Advances in Visual Computing

ST: Object Recognition.- Which Shape Representation Is the Best for Real-Time Hand Interface System?.- Multi-target and Multi-camera Object Detection with Monte-Carlo Sampling.- Spatial Configuration of Local Shape Features for Discriminative Object Detection.- A Bag of Features Approach for 3D Shape Retrieval.- Efficient Object Pixel-Level Categorization Using Bag of Features.- Computer Graphics I.- Relighting Forest Ecosystems.- Cartoon Animation Style Rendering of Water.- Deformable Proximity Queries and Their Application in Mobile Manipulation Planning.- Speech-Driven Facial Animation Using a Shared Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model.- Extracting Principal Curvature Ridges from B-Spline Surfaces with Deficient Smoothness.- Adaptive Partitioning of Vertex Shader for Low Power High Performance Geometry Engine.- Visualization I.- Visualized Index-Based Search for Digital Libraries.- Generation of an Importance Map for Visualized Images.- Drawing Motion without Understanding It.- Image Compression Based on Visual Saliency at Individual Scales.- Fast Occlusion Sweeping.- An Empirical Study of Categorical Dataset Visualization Using a Simulated Bee Colony Clustering Algorithm.- ST: Visual Computing for Robotics.- Real-Time Feature Acquisition and Integration for Vision-Based Mobile Robots.- Matching Planar Features for Robot Localization.- Fast and Accurate Structure and Motion Estimation.- Optical Flow Based Detection in Mixed Human Robot Environments.- Using a Virtual World to Design a Simulation Platform for Vision and Robotic Systems.- Feature Extraction and Matching.- Accurate and Efficient Computation of Gabor Features in Real-Time Applications.- Region Graph Spectra as Geometric Global Image Features.- Robust Harris-Laplace Detector by Scale Multiplication.- Spatial-Temporal Junction Extraction and Semantic Interpretation.- Cross-Correlation and Rotation Estimation of Local 3D Vector Field Patches.- Scene Categorization by Introducing Contextual Information to the Visual Words.- Edge-Preserving Laplacian Pyramid.- Medical Imaging.- Automated Segmentation of Brain Tumors in MRI Using Force Data Clustering Algorithm.- Top-Down Segmentation of Histological Images Using a Digital Deformable Model.- Closing Curves with Riemannian Dilation: Application to Segmentation in Automated Cervical Cancer Screening.- Lung Nodule Modeling - A Data-Driven Approach.- Concurrent CT Reconstruction and Visual Analysis Using Hybrid Multi-resolution Raycasting in a Cluster Environment.- Randomized Tree Ensembles for Object Detection in Computational Pathology.- Human Understandable Features for Segmentation of Solid Texture.- Motion.- Exploiting Mutual Camera Visibility in Multi-camera Motion Estimation.- Optical Flow Computation from an Asynchronised Multiresolution Image Sequence.- Conditions for Segmentation of Motion with Affine Fundamental Matrix.- Motion-Based View-Invariant Articulated Motion Detection and Pose Estimation Using Sparse Point Features.- Robust Estimation of Camera Motion Using Optical Flow Models.- Maximum Likelihood Estimation Sample Consensus with Validation of Individual Correspondences.- Efficient Random Sampling for Nonrigid Feature Matching.- Virtual Reality I.- RiverLand: An Efficient Procedural Modeling System for Creating Realistic-Looking Terrains.- Real-Time 3D Reconstruction for Occlusion-Aware Interactions in Mixed Reality.- Augmenting Exercise Systems with Virtual Exercise Environment.- Codebook-Based Background Subtraction to Generate Photorealistic Avatars in a Walkthrough Simulator.- JanusVF: Adaptive Fiducial Selection.- Natural Pose Generation from a Reduced Dimension Motion Capture Data Space.- ST: Computational Bioimaging.- Segmentation of Neural Stem/Progenitor Cells Nuclei within 3-D Neurospheres.- Deconvolving Active Contours for Fluorescence Microscopy Images.- Image Registration Guided by Particle Filter.- Curve Enhancement Using Orientation Fields.- Lighting-Aware Segmentation of Microscopy Images for In Vitro Fertilization.- Fast 3D Reconstruction of the Spine Using User-Defined Splines and a Statistical Articulated Model.- Computer Graphics II.- High-Quality Rendering of Varying Isosurfaces with Cubic Trivariate C 1-Continuous Splines.- Visualizing Arcs of Implicit Algebraic Curves, Exactly and Fast.- Fast Cube Cutting for Interactive Volume Visualization.- A Statistical Model for Daylight Spectra.- Reducing Artifacts between Adjacent Bricks in Multi-resolution Volume Rendering.- Height and Tilt Geometric Texture.- ST: 3D Mapping, Modeling and Surface Reconstruction.- Using Coplanar Circles to Perform Calibration-Free Planar Scene Analysis under a Perspective View.- Parallel Poisson Surface Reconstruction.- 3D Object Mapping by Integrating Stereo SLAM and Object Segmentation Using Edge Points.- Photometric Recovery of Ortho-Images Derived from Apollo 15 Metric Camera Imagery.- 3D Lunar Terrain Reconstruction from Apollo Images.- Factorization of Correspondence and Camera Error for Unconstrained Dense Correspondence Applications.- Face Processing.- Natural Facial Expression Recognition Using Dynamic and Static Schemes.- Facial Shape Recovery from a Single Image with an Arbitrary Directional Light Using Linearly Independent Representation.- Locating Facial Features and Pose Estimation Using a 3D Shape Model.- A Stochastic Method for Face Image Super-Resolution.- A Framework for Long Distance Face Recognition Using Dense - and Sparse-Stereo Reconstruction.- Reconstruction I.- Multi-view Reconstruction of Unknown Objects within a Known Environment.- Accurate Real-Time Disparity Estimation with Variational Methods.- Real-Time Parallel Implementation of SSD Stereo Vision Algorithm on CSX SIMD Architecture.- Revisiting the PnP Problem with a GPS.- On Using Projective Relations for Calibration and Estimation in a Structured-Light Scanner.- Depth from Encoded Sliding Projections.- ST: Deformable Models: Theory and Applications.- A New Algorithm for Inverse Consistent Image Registration.- A 3D Active Surface Model for the Accurate Segmentation of Drosophila Schneider Cell Nuclei and Nucleoli.- Weight, Sex, and Facial Expressions: On the Manipulation of Attributes in Generative 3D Face Models.- Contrast Constrained Local Binary Fitting for Image Segmentation.- Modeling and Rendering Physically-Based Wood Combustion.- A Unifying View of Contour Length Bias Correction.- ST: Visualization Enhanced Data Analysis for Health Applications.- A Novel Method for Enhanced Needle Localization Using Ultrasound-Guidance.- Woolz IIP: A Tiled On-the-Fly Sectioning Server for 3D Volumetric Atlases.- New Scalar Measures for Diffusion-Weighted MRI Visualization.- Automatic Data-Driven Parameterization for Phase-Based Bone Localization in US Using Log-Gabor Filters.- Wavelet-Based Representation of Biological Shapes.- Detection of Unusual Objects and Temporal Patterns in EEG Video Recordings.- Virtual Reality II.- DRONE: A Flexible Framework for Distributed Rendering and Display.- Efficient Strategies for Acceleration Structure Updates in Interactive Ray Tracing Applications on the Cell Processor.- Interactive Assembly Guide Using Augmented Reality.- V-Volcano: Addressing Students' Misconceptions in Earth Sciences Learning through Virtual Reality Simulations.- A Framework for Object-Oriented Shader Design.- Ray Traced Virtual Reality.- ST: Optimization for Vision, Graphics and Medical Imaging: Theory and Applications.- Stochastic Optimization for Rigid Point Set Registration.- Multi-label MRF Optimization via a Least Squares s???t Cut.- Combinatorial Preconditioners and Multilevel Solvers for Problems in Computer Vision and Image Processing.- Optimal Weights for Convex Functionals in Medical Image Segmentation.- Adaptive Contextual Energy Parameterization for Automated Image Segmentation.- Approximated Curvature Penalty in Non-rigid Registration Using Pairwise MRFs.