IEEE Workshop on Computer
Vision Beyond the Visible Spectrum: Methods and Applications

in conjunction with CVPR '99

June 22

Fort Collins, Colorado

Selected papers from the Workshop will be published in a special issue of the Machine Vision & Applications journal.

Workshop's Scope

Final Program

8:00 - 8:45 am  Invited Talk
The Moving and Stationary Target Acquisition and Recognition (MSTAR) Program
Robert Hummel,  DARPA

8:45 - 10:00 am   SESSION A
DETECTING, TRACKING, AND RECOGNIZING MOVING OBJECTS IN INFRARED IMAGES

8:45 - 9:10 am
Detecting Moving Objects in Airborne Forward Looking Infrared Sequences
Strehl and Aggarwal

9:10 - 9:35 am
Moving Target Detection in Infrared Imagery Using A Regularized CDWT Optical Flow
Castellano, Boyce, and Sandler

9:35 - 10:00 am
Dual-Band ATR for Forward-Looking Infrared Images
Dainty, Boyce, Dimitropoulos, Edmundson, Toulson, and Bernhardy

10:00 - 10:20 am  BREAK

10:20 - 12:00 am   SESSION B
INFRARED IMAGE ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS


10:20 - 10:45 am
Extending Color Vision Methods to Bands Beyond the Visible
Scribner, Warren, and Schuler

10:45 - 11:10 am
A Near-Infrared Fusion Scheme for Automatic Detection of Vehicle Passengers
Pavlidis, Symosek, Fritz, and Papanikolopoulos

11:10 - 11:35 am
Invariants of the LWIR Thermophysical Model
Arnold, Sturtz, and Velten

11:35 - 12:00 am
Passive Night Vision Sensor Comparison for Unmanned Ground Vehicle Stereo Vision Navigation
Owens and Matthies

12:00 - 1:30  pm   LUNCH

1:30 - 2:15 pm  Invited Talk
The Dynamic Database (DDB) Program
Anthony Nowicki, Lockheed-Martin Astronautics

2:15 - 3:30 pm  SESSION C
TARGET RECOGNITION IN SAR IMAGES


2:15 - 2:40 pm
Adaptive Target Recognition
Bhanu, Lin, Jones, and Peng

2:40 - 3:05 pm
A Ground Truth Tool for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imagery
Pavlidis, Perrin, Papanikolopoulos, Au, and Sawtelle

3:05 - 3:30 pm
Quasi-Invariants for Recognition of Articulated and Non-Standard Objects in SAR Images
Jones III and Bhanu

3:30 - 3:50 pm   BREAK

3:50 to 5:30 pm  SESSION D
LASER RADAR AND HYPER SPECTRAL IMAGE ANALYSIS


3:50 - 4:15 pm
Morphological Shared-Weight Neural Networks: A Tool for Automatic Target Recognition Beyond the Visible Spectrum
Khabou, Gader, and Keller

4:15 - 4:40 pm
A Machine Vision System Using A Laser Radar Applied to Robotic Fruit Harvesting
Jimenez, Ceres, and Pons

4:40 - 5:05 pm
Ladar Scene Description Using Fuzzy Morphology and Rules
Wang, Keller, and Gader

5:05 - 5:30 pm
Hyper-spectral Image Processing Applications on the SIMD Pixel Processor for the Digital Battlefield
Chai, Gentile, Lugo-Beauchamp, Cruz-Rivera, and Wills
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