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From: RJZ@JASPER.PALLADIAN.COM (Roland Zito-Wolf)
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Subject: Low-level feature extraction and interframe matching software wanted
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Date: Thu, 6-Aug-87 11:37:00 EDT
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    Date: 1 Aug 87 19:18:48 GMT
    From: jbn@glacier.stanford.edu  (John B. Nagle)

	 Does software exist for following moving objects from frame to frame
    in video images?
	...
	 Software, algorithms, hardware, or indications of research activity
    would be useful.
				    John Nagle
				    Center for Design Research, Stanford

There was some interesting work done on building and comparing structural
descriptions by J. Connell at MIT. the reference is "Learning Shape
Descriptions: Generating and Generalizing Models of Visual Objects"
AI-TR-853, Sept 85.
The report also discusses methods for pre-processing the visual inputs.

-rjz

Roland Zito-Wolf
Palladian Software