AAAI 1995 Fall Symposium Series Computational Models for Integrating Language and Vision Nov 10-12, MIT, Cambridge, MA Note: Registration closes on Oct 15, 1995. For registration information, see http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/1995/fssregistration-95.html. For more information on this symposium, see http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/Piction/FSS95/CFP.html. Friday, Nov 10 9:00--10:30 Opening Session: Methods and Issues Welcome Survey of Topic -- Rohini Srihari, CEDAR, SUNY at Buffalo Survey, Part 2 -- To be announced 10:30--11:00 Break 11:00--12:30 Paper Session: Event Perception/Description Session Chair: Jeff Siskind The Association of Situation Graphs with Temporal Variations in Image Sequences --- H.H. Nagel, H. Kollnig, M. Haag, H. Damm Univ of Karlsruhe, Germany From Visual Input to Verbal Output in the Visual Translator --- Gerd Herzog, Univ of Saarbrucken, Germany Visual Grounding of Route Descriptions in Dynamic Environments --- Wofgang Maass, Jorg Baus, Joachim Paul Univ of Saarbrucken, Germany 12:30--2:00 Lunch 2:00--3:30 Paper Session: Gesture Understanding Session Chair: Causal Analysis for Visual Gesture Understanding --- Matthew Brand and Irfan Essa, MIT Intuitive Graphic Representation of Mental Images in a Virtual Environment through Natural Language --- Yuri Tijerino, Shinji Abe, Fumio Kishino ATR Media Lab, Japan Discussion (Moderator: previous 2 session chairs) 3:30--4:00 Break 4:00--5:30 Session: Knowledge Representation for Language, Vision Session Chair: Candace Sidner Naming Observed Objects --- Anthony Maida, Steve Giambrone, Zhou Heng Univ of Southwestern Louisiana Integrating Speech and Selective Visual Perception Using a Semantic Network --- R. Moratz, H-J. Eikmeyer, B. Hildebrandt, F. Kummert, G. Rickheit, G. Sagerer, Univ of Bielfeld, Germany Discussion (Moderator: Candace Sidner) 6:00--7:00 Reception Saturday, Nov 11 9:00--10:30 Session: Spatial Reasoning Session Chair: Annette Herskovits Processing Spatial Relations in Object Localization Tasks --- Klaus-Peter Gapp, Univ of Saarbrucken A Unified Spatial Model for Vision and Language --- Janice Glasgow, Queen's University Deducing Visual Relationships from Attentional Representations --- Sourabh A. Niyogi, MIT 10:30--11:00 Break 11:00--12:30 Invited Talk: Joe Mundy, GE Corporate Research Division Image Observation Events: A Link to Linguistic Context 12:30--2:00 Lunch 2:00--3:30 Session: Image/Diagram Understanding Session Chair: Gordon Novak Understanding Illustrations of Physical Laws by Integrating Differences in Visual and Textual Representations --- R. Ferguson and K. Forbus, Northwestern University Linguistic Context in Image Understanding --- Rohini K. Srihari, CEDAR/SUNY at Buffalo Discussion (Moderator: ) 3:30--4:00 Break 4:00--5:30 Panel: Hard problems, where to focus research, impact of technology Panel: To be announced Moderator: 7:30--9:00 Public Forum (10 min overview of each symposium) Speaker: Ken Forbus Sunday, Nov 12 9:00--10:30 Session: Image/Video Indexing Session Chair: Text, Speech and Vision for Video Segmentation: The Informedia (TM) Project --- A. Hauptmann and M. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University Scripts in Machine Understanding of Image Sequences --- Claudio Pinhanez and Aaron Bobick, MIT Redundant Processing as a Solution to the Mismatch between Natural Language and Vision --- Neil Rowe, Naval Postgraduate School 10:30--11:00 Break 11:00--12:30 Wrapup and Discussion Summary of issues -- Final discussion (Moderator: Rohini Srihari) Committee Rohini K. Srihari (Chair), CEDAR, SUNY at Buffalo David Waltz, NEC Research Institute Thomas M. Strat, SRI International Candace Sidner, Lotus Development Corporation Janice Glasgow, Queen's University Ken Forbus, Northwestern University Annette Herskovits, Wellesley College Gordon Novak, University of Texas at Austin Jeffrey Siskind, University of Toronto