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ENST, 46, Rue Barrault 
75013 Paris 
FRANCE 
Tel: +33-1-45-81-72-18 
Fax: +33-1-45-81-37-94 
E-mail: fradkinQima.enst.fr 
WG 1/2 - Terms of Reference 
- Algorithms for surface reconstruc- 
tion from different cues, such as 
stereo, shading, shadows, tex- 
ture, and spectral properties 
- integration of information from dif- 
ferent sources, including aerial 
and satellite imagery, radar data, 
range data,multiple images, and 
GIS data 
- Automatic verification and quality 
control of reconstructed surfaces 
- Interrelations between matching 
and interpolation 
- Role of surface reconstruction in 
automatic scene analysis 
  
WG 1/3 
Feature Extraction and Grouping 
Chair: 
Helmut Mayer 
Institute for Photogrammetry and 
Cartography 
University of the Federal Armed 
Forces Munich 
D-85577 Neubiberg, 
Germany 
Tel: +49-89-6004-3429, 3455 
Fax: +49-89-6004-4090 
E-mail: Helmut.Mayer@UniBw- 
Muenchen.de 
Co-Chair: 
Ram Nevatia 
Institute for Robotics and Intelligent 
Systems 
University of Southern California 
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0273 
USA 
Tel: +1-213-740-6428 
Fax: +1-213-740-7877 
E-mail: nevatia@iris.usc.edu 
Secretary: 
Albert Baumgartner 
Chair for Photogrammetry and Remote 
Sensing 
Technical University Munich 
D-80290 Munich 
GERMANY 
Tel: +49-89-2892-2688 
Fax: +49-89-2809573 
E-mail: albert@photo.verm.tu- 
muenchen.de 
WG IIl/3 - Terms of Reference 
- Segmentation of images into 
meaningful features, such as 
points, edges, and regions 
- Investigation of the impact of geo- 
metric and radiometric image for- 
mation on image segmentation 
- Aggregation of features by iter- 
ated grouping methods 
- Verification of global consisten- 
cies by optimisation techniques 
- Investigation of the potential of 
performing grouping processes in 
3D under special consideration of 
object space constraints, preci- 
sion and reliability 
- Evaluation of the performance of 
feature extraction and grouping 
algorithms in co-operation with 
similar efforts in computer vision 
  
WG 11/4 
Image Understanding/Object 
Recognition 
Chair: 
Wolfgang Eckstein 
MVTec Software GmbH 
Neherstr. 1 
D-81675 Munich, 
Germany 
Tel: +49-89-457695-0 
Fax: +49-89-457695-55 
E-mail: eckstein@mvtec.com 
Co-Chair: 
Eberhard Gülch 
Institute of Photogrammetry 
University Bonn 
Nussallee 15 
D-53115 Bonn 
Germany 
Tel: +49-228-732904 
Fax: +49-228-732712 
E-mail: ebs@ipb.uni-bonn.de 
Secretary: 
Carsten Steger 
Institute of Computer Science 
Munich University of Technology 
Orleanstr. 34 
D-81667 Munich 
Germany 
Tel: +49-89-4809-5211 
Fax: +49-89-4809-5203 
E-mail: stegerc@informatik.tu- 
muenchen.de 
WG 11/4 - Terms of Reference 
- Theoretical/conceptual investiga- 
tions in 3D object recognition and 
image understanding 
- Spatial modelling of human-built 
and natural objects like buildings, 
roads, or vegetation (geomet- 
ric modelling, semantic model- 
ling) 
- Theory and algorithms for 
automation of 3D object recogni- 
tion and object extraction 
- Knowledge engineering with 
emphasis on knowledge encapsu- 
lation, knowledge representation 
and manipulation 
- Integration of multiple sources 
(DTM, GIS, colour, etc.) in cooper- 
ation with WG 11/5 
- Performance characterisation of 
algorithms (quality control, test 
procedures) jointly with WG 11/3 
  
WG 11/5 
Remote Sensing and Vision 
Theories for Automatic Scene 
Interpretation 
Chair: 
Beata Csatho 
Byrd Polar Research Center 
The Ohio State University 
108 Scott Hall 
1090 Carmack Road 
Columbus, OH 43210 
USA 
Tel: +1-614-292-6641 
Fax: +1-614-292-4697 
E-mail: csatho@ohglas.mps.ohio- 
state.edu 
Co-Chair: 
DeLiang Wang 
Department of Computer and Infor- 
mation Science 
The Ohio State University 
2015 Neil Avenue 
Columbus, OH 43210-1277 
USA 
Tel: +1-614-292-6827 
Fax: +1-614-292-2911 
E-mail: dwang@cis.ohio-state.edu 
Secretary: 
Erzsebet Merenyi 
Department of Planetary Sciences 
and Lunar and Planetary Laboratory 
University of Arizona 
P.O. Box 210092 
Tucson, AC 85721-0092 
USA 
Tel: +1-520-621-4073 
Fax: +1-520-621-4933 
E-mail: erzsebet@pirl.Ipl.arizona.edu 
WG 11/5 - Terms of Reference 
- Merging theories from remote 
sensing (classification) and com- 
puter vision for Object Recogni- 
tion/Image Understanding (OR/ 
  
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