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Please post the following conference announcement to other distribution lists as appropriate. --- CALL FOR PAPERS --- THIRD ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE --- WASHINGTON, D.C. MAY 3 - 5, 1988 --- held at the Sheraton Grand Hotel --- You are invited to participate in the THIRD ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE sponsored by the U. S. Postal Service. --- The conference is a forum for presentation and discussion of the results and status of recent and current research and development activities across a broad range of technologies which could be applied to postal problems. --- Papers are solicited for review by the Advanced Technology Conference Program Committee on research and development in the following and related subject areas, for presentation at the conference: --- I. Image Acquisition A. Range Image Acquisition B. Intensity Image Acquisition C. Spectral Separation in Intensity Images --- II. Image Analysis Session A. Image Structure & Segmentation (edges, regions, words, lines, characters) B. Shape & 2/3D Description of Range Images C. Shape & 2/3D Description of Intensity Images --- III. Character Recognition & Address Reading Session A. Character Recognition B. Address Reading C. Address Block Location D. Optical Processing of Textual Images --- IV. Sensory Based Manipulation Session A. Vision Based Manipulation B. Other Sensory Based Manipulation --- V. Material Handling Systems & Subsystems Session A. Letter Mail B. Flat Mail C. Small Parcels, Rolls & Oversized Flat Mail D. Large Parcels E. Mail Containers: Automatic Movement, Storage & Retrieval --- VI. Code Printing & Reading Systems Session --- VII. Operator-Machine Interface Session A. Video Display/Keyboard Input Systems B. Maintenance Systems C. Customer Service Systems --- VIII. Applications of Leading Edge Technologies A. Neural Networks B. Fuzzy Logic in Expert Systems C. Advanced Computer --- Requirements: --- Papers should describe new research and development work (as opposed to existing applications of techniques or hardware which have been implemented in Postal Systems). --- Papers presenting research and development work sponsored by postal administrations (other than the United States), may take the form of research and development program overviews, but should present sufficient new work to be of interest to an international audience of senior research and development specialists and managers. --- Submission of Papers: --- An abstract of 300 words or less on each proposed paper must be submitted for review NO LATER THAN DECEMBER 1, 1987. The abstracts should include sufficient description of the proposed paper to enable the review committee to decide on the merits of accepting the paper for presentation at the conference. --- Submit five copies of the abstract, each with a cover page that includes the following information: 1) title, 2) one or more of the listed topics that your paper relates to, 3) author(s) names(2), 4) primary authors' business address and telephone/telefax/telex numbers and mail to: --- Office of Advanced Technology ATTN: Conference Coordinator U.S. Postal Service 475 L'Enfant Plaza, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20260-8118 --- All further correspondence from us relating to conference papers will be address to the primary author or the first-listed author of each paper. --- Both the abstract and accepted papers must be in English, single- spaced, in 12-pitch type on plain 8-1/2" x 11" white bond paper, and include a cover page as described above. The length of the final paper should not exceed 15 pages, including illustrations and tables. Additional instructions on how to prepare final papers and presentations will be provides to those authors whose abstracts are accepted. --- Review of Papers: --- In order to maintain the quality of the conference, a program committee comprised of experts in the various technologies will be responsible for finalizing the program, reviewing abstracts and selecting papers for presentation and publication. You will be advised of the acceptance of each paper by January 4, 1988, and, if accepted, four camera ready copies of accepted papers will be due NO LATER THAN MARCH 4, 1988. --- General Chairman Gary P. Herring Director Office of Advanced Technology --- Program Co-Chairmen Timothy B. Barnum, Ph.D. Program Director Office of Advanced Technology --- Frederick R. Glickman, Ph.D. Program Director Office of Advanced Technology --- ---