Southwest Image Analysis Symposium ********************************************************************** ADVANCE PROGRAM April 21-22, 1994 Dallas, Texas ********************************************************************** Organizing Committee ------------------- GENERAL CHAIR Anil Jain Department of Computer Science Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 jain@cps.msu.edu PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Nasser Kehtarnavaz Department of Electrical Engineering Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843 kehtar@ee.tamu.edu Alireza Khotanzad Department of Electrical Engineering Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 kha@seas.smu.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE J.K. (Jake) Aggarwal, University of Texas at Austin Robert R. Bailey, E-Systems Norman C. Griswold, Texas A&M University Whoi-Yul Kim, University of Texas at Dallas Michael T. Manry, University of Texas at Arlington Owen R. (Bob) Mitchell, University of Texas at Arlington Sunanda Mitra, Texas Tech University Kashipati Rao, Texas Instruments, Inc. Mandyam Srinath, Southern Methodist University Richard E. Wendt III, Baylor College of Medicine David H. Williams, University of Texas at El Paso ********************************************************************** Program -------- --------------------------------- Session 1 Thursday 8:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. --------------------------------- 1.0 Welcome and Opening Remarks 1.1 Keynote Address Challenges for Vision Systems Dr. Bruce E. Flinchbaugh, Manager Image Understanding Systems & Information Science Lab, Texas Instruments, Inc. 1.2 Analysis of Texture Images Using Robust Fractal Description N. Avadhanam, University of California, Davis; S. Mitra, Texas Tech University 1.3 Image-Modeling Gibbs Distributions for Bayesian Restoration M. Chan, University of Pennsylvania; E. Levitan, Technion, Israel; G.T. Herman, University of Pennsylvania --------------------------------- Session 2 Thursday 10:20 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. --------------------------------- 2.1 Stereo Vision Using Gabor Wavelets T-Y. Chen, W.N. Klarquist, A.C. Bovik, University of Texas at Austin 2.2 Parameter Estimation and Applications of a Class of Gaussian Image Models G.R. Dattatreya and X. Fang, University of Texas at Dallas 2.3 Theoretical and Experimental Comparison of the Lorenz Information Measure, Entropy, and the Mean Absolute Error T. McMurray and J.A. Pearce, University of Texas at Austin 2.4 Analysis of Sensor Movement Errors in Monocular Vision-Based Tracking Systems W. Sohn, ETRI, Korea; N. Kehtarnavaz, Texas A&M University --------------------------------- Session 3 Thursday 1:30 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. --------------------------------- 3.1 Recognition of Flexible Objects R. Carlson, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs 3.2 A Nonlinear Algorithm for Critical Point Detection P. Zhu, James River Corporation; P.M. Chirlian, University of New Orleans 3.3 Plant Species Identification using Fuzzy Set Theory A. Nabout, University of Wuppertal; R. Gerhards, University of Bonn; B. Su, H.A. Nour Eldin, University of Wuppertal; W. Kuhbauch, University of Bonn, Germany 3.4 Image Classification in Remote Sensing using Functional Link Neural Networks L.M. Liu, M.T. Manry, F. Amar, M.S. Dawson, A.K. Fung, University of Texas at Arlington --------------------------------- Session 4 Thursday 3:30 p.m.- 5:10 p.m. --------------------------------- 4.1 Frequency Domain Measurement of Meterological Range from Aircraft Images J. Barrios, D. Williams, University of Texas at El Paso; J. Cogan, Army Research Laboratory at White Sands; J. Smith, University of Texas at El Paso 4.2 An Image Segmentation Technique based on Edge-Preserving Smoothing Filter and Anisotropic Diffusion T. Dang, O. Jamet, Institute Geographique National; H. Maitre, ENST, France 4.3 Radar Imaging using 2D Adaptive Non-Parametric Extrapolation and Autoregressive Modeling C. Chen, G. Thomas, B.C. Flores, S.D. Cabrera, University of Texas at El Paso 4.4 Sensitivity Analysis of Similarity Metrices for Image Matching R. Malla and V. Devarajan, University of Texas at Arlington --------------------------------- Reception --------------------------------- --------------------------------- Session 5 Friday 8:30 a.m. - 10:10 a.m. --------------------------------- 5.1 Contrast Enhnacement for Mailpiece Images G. Srikantan, R.K. Fenrich, S.N. Srihari, State University of New York at Buffalo 5.2 An Invariant Traffic Sign Recognition System Based on Sequential Color Processing and Geometrical Transformation D.S. Kang, N.C. Griswold, N. Kehtarnavaz, Texas A&M University 5.3 Handwritten Digit Recognition Using BKS Combination of Neural Network Classifiers A. Khotanzad and C. Chung, Southern Methodist University 5.4 Application of Spatial Grey Level Dependence Methods to Digitized Mammograms B. Aldrich and M. Desai, University of Texas at San Antonio --------------------------------- Session 6 Friday 10:30 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. --------------------------------- 6.1 New Morphological Operators: BERD and BDRE A. Kher and S. Mitra, Texas Tech University 6.2 Subpixel Edge Estimation Using Geometrical Edge Models with Noise Miniaturization D.C. Hung, New Jersey Institute of Technology; O.R. Mitchell, University of Texas at Arlington 6.3 Vergence Control Using a Hierarchical Image Structure C. Yim and A.C. Bovik, University of Texas at Austin 6.4 Motion Estimation Using the Multiresolution Analysis of L2(R3) R. Allen, University of Texas at Arlington --------------------------------- Session 7 Friday 1:30 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. --------------------------------- 7.1 Artificially Intelligent 3D Industrial Inspection System for Metal Inspection S. Panayiotou and A. Soper, The University of Greenwich, United Kingdom 7.2 An Algorithm for 3D Scene Description in an Unknown Environment Y. Dong, T. Chen, L. Sheppard, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; 7.3 Junction View Densities in Images R. Malik and T. Whangbo, Stevens Institute of Technology 7.4 Recognition of 3D Objects on Complex Backgrounds Using Model Based Vision and Range Images E. Natonek and C. Baur, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland --------------------------------- Session 8 Friday 3:30 p.m. 4:20 p.m. --------------------------------- 8.1 Head/Eye Calibration of a Binocular Head by use of Single Calibration Point S-W. Shih, Y-P. Hung, Academia Sinica; W-S. Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan 8.2 Shape Feature Extraction from Object Corners K.K. Rao and R. Krishnan, Advanced Data Processing Research Institute, India ******************************************************************* RESISTRATION FORM ------------------- IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation April 21 - 22, 1994 The Grand Kempinski Dallas Hotel Dallas, Texas Please type or print clearly ________________________________________________________________ Last Name, First Name, M.I. ________________________________________________________________ Company or Organization ________________________________________________________________ Address ________________________________________________________________ City, State/Country, Zip Code ________________________________________________________________ Telephone, Fax, E-Mail Indicate your Fee: Fee includes one copy of the proceedings, refreshments, and a reception. __________ $200 Advanced Registration (by April 11, 1994) __________ $250 Late/On-Site Registration (by April 11, 1994) Full-Time Students __________ $80 Advanced Registration __________ $100 Late/On-Site Registration Students registration does not include the proceedings. 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