IMVIP'97 - Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 1997 AICS-97 - Eighth Ireland Conference on Artificial Intelligence Wednesday 10 to Saturday 13 September 1997 Magee College, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland Preliminary Programme (Version 1 September 1997) Registration: Wed. 10 from 13.30 and Thurs. 11 Sept. from 08.30, Room MG220 Posters and Exhibits (continual displays), Room MG220 Coffee breaks: Room MG220 Lunches: Refectory (Main Building), or cafes and bars within 5-10 minutes walking ---- Wed. 10 Sept 1997, 14.00-16.30, IMVIP'97, Venue: MG229 ---------- Session I1 Surveys and Tutorials (Chair: Jon Campbell) 14.00-15.00 D. Vernon (Maynooth), 'Industrial Vision' 15.00-15.20 Coffee 15.20-16.20 J.-C. Olivo (Heidelberg), 'Image Analysis in Molecular Biology' 16.20-16.50 Coffee ---- Wed. 10 Sept 1997, 16.50-17.50, IMVIP'97, Venue: MG229 ---------- Session I2 Medical Image Processing & Vision (Chair: Philip Morrow) 16.50-17.10 J. Winder (Belfast), 'Custom Made Cranial Titanium Plates from Sterolithography Resin Models' 17.10-17.30 T. Yang (Linkoping), 'Parallel Tomographic Resolution on Massively Distributed Memory Computers' 17.30-17.50 D. Vernon (with P. Butler and E. O'Broin, Maynooth), 'Estimation of a 3-D Surface Profile of a Human Face using a Hand-Activated White-Light Profilomemter' ---- Thurs. 11 Sept 1997, 09.00-11.00, Plenary, Venue: MG229 ---------- Session P1 Opening and Introductory Session (Chair: John Hughes) 09.15-09.30 Opening: Profs. F. Monds, Provost of Magee College; Prof. J. Hughes, Dean, Informatics. 09.30-10.30 A. Jain (East Lansing), 'Computer Vision: Challenges and Applications' 10.30-11.00 Coffee, and first Poster and Exhibits Parade ---- Thurs. 11 Sept 1997, 11.00-12.20, IMVIP'97, Venue: MG229 --------- Session I3 Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition (Chair: Paul Whelan) 11.00-11.20 P. Gouton (with R. Kouassi, J.-Ch. Devaux and M. Paindavoine, Dijon), 'Application of the Karhunen-Loe've Transformation for Natural Colour Image Analysis' 11.20-11.40 M.J.J. Scott and R.W. Prager (Cambridge), 'Cut 'n Shufle: a Novel Algorithm for Selecting Feature Subsets for Classification Tasks' 11.40-12.00 N. Duffy and G. Lacey (Dublin), 'Colour Profiling' 12.00-12.20 G. McMorrow and P. Whelan (Dublin), 'A Handheld Colour to Speech Device for the Visually Impaired' ------ Thurs. 11 Sept 1997, 11.00-12.20, AICS-97, Venue: MD007 ---------- Session A1 Data analysis (Chair: I. Duentsch) 11.00-11.20 D. Charles and C. Fyfe (Paisley), 'From Raw Data to Symbol Processing' 11.20-11.40 I. Duentsch and G. Gediga (Jordanstown, Osnabrueck), 'Non-Invasive Data Analysis' 11.40-12.00 C. Browne (Jordanstown), 'Enhanced Rough Set Analysis of the Pima Indian Diabetes Data' 12.00-12.20 C. Faucher and D. Borderie (Marseille), `A Category Formation System based on an Attribute Typology: the ROCE System' ------------------- Thurs. 11 Sept 1997, Lunch ------------------------ ------ Thurs. 11 Sept 1997, 14.00-15.20, IMVIP'97, Venue MG229 -------- Session I4 Vision and Robotics (Chair: Philip Morrow) 14.00-14.20 T. Yang (Linkoping), 'Iterative Total Least Squares Methods for Straight Line Extraction' 14.20-14.40 D. Micollet (with G. Daillant and M. Paindavoine, Dijon, 'Automatic Radiographies Analysis: Algorithms and Architecture' 14.40-15.00 A. Thomas (Brighton), 'Speculation on Virtual Surfaces in Machine Vision Systems' 15.00-15.20 D. Charles and C. Fyfe (Paisley), 'Unsupervised Artificial Neural Network Models for Extracting the Components of Movement from Video Sequences' ------ Thurs. 11 Sept 1997, 14.00-15.20, AICS-97, Venue MB007 -------- Session A2 Artificial Life and Neural Networks (Chair: N. Griffith) 14.00-14.20 B. Keller and R. Lutz (Sussex), 'A New Crossover Operator for Rapid Function Optimisation using a Genetic Algorithm' 14.20-14.40 A. Trenaman (Maynooth), 'Towards the Evolution of Stateful Autonomous Agents' 14.40-15.00 N. Griffith and M. Lynch (Limerick), 'NeuroDraughts: the Role of Representation, Search, Training Regime and Architecture in a TD Draughts Player' 15.00-15.20 P. Howes and N. Crook (Oxford Brookes), 'Efficient Rule Extraction from Real-Valued Feedforward Neural Networks' 15.20-15.50 Coffee, Poster Parade ------ Thurs. 11 Sept 1997, 15.50-17.10, IMVIP'97, Venue MG229 -------- Session I5 Hardware and Architectures (Ahmed Bouridane) 15.50-16.10 T.J. Brown, D. Crooks, D. Roantree, P. Morrow and G. McAleese (Belfast and Coleraine), 'A Platform for Developing Efficient Image Processing Programs for Parallel Architectures' 16.10-16.30 S. Hill, D. Crooks and A. Bouridane (Belfast), 'Abstractions for 3-D Image and Video Processing' 16.30-16.50 D. Gibson, M. Teal, D. Ait-Boudaoud and M. Winchester (Dorset), 'A Modelling Methodology that Promotes the Rapid Prototyping Real-Time Image Processing Systems' 16.50-17.10 I. Spence (Belfast), 'Data-Parallel Definition of Neighbourhood Operations - Use and Extensions of EVAL' ------ Thurs. 11 Sept 1997, 15.50-17.10, AICS-97, Venue MD007 -------- Session A3 Knowledge representation (Chair: Jack Smith) 15.50-16.10 P.G. Wijayarathna (Tokyo), 'Representing Relative Temporal Knowledge with TAND Connective' 16.10-16.30 F. Coenen, B. Diaz, M. Shave, T. Bench-Capon and B. Beattie (Liverpool), 'A Tesseral Approach to Multi-Dimensional Reasoning' 16.30-16.50 S. Loughlin, M. Sullivan and F.J. Smith (Belfast), 'Representation of Knowledge in a Scientific Problem Solving System' 16.50-17.10 P. Mc Kevitt and P. Dalsgaard (Aalborg), 'A Frame Semantics for an IntelliMedia Workbench' ---------- Thurs. 11 Sept 1997, 18.30, Reception ------------------- ----- Fri. 12 Sept 1997, 09.10-10.30, IMVIP'97, Venue MG229 -------- Session I6 Scene Analysis and Visualisation (Chair: David Vernon) 09.10-09.30 G. Moore, P. Morrow and D. Roantree (Coleraine), 'Guided Aerial Image Analysis - an Overview' 09.30-09.50 H. Hioki and Y. Shinagawa (Kyoto), 'Dynamic Pattern Projection Method for Measuring Three-dimensional Scenes' 09.50-10.10 D. Vernon (Maynooth), 'Estimation of Optical Flow using the Fourier Transform' ------- Fri. 12 Sept 1997, 09.10-10.30, AICS-97, Venue MD007 --------- Session A4 Psychology and Philosophy (Chair: Ronan Reilly) 09.10-09.30 R. Reilly (Dublin), 'Brocas Area and the Development of Object Assembly and Language Production Skills' 09.30-09.50 P. Juola (Oxford), 'Reinventing Behaviorism' 09.50-10.10 S. Battle (Bristol), 'The Changing Role of Representation in AI' 10.10-10.30 J. Hammerton (Birmingham), 'Functional Compositionality and a New View of Knowledge Representation' 10.30-11.00 Coffee, Poster Parade ------ Fri. 12 Sept 1997, 11.00-12.40, IMVIP'97, Venue MG229 -------- Session I7 Video and Image Compression (Chair: John Keating) 11.00-11.20 D. Vernon (Maynooth), 'Removal of Superimposed Reflections from Dynamic Image Sequences' 11.20-11.40 J. Harrington and A. Bouridane (Belfast), 'Novel Inspection Technique Using Number Theoretic Transforms' 11.40-12.00 D. Molloy and P.F. Whelan (Dublin), 'Self-Initialising Active Contours for Motion Discrimination' 12.00-12.20 O. Stromme and D.R. McGregor (Glasgow), 'Improved Reconstruction Quality with Computational Complexity for Wavelet Decomposition for Image and Video compression' 12.20-12.40 A. Izmirliev and R.J. Fryer (Glasgow), 'A Deblocking Algorithm for Block Based Compression Schemes for Still Images' ------- Fri. 12 Sept 1997, 11.00-12.40, AICS-97, Venue MD007 -------- Session A5 Natural Language Processing (Chair: Mike McTear) 11.00-11.20 M. Lee (Sheffield), 'Rationality, Cooperation and Conversational Implicature' 11.20-11.40 I.M. O Neill and M. McTear (Jordanstown), 'A Dialogue Control Algorithm for Spoken Dialogue Systems based on an Object-Oriented Architecture' 11.40-12.00 K. Greenan and M. McTear (Letterkenny and Jordanstown), 'A Rapid Prototyping Approach to Spoken Dialogue System Development: the Directory Assistance Project' 12.00-12.20 A. Kruger, H. Dittmann and M. Murphy (Osnabrueck and Jordanstown), 'Knowledge-Based Error Diagnosis in CALL' 12.20-12.40 N. Creaney (Coleraine), 'On Generating Quantifiers' -------------------- Fri. 12 Sept 1997, Lunch ------------------------ Fri. 12 Sept 1997, 14.00-15.20, Plenary, Venue MG229 (Chair: David Bell) 14.00-15.00 J. McCarthy (Stanford), 'The Logic Road to Human-Level AI' 15.00-15.30 Coffee and Poster Parade 15.30-16.30 W. von Hahn (Hamburg), 'Putting Together the Parts: Complex Artificial Intelligence Systems' 16.30-17.30 N. Okada (Kyushu), 'AESOPWORLD: an Integrated System for Intellectual Emotional Agents' ------------- Fri. 12 Sept 1997, 19.00, Banquet --------------------- ----- Sat. 13 Sept 1997, 09.30-12.00, Plenary, Venue MG229 ---------- (Chair: Ken Dawson-Howe) 09.30-10.30 J. Crowley (Grenoble), 'Computer Vision Techniques for Man-Machine Interaction' 10.30-10.45 Coffee 10.45-11.00 A. Jain (East Lansing), 'Object Localization Using Color, Texture and Shape" 11.00-11.30 Concluding Round-Table Discussion: 'Is There a Crisis in AI?' (Chair: Paul Mc Kevitt) 11.30 Closing of the Conference 11.30-12.00 Special Interest Group Meetings (setting up of Irish Pattern Recognition and Classification Association) (Chair: Fionn Murtagh) 13.30 Buses Depart for Visit of Bushmills Distillery and Giants' Causeway. Return: approx. 19.00. --------------- Posters - IMVIP'97--------------------------------------- P.F. Whelan (Dublin), 'Remote Access Education of Machine Vision Engineers via the Internet' D.J. Gibson, M.K. Teal, S.Holloway and M. Winchester (Dorset), 'Generic Model Library for Rapidly Prototyping Real-Time Two-Dimensional Convolvers' K. Alotaibi, D. Crooks and A. Bouridane (Belfast), 'An FPGA-based Environment for Image Processing Applications' B. Al-Besher, A. Bouridane, A. Ashur and D. Crooks, 'Novel Digit-Serial Image Processor' J.-Ch. Devaux, R. Kouassi, P. Gouton and F. Truchetet (Dijon), 'Region-based Segmentation of Colour Images: Application to Aerial Image Cartography S. Masud and J. McCanny (Belfast), 'Which Wavelet for Image Compression' B. Loughlin, G. Kernohan and R. O'Keefe (Jordanstown), 'DESIRE for Medical Research' M. Lefley (Dorset), 'Improving Neural Image Processing: an Evaluation of Low Level Filters' D. Vernon (Maynooth), 'Phase-based Computation of Stereo Disparity' P. Thomas and D. Vernon (Maynooth), 'Image Registration by Differential Evolution' G. Zheng, S. Rouxel, A. Aussem, J. Campbell and F. Murtagh (Derry and Clermont-Ferrand), 'Forecasting of Ocean State Using Satellite-Sensor Data' J. Campbell, C. Fraley, A.E. Raftery and F. Murtagh (Derry and Seattle), 'Detection and Classification of Textile Flaws through Statistical Modelling' --------------- Posters - AICS-97--------------------------------------- H. Costin, A. Ciobanu and A. Todirascu (Iasi), 'Off-Line Cursive Script Recognition System for Languages with Diacritic Symbols' T.C. Goncalves and F. Moura-Pires (Lisbon), 'Clustering Integration through Examples' K. Pal and J.A. Campbell (London), 'Advantage of Hybrid Reasoning Strategies in Legal Decision-Support Systems' S.B. Redmond, N. Creaney and R.J. Hickey (Coleraine), 'Methodology and Monolingual Requirements for the Acquisition of Transfer Functions' P. Rogers and M. Lefley (Bournemouth), 'Using Patterns in State Spaces of Complex Problems to Hypothesise Solution Behaviour' S. Zhaohao and K. Weber (Cottbus), 'Turing Test and Intelligence with Trick' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------