Advances in Visual Computing: 4th International Symposium, ISVC 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 1-3, 2008. Proceedings, Part I

Front Matter....Pages -
Detection of a Large Number of Overlapping Ellipses Immersed in Noise....Pages 1-10
Recognizing Ancient Coins Based on Local Features....Pages 11-22
Learning Pairwise Dissimilarity Profiles for Appearance Recognition in Visual Surveillance....Pages 23-34
Edge-Based Template Matching and Tracking for Perspectively Distorted Planar Objects....Pages 35-44
Enhancing Boundary Primitives Using a Multiscale Quadtree Segmentation....Pages 45-54
3D Object Modeling and Segmentation Based on Edge-Point Matching with Local Descriptors....Pages 55-64
Cumulus Cloud Synthesis with Similarity Solution and Particle/Voxel Modeling....Pages 65-74
An Efficient Wavelet-Based Framework for Articulated Human Motion Compression....Pages 75-86
On Smooth Bicubic Surfaces from Quad Meshes....Pages 87-96
Simple Steps for Simply Stepping....Pages 97-106
Fairing of Discrete Surfaces with Boundary That Preserves Size and Qualitative Shape....Pages 107-118
Fast Decimation of Polygonal Models....Pages 119-128
Visualizing Argument Structure....Pages 129-138
Visualization of Industrial Structures with Implicit GPU Primitives....Pages 139-150
Cartesian vs. Radial – A Comparative Evaluation of Two Visualization Tools....Pages 151-160
VoxelBars: An Informative Interface for Volume Visualization....Pages 161-170
Wind Field Retrieval and Display for Doppler Radar Data....Pages 171-182
Dual Marching Tetrahedra: Contouring in the Tetrahedronal Environment....Pages 183-194
Vision-Based Localization for Mobile Robots Using a Set of Known Views....Pages 195-204
On the Advantages of Asynchronous Pixel Reading and Processing for High-Speed Motion Estimation....Pages 205-215
An Optimized Software-Based Implementation of a Census-Based Stereo Matching Algorithm....Pages 216-227
Mutual Information Based Semi-Global Stereo Matching on the GPU....Pages 228-239
Accurate Optical Flow Sensor for Obstacle Avoidance....Pages 240-247
A Novel 2D Marker Design and Application for Object Tracking and Event Detection....Pages 248-257
Automatic Lung Segmentation of Volumetric Low-Dose CT Scans Using Graph Cuts....Pages 258-267
A Continuous Labeling for Multiphase Graph Cut Image Partitioning....Pages 268-277
A Graph-Based Approach for Image Segmentation....Pages 278-287
Active Contours Driven by Supervised Binary Classifiers for Texture Segmentation....Pages 288-297
Proximity Graphs Based Multi-scale Image Segmentation....Pages 298-307
Improved Adaptive Spatial Information Clustering for Image Segmentation....Pages 308-317
Stable Image Descriptions Using Gestalt Principles....Pages 318-327
A Fast and Effective Dichotomy Based Hash Algorithm for Image Matching....Pages 328-337
Evaluation of Gradient Vector Flow for Interest Point Detection....Pages 338-348
Spatially Enhanced Bags of Words for 3D Shape Retrieval....Pages 349-358
Image Matching Using High Dynamic Range Images and Radial Feature Descriptors....Pages 359-369
Random Subwindows for Robust Peak Recognition in Intracranial Pressure Signals....Pages 370-380
A New Shape Benchmark for 3D Object Retrieval....Pages 381-392
Shape Extraction through Region-Contour Stitching....Pages 393-405
Difference of Gaussian Edge-Texture Based Background Modeling for Dynamic Traffic Conditions....Pages 406-417
A Sketch-Based Approach for Detecting Common Human Actions....Pages 418-427
Multi-view Video Analysis of Humans and Vehicles in an Unconstrained Environment....Pages 428-439
Self-Organizing Maps for the Automatic Interpretation of Crowd Dynamics....Pages 440-449
A Visual Tracking Framework for Intent Recognition in Videos....Pages 450-459
Unsupervised Video Shot Segmentation Using Global Color and Texture Information....Pages 460-467
Progressive Focusing: A Top Down Attentional Vision System....Pages 468-477
The Benefits of Co-located Collaboration and Immersion on Assembly Modeling in Virtual Environments....Pages 478-487
Simple Feedforward Control for Responsive Motion Capture-Driven Simulations....Pages 488-497
Markerless Vision-Based Tracking of Partially Known 3D Scenes for Outdoor Augmented Reality Applications....Pages 498-507
Multiple Camera, Multiple Person Tracking with Pointing Gesture Recognition in Immersive Environments....Pages 508-519
Augmented Reality Using Projective Invariant Patterns....Pages 520-529
Acquisition of High Quality Planar Patch Features....Pages 530-539
Level Set Segmentation of Cellular Images Based on Topological Dependence....Pages 540-551
A Novel Algorithm for Automatic Brain Structure Segmentation from MRI....Pages 552-561
Brain Lesion Segmentation through Physical Model Estimation....Pages 562-571
Calibration of Bi-planar Radiography with a Rangefinder and a Small Calibration Object....Pages 572-581
Identification of Cell Nucleus Using a Mumford-Shah Ellipse Detector....Pages 582-593
Evaluation of Brain MRI Alignment with the Robust Hausdorff Distance Measures....Pages 594-603
User Driven Two-Dimensional Computer-Generated Ornamentation....Pages 604-613
Efficient Schemes for Monte Carlo Markov Chain Algorithms in Global Illumination....Pages 614-623
Adaptive CPU Scheduling to Conserve Energy in Real-Time Mobile Graphics Applications....Pages 624-633
A Quick 3D-to-2D Points Matching Based on the Perspective Projection....Pages 634-645
Deformation-Based Animation of Snake Locomotion....Pages 646-657
GPU-Supported Image Compression for Remote Visualization – Realization and Benchmarking....Pages 658-668
Linear Time Constant-Working Space Algorithm for Computing the Genus of a Digital Object....Pages 669-677
Offset Approach to Defining 3D Digital Lines....Pages 678-687
Curvature and Torsion Estimators for 3D Curves....Pages 688-699
Threshold Selection for Segmentation of Dense Objects in Tomograms....Pages 700-709
Comparison of Discrete Curvature Estimators and Application to Corner Detection....Pages 710-719
Computing and Visualizing Constant-Curvature Metrics on Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds with Boundaries....Pages 720-730
Iris Recognition: A Method to Segment Visible Wavelength Iris Images Acquired On-the-Move and At-a-Distance....Pages 731-742
3D Textural Mapping and Soft-Computing Applied to Cork Quality Inspection....Pages 743-752
Analysis of Breast Thermograms Based on Statistical Image Features and Hybrid Fuzzy Classification....Pages 753-762
Efficient Facial Feature Detection Using Entropy and SVM....Pages 763-771
Type-2 Fuzzy Mixture of Gaussians Model: Application to Background Modeling....Pages 772-781
Unsupervised Clustering Algorithm for Video Shots Using Spectral Division....Pages 782-792
Noise Analysis of a SFS Algorithm Formulated under Various Imaging Conditions....Pages 793-802
Shape from Texture Via Fourier Analysis....Pages 803-814
Full Camera Calibration from a Single View of Planar Scene....Pages 815-824
Robust Two-View External Calibration by Combining Lines and Scale Invariant Point Features....Pages 825-835
Stabilizing Stereo Correspondence Computation Using Delaunay Triangulation and Planar Homography....Pages 836-845
Immersive Visualization and Analysis of LiDAR Data....Pages 846-855
VR Visualisation as an Interdisciplinary Collaborative Data Exploration Tool for Large Eddy Simulations of Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions....Pages 856-866
User Experience of Hurricane Visualization in an Immersive 3D Environment....Pages 867-878
Immersive 3d Visualizations for Software-Design Prototyping and Inspection....Pages 879-890
Enclosed Five-Wall Immersive Cabin....Pages 891-900
Environment-Independent VR Development....Pages 901-912
Combined Registration Methods for Pose Estimation....Pages 913-924
Local Non-planarity of Three Dimensional Surfaces for an Invertible Reconstruction: k-Cuspal Cells....Pages 925-934
A New Variant of the Optimum-Path Forest Classifier....Pages 935-944
Results on Hexagonal Tile Rewriting Grammars....Pages 945-952
Lloyd’s Algorithm on GPU....Pages 953-964
Computing Fundamental Group of General 3-Manifold....Pages 965-974
OmniMap: Projective Perspective Mapping API for Non-planar Immersive Display Surfaces....Pages 975-986
Two-Handed and One-Handed Techniques for Precise and Efficient Manipulation in Immersive Virtual Environments....Pages 987-997
Automotive Spray Paint Simulation....Pages 998-1007
Using Augmented Reality and Interactive Simulations to Realize Hybrid Prototypes....Pages 1008-1017
Immersive Simulator for Fluvial Combat Training....Pages 1018-1027
A Low-Cost, Linux-Based Virtual Environment for Visualizing Vascular Structures....Pages 1028-1039
Visualization of Dynamic Connectivity in High Electrode-Density EEG....Pages 1040-1050
Generation of Unit-Width Curve Skeletons Based on Valence Driven Spatial Median (VDSM)....Pages 1051-1060
Intuitive Visualization and Querying of Cell Motion....Pages 1061-1070
Registration of 2D Histological Images of Bone Implants with 3D SR μ CT Volumes....Pages 1071-1080
Measuring an Animal Body Temperature in Thermographic Video Using Particle Filter Tracking....Pages 1081-1091
A New Parallel Approach to Fuzzy Clustering for Medical Image Segmentation....Pages 1092-1101
Tracking Data Structures Coherency in Animated Ray Tracing: Kalman and Wiener Filters Approach....Pages 1102-1114
Hardware Accelerated Per-Texel Ambient Occlusion Mapping....Pages 1115-1124
Comics Stylization from Photographs....Pages 1125-1134
Leaking Fluids....Pages 1135-1143
 Automatic Structure-Aware Inpainting for Complex Image Content ....Pages 1144-1156
Multiple Aligned Characteristic Curves for Surface Fairing....Pages 1157-1166
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