Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems: 13th International Conference, ACIVS 2011, Ghent, Belgium, August 22-25, 2011. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Robust Visual Odometry Using Uncertainty Models....Pages 1-12
Supervised Visual Vocabulary with Category Information....Pages 13-21
Nonparametric Estimation of Fisher Vectors to Aggregate Image Descriptors....Pages 22-33
Knowledge-Driven Saliency: Attention to the Unseen....Pages 34-45
A Comparative Study of Vision-Based Lane Detection Methods....Pages 46-57
A New Multi-camera Approach for Lane Departure Warning....Pages 58-69
Feature Space Warping Relevance Feedback with Transductive Learning....Pages 70-81
Improved Support Vector Machines with Distance Metric Learning....Pages 82-91
A Low-Cost System to Detect Bunches of Grapes in Natural Environment from Color Images....Pages 92-102
Fuzzy Cognitive Maps Applied to Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Classifications....Pages 103-114
Swarm Intelligence Based Searching Schemes for Articulated 3D Body Motion Tracking....Pages 115-126
Combining Linear Dimensionality Reduction and Locality Preserving Projections with Feature Selection for Recognition Tasks....Pages 127-138
A New Anticorrelation-Based Spectral Clustering Formulation....Pages 139-149
Simultaneous Partitioned Sampling for Articulated Object Tracking....Pages 150-161
A Geographical Approach to Self-Organizing Maps Algorithm Applied to Image Segmentation....Pages 162-170
A Multi-Layer ‘Gas of Circles’ Markov Random Field Model for the Extraction of Overlapping Near-Circular Objects....Pages 171-182
Evaluation of Image Segmentation Algorithms from the Perspective of Salient Region Detection....Pages 183-194
Robust Active Contour Segmentation with an Efficient Global Optimizer....Pages 195-206
A Method to Generate Artificial 2D Shape Contour Based in Fourier Transform and Genetic Algorithms....Pages 207-215
Image Segmentation Based on Electrical Proximity in a Resistor-Capacitor Network....Pages 216-227
Hierarchical Blurring Mean-Shift....Pages 228-238
Curve-Skeletons Based on the Fat Graph Approximation....Pages 239-248
DTW for Matching Radon Features: A Pattern Recognition and Retrieval Method....Pages 249-260
Ridges and Valleys Detection in Images Using Difference of Rotating Half Smoothing Filters....Pages 261-272
Analysis of Wear Debris through Classification....Pages 273-283
Fourier Fractal Descriptors for Colored Texture Analysis....Pages 284-292
Efficiency Optimization of Trainable Feature Extractors for a Consumer Platform....Pages 293-304
Salient Region Detection Using Discriminative Feature Selection....Pages 305-315
Image Analysis Applied to Morphological Assessment in Bovine Livestock....Pages 316-326
Quantifying Appearance Retention in Carpets Using Geometrical Local Binary Patterns....Pages 327-336
Enhancing the Texture Attribute with Partial Differential Equations: A Case of Study with Gabor Filters....Pages 337-348
Dynamic Texture Analysis and Classification Using Deterministic Partially Self-avoiding Walks....Pages 349-359
Segmentation Based Tone-Mapping for High Dynamic Range Images....Pages 360-371
Underwater Image Enhancement: Using Wavelength Compensation and Image Dehazing (WCID)....Pages 372-383
Video Stippling....Pages 384-395
Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound Images Restoration....Pages 396-404
Mutual Information Refinement for Flash-no-Flash Image Alignment....Pages 405-416
Virtual Restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece Using Crack Detection and Inpainting....Pages 417-428
Image Sharpening by DWT-Based Hysteresis....Pages 429-436
Content Makes the Difference in Compression Standard Quality Assessment....Pages 437-446
A Bio-Inspired Image Coder with Temporal Scalability....Pages 447-458
Self-Similarity Measure for Assessment of Image Visual Quality....Pages 459-470
An Intelligent Video Security System Using Object Tracking and Shape Recognition....Pages 471-482
3D Facial Expression Recognition Based on Histograms of Surface Differential Quantities....Pages 483-494
Facial Feature Tracking for Emotional Dynamic Analysis....Pages 495-506
Detection of Human Groups in Videos....Pages 507-518
Estimation of Human Orientation in Images Captured with a Range Camera....Pages 519-530
Human Identification Based on Gait Paths....Pages 531-542
Separating Occluded Humans by Bayesian Pixel Classifier with Re-weighted Posterior Probability....Pages 543-553
An Edge-Based Approach for Robust Foreground Detection....Pages 554-565
Relation Learning - A New Approach to Face Recognition....Pages 566-575
Temporal Prediction and Spatial Regularization in Differential Optical Flow....Pages 576-585
Parallel Implementation of the Integral Histogram....Pages 586-598
System on Chip Coprocessors for High Speed Image Feature Detection and Matching....Pages 599-610
Fast Hough Transform on GPUs: Exploration of Algorithm Trade-Offs....Pages 611-622
Feasibility Analysis of Ultra High Frame Rate Visual Servoing on FPGA and SIMD Processor....Pages 623-634
Calibration and Reconstruction Algorithms for a Handheld 3D Laser Scanner....Pages 635-646
Comparison of Visual Registration Approaches of 3D Models for Orthodontics....Pages 647-657
A Space-Time Depth Super-Resolution Scheme for 3D Face Scanning....Pages 658-668
Real-Time Depth Estimation with Wide Detectable Range Using Horizontal Planes of Sharp Focus Proceedings....Pages 669-680
Automatic Occlusion Removal from Facades for 3D Urban Reconstruction....Pages 681-692
 h SGM: Hierarchical Pyramid Based Stereo Matching Algorithm....Pages 693-701
Surface Reconstruction of Rotating Objects from Monocular Video....Pages 702-711
Precise Registration of 3D Images Acquired from a Hand-Held Visual Sensor....Pages 712-723
A 3-D Tube Scanning Technique Based on Axis and Center Alignment of Multi-laser Triangulation....Pages 724-735
Combining Plane Estimation with Shape Detection for Holistic Scene Understanding....Pages 736-747
Simple Single View Scene Calibration....Pages 748-759
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