Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.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: <9006150400.AA04994@deimos.ads.com> Date: 14 Jun 90 19:11:27 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Vision-List@ADS.COM Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 139 Approved: vision-list@ads.com Vision-List Digest Thu Jun 14 11:11:27 PDT 90 - Send submissions to Vision-List@ADS.COM - Send requests for list membership to Vision-List-Request@ADS.COM Today's Topics: Focus of attention in human and computer vision Computer Controllable Lenses Work at BMW RE: List of industrial vision companies.. CANCELLED: ANN Workshop, Atlantic City, Jun. 17 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 13 Jun 90 16:14:43+0200 From: milanese ruggero Subject: Focus of attention in human and computer vision Hallo, I am at the beginning of my PhD work concerning the subject of focus of attention applied to visual perception. Good sources of information about the underlying mechanisms seem to be provided by psychologists and, to a given extent, by neurophysiologists. Rather than analysis of elementar phenomena, what I am more interested in are frameworks and theories that try to explain the global process of attention in vision. Since I am a computer scientist, I shall also be interested in applying these concepts into a working machine vision system. Therefore, I would be grateful for any information, reference, discussion or pointers about work done in this field. Many thanks, Ruggero Milanese E-mail: milanese@cuisun.unige.ch Address: Centre Universitaire d'Informatique 12, rue du Lac 1207 - Geneve Switzerland ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jun 90 08:46:42 BST From: Alan McIvor Subject: Computer Controllable Lenses Hi, We are currently looking for a lens for our vision system with computer controllable focus, focal length, and aperture. Do any of you know of a source of such lenses? We have found many motorized lenses but most have auto-apertures and no feedback of settings. I recall several years ago that a company called Vicon made such a lens but I don't have any details. Anybody know how to get hold of them? Thanks, Dr Alan M. McIvor BP International Ltd ukc!bprcsitu!alanm Research Centre Sunbury alanm%bprcsitu.uucp@uk.ac.ukc Chertsey Road bprcsitu!alanm@relay.EU.NET Sunbury-on-Thames uunet!ukc!bprcsitu!alanm Middlesex TW16 7LN Tel: +44 932 764252 U.K. Fax: +44 932 762999 [ Please post responses to the List!! phil... ] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 90 10:24:13 +0200 From: jost@bmwmun.ads.com (Jost Bernasch) Subject: Work at BMW [ I received this as part of a correspondence, and I thought it would be of general interest (with permission to post from Jost). phil... ] I am with a research group at BMW and at the Technical University of Munich. We are developing a selfguided driving car, which is lateral controled. The car actually is driving on the BMW test route with about 60mph without needing white lanes or something like that. We are just working towards a more stable system (brightness, shadows) and we will identify, track and classify objects (cars, trucks, pedestrians). Furthermore we are developing an attentive vision modul, which focuses automatically attention to important parts of the image. Naturally, we are confronted with problems which need adaptive control (lateral guidance depending on the car's changing status and the environment, adaptiv, intelligently controlled attentive vision, adapting a lot of parameters in the vision modules etc.). Yours Jost Bernasch, BMW AG Muenchen, Dep. EW-13, P.O. BOX 40 02 40, D-8000 Muenchen 40, Germany Tel. ()89-3183-2822 FAX ()89-3183-4767 jost@bmwmun.uucp.dbp.de ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jun 90 14:49:33 -0500 From: krishnan@cs.wisc.edu (Harikrishnan Krishna) Subject: RE: List of industrial vision companies.. It would be great if the addresses were also posted along with the names of the companies. Thanks. Krishna. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jun 90 20:20:56 EDT From: raja@pixel.cps.msu.EDU Subject: CANCELLED: ANN Workshop, Atlantic City, Jun. 17 The following workshop has been CANCELLED. Any inconvenience caused is regretted. Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks & Pattern Recognition Sponsored by The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Sands Hotel Atlantic City, New Jersey June 17, 1990 ------------------------------ End of VISION-LIST ********************