Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!agate!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: <9010170400.AA18570@deimos.ads.com> Date: 16 Oct 90 23:15:27 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Vision-List@ADS.COM Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 296 Approved: vision-list@ads.com Vision-List Digest Tue Oct 16 15:15:27 PDT 90 - Send submissions to Vision-List@ADS.COM - Send requests for list membership to Vision-List-Request@ADS.COM Today's Topics: 3-D Object Recognition Parallel Languages for Computer Vision Image processing at Siemens Fractals & data compression Performance Evaluation Call for Papers and Referees: Special Issue of IEEE COMPUTER ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 16 Oct 90 20:10:22 GMT From: eleyang@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Yang He) Subject: 3-D Object Recognition Organization: University at Buffalo I have just developed a shape classification algorithm. It has shown a 100% classification result for 2-D shapes. The algorithm can be easily extended to 3-D case. But I don't have 3-D data for the experiments. Could anybody out there tell me where I can get 3-D object data suitable for classification? My requirements are as follows: 1. Each 2-D slice should be a closed boundary without inner contour. 2. Binary data preferred. But grey level images may also be used after boundary extraction. 3. I need 5+ classes, 20+ shapes for each class. 4. The shapes within a class have contour perturbation, i.e., the shapes are NOT different ONLY in size and orientation. If anybody has the information, please send E-mail to eleyang@ubvms.bitnet. Your help is very much appreciated. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 15:33:10 -0400 From: Pierre Tremblay Subject: Parallel Languages for Computer Vision I'm doing research as part of my Master's thesis on parallel programming models and languages appropriate for "intermediate-level" computer vision (i.e. no SIMD processing, less emphasis on graph searching). Does anyone have references to parallel programming languages specifically designed for computer vision programming, or references to general purpose parallel programming languages used in such a capacity? Please reply by E-mail, and I'll post back to the net with a summary. Many thanks, Pierre * Pierre P. Tremblay Internet: pierre@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu * * Research Assistant Surface: 3480 University Street * * McGill Research Centre Montreal, Quebec, Canada * * for Intelligent Machines H3A 2A7 * * Phone: (514) 398-8204 or 398-3788 * ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 17:15:01 +0100 From: br%bsun3@ztivax.siemens.com (A. v. Brandt) Subject: Image processing at Siemens I'd like to introduce to you the Image Processing Group of Siemens Corporate Research, Munich, Germany. We are about twenty researchers doing basic and applied studies in the areas of image understanding (document interpretation, object recognition, motion estimation, 3D modeling) and artificial neural networks (models, implementations, selected applications) The Laboratory is located in Munich, an attractive city in the south of the Federal Republic of Germany (i. e., in Bavaria). Connections exist with our sister laboratory, Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, NJ, as well as with various research institutes and universities in Germany and in the U.S. including MIT, CMU and ICSI. Above and beyond the Laboratory facilities, the group has a network of Sun and DEC workstations, Symbolics Lisp machines, file and compute servers, and dedicated image processing hardware. My personal interests are in image sequence analysis, moving object recognition for surveillance and traffic monitoring, depth from stereo and motion, optical flow estimation, autonomous navigation etc. If someone is interested in more details, or if someone would like to participate in one of our projects (we have openings), please send a message to: Achim v. Brandt Siemens AG ZFE IS INF 1 Otto-Hahn-Ring 6 D-8000 Muenchen 83 (West) Germany email: brandt@ztivax.siemens.com Tel. +49-89-636-47532 FAX +49-89-636-2393 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 20:33:00 +0100 From: Eduardo Bayro Subject: fractals & data compression Organization: Univ. of Wales Coll. of Cardiff, Dept. of Electronic & Systems Engineering Hello friends!! I asked a cupple of months ago for bibliography on fractals. I am very thankfull to everybody wo answer me. The literature I have got, actually, comprise of a some books and nearly ten articles. It is anyway not worthy for mailing it as a representative one. Now friends, what I am really interested on is in fractals for image compression. Please, if anybody knows suitable references or have suggestions post them by e-mail. Many Thanks, Eduardo. Eduardo Bayro, School of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales, UK. Internet: eba%cm.cf.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Janet: eba@uk.ac.cf.cm UUCP: eba@cf-cm.UUCP or ...!mcsun!ukc!cf-cm!eba ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 90 17:55:57 PDT From: tapas@george.ee.washington.edu Subject: Performance Evaluation We are compiling a survey of work done on performance evaluation of low level vision algorithms. The kind of papers we are looking for are: (i) Any work on general methodology of performance evaluation. (ii) Performance evaluation of specific type of algorithms, e.g., edge detection algorithms, corner detection algorithms, etc. I have appended a list of references we have already collected. We will appreciate any references to this kind of work. I'll summerize the responses to the net. Thanks in advance. Tapas Kanungo %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @article{ DeF:eval, author = "Deutsch, E. S. and J. R. Fram", title = "A quantitative study of the Orientational Bias of some Edge Detector Schemes", journal = "IEEE Transactions on Computers", month = "March", year = 1978} @article{FrD:human, author = "Fram, J.R. and E.S. Deutsch", title = "On the quantitative evaluation of edge detection schemes and their comparisions with human performance", journal = "IEEE Transaction on Computers", volume = "C-24", number = "6", pages = "616-627" year = 1975} @article{AbP:eval, author = "Abdou, I.E. and W. K. Pratt", title = "Qualitative design and evaluation of enhancement/thresholding edge detector", journal = "Proc. IEEE", volume = "67", number = "5", pages = "753-763", year = 1979} @article{PeM:eval, author = "Peli, T. and D. Malah", title = "A study of edge detection algorithms", journal = "Computer Graphics and Image Processing", volume = "20", pages ="1-21", year = 1982} @article{KiR:eval, author = "Kitchen, L. and A. Rosenfeld", title = "Edge Evaluation using local edge coherence", journal = "IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics", volume = "SMC-11", number = "9", pages = "597-605", year = 1981} @article{HaL:eval, author = "Haralick, R.M. and J. S. J. Lee", title = "Context dependent edge detection and evaluation", journal = "Pattern Recognition", volume = "23", number = "1/2", pages = "1-19", year = 1990} @article{Har:performance, author = "Haralick, R.M.", title = "Performance assessment of near perfect machines", journal = "Journal of machine vision algorithms", year = 1988} ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 00:39:31 EDT From: choudhar@cat.syr.edu (Alok Choudhary) Subject: Call for Papers and Referees: Special Issue of IEEE COMPUTER Call for Papers and Referees for A Special Issue of IEEE COMPUTER on Parallel Processing for Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) The February 1992 issue of IEEE Computer will be devoted to Parallel Processing for Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU). Tutorial, survey, case-study of architectures, performance evaluation and other manuscripts are sought. Sub-areas of interest include, but are not limited to : Architectures : Multiprocessor architectures and special purpose architectures for CVIU. Algorithms : Design, mapping and implementations of parallel algorithms for CVIU problems. Languages : Design of languages for efficient implementation of CVIU programs, specially for parallel processing and architecture independent implementations. Software Development Tools : Software development tools for parallel CVIU applications. Performance Evaluation : Benchmarking, performance evaluation of architectures and algorithms; performance evaluation of integrated CVIU systems. Real-time vision architectures and applications. Instructions for submitting manuscripts Manuscripts must not have been previously published or currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should be no longer 8000 words (approximately 30 double-spaced, single sided pages using a 12-point type) including all text, figures and references). Manuscripts should include a title page containing: paper title; full name(s), affiliations(s), postal address, e-mail address, telephone, and fax number of all authors; a 300-word abstract; and a list of key words. Deadlines - Eight (8) Copies of the Full Manuscript March 1, 1991 - Notification of Decisions August 1, 1991 - Final Version of the Manuscript October 1, 1991 - Date of Special Issue February 1992 Send submissions and Questions to Prof. Alok N. Choudhary Prof. Sanjay Ranka Electrical and Computer Engineering School of Computer and Information Department Science 121 Link Hall 4-116, Center for Science and Technology Syracuse University Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244 Syracuse, NY 13244 (315) 443-4280 (315) 443-4457 choudhar@cat.ece.syr.edu ranka@top.cis.syr.edu Referees If you are willing to referee papers for the special issue, please send a note with research interests to: Prof. John T. Butler, Associate Technical Editor, Computer Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Naval Postgraduate School, Code EC/Bu Monterey, CA, 92943-5004 Office: (408) 646-3299 or (408) 646-3041 fax: (408) 646-2760 email: butler@cs.nps.navy.mil. ------------------------------ End of VISION-LIST ********************