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Today's Topics:

 Address to Kontron?
 Superquadrics from range data
 What is the State of the Art of Artificial Vision?
 Image Compression Routines for UNIX Systems
 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Robust Computer Vision
 Call for Papers: Geometric Methods in Computer Vision

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Date: Fri, 5 Oct 90 14:51:41 +0100
From: pell@isy.liu.se
Subject: Address to Kontron?

Hello. Does anyone have the (snail-mail) address to Kontron,
a manufacturer of Image Processing systems in Munich, Germany?
Thanks!

Dept. of Electrical Engineering	                         pell@isy.liu.se
University of Linkoping, Sweden	                    ...!uunet!isy.liu.se!pell

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Date: Tuesday, 2 Oct 1990 23:43:24 EDT
From: Bennamoun Mohamed <MOHAMEDB@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Subject: Pentland's research.
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston

Hello !

Is anybody familiar with Pentland's research concerning the recovery of
superquadrics from range data?

I have problems understanding what he means by minimal length encoding, and
how his algorithm performs segmentation !!

I will appreciate any help.


Thanks in advance.
                       Mohamed.

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Date: 4 Oct 90 12:21:07 GMT
From: loren@tristan.llnl.gov (Loren Petrich)
Subject: What is the State of the Art of Artificial Vision?
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

	I wish to ask how much has been accomplished in the field of
Artificial Vision. What sorts of things have been achieved in the
field of computerized visual perception? To put it another way, what
things is it possible to "perceive" with the computerized vision
systems that have been devised to date? What progress has been made in
artificial-vision algorithms and in artificial-vision hardware?

	I am sure that appropriate specialized hardware will be
essential for artificial-vision applications, since the amount of raw
data to be processed is enormous, and many of the fundamental
operations are relatively simple and can be done in parallel. And that
is why I asked about hardware.

	Has anyone published the kind of overview of the
artificial-vision field that I have been asking for?


Loren Petrich, the Master Blaster: loren@sunlight.llnl.gov

Since this nodename is not widely known, you may have to try:

loren%sunlight.llnl.gov@star.stanford.edu

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Date: 4 Oct 90 19:14:58 GMT
From: boulder!boulder!domik@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Gitta Domik)
Subject: Image Compression Routines for UNIX Systems
Keywords: Image compression, ADCT, UNIX Sources
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder

I have the problem of storing large amounts of digitized images, and
want to compress them for long term archive. For our purposes, ADCT or
the items of this kind work best. I have tested Kodak's 'Colorsqueeze'
software for the MAC, and the results are okay, except for speed, but
I am looking for similar software to be run on UNIX machines. For me,
the optimal solutions would be public-domain UNIX sources. Can anyone
help?

I am not on Usenet, so please e-mail directly to my address:

[ Also please post to the List so others may benefit from the answers.
		phil...		]

fkappe@tugiig.uucp

Frank Kappe, Technical University Graz 
Institute for Computer Based New Media
Graz, Austria

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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 90 14:52:27 -0700
From: graham@cs.washington.edu (Stephen Graham)
Subject: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Robust Computer Vision

The Proceedings of the International Workshop on Robust Computer Vision
are now available. The cost is US$40 per copy, including postage.
To order, please send a check or money order made out to the
International Workshop on Robust Computer Vision to the following
address:

	Workshop on Robust Computer Vision
	c/o Stephen Graham
	Dept. of Electrical Engineering FT-10
	University of Washington
	Seattle, WA  98195  USA

Further information may be obtained by calling (206) 543-8115 or
by e-mail to graham@cs.washington.edu

Stephen Graham

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Date: Fri, 5 Oct 90 15:17:04 -0400
From: Baba Vemuri <vemuri@scuba.cis.ufl.edu>
Subject: CAll for Papers

		 Announcement and Call for Papers

		 Geometric Methods in Computer Vision
	(Part of SPIE's 36th Annual International Symp. on Optical
	 and Optoelectronic Applied Science and Engineering)
			
			Dates: 25-26th July 1991
		 Location: San Diego, California USA
	San Diego Convention Center and marriott Hotel & Marina


Conference Chair: 
Baba C. Vemuri, Dept. of CIS, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl

Cochairs: Ruud M. Bolle, IBM T. J. Watson Research Ctr., Yorktown Heights NY
Demetri Terzopoulos, Dept. of CS, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
Richard Szeliski, CS Research labs, DEC, Boston, MA 
Gabriel Taubin, IBM T. J. Watson Research Ctr., Yorktown Heights NY


The theme of this conference is application of geometric methods in
low-level vision tasks, specifically for shape and motion estimation.
Over the past few years, there has been increased  interest in the use
of differential geometry and geometric probability methods for various
low-level vision problems. Papers describing novel contributions in
all aspects of geometric and probabilistic methods in low-level vision
are solicited, with particular emphasis on:

(1) Differential Geometric Methods for Shape Representation

(2) Probability and Geometry (Geometric Probability)

(3) Energy-based Methods for Shape Estimation

(4) Geometry and Motion Estimation


Deadlines: 

Abstract Due Date: 24 December 1990

Manuscript Due Date: 24th June 1991

You may recieve the author application kit by sending email requests
to vemuri@scuba.cis.ufl.edu.  Late abstract submissions may be
considered, subject to program time availability and chair's approval.

Submit To: 

SPIE Technical Program Committee/San Diego'91
P. O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010 USA
Telephone: 206/676/-3290 (Pacific Time)

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