Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems: 8th International Conference, ACIVS 2006, Antwerp, Belgium, September 18-21, 2006. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Directional Filtering for Upsampling According to Direction Information of the Base Layer in the JVT/SVC Codec....Pages 1-11
A New Fuzzy-Based Wavelet Shrinkage Image Denoising Technique....Pages 12-23
Mathematical Models for Restoration of Baroque Paintings....Pages 24-34
Motion Blur Concealment of Digital Video Using Invariant Features....Pages 35-45
Hybrid Sigma Filter for Processing Images Corrupted by Multiplicative Noise....Pages 46-54
Automatic Restoration of Old Motion Picture Films Using Spatiotemporal Exemplar-Based Inpainting....Pages 55-66
Dedicated Hardware for Real-Time Computation of Second-Order Statistical Features for High Resolution Images....Pages 67-77
Greyscale Image Interpolation Using Mathematical Morphology....Pages 78-90
Dilation Matrices for Nonseparable Bidimensional Wavelets....Pages 91-102
Evolutionary Tree-Structured Filter for Impulse Noise Removal....Pages 103-113
Perceived Image Quality Measurement of State-of-the-Art Noise Reduction Schemes....Pages 114-126
Multiway Filtering Applied on Hyperspectral Images....Pages 127-137
A Linear-Time Approach for Image Segmentation Using Graph-Cut Measures....Pages 138-149
The RIM Framework for Image Processing....Pages 150-160
A Proposal Method for Corner Detection with an Orthogonal Three-Direction Chain Code....Pages 161-172
A Charged Active Contour Based on Electrostatics....Pages 173-184
Comparison of Statistical and Shape-Based Approaches for Non-rigid Motion Tracking with Missing Data Using a Particle Filter....Pages 185-196
An Active Contour Model Guided by LBP Distributions....Pages 197-207
Characterizing the Lacunarity of Objects and Image Sets and Its Use as a Technique for the Analysis of Textural Patterns....Pages 208-219
Adaptive Vision Leveraging Digital Retinas: Extracting Meaningful Segments....Pages 220-231
A Fast Dynamic Border Linking Algorithm for Region Merging....Pages 232-241
Fast Sub-pixel Motion Estimation for H.264....Pages 242-252
Temporal Error Concealment Based on Optical Flow in the H.264/AVC Standard....Pages 253-262
Foreground-to-Ghost Discrimination in Single-Difference Pre-processing....Pages 263-274
Moving Object Removal Based on Global Feature Registration....Pages 275-286
Object Tracking Using Discriminative Feature Selection....Pages 287-298
Color-Based Multiple Agent Tracking for Wireless Image Sensor Networks....Pages 299-310
A Fast Motion Vector Search Algorithm for Variable Blocks....Pages 311-322
Constrained Region-Growing and Edge Enhancement Towards Automated Semantic Video Object Segmentation....Pages 323-331
Spatio-temporal Composite-Features for Motion Analysis and Segmentation....Pages 332-343
New Intra Luma Prediction Mode in H.264/AVC Using Collocated Weighted Chroma Pixel Value....Pages 344-353
Fast Mode Decision for H.264/AVC Using Mode Prediction....Pages 354-363
Performing Deblocking in Video Coding Based on Spatial-Domain Motion-Compensated Temporal Filtering....Pages 364-374
Improving DCT-Based Coders Through Block Oriented Transforms....Pages 375-383
Improvement of Conventional Deinterlacing Methods with Extrema Detection and Interpolation....Pages 384-395
Adaptive Macroblock Mode Selection for Reducing the Encoder Complexity in H.264....Pages 396-405
Dynamic Light Field Compression Using Shared Fields and Region Blocks for Streaming Service....Pages 406-417
Complexity Scalability in Motion-Compensated Wavelet-Based Video Coding....Pages 418-430
Spatial Error Concealment with Low Complexity in the H.264 Standard....Pages 431-441
A Real-Time Content Adaptation Framework for Exploiting ROI Scalability in H.264/AVC....Pages 442-453
Complexity Reduction Algorithm for Intra Mode Selection in H.264/AVC Video Coding....Pages 454-465
Simple and Effective Filter to Remove Corner Outlier Artifacts in Highly Compressed Video....Pages 466-473
Content-Based Model Template Adaptation and Real-Time System for Behavior Interpretation in Sports Video....Pages 474-484
New Approach to Wireless Video Compression with Low Complexity....Pages 485-492
Fast Multi-view Disparity Estimation for Multi-view Video Systems....Pages 493-500
AddCanny: Edge Detector for Video Processing....Pages 501-512
Video-Based Facial Expression Hallucination: A Two- Level Hierarchical Fusion Approach....Pages 513-521
Blue Sky Detection for Picture Quality Enhancement....Pages 522-532
Requantization Transcoding in Pixel and Frequency Domain for Intra 16x16 in H.264/AVC....Pages 533-544
Motion-Compensated Deinterlacing Using Edge Information....Pages 545-553
Video Enhancement for Underwater Exploration Using Forward Looking Sonar....Pages 554-563
Optimal Parameters Selection for Non-parametric Image Registration Methods....Pages 564-575
Camera Calibration from a Single Frame of Planar Pattern....Pages 576-587
Stereo Matching Using Scanline Disparity Discontinuity Optimization....Pages 588-597
A New Stereo Matching Model Using Visibility Constraint Based on Disparity Consistency....Pages 598-609
Refine Stereo Correspondence Using Bayesian Network and Dynamic Programming on a Color Based Minimal Span Tree....Pages 610-619
Estimation of Rotation Parameters from Blurred Image....Pages 620-631
Hierarchical Stereo Matching: From Foreground to Background....Pages 632-643
Gabor Feature Based Face Recognition Using Supervised Locality Preserving Projection....Pages 644-653
Alternative Fuzzy Clustering Algorithms with L 1-Norm and Covariance Matrix....Pages 654-665
A Statistical Approach for Ownership Identification of Digital Images....Pages 666-674
Rigid and Non-rigid Face Motion Tracking by Aligning Texture Maps and Stereo-Based 3D Models....Pages 675-686
Curve Mapping Based Illumination Adjustment for Face Detection....Pages 687-698
Common Image Method(Null Space + 2DPCAs) for Face Recognition....Pages 699-709
Discrete Choice Models for Static Facial Expression Recognition....Pages 710-721
Scalable and Channel-Adaptive Unequal Error Protection of Images with LDPC Codes....Pages 722-733
Robust Analysis of Silhouettes by Morphological Size Distributions....Pages 734-745
Enhanced Watermarking Scheme Based on Texture Analysis....Pages 746-756
A Robust Watermarking Algorithm Using Attack Pattern Analysis....Pages 757-766
Probability Approximation Using Best-Tree Distribution for Skin Detection....Pages 767-775
Fusion Method of Fingerprint Quality Evaluation: From the Local Gabor Feature to the Global Spatial-Frequency Structures....Pages 776-785
3D Face Recognition Based on Non-iterative Registration and Single B-Spline Patch Modelling Techniques....Pages 786-798
Automatic Denoising of 2D Color Face Images Using Recursive PCA Reconstruction....Pages 799-809
Facial Analysis and Synthesis Scheme....Pages 810-820
Detection of Pathological Cells in Phase Contrast Cytological Images....Pages 821-832
Water Flow Based Complex Feature Extraction....Pages 833-845
Seeded Region Merging Based on Gradient Vector Flow for Image Segmentation....Pages 846-854
System for Reading Braille Embossed on Beverage Can Lids for Authentication....Pages 855-866
Leukocyte Segmentation in Blood Smear Images Using Region-Based Active Contours....Pages 867-876
Multiresolution Lossy-to-Lossless Coding of MRI Objects....Pages 877-886
A Novel Fuzzy Segmentation Approach for Brain MRI....Pages 887-896
Extrema Temporal Chaining: A New Method for Computing the 2D-Displacement Field of the Heart from Tagged MRI....Pages 897-908
Data Fusion and Fuzzy Spatial Relationships for Locating Deep Brain Stimulation Targets in Magnetic Resonance Images....Pages 909-919
Robust Tracking of Migrating Cells Using Four-Color Level Set Segmentation....Pages 920-932
Robust Visual Identifier for Cropped Natural Photos....Pages 933-943
Affine Epipolar Direction from Two Views of a Planar Contour....Pages 944-955
Toward Visually Inferring the Underlying Causal Mechanism in a Traffic-Light-Controlled Crossroads....Pages 956-965
Computer Vision Based Travel Aid for the Blind Crossing Roads....Pages 966-977
A Novel Stochastic Attributed Relational Graph Matching Based on Relation Vector Space Analysis....Pages 978-989
A New Similarity Measure for Random Signatures: Perceptually Modified Hausdorff Distance....Pages 990-1001
Tracking of Linear Appearance Models Using Second Order Minimization....Pages 1002-1013
Visibility of Point Clouds and Mapping of Unknown Environments....Pages 1014-1025
Adjustment for Discrepancies Between ALS Data Strips Using a Contour Tree Algorithm....Pages 1026-1036
Visual Bootstrapping for Unsupervised Symbol Grounding....Pages 1037-1046
A 3D Model Acquisition System Based on a Sequence of Projected Level Curves....Pages 1047-1058
Scale Invariant Robust Registration of 3D-Point Data and a Triangle Mesh by Global Optimization....Pages 1059-1070
Fast Hough Transform Based on 3D Image Space Division....Pages 1071-1079
Context-Based Scene Recognition Using Bayesian Networks with Scale-Invariant Feature Transform....Pages 1080-1087
A Portable and Low-Cost E-Learning Video Capture System....Pages 1088-1098
On Building Omnidirectional Image Signatures Using Haar Invariant Features: Application to the Localization of Robots....Pages 1099-1110
Accurate 3D Structure Measurements from Two Uncalibrated Views....Pages 1111-1121
A Fast Offline Building Recognition Application on a Mobile Telephone....Pages 1122-1132
Adaptive Learning Procedure for a Network of Spiking Neurons and Visual Pattern Recognition....Pages 1133-1142
Interactive Learning of Scene Context Extractor Using Combination of Bayesian Network and Logic Network....Pages 1143-1150
Adaptative Road Lanes Detection and Classification....Pages 1151-1162
An Approach to the Recognition of Informational Traffic Signs Based on 2-D Homography and SVMs....Pages 1163-1173
On Using a Dissimilarity Representation Method to Solve the Small Sample Size Problem for Face Recognition....Pages 1174-1185
A Comparison of Nearest Neighbor Search Algorithms for Generic Object Recognition....Pages 1186-1197
Non Orthogonal Component Analysis: Application to Anomaly Detection....Pages 1198-1209
A Rough Set Approach to Video Genre Classification....Pages 1210-1220
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