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Note the change of date - Thursday because ANZAC falls on Wednesday
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         ACS NSW AISIG - Artificial Intelligence - Monthly Meeting

Date: Thursday 26th April 2001.

Time: 6:30pm till 8:00pm & dinner afterwards.

Topic: Jigsaw: unsupervised construction of spatial representations

 When building robots that require hand-eye coordination, it is
 known that given an accurately calibrated visual system, it is
 possible to automatically calibrate the manipulators.
 Conversely, the visual system can be automatically calibrated
 when the motor system is accurately calibrated.  However, when
 we consider a young child, it manages to develop hand-eye
 coordination from an initially decalibrated vision and motor
 system.  How is this possible?

 This seminar will present an algorithm, JIGSAW, which uses a
 seemingly ubiquitous and deep property of the world, spatial
 redundancy, to automatically calibrate machine vision systems.
 JIGSAW can take a set of sensors and infer the topology of the
 set based purely on the signals delivered by the sensors. The
 algorithm may explain how the developing child organises its
 visual system from a random start - leading to retinotopic maps
 in the brain. It provides a mechanism for automatic and continuous
 self-calibrating robotic vision. And it hints at other, broader
 applications in the fields of data mining and remote sensing.


Speaker: Barry Drake, AI Group, CS&E, UNSW
  co-author Mark Peters


Scope of the Group:
       to maintain and acquire knowledge about the changing focus of
      leading edge research and technology transfer

        Evolutionary programming         Soft computing      Complexity
Biotechnology          Ethics          Privacy            Knowledge
management
             Networks         Agent technology         Induction
Model-based reasoning     Neuro-Fuzzy     Case Based Reasoning
         Ontologies          Philosophy         Cognition


Place: ACS NSW Offices, 3rd floor PSA House
                        160 Clarence Street, Sydney

       between Market & King Streets, closer to Town Hall than Wynyard
       behind the Bowler's Club.

Contact: Michael Williams (02) 829-62796
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