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