Image Analysis and Processing: 9th International Conference, ICIAP '97 Florence, Italy, September 17–19, 1997 Proceedings, Volume II

Content-centric computing in visual systems....Pages 1-13
Colour image retrieval fitted to «classical» querying....Pages 14-21
Quality measures for interactive image retrieval with a performance evaluation of two 3×3 texel-based methods....Pages 22-29
Holographic image representations: The Fourier transform method....Pages 30-37
Image databases are not databases with images....Pages 38-45
Customizing MPEG video compression algorithms to specific application domains: The case of highway monitoring....Pages 46-53
A new lossless image compression algorithm based on arithmetic coding....Pages 54-61
Analysis of a two step MPEG video system....Pages 62-68
Dedicated hardware processors for a real-time image data pre-processing implemented in FPGA structure....Pages 69-76
Wavelet transform architectures: A system level review....Pages 77-84
Lossless compression of pre-press images using a novel colour decorrelation technique....Pages 85-92
Real time hardware architecture for visual robot navigation....Pages 93-100
Speeding up fractal encoding of images using a block indexing technique....Pages 101-108
Adding associative meshes to the PACCO I.P. environment....Pages 109-116
Smoothing of MPEG multi-program video coding for packet networks....Pages 117-123
Audio-visual processing for scene change detection....Pages 124-131
Weighted walkthroughs in retrieval by contents of pictorial data....Pages 132-139
A new approach to computation of curvature scale space image for shape similarity retrieval....Pages 140-147
Optimal keys for image database indexing....Pages 148-155
The terminological image retrieval model....Pages 156-163
Novel block truncation coding of image sequences for limited-color display....Pages 164-171
Image registration with shape mixtures....Pages 172-179
Image retrieval by color regions....Pages 180-187
Interactive model-based matching retrieval....Pages 188-195
Where are the ball and players? Soccer game analysis with color-based tracking and image mosaick....Pages 196-203
Histogram families for color-based retrieval in image databases....Pages 204-211
Image retrieval by multidimensional elastic matching....Pages 212-219
Optimization methods in multilayer classifier networks for automatic control of lamellibranch larva growth....Pages 220-227
Neural network for region detection....Pages 228-237
Static and dynamic attractors of autoassociative neural networks....Pages 238-245
A brain-like approach to multistage hierarchical image processing....Pages 246-253
Contextual edge detection using a recurrent neural network....Pages 254-261
A divide-and-conquer strategy in recovering shape of book surface from shading....Pages 262-269
Reconstruction of 3-D shape and texture by active rangefinding....Pages 270-275
Wavelets for multiresolution shape recognition....Pages 276-283
Invariant object representation and recognition using Lie algebra of perceptual vector fields....Pages 284-291
A fast approach for determining of visibility of 3D object\'s surfaces....Pages 292-299
Direct aspect-based 3-D object recognition....Pages 300-307
Visualizing parametric surfaces at variable resolution....Pages 308-315
Learning visual ideals....Pages 316-323
Adaptive non-cartesian networks for vision....Pages 324-331
Adaptive logic networks for facial feature detection....Pages 332-339
An appearance-based approach to gesture-recognition....Pages 340-347
Exponential vector field tomography....Pages 348-355
Detection of rib shadows in digital chest radiographs....Pages 356-363
A Markov random field model for bony tissue classification....Pages 364-371
A new methodology to automatically segment biomedical images....Pages 372-379
Histogram-based image registration for digital subtraction angiography....Pages 380-387
A method for segmentation of CT head images....Pages 388-395
Automatic recognition of spicules in mammograms....Pages 396-403
Specialized environment for medical radiological image visualization....Pages 404-411
Interactive segmentation of 3D ultrasound using deformable solid models and active contours....Pages 412-419
Computer aided diagnosis system for lung cancer based on helical CT images....Pages 420-427
A generalised geometry and intensity based partial volume correction for magnetic resonance images....Pages 428-435
A regularization method for unfolding the measured data of different X-ray spectrometers in Compton scattering tomography....Pages 436-444
Fast tissue segmentation based on a 4D feature map: Preliminary results....Pages 445-452
Texture features in the classification of melanocytic lesions....Pages 453-460
Segmentation of sputum color image for lung cancer diagnosis based on neural networks....Pages 461-468
Fast face detection via morphology-based pre-processing....Pages 469-476
Generalization of shifted fovea multiresolution geometries applied to object detection....Pages 477-484
A long term change detection method for surveillance applications....Pages 485-492
Automatic pedestrian recognition using real-time motion analysis....Pages 493-500
Person identification system based on a trapezoid pyramid architecture of a gray-level image....Pages 501-508
Autonomous plant inspection and anomaly detection....Pages 509-516
Nobel Chile Jalapeno sorting using structured laser and neural network classifiers....Pages 517-523
Development of image processing technique for detection of the rescue target in the marine casualty....Pages 524-531
Bimodal histogram transformation based on maximum likelihood parameter estimates in univariate Gaussian mixtures....Pages 532-543
A robust structural fingerprint restoration....Pages 544-551
A system for the automatic and real time recognition of V.L.P.\'s (Vehicle License Plate).....Pages 552-559
Spatial correlation features for SAR images in a small sample size context....Pages 560-567
Combination of active sensing and sensor fusion for collision avoidance in mobile robots....Pages 568-575
Underwater vegetation detection in high frequency sonar images: A preliminary approach....Pages 576-583
Leather inspection through singularities detection using wavelet transforms....Pages 584-591
Zoning design for handwritten numeral recognition....Pages 592-599
Improving the use of contours and skeletons for off-line cursive script segmentation....Pages 600-607
Optical character recognition without segmentation....Pages 608-615
Automatic recognition of printed arabic text using neural network classifier....Pages 616-623
A novel pair-wise recognition scheme for handwritten characters in the framework of a multi-expert configuration....Pages 624-631
A general and flexible deskewing method based on generalized projection....Pages 632-638
Logical structure analysis by typographic characteristics extraction....Pages 639-646
Combining high-level features with sequential local features for on-line handwriting recognition....Pages 647-654
Handwritten Chinese character recognition using displacement extraction based on directional features....Pages 655-662
Optical image acquisition, analysis and processing for biomedical applications....Pages 663-671
Segmentation of ultrasound image data by two dimensional autoregressive modelling....Pages 672-679
Comparison and application of selected statistical shape models in medical imaging....Pages 680-687
Two motion-detection algorithms for projection-reconstruction magnetic resonance imaging: Theory and experimental verification....Pages 688-696
Image analysis and synthesis using physics-based-modeling for pearl quality evaluation system....Pages 697-704
Computer vision and image processing in postal automation....Pages 705-712
Adaptive pen user interface with supervised competitive learning....Pages 713-718
Joint detection, interpolation, motion and parameter estimation for image sequences with missing data....Pages 719-726
The VIRSBS project: Visual intelligent recognition for secure banking services....Pages 727-734
The ESPRIT LTR research project: “Nonlinear model-based analysis and description of images for multimedia applications (NOBLESSE)”....Pages 735-742
Analysis and segmentation of remote-sensing images for land-cover mapping....Pages 743-748
Integration of optical and acoustical imaging sensors for underwater applications....Pages 749-756
Project CROMATICA....Pages 757-764
The COMPARES Project: Connectionist methods for preprocessing and analysis of remote sensing data....Pages 765-772
Reconstruction of severely degraded image sequences....Pages 773-780
The CRASH project: Defect detection and classification in ferrite cores....Pages 781-787