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Today's Topics:
Connected Component Analysis ( i.e. "Blob counter" )
Sharp GPB-1
Efficient Gaussian Pyramid Computation
Help: finding true center of a perspective projected circle
Edge linking
Looking for paper
Visual DataBases
Need a source for CCD camera digitizing board.
Video microcamera wanted
Business Information Request
Research Post and CASE Research Studentship in the UK
Summer student positions at JPL
CFP: Pattern Recognition - Image Databases sp. issue
ICCV registration and accommodation information
AAAI Fall Symp: Vision/Language
cfp KBUP95
field if you wish to submit a full paper, and the keywords "short
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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 17:05:39 +0100
From: ihle@iki101.inf.tu-dresden.de (Torsten Ihle)
Subject: Connected Component Analysis ( i.e. "Blob counter" )
I just finished a little program doing a connected component analysis
(including component labeling and computation of some moments of
inertia).
If you think you can use it for the archive you are maintaining, and/or
as a contribution to the vision-list-digest, it is available on:
http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~ti1/sources/blobcount.c
This is what it does:
This program will read in a pbm-image (name given on the command line
( "-" ) for stdin) and performs a connected component analysis. Its
output is a table with the zeroth to 2nd moments of all objects, as
well a unique labeled pgm-image, where a different gray value is
assigned to each object.
The program works in a row wise fashion, i.e. at every instant of
time there are only two rows in memory. If no labeling is desired,
only one pass has to be made to compute all the features. If
labeling is desired, a temporay file will be created.
Note that objects are defined to be the white 4-connected objects
in the given binary input image.
Torsten Ihle, Dipl. Inf., TU-Dresden
EMail: ihle@iki101.inf.tu-dresden.de
Es ist deutsch in Kaltland !
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 95 12:05:13 PST
From: Joost Backus <mushjb@ns.via.nl>
Subject: Sharp GPB-1
Hi
Currently I am using the Sharp GPB-1 Image processing card. This card is quite
fast: Area and Perimeter of objects in an image are calculated in 10 millisec.
Are there other users on the vision list who are using the card.
Are there any PD sources available for this card ?
Name: Joost Backus, E-mail: mushjb@ns.via.nl (Joost Backus)
Date: 03/13/95 Time: 12:43:59
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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 13:43:54 -0800
From: Louis Brassard <brassard@cs.sfu.ca>
Subject: Efficient Gaussian Pyramid Computation
I am looking for an efficient way to convolve an image with a set of gaussian
kernels of standard deviations: 1 ,2, 4, 8, 16, 32 . I would like the
result to be a good approximation of the continous gaussian filtering.
In "The Pyramid as a Structure for Efficient Computation" , Burt
proposes an efficient computational method. But this method seems to
me a poor approximation of Gaussian filtering.
I will appreciate any help.
Thank You.
Louis Brassard
School of Engineering Science
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia
Canada,
brassard@cs.sfu.ca
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 95 08:45:22 -0800
From: aew@photomodeler.com (Alan Walford)
Organization: Eos Systems Inc, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Subject: Help: finding true center of a perspective projected circle
Hello,
I would like to know if there is a way of finding the true center of
a circle that has been imaged at an angle so it appears as an
ellipse in an image.
I am quite sure that if you detect the ellipse and find its center
(the crossing of the minor and major axes) that point will NOT
correspond to the projected center of the real-world circle.
When a circle is viewed straight-on, it is imaged as a circle and
not an ellipse (well it is an ellipse still I guess with major and
minor axes being the same length). In this case the center of the
imaged circle is the same as the projected center of the real-world
circle.
When the circle is viewed edge on, it appears as a line segment.
The projected center of the circle is the center of the imaged line
segment.
The question is, "What to do about the angles between these extremes?"
So given just an ellipse in an image and the knowledge that it is
an image of a real-world circle, is it possible to compute the
position in the image of the projected center of that circle?
Any pointers to algorithms, text books, articles etc?
Also, if you have any thoughts on doing accurate ellipse detection
in images I would like to hear it. We could consider a Hough
Transform but I am a bit leary of noise, peak detection and
accuracy issues.
Thanks,
Alan Walford Eos Systems Inc., Vancouver,B.C., Canada Tel: 604-732-6658
aew@photomodeler.com
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 20:52:47 GMT
From: sev@gdstech.grumman.com (Sev Binello)
Organization: Grumman Data Systems-Bethpage
Subject: Edge linking
Keywords: Edge linking boundary detection
Hi,
I am looking for methods that can be used to link edges together,
once they have been detected in an image via some edge detector. I
would appreciate any leads, i.e. references, actual articles, texts,
ftp sites, www locations etc.
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Date: 14 Mar 1995 07:53:45 GMT
From: Xiaowen.Wu@ait.ac.th (Xiaowen Wu)
Organization: AIT, Thailand
Subject: looking for paper
I'm looking for a paper that is appeared in "ECCV - 94 ",
THIRD EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION; held on 2-6 May 1994,
Stockholm, Sweden
The paper is
"Genetic algorithms applied to binocular stereovision "
by R. Vaillant, L. Gueguen
Can anybody told me how can I get a copy of this paper, or how to contact the authors directly.
thanks in advance
| Wu Xiaowen | Internet: xiaowen@cs.ait.ac.th |
| Computer Science Program | |
| Asian Institute of Technology | Phone: (66-2) 524 5706 |
| GPO Box 2754, Bangkok 10501 | Fax : (66-2) 524 5721 |
| Thailand. | |
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 16:53:39 +0100
From: lacascia@lancelot.diepa.unipa.it (Marco La Cascia)
Subject: Visual DataBases
Hi,
I'm interested on video databases, and in particular way on query by image
contents and automatic features extraction.
I read some papers about th QBIC system (IBM) and about PhotoBook (MIT
Media Lab).
If you know where to find papers about other systems, or if you are working
in this field too, please contact me.
Thanks in advance,
Marco La Cascia
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Palermo
Viale delle Scienze, I90128 Palermo (ITALY)
(39) 91-6566273, (39) 91-488452 fax
lacascia@diepa.unipa.it
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Date: 16 Mar 1995 02:53:04 GMT
From: Bennet Williams <bennet@edge.ercnet.com>
Organization: The Edge
Subject: Need a source for CCD camera digitizing board.
Hello.
I am interested in getting into image recognition (as cheaply as
possible). I think that the easiest and best way to do that is with
a CCD camera and a board for my ISA/VESA bus computer. Tell me if
I'm wrong.
Does anyone know of a good source for inexpensive equipment
mentioned above?
Thanks,
Bennet
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 00:24:37 -0300
From: DANILOCR@vortex.ufrgs.br
Subject: video microcamera wanted
Hello Everybody!
I'm looking for a B&W video microcamera for less than US$100
to be connected to a board in the PC. Could anyone send me the name of
a manufacturer and store's fax in US?
Thanks,
Danilo Chagas Ribeiro (DaniloCR@vortex.ufrgs.br)
Porto Alegre,RS
Brazil
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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 95 10:50:08 PDT
From: plevnsk@NetVision.net.il
Organization: NetVision USENET Site.
Subject: Busuiness Information Request
Hello,
I am looking for business an market information of the OCR area. Can somebody
give me an idea whre can I get it?
Thanks, Meir.
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 95 18:17:37 GMT
From: pycockd@eee.bham.ac.uk (Mr D. Pycock)
Subject: Research Post and CASE Research Studentship in the UK
THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
Analysis of 3D Volume Imagery for Petrochemical applications
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
There is an opportunity to join the Computer Vision Research Team in the
School of Elecronic and Electrical Engineering. This opportunity exists
as a result of a 2 year research grant awarded to the School under the
recent EPSRC Integrated Machine Vision initiative. The project will
involve collaboration with Shell Research in the Netherlands and Foster
Findlay Associates in the UK. and will be aimed at the development of
fully 3D image analysis software to be applied to 3D (volume) datasets.
A Research Fellowship and a CASE Studentship are available.
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
Candidates should have at least 2 years postgraduate experience in an
appropriate discipline. Skills sought include experience in advanced
software development preferably in C++ on UNIX-based platforms as well
as good mathematical skills.
The appointment will be in the RA1A range (13,941-20,953). The closing
date for applications is 14-th April. Further particulars and an
application form are available from:
The Director of Staffing Services
The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
Telephone : 0121-414-3699
Please quote No: GR/K 45487
The University is an equal opportunities employer.
SHELL CASE STUDENTSHIP
Applications are invited for an EPSRC funded CASE studentship leading to
a Ph.D degree supported by Shell Research in the Netherlands. The
project will involve the development of fully 3D image analysis
algorithms applied to 3D (volume) datasets.
Applicants should have or expect to obtain a good honours degree in an
engineering discipline, the physical sciences or mathematics.
The closing date for applications is Friday 9 June and the preferred
start date will be October 1995. Further particulars and an application
form are available from :
Mrs J. Squire
Postgraduate Admissions Secretary
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
Telephone : 0121-414-4292
Email: pg_wp2@ee-admn.bham.ac.uk
Informal inquiries may also be directed in both cases to:
Dr M.Spann
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 4328
Email: M.Spann@bham.ac.uk
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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 95 09:15:54 PST
From: pjs@aig.jpl.nasa.gov (Padhraic J. Smyth)
Subject: Summer student positions at JPL
SUMMER POSITIONS AT THE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY (JPL)
March 16th 1995
JPL is seeking applications from graduate students interested
in summer positions (1995). Ideal candidates will have a background
and interest in statistical pattern recognition, applied statistics,
and image processing (or some subset of these topics). The work will
include participation in ongoing projects for automated analysis of
remote-sensing and sky-survey images, including both theoretical
investigations and algorithm development. Candidates should be capable of
implementing developed algorithms in a standard programming language such
as C or within an environment such as MATLAB. This is an ideal
opportunity for students wishing to get involved in the analysis
of large high-dimensional datasets of scientific importance.
Applicants should send a copy of their resume to:
Padhraic Smyth
JPL 525-3660
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109.
or email a postscript or ascii copy to:
pjs@galway.jpl.nasa.gov
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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 13:50:33 -0500
From: pankanti@cps.msu.edu (Sharath Pankanti)
Subject: CFP: Pattern Recognition - Image Databases sp. issue
CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECIAL ISSUE OF PATTERN RECOGNITION ON
IMAGE DATABASE: CLASSIFICATION & RETRIEVAL
Papers are solicited for a special issue of PATTERN RECOGNITION
which will address the subject of Image Database: Classification
and Retrieval. The Guest Editors for the special issue will be
Dr. John C. M. Lee of the Hong Kong University of Science &
Technology and Prof. Anil Jain of Michigan State University.
The growth in the volume, complexity, and interrelationships of
video information has created an urgent need for more intelligent
video manipulation tools. However, tools for organizing,
querying, and retrieving information in image database still need
to be developed. This special issue will comprise papers which
are concerned with novel and significant tools and tech- niques
relevant to content-based image classification and retrieval.
Manuscripts that report flexible classification and retrieval
based on image content in a domain-independent fashion are of
primary interest. Manuscripts will not be accepted if they have
been previously published, or if they describe algorithms that
have not been carefully evaluated on large database. Possible
topics include, but are not limited to:
o Automatic identification and classification of scenes
according to their content (e.g., indoor, outdoor,
action, car racing, sports).
o Automatic break detection or video partitioning.
o Automatic full-video search for objects of interest, such
as "find all frames which contain frogs".
o Image feature representations for efficient object
detection and classification.
o Quantitative measures of aspects of perception, such as
texture, shape, and color, that have been evaluated on
large sets of data.
o Image processing and pattern recognition methods used in
image database, such as "seg- mentation of optical flow
to detect camera movement".
o Computational measures of perceptual similarity for
matching image features, especially texture, shape and
color.
o Scene retrieval methods for video database by using
spatio-temporal logic.
o Methods for real-time object extraction from and tracking
in a moving video image.
o Creating image database with functions such as efficient
querying, indexing, retrieval and browsing.
All papers will be reviewed according to the guidelines of the
Pattern Recognition journal, and the submitted papers must follow
the instructions for the style of manuscript printed on the
inside of the back cover of the Pattern Recognition journal.
Please submit 4 copies of your paper to:
Dr. John C. M. Lee
Department of Computer Science
The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology,
Kowloon, Hong Kong
PUBLICATION SCHEDULE:
Deadline for submission of manuscripts: September 1, 1995
First set of reviews to authors: December 1, 1996
Deadline for submission of final manuscripts: February 1, 1996
Publication of the special issue: September 1996
For further information, please contact
Dr. John C. M. Lee (cmlee@cs.ust.hk)
Prof. Anil Jain (jain@cps.msu.edu)
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From: welg@ai.mit.edu (W. Eric L. Grimson)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 95 20:32:25 EST
Subject: ICCV registration and accommodation information
Information about registration and accommodation for ICCV
can be obtained by accessing:
ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/users/welg/iccv_reg.ps
Additional information, including requests for hardcopy versions
of this registration information, may be obtained by contacting the MIT
Conference Office, Room 7-111, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02139,
or via 617-253-1703, or by contacting Gayle Fitzgerald (gmfitz@mit.edu).
Some people have had difficulties with retrieving the information referred
to earlier about ICCV. There is thus a new (compressed) version of the
post script file which hopefully will get around some of the
printing difficulties that a few sites experienced. This new version
can be retrieved by accessing:
ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/users/welg/iccv_reg_new.ps.Z
If you cannot access this post script file, you may
request a hardcopy version by contacting the MIT
Conference Office, Room 7-111, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02139,
or via 617-253-1703, or by contacting Gayle Fitzgerald (gmfitz@mit.edu).
Finally, because at least one person has complained about having to
access ftp at all, below is a raw text version of the file.
My apologies to those of you whose mail boxes I am filling up
by sending all of this.
Eric Grimson
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stereo, recognition, shading, texture, color, deformable models,shape
representations, robotic vision, active vision, face recognition,
medical imagery, calibration, and tracking.
Pre- and Post-Conference Workshops
All workshops will be held on the MIT campus; specific locations will
be sent to registered attendees with their confirmation of
registration.
IEEE Workshop on Context-Based Vision
June 19, 1995
This workshop aims to stimulate and exchange research ideas on the use
of context and stored knowledge for the development of reliable
computer visionsytems. Most current research on computer vision seeks
automated methods for extracting information from imagery without the
use of a priori information, except perhaps some knowledge of the
image acquisition (camera model, light source, etc.). Such approaches
are very general, but have notyet proven capable of coping with the
wide range of variability encountered in real world scenes.
The key questions to be discussed at this workshop are:
*What contextual information, if made available beforehand, could best enhance the reliability of computer vision systems?
*How can computer vision algorithms be designed to best exploit prior knowledge about a scene?
Workshop Format:
The workshop format will be formed from invited and contributed
papers. It is expected there will be 25-30 attendees with a program
of about 10 papers. The papers will be 30 minutes each including a
5-minute question period. A published proceedings will be available
at the workshop. There is a fee of $80 to attend.
Co-Chairs Joseph L. Mundy Thomas M. Strat
GE Corporate R & D SRI International
Schenectady, NY Menlo Park, CA
mundy@crd.ge.com strat@ai.sri.com
IEEE Workshop on Physics-Based Modeling in Computer Vision
June 18 and 19, 1995
The purpose of this workshop, held in conjunction with ICCV 95, is to
foster dialogue and debate through panels and previously unpublished
contributed papers on all aspects of physics-based modeling in
computer vision. The topics of the papers that will be presented span
the areas of dynamic shape/motion models, image formation models,
applications and integration of techniques from these areas.
General Chairs: Thomas S. Huang Dimitri Metaxas
University of Illinois University of Pennsylvania
Program Chair Demetri Terzopoulos
University of Toronto
Program Co-Chairs Alok Gupta Sang Wook Lee
Siemens Corporate Research University of Michigan
Fees
The fees to be charged are $100 for members, $125 for non-members, and
$60 for students if paid before May 15 and $125 for members, $155 for
non-members, and $80 for students if paid after that date. The fee
includes the proceedings. Additional proceedings may be purchased at
$50 per copy.
Workshop on Visual Information Management
June 19, 1995
In the last few years, many researchers have begun building systems
for visual information management. Such systems encompass central
aspects of databases, image processing and image understanding, very
sophisticated interfaces, knowledge based system, compression and
decompression, and object oriented systems. The challenge for vision
researchers is to develop tools for analyzing the semantic content of
video and image, representing that context in a way that can be
efficiently searched and compared, and finally delivering that content
to users in the form of a useful, focused presentation.
To help stimulate research and communication in this area we are
organizing a workshop on visual information management systems, to be
sponsored by NSF and ARPA. This one-day workshop will consist of
presentations and discussions involving more than 30 invited
researchers from around the world, will have an associated poster
session, and will feature computer demonstrations of several visual
information management systems. It will be held on June 19 in the
Brats Theater of the Wiesner Building (Building E15--home of the Media
Laboratory) at 20 Ames Street. There is no registration fee.
Organizers: R. Jain A. Pentland D. Petrovic
IEEE Workshop on Representations of Visual Scenes
June 24, 1995
The purpose of this workshop is to gather researchers interested in
representation of visual scenes based on a collection of images
(either video or a collection of stills). In recent years, two clear
trends have emerged in the area of multiple image analysis:
image-to-image alignment based on motion-field models, and recovery of
3D geometry in terms of affine and projective invariants. Work in the
first area has led to techniques for panoramic view construction based
on multiple-image alignment and layered representations, whereas work
in the second area has lead to techniques for the representation of
scenes as collection of views and the recovery of a new view as
combination of a set of given views.
Taken together, the new trends have led to new ways to formulate the
traditional problems of structure-from-motion- and 3D scene
reconstruction. These emerging techniques are also closely related to
work in active/animate vision, especially to methods that use fixation
and tracking. Their benefits to visualization, video databases,
compression, and handling uncalibrated imaging situations is already
becoming apparent. However, one of the major challenges, and a recent
topic of lively interest, I to obtain an adequate generalization of
the fundamental structures associated with two views to multiple-view
situations. Such generalizations are essential for understanding
view-based representations, visual database indexing, numerical
stability of 3D recovery, and navigation. Several recent results
suggest that some of the accuracy and stability problems that have
plagued the previous generation of techniques can be overcome.
Furthermore, the issues of sparse versus dense ! scene
representations, and their u sefulness for recognition, navigation and
intelligent video manipulation area areas of active research.
Fees
The advance registration fees are $80 for members, $100 for
non-members, and $40 for students if paid before May 15. After that
date that fees are $100 for members, $125 for non-members, and $70 for
students.
Organizers P. Anandan Harpreet Sawhney
David Sarnoff Research Center IBM Almaden Research Center
anandan@sarnoff.com sawhney@almaden.ibm.com
Amnon Shashua Eero Simoncelli
Hebrew University, Israel University of Pennsylvania
samm@cs.huji.ac.il eero@tarpon.cis.upenn.edu
General Chair Takeo Kanade, CMU
Second International IEEE Workshop on Shape and Pattern Matching in Computational Biology
June 19, 1995
The purpose of this workshop is to foster dialogue and debate on some
fundamental unsolved issues in pattern matching and shape
representation applied to the molecular biology domain.
This one-day workshop will be held in conjunction with the 1995
International Conference on Computer Vision. The program will consist
of the highest quality, previously unpublished contributed papers on
all aspects of pattern analysis, pattern and shape matching, and shape
representation that have direct application in molecular biology and
genetics.
Fees
The advance registration fees are $30 for members, $40 for
non-members, and $20 for students if paid before May 15. After that
date that fees are $50 for members, $65 for non-members, and $25 for
students.
Organizer Andrea Califano
IBM Watson Research Center
acal@watson.ibm.com
Registration
The Registration Fee for the Conference is $365 for members and $455
for non-members if paid before May 15, and $440 for members and $550
for non-members if paid after that date or on-site. The student rates
are $200/early and $250/late; the student fee does not include the
banquet at the New England Aquarium. Persons registering at the
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Tuesday evening, and the Banquet on Wednesday evening at the New
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single accommodations; $58 per night for double accommodations; and
$10 per night for a cot (children between the ages of 6 and 14 only).
Reservations must be received by 30 May, and payment is required at
the time of the reservation. Requests received after that date will
be accepted on a space available basis. All requests should be sent
directly to the MIT Conference Services Office. Rooms not paid in
full prior to 30 May are subject to cancellation. MIT will send each
guest a written confirmation indicating in which building they will be
housed; this confirmation must be presented to the desk staff upon
arrival. MIT retains the right to refuse entry to guests without
proper identification.
Cancellations will be accepted and refunded in writing if received by
5:00 pm on Wednesday, 7 June. Cancellations received after that date
will be subject to a one-night penalty cancellation fee if received in
writing 24 hours prior to the reserved date of arrival. No
cancellations will be refunded after that date, and no refunds will be
granted for nights the dormitory rooms are not occupied during a
reservation period.
Hotel Accommodations
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Cambridge Center Marriott, 2
Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142 USA Telephone: 617-494-6600;
FAX: 617-494-6565. The Marriott is located in Kendall Square on the
east perimeter of the campus within a 10-minute walk of the conference
meeting facilities. The Marriott offers two restaurants and a health
club with swimming pool, and parking is available at $10 per day.
The conference rate at the Marriott is $125 per night for single or
double accommodations plus applicable taxes. Room availability and
rate are only guaranteed until 30 May 1995. To secure your
reservations, please contact the Marriott directly at the above
numbers or address.
If you have any questions regarding area hotels, please contact the Conference Services Office at 617-253-1700.
Special Events
The Conference schedule will include two evening events. On Tuesday
evening, there will be a Welcoming Reception in McCormick Hall's
Courtyard; all conference participants and their guests are invited to
attend. On Wednesday evening, the Conference Banquet will be held at
the New England Aquarium located on Boston's historic waterfront. The
evening will feature a traditional New England Clambake menu while
enjoying the many exhibits in the Aquarium. The cost is included in
the registration fee; tickets for students and accompanying guests may
be purchased at a cost of $45 per person (see the registration form to
reserve tickets). Transportation will be provided from MIT and the
Marriott Hotel to and from the Aquarium. Participants with dietary
restrictions should notify the Conference Services Office or include
that information on the enclosed registration form.
Smoking Policy
Smoking is not permitted in MIT meeting, dining or academic
facilities; smoking is permitted in individual dormitory rooms.
Smoking is not permitted in public areas in dormitories.
Parking
A limited number of parking spaces are available for persons
registered for on-campus housing (only). If you will require a
permit, please indicate this on the on-campus housing/dining request
form, and the permit will be sent with your confirmation. There is a
$15 non-refundable fee. There is a public parking lot located on the
corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Vassar Street as well as a public
parking garage in Kendall Square adjacent to the Marriott Hotel; both
are convenient to campus.
Recreation
A variety of athletic facilities are available on campus including
swimming, tennis, and squash. Athletic passes may be purchased on
arrival at the Registration desk.
Climate and Dress
New England weather is notoriously unpredictable, but in Boston in
June the days are generally warm and pleasant though occasionally
humid. The average daytime temperature is 75 degrees Fahrenheit. A
light sweater or jacket may be needed in the evenings, particularly
near the waterfront. Rainwear or an umbrella are advisable to bring
along just in case.
Sightseeing
Boston and Cambridge offer a wide variety of daytime and evening
activities, boasting a unique combination of tradition and trend.
Historic Faneuil Hall and Quincy Marketplace--with their many
fascinating shops, craft stands and restaurants--are popular gathering
places for both area residents and visitors. Copley Place, along with
the just-renovated Prudential Center, adds a contemporary dimension to
Boston's traditional Copley Square and Back Bay. Attractions of
particular interest to visitors include the USS Constitution, the John
F. Kennedy Library, the Museum of Science and the Museum of Fine Arts.
The historic Freedom Trail takes the visitor from the Boston Common
through the popular markets of the North End and the Waterfront
districts. Harvard Square, the Cambridge Common and the University
Museums are but a few of the points of interest on the MIT side of the
Charles River.
Only one to two hours north and south of Boston stretch a magnificent
and varied coast--from the rocky shores of Maine, by the stately
mansions and sandy beaches of New Hampshire, along the fishing
villages and art colonies of Cape Ann, further onto historic Plymouth
Plantation and the cranberry bogs of the South Shore, and out along
the north and south beaches and summer resorts of Cape Cod to
Provincetown--New England is unrivalled in its beauty, charm,
traditions, and love of the sea. Tourist information will be
available upon arrival.
Questions
Inquiries regarding local arrangements may be directed to the MIT
Conference Services Office at 617-253-1700 or via FAX at 617-253-7002.
Questions regarding the program should be directed to Professor Eric
Grimson at 617-253-5346 (welg@ai.mit.edu).
(Disabilities symbol) If you need any assistance, please contact the
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Date: 24 Mar 1995 20:11:14 GMT
From: rohini@acsu.buffalo.edu (Rohini Srihari)
Organization: SUNY at Buffalo / Ctr for Document Analysis and Recog (CEDAR)
Subject: AAAI Fall Symp: Vision/Language
**************** SECOND (FINAL) NOTICE *************************
Call for Participation
AAAI Fall Symposium
on
COMPUTATIONAL MODELS FOR INTEGRATING LANGUAGE AND VISION
November 10-12 1995
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Cambridge, MA
This symposium will focus on research issues in developing
computational models for integrating language and vision.
The intrinsic difficulty of both natural language processing
and computer vision has discouraged researchers
from attempting their integration, although in some cases
it may simplify the individual tasks (e.g. collateral-based vision,
resolving ambiguous sentences through the use of visual information).
Developing a bridge between language and vision is non-trivial,
since the correspondence between words and images is not
one-to-one. Much has been said about the
necessity of linking language and perception for a system
to exhibit intelligent behavior, but there has been relatively
little work on developing computational models for this task.
A natural-language understanding system should be able to
understand and make references to the visual world. The use of
scene-specific context (obtained from written or spoken text
accompanying a scene) could greatly enhance the performance of
computer vision systems.
Some of the topics to be addressed are:
o use of collateral text in image and diagram understanding
o generating natural-language descriptions of visual data
(e.g., event perception in image sequences)
o identifying and extracting visual information from language
o understanding spatial language, spatial reasoning
o knowledge representation for linguistic and visual
information, hybrid (language and visual) knowledge bases
o use of visual data in disambiguating/understanding text
o content-based retrieval from integrated text/image/video
databases
o language-based scene modeling
(e.g., picture or graphics generation)
o cognitive theories connecting language and perception
The symposium will consist of invited talks, panel discussions,
individual presentations and group discussions. Those
interested in making a presentation should submit
a technical paper (not to exceed 3,000 words). Others
interested in participating in the symposium
should submit either a position
paper or a research abstract. Email submissions
in postscript format are encouraged, and should be
sent to rohini@cedar.buffalo.edu. Alternatively, 4
hard copies may be sent to:
Rohini Srihari
CEDAR/SUNY at Buffalo
UB Commons, 520 Lee Entrance Suite 202
Buffalo, NY 14228-2567
********** Papers should be sent by APRIL 14, 1995. ************
In addition to invited participants, a limited number of other
interested parties will be able to register on a first-come basis.
Registration will be available by August 1, 1995 through AAAI.
Further information on this symposium may be found at:
http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/Piction/FSS95/CFP.html
Please address any questions regarding the symposium to
Rohini Srihari (rohini@cedar.buffalo.edu),
Debra Burhans (burhans@cs.buffalo.edu) or Rajiv Chopra
(rchopra@cs.buffalo.edu).
RELEVANT DATES
April 14, 1995 Submissions for the symposium are due
May 19, 1995 Notification of acceptance
September 1, 1995 Working notes for symposium distributed
Nov 10-12, 1995 Symposium held at MIT
Organizing Committee:
Rohini K. Srihari (Chair), CEDAR, SUNY at Buffalo
David Waltz, NEC Research Institute
Thomas M. Strat, SRI International
Candace Sidner, Lotus Development Corporation
Janice Glasgow, Queen's University
Ken Forbus, Northwestern University
Annette Herskovits, Wellesley College
Gordon Novak, University of Texas at Austin
Jeffrey Siskind, University of Toronto
Sponsored by the American Association for Artififical Intelligence
445 Burgess Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(415) 328-3123
fss@aaai.org
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Date: 22 Mar 1995 11:12:06 GMT
From: elst@zodiac.inria.fr (John Van_den_Elst)
Organization: INRIA, Sophia Antipolis
Subject: cfp KBUP95
CALL FOR PAPERS
The first international workshop on
KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS FOR THE (RE)USE OF PROGRAM LIBRARIES
KBUP 95
November 23-24, 1995
Sophia Antipolis
France
OBJECTIVES
==========
Many different libraries of programs have been developed for domains such as
signal processing, image processing, scientific computing, and process
control. These libraries consist of a large number of programs. The
programs are typically written by specialists of a particular domain, and
later applied by non-specialists in this domain. Recently artificial
intelligence techniques have been developed to aid a non-specialist with the
application of the programs in different contexts. This aid can range from an
advisory guide up to fully automatic program monitoring systems.
The purpose of the workshop is to identify the current state of the art in
the domain of knowledge-based systems for the reuse of program libraries,
to present the most recent advances, and to identify the open problems. We
are interested in exchanging research ideas and results which will
contribute to the academic arena, but also in ideas that will benefit the
industrial community in the foreseeable future.
The first international workshop on knowledge-based systems for the reuse
of program libraries will be held at INRIA Sophia Antipolis located on the
French Riviera. The number of participants will be limited to 75 persons.
SUBMISSION AND PARTICIPATION
============================
Contributions are sought in the area of knowledge-based systems for the
reuse of program libraries. We are interested both in papers presenting
specific approaches, as well as overviews of the field. Topics include
(but are not limited to):
Knowledge representation
* Program description and hierarchy
* Data domain description
* Application domain description
Reasoning and control mechanisms
* Program planning
* Control of execution and results
Knowledge base development
* Verification and validation
* Learning
* Explanation
Applications
* Image processing
* Signal processing
* Scientific computing
* Process control and supervision
Participants who wish to present a paper should submit a full length
version of their paper. Papers should not exceed 12 pages (including 200-word
abstract, figures and references). An additional cover page should include
title, authors, address, email address, and fax number. Please submit five (5)
hardcopies of the paper to the Program Chair before July 3, 1995.
Participants wishing to attend the workshop without presenting a paper
should submit a 1 page summary explaining their contribution to the domain,
including references (this summary has to be sent to the Program Chair before
July 3, 1995).
Electronic or fax submissions cannot be accepted.
In order to facilitate the organization of the workshop KBUP, you are asked to
send, as soon as possible, your intent to submit a paper, by email to
kbup@sophia.inria.fr.
Please use the keywords "full submission" in the
Subject: field if you wish to submit a full paper, and the keywords "short
submission" if you wish to submit a one-page summary.
CALENDAR
========
Paper submission deadline: July 3, 1995
Notification to authors: August 31, 1995
Camera ready received at INRIA: September 29, 1995
Workshop: November 23 and 24, 1995
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
======================
Monique Thonnat INRIA Sophia Antipolis
Sabine Moisan INRIA Sophia Antipolis
Regis Vincent INRIA Sophia Antipolis
John van den Elst INRIA Sophia Antipolis
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
===================
Rob BODINGTON, British Aerospace, UK
Serge CASTAN, IRIT Toulouse, France
Jean-Louis ERMINE, INSTN CEA, France
M. E. GALLOPOULOS, University of Illinois, USA
Frank van HARMELEN, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Victor LESSER, University of Massachusetts, USA
Takashi MATSUYAMA, Okayama University, Japan
Bernd NEUMANN, Universitat Hamburg, Germany
Francois RECHENMANN, INRIA Grenoble, France
Chandra SHEKHAR, University of Maryland, USA
Monique THONNAT, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Bob WIELINGA, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
PROGRAM CHAIR
===============
Monique Thonnat
ORION
INRIA Sophia Antipolis
2004 Route des Lucioles
F-06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex
France
Tel: +33 93 65 76 57
Fax: +33 93 65 76 43
E-mail: kbup@sophia.inria.fr
WWW: http://www.inria.fr/orion/KBUP/kbup.html
LOCATION OF THE WORKSHOP
========================
The workshop will take place at INRIA Sophia Antipolis from November 23 to 24,
1995. Sophia-Antipolis is located on the French Riviera, in the south of
France, between Cannes and Nice.
INFORMATION
===========
For other details of the workshop, please contact:
INRIA
Relations Exterieures
2004, route des Lucioles
- B.P. 93 -
06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex
FRANCE
Tel: +33 93 65 77 78
Fax: +33 93 65 79 55
Email: kbup@sophia.inria.fr
WWW: http://www.inria.fr/orion/KBUP/kbup.html
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