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IMDISP, Magellan Images Available
Call for Papers: IJIVC
Boston SPIE Robots and Computer Vision Conference
tracking stereo (summary)
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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 91 7:42:52 PDT
From: baalke@mars.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Ron Baalke)
Subject: IMDISP, Magellan Images Available
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IMDISP 5.6
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Version 5.6 of the IMDISP program is now available via anonymous
ftp. IMDISP is an interactive image display program with some basic
image processing capabilities that runs on an IBM PC computer. It was
originally written to be used with the Voyager images on CD-ROM's, and
an older version of IMDISP has been distributed with the Voyager
CD-ROM's in the past. This version of IMDISP is the most current one,
and has been submitted to be included on the GRIPS '90 CD-ROM that is
coming out shortly.
IMDISP will support various video modes including CGA, EGA, VGA
(recommended), and super VGA (highly recommended) for selected
graphics boards. The program can display images in three formats:
PDS/SFDU, FITS and VICAR. The PDS format was developed by the
Planetary Data Systems, and the FITS (Flexible Image Transport) format
is typically used for astrononmy images. The VICAR (Video Image
Communication and Retrieval) format was developed at the Image
Processing Lab at JPL.
Peter Yee at Ames Research Center was kind enough to allow his
computer site be used for anonymous ftp access. This site can be
reached at:
ames.arc.nasa.gov (128.102.18.3)
The IMDISP program is stored in a file called IMDISP56.ZIP in the
pub/SPACE/IMDISP subdirectory. This zip file can be unzipped with the public
domain program PKUNZIP. IMDISP56.ZIP has three files in it:
IMDISP.EXE - IMDISP program version 5.6
IMDISP.DOC - User's Guide for IMDISP
PCDCOMP.EXE - Version 2.0 of the Voyager Image Decompression
Program
IMDISP.DOC will help in the use of IMDISP, and has some
interesting overviews of CD-ROM fundamentals and image processing.
The PCDCOMP program is to be used specifically to uncompress the
Voyager images stored the CD-ROM into PDS, FITS or VICAR formats; this
is the most recent version.
Being one of the programmers of IMDISP, I am very interested on
how people like the program. If you find any bugs in IMDISP then let
me know and I will see that they get fixed. Also, any suggestions or
ideas on improving the program will be appreciated.
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MAGELLAN IMAGES
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Two raw format Magellan images are also available for anonymous
ftp. The two images are stored at the same Ames site listed above,
and are in the pub/SPACE/VICAR directory under the names DSNALL.IMG
and GOLUBKINA.IMG. The images have been released by the Magellan
project at JPL, and are digital versions of images that have been
previously released to the press. Both images are 8 bit images in
VICAR format with a pixel resolution of 1024x1024, and are 1 megabyte
in size.
DSNALL.IMG is the "Crater Farm" mosaic which contains 24 orbits
of data formed into one large mosaic. The dominating features in this
mosaic are three huge craters. GOLUBKINA.IMG is a pseudo-oblique view
of a crater from the very first strip of imagery received from
Magellan. Note that both these images can be displayed with the
IMDISP program. One thing to keep in mind when viewing these images,
is that they are radar images and are to be interpreted differently
from what we are normally used to seeing. Generally with radar
images, dark areas indicate smooth surfaces, and the lighter areas
indicate the surface is rough. Additional Magellan images will be
added as they become available.
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Date: Sun, 27 Jan 91 12:34:35 -0500
From: Baba Vemuri <vemuri@scuba.cis.ufl.edu>
Subject: Call for Papers: IJIVC
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Journal of Image and Vision Computing announces a
special issue on
Range Image Understanding
Guest Editors: Dr. J. K. Aggarwal, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA
and
Dr. B. C. Vemuri, Dept. of CIS, University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida, USA
Deadline for submitted papers: January 31, 1991; Publication: June 1991
The understanding of range images is a difficult yet an important area
of research in computer vision. Advances in sensor technology for
direct 3D sensing in conjunction with progress in passive range
sensing methods, have spurred a tremendous growth of research efforts
in 3D computer vision. The advent of faster hardware in the form of
multi-processing systems has alleviated the burden of processing range
data and thus provided further impetus for research in this field of
computer vision. The problems of 3D representation, and matching in
static and dynamic real-world scenes are formidable research tasks
currently being addressed by many researchers. This special issue
will gather significant research results on 3D object representation,
matching for pose determination and object recognition in static and
dynamic environments.
Papers describing novel contributions in all aspects of range image
understanding are invited, with particular emphasis on:
Novel 3D object representation that support range image understanding
Matching for pose determination as well as object recognition
Representation and indexing of large libraries of 3D objects
Applications (eg. parts picking, cartography, navigation etc.)
Image and Vision Computing publishes fully refreed technical papers.
All submissions will be refreed by two acknowledged authorities. Authors
should consult the `Notes for Authors,' published in the journal for detailed
preparation of their manuscript (also available on request from the editors).
Four single sided double spaced copies of the manuscript should be sent by
January 31, 1991, to:
Dr. B. C. Vemuri
Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida 32611
USA
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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 91 11:25:38 EST
From: Rosalind W. Picard <roz@hydepark.media.mit.edu>
Subject: Boston SPIE Robots and Computer Vision Conference
ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS
Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision X:
Algorithms and Techniques
Part of SPIE's Technical Symposium on
Advances in Intelligent Systems
November 10-15, 1991
Boston Mariott Copley Place
Boston, Massachusetts USA
Chair: David Casasent
Carnegie Mellon University
Co-Chair: Ernie Hall
University of Cincinnati
This year's conference will focus on new algorithms and techniques for
intelligent robots and computer vision. Papers are solicited
for several topic areas including:
- pattern recognition and image processing
- image understanding and scene analysis
- color image processing, multi-sensor processing
- 3-D vision: modeling and representation
- object modeling and recognition
- neural networks, model-based processors
- fuzzy logic in intelligent systems and computer vision
- biological basis for the design of sensors in computer vision
- intelligent manipulators
Abstract Due Date: April 1, 1990
Manuscript Due Date: October 14, 1990
Information:
SPIE Technical Program Committee/Boston '91
P.O. Box 10
Bellingham, WA 98227-0010
USA
Or e-mail to:
turk@media-lab.media.mit.edu
or marlene@gauss.ece.cmu.edu
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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 91 9:26:00 MET DST
From: bellutta@irst.it (Paolo Bellutta)
Subject: tracking stereo (summary)
Organization: I.R.S.T. 38050 POVO (TRENTO) ITALY
Here is the list of replies I had from my previous posting.
I wish to thank all of the contributors for their promt reply.
Paolo Bellutta
I.R.S.T. vox: +39 461 814417
loc. Pante' di Povo fax: +39 461 810851
38050 POVO (TN) e-mail: bellutta@irst.uucp
ITALY bellutta%irst@uunet.uu.net
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Date: Sat, 26 Jan 91 14:00:53 PST
From: chandy@hotspur.usc.edu (Sundaresan Chandrashekhar)
Subject: Your posting on comp.ai.vision
I believe something similar to what you suggest has been
tried at Carnegie-Mellon by Takeo Kanade.
Sorry, I don't have the references for this.
From: Xie Ming <mirsa.inria.fr!Ming.Xie@i2unix.uucp>
Subject: Re: tracking stereo
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 91 15:26:26 +0100
Hello,
These is a Ph.D thesis intitled "Contribution to the dynamic
vision: reconstruction of a 3D polyhedral scene by a moving
camera" (1989). You could ask one copy of this thesis from:
Publication Service
INRIA-IRISA
campus de Beaulieu
35042 RENNES Cedex
France (Standard Phone: (33) 99-36-20-00 )
From: na@bora.inria.fr (Nicholas Ayache)
Subject: tracking stereo
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 91 09:51:06 +0100
dear Paolo Belluta,
you can have a look at our paper entitled
3D structure from a monocular sequence of images
by Jezouin and Ayache
which produces a 3D representation from tracked tokens
(points and lines) in a time sequence of monocular images.
Results are very accurate, as you will see.
I can send you the corresponding Inria technical report
which is more detailed.
Sincerely,
Nicholas Ayache.
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 91 01:02:21 EST
From: ks5k@abraxas.cs.Virginia.EDU
Subject: tracking stereo
Paolo,
I have a reference here that may help you out a bit:
"One-Eyed Stereo: A General Approach to Modeling 3-D Scene Geometry,"
Thomas M. Strat, Martin A. Fischler, IEEE PAMI, 8(6): 730-741, Nov 1986.
also it is in:
_Readings in COmputer Vision, Issues, Problems,
Principles, and Paradigms_ Edited by Martin Fischler and Oscar
Firschein, 1987, Morgan-Kaufman, ISBN- 0-934613-33-8.
It is a 4cm thick volume of useful vision papers. I recommend it
highly if you don't have it. It is basically coincidence that I am
referencing Fischler's paper, as he only included one or two of his
in this approximately 100 paper set.
If I remember right this paper basically breaks down to a
shape-from-X survey and then presents some experimental results. I
don't remember if there is explicit mention of tracking. For tracking
you might find things under "image flow" (there are a few papers in
the Fischler volume). Do you have the rosenfeld bibliographies there?
If you need copies of papers you can not get, I could send
them to you if you'd like.
Kristian
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