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Spring 1983 Industrial Lectureship

			ANNOUNCEMENT

INDUSTRIAL LECTURESHIP IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

	The Computer Science Department of Stanford University
is pleased to announce the Industrial Lectureship in Computer
Science and Engineering starting in Spring Quarter 1983.
The purpose of the lectureship is to increase interaction between
Computer Science Department faculty and students and computer scientists in local
industry.

	Each quarter the Computer Science Department will invite
one outstanding computer scientist from the local industry to give
a course in his specialty.  Office space, computer use and salary
appropriate to the teaching of one course will be provided.  It is
expected that the balance of the lecturer's salary will be paid by
his permanent employer.

	The Spring 1983 course is as follows.  Watch for an announcement
of the first meeting.  The 1983-84 courses have been determined, and they
will be in the regular Stanford Courses and Degrees.

                  COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO VISION

                  Alex Pentland and Stephen Barnard
                    Artificial Intelligence Center
                          SRI International

Vision may be studied as a problem in physics, psychology, physiology
or as a computational problem.  Recently, research in computational
vision has attempted to take greater advantage of these other
paradigms, and so has gone in directions which are somewhat separate
from ``mainstream'' artificial intelligence research.  In particular,
more emphasis has been placed on data concerning biological vision and
on mathematical models of image formation.  This seminar will examine
representative examples of these approachs and will explore how, and
to what extent, research in computer vision can take advantage of
these other paradigms.  The initial portion of the seminar will
attempt to provide the student with a sophisticated, albiet
necessarily superficial, grasp of human visual psychophysics and
visual neurophysiology.

Qualifications:

 Alex Pentland:
  * Computer Scientist, in vision research, SRI AI Center.
  * Phd Psychology, MIT (1982), in conjunction with MIT AI Lab (Marr's
	vision group).  
  * Assisted in teaching computer vision seminar at MIT during 3 terms.	
    co-taught course entitled ``Psychophysics And Neurophysiology'' in
      MIT psychology dept.	
  * 10 publications and papers in area of human perception.  I have 
	fairly extensive knowledge of current neurophysiology through
	association with the Schiller lab at MIT.
  * 21 publications and papers in various types of computer vision
	 (primarily AI and remote sensing) over the last 10 years, 
	while at MIT, Arthur D. Little and Environmental Research
	Institute of Michigan (ERIM).

 Steven Barnard:
  * Senior Computer Scientist, vision research, SRI AI Center
  * PhD Computer Science, University of Minnesota (1979)
  * Many quarters of teaching basic computer science courses
  * Several publications in computer vision