Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing : 5th Indian Conference, ICVGIP 2006, Madurai, India, December 13-16, 2006, Proceedings

Image Restoration and Super-Resolution.- Edge Model Based High Resolution Image Generation.- Greyscale Photograph Geometry Informed by Dodging and Burning.- A Discontinuity Adaptive Method for Super-Resolution of License Plates.- Explicit Nonflat Time Evolution for PDE-Based Image Restoration.- Decimation Estimation and Super-Resolution Using Zoomed Observations.- Segmentation and Classification.- Description of Interest Regions with Center-Symmetric Local Binary Patterns.- An Automatic Image Segmentation Technique Based on Pseudo-convex Hull.- Single-Histogram Class Models for Image Segmentation.- Learning Class-Specific Edges for Object Detection and Segmentation.- Nonparametric Neural Network Model Based on Rough-Fuzzy Membership Function for Classification of Remotely Sensed Images.- Aggregation Pheromone Density Based Image Segmentation.- Remote Sensing Image Classification: A Neuro-fuzzy MCS Approach.- A Hierarchical Approach to Landform Classification of Satellite Images Using a Fusion Strategy.- Image Filtering/Processing.- An Improved ‘Gas of Circles’ Higher-Order Active Contour Model and Its Application to Tree Crown Extraction.- A New Extension of Kalman Filter to Non-Gaussian Priors.- A Computational Model for Boundary Detection.- Speckle Reduction in Images with WEAD and WECD.- Image Filtering in the Compressed Domain.- Significant Pixel Watermarking Using Human Visual System Model in Wavelet Domain.- Early Vision and Image Processing: Evidences Favouring a Dynamic Receptive Field Model.- An Alternative Curvature Measure for Topographic Feature Detection.- Nonlinear Enhancement of Extremely High Contrast Images for Visibility Improvement.- Graphics and Visualization.- Culling an Object Hierarchy to a Frustum Hierarchy.- Secondary and Tertiary Structural Fold Elucidation from 3D EM Maps of Macromolecules.- Real-Time Streaming and Rendering of Terrains.- Ad-Hoc Multi-planar Projector Displays.- PACE: Polygonal Approximation of Thick Digital Curves Using Cellular Envelope.- Texture Guided Realtime Painterly Rendering of Geometric Models.- Real-Time Camera Walks Using Light Fields.- Massive Autonomous Characters: Animation and Interaction.- Clickstream Visualization Based on Usage Patterns.- GPU Objects.- Progressive Decomposition of Point Clouds Without Local Planes.- Video Analysis.- Task Specific Factors for Video Characterization.- Video Shot Boundary Detection Algorithm.- Modeling of Echocardiogram Video Based on Views and States.- Video Completion for Indoor Scenes.- Reducing False Positives in Video Shot Detection Using Learning Techniques.- Text Driven Temporal Segmentation of Cricket Videos.- Tracking and Surveillance.- Learning Efficient Linear Predictors for Motion Estimation.- Object Localization by Subspace Clustering of Local Descriptors.- Integrated Tracking and Recognition of Human Activities in Shape Space.- Inverse Composition for Multi-kernel Tracking.- Tracking Facial Features Using Mixture of Point Distribution Models.- Improved Kernel-Based Object Tracking Under Occluded Scenarios.- Spatio-temporal Discovery: Appearance + Behavior = Agent.- Fusion of Thermal Infrared and Visible Spectrum Video for Robust Surveillance.- Dynamic Events as Mixtures of Spatial and Temporal Features.- Discriminative Actions for Recognising Events.- Recognition (Face/Gesture/Object).- Continuous Hand Gesture Segmentation and Co-articulation Detection.- OBJCUT for Face Detection.- Selection of Wavelet Subbands Using Genetic Algorithm for Face Recognition.- Object Recognition Using Reflex Fuzzy Min-Max Neural Network with Floating Neurons.- Extended Fitting Methods of Active Shape Model for the Location of Facial Feature Points.- Pose Invariant Generic Object Recognition with Orthogonal Axis Manifolds in Linear Subspace.- A Profilometric Approach to 3D Face Reconstruction and Its Application to Face Recognition.- Face Recognition Technique Using Symbolic Linear Discriminant Analysis Method.- Two-Dimensional Optimal Transform for Appearance Based Object Recognition.- Computing Eigen Space from Limited Number of Views for Recognition.- Face Recognition from Images with High Pose Variations by Transform Vector Quantization.- Compression.- An Integrated Approach for Downscaling MPEG Video.- DCT Domain Transcoding of H.264/AVC Video into MPEG-2 Video.- Adaptive Scalable Wavelet Difference Reduction Method for Efficient Image Transmission.- GAP-RBF Based NR Image Quality Measurement for JPEG Coded Images.- A Novel Error Resilient Temporal Adjacency Based Adaptive Multiple State Video Coding over Error Prone Channels.- Adaptive Data Hiding in Compressed Video Domain.- Document Processing/OCR.- Learning Segmentation of Documents with Complex Scripts.- Machine Learning for Signature Verification.- Text Localization and Extraction from Complex Gray Images.- OCR of Printed Telugu Text with High Recognition Accuracies.- A MLP Classifier for Both Printed and Handwritten Bangla Numeral Recognition.- Recognition of Off-Line Handwritten Devnagari Characters Using Quadratic Classifier.- On Recognition of Handwritten Bangla Characters.- Evaluation Framework for Video OCR.- Enabling Search over Large Collections of Telugu Document Images – An Automatic Annotation Based Approach.- Content Based Image Retrieval.- Retrieving Images for Remote Sensing Applications.- Content-Based Image Retrieval Using Wavelet Packets and Fuzzy Spatial Relations.- Content Based Image Retrieval Using Region Labelling.- Stereo/Camera Calibration.- Using Strong Shape Priors for Stereo.- An Efficient Adaptive Window Based Disparity Map Computation Algorithm by Dense Two Frame Stereo Correspondence.- Robust Homography-Based Control for Camera Positioning in Piecewise Planar Environments.- Direct Estimation of Homogeneous Vectors: An Ill-Solved Problem in Computer Vision.- Biometrics.- Fingerprint Matching Based on Octantal Nearest-Neighbor Structure and Core Points.- Dempster-Shafer Theory Based Classifier Fusion for Improved Fingerprint Verification Performance.- Fingerprint Image Enhancement Using Decimation Free Directional Adaptive Mean Filtering.