BMVC92

This book contains the 61 papers that were accepted for presenta­ tion at the 1992 British Machine Vision Conference. Together they provide a snapshot of current machine vision research throughout the UK in 24 different institutions. There are also several papers from vision groups in the rest of Europe, North America and Australia. At the start of the book is an invited paper from the first keynote speaker, Robert Haralick. The quality of papers submitted to the conference was very high and the programme committee had a hard task selecting around half for presentation at the meeting and inclusion in these proceedings. It is a positive feature of the annual BMV A conference that the entire process from the submission deadline through to the conference itself and publication of the proceedings is completed in under 5 months. My thanks to members of the programme committee for their essential contribution to the success of the conference and to Roger Boyle, Charlie Brown, Nick Efford and Sue Nemes for their excellent local organisation and administration of the conference at the University of Leeds.

Performance Characterization in Computer Vision.- Training Models of Shape from Sets of Examples.- The Delaunay/Voronoi Selection Graph: A Method for Extracting Shape Information from 2-D Dot-patterns with an Extension to 3-D.- Range Recovery using Virtual Multi-camera Stereo.- Robust Recovery of 3D Ellipse Data.- Affine and Projective Structure from Motion.- Planar Region Detection and Motion Recovery.- 3D Structure and Motion Estimation from 2D Image Sequences.- Statistical Detection of Independent Movement from a Moving Camera.- Accurate Boundary Location from Motion.- From Features to Perceptual Categories.- Vanishing Point Detection.- Contextual Junction Finder.- Generation of 3D Dense Depth Maps by Dynamic Vision.- A New Class of Corner Finder.- On Evidence Assessment for Model-based Recognition.- Lane Boundary Tracking for an Autonomous Road Vehicle.- Indexing Two-dimensional Objects Using Parametrised Geometric Features.- The Adaptive Bisector Method: Separating Slant and Tilt in Estimating Shape from Texture.- A Step Towards Efficient Bayesian Signal Reconstruction.- Multistage Combined Ellipse and Line Detection.- Using Colour Templates for Target Identification and Tracking.- Machine Vision Inspection of Web Textile Fabric.- Multiresolution Estimation of 2-D Disparity Using a Frequency Domain Approach.- Estimating Mean Disparity of Stereo Images Using Shift-trials of Phase Differences.- On Transparent Motion Computation.- A Neural Network Approach to Recognition of Structural Aberrations in Chromosomes.- Active Shape Models — ‘smart snakes’.- A Generic System for Image Interpretation Using Flexible Templates.- Recognition of Volcanoes on Venus Using Correlation Methods.- The Use of Symmetry Chords for Expressing Grey Level Constraints.- A Matching and Tracking Strategy for Independently Moving Objects.- Statistical Analysis of a Stereo Matching Algorithm.- Line Based Trinocular Stereo.- Stereo Without Disparity Gradient Smoothing: A Bayesian Sensor Fusion Solution.- On Local Matching of Free-form Curves.- Coarse Image Motion for Saccade Control.- Vergence Micromovements and Depth Perception.- Layered Architecture for the Control of Micro Saccadic Tracking of a Stereo Camera Head.- Image Tracking in Real-time: A Transputer Emulation of Some Early Mammalian Vision Processes.- A Curvature Sensitive Filter and its Application in Microfossil Image Characterisation.- Measuring Geometrical Parameters of Involute Spur Gears to Sub-pixel Resolution.- Camera Calibration Using Vanishing Points.- Ground Plane Motion Parameter Estimation for Non-circular Paths.- Estimation of Cloud Cover Using Colour and Texture.- Building a Model of a Road Junction Using Moving Vehicle Information.- Off-line Handwriting Recognition by Recurrent Error Propagation Networks.- Evaluating a Hidden Markov Model of Syntax in a Text Recognition System.- Segmentation of Music Primitives.- Active Contours Using Finite Elements to Control Local Scale.- Automatic Face Location to Enhance Videophone Picture Quality.- Face Recognition by Computer.- A Comparison of Vector Quantization Codebook Generation Algorithms Applied to Automatic Face Recognition.- Blink Rate Monitoring for a Driver Awareness System.- Online Calibration of a 4 DOF Stereo Head.- Visibility Scripts for Active Feature-based Inspection.- Ground Plane Obstacle Detection Under Variable Camera Geometry Using a Predictive Stereo Matcher.- Non-wildcard Matching Beats the Interpretation Tree.- Modelling Data Complexity for Model-based Vision.- Practical Aspect-graph Derivation Incorporating Feature Segmentation Performance.- Recognising Polyhedral Objects from a Single Perspective View.- Linear Algorithms for Object Pose Estimation.- Author Index.