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Today's Topics:

 Gaussian Blurring
 Autofocus Microscope
 Devices for aerial rangefinding
 Aerial Photographs
 Preliminary CFP: Conference - ICARCV 92
 Consciousness & Science Discussion Group/DEC.14 MEETING

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Date: Mon, 3 Dec 90 22:59:11 CST
From: keith@vision.ee.utexas.edu (Keith Bartels)
Subject: Gaussian Blurring

Does anyone have any reference or information on the removal
of Gaussian blur from images?  I am specifically interested in blur
that is the result of a diffusion process, but anything on Gaussian
blur would be useful.
   Thanks, Keith B.

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Date: Sat, 1 Dec 90 14:17:48 EST
From: frankhua@bart.ads.com (Frank X.J HUANG)
Subject: Autofocus Microscope

We do need some kind of _AutoFocus_ microscope for the upcoming project.
We don't want to spend most of the time on focusing when moving from one
object(probably cell) to another. Does anybody know which company has this
kind of products. I would like to have more detailed information like
company name, price, focusing time, resolution, etc.

Thanks a lot.

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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 90 18:57:07 CST
From: rraby1@ub.d.umn.edu (Richard E. Raby)
Subject: Devices for aerial rangefinding

I have recently begun a project that involves capturing video images of
arbitrary landscapes from an airplane for input to a Geographic
Information System (GIS). We have the hardware to grab single frames of
video and digitize them in raster form, but what we really need is an
inexpensive, yet accurate rangefinder (RADAR) to indicate our position
above the lanscape. This device should be accurate to within 10 meters
and cost no more than $10,000. It should also be capable of producing a
digital output (I'd settle for analog) that can be inputted to an IBM PC
compatible computer. If anyone knows of such a device and what
company makes it, please conact me directly at rraby1@ub.d.umn.edu.
Thanks in advance,

	- Richard Raby
	  NRGIS CWE NRRI UMD	rraby1@ub.d.umn.edu

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Date: 1 Dec 90 18:36:10 -0600
From: cornell@vax1.mankato.msus.edu
Subject: Aerial Photographs
Organization: Mankato State University

I would like to make contact with individuals who have some experience in
working with low-level (10,000 feet) black and white infrared photographs in
relationship to object identification.

Lee Cornell
Dept of Computer Science
Box 225
Mankato State University
Mankato, MN 56002-8400
e-mail: CORNELL@MSUS1.BITNET

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Date: 2 December 90, 09:22:19 UPM
From: FACC005@SAUPM00.BITNET
Subject: Preliminary CFP: Conference - ICARCV 92

           SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTOMATION,
              ROBOTICS AND COMPUTER VISION (ICARCV '92)

                      PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

    Organised by Nanyang Technological Institute and
    Institution of Engineering, Singapore. Cosponsored
    by IEEE Singapore chapter, Instrumention and Control
    Society, Economics Development Board, National Computer
    Board, SDAA and GINTIC, Institute of CIM, Singapore.


    To be held in Singapore, on 15-18 September 1992. Authors
    are invited to send four copies of the extended summary
    (500-1000 words) and a brief abstract to :


              A/Prof D P Mital
              School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
              Nanyang Technological Institute
              Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 2263
              Republic of Singapore
              Fax: (65)264 1687
              E-Mail: EMITAL@NTIVAX.BITNET



        The deadline for submission of the abstract and four copies of
        the summaries is MARCH 31, 1992.

        SUGGESTED AREAS (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) ARE :

        ROBOTICS
        *  Robotic control
        *  Mobile robots and navigation
        *  Task planning
        *  Intellegent sensors
        *  Micro robots

        COMPUTER VISION
        *  Image processing
        *  3-D/Colour/Stereo image analysis
        *  Dynamic scense analysis
        *  Machine vision
        *  Vision systems

        INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION
        *  Instrumentation systems
        *  Flexible manufacturing systems
        *  Process Automation
        *  Man-machine interation

        NEURAL NETWORKS & APPLICATIONS
        *  Network dynamics
        *  Network architectures
        *  Learning algorithms
        *  Hardware implementation

        PARALLEL COMPUTING
        *  Algorithms
        *  Software

        AI & EXPERT SYSTEMS
        *  Knowledge acquisition
        *  Knowledge representation
        *  AI Languages
        *  Intelligent control
        *  User interface and tools

        CONTROL APPLICATIONS
        *  System identification
        *  Power system control
        *  Motion control
        *  Modelling and simulation

        REAL TIME SYSTEMS
        *  Specification and analysis
        *  Fault tolerance
        *  Implementation aspects

        Proposals for offering one day Tutorials/Workshops
        in the relevant areas are also invited. We encouraged
        Tutorial proposals from the prospective authors.

        Note :  Beside presenting your papers, you would get a
                chance to visit the beautiful garden city
                Singapore in South East Asia.

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Date: 11 Dec 90 03:35:10 GMT
From: bvi@cca.ucsf.EDU (Ravi Gomatam)
Subject: CONSCIOUSNESS & SCIENCE DISCUSSION GROUP/DEC.14 MEETING
Organization: Computer Center, UCSF

           CONSCIOUSNESS AND SCIENCE--DISCUSSION GROUP

The purpose of this group, which meets on the second Friday of every
month, is to explore the nature of consciousness and its relationship 
to science, in such fields as biology, physics, artificial intelligence, 
psychology and parapsychology.  Relevant ideas from mathematics will 
also be discussed. In general, a minimum of graduate level training 
is assumed of participants. The meetings are free and open to all 
interested persons.

                   Next Meeting Announcement
                    BRAIN AND CONSCIOUSNESS

SPEAKER:John R Smythies, M.D., 
	Institute of Neurology, Univ. of London;
 	Distinguished Emeritus Prof., Univ. of Alabama Medical Center 
	and Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Philosophy, Stanford Univ.
DATE:	December 14, 1990 (Friday)
PLACE:	Room N721, School of Nursing, U.C. San Francisco
TIME:	7:30 P.M
FORMAT: 7:30-8:00 Social;
		   8:00-9:00 Talk; 9:00-10:00 Discussion

This presentation will concentrate on a new theory 
of the relationship between phenomenological consciousness and the 
brain. If consciousness is taken as the collection of sensations, 
images and thoughts, this taken with the Representative Theory of 
Perceptions, indicates that Descartes was wrong in selecting the criterion 
of extension in space as differentiating the physical from the mental.  So 
far from being a thinking spirit, consciousness (mind) is a spatial entity.  
Therefore our understanding of the mind/brain problem may be advanced by an 
investigation of the geometrical relationships between the phenomenological 
space of consciousness and physical space.Registration: If you are attending 
for the first time, please pre-register by calling Kainila Rajan Ph.D. at 
(415) 753-8647/8648, or Jean Burns, Ph.D. at (415) 481-7507.

Directions: The closest parking is the UCSF public garage at 500 
Parnassus Avenue. Special $1 parking rate if you get your ticket validated 
at the meeting. After parking, come upto street level on Parnassus, 
cross the street to enter Medical Sciences Building (513 Parnassus). 
Go through the double doors and follow the first corridor to your 
right all the way to the school of Nursing Building.. Take elevator 
to the seventh floor and turn left.



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