Image Analysis and Recognition

Invited Session.- Self-Organizing Trees and Forests: A Powerful Tool in Pattern Clustering and Recognition.- On Optimizing Dissimilarity-Based Classification Using Prototype Reduction Schemes.- Image Restoration and Enhancement.- General Adaptive Neighborhood Image Restoration, Enhancement and Segmentation.- Frozen-State Hierarchical Annealing.- Fast and Robust Filtering-Based Image Magnification.- An Efficient Post-processing Using DCT Domain Projections Onto Convex Sets.- Rank-Ordered Differences Statistic Based Switching Vector Filter.- Mathematical Analysis of "Phase Ramping" for Super-Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Blind Blur Estimation Using Low Rank Approximation of Cepstrum.- An Image Interpolation Scheme for Repetitive Structures.- A Discontinuous Finite Element Method for Image Denoising.- An Edge-Preserving Multigrid-Like Technique for Image Denoising.- Fuzzy Bilateral Filtering for Color Images.- MPEG Postprocessing System Using Edge Signal Variable Filter.- Computational Framework for Family of Order Statistic Filters for Tensor Valued Data.- Gaussian Noise Removal by Color Morphology and Polar Color Models.- Image Segmentation.- A Shape-Based Approach to Robust Image Segmentation.- Novel Statistical Approaches to the Quantitative Combination of Multiple Edge Detectors.- Bio-inspired Motion-Based Object Segmentation.- An Effective and Fast Scene Change Detection Algorithm for MPEG Compressed Videos.- Automatic Segmentation Based on AdaBoost Learning and Graph-Cuts.- Accurate Contour Detection Based on Snakes for Objects with Boundary Concavities.- Graph-Based Spatio-temporal Region Extraction.- Performance Evaluation of Image Segmentation.- Improvement of Image Transform Calculation Based on a Weighted Primitive.- Topological Active Nets Optimization Using Genetic Algorithms.- An Evaluation Measure of Image Segmentation Based on Object Centres.- Active Shape Model Based Segmentation and Tracking of Facial Regions in Color Images.- Image and Video Processing and Analysis.- On the Adaptive Impulsive Noise Attenuation in Color Images.- A Simple Method for Designing 2D |M|-Channel Near-PR Filter Banks with Linear Phase Property.- Fast Hermite Projection Method.- Posterior Sampling of Scientific Images.- Image Denoising Using the Lyapunov Equation from Non-uniform Samples.- New Method for Fast Detection and Removal of Impulsive Noise Using Fuzzy Metrics.- Background Subtraction Framework Based on Local Spatial Distributions.- Morphological Image Interpolation to Magnify Images with Sharp Edges.- Adaptive Kernel Based Tracking Using Mean-Shift.- Real Time Sobel Square Edge Detector for Night Vision Analysis.- A New Video Images Text Localization Approach Based on a Fast Hough Transform.- Video Sequence Matching Using Singular Value Decomposition.- The Papoulis-Gerchberg Algorithm with Unknown Signal Bandwidth.- Image and Video Coding and Encryption.- Continuous Evolution of Fractal Transforms and Nonlocal PDE Imaging.- A Fast Algorithm for Macroblock Mode Selection in H.264 Video Coding.- Visual Secret Sharing Scheme: Improving the Contrast of a Recovered Image Via Different Pixel Expansions.- Fast and Efficient Basis Selection Methods for Embedded Wavelet Packet Image Coding.- Fractal Image Coding as Projections Onto Convex Sets.- DCT-Domain Predictive Coding Method for Video Compression.- Simple Detection Method and Compensation Filter to Remove Corner Outlier Artifacts.- Rate Control Algorithm for High Quality Compression of Static Test Image in Digital TV System.- JPEG2000-Based Resolution- and Rate-Constrained Layered Image Coding.- A Permutation-Based Correlation-Preserving Encryption Method for Digital Videos.- A Fast Scheme for Converting DCT Coefficients to H.264/AVC Integer Transform Coefficients.- A Fast Full Search Algorithm for Motion Estimation Using Priority of Matching Scan.- Using Space-Time Coding for Watermarking Color Images.- Blind PSNR Estimation of Video Sequences, Through Non-uniform Quantization Watermarking.- Pattern Recognition Using Neighborhood Coding.- Image Retrieval and Indexing.- Naming of Image Regions for User-Friendly Image Retrieval.- Shape Retrieval Using Shape Contexts and Cyclic Dynamic Time Warping.- Topological Active Nets for Object-Based Image Retrieval.- Iterative 3-D Pose Correction and Content-Based Image Retrieval for Dorsal Fin Recognition.- Feature Selection for Retrieval Purposes.- DCT-Domain Image Retrieval Via Block-Edge-Patterns.- Visual Aspect: A Unified Content-Based Collaborative Filtering Model for Visual Document Recommendation.- IntelliSearch: Intelligent Search for Images and Text on the Web.- Automatic Shot-Change Detection Algorithm Based on Visual Rhythm Extraction.- Motion Analysis.- Global Motion Estimation: Feature-Based, Featureless, or Both ?!.- Background Updating with the Use of Intrinsic Curves.- Towards a New Paradigm for Motion Extraction.- Fast Motion Estimation Using Spatio Temporal Filtering.- Optic Flow from Multi-scale Dynamic Anchor Point Attributes.- The Effect of Presmoothing Image Sequences on the Computation of Optical Flow.- Optical Flow Based Frame Interpolation of Ultrasound Images.- An Iterative Multiresolution Scheme for SFM.- Occlusion-Based Accurate Silhouettes from Video Streams.- Tracking.- Towards Constrained Optimal 3D Tracking.- A Generic Approach to Object Matching and Tracking.- Image Based Visual Servoing: A New Method for the Estimation of the Image Jacobian in Dynamic Environments.- QP_TR Trust Region Blob Tracking Through Scale-Space with Automatic Selection of Features.- Human Posture Analysis Under Partial Self-occlusion.- Particle Filtering with Dynamic Shape Priors.- The OBSERVER: An Intelligent and Automated Video Surveillance System.- A Novel Spatio-temporal Approach to Handle Occlusions in Vehicle Tracking.- A Robust Particle Filter-Based Face Tracker Using Combination of Color and Geometric Information.