Biologically Motivated Computer Vision: Second International Workshop, BMCV 2002 Tübingen, Germany, November 22–24, 2002 Proceedings

Ultra-Rapid Scene Categorization with a Wave of Spikes....Pages 1-15
A Biologically Motivated Scheme for Robust Junction Detection....Pages 16-26
Iterative Tuning of Simple Cells for Contrast Invariant Edge Enhancement....Pages 27-37
How the Spatial Filters of Area V1 Can Be Used for a Nearly Ideal Edge Detection....Pages 38-49
Improved Contour Detection by Non-classical Receptive Field Inhibition....Pages 50-59
Contour Detection by Synchronization of Integrate-and-Fire Neurons....Pages 60-69
Reading Speed and Superiority of Right Visual Field on Foveated Vision....Pages 70-79
A Model of Contour Integration in Early Visual Cortex....Pages 80-89
Computational Cortical Cell Models for Continuity and Texture....Pages 90-98
A Neural Model of Human Texture Processing: Texture Segmentation vs. Visual Search....Pages 99-108
Unsupervised Image Segmentation Using a Colony of Cooperating Ants....Pages 109-116
Image Reconstruction from Gabor Magnitudes....Pages 117-126
A Binocular Stereo Algorithm for Log-Polar Foveated Systems....Pages 127-136
Rotation-Invariant Optical Flow by Gaze-Depended Retino-Cortical Mapping....Pages 137-145
An Analysis of the Motion Signal Distributions Emerging from Locomotion through a Natural Environment....Pages 146-156
Prototypes of Biological Movements in Brains and Machines....Pages 157-170
Insect-Inspired Estimation of Self-Motion....Pages 171-180
Tracking through Optical Snow....Pages 181-188
On Computing Visual Flows with Boundaries: The Case of Shading and Edges....Pages 189-198
Biological Motion of Speech....Pages 199-206
Object Perception: Generative Image Models and Bayesian Inference....Pages 207-218
The Role of Propagation and Medial Geometry in Human Vision....Pages 219-229
Ecological Statistics of Contour Grouping....Pages 230-238
Statistics of Second Order Multi-modal Feature Events and Their Exploitation in Biological and Artificial Visual Systems....Pages 239-248
Qualitative Representations for Recognition....Pages 249-262
Scene-Centered Description from Spatial Envelope Properties....Pages 263-272
Visual Categorization: How the Monkey Brain Does It....Pages 273-281
A New Approach towards Vision Suggested by Biologically Realistic Neural Microcircuit Models....Pages 282-293
Interpreting LOC Cell Responses....Pages 294-300
Neural Mechanisms of Visual Flow Integration and Segregation —Insights from the Pinna-Brelsta. Illusion and Variations of It....Pages 301-310
Reconstruction of Subjective Surfaces from Occlusion Cues....Pages 311-321
Extraction of Object Representations from Stereo Image Sequences Utilizing Statistical and Deterministic Regularities in Visual Data....Pages 322-330
A Method of Extracting Objects of Interest with Possible Broad Application in Computer Vision....Pages 331-339
Medical Ultrasound Image Similarity Measurement by Human Visual System (HVS) Modelling....Pages 340-347
Seeing People in the Dark: Face Recognition in Infrared Images....Pages 348-359
Modeling Insect Compound Eyes: Space-Variant Spherical Vision....Pages 360-367
Facial and Eye Gaze Detection....Pages 368-376
1-Click Learning of Object Models for Recognition....Pages 377-386
On the Role of Object-Specific Features for Real World Object Recognition in Biological Vision....Pages 387-397
Object Detection in Natural Scenes by Feedback....Pages 398-407
Stochastic Guided Search Model for Search Asymmetries in Visual Search Tasks....Pages 408-417
Biologically Inspired Saliency Map Model for Bottom-up Visual Attention....Pages 418-426
Hierarchical Selectivity for Object-Based Visual Attention....Pages 427-438
Attending to Motion: Localizing and Classifying Motion Patterns in Image Sequences....Pages 439-452
A Goal Oriented Attention Guidance Model....Pages 453-461
Visual Attention Using Game Theory....Pages 462-471
Attentional Selection for Object Recognition — A Gentle Way....Pages 472-479
Audio-Oculomotor Transformation....Pages 480-490
Gender Classification of Human Faces....Pages 491-500
Face Reconstruction from Partial Information Based on a Morphable Face Model....Pages 501-510
Dynamics of Face Categorization....Pages 511-518
Recognizing Expressions by Direct Estimation of the Parameters of a Pixel Morphable Model....Pages 519-527
Modeling of Movement Sequences Based on Hierarchical Spatial-Temporal Correspondence of Movement Primitives....Pages 528-537
Automatic Synthesis of Sequences of Human Movements by Linear Combination of Learned Example Patterns....Pages 538-547
An Adaptive Hierarchical Model of the Ventral Visual Pathway Implemented on a Mobile Robot....Pages 548-557
A New Robotics Platform for Neuromorphic Vision: Beobots....Pages 558-566
Learning to Act on Objects....Pages 567-575
Egocentric Direction and the Visual Guidance of Robot Locomotion Background, Theory and Implementation....Pages 576-591
Evolving Vision-Based Flying Robots....Pages 592-600
Object Detection and Classification for Outdoor Walking Guidance System....Pages 601-610
Understanding Human Behaviors Based on Eye-Head-Hand Coordination....Pages 611-619
Vision-Based Homing with a Panoramic Stereo Sensor....Pages 620-628
Unsupervised Learning of Visual Structure....Pages 629-642
Role of Featural and Configural Information in Familiar and Unfamiliar Face Recognition....Pages 643-650
View-Based Recognition of Faces in Man and Machine: Re-visiting Inter-extra-Ortho....Pages 651-660