HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rt1191a@libra.math.tau.ac.il (Shachar Yair)
Subject: USE academic paper for ANTI-SEMITIC Propaganda
Organization: School of Math & CS - Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv , ISRAEL.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:16:00 GMT

January 20, 1993

  Outrageous use of Academic Paper for anti-Semitic propaganda.
  =============================================================

     I was astonished to realize that the IEEE COMPUTER , gives
     host to an inglorious wild anti-Semitic provocation, under the
     cover of so called academic paper.
     In the IEEE Computer of July 1992 , Page 74 ,given as " a
     sample of typewritten Arabic ", there is a paragraph in Arabic
     , describing the fall of the Moslem ruler of Turkey, and the
     raise of the "western agent "  Kamal Attaturk in 1922, as a "
     Jewish  Conspiracy ". The exact content of the paragraph is
     given hereby.  The translation has been done by my colleague
     Ron J. Goldring:

     "... The entire region, and the JEWISH delegation was
     expelled disgracefully. And he said: Palestine is the
     blood of six hundred million moslems.
     And since that time, the enemies of Islam laboured on
     removing that obstacle from their way. And their
     collusion was successful: They removed him from power,
     and toppled the "knifa", and brought the western agent
     Attaturk to power."


     Details of this "Academic  Paper"

     Title : Off - Line Arabic Character Recognition.

     Authors : Habib Goraine, Mike Usher, and Samir Al-Emami.
                 University   of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, U.K
                    Dept. of Cybernetics.

     I have to stress that such use of Academic Paper is unheard-
     of. I suggest that every one who wants to express his view in
     this matter will mail to IEEE Computers magazine < Editor-in-
     Chief is Jon T. Butler , internet email :
     butler@ece.nps.navy.mil . Magazine  Address : 10662 Los
     Vaqueros Circle, PO Box 3014, Los Alamitos,    CA 90720-1264
     U.S.A > , to IEEE , Reading Univ. or any other institute
     relevant for the matter.

     Yair Shachar
     School of Mathematics & CS
     Tel-Aviv  University.
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From: lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam)
Subject: Re: ERDAS contact address
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:09:39 GMT

ricky@danebury.hursley.ibm.com (Rick Turner) writes:

>I need to get in contact with the folks who develop ERDAS. Can anybody give
>me a contact phone/fax/address for them?		

You can email erdas @erdas.com  You can call them at 404-248-9000.  I don't
know the fax offhand.  If you need it email me.


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From: ricky@danebury.hursley.ibm.com (Rick Turner)
Subject: ERDAS contact address
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 15:34:16 GMT
Organization: IBM UK Scientific Centre
Followup-To: sci.image.processing

I need to get in contact with the folks who develop ERDAS. Can anybody give
me a contact phone/fax/address for them?		

Rick
Newsgroups: sci.image.processing
From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Subject: Do you know where these people are?
Organization: City University, London
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 16:52:42 GMT

I am trying to locate email addresses for any of the
authors of a paper in 1988 called `An Experimental 
Investigation of Estimation Approaches for Optical 
Flow Fields': 
W Enkelmann, R Kories, H-H Nagel, G Zimmerman. 
 
Thanks. 

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Newsgroups: sci.image.processing
From: edjans01@orion.spd.louisville.edu (So what's your point?)
Subject: Another book query!
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:00:46 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

I am taking a class in Statistical Pattern Recognition and Machine
Intelligence.  The book that the instructor has chosen is simply the pits. 
The notation is not standard and the author doesn't bother to give examples,
which is poor education IMHO.  The instructor of the course is in agreement
with me.  I am wondering if there are other resources that I might be able
to access to make my life a little easier in this class.

Thanks.


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Newsgroups: sci.image.processing,comp.soft-sys.khoros,alt.3d
From: lmn52210@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ramona)
Subject: Re: Line search-/ primitive extraction algorithms
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:28:45 GMT

grau@tnt.uni-hannover.de (Oliver Grau) writes:


>I'm working on a project which deals with geometric modelling. That
>means I want to get a 3 dimensional model of an object from 2 dimensional
>pictures. In a first step I want to extract primitives like lines, polylines, 
>crossed lines and so on from the pictures. One kind of algorithms performing
>that task are vectorizers. These give a list of vectors as the resulting 
>description of one or more objects in an image.

>In this context I am searching for existing software on the net, which is 
>related to that topic. 

>I am also looking for algorithms which performs a matching of 3d symbolic 
>descriptions of objects.

>Pleases e-mail information directly to me. I will give a summary.


>Thanks,


>Oliver
>______________________
>Dipl.-Ing. Oliver Grau
>Inst.fuer Theoretische Nachrichtentechnik                         __
>Universitaet Hannover                          _   / .    _  _   / _  _ __  
>email: grau@tnt.uni-hannover.de               (_) / / |/ (  /   /__/ / (_/ /_/

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From: jgs@photon.com (Joe Shanks)
Subject: Re: Information on Lowtran?
Organization: Photon Research Associates, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 18:30:13 GMT


Greetings,

     A more modern & sophisticated atmospheric radiance code,

		"APART / MOSART"

is available through the author:

	Dr. William Cornette, P.R.A.
	(619) 455-9741.
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Photon Research Associates, Inc.     (619) 455-9741 [fax: 455-0658]
10350 North Torrey Pines Road, Suite 300,       La Jolla, CA  92037
===================================================================
Newsgroups: sci.image.processing
From: yuchou@oriole.lanl.gov (Hu Yuchou)
Subject: animation program for X11R4 inquiry
Summary: trying to locate program to animate images
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:13:22 GMT

Hi netters,

I'm looking for an image animation program that allows one to animate a
sequence of images for X11R4 and greatly appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks in advance

Yuchou
From: ilya@igor.tamri.com (Ilya Simovsky)
Newsgroups: sci.image.processing
Subject: conversion to xv formats
Date: 22 Jan 93 18:43:17 GMT
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA

Dear gurus:
Could anybody, please, advise me where I can find a program for UNIX to convert
a 16 bit binary grayscale image (i.e a file with say 256*256 short int) to one
of the following formats : GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PBM, PGM, PPM, X11 bitmap, Utah Raster Toolkit RLE, PDS/VICAR, Sun Rasterfile, PM.
-- 

	- Ilya

******************************************************************
From: awhichel@robin.rp.csiro.au (Adrian Whichello)
Newsgroups: sci.image.processing
Subject: Projection-Slice theorem with non central slices
Keywords: projection-slice central-slice fourier-slice
Date: 28 Jan 93 07:57:00 GMT
Organization: CSIRO Division of Radiophysics/Australia Telescope National Faci
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Dear Netters

     I have an idea for an application that gathers data along non-central
slices in the fourier domain and I need to transform these to the image domain
for processing.  The slices form a sawtooth raster scan (ie |\|\|\|\) in the
fourier domain, the data being collected along the sloping line, not along the
vertical flyback.

     My question is:  does the Projection Slice theorem still hold; ie does 
the fourier transform of the data along such a slice still form a recognizable 
projection in the image domain?  Can anyone suggest some references? Thanks,

                                                               Adrian Whichello
From: spl@pitstop.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont)
Newsgroups: sci.image.processing
Subject: Re: conversion to xv formats
Date: 22 Jan 1993 22:17:40 GMT
Organization: University of Calif., San Diego/Microscopy and Imaging Resource
NNTP-Posting-Host: pitstop.ucsd.edu

In article <1993Jan22.184317.1411@igor.tamri.com> ilya@igor.tamri.com (Ilya Simovsky) writes:
>Dear gurus:
>Could anybody, please, advise me where I can find a program for UNIX to convert
>a 16 bit binary grayscale image (i.e a file with say 256*256 short int) to one
>of the following formats : GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PBM, PGM, PPM, X11 bitmap, Utah Raster Toolkit RLE, PDS/VICAR, Sun Rasterfile, PM.

#include <stdio.h>

/*
 * Raw 16 bit to pgm "translator"
 * Copyright abandoned.
 */

main()

{

    short int inbuffer[256 * 256];
    char outbuffer[256 * 256];
    int i;

    fread( inbuffer, sizeof( short int ), 256 * 256, stdin );

    for ( i = 0; i < 256 * 256; i++ )
	outbuffer[i] = inbuffer[i] >> 8;

    printf( "P5\n256 256\n255\n" );
    fwrite( outbuffer, sizeof( char ), 256 * 256, stdout );

    exit( 0 );

}

Error checking and enhancements are left as an exercise for the student.

I mean, it ain't that difficult...

							spl
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            - Archibald Macleish, "Lines for an Interment"
From: lendl@late.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Lendl)
Newsgroups: sci.image.processing
Subject: Is .RLC a common scanner-format?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:02:10 GMT
Organization: LATE, Univ. Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
Distribution: sci
NNTP-Posting-Host: late2.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de


Hello,

A few days ago I've got a couple of scanned image-files ending
with a extention '.rlc'.

Does anybody of you know that format?

The next question is how to get this type into a tiff or gi or ...
(I'm working with a UNIX- HP 9000-7xx- platform)

Please mail!

Thanks in advance for any hint!



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                                Tel.: x49/9131/85-7787
                                Fax.: x49/9131/13435
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From: chris47@uxb.liv.ac.uk (Chris Brown )
Newsgroups: sci.image.processing
Subject: Re: Help Wanted: Contour Tracing
Date: 24 Jan 93 11:28:45 GMT
Organization: The University of Liverpool
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Patrick ChengSan Teo (teo@Xenon.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
: In article <1993Jan21.192619.10241@pinet.aip.org> scotj@pinet.aip.org (scot_shinderman) writes:
: 
: 
: >    While reading the standard image processing books I have noticed one
: > algorithm that seems to be glossed over: contour tracing.  In the
: > pictures that I am scanning, a filter is run across the pixels and a
: > threshold is applied to produce either white or black pixels for the
: > grey-scale.  At this point there is usually a rather disconnected set of
: > dots due to noise in the picture but also some strong edges from the
: > filter.  What is the "pratical" method of moveing along the detected
: > pixels to find lines (or curves).  If I try to step from one pixel to
: > the next by looking in a neighborhood, then the path almost always gets
: > caught up in the noise off to one side or another.  Is there a way to
: > "nudge" the search in a particular direction based on previous motions.
: >   Any suggestions (or sample code!) would be greatly appreciated.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I know the feeling well as I am having the same problem with the edges of
cardioangiograms. I haven't solved the problem yet but I am messing about
along the lines of keeping the image well segmented whilst averaging. Hence 
developing a noisless thick boundary.
After that well .....
I anybody does come up with some constructive ideas I should be most
appreciative

Thanks

Chris

chris47@uxb.liv.ac.uk
Newsgroups: sci.image.processing
From: lapin@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Gregory Lapin)
Subject: Re: Pixel averaging paradox (help!)
Followup-To: sci.image.processing
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:24:25 GMT

In article <1j781hINNih7@shelley.u.washington.edu> dean2@tbone.biol.scarolina.edu (Dean Pentcheff) writes:
>Image analysis people:  I've got a puzzling problem.
>
>Here's the setup:  For various obscure reasons, I'm doing some analysis
>on some videotapes.  Using a realtime video analysis system (Datacube),
>I'm trying to get average pixel intensities in a set of nested areas.
>The areas are 1x1 pixel, 2x2, 4x4, 8x8, and 16x16 pixels.  The 1x1 area
>is in the center, the 2x2 framed around it, the 4x4 framed around that,
>etc.
>
>On each video frame I'm reading the (B&W) pixel intensities from all
>the pixels in each of the boxes.  For each box, the pixel intensities
>are summed and divided (all floating point - not integer) by the number
>of pixels in the box.
>
>Here's the puzzling problem.  During "boring" times (when there's
>little action in the video image) the average intensities are:  2x2 >
>4x4 > 1x1 > 8x8 > 16x16.  Huh?  Why should this be?  Based on several
>tries on various images, this is consistent.  The same pattern is
>somewhat evident when images are moving around, but of course there are
>confusing effects due to bright patches hitting parts of the outer
>boxes, but not some of smaller, inner boxes, etc.

How about calculating standard deviations along with your means.  You will
probably find that there is no statistically signficant difference between
the measurements.

Just a guess, but you may be seeing a noise difference between video
fields.

>-Dean 
Greg
Newsgroups: sci.image.processing
From: teo@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Patrick ChengSan Teo)
Subject: Re: Help Wanted: Contour Tracing
Reply-To: teo@cs.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: 21 Jan 93 20:35:14

In article <1993Jan21.192619.10241@pinet.aip.org> scotj@pinet.aip.org (scot_shinderman) writes:


>    While reading the standard image processing books I have noticed one
> algorithm that seems to be glossed over: contour tracing.  In the
> pictures that I am scanning, a filter is run across the pixels and a
> threshold is applied to produce either white or black pixels for the
> grey-scale.  At this point there is usually a rather disconnected set of
> dots due to noise in the picture but also some strong edges from the
> filter.  What is the "pratical" method of moveing along the detected
> pixels to find lines (or curves).  If I try to step from one pixel to
> the next by looking in a neighborhood, then the path almost always gets
> caught up in the noise off to one side or another.  Is there a way to
> "nudge" the search in a particular direction based on previous motions.
>   Any suggestions (or sample code!) would be greatly appreciated.

Just off the top of my head.  Have you considered trying to use some
iterative deepening backtracking procedure (algorithms like A*)
heuristically guided by some bayesian probability of the type of curve
which you are expecting to see?

-Patrick






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Newsgroups: sci.image.processing,comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: nguyenth@amertume.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr (Florence Nguyen (T3))
Subject: Re: Sun VideoPix Image Capture Board -- Any Good?
Organization: Universite PARIS 7 - UFR d'Informatique
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:14:31 GMT

Hi,
I used that frame grabber for an IP project and it worked ok as
long as it is installed on a Sun. In fact, we never could make it worked
on a Soulbourne (SPARC compatible).
Otherwise, it has colour features, saves in gif, tiff, sun format
but dunno the price though.
Cheers,
-- 
Florence Nguyen
Believe it or not but I have no e-mail address! Perhaps because I don't know it :)
Newsgroups: sci.image.processing
From: dfegan@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (Doug Egan)
Subject: Re: Framegrabber question
Organization: LESC
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:09:04 GMT

In <ces.727949460@melomys> ces@cs.uwa.oz.au (Cesar Bertino) writes:


>Does anybody know of a framegrabber that allows gain adjustment of the
>video signal prior to digitisation. I need a gain adjustment from 1 to
>around 50.

	Try calling New Media Graphics... they'll fix ya up! ;)

        New Media Graphics
        780 Boston Road
        Billercia, MA  01821-5925
        (508) 663-0666
        1-800-288-2207


Happy Imaging!


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From: scotj@pinet.aip.org (scot_shinderman)
Subject: Help Wanted: Contour Tracing
Organization: American Institute of Physics
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 19:26:19 GMT


   While reading the standard image processing books I have noticed one
algorithm that seems to be glossed over: contour tracing.  In the
pictures that I am scanning, a filter is run across the pixels and a
threshold is applied to produce either white or black pixels for the
grey-scale.  At this point there is usually a rather disconnected set of
dots due to noise in the picture but also some strong edges from the
filter.  What is the "pratical" method of moveing along the detected
pixels to find lines (or curves).  If I try to step from one pixel to
the next by looking in a neighborhood, then the path almost always gets
caught up in the noise off to one side or another.  Is there a way to
"nudge" the search in a particular direction based on previous motions.
  Any suggestions (or sample code!) would be greatly appreciated.
- thanks!
- scot shinderman (scotj@aip.org)
From: giacomo@cpsi7.dibe.unige.it (Giacomo Indiveri)
Newsgroups: sci.image.processing
Subject: Texture and face images WANTED
Date: 21 Jan 1993 10:17:09 GMT
Organization: DIBE - Universita` di Genova, Italy
NNTP-Posting-Host: cpsi7.dibe.unige.it

Hi everyone,
I'm working on a model for pre-attentive vision and I need to test it with
Brodatz texture pictures and with images of faces. Do you know where I can
find them? Is there any ftp-site with an archive of these type of images?
I looked for it with archie, but I couldn't find any.
Thanks to all.
                    Giacomo

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Newsgroups: sci.image.processing
From: nakano@oscar.info.waseda.ac.jp (K.Nakano)
Subject: Re: Another book query!
X-Nntp-Posting-Host: oscar13.oscar.info.waseda.ac.jp
Organization: Narita-Kasahara Lab., Department of Electric Engineering, School
	of Science and Engineering, WASEDA University
Distribution: sci
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:09:59 GMT

On Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:00:46 GMT, edjans01@orion.spd.louisville.edu (So what's your point?) said:

|> I am taking a class in Statistical Pattern Recognition and Machine
|> Intelligence.  The book that the instructor has chosen is simply the pits. 
|> The notation is not standard and the author doesn't bother to give examples,
|> which is poor education IMHO.  The instructor of the course is in agreement
|> with me.  I am wondering if there are other resources that I might be able
|> to access to make my life a little easier in this class.

I have already recommended the book for pattern
recognition in comp.ai.
The book is:
	Pattern Recognition
	- Statistical, Structural and Neural Approaches -
	Robert Schalkoff
	John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
	ISBN 0-471-52974-5 (Hard-cover)
	ISBN 0-471-55238-0 (Paperback)

I have not finished it yet, but it seems good.
Hope this help.

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Newsgroups: sci.image.processing
From: braker@ennex2.eng.utsa.edu (Jim Brakefield)
Subject: Re: Edge Detection And Segmentation Using Khorus And PV-WAVE
Keywords: citation error
Organization: Univ of Texas at San Antonio
Distribution: sci.image.processing
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:28:05 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.140531.13338@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>  
braker@ennex2.eng.utsa.edu (Jim Brakefield) writes:
> You should checkout the MegaWave package from France.  It does  
anisotropic
> blurring (Saint-Marc, Chen, & Medioni; PAMI June 1991).

The correct citation is:

Alvarez, Lions & Morel; SIAM Journal of numerical analysis, June 1992.
(this paper uses the MegaWave software, the other article uses similar
filtering via different software)
From: sbarrkum@engws3.ic.sunysb.edu (Se kumarakulasinghe)
Newsgroups: sci.image.processing
Subject: Re: IP packages for PC?
Date: 24 Jan 93 16:06:09 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook

In article <1jq3baINNsba@pandora.sdsu.edu> rzimdar@explore.sdsu.edu (Robert Zimdar) writes:

>Try Imdisp (I don't recall if its free or sharware), which can be found by,
>
>anonymous ftp to ames.arc.nasa.gov   cd pub/SPACE/SOFTWARE
>
>

Whats also geat about this bit of software is that you can display a large
images without having much of memory. Ive opened 10 MB Landsat MSS onto a PC
having 8 MB of Memory.

The commands are  

files /path/filename       "opens the file"
Then youll have to specify the length and width of the file and header data.
disp sub 6     " this displays the image at 6 time reduction in scale."

There is also a similar program for the Mac. Its called Pixel Pusher 
and available from someplace. (FTP).  its a NCSA product.

For other I'll be summarising the replies and a cookbook method for 
evaluating suspended sediment in coastal waters. Complete with a decent set of 
references. If anyone needs a quick answer Ill be willing to reply to 
him/her.

Barr Kum
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