This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2005, held in Antwerp, Belgium in September 2005.
The 90 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from around 200 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on biometrics, classification and recognition, content and performance characterization, image and video analysis, image and video coding, image and video segmentation, medical image processing applications, motion estimation and tracking, noise reduction and restauration, and real-time processing and hardware.
Author(s): W. Ketchantang, S. Derrode, S. Bourennane, L. Martin (auth.), Jacques Blanc-Talon, Wilfried Philips, Dan Popescu, Paul Scheunders (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3708 : Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 726
Tags: Image Processing and Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition; Computer Graphics; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
Front Matter....Pages -
Video Pupil Tracking for Iris Based Identification....Pages 1-8
Three Dimensional Fingertip Tracking in Stereovision....Pages 9-16
Multistage Face Recognition Using Adaptive Feature Selection and Classification....Pages 17-25
Fast Face Detection Using a Cascade of Neural Network Ensembles....Pages 26-34
Use of Human Motion Biometrics for Multiple-View Registration....Pages 35-43
Real Time Tracking of Multiple Persons on Colour Image Sequences....Pages 44-51
A Study on Non-intrusive Facial and Eye Gaze Detection....Pages 52-59
Hidden Markov Model Based 2D Shape Classification....Pages 60-67
A Fast Method to Detect and Recognize Scaled and Skewed Road Signs....Pages 68-75
Road Markings Detection and Tracking Using Hough Transform and Kalman Filter....Pages 76-83
Selective Color Edge Detector Based on a Neural Classifier....Pages 84-91
Recovering the Shape from Texture Using Lognormal Filters....Pages 92-99
Affine Normalization of Symmetric Objects....Pages 100-107
Object Recognition Using Local Characterisation and Zernike Moments....Pages 108-115
Natural Scene Classification and Retrieval Using Ridgelet-Based Image Signatures....Pages 116-122
Multi-banknote Identification Using a Single Neural Network....Pages 123-129
A New Voting Algorithm for Tracking Human Grasping Gestures....Pages 130-137
Gender Classification in Human Gait Using Support Vector Machine....Pages 138-145
An Alternative Fuzzy Compactness and Separation Clustering Algorithm....Pages 146-153
Fuzzy Linguistic Rules Classifier for Wooden Board Color Sorting....Pages 154-161
Image Pattern Recognition with Separable Trade-Off Correlation Filters....Pages 162-169
Approximation of Linear Discriminant Analysis for Word Dependent Visual Features Selection....Pages 170-177
Estimation of Intensity Uncertainties for Computer Vision Applications....Pages 178-185
A Wavelet Statistical Model for Characterizing Chinese Ink Paintings....Pages 186-193
Image Formation in Highly Turbid Media by Adaptive Fusion of Gated Images....Pages 194-201
Multi-object Digital Auto-focusing Using Image Fusion....Pages 202-209
Cognition Theory Based Performance Characterization in Computer Vision....Pages 210-218
Morse Connections Graph for Shape Representation....Pages 219-226
A Quantitative Criterion to Evaluate Color Segmentations Application to Cytological Images....Pages 227-234
A Novel Region-Based Image Retrieval Algorithm Using Selective Visual Attention Model....Pages 235-242
Region Analysis of Business Card Images Acquired in PDA Using DCT and Information Pixel Density....Pages 243-251
Design of a Hybrid Object Detection Scheme for Video Sequences....Pages 252-259
Interactive Object-Based Retrieval Using Relevance Feedback....Pages 260-267
Pseudo-stereo Conversion from 2D Video....Pages 268-275
An Automated Facial Pose Estimation Using Surface Curvature and Tetrahedral Structure of a Nose....Pages 276-283
Dynamic Pursuit with a Bio-inspired Neural Model....Pages 284-291
Scene-Cut Processing in Motion-Compensated Temporal Filtering....Pages 292-299
Image Indexing by Focus Map....Pages 300-307
Distance and Nearest Neighbor Transforms of Gray-Level Surfaces Using Priority Pixel Queue Algorithm....Pages 308-315
Flow Coherence Diffusion. Linear and Nonlinear Case....Pages 316-323
Updating Geospatial Database: An Automatic Approach Combining Photogrammetry and Computer Vision Techniques....Pages 324-331
Affine Invariant Feature Extraction Using Symmetry....Pages 332-339
A Hybrid Color-Based Foreground Object Detection Method for Automated Marine Surveillance....Pages 340-347
Image Registration Using Uncertainty Transformations....Pages 348-355
Majority Ordering and the Morphological Pattern Spectrum....Pages 356-363
A New Reference Free Approach for the Quality Assessment of MPEG Coded Videos....Pages 364-371
Reduced-Bit, Full Search Block-Matching Algorithms and Their Hardware Realizations....Pages 372-380
Lossy Compression of Images with Additive Noise....Pages 381-386
Latency Insensitive Task Scheduling for Real-Time Video Processing and Streaming....Pages 387-394
Entropy Reduction of Foveated DCT Images....Pages 395-402
Flexible Storage of Still Images with a Perceptual Quality Criterion....Pages 403-410
Image De-Quantizing via Enforcing Sparseness in Overcomplete Representations....Pages 411-418
Reduction of Blocking Artifacts in Block-Based Compressed Images....Pages 419-426
FIMDA: A Fast Intra-frame Mode Decision Algorithm for MPEG-2/H.264 Transcoding....Pages 427-434
A New Rate-Distortion Optimization Using Structural Information in H.264 I-Frame Encoder....Pages 435-441
BISK Scheme Applied to Sign Encoding and to Magnitude Refinement....Pages 442-451
Skeletonization of Noisy Images via the Method of Legendre Moments....Pages 452-459
The Hough Transform Application Including Its Hardware Implementation....Pages 460-467
A Bayesian Approach for Weighting Boundary and Region Information for Segmentation....Pages 468-475
A Fast Sequential Rainfalling Watershed Segmentation Algorithm....Pages 476-482
Optimum Design of Dynamic Parameters of Active Contours for Improving Their Convergence in Image Segmentation....Pages 483-490
Moving Objects Segmentation Based on Automatic Foreground / Background Identification of Static Elements....Pages 491-498
Γ-Convergence Approximation to Piecewise Constant Mumford-Shah Segmentation....Pages 499-506
A Fully Unsupervised Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on Wavelet-Domain Hidden Markov Tree Models....Pages 507-514
A Clustering Approach for Color Image Segmentation....Pages 515-522
Affine Coregistration of Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Images Using Mutual Information....Pages 523-530
Identification of Intestinal Motility Events of Capsule Endoscopy Video Analysis....Pages 531-537
A Likelihood Ratio Test for Functional MRI Data Analysis to Account for Colored Noise....Pages 538-546
Heuristic Algorithm for Computing Fast Template Motion in Video Streams....Pages 547-554
Configurable Complexity-Bounded Motion Estimation for Real-Time Video Encoding....Pages 555-562
3DSVHT: Extraction of 3D Linear Motion via Multi-view, Temporal Evidence Accumulation....Pages 563-570
Fast Mode Decision and Motion Estimation with Object Segmentation in H.264/AVC Encoding....Pages 571-578
Non-rigid Tracking Using 2-D Meshes....Pages 579-586
An Offline Bidirectional Tracking Scheme....Pages 587-594
On the Performance Improvement of Sub-sampling MPEG-2 Motion Estimation Algorithms with Vector/SIMD Architectures....Pages 595-602
A Dynamic Bayesian Network-Based Framework for Visual Tracking....Pages 603-610
Background Modeling Using Color, Disparity, and Motion Information....Pages 611-617
Video Denoising Algorithm in Sliding 3D DCT Domain....Pages 618-625
A Novel Histogram Based Fuzzy Impulse Noise Restoration Method for Colour Images....Pages 626-633
Mirror Symmetry in Perspective....Pages 634-642
Impulse Noise Detection Based on Robust Statistics and Genetic Programming....Pages 643-649
FPGA Design and Implementation of a Wavelet-Domain Video Denoising System....Pages 650-657
Do Fuzzy Techniques Offer an Added Value for Noise Reduction in Images?....Pages 658-665
Noise Reduction of Video Sequences Using Fuzzy Logic Motion Detection....Pages 666-673
A Restoration and Segmentation Unit for the Historic Persian Documents....Pages 674-680
Cleaning and Enhancing Historical Document Images....Pages 681-688
Designing Area and Performance Constrained SIMD/VLIW Image Processing Architectures....Pages 689-696
Computing Stereo-Vision in Video Real-Time with Low-Cost SIMD-Hardware....Pages 697-704
A Real-Time Iris Image Acquisition Algorithm Based on Specular Reflection and Eye Model....Pages 705-712
An Image Sensor with Global Motion Estimation for Micro Camera Module....Pages 713-721
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