Japan Long-Term Research Visit: Integrated Image Analysis and Visualization

该奖项将支持伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳分校协调科学实验室Narendra Ahuja教授为期9个月的长期访问，他将与大阪国际先进电信研究所(ATR)通信系统研究实验室Fumio Kishino博士进行合作研究项目。他们将在综合图像分析和可视化领域进行研究。Ahuja教授目前的研究包括1)整合存在于不同图像线索中的信息，以得出三维(3D)解释；2)视觉逼真和紧凑的场景描述。描述的成功与否取决于人类观察者从描述中真实地感知到所需的场景特征的程度。岸野博士的研究还涉及图像解释和图像合成，但涉及包含人类的图像。他们使用一系列与人体运动相关的图像线索来进行解释。他们还非常重视硬件实现和原型开发问题。研究人员将密切研究和比较这两个研究方向，并试图确定通过整合彼此活动的相关优势来提高每个PI研究的有效性的方法。研究结果可能会提供巨大的军事和商业潜力。改进的模拟器技术也可以用作机器人学的科学研究工具，消除了在每个机器人实验室建造真正的移动机器人的需要。这些机器人的购买成本很高，维护和编程的成本更高。Ahuja教授和Kishino博士都以非常富有成效的高质量研究而闻名。同样，伊利诺伊大学和ATR都因在计算机视觉和可视化领域的重要研究而在社区中受到尊重。预计在正式协定终止后，这一合作努力将继续下去，并预计这一双边努力将产生有益的出版物。

This award will support a nine month long-term visit by Professor Narendra Ahuja, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana, to Japan for a cooperative research project with Dr. Fumio Kishino, Communications Systems Research Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute International (ATR) in Osaka. They will be undertaking research in the area of integrated image analysis and visualization. Professor Ahuja's current research includes 1) integration of the information present in diverse image cues for deriving a three-dimensional (3D) interpretation and 2) visually realistic and compact depiction of scenes. The success of a depiction is measured by the extent to which a human observer realistically perceives the desired scene characteristics from the depiction. Dr. Kishino's research is also concerned with both image interpretation and image synthesis, but for images that contain humans. They use a range of image cues related to human body motion in performing the interpretation. They also emphasize greatly the hardware implementation and prototype development issues. The researchers will closely study and compare the two lines of research, and attempt to determine ways in which each PI's research could be enhanced in effectiveness by incorporating the pertinent strengths of the other's activity. Results of the research could provide great military and commercial potential. Improved simulator technology could also be used as a scientific research tool in robotics, eliminating the need for real mobile robots to be built at every robotics laboratory. These robots are expensive to purchase and even more expensive to maintain and program. Both Professor Ahuja and Dr. Kishino are noted for very productive, high quality research. Likewise, both the University of Illinois and ATR are respected in the community for their significant research in the area of computer vision and visualization. It is expected that this collaborative effort will continue after the formal agreement has terminated, and it is further anticipated that useful publications will result from this bilateral effort.