AUTOMATED INSPECTION, INTELLIGENT ROBOTS, AND COMPUTER VISION at SPIE's International Symposium on PHOTONICS FOR INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS, PART OF PHOTONICS EAST 31 October-4 November 1994 Hynes Convention Center Boston, Massachusetts USA ============================================================ Machine Vision Applications, Architectures, and Systems Integration III Technical Conference 2347 Monday-Wednesday 31 October-2 November 1994 Conference Chairs: Bruce G. Batchelor, Univ. of Wales College Cardiff (UK); Susan Snell Solomon, CSPI; Frederick M. Waltz, Univ. of Minnesota Program Committee: Chris C. Bowman, Industrial Research Ltd. (New Zealand); Donald W. Braggins, Machine Vision Systems Consultancy (UK); Aziz Chihoub, Siemens Corporate Research Inc.; John W. Miller, Univ. of Michigan; A. David Marshall, Univ. of Wales College Cardiff (UK); Harley R. Myler, Univ. of Central Florida; Wolfgang Polzleitner, Joanneum Research (Austria); Paul F. Whelan, Dublin City Univ. (Ireland); Inna Y. Zayas, USDA Agricultural Research Service IMAGING AND ILLUMINATION FOR METROLOGY AND INSPECTION Technical Conference 2348 Wednesday Afternoon-Friday Morning 2-4 November 1994 Conference Chair: Donald J. Svetkoff, View Engineering, Inc. Program Committee: Kevin G. Harding, Industrial Technology Institute; Norman Wittels, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Lawrence B. Wolff, Johns Hopkins Univ. INDUSTRIAL OPTICAL SENSORS FOR METROLOGY AND INSPECTION Technical Conference 2349 Monday-Tuesday 31 October-1 November 1994 Conference Chairs: Kevin G. Harding, Industrial Technology Institute; H. Philip Stahl, Hughes Danbury Optical Systems, Inc. Program Committee: Gordon M. Brown, Ford Motor Co.; Richard Harold, Hunter Labs., Inc.; Jeffrey A. Jalkio, CyberOptics Corp.; Juha Roning, Univ. of Oulu (Finland); Morteza Safai, Quest Integrated, Inc.; John C. Stover, TMA Technologies, Inc.; James D. Trolinger, MetroLaser VIDEOMETRICS III Technical Conference 2350 Wednesday-Friday 2-4 November 1994 Conference Chair: Sabry F. El-Hakim, National Research Council of Canada Program Committee: Armin Gruen, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; Henrik G. Haggren, Helsinki Univ. of Technology (Finland); Mark R. Shortis, Univ. of Melbourne (Australia); Walter L. Snow, NASA Langley Research Ctr.; Kam W. Wong, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign Cooperating Organization: ISPRS-International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 1.2 Conferences: Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision TELEMANIPULATOR AND TELEPRESENCE TECHNOLOGIES Technical Conference 2351 Monday-Tuesday 31 October-1 November 1994 Conference Chair: Hari Das, Jet Propulsion Lab. Program Committee: Bernard D. Adelstein, NASA Ames Research Ctr.; Robert J. Anderson, Sandia National Labs.; Thomas P. Caudell, Univ. of New Mexico; Janez Funda, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr.; Blake Hannaford, Univ. of Washington; Won S. Kim, Jet Propulsion Lab.; James M. Manyika, Oxford Univ. (UK); Thomas B. Sheridan, MIT Human-Machine Systems Lab. Cooperating Organization: IEEE NCC-Virtual Reality Technical Committee MOBILE ROBOTS IX Technical Conference 2352 Wednesday-Friday 2-4 November 1994 Conference Chairs: William J. Wolfe, Univ. of Colorado/Denver; Wendell H. Chun, Martin Marietta Astronautics Group Program Committee: Ronald C. Arkin, Georgia Institute of Technology; David J. Braunegg, MITRE Corp.; David P. Casasent, Carnegie Mellon Univ.; Douglas W. Gage, Naval Command Control and Ocean Surveillance Ctr.; Surender K. Kenue, General Motors Research and Development Ctr.; William Y. Lim, Future Minds, Inc.; Bijan G. Mobasseri, Villanova Univ.; David W. Parish, Omnitech Robotics, Inc. INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND COMPUTER VISION XIII: ALGORITHMS AND COMPUTER VISION Technical Conference 2353 Monday-Wednesday 31 October-2 November 1994 Conference Chair: David P. Casasent, Carnegie Mellon Univ. Cochair: Ernest L. Hall, Univ. of Cincinnati Program Committee: Mongi A. Abidi, Univ. of Tennessee/Knoxville; Rolf-Juergen Ahlers, Rauschenberger Metallwaren GmbH (FRG); Bruce G. Batchelor, Univ. of Wales College Cardiff (UK); Madan M. Gupta, Univ. of Saskatchewan (Canada); Sunanda Mitra, Texas Tech Univ.; Prasanna G. Mulgaonkar, SRI International; Steven K. Rogers, Air Force Institute of Technology; Juha Roning, Univ. of Oulu (Finland); Scott A. Starks, Univ. of Texas/El Paso; Hemant D. Tagare, Yale Univ.; Andrew K. C. Wong, Univ. of Waterloo (Canada) INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND COMPUTER VISION XIII: 3D VISION, PRODUCT INSPECTION AND ACTIVE VISION Technical Conference 2354 Wednesday-Friday 2-4 November 1994 Conference Chair: David P. Casasent, Carnegie Mellon Univ. Co-Chair: Ernest L. Hall, Univ. of Cincinnati Program Committee: Mongi A. Abidi, Univ. of Tennessee/Knoxville; Rolf-Juergen Ahlers, Rauschenberger GmbH (FRG); Bruce G. Batchelor, Univ. of Wales College Cardiff (UK); Sunanda Mitra, Texas Tech Univ.; Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic Univ.; Ellen M. Reid, Motorola; Juha Roning, Univ. of Oulu (Finland); M. A. Taalebinezhaad, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Hemant D. Tagare, Yale Univ. SENSOR FUSION VII Technical Conference 2355 Monday-Tuesday 31 October-1 November 1994 Conference Chair: Paul S. Schenker, Jet Propulsion Lab. Program Committee: Terrance E. Boult, Columbia Univ.; Su-Shing Chen, Univ. of North Carolina/Charlotte; David B. Cooper, Brown Univ.; Gregory D. Hager, Yale Univ.; Martin Herman, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Terrance L. Huntsberger, Univ. of South Carolina; Ren C. Luo, North Carolina State Univ.; James M. Manyika, Oxford Univ. (UK); Suresh B. Marapane, Univ. of Tennessee/Knoxville; Gerard T. McKee, Univ. of Reading (UK); Evangelos E. Milios, York Univ. (Canada); Robin R. Murphy, Colorado School of Mines; Bobby S. Y. Rao, Univ. of California/Berkeley; Michael Seibert, Lincoln Lab./MIT; W. Brent Seales, Univ. of Kentucky; Charles V. Stewart, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Stelios C. Thomopoulos, The Pennsylvania State Univ.; David R. Wilkes, Univ. of Toronto (Canada) VISION GEOMETRY III Technical Conference 2356 Wednesday-Thursday 2-3 November 1994 Conference Chairs: Robert A. Melter, Long Island Univ.; Angela Y. Wu, The American Univ. Program Committee: Ari D. Gross, CUNY/Queens College and Columbia Univ.; T. Yung Kong, CUNY/Queens College; Jack Koplowitz, Clarkson Univ.; David M. 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