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Today's Topics:

 3-D Object Recognition
 Parallel Languages for Computer Vision
 Image processing at Siemens
 Fractals & data compression
 Performance Evaluation
 Call for Papers and Referees: Special Issue of IEEE COMPUTER

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Date: 16 Oct 90 20:10:22 GMT
From: eleyang@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Yang He)
Subject: 3-D Object Recognition
Organization: University at Buffalo

    I have just developed a shape classification algorithm. It has 
shown a 100% classification result for 2-D shapes. The algorithm can
be easily extended to 3-D case. But I don't have 3-D data for the 
experiments.

    Could anybody out there tell me where I can get 3-D object data
suitable for classification? My requirements are as follows:

    1. Each 2-D slice should be a closed boundary without inner
       contour.
    2. Binary data preferred. But grey level images may also be
       used after boundary extraction. 
    3. I need 5+ classes, 20+ shapes for each class.       
    4. The shapes within a class have contour perturbation, i.e.,
       the shapes are NOT different ONLY in size and orientation.

    If anybody has the information, please send E-mail to
eleyang@ubvms.bitnet. Your help is very much appreciated.


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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 15:33:10 -0400
From: Pierre Tremblay  <pierre@sol.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Subject: Parallel Languages for Computer Vision

I'm doing research as part of my Master's thesis on parallel
programming models and languages appropriate for "intermediate-level"
computer vision (i.e. no SIMD processing, less emphasis on graph
searching).

Does anyone have references to parallel programming languages
specifically designed for computer vision programming, or references
to general purpose parallel programming languages used in such a
capacity?

Please reply by E-mail, and I'll post back to the net with a summary.

Many thanks,

		Pierre

* Pierre P. Tremblay        Internet: pierre@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu *
* Research Assistant        Surface:  3480 University Street         *
* McGill Research Centre 	      Montreal, Quebec, Canada       *
* for Intelligent Machines  	      H3A 2A7                        *
*                           Phone:    (514) 398-8204 or 398-3788     *

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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 17:15:01 +0100
From: br%bsun3@ztivax.siemens.com (A. v. Brandt)
Subject: Image processing at Siemens

I'd like to introduce to you the Image Processing Group of Siemens Corporate 
Research, Munich, Germany. We are about twenty researchers doing basic 
and applied studies in the areas of image understanding 
(document interpretation, object recognition, motion estimation, 3D modeling) 
and artificial neural networks (models, implementations, selected applications) The Laboratory is located in Munich, an attractive city in the south of the 
Federal Republic of Germany (i. e., in Bavaria).

Connections exist with our sister laboratory, Siemens Corporate Research 
in Princeton, NJ, as well as with various research institutes and universities 
in Germany and in the U.S. including MIT, CMU and ICSI.

Above and beyond the Laboratory facilities, the group has a network of 
Sun and DEC workstations, Symbolics Lisp machines, file and compute servers, 
and dedicated image processing hardware.

My personal interests are in image sequence analysis, moving object recognition
for surveillance and traffic monitoring, depth from stereo and motion,
optical flow estimation, autonomous navigation etc. If someone is interested 
in more details, or if someone would like to participate in one of our 
projects (we have openings), please send a message to:

	Achim v. Brandt
	Siemens AG
	ZFE IS INF 1
	Otto-Hahn-Ring 6
	D-8000 Muenchen 83
	(West) Germany

	email: 	brandt@ztivax.siemens.com
	Tel. +49-89-636-47532
	FAX  +49-89-636-2393

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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 20:33:00 +0100
From: Eduardo Bayro <eba@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk>
Subject: fractals & data compression
Organization: Univ. of Wales Coll. of Cardiff, Dept. of Electronic & Systems 
              Engineering

Hello friends!!  

I asked a cupple of months ago for bibliography on fractals. I am very
thankfull to everybody wo answer me. The literature I have got,
actually, comprise of a some books and nearly ten articles. It is
anyway not worthy for mailing it as a representative one. Now friends,
what I am really interested on is in fractals for image compression.
Please, if anybody knows suitable references or have suggestions post
them by e-mail. Many Thanks, Eduardo.

 Eduardo Bayro, School of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering,
 University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales, UK.
 Internet: eba%cm.cf.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk        Janet:  eba@uk.ac.cf.cm
 UUCP:     eba@cf-cm.UUCP or ...!mcsun!ukc!cf-cm!eba

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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 90 17:55:57 PDT
From: tapas@george.ee.washington.edu
Subject: Performance Evaluation

We are compiling a survey of work done on performance evaluation
of low level vision algorithms. The kind of papers we are looking
for are:
 (i)  Any work on general methodology of performance evaluation.
 (ii) Performance evaluation of specific type of algorithms,
      e.g., edge detection algorithms, corner detection algorithms, etc.

I have appended a list of references we have already collected.

We will appreciate any references to this kind of work. I'll summerize
the responses to the net. 

Thanks in advance.

Tapas Kanungo <tapas@george.ee.washington.edu>

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
@article{ DeF:eval,
author = "Deutsch, E. S. and J. R. Fram",
title = "A quantitative study of the
         Orientational Bias of some Edge Detector Schemes",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Computers",
month = "March",
year = 1978}
 
@article{FrD:human,
author = "Fram, J.R. and E.S. Deutsch",
title = "On the quantitative evaluation of edge detection schemes and
         their comparisions with human performance",
journal = "IEEE Transaction on Computers",
volume = "C-24",
number = "6",
pages = "616-627"
year = 1975}

@article{AbP:eval,
author = "Abdou, I.E. and W. K. Pratt",
title = "Qualitative design and evaluation of enhancement/thresholding
          edge detector",
journal = "Proc. IEEE",
volume = "67",
number = "5",
pages = "753-763",
year = 1979}
 
@article{PeM:eval,
author = "Peli, T. and D. Malah",
title = "A study of edge detection algorithms",
journal = "Computer Graphics and Image Processing",
volume = "20",
pages ="1-21",
year = 1982}
 
@article{KiR:eval,
author = "Kitchen, L. and A. Rosenfeld",
title = "Edge Evaluation using local edge coherence",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics",
volume = "SMC-11",
number = "9",
pages = "597-605",
year = 1981}

@article{HaL:eval,
author = "Haralick, R.M. and J. S. J. Lee",
title = "Context dependent edge detection and evaluation",
journal = "Pattern Recognition",
volume = "23",
number = "1/2",
pages = "1-19",
year = 1990}

@article{Har:performance,
author = "Haralick, R.M.",
title = "Performance assessment of near perfect machines",
journal = "Journal of machine vision algorithms",
year = 1988}


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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 00:39:31 EDT
From: choudhar@cat.syr.edu (Alok Choudhary)
Subject: Call for Papers and Referees: Special Issue of IEEE COMPUTER

		  Call for Papers and Referees

		for  A Special Issue of IEEE COMPUTER on

      Parallel Processing for Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU)

The February 1992 issue of IEEE Computer will be devoted to
Parallel Processing for Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU).
Tutorial, survey, case-study of architectures, performance evaluation
and other manuscripts are sought. Sub-areas of interest include, but are
not limited to :

Architectures :  Multiprocessor architectures and special purpose architectures
		 for CVIU.
Algorithms :    Design, mapping and implementations of parallel algorithms
		 for CVIU problems.
Languages :     Design of languages for efficient implementation of CVIU
		 programs, specially for parallel processing and architecture
	         independent implementations.
Software Development Tools : Software development tools for parallel CVIU
		 applications.
Performance Evaluation : Benchmarking, performance evaluation  of
		architectures and algorithms; performance evaluation of 
		integrated CVIU systems.
Real-time vision architectures and applications.

	          Instructions for submitting manuscripts

Manuscripts must not have been previously published or currently under
consideration for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should be no longer
8000 words (approximately 30 double-spaced, single sided pages using a 12-point
type) including all text, figures and references).
Manuscripts should include a  title page containing: paper title;
full name(s), affiliations(s), postal address, e-mail address, telephone,
and fax number of all authors; a 300-word abstract; and a list of key words.

		  	     Deadlines

    - Eight (8) Copies of the Full Manuscript       March 1,  1991
    - Notification of Decisions                     August 1, 1991
    - Final Version of the Manuscript               October 1, 1991
    - Date of Special Issue                         February 1992


	         Send submissions and Questions to

Prof. Alok N. Choudhary                   Prof. Sanjay Ranka
Electrical and Computer Engineering       School of Computer and Information
Department				  Science 
121 Link Hall                             4-116, Center for Science and
					  Technology
Syracuse University                       Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244 			  Syracuse, NY 13244
(315) 443-4280                            (315) 443-4457 
choudhar@cat.ece.syr.edu                  ranka@top.cis.syr.edu 


                             Referees

If you are willing to referee papers for the special issue, please send a note
with research interests to:
			 Prof. John T. Butler,
			 Associate Technical Editor, Computer
			 Department of Electrical and
			 Computer Engineering
			 Naval Postgraduate School, Code EC/Bu
			 Monterey, CA, 92943-5004
			 Office: (408) 646-3299
			      or (408) 646-3041
			 fax: (408) 646-2760
			 email: butler@cs.nps.navy.mil.

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