Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!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: <9004070400.AA14951@deimos.ads.com> Date: 6 Apr 90 17:46:31 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Vision-List@ADS.COM Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 287 Approved: vision-list@ads.com Vision-List Digest Fri Apr 06 09:46:31 PDT 90 - Send submissions to Vision-List@ADS.COM - Send requests for list membership to Vision-List-Request@ADS.COM Today's Topics: Chevreul illusion Stereo Sequence Wanted Pointers to image archives Image database WANTED: image processing/pattern recognition job Fulbright Lecturer/Researcher Position CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: AAAI-90 Workshop on Qualitative Vision Call for votes: comp.robotics ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 90 13:26:01 +0200 From: ronse@prlb.philips.be Subject: Chevreul illusion Can someone explain what is the Chevreul illusion seen in a luminance staircase composed of two step edges? References appreciated. Thanks. Christian Ronse Internet: ronse@prlb.philips.be BITNET: ronse%prlb.philips.be@cernvax [ As usual, please respond to the List. phil... ] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Mar 90 14:57:45 +0200 From: Meng-Xiang Li Subject: Stereo Sequence Wanted We are trying to create a stereo sequence of an indoor scene with a camera mounted on a robot arm. But we have encountered some problems due to the calibration of the system. We wonder if anyone out there has such stereo sequences or the like. The point is that we need the necessary (calibration) data in order to reconstruct the 3D scene. Does anyone have or know such data? If you do, please let us know. Any help is appreciated very much. (The data is going to be used in a joined ESPRIT project) Mengxiang Li E-mail: mxli@bion.kth.se Mail : Computational Vision & Active Perception Lab. (CVAP) Royal Institute of Technology, S-10044 Stockholm, SWEDEN phone : +46 8 7906207 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 90 16:17:36 EDT From: Rshankar@top.cis.syr.edu Subject: Pointers to image archives I am looking for pointers to existing archives for intensity/range/ stereo/motion images. I would also need information about the availability of these images to outside users. I can summarize the replies and post it to the net. - Ravi ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Apr 90 12:08:53 EDT From: nar@cs.wayne.edu Subject: Image database Hi, I am looking for a database of 2-D shape (preferably industrial shapes) to use in a shape recognition system that I am currently implementing. I would appreciate if anybody out there could give me one, or give me pointers as to where I could find them. Thanx in advance, Nagarajan Ramesh ! internet- nar@cs.wayne.edu Dept. of Computer Science, ! uucp - ..!umich!wsu-cs!nar Wayne State University, Detroit MI 48202 ------------------------------ Date: 5 Apr 90 17:52:41 GMT From: Justine Stader Subject: WANTED: image processing/pattern recognition job Summary: German hunting jobs in Edinburgh Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland A German lad without net-access asked me for help so here goes: He is coming to Edinburgh in August 1990 and he would like to start working in Edinburgh around then. By August he will have a German degree in Computer Science. His main interests and experiences (from Summer jobs etc.) are in the field of image processing and pattern recognition. If you know or hear of any vacancies I (and he) would be grateful if you could let me know. Thanks in advance Jussi. Jussi Stader, AI Applications Institute, 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1HN E-mail jussi@aiai.ed.ac.uk, phone 031-225 4464 extension 213 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 90 11:56:35 +0200 From: mkp@stek7.oulu.fi (Matti Pietik{inen) Subject: Fulbright Lecturer/Researcher Position The Computer Vision Group at the University of Oulu, Finland, is engaged in research into industrial machine vision, investigating problems associated with robot vision, visual inspection and parallel vision systems. With a staff of about 15, it is the largest group of its kind in Finland. The Group requests for a Fulbright lecturer/researcher scholar for one semester during the academic year 1991-92 in the field of computer vision. The scholar should participate in collaborative research and to teach an advanced post-graduate course in computer vision. The scholar should be a U.S. citizen and have a Ph.D with some years of experience in computer vision. The research collaboration can be in any of our interest areas, including computer vision algorithms, vision for intelligent robots, parallel algorithms and architectures for vision, or automated visual inspection. The students of the computer vision course will have at least an MSEE degree with some experience in computer vision research. The course will have 2 classroom hours per week. The students' comprehension level in English is good. An estimated size of the class is 15. The library of the Department of Electrical Engineering has all major journals and a large number of books and conference proceedings in the field of computer vision. The computer facilities of the Computer Vision Group include several SUN-3 workstations, a Symbolics 3645 and IBM PC's. A dedicated image analysis system, consisting of boards manufactured by Datacube, Inc., is used for high speed analysis tasks. A multiprocessor system NTP 1000 based on transputers is used for studying the problems of parallel processing. Shortly the facilities will also include an industrial robot equipped with a CCD camera and a range image sensor. The Group provides office space, access to computer facilities and some support from graduate assistants for the scholar. In addition to the grant provided by the Fulbright program, an additional salary of at least US$ 2000/month will be arranged from our research funds. The University of Oulu also provides housing for the scholar. The Council for International Exchange of Scholars will advertise the position in the "Fulbright Scholar Program. Faculty Grants. 1991-92." This booklet will be distributed to all American colleges and universities in March/April 1990. The application period for the grant will end on September 15, 1990. Prof. Matti Pietikainen Head, Computer Vision Group Computer Vision Group email: mkp@steks.oulu.fi Dept. of Electrical Engineering tel: +358-81-352765 University of Oulu fax: +358-81-561278 SF-90570 Oulu, Finland ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Apr 90 11:56:35 +0200 From: pkahn@ads.com (Philip Kahn) Subject: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: AAAI-90 Workshop on Qualitative Vision Sunday, July 29 1990 Boston, Massachusetts Qualitative descriptions of the visual environment are receiving greater interest in the computer vision community. This recent increase in interest is partly due to the difficulties that often arise in the practical application of more quantitative methods. These quantitative approaches tend to be computationally expensive, complex and brittle. They require constraints which limit generality. Moreover inaccuracies in the input data do not often justify such precise methods. Alternatively, physical constraints imposed by application domains such as mobile robotics and real-time visual perception have prompted the exploration of qualitative mechanisms which require less computation, have better response time, focus on salient and relevant aspects of the environment, and use enviromental constraints more effectively. The one-day AAAI-90 Workshop on Qualitative Vision seeks 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 to support robust intelligent systems. The Workshop will examine aspects of the methodology, the description of qualitative vision techniques, the application of qualitative techniques to visual domains and the role of qualitative vision in the building of robust intelligent systems. Topics to be discussed include: o What is Qualitative Vision? (e.g., definitions, properties, biological/psychophysical models or bases) o Qualitative Visual Features and their Extraction (e.g., 2D/3D shape, depth, motion) o High level Qualitative Vision (e.g., qualitative 2D/3D models, properties, representations) o Qualitative Vision and Intelligent Behavior (e.g., navigation, active or directed perception, hand-eye coordination, automated model building) Since the number of participants is limited to under 50, invitations for participation will be based on the review of extended technical abstracts by several members of the Qualitative Vision research community. The extended abstract should address one of the above topic areas, be 3 to 5 pages in length (including figures and references), and it should begin with the title and author name(s) and address(es). Extended abstracts (6 copies) should be sent, by *April 15, 1990*, to: William Lim Grumman Corporation Corporate Research Center MS A01-26 Bethpage, NY 11714 Decisions on acceptance of abstracts will be made by May 15, 1990. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: * William Lim, Grumman Corporation, Corporate Research Center, (516) 575-5638 or (516) 575-4909, wlim@ai.mit.edu (temporary) or wlim@crc.grumman.com (soon) * Andrew Blake, Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University, ab@robots.ox.ac.uk * Philip Kahn, Advanced Decision Systems, (415) 960-7457, pkahn@ads.com * Daphna Weinshall, Center for Biological Information Processing, MIT, (617) 253-0546, daphna@ai.mit.edu ------------------------------ Date: 29 Mar 90 00:15:16 GMT From: ttidca.TTI.COM!hollombe%sdcsvax@ucsd.edu (The Polymath) Subject: Call for votes: comp.robotics Followup-To: news.groups Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica This is the call for votes on the creation of COMP.ROBOTICS . Name: comp.robotics Moderation: Unmoderated Charter: The discussion and exchange of information on all aspects of real-world robots and their applications -- industrial, personal and experimental. To cast your vote: DO NOT post your vote or Followup this article (followups are directed to news.groups). Send it to me by replying to this article or via e-mail to the address below. If possible, include "comp.robotics YES" or "comp.robotics NO" in the Subject: line as appropriate (put it in the message body too). The polls are now open and will remain so through the month of April. On May 1st I will tally the responses and post the results and vote summaries to news.groups and news.announce.newgroups. A little electioneering, while I'm at it: The response to the call for discussion has been 100% favorable. However, I'd like to see this group created cleanly and unambiguously. Please be sure that _all_ persons interested at your site send their "YES" votes to me for tallying. ("NO" voters are on their own. (-: [Yes, of course I'll tally them too].). The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@ttidca.tti.com) Citicorp(+)TTI Illegitimis non 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. (213) 450-9111, x2483 Carborundum Santa Monica, CA 90405 {csun | philabs | psivax}!ttidca!hollombe ------------------------------ End of VISION-LIST ********************