Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!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 delayed redistribution Message-ID: <8903180700.AA05167@deimos.ads.com> Date: 17 Mar 89 18:04:20 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Vision-List@ADS.COM Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 215 Approved: vision-list@ads.com Vision-List Digest Fri Mar 17 10:04:20 PDT 89 - Send submissions to Vision-List@ADS.COM - Send requests for list membership to Vision-List-Request@ADS.COM Today's Topics: Re: VIEW (not VIEWS): Image Processing Toolkit for Suns? Visual System Characteristics Lectureship or Assistant Lectureship Re: Call for image processing software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 89 03:32:37 EST From: achhabra@ucesp1.ece.uc.edu (Atul K. Chhabra) Subject: Re: VIEW (not VIEWS): Image Processing Toolkit for Suns? (Following vision-list digest of Wed March 8, 89). > I have misplaced the brochure. Could someone on the net email > me the name, phone number, and the email address of the > distributor of VIEWS. On getting no responses with the info that I had asked for, I searched harder on my desk and located the brochure. It only contains the snail mail address of the contact person: R.M. Rodrigues, L-153 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory P.O. Box 5504 Livermore, CA 94550 Highlights of the VIEW (not VIEWS) software (quoted from the brochure): o Available at no charge o User friendly interface - Window-based - Menu or command driven o On-line HELP and user manual o Multidimensional processing operations include: - Image display and enhancement - Pseudocolor operations - Point and neighborhood operations - Digital filtering - Fourier transform domain operations - Simulation operations - Database management - Seqeunce and macro processing o Easily transportable o Written in C (sources included) o Handles multiple dimensions and data types o Available on - VAX (VMS, Ultrix) - Sun (UNIX) Atul Atul Chhabra, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, ML 030, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0030. Phone: (513)556-4766 INTERNET: achhabra@ucesp1.ece.uc.edu [129.137.33.114] OR achhabra@uceng.uc.edu [129.137.33.1] ------------------------------ From: "John K. Tsotsos" Subject: Visual System Characteristics Date: Wed, 15 Mar 89 15:45:45 EST I am interested in collecting visual system characteristics from as many different species (both vertebrates and invertebrates) as possible. In particular, I would like to know for each type of animal: - the approximate number of cortical (and/or sub-cortical) neurons devoted primarily to vision - whether or not `visual maps' have been discovered, and if so, how many, what is their size (in neurons), how are they organized, and any other known characteristics. Positive statements about the absence of maps are also important. - average cortical fan-in and fan-out for visual neurons in terms of other neurons rather than total synapses Please cite references as well. Both physical and electronic mail addresses are given below. I will gladly summarize and post the results on the net if there is enough interest. John K. Tsotsos Department of Computer Science 10 King's College Road University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A4 416-978-3619 tsotsos@ai.toronto.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Mar 89 21:13:39 GMT From: JM123%phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK Subject: Lectureship or Assistant Lectureship University of Cambridge, UK Department of Experimental Psychology LECTURESHIP or ASSISTANT LECTURESHIP in Psychology An appointment of a Lecturer or Assistant Lecturer in Experimental Psychology will be made shortly under the New Academic Appointments Scheme, subject to funding from the University Grants Committee. The starting date will be October 1, 1989, or as soon afterwards as possible. The appointment will be made in the general area of cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience or developmental psychology; preference may be given to candidates working on computational modelling of cognitive processes or on associative or neural networks. The salary for a University Assistant Lecturer is UKL 10,460 p.a. rising by four annual increments to UKL 12,760, and for a University Lecturer, UKL 13,365 p.a., rising by eleven annual increments to UKL 20,615. All Assistant Lecturers are consider for upgrading to Lecturer during their appointment. Further formal particulars may be obtained from Dr. D. Franks, Secretary to the Appointments Committee for the Faculty of Biology B, 19 Trumpington St., Cambridge CB2 1QA, to whom applications should be sent by 17 April, 1989. Informal enquiries may be directed to Professor N. J. Mackintosh (223-333551) Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing St., Cambridge, CB2 3EB, United Kingdom; or, if urgent, to jm123@uk.ac.cam.phx. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Mar 89 17:08:39 EST From: msl@vml3.psych.nyu.edu (Michael Landy) Subject: Re: Call for image processing software The following is in response to your request for infor- mation on image processing software. HIPS is a software package for image processing that runs under the UNIX operating system. HIPS is modular and flexible, it provides automatic documentation of its actions, and is almost entirely independent of special equipment. It handles sequences of images (movies) in pre- cisely the same manner as single frames. Programs have been developed for simple image transformations, filtering, con- volution, Fourier and other transform processing, edge detection and line drawing manipulation, digital image compression and transmission methods, noise generation, image pyramids, and image statistics computation. Over 150 such image transformation programs have been developed. As a result, almost any image processing task can be performed quickly and conveniently. Additionally, HIPS allows users to easily integrate their own custom routines. HIPS features images that are self-documenting. Each image stored in the system contains a history of the transformations that have been applied to that image. HIPS includes a small set of subroutines which primarily deals with a standardized image sequence header, and a large library of image transformation tools in the form of UNIX ``filters'' written in `C'. As a result it runs on any Unix workstation (users run it on equipment from Sun, Vax/Microvax, Masscomp, NCR, Silicon Graphics/Iris, Apollo, etc. etc.). HIPS has proven itself a highly flexible sys- tem, both as an interactive research tool, and for more production-oriented tasks. It is both easy to use, and quickly adapted and extended to new uses. HIPS is distributed by SharpImage Software, P.O. Box 373, Prince Street Station, New York, NY 10012-0007. To obtain more information, write us or call Michael Landy, (212) 998-7857 (landy@nyu.nyu.edu). HIPS consists of a basic system and a number of additional modules (for fancier Sun display, additional image tools, etc.). The basic sys- tem costs $3,000, and is available at a considerable discount to qualified educational, non-profit, and US government users. The base price is for all computing equipment within a particular academic department of commer- cial laboratory. The software comes complete with source, libraries, a library of convolution masks, documentation, and manual pages. It also includes drivers for the Grinnell and Adage image processors, display drivers for the Sun Microsystems consoles under SunView, gfx, and straight to the console. Users have contributed drivers for the Matrox VIP-1024, ITI IP-512, Macintosh II, X windowing system, Iris, and Lexidata. It is a simple matter to interface HIPS with other framestores, and we can put interested users in touch with users who have interfaced HIPS with the Arlunya, and Datacube Max-Video. Our Hipsaddon product includes an interface to the CRS-4000. HIPS can be easily adapted for other image display devices because 98% of HIPS is machine independent. It has been described in Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing (Vol. 25, 1984, pp. 331- 347), and in Behavior Research Methods, Instrumentation, and Computers (Vol. 16, 1984, pp. 199-216). ------------------------------ End of VISION-LIST ********************