation
* AI Languages
* Intelligent control
* User interface and tools
CONTROL APPLICATIONS
* System identification
* Power system control
* Motion control
* Modelling and simulation
REAL TIME SYSTEMS
* Specification and analysis
* Fault tolerance
* Implementation aspects
Proposals for offering one day Tutorials/Workshops
in the relevant areas are also invited. We encouraged
Tutorial proposals from the prospective authors.
Note : Beside presenting your papers, you would get a
chance to visit the beautiful garden city
Singapore in South East Asia.
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Date: 11 Dec 90 03:35:10 GMT
From: bvi@cca.ucsf.EDU (Ravi Gomatam)
Subject: CONSCIOUSNESS & SCIENCE DISCUSSION GROUP/DEC.14 MEETING
Organization: Computer Center, UCSF
CONSCIOUSNESS AND SCIENCE--DISCUSSION GROUP
The purpose of this group, which meets on the second Friday of every
month, is to explore the nature of consciousness and its relationship
to science, in such fields as biology, physics, artificial intelligence,
psychology and parapsychology. Relevant ideas from mathematics will
also be discussed. In general, a minimum of graduate level training
is assumed of participants. The meetings are free and open to all
interested persons.
Next Meeting Announcement
BRAIN AND CONSCIOUSNESS
SPEAKER:John R Smythies, M.D.,
Institute of Neurology, Univ. of London;
Distinguished Emeritus Prof., Univ. of Alabama Medical Center
and Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Philosophy, Stanford Univ.
DATE: December 14, 1990 (Friday)
PLACE: Room N721, School of Nursing, U.C. San Francisco
TIME: 7:30 P.M
FORMAT: 7:30-8:00 Social;
8:00-9:00 Talk; 9:00-10:00 Discussion
This presentation will concentrate on a new theory
of the relationship between phenomenological consciousness and the
brain. If consciousness is taken as the collection of sensations,
images and thoughts, this taken with the Representative Theory of
Perceptions, indicates that Descartes was wrong in selecting the criterion
of extension in space as differentiating the physical from the mental. So
far from being a thinking spirit, consciousness (mind) is a spatial entity.
Therefore our understanding of the mind/brain problem may be advanced by an
investigation of the geometrical relationships between the phenomenological
space of consciousness and physical space.Registration: If you are attending
for the first time, please pre-register by calling Kainila Rajan Ph.D. at
(415) 753-8647/8648, or Jean Burns, Ph.D. at (415) 481-7507.
Directions: The closest parking is the UCSF public garage at 500
Parnassus Avenue. Special $1 parking rate if you get your ticket validated
at the meeting. After parking, come upto street level on Parnassus,
cross the street to enter Medical Sciences Building (513 Parnassus).
Go through the double doors and follow the first corridor to your
right all the way to the school of Nursing Building.. Take elevator
to the seventh floor and turn left.
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