Advances in Visual Computing: Second International Symposium, ISVC 2006 Lake Tahoe, NV, USA, November 6-8, 2006 Proceedings, Part I

Front Matter....Pages -
Activity Recognition Via Classification Constrained Diffusion Maps....Pages 1-8
Generating and Updating Textures for a Large-Scale Environment....Pages 9-18
Planar Surface Detection in Image Pairs Using Homographic Constraints....Pages 19-27
Robust Quality-Scalable Transmission of JPEG2000 Images over Wireless Channels Using LDPC Codes....Pages 28-39
A Novelty Detection Approach for Foreground Region Detection in Videos with Quasi-stationary Backgrounds....Pages 40-49
Procedural Image Processing for Visualization....Pages 50-59
Tracking of Individuals in Very Long Video Sequences....Pages 60-69
A Natural Interface for Sign Language Mathematics....Pages 70-79
A Novel Gait Recognition Method Via Fusing Shape and Kinematics Features....Pages 80-89
Illumination Normalization for Color Face Images....Pages 90-101
Real-Time Detection of Out-of-Plane Objects in Stereo Vision....Pages 102-111
Stereo Imaging with Uncalibrated Camera....Pages 112-121
Global Hand Pose Estimation by Multiple Camera Ellipse Tracking....Pages 122-132
Vision-Based Self-localization of Autonomous Guided Vehicle Using Landmarks of Colored Pentagons....Pages 133-140
An Automated System for Contact Lens Inspection....Pages 141-150
Efficient Motion Search in Large Motion Capture Databases....Pages 151-160
Real-Time Rendering of Light Shafts on GPU....Pages 161-169
Learning the Stylistic Similarity Between Human Motions....Pages 170-179
Effects of Layer Partitioning in Collaborative 3D Visualizations....Pages 180-190
GPU-Based Active Contour Segmentation Using Gradient Vector Flow....Pages 191-201
Active Single Landmark Based Global Localization of Autonomous Mobile Robots....Pages 202-211
Iterative Estimation of 3D Transformations for Object Alignment....Pages 212-221
Temporal Alignment of Time Varying MRI Datasets for High Resolution Medical Visualization....Pages 222-231
Physically Interacting with Four Dimensions....Pages 232-242
Low Level Moving-Feature Extraction Via Heat Flow Analogy....Pages 243-252
Shape Tracking and Registration for 4D Visualization of MRI and Structure....Pages 253-262
History Trees as Descriptors of Macromolecular Structures....Pages 263-272
Fusing Features in Direct Volume Rendered Images....Pages 273-282
Binocular Uncalibrated Photometric Stereo....Pages 283-292
Empirical Evaluation of a Visual Interface for Exploring Message Boards....Pages 293-302
Direct Estimation of the Stereo Geometry from Monocular Normal Flows....Pages 303-312
Singular Value Decomposition-Based Illumination Compensation in Video....Pages 313-322
Facial Expression Transformations for Expression-Invariant Face Recognition....Pages 323-333
A High-Speed Parallel Architecture for Stereo Matching....Pages 334-342
Light Simulation in a Distributed Driving Simulator....Pages 343-352
Self-adaptive RBF Neural Networks for Face Recognition....Pages 353-362
An Improved Representation of Junctions Through Asymmetric Tensor Diffusion....Pages 363-372
Accurate Extraction of Reciprocal Space Information from Transmission Electron Microscopy Images....Pages 373-382
GPU Accelerated Isosurface Extraction on Tetrahedral Grids....Pages 383-392
Enhancing Information on Large Scenes by Mixing Renderings....Pages 393-400
Auto-focusing in Extreme Zoom Surveillance: A System Approach with Application to Faces....Pages 401-410
Trifocal Transfer Based Novel View Synthesis for Micromanipulation....Pages 411-420
Simulation of Diabetic Retinopathy Neovascularization in Color Digital Fundus Images....Pages 421-433
Mesh Optimisation Using Edge Information in Feature-Based Surface Reconstruction....Pages 434-444
Finite Sample Bias of Robust Scale Estimators in Computer Vision Problems....Pages 445-454
Flexible Segmentation and Smoothing of DT-MRI Fields Through a Customizable Structure Tensor....Pages 455-464
Using Visualizations to Support Design and Debugging in Virtual Reality....Pages 465-474
Strategies for Part-Based Shape Analysis Using Skeletons....Pages 475-484
Automatic Learning of Articulated Skeletons from 3D Marker Trajectories....Pages 485-494
Real Time Hand Gesture Recognition Including Hand Segmentation and Tracking....Pages 495-504
Physically-Based Real-Time Diffraction Using Spherical Harmonics....Pages 505-517
3D Segmentation of Mammospheres for Localization Studies....Pages 518-527
Viewpoint Selection for Angiographic Volume....Pages 528-537
Recognizing Action Primitives in Complex Actions Using Hidden Markov Models....Pages 538-547
Polyhedrization of Discrete Convex Volumes....Pages 548-557
Automatic Camera Calibration and Scene Reconstruction with Scale-Invariant Features....Pages 558-568
Surface Fitting to Curves with Energy Control....Pages 569-578
Blob Tracking with Adaptive Feature Selection and Accurate Scale Determination....Pages 579-588
Self-Calibration with Two Views Using the Scale-Invariant Feature Transform....Pages 589-598
Improved Face Recognition Using Extended Modular Principal Component Analysis....Pages 599-607
Shape Reconstruction by Line Voting in Discrete Space....Pages 608-617
Characterization of the Closest Discrete Approximation of a Line in the 3-Dimensional Space....Pages 618-627
Margin Maximizing Discriminant Analysis for Multi-shot Based Object Recognition....Pages 628-637
A Novel 3D Statistical Shape Model for Segmentation of Medical Images....Pages 638-647
Scale Consistent Image Completion....Pages 648-659
EXDRAP: An Extended Dead Reckoning Architectural Pattern for the Development of Web-Based DVE Applications....Pages 660-671
Optimal Parameterizations of Bézier Surfaces....Pages 672-681
Constrained Delaunay Triangulation Using Delaunay Visibility....Pages 682-691
Immersing Tele-operators in Collaborative Augmented Reality....Pages 692-701
GrayCut – Object Segmentation in IR-Images....Pages 702-711
Unsupervised Clustering of Shapes....Pages 712-720
Markerless Pose Tracking for Augmented Reality....Pages 721-730
Lip Detection Using Confidence-Based Adaptive Thresholding....Pages 731-740
Optic Flow Integration at Multiple Spatial Frequencies – Neural Mechanism and Algorithm....Pages 741-750
A Critical Appraisal of the Box Counting Method to Assess the Fractal Dimension of Tree Crowns....Pages 751-760
3D Surface Reconstruction and Registration for Image Guided Medialization Laryngoplasty....Pages 761-770
Vision-Based User Interfaces for Health Applications: A Survey....Pages 771-782
Multiple Hypothesis Target Tracking Using Merge and Split of Graph’s Nodes....Pages 783-792
Understanding 3D Emotions Through Compact Anthropometric Autoregressive Models....Pages 793-802
Graph-Based Multi-resolution Temporal-Based Face Reconstruction....Pages 803-812
Web-Based Interface for the Visualization of Microarray Data....Pages 813-821
3D and Texture Modelling of Precolombian Objects....Pages 822-830
Segmentation of Triangular Meshes Using Multi-scale Normal Variation....Pages 831-840
Integration of Multiple Methods for Class and Specific Object Recognition....Pages 841-849
An Efficient Photon Mapping Algorithm for Rendering Light-Emitting Fluids....Pages 850-859
Face Recognition Using 2D and 3D Multimodal Local Features....Pages 860-870
Adaptive Background Generation for Video Object Segmentation....Pages 871-880
Omnidirectional Camera Calibration and 3D Reconstruction by Contour Matching....Pages 881-890
Real-Time GPU-Based Simulation of Dynamic Terrain....Pages 891-900
High-Resolution Video from Series of Still Photographs....Pages 901-910
Back Matter....Pages -