ISPRS Working Group III/3

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING
INTERNATIONALE GESELLSCHAFT FÜR PHOTOGRAMMETRIE UND FERNERKUNDUNG
SOCIÉTÉ INTERNATIONALE DE PHOTOGRAMMÉTRIE ET DE TÉLÉDÉTECTION

1996 - 2000

ISPRS Working Group III/3

Feature Extraction and Grouping

ISPRS Amsterdam Congress 2000 / Pre-Congress Workshop 6

Terms of Reference:

Segmenting of images into meaningful features, such as points, edges, and regions.
Investigating the impact of scale, geometric and radiometric image formation on image segmenting
Aggregating features by iterated grouping methods
Checking global consistency by optimization techniques
Investigating the potential of performing grouping processes in 3D under special consideration of object space constraints, precision and reliability
Evaluating the performance of feature extraction and grouping algorithms in cooperation with similar efforts in computer vision

Further Information:

First Circular Letter and call for participants
Events organized by the WG
Projects on WG topics (under construction)
WG members
Commission III
ISPRS Homepage
Computer Vision Homepage
CVonline: On-line Compendium of Computer Vision

Chairman
(Successor of Heinrich Ebner; approved by Council of ISPRS)

         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 
www:     Home page 
         Personal home page

Co-Chairman

         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 
www:     Home page 
         Personal home page

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 
www:     Home page 
         Personal home page

Former Chairman / Scientific Adviser

         Heinrich Ebner 
         Chair for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 
         Technical University Munich 
         D-80290 Munich, Germany 
Tel:     +49-89-2892-2671 
Fax:     Fax: +49-89-2809573 
E-mail:  ebn@photo.verm.tu-muenchen.de 
www:     Home page 
         Personal home page

Last change: 15.6.1999 by Helmut Mayer

Problems and/or queries, send e-mail: wgIII3@photo.verm.tu-muenchen.de