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From: ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.graphics
Subject: Re: Computer Vision newsgroup
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Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 02:13:22 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  5 02:13:22 1985
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Summary: 

In article <11307@rochester.UUCP> sher@rochester.UUCP (David Sher) writes:
>A short time ago there was a discussion of whether there should
>be a group for discussion of image processing/computer vision such as
>net.ai.vision.   ...   Right now such discussion
>is going on in net.graphics.  This results in me n'ing about 75-90% 
>of the articles in order to separate out the articles that pertain to
>my research!

When you read through the printed literature on pattern recognition,
don't you also have to weed through articles not pertaining to your
research?

>While many graphics people are interested in computer vision
>many computer vision researchers and experts are not interested in graphics!
>(me for one).  Anyway since it is a field that has hundreds of researchers
>on the net and many people are interested in it I suggest that the
>issue be reopened about whether net.ai.vision should exist.

It is unclear that a subgroup of AI would be the proper group.
Part of vision is concerned with image processing,
the other with pattern recognition.
The mathematics associated with these is substantially dissimilar
that such discussions may not belong in the same group.
The image processing portion is a subset of signal processing,
and who knows what kind of mathematics is used for pattern recognition
(fuzzy set theory? statistics?).

How about net.sigproc or net.signal for discussions about signal processing?
This would include things like
analog and digital filters,
stability,
anti-aliasing,
image processing,
Kalman filters,
parameter estimation,
correlation,
signal theory,
source coding, etc.

What sort of interest is there in such topics?  What techniques are
used in computer vision?  What are the current hot topics?  Who knows?
Who cares?  Of those who care, what are your other interests?  What
sort of catagories make sense to interest a critical mass of people?

Or should there be a mailing list set up for such things?  Kahn at UCLA
has such a mailing list for ARPA-type people, but it has been VERY
inactive.  Lets have some discussion!  David Sher, are you there?  How
about other researchers and hackers?
-- 
Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Menlo Park, CA
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