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Today's Topics:

 Request for Public Domain Image Processing Packages
 3D-glasses
 Connected Component Algorithm
 Posting Call-for-papers of ICCV'90
 Call for Papers Wang Conference

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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 90 13:02:20 PST
From: Scott E. Johnston <johnston@odin.ads.com>
Subject: Request for Public Domain Image Processing Packages
Status: RO

I am collecting any and all public-domain image processing packages.
I plan on making them available to all via the vision-list FTP site
(disk space permitting).  Send pointers and packages themselves to
johnston@ads.com (not vision-list@ads.com).  Thanks.

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Subject: 3D-glasses
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 90 01:17:23 EST
From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@math.lsa.umich.edu>

Here's a pointer to info on the Sega 3D glasses.  --Ed


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From: jmunkki@kampi.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Subject: [comp.sys.mac.hardware...] Sega 3D glasses document fix 1.2
Date: 8 Jan 90 20:16:53 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Approved: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)

This is patch 1.2 of the Sega 3D glasses interface document.  It
supersedes versions 0.9, 1.0 and 1.1 of the document. Version 1.2 is
available with anonymous ftp from vega.hut.fi [130.233.200.42].
pub/mac/finnish/sega3d/

Version 0.9 and 1.0 of the document have the TxD+ and TxD- pins
reversed. This causes problems only with my demo software and can
be noticed easily, because both lenses show the same image. Fix
this problem by pulling out the TxD+ and TxD- pins from the miniDIN
connector, swap them and push back in.

Version 1.1 (which is what you have after you make the previous
change) has the tip and center of the glasses connector switched.
Again this doesn't cause any problems unless you use the demo
software. The spiro and Macintosh demos will clearly be inside
the screen and their perspectives will look wrong. To fix the
problem resolder the connector or change the software to swap
the meanings of left and right. If you intend to write for the
glasses, it might be a good idea to include an option to switch
left and right.

     Juri Munkki jmunkki@hut.fi  jmunkki@fingate.bitnet        I Want   Ne   |
     Helsinki University of Technology Computing Centre        My Own   XT   |

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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 90 14:16:52 EST
From: palumbo@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Paul Palumbo)
Subject: Connected Component Algorithm

I was wondering if anybody out there in net-land knows an image analysis 
technique to locate connected components in digital images.  In particular,
I am looking for an algorithm that can be implemented in hardware that makes
only one pass through the image in scan-line order and reports several simple
component features such as component extent (Minimum and Maximum X and Y 
coordinates) and the number of foreground pixels in the component.

The project I am on is planning to design and develop custom image analysis
hardware to do this. We have developed an algorithm locally and was wondering
if somebody else has an easier method.


I know about the LSI Logic "Object Contour Tracer Chip" but this chip appears 
to be too powerful (and slow) for this application.   I had found some papers
by Gleason and Agin dated about 10 years ago but could not find the exact 
details of their algorithm. 

Does anybody else have a need for such hardware?

Any help or pointers on locating such an algorithm would be appreciated.
 
Paul Palumbo                    internet:palumbo@cs.buffalo.edu
Research Associate              bitnet:  palumbo@sunybcs.BITNET
226 Bell Hall                   csnet:   palumbo@buffalo.csnet
SUNY at Buffalo  CS Dept.
Buffalo, New York 14260
(716) 636-3407    uucp:   ..!{boulder,decvax,rutgers}!sunybcs!palumbo

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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 90 11:11:31 JST
From: tsuji%tsuji.ce.osaka-u.JUNET@relay.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Saburo Tsuji)
Subject: Posting Call-for-papers of ICCV'90


                                   Call for Papers
                 THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION
                       International House Osaka, Osaka, Japan
                                 December 4-7, 1990

          CHAIRS
          General Chair:
          Makoto Nagao, Kyoto University, Japan
          E-mail: nagao@kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp
          Program Co-chairs:
          Avi Kak, Purdue University, USA
          E-mail:kak@ee.ecn.purdue.edu
          Jan-Olof Eklundh, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
          joe@bion.kth.se
          Saburo Tsuji, Osaka University, Japan
          tsuji@tsuji.ce.osaka-u.ac.jp
          Local Arrangement Chair:
          Yoshiaki Shirai, Osaka University, Japan
          shirai@ccmip.ccm.osaka-u.ac.jp

          THE CONFERENCE
          ICCV'90 is the third International Conference devoted  solely  to
          computer vision.  It is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society.

          THE PROGRAM
          The program will consist of high quality  contributed  papers  on
          all  aspects  of computer vision.  All papers will be refereed by
          the members  of  the  Program  Committee.  Accepted  papers  will
          be  presented   as  long papers in a single track or as short pa-
          pers in two parallel tracks.

          PROGRAM COMMITTEE
          The  Program  Committee  consists  of  thirty  prominent  members
          representing all major facets of computer vision.


          PAPER SUBMISSION
          Authors should submit four copies of their papers to Saburo Tsuji
          at  the  address shown below by April 30, 1990.  Papers must con-
          tain major new research contributions. All  papers  will  be  re-
          viewed  using a double-blind procedure, implying that the identi-
          ties of the authors will not be known to the reviewers.  To  make
          this  possible,  two title pages should be included, but only one
          containing the names and addresses of the authors; the title page
          with the names and addresses of the authors will be removed prior
          to the review process. Both title pages should contain the  title
          of  the  paper  and  a short (less than 200 words) abstract.  Au-
          thors must restrict the lengths of their papers to 30 pages; that
          length  should include everything, meaning the title pages, texts
          (double-spaced), figures, bibliography, etc. Authors will be  no-
          tified  of  acceptance  by  mid-July.  Final camera-ready papers,
          typed on special forms, will be due mid-August.

          Send To:  Saburo Tsuji,
          Osaka University,  Department  of  Control Engineering, Toyonaka,
          Osaka 560, Japan.
          E-mail tsuji@tsuji.ce.osaka-u.ac.jp


 


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Date:  Fri, 12 Jan 90 02:06:41 EST
From: mike@bucasb.bu.edu (Michael Cohen)
Subject: Call for Papers Wang Conference

                              CALL FOR PAPERS

               NEURAL NETWORKS FOR AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION
                              MAY 11--13, 1990

Sponsored by the Center for Adaptive Systems,
the Graduate Program in Cognitive and Neural Systems,
and the Wang Institute of Boston University
with partial support from 
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research


This research conference at the cutting edge of neural network science and
technology will bring together leading experts in academe, government, and
industry to present their latest results on automatic target recognition
in invited lectures and contributed posters. Invited lecturers include:

JOE BROWN, Martin Marietta, "Multi-Sensor ATR using Neural Nets"

GAIL CARPENTER, Boston University, "Target Recognition by Adaptive 
Resonance: ART for ATR"

NABIL FARHAT, University of Pennsylvania, "Bifurcating Networks for 
Target Recognition"

STEPHEN GROSSBERG, Boston University, "Recent Results on Self-Organizing 
ATR Networks"

ROBERT HECHT-NIELSEN, HNC, "Spatiotemporal Attention Focusing by 
Expectation Feedback"

KEN JOHNSON, Hughes Aircraft, "The Application of Neural Networks to the 
Acquisition and Tracking of Maneuvering Tactical Targets in High Clutter 
IR Imagery"

PAUL KOLODZY, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, "A Multi-Dimensional ATR System"

MICHAEL KUPERSTEIN, Neurogen, "Adaptive Sensory-Motor Coordination
using the INFANT Controller"

YANN LECUN, AT&T Bell Labs, "Structured Back Propagation Networks for
Handwriting Recognition"

CHRISTOPHER SCOFIELD, Nestor, "Neural Network Automatic Target Recognition 
by Active and Passive Sonar Signals"

STEVEN SIMMES, Science Applications International Co., "Massively Parallel 
Approaches to Automatic Target Recognition" 

ALEX WAIBEL, Carnegie Mellon University, "Patterns, Sequences and Variability:
Advances in Connectionist Speech Recognition"

ALLEN WAXMAN, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, "Invariant Learning and
Recognition of 3D Objects from Temporal View Sequences"

FRED WEINGARD, Booz-Allen and Hamilton, "Current Status and Results of Two 
Major Government Programs in Neural Network-Based ATR"

BARBARA YOON, DARPA, "DARPA Artificial Neural Networks Technology
Program: Automatic Target Recognition"


CALL FOR PAPERS---ATR POSTER SESSION: A featured poster session on ATR
neural network research will be held on May 12, 1990. Attendees who wish to
present a poster should submit 3 copies of an extended abstract 
(1 single-spaced page), postmarked by March 1, 1990, for refereeing. Include
with the abstract the name, address, and telephone number of the corresponding
author. Mail to: ATR Poster Session, Neural Networks Conference, Wang
Institute of Boston University, 72 Tyng Road, Tyngsboro, MA 01879. Authors
will be informed of abstract acceptance by March 31, 1990.

SITE: The Wang Institute possesses excellent conference facilities on a
beautiful 220-acre campus. It is easily reached from Boston's Logan
Airport and Route 128. 

REGISTRATION FEE: Regular attendee--$90; full-time student--$70.
Registration fee includes admission to all lectures and poster session, 
abstract book, 
one reception, two continental breakfasts, one lunch, one dinner, daily 
morning and afternoon coffee service. STUDENTS FELLOWSHIPS are available.
For information, call (508) 649-9731. 

TO REGISTER: By phone, call (508) 649-9731; by mail, write for further 
information to: Neural Networks, Wang Institute of Boston University, 72 Tyng 
Road, Tyngsboro, MA 01879.


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