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Today's Topics:

 Resolution issues
 Satellite Image Data
 IJCAI 89 Update
 color processing
 defocussing & Fourier domain.
 Need time sequences sampled in various ways

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Date: 21 Jul 89 22:13:53 GMT
From: muttiah@cs.purdue.edu (Ranjan Samuel Muttiah)
Subject: Resolution
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University


 I am looking for reference material on that may have been written
on issues pertaining to the relationship of machine vision resolution, 
accuracy, and execution time.
Please email.

Thanks

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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 14:30:09-0000
From: Farzin Deravi <eederavi%pyramid.swansea.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK>
Subject: Satellite Image Data

I need some satellite image data in a form portable to an IBM PC environment
for a student who is doing a project on region classification by texture. Could
you suggest where I can easily obtain such data. By "easily" I mean not 
having to write letters/applications and preferably through email!
Many thanks for your help and advice.

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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 15:39:06 EDT
From: dewitt@caen.engin.umich.edu (Kathryn Dewitt)
Subject: IJCAI 89 Update


CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Invited Speakers:
    Koichi Furukawa, ICOT will speak Monday, August 21, at 11:10am. The title
    of his talk is "Fifth Generation Computer Project:  Toward a Coherent
    Framework for Knowledge Information Processing and Parallel Processing".

    Gerald Edelman, Rockefeller University, will speak Monday August 21, 
    at 2:00pm. The title of his talk is"Neural Darwinism and Selective 
    Recognition Automata".
        
    E.D. Dickmanns, Universitat de Bundeswehr Munchen, will speak Wednesday,
    August 23, at 11:10am.  The title of his talk is "Real-Time Machine Vision
    Exploiting Integrak Spatio-Temporal World Models".

    Enn Tyugu, Institute of Cybernetics, USSR, will speak Thursday, August 24,
    at 9:00am.  The title of his talk is "Knowledge-Based Programming 
    Environments"

    Fernado Pereira, AT&T Bell Laboratories, will speak Thursday, August 24,
    at 11:10am.  The title of his talk is "Interpreting Natural Language".

    Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto, will speak Friday, August 25, 
    at 11:10 am.  The title of his talk is "Connectionist Learning 
    Procedures".

Invited Panels:
    THE CHALLENGE OF NEURAL DARWINISM - Monday, August 21, 4:15pm.
            members:  Stephen W. Smoliar(chair), Linda Smith, David Zisper,
                      John Hollandand George Reeke

    ROBOT NAVIGATION - Tuesday, August 22, 9:00am
            members:  David Miller(chair), Rod Brooks, Raja Chatila, 
		      Scott Harmon, Stan Rosenschein, Chuck Thorpe, and 
		      Chuck Weisbin.

    HIGH-IMPACT FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
    Tuesday, August 22, 11:10am.
            members:  Perry Thorndyke(Chair), Raj Reddy, and Toshio Yakoi

    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and SPACE EXPLORATION - Tuesday, August 22, 2:00pm
            members: Peter Friedland(chair), David Atkinson, John Muratore,
                     and  Greg Swietek.

    (HOW) IS AI IMPACTING MANUFACTURING? - Friday, August 25, 9:00am.
            members:  Mark Fox (chair), E.J. van de Kraatz, Dennis O'Connor,
                      and  Karl Kempf.

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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 13:35:04 MET DST
From: mcvax!irst.it!bellutta@uunet.UU.NET (Paolo Bellutta)
Subject: color processing

I have a couple of problem about color procesing.


First: What is the best way to compress 24 bit color images in 8 bit color
       images but using always the same colormap?  I tryed to assign 3 bits
       for red and green and 2 bits for blue but the results are not very 
       good (the image in general has a very high contrast).  

Second: I want to compute from 24 bit rgb images one image that contains
        luminance information (Y = 0.299 * R + 0.587 * G + 0.114 * B) and
        another image with chrominance information (C = R / (R + G)).
        In parentheses I wrote what I'm using. 
        I found that in general the Y image has high contrast and the C
        image has poor color resolution. I mean that if two sides of an object
        have the same color but one is too dark, on the C image it is seen
        as black.
        Are there better algorithms to use?


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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 10:27:58 +0100
From: prlb2!ronse@uunet.UU.NET (Christian Ronse)
Subject: defocussing & Fourier domain.

Suppose that one makes a picture of an image with out-of-focus lenses.
The transformation from the original image to the blurred picture is
linear and translation-invariant (I think!). What is known about the
Fourier transform of this blurring transformation, in particular on
its phase spectrum?

Christian Ronse

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[ This is an interesting question.  Krotkov, Pentland, and Subbarao
  have looked at some of these issues as they relate to computer vision
  (Krotkov recently published a paper in IJCV, and Pentland in PAMI). 
  I assume that you mean translation-invariant in the plane (since 
  translation in depth is what causes the blurring).  Though lens effects
  undermine this (e.g., diffraction, lens defects), the plane translation
  invariance seems reasonable to me. 
	The blur function due to defocussing is in the optics literature.
  It has been approximated by some as a gaussian (which, not coincidentally,
  is well-suited for analytic analysis in the Fourier domain).  The spread
  function differs with the wavelength of light, and this introduces 
  some complexities.  Subbarao has addressed this issue, though I don't
  know of a specific reference (he is at SUNY Buffalo).
			phil...		]
  


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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 89 09:46:35 PDT
From: althea!pxjim@uunet.uu.net (James Conallen)
Subject: Need time sequences sampled in various ways

Hi there,
  I just recently posted a request for image sequences on comp.graphics, and
a reply from Prof. Dave Chelberg [dmc@piccolo.ecn.purdue.edu) suggested I 
post on the vision list.  I am looking for image sequences time sequentialy
sampled with different sampling patterns.  The ones I am interested in are:
	  lexicographic
	  2:1 line interlaced
	  2:1 dot interlaced
	  bit reversed line interlaced
	  bit reversed dot interlaced
I prefer 256x256x256 BW images, but I'm humble.  
	
	Can you offer me any help?
	
	-jim conallen
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