Bücher der Reihe ESPRIT Basic Research Series

Human and animal vision systems have been driven by the pressures of evolution to become capable of perceiving and reacting to their environments as close to instantaneously as possible.

Computer vision falls short of human vision in two respects: execution time and intelligent interpretation. Part 1 introduces different architectures for vision: associative and pyramid processors as examples of fine-grain machines and a workstation with bus-oriented network topology as an example of a multiprocessor system.

This volume assesses approaches to the construction ofcomputer vision systems. The useful exploitation of computer vision inindustry and elsewhere and the development of the disciplineitself depend on understanding the way these approachesinfluence one another.

Human and animal vision systems have been driven by the pressures of evolution to become capable of perceiving and reacting to their environments as close to instantaneously as possible.

This book presents the work of researchers in the Esprit Fully Integrated Data Environments (FIDE) projects which had the goal of substantially improving the quality of complex application systems while massively reducing the cost of building and maintaining them.

This third volume of the ESPRIT Basic Research Series provides a well structured overview of the state of the art of scanning microscopy and re cent advances including results of ESPRIT Basic Research Actions 3109 and 3314.

This volume in the Basic Research Series consists of the proceedings of the Symposium on Natural Language and Speech held during the ESPRIT Conference of November 1991 - a conference that serves to open up ESPRIT results not only to the ESPRIT community but also to the entire European IT industry and its users.

ESPRIT Working Groups provide a structure that enables researchers to meet, interact and share research results, thus providing a platform for ad dressing fertile research areas with significant industrial promise.

It is widely recognized that the complexity of parallel and distributed systems is such that proper tools must be employed during their design stage in order to achieve the quantitative goals for which they are intended.

This volume has a dual significance to the ESPRIT Basic Research efforts towards forging strong links between European academic and industrial teams carrying out research, often interdisciplinary, at the forefront of Information Technology.

Metakides Table of contents 1 Perspectives for parallel optical interconnects: introduction . 1 Optical Interconnects and ESPRIT BRA WOIT . 3 Schemes for parallel optical interconnects . 1 Passive interconnect components 2 Free space interconnects . 1 Introduction: 3D optical interconnects . 2 Two Qasic interconnect setups .