Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: Third International Workshop, EMMCVPR 2001 Sophia Antipolis, France, September 3–5, 2001 Proceedings

A Double-Loop Algorithm to Minimize the Bethe Free Energy....Pages 3-18
A Variational Approach to Maximum a Posteriori Estimation for Image Denoising....Pages 19-34
Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Template of a Rigid Moving Object....Pages 34-49
Metric Similarities Learning through Examples: An Application to Shape Retrieval....Pages 50-62
A Fast MAP Algorithm for 3D Ultrasound....Pages 63-74
Designing the Minimal Structure of Hidden Markov Model by Bisimulation....Pages 75-90
Relaxing Symmetric Multiple Windows Stereo Using Markov Random Fields....Pages 91-105
Matching Images to Models — Camera Calibration for 3-D Surface Reconstruction....Pages 105-117
A Hierarchical Markov Random Field Model for Figure-Ground Segregation....Pages 118-133
Articulated Object Tracking via a Genetic Algorithm....Pages 134-149
Learning Matrix Space Image Representations....Pages 153-168
Supervised Texture Segmentation by Maximising Conditional Likelihood....Pages 169-184
Designing Moiré Patterns....Pages 185-200
Optimization of Paintbrush Rendering of Images by Dynamic MCMC Methods....Pages 201-215
Illumination Invariant Recognition of Color Texture Using Correlation and Covariance Functions....Pages 216-231
Path Based Pairwise Data Clustering with Application to Texture Segmentation....Pages 235-250
A Maximum Likelihood Framework for Grouping and Segmentation....Pages 251-267
Image Labeling and Grouping by Minimizing Linear Functionals over Cones....Pages 267-282
Grouping with Directed Relationships....Pages 283-297
Segmentations of Spatio-Temporal Images by Spatio-Temporal Markov Random Field Model....Pages 298-313
Highlight and Shading Invariant Color Image Segmentation Using Simulated Annealing....Pages 314-327
Edge Based Probabilistic Relaxation for Sub-pixel Contour Extraction....Pages 328-343
Two Variational Models for Multispectral Image Classification....Pages 344-356
An Experimental Comparison of Min-cut/Max-flow Algorithms for Energy Minimization in Vision....Pages 359-374
A Discrete/Continuous Minimization Method in Interferometric Image Processing....Pages 375-390
Global Energy Minimization: A Transformation Approach....Pages 391-406
Global Feedforward Neural Network Learning for Classification and Regression....Pages 407-422
Matching Free Trees, Maximal Cliques, and Monotone Game Dynamics....Pages 423-437
Efficiently Computing Weighted Tree Edit Distance Using Relaxation Labeling....Pages 438-453
Estimation of Distribution Algorithms: A New Evolutionary Computation Approach for Graph Matching Problems....Pages 454-469
A Complementary Pivoting Approach to Graph Matching....Pages 469-479
Application of Genetic Algorithms to 3-D Shape Reconstruction in an Active Stereo Vision System....Pages 480-493
A Markov Process Using Curvature for Filtering Curve Images....Pages 497-512
Geodesic Interpolating Splines....Pages 513-527
Averaged Template Matching Equations....Pages 528-543
A Continuous Shape Descriptor by Orientation Diffusion....Pages 544-559
Multiple Contour Finding and Perceptual Grouping as a Set of Energy Minimizing Paths....Pages 560-575
Shape Tracking Using Centroid-Based Methods....Pages 576-591
Optical Flow and Image Registration: A New Local Rigidity Approach for Global Minimization....Pages 592-607
Spherical Object Reconstruction Using Star-Shaped Simplex Meshes....Pages 608-620
Gabor Feature Space Diffusion via the Minimal Weighted Area Method....Pages 621-635
3D Flux Maximizing Flows....Pages 636-650