From Dave.Marshall@cm.cf.ac.uk Wed Feb 9 14:16:44 EST 1994 Article: 20591 of comp.ai Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:20591 Newsgroups: comp.ai Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!toads.pgh.pa.us!news.sei.cmu.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!cf-cm!news From: Dave.Marshall@cm.cf.ac.uk Subject: Call for papers: Machine Vision Aplications ... SPIE X-Sender: dave@thrall.cm.cf.ac.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: <1994Feb8.160218.28068@cm.cf.ac.uk> Sender: news@cm.cf.ac.uk (Network News System) Organization: University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff, WALES, UK. Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 16:02:01 +0100 X-Mailer: Cardiff Computing Maths PP Mail Open News Gateway Lines: 181 Announcement and Call for Papers Machine Vision Applications, Architectures, and Systems Integration III Part of SPIE's OE/Technology Symposium 31 October - 4 November 1994, Hynes Convention Center Boston, Massachusetts USA Conference Chairs: Bruce G. Batchelor, Univ. of Wales College Cardiff (UK) Susan Snell Solomon, CPSI. Frederick M. Waltz, 3M Co. Program Committee: Chris C. Bowman, Industrial Research Ltd. (NZ) Donald Braggins, Machine Vision Systems Consultancy (UK) Aziz Chihoub, Siemens Corporate Research Inc. John W. V. Miller, Univ. of Michigan/Dearborn A. David Marshall, Univ. of Wales College Cardiff (UK) Wolfgang Poelzleitner, Joannem Research Institute for Digital Image Processing Paul F. Whelan, Dublin City University (Ireland) Inna Y. Zayas, USDA Agricultural Research Service Competitive pressures demand ever increasing production rates and even tighter quality control. Before machine vision systems can achieve their full potential in helping to meet these objectives, further improvements are needed in resolution, speed, sophistication, cost, and ease of application. This conference, the tenth in a series, is devoted to advancing the state of the art in all aspects of the application of machine vision to industrial inspection. Papers are solicited in three categories, with special emphasis on combinations of two or more aspects: Applications and case studies, including: * successful applications, especially those in which good systems integration was essential for success * interesting or unusual solutions to some part of the overall problem, such as special lighting, problem reformulations leading to more effective solutions, novel ways of handling interprocessor communications etc. * "network in progress" or significant unsolved problems High-speed architectures, including: * high-speed implementations and nonconventional configurations * specialized processing architectures or hardware: Hough, log-polar, morphology, etc. * arrays of processors; parallel decompositions of algorithms * techniques for handling very high data rates, such as from laser scanners or high-speed photography * software architectures and hierarchies Systems integration, including: * design aids and "advisors" for system design and configuration: optics, lighting, processor interconnection, I/O, etc. * design aids and "advisors" for algorithm development, target system programming, and system documentation * improved interfaces for system designers and integrators * factory-floor interfaces for nonexpert users * on-line applications of "intelligent" systems, neural nets etc. Abstract Due Date: 4 April 1994 Manuscript Due Date: 8 August 1994* *Note: Proceedings will be available on site. The manuscript due date of 8 August 1994 must be strictly observed. Please limit your abstract/biography submission to one page as follows: * Title of Abstract/Paper, * Authors' full names, company names (list principal author first) List the authors' complete addresses, and telephone/fax/telex numbers. * Placement Please indicate that your abstract is intended for the conference on Machine Vision Applications, Architectures, and Systems Integration III (Batchelor, Solomon, Waltz) at OE/Technology '94 and whether the presentation is oral or a poster. * Abstract text The abstract should be 200 words typed on white paper and should contain enough detail to clearly convey the approach and the results of the research. Government and company clearance to present and publish should be final at the time of submission. * Brief biography: 50 to 100 words (principal author only) Include, on the same page, a brief (50-100 words) biographical sketch. Abstract due by 4 April 1994 : *Send abstract via email to abstracts@mom.spie.org (ASCII format) *or fax one copy to SPIE at 206-647-1445. * or mail four (4) copies of your abstract by 4 April 1994 to: OE/Technology '94, SPIE, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010, USA. Shipping address: 1000 20th St., Bellingham, WA 98225, USA. Telex: 46-7053 Condition of Acceptance: Authors are expected to secure travel and accommodation funding, independent of SPIE, through their sponsoring organizations before submitting abstracts. Placement: Submissions may be placed in an oral or poster session at the chair's discretion. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by 20 June 1994. Proceedings of these meetings: These meetings will result in published Proceedings that can be ordered through the Advance Program. Manuscripts are required of all accepted applicants and must be submitted in English by 8 August 1994 on SPIE-provided paper. Copyright to the manuscript is expected to be released for publication in the conference Proceedings. NOTE: If an author does not attend the meeting and make a presentation, the chair may opt not to publish the author's manuscript in the conference proceedings. Proceedings papers are indexed in the leading scientific databases, including INSPEC, Compendex plus, Physics Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, International Aerospace Abtracts and Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings. Publishing Policy: Manuscript dates must be strictly observed. Whether the Proceedings volume will be published before or after the meeting, late manuscripts run the risk of not being published. The objective of this policy is to serve the conference participants and the technical community at large. Your cooperation in supporting this objective will be appreciated by all. Paper Review: Commercial papers, descriptions of papers with no research content, and papers where supporting data or a technical description cannot be given for proprietary reasons will not be accepted for presentation in this symposium. To assure a high-quality conference, all abstracts and Proceedings papers will be reviewed by the Conference Chairs for technical merit and content. Poster Presentation: Interactive poster sessions will be scheduled. All conference chairs encourage authors to contribute papers with a technical content that lends itself well to the poster format. Please indicate your preference on the abstratc Oral Presentation: Each author is generally allowed 15 minutes plus a 5-minute discussion period. SPIE will provide the following media equipment free of charge: 35 mm carousel slide projectors, overhead projectors, and electric pointers. Additional equipment may be arranged by SPIE at the speaker's expense. Author Benefits: An author or co-author be accorded a reduced-rate registration fee. Included with fee payment are a copy of the Proceedings in which the author's paper appears, a complimentary one-year nonvoting membership in SPIE (if never before a member), and other special benefits. In North America: SPIE, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010, USA Telephone 206-676-3290 (Pacific time), Telex 46-7053, Fax 206-647-1445, Opto-Link 206-733-2998, E-mail spie@nessie.wwu.edu CompuServe 71630,2177 Shipping Address: 1000 20th Street, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA In Europe: Xantener Strasse 22, D 1000 Berlin 15, FR Germany Telephone 49-30-881-5047, Fax 49-30-882-2028, Telex 181 479 speco d In the Far East, c/o O.T.O. Research Corporation, Takeuchi Building, Australia, and 1-34-12 Takatanobaba, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160, Japan New Zealand: Telephone 03/3208-7821, Fax 03/3200-2889, Telex 232 4119 otores j ======================================================================== Dr A.D. Marshall Department of Computing Mathematics University of Cardiff E-Mail: dave@cm.cf.ac.uk PO Box 916, Phone: +44-222 874000 x5318 CARDIFF CF2 4YN, Phone: " " 874812 Wales, UK. Fax: " " 666182 ======================================================================== Article 9551 of comp.robotics: Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.robotics:9551 Newsgroups: comp.robotics Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!ghost.dsi.unimi.it!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!henson!spie From: spie@henson.cc.wwu.edu (SPIE Staff) Subject: CFP: Robotics Related Conferences Message-ID: <1994Mar4.192134.2111@henson.cc.wwu.edu> Keywords: SPIE robotics robots conferences vision intelligent Organization: Western Washington University Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 19:21:34 GMT Lines: 382 Announcement & Call for Papers Robotics Related Conferences at: -------------------------------- SPIE's International Symposium on Photonic Sensors & Controls for Commercial Applications Part of SPIE's Photonics East 31 Oct. - 4 Nov. 1994 Hynes Convention Center Boston, Massachusetts USA ============================================================ Contents ======== 1.0 Abstract and Manuscript Due Dates 2.0 Robotics Related Conferences 3.0 Program Tracks 4.0 General Information 5.0 Submission of Abstracts 6.0 How to Receive More Information 1.0 ABSTRACT AND MANUSCRIPT DUE DATES ===================================== * Abstract Due Date: 4 April 1994 Late abstract submissions may be considered, subject to program time availability and chair's approval. * Manuscript Due Date: 3 October 1994 or 8 August 1994+ + Proceedings will be available on site. Abstract and manuscript due dates must be strictly observed. 2.0 ROBOTICS RELATED CONFERENCES ================================ ---------------------------------------------------------- Machine Vision and Robotic Applications in Greenhouses and Livestock Facilities ---------------------------------------------------------- Conference Chair: Peter P. Ling, Rutgers Univ. --------------------------------------------- Telemanipulator and Telepresence Technologies --------------------------------------------- Conference Chair: Hari Das, Jet Propulsion Lab. Program Committee: Bernard D. Adelstein, NASA Ames Research Ctr.; Robert J. Anderson, Sandia National Labs.; Thomas P. Caudell, Univ. of New Mexico; Janez Funda, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.; Blake Hannaford, Univ. of Washington; Won Soo Kim, Jet Propulsion Lab.; James M. Manyika, Oxford Univ. (UK); Thomas B. Sheridan, Man-Machine Systems Lab./MIT Cosponsoring organization: IEEE NNC-Virtual Reality Technical Committee -------------------------------------------------------- Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XIII: Algorithms, Techniques, Active Vision, Materials Handling* -------------------------------------------------------- Conference Chair: David P. Casasent, Carnegie Mellon Univ. Cochair: Ernest L. Hall, Univ. of Cincinnati Program Committee: Mongi A. Abidi, Univ. of Tennessee/Knoxville; Rolf-Jurgen Ahlers, Rauschenberger Metallwaren GmbH (FRG); Bruce G. Batchelor, Univ. of Wales College Cardiff (UK); Madan M. Gupta, Univ. of Saskatchewan (Canada); Ian Horswill, AI Lab./MIT; Sunanda Mitra, Texas Tech Univ.; Prasanna G. Mulgaonkar, SRI International; Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic Univ.; Ellen M. Reid, Motorola; Steven K. Rogers, Air Force Institute of Technology; Juha Roning, Univ. of Oulu (Finland); Scott A. Starks, Univ. of Texas/El Paso; M. A. Taalebinezhaad, Univ. Laval (Canada); Hemant D. Tagare, Yale Univ.; Andrew K. C. Wong, Univ. of Waterloo (Canada) * Manuscript Due Date: 8 August 1994 Proceedings will be available at the meeting. ------------------ Sensor Fusion VII* ------------------ Conference Chair: Paul S. Schenker, Jet Propulsion Lab. Program Committee: Terrance E. Boult, Columbia Univ.; Su-Shing Chen, Univ. of North Carolina/Charlotte; David B. Cooper, Brown Univ.; Gregory D. Hager, Yale Univ.; Martin Herman, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Terrance L. Huntsberger, Univ. of South Carolina; Ren C. Luo, North Carolina State Univ.; James M. Manyika, Oxford Univ. (UK); Suresh B. Marapane, Univ. of Tennessee/Knoxville; Gerard T. McKee, Univ. of Reading (UK); Evangelos E. Milios, York Univ. (Canada); Robin R. Murphy, Colorado School of Mines; Bobby S. Y. Rao, Univ. of California/Berkeley; Michael Seibert, Lincoln Lab./MIT; W. Brent Seales, Univ. of Kentucky; Charles V. Stewart, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute; Stelios C. A. Thomopoulos, The Pennsylvania State Univ. * Manuscript Due Date: 8 August 1994 Proceedings will be available at the meeting. ---------------- Mobile Robots IX ---------------- Conference Chairs: William J. Wolfe, Univ. of Colorado/Denver; Wendell H. Chun, Martin Marietta Astronautics Group Program Committee: Ronald C. Arkin, Georgia Institute of Technology; David J. Braunegg, MITRE Corp.; David P. Casasent, Carnegie Mellon Univ.; Douglas W. Gage, Naval Command Control and Ocean Surveillance Ctr.; Surender K. Kenue, General Motors Research and Environmental Staff; William Y. Lim, Grumman Corp.; Bijan G. Mobasseri, Villanova Univ.; David W. Parish, Omnitech Robotics, Inc. ------------------- Vision Geometry III ------------------- Conference Chairs: Robert A. Melter, Long Island Univ.; Angela Y. Wu, The American Univ. Program Committee: Ari Gross, CUNY/Queens College and Columbia Univ.; T. Yung Kong, CUNY/Queens College; Jack Koplowitz, Clarkson Univ.; David Mount, Univ. of Maryland/College Park; Ivan Stojmenovic, Univ. of Ottawa (Canada) 3.0 PROGRAM TRACKS ================== Including those listed above, twenty-two conferences are scheduled for this symposium. The conferences are organized into five program tracks: * Photonic Devices and Materials * Smart Highways * Agriculture, Forestry & Biological Processing * Automated Inspection * Intelligent Robots & Computer Vision 4.0 GENERAL INFORMATION ======================= * Advance Technical Program The comprehensive Advance Technical Program for this symposium will list conferences, paper titles and authors in order of presentation, education program schedule including course descriptions and instructor biographies, and an outline of all planned special events. Call SPIE at 206/676-3290 (Pacific Time), or e-mail spie@mom.spie.org to request that a copy be sent to you when it becomes available in July 1994. * Hotel Accommodations SPIE will be reserving rooms at discounted rates at several hotels near the Hynes Convention Center for this symposium. Meeting headquarters hotel will be The Sheraton Boston Hotel and Towers. In order to book rooms at hotels offering the special symposium rates, you will need to make these arrangements through the Boston Housing Bureau. By calling hotels directly, you will not receive the special symposium rates. Information about how to make your hotel accommodation reservations will be included in the Advance Program. Hotel rates are expected to range from $90- $145. * Registration Registration fees for conferences and short courses, a registration form, technical and general information for SPIE's Boston Symposium & Exposition: Photonic Sensors and Controls for Commercial Applications will be available in the Advance Program. * How to exhibit Companies interested in exhibiting at this symposium may contact Sue Davis, Director of Conferences and Exhibits, at 503/663-1284, or Diane Robinson, Exhibits Manager, at SPIE headquarters, phone 206/676-3290, fax 206/647-1445, e-mail diane@mom.spie.org. 5.0 SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS =========================== Abstract Due Date: 4 April 1994 * Send abstract via E-mail to abstracts@mom.spie.org (ASCII format); * or fax one copy to SPIE at 206/647-1445; * or mail four copies to: Photonics East SPIE, P.O. Box 10 Bellingham, WA 98227-0010 Shipping address: 1000 20th St. Bellingham, WA 98225 Telephone 206/676-3290 Telex 46-7053 Anonymous FTP: mom.spie.org E-mail: spie@mom.spie.org ------------------------- Conditions for Acceptance ------------------------- * Authors are expected to secure travel and accommodation funding, independent of SPIE, through their sponsoring organizations before submitting abstracts. * Only original material should be submitted. * Commercial papers, descriptions of papers, with no research content, and papers where supporting data or a technical description cannot be given for proprietary reasons will not be accepted for presentation in this symposium. * Abstracts should contain enough detail to clearly convey the approach and the results of the research. * Government and company clearance to present and publish should be final at the time of submittal. * Applicants will be notified of acceptance by 20 June 1994. Your abstract should include the following: I. ABSTRACT TITLE II. AUTHOR LISTING (principal author first) Full names and affiliations. III. CORRESPONDENCE FOR EACH AUTHOR Mailing address, telephone, telefax, e-mail address. IV. SUBMIT TO: (Conference Title) (Conference Chair) at Photonic Sensors V. PRESENTATION Indicate your preference for "Oral Presentation" or "Poster Presentation." Placement subject to chairs' discretion. VI. ABSTRACT TEXT 250 words. VII. BRIEF BIOGRAPHY (principal author only) 50 to 100 words. * Paper Review To assure a high quality conference, all abstracts and Proceedings papers will be reviewed by the Conference Chairs for technical merit and content. * Proceedings of These Meetings These meetings will result in published Proceedings that can be ordered through the Advance Program. Manuscripts are required of all accepted applicants and must be submitted in English by 8 August 1994 or 3 October 1994. Copyright to the manuscript is expected to be released for publication in the conference Proceedings. Note: If an author does not attend the meeting and make a presentation, the chair may opt not to publish the author's manuscript in the conference proceedings. Proceedings papers are indexed in leading scientific databases including INSPEC, Compendex Plus, Physics Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, International Aerospace Abstracts, and Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings. * Publishing Policy Manuscript due dates must be strictly observed. Whether the Proceedings volume will be published before or after the meeting, late manuscripts run the risk of not being published. The objective of this policy is to better serve the conference participants and the technical community at large. Your cooperation in supporting this objective will be appreciated by all. * Chair/Author Benefits Chairs/authors/co-authors are accorded a reduced-rate registration fee. Included with fee payment are a copy of the Proceedings in which the participant's role or paper appears, a complimentary one-year nonvoting membership in SPIE (if never before a member), and other special benefits. * Poster Presentation Interactive poster sessions will be scheduled. All conference chairs encourage authors to contribute papers with technical content that lends itself well to the poster format. Please indicate your preference on the abstract. * Oral Presentation Each author is generally allowed 15 minutes plus a five-minute discussion period. SPIE will provide the following media equipment free of charge: 35 mm carousel slide projectors, overhead projectors, electric pointers, and video equipment (please give at least two weeks advance notice). 6.0 HOW TO RECEIVE MORE INFORMATION =================================== The complete text of the printed announcement and call for papers for Photonic Sensors & Controls for Commercial Applications is available via anonymous FTP at: mom.spie.org meetings/calls/sensors_controls.txt It is also available through SPIE's automated e-mail server: Send an e-mail message to, info-optolink-request@mom.spie.org with the following text in the message body: send [optolink.meetings.programs]FILENAME.txt To request a printed announcement and call for papers via e-mail contact: spie@mom.spie.org For information regarding this meeting or other SPIE symposia or publications, contact SPIE at: P.O. 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