Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns

Computer analysis of images and patterns is a scienti c eld of longstanding tradition, with roots in the early years of the computer era when electronic brains inspired scientists. Moreover, the design of vision machines is a part of humanity’s dream of the arti cial person. I remember the 2nd CAIP, held in Wismar in 1987. Lectures were read in German, English and Russian, and proceedings were also only partially written in English. The conference took place under a di erent political system and proved that ideas are independent of political walls. A few years later the Berlin Wall collapsed, and Professors Sommer and Klette proposed a new formula for the CAIP: let it be held in Central and Eastern Europe every second year. There was a sense of solidarity with scienti c communities in those countries that found themselves in a state of transition to a new economy. A well-implemented idea resulted in a chain of successful events in Dresden (1991), Budapest (1993), Prague (1995), Kiel (1997), and Ljubljana (1999). This year the conference was welcomed at Warsaw. There are three invited lectures and about 90 contributions written by more than 200 authors from 27 countries. Besides Poland (60 authors), the largest representation comes from France (23), followed by England (16), Czech Republic (11), Spain (10), G- many (9), and Belarus (9). Regrettably, in spite of free registration fees and free accommodation for authors from former Soviet Union countries, we received only one accepted paper from Russia.

Image Indexing (MPEG-7).- MPEG-7: Evolution or Revolution?.- The MPEG-7 Visual Description Framework — Concepts, Accuracy, and Applications.- MPEG-7 Color Descriptors and Their Applications.- Texture Descriptors in MPEG-7.- An Overview of MPEG-7 Motion Descriptors and Their Applications.- MPEG-7 MDS Content Description Tools and Applications.- Image Retrieval Using Spatial Color Information.- Image Compression.- Lifting-Based Reversible Transforms for Lossy-to-Lossless Wavelet Codecs.- Coding of Irregular Image Regions by SA DFT.- Fast PNN Using Partial Distortion Search.- Near-Lossless Color Image Compression with No Error Accumulation in Multiple Coding Cycles.- Hybrid Lossless Coder of Medical Images with Statistical Data Modelling.- A Simple Algorithm for Ordering and Compression of Vector Codebooks.- MPEG 2-Based Video Coding with Three-Layer Mixed Scalability.- The Coefficient Based Rate Distortion Model for the Low Bit Rate Video Coding.- Shape-Adaptive DCT Algorithm — Hardware Optimized Redesign.- Pattern Recognition.- Superquadric-Based Object Recognition.- Weighted Graph-Matching Using Modal Clusters.- Discovering Shape Categories by Clustering Shock Trees.- Feature Selection for Classification Using Genetic Algorithms with a Novel Encoding.- A Contribution to the Schlesinger’s Algorithm Separating Mixtures of Gaussians.- Diophantine Approximations of Algebraic Irrationalities and Stability Theorems for Polynomial Decision Rules.- Features Invariant Simultaneously to Convolution and Affine Transformation.- A Technique for Segmentation of Gurmukhi Text.- Efficient Computation of Body Moments.- Genetic Programming with Local Improvement for Visual Learning from Examples.- Improved Recognition of Spectrally Mixed Land Cover Classes Using Spatial Textures and Voting Classifications.- Texture Feature Extraction and Classification.- Medical Imaging.- Today’s and Tomorrow’s Medical Imaging.- A New Approach for Model-Based Adaptive Region Growing in Medical Image Analysis.- Attempts to Bronchial Tumor Motion Tracking in Portal Images during Conformal Radiotherapy Treatment.- Color Thinning with Applications to Biomedical Images.- Dynamic Active Contour Model for Size Independent Blood Vessel Lumen Segmentation and Quantification in High-Resolution Magnetic Resonance Images.- Medical Active Thermography — A New Image Reconstruction Method.- 3-D Modeling and Parametrisation of Pelvis and Hip Joint.- Cardiac Rhythm Analysis Using Spatial ECG Parameters and SPART Method.- Deformable Contour Based Algorithm for Segmentation of the Hippocampus from MRI.- Edge-Based Robust Image Registration for Incomplete and Partly Erroneous Data.- Motion Analysis.- Real Time Segmentation of Lip Pixels for Lip Tracker Initialization.- Particle Image Velocimetry by Feature Tracking.- Estimation of Motion through Inverse Finite Element Methods with Triangular Meshes.- Face Tracking Using the Dynamic Grey World Algorithm.- Fast Local Estimation of Optical Flow Using Variational and Wavelet Methods.- A Method to Analyse the Motion of Solid Particle in Oscillatory Stream of a Viscous Liquid.- An Optimization Approach for Translational Motion Estimation in Log-Polar Domain.- Tracking People in Sport: Making Use of Partially Controlled Environment.- Augmented Reality.- Linear Augmented Reality Registration.- Shape and Position Determination Based on Combination of Photogrammetry with Phase Analysis of Fringe Patterns.- Automated Acquisition of Lifelike 3D Human Models from Multiple Posture Data.- Augmented Reality and Semi-automated Landmarking of Cephalometric Radiographs.- Industrial Applications.- On Restoration of Degraded Cinematic Sequences by Means of Digital Image Processing.- Vision Based Measurement System to Quantify Straightness Defect in Steel Sheets.- Positioning of Flexible Boom Structure Using Neural Networks.- Material Identification Using Laser Spectroscopy and Pattern Recognition Algorithms.- Scanner Sequence Compensation.- The Industrial Application of the Irregular 3D-Objects Image Processing in the Compact Reverse Engineering System.- Image Analysis.- A Local Algorithm for Real-Time Junction Detection in Contour Images.- A New Algorithm for Super-Resolution from Image Sequences.- Flatness Analysis of Three-Dimensional Images for Global Polyhedrization.- Generalized Morphological Mosaic Interpolation and Its Application to Computer-Aided Animations.- Openings and Closings by Reconstruction Using Propagation Criteria.- Multiscale Segmentation of Document Images Using M-Band Wavelets.- Length Estimation for Curves with ?-Uniform Sampling.- Random Walk Approach to Noise Reduction in Color Images.- Wigner Distributions and Ambiguity Functions in Image Analysis.- A Markov Random Field Image Segmentation Model Using Combined Color and Texture Features.- Application of Adaptive Hypergraph Model to Impulsive Noise Detection.- Estimation of Fusarium Head Blight of Triticale Using Digital Image Analysis of Grain.- Fast Modified Vector Median Filter.- Hierarchical Method of Digital Image Segmentation Using Multidimensional Mathematical Morphology.- Images of Imperfectly Ordered Motifs: Properties, Analysis, and Reconstruction.- Implementation and Advanced Results on the Non-interrupted Skeletonization Algorithm.- Object Segmentation of Color Video Sequences.- Thresholding Image Segmentation Based on the Volume Analysis of Spatial Regions.- Topographic Feature Identification Based on Triangular Meshes.- Visual Attention Guided Seed Selection for Color Image Segmentation.- Computer Vision.- Theoretical Analysis of Finite Difference Algorithms for Linear Shape from Shading.- Relational Constraints for Point Distribution Models.- Shape-from-Shading Using Darboux Smoothing.- A Novel Robust Statistical Design of the Repeated Genetic Algorithm.- Binocular Stereo Matching by Local Attraction.- Characterizations of Image Acquisition and Epipolar Geometry of Multiple Panoramas.- Interclass Fuzzy Rule Generation for Road Scene Recognition from Colour Images.- Unsupervised Learning of Part-Based Representations.- A Comparative Study of Performance and Implementation of Some Area-Based Stereo Algorithms.- A New Autocalibration Algorithm: Experimental Evaluation.- An Iconic Classification Scheme for Video-Based Traffic Sensor Tasks.- Matching in Catadioptric Images with Appropriate Windows, and Outliers Removal.