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Today's Topics:

 Image recognition and logarithmic spirals
 positions at CMU
 CVPR89 announcement
 THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VISUAL SEARCH

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Date: 13 Apr 89 17:57:45 GMT
From: syswerda@bbn.com (Gilbert Syswerda)
Subject: Image recognition and logarithmic spirals

There is evidence that in the primate visual system, the retina maps to the
visual cortex in a logarithmic spiral pattern. I am looking for pointers to
any work that people may have done in doing fixation and image recognition
using a post-logarithmic mapping.


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Date: Wednesday, 19 April 1989 16:14:07 EST
From: Dave.McKeown@maps.cs.cmu.edu
Subject: positions at CMU


Research Programmer Position #1

Digital Mapping Laboratory
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

We currently have an opening for a research programmer in the area of
computer vision algorithms for the automated extraction of man-made features
from aerial imagery for cartographic update and analysis.  The position
involves the development of cooperative methods for stereo analysis and 
scene reconstruction and the integration of multiple image domain cues into
a coherent three-dimensional scene interpretation.  Some work in system 
maintenance and development, particularly in the areas of computer graphics
and user interfaces, will also be required.

The research programmer will work together with other researchers in the
Digital Mapping Laboratory on related topics in knowledge-based scene analysis,
large-scale spatial databases, and in computer vision algorithm development.
This person must have good communication skills and be able to work well 
within a research group environment.

Applicants must have significant experience and supporting course work
in computer vision, computer graphics, and in the development of large-scale
software projects.  Significant programming experience in C/UNIX is also
expected.  B.S./M.S. or equivalent experience in directly relevant areas is
required.


Research Programmer Position #2

Digital Mapping Laboratory
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

We currently have an opening for a research programmer in the area of
knowledge-based systems for computer vision.  The position involves the
continued development of the SPAM scene interpretation system, particularly
in the areas of knowledge acquisition tools, performance evaluation methods,
and in task-level parallelism for high-level vision.  Some work in system
maintenance and development, particularly in the areas of computer graphics
and user interfaces, will also be required.

The research programmer will work together with other researchers in the 
Digital Mapping Laboratory on related topics in computer vision, large-scale
spatial databases, and in artificial intelligence.
This person must have good communication skills and be able to work well 
within a research group environment.

Applicants must have significant experience and supporting course work in 
artificial intelligence, computer vision, computer graphics, and in the 
development of large-scale software projects.  Significant programming 
experience in LISP, OPS5, C/UNIX is also expected.  B.S./M.S. or equivalent
experience in directly relevant areas is required.

Please forward a resume, complete with references, to:
        David M. McKeown
        School of Computer Science
        Carnegie Mellon University
        Pittsburgh, PA 15213
        dmm@maps.cs.cmu.edu
        (412) 268-2626


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Date: Sun, 09 Apr 89 18:21:46 EDT
From: wnm@uvacs.cs.virginia.edu (Worthy N. Martin)
Subject: CVPR89 announcement

              IEEE Computer Society Conference
                            on
          COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION

                    Sheraton Grand Hotel
                   San Diego, California
                       June 4-8, 1989


                       General Chair

               Professor Rama Chellappa
               Department of EE-Systems
               University of Southern California
               Los Angeles, California  90089-0272


                     Program Co-Chairs

Professor Worthy Martin          Professor John Kender
Dept. of Computer Science        Dept. of Computer Science
Thornton Hall                    Columbia University
University of Virginia           New York, New York  10027
Charlottesville, Virginia 22901


                     Program Committee

Chris Brown           Avi Kak                Theo Pavlidis
Allen Hansen          Rangaswamy Kashyap     Alex Pentland
Robert Haralick       Joseph Kearney         Azriel Rosenfeld
Ellen Hildreth        Daryl Lawton           Roger Tsai
Anil Jain             Martin Levine          John Tsotsos
Ramesh Jain           David Lowe             John Webb
John Jarvis           Gerard Medioni


          General Conference Sessions will be held
                       June 6-8, 1989

             Conference session topics include:

          -- Edge Detection
          -- Shape from _____ (Shading, Contour, ...)
          -- Feature Extraction
          -- Motion
          -- Morphology
          -- Neural Networks
          -- Range Data: Generation and Processing
          -- Image and Texture Segmentation
          -- Monocular, Polarization Cues
          -- Stereo
          -- Object Recognition
          -- Visual Navigation
          -- Preprocessing
          -- Applications of Computer Vision
          -- Vision Systems and Architectures


                     Invited Speakers:

June 6                June 7                   June 8
Prof. J. Feldman      Prof. V.S. Ramachandran  Prof. M.A. Arbib
ICSI, Berkeley        Univ. Calif., San Diego  Univ. of Southern Calif.
Time, Space and Form  Visual Perception in     Schemas, Computer Vision
in Computer Vision    Humans and Machines      and Neural Networks

                         Tutorials

June 4, am            June 5, am               June 5, pm
1. Morphology and     3. Robust Methods for    5. Analog Networks for
Computer Vision       Computer Vision          Computer Vision:
R.M. Haralick         W. Forstner              Theory and Applications
2. Intermediate and   4. Parallel Algorithms   C. Koch
Low Level Vision      and Architectures for    6. Model Based Vision
M.S. Trivedi          Computer Vision          W.E.L. Grimson
                      V.K.P. Kumar



The IEEE Computer Society will also hold a workshop entitled:

         Artificial Intelligence in Computer Vision
                        June 5, 1989

General Chair: Professor Rama Chellappa
Program Co-Chairs: Professor J.K. Aggarwal and Professor A. Rosenfeld


                  Conference Registration
                  (for CVPR and Tutorials)

Conference Department
CVPR
IEEE Computer Society
1730 Massachusetts Ave
Washington, D.C. 20036-1903
(202)371-1013

                     Fees, before May 8

CVPR           - $200 (IEEE Members, includes proceedings and banquet)
               - $100 (Students, includes proceedings and banquet)
Tutorials      - $100 per session (IEEE Members and Students)


                     Hotel Reservations

Sheraton Grand Hotel on Harbor Island
1590 Harbor Island Drive
San Diego, CA 92101
(619)692-2265

Rooms - $102 per night (single or double)


The Advance Program with registration forms, etc. will
be mailed out of the IEEE offices shortly.

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Date:     Wed, 12 APR 89 10:42:51 BST
From: BROGAN%VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Subject: THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VISUAL SEARCH


            THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VISUAL SEARCH


     The  Applied  Vision   Association   is   organising   the   second
     international  conference  devoted totally to the multidisciplinary
     topic of visual search.  This is to be held at  the  University  of
     Durham, U.K. on September 3-6 1990.  The conference will attempt to
     address all aspects of visual  search  processing  from  theory  to
     practice,  and  will  include (but not be limited to) the following
     sessions:  Attention  and  Segmentation;  Eye  Movements;  Computer
     Vision;  Search  Modelling;  Applied Aspects of Search.  There will
     also be a workshop.  The conference proceedings will be  published.
     For information contact:



                       Bell-Howe Conferences (SICVS),
                       Gothic House,
                       Barker Gate,
                       Nottingham,
                       NG1 1JU.
                       U.K.
                       Tel. 44 (0)602 410679
                       Fax. 44 (0)602 500098

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