TUSCANY: A GUIDE TO MULTIMEDIA MATERIALS
sandro@leonardo.net (Alessandro Violi)
9 Jun 1997 22:16:01 -0700
Today the treasures of Tuscany can be also seen in a different way: as the
most beautiful "multimedia product" in the world. Romantic hills, villas,
gardens, beaches, art cities, marble quarries, artisans in their
workshops: still and motion images of intense beauty now available to the
creative community through the new "Tuscany Multimedia Guide".
This publication in now available in its integrity for a free consultation
on the Net (http://www.bgtuscany.artex.firenze.it) . It's a complete
reference book of all the resources available and related to Tuscany.
Multimedia artists, Web publishers, CD-ROM developers can browse through
it and be able to find local software and multimedia developers,
professional photographers with extensive and digitalized photo archives,
graphic artists, publishing houses, cultural institutions, museums,
library and archives who control the most impressive collections of
paintings, sculptures, frescoes, drawings and documents in the world. It
is possible to locate addresses, information on the type of materials
available and on the procedures to gain access to those materials.
Contact in the U.S.: Andrea Rocco - ph. 310/450-6167
fax: 310/450-0309 e-mail: androcco@aol.com
Re: geographical image processing.photogrammetry etc
doug@hotrocks.msfc.nasa.gov
10 Jun 1997 13:41:49 GMT
There are literally hundreds of packages out there, most for PCs, but
many also for UNIX variants. To make an optimum choice out of the
plethora is virtually impossible, there are too many. Too make a good
choice is easier but difficult if you are not already and expert, and
there are precious few around that can honestly say they are intimately
familiar with more than 1 or 2 systems. Which makes getting valid
advise difficult. I would also note that it is impressive what a good
salesman and an ignorant buyer can accomplish together.
You will also find that learning the major packages is not soemthing
that will be done quickly. For comparison your largest word processors
are trivial in comparison. My suggestion is get a clear (written?) idea
of what functionality you must have. Keep this in mind when you talk to
vendors. You can easily find prices from $0 to $10,000 and if you don't
know what you are doing you wont be able to determine (or use) what you
are paying for when you pay the high number.
If you are just starting look at getting one of the small, inexpensive
packages to learn/play around with. Also see if a college or junior
college near you offers GIS training. Quite a few do.
For my own work with NASA I both develop image processing software and
use various commercial packages. I can make comments about the various
packages based on specific requirements (but I am not legally or
ethically permitted to make recommendations). If you want send me an
email and I might be able to help.
Oh yes, get the May issue of Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote
Sensing. It contains their annual "Directory of the Mapping Sciences."
Doug Rickman
doug@hotrocks.msfc.nasa.gov
> Patrick Hill wrote:
> >
> > Im trying to find a newsgroup or somebody that can give me a review of some
> > PC based image processing packages pertaining to aerial photography and
> > satellite imagery. and maybe some comparisons of systems available. Im
> > aware of Leica Heleva System,ERMapper and MicroImages TNT Mips, but would
> > like to compare these and other systems.
> > Thanks
> > Patrick
Workshop on Data Mining and Data Visualization announcement
Patrick Hoffman
Tue, 10 Jun 1997 11:28:25 -0400
Title: "Workshop on Issues in the Integration of Data Mining and Data
Visualization"
Place: AAAI KDD'97 Conference AND IEEE Visualization'97 Conference
at KDD'97 http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd97/
Date: Sunday August 17, 1997
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
at Visualization'97
http://WWW.ERC.MsState.Edu/conferences/vis97/
Date: Saturday October 18, 1997
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
NOTE: *** One need not attend both ***
The first and second Workshop on Database Issues for Data Visualization
were held in conjunction with the 1993 and 1995 IEEE Visualization
Conferences and were very successful. The proceedings of these
workshops
were published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science
Series (Vol. 871, 1995, Lee and Grinstein, Editors; Vol. 1183, 1996,
Wierse, Grinstein, and Lang, Editors). This third workshop on the
integration of data mining and data visualization will be held during
the
1997 AAAI KDD Conference and the 1997 IEEE Visualization Conference.
There are many issues to be resolved and much research is needed. It is
clear that data mining and the larger problem of knowledge discovery is
not user centered and lacks the interactive environments we are now all
too familiar with. How to involve the user, where to involve the user,
and under what circumstances to involve the user are all key problems,
and
visualization may provide the answer.
The purpose of the workshop again will be to provide a forum for the
presentation, discussion, and evaluation of systems (conceptual,
prototype, or products) that attempt to integrate data mining and data
visualization in pursuit of knowledge discovery in the process of data
exploration. We invite researchers in the knowledge discovery in
databases
and the visualization fields, along with application developers, to join
us in discussions on enabling tools for the exploration, analysis, and
visualization of complex data and systems. It is imperative that such
cross-fertilization occur for mining and visualization tools to better
fit
the task they are designed for.
AAAI KDD'97 CONFERENCE
The rapid growth of data and information has created a need and an
opportunity for extracting knowledge from databases. Knowledge discovery
in databases (KDD), also referred to as data mining, is an area of
common
interest to researchers in machine discovery, statistics, databases,
knowledge acquisition, machine learning, data visualization, high
performance computing, and knowledge-based systems. This conference
brings together researchers and application developers from different
areas focusing on unifying themes.
The conference is sponsored by AAAI in cooperation with the American
Statistical Association.
IEEE VISUALIZATION'97 CONFERENCE
Scientific visualization is an important research frontier shared by a
variety of computational science and engineering fields. Visualization
work is both interdisciplinary and a field in its own right. This
conference focuses on interdisciplinary methods and supports
collaboration
among the developers and users of visualization methods across all of
science, engineering, and commerce.
The conference is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical
Committee on Computer Graphics, in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Data Visualization deals with the effective portrayal of data with a
goal
towards insight about the data. Typically, the data is of high volume,
multidimensional in nature, and does not lend itself to easy display.
The
data is also often non-spatial and temporal in nature.
Data visualization software systems are very popular with end-user
domain
scientists who require visual tools to explore and analyze their data.
These visual tools however are used strictly as output of the
exploration
process and have received much attention whereas the input issues to the
exploration process still have not. The KDD community looks at
visualization as an back-end of the exploration process; the
visualization
community looks at KDD and analytic methods also as applications to
generate displays. However visualization can be used as input to KDD
and
analytic tools; it can also be used to support computational steering.
This workshop will continue the discussions started at the first two
workshop and focus on these and other issues that make a case for
integrating KDD and visualization technologies.
Participation is limited to 20 people.
Two previous Workshops (Siggraph '90 and Visualization '91) have dealt
with areas such as high-level requirements for data structures and
access
software, and data visualization environments. The first and second
workshop on Database Issues for Data Visualization were held in 1993 and
1995 and explored the fundamental issues. A number of experimental,
prototype, and research systems were presented. The second workshop
also
saw a beginning interest with data mining and visualization integration.
This trend so significant in the commercial sector today is in its
infancy.
Position Statements and papers are welcome on the following issues as
they
relate to KDD and data visualization integration - we would like to keep
discussions focused on the end result, which is improving the
integration
of data mining and knowledge discovery systems with visualization:
- Requirements Visualization places on Knowledge Discovery Systems
- Data Models and Access Structures
- Modeling the User - Tasks, Processes, Support Issues
- Advanced User Interfaces for Data Mining
- Visual Languages for Data Mining
- System Integration Issues
- Computational Steering for Data Mining
- Distributed, Heterogeneous Data Set Issues - Data and
Computation Sharing
- Examples of Integrated Systems
- Applications of Integrated Systems
WORKSHOP FORMAT
The Workshop format allows for the formal presentation of the papers in
the morning session (accepted papers will be included in preprints).
These
presentations are designed to serve as catalysts for discussion. In
addition, there will be a few invited papers and several afternoon
subgroup discussion sessions. Participants will have an opportunity to
edit and resubmit their papers for possible post-workshop publication.
PAPER SUBMISSIONS (Deadlines: KDD'97 - June 15)
Papers (and position papers to be expanded for final publication) are
solicited that present research results in the integration of data
mining
and visualizaton. Papers should be limited to 5,000 words and may be
accompanied by NTSC video. These should describe some original research
on
the particular subject, and how it fits in with the overall theme of the
workshop. Proper references should be cited.
Position Statements (1-2 pages) are also accepted.
Position Papers might preceed a longer paper to be given at the
Workshop.
This call for papers is also available via WWW:
URL: http://www.cs.uml.edu/~grinstei/kddvis-workshop.html
Submissions may be post-mailed to:
Georges Grinstein
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Lowell MA 01854 - USA
Hard Copy: 2 copies of original, double spaced
Electronic Copy (preferred): Ascii, Microsoft Word.
email or call with specific requests:
(617) 271-7714 days
(508) 386-2296 nights
grinstein@cs.uml.edu
ACCOMMODATION
For complete information about KDD'97
MEALS AND REFRESHMENTS
Coffee and tea breaks will be provided.
REGISTRATION FEE
Registration forms will be sent to the accepted participants. There is
a
single registration fee of US $100 which covers the workshop sessions,
the
workshop preprints, and morning and afternoon coffees.
Payment: the registration fee can be paid in any convertible currency by
either cash, check or money order.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS:
Georges Grinstein
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
Lowell, MA 01854 USA
and
The MITRE Corporation
202 Burlington Avenue
Bedford MA 01730-1420
email: grinstein@cs.uml.edu
fax: +1-508-934-3551, phone: +1-508-934-3627
http://www.cs.uml.edu/
Andreas Wierse
Visualization Group
Computer Center University of Stuttgart
Allmandring 30
D-70550 Stuttgart
and
Institute for Computer Applications
Dep. Computersimulation and Visualization
Pfaffenwaldring 27
D-70550 Stuttgart Germany
email: wierse@rus.uni-stuttgart.de,
fax: +49(0)711-682357 phone: +49-711-685-5796
Usama Fayyad
Decision Theory & Adaptive Systems Group
Microsoft Research
Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA
e-mail: fayyad@microsoft.com
Tel. 206-703-1528 Fax 206-936-7329
http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/dtg/
For questions, or problems with the June 15 deadline please contact.
Georges Grinstein, Ph.D.
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research
University of Massachusetts Lowell Lowell, MA 01854
Email: grinstein@cs.uml.edu Phone: (508) 934-3627
WWW: http://www.cs.uml.edu/~grinstei/ Fax: (508) 934-3551
Re: object counting
Robert Smith
Tue, 10 Jun 1997 18:53:31 GMT
Dwarf wrote:
>
> Hello all!
>
> I am going to be doing an experiment in which I hope to count and size
> lots of objects on the order of 200 microns in diameter. I plan to do
> this using a CCD camera w/ frame grabber and software (leaning towards
> DT 3155 and Image Pro). The part of this plan which is less set is
> exactly *how* we will resolve the bubbles (objects).
>
> Can anyone suggest how to go about sizing a lens and selecting a CCD
> camera?
Greg:
You don't mention if you intend to use color or b/w, but I doubt you
need color to find bubbles. The camera isn't very critical, I should
think any camera in the $300 price range would do. The "lens" is a bit
more of a problem; for objects this small you'll need a video
microscope. These are certainly available for $1000 to $3000. If you
already have a light microscope, you can get an adaptor. This might be
a good idea to just "try it out" and learn some of the parameters, even
if you finally go to a true video microscope (which will give beter
results). Edmund Scinetific has a cheap adaptor you could try. I'm not
sure what sort of sample you have, but if you can do it, I suspect
dark-field illumination would give you real good contrast for your
automated counting program.
Good luck.
Bob
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