This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2007, held in Delft, The Netherlands, August 2007.
The 45 revised full papers and 55 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from around 221 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on noise reduction and restoration, segmentation, motion estimation and tracking, video processing and coding, camera calibration, image registration and stereo matching, biometrics and security, medical imaging, image retrieval and image understanding, as well as classification and recognition.
Author(s): Siniša à egvić, Anthony Remazeilles, Albert Diosi, François Chaumette (auth.), Jacques Blanc-Talon, Wilfried Philips, Dan Popescu, Paul Scheunders (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4678 : Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 1100
Tags: Image Processing and Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition; Computer Graphics; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
Front Matter....Pages -
A Framework for Scalable Vision-Only Navigation....Pages 1-12
Visual Tracking by Hypothesis Testing....Pages 13-24
A New Approach to the Automatic Planning of Inspection of 3D Industrial Parts....Pages 25-36
Low Latency 2D Position Estimation with a Line Scan Camera for Visual Servoing....Pages 37-47
Optimization of Quadtree Triangulation for Terrain Models....Pages 48-59
Analyzing DGI-BS: Properties and Performance Under Occlusion and Noise....Pages 60-71
Real-Time Free Viewpoint from Multiple Moving Cameras....Pages 72-83
A Cognitive Modeling Approach for the Semantic Aggregation of Object Prototypes from Geometric Primitives: Toward Understanding Implicit Object Topology....Pages 84-96
A Multi-touch Surface Using Multiple Cameras....Pages 97-108
Fusion of Bayesian Maximum Entropy Spectral Estimation and Variational Analysis Methods for Enhanced Radar Imaging....Pages 109-120
A PDE-Based Approach for Image Fusion....Pages 121-131
Improvement of Classification Using a Joint Spectral Dimensionality Reduction and Lower Rank Spatial Approximation for Hyperspectral Images....Pages 132-143
Learning-Based Object Tracking Using Boosted Features and Appearance-Adaptive Models....Pages 144-155
Spatiotemporal Fusion Framework for Multi-camera Face Orientation Analysis....Pages 156-167
Independent Component Analysis-Based Estimation of Anomaly Abundances in Hyperspectral Images....Pages 168-177
Unsupervised Multiple Object Segmentation of Multiview Images....Pages 178-189
Noise Removal from Images by Projecting onto Bases of Principal Components....Pages 190-199
A Multispectral Data Model for Higher-Order Active Contours and Its Application to Tree Crown Extraction....Pages 200-211
A Crossing Detector Based on the Structure Tensor....Pages 212-220
Polyphase Filter and Polynomial Reproduction Conditions for the Construction of Smooth Bidimensional Multiwavelets....Pages 221-232
Multidimensional Noise Removal Method Based on Best Flattening Directions....Pages 233-241
Low-Rank Approximation for Fast Image Acquisition....Pages 242-253
A Soft-Switching Approach to Improve Visual Quality of Colour Image Smoothing Filters....Pages 254-261
Comparison of Image Conversions Between Square Structure and Hexagonal Structure....Pages 262-273
Action Recognition with Semi-global Characteristics and Hidden Markov Models....Pages 274-284
Patch-Based Experiments with Object Classification in Video Surveillance....Pages 285-296
Neural Network Based Face Detection from Pre-scanned and Row-Column Decomposed Average Face Image....Pages 297-309
Model-Based Image Segmentation for Multi-view Human Gesture Analysis....Pages 310-321
A New Partially Occluded Face Pose Recognition....Pages 322-330
Large Head Movement Tracking Using Scale Invariant View-Based Appearance Model....Pages 331-339
Robust Shape-Based Head Tracking....Pages 340-351
Evaluating Descriptors Performances for Object Tracking on Natural Video Data....Pages 352-363
A Simple and Efficient Eigenfaces Method....Pages 364-372
A New Approach to Face Localization in the HSV Space Using the Gaussian Model....Pages 373-383
Gait Recognition Using Active Shape Models....Pages 384-394
Statistical Classification of Skin Color Pixels from MPEG Videos....Pages 395-405
A Double Layer Background Model to Detect Unusual Events....Pages 406-416
Realistic Facial Modeling and Animation Based on High Resolution Capture....Pages 417-426
Descriptor-Free Smooth Feature-Point Matching for Images Separated by Small/Mid Baselines....Pages 427-438
A New Supervised Evaluation Criterion for Region Based Segmentation Methods....Pages 439-448
A Multi-agent Approach for Range Image Segmentation with Bayesian Edge Regularization....Pages 449-460
Adaptive Image Restoration Based on Local Robust Blur Estimation....Pages 461-472
Image Upscaling Using Global Multimodal Priors....Pages 473-484
A Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Filter for Detail-Preserving Restoration of Digital Images Corrupted by Impulse Noise....Pages 485-496
Contrast Enhancement of Images Using Partitioned Iterated Function Systems....Pages 497-508
A Spatiotemporal Algorithm for Detection and Restoration of Defects in Old Color Films....Pages 509-520
Categorizing Laryngeal Images for Decision Support....Pages 521-530
Segmentation of the Human Trachea Using Deformable Statistical Models of Tubular Shapes....Pages 531-542
Adaptive Image Content-Based Exposure Control for Scanning Applications in Radiography....Pages 543-552
Shape Extraction Via Heat Flow Analogy....Pages 553-564
Adaptive Vision System for Segmentation of Echographic Medical Images Based on a Modified Mumford-Shah Functional....Pages 565-574
Detection of Individual Specimens in Populations Using Contour Energies....Pages 575-586
Logarithmic Model-Based Dynamic Range Enhancement of Hip X-Ray Images....Pages 587-596
A New Color Representation for Intensity Independent Pixel Classification in Confocal Microscopy Images....Pages 597-606
Colon Visualization Using Cylindrical Parameterization....Pages 607-615
Particle Filter Based Automatic Reconstruction of a Patient-Specific Surface Model of a Proximal Femur from Calibrated X-Ray Images for Surgical Navigation....Pages 616-627
Joint Tracking and Segmentation of Objects Using Graph Cuts....Pages 628-639
A New Fuzzy Motion and Detail Adaptive Video Filter....Pages 640-651
Bridging the Gap: Transcoding from Single-Layer H.264/AVC to Scalable SVC Video Streams....Pages 652-662
Improved Pixel-Based Rate Allocation for Pixel-Domain Distributed Video Coders Without Feedback Channel....Pages 663-674
Multiview Depth-Image Compression Using an Extended H.264 Encoder....Pages 675-686
Grass Detection for Picture Quality Enhancement of TV Video....Pages 687-698
Exploitation of Combined Scalability in Scalable H.264/AVC Bitstreams by Using an MPEG-21 XML-Driven Framework....Pages 699-710
Moving Object Extraction by Watershed Algorithm Considering Energy Minimization....Pages 711-719
Constrained Inter Prediction: Removing Dependencies Between Different Data Partitions....Pages 720-731
Performance Improvement of H.264/AVC Deblocking Filter by Using Variable Block Sizes....Pages 732-743
Real-Time Detection of the Triangular and Rectangular Shape Road Signs....Pages 744-755
High-Resolution Multi-sprite Generation for Background Sprite Coding....Pages 756-767
Motion Information Exploitation in H.264 Frame Skipping Transcoding....Pages 768-776
Joint Domain-Range Modeling of Dynamic Scenes with Adaptive Kernel Bandwidth....Pages 777-788
Competition Based Prediction for Skip Mode Motion Vector Using Macroblock Classification for the H.264 JM KTA Software....Pages 789-799
Efficiency of Closed and Open-Loop Scalable Wavelet Based Video Coding....Pages 800-809
Spatio-temporal Information-Based Simple Deinterlacing Algorithm....Pages 810-817
Fast Adaptive Graph-Cuts Based Stereo Matching....Pages 818-827
A Fast Level-Set Method for Accurate Tracking of Articulated Objects with an Edge-Based Binary Speed Term....Pages 828-839
Real-Time Vanishing Point Estimation in Road Sequences Using Adaptive Steerable Filter Banks....Pages 840-848
Self-Eigenroughness Selection for Texture Recognition Using Genetic Algorithms....Pages 849-854
Analysis of Image Sequences for Defect Detection in Composite Materials....Pages 855-864
Remote Sensing Imagery and Signature Fields Reconstruction Via Aggregation of Robust Regularization with Neural Computing....Pages 865-876
A New Technique for Global and Local Skew Correction in Binary Documents....Pages 877-887
System for Estimation of Pin Bone Positions in Pre-rigor Salmon....Pages 888-896
Vertebral Mobility Analysis Using Anterior Faces Detection....Pages 897-908
Image Processing Algorithms for an Auto Focus System for Slit Lamp Microscopy....Pages 909-919
Applying Image Analysis and Probabilistic Techniques for Counting Olive Trees in High-Resolution Satellite Images....Pages 920-931
An Efficient Closed-Form Solution to Probabilistic 6D Visual Odometry for a Stereo Camera....Pages 932-942
Color Image Segmentation Based on Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Region Merging....Pages 943-954
ENMIM: Energetic Normalized Mutual Information Model for Online Multiple Object Tracking with Unlearned Motions....Pages 955-967
Geometrical Scene Analysis Using Co-motion Statistics....Pages 968-979
Cascade of Classifiers for Vehicle Detection....Pages 980-989
Aerial Moving Target Detection Based on Motion Vector Field Analysis....Pages 990-1001
Embedding Linear Transformations in Fractal Image Coding....Pages 1002-1013
Digital Watermarking with PCA Based Reference Images....Pages 1014-1023
JPEG2000 Coding Techniques Addressed to Images Containing No-Data Regions....Pages 1024-1036
A New Optimum-Word-Length-Assignment (OWLA) Multiplierless Integer DCT for Lossless/Lossy Image Coding and Its Performance Evaluation....Pages 1037-1048
On Hybrid Directional Transform-Based Intra-band Image Coding....Pages 1049-1060
Analysis of the Statistical Dependencies in the Curvelet Domain and Applications in Image Compression....Pages 1061-1071
A Novel Image Compression Method Using Watermarking Technique in JPEG Coding Process....Pages 1072-1083
Improved Algorithm of Error-Resilient Entropy Coding Using State Information....Pages 1084-1095
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