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- VISION-LIST Digest Mon Nov 16 11:49:35 PDT 92 Volume 11 : Issue 39
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- - VISION LIST WILL SOON BE MOVING SITES: stay tuned for more info
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- - Access Vision List Archives via anonymous ftp to FTP.ADS.COM
-
- Today's Topics:
-
- NIST Image Recognition Group anonymous ftp site
- Automatic face recognition
- Refs on wire detection
- Facial scanning
- SharpImage Software Releases Public Domain HIPS Software
- B-Spline Least Squares Fitting
- Summary of lens calibration techniques
- Need source code for filters
- Apple Mac - Image Processing Information Request
- PostDoc Position
- Lectureship in Computer Science
- Research Fellow in Stereo Vision
- CFP: IEEE Workshop on Qualitative Vision
- IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision
- CFP: Second Conference on Optical 3-D Measurement Techniques
- CFP: Conference on Understanding Images
- Announcement and CFP Vision-21 Symposium
- Short Course on MPEG Compression
- FTP TR: Combining Shape from Shading and Stereo Using Human Vision Model
- IEEE PAMI and GRS collection -- Free to good home
-
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-
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 11:01:03 EST
- From: R. Allen Wilkinson x3383 <urt@magi.ncsl.nist.gov>
- Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology
- formerly National Bureau of Standards
- Subject: NIST Image Recognition Group anonymous ftp site
-
- The Image Recognition Group at NIST (National Institute of
- Standards and Technology) is proud to announce the openning of an
- anonymous ftp site. This site contains loads of valuable information.
- For example a database of hand written characters, descriptions of CD
- databases available from NIST, many reports and papers published by
- the group are available.
-
- Sitename: sequoyah.ncsl.nist.gov
- Internet number: 129.6.61.25
- FTP Login name: anonymous
- FTP Login password: {your username}@{your machine name}
- The above is also known as you e-mail address :-)
-
- Here are some simple instruction on how to get items from the site.
- An actual ftp section is shown with my instruction to you indented.
- The other lines are what happenned on the screen during the section.
-
- your_prompt> ftp sequoyah.ncsl.nist.gov
- Connected to sequoyah.ncsl.nist.gov.
- 220 sequoyah FTP server (Version 6.9 Tue Sep 15 09:08:56 EDT 1992) ready.
- Name (sequoyah:your_username): anonymous
- You type "anonymous".
- 331 Guest login ok, send e-mail address as password.
- Password:
- You type in your e-mail address.
- 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
- ftp> binary
- You type "binary". This sets the transfer in non-ASCII mode.
- If you do not do this the files may get corrupted!
- 200 Type set to I.
- ftp> prompt
- You type "prompt". This turns off the interactive mode. You can now get
- multiple files without being prompted.
- Interactive mode off.
- ftp> ls
- You type "ls". This will show you the contents of the current directory.
- 200 PORT command successful.
- 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list.
- bin
- etc
- incoming
- pub
- 226 Transfer complete.
- 25 bytes received in 0.0069 seconds (3.5 Kbytes/s)
- ftp> cd pub
- You type "cd pub". This is the directory which contains the files you
- can download.
- 250-Please read the file README
- 250- it was last modified on Fri Nov 6 10:02:50 1992 - 7 days ago
- 250 CWD command successful.
- ftp> ls
- You type "ls". This will show you the contents of the current directory.
- 200 PORT command successful.
- 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list.
- NISTIR
- README
- SRD
- preprints
- data
- 226 Transfer complete.
- 38 bytes received in 0.0066 seconds (5.7 Kbytes/s)
- ftp>
-
- From here you need to "cd" to the directory which contains the
- files you want then use "get" any one file or "mget" multiple files.
- "mget *" will get all the files in the directory. When you are done
- "quit" will exit ftp.
-
- This is a rough explanation of using ftp. Please consult your
- system administrator on how to use ftp if you don't know how. If you
- have any problems with the NIST site let me know. I will do all I can
- to help.
-
- This is a growing site. Periodically new publication and data will
- be posted here. Stop by and check it for new items if we are working
- on things you are interested in.
-
- Enjoy,
-
- R. Allen Wilkinson
- NIST
- Bldg 225 Rm A216
- Gaithersburg, MD 20899
- urt@magi.ncsl.nist.gov
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 12:51:29 EST
- From: bedard@robocop.NYU.EDU (Patricia Bedard)
- Subject: Automatic face recognition
-
- I am preparing a survey on research in AUTOMATIC FACE RECOGNITION.
-
- To this end, I am collecting references on the state of the art in
- face localization and face recognition. Any information or reference
- on the subject would be greatly appreciated.
-
- Please reply by email to bedard@robocop.nyu.edu. I will be happy
- to summarize if there is an interest.
- Thanks in advance!
-
- Patricia J. Bedard (bedard@robocop.nyu.edu)
- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
- New York University
- New York, NY, 10012 U.S.A.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 13:48:27 +0100
- From: toet@gandalf.izf.tno.nl (Lex Toet)
- Subject: refs on wire detection
-
- I would appreciate references on the detection of (telegraph or voltage)
- wires in e.g. visual, FLIR, or intensified imagery.
-
-
- Dr. A. Toet
- TNO Institute for Perception
- Kampweg 5
- 3769 DE Soesterberg
- The Netherlands
- e-mail toet@izf.tno.nl
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 10:26:40 GMT
- From: jnicholl@nyx.cs.du.edu (jeremy nicholls)
- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- Subject: facial scanning
-
- Could anyone point me in the right direction for this problem. I am
- working on a fractal video compression system, which is aided by interframe
- differencing. The image is divided up into a grid of squares, 22x18 of them. To
- aid the efficient transmission of blocks I need a priority queuing scheme.
-
- One system of priority checking I have decided to use is a block
- coordinate based system. That is, the mouth and eyes have most priority, as
- this system is to be used as a video-phone. So what I am after is reports,
- theses, papers etc on how the average, if there is such, person scans another
- face when in conversation. Such things as what order and with what frequency
- are needed.
-
- Any help will be greatly appreciated.
- Could all replies be emailed to jez@ee.bath.ac.uk or J.A.Nicholls@bath.ac.uk
- as I don't get that much time to read usenet.
-
- Jez.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 14:35:53 PST
- From: Michael Landy <msl@hermite.arc.nasa.gov>
- Subject: SharpImage Software Releases Public Domain HIPS Software
-
- A public-domain package is now available for reading and writing images
- in a format compatible with the HIPS software for image processing.
- This package includes routines for reading and writing the standard
- image header which precedes every image in HIPS format (both in the
- original HIPS-1 format, and in the format written by HIPS-2 programs in
- the 2nd release of HIPS of Fall 1991). The intent of this package is
- to make it possible for programmers who are not HIPS users to be able
- to read and write HIPS files and to write programs (such as image
- format conversion programs) which are not dependent upon ownership of a
- HIPS license.
-
- To acquire the public domain HIPS header routines via anonymous ftp:
- ftp desdemona.cns.nyu.edu ****or**** ftp 128.122.154.48
- Name (desdemona.cns.nyu.edu:yourname): anonymous
- 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
- Password:<type your email address as the password>
- ftp> cd pub
- ftp> binary
- ftp> get hipspub.Z
- ftp> quit
-
- uncompress hipspub
- tar xvf hipspub
-
- This creates a directory called `pub' in your current directory. Then,
- read the files pub/README and pub/README_INSTALL for further instructions.
-
- HIPS itself is a general package for image processing which runs under
- the UNIX operating system. It handles sequences of images (movies) in
- precisely the same manner as single frames. Programs have been
- developed for simple image transformations, filtering, convolution,
- Fourier and other transform processing, edge detection and line drawing
- manipulation, pattern recognition, digital image compression and
- transmission methods, noise generation, and image statistics
- computation. Over 200 such image transformation programs have been
- developed.
-
- For more information on HIPS, contact:
-
- Michael Landy (212) 998-7857
- SharpImage Software ...!cmcl2!xp!msl
- P.O. Box 373 landy@nyu.edu
- Prince Street Station However, through June, 1993: (415) 604-1449
- New York, NY 10012-0007
-
- HIPS is distributed in Europe by:
-
- The Turing Institute (041) 552-6400
- George House boffin@turing-institute.ac.uk
- 36 North Hanover Street Fax: (041) 552-2985
- Glasgow G1 2AD
- United Kingdom
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 2 Nov 92 16:43:24 GMT
- From: P.Hoad@ee.surrey.ac.uk
- Subject: B-Spline Least Squares Fitting
-
- I was wondering if anyone could refer me to any publications on
- the topic of a least squares B-Spline fitting method.
-
- I am trying to collect a selection of routines for detecting parallelism
- and symmetry in curved segments extracted from an edge image.
-
- Thanks, Paul
-
- Mr P.D. Hoad BEng AMIEE | Phone: (0483) 300800
- V.S.S.P. Group | Office Ext: 2312
- Dept. of Electronic Engineering | Lab Ext : 2311
- University of Surrey | Home Phone: (0483) 416490
- GUILDFORD | Email: P.Hoad@ee.surrey.ac.uk
- SURREY | PostCode:GU2 5XH
- ENGLAND
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: mtc@aifh.edinburgh.ac.uk
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 16:48:41 GMT
- Subject: Summary of lens calibration techniques
-
-
- Some time ago I circulated a call for references about how to
- measure/compensate for lens distortion in cameras.
- I am now posting a list of the references I have gathered.
-
- Thanks to all the contributors. Futher refs/practical hints still welcome!
-
- Manuel
-
-
- Dr. Emanuele Trucco Research Fellow
-
- Dept. of Artificial Intelligence | Email: mtc@aifh.ed.ac.uk
- University of Edinburgh | Tel.: +44 31 650.3087
- 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, | (Vision Lab) 650.4504
- EH1 2QL, | FAX: +44 31 225.9370
- SCOTLAND | TELEX: 727442 UNIVED G
-
-
- [From courtney@sheffield.aivru]
-
- Thacker and Courtney: Online Stereo Camera Calibration,
- AIVRU Internal Memo 62.
-
- Thacker and Mayhew: Optimal Combination of Stereo Cmaera Calibration
- from Arbitrary Stereo Images,
- Image and Vision Computing vol 9, 1991, pp. 27 -- 32
-
- Weng, Cohen and Herniou: Calbration of Stereo Cameras Using a Non-Linear
- Distortion Model, Proc. 10th IEEE Conf. Patt. Rec., 1990, pp 246-253
-
- Courtney, Thacker, Brown: A Hardware Architecture for Image Rectification
- and Ground Plane Obstacle Detection,
- Proc. 11th IEEE Conf. Patt. Rec., vol 4, 1992.
-
- [From Reg_Willson@EDU.CMU.IUS.IUS4]
-
- D.C.Brown: Decentering Distortion of Lenses, Photometric Engineering,
- vol.32, n.3, 1966, pp. 444-462
-
- - : Close-Range Camera Calibration, same journal, vol 37 n 8,
- 1971, pp. 855 - 866
-
- J. Fryer and D. Brown: Lens Distortion for Close-Range Photogrammetry,
- Photometric Engineering and Remote Sensing, vol 52 n 1, 1986,
- pp. 51 - 58.
-
- [I found very interesting to read the following:]
-
- Russell Andersson: A Robot Ping-Pong Player, MIT Press, 1988,
- Chapter 4, pp. 49-53
-
- R.Y. Tsai: A Versatile Camera Clibration Technique for High-Accuracy
- 3D Machine Vision Metrology Usinf Off-the-Shelf TV Cameras and Lenses,
- IEEE Trans. Rob. Aut., vol RA-3, 1987, pp. 323 - 344
-
- Lenz and Tsai: Techniques for CValibration of the Scale Factor and
- Image Center for High Accuracy 3-D Machine Vision Metrology,
- IEEE Trans. PAMI, vol 10 n 5, 1988, pp 713 - 720
-
- Lenz and Tsai: Calibrating a Cartesian Robot with Eye-in-Hand Configuration
- Independent of Eye-to-Hand Relationship,
- IEEE Trans. PAMI, vol 11 n 9, 1989, pp 916 - 928
-
- [A very detailed but rather complicated outline of the aberration theory:]
-
- A.E. Conrady: Applied Optics and Applied Design, Dover Publications inc,
- NY, 1957.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 15 Nov 1992 23:55:24 GMT
- From: behera@cse.unl.edu (Siddharth Behera)
- Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
- Subject: Need source code for filters
-
- Hi,
- I am looking the source code for the following 2 edge detectors:
- 1. Canny's edge operator
- 2. Deriche's fast algorithm for low-level vision
- I will appreciate if someone can let me know from where I can get the source
- code for the filters.
-
- thanks, siddharth behera
- email: behera@cse.unl.edu
- behera@hoss.unl.edu
-
- Siddharth Behera
- 115, Ferguson Hall
- Dept. of Computer Science
- Lincoln, NE - 68588-0115
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 09:35 GMT
- From: 75015803@vax1.dcu.ie
- Subject: Apple Mac - Image Processing Information Request
-
- I require information on any image processing packages that will run on
- an Apple Mac and that is compatible with System 7. The package must also
- be able to handle Apple Events.
-
- Thanking you in advance for your cooperation.
-
- Regards,
- Paul Whelan
- Advanced Vision Systems Group
- School of Electronic Engineering
- Dublin City University
- Glasnevin
- Dublin 9
- IRELAND
-
- Ph: +353-1-7045489
- Fax: +353-1-7045508
- Email: "whelanp@dcu.ie"
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 12:48:50 +0200
- Subject: PostDoc Position
- From: Michael Werman <werman@CS.HUJI.AC.IL>
-
- Computer Vision Lab
- Inst. of Computer Science
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
-
- We have a postdoc position for the 1993/94 academic year, to participate
- in our work in computer vision.
-
- The lab consists of three faculty members (S. Peleg, D. Weinshall, M. Werman),
- about ten graduate students, numerous workstations, cameras, robots and other
- sensing devices.
-
- Please apply by December 1, 1992, preferrably by E-Mail, to:
-
- Michael Werman
- Inst. of Computer Science
- The Hebrew University
- 91904, Jerusalem
- Israel
-
- e-mail werman@cs.huji.ac.il
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 10:10:36 +0000
- From: Barry Thomas <Barry.Thomas@bristol.ac.uk>
- Subject: Lectureship in Computer Science
-
- UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
- Department of Computer Science
-
-
- Applications are invited for a Lectureship in Computer Science now tenable.
-
- FURTHER PARTICULARS
-
- The Department is part of the Faculty of Engineering. It has a complement of
- eighteen full-time UFC-funded staff members, together with a further twelve
- full-time outside-funded staff, and two Visiting Industrial Professors:
- Professor J. M. Taylor (Director, Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories,
- Bristol) and Professor I. M. Barron. There are three Professors in the
- Department: Professor M. H. Rogers, who is Head of Department, and Professors
- J. W. Lloyd and D. H. D. Warren.
-
- The Department has substantial research funding from ESPRIT, SERC, industry and
- government.
-
- The Department concentrates its research in three main areas:
-
- Logic Programming
- Parallel Computing
- Machine Intelligence (including Computer Vision and Speech Processing)
-
- although a number of other topics are also being pursued.
-
- For this appointment, we are looking for a strong candidate in any area of
- Computer Science, although preference will be given to candidates with research
- interests in Parallel Computing or Machine Intelligence. We are particularly
- looking for candidates whose interests will broaden and complement our current
- work in these areas.
-
- Current work in Parallel Computing covers a range of areas, including parallel
- logic programming systems and languages, memory organisation for multiprocessor
- architectures, shared data models for transputer-based systems, and parallel
- applications especially for engineering problems and computer graphics. We are
- seeking to broaden and strengthen this research. Candidates with a strong
- background in computer architecture would be particularly welcome.
-
- Current work in Machine Intelligence centres mainly on Computer Vision and
- Speech Processing. One major project in Computer Vision is the development of
- an autonomous road vehicle, based on real-time image analysis. Other research
- projects in Computer Vision include vehicle number plate decoding, aircraft
- engine inspection, and visual flow monitoring. Current work on Speech
- Processing within the Department concentrates on speech synthesis, but the
- Faculty supports a Centre for Communications Research within which there is a
- Speech Research Group incorporating researchers in most aspects of speech
- technology, including speech recognition, speech coding, speech perception, and
- the design of speech interfaces. We are seeking candidates in any area of
- Machine Intelligence which would complement or enhance the current work.
-
- The Department has a flourishing undergraduate and post-graduate teaching
- programme and participates in degree programmes in the Engineering, Science and
- Arts Faculties. These programmes lead to B.Sc. degrees in Computer Science,
- and Computer Science with Mathematics, a B.Eng. in Computer Systems
- Engineering, a B.A. in Computer Science and a Modern Language, and M.Sc.
- degrees in Computer Science, Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, and
- Information Engineering.
-
- The salary will be within the Lecturer Scale and the initial placement will
- depend on age, qualifications and experience.
-
- The closing date for applications is 27th November 1992.
-
- Further particulars may be obtained from the Head of the Computer Science
- Department (tel: 0272-303584; e-mail: barbara@uk.ac.bristol.compsci).
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 17:13:47 GMT
- From: Stephen Marshall <sm@spd.eee.strathclyde.ac.uk>
- Subject: Research Fellow in Stereo Vision
-
- The research positions given in my early notification have mostly been filled
- many thanks to all who expressed an interest. However there is one post still
- vacant,
-
- Is there a really outstanding Post Doc out there to fill the post of
- RESEARCH FELLOW IN STEREO VISION ?
-
- The project is funded by SERC/MTD and an industrial consortium and involves
- the development of an underwater vision system in which data from a pair of
- cameras is combined with 2D acoustic data.
-
- The candidate must have a (fully completed) PhD in the vision/image processing
- area or directly relevant industrial experience. They will preferably have a
- 1st class honours and be able to start in the next couple of weeks.
-
- They will be responsible for collection and processing of the underwater vision
- data and will be assisted by an RA who will collect the corresponding acoustic
- data. The project is initially for just 2 years so the applicant must be able
- to fire on all cylinders from day 1. There is not really any time available to
- read into the area.
-
- The successful candidate will be expected to:
- * Set up stereo cameras in test tank and collect data, dealing with any
- problems which may arise and if necessary getting wet!
- * Process the stereo data,
- * Report progress to industrialists on a regular basis, spending time at their
- site if required,
- * have a good knowledge of stereo vision algorithms and a sound grounding in
- mathematical optimisation techniques, this is essential,
- * assist in managing the RA in the collection of 2D acoustic data.
-
- Am I asking too much? Well we can pay circa 18,000 pounds for the right person
- depending on age and experience. If you feel that you have a strong theoretical
- vision background and are practical enough to `muck in' and collect the data
- then send a full CV by email to
-
- sm@uk.ac.strathclyde.eee.spd
-
- or by mail to,
-
- Dr S. Marshall,
- Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineering,
- University of Strathclyde,
- Glasgow, G1 1XW.
- Scotland.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: vision (Vision-List-Request)
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 10:55:45 -0800
- Subject: CFP: IEEE Workshop on Qualitative Vision
-
- CALL FOR PAPERS
-
- IEEE WORKSHOP ON QUALITATIVE VISION
- Omni Park Central -- New York City
- Monday, June 14, 1993
-
-
- WORKSHOP THEME:
-
- Understanding, representing and incorporating information on object
- qualities from disparate sources is key to building more general
- and functional computer vision systems. Effective representation
- depends upon:
- o object attributes captured by a representation or description
- o the interplay and synthesis of these qualities when multiple
- descriptions are available
- o the computational aspect of object qualities that participate in
- an effective representation
- o functional object qualities that guide visual reasoning.
-
- The IEEE Workshop on Qualitative Vision will focus on qualitative
- descriptions and representations of the visual environment, and new
- algorithms for their computation.
-
-
- WORKSHOP PROGRAM:
-
- The goal of the IEEE Workshop on Qualitative Vision is to bring
- together researchers from different disciplines for the active
- discussion of the technical issues and problems related to the
- development of qualitative vision techniques. This one day Workshop
- will be held in New York City preceding CVPR93. Sessions will be led
- by an invited talk, and refereed papers selected from those submitted
- will be presented and published in a Workshop proceedings distributed
- by IEEE.
-
- We invite the submission of papers on topics that include:
- o the synthesis of multiple visual qualities (e.g., perceptual
- grouping, evidential reasoning over disparate sources)
- o the study of salient features or object qualities (e.g., robust
- features which are invariant under image transformations)
- o efficient and innovative visual qualities to support purposive
- operations (e.g., as exploited by active vision systems)
- o direct perception
- o discussion of differences between qualitative and reconstructive
- approaches.
- This list of topics is not intended to be exhaustive, and inquiries
- should be directed to the program committee.
-
-
- PAPER SUBMISSION:
-
- Papers should be limited to 20 double-space pages, including figures
- and references. Papers should include a title page containing the
- names and addresses of the authors, and an abstract of up to 200 words.
- An additional page titled "Summary Page" should be included which
- briefly describes the contribution of the paper. Five copies should be
- received at the address below by Friday, December 9, 1992:
- Philip Kahn
- Teleos Research, 576 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA 94301
-
- IMPORTANT DATES:
- December 9, 1992: Paper Submission Deadline
- March 1, 1993: Notification of Acceptance
- March 26, 1993: Camera-Ready Papers Due
-
-
- PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
-
- Philip Kahn
- Teleos Research
- 576 Middlefield Road
- Palo Alto, CA 94301
- email: pkahn@teleos.com, PH: (415) 328-8879, FAX: (415) 328-8880
-
- Daphna Weinshall
- IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- H1-B47, 30 Saw Mill River Rd., Hawthorne, NY 10532
- email: dwe@watson.ibm.com, PH: (914) 784-7549, FAX: (914) 784-7455
-
- Yiannis Aloimonos
- Computer Science Department
- University of Maryland
- College Park MD 20742-3411
- email: yiannis@alv.umd.edu, PH: (301) 405-4526, FAX: (301) 314-9115
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 10:34:39 PST
- From: subhodev@ucrengr.ucr.edu (subhodev das)
- Subject: IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision
-
- ADVANCE PROGRAM: IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision
-
- November 30 - December 2, 1992
- Palm Springs Riviera Resort & Racquet Club
-
- Sponsored by:
- IEEE Computer Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
-
- General Chair: Bir Bhanu, University of California, Riverside
- Program Co-Chairs: Charles Dyer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Martin Herman, National Institute of
- Standards and Technology
- Financial Chair: Subhodev Das, University of California, Riverside
- Publicity & Local
- Arrangements Chair: Matthew Barth, University of California, Riverside
-
- Program Committee:
-
- Minoru Asada, Osaka University
- Matthew Barth, University of California, Riverside
- Bruce Batchelor, University of Wales
- Ruud Bolle, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Peter Burt, David Sarnoff Research Center
- Ernst Dickmanns, University Bundeswehr Muenchen
- Ed Delp, Purdue University
- Masakazu Ejiri, Hitachi Incorporated
- Olivier Faugeras, INRIA
- Oscar Firschein, DARPA
- Bruce Flinchbaugh, Texas Instruments
- Herb Freeman, Rutgers University
- Kicha Ganapathy, AT&T
- Don Gerson, ORD
- Allen Hanson, Univ. of Massachusetts
- Rick Holben, Odetics Incorporated
- Katsushi Ikeuchi, Carnegie Mellon University
- Ramesh Jain, University of Michigan
- Martin Levine, McGill University
- Joe Mundy, General Electric
- Ram Nevatia, University of Southern California
- Andre Oosterlinck, Catholic University of Leuven
- Azriel Rosenfeld, University of Maryland
- Jorge Sanz, IBM, Almaden Research Center
- Banavar Sridhar, NASA Ames Research Center
- Sargur Srihari, SUNY Buffalo
- Tom Strat, SRI
- Chuck Thorpe, Carnegie Mellon University
-
- INVITATION
-
- It is our pleasure to extend to you an invitation to attend the first IEEE
- Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision being held in Palm Springs,
- California. The program consists of high quality contributed papers
- covering diverse applications of computer vision, two keynote
- presentations, and a panel session. We hope to have an exciting meeting in
- which academic, industrial, and governmental researchers from around the
- world will discuss various applications of computer vision. This will allow
- researchers in the different areas to interact and exchange ideas, so that
- applications are thoroughly understood and there is a transfer of concepts
- from one area to another. We appreciate your interest in this conference and
- look forward to seeing you in beautiful Palm Springs. If you have any
- questions, don't hesitate to contact Professor Bir Bhanu, General
- Chairman, at bhanu@shivish.ucr.edu; Tel: (714) 787-5190, Fax: (714) 787-3188.
-
- GENERAL INFORMATION
-
- Palm Springs Desert Resorts include eight cities located in the Coachella
- Valley, just outside the Los Angeles Basin. Temperatures are ideal during
- November and December, warm during the days (~80 deg. F) and cool during
- the nights (~65 deg. F). There are over 70 golf courses, hundreds of boutiques
- and shops, the finest restaurants, theaters and nightclubs, and a variety of
- sightseeing tours available to art galleries, museums, celebrity homes, the
- Indian Canyons, and more. Other activities include hot-air ballooning,
- riding the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, and visiting the Oasis Water Resort.
-
- Accomodations:
- The Workshop is being held at the Palm Springs Riviera Resort & Racquet
- Club, conveniently located near downtown Palm Springs and just 4 miles
- from Palm Springs Municipal Airport. The resort features 480 guest rooms,
- including 36 suites, and boasts the largest swimming pool in the area. The
- resort also has nine tennis courts, an 18 hole championship putting course,
- basketball, handball, volleyball, croquet, and a new health club.
- Restaurants/bars at the resort include BoleroUs Restaurant, the famous
- Sonny Bono's Restaurant, and the Hideaway Lounge featuring nightly
- entertainment. A special room rate of $80 per night, single or double, has
- been arranged for the workshop. In order to guarantee this special price,
- please make reservations with the hotel by November 8, 1992.
-
- Transportation:
- Nonstop air service is available to the Palm Springs Regional Airport from
- 21 U.S. cities via such major airlines as Alaska, American, America West,
- TWA, Delta, and United. The best way to get between the airport and the
- hotel is by taxi, which is only a short ride (4 miles). Rental cars, of course,
- are also available. By car, Palm Springs is approximately two hours from
- the major Los Angeles airports (LAX, Burbank, Ontario, Orange County).
-
- Schedule:
-
- NOVEMBER 30, 1992
- 8:00 - 8:30 REGISTRATION
- 8:30 - 9:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND OPTICAL CHARACTER
- RECOGNITION: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
- George Nagy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
- 9:30 - 10:00 BREAK
- 10:00 - 12:05 SESSION M1: TRACKING AND MONITORING
- Telecortex, R. Wallace, B. Bederson, E. Schwartz (Vision Applications
- and NYU)
- 2. A Shadow Handler in a Video-Based Real-Time Traffic Monitoring
- System, M. Kilger (Siemens)
- 3. Multiple Object Tracking System with Three Level Continuous
- Processes, K. Fukui, H. Nakai, Y. Kuno (Toshiba)
- 4. Performance of Model-Based Tracking with Dynamic Constraints, K.
- Baker, G. Sullivan (U. of Reading)
- 5. Interframe Interpolation of Cinematic Sequences, J. Ribas-Corbera, J.
- Sklansky (U. of CA, Irvine)
- 12:05 - 1:30 LUNCH
- 1:30 - 3:10 SESSION M2: AERIAL IMAGE INTERPRETATION
- 1. PROMAP -- A System for Analysis of Topographic Maps, B.
- Lauterbach, N. Ebi, Ph. Besslich (U. of Bremen)
- 2. Interactive Road Finding for Aerial Images, J. Hu, B. Sakoda, T.
- Pavlidis (SUNY at Stony Brook)
- 3. Extracting Building Structures from a Stereo Pair of Aerial Images, R
- Chung, R. Nevatia (USC)
- 4. Scale-Space Clustering and Classification of SAR Images with
- Numerous Attributes and Classes, Y-F. Wong, E. Posner (Cal. Tech.)
- 3:10 - 3:40 BREAK
- 3:40 - 5:20 SESSION M3: ROBOTICS AND NAVIGATION I
- 1. Target Tracking and Range Estimation using an Image Sequence, R.
- Talluri, W.C. Choate (Texas Instruments)
- 2. A System for Obstacle Detection during Rotocraft Low-Altitude Flight
- B. Bhanu, B. Roberts, D. Duncan, S. Das (U. of CA, Riverside and
- Honeywell)
- 3. New Visual Invariants for Obstacle Detection using Optical Flow
- induced from General Motion, G-S. Young, T-H. Hong, M. Herman,
- J. Yang (NIST and U. of Maryland)
- 4. Adaptive Control Techniques for Dynamic Visual Repositioning of
- Hand-Eye Robotic Systems, N. Papanikolopoulos, P. Khosla (CMU)
- 5:30 - 7:30 WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION
-
- DECEMBER 1, 1992
-
- 8:30 - 10:10 SESSION T1: IMAGING AND 3D SURFACE ANALYSIS
- 1. Liquid Crystal Polarization Camera, L. Wolff, T. Mancini (Johns
- Hopkins U.)
- 2. System-Level Design of Specialized VLSI Hardware for Computing
- Relative Orientation, L. Dron (MIT)
- 3. Shape Recovery Methods for Visual Inspection, S. Nayar (Columbia
- U.)
- 4. A Multiscale Analysis Model Applied to Natural Surfaces, F. Falzon,
- G. Giraudon, M. Berthod (INRIA)
- 10:10 - 10:40 BREAK
- 10:40 - 12:20 SESSION T2: ROBOTICS AND NAVIGATION II
- 1. CARTRACK: Computer Vision Based Car Following, T. Zielke, M.
- Brauckmann, W. von Seelen (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum)
- 2. Visual Processing for Autonomous Driving, H. Schneiderman, M.
- Nashman (NIST)
- 3. Autonomous Landing of Airplanes by Dynamic Machine Vision, E.
- Dickmanns, F-R. Schell (U. der Bundeswehr)
- 4. A Visually Guided Mobile Robot Acting in Indoor Environments, M.
- Fossa, E. Ghezzi, E. Grosso, G. Sandini (U. of Genova)
- 12:20 - 1:45 LUNCH
- 1:45 - 3:50 SESSION T3: 2D SHAPE ANALYSIS
- 1. A Shape Analysis Model with Applications to a Character Recognition
- System, J. Rocha, T. Pavlidis (SUNY at Stony Brook)
- 2. A Segmentation-Free Approach to OCR based on Indexing and Voting,
- C-H. Chen, J. DeCurtins (SRI)
- 3. A New Methodology for Isolating and Diagnosing Inconsistencies in
- Image Matching, as Applied to the Analysis of 2-D Electrophoretic
- Gels, G. Markovich, M. Skolnick, M. Core (RPI)
- 4. Fiber Identification in Microscopy by Ridge Detection and Grouping, F
- Glazer (Amerinex Art. Int.)
- 5. Invariant Matching and Identification of Curves using B-Splines Curve
- Representation, F. Cohen, Z. Huang, Z. Yang (Drexel U.)
- 3:50 - 4:15 BREAK
- 4:15 - 5:45 PANEL SESSION: NEEDS FOR COMPUTER VISION
- Co-Chairs: Bruce Flinchbaugh, Texas Instruments
- Kicha Ganapathy, AT&T
-
- Panelist: Organization:
-
- Glen Ahern Datacube
- Bruce Flinchbaugh Texas Instruments
- Oscar Firschein DARPA
- Kicha Ganapathy AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Gerard Medioni USC
-
- 6:00 - 8:00 WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION
-
- DECEMBER 2, 1992
-
- 8:30 - 9:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 3D IMAGING FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS
- Andre Oosterlinck, Catholic University of Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
- 9:30 - 10:00 BREAK
- 10:00 - 12:05 SESSION W1: 2D IMAGE ANALYSIS AND MATCHING
- 1. The Registar Machine: From Conception to Installation, G. Medioni,
- A. Huertas, M. Wilson (USC and Opti-Copy)
- 2. Target Recognition in Spatially-Varying Clutter, S Sridhar, G Healey
- (U. of CA, Irvine)
- 3. A Segmentation Method for Multi-Connected Particle Delineation, X.
- Wu, J. Kemeny (U. of Arizona)
- 4. Projectile Impact Detection and Performance Evaluation using Machine
- Vision, B. Mobasseri (Villanova U.)
- 5. Interactive Map Conversion: Combining Machine Vision and Human
- Input, F. Quek, M. Petro (U. of Michigan)
- 12:05 - 1:30 LUNCH
- 1:30 - 3:35 SESSION W2: INSPECTION
- 1. Automated Direct Patterned Wafer Inspection, B. Khalaj, H. Aghajan,
- T. Kailath (Stanford U.)
- 2. Real Time Color Purity and Convergence Measurement Algorithms for
- Automatic ITC Adjustment System, Z. Bien, D. Han, J. Park, J-W.
- Lee, C. Oh (Korea Advanced Inst. of Sci. & Techn. and Samsung)
- 3. Restoration of Scanning Probe Microscope Images, G. Pingali, R. Jain
- (U. of Michigan)
- 4. A Vision System for Inspection of Ball Bonds in Integrated Circuits,
- A. Khotanzad, H. Banerjee, M. Srinath (Southern Methodist U.)
- 5. Algorithms for a Fast Confocal Optical Inspection System, A. Rao, N.
- Ramesh, F. Wu, J. Mandeville, P. Kerstens (IBM)
-
- ADVANCE REGISTRATION FORM
-
- Name: Prof/Dr/Mr/Ms _______________________________ Name on Badge __________
- Company/Affiliation _________________________________________________________
- Address/Mailstop ____________________________________________________________
- City ___________________________________ State _________ ZIP ________________
- Country _____________ Telephone ___________________ Fax _____________________
- E-mail ______________________________ IEEE/CS Membership Number _____________
-
- Fees: (Please check appropriate fee)
-
- MEMBER NON-MEMBER STUDENT
- Advance (until 11/13/92) ___ $290 ___ $360 ___ $100
- Late/on-site (after 11/13/92) ___ $360 ___ $450 ___ $120
-
- Total Enclosed: $ ___________ Full payment must be enclosed. Please make all
- checks payable to: IEEE Computer Society
-
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- All checks must be in U.S. dollars drawn on U.S. banks.
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-
- Written requests for refund must be received in the IEEE Computer Society
- office no later than November 13, 1992. Refunds are subject to a $50 processing
- fee. All no-show registrations will be billed in full. Students are required
- to show current picture ID cards at the time of registration. Registrations
- after November 20, 1992 will be accepted on-site only.
-
- DO NOT E-MAIL REGISTRATION FORM. Instead, Mail hardcopy to:
-
- IEEE Computer Society
- Attn: Conference Department
- 1730 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
- Washington, DC 20036
- TEL: (202) 371-1013
- FAX: (202) 728-0884
-
-
- HOTEL RESERVATION FORM
-
- The Workshop will be held at the Riviera Resort & Racquet Club and the
- Organizing Committee has reserved rooms at a special rate for attendees of
- the workshop. Reservations must be made with the hotel by:
- NOVEMBER 15, 1992
- in order to guarantee the special room rate. Please mention WACV
- when registering.
-
- Please call or send this reservation form directly to the hotel:
-
- Palm Springs Riviera Resort & Racquet Club
- 1600 North Indian Canyon Drive
- Palm Springs, CA 92262-4602
- (619) 327-8311, (800) 444-8311, FAX: (619) 327-4323
-
- Organization: IEEE-WACV, November 30 - December 2, 1992
-
- Hotel Room Rate: $80 single/double
-
- Name:______________________________________________________________________
- Company/Affiliation:_______________________________________________________
- Address:___________________________________________________________________
- City:___________________________________ State:_________ ZIP:______________
- Country:_____________ Telephone:________________________
- Arrival Date:______________ Arrival Time:____________ Departure:___________
-
- Payment: Accommodations will not be confirmed without a check for the
- 1st night's deposit or use credit card to guarantee your reservation. You will
- be charged for the 1st night if reservations are not cancelled 72 hours prior
- to arrival.
-
- ___ Check: Make checks payable in U.S. funds to: Riviera Resort & Racquet Club
- ___ VISA ___ MASTERCARD ___ AMEX ___ DINERS CLUB
- Card Number: _________________________________ Expiration: _______________
- Signature: ___________________________________ Date: _____________________
- Check-in Time: 3:00 PM, Check-out Time: 12:00 PM.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 09:56:22 +0100
- From: Scott Mason <mason@p.igp.ethz.ch>
- Subject: CFP: Second Conference on Optical 3-D Measurement Techniques
-
- Second Conference on OPTICAL 3-D MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES:
- Applications in inspection, quality control and robotics
-
- October 4-7, 1993
- Zurich, Switzerland
-
- Second Announcement and Call for Papers
-
- Organized by
- . Prof.A.Gruen, Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry,
- Federal Institute of Technology ( ETH ) Zurich
- . Prof.H.Kahmen, Institute of National Survey and Engineering Geodesy,
- University of Technology Vienna
-
- Cooperating Organisations
- . ISPRS Commission V: Close-Range Photogrammetry and Machine Vision
- . FIG Commission 6 : Engineering Surveys
- . Swiss Society for Photogrammetry, Image Analysis and Remote Sensing,
- Working Group Close-Range Photogrammetry and Machine Vision
-
- Topics:
- . Theoretical formulations, design and performance of photogrammetric
- and geodetic surveying methods, based on digital image analysis systems.
- . Formulations of estimation models, design of algorithms and study of
- operational and software aspects for fast and reliable point positioning,
- tracking, and surface reconstruction.
- . Design, functionality and performance of integrated sensor systems.
- . Evaluation of artificial intelligence techniques including expert system
- technology for use in image understanding and measurement procedures.
- . Hardware, algorithms, quality control and software design and
- implementation for on-line and real-time machine vision systems,
- as used in industrial process control, change detection, as-built
- documentation, robotics and navigation, and other advanced applications.
-
- The program will consist of lectures given by invited speakers,
- together with sessions for presented papers and poster sessions.
- The technical language of the meeting will be English with
- possibly a few contributions in German. A scientific/commercial
- exhibition of advanced technology for automated and semi-automated
- 3-D object reconstruction and tracking will be organized.
- Application forms for interested exhibitors can be obtained from
- the Conference Secretariat.
-
- Address for correspondence and inquiries:
- Second Conference Optical 3-D Measurement Techniques
- Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry
- ETH Hoenggerberg
- 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
-
- Tel.: +41 1 377 3051
- Fax: +41 1 372 0438
- email: chezpp@ p.igp.ethz.ch
-
- Call for Papers:
- Extended abstracts of papers consisting of at least 1.5 pages
- (or more than 60 lines of text), including name(s), address,
- affiliation, fax and telephone of author(s) should be submitted
- to the above address.
-
- Deadline for abstracts : April 30, 1993
- Notification of acceptance : May 31, 1993
- Deadline for complete manuscripts : July 31 , 1993
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sat, 07 Nov 92 16:38:11 EST
- From: "Dr. Francis T. Marchese" <MARCHESF%PACEVM.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
- Subject: CFP: Conference on Understanding Images
-
- Conference on Understanding Images
-
- Sponsored By
- NYC ACM/SIGGRAPH
- and
- Pace University's
- School of Computer S
- cience and Information Systems
-
- To Be Held at:
- Pace University
- New York Ci
- ty, New York
- May 21-22,1993
-
-
- Artists, designers, scientists, engineers and educators share the
- problem of moving information from one mind to another.
- Traditionally, they have used pictures, words, demonstrations, music
- and dance to communicate imagery. However, expressing complex notions
- such as God and in finity or a seeminglywell defined concept such as a
- flower can present challen ges which far exceed their technical
- skills.
-
- The explosive use of computers a s visualization and expression tools
- has compounded this problem. In hypermedi a, multimedia and virtual
- reality systems vast amounts of information confront the observer or
- participant. Wading through a multitude of simultaneous images and
- sounds in possibly unfamiliar representations, a confounded user asks:
- What does it all mean?
-
- Since image construction, transmission, reception, decip herment and
- ultimate understanding are complex tasks strongly influenced by
- physiology, education and culture; and since electronic media
- radically amplify e ach processing step, then we, as electronic
- communicators, must determine the f undamental paradigms for composing
- imagery for understanding.
-
- Therefore, the purpose of this conference is to bring together a
- breadth of disciplines, including, but not limited to, the physical,
- biological and computational sciences, technology, art, psychology,
- philosophy and education, in order to define and discuss the issues
- essential to image understanding within the computer graphic s
- context. To this end we seek proposals for individual presentations,
- panel discussions, static displays, interactive environments,
- performances and beyond.
-
- Submissions:
- Contributors are requested to submit a one page proposal by January 15,
- 1993. Accepted presentations will be included in the proceedings.
-
- Direct all inquires and submissions to:
- Professor Francis T. Marchese
- Phone: 212 346-1803
- Department of Computer Science
- Fax: 212 346-1933
- Pace University Email:
-
- MARCHESF@PACEVM.Bitnet
- New York, NY 10038 USA
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:43:17 GMT
- From: sshws@convx1.lerc.nasa.gov (Herb Schilling)
- Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
- Subject: Announcement and CFP Vision-21 Symposium
-
- VISION-21
-
- Interdisciplinary
- Science and Engineering
- in the
- Era of Cyberspace
-
-
- March 30-31, 1993
- Holiday Inn Westlake, Westlake, Ohio
-
- Sponsored by
-
- NASA Lewis Research Center
- and
- Ohio Aerospace Institute
- Cleveland, Ohio
-
- o The Vision-21 Symposium
-
- This symposium fosters speculative concepts in science, technology,
- and advanced thinking. The event includes invited talks, panel
- discussion, workshops, "poster" sessions, and an educational project
- for Cleveland schools.
-
- A key element of this symposium is to explore visions of applying
- cyberspace, virtual reality, and interdisciplinary science to the
- topics of space propulsion, power, and communication. Discussion
- groups will be held with each keynote speaker. The scope of the
- symposium goes beyond computing to explore the full spectrum of
- science and engineering in the next millennium.
-
- o Vision-21 Committee
-
- Vision-21 is a group of scientists and engineers from NASA's Lewis
- Research Center who seek to push the frontiers of aerospace technology
- and science. We believe researchers need encouragement, time, and
- cross-disciplinary communication to devise innovative concepts about
- how man and craft will travel in air and space.We created an
- interdisciplinary group called Vision-21 to provide 1) an environment
- for the open exchange of ideas and 2) a process for exploring
- futuristic aerospace concepts. Here researchers may conceive, nurture,
- test, and develop promising ideas.
-
- The committee has hosted one symposium ("Space Travel for the Next
- Millennium") and led numerous discussions about long range aerospace
- technology.
-
- o Featured Speakers
- - Hans Morovic, Carnegie Mellon Robotics Lab
- A well known roboticist and the author of the recent book, Mind
- Children
- - Vernor Vinge, San Diego State University
- Mathematician and science fiction writer; author of True Names and
- A Fire Upon the Deep
- - Richard F. Voss, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
- A leading research scientist on practical applications of fractal
- geometry
- - John Dalton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Project Manager of the Earth Observation System Ground System and
- Operations Project
- - Carol Stoker, NASA Ames Research Center
- Principal Investigator for the Telepresence for Planetary
- Exploration Projects
-
- o Call for Papers
-
- We invite abstracts for poster papers on aerospace science and
- engineering in a cyberspace era. Papers of all types are welcome,
- including interdisciplinary concepts that may be considered
- unconventional or visionary.
-
- o Submission of Papers
-
- The abstract must be written in English, placed on a single 8.5 x 11
- sheet (1 inch margins), with the title, authors' names, and
- affiliations at the top. Summarize the points of interest and
- experimental results (if appropriate), including sufficient detail for
- an assessment of content.
-
- Submit abstracts to:
- Vision-21 Symposium
- NASA Lewis Research Center
- Attn: Dr. Geoffrey A. Landis
- Technical Coordinator
- 21000 Brookpark Road, M.S. 302-1
- Cleveland, Ohio 44135 U.S.A.
-
-
- Abstract Deadline: 15 December 1992
-
- Poster presentations will be on display March 30-31. Selected
- authors will make plenary session presentations about their
- posters. Selected papers will also be published in the conference
- proceedings volume.
-
- o Educational Project
-
- Cleveland area students are encouraged to participate in projects
- involving a lunar rover robot and a simulation of the lunar
- landscape. Write Jennie Sethna, Ohio Aerospace Institute, 22800
- Cedar Point Road, Brook Park, OH 44142.
-
- o Registration
-
- Attendance is limited, so respond soon. The early registration fee is $120.
-
- Reply to:
-
- Vision-21 Symposium
- Attn: Vannel Hassett
- NASA Lewis Research Center
- 21000 Brookpark Road, M.S. OAI
- Cleveland, Ohio 44135 U.S.A.
- Phone: (216) 962-3041
- Fax: (216) 962-3120
-
- o Contacts
-
- For more information:
-
- Technical: Geoffrey Landis 216-433-2238
- Logistics: Vannel Hassett 216-962-3041
-
- Herb Schilling , NASA Lewis Research Center , 21000 Brookpark Road, MS 142-5
- Cleveland, Ohio 44135 . (216) 433-8955 sshws@convx1.lerc.nasa.gov
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 20:00:24 GMT
- From: daver!cypress.com!sh@decwrl.dec.com (Steve Haigh/VDSP)
- Organization: Cypress Semiconductor/San Jose, CA
- Subject: Short Course on MPEG Compression
-
- Part 1: MPEG video. 9am - 5pm, Nov 30th -Dec 2nd 1992. $600.
- Part 2: MPEG audio and systems. 9am - 5pm, Dec 3rd - Dec 4th 1992. $500.
- Parts 1 and 2: $1000.
- at the Techmart. Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, California.
-
- This short course is designed for engineers, managers and professionals
- seeking an overview of the key concepts and techniques in video and audio
- compression for entertainment, communications and multi-media applications.
- The presentation will not dwell on complex mathematical proofs and no
- prior knowledge of video techniques or digital signal processing is assumed.
- Instead, the course will lead participants through a descriptive and
- substantive review of video and audio compression without getting mired in
- complexity.
-
- Presented by Steve Haigh, Director of video DSP, Cypress Semiconductor.
-
- Part 1 introduces transform based video coding and the draft ISO standard
- MPEG video compression algorithm.
- Day 1:
- o Applications for video compression.
- o Overview of spacial, temporal and entropy coding.
- o Motion video coding for MPEG and Px64 (h.261).
- o Transform based coding of images.
- Day2:
- o Motion estimation and compensation of moving picture sequences.
- o Entropy coding.
- o Quantization, rate buffer control and encoding techniques.
- o Performance requirement for real time coding and decoding.
- Day3:
- o MPEG 1 bit stream syntax.
- o MPEG 2 work in progress.
-
- Part 2 introduces MPEG audio compression layers 1 through 3 and the MPEG
- systems layer.
- Day 1:
- o Psychoacoustics.
- o Quadrature mirror filters.
- o MPEG audio layers I and II.
- o MPEG audio layer III.
- Day 2:
- o MPEG audio bit stream syntax.
- o Performance requirement for real time coding and decoding.
- o MPEG systems overview.
-
- Attendance is limited to 30 people. Payment can be made with Visa, Master
- Card or American Express.
- Call 408 943 2904 for more details and registration.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 11:29:37 EST
- From: shah@eola.cs.ucf.edu (Mubarak Shah)
- Subject: FTP TR: Combining Shape from Shading and Stereo Using Human Vision Model
-
- Department of Computer Science
-
- University of Central Florida
- Orlando, FL 32816
-
- Technical Report
-
- Combining Shape from Shading and Stereo Using Human Vision Model
-
-
- James Edwin Cryer, Ping-Sing Tsai and Mubarak Shah
-
-
- CS-TR-92-25}
-
-
-
- { Abstract}
-
- Stereo algorithms suffer from the lack of
- local surface texture due to smoothness of depth constraint, or
- local miss-matches in disparity estimates.
- Thus, the stereo methods only provide a coarse depth map
- which can be associated with a low
- pass image of the depth map. On the other hand,
- shape from shading algorithms produce better estimates of
- local surface areas, but some of them have problems with variable albedo and
- spherical surfaces.
- Thus, shape from shading
- methods produce better detailed depth information, and
- can be associated with the high pass image of the
- depth map image.
- In order to compute a better depth map,
- we present a method for integrating the high frequency
- information from the shape from shading
- and the low frequency information from stereo.
- Our method is motivated by the
- human vision system, and follows Hall and Hall's model.
- The proposed algorithm is very simple, takes about $.7$ seconds for
- a $128 \times 128$ image on a
- Sun SparcStation-1, is non-iterative, and
- does not use any thresholds. The results obtained with
- a variety of
- synthetic and real images are discussed.
- The quality of depth obtained by integrating shading and stereo is
- compared with the ground truth (range image) using average surface
- gradient error measure, and improvement ranging from 30\% to 50\%
- over stereo, and from 65\% to 98\% over shading is demonstrated.
-
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-
- Date: 5 Nov 92 18:40:26 GMT
- From: esl!dml@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Denis Lynch)
- Subject: IEEE PAMI and GRS collection -- Free to good home
-
- I have a couple of boxes of IEEE journals that I'm never going to use again:
-
- IEEE PAMI 1981 -- March 1992, plus a few issues in 1980. (One or two issues
- missing in there somewhere).
-
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing -- 1981 through the present.
-
- If the only way you'll take those is to also take my collection of Computing
- Surveys (about the same time period), I might be convinced...
-
- I'd like to give these to some person or institution that will actually make
- use of them, rather than just throwing them out!
-
- Make an offer, please (preferably by e-mail or phone 408.743.6318, not news!)
-
- --Denis Lynch, ESL Inc.
-
-
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-
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