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Today's Topics:
Request on OO Image Analysis Packages
Partitioning full-motion video
NEW 3D-DEVICE
Fractal dimension
PhD Topics in Computer Vision
Looking for a SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar) simulator
Need fiducial marks
2 Research posts in Multimedia and Imaging Applications
Medical Robotics Research Programmer Job
European Science Foundation (ESF) Scientific Network debut
GRANTS FOR SPAIN
IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision CALL FOR PAPERS
CFP#2 - Videometrics IV
CFP: Conference on Digital Image Storage and Archiving Systems
French Doctoral Thesis available: neural information processing in
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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 95 10:51:00 IST
From: vasan@cmch.ernet.in
Subject: Request on OO Image Analysis Packages
Hi
Could somebody out there help me with information on whether
Image Analysis/Processing packages following the Object-oriented
methodology are available commercially or in public domain.
If in public-domain, would appreciate the site information.
My e-mail address is vasan@cmch.ernet.in
Thanks in advance
srini
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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 13:48:23 +0000 (GMT)
From: LACASCIA@vlsipa.cres.it
Subject: Partitioning full-motion video
Hi,
My work is involved in looking at automatic partitioning of
full-motion video. Basically I'm looking for automatic detection of
boundaries where "cuts" occur in a video-clip. If you have any
experience, could you send me references, ftp addresses of papers,
etc.. Thanks in advance,
Sincerely,
Marco La Cascia Department of Electrical Engineering
lacascia@vlsipa.cres.it University of Palermo
(39) 91 6566273 Palermo, ITALY
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Date: 14 Feb 1995 10:08:09 GMT
Subject: NEW 3D-DEVICE
From: Annette.Jarl@udac.se (Annette Jarl)
UDAC Multimedia announces the availability of 3D-MAX, the first PC-based
low-cost, high quality shutter-glasses 3D-system.
3D-MAX is - in contrast to other PC-based LCD-glasses - a hardware
solution. Hence, 3D-MAX allows for field rates up to 120 Hz, operates in
all graphic modes up to 1024*768 and up to 65K-colors.
Since 3D-MAX utilizes interlaced graphic modes, you do not need to have an
expensive stereo-capable monitor.
3D-MAX enables stereo-capabilities for DOS- and Windows based applications.
3D-MAX brings workstation quality, flickerfree stereo computer graphics to
your desktop for an outstanding low price.
Easy programming interface and great development tools!
For more information on 3D-MAX, check out the 3D-MAX WWW-pages at:
http://www.ThreeD-MAX.udac.se/ or visit our booth at CeBIT'95 in Hannover,
8-15.3 1995, Hall 8, Stand B47.
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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 95 15:37:21 GMT
From: "diallo@uriens.shfj.cea.fr" <diallo@uriens.shfj.cea.fr>
Subject: Fractal dimension
I'm looking for programs in C/C++ to compute the fractal dimension
on pictures or 1D signals.
Thank you
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Date: 14 Feb 1995 00:19:32 GMT
From: Michael J Mayo <mikem@atlas.otago.ac.nz>
Organization: Otago University
Subject: PhD Topics in Computer Vision
Hi all,
I am about to embark on a PhD in AI, possibly computer vision.
Can anyone out there inform me of some current and exciting
potential research topics?
Please email me!
Cheers,
Mike.
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Date: 15 Feb 1995 05:28:36 GMT
From: Jeong Cha-Gyun <cgjeong@hjstar.postech.ac.kr>
Organization: POSTECH, Pohang, Korea
Subject: Looking for a SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar) simulator
Hi!
We are looking for a SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar) simulator. Using
the data generated by this system, we are going to do the basic
research on SAR signal processing. Please let me know the contact
point, the specifications, and the estimated price for this product.
Thanks in advance.
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 13:40:30 +0900
From: PARK_HYUNG_GUN <phg@ssard.ssalab.samsung.co.kr>
Subject: Need fiducial marks
Hi!
Can anybody point me where I can get some images of fiducial mark(on
PCB) or electronic devices(such as registors, chips...).
Any information will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Park HyungGun
phg@ssard.ssalab.samsung.co.kr
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Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 21:52:43 GMT
From: vassilis@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Vassilis Konstantino")
Organization: Compulink Information eXchange
Subject: 2 Research posts in Multimedia and Imaging Applications
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DIVISION
University of Westminster
The AI Division of the University of Westminster is pleased to announce
vacancies for two research posts (1 Full-time Research Fellow and 1
Full-time Research Assistant). The posts are linked with a new European
project funded under the LIBRARIES initiative and involves new imaging and
retrieval techniques. The duration of the project is 15 months and it is
expected to start in March 1995.
The successful applicants must possess:
1) Academic qualifications (preferably at postgraduate level) in a
computing related area.
2) Advanced working knowledge of programming in C/C++, Unix and
Microsoft Windows.
3) Experience in the development of multimedia/image-intensive systems.
4) Research experience in the development of imaging techniques.
Salary scales: Research Assistant #11,088 - #14,631 p.a.
Research Fellow #15,345 - #22,428 p.a.
For more information and arrange for an informal meeting please send a
detailed CV to one of following addresses:
V. Konstantinou
Head of AI Division
University of Westminster
115 New Cavendish Str
London W1M 8JS
Tel: 0171 - 911 5000 ext 3599
Fax: 0171 - 911 5876
Email: vassilis@westminster.ac.uk
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Date: 14 Feb 1995 14:17:17 GMT
From: MRCAS project <mrcas@cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Subject: Medical Robotics Research Programmer Job
POSITION OFFERED:
Research Programmer
LOCATION:
Center for Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery
The Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
GROUP DESCRIPTION:
The Center for Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery (MRCAS) was formed
to foster the application of robotic technologies within medicine. In addition
to the ongoing work within the Robotics Institute, MRCAS draws upon additional
personnel and resources from departments such as Electrical Engineering,
Biomedical Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Computer Science. MRCAS has
three primary goals:
* Raise the awareness and support for robotics and computer assisted
techniques within medicine.
* Promote collaboration between physicians and technical researchers.
* Perform application-oriented research aimed at current clinical needs.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
We are looking for a highly qualified individual to design and develop software
for both research and clinical needs. Many of the programming tasks will include
interactive graphical components. Systems currently under development include:
* Pre-operative planner for orthopaedic surgery
* Real-time graphical overlay device for surgical use
* Frameless intra-surgical registration systems
* Robot-assisted surgical system
The successful candidate should have 3+ years of programming experience.
Necessary attributes include:
* Excellent C programming skills
* Graphics programming background
* Knowledge of Unix
**** High level of self-motivation and desire to learn ****
The ideal candidate will also have experience with:
* Silicon Graphics (SGI) Programming and Administration
* AVS (the Application Visualization System)
* Visualization Programming
* A familiarity with medical imaging (CT, MRI, etc.)
TO APPLY:
Resumes will be accepted either via electronic or physical mail. In
particular, please comment on your background in each of the bulleted
items above.
Email address: mrcas@ri.cmu.edu
Physical address:
MRCAS - Programmer Job Review
The Robotics Institute
Smith Hall
5000 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
CMU EQUAL EMPLOYMENT POLICY
Carnegie Mellon University does not discriminate and Carnegie Mellon University
is required not to discriminate in admission, employment, or administration of
its programs on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex or handicap in
violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the
Educational Amendments of 1972, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of
1973 or other federal, state or local laws, or executive orders.
In addition, Carnegie Mellon University does not discriminate in admission,
employment, or administration of its programs on the basis of religion, creed,
ancestry, belief, age, veteran status, sexual orientation or in violation of
federal, state or local laws, or executive orders. While the federal government
does continue to exclude gays, lesbians and bisexuals from receiving ROTC
scholarships or serving in the military, ROTC classes on this campus are
available to all students.
Inquiries concerning application of these statements should be directed to the
Provost, Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
telephone 412 / 268-6684
or the Vice President for Enrollment Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
telephone 412 / 268-2056
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 95 19:27:18 +0100
From: <fmurtagh@eso.org>
Subject: European Science Foundation (ESF) Scientific Network debut
European Science Foundation (ESF) 'scientific network' on "Converging
Computing Methodologies in Astronomy" makes its debut...
An ESF scientific network provides funding for work visits and workshops
over a 3-year period. The above scientific network started at the beginning
of this year. Among central topics are:
* From vision models to image information retrieval:
Methods such as wavelets and multiresolution approaches, mathematical
morphology, and fuzzy methods have proven their worth in the framework of
accessing appropriate information from large image databases. Such methods
must be moulded together to allow semantically-driven access to data.
* The data life-cycle - methodological aspects:
The astronomical data life-cycle is highly digital: data capture is
increasingly on CCD electronic detectors, data are subject to image
processing and statistical treatment, and the final major stage in this
process involves data archiving, and publication. Not surprisingly,
the issues of electronic publishing and of digital libraries are
increasingly central.
* From data integration to information integration:
Particular data integration (data fusion) problems, such as integration
of data associated with different wavelength ranges, are of great
relevance in the context of large space- and ground-based observing
projects. E.g. co-addition in image restoration; image restoration and
filtering approaches which incorporate semantic information on the cosmic
objects of interest; close, complementary use of multi-million object
astronomical catalogs; classification of terabyte data collections.
Long-term access to stored data - what should be the "future of [society's]
memory?". Beyond data, astronomy is all about information. Compression is
central - in a broad sense, compression is summarization, and therefore is
part of the overall process of scientific analysis.
Coordinating committee of the scientific network: A. Bijaoui (Nice), V. Di
Gesu (Palermo), A. Heck (Strasbourg), M.J. Kurtz (Harvard), P. Linde (Lund),
M.C. Maccarone (Palermo) - Chair, R. McMahon (Cambridge), R. Molina (Granada),
F. Murtagh (Munich) - Secretary, E. Raimond (Dwingeloo).
Further information will be available on the WWW at the address:
http://www.hq.eso.org/conv-comp.html
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 11:07:35 +0000
From: lmtb@plc.um.es (Luis-Manuel Tomas-Balibrea)
Subject: GRANTS FOR SPAIN
The Spanish Ministry for Universities & Research has summones several
placements in Spain for FOREIGN RESEARCHES having a SABBATICAL YEAR regimen.
The aim of the programm is to enhace the cooperation liks between the
Spanish scientifical and technical community and prestigious researchers
working abroad and interested in developping a research project in Spain.
REQUERIMENTS: Foreign researchers or Spanish ones (but living abroad) having
a Sabbatical Year regimen and entitled as Doctor at least 7 years before the
deadline.
PERIOD: From 3 month to one year uninterruptedly
GRANTS: From 250.000 to 400.000 Pts/month (1562 to 2500 ECU/month)
DEADLINE: 28.04.95
The Vision and Robotics Group of the University of Murcia offers to accept
researches in this proposal.
For further details, please contact.
Dr. Luis-Manuel Tomas Balibrea
Grupo de Vision y Robotica
Departamento de Automatica, Electricidad y Electronica Industrial
Universidad de Murcia
Paseo Alfonso XIII, 48
E-30203 CARTAGENA (MURCIA) -SPAIN-
Phone: 34.68.505912 ext. 276
Fax: 34.68.505310 or 34.68.505852
E-mail: lmtb@plc.um.es
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 17:10:10 +0000
From: lmtb@plc.um.es (Luis-Manuel Tomas-Balibrea)
Subject: INTEGRATED ACTIONS
CALL FOR RESEARCH ACTIONS SPAIN/AUSTRIA, FRANCE, ITALY, PORTUGAL, UNITED
KINGDON OR GERMANY
These Integrated Actions consists of transnational research projects. The=
objetive is to promove joint projects that could enhace the exchange of
knowledgments between scientifics and laboratories by giving grants for
travel and accomodation expenses for Researching Groups integrated by a
Responsable scientific researcher+trainees or other personal staff as
assistants, etc.
GRANTS
No more than 4 trips and 8 weeks for placements and Group (no more that 1
trip for trainees). Max 3 years.
TARGET COUNTRIES/DEADLINES:
AUSTRIA: 30/9/95
FRANCE: 31/5/95
ITALY: 30/9/95
PORTUGAL: 31/5/95
UNITED KINGDOM: 15/10/95
GERMANY: 30/4/95
SPANISH PARTNESS
The Vision & Robotics Group Dpt. in the University of Murcia (Spain) is
interested in developping Integrated Proposals for the mentioned Actions.
For further details, please contact:
UNIVERSIDAD DE MURCIA
Dpto. Autom=E1tica, Electricidad y Electr=F3nica Industrial
Grupo de Visi=F3n y Rob=F3tica
Paseo Alfonso XIII, 48
E-30203 CARTAGENA (MURCIA) -SPAIN-
Telf: +34-68-505912
Fax: +34-68-505310 & +34-68-505852
E-mail: lmtb@plc.um.es
Contact: Mr. Luis-Manuel Tom=E1s Balibrea
Thanks in advance for you king cooperation. Best regards.
Dr. Luis-Manuel Tomas Balibrea
Grupo de Vision y Robotica
Departamento de Automatica, Electricidad y Electronica Industrial
Universidad de Murcia
Paseo Alfonso XIII, 48
E-30203 CARTAGENA (MURCIA) -SPAIN-
Phone: 34.68.505912 ext. 276
Fax: 34.68.505310 or 34.68.505852
E-mail: lmtb@plc.um.es
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 95 14:40:15 PST
From: Gerard Medioni <medioni@tiresias.usc.edu>
Subject: IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision CALL FOR PAPERS
CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER VISION
Biltmore Hotel
Coral Gables, Florida
November 20-22, 1995
Papers due May 22, 1995
GENERAL CO-CHAIRS:
Thomas Huang Shahriar Negadharipour
Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Miami
Beckman Institute Dept. of Elect & Comp Engineering
Urbana, IL 61801 Coral Gables, FL 33124-0640
huang@ifp.uiuc.edu shahriar@ece.miami.edu
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Gerard Medioni Dmitry Goldgof
USC-IRIS PHE 204 mc 0273 Dept. of CS and Eng.
Univ of Southern California Univ of South Florida
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0273 Tampa, Florida 33620
medioni@usc.edu goldgof@bigpine.csee.usf.edu,
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Narendra Ahuja U. Illinois
Amir Amini Yale
P. Anandan Sarnoff
Tom Binford Stanford
Terry Boult Lehigh
Kim Boyer Ohio State
Horst Bunke Univ of Bern
Rama Chellappa Maryland
C. W. Chen U. Rochester
Henrik Christensen Aalborg University
Rachid Deriche INRIA
Ed Delp Purdue
Chuck Dyer Wisconsin
Pat Flynn Washington State
David Forsythe UC Berkeley
Pascal Fua SRI
Glen Healy UC Irvine
Martial Hebert CMU
Radu Horaud LIFIA
Hiroshi Ishiguro Kyoto University
Avi Kak Purdue
Chandra Kambhamettu NASA-Goddard
Dave McKeown CMU
Dimitri Metaxas U. of Pennsylvania
Rakesh Mohan IBM
Vic Nalwa AT&T
Ram Nevatia USC
Bahram Parvin Lawrence Berkeley Lab
Sandy Pentland MIT Media Lab
Daniel Raviv Florida Atlantic U.
Sudeep Sarkar U of South Florida
Amnon Shaashua Hebrew U.
Linda Shapiro U. of Washington
Ajit Singh Siemens
J-P Thirion INRIA
Massimo Tistarelli U. Genoa
Baba Vemuri U of Florida
Richard Weiss U. Mass
John Weng Michigan State U.
Steve Zucker McGill
The Program will consist of parallel tracks of
previously unpublished contributed papers, delivered either orally or
as a poster. Contributions are sought on new research in all aspects
of computer vision, including:
Physics based vision
Integration of modules and cues
Active and real-time vision
CAD-based vision
Motion analysis and understanding
Stereo
Shape and object representation
Object recognition
Vision-guided robotics
Medical computer vision
Learning in computer vision
Segmentation, grouping
Low level processing
Systems and applications
Invariants, geometry
The conference is not limited to these topics, and authors may specify that a
paper falls in two or more categories, or in a different category not listed.
Categories are used to best match papers with the expertise of the reviewers.
As customary, all reviewing will be double blind.
PAPER SUBMISSION:
Four copies of complete manuscripts should be received no later than
MAY 22, 1995 by Prof. Medioni at the address listed above.
Papers should be submitted IN FINAL, CAMERA-READY FORMAT with 2 columns
on 8.5 by 11 sheets.
Each column is limited to 3 1/4 inches in width and 8 7/8 inches in length
with a 3/8 inch gutter between columns. The margins are 13/16 inch on each
side, 1 1/16 inches on the top and bottom. Text is to be typed single-spaced
in 10 point Times Roman (or closely resembling), with 12 point interline
spacing. The first page of the paper, centered on the top below the top margin,
should include the paper title, the authors' name and affiliation. Six pages
are allowed for each paper, including references and illustrations.
PAPERS LONGER THAN 6 PAGES WILL BE REJECTED WITHOUT REVIEW.
In addition to the manuscript, the submission should include the following:
(1) A Slighlty Different Title page -- in which the name and addresses of the
authors are replaced by one or more categories as listed above, or by other
keywords that can be used to match submissions to reviewers.
(2) Summary page -- attach answers to the following questions
(please answer each separately):
(2.1) What is the original contribution of this work?
(2.2) Why should this contribution be considered important?
(2.3) What is the most closely related work by others and how does
this work differ?
(2.4) How can other researchers make use of the results of this work?
This symposium is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society.
For online information with Mosaic, see http://marathon.csee.usf.edu/WCV/
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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 18:28:19 +1000
From: Mark Shortis <mark_shortis@muwayf.unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: CFP#2 - Videometrics IV
Subject: Time:6:24 PM
OFFICE MEMO CFP#2 - Videometrics IV Date:12/2/95
VIDEOMETRICS IV Second Call For Papers
Part of: SPIE's International Symposium on
Intelligent Systems & Automated Manufacturing
[Photonics East `95]
22 October - 27 October, 1995
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Program Committee:
Sabry El-Hakim (Canada), Chairman, Hirofumi Chikatsu (Japan),
Armin Gruen (Switzerland), Henrik Haggren (Finland), Kurt
Novak(USA), Mark Shortis (Australia), Walter Snow (USA).
This forth conference on Videometrics addresses developments and
applications of the state-of-the-art vision-based measurement
technologies. The primary function of Videometrics is to obtain
quantitative information about physical objects or the environment.
This includes methods to accurately and automatically recover 3-D
properties, such as coordinates and dimensions, from images. These
images are obtained not only from traditional CCD cameras but also,
among others, active 3-D laser scanners, high resolution digital still
video, VCR's, structured lights, and integrated different types of
data. Calibration and performance evaluation of vision systems for
measurement-related applications remains an important issue. The
designer must be able to precisely predict the resulting accuracy
from a given vision system, in a given configuration, under all the
conditions expected during operation. Improving the metric
performance of object positioning, orientation and tracking in three-
dimensional space, and geometric modelling of the environment is
also dealt with in this conference. Recent advances, notably those
documented in photogrammetric publications, show that the
achievable accuracy has reached a level that makes it acceptable for
many industrial requirements such as gauging and reverse
engineering. An important objective of this conference is to bring
together machine vision specialists, photogrammetrists, system
designers, and potential users, particularly those with high
tolerance requirements and those already convinced of the
importance and payback of vision metrology, to discuss and
exchange ideas on the above issues.
Papers are solicited in the following and related areas, with
particular emphasis on system applications:
-successfully demonstrated system applications
-on-line control systems
-processing and analysis of 3-D data
-object and environment (site) modelling
-dynamic tracking in 3-D
-rigorous and practical camera and system calibration
-accuracy and performance evaluation
-precise and robust measurement algorithms
-integration of various sensor data for metrology
Abstract due: March 13, 1995
Manuscript Due: July 31, 1995 (on-site proceedings)
Send Abstract via e-mail to : abstracts@spie.org (ASCII format)
or fax one copy to SPIE at 360/647-1445
or mail 4 copies to:
Photonics East `95,
SPIE, P.O.Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010, USA
Your abstract should include the following:
1.Title
2.Author listing (full names and affiliations)
3.Mailing address & Telephon, Fax, e-mail for each author
4.Submit to: Videometrics IV (El-Hakim)
5.Presentation (oral or poster)
6.Abstract text (250 words)
7.Brief biography (principal author only)
The above information, and information on all other Photonics
East'95 conferences, may be accessed on the World Wide Web:
http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/calls/pe95_home.html
Assoc. Prof. Mark R. Shortis, Mark_Shortis@mac.unimelb.edu.au
Deputy Head,
Department of Geomatics,
University of Melbourne, Telephone +61 3 344 6401
Parkville 3052, AUSTRALIA. Facsimile +61 3 347 2916
"This boy is about as sharp as a bowling ball" Foghorn Leghorn
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Date: 17 Feb 1995 19:02:49 GMT
From: asha@aic.hrl.hac.com (Asha Vellaikal)
Organization: Hughes Information Sciences Laboratory, Malibu CA
Subject: CFP: Conference on Digital Image Storage and Archiving Systems
CALL FOR PAPERS
CONFERENCE
on
DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE AND ARCHIVING SYSTEMS
Philadelphia,PA
October 26-27,1995
This conference is a part of SPIE's International Symposium on
INFORMATION, COMMUNICATIONS, & COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES,
APPLICATIONS, & SYSTEMS
To be held as part of Photonics East '95
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
22-27 October 1995
This conference addresses aspects of an image archiving system,
such as "specialized" compression schemes for storage, browsing,
semantic searching, content-based retrieval, data preservation
models, data modeling and representation, system design issues
and applications.
Papers are solicited in all areas of digital image storage and
archival systems:
- image and video archives/databases
- design methodologies and system architectures for huge image
archives
- hierarchical storage design and management for scalable image
and video on-demand databases
- data transfer models for platform-independent Internet access
via standard network tools
- long-term preservation methodology and quality assurance
management
- lossless and near-lossless compression for archiving purposes
- compression scheme supporting hierarchical browsing, e.g.,
multiresolution methods
- methods facilitating sophisticated search mechanisms such as
content-based retrieval, e.g., automatic/semiautomatic image
object recognition, segmentation, image features corresponding
to human perception, etc.
- intelligent compression techniques which will enable semantic
and perceptual searching on the compressed representation
- data modeling and representation for images and features
- fuzzy, object-oriented, feature-based, neural network and
information theoretic approaches to image and video storage
indexing and retrieval
- domain-independent storage techniques and access/index
structures for images, features and their logical
representatives
- measures for evaluating various aspects or components of an
image archival system
- actual experimental systems which embody the state of the art
in image archival
- methods related to querying an image archive, e.g., powerful
query interfaces, algorithms for query processing, incorporation
of user-relevance feedback to help iterative queries, etc.
- applications and systems of image archives in areas such as
telemedicine, remote sensing, GIS, multimedia, etc.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
Authors are invited to submit a 500 word abstract of each paper in one
of the ways described below. Only original material should be submitted
and abstracts should contain enough detail to clearly convey the approach
the results of the research. Papers accepted will be published as part of
the proceedings of the conference.
Abstracts should contain the following:
| 1.TITLE OF ABSTRACT/PAPER |
| 2.AUTHORS' LISTINGS - Full names and affliations as they will appear |
| in program |
| 3.CORRESPONDENCE for EACH author - Complete address,telephone,fax |
| number and e-mail address |
| 4.SUBMIT TO: ______________________________________________ |
| (Conference Title) (Conference Chair) |
| (Here: Digital Image Storage and Archiving Systems |
| Prof. C. -C. Jay Kuo ) |
| |
| 5. PRESENTATION: Indicate preference for "Oral Presentation" |
| or "Poster Presentation. |
| 6.ABSTRACT TEXT: 500 words |
| 7.BRIEF BIOGRAPHY: 50 to 100 words ( principal author only) |
Abstracts can be submitted in any of the following ways:
- electronic mail: ( 1 copy)
abstracts@spie.org (ASCII format)
- fax : (1 copy) to SPIE at (360) 647-1445
- mail: ( 4 copies)
Photonics East '95
SPIE, P.O.Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010 USA
Shipping address: 1000 20th St.,Bellingham, WA 98225 USA
Tel: (360) 676-3290
TO OBTAIN ALL CALLS FOR PAPERS ELECTRONICALLY
The calls for papers for all conferences in the Photonics East
symposium are available on SPIE Web
(http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/calls/), by anonymous FTP
(ftp://spie.org/meetings/calls/pe95*), or by e-mail file
retrieval (Send a message to info-optolink-request@spie.org with
the following in the message body: send
[meetings.calls]pe95_conf*
For a printed call for papers or other information:
E-mail: spie@spie.org
Fax: 360/647-1445
Phone: 360/676-3290
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Abstracts Due from Authors: March 27, 1995
Notification of Acceptance : July 3, 1995
Manuscripts Due from Authors: September 25, 1995
Conference Chair:
=================
C. -C. Jay Kuo (Univ. of Southern California)
Program Committee:
==================
Shih-Fu Chang (Columbia Univ.)
Ming-Yee Chiu (Siemens Corporate Research Inc.)
Son K. Dao (Hughes Research Lab.)
Navid Haddadi (Univ. of Southern California)
S. Sitharama Iyengar (Louisiana State Univ.)
Ramesh Jain (Univ. of California/San Diego)
Rangachar Kasturi (Pennsylvania StateUniv.)
Sanjit K. Mitra (Univ. of California/Santa Barbara)
A.Desai Narasimhalu (National Univ. of Singapore)
Wayne Niblack (IBM Almaden Research Ctr.)
R. W. Picard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Arun Sood (George Mason Univ.)
George Thoma (National Library of Medicine)
Asha Vellaikal (Hughes Research Lab.)
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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 95 19:20:16 +0100
From: beaudot@morgon.csemne.ch (William Beaudot)
Subject: French Doctoral Thesis available: neural information processing in
retina
The following FRENCH Doctoral Thesis is available by FTP from the TIRFLab
ftp-server (Grenoble, France) and via WWW from my homepage.
FTP-host: tirf.inpg.fr
FTP-file: /pub/beaudot/MYTHESIS/*.ps.Z
WWW-link: ftp://tirf.inpg.fr/pub/HTML/beaudot/thesis.html
(8.6 Mo compressed, 30 Mo uncompressed, 249 pages,
splited into 11 compressed files,
one compressed postscript file per chapter)
THE NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING IN THE VERTEBRATE RETINA:
A Melting Pot of Ideas for Artificial Vision
KEYWORDS : biological neural networks, retina
motion detection, directional selectivity
visual adaptation, signal processing
spatiotemporal processing, silicon retina
English Abstract:
The retina is the first neural structure involved in visual perception.
Researchers in Artificial Vision often see in it only a hard-wired circuit
scarcely more sophisticated than a video-camera, and dedicated to the
scanning of images and to the extraction of features leading to a simple
computation of Laplacian or temporal derivative.
In this thesis, we argue that it makes a lot of more, in particularly from
a dynamical point of view, aspect often neglected in Artificial Vision.
From a neurobiological inspiration, we show that the retina achieves a
spatiotemporal processing really suited to the regularization of visual data,
that it extracts a reliable and relevant spatiotemporal information, that it
performs a rough motion analysis composed of a motion detection and a
directional selectivity, and that it finally presents an elaborate mechanism
for the control of sensitivity.
This work emphasizes the fact once more that the solutions implemented by
nature are both simple and efficient (by a rather good trade-off between
complexity and performance), and that they should inspire the designers of
artificial visual systems. It also follows from this work two basic
consequences: a better understanding of the neural mechanisms involved in
early vision and a theoretical framework for the synthesis and analysis of
neuromorphic systems straight implementable into silicon.
FTP INSTRUCTIONS:
unix> ftp tirf.inpg.fr (or 192.70.29.33)
Name: anonymous
Password: <your e-mail address>
ftp> cd pub/beaudot/MYTHESIS
ftp> binary
ftp> mget *.ps.Z
ftp> quit
unix> uncompress *.ps.Z
Be careful : Compressed files require 8.6 Mo
Feel free to contact me if you have any problem.
Dr. William H.A. BEAUDOT E-mail: beaudot@design.csemne.ch
C.S.E.M. IC & Systems Dept.: Bio-Inspired Advanced Research
Maladihre 71, Case postale 41 Phone: (41) 38 205 251
CH-2007 Neuchbtel (Switzerland) Fax: (41) 38 205 770
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