Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!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: <8901142101.AA07161@deimos.ads.com> Date: 14 Jan 89 20:40:07 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Vision-List@ADS.COM Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 248 Approved: vision-list@ads.com Vision-List Digest Sat Jan 14 12:40:07 PDT 89 - Send submissions to Vision-List@ADS.COM - Send requests for list membership to Vision-List-Request@ADS.COM Today's Topics: Request for Industrial Research Topics How to evaluate computer vision techniques? Course announcement: Computational Neuroscience Role of Vision List (posted to comp.graphics) IEEE 1989 Int Conf on Image Processing (Last Call for Paper) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 09 Jan 89 08:42:03 -0500 Subject: Request for Industrial Research Topics <8901060238.AA28121@ads.com> From: "Kenneth I. Laws" Most engineers start with real problems and do research to find appropriate tools and solutions. Most academics start with tools and do research to find appropriate problems and funding agencies. Perhaps Vision-List could help bring the two together by generating a list of real-world problems that need to be solved. This would help the master's students and the companies with the problems. I've been told that it would also be a big help to the funding agencies, particularly the NSF Small Business program. (It seems that publishing a specific problem description usually draws good proposals, whereas vague RFPs may draw nothing.) I'm not thinking about generic research topics such as shape from shading or stereo vision -- everyone knows about those. I'm thinking about applications such as inspecting solder joints or nose cone windings. Are there specific problems which seem solvable but for which no off-the-shelf technology is available? Could some startup or small business profit by helping your production line with a particular inspection task? What specific capabilities should the funding agencies be trying to develop in the next five years? Academics usually don't wish to reveal their ideas until they can put together at least a conference paper -- at which time there is little motivation for publishing in Vision-List. The field also suffers from lack of definitive solutions for any problem, making it impossible for any researcher to declare victory and close out a line of research. I hope that the engineers will be less reticent in sharing the problems they are working on (or have insufficient time or interest to work on). Making a problem widely known may be the quickest way of uncovering an easy solution or a worthwhile research priority. -- Ken ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jan 89 14:26:14 pst From: ramin@scotty.stanford.edu (Ramin Samadani) Subject: How to evaluate computer vision techniques? I am looking for published results in "quality of results" of computer vision techniques. In reading some of the computer vision literature, I get the feeling that many techniques are proposed, but are not fully tested. Is this true or have I missed some body of work out there? Are there any standard or published methods for testing new techniques? Could someone point me to any literature on evaluation of the "quality" of computer vision techniques? Are there studies where the techniques have been tried on a large number of images? Ramin Samadani 202 Durand Bldg. Electrical Engineering Stanford, CA 94305 ramin@scotty.stanford.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jan 89 09:19:51 EST From: tony@cortex.psych.nyu.edu (Tony Movshon) Subject: Course announcement: Computational Neuroscience Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course Announcement, Summer 1989 COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE: VISION Instructors: Ellen C. Hildreth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology J. Anthony Movshon, New York University July 2 - 15 Computational approaches to neuroscience have produced important advances in our understanding of neural processing. Prominent successes have come in areas where strong inputs from neurobiological, behavioral and computational approaches can interact. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on experience with a computer laboratory, this intensive course will examine several areas, including feature extraction, motion analysis, binocular stereopsis, color vision, higher level visual processing, visual neural net- works, and oculomotor function. The theme is that an understanding of the com- putational problems, the constraints on solutions to these problems, and the range of possible solutions can help guide research in neuroscience. Students should have experience in neurobiological or computational approaches to visual processing. A strong background in mathematics will be beneficial. Past lecturers have included: Richard Andersen, Peter Lennie, John Maun- sell, Gerard Medioni, Michael Morgan, Ken Nakayama, Tomaso Poggio, Terrence Sejnowski, William Thompson, Shimon Ullman, and Brian Wandell. The deadline for application is March 15, 1989. Applications and addi- tional information may be obtained from: REGISTRAR Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Box 100 Cold Spring Harbor, New York 11724 Telephone: (516) 367-8343 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Jan 89 12:37:03 PST From: Vision-List-Request Subject: Role of Vision List (posted to comp.graphics) [ Apparently, the role of comp.ai.vision and the Vision List has been discussed on comp.graphics. E.g., they wanted to know if image processing was appropriate for this List. The following is a copy of the message I posted to that group. phil... ] The role of comp.ai.vision has been discussed in this group, and as moderator, I thought it would be appropriate to outline the role of the vision newsgroup. The Vision List is a moderated newsgroup for which messages may be posted by mailing to Vision-List@ADS.COM. Administrative questions (e.g., to get added/deleted, editorial comments, etc) should be sent to Vision-List-Request@ADS.COM. The Vision List is distributed through comp.ai.vision and via direct mail accounts for users which do not have access to USENET. The Vision List is intended to embrace discussion on a wide range of vision topics, including physiological theory, computer vision, machine vision and image processing algorithms, artificial intelligence and neural network techniques applied to vision, industrial applications, robotic eyes, implemented systems, ideas, profound thoughts -- anything related to vision and its automation is fair game. Since this is a graphics newsgroup, let me carefully distinguish what I believe the primary difference between the graphics and vision newsgroups. Quite simply, in graphics one goes from the computer to a screen; in vision, one goes from the sensor to the computer. I.e., the difference is one of generation versus interpretation. So, for example, an image processing algorithm which is of use only in image generation would best appear in comp.graphics or a similar netgroup. Conversely, image filtering techniques can quite useful in the initial stages of imagery interpretation. The bottom line: If when you ask yourself "Would this be of use in understanding imagery?" you get a "Yes!", then it should be posted to Vision-List@ADS.COM. Hope this has helped to clarify things a bit. Philip Kahn moderator, Vision List (administrative) Vision-List-Request@ADS.COM (submissions) Vision-List@ADS.COM ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jan 89 08:56 H From: Subject: IEEE 1989 Int Conf on Image Processing (Last Call for Paper) IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE PROCESSING (ICIP'89) 5-8 September, 1989, Singapore CALL FOR PAPERS (Updated) The 1989 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'89) will be held in Singapore on 5-8 September, 1989. The conference is jointly organized by the Computer Chapter, IEEE Singapore Section and the Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore. The conference will include regular sessions on all aspects of the theory and applications of image processing. In addition, tutorials by eminent speakers presenting the state-of-the-art in selected areas of image processing will be offered. An exhibition will be held in conjunction with the conference. Papers describing original work in all aspects of image processing are invited. Topics for regular sessions include, but are not limited to, the following : Image analysis/modeling Office image processing Image restoration/enhancement Machine vision Video communications AI vision techniques Image pattern recognition VLSI implementation Remote sensing System architecture Biomedical imaging Color image processing Authors are invited to submit four copies of an extended summary of at least 1000 words to : Technical Program Chairman, ICIP'89 c/o Meeting Planners Pte Ltd 100 Beach Road, #33-01 Shaw Towers, Singapore 0718 Republic of Singapore Telex : RS40125 MEPLAN Fax : (65) 2962670 E-mail : OSH@NUSEEV.BITNET The summary should contain sufficient detail, including a clear description of the salient concepts and novel features of the work. The summary should include the authors' names, addresses, affiliations, and telephone, telex and fax numbers. The authors should also indicate one or more of the above topics that best describe the contents of the paper. Proposals for tutorials and special sessions are also welcome and should be addressed to the Technical Program Chairman before 16 January 1989. AUTHORS' SCHEDULE Submission of summary 1 February 1989 Notification of acceptance 31 March 1989 Submission of final manuscripts 1 June 1989 ------------------------------ End of VISION-LIST ********************