Computer Vision -- ACCV 2007

Plenary and Invited Talks.- Less Is More: Coded Computational Photography.- Optimal Algorithms in Multiview Geometry.- Machine Vision in Early Days: Japan's Pioneering Contributions.- Shape and Texture.- Coarse-to-Fine Statistical Shape Model by Bayesian Inference.- Efficient Texture Representation Using Multi-scale Regions.- Fitting.- Comparing Timoshenko Beam to Energy Beam for Fitting Noisy Data.- A Family of Quadratic Snakes for Road Extraction.- Poster Session 1: Calibration.- Multiperspective Distortion Correction Using Collineations.- Camera Calibration from Silhouettes Under Incomplete Circular Motion with a Constant Interval Angle.- Mirror Localization for Catadioptric Imaging System by Observing Parallel Light Pairs.- Calibrating Pan-Tilt Cameras with Telephoto Lenses.- Camera Calibration Using Principal-Axes Aligned Conics.- Poster Session 1: Detection.- 3D Intrusion Detection System with Uncalibrated Multiple Cameras.- Non-parametric Background and Shadow Modeling for Object Detection.- Road Sign Detection Using Eigen Color.- Localized Content-Based Image Retrieval Using Semi-Supervised Multiple Instance Learning.- Object Detection Combining Recognition and Segmentation.- An Efficient Method for Text Detection in Video Based on Stroke Width Similarity.- Multiview Pedestrian Detection Based on Vector Boosting.- Pedestrian Detection Using Global-Local Motion Patterns.- Poster Session 1: Image and Video Processing.- Qualitative and Quantitative Behaviour of Geometrical PDEs in Image Processing.- Automated Billboard Insertion in Video.- Improved Background Mixture Models for Video Surveillance Applications.- High Dynamic Range Scene Realization Using Two Complementary Images.- Automated Removal of Partial Occlusion Blur.- Poster Session 1: Applications.- High Capacity Watermarking in Nonedge Texture Under Statistical Distortion Constraint.- Attention Monitoring for Music Contents Based on Analysis of Signal-Behavior Structures.- View Planning for Cityscape Archiving and Visualization.- Face and Gesture.- Synthesis of Exaggerative Caricature with Inter and Intra Correlations.- Pose-Invariant Facial Expression Recognition Using Variable-Intensity Templates.- Gesture Recognition Under Small Sample Size.- Tracking.- Motion Observability Analysis of the Simplified Color Correlogram for Visual Tracking.- On-Line Ensemble SVM for Robust Object Tracking.- Multi-camera People Tracking by Collaborative Particle Filters and Principal Axis-Based Integration.- Poster Session 2: Camera Networks.- Finding Camera Overlap in Large Surveillance Networks.- Information Fusion for Multi-camera and Multi-body Structure and Motion.- Task Scheduling in Large Camera Networks.- Poster Session 2: Face/Gesture/Action Detection and Recognition.- Constrained Optimization for Human Pose Estimation from Depth Sequences.- Generative Estimation of 3D Human Pose Using Shape Contexts Matching.- An Active Multi-camera Motion Capture for Face, Fingers and Whole Body.- Tracking and Classifying of Human Motions with Gaussian Process Annealed Particle Filter.- Gait Identification Based on Multi-view Observations Using Omnidirectional Camera.- Gender Classification Based on Fusion of Multi-view Gait Sequences.- Poster Session 2: Learning.- MAPACo-Training: A Novel Online Learning Algorithm of Behavior Models.- Optimal Learning High-Order Markov Random Fields Priors of Colour Image.- Hierarchical Learning of Dominant Constellations for Object Class Recognition.- Multistrategical Approach in Visual Learning.- Poster Session 2: Motion and Tracking.- Cardiac Motion Estimation from Tagged MRI Using 3D-HARP and NURBS Volumetric Model.- Fragments Based Parametric Tracking.- Spatiotemporal Oriented Energy Features for Visual Tracking.- Synchronized Ego-Motion Recovery of Two Face-to-Face Cameras.- Optical Flow-Driven Motion Model with Automatic Variance Adjustment for Adaptive Tracking.- A Noise-Insensitive Object Tracking Algorithm.- Discriminative Mean Shift Tracking with Auxiliary Particles.- Poster Session 2: Retrival and Search.- Efficient Search in Document Image Collections.- Human Pose Estimation.- Hand Posture Estimation in Complex Backgrounds by Considering Mis-match of Model.- Learning Generative Models for Monocular Body Pose Estimation.- Human Pose Estimation from Volume Data and Topological Graph Database.- Matching.- Logical DP Matching for Detecting Similar Subsequence.- Efficient Normalized Cross Correlation Based on Adaptive Multilevel Successive Elimination.- Exploiting Inter-frame Correlation for Fast Video to Reference Image Alignment.- Poster Session 3: Face/Gesture/Action Detection and Recognition.- Flea, Do You Remember Me?.- Multi-view Gymnastic Activity Recognition with Fused HMM.- Real-Time and Marker-Free 3D Motion Capture for Home Entertainment Oriented Applications.- Tracking Iris Contour with a 3D Eye-Model for Gaze Estimation.- Eye Correction Using Correlation Information.- Eye-Gaze Detection from Monocular Camera Image Using Parametric Template Matching.- An FPGA-Based Smart Camera for Gesture Recognition in HCI Applications.- Poster Session 3: Low Level Vision and Phtometory.- Color Constancy Via Convex Kernel Optimization.- User-Guided Shape from Shading to Reconstruct Fine Details from a Single Photograph.- A Theoretical Approach to Construct Highly Discriminative Features with Application in AdaBoost.- Robust Foreground Extraction Technique Using Gaussian Family Model and Multiple Thresholds.- Feature Management for Efficient Camera Tracking.- Measurement of Reflection Properties in Ancient Japanese Drawing Ukiyo-e.- Texture-Independent Feature-Point Matching (TIFM) from Motion Coherence.- Where's the Weet-Bix?.- How Marginal Likelihood Inference Unifies Entropy, Correlation and SNR-Based Stopping in Nonlinear Diffusion Scale-Spaces.- Poster Session 3: Motion and Tracking.- Kernel-Bayesian Framework for Object Tracking.- Markov Random Field Modeled Level Sets Method for Object Tracking with Moving Cameras.- Continuously Tracking Objects Across Multiple Widely Separated Cameras.- Adaptive Multiple Object Tracking Using Colour and Segmentation Cues.- Image Assimilation for Motion Estimation of Atmospheric Layers with Shallow-Water Model.- Probability Hypothesis Density Approach for Multi-camera Multi-object Tracking.- Human Detection.- AdaBoost Learning for Human Detection Based on Histograms of Oriented Gradients.- Multi-posture Human Detection in Video Frames by Motion Contour Matching.- A Cascade of Feed-Forward Classifiers for Fast Pedestrian Detection.- Combined Object Detection and Segmentation by Using Space-Time Patches.- Segmentation.- Embedding a Region Merging Prior in Level Set Vector-Valued Image Segmentation.- A Basin Morphology Approach to Colour Image Segmentation by Region Merging.- Detecting and Segmenting Un-occluded Items by Actively Casting Shadows.- A Local Probabilistic Prior-Based Active Contour Model for Brain MR Image Segmentation.