Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Committee JackyBaltes,GeorgyGimel'farb,UlrichGun ¨ ther,JamesHarper,ReinhardKlette, CeciliaLourdes,BruceMacDonald,S. Manoharan,SudhirReddy,andSharon Walker. Sponsors TheInternationalAssociationforPatternRecognition MORST/DFG InstituteofElectricalandElectronicEngineers(IEEE)-NZNorthSection TheUniversityofAuckland,Tamakicampus VisualImpactAucklandLtd. Table of Contents Active Perception VisualCuesforaFixatingActiveAgent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 M?artenBj¨orkmanandJan-OlofEklundh TrackingwithaNovelPoseEstimationAlgorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 BodoRosenhahn,NorbertKru¨ger,TorgeRabschandGeraldSommer Real-TimeTrackingofArticulatedHumanModels Usinga3DShape-from-SilhouetteMethod. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 JasonLuck,DanSmallandCharlesQ. Little Hierarchical3DPoseEstimationforArticulatedHumanBodyModels fromaSequenceofVolumeData. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 SebastianWeikandC. -E. Liedtke Vision-BasedRobotLocalizationUsingSporadicFeatures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 StefanEnderle,HeikoFolkerts,MarcusRitter,StefanSablatn¨og, GerhardKraetzschmarandGunth ¨ erPalm Poster Session1: Computer Vision AComparisonofFeatureMeasurementsforKineticStudies onHumanBodies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 NikkiAustin,YenChen,ReinhardKlette,RobertMarshall, Yuan-shengTsaiandYongbaoZhang ObjectIdenti?cationandPoseEstimationforAutomaticManipulation . . . . 52 BenjaminHohnhaeuserandGuenterHommel TowardSelf-calibrationofaStereoRigfromNoisyStereoscopicImages . . . . 60 SlimaneLarabi AColorSegmentationAlgorithmforReal-TimeObjectLocalization onSmallEmbeddedSystems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 PhilippeLeclercqandThomasBrau ¨nl EYESCAN-AHighResolutionDigitalPanoramicCamera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 KarstenScheibe,HartmutKorsitzky,RalfReulke,MartinScheele andMichaelSolbrig AWavelet-BasedAlgorithmforHeightfromGradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 TiangongWeiandReinhardKlette EnhancedStereoVisionUsingFree-FormSurfaceMirrors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 AlexanderWuerz,StefanK. GehrigandFridtjofJ. Stein VIII Table of Contents Poster Session2:Robotics& Video RoboCup-99:AStudent'sPerspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 JackyBaltes Horus:ObjectOrientationandIdwithoutAdditionalMarkers . . . . . . . . . . . 107 JackyBaltes AnStereoscopicVisionSystemGuidinganAutonomousHelicopter forOverheadPowerCableInspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 PascualCampoy,PedroJ. Garcia,AntonioBarrientos, JaimedelCerro,InaquiAguirre,Andr´esRoa,RafaelGarcia andJos´eM. Munoz 3DStereoVision-BasedNursingRobotforElderlyHealthCare . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Wee-SoonChing,EdwardHo,ChristopherOng,HsTayandSai-MuiLim E?cientComputationofIntensityPro?lesforReal-TimeVision . . . . . . . . . . 131 ErnstDieterDickmanns SubpixelFlowDetectionbytheHoughTransform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 AtsushiImiyaandKeisukeIwawaki TrackingofMovingHeadsinClutteredScenesfromStereoVision . . . . . . . . . 148 RuijiangLuoandYanGuo ServoingMechanismsforPeg-In-HoleAssemblyOperations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 JosefPauli,ArneSchmidtandGeraldSommer RobotLocalizationUsingOmnidirectionalColorImages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 DavidC. K. YuenandBruceA. MacDonald TheBackgroundSubtractionProblemforVideoSurveillanceSystems . . . . . 176 AlanMcIvor,QiZangandReinhardKlette Computational Stereo StableMonotonicMatchingforStereoscopicVision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 ? RadimS´ara RandomSamplingandVotingMethod forThree-DimensionalReconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .