Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!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 digest delayed redistribution Message-ID: <9012120500.AA13884@deimos.ads.com> Date: 11 Dec 90 18:30:41 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Vision-List@ADS.COM Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 237 Approved: vision-list@ads.com Vision-List Digest Tue Dec 11 10:30:41 PDT 90 - Send submissions to Vision-List@ADS.COM - Send requests for list membership to Vision-List-Request@ADS.COM Today's Topics: Gaussian Blurring Autofocus Microscope Devices for aerial rangefinding Aerial Photographs Preliminary CFP: Conference - ICARCV 92 Consciousness & Science Discussion Group/DEC.14 MEETING ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 90 22:59:11 CST From: keith@vision.ee.utexas.edu (Keith Bartels) Subject: Gaussian Blurring Does anyone have any reference or information on the removal of Gaussian blur from images? I am specifically interested in blur that is the result of a diffusion process, but anything on Gaussian blur would be useful. Thanks, Keith B. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Dec 90 14:17:48 EST From: frankhua@bart.ads.com (Frank X.J HUANG) Subject: Autofocus Microscope We do need some kind of _AutoFocus_ microscope for the upcoming project. We don't want to spend most of the time on focusing when moving from one object(probably cell) to another. Does anybody know which company has this kind of products. I would like to have more detailed information like company name, price, focusing time, resolution, etc. Thanks a lot. | E-mail: || Frank X.J. Huang | | frankhua@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca || School of Computer Science | | Tel#: || McGill University | | Office:(514)398-7086 || Montreal, Canada | | Home :(514)284-5479 || H3A 2A7 | | Fax: (514)398-3883 || | ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Dec 90 18:57:07 CST From: rraby1@ub.d.umn.edu (Richard E. Raby) Subject: Devices for aerial rangefinding I have recently begun a project that involves capturing video images of arbitrary landscapes from an airplane for input to a Geographic Information System (GIS). We have the hardware to grab single frames of video and digitize them in raster form, but what we really need is an inexpensive, yet accurate rangefinder (RADAR) to indicate our position above the lanscape. This device should be accurate to within 10 meters and cost no more than $10,000. It should also be capable of producing a digital output (I'd settle for analog) that can be inputted to an IBM PC compatible computer. If anyone knows of such a device and what company makes it, please conact me directly at rraby1@ub.d.umn.edu. Thanks in advance, - Richard Raby NRGIS CWE NRRI UMD rraby1@ub.d.umn.edu ------------------------------ Date: 1 Dec 90 18:36:10 -0600 From: cornell@vax1.mankato.msus.edu Subject: Aerial Photographs Organization: Mankato State University I would like to make contact with individuals who have some experience in working with low-level (10,000 feet) black and white infrared photographs in relationship to object identification. Lee Cornell Dept of Computer Science Box 225 Mankato State University Mankato, MN 56002-8400 e-mail: CORNELL@MSUS1.BITNET ------------------------------ Date: 2 December 90, 09:22:19 UPM From: FACC005@SAUPM00.BITNET Subject: Preliminary CFP: Conference - ICARCV 92 SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTOMATION, ROBOTICS AND COMPUTER VISION (ICARCV '92) PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS Organised by Nanyang Technological Institute and Institution of Engineering, Singapore. Cosponsored by IEEE Singapore chapter, Instrumention and Control Society, Economics Development Board, National Computer Board, SDAA and GINTIC, Institute of CIM, Singapore. To be held in Singapore, on 15-18 September 1992. Authors are invited to send four copies of the extended summary (500-1000 words) and a brief abstract to : A/Prof D P Mital School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nanyang Technological Institute Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 2263 Republic of Singapore Fax: (65)264 1687 E-Mail: EMITAL@NTIVAX.BITNET The deadline for submission of the abstract and four copies of the summaries is MARCH 31, 1992. SUGGESTED AREAS (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) ARE : ROBOTICS * Robotic control * Mobile robots and navigation * Task planning * Intellegent sensors * Micro robots COMPUTER VISION * Image processing * 3-D/Colour/Stereo image analysis * Dynamic scense analysis * Machine vision * Vision systems INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION * Instrumentation systems * Flexible manufacturing systems * Process Automation * Man-machine interation NEURAL NETWORKS & APPLICATIONS * Network dynamics * Network architectures * Learning algorithms * Hardware implementation PARALLEL COMPUTING * Algorithms * Software AI & EXPERT SYSTEMS * Knowledge acquisition * Knowledge representation * AI Languages * Intelligent control * User interface and tools CONTROL APPLICATIONS * System identification * Power system control * Motion control * Modelling and simulation REAL TIME SYSTEMS * Specification and analysis * Fault tolerance * Implementation aspects Proposals for offering one day Tutorials/Workshops in the relevant areas are also invited. We encouraged Tutorial proposals from the prospective authors. Note : Beside presenting your papers, you would get a chance to visit the beautiful garden city Singapore in South East Asia. ------------------------------ Date: 11 Dec 90 03:35:10 GMT From: bvi@cca.ucsf.EDU (Ravi Gomatam) Subject: CONSCIOUSNESS & SCIENCE DISCUSSION GROUP/DEC.14 MEETING Organization: Computer Center, UCSF CONSCIOUSNESS AND SCIENCE--DISCUSSION GROUP The purpose of this group, which meets on the second Friday of every month, is to explore the nature of consciousness and its relationship to science, in such fields as biology, physics, artificial intelligence, psychology and parapsychology. Relevant ideas from mathematics will also be discussed. In general, a minimum of graduate level training is assumed of participants. The meetings are free and open to all interested persons. Next Meeting Announcement BRAIN AND CONSCIOUSNESS SPEAKER:John R Smythies, M.D., Institute of Neurology, Univ. of London; Distinguished Emeritus Prof., Univ. of Alabama Medical Center and Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Philosophy, Stanford Univ. DATE: December 14, 1990 (Friday) PLACE: Room N721, School of Nursing, U.C. San Francisco TIME: 7:30 P.M FORMAT: 7:30-8:00 Social; 8:00-9:00 Talk; 9:00-10:00 Discussion This presentation will concentrate on a new theory of the relationship between phenomenological consciousness and the brain. If consciousness is taken as the collection of sensations, images and thoughts, this taken with the Representative Theory of Perceptions, indicates that Descartes was wrong in selecting the criterion of extension in space as differentiating the physical from the mental. So far from being a thinking spirit, consciousness (mind) is a spatial entity. Therefore our understanding of the mind/brain problem may be advanced by an investigation of the geometrical relationships between the phenomenological space of consciousness and physical space.Registration: If you are attending for the first time, please pre-register by calling Kainila Rajan Ph.D. at (415) 753-8647/8648, or Jean Burns, Ph.D. at (415) 481-7507. Directions: The closest parking is the UCSF public garage at 500 Parnassus Avenue. Special $1 parking rate if you get your ticket validated at the meeting. After parking, come upto street level on Parnassus, cross the street to enter Medical Sciences Building (513 Parnassus). Go through the double doors and follow the first corridor to your right all the way to the school of Nursing Building.. Take elevator to the seventh floor and turn left. ------------------------------ End of VISION-LIST ********************