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[ Posted on Mon, 24 Feb 97 23:14:04 PDT ]
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Today's Topics:
Q&A: Utrecht Conference List on Medical Imaging and Computer Vision
Q&A: Request for Soccer related papers
JOB: Image Analysis
JOB: Lectureship in Multimedia Signal Processing
JOB: Graduate Research and Teaching Assistants Needed.
CFP: IEEE Workshop on Content-Based Image Access
CFP: CVPR'97 Workshop Document Image Analysis
CFP: Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA97)
CFP: Graphics Recognition Contest
CFP: Graphics Recognition'97
PROGRAM: NATO ASI - face recognition 1997
PROGRAM: Scale-Space'97 conference 2-4 July Utrecht
PROGRAM: EMMCVPR'97 (Venice) - Program & Registration Form
PROGRAM: British Classification Society Meeting
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From: "Bart M. ter Haar Romeny" <Bart.terH...@cv.ruu.nl>
Subject: Q&A: Utrecht Conference List on Medical Imaging and Computer Vision
The Utrecht Conference List on Medical Imaging and Computer Vision
is the most complete and up-to-date list to keep track of the world
of conference announcements in computer vision and (medical) image
processing.
The list layout has been renewed, with fast access to dozens of
conferences, with a quick reference guide for deadline overview.
Plaese add the URL to your bookmarks:
http://www.cv.ruu.nl/Conferences/
The list is maintained by the Image Sciences Institute of Utrecht
University, the Netherlands.
Best wishes,
Bart M. ter Haar Romeny Ph.D. E-mail: Bart.terH...@cv.ruu.nl
Image Sciences Institute Tel: +31-30-2508197 / 2507772 (secr)
University Hospital Utrecht, E01.334 Fax: +31-30-2513399
Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, ftp: ftp.cv.ruu.nl
The Netherlands URL: http://www.cv.ruu.nl
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From: "Yongduek Seo" <dra...@indy.postech.ac.kr>
Subject: Q&A: Request for Soccer related papers
Hi Every Vision members,
We are developing a soccer game analysis program.
The first version of the research can be found at
http://cafe.postech.ac.kr/~dragon/soccer.html
Also we want to look at other soccer-related papers.
If you know some research papers or any information,
please let me know them. Then I will so much appreciate for it.
Thank you in advance.
Sincerely,
Yongduek Seo.
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From: ra...@ssci.com (B. Ravichandran)
Subject: JOB: Image Analysis
SCIENTIFIC SYSTEMS is a small growing Boston-area company active in applied
research and development of emerging technologies in the areas of advanced
guidance and controls, system identification, image and signal processing,
pattern recognition, and communication networks.
SCIENTIFIC SYSTEMS has many customers in government, industrial and commercial
sectors, and collaborates with recognized academic/research institutions and
large businesses to develop and apply new solution methods.
SCIENTIFIC SYSTEMS has a strong emphasis on becoming product oriented and has
a focus on specific vertical markets in the areas of nonlinear controls and
system identification, vibration analysis, traffic control for ATM, and radar
signal processing.
Please direct all correspondence, questions, etc. to
Ms. Patricia Kelly, Human Resources Coordinator
Scientific Systems Company
500 West Cummings Park, Suite 3000
Woburn, MA 01801
Tel: (617) 933-5355
Fax: (617) 938-4752
Email: in...@ssci.com
Levels: PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science (Job Code SSC-9721)
MS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science (Job Code SSC-9731)
Duties: Applied Research, Development and Implementation of Image Processing
Applications. The successful applicant will contribute to one or more
projects in the area of Image Resolution Enhancement, Pattern
Recognition, and Automatic Target Recognition from radar and IR data.
Req'd Experience: * Computer Vision, Image Analysis, and Signal Processing
* Automatic Target Recognition
* Statistical Modeling and Inference
Desirable: * Working knowledge of any of the following topics:
Deformable Template Matching, State-Space Methods,
System Identification, Sensor Fusion,
Low-SNR Imaging, Radar Imaging, Neural Networks.
* Strong algorithm and software development skills
(Matlab, C, C++, etc.)
* Experience with image processing hardware (e.g DATACUBE).
* Experience with image processing software (e.g Khoros).
* Excellent written and oral communication skills ( technical
proposals for contracts, progress reports, and presentations.)
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From: Majid Mirmehdi <M.Mir...@ee.surrey.ac.uk>
Subject: JOB: Lectureship in Multimedia Signal Processing
Lectureship in Multimedia Signal Processing (Ref 561)
University of Surrey, United Kingdom
School of Electronic Engineering, Information Technology and Mathematics
Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing
The successful candidate will join the Centre for Vision, Speech and
Signal Processing. He/she will have previous research experience and
publication track record in multimedia signal processing in general
and in image coding in particular. The lecturer should be able to
contribute to teaching foundation modules in electronic and electrical
engineering in Year 1 and Year 2 of the undergraduate BEng degree
courses offered by the School. The ability to teach in the computer
engineering area will be an advantage. At the BEng final year and MSc
levels he/she will be teaching in the specialist research area of
multimedia signal processing. Specifically, there is an immediate need
to take over an MSc course on Image Coding. On the research front, the
appointee will be expected to contribute to existing EPSRC and ACTS
Projects in Image Coding, to PhD student supervision in the Multimedia
Signal Processing Area, and will be expected to build up his/her own
portfolio of research grants during the probation period. Candidates
should have a first and higher research degree in Electrical
Engineering/Computer Science or related discipline and have a research
record in the specified areas.
Salary will be in the range 15,154 - 26,430 pounds per annum (pay award
pending) according to age, qualifications and experience.
Further particulars of the posts are available from the Personnel
Department (mah), University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 5XH (01483-259279)
Applications in the form of a CV (2 copies), which should include the names
and addresses of three referees, should be sent to the same address by
March 21st 1997 quoting the appropriate reference number (Ref 561).
For further details please see:
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Research/VSSP/positions/pos97a.html
CVSSP home page:
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Research/VSSP/
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From: sh...@cs.ucf.edu (Mubarak Shah)
Subject: JOB: Graduate Research and Teaching Assistants Needed.
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA (UCF) COMPUTER SCIENCE GRADUATE PROGRAMS
The UCF Department of Computer Science is currently seeking applicants
for both its Ph.D. and Master's programs. UCF is a young and dynamic
institution with a student population of approximately 28,000. The
campus of UCF, located thirteen miles east of downtown Orlando,
consists of 1,227 acres of land, much of which is covered with pine,
palm, cypress, cedar, and oak trees. The Department of Computer
Science currently has 23 full-time faculty and approximately 150
graduate students. Students receive a broad background in the areas
of programming systems and languages, computer architecture, and
computer science theory before specializing in a research area.
Research interests of the faculty include parallel computing, VLSI,
artificial intelligence, computer vision, networking technology,
graphics and simulation, databases, and design and analysis of
algorithms.
Orlando is at the center of Florida's strong software development
industry. Our campus is adjacent to the Central Florida Research Park
which houses the Naval Training Systems Center, the Army's Simulation,
Training, and Instrument Command, and several industrial
organizations. Computer Science faculty work closely with these
groups and with the NASA Kennedy Space Center, located within 50 miles
of the campus. In addition, the faculty are significantly involved in
the Institute for Simulation and Training (IST) and the Center for
Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL).
The Department offers teaching and research assistantships to
qualified applicants. Stipends range from $7,200 to $11,000 for the
academic year depending upon qualifications and the availability of
funding. Several enhanced stipends providing an additional $5,000
will be available for exceptional applicants.
For more information, please visit our department web site at
"www.cs.ucf.edu". Questions concerning our graduate programs should be
directed to Ms. Kari Mitchell, the Graduate Program Secretary.
Ms. Kari Mitchell
Graduate Secretary
Department of Computer Science
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL 32816-2362
TEL: (407) 823-2779
FAX: (407) 823-5419
Email: grad...@cs.ucf.edu
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From: Michael Swain <sw...@cs.uchicago.edu>
Subject: CFP: IEEE Workshop on Content-Based Image Access
IEEE WORKSHOP ON CONTENT-BASED ACCESS OF
IMAGE AND VIDEO LIBRARIES
(In Conjunction with CVPR'97)
Puerto Rico
June 20, 1997
General Chair:
Rosalind W. Picard, MIT Media Lab
Organizing Committee:
Fang Liu, chair; Glenn Healey, Michael Swain, Ramin Zabih
Program Committee:
Ingemar Cox, Dick Delanoy, David Forsyth, Anil Jain, Ramesh Jain,
Takeo Kanade, Rangachar Kasturi, B.S. Manjunath, Wayne Niblack,
Alex Pentland, Harpreet Sawhney, Stan Sclaroff, Linda Shapiro,
Rohini Srihari, Carlo Tomasi, HongJiang Zhang
The purpose of this workshop is to promote information exchange and
interaction among researchers who are interested in various aspects of
accessing the content of image and video libraries.
Research in computer vision and pattern recognition is needed to
provide tools which give users access to the content of the libraries.
This includes the problems of ORGANIZING, REPRESENTING, QUERYING,
RETRIEVING, ANNOTATING, and BROWSING large collections of video and
image data. The domain of video and image libraries also restates the
typical automatic recognition problem as a semi-automatic problem,
that of assisting and incorporating human users in the system loop.
NEW REPRESENTATIONS are needed to assist users in interacting with
large amounts of visual data, especially for video, which presents the
challenging problems which arise in demarcating events or actions of
interest.
Research is needed to exploit the PRESENCE OF THE USER, such as
obtaining incremental specifications for a query and using user
feedback to combine semantic, perceptual, and other criteria in
evaluating the results of a query.
A research emphasis is needed on INCORPORATING MULTIPLE MODELS,
especially the ones for shape, color, texture, geometry, and syntax,
so that the user does not have to specify low-level model parameters
and combinations.
When databases and types of queries can be well-specified in advance,
then strategies of EFFICIENT INDEXING of visual information are
needed, in addition to techniques for combining visual with more
traditional database information to respond to queries.
Realistic EVALUATION CRITERIA are needed, including test
databases of realistic size in domains of interest, and measures of
similarity that allow variations in perceptual, semantic, and other
criteria and including measures of accuracy and efficiency in
assisting the user.
The workshop will be held on 20 June, the day after CVPR'97. Hotel
rates for CVPR'97 have been extended. Papers submitted will be
reviewed by the program committee. A proceedings will be made
available a few months after the workshop.
Submissions should be 5-8 pages in the format of final papers for CVPR
proceedings, including figures and references. There should not be
substantial duplication between papers submitted to the workshop and
those accepted at the main conference. Send four copies of the paper
and a cover sheet stating the (1) paper title, (2) Brief (2-3
sentence) summary of the topic and contribution, (3) contact author's
name, (4) address, (5) telephone number, (6) Fax number, and (7)
electronic mail address to:
Fang Liu
E15-390, MIT Media Lab
20 Ames St.
Cambridge, MA 02139
U.S.A.
Important Dates:
Deadline for Submission: 24 March 1997
Notification of Acceptance: 28 April 1997
Camera-ready Papers Due: 26 May 1997
The workshop homepage is at http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/~swain/cfp-ivl.html
Sponsored by the PAMI Technical Committee of the IEEE Computer Society
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From: Gary Kopec <ko...@parc.xerox.com>
Subject: CFP: CVPR'97 Workshop Document Image Analysis
CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS WORKSHOP
El San Juan Hotel, Puerto Rico,
Friday, June 20, 1997
Workshop URL: http://marathon.csee.usf.edu/documents.html
CVPR'97 URL: http://marathon.csee.usf.edu/cvpr97.html
The purpose of this one-day, single-track workshop, is to facilitate
information exchange and critical discussion directed at advancing the
frontiers of document image analysis.
Specific topics of interest include:
* Document image segmentation
* Layout analysis
* Map, graphics, and drawing interpretation
* Character recognition
* Hand print/writing recognition
* Document image indexing, storage, and retrieval
* Document image processing
Since the workshop is being held in conjunction with CVPR'97, papers
dealing with techniques that have been used in more traditional
computer vision problems are especially welcome, as they would help
bridge the gap between the computer vision community and the document
image analysis community. However, high quality contributions on any
aspect of document image analysis will be carefully considered.
The workshop will be held on June 20, the day after CVPR'97. Hotel
rates for CVPR'97 have been extended. Contributions submitted will be
reviewed by the program committee. Submissions should be in the form
of extended abstracts (about 2 pages). The extended abstracts of
accepted papers will be compiled into a booklet that will be available
at the workshop. Proceedings will be ready shortly after the
workshop.
The first page of the extended abstract should include: (1) paper
title, (2) authors, (3) contact author's name, address, phone number,
fax number, and e-mail address (4) very short (three to four
sentences) abstract. FIVE copies of the extended manuscript should be
received no later than:
==========>>> APRIL 1, 1997 <<<<<<==========
at the following address:
Luc Vincent
Xerox, DDS
3400 Hillview Avenue, Bldg. 3
Palo Alto, CA 94304
USA
Complete schedule is as follows:
* Extended abstract due date: April 1, 1996
* Notification of acceptance: May 1, 1996
* Final version of extended abstract due date: June 1, 1996
* Final manuscript due at IEEE: June 15, 1996
GENERAL CHAIRS
Luc Vincent Gary E. Kopec
Xerox DDS Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
3400 Hillview Avenue, Bldg. 3 3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304 Palo Alto, CA 94304
USA USA
Phone: +1 415 813 7863 Phone: +1 415 812 4454
Fax: +1 415 813 6792 Fax: +1 415 812 4374
Email: lu...@adoc.xerox.com Email: ko...@parc.xerox.com
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Thomas Breuel Jonathan Hull
IBM Almaden Research Center Ricoh California Research Center
650 Harry Road 2882 Sand Hill Road, Suite 115
San Jose, CA 95122 Menlo Park, CA 94025
USA USA
Phone: +1 408 927 2798 Phone: +1 415 496 5723
Fax: +1 408 927 3030 Fax: +1 415 854 8740
Email: t...@almaden.ibm.com Email: hu...@crc.ricoh.com
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From: Alison Noble <no...@robots.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: CFP: Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA97)
Announcement and First Call for Papers:
MEDICAL IMAGE UNDERSTANDING AND ANALYSIS
July 7-8 1997 - University of Oxford, England
This is the first in a series of annual technical meetings
sponsored by the British Machine Vision Association (BMVA),
British Institute of Radiology (BIR), Institute of Electical
Engineers (IEE), Institute of Physics and Engineering
in Medicine (IPEM) and the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE)
to provide a forum for the dissemination and discussion of UK
research in medical image understanding and analysis.
Co-Chairs and Organisers:
Chris Taylor Mike Brady and Alison Noble
University of Manchester University of Oxford
(cta...@man.ac.uk) ({jmb,noble}@robots.ox.ac.uk)
Steering Committee:
Berry, E., University of Leeds (IPEM).
Brady,M., University of Oxford (RAE).
Fleming, J., University of Southampton (BIR).
Hawkes, D.,Guys Hospital.
Noble, A., University of Oxford (IEE).
Taylor,C., University of Manchester (BMVA).
Programme Committee:
Arridge, S., University College London.
Astley,S., University of Manchester.
Barber, D., University of Sheffield.
Colchester,A., University of Kent.
Fox,J., Imperial Cancer Research Fund.
Friston,C., Institute of Neurology.
Hogg, D., University of Leeds.
Kitney, Imperial College London.
Mardia, K., University of Leeds.
Todd-Pokropek, A., University College London.
Undrill,P., University of Aberdeen.
Wells, P., University of Bristol.
INTRODUCTION:
A 1 1/2 day technical meeting on medical image understanding and
analysis will be held at the University of Oxford, England, on
July 7-8, 1997.
Medical image understanding spans an enormous diversity of research
communities. Significant advances are currently being made in this
area and the UK is very well represented in the leading groups
internationally. This is the first national event aimed at bringing
these communities together in order to raise the profile of UK
research as a whole and to encourage the growth of this new
multi-disciplinary field. It is being co-sponsored by the leading
organisations in the field; the British Machine Vision Association,
the British Institute of Radiology, the Institute of Electrical
Engineers, the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and
the Royal Academy of Engineering.
The goals are:
o to present the state-of-the-art of UK research in
medical image understanding and analysis.
o to encourage dialogue and discussion between
academics, postdoctoral researchers and graduate
students from university and hospital departments of medical physics,
engineering, computer science, radiology, physics, mathematics,
statistics etc in topics related to medical imaging.
o to highlight past and current successes in the transfer of
image analysis systems to clinical practice and clinical needs
of the future.
o to encourage discussion of industrial opportunities and the
challenges they raise.
Technical contributions are sought in all relevant areas of
research involving the analysis and interpretation of medical
images and image sequences in 2-D and 3-D including
(but not restricted to) the following:
o Image registration
o Texture analysis
o Segmentation and feature detection
o Motion
o Image interpretation
o Quantitative image analysis
o Statistical methods in imaging
o Analysis of functional images
o Multi-modality/data fusion
o Computer-aided radiology/pathology
o Tomographic reconstruction
o Cardiac imaging
o Image guided intervention
o Visualisation
o Virtual reality
o Vision-based human-computer interfaces
o Artificial intelligence in imaging
o Intelligent imaging systems
o Decision support
o Systematic testing and validation
FORMAT:
The meeting will consist of a single track of oral presentation, with
each session moderated by an invited clinical rapporteur to encourage
discussion of clinical relevance Poster and break-out sessions will be
interspersed. Submitted short papers will be reviewed by the
programme committee; those accepted for oral presentation will be
included in a volume of proceedings which will be available at the
meeting. Authors may subsequently be invited to submit full papers to
appear in a special issue of the MEDIA (Medical Image Analysis)
journal.
The meeting will be held in the Taylor Institution and Balliol College,
Oxford. The fee for the meeting will be approximately 110 pounds which
will include conference registration, overnight accommodation on July 7th,
a copy of the proceedings, the conference dinner, and lunch
and refreshments on both days.
INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS:
Four copies of your submission should be received no later than March
14, 1997. You should provide a short form paper (4 A4 pages maximum
including illustrations and references, one inch margins, minimum 10pt
text) and a 1 page summary. The short paper should outline the
motivation for the work, describe the technical details, present
reasonably comprehensive results, discuss the significance of the work
and provide references. An extensive background section is not
required. The summary (1 page maximum) should give the paper title,
the name and address (including email/fax) of the corresponding author
and address the following questions:
1) What is the original contribution of the work?
2) Why should this contribution be considered important?
3) What is the most closely related work by others and how does
this work differ?
4) How has your work been tested or developed in association
with clinical practice?
5) Have you published related work; if so, how is this contribution different?
Since a prime objective of the meeting is to bridge communities
submissions that describe substantial work previously presented at
major conferences as well as original unpublished research are
encouraged.
Your submissions should be sent to:
Alison Noble
Department of Engineering Science
University of Oxford
Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PJ
UK
email: miu...@robots.ox.ac.uk
fax : 01865-273908
Meeting Calendar:
Receipt of extended abstracts : March 14 1997
Notification of acceptance : April 30 1997
Camera-ready copy : May 16 1997
Meeting : July 7-8 1997
FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS:
For further information please email miu...@robots.ox.ac.uk
including your name and postal address, to join the meeting
mailing list - or visit the web site at :
http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mvl/miua97.html
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From: Atul Chhabra <at...@nynexst.com>
Subject: CFP: Graphics Recognition Contest
Call for participation
GRAPHICS RECOGNITION CONTEST
to be held in conjunction with
Second IAPR Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC'97)
Nancy, France, August 22-23, 1997
This contest is the second in the series that started with the Dashed
Line Detection Contest held in conjunction with GREC'95 [1,2,3]. The
proposed contest will test the participants' ability to segment text
from graphics and to recognize graphical primitives such as lines,
arcs, circles, and arrowheads. The specifications and the evaluation
protocol for the contest will be intentionally kept simple in order to
encourage participation.
All prospective participants must respond to this announcement by
contacting the contest chair indicating their intent to take part in
the contest (please see the instructions for prospective participants
at the end of this message).
As in the previous contest, select participants may be invited to
submit an article on their system and algorithms for the post workshop
book.
DETAILS OF THE CONTEST
**********************
o The uptodate version of this document is available at the URL
http://graphics.nynexst.com/iapr-tc10/contest.html
o The source code for generating synthetic images with varying degrees
of complexity and varying amount of noise will soon be made available
as a compressed tar file at
http://graphics.nynexst.com/iapr-tc10/contest97/synth-src.tar.gz
This code will also generate a ground truth file for every image.
o To assist those who have difficulty compiling the software on their
particular hardware/software platform, some sample images and ground
truth data generated by the above code will be made available at
http://graphics.nynexst.com/iapr-tc10/contest97/synth-img.tar.gz
o Some real scanned images with ground truth data will soon be made
available at
http://graphics.nynexst.com/iapr-tc10/contest97/real-img.tar.gz
o Evaluation software will be made available as a compressed tar file
at
http://graphics.nynexst.com/iapr-tc10/contest97/eval-src.tar.gz
o After people have had some time to fine tune their software to work
with the synthetic and real images, some test images will be
provided for the participants to gauge their success for themselves.
The test images will be located at
http://graphics.nynexst.com/iapr-tc10/contest97/test-img.tar.gz
The participants must return their text extraction and graphics
recognition results to the organizers by a specified date. These
results will not be used for ranking. They will only be used by the
organizers to make sure that the participants are on the right track.
o The README file in src directory will contain information about the
image generation parameters such as line thickness range, font size,
etc.
o Ftp access will be provided soon. Details will be made available in
the updates of this document.
Image File Format
*****************
o Only bi-level images will be used in this contest.
o The images will be in TIFF 6.0 CCITT Group 4 format. The software for
generating synthetic images will be linked to the public domain TIFF
library available by anonymous ftp at
ftp.sgi.com
in the directory
graphics/tiff
Hardware Platforms and Operating Systems
****************************************
o Participants in the contest can run their software on any of the
following platforms:
Sun SPARC with Solaris or SunOS
Silicon Graphics
PC's running Windows 3.1 or Windows 95
o The code for generating synthetic images and for evaluation will run
only on
Sun SPARC with Solaris or SunOS
PC's running Windows 3.1 or Windows 95
Live Contest
************
o Contestants will have to bring their software to the contest. They
will be required to run a live demonstration of their software on
several TIFF CCITT Group 4 images that will be provided at the
contest. These images will include a mix of synthetic and real images.
FTP access will be made available at the contest to assist
participants in downloading their software via the internet. However,
participants are strongly urged to still bring a copy of their
software on tapes or diskettes.
Evaluation
**********
Programs will be judged on the basis of the following performance metrics :
o Ability to extract text strings from mixed text and graphics where
the text could be
+ sparse or dense
+ isolated or touching/overlapping graphics
Characters within text strings could be isolated or touching.
No OCR is required. Only the bounding boxes of detected text
strings need to be provided to the evaluation software.
Fairly loose error tolerance will be allowed in these
bounding boxes.
All text will be horizontal or vertical.
o Detect the following graphical primitives
+ lines
+ arcs
+ circles
+ arrowheads
The lines, arcs, and circles could be solid or dashed (only simple
dash dash pattern will be used). The arrowheads could be hollow or
filled.
o The following attributes of each graphical primitive must be
identified
+ line: start point, end point, thickness, solid or dashed
+ arc: center, radius, start angle, end angle (start and end angles
must be in counter-clockwise order), solid or dashed
+ circle: center, radius, solid or dashed
+ arrowheads: tip, direction, hollow or filled
For lines that intersect each other, line segments created by the
intersections should be reported as separate lines.
For the above coordinates, the x-y coordinate system must have its
origin at the bottom left-hand corner of the image with the y axis
pointing upward and the x axis pointing to the right.
The units of the x and y coordinates should be in pixels.
NOTE : The exact evaluation methods are not yet complete and will be
posted as soon as they are ready.
* For further correspondence, contact Atul Chhabra at at...@nynexst.com.
Please use the subject heading "GREC Contest Inquiry".
References
**********
[1] R. Kasturi and K. Tombre (eds.), "Graphics Recognition: Methods
and Applications," First International Workshop, University Park, PA,
USA, August 1995, Selected papers published as Lecture Notes in
Computer Science volume 1072, Springer, 1996
[2] B. Kong, et al., "A Benchmark: Performance Evaluation of Dashed
Line Detection Algorithms," In "Graphics Recognition: Methods and
Applications," Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume 1072,
Springer, 1996.
[3] D. Dori, L. Wenyin, and M. Peleg, "How to win a dashed line
detection contest," In "Graphics Recognition: Methods and
Applications," Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume 1072,
Springer, 1996.
Instructions for Prospective Participants
*****************************************
All prospective participants must send a formal application to
participate in the contest. In addition to the intent to participate,
the application must include a brief description of your organization
or research group.
Along with the application, please enclose your answer to the
following questions:
1. Which hardware platform (e.g., Sun SPARC, Intel Pentium, ...)
would you like to run your software on for the live demo at the
contest?
2. Which operating system (e.g., Sun Solaris 2.5, Windows 3.1, ...)
would you like to run your software on for the live demo at the
contest?
3. Do you have access to a Sun SPARC machine or a PC running Windows
3.1 or higher for the purpose of running the synthetic image
generation software and the performance evaluation software? If
you have access to both, which one would you prefer to use?
The application may be sent in any of the following forms:
Email (plain ascii) to
at...@nynexst.com
Please use the subject heading "GREC Contest Application"
Regular or express mail to
Atul Chhabra
NYNEX Science & Technology
500 Westchester Avenue
White Plains, NY 10604, USA
Phone: (914) 644-2786
Fax to
Atul Chhabra at (914) 644-2561
For e-mail, fax, and express mail applications, if you do not receive
a response within a week of your submission, please try to reach me to
find out if I received your application. For applications sent through
regular mail, please allow two weeks to hear back.
Atul K. Chhabra Phone: (914)644-2786
NYNEX Science & Technology Fax: (914)644-2561
500 Westchester Avenue Internet: at...@nynexst.com
White Plains, NY 10604, USA
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From: Karl Tombre <Karl....@loria.fr>
Subject: CFP: Graphics Recognition'97
GREC'97
Second IAPR Workshop on Graphics Recognition
(sponsored by IAPR TC-10)
Nancy, France
August 22-23, 1997
http://www.loria.fr/~tombre/grec97.html
You are invited to participate in a single-track 2-day workshop on
methods and systems for graphics recognition organized by IAPR TC-10
(Technical Committee on Graphics Recognition). The workshop will
comprise several sessions dedicated to specific topics. For each
session, there will be a main paper presentation giving the state of
the art and stating the open questions for the session's
topic, followed by a number of short presentations where each
participant is invited to contribute by proposing solutions to some of
the questions or presenting results of his/her work. Each session
will be concluded by a panel discussion.
The workshop will be held just after the 4th International Conference
on Document Analysis and Recognition (Ulm, Germany, August 18-20,
1997). Nancy is only a 4 hours drive from Ulm and the two cities are
directly connected by train.
Attendance will be limited to 75 persons. All participants are
expected to contribute actively to the workshop, either by presenting
a full state-of-the-art paper, or through an abstract of remarks on a
specific topic. You are invited to submit to the program committee an
abstract (maximum 2 pages) of your proposed contribution to the
workshop. Please indicate also if you would be willing to present a
state-of-the-art paper on this topic, if invited to do so by the
program committee.
Pre-proceedings of all contributed papers will be available at the
workshop for the participants. After the workshop, the program
committee plans to publish as a book revised versions of selected key
papers, possibly including reports from the panel discussions.
Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
- raster-to-vector techniques
- recognition of graphical primitives
- recognition of graphic symbols in charts and diagrams
- interpretation of engineering drawings, logic diagrams, maps,
charts, etc.
- analysis of line drawings, tables, forms etc.
- graphics-based information retrieval
- 3-D models from multiple 2-D views
- interpretation of low-level ("dumb") CAD data
- description of complete systems for interpretation of graphics in
scanned documents
- performance evaluation in graphics recognition
Workshop Organization
Chairs:
Karl Tombre
INRIA Lorraine & CRIN/CNRS
Batiment LORIA,
615 rue du jardin botanique, B.P. 101
54602 Villers-les-Nancy Cedex, France
Email: tom...@loria.fr, Phone: +33 3 83 59 20 71, Fax: +33 3 83 27 83 19
Atul K. Chhabra
NYNEX Science & Technology
500 Westchester Avenue
White Plains, NY 10604, USA
Email: at...@nynexst.com, Phone: +1 914 644-2786, Fax: +1 914 644-2561
Program Committee:
Keiichi Abe Shizuoka University, Japan
Adnan Amin University of New South Wales, Australia
Dorothea Blostein Queen's University, Ontario, Canada
Horst Bunke Bern University, Switzerland
Luigi P. Cordella Naples University, Italy
Its'hak Dinstein Ben Gurion University, Israel
David Doermann University Maryland, USA
Dov Dori Technion Haifa, Israel
Robert M. Haralick University of Washington, USA
Osamu Hori Toshiba R&D Center, Japan
Rangachar Kasturi Pennsylvania State University, USA
YoungBin Kwon Chung-Ang University, Korea
Yves Lecourtier University of Rouen, France
Lawrence O'Gorman Bell Labs, USA
Arnold Smeulders University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Deadlines:
Abstracts (max. 2 pages, 3 copies): March 1, 1997
Acceptance notification: May 1, 1997
Camera Ready Manuscripts: June 15, 1997
Please send your abstract to one of the co-chairs. Contact either one
of the co-chairs for further information.
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From: fac...@cs.gmu.edu (Face Recognition Conference)
Subject: PROGRAM: NATO ASI - face recognition 1997
NATO
Advanced Study Institute (ASI)
Programme
Face Recognition: From Theory to Applications
June 23 - July 4, 1997
Stirling, UK
ASI DIRECTORS
H.Wechsler (George Mason Univ., USA)
P.J.Phillips(ARL, USA)
F.Fogelman Soulie (Sligos, France)
T.S.Huang (Univ. of Illinois, USA)
PURPOSE of NATO INSTITUTES
The Advanced Study Institutes are primarily high level
teaching activities in which carefully defined subjects are
presented in systematically and coherently structured
programs for professionals in the field, at graduate and
post-doctoral level. Considerable benefit is derived from
the fact that the ASI is a small meeting with lectures given
by a selected team of international experts.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
Face Recognition (FR), a complex and difficult problem, is
important for surveillance and security, telecommunications
and digital libraries, and medicine. FR's solution requires
synergetic efforts from fields such as signal and image
processing, pattern recognition and neural networks,
psychophysics of human perception, and system engineering.
The ASI will bring together leading researchers from
academia, government, and industry to present an all
encompassing view on FR, and identify trends for future
developments and the means for implementing FR systems.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
H.Wechsler (GMU, USA)
P.J.Phillips(ARL, USA)
V. Bruce (Univ. of Stirling, UK)
F.Fogelman Soulie (Sligos, France)
LECTURERS
S.Akamatsu (ATR, Japan)
I.Biederman (USC, USA)
J.Bigun (EPFL, Switzerland)
V.Bruce (Univ. of Stirling, UK)
R.Chellappa (Univ. of Maryland, USA)
J.Daugman (Cambridge Univ., UK)
F.Fogelman Soulie (Sligos, France)
T.Huang (Univ. of Illinois, USA)
C.v.d.Malsburg (Bochum Univ., Germany)
C.Nastar (INRIA, France)
A.Pentland (MIT, USA)
N.Petkov (Univ. of Groningen, Holland)
P.J.Phillips(ARL, USA)
T.Poggio (MIT, USA)
M.Tistarelli (Univ. of Genova, Italy)
T.Vetter(Max-Planck-Institut, Tubingen, Germany)
H.Wechsler (GMU, USA)
APPLICATION DEADLINE & COST
Prospective participants are required to submit an
application before February 28, 1997. Application information
is available at
http://chagall.gmu.edu/faces97/natoasi/
Successful applicants will be notified of acceptance by March
15, 1997. There is a $1,000 conference fee for accepted
participants from industry and government agencies. Package
room and board arrangements for the students have been made
with the University of Stirling, UK. Tentatively, the
accommodation costs for the duration of the ASI are $1,100.
Accommodation packages for participants from industry are
available upon request. Limited funds are available for
selected participants to assist them with partial travel and
accommodation costs. Request for support must indicate
amount and be justified. Special funds are available to
assist the participation of scientists from Greece, Portugal
and Turkey from their National Administrators of the NATO
Special Fund. In United States, NSF provides a limited number
of travel awards for ASI students from USA. The ASI will
consider paper submissions from students for oral or poster
presentation and will make a BEST STUDENT PAPER award.
Further questions can be addressed at fac...@cs.gmu.edu
ASI LOCATION
The ASI will be held at Stirling, UK. Gateway to the
Highlands and once Scotland's former ancient capital,
Stirling offers a unique combination of history, heritage,
cultural activities and recreational pursuits. Stirling's
distinguished Old Town and impressive cliff-top castle are
nearby. The Trossachs, Loch Lomond and, of course, the
Highlands, are all within easy reach. Diverse, but equally
pleasurable experiences, await in the nearby cosmopolitan
cities of Edinburgh (33 miles) and Glasgow (44 miles).
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From: "Bart M. ter Haar Romeny" <Bart.terH...@cv.ruu.nl>
Subject: PROGRAM: Scale-Space'97 conference 2-4 July Utrecht
SCALE-SPACE '97:
First International Conference on Scale-Space Theory in Computer Vision
2-4 July 1997, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
URL: http://www.cv.ruu.nl/Conferences/ScaleSpace97.html
Info: scales...@cv.ruu.nl
Conference Board
Bart M. ter Haar Romeny (chair)
Luc M.J. Florack
Jan J. Koenderink
Max A. Viergever
The following papers have been accepted as a full paper (oral
presentation at the conference, 12 pages in the proceedings,
Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science):
Jacob D. Furst, R.S. Keller, J.E. Miller, S.M. Pizer
Images loci are ridges in geometric spaces
Ron Kimmel, N. Sochen, R. Malladi
From high energy physics to low level vision
Olivier Coulon, I. Bloch, V. Frouin, J-F Mangin
Multiscale measures in linear scale-space for characterizing
cerebral functional activations in 3D PET difference images
Jon Sporring, J.A. Weickert
On generalized entropies and scale-space
Mads Nielsen, W.Niessen, R. Maas, L. Florack, B. ter Haar Romeny
On the duality of scalar and density flows
Alfons Salden, B. ter Haar Romeny, M. Viergever
Dynamic scale-space theories
Sadegh Abbasi, F. Mokhtarian, J. Kittler
Reliable classification of chrysanthemum leaves through curvature
scale space
Ilya Pollak
Scale space analysis by stabilized inverse diffusion equations
C. Lorenz, I.-C. Carlsen, T.M. Buzug, C. Fassnacht, J. Weese
A multi-scale line filter with automatic scale selection based on
the Hessian matrix for medical image segmentation
Simon R. Arridge, A. Simmons
Multi-spectral probabilistic diffusion using Bayesian classification
Lars Bretzner, T. Lindeberg
On the handling of spatial and temporal scales in feature tracking
Tony Lindeberg
Linear spatio-temporal scale-space
Ron Kimmel
Intrinsic scale space for images on surfaces: The geodesic
curvature flow
Satoru Morita
Generating stable structure using scale-space analysis with non-
uniform Gaussian kernels
Farzin Mokhtarian
Multi-scale contour segmentation
Ole Fogh Olsen, M. Nielsen
Generic events for the gradient squared with application to multi-
scale segmentation
Stiliyan N. Kalitzin, B.M. ter Haar Romeny, M.A. Viergever
Invertible orientation bundles on 2D scalar images
Olivier Faugeras, R. Keriven
Level set methods and the stereo problem
Marta Fidrich
Following feature lines across scale
Joachim Weickert
Recursive separable schemes for nonlinear diffusion filters
Freek J. Beekman, E.T.P. Sijpen, W.J. Niessen
Supervised diffusion parameter selection for processing SPECT
brain images
The following papers have been accepted as a poster (poster
presentation at the conference, 4 pages in the proceedings):
Kathrin Berkner
Reconstruction of self-similar functions from scale-space
Hidekata Hontani, K. Deguchi
Multi-scale detection of characteristic figure structures using
principal curvatures of image gray-lever profile
Peter Bajcsy, N. Ahuja
A new framework for hierarchical segmentation using homogeneity
analysis
Michael Black, G. Sapiro, D. Marimont, D. Heeger
Robust Anisotropic diffusion
Bruce Fischl, E.L. Schwartz
Fast adaptive alternatives to nonlinear diffusion in image enhance
ment: Greens function approximators and nonlocal filters
Tony Lindeberg
On automatic selection of temporal scales in time-causal scale-space
Peter Forte, D. Greenhill
A scalespace approach to shape similarity
Julia A. Schnabel, S.R. Arridge
Multi-scale active shape description
Richard Harvey, J.A. Bangham, A. Bosson
Some morphological scale-space filters and their properties
Karl Krissian, G. Malandain, N. Ayache
Directional anisotropic diffusion applied to segmentation of
vessels in 3D images
Stijn Oomes, P. Snoeren, Tj. Dijkstra
3D shape representation: transforming polygons into voxels
J.A. Garcia, J. Fdez-Valdivia, J. Martinez-Baena
Scale selection using three different representations for images
A. Imiya, R. Katsuta
Extraction of structure feature from three-dimensional object
by scale-space analysis
Jozef Kacur, Karol Mikula
Slowed anisotropic diffusion
Nasser Armande, P. Montesinos, O. Monga
Thin nets extraction using a multi-scale approach
INFO and registration:
Scale-Space '97 Secretariat
Heidelberglaan 100 - E.01.334
3584 CX Utrecht - the Netherlands
Tel. +31-30-2507772
Fax +31-30-2513399
Email: scales...@cv.ruu.nl
URL: http://www.cv.ruu.nl/Conferences/ScaleSpace97.html
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From: Marcello Pelillo <pel...@dsi.unive.it>
Organization: CDL Informatica - Universita' Venezia
Subject: UPDATE: EMMCVPR'97 (Venice) - Program & Registration Form
Updated information about the workshop can be found at the following web
site:
http://www.dsi.unive.it/~emmcvpr
EMMCVPR'97
International Workshop on
ENERGY MINIMIZATION METHODS IN
COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION
Ca' Dolfin, Venice, Italy, May 21-23, 1997
PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY (May 21)
9:00 Opening and welcome addresses
9:30 Keynote lecture:
Object Recognition Using Stochastic Optimization
S. Ullman
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Characterizing the Distribution of Completion Shapes with
Corners Using a Mixture of Random Processes
K. K. Thornber and L. R. Williams
NEC Research Institute, USA
11:30 Adaptive Parametrically Deformable Contours
M. A. T. Figueiredo, J. M. N. Leitao, and A. K. Jain
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
12:00 Kona: A Multi-Junction Detector using Minimum Description Length
Principle
L. Parida, D. Geiger, and R. Hummel
New York University, USA
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Invited lecture:
Reliable Computation and Related Games
S. W. Zucker
Yale University, USA
15:00 Genetic Algorithms for Ambiguous Labelling Problems
R. Myers and E. R. Hancock
University of York, UK
15:30 Toward Global Solution to MAP Image Estimation:
Using Common Structure of Local Minima
S. Z. Li
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Image Segmentation Via Energy Minimization on Partitions
with Connected Components
J.-P. Wang
Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France
17:00 Integration of Confidence Information by Markov Random Fields
for Reconstruction of Underwater 3D Acoustic Images
V. Murino
Universita' di Udine, Italy
17:30 Restoration of Severely Blurred High Range Images Using Stochastic
and Deterministic Relaxation Algorithms in Compound Gauss
Markov Random Fields
R. Molina, A. K. Katsaggelos, J. Mateos, and A. Hermoso
Universidad de Granada, Spain
THURSDAY (May 22)
8:30 Invited lecture:
Probabilistic Relaxation: Potential, Relationships and Open Problems
J. Kittler
University of Surrey, UK
9:30 An Expectation-Maximisation Approach to Graph Matching
A. M. Finch, R. C. Wilson, and E. R. Hancock
University of York, UK
10:00 A Region-Level Motion-Based Graph Representation and Labeling for
Tracking a Spatial Image Partition
M. Gelgon and P. Bouthemy
IRISA/INRIA, France
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Deterministic Annealing for Unsupervised Texture Segmentation
T. Hofmann, J. Puzicha, and J. Buhmann
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat, Germany
11:30 Self-Annealing: Unifying Deterministic Annealing and Relaxation Labeling
A. Rangarajan
Yale University, USA
12:00 Multidimensional Scaling by Deterministic Annealing
H.-J. Klock and J. M. Buhmann
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat, Germany
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Invited lecture:
Search Strategies for Detecting Deformable Templates
A. L. Yuille
Harvard University, USA
15:00 Poster session
P1 Unsupervised Segmentation Applied on Sonar Images
C. Collet, M. Mignotte, P. Perez, and P. Bouthemy
Ecole Navale, Brest-Naval, France
P2 Adaptive Anisotropic Parameter Estimation in the Weak Membrane Model
T. Kubota and T. Huntsberger
University of South Carolina, USA
P3 Figure-Ground Separation: A Case Study in Energy Minimization via
Evolutionary Computing
S. M. Bhanarkar and X. Zeng
The University of Georgia, USA
P4 SAR Image Registration and Segmentation Using an Estimated DEM
C. A. Glasbey
Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland
P5 Restoration of SAR Images Using Recovery of Discontinuities and
Non-linear Optimization
F. Tupin, M. Sigelle, A. Chkeif, and J.-P. Veran
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France
P6 Optimization Problems in Statistical Object Recognition
J. Hornegger and H. Niemann
Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat, Germany
P7 An Energy Minimization Method for Matching and Comparing Structured
Object Representations
R. Azencott and L. Younes
CMLA, ENS Cachan, France
P8 Deformable Templates for Tracking and Analysis of Intravascular
Ultrasound Sequences
F. Escolano, M. Cazorla, D. Gallardo, and R. Rizo
Universidad de Alicante, Spain
P9 Deterministic Search Strategies for Relational Graph Matching
M. L. Williams, R. C. Wilson, and E. R. Hancock
Defence Research Agency, UK
P10 Geometrically Deformable Templates for Shape-based Segmentation and
Tracking in Cardiac MR Images
D. Rueckert and P. Burger
Imperial College, London, UK
P11 Motion Correspondence through Energy Minimization
A. Branca, E. Stella, and A. Distante
IESI/CNR, Italy
FRIDAY (May 23)
8:30 Invited lecture:
Object Localization Using Color, Shape and Texture
A. K. Jain
Michigan State University, USA
9:30 Consistent Modeling of Terrain and Drainage Using Deformable Models
P. Fua
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
10:00 Visual Deconstruction: Recognizing Articulated Objects
T.-L. Liu and D. Geiger
New York University, USA
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Markovian Prior Parameters Using
Markov Chain Monte Carlo
X. Descombes, R. Morris, J. Zerubia, and M. Berthod
INRIA, France
11:30 Unsupervised Image Segmentation Using Markov Random Field Models
S. A. Barker and P. J. W. Rayner
University of Cambridge, UK
12:00 Noniterative Manipulation of Discrete Energy-Based Models for
Image Analysis
P. Perez and J.-M. Laferte'
IRISA/INRIA, France
12:30 Closing remarks
*****
EMMCVPR'97 REGISTRATION FORM
Please fill in the registration form and send it either by ordinary mail
or fax to:
Marcello Pelillo
Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata e Informatica
Universita' "Ca' Foscari" di Venezia
Via Torino 155
30173 Venezia Mestre, Italy
Fax: +39 41 2908419
Last name __________________________ First name __________________________
Affiliation _______________________________________________________________
Address ___________________________________________________________________
Zip code ____________________ City ______________________________________
Country ___________________________________________________________________
Tel ________________________________ Fax ________________________________
E-mail ____________________________________________________________________
Accompanying person(s)
Last name __________________________ First name __________________________
REGISTRATION FEES
quoted in Italian lire (LIT).
Early registration (before March 31, 1997) (*) LIT 500,000 (_)
Late registration (after March 31, 1997) (*) LIT 600,000 (_)
Student (**) LIT 300,000 (_)
Accompanying person (***) LIT 150,000 (_)
Total payment ___________
(*) Full registration fees include participation to the scientific
sessions, the proceedings book, the coffee breaks and the social program.
(**) Students must certify their status. Student's fee includes
participation to the scientific sessions, the proceedings book and the
coffee breaks.
(***) The fee for the accompanying person covers the social program.
PAYMENT
All payments must be in Italian lire.
1) Please charge my credit card in favor of "SAF srl"
VISA ____ MASTERCARD ____
Name of cardholder ____________________________________________________
No ___________________________________ Expiration date _______________
Amount ____________________ Signature ________________________________
Date ________________
2) Please make a SWIFT bank transfer to "SAF srl" account:
BANCA COMMERCIALE ITALIANA
Agenzia n. 2, Taranto, Italy
ABI: 02002
CAB: 15804
Account number: 4743037-01-46
ALL COSTS TO TRANSMITTER'S CHARGE
Please do not forget to indicate your name and the purpose of payment,
and attach a copy of the transfer to the registration form.
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From: "John V. Black" <bl...@signal.dra.hmg.gb>
Subject: British Classification Society Meeting
BRITISH CLASSIFICATION SOCIETY MEETING
BIOMEDICAL DATA ANALYSIS
WHEN: Wednesday, 30th April, commencing at 2.00pm
WHERE: Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department, (Room MB644)
Aston University, Birmingham
SPEAKERS
Dimensions of Insanity: Exploratory Factor
Analysis of Symptom Profiles in Recent Onset
Schizophrenics - G. Dunn,
University of Manchester.
Reading minds? : brain-computer interfacing - S.J. Roberts,
Imperial College.
Model-Based Cell Image Interpretation - D. Pycock,
University of Birmingham and
P. Zhou,
University of York.
Chromosome Image Analysis - Boaz Lerner,
Neural Computing Research Group,
Aston University
There is no registration fee, but potential attendees should register
by contacting L. Bayliss (01684 896005) or e-mail Andrew Webb.
FURTHER DETAILS: Andrew Webb, Ex24, DRA, St Andrews Road, Malvern
tel: 01684 894490
email: we...@signal.dra.hmg.gb
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