VISION, RECOGNITION, ACTION: FINAL CALL
BU - Cognitive and Neural Systems
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Tue Apr 1 10:45:17 EST 1997
**** FINAL CALL FOR REGISTRATION *****
International Conference on
VISION, RECOGNITION, ACTION: NEURAL MODELS OF MIND AND MACHINE
May 28--31, 1997
Sponsored by the
Center for Adaptive Systems
and the
Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
Boston University
with financial support from
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
and
the Office of Naval Research
This conference will include 21 invited lectures and 88 contributed
lectures and posters by experts on the biology and technology of how
the brain and other intelligent systems see, understand, and act upon
a changing world. The program is listed below.
Since seating at the meeting is limited, early registration is
recommended. To register, please fill out the registration form
below. Student registrations must be accompanied by a letter of
verification from a department chairperson or faculty/research
advisor. If paying by check, mail to: Neural Models of Mind and
Machine, c/o Cynthia Bradford, Boston University, Department of
Cognitive and Neural Systems, 677 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215. If
paying by credit card, mail to the above address, or fax to (617)
353-7755. The meeting registration fee will help to pay for a
reception, 6 coffee breaks, and the meeting proceedings.
A day of tutorials will be held on Wednesday, May 28. The tutorial
registration fee helps to pay for 2 coffee breaks and a hard copy of
the 7 hours of tutorial viewgraphs.
See the meeting web page at http://cns-web.bu.edu/cns-meeting for
further meeting information.
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REGISTRATION FORM
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Vision, Recognition, Action: Neural Models of Mind and Machine
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts
Tutorials: May 28, 1997
Meeting: May 29-31, 1997
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the regular registration fee is $30 and the student fee is $25. Two
coffee breaks and a tutorial handout will be covered by the tutorial
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MEETING SCHEDULE (poster session details follow the oral session schedule)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1997 (Tutorials):
7:30am---8:30am MEETING REGISTRATION
8:30am--10:00am Stephen Grossberg (Part I):
"Vision, Brain, and Technology"
10:00am--10:30am COFFEE BREAK
10:30am--12:00pm Stephen Grossberg (Part II):
"Vision, Brain, and Technology"
12:00pm---1:15pm LUNCH
1:15pm---3:15pm Gail Carpenter:
"Self-Organizing Neural Networks for Learning,
Recognition, and Prediction: ART Architectures
and Applications"
3:15pm---3:45pm COFFEE BREAK
3:45pm---5:45pm Eric Schwartz:
"Algorithms and Hardware for the Application of
Space-Variant Active Vision to High Performance
Machine Vision"
THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1997 (Invited Lectures and Posters):
7:30am---8:30am MEETING REGISTRATION
8:30am---9:15am Robert Shapley:
"Brain Mechanisms for Visual Perception of Occlusion"
9:15am--10:00am George Sperling:
"An Integrated Theory for Attentional Processes in
Vision, Recognition, and Memory"
10:00am--10:30am COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER SESSION I
10:30am--11:15am Patrick Cavanagh:
"Direct Recognition"
11:15am--12:00pm Stephen Grossberg:
"Perceptual Grouping during Neural Form and
Motion Processing"
12:00pm---1:30pm LUNCH
1:30pm---2:15pm Robert Desimone:
"Neuronal Mechanisms of Visual Attention"
2:15pm---3:00pm Ennio Mingolla:
"Visual Search"
3:00pm---3:30pm COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER SESSION I
3:30pm---4:15pm Patricia Goldman-Rakic:
"The Machinery of Mind: Models from Neurobiology"
4:15pm---5:00pm Larry Squire:
"Brain Systems for Recognition Memory"
5:00pm---8:00pm POSTER SESSION I
FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1997 (Invited and Contributed Lectures):
8:00am---8:30am MEETING REGISTRATION
8:30am---9:15am Lance Optican:
"Neural Control of Rapid Eye Movements"
9:15am--10:00am John Kalaska:
"Reaching to Visual Targets: Cerebral Cortical
Neuronal Mechanisms"
10:00am--10:30am COFFEE BREAK
10:30am--11:15am Rodney Brooks:
"Models of Vision-Based Human Interaction"
11:15am--12:00pm Alex Pentland:
"Interpretation of Human Action"
12:00pm---1:30pm LUNCH
1:30pm---1:45pm Paolo Gaudiano:
"Retinal Processing of IRFPA Imagery"
1:45pm---2:00pm Zili Liu:
"2D Ideal Observers in 3D Object Recognition"
2:00pm---2:15pm Soheil Shams:
"Object Segmentation and Recognition via a Network
of Resonating Spiking Neurons"
2:15pm---2:30pm Wey-Shiuan Hwang and John Weng:
"Autonomous Learning for Visual Attention Selection"
2:30pm---2:45pm Shane W. McWhorter, Theodore J. Doll,
and Anthony A. Wasilewski:
"Integration of Computational Vision Research Models
for Visual Performance Prediction"
2:45pm---3:00pm Frank S. Holman III and Robert J. Marks II:
"Platform Independent Geometry Verification Using
Neural Networks Including Color Visualization"
3:00pm---3:30pm COFFEE BREAK
3:30pm---3:45pm Heiko Neumann and Wolfgang Sepp:
"A Model of Cortico-Cortical Integration of Visual
Information: Receptive Fields, Grouping, and
Illusory Contours"
3:45pm---4:00pm Constance S. Royden:
"A Biological Model for Computing Observer Motion
in the Presence of Moving Objects"
4:00pm---4:15pm Michele Fabre-Thorpe, Ghislaine Richard,
and Simon Thorpe:
"Rapid Categorization of Natural Images in Rhesus
Monkeys: Implications for Models of Visual Processing"
4:15pm---4:30pm Raju S. Bapi and Michael J. Denham:
"Neural Network Model of Experiments on
Set-Shifting Paradigm"
4:30pm---4:45pm Jose L. Contreras-Vidal and George E. Stelmach:
"Adaptive Resonance Theory Computations in the
Cortico-Striatal Circuits are Gated by Dopamine
Activity during Reward-Related Learning of
Approach Behavior"
4:45pm---5:00pm Mingui Sun, Murat Sonmez, Ching-Chung Li,
and Robert J. Sclabassi:
"Application of Time-Frequency Analysis, Artificial
Neural Networks, and Decision Making Theory to
Localization of Electrical Sources in the Brain
Based on Multichannel EEG"
5:00pm---6:30pm MEETING RECEPTION
6:30pm---7:30pm Stuart Anstis Keynote Lecture:
"Moving in Unexpected Directions"
SATURDAY, MAY 31 (Invited Lectures and Posters):
8:00am---8:30am MEETING REGISTRATION
8:30am---9:15am Eric Schwartz:
"Multi-Scale Vortex of the Brain: Anatomy as
Architecture in Biological and Machine Vision"
9:15am--10:00am Terrence Boult:
"Polarization Vision"
10:00am--10:30am COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER SESSION II
10:30am--11:15am Allen Waxman:
"Opponent Color Models of Visible/IR Fusion
for Color Night Vision"
11:15am--12:00pm Gail Carpenter:
"Distributed Learning, Recognition, and Prediction
in ART and ARTMAP Networks"
12:00pm---1:30pm LUNCH
1:30pm---2:15pm Tomaso Poggio:
"Representing Images for Visual Learning"
2:15pm---3:00pm Michael Jordan:
"Graphical Models, Neural Networks, and
Variational Approximations"
3:00pm---3:30pm COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER SESSION II
3:30pm---4:15pm Andreas Andreou:
"Mixed Analog/Digital Neuromorphic VLSI
for Sensory Systems"
4:15pm---5:00pm Takeo Kanade:
"Computational VLSI Sensors: Integrating
Sensing and Processing"
5:00pm---8:00pm POSTER SESSION II
POSTER SESSION I: Thursday, May 29, 1997
All posters will be displayed for the full day.
Biological Vision Session:
#1 Vlad Cardei, Brian Funt, and Kobus Barnard:
"Modeling Color Constancy with Neural Networks"
#2 E.J. Pauwels, P. Fiddelaers, and L. Van Gool:
"Send in the DOGs: Robust Clustering using
Center-Surround Receptive Fields"
#3 Tony Vladusich and Jack Broerse:
"Neural Networks for Adaptive Compensation of Ocular
Chromatic Aberration and Discounting Variable Illumination"
#4 Alexander Dimitrov and Jack D. Cowan:
"Objects and Texture Need Different Cortical Representations"
#5 Miguel Las-Heras, Jordi Saludes, and Josep Amat:
"Adaptive Analysis of Singular Points Correspondence
in Stereo Images"
#6 Neil Middleton:
"Properties of Receptive Fields in Radial Basis Function
(RBF) Networks"
#7 David Enke and Cihan Dagli:
"Modeling the Bidirectional Interactions within and
between the LGN and Area V1 Cells"
#8 Scott Oddo, Jacob Beck, and Ennio Mingolla:
"Texture Segregation in Chromatic Element-Arrangement Patterns"
#9 David Alexander and Phil Sheridan:
"Local from Global Geometry of Layers 2, 3, and 4C of
the Macaque Striate Cortex"
#10 Phil Sheridan and David Alexander:
"Invariant Transformations on a Space-Variant Hexagonal Grid"
#11 Irak Vicarte Mayer and Haruhisa Takahashi:
"Simultaneous Edge Detection and Image Segmentation using
Neural Networks and Color Theory"
#12 Adam Reeves and Shuang Wu:
"Visual Adaptation: Stochastic or Deterministic?"
#13 Peter Kalocsai and Irving Biederman:
"Biologically Inspired Recognition Model with Extension Fields"
#14 Stephane J.M. Rainville, Frederick A.A. Kingdom, and
Anthony Hayes:
"Effects of Local Phase Structure on Motion Perception"
#15 Alex Harner and Paolo Gaudiano:
"A Neural Model of Attentive Visual Search"
#16 Lars Liden, Ennio Mingolla, and Takeo Watanabe:
"The Effects of Spatial Frequency, Contrast, Disparity,
and Phase on Motion Integration between Different Areas
of Visual Space"
#17 Brett R. Fajen, Nam-Gyoon Kim, and Michael T. Turvey:
"Robustness of Heading Perception Along Curvilinear Paths"
#18 L.N. Podladchikova, I.A. Rybak, V.I. Gusakova,
N.A. Shevtsova, and A.V. Golovan:
"A Behavioral Model of Active Visual Perception"
#19 Julie Epelboim and Patrick Suppes:
"Models of Eye Movements during Geometrical Problem Solving"
Biological Learning and Recognition Session:
#20 George J. Kalarickal and Jonathan A. Marshall:
"Visual Classical Rearing and Synaptic Plasticity:
Comparison of EXIN and BCM Learning Rules"
#21 Jean-Daniel Kant and Daniel S. Levine:
"ARTCRITIC: An Adaptive Critic Model for Decision Making
in Context"
#22 L. Andrew Coward:
"Electronic Simulation of Unguided Learning, Associative
Memory, Dreaming, and Internally Generated Succession of
Mental Images"
#23 K. Torii, T. Kitsukawa, S. Kunifuji, and T. Matsuzawa:
"A Synaptic Model by Temporal Coding"
#24 Gabriel Robles-de-la-Torre and Robert Sekuler:
"Learning a Virtual Object's Dynamics: Spectral Analysis
of Human Subjects' Internal Representation"
#25 Sheila R. Cooke, Robert Sekuler, Brendan Kitts,
and Maja Mataric:
"Delayed and Real-Time Imitation of Complex Visual `Gestures' "
#26 Brendan Kitts, Sheila R. Cooke, Maja Mataric,
and Robert Sekuler:
"Improved Pattern Recognition by Combining Invariance Methods"
#27 Gregory R. Mulhauser:
"Can ART Dynamics Create a 'Centre of Cognitive Action'
Capable of Supporting Phenomenal Consciousness?"
#28 Bruce F. Katz:
"The Pleasingness of Polygons"
#29 Stephen L. Thaler:
"Device for the Autonomous Generation of Useful Information"
Control and Robotics Session:
#30 John Demeris and Gillian Hayes:
"Integrating Visual Perception and Action in a Robot
Model of Imitation"
#31 Danil V. Prokhorov and Donald C. Wunsch II:
"A General Training Procedure for Stable Control with
Adaptive Critic Designs"
#32 Juan Cires and Pedro J. Zufiria:
"Space Perception through a Self-Organizing Map for
Mobile Robot Control"
#33 Alex Guazzelli and Michael A. Arbib:
"NeWG: The Neural World Graph"
#34 Minh-Chinh Nguyen:
"Robot Vision Without Calibration"
#35 Erol Sahin and Paolo Gaudiano:
"Real-Time Object Localization from Monocular Camera Motion"
#36 Carolina Chang and Paolo Gaudiano:
"A Neural Network for Obstacle Avoidance in Mobile Robots"
#37 P. Gaussier, J.-P. Banquet, C. Joulain, A. Revel,
and S. Zrehen:
"Validation of a Hippocampal Model on a Mobile Robot"
#38 J.-P. Banquet, P. Gaussier, C. Joulain, and A. Revel:
"Learning, Recognition, and Generation of Tempero-Spatial
Sequences by a Cortico-Hippocampal System: A Neural
Network Model"
POSTER SESSION II: Saturday, May 31, 1997
All posters will be displayed for the full day.
Machine Vision Session:
#1 Tyler C. Folsom:
"Edge Detection by Sparse Sampling with Steerable
Quadrature Filters"
#2 Mario Aguilar and Allen M. Waxman:
"Comparison of Opponent-Color Neural Processing and
Principal Components Analysis in the Fusion of Visible
and Thermal IR Imagery"
#3 Magnus Snorrason:
"A Multi-Resolution Feature Integration Model for the
Next-Look Problem"
#4 Charles B. Owen:
"Application of Multiple Media Stream Correlation to
Functional Imaging of the Brain"
Machine Learning Session:
#5 Mukund Balasubramanian and Stephen Grossberg:
"A Neural Architecture for Recognizing 3-D Objects
from Multiple 2-D Views"
#6 Maartje E.J. Raijmakers and Peter C.M. Molenaar:
"Exact ART: A Complete Implementation of an ART Network"
#7 Danil V. Prokhorov and Lee A. Feldkamp:
"On the Relationship between Derivative Adaptive Critics
and Backpropagation through Time"
#8 Tulay Yildirim and John S. Marsland:
"Optimization by Back Propagation of Error in Conic
Section Functions"
#9 John M. Zachary, Jacob Barhen, Nageswara S. Rao, and
Sitharama S. Iyengar:
"A Dynamical Systems Approach to Neural Network Learning
from Finite Examples"
#10 Christos Orovas and James Austin:
"Cellular Associative Neural Networks"
#11 M.A. Grudin, P.J.G. Lisboa, and D.M. Harvey:
"A Sparse Representation of Human Faces for Recognition"
#12 Mike Y.W. Leung and David K.Y. Chiu:
"Feature Selection for Two-Dimensional Shape Discrimination
using Feedforward Neural Networks"
#13 Robert Alan Brown:
"The Creation of Order in a Self-Learning Duplex Network"
#14 C.H. Chen:
"Designing a Neural Network to Predict Human Responses"
#15 Jean-Marc Fellous, Laurenz Wiskott, Norbert Kruger,
and Christoph von der Malsburg:
"Face Recognition by Elastic Bunch Graph Matching"
#16 Gerard J. Rinkus:
"A Monolithic Distributed Representation Supporting
Multi-Scale Spatio-Temporal Pattern Recognition"
#17 Harald Ruda and Magnus Snorrason:
"Evaluating Automatically Constructed Hierarchies of
Self-Organized Neural Network Classifiers"
#18 Ken J. Tomita:
"A Method for Building an Artificial Neural Network
with 2/3 Dimensional Visualization of Input Data"
#19 Fernando J. Corbacho and Michael A. Arbib:
"Towards a Coherence Theory of the Brain and Adaptive Systems"
#20 Gail A. Carpenter, Mark A. Rubin, and William W. Streilein:
"ARTMAP-FD: Familiarity Discrimination of Radar Range Profiles"
#21 James R. Williamson:
"Multifield ARTMAP: A Network for Local, Incremental,
Constructive Learning"
#22 Marcos M. Campos:
"Constructing Adaptive Orthogonal Wavelet Bases with
Self-Organizing Feature Maps"
#23 Sucharita Gopal, Curtis E. Woodcock, and Alan H. Strahler:
"Fuzzy ARTMAP Classification of Global Land Cover from
AVHRR Data Set"
#24 A.F. Rocha and A. Serapiao:
"Fuzzy Modeling of the Visual Mind"
#25 Eun-Jin Kim and Yillbyung Lee:
"Handwritten Hangul Recognition Based on Psychologically
Motivated Model"
#26 Jayadeva:
"A Nonlinear Programming Based Approach to the Traveling
Salesman Problem"
#27 Haruhisa Takahashi:
"Biologically Plausible Efficient Learning Via Local
Delta Rule"
#28 Raonak Zaman and Donald C. Wunsch II:
"Prediction of Yarn Strength from Fiber Properties
using Fuzzy ARTMAP"
VLSI Session:
#29 James Waskiewicz and Gert Cauwenberghs:
"The Boundary Contour System on a Single Chip:
Analog VLSI Architecture"
#30 Marc Cohen, Pamela Abshire, and Gert Cauwenberghs:
"Current Mode VLSI Fuzzy ART Processor with On-Chip Learning"
#31 Shinji Karasawa, Senri Ikeda, Yong Hea Ku, and Jun Hum Chung:
"Methodology of the Decision-Making Device"
#32 Todd Hinck and Allyn E. Hubbard:
"Circuits that Implement Shunting Neurons and Steerable
Spatial Filters"
Audition, Speech, and Language Session:
#33 Colin Davis and Sally Andrews:
"Competitive and Cooperative Effects of Similarity
in Stationary and Self-Organizing Models of Visual
Word Recognition"
#34 Susan L. McCabe and Michael J. Denham:
"Towards a Neurocomputational Model of Auditory Perception"
#35 Dave Johnson:
"A Wavelet-Based Auditory Planning Space for Production
of Vowel Sounds"
#36 Michael A. Cohen, Stephen Grossberg, and Christopher Myers:
"A Neural Model of Context Effects in Variable-Rate
Speech Perception"
#37 Peter Cariani:
"Neural Computation in the Time Domain"
#38 N.K. Kasabov and R. Kozma:
"Chaotic Adaptive Fuzzy Neural Networks and their Applications
for Phoneme-Based Spoken Language Recognition"
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MEETING HOTEL INFORMATION: For all hotels listed below, meeting attendees
should make their own reservations directly with the hotel using the
meeting name "Vision, Recognition, Action".
1. THE ELIOT HOTEL
370 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 267-1607
(800) 443-5468
Janet Brown, director of sales
$130/night is the Boston University rate, and is the lowest
rate that the Eliot will offer to anyone, whether individual
or group.
A block of 12 rooms is being held until April 28, 1997.
This hotel is 3 or 4 blocks from the CNS Department.
2. HOWARD JOHNSONS
575 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 267-3100 (reservations)
(617) 864-0300 (sales office)
Eric Perryman, group sales office
Rates: $115/night/single and $125/night/double.
A block of 15 rooms is being held until April 28, 1997.
This hotel is across the street from the CNS Department.
3. THE BUCKMINSTER
645 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 236-7050
(800) 727-2825
Dan Betro, group sales office
A block of 29 rooms is being held until April 28, 1997.
This hotel is a few steps away from the CNS Department.
Pricing will vary depending on the kind of room; the range is
$55/night up to $129/night. Please inquire directly with the
hotel when making your reservation.
4. HOLIDAY INN, BROOKLINE
1200 Beacon Street
Brookline, MA 02146
(617) 277-1200
(800) 465-4329
Lisa Pedulla, Director of Sales, x-320
$99/night single, $109/night double are the Boston University rates.
A block of 25 rooms will be held for us until April 28, 1997.
This hotel is within a mile of the CNS Department. There is
a trolley stop directly outside the hotel that will take you
to within a block of the CNS Department.
For information about other Boston-area hotels, please see
http://www.boston.com/travel/lodging.htm.
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