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Today's Topics:
Discriminating between solid objects and lighting artefacts
Voroni/Delauny diagrams
Research Assistantships for PhD Students in Computer Science
Job Opportunities
1994 Conference: Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XIII
Call for Articles: Automatic Target Recognition issue, Neural Networks
1994 DISCOVER AWARDS *** LAST CALL ***
Second Call For Papers AI94
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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 95 18:55:19 WET
From: whb@vvl.co.uk (Henry Bruce)
Subject: Discriminating between solid objects and lighting artefacts
I am interested in discriminating between solid objects and lighting
artefacts (e.g. shadows).
I realise that this may be possible using stereo techniques
(can anyone confirm this?), but I am interested in a single sensor
solution. I have developed various image processing implementations
but these have proved to be unsuccessful and have a "hacky" feel about them
anyway. I feel that machine vision techniques will provide a better solution.
Pointers to relevant papers and texts would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Henry Bruce
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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 07:51:00 -10752
From: Feisal Mohammed <feisal@ldc.uwi.tt>
Subject: Voroni/Delauny diagrams
Hi,
Does anybody know where I can find code in C to compute Voroni and
Delauny diagrams. I have acess to Preparata and Shamos's book on
"Computational Geometry", but so far I am getting difficulty in
implementing the algorithms. I need to compute the diagrams in order
to get a set of closest points in a series of images. Any help I get
will be greatly appreciated.
Feisal Mohammed
Dept. Mech. Eng.
University of the West Indies
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 08:53 PST
From: wilbur@constitution.ucr.edu (Wilhelm Burger)
Subject: Research Assistantships for PhD Students in Computer Science
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Research Assistantships for PhD Students in Computer Science
- Computer Vision, AI -
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University of California, Riverside
College of Engineering
The College of Engineering at the University of California in
Riverside, is seeking candidates for several research assistant-
ships in the Computer Science PhD program with a focus on
Computer Vision, Image Processing, and AI.
Specific research areas include object recognition, machine
learning, perception-based navigation, and image databases, with
applications in target recognition, medical image analysis,
robotics, and manufacturing.
Applicants should have completed a Masters Degree in EE or CS,
outstanding GRE and GPA scores, and possibly research experience
in one of the above areas (e.g., Masters thesis or project).
They should be willing to enter the program by Summer or Fall
1994. Dependent on the individual progress, positions are ususal-
ly renewed on a year-to-year basis. Foreign nationals are wel-
come to apply.
Individuals interested in this opportunity should submit their
resume and 2 letters of reference to
Mrs. Flavia Ramey
Ref: "Research Assistantship"
University of California
College of Engineering
Riverside, CA 92521-0425
U.S.A.
Enquiries regarding this program can be made by electronic mail to
vision@constitution.ucr.edu.
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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 94 09:42:33 BST
From: Brian Bell <Brian.Bell@src.bae.co.uk>
Subject: Job Opportunities
Advanced Information Processing dept.
Sowerby Research Centre,
British Aerospace,
Bristol,
England.
Applications are invited for researchers to work in the following
areas:- Intelligent Systems, Data Fusion, Neural Networks, Systems
Architectures, KBS and Computer Vision.
The Sowerby Research Centre, Bristol is the corporate research facility
for the British Aerospace group, a world leader in the design and
manufacture of products at the leading edge of technology. The centre
employs 160 scientists and provides excellent facilities including
Unix-based workstations and Cray computers, enhanced by one of the most
advanced networks in the UK.
The AIP department contains a staff of 25 computer scientists,
mathematicians and physicists. It has an excellent research record
achieved by participation in collaborative projects (e.g. CEC,DTI) and
by performing company-funded research. The skills gained in these
projects have then been used to build prototype and production systems
for customers within BAe.
*****
Type of Post:- A number of posts are available at varying levels of seniority.
Job Description:- Each of these posts will require you to pursue
research of a world class standard so that competences can be demonstrated
to the BAe company. This will usually be in the form of software/hardware
demonstrators developed by small teams of researchers. All researchers are
expected to present their work to a variety of audiences (e.g. company
presentations, academic conferences), and are encouraged to publish their
results in international journals. Some posts will require planning and
management of those research teams and direct liaison with the department's
many customers.
Type of Applicant Sought:- General Applicants must have a proven
ability to initiate and conduct research of world class standard in one
or more of the above areas.
Qualifications:- At least a II/I first degree and further qualification in
a relevant specialist subject, ideally to Ph.D level
Other skills:- Experience with C and Unix essential, a sound grasp of
mathematical principles desirable
Salary:- 15Kpounds -- 25K+pounds/annum.
*****
If you are interested in the above posts please contact:-
Mick Brown
Sowerby Research Centre (FPC 267)
British Aerospace, Filton
Bristol, BS12 7QW
Tel. 0272-366216, Fax. 0272-363733
e-mail: brown@src.bae.co.uk
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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 94 16:56:30 EST
From: <mat@ai.mit.edu>
Subject: 1994 Conference: Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XIII
Ref.: Call for Papers and Announcement
ABSTRACT DUE DATE: 4 April 1994
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1994 Conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XIII:
Algorithms, Techniques, Active Vision,
(Part of SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Tools for
Manufacturing and Advanced Automation)
31 October - 4 November 1994
Hynes Convention Center
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
CONFERENCE CHAIR:
=================
David P. Casasent, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
COCHAIR:
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Ernest L. Hall, Univ. of Cincinnati
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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Mongi A. Abidi, Univ. of Tennessee/Knox- ville;
Rolf-Jurgen Ahlers, Rauschenberger Metallwaren GmbH (FRG);
Bruce G. Batchelor, Univ. of Wales College Cardiff (UK);
Madan M. Gupta, Univ. of Saskatchewan (Canada);
Ian Horswill, AI Lab./MIT;
Sunanda Mitra, Texas Tech Univ.;
Prasanna Mulg- aonkar, SRI Intl.;
Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic Univ.;
Ellen M. Reid, Motorola Corp.;
Steven K. Rogers, Air Force Institute of Technology;
Juha Roning, Univ. of Oulu (Finland);
Scott A. Starks, Univ. of Texas/El Paso;
M. Ali Taalebinezhaad, Laval Univ. (Canada);
Hemant D. Tagare, Yale Univ.;
Andrew K.C. Wong, Univ. of Waterloo (Canada)
This thirteenth meeting of the series will focus on new algorithms and
techniques for intelligent robots and computer vision.
Papers are solicited specifically for the following SESSION TOPICS:
* active vision
* intelligent packaging and processing
* intelligent robots for material handling
* pattern recognition, image processing, and
segmentation for intelligent robots and computer vision
* morphological image processing techniques and applications
* wavelet and Gabor transform processing
* color image processing
* image understanding and scene analysis
* object modeling and recognition
* 3-D vision: modeling, representation, perception, processing, and
recognition
* predictive 3-D vision
* neural networks, associative and inference processors, model-based processors
* fuzzy logic in intelligent systems and computer vision
* biological basis for the design of sensors in computer vision
ABSTRACT DUE DATE: 4 April 1994
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Acceptance Notifications by 20 June 1994
Manuscript Due Date: 8 August 1994
(NOTE: PROCEEDINGS WILL BE AVAILABLE ON SITE. MANUSCRIPT DUE DATE MUST
BE STRICTLY OBSERVED.)
SUBMISSION OF ABASTRACTS:
* Send abstract (ASCII format) via E-MAIL to:
abstracts@mom.spie.org
* or FAX one copy to SPIE at (206)647-1445
* or MAIL four copies to:
OE/Technology '94
SPIE, P.O.Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010
Shippiing Address: 1000 20th St., Bellingham, WA 98225, USA
Phone (206)676-3290, Telex 46-7053
YOUR ABASTRACT SHOULD INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
1. Abstract Title:
2. Author Listing (Principal author first)
Full names and affiliations.
3. Correspondence for EACH Author
Mailing address, telephone, telfax, e-mail address.
4. Submitted TO:
Conference tilte: Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XIII
(Conference chair: David P. Casasent)
at OE/Technology '94
5. Presentation:
Indicate your preference for "Oral Presentation" or
"Poster Presentation."
Placement subject to chairs' discretion.
6. Abstract Text:
250 words.
7. Brief Biography (principal author only)
50 to 100 words.
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Date: 28 Mar 1994 20:34:20 GMT
From: announce@retina.bu.edu (Dept of Cognitive and Neural Systems)
Organization: Information Technology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Subject: Call for Articles: Automatic Target Recognition issue, Neural Networks
***** CALL FOR PAPERS *****
1995 Special Issue of the journal Neural Networks
on "Neural Networks for Automatic Target Recognition"
ATR is a many-faceted problem of tremendous importance in industrial and
defense applications. Biological systems excel at these tasks, and neural
networks may provide a robust, real-time, and compact means for achieving
solutions to ATR problems. ATR systems utilize a host of sensing modalities
(visible, multispectral, IR, SAR, and ISAR imagery; radar, sonar, and acoustic
time series; and fusion of multiple sensing modalities) in order to detect and
track targets in clutter, and classify them. This Special Issue will bring
together a broad range of invited and contributed articles that explore a
variety of software and hardware modules and systems, and biological
inspirations, focused on solving ATR problems. We particularly welcome
articles involving applications to real data, though the journal cannot
publish classified material. It will be the responsibility of the submitting
authors to insure that all submissions are of an unclassified nature.
CO-EDITORS:
Professor Stephen Grossberg, Boston University
Dr. Harold Hawkins, Office of Naval Research
Dr. Allen Waxman, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
SUBMISSION:
Deadline for submission: October 31, 1994
Notification of acceptance: January 15, 1995
Format: as for normal papers in the journal (APA format) and no longer
than 10,000 words
ADDRESS FOR PAPERS:
Professor Stephen Grossberg
Editor, Neural Networks
Boston University
Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
111 Cummington Street
Room 244
Boston, MA 02215 USA
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Date: 25 Mar 1994 18:10:10 GMT
From: disaward@netaxs.com (Media Management Services, Inc.)
Organization: Net Access - Philadelphia's Internet Connection
Subject: 1994 DISCOVER AWARDS *** LAST CALL ***
*** THE APRIL 1ST, 1994 DEADLINE IS APPROACHING!!! ***
The 1994 DISCOVER Awards for Technological Innovation
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DISCOVER Magazine is pleased to announce that it is now
accepting nominations for the fifth annual DISCOVER Awards
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Companies, research institutions, and individuals are invited
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Winning innovations and their inventors will be featured in
a special October 1994 DISCOVER Awards issue. Plus, all
finalists and winners will be showcased at "Innoventions," a
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If you would like to receive a nomination package, please
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1994 DISCOVER AWARDS Phone #: (800) 637-8509
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Date: 28 Mar 94 12:22:33 GMT
From: ai94@fermat.une.edu.au (Artificial Intelligence Conference 1994)
Subject: Second Call For Papers AI94
S E C O N D C A L L F O R P A P E R S
Seventh Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'94)
"Sowing the Seeds for the Future"
21 - 25 November 1994
Proudly sponsored by
Microsoft Institute (principal sponsor),
IBM, Sun Microsystems, Australian Computer Society, and
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing Science (UNE).
Hosted by
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing Science
The University of New England,Armidale, N.S.W., 2351, AUSTRALIA
AI'94 is the Seventh Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
The theme of the conference is "Sowing the Seeds for the Future", which reflects
the nature of research in Artificial Intelligence. The goal of the conference
is to promote research in artificial intelligence (AI) and scientific
interchange among AI researchers and practitioners. AI'94 will be hosted by
The Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing Science at The
University of New England, between Monday 21st November and Friday 25th
November 1994. The conference programme will consist of formal tutorials and
workshops on the Monday and Tuesday, a Postgraduate session on Tuesday, and
technical paper presentation sessions from Wednesday 23rd to Friday 25th of
November. In addition to these sessions there will be three Keynote addresses
from renowned international speakers.
Wednesday, 23rd November : Professor Wolfgang Wahlster,
German Research Center for AI (DFKI)
Topic of address : Intellimedia: Planning Language, Graphics and
Layout for Adaptive Information Presentation
Wolfgang Wahlster is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the
Department of Computer Science at the University of Saarbruecken, Germany
where he currently serves as a Scientific Director of the German Research
Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Since 1975 he has been the
principal investigator in various language projects, including HAM-ANS,
WISBER, SC, XTRA, VITRA and WIP. He has published over 100 technical papers
on natural language processing. His current research includes intelligent
multimodal interfaces, user modeling, natural language scene description,
intelligent help systems, and deductive plan recognition and generation.
Prof. Wahlster is on the editorial boards of various international journals
and book series such as Artificial Intelligence, Applied Artificial
Intelligence, User Modeling and User-adapted Interaction, Symbolic
Computation and the MIT-ACL series. He is a AAAI Fellow and a recipient of
the Fritz Winter Award, one of the most prestigious awards for engineering
sciences in Germany, for his research on cooperative user interfaces. Prof.
Wahlster served as the Conference Chair for IJCAI-93 in Chambery and the
Chair of the Board of Trustees of IJCAII from 1991 -1993.
Thursday, 24th November : Professor Katia Sycara,
Carnegie Mellon University
Topic of address : The Present and Future of Distributed
Artificial Intelligence
Katia Sycara is a Research Scientist in the School of Computer Science at
Carnegie Mellon University. She is also Director of the Enterprise
Integration Laboratory. She is directing and conducting research aimed at
developing decision support systems for integrating organisational decision
making. Her doctoral research contributed to the definition of the
case-based reasoning paradigm. She has been Principal Investigator of
various government and industry funded research (e.g. distributed
scheduling, concurrent engineering, enterprise integration, case-based
Engineering design, crisis action planning). Dr. Sycara is the author of a
book on manufacturing and over 70 technical papers dealing with
negotiation, distributed problem solving, case-based reasoning, integration
of case-based reasoning with other problem solving methods, and
constraint-based reasoning. She is the Area Editor for AI and Management
Science for the journal "Group Decision and Negotiation" and on the
editorial board of "AI in Engineering" and "Concurrent Engineering:
Research and Applications". She is a member of AAAI, ACM, IEEE, and the
Institute for Management Science (TIMS).
Friday, 25th November : Professor John F. Sowa,
State University of New York - Binghamton
Topic of Address : Sharing and Integrating Knowledge Bases
John F. Sowa is the author of the book Conceptual Structures, which in the
past ten years has led to a world-wide movement of people who are using,
implementing, and extending the theory of conceptual graphs. He had been
working at IBM for 30 years on various aspects of computer systems design
and development, especially artificial intelligence and computational
linguistics. Now, he is teaching, writing, and working on standards for
conceptual schemas with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
and the International Standards Organization (ISO).
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Dr. Chengqi Zhang (co-chair); UNE Dr. Dickson Lukose; UNE
Prof. John Debenham (co-chair); UTS Dr. Anand Rao; AAII
A/Prof. Mike Brooks; Adelaide A/Prof. Claude Sammut; UNSW
Dr. Jennie Clothier; DSTO A/Prof. Liz Sonenberg; Melbourne
Dr. Robert Dale; Microsoft Prof. Rodney Topor; Griffith
A/Prof. Wee Leng Goh; NTU, Singapore Dr. Wayne Wobcke; Sydney
Mr. Andy Horsfall; Fujitsu Dr. Xindong Wu; James Cook
Prof. Ray Jarvis; Monash Dr. Xin Yao; ADFA
Dr. Chris Leckie; TRL Dr. Waikiang Yeap; Otago, N.Z.
Dr. Craig Lindley; CSIRO
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Dr. Dickson Lukose (chair) Dr. Simant Dube Mr. Prakash Bhandari
Mr. Allan Williams (secretary) Dr. Gregory Zevin Ms. Gabrielle Aldridge
We invite authors to submit papers describing both experimental and
theoretical results from all stages of AI research. We encourage submission of
papers that describe innovative concepts, techniques, perspectives, or
observations that are not yet supported by mature results. Such submissions
must include substantial analysis of the ideas, the technology needed to
realise them, and their potential impact. Papers describing applied AI are
particularly solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Machine Learning Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge Acquisition Artificial Intelligence Applications
Natural Language Generation Intelligent Decision Support Systems
Natural Language Understanding Cognitive Modeling
Hybrid Systems Robotics
Genetic Algorithms Vision
Evolutionary Programming Planning and Scheduling
Knowledge Based Systems Neural Network
Knowledge Representation Image Analysis
Qualitative Reasoning Automated Reasoning
Authors must submit five (5) copies of the completed paper to the AI'94
Conference Secretary, which should be received by or on 15th June 1994. All
five (5) copies of the submitted paper must be clearly legible. Neither
computer files nor fax submission are acceptable. Papers received after
15th June 1994 will be returned unopened. Notification of receipt will be
mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt.
PAPER FORMAT FOR REVIEW
All five copies of the submissions must be printed on 8 1/2" x 11" or A4
paper using 12 point type (10 characters per inch for typewriters or 12
point LaTeX article-style). The body of submitted papers must be at most 8
pages, including figures, tables, diagrams, and bibliography, but excluding
the title page. Papers exceeding the specified length or not conforming to
the formatting requirements are subject to rejection without review. Each
copy of the paper must have a title page (separate from the body of the
paper) containing the title of the paper, the names and addresses of all
authors, telephone number, fax number, electronic mail address, a short
(less than 200 word) abstract, topic, and a keyword list. The body of the paper
must also contain a copy of the title and abstract without any author
details. In addition each page within the paper must be clearly numbered.
To facilitate the reviewing process, authors are requested to select
their paper's keywords from the list below. Authors are invited to add
additional keywords to their keyword list if necessary.
Artificial Life, Automated Reasoning, Behaviour-Based Control, Belief
Revision, Case-Based Reasoning, Cognitive Modelling, Common Sense
Reasoning, Communication and Cooperation, Constraint-Based Reasoning,
Computer-Aided Education, Connectionist Models, Corpus-Based Language
Analysis, Deduction, Diagnosis, Discourse Analysis, Distributed Problem
Solving, Expert Systems, Geometrical Reasoning, Information Extraction,
Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Representation, Knowledge Sharing
Technology, Large Scale Knowledge Engineering, Learning/Adaptation, Machine
Learning, Machine Translation, Mathematical Foundations, Multi-Agent
Planning, Natural Language Processing, Neural Networks, Nonmonotonic
Reasoning, Perception, Planning, Probabilistic Reasoning, Qualitative
Reasoning, Reasoning about Action, Reasoning about Physical Systems,
Reactivity, Robot Navigation, Robotics, Rule-Based Reasoning, Scheduling,
Search, Sensor Interpretation, Sensory Fusion/Fission, Simulation, Situated
Cognition, Spatial Reasoning, Speech Recognition, System Architectures,
Temporal Reasoning, Terminological Reasoning, Theorem Proving, Truth
Maintenance, User Interfaces, Virtual Reality, Vision, 3-D Model
Acquisition.
Each paper will be carefully reviewed. The criteria that will be given to the
conference reviewers have been reproduced below. Authors are advised to bear
these criteria in mind while writing their papers: How important is the work
reported? Does it attack an important/difficult problem or a
peripheral/simple one? Does the approach offered advance the state of the
art? Has this or similar work been previously reported? Are the problems
and approaches completely new? Is this a novel combination of familiar
techniques? Does the paper point out differences from related research? Is
it re-inventing the wheel using new terminology? Is the paper technically
sound? Does it carefully evaluate the strengths and limitations of its
contribution? How are its claims backed up? Is the paper clearly written?
Does it motivate the research? Does it describe clearly the algorithms or
techniques employed? Does the paper describe previous work? Are the results
described and evaluated? Is the paper organised in a logical fashion?
PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATION
The proceedings of AI'94 will be published by World Scientific Publishers.
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for paper submission : 15th June 1994
Notification of acceptance : 31st July 1994
Camera Ready Copy : 22nd August 1994
Conference : 21st - 25th November 1994
FURTHER INFORMATION
All enquires regarding AI'94 and papers submitted to AI'94 should be directed
to the following address:
AI'94 Conference Secretary
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing Science
The University of New England, Armidale, N.S.W., 2351, AUSTRALIA
E-mail: ai94@fermat.une.edu.au
You may e-mail the following address with the Subject Heading "help" to
obtain details on AI'94, UNE, and Armidale.
ai94-info@fermat.une.edu.au
ai94-info mail server has been established to enable electronic request for
information regarding AI'94 Conference.
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