10th Israeli Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Neural Networks Tel-Aviv, December 27-28, 1993 FINAL PROGRAM and REGISTRATION INFORMATION Monday, December 27, 1993 ------------------------- (8:30-9:15) REGISTRATION ------------------------ Session 1.1 AI VISION NN (9:15-11:15) PLENARY SESSION ---------------------------- AI Keynote Speaker: D. Gabbay, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. LENA - An automated car saleswoman capable of belief revision, abduction action and small lies. Vision Keynote Speaker: Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland, College Park MD. Interpretation of visual patterns: Navigation & Manipulation. (11:15-11:45) COFFEE BREAK -------------------------- Session 1.2 AI (11:45-13:00) FORMAL TECHNIQUES ------------------------------- Roccetti Marco, Teolis Antonio G.B. (University of Bologna) The Use of Moebius Function in Probabilistic Rule-Based Expert Systems Meisels Amnon, Ell-sana' Jihad, Gudes Ehud (Ben-Gurion University) Comments on CSP Algorithms Applied to Timetabling Shechory On, Kraus Sarit (Bar-Ilan University) Coalition Formation Among Autonomous Agents: Strategies and Complexity Session 1.3 NN (11:45 - 13:00) SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING -------------------------------------------- I Voitovetsky, S Dahan, Y Menashe, H Guterman (Ben Gurion University) Speaker Independent Vowel Recognition Using Neural Networks Zvi Boger (Negev Nuclear Research Center) ANNs for Quantitative Stationary Spectrometric Measurements Yaakov Stein (Efrat Future Technology) False Alarm Rate Reduction for ASR and OCR Session 1.4 VISION (11:45 - 13:00) SHAPE DESCRIPTION --------------------------------- Ilan Shimshoni, Jean Ponce (University of Illinois) Finite resolution aspect graphs of polyhedral objects. R.L. Ogniewicz, G. Szekely, O. Kubler (Communication Technology Laboratory, Zurich) Detection of prominent boundary points based on structural characteristics of the heirarchic medial axis transform. Daphna Weinshall, Michael Werman, Naftali Tishbi (Hebrew University) Stability and likelihood of two dimensional views of three dimensional objects. (13:00-14:30) LUNCH BREAK ------------------------- Session 1.5 AI (14:30-15:45) DESIGN METHODOLOGY -------------------------------- Ndjatou Gilbert (CUNY) Modelling Objects and Distributed Object-Based Systems Nygate Yossi (AT&T-Bell), Sterling Leon (Case Western Reserve University) ASPEN - Designing Complex Knowledge Based Systems Weiss Richard J., Tamir D. E., Schneider Moti (Florida Institute of Technology) Efficient Resource Allocation for Parallel Prolog Interpretation Session 1.6 NN (14:30 - 15:45) OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION AND RELATED TOPICS ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jacob (Yak) Shaya, Jonathan Eran Kali, Gideon Y Ben-Zvi (Ligatura) A Stochastic Approach -- Advantages in Character Recognition Oded Comay, Nathan Intrator (Tel Aviv University) Ensemble Training: Some recent experiments with Postal Zip data B Lerner, H Guterman, I Dinstein (Ben Gurion University) Global Features and Simple Transformation to Chromosome Classification Session 1.7 VISION (14:30-15:45) MODELS FOR HUMAN VISION ------------------------------------- Yael Moses, Shimon Ullman, Shimon Edelman (Weizmann Institute) Generalization to novel images in upright and inverted faces. Ehud Grunfeld, Hedva Spitzer (Tel Aviv University) Spatio-temporal model for subjective colours based on colour coded cells. Haya Ruchvarger (Bar Ilan University) A mathematical derivation on possible aid of eye movments to depth perception. (15:45-16:00) COFFEE BREAK -------------------------- Session 1.8 AI (16:00-16:45) LOGIC ------------------- Ben-Eliyahu Rachel (UCLA) Back to the Future: Program Completion Revisited Slobodova Anna (Slovak Academy of Science) On a Special Case of Probabilistic Logic Session 1.9 NN (16:00-16:50) HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS -------------------------------------- Ronny Agranat (Hebrew University) An Electroholographic Artificial Neural Network U Sandler (Jerusalem College of Technology) Multimode Laser As a Multi-Neuron Session 1.10 VISION (16:00 - 17:15) FEATURES FOR RECOGNITION ---------------------------------------- Dieter Koller (University of California at Berkeley) Moving object recognition and classification based on recursive shape parameter estimation. Antti Yla-Jaaski, F. Ade (Mapvision Ltd., Finland) Grouping symmetrical structures for image segmentation and description. Yui-Liang Chen, D.C. Hung (New Jersey Institute of Technology) Shape recognition using hypothetic feature. Session 1.11 AI (16:45-17:45) TUTORIAL ---------------------- S. Engelson (Yale University) 'Where am I, and where am I headed?" (Map Learning for Mobile Robots) Session 1.12 NN (16:50 - 18:00) BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL APPLICATIONS --------------------------------------------------- Itiel E Dror (Harvard University) Neural Network Models of Bat Sonar H Guterman (Ben Gurion University), A Yarkoni (Soroka Hospital) Classification of Labor Contractions by Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic P Tandeitnik, H Guterman (Ben Gurion University) System Identification of Engineering and Biological Processes Tuesday, December 28, 1993 -------------------------- (8:00-9:00) REGISTRATION ------------------------- Session 2.1 AI VISION NN (9:00-11:00) PLENARY SESSION ---------------------------- NN Keynote Speaker S. Kirkpatrick, IBM Yorktown Heights and HU Satisfaction Thresholds and other Disorderly Things Vision Keynote Speaker Davi Geiger, Siemens Corporate Research, NJ. Perceptual mechanisms for images and stereo pairs (11:00-11:30) COFFEE BREAK -------------------------- Session 2.2 AI (11:30-13:15) Learning ---------------------- Sprotte-Kleiber Lucia (Zurich University) GAAR - A System for Solving Geometric Analogy Problems with Analogical Representations Koppel M., Feldman R. (Bar-Ilan University), Segre A. (Cornell University) Theory Revision Using Noisy Examples Biberman Yoram (Hebrew University) A Context Similarity Measure for Nominal Variables Reich Yoram, Karni Reuven, Fournier Fabiana (Technion) An Investigation of Machine Learning Approaches to Knowledge Extraction from Databases Session 2.3 NN (11:30 - 13:15) ARCHITECTURES AND LEARNING ------------------------------------------ Nathan Intrator (Tel Aviv University), Orna Intrator (Hebrew University) Interpreting Neural-Network Models Orly Yadid-Pecht, Moshe Gur (Technion) Modified MAXNET with Fast Convergence Rate Lev Tsitolovsky (Bar Ilan University), Maxim Kovalenko (Weizmann Institute) Structure Independent Learning in Neural Networks Session 2.4 VISION (11:30 - 13:15) RECOVERY AND GEOMETRY ------------------------------------- Patrick Gros, Long Quan (LIFIA/INRIA, France) 3D projective invariants from two images. Ron Kimmel, Guillermo Sapiro (Technion) Shortening three dimensional curves via two dimensional flows. Michal Irani, Benny Rousso, Shmuel Peleg (Hebrew University) Recovery of ego-motion using image stabilization. Quang-Tuan Luong, Rachid Deriche, Olivier Faugeras, Theodore Papadopoulo (INRIA, France) On determining the fundamental matrix: analysis of different methods and experimental results. (13:15-14:30) LUNCH BREAK ------------------------- Session 2.5 AI (14:30-15:45) APPLICATIONS -------------------------- Tomer Amir (Rafael) An Implementation Methodology with Constructive Inheritance Stilman Boris (University of Colorado) Hierarchical Networks for Systems Control Tabakman T, Exman I. (Hebrew University) Towards Real-Time Self-Organising Maps with Parallel and Noisy Inputs Session 2.6 NN (14:30 - 15:45) FUZZY LOGIC, EXPERT SYSTEMS, PATTERN RECOGNITION ---------------------------------------------------------------- Alon Cohen (Bar Ilan University) A Legal Expert Neural Network Usiel Sandler (Jerusalem College of Technology) Fuzzy Dynamics Yaakov Stein (Efrat Future Technology) A Hypersphere Classifier Which Trains Like A Hyperplane One Session 2.7 VISION (14:30-15:45) GROUPING AND SEGMENTATION --------------------------------------- Gady Agam, Its'hak Dinstein (Ben Guryon University) Pre-processing of metaphase images for automatic chromosome classification. Antti Yla-Jaaski (Mapvision Ltd., Finland), Nahum Kiryati (Technion) Adaptive termination of voting in probabilistic hough algorithms. Victor Brailovsky, Yulia Kempner (Tel Aviv University) Restoring the original range image structure using probabilistic estimates. (15:45-16:00) COFFEE BREAK -------------------------- Session 2.8 AI (16:00-17:30) Tutorial ---------------------- Dan Geiger (Technion) Probabilistic Reasoning: Learning and Inference Session 2.9 NN (16:00 - 17:00) IMAGE PROCESSING -------------------------------- Sorin Costiner, Maxim Kovalenko (Weizmann Institute) A Multigrid Neural Network with Applications to Image Processing S Greenberg, H Guterman (Ben Gurion University) Rotation and Shift Invariant Image Classifier using NN Session 2.10 VISION (16:00-17:00) NON RIGID OBJECTS ------------------------------- Eyal Shavit, Allan Jepson (University of Toronto) The pose function: an intermediate level representation for motion understanding. Yaacov Hel-or (Weizmann Institute) and Michael Werman (Hebrew University) Pose estimation of articulated and constrained models. Session 2.11 NN (17:00 - 18:00) PANEL DISCUSSION -------------------------------- Industry and Academia Interaction ------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION INFORMATION Registration forms should be sent by December 6, 1993, to the following address: Ms. Ruth Cooperman 10th IAICVNN Secretariat IPA, Kfar Maccabiah Ramat Gan 52109 ISRAEL The registration fee for the conference (including lunch, coffee, and proceedings ) is as follows: IPA members (*) (before Dec. 6) : $200 or 350 NIS IPA members (*) (after Dec. 6) : $250 or 400 NIS Non-IPA members (before Dec. 6) : 375 NIS Non-IPA members (after Dec. 6) : 425 NIS Students (**) (before Dec. 6) : $100 or 200 NIS Students (**) (after Dec. 6) : $125 or 225 NIS (*) Visitors from abroad are entitled to the IPA member rate. (Payment in US$ only.) (**) The student rate will be approved only for students who are enrolled in a full time study program and with documents confirmed by the university. 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