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Today's Topics:

 3D IMAGE Reconstruction.
 Pixar for image processing
 range-hardware
 Workshop: Adap. Neural Nets & Statistical Patt. Recog.

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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 90 10:48:12 +0000
From: P.Refenes@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK
Subject: 3D IMAGE Reconstruction.

Can anyone out there mention references about 3-D image
reconstruction.  I am looking for the best review paper on techniques
for 3D Image reconstruction. Failing that I could do with the second
best, or with any paper or descent reference.  The particular problem
that we have is to re-construct a 3-D image of slides of skin
(histopathology).

Thanks in advance.

Paul Refenes
Department of Computer Science
University College London
Gower Street, WC1 6BT.


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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 90 09:35:07 CST
From: fsistler@gumbo.age.lsu.edu
Subject: Pixar for image processing

I am using a Pixar II with a SparcStation 4/370 for image analysis and
processing, and am trying to find a users group network where Pixar
users communicate.  Can anyone tell me if such a group exists, and how
I can join?

I would appreciate any help that anyone would offer.

Fred Sistler
Louisiana State University

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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 90 11:37:02 est
From: "Y." (Greg)Shiu <yshiu@thor.wright.edu>
Subject: range-hardware

Does anybody know of companies that sell dense ranging devices, using
time of flight or triangulation? And what are their approximate prices?

I have heard that ranging system are expensive (around 100K), 
so I may want to buy a plane laser projector for building my own 
triangulation based range sensor but I dont know which companies 
sells plane laser devices.

   Greg Shiu
   Department of Electrical Engineering
   Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435
   phone: (513) 873-4254
   email: yshiu@cs.wright.edu

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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 90 19:08:29 EST
From: flynn@pixel.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J. Flynn)
Subject: Workshop: Adap. Neural Nets & Statistical Patt. Recog.

                                 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
 

Recent developments in artificial neural networks (ANN's) have caused a
great deal of excitement in the academic, industrial, and defense
communities.  Current ANN research owes much to several decades of work
in statistical pattern recognition (SPR); indeed, many fundamental
concepts from SPR have recently found new life as research topics when
placed into the framework of an ANN model.

The aim of this one-day workshop is to provide a forum for itneraction
between the leading researchers from the SPR and ANN fields.  As
pattern recognition practioners, we seek to address the following
issues:

**In what ways do artificial neural networks differ from the well-known
paradigms of statistical pattern recognition?  Are there concepts in
ANN for which no counterpart in SPR exists (and vice versa?)

**What benefits can come out of interaction between ANN and SPR researchers?

**What advantages, if any, does ANN techniques have over SPR methods in
dealing with real world problems such as object recognition, pattern
classification, and visual environment learning?

                              Tentative Program

 8:00 Registration
 8:30 Issues in ANN and SPR, Laveen Kanal, University of Maryland
 9:15 Links Between ANN's & SPR, Paul Werbos, National Science Foundation
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Generalization & Discovery in Adaptive Pattern Recognition, Y. Pao,
      Case Western Reserve University
11:15 Character Recognition, Henry Baird, AT&T Bell Labs

12:00 LUNCH

 1:30 Target Recognition, Steven Rogers, U.S. Air Force
 2:15 Connectionist Models for Speech Recognition, Renato DeMori, McGill
      University
 3:00 Coffee Break
 3:30 Panel Discussion,  Moderators: Anil Jain, Michigan State University &
      Ishwar Sethi, Wayne State University

Registration Information:
  Advance Registration (by 5/15/90): $100
  Late Registration: $120

Contact:    Ms. Cathy Davison (Workshop on ANN and PR)
            Department of Computer Science, A-714 Wells Hall
            Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824
            Tel. (517)355-5218, email: davison@cps.msu.edu, FAX: (517)336-1061


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