Advances in Visual Computing: First International Symposium, ISVC 2005, Lake Tahoe, NV, USA, December 5-7, 2005. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
An NPR Technique for Pointillistic and Mosaic Images with Impressionist Color Arrangement....Pages 1-8
Active View Optimization for Viewing Objects in Motion....Pages 9-16
Adding Hand Motion to the Motion Capture Based Character Animation....Pages 17-24
Oversimplified Euler Operators for a Non-oriented, Non-manifold B-Rep Data Structure....Pages 25-34
The Number of Gaps in Binary Pictures....Pages 35-42
Video Codec for Classical Cartoon Animations with Hardware Accelerated Playback....Pages 43-50
Retinal Image Registration for NIH’s ETDRS....Pages 51-59
Using Multimodal MR Data for Segmentation and Topology Recovery of the Cerebral Superficial Venous Tree....Pages 60-67
Loop Removal from Colon Central Path Through Skeleton Scale-Space Tracking....Pages 68-75
Multiscale Segmentation of HRCT Images Using Bipolar Incoherent Filtering....Pages 76-83
Building Statistical Atlas of White Matter Fiber Tract Based on Vector/Tensor Field Reconstruction in Diffusion Tensor MRI....Pages 84-91
Interactive 3D Heart Chamber Partitioning with a New Marker-Controlled Watershed Algorithm....Pages 92-99
Inferring Cause/Effect Relationships in Multi-sensor Ambient Intelligence Systems....Pages 100-107
Toward a Unified Probabilistic Framework for Object Recognition and Segmentation....Pages 108-117
Distributed Multi-camera Surveillance for Aircraft Servicing Operations....Pages 118-125
Mining Paths of Complex Crowd Scenes....Pages 126-133
Geometric and Photometric Analysis for Interactively Recognizing Multicolor or Partially Occluded Objects....Pages 134-142
A Three-Level Graph Based Interactive Volume Segmentation System....Pages 143-150
Self-organizing Deformable Model: A New Method for Fitting Mesh Model to Given Object Surface....Pages 151-158
Image-Based Deformation of Objects in Real Scenes....Pages 159-166
Comparing Sphere-Tree Generators and Hierarchy Updates for Deformable Objects Collision Detection....Pages 167-174
Simulating Complex Organ Interactions: Evaluation of a Soft Tissue Discrete Model....Pages 175-182
Face Verification in Polar Frequency Domain: A Biologically Motivated Approach....Pages 183-190
Face Alignment and Adaptive Weight Assignment for Robust Face Recognition....Pages 191-198
Face Detection in Low-Resolution Images....Pages 199-206
Investigating the Impact of Face Categorization on Recognition Performance....Pages 207-218
A Novel Approach on Silhouette Based Human Motion Analysis for Gait Recognition....Pages 219-226
A Hybrid HMM/DPA Adaptive Gesture Recognition Method....Pages 227-234
Hifocon: Object and Dimensional Coherence and Correlation in Multidimensional Visualization....Pages 235-242
Efficient Compression of Visibility Sets....Pages 243-252
Rendering Optimizations Guided by Head-Pose Estimates and Their Uncertainty....Pages 253-262
Acceptance of Visual Search Interfaces for the Web – Design and Empirical Evaluation of a Book Search Interface....Pages 263-270
Distributed and Collaborative Biomedical Data Exploration....Pages 271-278
Image Database Navigation: A Globe-Al Approach....Pages 279-286
Viewpoint Interpolation Using an Ellipsoid Head Model for Video Teleconferencing....Pages 287-293
Real-Time Video Annotations for Augmented Reality....Pages 294-302
A Tree-Structured Model of Visual Appearance Applied to Gaze Tracking....Pages 303-312
Emotional Expression in Virtual Agents Through Body Language....Pages 313-320
Visual Tracking for Seamless 3D Interactions in Augmented Reality....Pages 321-328
ARISupport – Interaction Support for Augmented Reality Systems....Pages 329-336
Background Updating for Visual Surveillance....Pages 337-346
Pattern Discovery for Video Surveillance....Pages 347-354
Real-Time Crowd Density Estimation Using Images....Pages 355-362
Automatic Robust Background Modeling Using Multivariate Non-parametric Kernel Density Estimation for Visual Surveillance....Pages 363-370
Recognition of Complex Human Behaviors in Pool Environment Using Foreground Silhouette....Pages 371-379
Adaptive Background Subtraction with Multiple Feedbacks for Video Surveillance....Pages 380-387
A Vectorial Self-dual Morphological Filter Based on Total Variation Minimization....Pages 388-395
Wavelet Transform Based Gaussian Point Spread Function Estimation....Pages 396-405
One-Point Hexagonal Inner Search for Fast Motion Estimation....Pages 406-412
Self-Describing Context-Based Pixel Ordering....Pages 413-419
Lossless Compression of CCD Sensor Data....Pages 420-426
Geometric Approach to Segmentation and Protein Localization in Cell Cultured Assays....Pages 427-436
Multi-level Thresholding Using Entropy-Based Weighted FCM Algorithm in Color Image....Pages 437-444
Adaptive Robust Structure Tensors for Orientation Estimation and Image Segmentation....Pages 445-453
Structural and Textural Skeletons for Noisy Shapes....Pages 454-461
Accurate and Efficient Computation of High Order Zernike Moments....Pages 462-469
3D Model Generation from Image Sequences Using Global Geometric Constraint....Pages 470-477
Efficient Shot Boundary Detection for Action Movies Using Blockwise Motion-Based Features....Pages 478-485
Text Localization and Extraction from Complex Color Images....Pages 486-493
Using Linguistic Models for Image Retrieval....Pages 494-501
Content-Based Image Retrieval Via Vector Quantization....Pages 502-509
Multi-aspect Target Tracking in Image Sequences Using Particle Filters....Pages 510-518
Segmentation and Recognition of Traffic Signs Using Shape Information....Pages 519-526
Detection and Tracking Multiple Pedestrians from a Moving Camera....Pages 527-534
Event Detection in Underground Stations Using Multiple Heterogeneous Surveillance Cameras....Pages 535-542
Large-Scale Geospatial Indexing for Image-Based Retrieval and Analysis....Pages 543-552
An Interactive Visualization Method for Integrating Digital Elevation Models and Geographic Information Systems Vector Layers....Pages 553-561
Splines Interpolation in High Resolution Satellite Imagery....Pages 562-570
Tool for Storm Analysis Using Multiple Data Sets....Pages 571-578
3D Modeling and Adaptation for Virtual Heritage System....Pages 579-586
Direct Point Rendering on GPU....Pages 587-594
An Artistic Portrait Caricature Model....Pages 595-600
Capturing and View-Dependent Rendering of Billboard Models....Pages 601-606
Error-Bounded Solid Voxelization for Polygonal Model Based on Heuristic Seed Filling....Pages 607-612
Riemannian Mean Curvature Flow....Pages 613-620
3D Shape from Unorganized 3D Point Clouds....Pages 621-629
3D Hand Pose Reconstruction with ISOSOM....Pages 630-635
A Motion Capture System for Sign Language Synthesis: Overview and Related Issues....Pages 636-641
Dynamic Visualization of Spatially Referenced Information....Pages 642-646
WYSIWYG-Tool Tips: Enhancing Tool Tips with Translucent Preview Bitmaps....Pages 647-652
Motion Visualization of Ultrasound Imaging....Pages 653-658
Two Novel Complete Sets of Similarity Invariants....Pages 659-665
Detection of Text Region and Segmentation from Natural Scene Images....Pages 666-671
ARM Based Microcontroller for Image Capturing in FPGA Design....Pages 672-677
Contraction Mapping Calibration....Pages 678-683
Discrimination of Natural Contours by Means of Time-Scale-Frequency Decompositions....Pages 684-689
Color and Edge Refinement Method for Content Based Image Retrieval....Pages 690-695
Selecting a Discriminant Subset of Co-occurrence Matrix Features for Texture-Based Image Retrieval....Pages 696-703
An Automatic Relevance Feedback in Image Retrieval Using Belief Functions....Pages 704-709
A Fast Full Search Algorithm for Variable Block-Based Motion Estimation of H.264....Pages 710-717
Adaptive Switching Linear Predictor for Lossless Image Compression....Pages 718-722
Toward Real Time Fractal Image Compression Using Graphics Hardware....Pages 723-728
Motion Based Segmentation Using MPEG Streams and Watershed Method....Pages 729-736
Efficient Depth Edge Detection Using Structured Light....Pages 737-744
Image Smoothing and Segmentation by Graph Regularization....Pages 745-752
Back Matter....Pages -