Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!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: <8911230500.AA07970@deimos.ads.com> Date: 22 Nov 89 22:01:52 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Vision-List@ADS.COM Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 444 Approved: vision-list@ads.com Vision-List Digest Wed Nov 22 14:01:52 PDT 89 - Send submissions to Vision-List@ADS.COM - Send requests for list membership to Vision-List-Request@ADS.COM Today's Topics: Parallel Computers for Computer Vision Bibliography: IEEE 1989 SMC Conference 6th Israeli AI & Vision Conference ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 89 12:33:14 MEZ From: Stefan Posch Subject: Parallel Computers for Computer Vision Return-Receipt-To: "Stefan Posch" Hello, I am looking for further material for a tutorial on "Parallel Computers for Computer Vision" I plan to give next summer. By computer vision I subsume here image processing, image analysis as well as certain AI tasks. To be more precise, I am interested in information/references about/to: - hardware architecture of parallel computers used/usefull for computer vision - software environment including programming languages, communication primitives, mechanisms for data sharing - applications, including speedup measurements and complexity estimation My e-mail address is RFC822: posch@informatik.uni-erlangen.de UUCP: {pyramid,unido}!fauern!posch X.400: Of cause I'll be happy to summarize to the net. (How can I decide whether a summary is wanted or not?) Thank you in advance, Stefan Stefan Posch Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg Lehrstuhl 5 (Mustererkennung) 8520 Erlangen West-Germany ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Nov 89 14:54:39 EST From: flynn@pixel.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J. Flynn) Subject: Bibliography: IEEE 1989 SMC Conference Here's a list of computer vision-related papers presented at the 1989 IEEE SMC conference in Cambridge on November 15-17. Apologies in advance for any omissions; I tried to be liberal in my criteria for deciding whether a paper is `computer vision-related' or not. S. Grossberg, Recent Results on Neural Network Architectures for Vision and Pattern Recognition, p. 1. F. Arman, B. Sabata, and J.K. Aggarwal, Hierarchical Segmentation of 3-D Range Images, pp. 156-161. P. Flynn and A. Jain, CAD-Based Computer Vision: From CAD Models to Relational Graphs, pp. 162-167. C. Hansen, T. Henderson, and R. Grupen, CAD-Based 3-D Object Recognition, pp. 168-172. R. Hoffman and H. Keshavan, Evidence-Based Object Recognition and Pose Estimation, pp. 173-178. G. Medioni and P. Saint-Marc, Issues in Geometric Reasoning from Range Imagery, pp. 179-185. M. Trivedi, M. Abidi, R. Eason and R. Gonzalez, Object Recognition and Pose Determination in Multi-Sensor Robotic Systems, pp. 186-193. E. Feria, Predictive Transform for Optimum Digital Signal Processing, pp. 1228-1237. W. Wu and A. Kundu, A Modified Reduced Update Kalman Filter for Images Degraded by Non-Gaussian Additive Noise, pp. 352-355. C. Wright, E. Delp, and N. Gallagher, Morphological Based Target Enhancement Algorithms to Counter the Hostile Nuclear Environment, pp. 358-363. R. Jha and M. Jernigan, Edge Adaptive Filtering: How Much and Which Direction?, pp. 364-366. B. Javidi, M. Massa, C. Ruiz, and J. Ruiz, Experiments on Nonlinear Optical Correlation, pp. 367-369. H. Arsenault, Similarity and Pathology in Neural Nets, pp. 401-404. E. Paek, J. Wullert, A. VonLehman, J. Patel, A. Sherer, J. Harbison, H. Yu, and R. Martin, Vander Lugt Correlator and Neural Networks, pp. 408-414. B. Javidi, Optical Attentive Associative Memory with Channel Dependent Nonlinearity in the Weight Plane, pp. 415-420. Z. Bahri and B. Vijaya Kumar, Design of Partial Information Filters for Optical Correlators, pp. 421-426. F. Palmieri and S. Shah, A New Algorithm for Training Multilayer Perceptrons, pp. 427-428. N. Nasarbadi, W. Li, B. Epranian and C. Butkus, Use of Hopfield Network for Stereo Correspondence, pp. 429-432. W. Owen, W. Hare, and A. Wang, The Role of the Bipolar Cell in Retinal Signal Processing, pp. 435-442. J. Troy and C. Enroth-Cugell, Signals and Noise in Mammalian Retina, pp. 443-447. R. Emerson, Linear and Nonlinear Mechanisms of Motion Selectivity in Single Neurons of the Cat's Visual Cortex, pp. 448-453. A. Dobbins and S. Zucker, Mean Field Theory and MT Neurons, pp. 454-458. M. Tuceryan and A. Jain, Segmentation and Grouping of Object Boundaries, pp. 570-575. Y. Shui and S. Ahmad, 3-D Location of Circular and Spherical Features by Monocular Model-Based Vision, pp. 576-581. M. Chantler and C. Reid, Integration of Ultrasonic and Vision Sensors for 3-D Underwater Scene Analysis, pp. 582-583. H. Fujii and T. Inui, Modelling the Spatial Recognition Process in a Computer-Generated 3-D World, pp. 584-585. C. Chang and S. Chatterjee, Depth from Stereo Image Flow, pp. 586-591. R. Safae-Rad, B. Benhabib, K. Smith, and Z. Zhou, Pre-Marking Methods for 3D Object Recognition, pp. 592-595. C. Bandera and P. Scott, Foveal Machine Vision Systems, pp. 596-599. J. Kottas and C. Warde, Trends in Knowledge Base Processing Using Optical Techniques, pp. 1250-1257. J. Horner, Variations of the Phase-only Filter, p. 644 (abstract) D. Gregory, J. Kirsch, and W. Crowe, Optical Correlator Guidance and Tracking Field Tests, pp. 645-650. Y. Fainman, L. Feng, and Y. Koren, Estimation of Absolute Spatial Position of Mobile Systems by Hybrid Opto-Electronic Processor, pp. 651-657. T. Lu, X. Xu, and F. Yu, Hetero Associative Neural Network Pattern Recognition, pp. 658-663. M. Oguztoreli, Neural Computations in Visual Processes, pp. 664-670. M. Jernigan, R. Belshaw, and G. McLean, Image Enhancement with Nonlinear Local Interactions, pp. 676-681. R. Pinter, R. Olberg, and E. Warrant, Luminance Adaptation of Preferred Object Size in Identified Dragonfly Movement Detectors, pp. 682-686. A. Meyer, Z. Li, E. Haupt, K. Lu, and H. Louis, Clinical Electrophysiology of the Eye: Physiological Modeling and Parameter Estimation, pp. 687-692. S. Levine and J. Kreifeldt, Minimal Information for the Unique Representation of a Pattern of Points, pp. 828-830. N. Ansari and E. Delp, Partial Shape Recognition: A Landmark-Based Approach, pp. 831-836. T. Fukuda and O. Hasegawa, Creature Recognition and Identification by Image Processing Based on Expert System, pp. 837-842. Y. Shiu and S. Ahmad, Grouping Image Features into Loops for Monocular Recognition, pp. 843-844. T. Matsunaga, A. Tokumasu, and O. Iwaki, A Study of Document Format Identification Based on Table Structure, pp. 845-846. T. Topper and M. Jernigan, On the Informativeness of Edges, pp. 909-914. C. Choo and H. Freeman, Computation of Features of 2-D Polycurve-Encoded Boundaries, pp. 1041-1047. A. Gross and T. Boult, Straight Homogeneous Generalized Cylinders, Analysis of Reflectance Properties and a Necessary Condition for Class Membership, pp. 1260-1267. W. Yim and D. Joo, Surface Contour Mapping Using Cross-Shaped Structured Light Beam, pp. 1048-1050. A. Perry and D. Lowe, Segmentation of Non-random Texture Regions in Real Images, pp. 1051-1054. S. Lee and J. Pan, Tracing and Representation of Human Line Drawings, pp. 1055-1061. T. Taxt, P. Flynn, and A. Jain, Segmentation of Document Images, pp. 1062-1067. K. Yokosawa, Human-Based Character String Image Retrieval from Textual Images, pp. 1068-1069. S. Lee, Classification of Similar Line-Drawing Patterns with Attributed Graph Matching, pp. 1070-1071. That's all for now. Next week, I'll try to send citations from the 3-D scene interpretation workshop in Austin, Texas. Pat ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Nov 89 15:46:36 +0200 From: hezy%TAURUS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Comments: If you have trouble reaching this host as math.tau.ac.il Please use the old address: user@taurus.bitnet Subject: 6th Israeli AI & Vision Conference Preliminary Program for the Sixth Israel Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision Monday, 25 December 1989 18:00 Reception, Kfar Hamaccabiyah AI TRACK: Tuesday, 26 December 1989 9:00-10:30 Keynote Speaker --- Nils Nilsson, Stanford University, USA Session 1.1 11:00-13:00 "On Learning and Testing Evaluation Functions" B. Abramson, University of Southern California, USA "Analogical Learning: A Cognitive Theory" B. Adelson, Tufts University, USA "An Expert System for Computer Aided Design of Man-Machine Interface" D. Tamir, A. Kandel, Florida State University, USA Session 1.3 14:15-15:15 "Why Can't I Smear Paint at the Wall" M. Brent, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA "Resolution of Lexical Synonymy at the Word Level" S. Nirenburg, E. Nyberg, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Session 1.3B 14:15-15:15 "From Local to Global Consistency in Constraint Networks: Some New Results" R. Dechter, The Technion, Israel "Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in the FRAPPE System" Y. Feldman, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel C. Rich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Session 1.5 15:30-17:00 "Multi-Agent Autoepistemic Predicate Logic" Y. Jiang, Cambridge University, England "A Framework for Interactions Among Agents of Disparate Capabilities" O. Kliger, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel J. Rosenschein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel "Function Characteristics System: An ITS for Integrating Algebraic and Graphical Activities in Secondary School Mathematics" N. Zehavi, B. Schwarz, A. Evers, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Session 1.5B 15:30-17:00 "Intelligent Decision Support in Quasi-Legal Domains" U. Schild, Bar-Ilan University, Israel "Model Analysis in Model Based Diagnosis" A. Abu-Hanna, R. Benjamins, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands "Planning in TRAUMAID" R. Rymon, J. Clarke, B. Webber, University of Pennsylvania, USA Wednesday, 27 December 1989 9:30-10:30 Keynote Speaker --- Bonnie Webber, University of Pennsylvania, USA Session 2.1 11:00-13:00 "Corpus-Based Lexical Acquisition for Translation Systems" J. Klavans, E. Tzoukermann, IBM Research, USA "CARAMEL: A Flexible Model for Interaction between the Cognitive Processes Underlying Natural Language Understanding" G. Sabah, L. Nicaud, C. Sauvage, LIMSI, France "Zihui Mishkalo Shel Shir b'Machshev" U. Ornan, The Technion, Israel "A Polymorphic Type Checking System for Prolog in HiLog" T. Fruhwirth, SUNY, USA Session 2.2 14:15-15:15 Invited Speaker --- Saul Amarel, Rutgers University, USA "AI in Design" Session 2.3 15:30-17:00 "A Model and a Prototype for a Knowledge-Base System for Graphic Objects" E. Naphtalovitch, E. Gudes, J. Addess, A. Noyman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel "Rule Based Expert Systems Which Learn to Solve Problems Quicker" D. Berlin, M. Schneider, Florida Institute of Technology, USA "A System for Incremental Learning Based on Algorithmic Probability" R. Solomonoff, Oxbridge Research, USA VISION TRACK Tue, December 26 Session 1.2 11:00 - 13:00 Keynote speaker: P. Burt, David Sarnoff Research Center, USA Dynamic Analysis of Image Motion M. Costa, R.M. Haralick, L.G. Shapiro, University of Washington, USA Optimal affine- invariant point matching Session 1.4 14:15-15:15 S. negahdaripour & A. Shokrollahi, University of Hawaii, USA Relaxing the brightness constancy assumption in computing optical flow D. Keren, S. Peleg, A. Shmuel, Hebrew University, Israel Accurate hierarchical estimation of optical flow Session 1.6 15:30-17:00 D. Hung & O.R. Mitchell, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Scaling invariant recognition of medium resolution, partially occluded objects D. Keren, R. Marcus, M. Werman, Hebrew University Segmenting and compressing waveforms by minimum length encoding K. B. Thornton & L.G. Shapiro, University of Washington, USA Image matching for view class construction Wed, December 27 Session 2.5 9:15- 10:15 Keynote speaker R. Bajcsy, University of Pennsylvania, USA Perception via Active Exploration Examples of Disassembly Hall 1 Session 2.6 10:45-12:45 H. Rom & S. Peleg, Hebrew University Motion based segmentation of 2D scenes S. Levy Gazit & G. Medioni, University of Southern California, USA Multi scale contour matching in a motion sequence Y. Pnueli, N.Kiryati, A. Bruckstein, Technion, Israel On Navigation in moving influence fields A. Meizles & R. Versano, Ben Gurion University, Israel A multiresolution view of token textures Session 2.7 14:15-15:15 S. Shimomura, Fujifacom Corporation, Japan An application of high speed projecion module to document understatnding N. Kiryati & A. Bruckstein, Technion, Israel Efficient shape recognition by a probabilistic generalized hough transform Session 2.8 15:30-17:00 A. Shmuel & M. Werman, Hebrew University, Israel Active vision: 3D depth from an image sequence F.Y. Shih and O.R.Mitchell, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Euclidean distance based on grey scale morphology D. Sherman & S. Peleg, Hebrew University, Israel Stereo by incremental matching of contours Hall 2 Session 3.1 10:45-12:45 M. Lindenbaum & A.Bruckstein, Technion, Israel Geometric probing using composite probes F.Y. Shih & C.S. Prathuri, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Shape extraction from size histogram M. Irani & S. Peleg, Hebrew University, Israel Super resolution from image sequences G. Ron & S. Peleg, Hebrew University, Israel Linear shape from shading Session 3.2 14:15-15:15 N. gershon, J. Cappelleti, S. Hinds, MITRE Corporation, USA 3D image processing, segmentation and visualization of PET brain images V.F. Leavers, Kings College, England Use of the Radon transform as a method of extracting information about shape in 2D Session 3.3 15:30-17:00 E. Shavit & J. Tsotsos, University of Toronto, Canada A Prototype for intermediate level visual processing: A motion hierarchy as a case study D. Chetverikov, Computer Institute, Hungary A data structure for fast neighborhood search in points set D. Sher, E. Chuang, R. Venkatesan, SUNY Buffalo, USA Generating object location systems from complex object descriptions The Sixth Israeli Symposium on Artificial Intelligence Vision and Pattern Recognition December 26-27, 1989 Registration information from: IPA --- Information Processing Association of Israel, Kfar Hamaccabiah Ramat Gan 52109 Israel Phone: (972)-3-715772 ------------------------------ End of VISION-LIST ********************