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Today's Topics:
Distances and areas in 0/1 images
Re: modelling image processing techniques
Interest Operators
Wanted: Review papers for Computer Vision and Knowledge Engineering
And the winner is (re: Books for Visual Perception)
Commercial Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system?
Faculty position in Cognitive Science, Rutgers U., NJ
AAAI symposium call for participation
2nd call for papers ECCV-94
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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 93 17:23:46 METDST
From: Jose Manuel Inesta Quereda <inesta@vents.uji.es>
Subject: Distances and areas in 0/1 images
Hi everyone,
I am working with topics involving the measurement of (real, with the previous
calibration of the image) distances in pictures 2-D. And I find a problem:
After thresholding the image, I locate the points and compute the measure,
but this figure varies with even small variations of the position, scale and
orientation of the object (always in the plane). I have found out that this
is because of the quantization of the image: if I threshold by 50% of
intensity, I am classifying one pixel as from the object if it occupies more
than half the surface covered by the pixel. This is very sensitive to small
changes in the position of the object, yielding different figures to distances
and to areas (because the number of pixels of the objects changes).
Does anyone knows if this is avoidable? How? Or if not so, how can I minimize
its effect?
Thank you everyone in advance.
Jose M. Inesta | e-mail: inesta@inf.uji.es
Departamento de Informatica | Tfn...: +34-64-345769 (8523)
Universitat Jaume I | Fax...: +34-64-345848 E-12071 Castellon (SPAIN)
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 18:12:53 GMT
From: olea@netcom.com (Michael Olea)
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Subject: Re: modelling image processing techniques
Also see:
"Image Segmentation and Uncertainty", Wilson, Spann
ISBN 0 86380 067 X
Is a book devoted to the topic. It presents the beginnings
of a theory of segmentation, and has many references.
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 16:14:49 -0700
Subject: Interest Operators
From: vikram@cache.crc.ricoh.com
Hi,
Haralick and Shapiro's book (Computer and Robot Vision, vol. 2), in Chapter 16
has a section on interest operators. These operators are used to pick up
"interesting" templates on images, to be used for image matching/image
registration.
Can anyone give me pointers to other interest operators that have been
used or could be used for registering *any* pair of images.
Thanks,
Vikram Chalana
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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 93 14:51:37 +0200
From: heping@ipb1.ipb.uni-bonn.de (Pan_Heping)
Subject: Wanted: Review papers for Computer Vision and Knowledge Engineering
I am looking for any recent comprehensive review papers on
Computer Vision and Knowledge Engineering.
Any help will be appreciated !
Dr.-Ing. Heping Pan
Institute for Photogrammetry, University of Bonn
Email: heping@ipb1.ipb.uni-bonn.de
[ Rosenfeld's biblios (available via the Vision List Archive) are a starting point.
phil... ]
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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1993 14:54:00 +1300
From: "Robert P. O'Shea" <R_OSHEA@RIVENDELL.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: And the winner is (re: Books for Visual Perception)
I thought you might be interested in a ranking of the books that
Jonathan Marshall received recommendations for. In constructing the
ranking, I counted each positive evaluation for books that had a
significant visual-perception component. I should warn you that I do
not guarantee the accuracy of the ranking (I just rushed through the
list once)!
# +ve author(s) title
16 Marr Vision
11 Bruce & Green Visual perception: Physiology, psychology, ecology
10 Werner & Spillman The neurobiology of visual perception
7 Cornsweet Visual perception
6 Sekuler & Blake Perception
5 Levine Vision in man and machine
5 Levine & Sheffner Fundamentals of sensation and perception
4 Hubel Eye and brain
4 Wandell [replacement for Cornsweet]
4 Zeki A vision of the brain
3 Barlow & Mollon The Senses
3 Frisby Seeing
3 Goldstein Sensation and perception
3 Horn Robot vision
3 Wechsler Computational vision
2 Barlow, Blakemore, Weston-Smith Images and understanding
2 Buser & Imbert Vision
2 DeValois & DeValois Spatial vision
2 Landy & Movshon Computational models of visual processing
2 Leibovic Science of vision
2 Watt Visual processing
1 Held, Leibowitz, Teuber Handbook of sensory physiology v.7
1 Arbib & Hanson Vision, brain, cooperative computation
1 Boff, Kaufman, Thomas Handbook of perception and human performance
1 Boynton Human color vision
1 Bracewell
1 Brady Computational approaches to image understanding
1 Bridgeman The biology of behavior and mind
1 Churchland & Sejnowski Computational brain
1 Clark & Yuille Data fusion for sensory information processing
1 Dowling Neurons & networks
1 Dowling The retina
1 Fischler & Firschein Readings in computer vision
1 Gordon Theories of visual perception
1 Green & Swets
1 Gulick Hearing
1 Haralick & Shapiro Computer and robot vision
1 Humphreys Understanding vision
1 Kemp The science of art
1 Kuffler From neuron to brain
1 LeGrand
1 Martin The joy of drawing
1 Rock The perceptual world
1 Sonka, Hlavac, Boyle Image processing, analysis and machine vision
1 Uttal A taxonomy of visual processes
Robert P. O'Shea
Department of Psychology Phone: +64 (3) 479 7617
University of Otago Fax: +64 (3) 479 8335
P.O. Box 56, Dunedin e-mail: r_oshea@otago.ac.nz
New Zealand
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 15:45:34 GMT
From: sbk+@cs.cmu.edu (Sing Bing Kang)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Subject: Commercial Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system?
Sorry if this question has been raised in this newsgroup before, but can
anyone recommend any commercial OCR (optical character recognition) system/s
and the address of the distributor?
Desirables: able to read in most printed text, including newspapers and
journals. Would be great if there is accompanying software for contextual
search for keywords. Information on the latter would also be greatly
appreciated.
I shall post a summary of the responses if there is interest in them. Thanks!
Sing Bing Kang
The Robotics Institute E-mail: sbk@cs.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University Phone: (412) 268-8101
5000 Forbes Ave. Fax: (412) 621-1970
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891
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Date: 25 Aug 93 15:22:28 GMT
From: salmo@ruccs.rutgers.edu (Brian Fisher)
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science
Subject: Faculty position in Cognitive Science, Rutgers U., NJ
The following advertisement is about to appear in several publications...
"Tenure track position at Full, Associate or Assistant Professor level with a
joint appointment between the newly created Center for Cognitive Science and
any of the Departments of Psychology, Computer Science, Linguistics,
Philosophy, Neuroscience, or Engineering as appropriate for the candidate's
research specialization and training.
Candidates are sought with research interests in any area of Cognitive
Science. Those who specialize in the study of psycholinguistics,
computational linguistics, perception (especially object perception),
concept formation, reasoning, cognitive development, knowledge
representation or human interface design are especially encouraged to apply.
Preference will be given to candidates with demonstrated ability to work
across disciplinary boundaries, especially using techniques and ideas from
computer science, artificial intelligence, and the mathematics of computing
and knowledge representation.
Responsibilities will include maintenance of an active research program,
participation in the Center's activities, as well as some graduate and
undergraduate teaching in the academic department with which the candidate
is associated. Assignment of teaching responsibilities will take into
account the candidate's activities in the Center.
Post-doctoral research experience is highly desirable for candidates at the
assistant professor level. Evidence of an active research program and a
history of extramural grant support is expected of candidates for a senior
level position.
Send letter of application, curriculum vitae and names of three references
who should be asked to provide letters directly to Chair, Cognitive Science
Search Committee, RuCCS, P.O. Box 1179, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855-1179.
Rutgers University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply."
***Please direct inquiries to admin@ruccs.rutgers.edu NOT salmo@ruccs***
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 93 16:04:00 EDT
From: sw@ai.mit.edu (William M. Wells)
Subject: AAAI symposium call for participation
ANNOUNCEMENT
AAAI 1994 Spring Symposium Series
APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTER VISION IN MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING
March 21-23, 1994
Stanford University
Significant interest and activity in medical image processing has
developed among computer vision researchers in the last several years.
This interdisciplinary activity is still in a relatively early stage
of development, in terms of applied technology, and the size of the
research efforts.
This symposium is intended to serve several purposes:
* To bring together vision and robotics researchers
who are currently applying computer vision to medical
image processing problems.
* To increase communication between established researchers
in medical image processing and computer vision researchers.
* To provide information to researchers that are
interested in the field.
The symposium will consist of short presentations of papers and work
in progress, and discussions. Working notes will be produced and
distributed to the participants.
Specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
* image guided medical procedures / robotics
* image processing applied to laparoscopic and other endoscopic procedures
* change detection in medical images
* recognition in medical images
* multimodal registration of medical images
* elastic registration of medical images
* motion analysis in medical images
* anatomical atlases
* applications of computer vision in segmentation of medical imagery
Prospective participants are invited to submit one of the following to
the symposium chair by October 15, 1993: an abstract of a paper to be
presented, a description of research in progress, or a statement
describing what you hope to contribute to and gain from the symposium.
Organizing Committee:
William M. Wells III ** (chair), Harvard Medical School
Eric Grimson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, welg@ai.mit.edu
Ron Kikinis, Harvard Medical School, kikinis@bwh.harvard.edu
Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University, tk@cs.cmu.edu
Nicholas Ayache, INRIA, ayache@sophia.inria.fr
** Department of Radiology
Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital
75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
tel (617) 278-0622 fax (617) 732-7963
sw@ai.mit.edu
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 09:08:17 +0200
From: Stefan.Carlsson@bion.kth.se
Subject: 2nd call for papers ECCV-94
2:nd Call for Papers --- ECCV 94
Third European Conference on Computer Vision
2--6 May 1994, Stockholm, Sweden
The Third European Conference on Computer Vision is an international conference
devoted to recent research in computer vision. The conference is arranged by
appointment of the European Vision Society and supported by KTH, The Royal
Institute of Technology.
Contributions are sought on new research on any aspect of computer vision. All
papers will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee. Accepted papers will
be presented as long papers, short papers, or posters in a single track.
Four copies of full length papers should be submitted to:
Prof. Jan-Olof Eklundh
KTH, NADA
S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
Deadline for paper submission 25 October 1993
Notification of acceptance mid December
Deadline for Camera-Ready Copy 1 February 1994
The papers submitted for review should include a title page containing the title
of the contribution, the name(s) and address(es) of the author(s), an abstract
no longer than 200 words, and keywords characterizing the contribution
They should also include a second anonymous title page, uit
be no longer than 25 pages (including both title pages, figures and references)
and must not contain more than 10000 words.
Papers that do not fulfill these conditions may be returned without further review.
Correspondence will be addressed to the first author.
The proceedings are published by Springer-Verlag in the series ``Lecture Notes in
Computer Science''. A selection of the best papers will be published in a special
issue of Image and Vision Computing Journal.
Information
Prof. Jan-Olof Eklundh
KTH, NADA
S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel: +46--8 790 81 61
Fax: +46--8 723 03 02
Email: eccv94@bion.kth.se
Conference Chairman
Jan-Olof Eklundh Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Conference Board
M. Brady Oxford University
B. Buxton GEC Hirst Research Center
O. Faugeras INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis
G. Granlund Link"oping University
D. Hogg Leeds University
J. Mayhew Sheffield University
R. Mohr INPG, Grenoble
H. Nagel IITB, Karlsruhe
B. Neumann Hamburg University
G. Sandini University of Genova
V. Torre University of Genova
Program Committee
N. Ayache INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis
R. Bajcsy University of Pennsylvania
A. Blake Oxford University
P. Bouthemy IRISA, Rennes
H. Burkhard University of Hamburg-Harburg
H. Buxton Queen Mary and Westfield College, London
S. Carlsson Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
A. Casals University of Barcelona
J. Crowley INPG, Grenoble
R. Deriche INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis
E. Granum Aalborg University
I. Gurevitch Russian Academy of Science, Moscow
R. Horaud INPG, Grenoble
L. Kirousis University of Patras
H. Knutsson Link"oping University
W. Enkelmann IITB, Karlsruhe
J. Porrill Sheffield University
W. von Seelen Bochum University
G. Sparr Lund University
G. Sullivan University of Reading
M. Tistarelli University of Genova
S. Tsuji Osaka University
D. Vernon CEC DG XIII, Brussels
A. Verri University of Genova
A. Zisserman Oxford University
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