Advances in Visual Computing: 5th International Symposium, ISVC 2009, Las Vegas, NV, USA, November 30 - December 2, 2009, Proceedings, Part I

Front Matter....Pages -
Which Shape Representation Is the Best for Real-Time Hand Interface System?....Pages 1-11
Multi-target and Multi-camera Object Detection with Monte-Carlo Sampling....Pages 12-21
Spatial Configuration of Local Shape Features for Discriminative Object Detection....Pages 22-33
A Bag of Features Approach for 3D Shape Retrieval....Pages 34-43
Efficient Object Pixel-Level Categorization Using Bag of Features....Pages 44-54
Relighting Forest Ecosystems....Pages 55-66
Cartoon Animation Style Rendering of Water....Pages 67-78
Deformable Proximity Queries and Their Application in Mobile Manipulation Planning....Pages 79-88
Speech-Driven Facial Animation Using a Shared Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model....Pages 89-100
Extracting Principal Curvature Ridges from B-Spline Surfaces with Deficient Smoothness....Pages 101-110
Adaptive Partitioning of Vertex Shader for Low Power High Performance Geometry Engine....Pages 111-124
Visualized Index-Based Search for Digital Libraries....Pages 125-134
Generation of an Importance Map for Visualized Images....Pages 135-146
Drawing Motion without Understanding It....Pages 147-156
Image Compression Based on Visual Saliency at Individual Scales....Pages 157-166
Fast Occlusion Sweeping....Pages 167-178
An Empirical Study of Categorical Dataset Visualization Using a Simulated Bee Colony Clustering Algorithm....Pages 179-188
Real-Time Feature Acquisition and Integration for Vision-Based Mobile Robots....Pages 189-200
Matching Planar Features for Robot Localization....Pages 201-210
Fast and Accurate Structure and Motion Estimation....Pages 211-222
Optical Flow Based Detection in Mixed Human Robot Environments....Pages 223-232
Using a Virtual World to Design a Simulation Platform for Vision and Robotic Systems....Pages 233-242
Accurate and Efficient Computation of Gabor Features in Real-Time Applications....Pages 243-252
Region Graph Spectra as Geometric Global Image Features....Pages 253-264
Robust Harris-Laplace Detector by Scale Multiplication....Pages 265-274
Spatial-Temporal Junction Extraction and Semantic Interpretation....Pages 275-286
Cross-Correlation and Rotation Estimation of Local 3D Vector Field Patches....Pages 287-296
Scene Categorization by Introducing Contextual Information to the Visual Words....Pages 297-306
Edge-Preserving Laplacian Pyramid....Pages 307-316
Automated Segmentation of Brain Tumors in MRI Using Force Data Clustering Algorithm....Pages 317-326
Top-Down Segmentation of Histological Images Using a Digital Deformable Model....Pages 327-336
Closing Curves with Riemannian Dilation: Application to Segmentation in Automated Cervical Cancer Screening....Pages 337-346
Lung Nodule Modeling – A Data-Driven Approach....Pages 347-356
Concurrent CT Reconstruction and Visual Analysis Using Hybrid Multi-resolution Raycasting in a Cluster Environment....Pages 357-366
Randomized Tree Ensembles for Object Detection in Computational Pathology....Pages 367-378
Human Understandable Features for Segmentation of Solid Texture....Pages 379-390
Exploiting Mutual Camera Visibility in Multi-camera Motion Estimation....Pages 391-402
Optical Flow Computation from an Asynchronised Multiresolution Image Sequence....Pages 403-414
Conditions for Segmentation of Motion with Affine Fundamental Matrix....Pages 415-424
Motion-Based View-Invariant Articulated Motion Detection and Pose Estimation Using Sparse Point Features....Pages 425-434
Robust Estimation of Camera Motion Using Optical Flow Models....Pages 435-446
Maximum Likelihood Estimation Sample Consensus with Validation of Individual Correspondences....Pages 447-456
Efficient Random Sampling for Nonrigid Feature Matching....Pages 457-467
RiverLand: An Efficient Procedural Modeling System for Creating Realistic-Looking Terrains....Pages 468-479
Real-Time 3D Reconstruction for Occlusion-Aware Interactions in Mixed Reality....Pages 480-489
Augmenting Exercise Systems with Virtual Exercise Environment....Pages 490-499
Codebook-Based Background Subtraction to Generate Photorealistic Avatars in a Walkthrough Simulator....Pages 500-510
JanusVF: Adaptive Fiducial Selection....Pages 511-520
Natural Pose Generation from a Reduced Dimension Motion Capture Data Space....Pages 521-530
Segmentation of Neural Stem/Progenitor Cells Nuclei within 3-D Neurospheres....Pages 531-543
Deconvolving Active Contours for Fluorescence Microscopy Images....Pages 544-553
Image Registration Guided by Particle Filter....Pages 554-563
Curve Enhancement Using Orientation Fields....Pages 564-575
Lighting-Aware Segmentation of Microscopy Images for In Vitro Fertilization....Pages 576-585
Fast 3D Reconstruction of the Spine Using User-Defined Splines and a Statistical Articulated Model....Pages 586-595
High-Quality Rendering of Varying Isosurfaces with Cubic Trivariate C 1 -Continuous Splines....Pages 596-607
Visualizing Arcs of Implicit Algebraic Curves, Exactly and Fast....Pages 608-619
Fast Cube Cutting for Interactive Volume Visualization....Pages 620-631
A Statistical Model for Daylight Spectra....Pages 632-643
Reducing Artifacts between Adjacent Bricks in Multi-resolution Volume Rendering....Pages 644-655
Height and Tilt Geometric Texture....Pages 656-667
Using Coplanar Circles to Perform Calibration-Free Planar Scene Analysis under a Perspective View....Pages 668-677
Parallel Poisson Surface Reconstruction....Pages 678-689
3D Object Mapping by Integrating Stereo SLAM and Object Segmentation Using Edge Points....Pages 690-699
Photometric Recovery of Ortho-Images Derived from Apollo 15 Metric Camera Imagery....Pages 700-709
3D Lunar Terrain Reconstruction from Apollo Images....Pages 710-719
Factorization of Correspondence and Camera Error for Unconstrained Dense Correspondence Applications....Pages 720-729
Natural Facial Expression Recognition Using Dynamic and Static Schemes....Pages 730-739
Facial Shape Recovery from a Single Image with an Arbitrary Directional Light Using Linearly Independent Representation....Pages 740-749
Locating Facial Features and Pose Estimation Using a 3D Shape Model....Pages 750-761
A Stochastic Method for Face Image Super-Resolution....Pages 762-773
A Framework for Long Distance Face Recognition Using Dense - and Sparse-Stereo Reconstruction....Pages 774-783
Multi-view Reconstruction of Unknown Objects within a Known Environment....Pages 784-795
Accurate Real-Time Disparity Estimation with Variational Methods....Pages 796-807
Real-Time Parallel Implementation of SSD Stereo Vision Algorithm on CSX SIMD Architecture....Pages 808-818
Revisiting the P n P Problem with a GPS....Pages 819-830
On Using Projective Relations for Calibration and Estimation in a Structured-Light Scanner....Pages 831-842
Depth from Encoded Sliding Projections....Pages 843-854
A New Algorithm for Inverse Consistent Image Registration....Pages 855-864
A 3D Active Surface Model for the Accurate Segmentation of Drosophila Schneider Cell Nuclei and Nucleoli....Pages 865-874
Weight, Sex, and Facial Expressions: On the Manipulation of Attributes in Generative 3D Face Models....Pages 875-885
Contrast Constrained Local Binary Fitting for Image Segmentation....Pages 886-895
Modeling and Rendering Physically-Based Wood Combustion....Pages 896-905
A Unifying View of Contour Length Bias Correction....Pages 906-913
A Novel Method for Enhanced Needle Localization Using Ultrasound-Guidance....Pages 914-923
Woolz IIP: A Tiled On-the-Fly Sectioning Server for 3D Volumetric Atlases....Pages 924-933
New Scalar Measures for Diffusion-Weighted MRI Visualization....Pages 934-943
Automatic Data-Driven Parameterization for Phase-Based Bone Localization in US Using Log-Gabor Filters....Pages 944-954
Wavelet-Based Representation of Biological Shapes....Pages 955-964
Detection of Unusual Objects and Temporal Patterns in EEG Video Recordings....Pages 965-974
DRONE: A Flexible Framework for Distributed Rendering and Display....Pages 975-986
Efficient Strategies for Acceleration Structure Updates in Interactive Ray Tracing Applications on the Cell Processor....Pages 987-998
Interactive Assembly Guide Using Augmented Reality....Pages 999-1008
V-Volcano: Addressing Students’ Misconceptions in Earth Sciences Learning through Virtual Reality Simulations....Pages 1009-1018
A Framework for Object-Oriented Shader Design....Pages 1019-1030
Ray Traced Virtual Reality....Pages 1031-1042
Stochastic Optimization for Rigid Point Set Registration....Pages 1043-1054
Multi-label MRF Optimization via a Least Squares s  −  t Cut....Pages 1055-1066
Combinatorial Preconditioners and Multilevel Solvers for Problems in Computer Vision and Image Processing....Pages 1067-1078
Optimal Weights for Convex Functionals in Medical Image Segmentation....Pages 1079-1088
Adaptive Contextual Energy Parameterization for Automated Image Segmentation....Pages 1089-1100
Approximated Curvature Penalty in Non-rigid Registration Using Pairwise MRFs....Pages 1101-1109
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