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Today's Topics:

 Focus of attention in human and computer vision
 Computer Controllable Lenses
 Work at BMW
 RE: List of industrial vision companies..
 CANCELLED:  ANN Workshop, Atlantic City, Jun. 17

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Date: 13 Jun 90 16:14:43+0200
From: milanese ruggero <milanese@cuisun.unige.ch>
Subject: Focus of attention in human and computer vision

Hallo,

	I am at the beginning of my PhD work concerning the subject 
of focus of attention applied to visual perception. Good sources of 
information about the underlying mechanisms seem to be provided by 
psychologists and, to a given extent, by neurophysiologists. Rather
than analysis of elementar phenomena, what I am more interested in
are frameworks and theories that try to explain the global process
of attention in vision. Since I am a computer scientist, I shall 
also be interested in applying these concepts into a working machine 
vision system.
	Therefore, I would be grateful for any information, reference,
discussion or pointers about work done in this field. 

	Many thanks,
                                       Ruggero Milanese


E-mail:	  milanese@cuisun.unige.ch

Address:  Centre Universitaire d'Informatique
          12, rue du Lac
          1207 - Geneve
          Switzerland

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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 90 08:46:42 BST
From: Alan McIvor <bprcsitu!alanm@relay.EU.net>
Subject: Computer Controllable Lenses

Hi,
	We are currently looking for a lens for our vision system with
computer controllable focus, focal length, and aperture. Do any of you
know of a source of such lenses? We have found many motorized lenses 
but most have auto-apertures and no feedback of settings. 
	I recall several years ago that a company called Vicon made such
a lens but I don't have any details. Anybody know how to get hold of
them?

Thanks,

Dr Alan M. McIvor		
BP International Ltd    	ukc!bprcsitu!alanm
Research Centre Sunbury	    	alanm%bprcsitu.uucp@uk.ac.ukc
Chertsey Road			bprcsitu!alanm@relay.EU.NET
Sunbury-on-Thames       	uunet!ukc!bprcsitu!alanm
Middlesex TW16 7LN		Tel: +44 932 764252
U.K.                            Fax: +44 932 762999

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		phil...	]

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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 90 10:24:13 +0200
From: jost@bmwmun.ads.com (Jost Bernasch)
Subject: Work at BMW

[ I received this as part of a correspondence, and I thought it would
  be of general interest (with permission to post from Jost).
				phil...	]

I am with a research group at BMW and at the Technical University of Munich.
We are developing a selfguided driving car, which is lateral controled.
The car actually is driving on the BMW test route with about 60mph without
needing white lanes or something like that.  

We are just working towards a more stable system (brightness, shadows)
and we will identify, track and classify objects (cars, trucks, pedestrians).
Furthermore we are developing an attentive vision modul, which focuses
automatically attention to important parts of the image.

Naturally, we are confronted with problems which need adaptive
control (lateral guidance depending on the car's changing status 
and the environment, adaptiv, intelligently controlled attentive
vision, adapting a lot of parameters in the vision modules etc.).

Yours
Jost Bernasch, 
BMW AG Muenchen, Dep. EW-13, P.O. BOX 40 02 40, D-8000 Muenchen 40,  Germany
Tel. ()89-3183-2822  	FAX ()89-3183-4767      jost@bmwmun.uucp.dbp.de


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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 90 14:49:33 -0500
From: krishnan@cs.wisc.edu (Harikrishnan Krishna)
Subject: RE: List of industrial vision companies..

 It would be great if the addresses were also posted along with the 
 names of the companies.

 Thanks.

 Krishna.

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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 90 20:20:56 EDT
From: raja@pixel.cps.msu.EDU
Subject: CANCELLED:  ANN Workshop, Atlantic City, Jun. 17

The following workshop has been CANCELLED.  Any
inconvenience caused is regretted.

                                 Workshop on
              Artificial Neural Networks & Pattern Recognition

                                Sponsored by
        The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)

                                 Sands Hotel
                          Atlantic City, New Jersey
                                June 17, 1990

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