Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns

Invited Talks.- Human Perception of 3D Shapes.- Connection Geometry, Color, and Stereo.- Motion Detection and Tracking.- Adaptable Model-Based Tracking Using Analysis-by-Synthesis Techniques.- Mixture Models Based Background Subtraction for Video Surveillance Applications.- Applicability of Motion Estimation Algorithms for an Automatic Detection of Spiral Grain in CT Cross-Section Images of Logs.- Deterministic and Stochastic Methods for Gaze Tracking in Real-Time.- Integration of Multiple Temporal and Spatial Scales for Robust Optic Flow Estimation in a Biologically Inspired Algorithm.- Classification of Optical Flow by Constraints.- Target Positioning with Dominant Feature Elements.- Speeding-Up Differential Motion Detection Algorithms Using a Change-Driven Data Flow Processing Strategy.- Foreground and Shadow Detection Based on Conditional Random Field.- n-Grams of Action Primitives for Recognizing Human Behavior.- Human Action Recognition in Table-Top Scenarios : An HMM-Based Analysis to Optimize the Performance.- Grouping of Articulated Objects with Common Axis.- Decision Level Multiple Cameras Fusion Using Dezert-Smarandache Theory.- Occlusion Removal in Video Microscopy.- A Modular Approach for Automating Video Analysis.- Rectified Reconstruction from Stereo Pairs and Robot Mapping.- Estimation Track-Before-Detect Motion Capture Systems State Space Spatial Component.- Medical Imaging.- Real-Time Active Shape Models for Segmentation of 3D Cardiac Ultrasound.- Effects of Preprocessing Eye Fundus Images on Appearance Based Glaucoma Classification.- Flexibility Description of the MET Protein Stalk Based on the Use of Non-uniform B-Splines.- Virtual Microscopy Using JPEG2000.- A Statistical-Genetic Algorithm to Select the Most Significant Features in Mammograms.- Biomarker Selection System, Employing an Iterative Peak Selection Method, for Identifying Biomarkers Related to Prostate Cancer.- Automatic Segmentation of Femur Bones in Anterior-Posterior Pelvis X-Ray Images.- Assessing Artery Motion Compensation in IVUS.- Assessing Estrogen Receptors' Status by Texture Analysis of Breast Tissue Specimens and Pattern Recognition Methods.- Multimodal Evaluation for Medical Image Segmentation.- Automated 3D Segmentation of Lung Fields in Thin Slice CT Exploiting Wavelet Preprocessing.- Reconstruction of Heart Motion from 4D Echocardiographic Images.- Quantification of Bone Remodeling in the Proximity of Implants.- Delaunay-Based Vector Segmentation of Volumetric Medical Images.- Non-uniform Resolution Recovery Using Median Priors in Tomographic Image Reconstruction Methods.- Detection of Postmenopausal Alteration of Bone Structure in Digitized X-rays.- Blood Detection in IVUS Images for 3D Volume of Lumen Changes Measurement Due to Different Drugs Administration.- Eigenmotion-Based Detection of Intestinal Contractions.- Brain Tissue Classification with Automated Generation of Training Data Improved by Deformable Registration.- On Simulating 3D Fluorescent Microscope Images.- Hierarchical Detection of Multiple Organs Using Boosted Features.- Biometrics.- Monitoring of Emotion to Create Adaptive Game for Children with Mild Autistic.- A Simplified Human Vision Model Applied to a Blocking Artifact Metric.- Estimating Reflectance Functions Using a Cyberware 3030 Scanner.- Are Younger People More Difficult to Identify or Just a Peer-to-Peer Effect.- Lip Biometrics for Digit Recognition.- An Embedded Fingerprint Authentication System Integrated with a Hardware-Based Truly Random Number Generator.- A New Manifold Representation for Visual Speech Recognition.- Fingerprint Hardening with Randomly Selected Chaff Minutiae.- Wavelet-Based Fingerprint Region Selection.- Face Shape Recovery and Recognition Using a Surface Gradient Based Statistical Model.- Representation of Facial Features by Catmull-Rom Splines.- Automatic Quantitative Mouth Shape Analysis.- Color.- Colour Adjacency Histograms for Image Matching.- Segmentation of Distinct Homogeneous Color Regions in Images.- Estimating the Color of the Illuminant Using Anisotropic Diffusion.- Restoration of Color Images Degraded by Space-Variant Motion Blur.- Real-Time Elimination of Brightness in Color Images by MS Diagram and Mathematical Morphology.- Curves and Surfaces Beyond 2 Dimensions.- Surface Reconstruction Using Polarization and Photometric Stereo.- Curvature Estimation in Noisy Curves.- 3D+t Reconstruction in the Context of Locally Spheric Shaped Data Observation.- Robust Fitting of 3D Objects by Affinely Transformed Superellipsoids Using Normalization.- Fast and Precise Weak-Perspective Factorization.- A Graph-with-Loop Structure for a Topological Representation of 3D Objects.- Reading Characters, Words, Lines...- Print Process Separation Using Interest Regions.- Histogram-Based Lines and Words Decomposition for Arabic Omni Font-Written OCR Systems; Enhancements and Evaluation.- Semi-automatic Training Sets Acquisition for Handwriting Recognition.- Gabor-Based Recognizer for Chinese Handwriting from Segmentation-Free Strategy.- Image Based Recognition of Ancient Coins.- Text Area Detection in Digital Documents Images Using Textural Features.- Image Segmentation.- Optimal Threshold Selection for Tomogram Segmentation by Reprojection of the Reconstructed Image.- A Level Set Bridging Force for the Segmentation of Dendritic Spines.- Knowledge from Markers in Watershed Segmentation.- Image Segmentation Using Topological Persistence.- Image Modeling and Segmentation Using Incremental Bayesian Mixture Models.- Model-Based Segmentation of Multimodal Images.- Image Segmentation Based on Height Maps.- Shape.- Measuring the Orientability of Shapes.- A 3-Subiteration Surface-Thinning Algorithm.- Extraction of River Networks from Satellite Images by Combining Mathematical Morphology and Hydrology.- Fractal Active Shape Models.- Decomposition for Efficient Eccentricity Transform of Convex Shapes.- Euclidean Shortest Paths in Simple Cube Curves at a Glance.- A Fast and Robust Ellipse Detection Algorithm Based on Pseudo-random Sample Consensus.- A Definition for Orientation for Multiple Component Shapes.- Definition of a Model-Based Detector of Curvilinear Regions.- A Method for Interactive Shape Detection in Cattle Images Using Genetic Algorithms.- A New Phase Field Model of a 'Gas of Circles' for Tree Crown Extraction from Aerial Images.- Shape Signature Matching for Object Identification Invariant to Image Transformations and Occlusion.- Junction Detection and Multi-orientation Analysis Using Streamlines.- Decomposing a Simple Polygon into Trapezoids.- Shape Recognition and Retrieval: A Structural Approach Using Velocity Function.- Improved Morphological Interpolation of Elevation Contour Data with Generalised Geodesic Propagations.- Image Registration and Matching.- Cylindrical Phase Correlation Method.- Extended Global Optimization Strategy for Rigid 2D/3D Image Registration.- A Fast B-Spline Pseudo-inversion Algorithm for Consistent Image Registration.- Robust Least-Squares Image Matching in the Presence of Outliers.- A Neural Network String Matcher.- Incorporating Spatial Information into 3D-2D Image Registration.- Performance Evaluation and Recent Advances of Fast Block-Matching Motion Estimation Methods for Video Coding.- Spectral Eigenfeatures for Effective DP Matching in Fingerprint Recognition.- Registering Long-Term Image Series.- Graph Similarity Using Interfering Quantum Walks.- Signal Decomposition and Invariants.- Visual Speech Recognition Using Motion Features and Hidden Markov Models.- Feature Extraction of Weighted Data for Implicit Variable Selection.- Analysis of Prediction Mode Decision in Spatial Enhancement Layers in H.264/AVC SVC.- Object Recognition by Implicit Invariants.- An Automatic Microarray Image Gridding Technique Based on Continuous Wavelet Transform.- Image Sifting for Micro Array Image Enhancement.- Wavelet Based Local Coherent Tomography with an Application in Terahertz Imaging.- Nonlinear Approximation of Spatiotemporal Data Using Diffusion Wavelets.- A New Wavelet-Based Texture Descriptor for Image Retrieval.- Space-Variant Restoration with Sliding Discrete Cosine Transform.- Features and Classification.- Comparative Evaluation of Classical Methods, Optimized Gabor Filters and LBP for Texture Feature Selection and Classification.- A Multiple Classifier Approach for the Recognition of Screen-Rendered Text.- Improving Stability of Feature Selection Methods.- A Movie Classifier Based on Visual Features.- An Efficient Method for Filtering Image-Based Spam E-mail.- SVM-Based Active Feedback in Image Retrieval Using Clustering and Unlabeled Data.- Hierarchical Classifiers for Detection of Fractures in X-Ray Images.- An Efficient Nearest Neighbor Classifier Using an Adaptive Distance Measure.- Accurate Identification of a Markov-Gibbs Model for Texture Synthesis by Bunch Sampling.- Texture Defect Detection.- Extracting Salient Points and Parts of Shapes Using Modified kd-Trees.