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VISION-LIST Digest Fri Mar 05 16:02:58 PDT 93 Volume 12 : Issue 10
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Today's Topics:
Information sought on camera positioning systems
2D Shape Comparison
3D Human Movement
Color imagery needed
Digitalized Brodatz's Textures and Fingerprint Data Set
Color imagery needed User interface for Holographic simulation software (exchage)
UNM - Albuquerque - KHOROS course & Lab. visitations
Lectureship in Computing
Artificial Intelligence Journal: Special Issue on Vision
2nd Call for Papers BMVC93
World Conference on Neural Networks '93 (July 11-15, Portland, Oregon, USA)
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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1993 15:35:42 GMT
From: kyros@achilles.cs.wisc.edu (Kiriakos Kutulakos)
Organization: U of Wisconsin Madison - Computer Sciences
Subject: Information sought on camera positioning systems
We are planning to design an active vision system in which the
position of a camera is controlled with respect to a static object,
and are trying to find out the various options for accomplishing this
viewpoint control. Minimally, it should be possible to place the
camera at points on a hemisphere enclosing the object (approx 0.5m
radius, or larger).
We have been considering the use of either a PUMA arm or an X-Y-Z
table. However, we do not have the resources to design our own
controllers. If you have any information on available controllers (and
software) for these devices, we would appreciate it if you let us
know.
Also, any information/references or experiences with other ways of
controlling the camera position would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Kyros Kutulakos (kyros@cs.wisc.edu)
Computer Sciences Department
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Date: 4 Mar 93 20:53:43 GMT
From: ibarroda@sol.UVic.CA (Ian Barrodale)
Organization: University of Victoria
Subject: 2D Shape Comparison
Definition: Shape is defined to be that characteristic which remains
invariant under translation, rotation, and scaling.
Question: Given two simple (non-intersecting, no holes) polygonal
shapes, defined by two vertex lists (sets of x,y coordinates)
containing outline information only (i.e. no 'landmark'
data points - the two vertex lists will typically contain
a different number of points), how can the shape of these
two polygons be compared? We are looking for 'recent'
(post 1980) references on this subject from any field.
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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 16:59:46 -0500
From: funge@dgp.toronto.edu (John David Funge)
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Subject: 3D Human Movement
Wanted: Data sets that represent the three-dimensional positions over time
of people performing some task. I am particularily interested in
two people fighting although anything will be helpful (eg walking).
As detailed a description as possible of the format that the data
is in is also required.
Please email responses to: funge@dgp.toronto.edu
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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 14:09:13 -0800
From: Louis Brassard <brassard@cs.sfu.ca>
Subject: Color imagery needed
I need 2 or more color images of the same scene taken under different
illuminations. Any help will be appreciated.
Thank You.
Louis Brassard
brassard@cs.sfu.ca
Ph.D. student in Computer Vision
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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Date: Thu, 04 Mar 93 16:38:09 MEZ
From: He-Ping Pan <ULM101@IBM.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
Subject: Digitalized Brodatz's Textures and Fingerprint Data Set
I am looking for
--- a set (complete or partial) of digitalized images from the
Brodatz's Book: Textures, by Phil Brodatz (a photographic
album for artists and designers, Dover Publications, Inc,
New York, 1966.
[ Check the Vision List Archive: some Brodatz textures has recently been added.
phil... ]
--- A data set of fingerprints for our experients only.
[ How about the NIST dataset? phil... ]
--- Formal algorithms and programs (source, executable, public domain
or commercial) of Graph Grammers and Array Grammars, I want to
learn how to actually program these grammars for simulating
natural phenomenen such as agricultural field structures and textures,
forests, mountains, and river nets etc.
It seems to me that to recognize natural patterns, we don't need to
have a complete structural knoweledge of the correspondent natural
phenomenen, we only need some aspects of partial knowledge that are
good enough to differentiate one from others. However, try to simulate
the real world (look at the satellite images of the earth surface)
is an extreme challenge to the Spatial Informatics including
geometric modeling, computer graphics and computer vision. Therefore,
I need your help, your knowledge from any related disciplines.
Sincerely
Dr.-Ing. He-Ping Pan
Institute for Photogrammetry
University of Bonn
Nussallee 15, 5300 Bonn 1, Germany
Tel: 00-49-228-732721/-732905
Fax: 00-49-228-373281
Email: ulm101@dbnrhrz1.bitnet
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Date: 3 Mar 93 02:32:12 GMT
From: jonnyg@monster.umd.edu (Jonny Greenblatt)
Organization: University of Maryland
Subject: User interface for Holographic simulation software (exchage)
Summary: Will exchange graphic user interface for Holographic software.
Keywords: holograph, graphics
I would like to do work with holographic simulations and wavefronts.
I have been looking at algorithms to do this but would rather not develope
the code myself. What I do want to develope is a high end graphics user
interface to interact with the code. This would include entering and
positioning 2D-3D data. Setting up light sources. Manupulating reconstruction,
manipulating light sources dynamicaly to determine the veiw for playback.
Code would run on Unix systems running X11.
If someone knows where I can access this type of code or would be
willing to do a code exchange with me, please let me know.
Thanks for all responses,
JonnyG.
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Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1993 11:04:36
From: daniel.albrecht@jrc.it (Daniel Albrecht)
Subject: UNM - Albuquerque - KHOROS course & Lab. visitations
Hello,
> I am a european engineer working in a research center of the
European
>Economic Communities (E.E.C.) in Italy.
>I am responsible for a newly created image processing laboratory and I
>selected the fantastic KHOROS software package as a tool to process
>our interferometric holograms.
>
> After the KHOROS course held around mid september 1993,
>at Albuquerque(New Mexico - USA), I should take advantage of my trip
>in the U.S.A., to visit a couple (2 ou 3) of scientific image processing
>laboratories which more particularly usually process interferometric
>holograms.
>
>Each laboratory visitation would consist of a more or less one 1/2 day
>to 1 day(or more), talks/encounter with the scientists working within it.
>The discussion, mainly, will be over interferograms acquisition by camera
>CCD, fringes filtering and 2D/3D representation.
Can any of you help me ?
In this case mail your answer to one of the following addresses :
---> daniel.albrecht@cen.jrc.it
---> Vision-List@TELEOS.COM
for KHOROS mail group members
---> khoros@chama.eece.unm.edu
Regards
Albrecht daniel Image Processing laboratory
daniel.albrecht@cen.jrc.it ( E.E.C. - Europe )
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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 93 16:01:11 GMT
From: Robert Evans <Robert.Evans@cm.cf.ac.uk>
Organization: University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales, UK.
Subject: Lectureship in Computing
University of Wales College of Cardiff
The Department of Computing Mathematics has a vacancy for a Lecturer
in Computing Mathematics. Research interests in Machine Vision and
Geometric Computing, Algorithms, or IKBS are preferred.
It is expected that the appointment will be made on the Lecturer A scale
(13,400 - 18,578 UK pounds).
For further details please write to:
University of Wales College of Cardiff
Personnel Division
50 Park Place
Cardiff
CF1 3AT
or phone (0222) 874452
quoting Reference Number 93/12.
======================
The closing date for applications is 19th March 1993.
Robert Evans Robert.Evans@cm.cf.ac.uk
Adran Fathemeteg Gyfrifiadurol Department of Computing Mathematics
Prifysgol Cymru, Coleg Caerdydd University of Wales College of Cardiff
Blwch SP 916, Caerdydd, CF1 4YN PO Box 916, Cardiff, CF1 4YN
+44 (0)222 874000 x 5518 (fax/ffacs) +44 (0)222 666182
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 08:37:39 -0600
From: Sharon Collins <scollins@cs.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Artificial Intelligence Journal: Special Issue on Vision
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE JOURNAL
Special Issue on Vision
The Artificial Intelligence Journal plans to publish a special issue dedicated
to vision. The special issue will be subsequently published as a
book at MIT Press. Papers are solicited covering the following
aspects of computer vision:
Integration;
Active vision;
Object representation;
Object recognition;
Visual learning;
Knowledge-based image interpretation;
Please send 5 copies of complete manuscript to one of the guest editors, not
later than 1 October 1993. Papers clearly stating motivation, contribution,
relationship to other work, and significance to vision will be received
more favorably than others.
SPECIAL ISSUE'S GUEST EDITORS
Narendra AHUJA
Coordinated Science Laboratory and Beckman Institute
University of Illinois
405 N. Mathews Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61801 USA
Radu HORAUD
LIFIA--IRIMAG
46, avenue Felix Viallet
38031 Grenoble FRANCE
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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 93 11:55:08 GMT
From: J.Illingworth@ee.surrey.ac.uk
Subject: 2nd Call for Papers BMVC93
********************* 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS **************************
BMVC93
4th British Machine Vision Conference
University of Surrey, Guildford. U.K.
21-23 September 1993
The British Machine Vision Conference is the main UK conference for machine
vision and related topics. The Proceedings are published by Springer-Verlag
and each delegate will receive a copy at the conference. A selection of the
best papers will be published separately in a special issue of Image and
Vision Computing Journal.
Contributions are sought on any novel aspect relating to machine vision and
pattern analysis, including:
* image processing and feature extraction * practical applications
* object recognition and scene analysis * model based coding
* reconstruction of 3D shape * architectures
* advanced pattern analysis * active vision
* computational issues in perception * motion analysis
* robotic vision and sensor fusion * neural networks
Four copies of full papers not exceeding 10 pages (approx. 5000 words if no
figures) should be submitted for review. Papers will be accepted either for
oral presentation or for presentation as posters. All papers accepted will
appear in the Proceedings. Papers will be reviewed by the BMVA Committee.
***********************************************
Deadline for Paper Submission: 26 April 1993
Notification of Acceptance: 9 June 1993
Deadline for Camera-Ready Copy: 9 July 1993
***********************************************
Papers should be submitted to the Conference Chairman: Dr J. Illingworth.
The University of Surrey is situated in a green field campus on the outskirts
of the historic, cathedral town of Guildford, Surrey. It is only 30 miles
from central London and has fast rail and coach links to both major London
airports, Heathrow and Gatwick.
Dr. J. Illingworth, | Phone: (0483) 509835
V.S.S.P. Group, | Fax : (0483) 34139
Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng, | Email: J.Illingworth@ee.surrey.ac.uk
University of Surrey, |
Guildford, |
Surrey GU2 5XH |
United Kingdom |
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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 93 16:49:13 -0500
From: dlukas@PARK.BU.EDU
Subject: World Conference on Neural Networks '93 (July 11-15, Portland, Oregon, USA)
WORLD CONGRESS ON NEURAL NETWORKS
1993 Annual Meeting of the International Neural Network Society
July 11-15, 1993, Portland, Oregon
WCNN'93 is the largest and most inter-disciplinary forum in the neural
network field today.
COOPERATING SOCIETIES:
American Association for Artificial Cognitive Science Society
Intelligence European Neural Network Society
American Mathematical Society IEEE Computer Society
American Physical Society IEEE Neural Networks Council
American Psychological Society International Fuzzy Systems Association
Association for Behavior Analysis Japanese Neural Network Society
Classification Society of North Society for Mathematical Biology
America Society for Mathematical Psychology
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
PLENARY SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Stephen Grossberg, 3-D Vision and Figure-Ground Pop-Out
Bart Kosko, Neural Fuzzy Systems
Carver Mead, Real-Time On-Chip Learning in Analog VLSI Networks
Kumpati Narendra, Intelligent Control Using Neural Networks
Wolf Singer, Coherence as an Organizing Principle of Cortical Function
TUTORIALS INCLUDE:
Gail Carpenter, Adaptive Resonance Theory
Robert Desimone, Cognitive Neuroscience
Walter Freeman, Neurobiology and Chaos
Robert Hecht-Nielsen, Practical Applications of Neural Network Theory
Michael Kuperstein, Neural Control and Robotics
S.Y.Kung, Structural and Mathematical Approaches to Signal
Processes
V.S. Ramachandran, Biological Vision
David Rumelhart, Cognitive Science
Eric Schwartz, Neural Computation and VLSI
Fred Watkins, Neural Fuzzy Systems
Hal White, Supervised Learning
INVITED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
James A. Anderson, Programming in Associative Memory
Gail A. Carpenter, Adaptive Resonance Theory: Recent Research and
Applications
Michael A. Cohen, Recent Results in Neural Models of Speech and Language
Perception and Recognition
Judith E. Dayhoff, Applications of Temporal and Molecular Structures in
Neural Systems
Walter Daugherty, A Partially Self-Training System for the Protein Folding
Problem
Kunihiko Fukushima, Improvement of the Neocognitron and the Selective
Attention Model
Armin Fuchs, Brain Signals during Qualitative Changes in Patterns of
Coordinated Movements
Stephen Grossberg, Learning, Recognition, Reinforcement, Attention, and
Timing in a Thalamo-Cortico-Hippocampal Model
Dan Hammerstrom, Whither Electronic Neurocomputing?
R. Hecht-Nielsen, Towards a General Theory of Data Compression
James C. Houk, Spatiotemporal Patterns of Activity in an
In Vitro Recurrent Network
Mitsuo Kawato, Existence of an Inverse Dynamics Model in the Cerebellum
Teuvo Kohonen, Boosting the Computing Power in Pattern Recognition
by Unconventional Architectures
S.Y. Kung, On Training Temporal Neural Networks
Michael Kuperstein, Neural Controller for Catching Moving Objects in 3-D
Daniel Levine, A Gated Dipole Architecture for Multi-Drive, Multi-
Attribute Decision Making
Erkki Oja, Nonlinear PCA: Algorithms and Applications
Michael P. Perrone, Learning from what's been Learned: Supervised Learning
in Multi-Neural Network Systems
Michael T. Posner, Tracing Network Processes in Real Time with Scalp
Electrodes
Robert Sekuler, Perception of Motion: How the Brain Manages Those
Thousand Points of Light
John G. Taylor, M Forms of Memory
Thomas P. Vogl, From Electrophysiology to a Stable Associative Learning
Algorithm
Allen Waxman, Rats, Robots, Monkeys and Missiles: Neural Pathways in
Robot Intelligence
Paul J. Werbos, Supervised Learning: Can We Escape from its Local
Optimum?
Bernard Widrow, Adaptive Signal Processing
Shuji Yoshizawa, Dynamics and Capacity of Neural Models of Associative
Memory
Hussein Youssef, Comparison of Several Neural Networks in Nonlinear
Dynamic System Modeling
Lotfi A. Zadeh, Soft Computing, Fuzzy Logic and the Calculus of Fuzzy
Graphs
GENERAL CHAIR: George G. Lendaris
MAIN PROGRAM CHAIRS: Stephen Grossberg and Bart Kosko
SME/INNS TRACK PROGRAM CHAIRS: Kenneth Marko and Bernard Widrow
IFSA/INNS TRACK PROGRAM CHAIRS: Ronald Yager and Paul Werbos
COOPERATING SOCIETIES CHAIR: Mark Kon
INNS OFFICERS: President: Harold Szu
President-Elect: Walter Freeman
Past President: Paul Werbos
Executive Director: Morgan Downey
BOARD OF GOVERNORS:
Shun-ichi Amari Richard Andersen James A. Anderson
Andrew Barto Gail Carpenter Leon Cooper
Judith Dayhoff Kunihiko Fukushima Lee Giles
Stephen Grossberg Mitsuo Kawato Christof Koch
Teuvo Kohonen Bart Kosko C. von der Malsburg
David Rumelhart John Taylor Bernard Widrow
Lotfi Zadeh
FOR REGISTRATION AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
WCNN'93
Talley Management Group
875 Kings Highway, Suite 200
West Deptford, NJ 08096
Tel: (609) 845-1720
FAX: (609) 853-0411
e-mail: registration@wcnn93.ee.pdx.edu
Please do not reply to this account. Please use the telephone number,
fax number, U.S. Mail address, or email address listed above.
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