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Today's Topics:

 Visilog User Functions
 Pentland's segmentation work.
 Looking for references on "image compression" or "coding"
 Image Compression Routines for UNIX Systems
 BETA Release of Khoros
 MACHINE VISION AND APPLICATIONS :Volume 3, Issue 3

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Date: 9 Oct 90 02:36:24 GMT
From: palm@srl.mew.mei.co.jp (Steve [kiwin] Palm)
Subject: Visilog User Functions
Organization: Information/Communication R&D Lab, Matsushita Electric Works

We have just purchased NOESIS Visilog ver 3.14 Image Processing
software for the Sun.

Before I spend a lot of time trying to write user functions, I wanted
to check if anyone else has written things like TIFF readers or other
utilities.

Adva[thanks]nce, kiwin

Stephen [Kiwin] Palm                                palm@mew.mei.co.jp
Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.                       TEL: 06-908-6752 
Information & Communication R&D Lab                   FAX: 06-906-0520
1048 Kadoma, Osaka 571, Japan                 "You've got Wessonality!"

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Date: Tue, 9 Oct 90 12:44:18 EDT
From: Trevor Darrell <trevor@brixton.media.mit.edu>
Subject: Pentland's segmentation work.

In a previous vision-list posting:

  Date: Tuesday, 2 Oct 1990 23:43:24 EDT
  From: Bennamoun Mohamed <MOHAMEDB@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
  Subject: Pentland's research.
  Organization: Queen's University at Kingston

  Hello !

  Is anybody familiar with Pentland's research concerning the recovery of
  superquadrics from range data?
  ...

Anyone who is interested in this work can contact our group directly
via email, either to me (trevor@whitechapel.media.mit.edu) or to Prof.
Pentland (sandy@whitechapel.media.mit.edu). We'd be glad to send you
the latest papers and tech reports, and/or answer any technical
questions you have.

Thanks
trevor

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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 90 12:56:11 -0400
From: Frederic Leymarie  <leyfre@verdoux.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Subject: Looking for references on "image compression" or "coding"

Dear COMPUTER VISIONaries,

I am looking for references describing the methods (schemes?
packages?) commonly called "MPEG" and "JPEG" used for image
compression (or coding).

Could anyone help? Thanks in advance!

Frederic Leymarie

McGill U., E.E. Dept.,			|tel:	(514) 398-7156 (Ext.: 5992)
McConnell Eng. Bldg., Room 424,		|FAX:	(514) 398-7348
3480 University St.,			|Email:	leyfre!mcgill-vision!uucp
Montreal, QC, Canada, H3A 2A7.		|	leyfre@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu

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Date: 10 Oct 90 16:56:07 GMT
From: boulder!spot!domik@ncar.UCAR.EDU (DOMIK GITTA)
Subject: Image Compression Routines for UNIX Systems
Keywords: Image Compression, ADCT, Unix Sources
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder

I have the problem of storing large amounts of digitized images, and want
to compress them for long term archive. For our purposes, ADCT or the items
of this kind work best. I have tested Kodak's 'Colorsqueeze' software for 
the MAC, and the results are okay, except for speed, but I am looking for
similar software to be run on UNIX machines. For me, the optimal solutions
would be public-domain UNIX sources. Can anyone help?

I am not on Usenet, so please e-mail directly to my address: fkappe@tugiig.uucp

[Also post answers to the List.
		phil...]

Frank Kappe, Technical University Graz 
Institute for Computer Based New Media
Graz, Austria

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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 90 23:21:23 GMT
From: rasure%bullwinkle.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu (John Rasure)
Subject: BETA Release of Khoros
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

    *******************   KHOROS  **********************

The Vision Lab at the University of New Mexico announces the
open distribution of the Khoros system (Beta release)!

INTRODUCTION

     Khoros is an integrated software  development  environ-
ment  for information processing and visualization, based on
X11R4.   Khoros  components  include  a  visual  programming
language,  code generators for extending the visual language
and adding  new  application  packages  to  the  system,  an
interactive  user  interface  editor,  an  interactive image
display package, an extensive library of  image  and  signal
processing routines, and 2D/3D plotting packages.

SYSTEM COMPONENTS
=================

X WINDOWS APPLICATIONS

     Cantata - Extensible Visual Programming Language
     Editimage - Interactive Image  Display  &  Manipulation
     Program
     Animate - Interactive Image Sequence Display Tool
     Xprism2 and xprism3 - Comprehensive 2D and 3D  Plotting
     Packages

IMAGE & SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS

     The library of algorithms contains over  220  programs,
     in  the  following  categories: arithmetic, classifica-
     tion, color conversion, data  conversion,  file  format
     conversion,  feature  extraction,  frequency filtering,
     spatial  filtering,  morphology  filtering,   geometric
     manipulation,  histogram manipulation, statistics, sig-
     nal generation, linear operations, segmentation,  spec-
     tral estimation, subregion, and transforms.

USER INTERFACE TOOLS

     Preview - Graphical User Interface Display Tool
     Composer - Interactive Graphical User Interface Editor
     Conductor - Code Generation Tool for a  Graphical  User
     Interface
     Ghostwriter - Code Generation Tool for a  Command  Line
     User Interface
     Source Configuration & Management Tools


KHOROS DISTRIBUTION METHODS

1)  Anonymous FTP

     Khoros is available via anonymous ftp from pprg.unm.edu
(129.24.13.10).   Use  your  e-mail  address as the password
(for  example,  herman@football.wmu.edu).   Once  you   have
logged  in,  cd  to  the "pub/khoros" directory and  get the
ascii file RELEASE_NOTES.ftp.  This file will give you  com-
plete  instructions  on  how to get Khoros and install it on
your system.  To get this file, execute the  following  com-

a.   Use ftp to connect to pprg.unm.edu.
     % ftp pprg.unm.edu
          -or-
     % ftp 129.24.13.10

b.   Use "anonymous" or "ftp" as the user name.
     Name (pprg.unm.edu:login): anonymous
          -or-
     Name (pprg.unm.edu:login): ftp

c.   Use your e-mail address as the password;  please  care-
     fully  use a valid e-mail address, as this version site
     logs all anonymous ftp's.
     Password   (pprg.unm.edu:user):   {your   valid   email
     address}
     331 Anonymous login ok, use your E-MAIL address as  the
     password.
     230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.

d.   Get  the  release  notes  for  acquiring   Khoros   via
     anonymous  ftp  (note  that  "RELEASE_NOTES.ftp" is the
     plain text file - both ".ms" and ".ps" files are avail-
     able for those who would like them).
     ftp> cd /pub/khoros
     ftp> get RELEASE_NOTES.ftp

2)  UPS Delivery

     If you would like to have a tape and printed documenta-
tion  sent  to  you,  send  the order form below (last page)
along with a $1000.00 check or purchase  order  (payable  to
UNM EECE Dept., in U.S. funds) to:
                    KHOROS
                    Room 110
                    Department of EECE
                    University of New Mexico
                    Albuquerque, NM 87131


We will begin shipping tapes (source, binaries  and  printed
documentation)   no   earlier  than  November  1st.   Please
remember, this is a BETA release; the final release will  be
complete  in  January  1991.   There  will  be no support or
updates provided for the beta release.

KHOROS REQUIREMENTS AND LIMITATIONS

     To run Khoros, you must have a  UNIX  platform  running
the  X11R3, X11R4, or OpenWindows servers. The Khoros system
consists of ~350,000 lines of C code;  it requires ~100  Meg
for storage for source, documentation and binaries.  To com-
pile Khoros, the system requires X11R4 from MIT (patch  lev-
els 1-18), and an additional ~30 Meg of storage.

     If   you   have    questions    or    problems,    mail
rasure@bullwinkle.unm.edu. Once you have the system and want
to    report    bugs    or    comments,     mail     khoros-
bugs@bullwinkle.unm.edu.

UNIX is a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories.
The X Window System is a trademark of  Massachusetts  Insti-
tute of Technology.
SunOS is a trademark for Sun Microsystems.
Ultrix is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation.

Dr. John Rasure
Department of EECE
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131

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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 90 10:34:45 PDT
From: springer%engrhub@hub.ucsb.edu
Subject: MACHINE VISION AND APPLICATIONS :Volume 3, Issue 3

MACHINE VISION AND APPLICATIONS, An International Journal

This journal is published four times a year and has a personal subscription
rate of $49.00 (including postage and handling).  The institutional rate if
$110.00 (including postage and handling.  If you would like a sample copy,
subscription information, or information on submitting a paper for publication,
please send email to rossbach@hub.ucsb.edu.

Volume 3, Issue 3 contains the following articles:

COMPUTING CAMERA PARAMETERS USING VANISHING-LINE INFORMATION FROM A RECTANGULAR
PARALLELEPIPED
Ling-Ling Wang and Wen-Hsiang Tsai

ACCUMULATOR-BASED INEXACT MATCHING USING RELATIONAL SUMMARIES
Linda G. Shapiro and Haiyuan Lu

A CAMERA CALIBRATION TECHNIQUE USING THREE SETS OF PARALLEL LINES
Tomio Echigo

A SYSTEMATIC METHODOLOGY FOR DETERMINING/OPTIMIZING A MACHINE VISION SYSTEMUS
CAPABILITY
Bernard C. Jiang and Michael Yau-Ren Shiau

Volume 3, Issue 4 is due out in November.  Look forward to a Special Issue on
Industrial Applications of Machine Vision with guest editors, Ekkehard Blanz
and Jorge L. C. Sanz, IBM Almaden Research Center.

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