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                TUTORIAL I
           Sunday June 15 Morning
 
       FINDING PICTURES IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES
 
Prof. David Forsyth and Prof. Jitendra Malik, U.C. Berkeley
 
Very large collections of pictures are now common, and there is a
desperate need to be able to index them. Since users generally
want to find images  depicting particular objects, the application
focuses attention on important research problems in computer
vision. Partial solutions to these problems lead to useful systems,
because often the only alternative is to index the
collection by hand.
 
 
               TUTORIAL II
        Sunday June 15 Afternoon
 
        ROBUST TECHNIQUES FOR COMPUTER VISION
 
Prof. Peter Meer, Rutgers University
 
Robust estimation techniques have become standard
tools in computer vision. The tutorial discusses robust techniques
in the context of image understanding problems, and provides
practical suggestions for achieving the best possible results.
 
 
                TUTORIAL III
        Monday June 16 Morning
 
        COMPUTATIONAL SENSORS FOR VISION
 
Dr. Vladimir Brajovic and Prof. Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University
 
Computational Sensors are chips which tightly integrate
sensing and processing. Successful sensors have been
demonstrated for computer vision applications and are
typical of the next generation of vision sensors.
The tutorial will review several representative examples of
computational sensors and will cover basic (primarily analog)
techniques for computation in VLSI.
 
 
                TUTORIAL IV
        Monday June 16 Afternoon
 
        SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGE UNDERSTANDING
 
Dr. Les Novak, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachussets Institute of Technology
 
This tutorial presents a basic understanding of synthetic
aperture radar imagery. Basic SAR image characteristics
will be defined and demonstrated using real and simulated
SAR. Basic techniques for SAR processing, filtering, and
object recognition will be described. Advanced SAR processing
techniques, such as superresolution, will also be addressed.