Advances in Visual Computing : Third International Symposium, ISVC 2007, Lake Tahoe, NV, USA, November 26-28, 2007, Proceedings, Part II

Motion and Tracking II.- Visible and Infrared Sensors Fusion by Matching Feature Points of Foreground Blobs.- Multiple Combined Constraints for Optical Flow Estimation.- Combining Models of Pose and Dynamics for Human Motion Recognition.- Optical Flow and Total Least Squares Solution for Multi-scale Data in an Over-Determined System.- A Hardware-Friendly Adaptive Tensor Based Optical Flow Algorithm.- Segmentation/Feature Extraction/Classification.- Image Segmentation That Optimizes Global Homogeneity in a Variational Framework.- Image and Volume Segmentation by Water Flow.- A Novel Hierarchical Technique for Range Segmentation of Large Building Exteriors.- Lip Contour Segmentation Using Kernel Methods and Level Sets.- A Robust Two Level Classification Algorithm for Text Localization in Documents.- Image Classification from Small Sample, with Distance Learning and Feature Selection.- ST1: Intelligent Algorithms for Smart Monitoring of Complex Environments.- Comparison of Techniques for Mitigating the Effects of Illumination Variations on the Appearance of Human Targets.- Scene Context Modeling for Foreground Detection from a Scene in Remote Monitoring.- Recognition of Household Objects by Service Robots Through Interactive and Autonomous Methods.- Motion Projection for Floating Object Detection.- Real-Time Subspace-Based Background Modeling Using Multi-channel Data.- A Vision-Based Architecture for Intent Recognition.- Shape/Recognition.- Combinatorial Shape Decomposition.- Rotation-Invariant Texture Recognition.- A New Set of Normalized Geometric Moments Based on Schlick’s Approximation.- Shape Evolution Driven by a Perceptually Motivated Measure.- The Global-Local Transformation for Invariant Shape Representation.- A Vision System for Recognizing Objects in Complex Real Images.- ST3: Image Databases.- RISE-SIMR: A Robust Image Search Engine for Satellite Image Matching and Retrieval.- Content-Based Image Retrieval Using Shape and Depth from an Engineering Database.- Automatic Image Representation for Content-Based Access to Personal Photo Album.- Geographic Image Retrieval Using Interest Point Descriptors.- ST6: Soft Computing in Image Processing and Computer Vision.- Feed Forward Genetic Image Network: Toward Efficient Automatic Construction of Image Processing Algorithm.- Neural Networks for Exudate Detection in Retinal Images.- Kernel Fusion for Image Classification Using Fuzzy Structural Information.- A Genetic Approach to Training Support Vector Data Descriptors for Background Modeling in Video Data.- Video Sequence Querying Using Clustering of Objects’ Appearance Models.- Learning to Recognize Complex Actions Using Conditional Random Fields.- Poster.- Intrinsic Images by Fisher Linear Discriminant.- Shape-from-Shading Algorithm for Oblique Light Source.- Pedestrian Tracking from a Moving Host Using Corner Points.- 3D Reconstruction and Pose Determination of the Cutting Tool from a Single View.- Playfield and Ball Detection in Soccer Video.- Single-View Matching Constraints.- A 3D Face Recognition Algorithm Based on Nonuniform Re-sampling Correspondence.- A Novel Approach for Storm Detection Based on 3-D Radar Image Data.- A New Approach for Vehicle Detection in Congested Traffic Scenes Based on Strong Shadow Segmentation.- A Robust Method for Near Infrared Face Recognition Based on Extended Local Binary Pattern.- Surface Signature-Based Method for Modeling and Recognizing Free-Form Objects.- Integrating Vision and Language: Semantic Description of Traffic Events from Image Sequences.- Rule-Based Multiple Object Tracking for Traffic Surveillance Using Collaborative Background Extraction.- A Novel Approach for Iris Recognition Using Local Edge Patterns.- Automated Trimmed Iterative Closest Point Algorithm.- Classification of High Resolution Satellite Images Using Texture from the Panchromatic Band.- Deriving a Priori Co-occurrence Probability Estimates for Object Recognition from Social Networks and Text Processing.- 3D Face Reconstruction Under Imperfect Tracking Circumstances Using Shape Model Constraints.- A Combined Statistical-Structural Strategy for Alphanumeric Recognition.- The Multiplicative Path Toward Prior-Shape Guided Active Contour for Object Detection.- On Shape-Mediated Enrolment in Ear Biometrics.- Determining Efficient Scan-Patterns for 3-D Object Recognition Using Spin Images.- A Comparison of Fast Level Set-Like Algorithms for Image Segmentation in Fluorescence Microscopy.- Texture-Based Objects Recognition for Vehicle Environment Perception Using a Multiband Camera.- Object Tracking Via Uncertainty Minimization.- Detection of a Speaker in Video by Combined Analysis of Speech Sound and Mouth Movement.- Extraction of Cartographic Features from a High Resolution Satellite Image.- Expression Mimicking : From 2D Monocular Sequences to 3D Animations.- Object Recognition: A Focused Vision Based Approach.- A Robust Image Segmentation Model Based on Integrated Square Estimation.- Measuring Effective Data Visualization.- Automatic Inspection of Tobacco Leaves Based on MRF Image Model.- A Mesh Meaningful Segmentation Algorithm Using Skeleton and Minima-Rule.- Fast kd-Tree Construction for 3D-Rendering Algorithms Like Ray Tracing.- Phase Space Rendering.- Automatic Extraction of a Quadrilateral Network of NURBS Patches from Range Data Using Evolutionary Strategies.- ChipViz: Visualizing Memory Chip Test Data.- Enhanced Visual Experience and Archival Reusability in Personalized Search Based on Modified Spider Graph.- Probe-It! Visualization Support for Provenance.- Portable Projection-Based AR System.- Adaptive Chrominance Correction for a Projector Considering Image and Screen Color.- Easying MR Development with Eclipse and InTml.- Unsupervised Intrusion Detection Using Color Images.- Pose Sampling for Efficient Model-Based Recognition.- Video Segmentation for Markerless Motion Capture in Unconstrained Environments.- Hardware-Accelerated Volume Rendering for Real-Time Medical Data Visualization.- Fuzzy Morphology for Edge Detection and Segmentation.