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CONTENTS:
1. Note from the editor
2. Bibliography on random closed sets - Part 2
3. 8th International conference on image analysis and processing: final CFP
4. Vision Geometry IV: CFP
5. EIKONA: digital image processing package
6. Forthcoming events
7. Recent literature
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1. Note from the editor
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From: henkh@cwi.nl (Henk Heijmans)
At present, approximately 800 people have subscribed to the Morphology Digest,
and their number still increases. This shows clearly that there is a
need for up-to-date information about publications, software,
conferences, available research positions, etc, relevant to workers in
the field of mathematical morphology. Therefore, do not forget to submit
to the Morphology Digest if you have something which may be of interest
to our subscribers. Of course, also questions are most welcome.
In particular, I want to emphasize the possibility to announce your
latest reports. If you send a title and abstract to morpho@cwi.nl,
these will be included in the next issue. It has turned out to be very
useful to make your reports (PostScript files) available by anonymous
FTP. If you do not have this option, it is also possible to use the
FTP-server at CWI (which is also the archive site for old issues of the
Digest). In that case, all you have to do is send two emails to
henkh@cwi.nl, the first containing relevant information about your
manuscript (title, author, affiliation, report number), the second
containing the PS-file.
Henk Heijmans
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2. Bibliography on random closed sets - Part 2
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From: ilia@cwi.nl (Ilia Moltchanov)
BIBLIOGRAPHY ON RANDOM CLOSED SETS
AND RELATED TOPICS
2. LANDMARKS AND STATISTICAL THEORY OF SHAPE
In the previous digest I announced a series of bibliographies devoted
to different aspects of random sets theory. Please, look at that
announcement to be aware of some generalities.
You can find all announced bibliographies in the directory
pub/morphology/bib
using anonymous "ftp" to "ftp.cwi.nl".
Additionally, PostScript files with nicely prepared printed versions
with citation keys included can be found in the directory
pub/morphology/bib/PostScript
Your reaction/suggestions are also very much welcome!
WHAT WILL YOU GET TODAY?
Today you will get the set of references related to landmarks and
statistical theory of shape (name "landmark.bib").
Statistical shape analysis deals with statistics of geometrical objects
(figures) where translation, rotation and possibly scale information
can typically be ignored. The subject has received a great deal of
attention, following the pioneering works by D.G.Kendall and
F.L.Bookstein. Although the notion of shape is intuitively clear, it is
quite difficult to construct relevant statistical procedures.
The theory of landmarks characterizes figure (shape) by its specific
points called landmarks. In this case it is usual to work with planar
figures and use the complex plane as the setting space. An important
contribution to be made by the theory of shape concerns the
presentation of data, without any reference to probability. Kendall
(1984) \cite{ke84} is a typical reference devoted to the geometry of
the shape space. In particular, the shape space of all triangles is
isometric to a sphere in the three-dimensional space. Mardia (1989)
\cite{mar89a} sketches a method for determining such mathematical
landmarks. So-called procrustean analysis (see Goodall, 1991
\cite{goo91}) can be used to describe deviations from an ideal
configuration or for characterizing relationships between
configurations.
However, it is also of interest to investigate the distributions of
shape that arise from simple stochastic models for point patterns. The
starting point of such investigations was the paper by D.G.Kendall and
W.S.Kendall (1980) \cite{ke:kew80}.
Since landmark configurations (or shapes) are elements of curved
spaces, special theory is necessary to define their means and to
compute them, see Ziezold (1989) \cite{zie89} and Ziezold (1994)
\cite{zie94}, Le and Kendall (1993) \cite{le:ke93}, and also
Karcher (1977) \cite{karc77} and Ziezold (1977) \cite{zie77} (both
from the bibliography file "probab.bib"). There are some heuristic
algorithms to determine the expectation Gower (1975) \cite{gow75} or
Ziezold (1989) \cite{zie89}, but no mathematical proofs of their
convergence, although in practical applications these algorithms
always converge. New coordinated-free approach to abstract landmark
configurations in orbit spaces and its application to determination of
mean figures were suggested in Stoyan and Molchanov (1994).
Bookstein's (1991) \cite{boo91} book contains many applications of the
landmark theory. Other introduction to this theory can be found in the
books by Stoyan, Kendall, Mecke (1987) \cite{skm}, Stoyan and Stoyan
(1992,1994) \cite{st92,stst94} (three later citations are from the
bibliography "stgeom.bib").
In the next Morphological Digest I am going to place the bibliography
on Markov random sets and regenerative sets. This subject is related to
theory of Markov processes and regenerative events.
Ilya Molchanov
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I. Molchanov e-mail: ilia@cwi.nl
CWI, Department BS Ph.: +31 20 592 4195
Kruislaan 413 Fax: +31 20 592 4199
NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam
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3. 8th International conference on image analysis and processing: final CFP
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From: iciap@dist.dist.unige.it
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
IAPR IMAGE ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING ICIAP '95
Sanremo, Italy, September 13-15, 1995
GENERAL CHAIRS SCIENTIFIC CHAIR PROGRAM CHAIR
L. De Floriani C. Braccini G. Musso
G. Vernazza Univ. of Genova, Elsag Bailey,
Univ. of Genova, Italy. Italy.
Italy.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
J.K. Aggarwal, USA C. Arcelli, I V. Cantoni, I
V. Cappellini, I L. Cordella, I J. Desachy, F
V. Di Gesu', I O. Faugeras, F M. Ferretti, I
H. Freeman, USA G. Garibotto, I C. Guerra, I
T. Huang, USA S. Impedovo, I J. Kittler, UK
W. Kropatsch, A O. Kuebler, CH M. Kunt, CH
S. Levialdi, I P. Mussio, I T. Pavlidis, USA
S. Peleg, IL V. Roberto, I H. Samet, USA
A. Sanfeliu, E R. Stefanelli, I S. Tanimoto, USA
A. Venetsanopulos,CDN S. Vitulano, I P. Zamperoni, D
B. Zavidovique, F
ORGANIZED BY
* University of Genova
DIBE - Dpt. of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering
DISI - Dpt. of Computer and Information Sciences
DIST - Dpt. of Communication, Computer and System Science
* Elsag Bailey
The 8th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing is
organized by three Departments of the University of Genova and by Elsag
Bailey on behalf of the Italian Chapter of the International Association
for Pattern Recognition.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
==================
The scientific program will include the presentation of invited talks
and contributed papers. The goal of the 8th ICIAP is to provide a
discussion forum for researchers and practitioners interested in
pattern recognition, image processing, computer vision, shape and
object representation and other related topics.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
=================
Original and unpublished papers dealing both with theoretical and applied
aspects in the following fields are welcome.
1. Image Processing
Low Level (feature extraction, filtering, segmentation), Coding, Signal
Processing, Neural Approaches.
2. Image Understanding
Shape and Texture, Motion Analysis, Statistical and Structural Pattern
Recognition, Perception and Spatial Reasoning, Active Methods, Data
Fusion.
3. Image Synthesis
Geometric Modeling, Pictorial Simulation, Animation, Virtual Reality.
4. Image Architectures
Embedded Architectures, Host Architectures, Intelligent Capture and VLSI.
5. Image Languages and DBMS
Image Management, Procedural Languages, Visual Languages.
6. Application Domains
Astronomy, Biomedical, Document Analysis, Industrial Automation, Remote
Sensing, Robotics, Entertainment.
INVITED SPEAKERS
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Invited lectures will be given by H. Bunke (Universitat Bern), A. Jain
(Michigan University), M. D. Levine (McGill University), G. Nagy
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), A. N. Netravali (AT&T Bell Labs ), L.
Shapiro ( University of Washington).
PAPER SUBMISSION AND REVIEWING PROCESS
======================================
Authors should submit four copies of a full paper to
Leila De Floriani - ICIAP '95
DISI - University of Genova
Viale Benedetto XV, 3 I -16132 Genova (Italy).
Paper length is typically four A4 and cannot exceed six A4 pages. The
first page should be anonymous, containing only the title of the
paper, a 200-words abstract and 3-5 keywords. A separate page including
the title, the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s), the abstract,
the keywords and the addressed topic of the conference must accompany the
paper. Papers submitted by fax or e-mail will not be reviewed.
IMPORTANT DATES
===============
January 2, 1995 Deadline for submission of contributions
March 31, 1995 Notification of acceptance
May 6, 1995 Camera ready paper due
Each paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the Scientific
Committee using a blind procedure. Accepted papers will be discussed in
an oral presentation or presented as posters. All presented contributions
will be included in the proceedings volume published by Springer-Verlag
in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series in time for the
Conference.
CONFERENCE VENUE
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Sanremo is one of the Ligurian riviera's highlights, lively and
entertaining. It features a beautiful palm-lined promenade looking out
over a wide bay; among its attractions the famous Casino and Villa Nobel.
Good railway links to the international airports of Genova (140Km) and
Nice (60Km). The conference will be held at the roof garden of the Teatro
Ariston.
SOCIAL PROGRAM
==============
The planned social activities include a get-together party and a
conference banquet. Tours to Sanremo Surroundings (Riviera dei Fiori,
Bordighera, Imperia) will be organized for accompanying persons.
REGISTRATION FEE
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The registration fee (in Italian Liras) includes admission to the
scientific session, coffee breaks, the get-together party and the
conference banquet dinner:
Before 31.05.95 After 31.05.95
Student (without Conference proceedings) 150 000 200 000
Student (with Conference proceedings) 220 000 280 000
IAPR, AEI or IEEE members 420 000 450 000
Other participants: 470 000 500 000
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS AND ACCOMODATION
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Accomodation information is provided by Consorzio Sanremo Congressi
Turismo which will take care of hotel reservations.
Consorzio Sanremo Congressi Turismo
Corso Cavallotti, 51 I-18038 Sanremo (IM), Italy
Phone +39 184 530719 Fax +39 184 574574
FURTHER INFORMATION
===================
For further information please contact the 8th ICIAP secretariat by
e-mail (iciap@dibe.unige.it) or by fax (+39 10 3538028 / +39 10 3532134).
SPONSORED BY
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* IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(North Italy Section)
* EURASIP - European Association for Signal Processing
* AEI - Electrical and Electronics Engineers Association
(Ligurian Chapter)
CONCOMITANT EVENTS
During the week following ICIAP '95, participants will have the
opportunity to attend the Computer Architectures for Machine Perception
Conference (CAMP '95) to be held in Como, September 18-20. For
additional information please contact the General Chairman, Prof. V.
Cantoni, fax +39 382 505373, e-mail cantoni@ipvmv1.unipv.it.
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4. Vision Geometry IV: CFP
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From: ykong@sparc4gs.cs.qc.edu (Yung Kong)
CALL FOR PAPERS AND ANNOUNCEMENT
VISION GEOMETRY IV
San Diego Convention Center and Mariott Hotel & Marina
San Diego, California, USA
Part of SPIE's International Symposium on
Optics, Imaging and Instrumentation
July 9 - 14, 1995
Conference Chairs: Robert A. Melter, Long Island University
Angela Y. Wu, The American University
Program Committee:
Ari D. Gross (CUNY/Queens Coll. & Columbia Univ.); T. Y. Kong (CUNY/Queens
Coll.); Jack Koplowitz (Clarkson Univ.); David M. Mount (Univ. of Maryland,
College Park); Frank Rhodes (Univ. of Southampton, UK); Ivan Stojmenovic
(Univ. of Ottawa, Canada).
This conference is designed to bring together workers who use geometric theory
and techniques to solve problems related to computer vision. Specific
solutions as well as overviews of more general topics are welcome.
Topics of interest are:
Digital geometry and topology
Morphology related to vision
Computational geometry related to vision
Convexity problems in vision
Prospective contributors are invited to submit 250-word abstracts of their
papers, in accordance with the instructions below, by December 19, 1994.
Authors will be allowed 15 minutes plus a 5-minute discussion period for oral
presentation of a paper. SPIE will provide the following media equipment free
of charge: 35mm carousel slide projectors, overhead projectors, electric
pointers, and video equipment (please give at least two weeks advance notice).
Provision will also be made for poster presentation; contributors who prefer
this method should so indicate on abstract submissions.
Proceedings of this meeting will be published by SPIE. Authors of accepted
abstracts will be notified by April 17, 1995, and will be required to submit
camera-ready manuscripts in English by June 12, 1995.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS:
Abstracts may be submitted in any of the following ways:
1. Send abstract via electronic mail in ASCII format to abstracts@spie.org
2. Fax one copy of the abstract to SPIE at (206) 647-1445
3. Mail four copies of the abstract to SPIE at the following address:
San Diego '95, SPIE, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010 USA
Shipping address: 1000 20th St., Bellingham, WA 98225
Telephone (206) 676-3290
OPTOLINK (206) 733-2998
Your abstract should include the following:
1. Abstract title.
2. Full names and affiliations of authors, with the principal author
listed first.
3. Mailing address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address of
EACH author.
4. The words: "SUBMIT TO: Vision Geometry IV (Melter/Wu) at San Diego '95"
5. Indication of whether you would prefer to present your paper orally or
as a poster.
6. Text of the abstract--250 words. This should contain enough detail
to clearly convey the approach and the results of the research.
7. Keywords--a maximum of five.
8. 50-100 word biography of the principal author.
Abstract due date: December 19, 1994
(Late abstracts may be considered subject to program time availability
and chairs' approval.)
Manuscript due date: June 12, 1995
For further information, contact:
Robert A. Melter
Long Island University
Southampton, NY 11968
Tel. (516) 287-8402
e-mail: rmelter@sunburn.liunet.edu
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5. EIKONA: digital image processing package
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From: pitas@vergina.eng.auth.gr (I. Pitas)
EIKONA SOURCE
EIKONA FOR WINDOWS
Digital Image Processing Package
Overview
EIKONA SOURCE is a general purpose, highly portable digital image processing
library written in C language (source code). Part of this library is exposed
in the book I. Pitas, "Digital image processing algorithms", Prentice Hall,
1993. EIKONA SOURCE contains more than 350 routines in the following areas
(non-exhaustive list):
* Basic routines: image load, store, display, printing, thresholding, clipping
* Numerical operations: addition, subtraction and multiplication
of images (or images by constants)
* Binary operations: negative, negation, and, or, xor bit-level
operations between images
* Various image noise generators (additive, impulsive, Gaussian, Laplacian)
* A large number of two dimensional filters (including adaptive
and nonlinear filters)
* Various image enhancement and sharpening routines
* Morphological operators (basic operators, top-hat transforms,
skeletonization)
* Digital image transforms (2D FFT, 2D DCT, various power spectral estimators)
* Many color coordinate transformations (HSI, HSV, XYZ, CMYK)
* Various texture analysis routines, histogram, cdf histogram computation
and equalization
* Many region segmentation (region grow, split-merge), edge detection and edge
following routines.
EIKONA LIB is the compiled version of EIKONA SOURCE. EIKONA for Windows
is a powerful, but yet simple to use, digital image processing software
package that runs under Microsoft Windows and implements over 160 image
processing contained in EIKONA SOURCE.
EIKONA FOR WINDOWS user interface is easy to operate and is based
completely on pull-down menus and dialog boxes. Images are stored on
RAM image buffers. All that is needed to apply an image processing
function to an image is to specify the source and destination image
buffer and the related parameters. Furthermore, implemented functions
are grouped into categories in order to facilitate the search for a
specific task. The user can choose the image region of interest.
Multiple images can be displayed on the screen at the same time. EIKONA
for Windows has no memory barriers. It supports TGA and TIF file
format, and binary (raw) images. Conversion from one image file format
to another is possible.
Hardware Requirements
EIKONA for Windows can run on any 286/386/486 computer under Microsoft
Windows Version 3.1 or greater. However, since many image processing
applications are rather time consuming and since images, especially
color images, require large amounts of memory, a minimum configuration
of a 386 machine with at least 4MByte of RAM is recommended. In order
to take advantage of the image display capabilities of Eikona for
Windows, a color monitor with a SUPER VGA card capable of displaying at
least 32K colors is required.
Free demo disk
You can get a free demo disk of EIKONA for Windows by writing to the
following address:
I. Pitas and Associates
23 Papafi str.
Thessaloniki 54638, Greece
Fax: +30-31-348019
You can ftp EIKONA demo from pella.eng.auth.gr, directory
pub/eikona.demo by anonymous ftp. More information can be obtained by
writing to pitas@vergina.eng.auth.gr
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SOFTWARE PACKAGE ORDER FORM
Please print this page, tick the items ordered, print your name and address
carefully and send it together with your bank cheque or bank draft (preferably)
or personal cheque to the following address (preferably by registered mail):
Ioannis Pitas, 23 Papafi str., Thessaloniki 54638, GREECE.
Item ordered (please tick):
[ ] EIKONA: An advanced DOS digital image processing package.
(84 greyscale image processing operations, manual).
Price: 150 $ US.
[ ] EIKONA for Windows: An advanced, interactive, user-friently
MICROSOFT Windows digital image processing package.
(160 greyscale and color image processing operations, manual).
Price: 450 $ US.
[ ] EIKONA LIB: Object code library. (350 greyscale and color
image processing routines, manual).
Price: 300 $ US.
[ ] EIKONA SOURCE: Complete C source code library.
(350 greyscale and color image processing routines, manual).
Price: 1000 $ US.
[ ] Small EIKONA SOURCE: Small C source code library.
(140 greyscale and color image processing routines).
Price: 100 $ US.
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Agelaki Br 60, Thessaloniki, Greece.
For any further information you can write to pitas@vergina.eng.auth.gr
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6. Forthcoming events
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6 - 9 June 1995 Uppsala, Sweden
9th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis
9SCIA: fax: +46 18 553447; email: scia9@cb.uu.se
20 - 22 June 1995 Halkidiki, Greece
1995 IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing
Prof. Ioannis Pitas: tel: +30 31 996304; fax: +30 31 274868
email: pitas@vergina.eng.auth.gr
3 - 6 July 1995 Edinburgh, Scotland
Fifth International Conference on Image Processing and its Applications
IPA'95; tel:+44-71-3445478; fax:+44-71-497-3633;
email: conference@iee.org.uk
9 - 14 July 1995, San Diego (CA), USA
Vision Geometry IV
R. Melter: tel: (516) 287-8402; e-mail: rmelter@sunburn.liunet.edu
6 - 8 September 1995 Prague, Czech Republic
6th International Conference "Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns"
Vaclav Hlavac: fax: +42 2 290159; email: caip95@vision.felk.cvut.cz
13 - 15 September 1995 Sanremo, Italy
8th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing
L. De Floriani: email: iciap@dibe.unige.it
16 - 19 September 1996 Lausanne, Switzerland
1996 3rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'96)
Prof. Murat Kunt: tel: +41-21-693-2626; fax: +41-21-693-2603;
email: kunt@ltssun2.epfl.ch
22 - 25 October 1995 Crystal City, VA
1995 2nd IEEE Intn'l Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'95)
Orof.Bede Liu: tel:609-258-4628; fax:609-258-3745;
email: liu@ee.princeton.edu
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7. Recent literature
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@article{AlvaMore:94,
author = "L. Alvarez and J.M. Morel",
title = "Formalization and computational aspects of image analysis",
journal = "Acta Numerica",
year = "1994",
pages = "1--59"
}
@article{LianAhmaShri:94,
author = "S. Liang and M. Ahmadi and M. Shridhar",
title = "A morphological approach to text string extraction from regular
periodic overlapping text/background images",
journal = "Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing:
Graphical Models and Image Processing",
year = "1994",
volume = "56",
number = "5",
pages = "402--413"
}
@article{SaitTori:94,
author = "T. Saito and J.-I. Toriwaki",
title = "New algorithms for {E}uclidean distance transformations of an
{$n$}-dimensional digitized picture with applications",
journal = "Pattern Recognition",
year = "1994",
volume = "27",
pages = "1551--1565"
}
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