Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems: 16th International Conference, ACIVS 2015, Catania, Italy, October 26-29, 2015. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages I-XXI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
BNRFBE Method for Blur Estimation in Document Images....Pages 3-14
Edge Width Estimation for Defocus Map from a Single Image....Pages 15-22
RSD-DOG: A New Image Descriptor Based on Second Order Derivatives....Pages 23-34
Ringing Artifact Suppression Using Sparse Representation....Pages 35-45
Patch-Based Mathematical Morphology for Image Processing, Segmentation and Classification....Pages 46-57
Time Ordering Shuffling for Improving Background Subtraction....Pages 58-69
Fast and Low Power Consumption Outliers Removal for Motion Vector Estimation....Pages 70-80
Adaptive Scale Selection for Multiscale Image Denoising....Pages 81-92
Secure Signal Processing Using Fully Homomorphic Encryption....Pages 93-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Towards a Bayesian Video Denoising Method....Pages 107-117
Collaborative, Context Based Activity Control Method for Camera Networks....Pages 118-129
EFIC: Edge Based Foreground Background Segmentation and Interior Classification for Dynamic Camera Viewpoints....Pages 130-141
A Unified Camera Calibration from Arbitrary Parallelograms and Parallepipeds....Pages 142-153
Motion Compensation Based on Robust Global Motion Estimation: Experiments and Applications....Pages 154-166
Bayesian Fusion of Back Projected Probabilities (BFBP): Co-occurrence Descriptors for Tracking in Complex Environments....Pages 167-180
Embedded System Implementation for Vehicle Around View Monitoring....Pages 181-192
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Cosine-Sine Modulated Filter Banks for Motion Estimation and Correction....Pages 195-204
Fast and Robust Variational Optical Flow for High-Resolution Images Using SLIC Superpixels....Pages 205-216
Depth-Based Filtration for Tracking Boost....Pages 217-228
Robust Fusion of Trackers Using Online Drift Prediction....Pages 229-240
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Bootstrapping Computer Vision and Sensor Fusion for Absolute and Relative Vehicle Positioning....Pages 241-248
Detection of Social Groups in Pedestrian Crowds Using Computer Vision....Pages 249-260
Single Image Visual Obstacle Avoidance for Low Power Mobile Sensing....Pages 261-272
ROS-Based SLAM for a Gazebo-Simulated Mobile Robot in Image-Based 3D Model of Indoor Environment....Pages 273-283
Front Matter....Pages 285-285
Full-Body Human Pose Estimation by Combining Geodesic Distances and 3D-Point Cloud Registration....Pages 287-298
A Graph Based People Silhouette Segmentation Using Combined Probabilities Extracted from Appearance, Shape Template Prior, and Color Distributions....Pages 299-310
Improved Region-Based Kalman Filter for Tracking Body Joints and Evaluating Gait in Surveillance Videos....Pages 311-322
A Predictive Model for Human Activity Recognition by Observing Actions and Context....Pages 323-333
Direct Image Alignment for Active Near Infrared Image Differencing....Pages 334-344
Two-Stage Filtering Scheme for Sparse Representation Based Interest Point Matching for Person Re-identification....Pages 345-356
Distance-Based Descriptors for Pedestrian Detection....Pages 357-368
Spatiotemporal Integration of Optical Flow Vectors for Micro-expression Detection....Pages 369-380
Unified System for Visual Speech Recognition and Speaker Identification....Pages 381-390
Soft Biometrics by Modeling Temporal Series of Gaze Cues Extracted in the Wild....Pages 391-402
Online Face Recognition System Based on Local Binary Patterns and Facial Landmark Tracking....Pages 403-414
A Minimax Framework for Gender Classification Based on Small-Sized Datasets....Pages 415-427
Age and Gender Characterization Through a Two Layer Clustering of Online Handwriting....Pages 428-439
Head Roll Estimation Using Horizontal Energy Maximization....Pages 440-451
Tooth Segmentation Algorithm for Age Estimation....Pages 452-463
On Blind Source Camera Identification....Pages 464-473
Front Matter....Pages 285-285
Content-Fragile Commutative Watermarking-Encryption Based on Pixel Entropy....Pages 474-485
A PNU-Based Technique to Detect Forged Regions in Digital Images....Pages 486-498
Front Matter....Pages 499-499
What Does One Image of One Ball Tell Us About the Focal Length?....Pages 501-509
Visual Localisation from Structureless Rigid Models....Pages 510-520
Optical Sensor Tracking and 3D-Reconstruction of Hydrogen-Induced Cracking....Pages 521-529
Plane Extraction for Indoor Place Recognition....Pages 530-540
A Trust Region Optimization Method for Fast 3D Spherical Configuration in Morphing Processes....Pages 541-552
On Optimal Illumination for DOVID Description Using Photometric Stereo....Pages 553-565
Human Machine Interaction via Visual Speech Spotting....Pages 566-574
Improving Kinect-Skeleton Estimation....Pages 575-587
Front Matter....Pages 589-589
Color Image Quality Assessment Based on Gradient Similarity and Distance Transform....Pages 591-603
Toward a Universal Stereoscopic Image Quality Metric Without Reference....Pages 604-612
Analysis of HVS-Metrics’ Properties Using Color Image Database TID2013....Pages 613-624
Solidarity Filter for Noise Reduction of 3D Edges in Depth Images....Pages 625-636
A Task-Driven Eye Tracking Dataset for Visual Attention Analysis....Pages 637-648
Front Matter....Pages 649-649
Image Analysis and Microscopy in Food Science: Computer Vision and Visual Inspection....Pages 651-660
Semantic Shape Models for Leaf Species Identification....Pages 661-671
Multi-distinctive MSER Features and Their Descriptors: A Low-Complexity Tool for Image Matching....Pages 672-680
Spatio-Temporal Object Recognition....Pages 681-692
Image Recognition in UAV Application Based on Texture Analysis....Pages 693-704
Front Matter....Pages 649-649
Cascaded Regressions of Learning Features for Face Alignment....Pages 705-716
A Generic Feature Selection Method for Background Subtraction Using Global Foreground Models....Pages 717-728
Towards More Natural Social Interactions of Visually Impaired Persons....Pages 729-740
A Mobile Application for Braille to Black Conversion....Pages 741-751
Unsupervised Salient Object Matting....Pages 752-763
A Comparison of Multi-scale Local Binary Pattern Variants for Bark Image Retrieval....Pages 764-775
Front Matter....Pages 777-777
Improvement of a Wavelet-Tensor Denoising Algorithm by Automatic Rank Estimation....Pages 779-790
Minimizing the Impact of Signal-Dependent Noise on Hyperspectral Target Detection....Pages 791-802
Edge Detection Method Based on Signal Subspace Dimension for Hyperspectral Images....Pages 803-815
Dictionary-Based Compact Data Representation for Very High Resolution Earth Observation Image Classification....Pages 816-825
Sphere-Tree Semi-regular Remesher....Pages 826-837
Front Matter....Pages 839-839
Exploring Protected Nature Through Multimodal Navigation of Multimedia Contents....Pages 841-852
An H.264 Sensor Aided Encoder for Aerial Video Sequences with In-the-Loop Metadata Enhancement....Pages 853-863
Buffering Hierarchical Representation of Color Video Streams for Interactive Object Selection....Pages 864-875
Multiple Description Coding for Multi-view Video....Pages 876-882
A Game Engine as a Generic Platform for Real-Time Previz-on-Set in Cinema Visual Effects....Pages 883-894
Back Matter....Pages 895-897