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CONTENTS:
1. Question on skeleton decomposition
2. Reports and thesis on connectivity
3. CFP: special issue "Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society"
4. Job at CSIRO: image analyst
5. CFP: Vision Geometry XI
6. Forthcoming events
7. Recent literature
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1. Question on skeleton decomposition
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From: Liu Baofang (bfliu@263.net)
Dear all,
I am seeking for information about skeleton decomposition of gray image.
If you have some paper or sample code in matlab about this matter,
I will appreciate your help.
Thank you very much and have a nice day!
Best regards,
LIU Baofang
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2. Reports and thesis on connectivity
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From: Ulisses Braga-Neto (ulisses@racs.ece.jhu.edu)
I have finished two reports and a doctoral dissertation on the subject of
connectivity.
1) My doctoral dissertation can be obtained at:
http://iacl.ece.jhu.edu/~ulisses/thesis.pdf
(2.18 MB file)
This work collects the material in the two reports, which are described
below, and more.
2) Our report on multiscale connectivity can be obtained at:
http://iacl.ece.jhu.edu/~ulisses/papers/conn_2.pdf
(913 KB file)
This document introduces a novel theory of multiscale connectivity, which
contains the theory of connectivity classes in complete lattices as a
special case.
3) The revised version of our report on connectivity can be obtained at:
http://iacl.ece.jhu.edu/~ulisses/papers/conn_1.pdf
(1.14 MB file)
This document provides a review of the theory of connectivity classes,
including several new examples and results.
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Ulisses de Mendonca Braga Neto Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng.
Research Scientist The Johns Hopkins University
ulisses@ece.jhu.edu Office Tel: (410) 516-4058
http://iacl.ece.jhu.edu/~ulisses FAX: (410) 516-5566
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3. CFP: special issue "Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society"
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From: B. S. Daya Sagar (bsdsagar@yahoo.co.uk)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue on Theory & Applications of Mathematical
Morphology for Feature Extraction from
Multi-Scale-Temporal Images
Guest Editors
B. S. Daya Sagar (Multimedia University, Malaysia),
C. Babu Rao (Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, India)
Full-length research articles are solicited to include in the Special Issue
of Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society (An International
Multidisciplinary Research and Review Journal, indexed in ISI) from Gordon
and Breach Harwood Publishers, a Member of the Taylor & Francis Group.
Natural systems undergo several morphological changes with time. To study
spatio-temporal dynamics of such natural systems, to further understand the
morphological dynamical behaviors, various images that show several macro
and micro level phenomena, acquired by various types of sensors need to be
analyzed in spatio-temporal scales. Such analyses, to facilitate the
researcher to model the spatio-temporal organization of a desired
phenomenon, evidently require the robust procedures to extract specific
error-free features from multiscale-temporal images represented in discrete
space.
Mathematical Morphology, a field developed by Georges Matheron, Jean Serra
and their colleagues of Centre de Morphologie Mathematique, offer several
robust theories and algorithms to implement on digital images to extract
complex features, the use of which can be further extended in modeling the
spatio-temporal organization of several natural phenomena. Hence, the
theme of this special issue is "Theory and Applications of Mathematical
Morphology for Feature Extraction from Multi-Scale-Temporal Images". The
aim of this special issue is to introduce the mathematical morphology
concepts and their usefulness to those who are interested to extract
features from digital images further to develop cogent models to understand
the spatio-temporal organization of several natural phenomena.
The topics for this special issue include the theory and applications of
mathematical morphology. Topics of interest include but are not limited
to:
* Theoretical binary and grayscale mathematical morphology and their
applications
* Multiscale approaches and their applications
* Scale space theory and its applications
* Morphology based algorithms and their applications for feature extraction
from digital grayscale data.
Authors should email electronic copies of their full-length papers to one
of the guest editors listed below. See
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/g-authors/292/292-nfc.htm for
manuscript formatting guidelines.
All the papers will be peer reviewed, and the following date deadlines will
be adhered.
Electronic abstract (optional) : January, 31, 2002
Papers due : March, 31, 2002
Reviews to authors : June, 31, 2002
Revised papers due to guest editor : August, 15, 2002
Final papers to the Editors-in-Chief:September,15,2002
Planned publication date : March 2003
Guest Editors:
B. S. Daya Sagar, Faculty of Engineering and
Technology (FET), Melaka Campus, Multimedia
University,
Jalan Ayer Keroh Lama, 75450, Melaka, Malaysia
e-mail IDs: bsdaya.sagar@mmu.edu.my,
bsdsagar@yahoo.co.uk,
Web Pages: http://fet.mmu.edu.my,
http://fet/research/Research.html.
C. Babu Rao, Division for Post Irradiation Exam and
NDT Development, Metallurgy & Materials Group,
Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR),
Kalpakkam - 603102, Tamil Nadu, India
e-mail: cbr@igcar.ernet.in, Web Page:
http://www.igcar.ernet.in
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4. Job at CSIRO: image analyst
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From: Leanne Bischof (leanne.bischof@cmis.csiro.au)
CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences
Image Analyst
Image Analysis R&D Group
Sydney, NSW, Australia
*$57K-$77K + Superannuation
We are seeking to recruit a scientist to carry out research into advanced
image analysis techniques, in particular in the areas of modern image
filtering and segmentation. The successful applicant will also collaborate
with other team members developing innovative imaging solutions for
industry, especially in the growing area of biotechnology.
CSIRO's Image Analysis Group is a highly motivated multidisciplinary team
of scientists and engineers working closely with industry on a range of
challenging projects, to extract quantitative information from complex
digital images. These projects are used to motivate our high quality
research. We work in areas as diverse as 2D and 3D imaging, multi-channel
imaging, machine vision, stereo vision and image motion.
The successful applicant will have a Ph.D or equivalent in a discipline
requiring strong quantitative and software skills. A good knowledge of
modern image filtering, segmentation and analysis techniques is essential.
The ability to carry out image analysis research and to solve practical
image analysis problems is also necessary. Good programming skills in C
are highly desirable.
The position is available initially for a period of 2-3 years, with the
possibility of extension.
Consideration will be given to an appointment at a higher level for an
outstanding applicant.
Further information about the position may be obtained from Ms Leanne
Bischof, phone +61 2 9325 3206 or email Leanne.Bischof@csiro.au.
A copy of the Role Description and Selection Criteria can be obtained from
http://www.cmis.csiro.au/Positions.Vacant/
Applications must include a self-assessment against the selection
criteria, details of your skills, qualifications and work achievements and
the names of at least three professional referees. Please forward your
application, marked "Confidential" quoting reference number 01/S06 to:
Human Resources, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Locked Bag
17, North Ryde NSW 1670 Australia or by e-mail to: jobs@cmis.csiro.au by
25th January, 2002.
Role Description (01/S06)
Role Title: Image Analyst
Project Area: Image Analysis R&D Group
Location: Sydney
Reports to: Group Leader - Image Analysis
Classification: CSOF 5/6
The duties of the position are:
1. Initiate and undertake research in image analysis, in particular in the
areas of image filtering and segmentation.
2. Collaborate with industry in the application of image analysis to
practical problems.
3. Where appropriate, work on specific collaborative projects with other
CSIRO Divisions.
4. Any other duties as directed.
Selection Criteria
Prerequisite
A Ph.D or equivalent in a degree requiring strong quantitative and
software skills.
Essential
1. A good knowledge of image processing and analysis techniques, and in
particular, of modern image filtering and segmentation techniques.
2. Demonstrated ability to carry out research in image analysis.
3. Demonstrated problem solving skills with respect to real world image
analysis problems.
4. Demonstrated knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
5. Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and respond productively to
changing requirements.
6. Evidence of well-developed written and verbal communication skills,
particularly an ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of
individuals and organisations.
Highly Desirable
1. Good knowledge of morphological and related image analysis techniques.
2. Good programming skills in C.
Desirable
1. Demonstrated ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams.
2. Some understanding of algorithms and techniques in one or more of the
following areas: statistical analysis, image motion, stereo vision.
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5. CFP: Vision Geometry XI
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From: Angela Wu (ayw@csis.american.edu)
Call For Papers
Vision Geometry XI (AM322)
July 7-8, 2002
Part of
SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology
Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, Washington
GENERAL INFORMATION
This conference is designed to bring together researchers who use
geometric theory and techniques to solve problems related to computer
vision. Contributions should focus on geometric or topological
aspects. Specific solutions as well as overviews of more general
topics are welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Geometry of 2D and 3D Digital Images
. digital geometry and topology
. approximations of curves and surfaces
. geometry-based image segmentation in 2D and 3D
. mathematical morphology
. shape description and geometric similarity
Object Geometry
. geometric object models
. geometric object recognition
. 3D and 2D object features
. invariance and geometric transformations
. surface models and shape recovery
Computational Geometry
. complexity of algorithms for vision and image processing
. object recognition and point pattern matching
. convexity problems
. Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay triangulations.
Further areas of interest are integral, stochastic, and differential
geometry as far as contributions are relevant to computer vision.
SUBMISSIONS
Please visit the following site for specific information on
submission procedures.
http://spie.org/Conferences/calls/02/am/confs/AM322.html
IMPORTANT DATES
Jan 10, 2001: Abstract due
Feb 6, 2002: Notification of acceptance or rejection
Jun 10, 2002: Final manuscript due
(These dates supersede the ones listed on the SPIE web page)
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Longin J. Latecki, Univ. Hamburg (Germany)
David M. Mount, Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Angela Y. Wu, American Univ
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Gilles Bertrand, Groupe ESIEE Paris (France)
Ari D. Gross, CUNY/Queens College
Atsushi Imiya, Chiba Univ. (Japan)
T. Y. Kong, CUNY/Queens College
Jack Koplowitz, Clarkson Univ.
Azriel Rosenfeld, Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Ivan Stojmenovic, Univ. of Ottawa (Canada)
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6. Forthcoming events
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See also: http://www.cwi.nl/projects/morphology/calendar.html
8 - 10 January 2002 Centre des CongrÕs d'Angers
13Õme CongrÕs Franc. AFRIF-AFIA de Reconn. des Formes et Intell. Artif.
http://www.info.univ-angers.fr/RFIA2002/
4 - 8 February 2002 Amsterdam, Netherlands
ASCI course on Mathematical Morphology
http://www.science.uva.nl/~rein/asci-mm
2 - 3 April 2002 Alicante, Spain
2nd International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems
http://www.dlsi.ua.es/pris2002
3 - 5 April 2002 Bordeaux, France
10th Int. Conf. on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI'2002)
http://www.labri.fr/dgci2002
3 - 5 April 2002 Sydney, Australia
6th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology (ISMM 2002)
http://www.cmis.csiro.au/ismm2002
27th May - 2nd June 2002 Copenhagen, Denmark
Seventh European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2002)
http://www.itu.dk/events/eccv02/
27 - 28 June 2002 Aveiro, Portugal
12th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RECPAD 2002)
http://www.ieeta.pt/recpad2002
7 - 8 July 2001 Seattle, Washington
Vision Geometry XI
http://spie.org/Conferences/calls/02/am/confs/AM322.html
11 - 15 August 2002 Quebec, Canada
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2002)
http://icpr2002.gel.ulaval.ca
3 - 6 September 2002 Toulouse, France
XI European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2002)
http://www.tesa.prd.fr/eusipco2002/
22-25 September 2002 Rochester, NY, USA
8th IEEE Intn'l Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2002)
http://208.21.192.195/icip2002/
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7. Recent literature
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@article{PingLihu:01,
author = "Z. Ping and C. Lihui",
title = "Document filters using morphological and geometrical features of
characters",
journal = "Image and Vision Computing",
year = "2001",
volume = "19",
number = "12",
pages = "847-855",
url = "http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0262885601000488"
}
@article{Bout_etal:01,
author = "Y.S. Boutalis, K. Tsirikolias, B.G. Metrtzios, I.T. Andreadis",
title = "Implementation of morphological filters using coordinate logic
operations",
journal = "Pattern Recognition",
year = "2001",
volume = "35",
number = "1",
pages = "187-198",
url = "http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0031320301000176"
}
@article{Chen_etal:01,
author = "T. Chen, Q.H. Wu, R. Rahmani-Torkaman, J. Hughes",
title = "A pseudo top-hat mathematical morphological approach to edge
detection in dark regions",
journal = "Pattern Recognition",
year = "2001",
volume = "35",
number = "1",
pages = "199-210",
url = "http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0031320301000243"
}
@article{KimJungPark:01,
author = "I.-K. Kim, D.-W. Jung, R.-H. Park",
title = "Document image binarization based on topographic analysis using a
water flow model",
journal = "Pattern Recognition",
year = "2001",
volume = "35",
number = "1",
pages = "265-277",
url = "http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0031320301000279"
}
@article{MarqVila:01,
author = "F. Marques, V. Vilaplana",
title = "Face segmentation and tracking based on connected operators and
partition projection",
journal = "Pattern Recognition",
year = "2001",
volume = "35",
number = "3",
pages = "543-769"
}
@article{Soil:01,
author = "P. Soille",
title = "On morphological operators based on rank filters",
journal = "Pattern Recognition",
year = "2001",
volume = "35",
number = "2",
pages = "527-535"
}
@article{AyalDomi:01,
author = "G. Ayala, J. Domingo",
title = "Spatial size distributions: applications to shape and texture",
journal = pami,
year = "2001",
volume = "23",
number = "12",
pages = "1430-1442",
url = "http://computer.org/tpami/tp2001/i1430abs.htm"
}
@article{SoilTalb:01,
author = "Pierre Soille, Hugues Talbot",
title = "Directional morphological filtering",
journal = pami,
year = "2001",
volume = "23",
number = "11",
pages = "1313-1329",
url = "http://computer.org/tpami/tp2001/i1313abs.htm"
}
@article{ParkKell:01,
author = "J. Park, J.M. Keller",
title = "Snakes on the watershed",
journal = pami,
year = "2001",
volume = "23",
number = "10",
pages = "1201-1205",
url = "http://computer.org/tpami/tp2001/i1201abs.htm"
}
@article{HashBarr:01,
author = "R. F. Hashimoto, J. Barrera",
title = "From the sup-decomposition to sequential decompositions",
journal = "Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision",
year = "2001",
volume = "15",
number = "3",
pages = "197-216",
url = ""
}
@article{YuHuaGuan:01,
author = "Liu Wen-Yu, Li Hua and Zhu Guang-Xi",
title = "A fast algorithm for corner detection using the morphologic skeleton",
journal = "Pattern Recognition Letters",
year = "2001",
volume = "22",
number = "8",
pages = "",
url = "http://www.elsevier.com/gej-ng/10/35/61/49/31/28/abstract.html"
}
@article{SivaBalaDoug:01,
author = "K. Sivakumar, Y. Balagurunathan and E. R. Dougherty",
title = "Asymptotic joint normality of the granulometric moments",
journal = "Pattern Recognition Letters",
year = "2001",
volume = "22",
number = "14",
pages = "",
url = "http://www.elsevier.com/gej-ng/10/35/61/49/43/33/abstract.html"
}
@article{SoilMiss:01,
author = "Soille, P. and Misson, L.",
title = "Tree ring area measurements using morphological image analysis",
journal = "Canadian Journal of Forest Research",
year = "2001",
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "1074-1083"
}
@article{WhelSoilDrim:01,
author = "Whelan, P. and Soille, P. and Drimbarean, A.",
title = "Real-time registration of paper watermarks",
journal = "Real-Time Imaging",
year = "2001",
volume = "7",
number ="4",
pages = {367-380},
url = "http://www.idealibrary.com/links/doi/10.1006/rtim.2000.0239"
}
@article{PinaRibeMuge:01,
author = "P. Pina, L. Ribeiro, F. Muge",
title = "A mathematical morphology contribution to study some aspects of
hydrogeological systems"
journal = "Computers and Geosciences",
year = "2001",
volume = "27(9)",
pages = "1061-1070"
}
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From: Pierre Soille <pierre.soille@jrc.it>
To: mdigest@jrc.it <mdigest@jrc.it>
Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2003, 12:11:49 PM
Subject: MDIGEST_LIST: Mdigest, vol. 10, issue 2, June 2003
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MORPHOLOGY DIGEST Volume 10, Issue 2, June 2003
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Contents
1 Paper: A multiscale approach to connectivity
2 Report: On the Strong Property of Morphological Connected
Alternated Filters
3 Book: Morphological Image Analysis (2nd edition)
4 DGCI'2003 technical programme
5 2nd IEEE Workshop on Geometric, Variational and Level Set Methods
in CV
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1 Paper: A multiscale approach to connectivity
=========================================================
From: Ulisses M. Braga-Neto <ulisses@ee.tamu.edu>
"A multiscale approach to connectivity " by Ulisses Braga-Neto
and John Goutsias, Computer Vision and Image Understanding,
Volume 89, Issue 1 , January 2003, Pages 70-107.
This paper introduces a novel theory of connectivity, which
considers traditional concepts in a multiscale framework. The
theory of connectivity classes, developed by Matheron, Serra and
others, becomes a special single-scale case. We propose and
study the notions of connectivity measure, connectivity pyramid,
sigma-connectivity opening and sigma-reconstruction. We give
examples based on multiscale dilations and multiscale openings.
We also show that fuzzy connectivities can be seen as the
multiscale extension of classical connectivities. Finally, we
discuss a generalization of the theory that leads to an example
of multiscale connectivity for grayscale images.
@Article{braga-goutsias2003,
author = "Braga-Neto, U. and Goutsias, J.",
title = "A multiscale approach to connectivity",
journal = "Computer Vision and Image Understanding",
year = 2003,
volume = 89,
number = 1,
pages = "70-107",
month = Jan,
url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1077-3142(03)00014-6"
}
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2 Report: On the Strong Property of Morphological
Connected Alternated Filters
=======================================================
From: Jose Crespo <jcrespo@infomed.dia.fi.upm.es>
Technical Report "On the Strong Property of Morphological
Connected Alternated Filters", by Jose Crespo and Victor Maojo,
Technical Report - Artificial Intelligence Lab., School of
Computer Science, Polytechnical University of Madrid, August
2002.
Abstract: This report studies connectivity aspects that arise in
image operators that process connected components of an input
image. The focus is on morphological image analysis (i.e., on
increasing image operators) and, in particular, on a robustness
property satisfied by certain morphological filters that is
denominated the strong-property. The behavior of alternated
compositions of openings and closings will be investigated under
certain assumptions, especially using a connected component
preserving equation. A significant result is the finding that
such an equation cannot in general guarantee the strong property
of certain connected alternated filters because of issues
related to the locality of the filters. The class of openings
and closings by reconstruction should therefore be defined to
avoid such situations, since the strong property of alternated
filters should be a distinctive characteristic of this class.
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3 Book: Morphological Image Analysis (2nd edition)
=======================================================
From: Pierre.Soille@jrc.it
Morphological Image Analysis: Principles and Applications
2nd edition
by Pierre Soille
Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2003
@Book{soille2003sv,
author = "Soille, P.",
title = "Morphological Image Analysis",
subtitle = "Principles and Applications",
edition = "2nd",
publisher = "Springer-Verlag",
year = 2003,
isbn = "3-540-42988-3"
address = "Heidelberg"
}
Following the success of the first edition, recent developments
in the field of morphological image analysis called for an
extended second edition. The text has been fully revised with
the goal of improving its clarity while introducing new concepts
of interest to real image analysis applications.
The book has grown by 25 percent leading to a total of 391 pages
(including 39 additional figures, 3 new tables, 93 extra
bibliographical references, as well as 1 supplementary index).
This increase has been distributed more or less evenly across
all chapters. More precisely, beyond a new chapter devoted to
texture analysis, main additions include: processing of
multichannel images, ordering relations on image partitions,
connected operators and levellings, homotopy for grey tone
images, translation-invariant implementations of erosions and
dilations by line segments, reinforced emphasis on rank-based
morphological operators, grey tone hit-or-miss, order indepen-
dent homotopic thinnings and anchored skeletons, self-dual
geodesic transformation and reconstruction, area based self-dual
filters, anti-centre, and new scientific and industrial
applications. For more information:
http://www.springer.de/cgi/svcat/search_book.pl?isbn=3-540-42988-3
http://ams.jrc.it/soille/book2nd
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4 DGCI'2003 technical programme
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From: DGCI 2003 <dgci@dgci.cib.na.cnr.it>
The technical programme of the Discrete Geometry for Computer
Geometry con- ference to be hold in Naples in November 2003 is
now available. Please check:
http://dgci.cib.na.cnr.it/technical.html.
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5 2nd IEEE Workshop on Geometric, Variational and
Level Set Methods in CV
=============================================================
From: Nikos Paragios
<Nikos.Paragios@scr.siemens.com >
2nd IEEE WORKSHOP on GEOMETRIC, VARIATIONAL and LEVEL SET
METHODS in CV
Nice (France), October 12, 2003
http://www.scr.siemens.com/vlsm03
In Conjunction with the 9th IEEE International Conference In Computer
Vision
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Olivier Faugeras, INRIA
Nikos Paragios, Siemens Corporate Research
Rachid Deriche INRIA
Demetri Terzopoulos, New York University
SCOPE: During the last twenty years a wide variety of
mathematical and computational frameworks have been
proposed to deal with computer vision
applications. More recently many Computer Vision
researchers have started to pay more attention to the
use of variational, geometric, lagrangian and level set
approaches to solve vision problems. This workshop
focuses on these novel mathematical techniques and
their applications to Computer Vision problems.
TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to, the
following: Techniques: Differential Geometry &
Geometric Flows, PDE-Level Set, Langrangian &
Variational Methods, Statistical Methods &
Energy-minimization
Approaches Applications: Image
Registration/Segmentation, Curve/Surface/Volume
Registration Stereo Reconstruction & Implicit Surfaces,
Snakes, Splines, and Deformable Models PDE-based
Methods of Image Analysis, Surface and Volume Models,
Feature extraction Applications
DEADLINES & SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
(*) Deadline for paper submission May 30th, 2003
Notification of acceptance June 30th, 2003
(*) Deadline for final paper July 15th, 2003
(*) Submission Guidelines: Electronic, soon to be
announced on the WWW page
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Luis Alvarez, University of Las Palmas, Spain
Nicholas Ayache, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Michel Barlaud, University of Nice, France
Vincent Caselles, University of Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Tony Chan, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Yunmei Chen, University of Florida, USA
Sven Dickinson, University of Toronto, Canada
Lewis Griffin, King College, United Kingdom
Marie-Pierre Jolly, Siemens Corporate Research, US
Ron Kimmel, Technion University, Israel
Georges Koepfler, University of Paris 5, France
Petros Maragos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Dimitris Metaxas, Rutgers University, USA
Lionel Moisan, Ecole Normale Superiore de Cachan, France
Peter Olver, University of Minnesota, USA
Stanley Osher, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Guillermo Sapiro, University of Minnesota, United States
Christoph Schnoerr, University of Mannheim, Germany
Kaleem Siddiqi, McGill University, Canada
Stefano Soatto, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Nir Sochen, University of Tel-Aviv, Israel
Allen Tannenbaum, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Anthony Yezzi, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Laurent Younes, Ecole Normale Superiore de Cachan, France
Baba Vemuri, University of Florida, USA
Joachim Weickert, University of Saarland, Germany
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From: Pierre Soille <pierre.soille@jrc.it>
To: mdigest@jrc.it <mdigest@jrc.it>
Date: Monday, September 15, 2003, 11:41:49 AM
Subject: MDIGEST_LIST: MDigest, vol. 10, issue 3, September 2003
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MORPHOLOGY DIGEST Volume 10, Issue 3, September 2003 [Previous issue] [Next issue]
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Edited by Pierre Soille
EC Joint Research Centre, Ispra site, Italy
Scope: the scope of the Morphology Digest list is to provide a
communication channel between people interested in
mathematical morphology and morphological image analysis.
Related posts such as publication and conference
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that all messages are collected by the list owner and then
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Contents
1 Call for Papers: Special Issue on Mathematical Morphology in JMIV
2 IAPR TC 18 on Discrete Geometry
3 Book: Geometric Level Set Methods in Imaging, Vision, and Graphics
4 ISMM'2005
5 Recent literature
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1 Call for Papers: Special Issue on Mathematical
Morphology after 40 years in JMIV
=========================================================
From: Christian Ronse <cronse@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL IMAGING AND VISION
Special Issue on Mathematical Morphology after 40 Years
Submission Deadline: January 1, 2004
Mathematical morphology was born in 1964 when Georges Matheron and
Jean Serra started to apply set-theoretical and geometrical methods to
the analysis of porous media and iron ores. Since then it has
developed into a branch of image processing and analysis, with active
research groups on all continents. It uses diverse tools and methods,
and takes its roots in several domains of mathematics: algebra,
topology, integral geometry, geometrical probability, etc. However all
these aspects are unified by the notion that images represent
geometrical objects with varying intensities. In this respect, it
represents an alternative to more traditional approaches based on
frequency analysis and random signal theory.
The purpose of this special issue is to gather high-quality recent
research contributions in the theory and practice of mathematical
morphology. This special issue is scheduled to appear in March 2005,
and will be published in honour of Jean Serra, who will be 65 year old
that month.
Prospective authors are encouraged to submit original works, which
have not appeared, nor are under consideration, in any other journals
on the following topics:
- lattice theory and algebraic models of images and operators
- discrete topology and metrics for image processing
- non-linear image filtering
- connected operators
- geometrical scale space
- topographical segmentation
- random sets and geometrical probability
- integral geometry and geometrical measures
- morphological algorithms
- applications of morphology in imaging sciences
Instructions For Authors:
=========================
All manuscripts are subject to review. To be considered for this
special issue, prospective authors should submit six copies of their
complete manuscript by January 1, 2004 to Ms. Michelle Misner, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 101 Philip Drive, Assinippi Park, Norwell, MA
02061; Tel: 781 871-6600; Fax: 617 871-6528; E-mail
michelle.misner@wkap.com. Please note on each submission: Special
Issue on Mathematical Morphology after 40 Years for the JOURNAL OF
MATHEMATICAL IMAGING AND VISION.
In order to accelerate the reviewing process, they are advised to
provide the special issue editor with a PDF file of their paper (by
email, or through a FTP or web site address).
All manuscripts should include a title page containing the following
information: paper title, full name(s) and affiliation(s), complete
postal and electronic address(es), and telephone and fax numbers of
the author(s). In addition, the contacting author should be clearly
identified on the title page. Manuscripts should include a 300-word
abstract and a list of keywords that identify the central issues
discussed in the manuscript, and brief author biographies and photos.
Guest Editor:
Prof. Christian Ronse
LSIIT UMR 7005 CNRS-ULP
Parc d'Innovation, Boulevard Sebastien Brant
BP 10413
67412 ILLKIRCH CEDEX
FRANCE
cronse@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr
Submission Deadline: January 1, 2004
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2 IAPR TC 18 on Discrete Geometry
=======================================================
From: Annick Montanvert <Annick.Montanvert@iut2.upmf-grenoble.fr>
TC18 is a new Technical Committee of IAPR; it focuses on DISCRETE
GEOMETRY. TC18 opened on November 2002 and it is co-chaired by Annick
Montanvert (Grenoble - France) and Stina Svensson
(Uppsala-Sweden). Discrete geometry plays an essential role in the
field of image analysis. It is not a new discipline, but has appeared
as a main field of computer imagery since more than 40 years. The aim
of this IAPR-TC18 is to promote interactions and collaboration between
researchers working in this field. Conferences and a TC web page
provide these opportunities. We have already around 50 registered
members.
The web page is available at http://www.cb.uu.se/TC18/
(and from http://www.iapr.org)
The main conference is the Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery
(DGCI) conference. The 11th DGCI will take place in Naples from 19 to
21 November 2003: http://dgci.cib.na.cnr.it An original and important
point is the special web page developed to provide data sets of images
and programs; it is available from the TC18 web page.
Discrete geometry has also some links with other approaches such as
computational geometry and mathematical morphology; it is of great
interest to know the variety of all these works and methods. Do not
hesitate to join this TC and to participate.
Annick Montanvert and Stina Svensson
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3 Book: Geometric Level Set Methods in Imaging, Vision
and Graphics
=======================================================
From: Nikos Paragios <Nikos.Paragios@scr.siemens.com>
Geometric Level Set Methods in Imaging, Vision, and Graphics
edited by
Stanley Osher (UCLA, Dept. of Mathematics, Los Angeles, CA)
and
Nikos Paragios (Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ)
Springer-Verlag, Summer 2003
Level set methods are emerging techniques for representing, deforming,
and recovering structures in an arbitrary dimension across different
fields (mathematics, fluid dynamics, graphics, imaging, vision,
etc.). Advances in numerical analysis have led to computationally
efficient tools for computing and analyzing interface motion within
level set frameworks in a host of application settings. This
authoritative edited survey provides readers with the state-of-the-art
in applying level set techniques in the imaging, vision, and graphics
domains, presenting thematically grouped chapters contributed by
leading experts from both industry and academia. The work bridges the
theoretical foundations of level set methods with the latest
significant applications. It will assist readers with both the
technical aspects of the field as well as its practical ramifications
for areas like medical imaging, computer animation, film restoration,
video surveillance, visual inspection, and a range of scientific and
engineering disciplines.
Topics and features:
o Covers the application domains of imaging, vision, and graphics
o Includes a helpful introductory survey chapter on level set methods
o Provides a complete overview of concepts and advanced technologies
in the field
o Describes leading-edge research, providing insight into a variety
of potential avenues for problem solving
o Supplies numerous implementations, examples, and relevant and useful
experimental results
This essential resource carefully integrates the theoretical
foundations of level set methods with their actual performance
capabilities. Its clarity of organization and approach makes the book
accessible for researchers and professionals working in the areas of
vision, graphics, image processing, robotics, mathematics, and
computational geometry.
For more information:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/aparagio/book.htm
http://www.springer.de/cgi/svcat/search`book.pl?isbn=0-387-95488-0
@Book{ohser-paragios2003,
author = "Ohser, S. and Paragios, N.",
title = "Geometric Level Set Methods in Imaging,
Vision, and Graphics",
publisher = "Springer-Verlag",
year = 2003,
isbn = "0-387-95488-0",
address = "New York",
url = "http://mywebpages.comcast.net/aparagio/book.htm",
psnote = "532 PP., 613 REF., HARDCOVER, List Price: USD 69.95"
}
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4 ISMM'2005
=======================================================
From: Pierre Soille <Pierre.Soille@jrc.it>
Following the many queries about the date and place of the next
International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology, I have the
pleasure to announce that it will be held in Spring 2005, in (or near)
Paris. The exact date and place shall be announced in the next
Morphology Digest issue and shall be put on the web site as soon as it
will be available, keep an eye on
http://ams.jrc.it/mdigest/calendar.html
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5 Recent literature
=======================================================
Grain filters:
--------------
@Article{caselles-monasse2002,
author = {Caselles, V. and Monasse, P.},
title = {Grain filters},
journal = {Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision},
year = 2002,
volume = 17,
number = 3,
pages = {249-270},
month = Nov,
url =
{http://ipsapp008.kluweronline.com/content/getfile/4860/32/3/abstract.htm}
}
A greedy algorithm for decomposing convex structuring elements:
---------------------------------------------------------------
@Article{hashimoto-barrera2003,
author = {Hashimoto, R and Barrera, J.},
title = {A greedy algorithm for decomposing convex
structuring elements},
journal = {Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision},
year = 2003,
volume = 18,
pages = {269-289},
url =
{http://ipsapp008.kluweronline.com/content/getfile/4860/36/4/abstract.htm}
}
A theoretical tour of connectivity in image processing and analysis:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
@Article{braga-goutsias2003,
author = {Braga-Neto, U. and Goutsias, J.},
title = {A theoretical tour of connectivity
in image processing and analysis},
journal = {Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision},
year = 2003,
volume = 19,
number = 1,
pages = {5-31},
month = Jul,
url =
{http://ipsapp008.kluweronline.com/content/getfile/4860/37/1/abstract.htm}
}
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From: Pierre Soille <pierre.soille@jrc.it>
To: mdigest@jrc.it <mdigest@jrc.it>
Date: Thursday, December 18, 2003, 11:45:00 AM
Subject: MDIGEST_LIST: MDigest, vol. 10, issue 4, December 2003
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PDF: http://ams.jrc.it/mdigest/DIGEST/Digest03-4.pdf
ASCII: http://ams.jrc.it/mdigest/DIGEST/Digest03-4.txt
Edited by Pierre Soille
EC Joint Research Centre, Ispra site, Italy
Scope: the scope of the Morphology Digest list is to provide a
communication channel between people interested in
mathematical morphology and morphological image analysis.
Related posts such as publication and conference
announcements, algorithms, software, queries, and job
proposals are seeked. The list is moderated in the sense
that all messages are collected by the list owner and then
edited on a regular basis so as to create an edited digest
(maximum 6 per year). The digest is then sent to all list
subscribers but also appears at the following URL:
http://ams.jrc.it/mdigest
Subscribe: email to listserver@jrc.it with "subscribe mdigest" as
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Archive site:URL: http://ams.jrc.it/mdigest
Contents:
1 ISMM'05: Preliminary call for papers
2 Reminder: Special Issue on Mathematical Morphology in JMIV
3 ICIAR 2004: ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
4 Book: Hands-on Morphological Image Processing
5 Recent literature
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1 ISMM'05: Preliminary call for papers
=========================================================
From: Christian Ronse <cronse@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY:
40 YEARS ON
Monday 18th to Wednesday 20th April 2005, Paris, France
This symposium is the seventh of a series of conferences devoted to
mathematical morphology and its applications in image processing. It
will be held at 40 years after mathematical morphology was born
through the collaborative work of Jean Serra and the late Georges
Matheron in the summer of 1964. It is thus a great opportunity to
present the most recent developments in this field, and to assess its
relevance in image processing, signal processing and computer science.
The theme of the conference will be mathematical morphology in the
broad sense, around the notion that pictures represent geometrical
objects with luminance (or colour) profiles, that can be analysed by
their interactions with other geometrical objects. More specifically,
the following topics are eligible for submissions:
Morphological theory:
- lattice theory and algebraic models of images and operators
- combinatorial topology and discrete geometry in image processing
- metrics and topologies for shapes and pictures
- PDEs, level set methods and geometrical scale space
- discrete and continuous geometrical measures, integral geometry
- random sets and geometrical probability
- image connectivity and connected operators
- relations of morphology with signal processing and computer science
Morphological image processing:
- geometrical image analysis
- order-statistics image filtering
- geometrical and topographical segmentation
- colour and multi-channel morphology
- morphological pattern recognition
- motion analysis
- texture analysis
- shape analysis
- image coding
- algorithms and data structures for morphology
Applications of morphology in:
- geoscience and remote sensing
- bio-medical imaging
- materials science
- quality control
- document processing
- data analysis
The scientific program will include invited talks and contributed
papers (no posters). They will appear in the proceedings volume.
This volume will be available at the beginning of the conference.
This ISMM will be held in honour of Jean Serra, on the occasion of his
65th birthday. Its venue will follow that of DGCI in Poitiers (from
Wednesday the 13th to Friday the 15th April 2005).
INFORMATION / CONFERENCE WEB SITE:
---------------------------------
A conference web site (hosted by esiee.fr) will be available shortly,
check http://ams.jrc.it/mdigest/calendar.html
It will contain information about submission, registration, invited
speakers, accommodation, etc. For additional information, you can also
contact the organising committee.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURES:
---------------------
Prospective authors are invited to submit a full paper using the
electronic procedure described in the conference web site. The
manuscript file should be in the PDF format.
In case of problems with the electronic procedure, it is possible to
submit a paper by sending 5 printed copies of the manuscript to any
one of the 3 conference chairs. Email submissions should be avoided.
The manuscript title header should include the names, institutions and
addresses of the authors, an abstract of up to 200 words, and
keywords. The submission procedure requires providing full postal and
e-mail addresses, phone and fax numbers of the contact author.
Acceptance of papers is based on appropriateness of the topic and on
quality, novelty, and clarity of exposition. Each paper will be
reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee (or referees
chosen by them), and their reviews will be returned to the author.
Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings volume. The final paper
has to be prepared in LaTeX according to the style file provided by
the organisers (see conference web site). The size should be limited
to 10 pages including artwork and references. Authors are strongly
advised to adopt that LaTeX style already for the initial submission.
IMPORTANT DATES:
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10 September 2004: Submission of full paper
12 November 2004: Notification of acceptance
14 January 2005: Camera-ready full paper
CONFERENCE CHAIRS:
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Christian Ronse
LSIIT UMR 7005 CNRS-ULP
Parc d'Innovation, Boulevard Sébastien Brant
BP 10413
67412 ILLKIRCH CEDEX
FRANCE
Tel: +33 3 90 24 45 00
Fax: +33 3 90 24 44 55
Email: cronse at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr
Laurent Najman
Laboratoire A2SI
Groupe ESIEE
Cité Descartes - BP 99 - 2, Bd Blaise Pascal
93162 NOISY LE GRAND CEDEX
FRANCE
Tel: +33 1 45 92 66 72
Fax: +33 1 45 92 66 99
Email: l.najman at esiee.fr
Etienne Decencière Ferrandière
CMM - Ecole des Mines
35, rue Saint Honoré
77305 Fontainebleau CEDEX
Tel: +33 1 64 69 48 09
Fax: +33 1 64 69 47 07
Email: Etienne.Decenciere at cmm.ensmp.fr
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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Christian Ronse (Head), Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
Junior Barrera, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Gilles Bertrand, ESIEE, Noisy-Le-Grand, France
Isabelle Bloch, ENST, Paris, France
Gunilla Borgefors, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
Jose Crespo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Etienne Decencière, Ecole des Mines de Paris, Fontainebleau, France
John Goutsias, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MA, USA.
Frederic Guichard, Vision IQ & DO Labs, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Henk Heijmans, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dominique Jeulin, Ecole des Mines de Paris, Fontainebleau, France
Renato Keshet, HP Labs, Israel
Ron Kimmel, Technion, Haifa, Israel
Petros Maragos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Fernand Meyer, Ecole des Mines de Paris, Fontainebleau, France
Jean-Michel Morel, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Cachan, France
Laurent Najman, ESIEE, Noisy-Le-Grand, France
Ioannis Pitas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Gerhard Ritter, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Jos Roerdink, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Philipe Salembier, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona,Spain
Michel Schmitt, Ecole des Mines de Paris, Fontainebleau, France
Pierre Soille, EC Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
Hugues Talbot, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia
Rein van den Boomgaard, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Marc Van Droogenbroeck, Université de Liège, Belgium
Luc Vincent, Soligence Corporation, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Joachim Weickert, Universität Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany
ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
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Laurent Najman, ESIEE, Noisy-Le-Grand, France
Isabelle Bloch, ENST, Paris, France
Petr Dokladal, Ecole des Mines de Paris, Fontainebleau, France
Christian Ronse, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
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2 Reminder: Special Issue on Mathematical Morphology in JMIV
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From: Christian Ronse <cronse@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
This is to remind you that the submission deadline is the 1st of January
2004.
For further details see,
http://ams.jrc.it/mdigest/DIGEST/Digest03-3/node1.html
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3 ICIAR 2004: ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
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From: ICIAR 2004 <iciar04@fe.up.pt>
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION (ICIAR 2004)
September 29 - October 1, 2004, Porto, Portugal
General Chair
Aurelio Campilho
campilho@fe.up.pt
General Co-Chair
Mohamed Kamel
mkamel@uwaterloo.ca
Paper submission deadline: April 16, 2004
ICIAR - International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition aims to
bring together researchers in the fields of Image Processing, Analysis and
Recognition. It will be organized annually, alternating between Europe and
North America. In 2004, the conference is held in Porto, Portugal. ICIAR -
2005 will take place in Toronto, Canada.
The conference is a result of discussion between researchers in Portugal and
Canada to encourage collaboration and exchange between the two Countries
with participation of experts and researchers from other Countries.
The conference will address recent advances in theory, methodologies and
applications. The scientific program will include invited speakers and fully
refereed contributions that will be published in the conference proceedings.
Please find the call for papers and more information at the webpage
http://www.iciar.uwaterloo.ca
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4 Book: Hands-on Morphological Image Processing
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From: Roberto Lotufo <lotufo@fee.unicamp.br>
Hands-on Morphological Image Processing
by
Edward Dougherty (Texas A&M University, TX, USA)
and
Roberto Lotufo (University of Campinas, SP, Brazil)
SPIE Press, August 2003
Morphological image processing - now a standard part of the imaging
scientist's toolbox - can be applied to a wide range of industrial
applications. Some of these applications include inspection,
biomedical imaging, document processing, pattern recognition,
metallurgy, microscopy, and robot vision. Because the morphological
operations can serve as a universal language for image processing,
their application is limited only by the user's ability to design
effective algorithms and implement efficient computations.
Concentrating on applications, "Hands-on Morphological Image
Processing" shows readers how to analyze a problem and then develop
successful algorithms based on their analysis. This volume, an
updated and expanded version of E. Dougherty's earlier volume, "An
Introduction to Morphological Image Processing", explains how
generic methods can be used in combination to solve practical
problems. The book is hands-on in a very real sense: readers will be
able to download a demonstration toolbox of techniques and images
free from the web so they can process the images according to
examples in the text.
Contents:
o Binary Erosion and Dilation
o Binary Opening and Closing
o Morphological Processing of Binary Images
o Hit-or-Miss Transform
o Gray-Scale Morphology
o Morphological Processing of Gray-Scale Images
o Morphological Segmentation - Watershed
o Granulometries
o Automatic Design of Morphological Operators
For more information:
http://www.dca.fee.unicamp.br/~lotufo/handson
http://bookstore.spie.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=DetailVolume&productid=501104
@Book{DougLotu:03,
author = "Dougherty, E.R. and Lotufo, R.A.",
title = "Hands-on Morphological Image Processingods in Imaging",
publisher = "SPIE Press",
year = 2003,
isbn = "0-8194-4720-X",
address = "Bellingham, WA",
url="http://bookstore.spie.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=DetailVolume&productid=501104",
psnote = "SPIE Vol. N. TT59, 290 PP., Softcover, List Price: USD 56.00"
}
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5 Recent literature
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Proc. of DGCI'03:
-----------------
@Proceedings{nystroem-etal2003,
title = {Proc. of 11th Discrete Geometry for Computer
Imagery conference (DGCI'03)},
year = {2003},
editor = {Nystr\"om, I. and Sanniti di Baja, G. and Svensson, S.},
volume = {2886},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
address = {Berlin},
month = {November},
publisher ={Springer-Verlag},
url =
{http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=issue&issn=0302-9743&volume=2886}
}
Application:
-----------
@Article{giada-etal2003,
author = {Giada, S. and De Groeve, T. and Ehrlich, D. and Soille, P.},
title = {Information extraction from very high resolution satellite
images over {L}ukole refugee camp, {T}anzania},
journal = {International Journal of Remote Sensing},
year = 2003,
volume = 24,
number = 22,
pages = {4251-4266},
month = Nov,
url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0143116021000035021"
}
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From: Pierre Soille <pierre.soille@jrc.it>
To: mdigest@jrc.it <mdigest@jrc.it>
Date: Wednesday, March 03, 2004, 1:40:49 PM
Subject: MDIGEST_LIST: MDigest, vol. 11, issue 1, March 2004
Files: <none>
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MORPHOLOGY DIGEST Volume 11, Issue 1, March 2004 HTML: http://ams.jrc.it/mdigest/DIGEST/Digest04-1
PDF: http://ams.jrc.it/mdigest/DIGEST/Digest04-1.pdf
ASCII: http://ams.jrc.it/mdigest/DIGEST/Digest04-1.txt
Edited by Pierre Soille
EC Joint Research Centre, Ispra site, Italy
Scope: the scope of the Morphology Digest list is to provide a
communication channel between people interested in
mathematical morphology and morphological image analysis.
Related posts such as publication and conference
announcements, algorithms, software, queries, and job
proposals are seeked. The list is moderated in the sense
that all messages are collected by the list owner and then
edited on a regular basis so as to create an edited digest
(maximum 6 per year). The digest is then sent to all list
subscribers but also appears at the following URL:
http://ams.jrc.it/mdigest
Subscribe: email to listserver@jrc.it with "subscribe mdigest" as
BODY of message and empty subject.
Unsubscribe: email to listserver@jrc.it with "unsubscribe mdigest"
+ email address as BODY and empty subject.
Submissions: email to mdigest@jrc.it with "submit" as subject. Please
note that only submissions from list subscribers will be read
by the editor.
Archive site:URL: http://ams.jrc.it/mdigest
Contents:
1 ISMM'05: Call for papers
2 DGCI'05: Call for papers
3 Joint IEEE Int. Workshop on Object Tracking and Classification
Beyond the Visible Spectrum, July 2004
4 Research Positions at AIIA Lab, Greece
5 Norbert Wiener Prize Awarded to James Sethian
6 Recent literature
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1 ISMM'05: Call for papers
=========================================================
International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology
ISMM'05
Monday 18th to Wednesday 20th April 2005, Paris, France
Important dates:
----------------
Submission of full paper: . . . . . . . . 10 September 2004
Notification of acceptance: . . . . . . . 12 November 2004
Camera-ready full paper: . . . . . . . . 14 January 2005
Web site for further information:
---------------------------------
http://ismm05.esiee.fr/
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2 DGCI'05: Call for papers
=========================================================
From: Eric Andres <Eric.Andres@sic.sp2mi.univ-poitiers.fr>
12th Int. Conf. on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery
DGCI 2005
April 13-15, 2005, Poitiers, France
Important dates:
----------------
Paper Submission (only in electronic form): . .1 October 2004
Acceptance Notification: . . . . . . . . . . . 1 December 2004
Camera-ready Papers: . . . . . . . . . . . . ..5 January 2005
Conference: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13-15 April 2005
Scientific Secretary and Contact:
--------------------------------
Email: dgci@sic.univ-poitiers.fr
DGCI 2005 Webpage: http://www.sic.sp2mi.univ-poitiers.fr/dgci/
Full details of the conference can be found on our website. In
particular, a PDF version of the Call for Papers is available on the
website for download and display in your institution. Please pass on
this call to any colleagues who may be interested. We look forward to
welcoming you in Poitiers for DGCI 2005
Eric Andres Pascal Lienhardt Guillaume Damiand
General Chair Program Chair Publication Chair
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3 Joint IEEE Int. Workshop on Object Tracking and
Classification Beyond the Visible Spectrum, July 2004
=========================================================
From: Riad Hammoud <riad.hammoud@delphi.com>
Joint IEEE International Workshop on
Object Tracking and Classification Beyond the Visible Spectrum
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Date : Friday July 2nd, 2004
Website : http://www.ai.mit.edu/~demirdji/WPCVPE04/otcbvs_cvpr04.htm
In conjunction with IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Conference (CVPR'2004:
http://cvl.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/cvpr2004/)
Paper submission deadline: March 19, 2004
Dear colleagues,
I'm pleased to announce that the website for accepting submissions for
the Joint IEEE Int. Workshop On Object Tracking and Classification
Beyond the Visible Spectrum (OTCBVS'04) is now open for your
contributions. Please submit your short and long papers by going to
http://www.ai.mit.edu/~demirdji/WPCVPE04/otcbvs_cvpr04.htm
where you can obtain detailed information about the submissions
process and, of course, the workshop and the main conference
itself. Submitted papers will be double blindly reviewed by the
Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published by means of paper
and electronic proceedings. The Best paper and the best open-source
software will be selected for awards.
The aim of the OTCBVS 04 workshop is to bring together pioneering
academic and industrial researchers in the field of computer vision,
image analysis, pattern recognition and human computer interaction. A
special attention will be given to vision algorithms where non-visible
range sensors are employed. Also, emphasis will be placed on new and
traditional applications of Infrared (IR) imagery. Comparative
evaluation studies across the non-visible spectrum for a given
computer vision or pattern recognition task are
encouraged. Applications using non-visible range sensors from various
domains are welcome. Sensors of interest include infrared, millimeter
wave, radar, and hyper-spectral. Objects of interest include human
eye/face, vehicle, missiles, etc.
We believe that this will be a very exciting conference. We look
forward to seeing you in Washington!
Sincerely,
-- Riad
WS Organizer & Program Chair:
Riad Hammoud, Delphi Electronics & Safety, IN, USA
WS Program Co-Chair
Robert McMillan, US Army Space & Missile Defense Command, AL, USA
bob.mcmillan@smdc.army.mil
IMPORTANT DATES:
----------------
Submission of full paper : March 19, 2004
Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2004
Deadline for final paper : April 27, 2004
MAIN TOPIC AREAS:
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The suggested theory and application research areas are listed below,
but other topics dealing with non-visible range and sensors are
welcome:
+ Object detection
+ Object tracking
+ Object classification
+ Outdoor people and vehicle tracking
+ Comparative Evaluations
+ Automotive Applications
+ Combining Vision and Radar
+ Combining Visible and non-Visible Signals
+ IR image Normalization/Segmentation
+ Face recognition in IR and thermal images
+ Medical Applications
+ Military Applications
Program Committee:
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Mubarak Shah, Univ. of Central Florida, USA
Nasser Nasrabadi, Army Research Lab, USA
Tan Tieniu, CASIA, CHINA
Longin Jan Latecki, Temple Univ., USA
Nikos Paragios, Ecole Nationale de Ponts et Chaussees, FRANCE
Jeff Mulligan, NASA ARC, USA
Myron Flickner, IBM Almaden, USA
Robert McMillan, U.S. Army Space & Missile Defense Command, USA
Bir Bhanu, Univ. of California, Riverside, USA
Ioannis Pavlidis, University of Houston, USA
Riad Hammoud, Delphi Electronics & Safety, USA
Katsushi Ikeuchi Institute of Industrial Science, Univ. of Tokyo, JAPAN
Vincent J. Velten, Air Force Research Lab., USA
George Bebis, Univ. of Nevada, Reno, USA
Michael Farmer MSU, Eaton Corp., USA
Nikos Papanikolopoulos, Univ. of Minnesota, USA
Andrea Selinger, Equinox Corp, USA
Andrew Senior, IBM Watson, USA
Swarup Medasani, HRL Laboratories, USA
SPONSOR:
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Delphi Automotive Systems (<http://www.delphi.com/>)
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4 Research Positions at AIIA Lab, Greece
=========================================================
From: Ioannis Pitas <pitas@zeus.csd.auth.gr>
The Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis (AIIA) Laboratory
at the Department of Informatics of the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece is seeking for candidates to fill a number of
vacant research positions:
o Postdoctoral researchers.
o Researchers at the level of Diploma of Electrical Engineering /
Computer Science / Computer Engineering or equivalent. The
applicants can work towards a PhD degree, while occupying these
positions, if desirable.
o Support engineers (C, C++ programming, Data base programming, WWW
design, e-commerce / marketing).
The AIIA Lab profile and related infos can be found in
http://poseidon.csd.auth.gr . The positions are funded by several
competitive FP6 R&D projects (Networks of Excellence and Integrated
projects funded European Union). The general research topic is
digital signal / image / video processing and analysis, computer
vision, graphics, biomedical imaging, bioinformatics. An indicative
list of possible research topics is the following:
o Multimedia copyright protection/ Watermarking
o Bioinformatics
o Medical Image Processing
o Multimodal interfaces, affective computing, gesture recognition
o Biometrics and Face Verification
o Multimedia, Human-Computer Interaction and Virtual Reality,
o Image/Video Processing and Analysis
o Data Mining and Retrieval from image/video databases
The exact research topic of the new researcher will be chosen so as to
match his/her experience aiming at maximum productivity. The positions
are financed by EU research projects.
Appointments can be extended for 3 years or more. Proven research
experience in one of the following fields: digital image processing,
computer vision, graphics, interfaces, biomedical, very good knowledge
of English, C/C++ programming and strong interest in academic research
are highly desired.
The applicants must be citizens of EU or of associated countries.
Prospective applicants should forward their resume (CV) and
recommendation letters by fax or email (preferably) to:
Prof. Ioannis Pitas
Department of Informatics
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki 54006, Box 451
GREECE
Tel: +30-2310-996304
Fax: +30-2310-996304
e-mail: pitas@zeus.csd.auth.gr
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5 Norbert Wiener Prize Awarded to James Sethian
=========================================================
From: Umesh Adiga <UPAdiga@lbl.gov>
The AMS/SIAM Norbert Weiner Prize in Applied Mathematics has been
awarded to James Sethian. Sethian is Professor of Mathematics at the
University of California at Berkeley, and Head of the Mathematics
Department of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The citation
states that the Prize is "for his seminal work on level set methods
and other groundbreaking applications." The AMS press announcement
reads as follows (January 8, 2004, Providence, RI):
James Sethian of the University of California, Berkeley, is
receiving the 2004 Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied
Mathematics. Presented every three years by the American
Mathematical Society, the Wiener Prize is awarded for outstanding
contributions to applied mathematics in the highest and broadest
sense. The prize will be awarded today at the Joint Mathematics
Meetings in Phoenix, Arizona.
Sethian is being honored for his seminal work on the computer
representation of the motion of curves, surfaces, interfaces, and
wave fronts, and for his brilliant applications of mathematical
and computational ideas to problems in science and
engineering. The prize citation states: "A particularly
noteworthy aspect of Sethian's work is that he pursues his ideas
from a first formulation of a mathematical model all the way to
concrete applications in national laboratory and industrial
settings; his algorithms are currently distributed in widely
available packages. Sethian's work is a shining example of what
applied mathematics can accomplish to benefit science as a whole.
The complete citation as well as background material and accompanying
statement may be found at http://www.ams.org/ams/2004-prizebook.pdf
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6 Recent literature
=========================================================
Proc. of DICTA'03
------------------
@book{sun-etal03dicta,
editor = {C. Sun and H. Talbot and S. Ourselin and T. Adriaansen},
title = {Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications},
year = {2003},
month = {December},
volume = {1\&2},
publisher = {CSIRO Publishing},
address = {Sydney},
note = {ISBN 0-643-09041-X},
url = {http://www.ctip.csiro.au/dicta2003}
}
The proceedings are freely available online at:
http://www.ctip.csiro.au/dicta2003/ .
Filtering/segmentation
----------------------
@Article{soille2003dgci,
author = {Soille, P.},
title = {On the morphological processing of objects
with varying local contrast},
journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
year = {2003},
volume = {2886},
pages = {52-61},
month = nov,
url =
{http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&issn=0302-9743&volume=2886&spage=52}
}
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Contents:
1 In Memoriam: Azriel Rosenfeld (1931-2004)
2 IbPRIA'2005: First call for papers
3 Book: First MM book in Spanish
4 Book: Topological Data Structures for Surfaces
5 Query: oscillating pattern
6 Recent literature
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1 In Memoriam: Azriel Rosenfeld (1931-2004)
=========================================================
Azriel Rosenfeld passed away on the 22nd of February 2004. Azriel
Rosenfeld was one of the father of image analysis and processing.
Most studies related to discrete geometry issues in image processing
find their roots into his work.
See http://www.iapr.org/rosenfeld.html
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=========================================================
2 IbPRIA'2005: First call for papers
=========================================================
From: Pedro Pina <ppina AT mail.ist.utl.pt>
IbPRIA'2005
2nd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis
June 7-9, 2005 - Estoril, Portugal
http://ibpria2005.isr.ist.utl.pt
=================
ABOUT IbPRIA'2005
=================
IbPRIA'2005 is the second edition of the Iberian Conference on Pattern
Recognition and Image Analysis and will be held in Estoril (Portugal)
in June 7-9, 2005.
IbPRIA is an international event co-organised every two years, by the
Spanish and Portuguese Associations for Pattern Recognition (AERFAI
and APRP). Its mission is to bring together researchers from all over
the world working in Pattern Recognition and in all areas of Video,
Image and Signal Processing. Participants will have the opportunity to
meet colleagues working in these areas, to attend oral sessions and to
exchange ideas during poster sessions.
IbPRIA'2005 is sponsored by IAPR-International Association for Pattern
Recognition and the conference proceedings are planned to be published
by Springer in LNCS series.
======
TOPICS
======
The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to:
- Pattern Recognition
- Image Analysis
- Computer Vision
- Multimedia Systems
- Statistical & Structural Pattern Recognition
- Neural Networks
- Bioinformatics
- Image Coding and Processing
- Shape and Texture Analysis
- Biomedical Pattern Analysis
- Information Systems
- Speech Recognition
- Natural Language Analysis
- Document Processing
- Robotics
- Remote Sensing
- Industrial Applications of Pattern Recognition
- Special Hardware Architectures
=================
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
=================
Jake Aggarwal, University of Texas, USA
José Benedi, Polyt. University of Valencia, Spain
Isabelle Bloch, ENST, France
Hervé Bourlard, EPFL, Switzerland
Patrick Bouthemy, IRISA, France
Horst Bunke, University of Bern, Switzerland
Aurélio Campilho, University of Porto, Portugal
Gilles Celeux, Université Paris-Sud, France
Luigi Cordella, University of Napoles, Italy
Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Firenze, Italy
Hervé Delinguette, INRIA, France
Rachid Deriche, INRIA, France
José Dias, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Robert Duin, University of Delft, The Netherlands
Mário Figueiredo, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Ana Fred, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Andrew Gee, University of Cambridge, UK
Mohamed Kamel, University of Waterloo, Canada
Aggelos Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA
Joseph Kittler, University of Surrey, UK
Seong-Whan Lee, University of Korea, Korea
Ana Mendonça, University of Porto, Portugal
Hermann Ney, University of Aachen, Germany
Wiro Niessen, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Maria Petrou, University of Surrey, UK
Armando Pinho, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Ioannis Pitas, University of Tessaloniki, Greece
Filiberto Pla, University Jaume I, Spain
Richard Prager, University of Cambridge, UK
José Principe, University of Florida, USA
Ian Reid, University of Oxford, UK
Gabriella Sanniti di Baja, Istituto di Cibernética, Italy
Beatriz Santos, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Jose Santos-Victor, Inst. Superior Técnico, Portugal
Joan Serrat, Aut. University of Barcelona, Spain
Yoshiaki Shirai, Osaka University, Japan
Pierre Soille, Joint Research Centre, Italy
Karl Tombre, LORIA, France
M. Ines Torres, Univ. of the Basque Country, Spain
Emmanuele Trucco, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Alessandro Verri, University of Genova, Italy
Max Viergever, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Joachim Weickert, Saarland University, Germany
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CHAIRS
======
GENERAL CO-CHAIRS:
Jorge S. Marques (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)
Nicolás Pérez de la Blanca (University of Granada, Spain)
LOCAL CHAIR:
Pedro Pina (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)
====================
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
====================
João Sanches, João Paulo Costeira, Teresa Barata, Vitorino Ramos,
José Saraiva, Michele Mengucci, Fernando Soares
===================================
PAPER SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS
===================================
Papers should describe original and unpublished work on the topics of
the conference. Prospective authors should prepare a full paper,
written in english, not exceeding 8 pages and must submit it
electronically.
All manuscripts will be blind-reviewed by at least two members of the
program committee. Accepted papers are intended to appear in the
Springer LNCS series which will be distributed to all participants at
the Conference.
Submission implies that at least one of the authors has to register
and to present the communication at the conference if the paper is
accepted.
===============
IMPORTANT DATES
===============
Submission of papers : Noverber 12, 2004
Notification of acceptance: January 7, 2005
Camera-ready : January 30, 2005
Early registration : April 7, 2005
Conference : June 7-9, 2005
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VENUE
=====
The conference will take place in Estoril, a beautiful village located
at about 20 km of Lisbon centre.
The conference will be held at a four star hotel (Hotel Eden), that
disposes of adequate facilities for workshops and conferences.
The international airport of Lisbon is about 40 minutes from the
venue. There is a direct bus-shuttle from/to the airport to the Hotel
every hour. Alternatively, participants can also easily reach the
venue by train, car or taxi.
========
CONTACTS
========
IbPRIA'2005 Secretariat
CVRM / Geo-Systems Centre
Instituto Superior Técnico
Av. Rovisco Pais
1049-001 Lisboa
PORTUGAL
URL : http://ibpria2005.isr.ist.utl.pt
e-mail: ibpria2005@isr.ist.utl.pt
Tel : +351-218417438
Fax : +351-218417442
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3 Book: First MM book in Spanish
=========================================================
From: jdiaz <jdiaz AT cic.ipn.mx>
Introducción a la Morfología Matemática de Conjuntos
Colección Ciencia de la Computación
Authors: Juan Luis Díaz de León Santiago
Cornelio Yáñez Márquez
Centro de Investigación en Computación
Instituto Politécnico Nacional
México
Edition: Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Fondo de Cultura Económica
Year: 2003
Month: October
ISBN: 970-36-0075-1
Contents: PRIMERA PARTE: ANTECEDENTES
Capítulo 1.- Lógica
Capítulo 2.- Conjuntos
SEGUNDA PARTE: OPERACIONES BÁSICAS
Capítulo 3.- Dilatación
Capítulo 4.- Erosión
Capítulo 5.- Apertura y Cerradura
TERCERA PARTE: MÉTODOS Y AVANCES CONCEPTUALES
Capítulo 6.- Otros Operadores
Capítulo 7.- Procesamiento de Formas y Texturas
Capítulo 8.- Segmentación
APÉNDICES
Apéndice A.- Algunas Lógicas
Apéndice B.- Métodos de Demostración
Apéndice C.- Teorías Formales de Conjuntos
Apéndice D.- Confusión Notacional
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4 Book: Topological Data Structures for Surfaces
=========================================================
From: Sanjay Rana <sr115 AT leicester.ac.uk>
Dear all,
The book "Topological Data Structures for Surfaces: An Introduction
for Geographical Information Science" has just been published by Wiley
Publishers. It covers a range of topics on surface networks, contour
trees and reeb graphs.
http://www.wileyeurope.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470851511,descCd-tableOfContents.html
I will be happy to respond to queries.
Best,
Sanjay.
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5 Query: oscillating pattern
=========================================================
From: Christian Ronse <cronse AT dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
It is known that if you take a binary or grey-level image that has
constant values outside a finite support, and a median filter with
symmetrical windows, then the repeated application of this filter on
the image will lead either to a fixpoint image ("root"), or to an
oscillation between two images.
In the case of the grid with hexagonal pixels, for the median filter
with a 7-pixel hexagonal windows, an example of a finite oscillating
figure was given by Serra on page 160 of his 1988 book (Image Analysis
and Mathematical Morphology, Vol. 2).
In the case of the square grid, for the median filter with 5-pixel
+-shaped windows, Ulrich Eckhardt pointed out to me that Goles and
Olivor (Discrete Applied Mathematics 3, 93-105, 1981) gave the
following example of figure oscillating with its upside-down
symmetrical:
* * * * * *
* * * * * *
Does anyone have an example of a finite figure in the square grid,
oscillating for the median filter with 3 x 3 square windows ?
(Of courses, I know about the infinite examples, like the alternation
of black and white horizontal lines.)
Thank you.
=========================================================
6 Recent literature
=========================================================
Special Pattern Recognition Letters issue
-----------------------------------------
Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 25, Issue 5 , 5 April 2004, Page
525: read the preface at
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2003.12.001
From the preface by Jean Philippe Domenger: This special issue of
Pattern Recognition Letters includes the extended versions of seven
papers presented at the tenth edition of the International Conference
on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI'2002), held in
Bordeaux, France, April 3--5, 2002. ... These articles focus on
mathematical morphology, distance transform, thinning, and
recognition.
The first two papers are related to mathematical morphology. Peter
Jonker discusses the use of recursive neighbourhoods in mathematical
morphology with reference to two applications. Pierre Soille adopts
the morphological approach to revisit the minima imposition technique
and the lower transformation.
The third article is about the Minkowski sum of polygons and its
inverse. Sugihara defines an "hyperpolygon" in order to construct an
algebraic system where the Minkowski sum and its inverse are well
defined. An interesting feature is the relation between "hyperpolygon"
and physical reality.
The fourth and the fifth papers address distance transform
problems. David Coeurjolly et al. propose a discrete definition of
visibility; they present algorithms allowing the computation of the
set of pixels visible from a source and define a new geodesic
metric. Sintron and Borgefors investigate the weighted distance
transforms in 3D images using elongated voxel grids.
In the sixth paper, Marchadier et al. propose a definition of
well-composed greyscale image. Then they adapt a thinning algorithm to
well-composed greyscale images. Using the properties of their
thinning, they derive an algorithm allowing the construction of a
topological map associated with a watershed transform.
Finally, in the last paper Cortadellas et al. introduce a new method
for silhouette normalization. This method provides a robust
normalization that enables the use of image domain based on similarity
measures. The experiments presented in this paper show that the method
is suited for a coarse silhouette recognition application. Copyright
(c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
PhD Thesis
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@PhdThesis{young2003,
author = {Young, N.},
author-email = {nick_young AT talk21.com},
title = {Preprocessing for Digital Video using
Mathematical Morphology},
school = {Signal and Image Processing Group,
Department of Electronic Engineering,
University of Bath},
year = 2003,
address = {Bath},
month = Dec,
url = {http://dmsun4.bath.ac.uk/thesis/nick.pdf},
abstract = {
This thesis describes the work covered for the PhD
research project, "Preprocessing for digital video
using Mathematical Morphology". The thesis details
the history and principles behind digital video.
Current methods of noise reduction and preprocessing
are reviewed with the main focus of the research
being the application of mathematical morphology to
digital video processing, specifically for the use of
noise reduction and preprocessing for image
simplification. In addition, this thesis describes
the principles behind mathematical morphology and
details how it can be applied to digital video
processing.
A detailed description of the development of a
psychovisually lossless preprocessing system for
digital image simplification using mathematical
morphology is given. This details the techniques and
methods used to develop the system and a full
evaluation, both objective and subjective is given.
In addition a noise reduction system is implemented
for spatial processing of images and spatio-temporal
processing of digital video sequences. Evaluations
are made using an objective measure with two image
CODEC's, JPEG and JPEG 2000. The performance of the
system for video compression is also evaluated using
an objective measure and four video CODEC's, MJPEG,
MPEG-II, Bath Wavelet Video and H263. Application to
real-world data, where little or no prior information
is known is also detailed for both spatial and
spatio-temporal systems. Finally conclusions are
drawn and possible areas of future development are
identified.}
}
Attribute filtering
-------------------
@InProceedings{young-evans2003nsip,
author = {Young, N. and Evans, A.},
title = {Image noise reduction using attribute morphology filters},
booktitle = {Proceedings IEEE EURASIP Workshop on Nonlinear Signal
and Image Processing},
url = {http://ipl.univ.trieste.it/nsip03/},
pages = {Electronic only},
year = 2003,
address = {Grado, Italy},
month = Jun,
publisher = {IEEE},
note = {Only electronically or on CDROM or by contacting the author:
`nick AT nickbits.co.uk'}
}
Attribute filtering
-------------------
@InProceedings{young-evans2003iee,
author = {Young, N. and Evans, A.},
title = {Digital video preprocessing with
multi-dimensional attribute morphology},
booktitle = {Proceedings IEE Visual Information Engineering
Conference (VIE)},
pages = {89-92},
year = 2003,
address = {Guildford, Surrey, UK},
month = Jul,
publisher = {IEE},
isbn = {0-85296-757-8},
isnn = {0537-9989}
}
Reconstruction
--------------
@InCollection{VargCresMaoj2003,
author = "Damián Vargas-Vázquez and Jose Crespo and Victor Maojo",
title = "Morphological image reconstruction with criterion
from labelled markers",
booktitle = "Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery",
publisher = "Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg",
year = "2003",
volume = "2886",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
editor = "Nyström, I. and Sanniti di Baja, G. and Svensson, S.",
pages = "475--484",
issn = "0302-9743",
url = "http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=n22peypd74j409xr",
comments = {11th International Conference DGCI 2003
Naples, Italy, November 2003 - Proceedings, 19-21
November, 2003}
}
Application
-----------
@Article{soille-vogt-colombo2003wrr,
author = {Soille, P. and Vogt, J. and Colombo, R.},
title = {Carving and adpative drainage enforcement
of grid digital elevation models},
journal = {Water Resources Research},
year = {2003},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2002WR001879},
volume = {39},
number = {12},
pages = {1366},
month = dec
}
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MORPHOLOGY DIGEST Volume 12, Issue 5, Nov 2005
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edited by Pierre Soille
EC Joint Research Centre, Ispra site, Italy
Scope: the scope of the Morphology Digest list is to provide a
communication channel between people interested in
mathematical morphology and morphological image analysis.
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Contents:
1 CALL FOR DONATIONS: HENK HEIJMANS SOLIDARITY FUND
2 CFP: DGCI'2006
3 CFP: IMVIP'2006
4 New Book: Space, Structure, and Randomness
5 New Book: Handbook of Mathematical Methods in Computer Vision
6 Recent Literature
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1 CALL FOR DONATIONS: HENK HEIJMANS SOLIDARITY FUND
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From: j.b.t.m.roerdink at rug.nl
In March 2004, Henk Heijmans suffered a stroke that seriously
impaired his language and reading capabilities, even to such an
extent that he is quite unable to continue working as a
scientist. In addition to being a tremendous personal tragedy
for Henk, this situation will also lead to a substantial decline
in income for him and his family.
Henk has had an outstanding role in the development of image
analysis and mathematical morphology in the Netherlands and
worldwide. He contributed many key papers and several important
books, co-organized the 4th International Symposium on
Mathematical Morphology, as well as many other workshops, edited
the Morphology Digest during 9 years, and served in the editorial
board of several outstanding journals and in the program
committee of many conferences.
Given the immense services he has rendered to the image analysis
community, we felt the need to express our solidarity with him
and his family. Therefore we are opening a fund to aid in
financially supporting Henk and his family. We kindly ask you to
donate to the bank account opened for it. Here are the details
of the account:
Account number: 4416832
Account name: J.B.T.M. Roerdink / D.G.C. Broekhuis
Name of bank: Postbank
IBAN: NL59PSTB0004416832
BIC: PSTBNL 21
Add note: Heijmans fund
Alternatively, if you have a PayPal account
(https://www.paypal.com) you can make internet bank transfers
through the email address jbtm.roerdink@inter.nl.net.
Your contribution will be greatly appreciated.
Prof. dr. Jos Roerdink
Institute for Mathematics and Computing Science
University of Groningen
The Netherlands
Tel. +31-50-3633931
Fax +31-50-3633800
Email: j.b.t.m.roerdink at rug.nl
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2 CFP: DGCI'2006
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From: dgci at inf.u-szeged.hu
DGCI'2006
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
13th International Conference on
Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery
October 25-27, 2006
SZEGED - HUNGARY
IMPORTATAT DATES:
Deadline for paper submission: April 3, 2006
Notification of acceptance: June 3, 2006
Deadline for camera ready version: July 3, 2006
FURTHER INFORMATION: http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/dgci/
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3 CFP: IMVIP'2006
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From: Derek.Molloy at dcu.ie
IMVIP'2006
Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference'2006
30th August 2006 to 1st September 2006
Dublin City University, Ireland
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline for full papers: 31st March 2006
Notification of acceptance: June 2006
Camera ready copies due of accepted papers: 30th June 2006.
Conference: 30th August 2006 to 1st September 2006.
FURTHER INFORMATION: http://www.rince.ie/imvip2006/
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4 New Book: Space, Structure, and Randomness
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From: bilodeau at cmm.ensmp.fr
Space, Structure and Randomness
Contributions in Honor of Georges Matheron in the Fields of
Geostatistics, Random Sets, and Mathematical Morphology
Series: Lecture Notes in Statistics, Vol. 183
Bilodeau, Michel; Meyer, Fernand; Schmitt, Michel (Eds.)
2005, XIV, 402 p. 121 illus., Softcover, ISBN: 0-387-20331-1
Space, structure, and randomness: these are the three key
concepts underlying Georges Matheron?s scientific work. He first
encountered them at the beginning of his career when working as a
mining engineer, and then they resurfaced in fields ranging from
meteorology to microscopy. What could these radically different
types of applications possibly have in common? First, in each one
only a single realisation of the phenomenon is available for
study, but its features repeat themselves in space; second, the
sampling pattern is rarely regular, and finally there are
problems of change of scale.
This volume is divided in three sections on random sets,
geostatistics and mathematical morphology. They reflect his
professional interests and his search for underlying unity. Some
readers may be surprised to find theoretical chapters mixed with
applied ones. We have done this deliberately. GM always
considered that the distinction between the theory and practice
was purely academic.
When GM tackled practical problems, he used his skill as a
physicist to extract the salient features and to select variables
which could be measured meaningfully and whose values could be
estimated from the available data. Then he used his outstanding
ability as a mathematician to solve the problems neatly and
efficiently. It was his capacity to combine a physicist?s
intuition with a mathematician?s analytical skills that allowed
him to produce new and innovative solutions to difficult
problems.
The book should appeal to graduate students and researchers
working in mathematics, probability, statistics, physics, spatial
data analysis, and image analysis. In addition it will be of
interest to those who enjoy discovering links between scientific
disciplines that seem unrelated at first glance. In writing the
book the contributors have tried to put GM?s ideas into
perspective. During his working life, GM was a genuinely creative
scientist. He developed innovative concepts whose usefulness goes
far beyond the confines of the discipline for which they were
originally designed. This is why his work remains as pertinent
today as it was when it was first written.
For more information:
http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,1-40109-22-52869799-0,00.html
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5 New Book: New Book: Handbook of Mathematical Methods in Computer Vision
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From: nikos.paragios at cermics.enpc.fr
Handbook of Mathematical Methods in Computer Vision
Nikos Paragios, Yunmei Chen & Olivier Faugeras
Springer, ISBN 0387263713, 594 pages, 210 Illustrations, October 2005
Continuing rapid advances in image processing have been enhanced
by the theoretical efforts of mathematicians and engineers. This
marriage of mathematics and computer vision - computational
vision - has resulted in a discrete approach to image processing
that is more reliable when leveraging in practical tasks. This
comprehensive volume provides a detailed discourse on the
mathematical models used in computational vision from leading
educators and active research experts in this field. Topical
areas include: image reconstruction, segmentation and object
extraction, shape modeling and registration, motion analysis and
tracking, and 3D from images, geometry and reconstruction. The
book also includes a study of applications in medical image
analysis. The Handbook of Mathematical Models in Computer Vision
provides an advanced under-graduate/graduate-level treatment of
this subject as well as serving as a complete reference work for
professionals.
For more details, a sample chapter and purchase details, see:
http://cermics.enpc.fr/~paragios/paragios-chen-faugeras/
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6 Recent literature
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@Article{,
author = {Kim, C.},
title = {Segmenting a Low-Depth-of-Field Image
Using Morphological Filters and Region Merging},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Image Processing},
year = 2005,
volume = 14,
number = 10,
pages = {1503-1511},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2005.846030}
}
@Article{,
author = {Hendriks, C. and van Vliet, L},
title = {Using Line Segments as Structuring Elements
for Sampling-Invariant Measurements},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis
and Machine Intelligence},
year = 2005,
volume = 27,
number = 11,
pages = {1826-1831},
month = Nov,
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2005.228}
}
@ARTICLE{,
author = {Hirata, Nina S.T. and Barrera, Junior},
title = {A unifying view for stack filter design
based on graph search methods},
journal = {Pattern Recognition},
year = {2005},
volume = {38},
number = {11},
pages = {2088--2098},
owner = {soillpi},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2005.02.018},
}
@ARTICLE{,
author = {Shih, Frank Y. and Wu, Yi-Ta},
title = {Decomposition of arbitrary gray-scale morphological
structuring elements},
journal = {Pattern Recognition},
year = {2005},
volume = {38},
number = {12},
pages = {2323--2332},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2005.04.003},
}
@ARTICLE{,
author = {Williams, Jason and Rossignac, Jarek},
title = {Mason: morphological simplification},
journal = {Graphical Models},
year = {2005},
volume = {67},
number = {4},
pages = {285--303}
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gmod.2004.10.001},
}
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