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Today's Topics:
New Submission Deadline
CAD-Based Computer Vision Workshop CANCELLED
Face Image Collection available
Announcement: Vision and Imaging Technology Resource
code for straight line finding
Re: Line detection
Any code for straight line finding?
Code for Morphological Segmentation?
Vision Chips on the web: The second revision
[JOB] US-MD/CO NIST Postdoc deadline revision
Position Avail. SQA Mgr. Cognex Corp. Natick, MA.
CfP: Machine Perception Applications
FCP: EANN'96: Special track on computer vision.
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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 09:59:05 -0500
From: Amir Amini <am...@minerva.cis.yale.edu>
Subject: New Submission Deadline
!!!!! URGENT !!!!!
The Submission Deadline for IEEE Workshop on Mathematical
Methods on Biomedical Image Analysis taking place after CVPR '96
is extended to January 22, 1996.
The homepage for the workshop is at
URL: http://noodle.med.yale.edu/mmbia
Amir Amini
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 12:44:51 -0800
From: "Patrick J. Flynn" <fl...@eecs.wsu.edu>
Subject: CAD-Based Computer Vision Workshop CANCELLED
Because submissions were too few to support a separate workshop, the
CAD-Based Computer Vision workshop scheduled in conjunction with CVPR
'96 has been cancelled. The program committee is considering reviewing
the submissions for a special journal issue. Authors will be
contacted for input on how to proceed. We apologize for any
inconvenience which this may have caused.
George Stockman
Octavia Camps
Patrick Flynn
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Date: 15 Jan 1996 07:42:06 GMT
From: acke...@iam.unibe.ch (Bernard Achermann)
Organization: Dept. of CS, University of Berne, Switzerland
Subject: Face Image Collection available
Our collection of frontal view and profile images is available via ftp
now. Our ftp adress is:
And the collection may be found in the directory:
/pub/Images/FaceImages
This collection of face images is divided into two parts:
* FullFaces.tar.gz
This file contains frontal views of 30 people. For each person we took
10 greylevel images with slight variations of the head positions
(1,2 right into the camera, 3,4 looking to the right, 5,6 looking to the
left, 7,8 downwards, 9,10 upwards).
* Profiles.tar.gz
This file contains profile views of the same 30 people. We took 5 greylevel
images per person with variations of the head position, the size and the
contrast (1,2,3 big profiles with high contrast, looks like binarized,
4,5 small profiles with normal grey levels).
The lighting conditions during image acquisition were carefully controlled.
The two files are tared and compressed. All images are saved in the Sun
rasterfile format and have 256 greylevels.
Report problems and errors to Bernard Achermann, <acke...@iam.unibe.ch>.
Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Kind regards
Bernard Achermann
E-Mail: acke...@iam.unibe.ch
Tel. : + 41 31 631 48 65
Fax : + 41 31 631 39 65
Institut fuer Informatik und * Institute of Computer Science and *
angewandte Mathematik * Applied Mathematics *
Universitaet Bern * University of Bern *
Neubrueckstrasse 10 * Neubrueckstrasse 10 *
CH-3012 Bern * CH-3012 Bern (Switzerland) *
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 14:50:51 -0700
From: Jeff Baran <vis...@vision1.com>
Subject: Announcement: Vision and Imaging Technology Resource
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FROM:
THE VISION AND IMAGING TECHNOLOGY RESOURCE
If you are a system integrator or have experience
with vision and imaging applications, there is a
NEW link on our homepage that is of interest to
you. This NEW link is named "User Applications and
Questions" and when clicked, displays a list of
user application descriptions where the user is
looking for a hardware/software/system integration
solution. This is an excellent place to find new
hardware, software, and integration projects!
Also listed are recent user questions. A form
at the bottom of the page allows you to respond
to application descriptions and answer user
questions.
The number of machine vision and image processing
hotlinks has been increased.
We are pleased to announce that we have had over
25,000 visitors since our debut in October 1995.
Please visit our growing web site!
We look forward to talking with you about your
applications and research.
Jeff Baran url: http://www.vision1.com
Vision 1 email: vis...@vision1.com
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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 10:15:02 GMT
From: Paul....@brunel.ac.uk
Subject: code for straight line finding
> From: Philip Kahn <pk...@teleos.com>
> Subject: Any code for straight line finding?
Geoff West & I recently made some C code available for approximating
edge lists by straight lines, circular, elliptical, and superelliptical
arcs. You can get it from
ftp://ftp.brunel.ac.uk/CompSci/Paul.Rosin/curves/lines_arcs.tar.Z
Dr. Paul Rosin
Department of Computer Science & Information Systems
Brunel University
Kingston Lane email: Paul....@brunel.ac.uk
Uxbridge tel: +44-1895-274000 ext. 3632
Middlesex UB8 3PH fax: +44-1895-251686
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Date: 13 Jan 1996 00:40:01 GMT
From: Yang Chen <yc...@aic.hrl.hac.com>
Organization: Hughes Research Labs
Subject: Re: Line detection
There is a system called LINEAR developed at USC by Dr. Nevatia's group. You
can contact Mr. Andres Huertas (hue...@iris.usc.edu) or Dr. Keith Price
(pr...@iris.usc.edu) for the code.
Yang
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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 07:41:10 GMT
From: ha...@spd.eee.strath.ac.uk (Neal HARVEY)
Subject: Code for Morphological Segmentation?
CODE FOR MORPHOLOGICAL SEGMENTATION OF IMAGES?
We are looking for code, prefereably C/C++, for the morphological
segmentation of images (e.g. watershed algorithm etc.).
Does anyone know of anywhere this may available?
Thanks for your assitance in this matter.
Neal R. Harvey
http://www.spd.eee.strath.ac.uk/~harve/harve.html
HARVE (Neal R. Harvey) Signal Processing Division, E.E.E. Dept. |
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XW *
Scotland, U.K., Tel:0141 552 4400 ext. 2205 |
ha...@spd.eee.strath.ac.uk
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 14:39:50 +1030
From: Alireza Moini <mo...@eleceng.adelaide.edu.au>
Organization: EEEng. Department, The Univ. Of Adelaide
Subject: Vision Chips on the web: The second revision
Hi all
This is to announce the second revision of the visionchips home page
at:
http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/Groups/GAAS/visionchips/index.html
Alireza Moini * Phone: 61 8 303 5468(Office) **
Centre for GaAs VLSI Technology * 61 8 303 3403(Vision Lab.)**
Dept. of Elec. & Elec. Eng. * **
The University of Adelaide * Fax: 61 8 303 4360 **
South Australia 5005 * (Elec Eng. Dept.) **
WWW Home Page
http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/Personal/moini/index.html **
http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/Groups/GAAS/bugeye.html **
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 17:29:35 -0500
From: "bmi...@micf.nist.gov" <mai...@bitb.nist.gov> (by way of david....@nist.gov
Subject: [JOB] US-MD/CO NIST Postdoc deadline revision
The revised schedule for the NIST/NRC Postdoc application is as follows:
February 1, 1996, Deadline for NRC's receipt of applicants' two
page application form and a rough draft proposal.
February 15, 1996, Deadline for NRC's receipt of applicants'
supporting documents and the final proposal.
February 15, 1996, Deadline for NIST Academic Affairs Office's
receipt of "NRC Laboratory/Center Review Form" from NIST Posrdoc advisors.
Applicants should send copies of all related materials to their NIST
advisors as soon as possible.
Although we have this extension, the NIST Staff should urge all
applicants to submit all forms as early as possible.
For additional information, get in touch with Jack Hsia, OIAA
name: Hsia, Jack J. Dr.
phone: (301) 975-3067
depart: Director, Office of International and Academic Affairs
office: Administration Building (101), Room A515
address: ADMIN A505
: Gaithersburg, MD 20899
email: ja...@nist.gov
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Date: 11 Jan 1996 23:24:29 -0500
From: dkell...@aol.com (DKelly1995)
Subject: Position Avail. SQA Mgr. Cognex Corp. Natick, MA.
A rewarding opportunity exists for an experienced QA manager.
Cognex is recognized as the number one machine vision company in the
world. Cognex designs, develops, and markets machine vision systems,
which are used to automate a wide range of manufacturing processes
where vision is required.
Manager Software Quality Assurance
Responsible for managing and growing a group of 15 - 20 QA Engineers,
co-ops and contractors in an engineering department of over 100 engineers.
The department has well established software development practices where
software quality and testability are integrated into the development
process. The SQA group is responsible for reviewing developer written
unit test suites, developing product test plans, writing systems and
applications level test suites (in C and C++), release engineering and
second-level customer support.
Position requires a B.S. in Computer Science, a minimum of 3 yrs.
management experience with the development of technical products. Should
have experience in both developing production quality code and been a
project leader for either a software engineering or SQA group of
approximately 10 or more staff. Must be able to demonstrate the ability
to lead, not just manage an organization of this size through properly
motivating and developing their professional contributions to the company.
Should understand and be aware of various QA theories or methodologies
yet be flexible and practical about adopting and implementing any course
of action. Be a strong enough technical leader who can help individuals
and the group improve technically, do more sophisticated and automated QA
while improving coverage, testability and automated processes. We are
looking for someone who is enthusiastic and committed to improving
software quality.
If you are qualified for the above position, and interested in joining an
entrepreneurial, technically agressive company, send your resume to:
Cognex Corporation
One Vision Drive
Human Resources
Natick, MA 01760
fax 508 650-3340
e-mail H...@cognex.com or dke...@cognex.com
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 11:57:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Wolfgang Polzleitner <p...@gabor.ece.cmu.edu>
Subject: CfP: Machine Perception Applications
Dear colleague,
attached to this mail you find the announcement and call for papers
for 2 satellite workshops to the 13th ICPR.
Both workshops are sponsored by IAPR (Int.Assoc.f.Pattern Recognition)
and organized by IAPR Technical Committees:
TC7 - Applications in Remote Sensing
TC8 - Applications in Industry
Please help in the announcement and forward this information to
colleagues who might be interested in these topics.
The announcement is also on WWW:
http://fcggsg06.tu-graz.ac.at/workshops/IAPR/welcome.html
Thank you for your interest,
Wolfgang Polzleitner
Carnegie Mellon University
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
E-mail: p...@gabor.ece.cmu.edu
Tel. 412-268 6183 (work), Fax 412-268 6345 (work)
Sec. 412-268 3896
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Two Simultaneous Joint Workshops
IAPR TC-7 (Remote Sensing) and IAPR TC-8 (Industry)
International Association of Pattern Recognition IAPR
Technical Committee 8 - Applications in Industry
invites to a
Workshop
Machine Perception Applications
September 2 - 4, 1996
Technical University Graz, Austria
Lecture Hall i7, Inffeldgasse 25
Current industrial applications of machine perception reach far beyond
standard tasks like industrial inspection and quality control. This
workshop will focus on the use of new methods in a variety of computer
vision and pattern recognition applications for robotics and automation.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, integration of sensors
and methods, active inspection systems, learning and adaptation of
polymorphic models, and autonomous interaction with a possibly unknown or
changing env ironment. We especially invite application-driven
contributions dealing with aspects of mid- and high-level computer vision
and issue a
CALL FOR PAPERS
for this workshop. Note that it is set to follow the International
Conference on Pattern Recognition ICPR, to be held in Vienna, Austria,
August 25 - 30, 1996.
Please submit 3 copies of your 500-1000 word extended abstract before 31
January 1996 to one of the
Workshop Chairmen:
Wolfgang Poelzleitner Axel Pinz
Joanneum Research Technical University Graz
Institute for Digital Image Processing Institute for Computer Graphics
Wastiangasse 6, A-8010 Graz Muenzgrabenstrasse 11, A-8010 Graz
poelzl...@pbox.joanneum.ac.at pi...@icg.tu-graz.ac.at
Program Committee:
Bruce Batchelor (UK)
Denis Boulanger (CAN)
Chris Bowman (NZ)
Horst Bunke (CH)
Wilhelm Burger (A)
David Casasent (USA)
Cornelia Fermueller (USA)
Josef Kittler (GB)
Dietrich Meyer-Ebrecht (D)
Joe Mundy (USA)
Stelios Orphanoudakis (GR)
Yoshiaki Shirai (J)
Harry Wechsler (USA)
Contributions will be reviewed by the program committee. Papers presented
at the workshop will be printed in a book. See also http://fcggsg06.
tu-graz.ac.at/workshops/IAPR/welcome.html for most recent information.
Paper submission deadline: 31 Jan 1996
Acceptance notification: 1 May 1996
Final camera ready paper: 2 Sep 1996
******
Two Simultaneous Joint Workshops
IAPR TC-7 (Remote Sensing) and IAPR TC-8 (Industry)
International Association of Pattern Recognition IAPR
Technical Committee 7 - Applications in Remote Sensing
invites to a
Specialist Workshop
Methods for Extracting and Mapping Buildings, Roads
and other Man-Made Structures from Images
September 2 - 3, 1996
Technical University Graz, Austria
Lecture Hall i3, Inffeldgasse 25
Space imagery is becoming available at increasingly higher geometric
resolutions, approaching those traditionally reserved to aerial
photography. The creation of base maps, the detection of changes, the
merging of images from different sensors all benefit from an ability to
automatically recognize man-made objects from digital overhead images. Yet
this ability is far from being available in a routine manner. To focus
attention on this issue we invite you to contribute to, and attend, a
specialist workshop. To this end we issue a
CALL FOR PAPERS
for this workshop. Note that it is set to follow the International
Conference on Pattern Recognition ICPR, to be held in Vienna, Austria,
August 25 - 30, 1996.
Please send 3 copies of your extended 1 to 3 page abstract and usual
information before 31 January 1996 to the local organizer:
Franz Leberl, Chairman of TC-7
Institute for Computer Graphics
Muenzgrabenstrasse 11, A-8010 Graz, Austria
Tel.: ++43 316 873-5012, Fax: ++43 316 873-5050,
e-mail: leb...@icg.tu-graz.ac.at
This workshop is coordinated with the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Society (IEEE GRS) and with the International Society for Photogrammetry
and Remote Sensing (ISPRS, Prof. Dr. Armin Gruen).
Contributions will be selected from the abstracts. We plan to print the
full papers as a book. See also http://fcggsg06.tu-graz.ac.at/workshops/
IAPR/welcome.html for most recent information.
Paper submission deadline: 31 Jan 1996
Acceptance notification: 1 May 1996
Final camera ready paper: 2 Sep 1996
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 96 12:56:45 +0100
From: Jukka Heikkonen <jukka.h...@jrc.it>
Posted-Date: Fri, 12 Jan 96 12:56:45 +0100
Subject: FCP: EANN'96: Special track on computer vision.
Dear computer vision researcher,
a special track on computer vision will be organized in the International
Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN'96)
to be held on 17.-19. June 1996 in London, UK. The Final Call for Papers
can be found at the end of this message.
We hope that a good number of NN papers related to Computer Vision
will be received, like in the last year, when the conference was
hold in Helsinki, Finland. Last year, based on a number of good
quality computer vision papers it was possible to edit a
special issue on "Neural Networks for Computer Vision Applications"
for Pattern Recognition Letters journal (this special issue will
be published in May/June 1996). For this year, we also have
plans for publishing a special issue in some journal. For this, of
course, your contribution is needed.
I hope to see you in London, UK, on 17.-19. June 1996.
Dr. Jukka Heikkonen
European Commission, Joint Research Center
Institute for Systems Engineering and Informatics
TP 361, I-21020 Ispra (VA), ITALY
Tel: +39-332-789261 (office)
+39-332-782293 (home)
Fax: +39-332-789098 (office)
email: jukka.h...@cen.jrc.it
------- FCP: EANN96 -------
Final Call for Papers for EANN'96
International Conference on
Engineering Applications of Neural Networks
(EANN '96)
London, UK
17--19 June 1996
Final Call for Papers
The conference is a forum for presenting the latest results on neural
network applications in technical fields. The applications may be in
any engineering or technical field, including but not limited to
systems engineering, mechanical engineering, robotics, process
engineering, metallurgy, pulp and paper technology, aeronautical
engineering, computer science, machine vision, chemistry, chemical
engineering, physics, electrical engineering, electronics, civil
engineering, geophysical sciences, biotechnology, and environmental
engineering.
Abstracts of one page (200 to 400 words) should be sent to
ean...@lpac.ac.uk by 21 January 1996 by e-mail in PostScript format
or ASCII. Please mention two to four keywords, and whether you prefer
it to be a short paper or a full paper. The short papers will be 4
pages in length, and full papers may be upto 8 pages. Tutorial
proposals are also welcome until 21 January 1996. Notification of
acceptance will be sent around 15 February. Submissions will be
reviewed and the number of full papers will be very limited. For more
information on EANN '96, please see http://www.lpac.ac.uk/EANN96 and
for reports on EANN '95, contents of the proceedings, etc. please see
http://www.abo.fi/~abulsari/EANN95.html
Five special tracks are being organised in EANN '96:
Computer Vision (J. Heikkonen, Jukka.H...@jrc.it),
Control Systems (E. Tulunay, ersin-...@metu.edu.tr),
Mechanical Engineering (A. Scherer, andreas...@fernuni-hagen.de),
Robotics (N. Sharkey, N.Sh...@dcs.shef.ac.uk), and
Biomedical Systems (G. Dorffner, ge...@ai.univie.ac.at)
Organising committee
A. Bulsari (Finland)
D. Tsaptsinos (UK)
T. Clarkson (UK)
International program committee
G. Dorffner (Austria)
S. Gong (UK)
J. Heikkonen (Italy)
B. Jervis (UK)
E. Oja (Finland)
H. Liljenstr\"om (Sweden)
G. Papadourakis (Greece)
D. T. Pham (UK)
P. Refenes (UK)
N. Sharkey (UK)
N. Steele (UK)
D. Williams (UK)
W. Duch (Poland)
R. Baratti (Italy)
G. Baier (Germany)
E. Tulunay (Turkey)
S. Kartalopoulos (USA)
C. Schizas (Cyprus)
J. Galvan (Spain)
M. Ishikawa (Japan)
D. Pearson (France)
Registration information for the
International Conference on
Engineering Applications of Neural Networks
(EANN '96)
The conference fee will be sterling pounds (GBP) 300 until 28
February, and sterling pounds (GBP) 360 after that. At least one
author of each accepted paper should register by 21 March to ensure
that the paper will be included in the proceedings. The conference
fee can be paid by a bank draft (no personal cheques) payable to
EANN '96, to be sent to EANN '96, c/o Dr. D. Tsaptsinos, Kingston
University, Mathematics, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE, UK.
The fee includes attendance to the conference and the proceedings.
Registration form can be picked up from the www (or can be sent to you
by e-mail) and can be returned by e-mail (or post or fax) once the
conference fee has been sent. A registration form sent before the
payment of the conference fee is not valid. For more information,
please ask ean...@lpac.ac.uk
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