Pattern Recognition : 28th Dagm Symposium, Berlin, Germany, September 12-14, 2006: Proceedings

Image Filtering, Restoration and Segmentation.- Ultrasound Image Denoising by Spatially Varying Frequency Compounding.- Exploiting Low-Level Image Segmentation for Object Recognition.- Wavelet Based Noise Reduction by Identification of Correlations.- Template Based Gibbs Probability Distributions for Texture Modeling and Segmentation.- Efficient Combination of Probabilistic Sampling Approximations for Robust Image Segmentation.- Diffusion-Like Reconstruction Schemes from Linear Data Models.- Reduction of Ring Artifacts in High Resolution X-Ray Microtomography Images.- A Probabilistic Multi-phase Model for Variational Image Segmentation.- Provably Correct Edgel Linking and Subpixel Boundary Reconstruction.- The Edge Preserving Wiener Filter for Scalar and Tensor Valued Images.- From Adaptive Averaging to Accelerated Nonlinear Diffusion Filtering.- Introducing Dynamic Prior Knowledge to Partially-Blurred Image Restoration.- Shape Analysis and Representation.- On-Line, Incremental Learning of a Robust Active Shape Model.- Using Irreducible Group Representations for Invariant 3D Shape Description.- Shape Matching by Variational Computation of Geodesics on a Manifold.- A Modification of the Level Set Speed Function to Bridge Gaps in Data.- Generation and Initialization of Stable 3D Mass-Spring Models for the Segmentation of the Thyroid Cartilage.- Preserving Topological Information in the Windowed Hough Transform for Rectangle Extraction.- Recognition, Categorization and Detection.- Fast Scalar and Vectorial Grayscale Based Invariant Features for 3D Cell Nuclei Localization and Classification.- Integrating Recognition and Reconstruction for Cognitive Traffic Scene Analysis from a Moving Vehicle.- Sparse Patch-Histograms for Object Classification in Cluttered Images.- An Object-Oriented Approach Using a Top-Down and Bottom-Up Process for Manipulative Action Recognition.- Detecting Intrinsically Two-Dimensional Image Structures Using Local Phase.- Towards Unsupervised Discovery of Visual Categories.- Cross-Articulation Learning for Robust Detection of Pedestrians.- Analysis on a Local Approach to 3D Object Recognition.- Phase Based 3D Texture Features.- Learning of Graphical Models and Efficient Inference for Object Class Recognition.- Properties of Patch Based Approaches for the Recognition of Visual Object Classes.- Computer Vision and Image Retrieval.- Feature Selection for Automatic Image Annotation.- Image Database Navigation on a Hierarchical MDS Grid.- Linear vs. Nonlinear Feature Combination for Saliency Computation: A Comparison with Human Vision.- Facial Expression Modelling from Still Images Using a Single Generic 3D Head Model.- Extraction of Haar Integral Features on Omnidirectional Images: Application to Local and Global Localization.- Machine Learning and Statistical Data Analysis.- Model Selection in Kernel Methods Based on a Spectral Analysis of Label Information.- Importance-Weighted Cross-Validation for Covariate Shift.- Parameterless Isomap with Adaptive Neighborhood Selection.- Efficient Algorithms for Similarity Measures over Sequential Data: A Look Beyond Kernels.- Multi-scale Bayesian Based Horizon Matchings Across Faults in 3d Seismic Data.- Biomedical Data Analysis.- Robust MEG Source Localization of Event Related Potentials: Identifying Relevant Sources by Non-Gaussianity.- Classifying Event-Related Desynchronization in EEG, ECoG and MEG Signals.- Optimizing Spectral Filters for Single Trial EEG Classification.- Probabilistic De Novo Peptide Sequencing with Doubly Charged Ions.- Motion Analysis and Tracking.- Direct Estimation of the Wall Shear Rate Using Parametric Motion Models in 3D.- On-Line Variational Estimation of Dynamical Fluid Flows with Physics-Based Spatio-temporal Regularization.- Near Real-Time Motion Segmentation Using Graph Cuts.- Segmentation-Based Motion with Occlusions Using Graph-Cut Optimization.- Realtime Depth Estimation and Obstacle Detection from Monocular Video.- 3D Human Motion Sequences Synchronization Using Dense Matching Algorithm.- Cloth X-Ray: MoCap of People Wearing Textiles.- Unconstrained Multiple-People Tracking.- Robust Non-rigid Object Tracking Using Point Distribution Manifolds.- A Variational Approach to Joint Denoising, Edge Detection and Motion Estimation.- Multi-step Multi-camera View Planning for Real-Time Visual Object Tracking.- Pose Recognition.- Nonparametric Density Estimation for Human Pose Tracking.- Learning to Mimic Motion of Human Arm and Hand Grabbing for Constraint Adaptation.- Visual Hand Posture Recognition in Monocular Image Sequences.- Monocular Body Pose Estimation by Color Histograms and Point Tracking.- Pose Estimation from Uncertain Omnidirectional Image Data Using Line-Plane Correspondences.- Kernel Particle Filter for Visual Quality Inspection from Monocular Intensity Images.- Stereo and Structure from Motion.- Monocular 3D Scene Reconstruction at Absolute Scales by Combination of Geometric and Real-Aperture Methods.- An Effective Stereo Matching Algorithm with Optimal Path Cost Aggregation.- Tracking Camera Parameters of an Active Stereo Rig.- Handling Camera Movement Constraints in Reinforcement Learning Based Active Object Recognition.- Multi-view Image and Geometric Processing.- The Inversion Camera Model.- Determining an Initial Image Pair for Fixing the Scale of a 3D Reconstruction from an Image Sequence.- Multi-camera Radiometric Surface Modelling for Image-Based Re-lighting.- A Multiple Graph Cut Based Approach for Stereo Analysis.- Robust Variational Segmentation of 3D Objects from Multiple Views.- Online Calibration of Two Zoom-Pan-Tilt Units for Planar Dynamic Events.- Dense Stereo by Triangular Meshing and Cross Validation.- 3D View Registration and Surface Modelling.- Low-Cost Laser Range Scanner and Fast Surface Registration Approach.- A Point-Based Approach to PDE-Based Surface Reconstruction.- Robust Feature Representation for Efficient Camera Registration.- Reconstruction of Façade Structures Using a Formal Grammar and RjMCMC.- Stable Wave Detector of Blobs in Images.