1994 IMAGE UNDERSTANDING WORKSHOP 13 - 16 November 1994 Hyatt Regency Hotel Monterey, CA PROGRAM SUNDAY, 13 NOVEMBER 4:00 - 9:00 pm REGISTRATION Monday, 14 November - Approx. number of attendees 220 7:00 Continental Buffet and Registration 8:00 Opening Comments Bir Bhanu, 1994 IU Workshop Chairperson Oscar Firschein, Image Understanding Program Manager 1994 Image Understanding Video Benchmarks in Image Understanding Chairperson: Oscar Firschein, ARPA 8:30 Benchmarks for Evaluating Progress in Vision: Manmade and Natural Objects Martin A. Fischler, SRI International Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University William B. Thompson, University of Utah Principal Investigator Reports Chairpersons: Morning: Abe Waksman, AFOSR Afternoon: Larry S. Davis, University of Maryland 9:00 Image Understanding Research at UC Riverside Bir Bhanu 9:15 Progress in Image Understanding at MIT Eric L. Grimson 9:30 Image Understanding Research at Rochester Christopher Brown 9:45 Progress in Computer Vision at the University of Massachusetts Allen R. Hanson and Edward M. Riseman 10:00 Break - Regency Foyer 10:30 Image Understanding at CMU Takeo Kanade 10:45 USC Image Understanding Research Ramakant Nevatia 11:00 Image Understanding Research at SRI International Martin A. Fischler 11:15 Image Understanding Research at Columbia University Shree K. Nayar 11:30 Maryland Progress in Image Understanding Rama Chellappa, Larry S. Davis, and Azriel Rosenfeld 11:45 Model-based Recognition of Objects in Complex Scenes; Research at Stanford Thomas O. Binford and Tod S. Levitt 12:00 Lunch - Pebble, Beach, Pacific Rooms 1:30 Nonfrontal Imaging Camera and its Applications Narendra Ahuja 2:15 Image Understanding at Johns Hopkins University Lawrence B. Wolff 2:30 Progress on Vision Through Learning at George Mason University Ryszard Michalski 2:45 Image Understanding Research at GE Joseph L. Mundy 3:00 Image Understanding Research at the University of Utah Thomas C. Henderson and William B. Thompson 3:15 Break 3:45 Algorithms for Invariant Model Transfer and Object Reconstruction Eamon Barrett 4:00 Image Understanding Research at TI Kashi Rao 4:15 Overview: Computer Vision Performance Characterization: University of Washington Robert M. Haralick 4:30 From Learning Objects to Learning Environments Ivan Bachelder 4:45 Computer Vision at The Hebrew University Shmuel Peleg 5:00 Robotic Sensor-Motor Transformations: Research at NCCOSC Michael R. Blackburn 5:15 Use of Collateral Text in Image Interpretation: IU Research at SUNY, Buffalo Rohini K. Srihari 5:30 Adjourn 6:30 Principal Investigator Dinner (By Invitation) - Cypress Room Tuesday, 15 November - Approx. number of attendees 400 7:00 Continental Buffet - Regency Foyer 8:00 STATE-OF-THE-ART SURVEY I Learning and Vision Tomaso Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Session: RADIUS - Research and Development for Image Understanding Chairperson: Don Gerson, ORD 8:30 RADIUS Phase II - The RADIUS Testbed System Donald J. Gerson, ORD 8:45 Site Model Acquisition under the UMass RADIUS Project Robert T. Collins, Allen R. Hanson, and Edward M. Riseman, Univer sity of Massachusetts, Amherst 9:00 Site-Model-Based Monitoring of Aerial Images Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland 9:15 Site Model Construction Thomas Strat, SRI International 9:30 Feature Matching for building Extraction from Multiple Views David M. McKeown, Jr. and Michel Roux, CMU Digital Mapping Laboratory 9:45 Model Validation for Change Detection Ramakant Nevatia, University of Southern California 10:00 Break 10:30 The Tier II and Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) Clayton Stewart, SAIC 11:00 ATR and Wide-Area Surveillance Jonathan Schonfeld, ARPA Sensor Technology Office Session: Neural Networks Chairperson: Bir Bhanu, University of California, Riverside 11:30 Fast k-NN Search for Robust ATR Object Matching Robert Hecht-Nielsen, HNC Software, Inc. 11:45 A Neural Network Approach for Shape Descriptions and Invariant Recognition Jezekiel Ben-Arie, K.R. Rao and Z. Wang Illinois Institute of Technology 12:00 Neural Network/Pyramid Architectures that Learn Target Context John Pearson, David Sarnoff Research Center 12:15 Fractal Based Classification of Natural Textures Ren Luo, North Carolina State University 12:30 Lunch - Monterey Ballroom (Ticket Required) Session: RSTA - Reconnaissance, Surveillance, Target Acquisition Program Chairperson: David Hislop, Army Research Office 1:45 UGV DEMO II Program Overview Raymond Rimey, Martin Marietta 2:00 Image Stabilization by Registration to a Reference Mosaic Peter Burt, David Sarnoff Research Center 2:15 Summary of Progress in FLIR/LADAR Fusion for Target Identification at Rockwell Victor M. Gonzalez and Paul K. Williams, Rockwell International Corpora tion 2:30 Adaptive Configuration and Control in an ATR System Barry Roberts, Honeywell 2:45 Color, FLIR & LADAR Object Recognition Ross J. Beveridge, Colorado State University 3:00 Scenario-based Engineering Process for Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition Erik G. Mettala, University of Texas, Arlington 3:15 Break 3:45 Multisensor Fusion Using FLIR and Ladar Identification Alexander Akerman, III , Nichols Research Corporation 4:00 Adaptive FLIR Target Detection David M. Doria, Hughes Aircraft Company Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Cornell University 4:15 RSTA on the Move Larry S. Davis, University of Maryland 4:30 Development of a Video-Rate Stereo Machine Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University 4:45 User-Centered Evaluation (UCE) Methods and Metrics Theodore R. Yachik, LGA, Inc. 5:00 Model-Based Automatic Target Recognition System for the UGV/RSTA Ladar Jacques G. Verly, Dan Dudgeon, and Richard T. Lacoss, MIT Lincoln Labor atory 5:15 STATE-OF-THE-ART SURVEY II Motion Analysis Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University 5:45 Image Understanding Environment Overview Joseph Mundy, General Electric 6:15 Adjourn 6:30 General Reception - Monterey Ballroom &Terrace (Ticket Required) Wednesday, 16 November - Approx number of attendees 130 Those attending the classified ATR Sessions will be served continental buffet at the Naval Postgraduate School with members of the ATR community. 7:00 Continental Buffet 8:00 STATE-OF-THE-ART SURVEY III Model-based Image Compression Tom Huang, Univ of Illinois Image Understanding Technical Reports Chairperson: William B. Thompson, University of Utah 8:30 3-D Surface Reconstruction from Multiple Modalities Pascal Fua, SRI International 8:50 Generation of Virtual World Databases for Distributed Simulation David M. McKeown CMU Digital Mapping Laboratory 9:10 From Imagery to Salience: Locative Expressions in Context John Kender, Columbia University 9:30 Break 10:00 3-D Model Acquisition Gerard Medioni, University of Southern California 10:20 Medusa Synthesized Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland 10:40 Terrain Reconstruction from Oblique Views for Stealth Navigation Howard Schultz, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 11:00 Recognition of Nonrigid Motion Christopher Brown, University of Rochester 11:20 Virtual Reality Modeling from a Sequence of Range Images Heung-Yeung Shum, Katsushi Ikeuchi and Raj Reddy 11:40 Automated Registration for Visualization in Surgery Eric L. Grimson, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 12:00 Boundary Detection Robert M. Haralick, University of Washington 12:20 ATR Using Motion Cues from FLIR Imagery Srini Raghavan and Laveen Kanal LNK Corp. and University of Maryland 12:40 Discussion 1:00 ADJOURN