Image Analysis and Recognition: Third International Conference, ICIAR 2006, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, September 18-20, 2006, Proceedings, Part I

Front Matter....Pages -
Self-Organizing Trees and Forests: A Powerful Tool in Pattern Clustering and Recognition....Pages 1-14
On Optimizing Dissimilarity-Based Classification Using Prototype Reduction Schemes....Pages 15-28
General Adaptive Neighborhood Image Restoration, Enhancement and Segmentation....Pages 29-40
Frozen-State Hierarchical Annealing....Pages 41-52
Fast and Robust Filtering-Based Image Magnification....Pages 53-62
An Efficient Post-processing Using DCT Domain Projections Onto Convex Sets....Pages 63-73
Rank-Ordered Differences Statistic Based Switching Vector Filter....Pages 74-81
Mathematical Analysis of “Phase Ramping” for Super-Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging....Pages 82-93
Blind Blur Estimation Using Low Rank Approximation of Cepstrum....Pages 94-103
An Image Interpolation Scheme for Repetitive Structures....Pages 104-115
A Discontinuous Finite Element Method for Image Denoising....Pages 116-125
An Edge-Preserving Multigrid-Like Technique for Image Denoising....Pages 126-137
Fuzzy Bilateral Filtering for Color Images....Pages 138-145
MPEG Postprocessing System Using Edge Signal Variable Filter....Pages 146-155
Computational Framework for Family of Order Statistic Filters for Tensor Valued Data....Pages 156-162
Gaussian Noise Removal by Color Morphology and Polar Color Models....Pages 163-172
A Shape-Based Approach to Robust Image Segmentation....Pages 173-183
Novel Statistical Approaches to the Quantitative Combination of Multiple Edge Detectors....Pages 184-195
Bio-inspired Motion-Based Object Segmentation....Pages 196-205
An Effective and Fast Scene Change Detection Algorithm for MPEG Compressed Videos....Pages 206-214
Automatic Segmentation Based on AdaBoost Learning and Graph-Cuts....Pages 215-225
Accurate Contour Detection Based on Snakes for Objects with Boundary Concavities....Pages 226-235
Graph-Based Spatio-temporal Region Extraction....Pages 236-247
Performance Evaluation of Image Segmentation....Pages 248-259
Improvement of Image Transform Calculation Based on a Weighted Primitive....Pages 260-271
Topological Active Nets Optimization Using Genetic Algorithms....Pages 272-282
An Evaluation Measure of Image Segmentation Based on Object Centres....Pages 283-294
Active Shape Model Based Segmentation and Tracking of Facial Regions in Color Images....Pages 295-306
On the Adaptive Impulsive Noise Attenuation in Color Images....Pages 307-317
A Simple Method for Designing 2D |M|-Channel Near-PR Filter Banks with Linear Phase Property....Pages 318-328
Fast Hermite Projection Method....Pages 329-338
Posterior Sampling of Scientific Images....Pages 339-350
Image Denoising Using the Lyapunov Equation from Non-uniform Samples....Pages 351-358
New Method for Fast Detection and Removal of Impulsive Noise Using Fuzzy Metrics....Pages 359-369
Background Subtraction Framework Based on Local Spatial Distributions....Pages 370-380
Morphological Image Interpolation to Magnify Images with Sharp Edges....Pages 381-393
Adaptive Kernel Based Tracking Using Mean-Shift....Pages 394-403
Real Time Sobel Square Edge Detector for Night Vision Analysis....Pages 404-413
A New Video Images Text Localization Approach Based on a Fast Hough Transform....Pages 414-425
Video Sequence Matching Using Singular Value Decomposition....Pages 426-435
The Papoulis-Gerchberg Algorithm with Unknown Signal Bandwidth....Pages 436-445
Continuous Evolution of Fractal Transforms and Nonlocal PDE Imaging....Pages 446-457
A Fast Algorithm for Macroblock Mode Selection in H.264 Video Coding....Pages 458-467
Visual Secret Sharing Scheme: Improving the Contrast of a Recovered Image Via Different Pixel Expansions....Pages 468-479
Fast and Efficient Basis Selection Methods for Embedded Wavelet Packet Image Coding....Pages 480-492
Fractal Image Coding as Projections Onto Convex Sets....Pages 493-506
DCT-Domain Predictive Coding Method for Video Compression....Pages 507-515
Simple Detection Method and Compensation Filter to Remove Corner Outlier Artifacts....Pages 516-525
Rate Control Algorithm for High Quality Compression of Static Test Image in Digital TV System....Pages 526-534
JPEG2000-Based Resolution- and Rate-Constrained Layered Image Coding....Pages 535-546
A Permutation-Based Correlation-Preserving Encryption Method for Digital Videos....Pages 547-558
A Fast Scheme for Converting DCT Coefficients to H.264/AVC Integer Transform Coefficients....Pages 559-570
A Fast Full Search Algorithm for Motion Estimation Using Priority of Matching Scan....Pages 571-579
Using Space-Time Coding for Watermarking Color Images....Pages 580-586
Blind PSNR Estimation of Video Sequences, Through Non-uniform Quantization Watermarking....Pages 587-599
Pattern Recognition Using Neighborhood Coding....Pages 600-611
Naming of Image Regions for User-Friendly Image Retrieval....Pages 612-623
Shape Retrieval Using Shape Contexts and Cyclic Dynamic Time Warping....Pages 624-635
Topological Active Nets for Object-Based Image Retrieval....Pages 636-647
Iterative 3-D Pose Correction and Content-Based Image Retrieval for Dorsal Fin Recognition....Pages 648-660
Feature Selection for Retrieval Purposes....Pages 661-672
DCT-Domain Image Retrieval Via Block-Edge-Patterns....Pages 673-684
Visual Aspect: A Unified Content-Based Collaborative Filtering Model for Visual Document Recommendation....Pages 685-696
 IntelliSearch : Intelligent Search for Images and Text on the Web....Pages 697-708
Automatic Shot-Change Detection Algorithm Based on Visual Rhythm Extraction....Pages 709-720
Global Motion Estimation: Feature-Based, Featureless, or Both ?!....Pages 721-730
Background Updating with the Use of Intrinsic Curves....Pages 731-742
Towards a New Paradigm for Motion Extraction....Pages 743-754
Fast Motion Estimation Using Spatio Temporal Filtering....Pages 755-766
Optic Flow from Multi-scale Dynamic Anchor Point Attributes....Pages 767-779
The Effect of Presmoothing Image Sequences on the Computation of Optical Flow....Pages 780-791
Optical Flow Based Frame Interpolation of Ultrasound Images....Pages 792-803
An Iterative Multiresolution Scheme for SFM....Pages 804-815
Occlusion-Based Accurate Silhouettes from Video Streams....Pages 816-826
Towards Constrained Optimal 3D Tracking....Pages 827-838
A Generic Approach to Object Matching and Tracking....Pages 839-849
Image Based Visual Servoing: A New Method for the Estimation of the Image Jacobian in Dynamic Environments....Pages 850-861
QP_TR Trust Region Blob Tracking Through Scale-Space with Automatic Selection of Features....Pages 862-873
Human Posture Analysis Under Partial Self-occlusion....Pages 874-885
Particle Filtering with Dynamic Shape Priors....Pages 886-897
The OBSERVER: An Intelligent and Automated Video Surveillance System....Pages 898-909
A Novel Spatio-temporal Approach to Handle Occlusions in Vehicle Tracking....Pages 910-921
A Robust Particle Filter-Based Face Tracker Using Combination of Color and Geometric Information....Pages 922-933
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