VISION-LIST Digest 1990 06 14

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Today's Topics: 

 Focus of attention in human and computer vision 
 Computer Controllable Lenses 
 Work at BMW 
 RE: List of industrial vision companies.. 
 CANCELLED:  ANN Workshop, Atlantic City, Jun. 17 

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Date: 13 Jun 90 16:14:43+0200 
From: milanese ruggero <milanese@cuisun.unige.ch> 
Subject: Focus of attention in human and computer vision 

Hallo, 

	I am at the beginning of my PhD work concerning the subject  
of focus of attention applied to visual perception. Good sources of  
information about the underlying mechanisms seem to be provided by  
psychologists and, to a given extent, by neurophysiologists. Rather 
than analysis of elementar phenomena, what I am more interested in 
are frameworks and theories that try to explain the global process 
of attention in vision. Since I am a computer scientist, I shall  
also be interested in applying these concepts into a working machine  
vision system. 
	Therefore, I would be grateful for any information, reference, 
discussion or pointers about work done in this field.  

	Many thanks, 
                                       Ruggero Milanese 

 
E-mail:	  milanese@cuisun.unige.ch 

Address:  Centre Universitaire d'Informatique 
          12, rue du Lac 
          1207 - Geneve 
          Switzerland 

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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 90 08:46:42 BST 
From: Alan McIvor <bprcsitu!alanm@relay.EU.net> 
Subject: Computer Controllable Lenses 

Hi, 
	We are currently looking for a lens for our vision system with 
computer controllable focus, focal length, and aperture. Do any of you 
know of a source of such lenses? We have found many motorized lenses  
but most have auto-apertures and no feedback of settings.  
	I recall several years ago that a company called Vicon made such 
a lens but I don't have any details. Anybody know how to get hold of 
them? 

Thanks, 

Dr Alan M. McIvor		 
BP International Ltd    	ukc!bprcsitu!alanm 
Research Centre Sunbury	    	alanm%bprcsitu.uucp@uk.ac.ukc 
Chertsey Road			bprcsitu!alanm@relay.EU.NET 
Sunbury-on-Thames       	uunet!ukc!bprcsitu!alanm 
Middlesex TW16 7LN		Tel: +44 932 764252 
U.K.                            Fax: +44 932 762999 

[ Please post responses to the List!! 
		phil...	] 

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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 90 10:24:13 +0200 
From: jost@bmwmun.ads.com (Jost Bernasch) 
Subject: Work at BMW 

[ I received this as part of a correspondence, and I thought it would 
  be of general interest (with permission to post from Jost). 
				phil...	] 

I am with a research group at BMW and at the Technical University of Munich. 
We are developing a selfguided driving car, which is lateral controled. 
The car actually is driving on the BMW test route with about 60mph without 
needing white lanes or something like that.   

We are just working towards a more stable system (brightness, shadows) 
and we will identify, track and classify objects (cars, trucks, pedestrians). 
Furthermore we are developing an attentive vision modul, which focuses 
automatically attention to important parts of the image. 

Naturally, we are confronted with problems which need adaptive 
control (lateral guidance depending on the car's changing status  
and the environment, adaptiv, intelligently controlled attentive 
vision, adapting a lot of parameters in the vision modules etc.). 

Yours 
Jost Bernasch,  
BMW AG Muenchen, Dep. EW-13, P.O. BOX 40 02 40, D-8000 Muenchen 40,  Germany 
Tel. ()89-3183-2822  	FAX ()89-3183-4767      jost@bmwmun.uucp.dbp.de 

 
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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 90 14:49:33 -0500 
From: krishnan@cs.wisc.edu (Harikrishnan Krishna) 
Subject: RE: List of industrial vision companies.. 

 It would be great if the addresses were also posted along with the  
 names of the companies. 

 Thanks. 

 Krishna. 

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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 90 20:20:56 EDT 
From: raja@pixel.cps.msu.EDU 
Subject: CANCELLED:  ANN Workshop, Atlantic City, Jun. 17 

The following workshop has been CANCELLED.  Any 
inconvenience caused is regretted. 

                                 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 

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