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Today's Topics:
ANNOUNCING: New Color Texture & Image Database
Re: Efficient Gaussian Pyramid Computation [VISION-LIST digest 14.11]
PC/Linux/Vision
Binocular Camera Platform home page
New Very Large NIST OCR Database
Matching for calibrated stereo system
F.Rannou quest about adding noise
Stereo vision
DETECTING CURVE KNOWING THEIR EQUATION
New Imaging Resource Page
Visiting Researcher positions available
Post-doc position available
Offering Post-Doctoral Position
Special Issues of J. of Real Time Imaging on Real Time Motion Analysis
ICPIC: Call for Papers
Call for participation (CVAG95)
2nd CFP: Robotics & Vision Systems Worksop
CFP: Brazilian Symposium on Intelligent Automation
CVRMed'95 PROCEEDINGS AVAILABLE
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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 95 18:52:43 -0400
From: Roz W. Picard <picard@media.mit.edu>
Subject: ANNOUNCING: New Color Texture & Image Database
ANNOUNCING: VisTex, New Color Texture & Image Database
As you may know, the commonly-used "Brodatz texture collection" is
prohibited by Mrs. Lillian Brodatz from being distributed in any
digital form over any computer network. Furthermore, the Brodatz set
is very limited in variety; it is all monochrome, and consists mostly
of homogeneous patterns photographed under studio lighting at an angle
parallel to the film plane.
The growing need for computer vision in digital libraries requires
that computer vision algorithms be able to run on textures in large
sets of natural color scenes, taken under arbitrary lighting and
perspective.
To assist in the development of more robust vision algorithms and
their comparison on a common set of data, we have assembled the VisTex
collection. This data can be freely distributed to researchers in
digital form.
The following databases are now available within VisTex:
Reference Textures:
Over 100 homogeneous color textures, frontal and oblique perspectives
Texture Scenes:
Real-world color scenes containing multiple textures
Video databases will be added to VisTex in the near future.
For more information please access the URL:
http://www-white.media.mit.edu/vismod/imagery/VisionTexture/vistex.html
If you do not have world wide web access and are interested in how to
get the data via ftp, then please send mail to:
vistex-requests@media.mit.edu
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Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 12:53:33 -0500
From: "Raghunath K. Rao" <rrao@vision.iit.edu>
Subject: Re: Efficient Gaussian Pyramid Computation [VISION-LIST digest 14.11]
Burt, being one of the inventors of this kind of approach, certainly knows
what he's talking about...Does he use a rectangular filter, iterated three to
six times, to approximate a Gaussian filter? This method is very efficient and
actually a very good approximation. The point is that you won't get exactly
the sigma you might want, but usually you can find a set of parameters that
will yield a value very near to the intended one. (This approach is based, of
course, on the central limit theorem of probability theory.) Whether you want
the pyramid structure or not depends on details of your application; in
general, the pyramid is the correct approach from a theoretical point of view
(no unecessary oversampling) and reduces the amount of computation
drastically, while requiring more work to find all the filter responses
belonging to any one pixel, for instance.
Jan
I recall that Burt's paper does not claim to use the Central Limit Theorem
(CLT). We have performed research in the Computer Vision lab at IIT,
Chicago, and developed a lattice architecture that performs Gaussian
smoothing which yields arbitrary scale resolution. Our architecture is
explicitly based on the CLT and can also be implemented as a pyramidal
architecture. One of the versions of this lattice, called the Uniform lattice,
is based on repetitive convolution with the same rectangular kernel to yield
accurate Gaussian convolution. However, since the Standard Deviation (SD)
obtained progresses only with the square root of the number of layers
(number of repetitive convolutions), we also developed a Geometric lattice
that increases the kernel width geometrically to obtain a linear progression
of SD with layer number.
We used this architecture to perform Canny edge detection, LoG operations,
Fourier and Cosine/Sine transforms, and even Gabor filtering. In an
adaptive configuration this architecture was also used to implement
decomposition of signals into generalized non-orthogonal basis functions,
including Gaussian basis functions which yielded good low bit-rate
image compression (lossy). Another version of the lattice, called the Inverse
lattice, is used to reconstruct signals from their Gaussian representation
coefficients.
You can find details of the lattice architecture in the following references:
1. Rao, K. R., and Ben-Arie, J.,
``Lattice Architectures for Multiple-Scale Gaussian Convolution,
Image Processing, Sinusoid-based Transforms and Gabor Filtering,''
Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
Vol. 4, No. 2, August 1993, pp. 141-160.
2. Ben-Arie, J.,
``Multi-Dimensional Linear Lattice for Fourier and Gabor Transforms,
Multiple-Scale Gaussian Filtering, and Edge Detection,''
in Neural Networks for Human and Machine Perception,
H. Wechsler (ed.), San Diego, CA, Academic Press,
pp. 214-233, 1992.
3. Ben-Arie, J. and Rao, K. R.,
``Signal Representation by Generalized Non-Orthogonal
Gaussian Wavelet Groups using Lattice Networks,''
Proceedings of IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks,
Singapore, November 1991, pp. 968-973.
4. Ben-Arie, J.,
``Image Processing Operators and Transforms Generated by
a Set of Neural Lattices that use the Central Limit Theorem,''
in Proceedings of IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks,
Singapore, November 1991, pp. 987-993.
5. Ben-Arie, J.,
``Linear Lattice Architectures that Utilize the Central Limit Theorem
for Image Analysis, Gaussian Operators, Sine, Cosine, Fourier and
Gabor Transforms,''
in Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image
Processing,
Boston, MA, November 1991, pp. 823-838.
Dr. Raghunath K. Rao
Computer Vision and Neural Networks Lab
ECE Dept., Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL 60616.
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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 14:19:33 -0400
From: James W. Davis <jdavis@media.mit.edu>
Subject: PC/Linux/Vision
Has anyone put together a vision system using a PC running Linux?
I'm interested in setting up a low-cost system, and was wondering
what was doing a good job out there. Info on the video equipment
is mostly desired (e.g. cards, frame rate, color v.s. gray,
non-compressed, C function call interface, etc).
Thanks...
Jim Davis
jdavis@media.mit.edu
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Date: 8 Apr 1995 20:20:08 GMT
From: madden@grip.cis.upenn.edu (Brian Madden)
Organization: GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania
Subject: Binocular Camera Platform home page
We have created a World Wide Web page for binocular camera platforms:
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~grasp/head/headpage/headpage.html
This page can also be reached via the CMU Computer Vision home page
(under Related Links): http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cil/vision.html
It is our hope that this page will facilitate communication among the
small (and rapidly growing) community of researchers with binocular heads
by improving communication among research groups and increasing the
general awareness of the progress being made in this area.
The Web page has three main sections:
* A list of electronic links (mostly Web pages) to over 30
institutions world-wide with binocular camera platforms. Associated
with each platform is a list of email addresses and a shorthand
description of the system.
* An email directory with the addresses of people associated
with the binocular platform research (at least one contact for each site).
* A reference section with pointers to material on lenses,
cameras, calibration techniques, software, vision hardware, position
controllers and commercial systems that investigators thought enough of
to incorporate into their platforms.
Finally, there is a survey form at the bottom of the page for the
addition of new information.
Brian Madden and Ulf Cahn von Seelen, GRASP Lab
Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
URL: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~grasp/home.html
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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 19:00:05 +0000 (GMT)
From: patrick@magi.ncsl.nist.gov (Patrick Grother)
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Subject: New Very Large NIST OCR Database
Keywords: Handprint, OCR, Pattern Recognition
Handprinted Forms and Characters Database
Special Database 19 contains NIST's entire corpus of training materials
for handprinted doucument and character recognition. It publishes
Handprinted Sample Forms from 3600 writers, 810000 character images
isolated from their forms, ground truth classifications for those images,
reference forms for further data collection, and software utilities for
image management and handling. It supersedes Special Databases 3 and 7.
+ "Final" accumulation of NIST's handprinted sample data
+ Full page HSF forms from 3600 writers
+ Separate digit, upper and lower case, and free text fields
+ over 800000 images with hand checked classifications
+ Binary images Scanned at 11.8 dots per mm ( 300 dpi )
+ Updated CCITT IV Compression Source Code
+ Database management utilities
+ The images of Special Database 19 form a superset of the
images of two previous releases: Special Databases 3 and 7
which are now discontinued.
The database is NIST's largest and probably final release of images
intended for handprint document processing and OCR research. The full
page images are the default input to the "NIST FORM-BASED HANDPRINT
RECOGNITION SYSTEM", a public domain release of end to end page recognition
software.
Special Database 19 is available as a 5.25 inch CD-ROM in the ISO-9660 format.
For sales contact:
Standard Reference Data
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Building 221, Room A323
Gaithersburg, MD 20899
Voice: (301) 975-2208
FAX: (301) 926-0416
email: srdata@enh.nist.gov
For technical details contact:
Patrick Grother
Visual Image Processing Group
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Building 225, Room A216
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899
Voice: (301) 975-4157
FAX: (301) 840-1357
email: patrick@magi.ncsl.nist.gov
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Date: 13 Apr 1995 15:52:33 GMT
From: Ketan Bhalla <ketan@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Organization: Computing and Network Services, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Subject: Matching for calibrated stereo system
Hi Everybody,
We have been working to match point features between left and right
images of our CALIBRATED stereo system.
There seems to be great deal of literature on matching point/edge
features in uncalibrated stereo/sequence images (using geometric/
rigidity/disparity constraints etc.).
We think this should be unnecessary in our case and we should use
our camera geometry primarily for matching.
Has anyone come across such a case with a complete solution ?
Any references/starting pointers would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Ketan Bhalla
ketan@ee.ualberta.ca
FYI
* the calibration is based on collinearity
* we have a minimum and maximum distance in 3D space where feature
points may be located.
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Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 20:27:57 +0400 (MSD)
From: "Alexander Mikhailovitch Shvedov" <alex@shved.spb.su>
Organization: Private person, St.Petersburg, Russia
Subject: F.Rannou quest about adding noise
In my experiments we used a very effective way of generating any noise
("any" means with any spectral characterstics). The basic idea is to use 2D
FFT to convert *non-stochastic* image with neccesary spectral characteristics
into frequency domain, then to disterb its Fourier image in some very simple
manner, and to convert the result back.
We (me and my collegue Igor Poretsky) invented an exeptionally fast 2D
FFT procedure (a:Intel proccessor oriented, b:pyramidal, not just a series of
1D FFT, as usually is). Experiments showed, that all this works. If
interested, my relcom is alex@shved.spb.su.
Alexander Shvedov
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Date: 10 Apr 1995 20:47:59 +0100
From: em91ndm@brunel.ac.uk (Nicholas D Molton)
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
Subject: Stereo vision
Does anyone know of a vision system (particularly stereo vision),
being used for the automated inspection of parts/items on a production
or assembly line? If so, what does it do and how well does it work?
Any information would be gratefully received,
| Nick Molton em91ndm@brunel.ac.uk |
| Brunel University, England |
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Date: 12 Apr 1995 07:28:34 GMT
From: rbo@oasis.robo.jussieu.fr (Ryad Benosman)
Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France
Subject: DETECTING CURVE KNOWING THEIR EQUATION
Are there good methods to detect a curve knowing its equation,
a part using the hough transform .
Thank's to anybody who can light me on this ?
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Date: 13 Apr 1995 00:49:50 GMT
From: Kim Smith <ksmith@precisionimages.com>
Subject: New Imaging Resource Page
PDI Contacts: Scott Lathe, Marketing Manager, 206-882-0218
Kim Smith, Web Manager
Redmond, Wash. -- A new resource devoted exclusively to imaging
professionals is open on the Internet. Precision Digital Images
(PDI) today introduced its Imaging Resource Page on the World Wide
Web at www.precisionimages.com. By making the page accessible to
the millions of Internet users, PDI provides a unique one-stop
location for diverse information and informative discussions on
imaging technology. The page will also improve communication
between PDI and its customers.
The Imaging Resource Page hosts an on-going Imaging Forum, providing
an interactive roundtable of questions and debates with leading
technical, academic, media and industry experts in the imaging
industry. Web visitors interact with imaging experts via email,
and discussions are posted in a question and answer format. The
Forum is also a new medium for publishing articles, research and
commentary by imaging professionals.
The page also serves as a research tool and reference site for
imaging professionals. Tutorials present broad overviews of image
capture and processing, as well as detailed technical papers on
subjects such as pixel jitter, noise reduction and differential
signal paths. An extensive Gateway offers convenient, centralized
access to other important imaging sites on the Internet. Product
information, event schedules and industry news are also featured.
Another key element to the Imaging Resource Page is Internet access
to PDI technical support, software upgrades and documentation.
PDI hopes to increase communication with its customers via email and
web site support, making product support instantly accessible to
customers nationally and internationally.
Precision Digital Images Corporation manufactures and markets
advanced imaging products for professional and commercial
applications. Product lines include video capture and processing
products for both PC and Apple platforms. Precision Digital Images
can be reached at its headquarters at 6742 185th Avenue N.E.,
Suite 100, Redmond, Wash., 98052. Telephone is 1-800-678-6505 and
fax is (206) 867-9177. Internet web address is
www.precisionimages.com or email info@precisionimages.com.
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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 95 14:42:30 +0200
From: helder@dee.uc.pt (Helder Araujo)
Subject: Visiting Researcher positions available
ANNOUNCEMENT
The Institute of Systems and Robotics, at the University
of Coimbra, Portugal, is selecting two visiting researchers.
Both candidates should hold a Ph.D.. One of the candidates
will work on computer vision projects with special emphasis
on active vision. The other candidate will work on the
development of a mobile robot. Both contracts will be for
a one year period, renewable for an additional year. The
monthly salary is of around (depending on the exchange
rate) $3300 US dollars.
These positions will be available after the suitable
candidates are chosen and the corresponding projects are
submitted to the national programme PRAXIS XXI. Therefore
the admission will depend on the approval for the projects
by the Board of the PRAXIS XXI programme.
For more information:
Dr. Jorge Dias or Dr. Helder Araujo
email: jorge@dee.uc.pt or helder@dee.uc.pt
http://info-isr.dee.uc.pt
address:
Institute of Systems and Robotics
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
University of Coimbra
3000 Coimbra
Portugal
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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 1995 16:15:40 +0200
From: Josiane Zerubia <Josiane.Zerubia@sophia.inria.fr>
Subject: Post-doc position available
INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
FRANCE
POST-DOCTORAL POSITION AVAILABLE
A recent doctoral graduate is sought for a one-year position
beginning October 1, 1995. The funding is provided by European
Community HCM program.
The successful candidate is expected to spend 60% of his/her time on a
project focussed on ``Satellite Image Analysis'' in collaboration with
CNES (French Space Agency).
The remaining 40% is to be devoted to active research on probabilistic
models for computer vision (Markov random fields, statistical
mechanics, stochastic geometry ...)
Qualifications: a recent PhD in Computer Science, Electrical
Engineering or Physics in the area of Computer Vision,
with some emphasis on probabilistic models. Good implementation skills
are needed for this position.
Salary: Category 30 for HCM grants.
Deadline for receipt of applications is May 10, 1995.
Please send a curriculum vitae, copies of two relevant
publications and two or three letters of recommandation
to:
Josiane ZERUBIA
INRIA, BP93
2004 Route des lucioles
06902 Sophia-Antipolis cedex
France
Tel: (33) 93 65 78 65
FAX: (33) 93 65 76 43
E-mail: zerubia@sophia.inria.fr
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Date: 10 Apr 1995 09:00:25 GMT
From: greg@epidaure.inria.fr (Gregoire Malandain)
Organization: INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Subject: Offering Post-Doctoral Position
The Epidaure Group, at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, is offering
a post-doctoral position in Medical Image Analysis, starting
in Autumn or Winter 1995, for one year.
The topics of research are 3D medical image understanding,
all aspects of image registration, augmented reality for
therapy planning, virtual patients for surgery rehearsal.
The candidate must be a European citizen, working in
an EEC country (outside of France), and must not have
received a funding for Human Mobility from the EEC
before.
Applications must be sent to
Dr. Nicholas Ayache
INRIA
2004 Route des Lucioles
F-06902 Sophia-Antipolis
France
BEFORE MAY 1st, 1995
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Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 15:44:12 +0300 (MET-DST)
From: NESI@ingfi1.ing.unifi.it
Subject: Special Issues of J. of Real Time Imaging on Real Time Motion Analysis
Call for Papers
Special Issue on of the JOURNAL OF REAL TIME IMAGING
Academic Press
on "Real Time Motion Analysis"
The performing motion analysis in real-time is becoming mandatory for
many applications. For this reason, several researchers are studying,
parallel architectures and special chips for real time motion analysis.
On these basis many new opportunities for new applications are
possible, and many others could be fully exploited -- infeasible
systems with traditional techniques can now be implemented. Several
examples can be observed in the fields of cinema, virtual reality,
medical imaging, industrial inspection, etc. -- i.e., in most of the
applicative topics of the journal. In most of these applications, the
real time synthesis of actors animated by the estimated motions and
deformations is needed. For this reason, the integration among motion
analysis and synthesis techniques assume a high relevance on quality of
results. Practitioners as well as researches needs to be informed to
these new techniques and to their possible applications.
The special issue will focus on, and not only on, the following topics:
- Low-level motion estimation techniques.
- Object tracking.
- Dedicated hardware for motion estimation.
- Non-rigid and articulated objects motion analysis and synthesis
(e.g., cinema, animation).
- Methods and architectures for robot and autonomous navigation.
- Human head/facial motions/deformations analysis and synthesis
(video-conference, video-phones, cinema, animation).
- Hand gestures analysis and synthesis.
Papers should present results which can be useful for technologists and
practitioners. Basic researches on specific low-level techniques which
ensure real-time performances, and experiences in developing specific
applications are welcome.
*Manuscript submission* Authors should send four copies of the paper to
guest editor by September 15, 1995. The special issue will appear
tentatively within the mid of 1996.
Paolo Nesi
Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica
University of Florence
Via S. Marta 3
50139, Firenze, ITALY
Tel: +39-55-4796523
Fax: +39-55-4796363
email: nesi@ingfi1.ing.unifi.it
www: http://www-dsi.ing.unifi.it/~nesi/
Manuscript submission must satisfy the rules of the journal for what
concerns paper's originality, copyright permission, manuscript
preparation. [note: if you are willing to referee papers for this
special issue, please send a note with research interest to Guest
Editor.]
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Date: 8 Apr 1995 19:43:25 GMT
From: rajive@cat.rpi.edu (Rajive Joshi)
Organization: NYS CAT in Automation and Robotics, RPI, Troy, NY 12180-3590
Subject: ICPIC: Call for Papers
ICPIC
Indian Conference on Image Processing Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision
(Dec 13-15, 1995)
ICPIC(Indian Conference on Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and
Computer Vision) will be held during December 13-15, 1995 at Indian
Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. The conference will provide a
forum for identifying, encouraging and exchanging ideas on research,
development and novel applications of image analysis related systems
and technologies.
The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to:
Low level processing
Feature Extraction
Data Clustering Applications
Pattern Classifications
Image Segmentation
Parallel Image algorithms and Architectures
Object Recognition
Multidimensional signal processing
Color Image Analysis
Document Image Analysis
Image Restoration
Image Interpretation
3D Scene Analysis
Shape from shading
Stereo and Depth Estimation
Dynamic scene analysis
Neural Network for Pattern Recognition
Industrial Applications
Remote Sensing
Active Vision
ASIC for Image Processing
Fuzzy sets in Image Analysis
Submission of Papers:
Authors should submit five copies of a full paper covering theory,
development or application to the Program Chair. The first page of the
manuscript should contain the title, name(s), affiliation(s), postal
and email address(es) of the author(s), an abstract, at least five key
words, and the name and address of correspondence. All papers will be
reviewed and the accepted papers will be published in the
proceedings. The length of the paper should be restricted to six A4
size pages. Papers should be send by mail or courier only. Authors are
encouraged to prepare their papers in LaTeX.
Registration Fees
Academic Inst.
Industry
Tutorial only Rs. 500/-
Rs. 1500/-
Conference only Rs. 500/-
Rs. 1000/-
Tutorial + Conference Rs. 750/-
Rs. 2000/-
A limited number of students will be allowed free registration.
Dead Lines:
Submission of Full paper: April 30, 1995
Notification of Acceptance: July 31, 1995
Submission of Camera Ready manuscript: September 30, 1995
Submission for proposal for Demonstration: June 31, 1995
Address for Correspondence:
Dr. B. N. Chatterjee, Program Chair ICPIC
Dean, Academic Affairs, IIT Kharagpur 721302 India
Phone: 91-3222-2221 to 2224 Extn. (O) 2206, (R) 7649
Telex: 06401-201 ITKG IN
Fax: 91-3222-2303
Email: bnc@iitkgp.ernet.in
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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 95 14:24:02 +0200
From: Theo.Moons@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
Organization: ESAT, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Subject: Call for participation (CVAG95)
CALL for PARTICIPATION
International Workshop on
COMPUTER VISION AND APPLIED GEOMETRY
From Segmentation to Interpretation and Back :
Mathematical Methods in Vision
Nordfjordeid, Norway
August 1 - 7, 1995
THE AIM of this workshop is to bring together mathematicians
and computer vision researchers working on and/or interested
in mathematical problems that are relevant to computer vision
in an attempt to foster and stimulate interactions between
the two communities. To illustrate the breadth and depth
of these interactions a number of topics will be covered
(see below) ranging from low-level vision to high-level
reconstruction and interpretation.
THE FORMAT of the workshop is such that overview lectures are
alternated with sessions concentrating on some of the latest
developments in the field. This should provide interested
researchers with a quick but up-to-date introduction to this
fast growing area of interdisciplinary research as well as
give them an accurate picture of the state-of-the-art and
a flavour of some of the most recent avenues of research.
A preliminary list of topics and key-note speakers includes
* Segmentation and Minimum Description Length Methods
Y. Leclerc (SRI International, USA),
B. Dom (IBM-Research Almaden, USA)
* Regularization and ill-posed problems
A. Goncharsky (Moscow)
* Coupled diffusion processes and functional optimization
P. Perona# (CalTech)
* Curve and surface evolution
B. Kimia (Brown), V. Oliker (Atlanta), P. Olver (Minnesota)
* Grouping through geometric relations
A. Zisserman (Oxford)
* Algebraic and Lie theoretical methods for invariance
P. Olver (Minnesota), L. Van Gool (Leuven)
* Geometric constraints and 3D-Reconstruction
R. Hartley (GE-Research, USA), A. Shashua (Jeruzalem),
O. Faugeras# (INRIA)
(# means "to be confirmed")
TO REGISTER, return the registration form or email the necessary
information to the ESAT-address below. Participants who want to
make an active contribution are invited to submit a tentative
title and an abstract BEFORE MAY 15, 1995. If accepted for
presentation, contributed titles will be considered for inclusion
in the Workshop Proceedings.
For more INFORMATION and/or REGISTRATION, please contact
ESAT : Theo Moons, Eric Pauwels or Luc Van Gool,
ESAT-MI2, K. Mercierlaan 94, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM
E-mail : Theo.Moons@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
or Eric.Pauwels@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
or Luc.VanGool@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
Phone : +32-16-321702 (TM) or +32-16-321706 (EP)
or +32-16-321705 (LVG)
Fax : +32-16-321986
A LATEX and a POSTSCRIPT version of this announcement,
including the registration form can be obtained by
anonymous FTP :
address : esat.kuleuven.ac.be
directory : pub/ROBOT/CVAG95
file(s) : cvag95.tex and cvag95.ps
-----oooOOOooo-----
This workshop is actually the third leg of a larger conference
on pure and applied geometry running for a total of three weeks
(from July 18 till August 7). The emphasis in the first two weeks
is on pure differential geometry and a tentative program looks as
follows :
PART I : Pure Differential Geometry (July 18 - July 24)
TOPICS : geometry and topology of submanifolds,
Riemannian geometry and generalizations,
affine differential geometry.
PART II : Applicable Differential Geometry (July 25 - July 31)
TOPICS : affine differential geometry,
discrete differential geometry,
curve and surface evolution,
Lie theory.
PART III : Computer Vision and Applied Geometry (August 1 - August 7)
TOPICS : see above.
Participants can register for one, two or three weeks.
For more information on the first two weeks, please contact
PADGE : F. Dillen or L. Verstraelen,
Dept. of Mathematics, Celestijnenlaan 200B,
B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM.
E-mail : Franki.Dillen@wis.kuleuven.ac.be
or Leopold.Verstraelen@wis.kuleuven.ac.be
Phone : +32-16-327004 (FD) or +32-16-327009 (LV)
Fax : +32-16-327998
-----oooOOOooo-----
NORDFJORDEID is Sophus Lie's birthplace, located about 500 kilometers
north-west of Oslo on the west coast of Norway. It is situated
in the middle of a mountainous area, with many glaciers and
fjords nearby. There are plenty of opportunities for outdoor
activities, ranging from football and salmon fishing to horse
riding and mountain climbing. Each week an excursion is planned.
To get to Nordfjordeid from Oslo, one can go by coach which takes
about 7 hours one way (the fare Oslo--Nordfjordeid--Oslo is 700 NOK).
Alternatively, there are daily flights from Oslo to the local airport
(Sandane).
PARTICIPATION, including full board, will amount to 3000 NOK for
one week, 4000 NOK for two and 5000 NOK for three weeks (1 USD =
approx. 7 NOK). The same rates apply for accompanying persons,
except for children under the age of 10 who pay half-price.
ACCOMODATION is in modestly furnished rooms (singles and doubles)
at the Nordfjordeid conference venue, made available through the
International Sophus Lie Centre (ISLC). There is room for up to
90 people and reservations will be made in order of arrival of
the registration forms. It is therefore advisable to REGISTER
EARLY: when these facilities are fully booked, hotel accommodation
will be arranged for at local tourist rates.
Near the beginning of May, a second announcement with more detailed
information on the actual scientific program will be circulated.
REGISTRATION FORM
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Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 17:08:44 GMT
From: njm@cupido.inesc.pt (Nuno Joao Mamede)
Organization: INESC
Subject: 2nd CFP: Robotics & Vision Systems Worksop
Summary: 7th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence
EPIA'95 WORKSHOPS - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO ROBOTICS AND
VISION SYSTEMS WORKSHOP
Seventh Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal
October 3-6, 1995
(Under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for AI)
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REMEMBER: SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 2, 1995
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INTRODUCTION
The Seventh Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(EPIA'95) will be held at Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal,
between October 3-6, 1995. As in previous cases ('89, '91,
and '93), EPIA'95 will be run as an international
conference, English being the official language. The
scientific program includes tutorials, invited lectures,
demonstrations, and paper presentations. The Conference will
include three parallel workshops on Expert Systems, Fuzzy
Logic and Neural Networks, and Applications of A.I. to
Robotics and Vision Systems. These workshops will run
simultaneously (see below) and consist of invited talks,
panels, paper presentations and poster sessions.
Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Robotics and
Vision Systems Workshop may last for either 1, 2 or 3 days,
depending on the quantity and quality of submissions.
INVITED LECTURERS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In this issue of the conference,four special invited lectures
will promote a debate on the very foundations of Artificial
Intelligence, its approaches and results. It is an honour to
announce the invited lecturers and the corresponding talks:
"Why Human Brains Can't Really Think",
by Marvin Minsky (MIT-USA);
"Planning and Learning in Intelligent Agents",
by Manuela Veloso (CMU-USA);
"The Connectionist Paradigm and AI",
by Luis B. Almeida (IST-Portugal);
"The Evolutionist Approach - Past, Present, and Future of AI",
by Rodney Brooks (MIT-USA).
TUTORIALS
~~~~~~~~~
In this issue of the conference, four tutorials will be
delivered:
"Artificial Life and Autonomous Robots",
by Luc Steels (VUB AI Lab-Belgium);
"Virtual Reality - The AI perspective",
by David Hogg (Univ. of Leeds-UK);
"Introduction to Artificial Intelligence",
by Ernesto Costa (Univ. of Coimbra-Portugal);
(in Portuguese)
"Design of Expert Systems",
by Ernesto Morgado (IST-Portugal);
(in Portuguese)
APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO ROBOTICS AND
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VISION SYSTEMS WORKSHOP
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
During the last few years, Artificial Intelligence
techniques have been successfully applied to a large number
of problems in robotics and computer vision.
This workshop aims to provide an overview of such
applications specially featuring real prototypes and systems
(e.g., robotic insects, autonomous mobile robots, etc.).
The availability of demonstrations (robots, vision systems,
videos and demonstration software) is highly appreciated and
will be taken into account in assessing submissions.
The workshop will be divided into two areas: paper
presentations and system exhibitions, where prototypes
related to the presentations will be demonstrated.
The organization invites you to participate in the workshop
via paper presentations and/or system demonstrations.
EXHIBITIONS
~~~~~~~~~~~
In order to illustrate and to support theoretical
presentations the organization will provide adequate
conditions (space and facilities) for exhibitions regarding
the three workshops mentioned. These exhibitions can include
software running systems (several platforms are available),
video presentations (PAL-G VHS system), robotics systems
(such as robotics insects, and autonomous robots), and
posters. On the one hand, this space will allow the
presentation of results and real-world applications of the
research developed by our community and, on the other it
will serve as a source of motivation to students and young
researchers.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Authors are asked to submit five (5) copies of their papers
to the submissions address by May 2, 95. Notification of
acceptance or rejection will be mailed to the first (or
designated) author on June 5, 95, and camera ready copies
for inclusion in the workshop proceedings will be due on
July 3, 95. Each copy of submitted papers should include a
separate title page giving the names, addresses, phone
numbers and email addresses (where available) of all
authors, and a list of keywords identifying the subject area
of the paper. Papers should be a maximum of 16 pages and
printed on A4 paper in 12 point type with a maximum of 38
lines per page and 75 characters per line ( corresponding to
LaTeX article style, 12 pt). Double sided submissions are
preferred. Electronic or faxed submissions will not be
accepted. Further inquiries should be addressed to the
inquiries address.
ATTENDANCE
~~~~~~~~~~
Each workshop will be limited to at most fifty people. In
addition to presenters of papers and posters, there will be
space for a limited number of other participants chosen on
the basis of a one- to two-page research summary which
should include a list of relevant publications, along with
an electronic mail address if possible. A set of working
notes will be available prior to the commencement of the
workshops. Registration information will be available in
June 1995. Please write for registration information to the
inquiries address.
DEADLINES
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Papers submission: ................. May 2, 1995
Notification of acceptance: ........ June 5, 1995
Camera Ready Copies Due: ........... July 3, 1995
PROGRAM-CHAIR
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Joao Paulo Costeira (CMU, USA)
ORGANIZING-CHAIR
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Jose Santos-Victor (IST, Portugal)
SUBMISSION AND INQUIRIES ADDRESS
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EPIA'95
Aplic. of AI to Robotics & Vision Workshop
INESC, Apartado 13069
1000 Lisboa Portugal
Voice: +351 (1) 310-0325
Fax: +351 (1) 525843
Email: epia95-ARVWorkshop@inesc.pt
PLANNING TO ATTEND
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People planning to submit a paper or/and to attend the
workshop are asked to complete and return the following form
(by fax or email) to the inquiries address standing their
intention. It will help the workshop organizer to estimate
the facilities needed and will enable all interested people
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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 95 18:20:08 EST
From: carmo@icmsc.sc.usp.br ( Maria do Carmo )
Subject: CFP: Brazilian Symposium on Intelligent Automation
CALL FOR PAPERS
II BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON INTELIGENT AUTOMATION
CEFET-PR,CURITIBA, September 13 to 15, 95
SBA (Brazilian Society for Automation)
The Brazilian Symposium on Intelligent Automation (SBAI) is a
biannual event that congregates researchers, practitioners and
students to present and discuss recent development in Industrial
Automation and Artificial Intelligence. The main activities of
the Symposium will be Technical Paper Sessions, Tutorials, and
Tools.
Original papers are invited on any aspect of Industrial
Automation and Artificial Intelligence. Papers on the following
aspects are particularly welcome:
- Artificial Intelligence applied to Industrial Automation -
Robotics - Automation Technology - Flexible Manufacturing Systems
and CIM - Computer Vision - Image Processing - Sensor Integration
- Domotics - Intelligent Control - Neural Networks - Fuzzy
Systems - Expert Systems - Knowledge Acquisition and Represen-
tation - Planning - and related areas.
Submissions must be original contributions to the state of the
art in the area and that were not published elsewhere. Simul-
taneous submission is allowed as long as the program committee
is informed at the time of the submission. Submissions will be
reviewed by the program committee for originality, significance,
timeliness, soundness, and quality of presentation. Papers
should state clearly what is novel about the work, and should
compare it with related work. Paper submissions are limited to 6
single sided pages (A4 or 8.5 x 11"), single spaced with
10-point lettering, and the following margins: top 1.5" (3.5
cm), (submissions in 8.5 x 11" paper should have a top margin of
1 " (2.5 cm)) bottom 0.78" (2 cm) and sides 1" (2.5 cm). Sub-
missions describing tools are limited to 2 pages (same measures
as above) and should mention the platform to be used. The first
page must include the title, authors name(s) and affiliations,
address(es) and abstract. A Word for Windows 6.0 template is
available for anonymous ftp from ftp.cefetpr.br (200.17.96.75)
in the directory pub/sbai.
DEADLINES
- Submission: May 15, 95
- Acceptance Notification: July 31, 95
Please mail the original submission and three copies of it
without the names of the authors to:
II SBAI
CEFET-PR
Av. Sete de Setembro 3165
80230-901 Curitiba-PR Brazil
If you wish to receive e-mail messages about the Symposium then
please inform us by sending a mail to sbai@cpgei.cefetpr.br
Organized by: CEFET-PR e TECPAR
General Chair: Douglas P. B. Renaux (CEFET-PR)
Program Committee:
Marcio Rillo (USP) - Chair
Alexandre Pinto Alves da Silva (EFEI)
Alfranci Freitas Santos (CEFET-PR)
Altamiro Amadeu Suzim (UFRGS)
Arnaldo Araujo (UFMG)
Celso Antonio Alves Kaestner (CEFET-PR)
Clesio Tozzi (UNICAMP)
Flavio Bortolozzi (CEFET-PR)
Fabio Jota (UFMG)
Germano Lambert (EFEI)
Hansjorg Schneebeli (UFES)
Jean-Marie Farines (UFSC)
Jorge Muniz Barreto (UFSC)
Liu Hsu (COPPE)
Maria do Carmo Nicoletti (UFSCar)
Maria Carolina Monard (USP-SC)
Marcio Luiz de Andrade Netto (UNICAMP)
Pedro Ferreira (PUC-RJ)
Rafael Santos Mendes (UNICAMP)
Ricardo Tancheit (FAPEMA)
Teresa Ludemir (UFPE)
Organizing Committee:
Arildo Cordeiro(CEFET-PR)
Dagoberto G. Drechsel(CEFET-PR)
Ernani A. Brescianini(CEFET-PR)
Flavio Bortolozzi(CEFET-PR)
Heitor S. Lopes(CEFET-PR)
Hypolito Kalinowski(CEFET-PR)
Julio Nievola(CEFET-PR)
Lucelia M. Pissaia(CEFET-PR)
Manoel C. Penna(CEFET-PR)
Milton Ramos (TECPAR)
Moacir Backes(CEFET-PR)
Renaldo Franque(CEFET-PR)
Vilson Ongarato(CEFET-PR)
Douglas P. B. Renaux
Curso de Pos-Graduacao em Eng. Elet. e Informatica Industrial (CPGEI)
Centro Federal de Educacao Tecnologica do Parana (CEFET-PR)
Av. Sete de Setembro 3165
Curitiba - PR - Brasil
80230-901
Fone: (041) 322-4544 r 191 Fax: (041) 224-5170
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Date: 12 Apr 1995 13:17:17 GMT
From: greg@epidaure.inria.fr (Gregoire Malandain)
Organization: INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Subject: CVRMed'95 PROCEEDINGS AVAILABLE
CVRMed'95 Proceedings Available Now!
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Volume Editor: Nicholas Ayache
Title: Computer Vision, Virtual Reality
and Robotics in Medicine
Subtitle: First International Conference, CVRMed'95,
Nice, France, April 3 - 6, 1995.
Proceedings
Serie: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume Number: 905
Pages: 567 + XIV
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CONTENTS
Evaluating and Validating an Automated Registration System for Enhanced
Reality Visualization in Surgery,
W.E.L. Grimson (MIT / Harvard / TASC), G.J. Ettinger (MIT / TASC),
S.J. White (TASC), P.L. Gleason (Harvard), T. Lozano-Perez (MIT),
W.M. Wells III (MIT / Harvard), R. Kikinis (Harvard, USA)
Vision-Based Object Registration for Real-Time Image Overlay,
M. Uenohara (Toshiba, Japan), T. Kanade (CMU, USA)
Using a 3D position sensor for registration of SPECT and US images of the
kidney,
O. Peria, L. Chevalier (TIMC-IMAG), A. Francois-Joubert, J.P. Caravel,
S. Dalsoglio (CHU Michallon, Grenoble), S. Lavallee, P. Cinquin (TIMC-IMAG,
France)
A new framework for fusing stereo images with volumetric medical images,
F. Betting, J. Feldmar, N. Ayache, F. Devernay (INRIA, France)
Visualisation of Multimodal Images for Neurosurgical Planning and Guidance,
J. Zhao, A.C.F. Colchester, C.J. Henri, D.J. Hawkes,
C. Ruff (UMDS, Guy's Hospital, London, UK)
Registration of 3-D surface data for intra-operative guidance and
visualization in frameless stereotactic neurosurgery,
C.J. Henri, A.C.F. Colchester, J. Zhao, D.J. Hawkes, D.L.G. Hill
(UMDS, Guy's Hospital, London), R.L. Evans (Roke Manor Research, UK)
Adaptive Segmentation of MRI Data,
W.M. Wells III (Harvard / MIT), W.E.L. Grimson (MIT), R. Kikinis,
F.A. Jolesz (Harvard, USA)
Virtual Space Editing of Tagged MRI Heart Data,
L. Serra, T. Poston, H. Ng, P.A. Heng, B.C. Chua (National Univ. of Singapore)
Computer-Aided Interactive Object Delineation Using an Intelligent Paintbrush
Technique,
F. Maes, D. Vandermeulen, P. Suetens, G. Marchal (MIR, Radiology-ESAT,
K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
Biomedical Data Exploration Meets Telecollaboration,
G. Klinker (ECRC, Munich, Germany), I. Carlbom (DEC, Cambridge),
W. Hsu (Microsoft, Redmond, USA), D. Terzopoulos (Univ. of Toronto, Canada)
Medical Image Segmentation Using Topologically Adaptable Snakes,
T. McInerney, D. Terzopoulos (Univ. of Toronto, Canada)
Sophocle: A Retinal Laser Photocoagulation Simulator: Overview,
P. Meseure (Univ. de Lille), J.F. Rouland, P. Dubois (CHU Lille), S. Karpf,
C. Chaillou (Univ. de Lille, France)
A New Robot for High Dexterity Microsurgery,
P.S. Schenker, H. Das, T.R. Ohm (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, USA)
Towards More Capable and Less Invasive Robotic Surgery in Orthopaedics,
R.V. O'Toole III (Shadyside Hospital / CMU), D.A. Simon (CMU),
B. Jaramaz (Shadyside Hospital / CMU), O. Ghattas, M.K. Blackwell (CMU),
L. Kallivokas (Shadyside Hospital), F. Morgan (CMU), C. Visnic (Shadyside
Hospital), A.M. DiGioia III (Shadyside Hospital / CMU), T. Kanade (CMU, USA)
Treatment Planning for Image-Guided Robotic Radiosurgery,
R. Tombropoulos, A. Schweikard, J.C. Latombe, J.R. Adler (Stanford Univ., USA)
Robotic Radiosurgery with Beams of Adaptable Shapes,
A. Schweikard, R. Tombropoulos, J.R. Adler (Stanford Univ., USA)
Automatic retrieval of anatomical structures in 3D medical images,
J. Declerck, G. Subsol, J.P. Thirion, N. Ayache (INRIA, France)
A Novel Virtual Reality Tool for Teaching Dynamic 3D Anatomy,
A.R. Kancherla, J.P. Rolland, D.L. Wright (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill), G. Burdea (Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, USA)
A Supporting System for Getting Tomograms and Screening with a Computerized
3D Brain Atlas and a Knowledge Database,
H. Suzuki, K. Yoshizaki (Mie Univ.), M. Matsuo (Tenri Hospital, Nara),
J. Kashio (Mie Univ., Japan)
A MRF based random graph modelling the human cortical topography,
J.F. Mangin (Telecom Paris / CEA, Orsay), J. Regis (CHU La Timone, Marseille),
I. Bloch (Telecom Paris), V. Frouin, Y. Samson (CEA, Orsay),
J. Lopez-Krahe (Telecom Paris, France)
Combining "Vertical" and "Horizontal" Features from Medical Images,
F.L. Bookstein (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
3D Multi-Modality Medical Image Registration Using Feature Space Clustering,
A. Collignon, D. Vandermeulen, P. Suetens, G. Marchal (MIR, Radiology-ESAT,
K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
Registration of non-Segmented Images using a Genetic Algorithm,
J.J. Jacq, C. Roux (Telecom Bretagne, Brest, France)
Anatomy-based Registration for Computer-integrated Surgery,
A. Hamadeh, S. Lavallee (TIMC-IMAG, France), R. Szeliski (DEC, Cambridge,
USA), P. Cinquin, O. Peria (TIMC-IMAG, France)
Comparison of feature-based matching of CT and MR brain images,
J.B.A. Maintz (Univ. Hospital Utrecht), P.A. van den Elsen
(Univ. Hospital Utrecht / Stanford Univ., USA), M.A. Viergever
(Univ. Hospital Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Automatical Adaption of Anatomical Masks to the Neocortex,
F. Kruggel (Klinikum rechts der Isar, Munich, Germany)
Fast Segmentation of Brain Magnetic Resonance Tomograms,
G. Mittelhaeusser (Univ. of Kaiserslautern),
F. Kruggel (Klinikum rechts der Isar, Munich, Germany)
Comparison of Two Multi-Scale Approaches to Edge detection in Medical Images,
W. Beil, H.S. Stiehl (Univ. of Hamburg, Germany)
Computer Aided Surgery (CAS) system for Stereotactic Neurosurgery,
Y. Masutani, K. Masamune, M. Suzuki, T. Dohi (Univ. of Tokyo), H. Iseki,
K. Takakura (Tokyo Women's Medical College, Japan)
Registration of 3D objects using linear algebra,
G. Burel, H. Henocq, J.Y. Catros (Thomson, Cesson-Sevigne, France)
Talairach-Tournoux / Schaltenbrand-Wahren Based Electronic Brain Atlas System,
W.L. Nowinski, A. Fang, B.T. Nguyen, R. Raghavan (National Univ. of
Singapore), R.N. Bryan, J. Miller (Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, USA)
Co-Registration of MRI and Autoradiography of Rat brain in Three-Dimensions
following Automatic Reconstruction of 2D Data Set,
B. Kim, K.A. Frey, S. Mukhopadhyay, B.D. Ross, C.R. Meyer
(Univ. of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, USA)
Computer assisted analysis of echocardiographic image sequences,
A. Giachetti (Univ. of Genova), G. Gigli (Ospedale di Rapallo),
V. Torre (Univ. of Genova, Italy)
Computer Tracking of Tagged H MR Images for Motion Analysis,
D. Reynard, A. Blake, A. Azzawi, P. Styles, G.K. Radda (Univ. of Oxford, UK)
Simulation of Endoscopy,
B. Geiger (INRIA, France), R. Kikinis (Harvard Medical School, USA)
A Virtual Reality Medical Training System,
R. Ziegler, W. Mueller, G. Fischer, M. Goebel
(Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany)
Virtual Simulation in Radiotherapy Planning,
R. Bendl, A. Hoess, W. Schlegel (German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg,
Germany)
2-D and 3-D Motion Analysis in Digital Subtraction Angiography,
J.L. Coatrieux, F. Mao, C. Toumoulin, R. Collorec (INSERM, Rennes, France)
Measuring Microcirculation Using Spatiotemporal Image Analysis,
Y. Sato, J. Chen, S. Yamamoto, S. Tamura (Osaka Univ.), N. Harada
(National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute), T. Shiga (Osaka Univ.),
S. Harino, Y. Oshima (Yadogawa Christian Hospital, Japan)
Dense Non-rigid Motion Estimation in sequences of 3D Images using Differential
Constraints,
S. Benayoun (INRIA, France), C. Nastar (MIT, USA), N. Ayache (INRIA, France)
Superquadrics and free-form deformations: a global model to fit and track 3D
medical data,
E. Bardinet (INRIA), L.D. Cohen (CEREMADE, Paris), N. Ayache (INRIA, France)
A Unified Framework to Assess Myocardial Function From 4D Images,
P. Shi, G. Robinson, A. Chakraborty, L. Staib, R. Constable, A. Sinusas,
J. Duncan (Yale Univ., USA)
Detection of brain activation from MRI data by likelihood-ratio test,
S. Ruan, C. Jaggi (LEI/ISMRA, Caen), J.M. Constans (CHRU de Caen),
D. Bloyet (LEI/ISMRA, Caen, France)
Probabilistic hyperstack segmentation of MR brain data,
K.L. Vincken, A.S.E. Koster, M.A. Viergever (Utrecht Univ., The Netherlands)
Multiscale Representation and Analysis of Features from Medical Images,
M. Fidrich, J.P. Thirion (INRIA, France)
A Representation for Mammographic Image Processing,
R. Highnam, M. Brady, B. Shepstone (Oxford Univ., UK)
Finding curvilinear structures in mammograms,
N. Cerneaz, M. Brady (Oxford Univ., UK)
On reconstructing Curved Object Boundaries from Sparse Sets of X-Ray Images,
S. Sullivan (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana), A. Noble (GE, Schenectady),
J. Ponce (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, USA)
3D Reconstruction of Blood Vessels by Multi-Modality Data Fusion using Fuzzy
and Markovian Modelling,
I. Bloch (Telecom Paris), C. Pellot (INSERM, Paris), F. Sureda
(Telecom Paris), A. Herment (INSERM, Paris, France)
Three-Dimensional Reconstruction and Volume Rendering of Intravascular
Ultrasound Slices Imaged on a Curved Arterial Path,
J. Lengyel, D.P. Greenberg (Cornell Univ., Ithaca), A. Yeung, E. Alderman,
R. Popp (Stanford Univ., USA)
Analysis and 3D display of 30 MHz intravascular ultrasound images,
M. Kluytmans, C.J. Bouma, B.M. ter Haar Romeny, G. Pasterkamp,
M.A. Viergever (Univ. Hospital Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Simplification of Irregular Surface Meshes in 3D Medical Images,
A. Gourdon (INRIA, France)
Deformable Models For Reconstructing Unstructured 3D Data,
M.E. Algorri, F. Schmitt (Telecom Paris, France)
Segmentation of Brain Tissue from MR Images,
T. Kapur, W.E.L. Grimson (MIT), R. Kikinis (Harvard Medical School, Boston,
USA)
Shock-Based Reaction-Diffusion Bubbles for Image Segmentation,
H. Tek, B.B. Kimia (Brown Univ., Providence, USA)
MRI Texture Analysis Applied to Trabecular Bone: An Experimental Study,
J. Bezy-Wendling, A. Bruno, P. Reuze (INSERM, Univ. de Rennes, France)
Object-Based 3D X-Ray Imaging,
R. Benjamin (Imperial College, London, UK)
Quantitative Vascular Shape Analysis for 3D MR-Angiography using Mathematical
Morphology,
Y. Masutani, T. Kurihara, M. Suzuki, T. Dohi (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
B-Deformable Superquadrics for 3D Reconstruction,
M. Neveu, D. Faudot, B. Derdouri (Univ. de Bourgogne, Dijon, France)
Modeling 3D objects with patches of quadratic surfaces: application to the
recognition and locating of anatomic structures,
I. Bricault, O. Monga (INRIA, France)
A Method of Analyzing a Shape with Potential Symmetry and Its Application
to Detecting Spinal Deformity,
S. Ishikawa, H. Kosaka, K. Kato (Kyushu Institute of Technology),
Y. Otsuka (National Sanatorium Chiba Higashi Hospital, Japan)
Realtime Camera Calibration for Enhanced Reality Visualization,
J.P. Mellor (MIT, USA)
Computer Assisted Knee Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: First
Clinical Tests,
V. Dessenne, S. Lavallee (TIMC-IMAG), R. Julliard (Clinique Mutualiste,
Grenoble), P. Cinquin, R. Orti (TIMC-IMAG, France)
The SpiderWeb Algorithm for Extracting 3D Objects from Volume Data,
D.B. Karron (New York Univ. Medical Center), J. Cox (Brooklyn College of the
City Univ. of New York, USA)
Towards realistic visualization for surgery rehearsal,
B. Pflesser, U. Tiede, K.H. Hoehne (Univ.-Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany)
Segmentation of 3D objects from MRI volume data using constrained elastic
deformations of flexible Fourier surface models,
G. Szekely, A. Kelemen, Ch. Brechbuehler, G. Gerig (ETH-Zentrum, Zurich,
Switzerland)
Liver Definition in CT Using a Population-Based Shape Model,
J.L. Boes, C.R. Meyer, T.E. Weymouth (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
Retrospective Correction of MRI Amplitude Inhomogeneities,
C.R. Meyer, P.H. Bland (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor),
J. Pipe (Univ. of Michigan,Ann Arbor / Wayne State Univ., Detroit, USA)
Design of new surface detection operators in the case of an anisotropic
sampling of 3D volume data,
C. Hamitouche, C. Roux (Telecom Bretagne, Brest),
J.L. Coatrieux (Univ. de Rennes, France)
Modelling Elasticity in Solids using Active Cubes - Application to Simulated
Operations,
M. Bro-Nielsen (INRIA, France / Technical Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark)
Automated Extraction and Visualization of Bronchus from 3D CT Images of Lung,
K. Mori (Nagoya Univ.), J. Hasegawa (Chukyo Univ., Toyota), J. Toriwaki
(Nagoya Univ.), H. Anno, K. Katada (Fujita Health Univ., Toyoake, Japan)
Virtual Reality as an operative tool during scoliosis surgery,
B. Peuchot (LASMEA, Aubiere), A. Tanguy (CHU, Clermont-Ferrand),
M. Eude (CUST, Aubiere, France)
Neurosurgical Guidance Using the Stereo Microscope,
P.J. Edwards, D.L.G. Hill, D.J. Hawkes (UMDS, Guy's Hospital, London, UK),
R. Spink (Leica, Heerbrugg, Switzerland), A.C.F. Colchester (UMDS, Guy's
Hospital), A. Strong (Maudsley Hospital), M. Gleeson (UMDS, Guy's Hospital,
London, UK)
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