Advances in Visual Computing: 8th International Symposium, ISVC 2012, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece, July 16-18, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Part II

Front Matter....Pages -
Iris Recognition in Image Domain: Quality-Metric Based Comparators....Pages 1-10
Gait Recognition Based on Normalized Walk Cycles....Pages 11-20
Illumination Normalization for SIFT Based Finger Vein Authentication....Pages 21-30
Higher Rank Support Tensor Machines....Pages 31-40
Multi-scale Integral Modified Census Transform for Eye Detection....Pages 41-50
A Comparative Analysis of Thermal and Visual Modalities for Automated Facial Expression Recognition....Pages 51-60
Vertebrae Tracking in Lumbar Spinal Video-Fluoroscopy Using Particle Filters with Semi-automatic Initialisation....Pages 61-69
Mutual Information for Multi-modal, Discontinuity-Preserving Image Registration....Pages 70-81
Mass Detection in Digital Mammograms Using Optimized Gabor Filter Bank....Pages 82-91
Comparing 3D Descriptors for Local Search of Craniofacial Landmarks....Pages 92-103
Vision-Based Tracking of Complex Macroparasites for High-Content Phenotypic Drug Screening....Pages 104-114
Cell Nuclei Detection Using Globally Optimal Active Contours with Shape Prior....Pages 115-124
A Novel Gait Recognition System Based on Hidden Markov Models....Pages 125-134
Motion History of Skeletal Volumes for Human Action Recognition....Pages 135-144
Compressive Matting....Pages 145-154
A Template-Based Completion Framework for Videos with Dynamic Backgrounds....Pages 155-165
3D Action Classification Using Sparse Spatio-temporal Feature Representations....Pages 166-175
SCAR: Dynamic Adaptation for Person Detection and Persistence Analysis in Unconstrained Videos....Pages 176-187
Exploiting 3D Digital Representations of Ancient Inscriptions to Identify Their Writer....Pages 188-198
What the Eye Did Not See – A Fusion Approach to Image Coding....Pages 199-208
Knot Detection in X-Ray CT Images of Wood....Pages 209-218
Diffusion-Based Image Compression in Steganography....Pages 219-228
Video Analysis Algorithms for Automated Categorization of Fly Behaviors....Pages 229-241
Panorama Image Construction Using Multiple-Photos Stitching from Biological Data....Pages 242-252
Function Field Analysis for the Visualization of Flow Similarity in Time-Varying Vector Fields....Pages 253-264
A Novel Algorithm for Computing Riemannian Geodesic Distance in Rectangular 2D Grids....Pages 265-274
Visualization of Taxi Drivers’ Income and Mobility Intelligence....Pages 275-284
Frame Cache Management for Multi-frame Rate Systems....Pages 285-294
Detecting Periodicity in Serial Data through Visualization....Pages 295-304
Practical Implementation of a Graphics Turing Test....Pages 305-313
The Hybrid Algorithm for Procedural Generation of Virtual Scene Components....Pages 314-323
Initialization of Model-Based Camera Tracking with Analysis-by-Synthesis....Pages 324-333
Real-Time Rendering of Teeth with No Preprocessing....Pages 334-345
An Evaluation of Open Source Physics Engines for Use in Virtual Reality Assembly Simulations....Pages 346-357
A Framework for User Tests in a Virtual Environment....Pages 358-367
Continuous Pain Intensity Estimation from Facial Expressions....Pages 368-377
Local Alignment of Gradient Features for Face Sketch Recognition....Pages 378-387
Towards the Usage of Optical Flow Temporal Features for Facial Expression Classification....Pages 388-397
Using Detailed Independent 3D Sub-models to Improve Facial Feature Localisation and Pose Estimation....Pages 398-408
Gender Recognition from Face Images with Dyadic Wavelet Transform and Local Binary Pattern....Pages 409-419
Architectural Style Classification of Domes....Pages 420-429
Contour Detection by Image Analogies....Pages 430-439
Rotation Invariant Texture Recognition Using Discriminant Feature Transform....Pages 440-447
An Unsupervised Evaluation Measure of Image Segmentation: Application to Flower Image Segmentation....Pages 448-457
Robust Hand Tracking with Hough Forest and Multi-cue Flocks of Features....Pages 458-467
The Impact of Unfocused Vickers Indentation Images on the Segmentation Performance....Pages 468-478
GPU-Based Multi-resolution Image Analysis for Synthesis of Tileable Textures....Pages 479-488
Edge Detection and Smoothing-Filter of Volumetric Data....Pages 489-498
Human Body Orientation Estimation in Multiview Scenarios....Pages 499-508
Characterization of Similar Areas of Two 2D Point Clouds....Pages 509-516
Building an Effective Visual Codebook: Is K-Means Clustering Useful?....Pages 517-525
Wide Field of View Kinect Undistortion for Social Navigation Implementation....Pages 526-535
Automatic Human Body Parts Detection in a 2D Anthropometric System....Pages 536-544
Implementation and Analysis of JPEG2000 System on a Chip....Pages 545-556
Perceiving Ribs in Single-View Wireframe Sketches of Polyhedral Shapes....Pages 557-567
A Design Framework for an Integrated Sensor Orientation Simulator....Pages 568-577
Automatic Improvement of Graph Based Image Segmentation....Pages 578-587
Analysis of Deformation of Mining Chains Based on Motion Tracking....Pages 588-596
A Spatial-Based Approach for Groups of Objects....Pages 597-608
Adaptive Exemplar-Based Particle Filter for 2D Human Pose Estimation....Pages 609-615
Estimation of Camera Extrinsic Parameters of Indoor Omni-Directional Images Acquired by a Rotating Line Camera....Pages 616-625
Spatter Tracking in Laser Machining....Pages 626-635
Car License Plate Detection under Large Variations Using Covariance and HOG Descriptors....Pages 636-647
Fast Intra Mode Decision Using the Angle of the Pixel Differences along the Horizontal and Vertical Direction for H.264/AVC....Pages 648-656
Interpolation of Reference Images in Sparse Dictionary for Global Image Registration....Pages 657-667
Customizable Time-Oriented Visualizations....Pages 668-677
A Visual Cross-Database Comparison of Metabolic Networks....Pages 678-687
Visual Rating for Given Deployments of Graphical User Interface Elements Using Shadows Algorithm....Pages 688-695
Hierarchical Visualization of BGP Routing Changes Using Entropy Measures....Pages 696-705
InShape: In-Situ Shape-Based Interactive Multiple-View Exploration of Diffusion MRI Visualizations....Pages 706-715
Surface Construction with Fewer Patches....Pages 716-725
Interactive Control of Mesh Topology in Quadrilateral Mesh Generation Based on 2D Tensor Fields....Pages 726-735
A New Visibility Walk Algorithm for Point Location in Planar Triangulation....Pages 736-745
Real-Time Algorithms Optimization Based on a Gaze-Point Position....Pages 746-755
Depth Auto-calibration for Range Cameras Based on 3D Geometry Reconstruction....Pages 756-766
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