Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!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 digest 10.14 Message-ID: <9103250213.AA01463@deimos.ads.com> Date: 25 Mar 91 01:41:24 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Vision-List@ADS.COM Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 466 Approved: vision-list@ads.com VISION-LIST Digest Sun Mar 24 17:41:24 PDT 91 Volume 10 : Issue 14 - Send submissions to Vision-List@ADS.COM - Send requests for list membership to Vision-List-Request@ADS.COM - Access Vision List Archives via anonymous ftp to ADS.COM Today's Topics: Information needed on computer vision research on reading lips Kodak Eikonix slide scanner Disparity papers? Looking for blueprint line-extraction software/papers Help on system that that shoots clay pigeons Cognitive Science at Birmingham Conference Announcement: CAMP 91 in Paris, France Application of Machine Vision in the Food Industry Update on Hotel, Air, Car Rental for CVPR-91 Machine Vision and Applications, Volume 4, Issue 1 TR available: now by anonymous FTP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 91 05:02:43 GMT From: martin@eola.cs.ucf.edu (Glenn Martin) Subject: Information needed on computer vision research on reading lips I'm looking for information regarding computer vision research in reading lips. This would include both current work and any articles that have been published on the subject. Any other help would also be appreciated. Glenn Martin University of Central Florida martin@eola.cs.ucf.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Mar 91 15:27:24 GMT From: mackeown@compsci.bristol.ac.uk Subject: Kodak Eikonix slide scanner If anyone is using or has used a Kodak Eikonix 1435 colour slide scanner successfully with a Sun workstation, we would really appreciate any useful advice you can offer on the following problems. 1) Which colour filter (R,G or B) should we use in the calibration phase? 2) The the 12-bit scan software does not seem to work properly. Each scan produces no data. 3) How can we ensure consistent colour balance over successive slide digitisations using the Automatic or Manual Exposure Control menus? 4) How can we reduce excessive local saturation and/or compression effects when scanning high contrast slides? From the supplier we have very poor documentation and about 8000 lines of C source to study. MANY THANKS in advance for any help!! William Mackeown, Advanced Computing Research Centre, University of Bristol Bristol UK, BS8 1TR mackeown@compsci.bristol.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1991 22:40:45 GMT From: hougen@uirvli.ads.com (Darrell Roy Hougen) Subject: Disparity papers? Summary: Paper references wanted. Keywords: disparity Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana I am interested in finding landmark papers about disparity estimation by any technique, e.g. feature matching, differential techniques, correlation. Which papers introduced the ideas? What papers does everyone reference? I am also interested in papers that critique these techniques. Under what conditions do they work? When do they fail and why? I would appreciate any pointers. Please reply to Darrell Hougen hougen@uirvld.csl.uiuc.edu ------------------------------ From: lansd@dgp.toronto.edu (Robert Lansdale) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 91 04:14:12 EST Subject: Looking for blueprint line-extraction software/papers I am in need of some advice on how to go about implementing a "cheap and dirty" line extraction algorithm to turn scanned blue prints into "fairly recognizable" line drawings. At the moment, I'm loading large 24-bit scanned images into a CAD package to be used as background templates. To save on memory, I would like to convert the scanned blueprint into a wireframe file and load that into the CAD package instead (this speeds up the CAD system considerably even though there may be a large number of vectors). My speciality is 3D computer graphics and not computer vision. Nevertheless, I've spent a couple of days researching the area of feature extraction from blueprints and have found it to be a most complex area. My needs are somewhat simpler than those described in the papers, yet still require a fair deal of work to implement. Does anyone have any suggestions on the route I should take to implement this system, where I may find some existing source code on the Internet, or any reference papers that might help me out? Thanks in advance. Robert Lansdale - (416) 978-6619 Dynamic Graphics Project Internet: lansd@dgp.toronto.edu Computer Systems Research Institute UUCP: ..!uunet!dgp.toronto.edu!lansd University of Toronto Bitnet: lansd@dgp.utoronto Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4, CANADA ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Mar 91 10:56:26 GMT From: Peter Hickman Subject: Help on system that that shoots clay pigeons I'm looking for some references to help me with my second year ( sorry I don't know what that's called in American ) Artificial Intelligence project. In a moment of pure insanity I submitted my project as to "Design and build a system that that shoots clay pigeons" the basis of the design is that everything can be done with a single camera and no more information than a shooter would have. There are three broad areas that I have to look at. 1) Looking at the whole sky I need to detect significant notion ( other than that of the clouds or trees etc ) where in therory a clay pigeon is flying. 2) Locate the clay in the area of activity and find it's centre. 3) Calculate its trajectory and predict where it will be. 4) Blast the ****** out of the sky. Point 3 seems to me to be the easiest and point 4 could well be academic as I have only 15 weeks as of Monday but what I should do for points 1 and 2 is much more open and I would greatly appreciate any references that you may feel that could be of help to me. The books I have gone through here on Computer Vision and Image Processing do not seem to cover the ground that I require in that they all assume static images of toy worlds. I need a mechanics outlook on the problems not a theorists at this stage. Any help greatfully received, Peter "You're doing computing as an ARTS degree!" Hickman COGS U/G PH, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QH ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 15:19:09 GMT From: PetersonDM@computer-science.birmingham.ac.uk Subject: Cognitive Science at Birmingham UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Graduate Studies in COGNITIVE SCIENCE The Cognitive Science Research Centre at the University of Birmingham comprises staff from the Departments/Schools of Psychology, Computer Science, Philosophy and Linguistics, and supports teaching and research in the inter-disciplinary investigation of mind and cognition. The Centre offers both MSc and PhD programmes. MSc in Cognitive Science The MSc programme is a 12 month conversion course, including a 4 month supervised project. The course places a particular stress on the relation between biological and computational architectures. Compulsory courses: AI Programming, Overview of Cognitive Science, Knowledge Representation Inference and Expert Systems, General Linguistics, Human Information Processing, Structures for Data and Knowledge, Philosophical Questions in Cognitive Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Biological and Computational Architectures, The Computer and the Mind, Current Issues in Cognitive Science. Option courses: Artificial and Natural Perceptual Systems, Speech and Natural Language, Parallel Distributed Processing. It is expected that students will have a good degree in psychology, computing, philosophy or linguistics. Funding is available through SERC and HTNT. PhD in Cognitive Science For 1991 there are 3 SERC studentships available for PhD level research into a range of topics including: o computational modelling of emotion o computational modelling of cognition o interface design o computational and psychophysical approaches to vision COMPUTING FACILITIES Students have access to ample computing facilities, including networks of Apollo, Sun and Sparc workstations in the Schools of Computer Science and Psychology. CONTACT For further details, contact: Dr. Mike Harris CSRC, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, PO Box 363, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. Phone: (021) 414 4913 Email: HARRIMWG@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 91 08:46:02 +0100 From: Fortunel Christian Subject: Conference Announcement: CAMP 91 in Paris, France CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: CAMP 91 in PARIS, FRANCE ____________ / PARIS \ CALL FOR PAPERS | ______ | | / \ | Title: Computer Architecture for Machine Perception (CAMP 91) | | | | Date: 16, 17, 18 December 1991 | | | | Place: PARIS, FRANCE (Hotel Forest Hill) |__| |__| Topics: CAMP 91 will focus on new architectures, both hardware and software, associated programming environments and algorithms designed for research and industrials applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vision, and more generally Machine Perception (including Decision, Control, Image Processing, Advanced Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, Simulation, etc.). The emphasis of the program will be the presentation of significant new contributions (VLSI, programming and execution models of parallelism, parallel and massively parallel operating system, routing, agorithmics, etc.), plus panel discussion sessions in which attendees can actively compare and contrast their methods. The commitee will endeavor to preserve the spirit of CAPAMI. Commitee: B. Zavidovique (FR) L. Wendel (FR) M. Bayoumi (USA) R. Brodersen (USA) V. Cantoni (IT) P.E. Danielsson (SW) F. Devos (FR) M. Ejiri (JP) J. Gallice (FR) J. Little (USA) P. Matherat (FR) J. Sanz (USA) S. Tanimoto (USA) Submission: Authors should submit four (4) copies of an extended abstract (1500 words) by July 1st, 1991 to: Louis Wendel Ecole Nationale Superieure de Physique de Strasbourg - LSIT 7 rue de l'Universite 67000 Strasbourg France or by fax to: Louis Wendel Ecole Nationale Superieure de Physique de Strasbourg - LSIT Fax #: 33-88-35-31-76 or by electronic mail to: zavido@etca.fr Authors are requested to furnish an electronic mail address or a fax number. The four best papers will be published in Machine Vision and Applications. Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their papers by September 20th. Final camera ready papers are due October 30th. Registration: Information regarding the registration will be available at a latter date in the same way through electronic mail. For further information: Email: zavido@etca.fr Phone: Sylvette / 33-1-42-31-97-21 ------------------------------ Date: 18 March 1991 17:11:40 CST From: "John F. Reid" Comment: Phone:(217) 333-2738 Comment: Address: 360T Ag Engineering Sciences Bldg Comment: University of Illinois;Urbana, IL 61801 Subject: Application of Machine Vision in the Food Industry SUBJECT: Machine Vision for the Food Processing Industry A session is being sponsored at the 1991 meeting of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers titled "Machine Vision for the Food Processing Industry". The meeting is December 17-20, 1991 in Chicago, Illinois at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. This years meeting is devoted to the topic "Design for Safety in the Food Chain". The focus of the machine vision session is on general experiences with the application of machine vision in the food industry. Papers on experiences in materials handling, illumination, image formation, image processing, feature extraction and classification, and application response will be considered. Papers on equipment selection, feasibility, and system performance will also be considered. Individuals with an interest in this topic can contact me by e-mail (jfreid@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu) or call (217) 333-2738. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 91 14:49:36 PST From: Gerard Medioni Subject: Update on hotel,car rental airfare for CVPR-91 in Hawaii "Some Information about Hotel, Airline, and Rental Car Rates" Hotel: The conference hotel is MAUI MARIOTT on KAANAPALI RESORT. It is a very nice and confortable hotel offering you kind HAWAIIAN hospitality. The conference rate is $110 for single and double occupancy ($25 for each additional person), some $50-90 lower than the lowest rates on this resort. The rate is good from MAY 30 until JUNE 10 (12 days). Somewhat cheaper rates may be available in Lahaina, which is about 7-10 miles south on Kaanapali resort, but I do not think it is enough to make it worth the inconvenience of driving, parking, etc.). (MY SUGGESTION: Pick Mariott on Kaanapali resort. Kaanapali is THE PRIME resort location in Hawaii, and the rate is great for this resort. This would be a memorable trip.) Air: We have established some discounts airfares: 1) 5% from discounted and 45% from regular fares on UNITED. Call (800) 521-4041 for reservations, and give the group code 449RB for special rates. These rates start as early as five days before up to five days after the conference dates. 2) 5% from discounted and 40% from regular fares on AMERICAN. Call (800) 433-1790 for reservations, and give the group code 06617E for special rates. These rates start as early as two days before up to two days after the conference dates. There are two airports in Maui, the INTERNATIONAL and WEST MAUI airports. The first is within 30 minutes of the MARIOTT HOTEL. The seond is within 3 miles (about 10 minutes). Ther are free shuttle buses from and to the hotels and WEST MAUI airport (so you do not need to take a cab or rent a car, if you do not wish to do so). The trip from MAUI INTERNATIONAL to MARIOTT could get bad if there is a traffic jam (created by the tourists who stop abruptly to take pictures and may cause an accident), since you drive on a two-lane "high-way". Both AMERICAN and UNITED airlines fly directly (from LA, Chicago, or Dallas) to MAUI INTERNATIONAL without stopping in HONOLULU first. You can save some time and/or money this way. If you need to go to other islands later, you can catch an inter-island flight on HAWAIIAN and ALOHA from MAUI. There are good OVERNIGHTER packages (AIR+CAR+HOTEL) for about $120 single/$200 double, and about $80 for extra day of HOTEL+CAR. These are only available once you get in Hawaii, and available through mainland Travel agencies. Travel Partners (see below) can help you on these. HAWAIIAN and ALOHA airlines have flights from HONOLULU to WEST MAUI airport. Since this is a private airport, the last flight leaves HONOLULU about 4:30pm because of residential restrictions (I assume). You also have to pay about $100 additional for this portion of your flight (If you fly on AMERICAN or UNITED, the fare is the same to MAUI International or HONOLULU). Rental Car: Also, we have got good rates on HERTZ RENT A CAR from both MAUI airports (West MAUI may be slightly higher). For reservations call Hertz meeting desk at (800) 654-2240 or fax (800) 523-2040. Mention IEEE Computer Society Meeting and group code number 8946. These rates, which are good from a week prior ` to until a week after the conference dates. They refer 6 weeks advanced reservation, but the rates are available even as late as when you arrive at the airport. AGAIN, do your booking EARLY since you may not get the car you want if you wait till the last minute. You can always make changes later. Sometimes rental car companies in HAWAII run promotional rates. If they happen to have one at the time of the conference, they will give you the better of our GROUP RATE or their PROMOTIONAL RATE. Convertible or sports cars, are available if you ask them. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 91 09:16:27 PST From: springer%engrhub@hub.ucsb.edu Subject: Machine Vision and Applications, Volume 4, Issue 1 MACHINE VISION AND APPLICATIONS, An International Journal This journal is published four times a year and has a personal subscription rate of $50.00 (including postage and handling). The institutional rate if $112.00 (including postage and handling. If you would like a sample copy, subscription information, or information on submitting a paper for publication, please send email to springer@engrhub.ucsb.edu. Volume 4, Issue 1 is the second part of a two-part special issue devoted to INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF MACHINE VISION and is guest edited by Ekkehard Blanz and Jorge L. C. Sanz. This issue contains the following articles: THE APPLICATION OF COMPUTER VISION TO THE REMOVAL OF TIE-WIRES IN A LIVE-LINE MAINTENANCE ROBOTICS MANIPULATION by D. Laurendeau, Y. Trottier, D. Poussart, and J. Lessard RECOGNITION AND LOCALIZATION OF OBJECTS WITH CURVED SURFACES by Suchendra M. Bhandarkar and Minsoo Suk AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION OF COLOR SEPARATION FILMS G. Medioni, A. Huertas, and M. Wilson Volume 4, Issue 2 of MACHINE VISION AND APPLICATIONS is due out in May, 1991. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Mar 91 13:48:30 EST From: len@retina.mqcs.mq.oz.au (Len Hamey) Subject: TR available: now by anonymous FTP. Due to the large number of requests received for the technical report Object Recognition, A Survey of the Literature Chris G Perrott and Leonard G C Hamey Macquarie Computing Reports 91-0065C. we are making it available for anonymous FTP. If you have requested a copy to be sent by physical mail, but do not wish to wait, you can obtain a copy by anonymous ftp instead. If you do so, we will assume that you do not also want us to send you a copy by physical mail. In fact, it would help us greatly if those who are able to obtain a copy by anonymous FTP over the Internet would do so, as our mailing budget is somewhat limited and is certain to be exceeded by the apparent demand. To obtain a copy by anonymous FTP, please use the following procedure. % ftp vision.mqcc.mq.oz.au <--- or: 137.111.160.5---> Connected to vision.mqcc.mq.oz.au 220-vision FTP server (local) ready. You are connected to the FTP server in the Computer Vision Laboratory, Macquarie University, Sydney NSW 2109 AUSTRALIA. Guest login is accepted only if the FTP server can successful finger your user name at your host. 220 Sydney time is: Tue Mar 19 13:27:16 1991 Name (vision:gil_p): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send your user name as password. Password: {---your user name here. e.g. len---} 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> cd pub/tr 250 CWD command successful. ftp> binary 200 Type set to I. ftp> get perrott.objrec.ps.Z 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for perrott.objrec.ps.Z (124873 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. local: perrott.objrec.ps.Z remote: perrott.objrec.ps.Z 124873 bytes received in 2.6 seconds (46 Kbytes/s) ftp> quit 221 Goodbye. % uncompress perrott.objrec.ps.Z % lpr -P{---postscript-printer---} perrott.objrec.ps Notes: 1. The Postscript file includes bitmap fonts and will render best on a 300DPI laser printer. 2. Anonymous FTP is only accepted from hosts that are running the finger daemon. Len Hamey ------------------------------ End of VISION-LIST digest 10.14 ************************