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VISION-LIST Digest    Thu Aug 15 09:29:51 PDT 91     Volume 10 : Issue 35

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Today's Topics:

 Image moments with changing camera position
 Need for high frequency 2D modulator
 Looking for stereo image pairs
 Job Available: Assistant Professor, Cognitive Psychology, Yale
 CFP: Special Issue on Formal Methods in 2-D Shape Analysis
 Preliminary CFP: Intern. Competitiveness in Advanced Optics & Imaging
 

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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 91 17:21:05 +1000
From: pic@mlb.dmt.csiro.au
Subject: image moments with changing camera position

I'm trying to find information about how moments of a planar object
(or face) change with camera position.  The general case for
perspective transform would be best.  I am not after invariant
moments.

Any pointers to articles in the literature would be appreciated.  

Thanks, 
Peter Corke,                         PHONE: +61 3 487-9259
Senior Research Scientist            INTERNET: pic@mlb.dmt.csiro.au
CSIRO Div. Manufacturing Technology  ACSNET or CSNET:pic@mimir.dmt.oz.au
Melbourne, Australia. 3072 

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From: sjw@ai.mit.edu (Steve White)
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 91 16:32:53 EDT
Subject: need for high frequency 2D modulator

I am looking for a transmission or reflection mode high frequency 2D
beam modulator, something like liquid crystal except capable of
kilohertz to megahertz range bit toggling. Size and resolution is less
critical than speed at this time.

I would imagine some of the list readers have worked in optical
computation, especially in the digital/optical interface end and are
quite familiar with such devices. I would like very much to get some
pointers to researchers and commercial outfits making these devices.

Please reply by email (sjw@ai.mit.edu) if possible. If not, my office
phone at MIT is (617) 253-5848.

Steve

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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1991 18:36:47 +0930
From: Kevin Haines <haines@medusa.teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au>
Subject: Looking for Stereo image pairs

I am currently doing my Honours, and I need some stereo image pairs
for my project. Any size will do - I'm not fussy. If anyone has
any images they could send me, or knows of any ftp sites etc. that
have image pairs, I'd be grateful if they could contact me via E-mail.
(I know of the stuff at ADS.COM - I just want some additional material
to use.

Thanks in advance,
Kevin Haines.   ( E-mail haines@cs.adelaide.edu.au )

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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 91 12:32:56 EDT
From: "Michael J. Tarr" <tarr-michael@CS.YALE.EDU>
Subject: Job Available: Assistant Professor, Cognitive Psychology, Yale

				Job Available
		   Assistant Professor, Cognitive Psychology
				Yale University

The Department of Psychology at Yale University expects to make an
appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of
cognitive psychology effective July 1, 1992. Outstanding candidates in
any subspeciality of this area are encouraged to apply. All applicants
are expected to provide high-quality teaching at the undergraduate
level and in a graduate cognitive psychology program, and to have
exhibited (or shown very clear promise of) excellence in research.
Applicants should send a letter of application, a resume, and papers
or reprints, and should arrange for three letters of recommendation to
be sent to: Chair, Cognitive Psychology Search Committee, Department
of Psychology, Yale University, PO Box 11A Yale Station, New Haven, CT
06520-7447. Deadline for completed applications: December 1, 1991.
Yale is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, and
applications from women and minority group members are especially
encouraged.

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From: Csirik Janos <h873csi@ella.hu>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 91 16:32:00
Subject: CFP: Special Issue on Formal Methods in 2-D Shape Analysis

Special Issue on Formal Methods in 2-D Shape Analysis

Guest Editors: H. Bunke                         J. Csirik
               University of Berne              University of Szeged
               Langgassstrasse 51               Arpad ter 2
               CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland        H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
               Phone: 41-31-65 8681             Phone: 36-62-11 184
               Fax: 41-31-65 3965               Fax: 36-62-12 292
               Email: bunke@iam.unibe.ch        Email: h873csi@ella.uucp

Call for papers

A special issue of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial
Intelligence, devoted to Formal methods in 2-D shape analysis, is
planned for 1993. Papers with significant mathematical content are
being solicited for consideration. Invited surveys and full-le ngth
versions of selected papers will be published. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to, the following:
		Coding
		Data structures
		Segmentation
		Local and global properties of shape
		Shape invariants
		Morphological operators
		Geometric similarity
		Methods based on Hough transform
		Model matching
		2-D object recognition and location
		Methods based on neural networks
		Parallel algorithms

Deadline for submission: April 30, 1992.

Please send three copies of your paper to J. Csirik at the address 
given above.

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Date: Sun, 11 Aug 91 16:44 IST
From: JOSEPH VAN ZWAREN TEL 972-2-277095 <JO%ILNCRD@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL>
Subject: Preliminary CFP: Intern. Competitiveness in Advanced Optics & Imaging

SPIE-The International Society for Engineering
POB 10, Bellingham, Washington 98227-0010
1000 20th Street, Bellingham, Washington 98225
USA
Telephone (Pacific Time) 206/676-3290
Telex 46-7053
Telefax 206/647-1445

          INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS IN ADVANCED OPTICS AND IMAGING
                           A Conference Sponsored by
             SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering
                     and High Technology of Rochester, Inc.
                               9-10 October 1991
                         Stouffer Rochester Plaza Hotel
                                 Rochester, NY

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

Since the 1980s, technologies of advanced optics and imaging have come
to be applied in numerous industries, from photography to medical
instrumentation, avionics to office systems, and defense industries to
consumer electronics.  These technologies (sometimes referred to as
photonics) can now be placed alongside the most important
technological advances of the late 20th century, such as biotechnology
and advanced microelectronics.

Industrial nations have responded in various ways to these
developments in optics and imaging. In Japan, optoelectronic products
have had the highest growth rate of any industry. In the United
States, which has made massive military and commercial investments in
these technologies, incomplete evidence suggests a less successful
industrial performance. France, Germany, Taiwan, Israel and the United
Kingdom, among other nations, have achieved significant advances.

Persons from industry, government, and academic institutions are
invited to submit papers that address issues of competitiveness in
advanced optics and imaging. Sessions will be held on some of the
following topics:
- the growing economic significance of advanced optics and imaging in the
  domestic and world economy
- relative performance among nations of the world and regions of the United
  States in optics and imaging
- problems of data availability for tracking development in optics and imaging
  and other technologies
- government policies and strategies for responding to advanced optics and
  imaging in a world economy: industrial policy, competitiveness policy,
  technological targeting, and industry-led policy
- education of scientists and engineers in optics and imaging: evidence on
  present trends, government policies, programs of academic institutions,
  recruitment of minorities and women
- US technology policy under the Bush administration
- domestic and foreign policies of research support, technological
  standardization, and international research cooperation
- industrial consortia, research cooperation, and industry-university research
  centers
- entrepreneurship and technological start-up businesses versus multinational
  corporations in advanced optics and imaging
- export performance, export policy, and export cooperation in the US and other
  nations
- military-industrial technological and educational relationships in optics and
  imaging in the wake of changes in Eastern Europe
- public policies and government-industry-university cooperation with respect 
  to major, systematic applications of optics and imaging, such as:
  - telecommunications networks
  - office imaging systems
  - medical imaging systems
  - optoelectronic or optical computing
  - applications to human disabilities
- Selected papers will be published in a Proceedings by SPIE-The International
  Society for Optical Engineering (possibly in conjunction with another
  publisher).

For more information on paper presentation and panels, please call or write:
                                Ernest Sternberg
                              Assistant Professor
                       Department of Planning and Design
                             University at Buffalo
                          State University of New York
                               Buffalo, NY 14214
                              Phone: 716/831-2133
                               Fax: 716/831-2297

For general meeting information, please contact SPIE at the address on the
letterhead.

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           CONFERENCE ON COMPETITIVENESS SET FOR ROCHESTER THIS FALL

SPIE
This conference on International Competitiveness in Advanced Optics and
Imaging will address important issues in the global advancement of cooperation
and development in optics, optoelectronics, and related fields.

The October 9-10 meeting in Rochester, New York, will be chaired by Ernest
Sternberg of the State University of New York at Buffalo.

According to chairman Ernest Sternberg (SUNY/Buffalo), the meeting comes at a
time when optics and imaging technologies are becoming critical to the
competitiveness of many economic sectors and many nations. "Optics and imaging
are coming to have revolutionary economic importance in the world," he said.
"This will grow even further when computer, communications, and imaging
applications come to be integrated at light speed."

Sternberg added that in Japan, which had one of the world's highest growth
rates in the 1980s, the technological sector with the highest growth rate
was optoelectronics.

The conference will include a plenary session entitled "Technological
Competitiveness in a Global Economy," chaired by Brian J. Thompson, Provost of
the University of Rochester. The session will include the following speakers
and topics:
* Craig Fields, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp.: "What is U.S.
  competitiveness and how do we get it?"
* D.B. Keck, Director of Optoelectronics Research at Corning: "Fiber optics: a
  communications revolution."
* Mark B. Myers, Vice President of the Corporate Research Group at Xerox:
  "Corporate technologies in a global economy."
* E.P. Przybylowitz, Senior VP and Director of Research at Eastman Kodak:
  "Strategic intent and architecture: keystones for international
  competitiveness."

Conference Chair Ernest Sternberg will chair a session on "Tracking Advanced
Optics: Data on Where Nations Stand," followed by a session on "Comparative
National Initiatives in Optics and Imaging," chaired by Joseph van Zwaren de
Zwarenstein of the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology. This will
include presentations from France, Taiwan, Canada, Japan, and the United
Kingdom.

Sessions on State and Local Technology Policy and Federal Policy
Directions for Advanced Optics and Imaging will examine problems and
progress in various U.S.  technology programs. Rounding out the
conference will be a session on new and creative approaches to
technology development: "New Technology Alliances" will be chaired by
Bruce W. Arden, University of Rochester. The final session and
discussion will focus on the Future of Optics and Imaging (chair
Edward C.  McIrvine, Consultant in R&D Management), with a keynote
address by David M.  Lewis of Eastman Kodak Company on "Images of the
future: tomorrow's imaging systems."

Sternberg said the competitiveness meeting represents the first time
that people from around the world and from many differeent walks of
life will meet to discuss the future of the field from the point of
view of its public importance. "Participants will have a chance to
exchange ideas on how governments are responding to advanced optics,
on the many varieties of industry-government-university cooperation,
and on strategies by which the field can best advance itself."

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