- TEST ON IMAGE UNDERSTANDING - TEST ON IMAGE UNDERSTANDING - 
             ISPRS Commission III Working Group 3
                    
In March this year, the Working Group III/3 of the International Society 
of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) has distributed a 'Test on 
Image Understanding'. The topic of this test is the interpretation of 
aerial images using additional information and knowledge, e.g. color, 
stereo, ground-truth from a geographical information system (GIS), range 
data. 
   Originally, the deadline was October 1994. It turned out however, that 
this time span was too strict. There are only few people who have complete 
algorithms to run on the data; many researchers have started to develop 
their ideas when seeing, what kind of data can be available for image 
interpretation. 
   Therefore on the occasion of the ISPRS Commission III symposium in 
Munich we announced, that the deadline was shifted by annother half a year to
                              April 1995.
                              
We hope that many researchers take the chance to work with the data and 
already invite them to a Workshop on 
         
        COMPUTER VISION IN PHOTOGRAMMETRY in November, 1995 in Stuttgart
        (8-10.11.1995 - a first announcement and call for papers  by the 
        end of this year)
and the 
        ISPRS Congress in Vienna in 1995
to present their results.
We would also like to ask the researchers who are already working with 
the data, if there are any problems concerning the data, the task, the 
questionnaire, ... 
        
Please feel free to contact me in case of any problems. 

As a reminder: the 4 data sets are available via anonymous ftp 
      ftp.ifp.uni-stuttgart.de:/pub/wg3/....

Greetings from Stuttgart,
Monika Sester

Monika.Sester@ifp.uni-stuttgart.de
monika sester - institut fuer photogrammetrie - uni-stuttgart - 0711-1213384