Image Analysis : 13th Scandinavian Conference, SCIA 2003 Halmstad, Sweden, June 29 - July 2, 2003 Proceedings

The excellently received call for papers of the 13th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, June 29–July 2 (SCIA 2003) resulted in the selected articles of this proceedings. Additionally the volume also contains invited contributions from – Ivar Austvoll, Stavanger University College (NO), – Lars B? a? ath, Halmstad University (SE), – Ewert Bengtsson, Uppsala University (SE), – Rasmus Larsen, Technical University of Denmark (DK), – Jussi Parkkinen, University of Joensuu (FI), – Pietro Perona, California Institute of Technology (US) which brings the total number of articles to 152. The theme of the papers are dominated by the categories – Feature extraction – Depth and surface – Medical image processing – Shape analysis – Segmentation and spatial grouping – Coding and representation – Motion analysis – Texture analysis – Color analysis – Indexing and categorization which also represent the topical groupings of this book. The particularly strong response to the feature extraction, depth and surface, and medical image processing themes makes us believe that these areas are c- rently expansive, partly because of the rich set of problems which remain to be addressed.

Invited.- The Emergence of Visual Categories - A Computational Perspective.- Feature Extraction I.- Multiresolution Texture Analysis of Surface Reflection Images.- Robust Multi-scale Extraction of Blob Features.- Orientation Fields Filtering by Derivates of a Gaussian.- Character Prototyping in Document Images Using Gabor Filters.- 3D-Orientation Space; Filters and Sampling.- End-Stop Exemplar Based Recognition.- Quadtree Decomposition Texture Analysis in Paper Formation Determination.- A Note on Evaluation of Image Recognition Systems.- Depth and Surface I.- Curvature Consistency for Shape-from-Shading.- An Extended Perspective Three Points Problem.- Omnidirectional Camera Model and Epipolar Geometry Estimation by RANSAC with Bucketing?.- Auto Camera Calibration Method for Person Tracking Applications.- Dense Stereomatching Algorithm Performance for View Prediction and Structure Reconstruction.- Invited.- To See What You Cannot See.- Feature Extraction, Shape Analysis.- Photo-Identification of Humpback and Gray Whales Using Affine Moment Invariants.- Environmental Monitoring Using Image Analysis.- Robust Curve Detection Using a Radon Transform in Orientation Space.- Similarity Measure for Corner Redetection.- An Integrated System for Automatic Face Recognition.- New Geometric Transform Based on Stochastic Geometry in the Context of Pattern Recognition.- Modeling of Pose Effects in Oriented Filter Responses for Head Pose Estimation.- Segmentation of Faces in Video Footage Using Controlled Weights on HSV Color.- Bidimensional Empirical Mode Decomposition Modified for Texture Analysis.- Primitive and Point Configuration Texture Model and Primitive Estimation Using Mathematical Morphology.- Experimentation on the Use of Chromaticity Features, Local Binary Pattern, and Discrete Cosine Transform in Colour Texture Analysis.- Learning an Object Model for Feature Matching in Clutter.- Curvature Dependent Skeletonization.- Detecting Distinguished Regions by Saliency.- Horizon Picking in 3D Seismic Images.- Temporal Dynamical Interactions between Multiple Layers of Local Image Features for Event Detection in Video Sequences.- Iterative Orientation Tuning in V1: A Simple Cell Circuit with Cross-Orientation Suppression.- Automatic Reconstruction of Silhouettes Using B-Splines.- Estimation of Curvature along Curves with Application to Fibres in 3D Images of Paper.- Registration of Seal Images Using Contour Analysis.- Estimation of Curvature Based Shape Properties of Surfaces in 3D Grey-Value Images.- A Framework for the Analysis of Majority Voting.- Multiple Genetic Snakes for People Segmentation in Video Sequences.- Structure-Preserving Segmentation of Individual Tree Crowns by Brownian Motion.- Extracting Symbolic Descriptors for Interactive Object Retrieval.- Soft Morphological Filtering of Spectral Images.- Shortest Route on Gray-Level Map Using Distance Transform on Curved Space.- Segmentation and Free Space Detection Using Gabor Filters.- Coding and Representation.- Digital Watermarking of Spectral Images with Three-Dimensional Wavelet Transform.- Context Clustering in Lossless Compression of Gray-Scale Image.- Anatomical Coordinate System for Bilateral Registration of Mammograms.- Image Segmentation Using Dynamic Run-Length Coding Technique.- Defect Image Classification and Retrieval with MPEG-7 Descriptors.- Motion Analysis.- Two-Dimensional Channel Representation for Multiple Velocities.- Two-Frame Motion Estimation Based on Polynomial Expansion.- Tracking the Pose of Objects through Subspace.- An Automatic Traffic Surveillance System for Vehicle Tracking and Classification.- Affine Structure from Translational Motion in Image Sequences.- Invited.- Computerized Cell Image Analysis: Past, Present, and Future.- Medical Image Processing.- Segmentation of Cell Nuclei in Tissue by Combining Seeded Watersheds with Gradient Information.- Automated Interpretation of Ventilation-Perfusion Lung Scintigrams for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism Using Support Vector Machines.- Model Based Segmentation for Retinal Fundus Images.- A Multiscale Decomposition Approach to Gel Image Interpretation.- Fast 3D Mean Shift Filter for CT Images.- Analysing the Curvature of the Pectoralis Muscle in Mammograms.- ASM Driven Snakes in Rheumatoid Arthritis Assessment.- Segmentation of T1-MRI of the Human Cortex Using a 3D Grey-Level Morphology Approach.- Depth and Surface II.- Generalized Use of Homographies for Piecewise Planar Reconstruction.- Rough Surface Estimation Using the Kirchhoff Model.- Normalized Averaging Using Adaptive Applicability Functions with Applications in Image Reconstruction from Sparsely and Randomly Sampled Data.- Consistent Multi-view Reconstruction from Epipolar Geometries with Outliers.- A Comparison of Viewing Geometries for Augmented Reality.- Invited.- Some Issues of Biological Shape Modelling with Applications.- Medical Image Processing, Depth and Surface.- Protein Spot Detection by Symmetry Derivatives of Gaussians.- Reconstructing the Optical Thickness from Hoffman Modulation Contrast Images.- A Robust Medical Image Recognition System Employing Edge-Based Feature Vector Representation.- Information Technology for the Morphological Analysis of the Lymphoid Cell Nuclei.- Illumination Correction from Psoriasis Image Data.- Building an Image-Based System to Automatically Score Psoriasis.- Automated Interpretation of Cardiac Scintigrams.- Estimating Motion in Ultrasound Images of the Small Bowel: Optical Flow without Image Structure.- 3D Wiener Filtering to Reduce Reverberations in Ultrasound Image Sequences.- Segmentation of Laparoscopic Images for Computer Assisted Surgery.- Segmentation of Histopathological Section Using Snakes.- 3D-Color-Structure-Code — A Hierarchical Region Growing Method for Segmentation of 3D-Images.- Bucketing Techniques in Robust Regression for Computer Vision.- Tracking Human Heads Based on Interaction between Hypotheses with Certainty.- Two Linear Methods for Camera Calibration and Their Applications to Augmented Reality and 3D Reconstruction.- PDE Based Surface Estimation for Structure from Motion.- An Improved Variogram Analysis of the Maximum Expected Disparity in Stereo Images.- Detection of Strong Shadows in Monochromatic Video Streams.- Image Matching Using Distance Transform.- Contour/Texture Approach for Visual Tracking.- Simplified Vehicle Calibration Using Multilinear Constraints.- A Single-Scan Algorithm for Connected Components Labelling in a Traffic Monitoring Application.- Simultaneous Inpainting and Motion Estimation of Highly Degraded Video-Sequences.- Reconstruction of Linearly Parameterized Models from a Single Image Using the Vanishing Points.- Generalizing the Virtual Camera Pose for View Synthesis.- Structure Estimation and Surface Triangulation of Deformable Objects.- 3-D Modeling of an Outdoor Scene from Multiple Image Sequences by Estimating Camera Motion Parameters.- Feature Extraction II.- Crossing Line Profile: A New Approach to Detecting Defects in Aluminium Die Casting.- On 3D Scanning, Reconstruction, Enhancement, and Segmentation of Logs.- Loglets: Generalized Quadrature and Phase for Local Spatio-Temporal Structure Estimation.- Image Decomposition by Radial Basis Functions.- Anisotropic Channel Filtering.- Shape Analysis I.- 2D Grey-Level Convex Hull Computation: A Discrete 3D Approach.- Modelling of Shapes without Landmarks.- Polygonal Approximation of Closed Contours.- Modeling Knot Geometry in Norway Spruce from Industrial CT Images.- Qualitative Characterization and Use of Prior Information.- Invited.- Spectral Color Imaging.- Color Analysis.- A 3D-Polar Coordinate Colour Representation Well Adapted to Image Analysis.- Enhanced Model for Chromaticity Differences.- Using Real Shadows to Create Virtual Ones.- Shape Analysis II.- Surface Shape from Specularities.- Matching Occluded Objects Invariant to Rotations, Translations, Reflections, and Scale Changes.- A Fuzzy Connectivity Tree for Hierarchical Extraction of Venous Structures.- Measuring Perimeter and Area in Low Resolution Images Using a Fuzzy Approach.- Probabilistic Generative Modelling.- Texture Analysis.- Supervised Segmentation of Volume Textures Using 3D Probabilistic Relaxation.- Modification of Spatial Distribution in Primitive and Point Configuration Texture Model.- Multi-scale Binary Patterns for Texture Analysis.- Perceptual Organization of Directional Primitives Using a Pseudocolor Hough Transform.- Object Recognition under Various Lighting Conditions.- Invited.- Filter Banks, Wavelets, and Frames with Applications in Computer Vision and Image Processing (A Review).- Motion Analysis, Color Analysis.- Bottom Reflectance Influence on a Color Correction Algorithm for Underwater Images.- Searching Technique in a Spectral Image Database.- Color Image Segmentation Using a Model-Based Clustering and a MFA-EM Algorithm.- Detection of Vehicles Using Gabor Filters and Affine Moment Invariants from an Image.- Adaptive Spatial and Temporal Prefiltering for Video Compression.- A Comparison of Digital Length Estimators for Image Features.- Detecting Moving Objects with an Omnidirectional Camera Based on Adaptive Background Subtraction.- Implementation of Linear Prediction Models for Lossless Compression of Hyperspectral Images in Novel Parallel Environments.- Techniques for Parallel Execution of the Particle Filter.- Efficient Image Matching Algorithms Based on Procedures of Searching for 2D Templates.- Implementation of the USB Token System for Fingerprint Verification.- Method for Image Informational Properties Exploitation in Pattern Recognition Environment.- LWDOS: Language for Writing Descriptors of Outline Shapes.- Real-Time Tracking of Video Sequences in a Panoramic View for Object-Based Video Coding.- Bootstrapping Sequential Monte Carlo Tracking.- Tracking Weather Storms Using 3D Doppler Radial Velocity Information.- Using Optical Flow as Evidence for Probabilistic Tracking.- Extraction of Multiple Motion Trajectories in Human Motion.- Predicting Detection Events from Bayesian Scene Recognition.- On the Similarity Based Impulsive Noise Removal Technique for Multichannel Images.- Panoramic Movie Generation Using an Omnidirectional Multi-camera System for Telepresence.- Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Data and the Complex Wishart Distribution.- Indexing and Categorization.- Binary Co-occurrence Matrix in Image Database Indexing.- Color-Based Image Retrieval from High-Similarity Image Databases.- Using Image Segments in PicSOM CBIR System.- Image Retrieval Using Mixture Models and EM Algorithm.- Finding Object Categories in Cluttered Images Using Minimal Shape Prototypes.- Segmentation and Spatial Grouping.- Automatic Extraction of Object Region from Photographs.- Stroke Segmentation in Infrared Reflectograms.- Multi-oriented English Text Line Identification.- A Modified Fast Marching Method.- Texture Classification by Combining Local Binary Pattern Features and a Self-Organizing Map.