Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns: 13th International Conference, CAIP 2009, Münster, Germany, September 2-4, 2009. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
An Overview of 3D Video and Free Viewpoint Video....Pages 1-8
Computer Vision and Computer Graphics Analysis of Paintings and Drawings: An Introduction to the Literature....Pages 9-24
Head Pose Estimation by a Stepwise Nonlinear Regression....Pages 25-32
Model-Based Illumination Correction for Face Images in Uncontrolled Scenarios....Pages 33-40
A New Gabor Phase Difference Pattern for Face and Ear Recognition....Pages 41-49
Is White Light the Best Illumination for Palmprint Recognition?....Pages 50-57
Second-Level Partition for Estimating FAR Confidence Intervals in Biometric Systems....Pages 58-65
Smooth Multi-Manifold Embedding for Robust Identity-Independent Head Pose Estimation....Pages 66-73
Retracted: Human Age Estimation by Metric Learning for Regression Problems....Pages 74-82
Face Detection Using GPU-Based Convolutional Neural Networks....Pages 83-90
Gaussian Weak Classifiers Based on Haar-Like Features with Four Rectangles for Real-time Face Detection....Pages 91-98
Model Based Analysis of Face Images for Facial Feature Extraction....Pages 99-106
Dynamics Analysis of Facial Expressions for Person Identification....Pages 107-115
Regression Based Non-frontal Face Synthesis for Improved Identity Verification....Pages 116-124
Differential Feature Analysis for Palmprint Authentication....Pages 125-132
Combining Facial Appearance and Dynamics for Face Recognition....Pages 133-140
Finger-Knuckle-Print Verification Based on Band-Limited Phase-Only Correlation....Pages 141-148
Calibration of Radially Symmetric Distortion by Fitting Principal Component....Pages 149-156
Calibration of Rotating Sensors....Pages 157-164
A New Approach for Segmentation and Recognition of Arabic Handwritten Touching Numeral Pairs....Pages 165-172
Ridges Based Curled Textline Region Detection from Grayscale Camera-Captured Document Images....Pages 173-180
Kernel PCA for HMM-Based Cursive Handwriting Recognition....Pages 181-188
Improved Handwriting Recognition by Combining Two Forms of Hidden Markov Models and a Recurrent Neural Network....Pages 189-196
Embedded Bernoulli Mixture HMMs for Continuous Handwritten Text Recognition....Pages 197-204
Recognition-Based Segmentation of Nom Characters from Body Text Regions of Stele Images Using Area Voronoi Diagram....Pages 205-212
A Novel Approach for Word Spotting Using Merge-Split Edit Distance....Pages 213-220
Hierarchical Decomposition of Handwritten Manuscripts Layouts....Pages 221-228
Camera-Based Online Signature Verification with Sequential Marginal Likelihood Change Detector....Pages 229-236
Separation of Overlapping and Touching Lines within Handwritten Arabic Documents....Pages 237-244
Combining Contour Based Orientation and Curvature Features for Writer Recognition....Pages 245-252
A Novel Approach to Estimate Fractal Dimension from Closed Curves....Pages 253-260
Saliency Based on Decorrelation and Distinctiveness of Local Responses....Pages 261-268
Incorporating Shape Features in an Appearance-Based Object Detection System....Pages 269-276
Symmetry Detection for Multi-object Using Local Polar Coordinate....Pages 277-284
Detection of Non-convex Objects by Dynamic Programming....Pages 285-292
Finding Intrinsic and Extrinsic Viewing Parameters from a Single Realist Painting....Pages 293-300
A Model for Saliency Detection Using NMFsc Algorithm....Pages 301-308
Directional Force Field-Based Maps: Implementation and Application....Pages 309-317
A Spatio-Temporal Isotropic Operator for the Attention-Point Extraction....Pages 318-325
Homological Tree-Based Strategies for Image Analysis....Pages 326-333
Affine Moment Invariants of Color Images....Pages 334-341
Graph-Based k -Means Clustering: A Comparison of the Set Median versus the Generalized Median Graph....Pages 342-350
Algorithms for the Sample Mean of Graphs....Pages 351-359
A Hypergraph-Based Model for Graph Clustering: Application to Image Indexing....Pages 360-368
Hypergraphs, Characteristic Polynomials and the Ihara Zeta Function....Pages 369-376
Feature Ranking Algorithms for Improving Classification of Vector Space Embedded Graphs....Pages 377-384
Graph-Based Object Class Discovery....Pages 385-393
The Clifford-Hodge Flow: An Extension of the Beltrami Flow....Pages 394-401
Speedup of Color Palette Indexing in Self–Organization of Kohonen Feature Map....Pages 402-409
Probabilistic Satellite Image Fusion....Pages 410-418
A Riemannian Scalar Measure for Diffusion Tensor Images....Pages 419-426
Structure-Preserving Smoothing of Biomedical Images....Pages 427-434
Fast Block Clustering Based Optimized Adaptive Mediod Shift....Pages 435-443
Color Me Right–Seamless Image Compositing....Pages 444-451
Transform Invariant Video Fingerprinting by NMF....Pages 452-459
A Model Based Method for Overall Well Focused Catadioptric Image Acquisition with Multi-focal Images....Pages 460-467
Colorization Using Segmentation with Random Walk....Pages 468-475
Edge-Based Image Compression with Homogeneous Diffusion....Pages 476-483
Color Quantization Based on PCA and Kohonen SOFM....Pages 484-491
On Adapting the Tensor Voting Framework to Robust Color Image Denoising....Pages 492-500
Two-Dimensional Windowing in the Structural Similarity Index for the Colour Image Quality Assessment....Pages 501-508
Reduced Inverse Distance Weighting Interpolation for Painterly Rendering....Pages 509-516
Nonlinear Diffusion Filters without Parameters for Image Segmentation....Pages 517-524
Color Quantization by Multiresolution Analysis....Pages 525-532
Total Variation Processing of Images with Poisson Statistics....Pages 533-540
Fast Trilateral Filtering....Pages 541-548
Joint Affine and Radiometric Registration Using Kernel Operators....Pages 549-556
MCMC-Based Algorithm to Adjust Scale Bias in Large Series of Electron Microscopical Ultrathin Sections....Pages 557-564
Accelerating Image Retrieval Using Factorial Correspondence Analysis on GPU....Pages 565-572
Color Based Bags-of-Emotions....Pages 573-580
Measuring the Influence of Concept Detection on Video Retrieval....Pages 581-589
SEM Image Analysis for Quality Control of Nanoparticles....Pages 590-597
Extraction of Cardiac Motion Using Scale-Space Features Points and Gauged Reconstruction....Pages 598-605
A Non-Local Fuzzy Segmentation Method: Application to Brain MRI....Pages 606-613
Development of a High Resolution 3D Infant Stomach Model for Surgical Planning....Pages 614-621
Improved Arterial Inner Wall Detection Using Generalized Median Computation....Pages 622-630
Parcellation of the Auditory Cortex into Landmark–Related Regions of Interest....Pages 631-638
Automatic Fontanel Extraction from Newborns’ CT Images Using Variational Level Set....Pages 639-646
Modeling and Measurement of 3D Deformation of Scoliotic Spine Using 2D X-ray Images....Pages 647-654
A Comparative Study on Feature Selection for Retinal Vessel Segmentation Using FABC....Pages 655-662
Directional Multi-scale Modeling of High-Resolution Computed Tomography (HRCT) Lung Images for Diffuse Lung Disease Classification....Pages 663-671
Statistical Deformable Model-Based Reconstruction of a Patient-Specific Surface Model from Single Standard X-ray Radiograph....Pages 672-679
Plant Species Identification Using Multi-scale Fractal Dimension Applied to Images of Adaxial Surface Epidermis....Pages 680-688
Fast Invariant Contour-Based Classification of Hand Symbols for HCI....Pages 689-696
Recognition of Simple 3D Geometrical Objects under Partial Occlusion....Pages 697-704
Shape Classification Using a Flexible Graph Kernel....Pages 705-713
Bio-inspired Approach for the Recognition of Goal-Directed Hand Actions....Pages 714-722
Wide-Baseline Visible Features for Highly Dynamic Scene Recognition....Pages 723-731
Jumping Emerging Substrings in Image Classification....Pages 732-739
Human Action Recognition Using LBP-TOP as Sparse Spatio-Temporal Feature Descriptor....Pages 740-747
Contextual-Guided Bag-of-Visual-Words Model for Multi-class Object Categorization....Pages 748-756
Isometric Deformation Modelling for Object Recognition....Pages 757-765
Image Categorization Based on a Hierarchical Spatial Markov Model....Pages 766-773
Soft Measure of Visual Token Occurrences for Object Categorization....Pages 774-782
Indexing Large Visual Vocabulary by Randomized Dimensions Hashing for High Quantization Accuracy: Improving the Object Retrieval Quality....Pages 783-790
Design of Clinical Support Systems Using Integrated Genetic Algorithm and Support Vector Machine....Pages 791-798
Decision Trees Using the Minimum Entropy-of-Error Principle....Pages 799-807
 k / K -Nearest Neighborhood Criterion for Improvement of Locally Linear Embedding....Pages 808-815
A Parameter Free Approach for Clustering Analysis....Pages 816-823
Fitting Product of HMM to Human Motions....Pages 824-831
Reworking Bridging for Use within the Image Domain....Pages 832-839
Detection of Ambiguous Patterns Using SVMs: Application to Handwritten Numeral Recognition....Pages 840-847
Accurate 3D Modelling by Fusion of Potentially Reliable Active Range and Passive Stereo Data....Pages 848-855
Rapid Classification of Surface Reflectance from Image Velocities....Pages 856-864
Structure-Preserving Regularisation Constraints for Shape-from-Shading....Pages 865-872
3D Object Reconstruction Using Full Pixel Matching....Pages 873-880
Rapid Inference of Object Rigidity and Reflectance Using Optic Flow....Pages 881-888
On the Recovery of Depth from a Single Defocused Image....Pages 889-897
Modelling Human Segmentation Trough Color and Space Analysis....Pages 898-905
A Metric and Multiscale Color Segmentation Using the Color Monogenic Signal....Pages 906-913
An Interactive Level Set Approach to Semi-automatic Detection of Features in Food Micrographs....Pages 914-921
Shape Detection from Line Drawings by Hierarchical Matching....Pages 922-929
A Fast Level Set-Like Algorithm with Topology Preserving Constraint....Pages 930-938
Significance Tests and Statistical Inequalities for Segmentation by Region Growing on Graph....Pages 939-946
Scale Space Hierarchy of Segments....Pages 947-954
Point Cloud Segmentation Based on Radial Reflection....Pages 955-962
Locally Adaptive Speed Functions for Level Sets in Image Segmentation....Pages 963-970
Improving User Control with Minimum Involvement in User-Guided Segmentation by Image Foresting Transform....Pages 971-978
3D Image Segmentation Using the Bounded Irregular Pyramid....Pages 979-986
The Gabor-Based Tensor Level Set Method for Multiregional Image Segmentation....Pages 987-994
Embedded Geometric Active Contour with Shape Constraint for Mass Segmentation....Pages 995-1002
An Efficient Parallel Algorithm for Graph-Based Image Segmentation....Pages 1003-1010
Coarse-to-Fine Tracking of Articulated Objects Using a Hierarchical Spring System....Pages 1011-1018
Cooperative Stereo Matching with Color-Based Adaptive Local Support....Pages 1019-1027
Iterative Camera Motion and Depth Estimation in a Video Sequence....Pages 1028-1035
Performance Prediction for Unsupervised Video Indexing....Pages 1036-1043
New Lane Model and Distance Transform for Lane Detection and Tracking....Pages 1044-1052
Real-Time Volumetric Reconstruction and Tracking of Hands in a Desktop Environment....Pages 1053-1060
Stereo Localization Using Dual PTZ Cameras....Pages 1061-1069
Object Tracking in Video Sequences by Unsupervised Learning....Pages 1070-1077
A Third Eye for Performance Evaluation in Stereo Sequence Analysis....Pages 1078-1086
OIF - An Online Inferential Framework for Multi-object Tracking with Kalman Filter....Pages 1087-1095
Real-Time Stereo Vision: Making More Out of Dynamic Programming....Pages 1096-1103
Optic Flow Using Multi-scale Anchor Points....Pages 1104-1112
A Methodology for Evaluating Illumination Artifact Removal for Corresponding Images....Pages 1113-1121
Nonlinear Motion Detection....Pages 1122-1129
Rotation Invariant Texture Classification Using Binary Filter Response Pattern (BFRP)....Pages 1130-1137
Near-Regular Texture Synthesis....Pages 1138-1145
Texture Editing Using Frequency Swap Strategy....Pages 1146-1153
A Quantitative Evaluation of Texture Feature Robustness and Interpolation Behaviour....Pages 1154-1161
Nonlinear Dimension Reduction and Visualization of Labeled Data....Pages 1162-1170
Performance Evaluation of Airport Lighting Using Mobile Camera Techniques....Pages 1171-1178
Intelligent Video Surveillance for Detecting Snow and Ice Coverage on Electrical Insulators of Power Transmission Lines....Pages 1179-1187
Size from Specular Highlights for Analyzing Droplet Size Distributions....Pages 1188-1195
Capturing Physiology of Emotion along Facial Muscles: A Method of Distinguishing Feigned from Involuntary Expressions....Pages 1196-1203
Atmospheric Visibility Monitoring Using Digital Image Analysis Techniques....Pages 1204-1211
Minimized Database of Unit Selection in Visual Speech Synthesis without Loss of Naturalness....Pages 1212-1219
Analysis of Speed Sign Classification Algorithms Using Shape Based Segmentation of Binary Images....Pages 1220-1227
Using CCD Moiré Pattern Analysis to Implement Pressure-Sensitive Touch Surfaces....Pages 1228-1235
Enhanced Landmine Detection from Low Resolution IR Image Sequences....Pages 1236-1244
Erratum to: Cooperative Stereo Matching with Color-Based Adaptive Local Support....Pages 1245-1245
Erratum to: Human Age Estimation by Metric Learning for Regression Problems....Pages E2-E2
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