It is with great pleasure that we welcome you all to the proceedings of the 2nd InternationalSymposiumonVisualComputing(ISVC2006)heldinLakeTahoe. Followinga successfulmeeting lastyear,wewitnesseda muchstrongerandmore productive event this year. ISVC o?ers a common umbrella for the four main areas of visual computing including vision, graphics, visualization, and virtual reality. Its goal is to provide a forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitionersthroughouttheworldtopresenttheirlatestresearch?ndings,ideas, developments and applications in the broader area of visual computing. This year, the program consisted of 13 oral sessions, one poster session, ten special tracks, and six keynote presentations. The response to the call for - pers was very strong. We received more than twice the papers received last year. Speci?cally, we received over 280 submissions for the main symposium from which we accepted 65 papers for oral presentation (23% acceptance) and 56 papers for poster presentation (20% acceptance). Special track papers were solicited separately through the Organizing and Program Committees of each track. A total of 57 papers were accepted for presentation in the special tracks. All papers were reviewed with an emphasis on potential to contribute to the state of the art in the ?eld. Selection criteria included accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and signi?cance of results, and presentation quality. The review process was quite rigorous, involving two to three independent blind reviews followed by several days of discussion. During the discussion period we tried to correct anomalies and errors that might have existed in the initial reviews.
Author(s): Yunqian Ma, S. B. Damelin, O. Masoud, N. Papanikolopoulos (auth.), George Bebis, Richard Boyle, Bahram Parvin, Darko Koracin, Paolo Remagnino, Ara Nefian, Gopi Meenakshisundaram, Valerio Pascucci, Jiri Zara, Jose Molineros, Holger Theisel, Tom Malzbender (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4291 : Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 920
Tags: Pattern Recognition; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Graphics; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity
Front Matter....Pages -
Activity Recognition Via Classification Constrained Diffusion Maps....Pages 1-8
Generating and Updating Textures for a Large-Scale Environment....Pages 9-18
Planar Surface Detection in Image Pairs Using Homographic Constraints....Pages 19-27
Robust Quality-Scalable Transmission of JPEG2000 Images over Wireless Channels Using LDPC Codes....Pages 28-39
A Novelty Detection Approach for Foreground Region Detection in Videos with Quasi-stationary Backgrounds....Pages 40-49
Procedural Image Processing for Visualization....Pages 50-59
Tracking of Individuals in Very Long Video Sequences....Pages 60-69
A Natural Interface for Sign Language Mathematics....Pages 70-79
A Novel Gait Recognition Method Via Fusing Shape and Kinematics Features....Pages 80-89
Illumination Normalization for Color Face Images....Pages 90-101
Real-Time Detection of Out-of-Plane Objects in Stereo Vision....Pages 102-111
Stereo Imaging with Uncalibrated Camera....Pages 112-121
Global Hand Pose Estimation by Multiple Camera Ellipse Tracking....Pages 122-132
Vision-Based Self-localization of Autonomous Guided Vehicle Using Landmarks of Colored Pentagons....Pages 133-140
An Automated System for Contact Lens Inspection....Pages 141-150
Efficient Motion Search in Large Motion Capture Databases....Pages 151-160
Real-Time Rendering of Light Shafts on GPU....Pages 161-169
Learning the Stylistic Similarity Between Human Motions....Pages 170-179
Effects of Layer Partitioning in Collaborative 3D Visualizations....Pages 180-190
GPU-Based Active Contour Segmentation Using Gradient Vector Flow....Pages 191-201
Active Single Landmark Based Global Localization of Autonomous Mobile Robots....Pages 202-211
Iterative Estimation of 3D Transformations for Object Alignment....Pages 212-221
Temporal Alignment of Time Varying MRI Datasets for High Resolution Medical Visualization....Pages 222-231
Physically Interacting with Four Dimensions....Pages 232-242
Low Level Moving-Feature Extraction Via Heat Flow Analogy....Pages 243-252
Shape Tracking and Registration for 4D Visualization of MRI and Structure....Pages 253-262
History Trees as Descriptors of Macromolecular Structures....Pages 263-272
Fusing Features in Direct Volume Rendered Images....Pages 273-282
Binocular Uncalibrated Photometric Stereo....Pages 283-292
Empirical Evaluation of a Visual Interface for Exploring Message Boards....Pages 293-302
Direct Estimation of the Stereo Geometry from Monocular Normal Flows....Pages 303-312
Singular Value Decomposition-Based Illumination Compensation in Video....Pages 313-322
Facial Expression Transformations for Expression-Invariant Face Recognition....Pages 323-333
A High-Speed Parallel Architecture for Stereo Matching....Pages 334-342
Light Simulation in a Distributed Driving Simulator....Pages 343-352
Self-adaptive RBF Neural Networks for Face Recognition....Pages 353-362
An Improved Representation of Junctions Through Asymmetric Tensor Diffusion....Pages 363-372
Accurate Extraction of Reciprocal Space Information from Transmission Electron Microscopy Images....Pages 373-382
GPU Accelerated Isosurface Extraction on Tetrahedral Grids....Pages 383-392
Enhancing Information on Large Scenes by Mixing Renderings....Pages 393-400
Auto-focusing in Extreme Zoom Surveillance: A System Approach with Application to Faces....Pages 401-410
Trifocal Transfer Based Novel View Synthesis for Micromanipulation....Pages 411-420
Simulation of Diabetic Retinopathy Neovascularization in Color Digital Fundus Images....Pages 421-433
Mesh Optimisation Using Edge Information in Feature-Based Surface Reconstruction....Pages 434-444
Finite Sample Bias of Robust Scale Estimators in Computer Vision Problems....Pages 445-454
Flexible Segmentation and Smoothing of DT-MRI Fields Through a Customizable Structure Tensor....Pages 455-464
Using Visualizations to Support Design and Debugging in Virtual Reality....Pages 465-474
Strategies for Part-Based Shape Analysis Using Skeletons....Pages 475-484
Automatic Learning of Articulated Skeletons from 3D Marker Trajectories....Pages 485-494
Real Time Hand Gesture Recognition Including Hand Segmentation and Tracking....Pages 495-504
Physically-Based Real-Time Diffraction Using Spherical Harmonics....Pages 505-517
3D Segmentation of Mammospheres for Localization Studies....Pages 518-527
Viewpoint Selection for Angiographic Volume....Pages 528-537
Recognizing Action Primitives in Complex Actions Using Hidden Markov Models....Pages 538-547
Polyhedrization of Discrete Convex Volumes....Pages 548-557
Automatic Camera Calibration and Scene Reconstruction with Scale-Invariant Features....Pages 558-568
Surface Fitting to Curves with Energy Control....Pages 569-578
Blob Tracking with Adaptive Feature Selection and Accurate Scale Determination....Pages 579-588
Self-Calibration with Two Views Using the Scale-Invariant Feature Transform....Pages 589-598
Improved Face Recognition Using Extended Modular Principal Component Analysis....Pages 599-607
Shape Reconstruction by Line Voting in Discrete Space....Pages 608-617
Characterization of the Closest Discrete Approximation of a Line in the 3-Dimensional Space....Pages 618-627
Margin Maximizing Discriminant Analysis for Multi-shot Based Object Recognition....Pages 628-637
A Novel 3D Statistical Shape Model for Segmentation of Medical Images....Pages 638-647
Scale Consistent Image Completion....Pages 648-659
EXDRAP: An Extended Dead Reckoning Architectural Pattern for the Development of Web-Based DVE Applications....Pages 660-671
Optimal Parameterizations of Bézier Surfaces....Pages 672-681
Constrained Delaunay Triangulation Using Delaunay Visibility....Pages 682-691
Immersing Tele-operators in Collaborative Augmented Reality....Pages 692-701
GrayCut – Object Segmentation in IR-Images....Pages 702-711
Unsupervised Clustering of Shapes....Pages 712-720
Markerless Pose Tracking for Augmented Reality....Pages 721-730
Lip Detection Using Confidence-Based Adaptive Thresholding....Pages 731-740
Optic Flow Integration at Multiple Spatial Frequencies – Neural Mechanism and Algorithm....Pages 741-750
A Critical Appraisal of the Box Counting Method to Assess the Fractal Dimension of Tree Crowns....Pages 751-760
3D Surface Reconstruction and Registration for Image Guided Medialization Laryngoplasty....Pages 761-770
Vision-Based User Interfaces for Health Applications: A Survey....Pages 771-782
Multiple Hypothesis Target Tracking Using Merge and Split of Graph’s Nodes....Pages 783-792
Understanding 3D Emotions Through Compact Anthropometric Autoregressive Models....Pages 793-802
Graph-Based Multi-resolution Temporal-Based Face Reconstruction....Pages 803-812
Web-Based Interface for the Visualization of Microarray Data....Pages 813-821
3D and Texture Modelling of Precolombian Objects....Pages 822-830
Segmentation of Triangular Meshes Using Multi-scale Normal Variation....Pages 831-840
Integration of Multiple Methods for Class and Specific Object Recognition....Pages 841-849
An Efficient Photon Mapping Algorithm for Rendering Light-Emitting Fluids....Pages 850-859
Face Recognition Using 2D and 3D Multimodal Local Features....Pages 860-870
Adaptive Background Generation for Video Object Segmentation....Pages 871-880
Omnidirectional Camera Calibration and 3D Reconstruction by Contour Matching....Pages 881-890
Real-Time GPU-Based Simulation of Dynamic Terrain....Pages 891-900
High-Resolution Video from Series of Still Photographs....Pages 901-910
Back Matter....Pages -
