Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems : 7th International Conference, ACIVS 2005, Antwerp, Belgium, September 20-23, 2005, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2005, held in Antwerp, Belgium in September 2005. The 90 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from around 200 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on biometrics, classification and recognition, content and performance characterization, image and video analysis, image and video coding, image and video segmentation, medical image processing applications, motion estimation and tracking, noise reduction and restauration, and real-time processing and hardware.

Biometrics.- Video Pupil Tracking for Iris Based Identification.- Three Dimensional Fingertip Tracking in Stereovision.- Multistage Face Recognition Using Adaptive Feature Selection and Classification.- Fast Face Detection Using a Cascade of Neural Network Ensembles.- Use of Human Motion Biometrics for Multiple-View Registration.- Real Time Tracking of Multiple Persons on Colour Image Sequences.- A Study on Non-intrusive Facial and Eye Gaze Detection.- Classification and Recognition.- Hidden Markov Model Based 2D Shape Classification.- A Fast Method to Detect and Recognize Scaled and Skewed Road Signs.- Road Markings Detection and Tracking Using Hough Transform and Kalman Filter.- Selective Color Edge Detector Based on a Neural Classifier.- Recovering the Shape from Texture Using Lognormal Filters.- Affine Normalization of Symmetric Objects.- Object Recognition Using Local Characterisation and Zernike Moments.- Natural Scene Classification and Retrieval Using Ridgelet-Based Image Signatures.- Multi-banknote Identification Using a Single Neural Network.- A New Voting Algorithm for Tracking Human Grasping Gestures.- Gender Classification in Human Gait Using Support Vector Machine.- An Alternative Fuzzy Compactness and Separation Clustering Algorithm.- Fuzzy Linguistic Rules Classifier for Wooden Board Color Sorting.- Image Pattern Recognition with Separable Trade-Off Correlation Filters.- Approximation of Linear Discriminant Analysis for Word Dependent Visual Features Selection.- Content and Performance Characterization.- Estimation of Intensity Uncertainties for Computer Vision Applications.- A Wavelet Statistical Model for Characterizing Chinese Ink Paintings.- Image Formation in Highly Turbid Media by Adaptive Fusion of Gated Images.- Multi-object Digital Auto-focusing Using Image Fusion.- Cognition Theory Based Performance Characterization in Computer Vision.- Morse Connections Graph for Shape Representation.- A Quantitative Criterion to Evaluate Color Segmentations Application to Cytological Images.- Image and Video Analysis.- A Novel Region-Based Image Retrieval Algorithm Using Selective Visual Attention Model.- Region Analysis of Business Card Images Acquired in PDA Using DCT and Information Pixel Density.- Design of a Hybrid Object Detection Scheme for Video Sequences.- Interactive Object-Based Retrieval Using Relevance Feedback.- Pseudo-stereo Conversion from 2D Video.- An Automated Facial Pose Estimation Using Surface Curvature and Tetrahedral Structure of a Nose.- Dynamic Pursuit with a Bio-inspired Neural Model.- Scene-Cut Processing in Motion-Compensated Temporal Filtering.- Image Indexing by Focus Map.- Distance and Nearest Neighbor Transforms of Gray-Level Surfaces Using Priority Pixel Queue Algorithm.- Flow Coherence Diffusion. Linear and Nonlinear Case.- Updating Geospatial Database: An Automatic Approach Combining Photogrammetry and Computer Vision Techniques.- Affine Invariant Feature Extraction Using Symmetry.- A Hybrid Color-Based Foreground Object Detection Method for Automated Marine Surveillance.- Image Registration Using Uncertainty Transformations.- Majority Ordering and the Morphological Pattern Spectrum.- Image and Video Coding.- A New Reference Free Approach for the Quality Assessment of MPEG Coded Videos.- Reduced-Bit, Full Search Block-Matching Algorithms and Their Hardware Realizations.- Lossy Compression of Images with Additive Noise.- Latency Insensitive Task Scheduling for Real-Time Video Processing and Streaming.- Entropy Reduction of Foveated DCT Images.- Flexible Storage of Still Images with a Perceptual Quality Criterion.- Image De-Quantizing via Enforcing Sparseness in Overcomplete Representations.- Reduction of Blocking Artifacts in Block-Based Compressed Images.- FIMDA: A Fast Intra-frame Mode Decision Algorithm for MPEG-2/H.264 Transcoding.- A New Rate-Distortion Optimization Using Structural Information in H.264 I-Frame Encoder.- BISK Scheme Applied to Sign Encoding and to Magnitude Refinement.- Image and Video Segmentation.- Skeletonization of Noisy Images via the Method of Legendre Moments.- The Hough Transform Application Including Its Hardware Implementation.- A Bayesian Approach for Weighting Boundary and Region Information for Segmentation.- A Fast Sequential Rainfalling Watershed Segmentation Algorithm.- Optimum Design of Dynamic Parameters of Active Contours for Improving Their Convergence in Image Segmentation.- Moving Objects Segmentation Based on Automatic Foreground / Background Identification of Static Elements.- ?-Convergence Approximation to Piecewise Constant Mumford-Shah Segmentation.- A Fully Unsupervised Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on Wavelet-Domain Hidden Markov Tree Models.- A Clustering Approach for Color Image Segmentation.- Medical Applications.- Affine Coregistration of Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Images Using Mutual Information.- Identification of Intestinal Motility Events of Capsule Endoscopy Video Analysis.- A Likelihood Ratio Test for Functional MRI Data Analysis to Account for Colored Noise.- Motion Estimation and Tracking.- Heuristic Algorithm for Computing Fast Template Motion in Video Streams.- Configurable Complexity-Bounded Motion Estimation for Real-Time Video Encoding.- 3DSVHT: Extraction of 3D Linear Motion via Multi-view, Temporal Evidence Accumulation.- Fast Mode Decision and Motion Estimation with Object Segmentation in H.264/AVC Encoding.- Non-rigid Tracking Using 2-D Meshes.- An Offline Bidirectional Tracking Scheme.- On the Performance Improvement of Sub-sampling MPEG-2 Motion Estimation Algorithms with Vector/SIMD Architectures.- A Dynamic Bayesian Network-Based Framework for Visual Tracking.- Background Modeling Using Color, Disparity, and Motion Information.- Noise Reduction and Restauration.- Video Denoising Algorithm in Sliding 3D DCT Domain.- A Novel Histogram Based Fuzzy Impulse Noise Restoration Method for Colour Images.- Mirror Symmetry in Perspective.- Impulse Noise Detection Based on Robust Statistics and Genetic Programming.- FPGA Design and Implementation of a Wavelet-Domain Video Denoising System.- Do Fuzzy Techniques Offer an Added Value for Noise Reduction in Images?.- Noise Reduction of Video Sequences Using Fuzzy Logic Motion Detection.- A Restoration and Segmentation Unit for the Historic Persian Documents.- Cleaning and Enhancing Historical Document Images.- Real-Time Processing and Hardware.- Designing Area and Performance Constrained SIMD/VLIW Image Processing Architectures.- Computing Stereo-Vision in Video Real-Time with Low-Cost SIMD-Hardware.- A Real-Time Iris Image Acquisition Algorithm Based on Specular Reflection and Eye Model.- An Image Sensor with Global Motion Estimation for Micro Camera Module.