Morphology Digest March 29, 1996 1996 - Issue 2
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CONTENTS:
1. Question: code for morphological filters
2. Question: statistics software for covariance matrix
3. CFP: special issue IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
4. TINA Vision Libraries
5. Technical report (Morphology on convolution lattices)
6. Forthcoming events
7. Recent literature
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1. Question: code for morphological filters
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From: Voglino Giuseppe (giuseppe_voglino@sgs-thomson.it)
Ciao.
I am reading some reports on Mathematical Morphology. I like to know
where I can find code implementing Mathematical Morphology filters for
image processing.
I am trying to understand if the subject Mathematical Morphology can
help me to solve raster to vector conversion.
Thank you.
Giuseppe Voglino
SGS-Thomson Microelectronics VLSI Neural Network R&D
Agrate B. - MILAN - ITALY
E-mail: giuseppe_voglino@sgs-thomson.it
P.S. I was told that there is a tool called Object Recognition Tool
available on some machines of ph.ic.ac.uk. Have you any info on that ?
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2. Question: statistics software for covariance matrix
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From: Paul Sackley (psackley@emerald.tufts.edu)
does anyone have advice on windows or mac statistics software that can
produce a covariance matrix? ultimately, we need to do priciple
components analysis, and our data sets are rather large. we have been
using jmp (from the sas institute) on a mac, but we now realize that we
need a covariance matrix, and jmp produces only a correlation matrix.
we are looking at interpopulation and interspecific variation in lake
victoria haplochromine cichlid fishes, and because the expected
differences are very small, we are going to be using large numbers of
individuals (possibly hundreds) and large numbers of interlandmark
measurements (approximately 50) on each individual. any suggestions?
thanks
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3. CFP: special issue IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
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From: Guillermo Sapiro (guille@hplgui.hpl.hp.com)
CALL FOR PAPERS
===============
SPECIAL ISSUE ON PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (PDE's) AND
GEOMETRY-DRIVEN DIFFUSION IN IMAGE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
A special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing will be
devoted to the topic of Partial Differential Equations (PDE's) and
Geometry-Driven Diffusion in Image Processing and Analysis. This
relatively new area provides a strong theoretical framework for image
processing and analysis. Attention to these methods has increased
lately due to important theoretical and practical results that have
been obtained. The basic idea is to obtain the processed image as the
solution of PDE's, being in general the initial condition a function of
the original image. The PDE approach permits to unify and extend
existent algorithms, as well as to develop novel ones. Extensive
research on numerical analysis allows the implementation of these
equations, obtaining accurate image processing algorithms. Authors are
encouraged to submit original, unpublished research papers in this
area. Papers on both theory and applications will be welcome. Topics
of interest include but are not limited to
* scale-space theory
* anisotropic diffusion
* vector-valued diffusion
* systems of coupled PDE's
* PDE based segmentation, image and video enhancement, shape analysis
* axiomatic and PDE based theoretical approaches to image analysis
* variational and PDE's-from-energy approaches to image processing
* curve and surface evolution
* PDE's in hybrid systems
* comparison of models
* image and noise models and adaptation of PDE's
* implementations and numerical analysis
* applications
The special issue will be edited by the following team of guest editors:
Dr. Guillermo Sapiro
Hewlett Packard Laboratories
1501 Page Mill Rd.
Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
Tel: (1-415) 857-8183
Fax: (1-415) 857-4691
Email: guille@hpl.hp.com
Prof. Jean-Michel Morel
CEREMADE
Universite Paris IX - Dauphine
Place du Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny
75775 Paris CEDEX 16, FRANCE
Tel: (33-1) 4405-4677
Fax: (33-1) 4405-4599
Email: morel@paris9.dauphine.fr
Prof. Allen Tannenbaum
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Tel: (1-612) 625-6395
Fax: (1-612) 625-4583
Email: tannenba@ee.umn.edu
Prospective authors should follow the regular guidelines of the IEEE
Transactions on Image Processing, except submit 6 copies of their
manuscript to Dr. Guillermo Sapiro at the address listed above. Both
regular papers and correspondences will be considered. The deadline
for submission is August 1, 1996. It is planned that the special issue
will appear in late 1997.
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4. TINA Vision Libraries
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From: Tony Lacey (a.lacey@sheffield.ac.uk)
TINA Algorithm Development Libraries
The TINA ADLs are now available on the WWW. The WWW page is
http://www2.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/D-H/eee/esg/research/sas.html
follow the links under software.
Source libraries (ANSI C) are provided which require UNIX or LINUX
running X. A programmers manual is also provided.
These libraries have been developed by members of the Artificial
Intelligent Vision Research Unit (AIVRU) and the Semi-Autonomous
Systems group at the University of Sheffield, England. These libraries
are not an image processing toy but represent the results of many years
experience of vision algorithm development.
The libraries provide an infrastructure on which vision algorithms may
be developed by providing the primitive functionality necessary.
These include;
- Data structures and I/O for different image types including
char, int, float, double and complex images
- Functionality to manipulate and display images (rotating/zooming
etc.) and overlay information (graphics primitives)
- Primitive image processing functionality such as image mathematics,
morphological filtering, convolution structures, etc.
- Data structures and functionality for mathematical constructs such
as vectors, matrices, geometric types
- Primitive vision functionality such as edge and corner detection,
geometric fitting, etc.
- Functionality to develop vision tools via the X window interface
system.
The libraries are used as a bases for much of the vision research in
the University but source code for current research is not available.
However demonstrations of the research are available in executable
form, from the same site.
The TINA ADLs remain the intellectual property of the University of Sheffield
Tony Lacey
Electronic Systems Group
Dept of E.E.E., Tel No : (0114) 2825188
University of Sheffield, Fax No : (0114) 2726391
Mappin St., Sheffield. e-mail : a.lacey@sheffield.ac.uk
England, S1 3JD. http://www.shef.ac.uk/~eee/esg/staff/ajl_prof.html
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5. Technical report (Morphology on convolution lattices)
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From: Henk Heijmans (henkh@cwi.nl)
The following paper is available by anonymous FTP to ftp.cwi.nl
(/pub/morphology/report/Heijmans_Molchanov.ps.Z).
Morphology on Convolution Lattices with Applications to
the Slope Transform and Random Set Theory
Henk J.A.M. Heijmans and Ilya S. Molchanov
Report BS-R9603, February 1996, CWI, Amsterdam
ABSTRACT
This paper develops an abstract theory for mathematical morphology on
complete lattices. The approach is based upon the idea that objects are
only known through information provided by a given collection of
measurements (called evaluations in this paper). This abstract approach
leads in a natural way to the concept of convolution lattice (where
"convolution" has to be understood in the sense of an abstract
Minkowski addition), the morphological slope transform, and the notion
of "random lattice element".
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6. Forthcoming events
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7 - 10 May 1996, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
1996 IEEE International Conference On
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'96)
WWW: http://www.ece.gatech.edu/conferences/icassp96/
11 - 13 May 1996, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology
and its Application to Image and Signal Processing III (ISMM'96)
WWW: http://www.ee.gatech.edu:80/conferences/ismm96/
12 - 15 May 1996, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'96)
WWW: http://www.ee.gatech.edu:80/conferences/iscas96/
21-23 May 1996, Milano, Italy
International Workshop on Medical Image Compression (IWMIC-96)
Ms. Rosa Lancini, tel: +39 2 66 1000 83, fax: +39 2 66 1004 48
email: rosa@mailer.cefriel.it
18-20 June 1996, San Francisco, USA
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'96)
Bir Bhanu, tel: (909) 787-3954, fax: (909) 787-3188
email: bhanu@engr.ucr.edu
WWW: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cvpr96/
21-22 June 1996, San Francisco, USA
IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis
email: amini@minerva.cis.yale.edu (Amir A. Amini)
4-9 August 1996, Denver, Colorado, USA
Vision Geometry V
WWW: http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/denver_home.html
FTP: spie.org/meetings/calls/colo96_readme.txt
25 - 30 August 1996, Vienna, Austria
13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition
email: icpr@prip.tuwien.ac.at
WWW: http://www.prip.tuwien.ac.at/icpr/icpr.html
28 - 31 August 1996, Zakopane, Poland
Workshop "Design Methodologies for Signal Processing"
email: rzepka@boss.iele.polsl.gliwice.pl
WWW: http://www.kp.dlr.de/md/it/eg/benefit/eve95wo.htm
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
WWW: http://www.tele.ucl.ac.be/ICIP96/
17 - 19 December 1996, Warwick, UK
4th International Conference on Mathematics in Signal Processing
WWW: http://siwg.dra.hmg.gb/signal/ima96/
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7. Recent literature
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@article{BrowHoge:96,
author = "J. Brown and A. Hoger",
title = "A morphological point thinning algorithm",
journal = "Pattern Recognition Letters",
year = "1996",
volume = "17",
number = "2",
pages = "197--207"
}
@article{ChenKundShih:95,
author = "M.-Y. Chen and A. Kundu and S. N. Shihari",
title = "Variable duration hidden Markov model and morphological
segmentation for handwritten word recognition",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Image Processing",
year = "1995",
volume = "4",
number = "12",
pages = "1675--1688"
}
@article{DougSinh:95,
author = "E. R. Dougherty and D. Sinha",
title = "Computational gray-scale mathematical morphology on lattices
(a comparator-based image algebra) Part 2: Image operators",
journal = "Real-Time Imaging",
year = "1995",
volume = "1",
pages = "283--295"
}
@article{Heij:96,
author = "H. J. A. M. Heijmans",
title = "Self-dual morphological operators and filters",
journal = "Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision",
year = "1996",
volume = "6",
number = "1",
pages = "15--36"
}
@article{JackDeri:96,
author = "Paul T. Jackway and Mohamed Deriche",
title = "Scale-Space Properties of the Multiscale
Morphological Dilation-Erosion",
year = "1996",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence",
volume = "18",
number = "1",
pages = "38--51"
}
@article{JeanWangHaes:96,
author = "R. Jeannot and D. Wang and V. Haese-Coat",
title = "Binary image representation and coding by a double-recursive
morphological algorithm",
journal = "Signal Processing: Image Communication",
year = "1996",
volume = "8",
number = "3",
pages = "241--266"
}
@article{LeeLeeHsue:95,
author = "Y.-G. Lee and J.-H. Lee and Y.-C. Hsueh",
title = "Fuzzy hit-or-miss texture spectrum for texture analysis",
journal = "Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis",
year = "1995",
volume = "5",
number = "4",
pages = "540--545"
}
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