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VISION-LIST Digest    Mon Jan 13 09:54:07 PDT 92     Volume 11 : Issue 2

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Today's Topics:

 Colour aerial images needed
 Query: Matching points in d-dimensions
 Know of any recent good books detailing vision algorithms?
 i860 users and applications
 Image-capture-cards for turbochannel?
 Neural networks for automatic visual inspection
 Eye Analysis Research by Ford
 References for facial ageing
 CFP: CAIA-92: 8th IEEE Conference on AI for Applications
 BMVA Technical Meeting: Active Vision and Controlleable Stereo Systems

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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 92 11:27:57 GMT
From: S.Tan@ee.surrey.ac.uk
Subject: Colour aerial images needed

I am looking for digitised colour aerial images of scenes consisting
of forest, roads, urban area etc. It is to be used in a colour texture
approach for segmentation. Please reply directly to me. Thank you.

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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 92 23:29:13 EST
From: raja@cps.msu.edu
Subject: Query: Matching points in d-dimensions

What is the fastest algorithm to match 2 sets of d-dimensional points?
Any references would be greatly appreciated...

Thank you and best wishes for a Happy New Year,

Narayan S. Raja.     raja@cps.msu.edu

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From: pkahn@ads.com (Phil Kahn)
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 92 14:40:33 -0800
Subject: Know of any recent good books detailing vision algorithms?

I'm trying to compile a list of books that have nitty gritty implementation
details on algorithms used within the vision community. Books with lots
of detail, but which omit implementation details are also OK (e.g., Horn's
"Robot Vision" may fit into this category).

I will post the compilation to the List.

cheers,
phil...

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 92 22:54:11 -0300
From: U009@cs.cciw.ca
Subject: i860 users and applications

Does anyone know of a discussion group for the i860 chip?s
I am looking to get background info on the Alacron board and the Portland
group software. Also, anyone using the DT Connect option, DT interface
board and a line-scanner CCD? I'd like to talk about applications.
Thanks for your interest.

 Regards, Stu Beal, VE3MWM, U009@CS.CCIW.CA,
 National Water Research Institute,
 Burlington, Ontario, Canada.

 The Future lies ahead, and behind us lies... lies... lies...

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1992 14:39:02 GMT
From: News System Uni-Oldenburg.DE <news@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Subject: image-capture-cards for turbochannel ?
Keywords: image-capture, turbochannel, dec-station

Hello,

I need information about image-capture/frame-grabber -cards for dec-stations:
- technical specification
- availability
- prices
- experiences

Please email directly. Thank you!	[ Also post to the List.    phil...]

# Joerg Schwanke                                 Universitaet Oldenburg       #
# Tel.: 49 - 441 - 7982990                       FB Informatik                #
# FAX.: 49 - 441 - 7982155                       Postfach 2503                #
#                                                D 2900 Oldenburg             #
# email: Joerg.Schwanke@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE                      #	
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Date: 8 Jan 92 00:59:07 GMT
From: jz@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Jihan Zhu)
Organization: RMIT Department of Computer Science
Subject: Neural networks for automatic visual inspection
Keywords: visual inspection, neural nets

Dear colleagues:

I am writing up a survey on the application of neural networks for
automatic visual inspection in industry and medical laboratories.  I
am particularly interested in comparisons of neural network approaches
and traditional image processing techniques in terms of accuracy,
speed, and effort of implementation, of inspection systems.

I would be very grateful, if you could point me to some relevant references
and contribute your research in the area. Any comments on how to select 
the comparison criteria are also welcome.

Thank you in advance!

Jihan Zhu(jz@goanna.cs.rmit.OZ.AU)

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Date: 	Sat, 11 Jan 1992 10:55:57 -0700
From: gloria@cs.ualberta.ca (Gloria Lai-ping Chow)
Subject: Eye Analysis Research by Ford
Summary: Real-time eye tracking device by Ford??
Keywords: recognition, tracking, real-time

I saw a program on Art and Entertainment recently on "Cars in the Future"
or something like that.  One of the segments describes the research done
by Ford to analyse early stages of fatigue while driving.  The reasearch
uses a device mounted on the dashborad to analyse eyes of drivers.  It
seems to me that the device is in fact tracking and performing analysis
on eyes in real-time.  Unfortunately they did not describe the detail 
mechanism behind it.  I am just wondering if any of you know anything
about it or where I may be able to find more informaion on it.  Thanks in
advance.

Gloria Chow

gloria@cs.uablerta.ca
Computing Science Department, 
University of Alberta, 
Edmonton, Alberta.

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1992 01:05:25 GMT
From: krishna@shankar.iss.nus.sg (Krishnamoorthy Subrahmanyam)
Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore
Subject: References for facial ageing

We are trying to age photographs of faces both forward and backwards
in time and are in literature search mode right now. If you know of
any articles or real systems on this topic, could you e-mail the reference
to this account? Thank you.

Krishna
krishna@iss.nus.sg

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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1992 16:29:17 GMT
From: umbc3!algol.cs.umbc.edu!finin@uunet.uu.net (Timothy Finin)
Organization: Computer Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Subject: CFP: CAIA-92: 8th IEEE Conference on AI for Applications
Summary: to get advance program, send email to caia@cs.umbc.edu
Keywords: Conference, AI, Applications, CAIA

			Call for Participation
				   
			       CAIA-92
		    The Eighth IEEE Conference on
	       ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE for APPLICATIONS
				   
			   March 2-6, 1992
	       Doubletree Hotel,  Monterey, California

During the last seven years, the IEEE Computer Society's Conference on
Artificial Intelligence for Applications has established itself as a
key conference for business and technical people who want to keep up
on the fast-changing world of commercial AI.  This year the eighth
annual CAIA will continue that tradition by providing a provocative
mix of introductory, intermediate and advanced talks, tutorials,
workshops, and panels.  This year's conference will also feature a
special series of talks and panels on the various knowledge
representation standardization efforts that are underway in a variety
of organizations.  Special plenary talks will be:

  DR. MELVIN  MONTEMERLO, NASA
  AI Applications at NASA: Hindsight and Foresight 

  PROFESSOR RANDALL DAVIS, MIT
  Software Patents and Copyrights: How Did We Get Into This Mess? And
  How Do We Get Out? 

  PROFESSOR LOTFI ZADEH, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
  The Calculus of Fuzzy If-Then Rules and Its Application

For a complete copy of the text of the advance program, send email to
CAIA@CS.UMBC.EDU.  A mail agent will immediately respond with the
program which describes the tutorials and workshops, lists all of the
invited talks, panels, and accepted papers, and includes information
of registration and housing.

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Date: Sun, 12 Jan 92 11:58:21 GMT
From: J.Illingworth@ee.surrey.ac.uk
Subject: BMVA Technical Meeting: Active Vision and Controlleable Stereo Systems

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             British Machine Vision Association, BMVA
               and Society for Pattern Recognition.
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           ACTIVE VISION AND CONTROLLEABLE STEREO SYSTEMS

          Technical Meeting to be held on 12 February 1992
           at British Institute of Radiology, 36 Portland Place, London.

Chairmen:  Dr P. Mowforth (Turing Inst) 
           Dr D. Weir (GEC-Marconi Hirst Research Centre)

10.30  Arrive and coffee  
10.55  Welcome and introduction. 
11:00  Natural Systems: Fleshware   
       R H S Carpenter (Physiology, Cambridge) 
11:40  A Head-Eye System for Active, Purposive Vision   
       K Pahlavan and J-O Eklundh (RIT, Stockholm) 
12:20  On-line Calibration of a 4-DOF Robot Head for Stereo Vision  
       N A Thacker (AIVRU, Sheffield)
12.50  LUNCH  
14:00  Experiments with Robot Heads  
       P H Mowforth (Turing Institute) 
14.30  Control Strategies for Gaze  
       N D Gent (GEC-Marconi HRC) 
15:00  TEA   
15:30  Motion and Tracking Algorithms for Active Vision   
       D W Murray (Eng. Science, Oxford)  
16:00  Performing 3D Vision with an Active Stereo System  
       T Vieville (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis) 
16:30  Discussion and Close 

REGISTRATION FORM: 12 February 1992 Meeting.

Please return this form to  British Machine Vision Association, P.O. Box 47, 
Burgess Hill, West Sussex. RH15 0YF.
The meeting is free to BMVA members but a charge of 
10 pounda is payable by non-members. 
A light sandwich lunch can be provided at a cost of 3:50. 
Bookings for lunch can be taken on the day.
When registering please enclose a cheque for the appropriate amount 
made payable to ``The British Machine Vision Association''. 

NAME: ..........................................
ADDRESS: .......................................
         .......................................
         .......................................
TEL: .........................
BMVA Member?: YES/NO

Dr. J. Illingworth,                    | Phone: (0483) 300-800 Ext. 2299
V.S.S.P. Group,                        | Fax  : (0483) 34139	
Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng, | Email: J.Illingworth@ee.surrey.ac.uk 
University of Surrey,                  |       
Guildford,                             |
Surrey GU2 5XH                         |  
United Kingdom                         |  

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