ERCIM News No.55, October 2003, Contents

	ERCIM News No. 55, October 2003 - Contents
	JOINT ERCIM ACTIONS
	SpaRCIM becomes 17th ERCIM Member Institute
	IM2IM - A New ERCIM Working Group on Informatics and Mathematics applied to Interventional Medicine by Marc Thiriet, INRIA
	Euro-Legal by Heather Weaver, CLRC
	News from W3C
	Special Theme: MACHINE VISION
	Machine Perception and Understanding: Introduction by Eric Pauwels, CWI
	Towards Bio-Inspired Neural Networks for Visual Perception of Motion by Claudio Castellanos Sánchez, Frédéric Alexandre and Bernard Girau, Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA)/INRIA
	Coupling Perception with Actions via Mirror Neurons by Jiri Wiedermann, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (CRCIM)
	Mechanisms for Cognition Development Inspired by the Mammalian Paradigm by Michalis Maniadakis and Panos Trahanias, ICS-FORTH
	Iterative Orientation Tuning for Contrast Detection in Images by Marina Kolesnik, Fraunhofer IMK
	Learning and Understanding Bimanual Movements by Atid Shamaie and Alistair Sutherland, Dublin City University
	What We See is What We Compute by Jan-Mark Geusebroek and Arnold W.M. Smeulders, University of Amsterdam
	Coarse-to-Fine Object Detection by François Fleuret and Hichem Sahbi, INRIA
	Video Understanding and Indexing for Surveillance: Image Perception, Quality and Understanding by Tamás Szirányi, SZTAKI
	Psychovisual Evaluation of Image Database Retrieval and Image Segmentation by Ian Jermyn, INRIA
	Searching and Browsing Databases of Digital Decoration Designs by Mark Huiskes and Eric Pauwels, CWI
	Kurt3D - An Autonomous Mobile Robot for Modelling the World in 3D by Hartmut Surmann, Andreas Nuechter, Kai Lingemann and Joachim Hertzberg, Fraunhofer AIS
	Automatic Fusion and Interpretation of 2D and 3D Sensor Data by Dmitry Chetverikov, SZTAKI
	AmbientDB: P2P Database Technology for Ambient Intelligent Multimedia Applications Peter Boncz, CWI
	Real-time Tracking of Moving Objects for Virtual Studios in TV and Cinema Production Sets by Florica Mindru, Wolfgang Vonolfen and Ulrich Nütten, Fraunhofer IMK
	R&D AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
	Extrinsic Registration of Heart Volume Images by Mohamed El Ansari, Ilangko Balasingham, Tor A. Ramstad and Erik Fosse, NTNU
	A Machine Vision System Controlling the Cutting of Animal Hide by Enrico Fantini, Fabio Ganovelli, Paolo Pingi
	The European CORBA Components Open Source Initiative by Marc Born, Andreas Hoffmann, Axel Rennoch, Julia Reznik, Tom Ritter and Alain Vouffo, Fraunhofer FOKUS
	INTERMON - Advanced Architecture for Inter-Domain Quality of Service Monitoring, Modelling and Visualisation by Ulrich Hofmann and Christof Brandaue, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft
	Inference for Random Sets by Marie-Colette van Lieshout, CWI
	Structured Peer-To-Peer Systems: The Impact of Lawyers and Music Piracy on Distributed Systems Research by Sameh El-Ansary, SICS
	The Discourse Meter: An Instrument for the E-discourse by Viviane Wolff, Fraunhofer AIS
	A Public Access Web Information System for the Italian Ministry of the Environment by Nicola Aloia and Cesare Concordia, ISTI-CNR
	CAPS Entreprise: New Technologies for Embedded Code Tuning by Ronan Amicel and François Bodin, CAPS Entreprise/INRIA
	EVENTS
	HCI International 2003 by Constantine Stephanidis, FORTH
	Cross-Language Evaluation Forum - CLEF 2003 by Carol Peters, ISTI-CNR
	RDP 2003 - Federated Conference on Rewriting, Deduction and Programming by Salvador Lucas, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia / SpaRCIM
	For conference announcements, see:
	Calendar of Events and Conferences related to IT and Applied Mathematics
	IN BRIEF
	CWI - Lex Schrijver received the Dantzig prize for his complete work in optimization .. more
	SARIT - ETH Zurich (The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich) announced the creation of a new research center, the Zurich Information Security Center, ZISC ..more
	Fraunhofer ICT-Group recently published a study entitled "Research Roadmap for a European e-Learning and Knowledge Management Infrastructure" .. more

ERCIM News No. 55, October 2003 - Contents