[MNASIS-L] IEEE-CS-Machine Vision by James Retterath

[Janet M. Arth]

FYI
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          The Twin Cities IEEE Computer Society
                  Invites You to Attend:

    "Machine Vision for Natural Object Inspection and
             Natural Environment Assessment"
                   by James Retterath

                 Thursday, May 30, 2002
                   11:30am until 1:00pm
                          at the
                   Radisson Hotel South
                      (I-494 and 100)
                  Minneapolis, Minnesota

To register: http://www.comp.tc-ieee.org/register.html
                 (or email the registration below)

Cost: $15 for full time undergraduate students
       $25 for Computer Society Members
       $30 for non-members

       Pay at the door, cash or check are gladly accepted.
       Sorry, we cannot process credit cards at this time.

Program Schedule:
       11:15 - 11:45 -- Registration
       11:30 - 12:00 -- Sit-Down Lunch
       12:00 - 12:45 -- Presentation
       12:45 - 01:00 -- Questions and Answers

About the Presentation:

Facet Technology Corp. (www.facet-tech.com) is a software and services 
provider in the computer vision industry.  They are leaders in the 
identification of hard to inspect objects.  Facet is 9% owned by 3M 
Company, which has applied Facet's revolutionary object identification 
capabilities to the transportation market for the classification of roadway 
signs, pavement markings, telephone and utility poles, guardrails, and 
pavement distresses.  Facet will introduce the patent-
pending active sensor system this summer for the efficient measurement of 
sign and pavement marking retroreflectivity.

This discussion will focus on fuzzy logic color filters, neural network 
processing and multi-modal inspection algorithms.  We will discuss how 
these approaches break down difficult inspection tasks as diverse as 
natural food inspection and roadside asset assessment, thus making them 
similar problems for the object search and recognition engine.

Facet Technology Corp. will be applying their object identification 
capabilities to the natural food inspection market to fill a need not 
served by traditional vision inspection companies.  Bacon grading, whole 
chicken grading, fat content determination and precision parts cutting for 
meat and poultry producers are just some of the applications for their 
software.

Facet is a privately held company based in Eden Prairie, MN.  The 
corporation was founded in 1998 and has more than doubled yearly revenues 
for the past three years.

About the Speaker:

Mr. James Retterath is the co-founder and president of Facet Technology 
Corp.  He has a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MBA in marketing, both 
from the University of Minnesota.  He has three issued patents to his 
credit, with four patents pending.  U.S. patents #6,266,442 and #6,363,161 
have issued for the computer vision techniques found in SignFinder(TM) - 
the workhorse of Facet's set of software tools.  Mr. Retterath has 20 years 
experience in the high-technology field in the design and management of 
complex systems, and has over five years of
experience in technical, product, and strategic marketing.

Email registration:

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