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Today's Topics:
Where are public imagery databases that are available via FTP?
Image processing libraries wanted
C++ Image Class?
References needed about evolution of vision: SUMMARY
Postdoctoral Position
Call for Papers: Intl. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP'92)
Anouncement and Call for Papers for Israel Optical Engineering '92
TR abstract: Vector Spline and Mixed FE methods in Motion Analysis
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 91 16:12:13 -0800
From: vision@ads.com (Philip Kahn)
Subject: Where are public imagery databases that are available via FTP?
There are imagery databases dispersed throughout the world that can provide
useful data. Though the Vision List Archive has a good (and growing)
collection of imagery, it can by no means ever be complete or exhaustive.
I would like to maintain a file in the Achive that contains the
INTERNET addresses and brief descriptions of imagery databases that
are publically accessible using anonymous FTP. With such a List, it
should be possible to download the index of imagery databases and
perform searches to identify candidate imagery. If you maintain or
know of any such databases, please let me know; I will compile the
list, and post it.
thanks,
phil...
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Date: 19 Dec 91 13:28:00 MET
From: gloger@dbulm1.uucp (Jochen Gloger)
Organization: DaimlerBenz Forschungsinstitut Ulm, Germany
Subject: image processing libraries wanted
Hi,
I am interested in image processing libraries (filters, transformations,
morphological operations, etc. mainly on binary images). C, C++ or
Objective-C code is preferred, because we are working with NeXT. Does
anybody knows, whether such stuff is available. Please mail directly to
me (address see below). We have currently some trouble in receiving this
newsgroup. Thanks in advance.
Jochen Gloger, Daimler-Benz AG, Research Center Ulm,
Department of Pattern Recognition, Document Image Analysis
Phone: +49 731 505 2115, Fax: +49 731 505 4105
Address: Wilhelm-Runge-Str.11, P.O. Box 23 60, W-7900 Ulm, Germany
email: unido.uucp!dbulm1!gloger OR
...!ira.uka.de!fauern!unido!dbulm1!gloger OR
...!{uunet,corton,sunic,ukc}!mcsun!unido!dbulm1!gloger
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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 91 10:35:52 -0800
From: brandt@eecs.ucdavis.edu (Jon Brandt)
Subject: C++ Image Class?
I'd like to know about any public domain or commercial implementations
of an image class in C++. I'd also be interested in references to
papers on images as objects, or as an abstract data type. I will
summarize and post the results if there is sufficient interest.
Thanks,
Jon Brandt
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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 91 16:11:56 EST
From: cahn@grip.cis.upenn.edu (Ulf Cahn von Seelen)
Subject: References needed about evolution of vision: SUMMARY
Several months ago I asked for references about the evolution of visual
behaviors in animals. There does not seem to be much around about this
particular slant on vision, and the references that I have collected often
only touch this topic in passing, mostly speaking about the evolution of
the visual system instead. Nevertheless they are interesting in
themselves.
Thanks to all who contributed!
-Ulf
John M. Allman: Evolution of the visual system in the early primates.
Progress in Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology 7, 1977, 1-53
John M. Allman: Evolution of the brain in Primates.
in: Richard L. Gregory (ed.): The Oxford Companion to the Mind.
Oxford University Press, New York 1987, 633-639
John Allman: Evolution of Neocortex.
Chpt. 7 in: Edward G. Jones and Alan Peters (eds.): Cerebral
Cortex, Vol. 8A, Plenum, New York 1990, 269-283
John Allman: The origin of the neocortex.
Seminars in the Neurosciences 2, 1990, 257-262
Stuart A. Altmann: The monkey and the fig.
American Scientist 77 (3), May-June 1989, 256-263
Jerram L. Brown: The Evolution of Behavior.
W. W. Norton, New York 1975
Michael C. Corballis: The Lopsided Ape.
Oxford University Press, New York 1991
Joerg-Peter Ewert: Neuroethology of releasing mechanisms: Prey-catching in
toads.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (3), Sept. 1987, 337-405
G. A. Horridge: The evolution of visual processing and the construction
of seeing systems.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London; series B, Biological
Sciences 230 (1260), Apr. 1987, 279-292
J. H. Kass: Why does the brain have so many visual areas?
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 1, 1988, 121-135
J. D. Pettigrew: The evolution of binocular vision.
in: Pettigrew, Sanderson, Levick (eds.): Visual Neuroscience.
Cambridge University Press 1988, 208-222
Stephen Lucian Polyak: The vertebrate visual system, its origin, structure,
and function and its manifestations in disease with an analysis of
its role in the life of animals and in the origin of man, preceded
by a historical review of investigations of the eye, and of the
visual pathways and centers of the brain.
Edited by Heinrick Kluever, University of Chicago Press 1957
Sandra Sinclair: How Animals See.
Facts On File Publications, New York 1985
R. H. Smythe: Animal Vision: What Animals See.
Charles C Thomas Publisher, Springfield, IL, 1961
M. Snyder: The evolution of mammalian visual mechanisms.
in: Richard Jung (ed.): Integrative functions and comparative data.
Handbook of Sensory Physiology 7 (3), Springer, Berlin 1973
G. L. Walls: The evolutionary history of eye movements.
Vision Research 2, Jan.-Apr. 1962, 69-80
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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1991 05:43:55 -0500
From: patrick@wjh12.harvard.edu
Subject: Postdoctoral Position
POSTDOCTORAL POSITION
A postdoctoral position will be available in fall 1992 in the
Vision Sciences Laboratory of the Department of Psychology,
Harvard University to work with Dr. Patrick Cavanagh on motion,
texture, and color perception, visual pathways, and pattern
recognition. Facilities are also available for pursuing projects
of the applicant's choice. Programming ability in C would be
useful but not necessary. Write, call or E-mail for further
information.
Starting date: Fall 1992
Salary: $27,000
Requirements: PhD, training in vision
Reply to: patrick@wjh12.harvard.edu
or
Patrick Cavanagh
Department of Psychology
Harvard University
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
U.S.A.
tel 617-495-3883
fax 617-495-3764
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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 91 12:33:53 SST
From: yew-hock <ISSAYH%NUSVM.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: Call for Papers: Intl. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP'92)
2ND SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON IMAGE PROCESSING (ICIP `92)
**** CALL FOR PAPERS ****
ORGANISER : IEEE SINGAPORE SECTION, COMPUTER CHAPTER
CO-ORGANISER : DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
The 2nd Singapore International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP '92)
will be held in Singapore on 7 - 11 September 1992. The conference is
JOINTLY ORGANISED BY THE COMPUTER CHAPTER, IEEE SINGAPORE SECTION AND THe
Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore.
It will include regular sessions on all aspects of the theory and
applications of image processing. In addition, there will be tutorials
on the latest developments in selected areas. An exhibition will be held
in conjunction with the conference.
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION
Papers describing origninal work in image processing are invited. Topics
for regular sessions include, but not limited to, the following:
Image Analysis/Modelling Document Image Processing
Image Restoration/Enhancement Machine Vision
Video Compression/Communications AI Vision Techniques
Remote Sensing VLSI Implementation
Biomedical Imaging Dynamic Vision
Multi-resolution Processing Systems and Architectures
Neural Nets for Image Processing Human Visual Processing
Authors are required to submit for review four copies of an extended
SUMMARY OF 1000 - 1500 WORDS TO:
Technical Programme Chairman, ICIP '92
IEEE Singapore Section
200 Jalan Sultan, #11-03 Textile Centre
Singapore 0719
Tel: (65) 291 9690 Fax: (65) 292 8596
The summary should contain sufficient detail, including a clear
description of the salient concepts and novel features of the work.
The first page of the submission should contain only the title of the
paper; authors' names and affiliations; corresponding author with address,
telephone, fax, and telex numbers; and the topic, chosen from the above
list, that best describes the contents of the paper.
AUTHORS' SCHEDULE
Submission of extended summary 15 January 1992
Notification of acceptance 15 April 1992
Submission of final manuscript 15 June 1992
TUTORIALS/ SPECIAL SESSIONS
Proposals for tutorials and special sessions are welcome and should be
submitted to the Technical Programme Chairman before 15 January 1992.
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
BRUCE G. BATCHELOR UNIV. OF WALES COLLEGE OF CARDIFF, UK
ROLAND T. CHIN UNIV. OF WISCONSIN, USA
OLIVIER D. FAUGERAS INRIA, FRANCE
T. RUSSELL HSING BELLCORE, USA
THOMAS S. HUANG UNIV. OF ILLINOIS, USA
MING L. LIOU BELLCORE, USA
ALAN PUGH UNIV. OF HULL, UK
K. R. RAO UNIV. OF TEXAS, USA
AZRIEL ROSENFELD UNIV. OF MARYLAND, USA
HARCHARAN SINGH NANYANG TECH. UNIV, SINGAPORE
SABURO TSUJI OSAKA UNIV., JAPAN
CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
IEEE Singapore Section
200 Jalan Sultan, #11-03 Textile Centre
Singapore 0719
Tel: (65) 291 9690 Fax: (65) 292 8596
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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 91 16:53 IST
From: JOSEPH VAN ZWAREN TEL 972-2-277095 <JO%ILNCRD@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL>
Subject: Anouncement and Call for Papers for Israel Optical Engineering '92
THE 8th MEETING OF OPTICAL ENGINEERING IN ISRAEL
Tel Aviv, Israel December 1992
ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
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ABSTRACT DUE DATE: 15 April 1992
The 8th Meeting of Optical Engineering is the showplace of Israeli
electro-optics and lasers. This Meeting will host presentations on the
new developments in optical system engineering, optics in medicine,
industrial instruments for production and control as well as
microlithography, remote sensing and space optics. Some general issues
will be discussed ie the Israeli optical industry, environment
problems and the use of air or space borne optics for monitoring and
remote sensing. The Meeting topics will be presented in four parallel
branches to facilitate attending of a generic subject without
overlapping sessions.
These branches will be:
* Manufacturing
* APPLICATIONS
* Optical Science
* Satellite Conferences:
- Lasers in Medicine
- Lasers in Industry
- Display Technology
The proceedings of the two past meetings were published
by SPIE (Vol 1038 and 1442).
An exhibition of products and services bound to the Optics and
Electro-optics fields will take place in parallel to the Meeting.
Members of the optical community in Israel are encouraged to
submit their offers for subjects, tutorials and sessions for the 8th
Meeting.
Organized by:
* AEAI - Association of Engineering and Architects in Israel
- Society of Chemical Engineers and Chemists
- Society of Sciences and Software Engineering
* ILEOS - Israel Laser and Electro-optics Society
* Ministry of Science and Technology
Sponsored by:
* SPIE - Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
* EOS - European Optical Society
* ICO - International Commission for Optics
* ASIA-PACIFIC Optics Federation
MEETING COMMITTEES
Meeting Chairs
Organizing Committee - I. Shaldov, AEAI (ISrael)
Program Committee - M. Oron, ILEOS (ISrael)
International Relations - R. Finkler (Israel)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
M.Barak (Israel) J. Bulabois (France) - EOS P. Chavel (France) -ICO
A.D. Devir (Israel) Y. Elyada (Israel) R. Finkler (ISrael)
C. Goldshmidt (Israel) H. Hoffman (Israel) M. Oron (Israel)
I.Shladov (Israel) J.van Zwaren (Israel) W.L. Wolfe (U.S.A.)- SPIE
J. Yaver (U.S.A.) - SPIE
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
A.Consortini (Italy) A.D Devir (Israel) R.Finkler(Israel)
R.B.Johson (U.S.A.) M.Hutley (U.K.) A.Israeli (U.K.)
A. Katzir (Israel) N.S. Kopeika (Israel) Y.Liran (Israel)
M.Oron (Israel) S.Ruschin (Israel) E.Shalom (Israel)
I. Shladov (Israel) J.van Zwaren (Israel) Y.Weissman (Israel)
N.Yellin-Lifshitz (Israel)
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
N. Ben Yosef (Israel) A. Friesem (Israel) I. Kaplan (Israel)
F.K.Kneubuhl (Switzerland) S.Levin (Israel) A.Lewis (Israel)
N. MacDonald (U.S.A.) H. Opower (Germany) E.Rosenblum (Israel)
J.Shamir (Israel) S.D. Smith (U.K.) G. Sorenson (Denmark)
A. Tobey (U.S.A.) J.D.Trolinger (U.S.A.) G.W. Wilkerson (U.S.A.)
J. Yaeli (Israel) S.Yatsiv (Israel) A.Yogev (Israel)
To get further information and registration form, pl contact:
Mr Nissim Keshek or Ms. Rafaela Stanevich
Association of Engineers & Architects in Israel
P.O.B. 3082, Tel Aviv 61030, Israel Tel: 03-5240274 FAX: 03-5235993
Bitnet: JHORON@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL
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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1991 04:57:59 GMT
From: suter@latcs1.lat.OZ.AU (David Suter)
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia
Subject: TR abstract: Vector Spline and Mixed FE methods in Motion Analysis
A technical report detailing and expanding upon recent work in motion
analysis is available - you can obtain copies by writing/emailing
myself. Please note that you can obtain hardcopies only - so please
provide your physical mail address.
Vector Spline and Mixed Finite Element Methods in Motion Analysis
David Suter, Dept. of Computer Science and Computer Engineering,
La Trobe University, Bundoora 3083, Australia.
There are two essential aspects to most formulations of the recovery
of optic flow. The first is that there must be some method of coupling
the recovered flow to the data, the second is that a degree of smoothness
needs to be imposed. In general, there are two ways of coupling the flow
to the data: constraint equations such as the optic flow
constraint of Horn and Schunk, and the second is the feature based
matching process. More recent approaches such as those of Uras et al (1988)
and Sobey/Srinivasan (1991) solve modified forms of the optic flow
constraint only at certain "reliable" points - essentially features
defined by the non-vanishing nature of certain quantities at those points.
The imposition of a soothness constraint may be through an explicit
regularization formulation that combines the data constraint with
a smootheness penalty term, or by a separate smoothing stage
(or stages). The common regularization formulation is a generalization
of the usual spline fitting problem, whereas the separate smoothing stage
may be performed as a standard (vector) spline fitting problem.
This work introduces a decomposition of the smoothness assumption into
two parts: one related to the divergence of the vector field, and one related
to the vorticity or rotational part. There are two immediate consequences of
this reformulation. The first is that one can explicitly control the degree
of smoothness assumed on each part - for images where the flow is expected
to be largely divergent, one can reduce the smoothness imposed upon
this component and use the rotational smoothness term to
provide the regularization. This can avoid, to some degree, oversmoothing
(such as over discontinuities in the divergence, for example). The
second consequence is that one can solve the reformulated problem
using mixed finite elements that approximate simultaneously the
rotation and the divergence. This has advantages for navigation
and theories of human vision.
The ideas are illustrated by comparison with some standard methods
that smooth each (cartesian) component of the optic flow.
David Suter ISD: +61 3 479-2393
Department of Computer Science
and Computer Engineering, STD: (03) 479-2393
La Trobe University, ACSnet: suter@latcs1.oz
Bundoora, CSnet: suter@latcs1.oz
Victoria, 3083, ARPA: suter%latcs1.oz@uunet.uu.net
Australia UUCP: ...!uunet!munnari!latcs1.oz!suter
TELEX: AA33143
FAX: 03 4785814
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