Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!ADS.COM!Vision-List-Request From: Vision-List-Request@ADS.COM (Vision-List moderator Phil Kahn) Newsgroups: comp.ai.vision Subject: Vision-List delayed redistribution Message-ID: <8911180500.AA24199@deimos.ads.com> Date: 17 Nov 89 23:52:33 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Vision-List@ADS.COM Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 342 Approved: vision-list@ads.com Vision-List Digest Fri Nov 17 15:52:33 PDT 89 - Send submissions to Vision-List@ADS.COM - Send requests for list membership to Vision-List-Request@ADS.COM Today's Topics: Rosenfeld's Computer Vision Bibliography online Upcoming Conferences Megaplus cameras and boundary tracing Pseudocode for boundary tracking algorithms Conference on pragmatics in AI ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 89 13:23:26 PST From: Vision-List-Request Subject: Rosenfeld's Computer Vision Bibliography online Dr. Azriel Rosenfeld has been kind enough to provide on-line versions of his outstanding bibliographies for Computer Vision and related topics from 1984 to 1988 to the Vision List. 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I hope that Rosenfeld's comprehensive Computer Vision bibliography is a valuable addition to your efforts in vision and image processing. phil... Subject: Welcome to Vision-List! From: Vision-List moderator Phil Kahn The host site for the ARPAnet Vision List is Vision-List@ADS.COM for list contributions, Vision-List-Request@ADS.COM for undistributed correspondence. As the moderator, I am interested in stimulating exchanges on research topics of significance to the vision community. Here are a few administrative details about the list. Requests -------- If you have problems sending messages to the list, questions about technical details of the list distribution, or the like, send mail to Vision-List-Request@ADS.COM and we will respond personally to your query. PLEASE DO NOT send your request to be added to/deleted from the list to Vision-List@ADS.COM. If you do, it may be automatically redistributed as an article and appear in thousands of mailboxes around the world. 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Each file contains an archived issue, and the file name is the date and time the issue was created. ** ** ** ** ** ** The list is intended to embrace discussion on a wide range of vision topics, including physiological theory, computer vision, machine vision and image processing algorithms, artificial intelligence and neural network techniques applied to vision, industrial applications, robotic eyes, implemented systems, ideas, profound thoughts -- anything related to vision and its automation is fair game. I hope you enjoy Vision-List. Phil Kahn, moderator Vision-List-Request@ADS.COM ------------------------------ Date: 17 Nov 89 9:11 -0800 From: John Ens Subject: Upcoming Conferences Does anybody have information on the following two conferences: - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; and - International Conference on Computer vision. I am particularily interested in - When and where the next conference is to be held; and - When and to whom to submit papers. Thanks, John Ens johne@ee.ubc.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 89 15:08:35 GMT From: us214777@mmm.serc.3m.com (John C. Schultz) Subject: Megaplus cameras and boundary tracing Organization: 3M - St. Paul, MN 55144-1000 US RE MEGAPLUS TO SUN: Datacube, Inc (508) 535-6644 makes a whole line of VME bus based video rate processing cards which amoung other things can acquire and display (on the SUN display) Megaplus sized images and larger. You would need a MAXSCAN and ROISTORE 2MB to acquire image data. Their connection to the Megaplus is discussed in Datacube's Application Note MAX SC 011. The display board set is called MAXVIEW and logically sits between the SUN cpu board video generator and the SUN monitor. Setup parameters allow you to display real-time video in this window assuming you have made the SUN cpu think that the window is black. This system would be pretty expensive ($20,000) but if you would be satisfied with VME bus transfer rates of video data the cost would be half that. Another system is available from Perceptics (615) 966-9200 and runs on the Nubus from a MAC II. If you have a MAC II with an Ethernet conection, this would be a cheaper approach than purchasing the Datacube hardware but obviously sending a lot of images over Ethernet from a MAC is going to take awhile. You might also try Recognition Concepts Inc (RCI) (702)831-0473 and Imaging Technology Inc (617)938-8444 RE BOUNDARY TRACING: Consider making a lookup table which outputs only the binary edge points and then generate the (x,y) corrdinates of each boundary point. Software can then do fancy processing such as shape descriptions etc. This approach would run at video rates (30 times/sec) with appropriate hardware such as from Datacube, Matrox, Perceptics, etc. -- John C. Schultz EMAIL: jcschultz@mmm.3m.com 3M Company WRK: +1 (612) 733 4047 3M Center, Building 518-01-1 St. Paul, MN 55144-1000 The opinions expressed above are my own and DO NOT reflect 3M's ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Nov 89 23:41:43 CST From: shvaidya@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Shankar Vaidyanathan) Subject: Re: Pseudocode for boundary tracking algorithms Hi: A request from Sridhar Balaji was relayed for pointers/pseudocode/code for boudary tracking algorithms for binary images. Since, I am also in need of them, I would be pleased to receive a copy of them My E-mail address: shvaidya@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu Address: 540 B Sooner Drive, Norman, Oklahoma 73072 Best Regards Shankar [ As usual, please post answer to questions of general interest to the List. phil... ] ------------------------------ Date: 14 Nov 89 20:10:11 GMT From: paul@nmsu.edu (Paul McKevitt) Subject: CONFERENCE-ON-PRAGMATICS-IN-AI Organization: NMSU Computer Science CALL FOR PAPERS Pragmatics in Artificial Intelligence 5th Rocky Mountain Conference on Artificial Intelligence (RMCAI-90) Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA, June 28-30, 1990 PRAGMATICS PROBLEM: The problem of pragmatics in AI is one of developing theories, models, and implementations of systems that make effective use of contextual information to solve problems in changing environments. CONFERENCE GOAL: This conference will provide a forum for researchers from all subfields of AI to discuss the problem of pragmatics in AI. The implications that each area has for the others in tackling this problem are of particular interest. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: In cooperation with: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (pending approval) Special Interest Group in Artificial Intelligence (SIGART) (pending approval) U S WEST Advanced Technologies and the Rocky Mountain Society for Artificial Intelligence (RMSAI) With grants from: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group in Artificial Intelligence (SIGART) U S WEST Advanced Technologies and the Rocky Mountain Society for Artificial Intelligence (RMSAI) THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT: Las Cruces, lies in THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT (New Mexico), USA and is situated in the Rio Grande Corridor with the scenic Organ Mountains overlooking the city. The city is close to Mexico, Carlsbad Caverns, and White Sands National Monument. There are a number of Indian Reservations and Pueblos in the Land Of Enchantment and the cultural and scenic cities of Taos and Santa Fe lie to the north. New Mexico has an interesting mixture of Indian, Mexican and Spanish culture. There is quite a variation of Mexican and New Mexican food to be found here too. GENERAL INFORMATION: The Rocky Mountain Conference on Artificial Intelligence is a major regional forum in the USA for scientific exchange and presentation of AI research. The conference emphasizes discussion and informal interaction as well as presentations. The conference encourages the presentation of completed research, ongoing research, and preliminary investigations. Researchers from both within and outside the region are invited to participate. Some travel awards will be available for qualified applicants. FORMAT FOR PAPERS: Submitted papers should be double spaced and no more than 5 pages long. E-mail versions will not be accepted. Send 3 copies of your paper to: Paul Mc Kevitt, Program Chairperson, RMCAI-90, Computing Research Laboratory (CRL), Dept. 3CRL, Box 30001, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001, USA. DEADLINES: Paper submission: March 1st, 1990 Pre-registration: April 1st, 1990 Notice of acceptance: May 1st, 1990 Final papers due: June 1st, 1990 LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Jennifer Griffiths, Local Arrangements Chairperson, RMCAI-90. (same postal address as above). INQUIRIES: Inquiries regarding conference brochure and registration form should be addressed to the Local Arrangements Chairperson. Inquiries regarding the conference program should be addressed to the program Chairperson. Local Arrangements Chairperson: E-mail: INTERNET: rmcai@nmsu.edu Phone: (+ 1 505)-646-5466 Fax: (+ 1 505)-646-6218. Program Chairperson: E-mail: INTERNET: paul@nmsu.edu Phone: (+ 1 505)-646-5109 Fax: (+ 1 505)-646-6218. TOPICS OF INTEREST: You are invited to submit a research paper addressing Pragmatics in AI , with any of the following orientations: Philosophy, Foundations and Methodology Knowledge Representation Neural Networks and Connectionism Genetic Algorithms, Emergent Computation, Nonlinear Systems Natural Language and Speech Understanding Problem Solving, Planning, Reasoning Machine Learning Vision and Robotics Applications Paul Mc Kevitt, Computing Research Laboratory, Dept. 3CRL, Box 30001, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001, USA. 505-646-5109/5466 CSNET: paul@nmsu.edu ------------------------------ End of VISION-LIST ********************