REAL-TIME IMAGING

Special Issue on NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL IMAGING AND VISION


Guest Editors:

L. da F. Costa,  Cybernetic Vision Research Group, IFSC - University
of Sao Paulo, Brazil,
J. Daugman,  The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK,
and
M. D. Levine,   Centre  for  Intelligent Machines, McGill University,
Canada


*Aims and Scope*: While artificial approaches to real-time vision have
enjoyed rather limited success,   biological  vision  systems have for 
millions of years been excelling in these very same tasks.    In fact, 
There is no doubt that real-time  solutions  to the  most  challenging  
problems  in  image understanding  can be found in biological systems. 
However,  they have  been concealed by nature  and thus far the neural 
code has not been broken.

Novel results from neuroscience,  which have to a large extent focused
on  visual  processing  and  been  catalysed  by  advances in computer
science and technology,  provide a  wealth of insights that should not
be overlooked by the researcher in computer vision. This Special Issue
will  concentrate  on  the  interplay  between  natural and artificial
vision as  a means of contributing, not only to a better understanding
of biological visual systems,  but also as a means of  obtaining  more
powerful  and versatile  real-time  artificial   solutions  to  vision
problems.

Submissions  reporting  developments on such  issues, and focusing  on 
their real-time aspects, are welcome.  Prospective authors are invited 
to submit four copies of  laser-printed manuscripts written in English  
to  Alexander Stoyenko at the address  below before 15th October 1995. 
All submissions should conform to the  format adopted by the Real-Time 
Imaging periodical.


*Submission deadline*:    15th October 1995

*Areas covered include but are not limited to*:
                *  Computer Vision
                *  Biologically-inspired methods and architectures
                *  Active Vision
                *  Computational aspects of Neuroscience
                *  Pattern recognition
                *  Optical computing
                *  Simulation and Modelling

*Address for submission*:

Alexander D. Stoyenko,
Co-Editor-in-Chief,  REAL-TIME IMAGING,  P.O. Box 668
Millwood, New York, 10546 USA
jrti@rtlab12.njit.edu


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