Advances in Visual Computing: 4th International Symposium, ISVC 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 1-3, 2008. Proceedings, Part II

Front Matter....Pages -
SUNVIZ: A Real-Time Visualization Environment for Space Physics Applications....Pages 1-11
An Efficient Quality-Based Camera Path Planning Method for Volume Exploration....Pages 12-21
A Fast and Simple Heuristic for Metro Map Path Simplification....Pages 22-30
Visual Verification of Hypotheses....Pages 31-42
LDR-LLE: LLE with Low-Dimensional Neighborhood Representation....Pages 43-54
SudokuVis How to Explore Relationships of Mutual Exclusion....Pages 55-64
Identification of Oceanic Eddies in Satellite Images....Pages 65-74
Multi-image Fusion in Remote Sensing: Spatial Enhancement vs. Spectral Characteristics Preservation....Pages 75-84
Classification of Multispectral High-Resolution Satellite Imagery Using LIDAR Elevation Data....Pages 85-94
Semi-supervised Edge Learning for Building Detection in Aerial Images....Pages 95-104
High Resolution Satellite Classification with Graph Cut Algorithms....Pages 105-112
Satellite Image Segmentation Using Wavelet Transforms Based on Color and Texture Features....Pages 113-122
A System for Rapid Interactive Training of Object Detectors....Pages 123-132
An Integrated Method for Multiple Object Detection and Localization....Pages 133-144
A Context Dependent Distance Measure for Shape Clustering....Pages 145-156
A New Accumulator-Based Approach to Shape Recognition....Pages 157-169
Multi-dimensional Scale Saliency Feature Extraction Based on Entropic Graphs....Pages 170-180
Merging Active Contours....Pages 181-191
Contour Extraction Using Particle Filters....Pages 192-201
Combining Line and Point Correspondences for Homography Estimation....Pages 202-213
Integration of Local Image Cues for Probabilistic 2D Pose Recovery....Pages 214-223
Indirect Tracking to Reduce Occlusion Problems....Pages 224-235
Real-Time Lip Contour Extraction and Tracking Using an Improved Active Contour Model....Pages 236-245
Particle Filter Based Object Tracking with Discriminative Feature Extraction and Fusion....Pages 246-256
A New Global Alignment Method for Feature Based Image Mosaicing....Pages 257-266
An Effective Active Vision System for Gaze Control....Pages 267-277
Face Recognition Based on Normalization and the Phase Spectrum of the Local Part of an Image....Pages 278-286
A Novel Shape Registration Framework and Its Application to 3D Face Recognition in the Presence of Expressions....Pages 287-296
Frontal Face Recognition from Video....Pages 297-306
Real Time Hand Based Robot Control Using 2D/3D Images....Pages 307-316
Facial Trait Code and Its Application to Face Recognition....Pages 317-328
Using Multiple Masks to Improve End-to-End Face Recognition Performance....Pages 329-335
Sparse Representation for Ear Biometrics....Pages 336-345
Image-Based Information Guide on Mobile Devices....Pages 346-355
Estimating Atmospheric Visibility Using General-Purpose Cameras....Pages 356-367
Numismatic Object Identification Using Fusion of Shape and Local Descriptors....Pages 368-379
Personalized News Video Recommendation Via Interactive Exploration....Pages 380-389
Browsing a Large Collection of Community Photos Based on Similarity on GPU....Pages 390-399
Security Analysis for Spread-Spectrum Watermarking Incorporating Statistics of Natural Images....Pages 400-409
Multi-view Feature Matching and Image Grouping from Multiple Unordered Wide-Baseline Images....Pages 410-419
Stitching Video from Webcams....Pages 420-429
GpuCV: A GPU-Accelerated Framework for Image Processing and Computer Vision....Pages 430-439
A Comparison Study on Two Multi-scale Shape Matching Schemes....Pages 440-449
PAD Model Based Facial Expression Analysis....Pages 450-459
Calibration and Pose Estimation of a Pox-slits Camera from a Single Image....Pages 460-469
Covariance Matrices for Crowd Behaviour Monitoring on the Escalator Exits....Pages 470-481
User Verification by Combining Speech and Face Biometrics in Video....Pages 482-492
A Gibbsian Kohonen Network for Online Arabic Character Recognition....Pages 493-500
Shading through Defocus....Pages 501-510
A Gabor Quotient Image for Face Recognition under Varying Illumination....Pages 511-520
Personal Identification Using Palmprint and Contourlet Transform....Pages 521-530
Generating Reflection Transparent Image Using Image Fusion Space....Pages 531-540
Fingerprint Images Enhancement in Curvelet Domain....Pages 541-550
Effective Frame Rate Decision by Lagrange Optimization for Frame Skipping Video Transcoding....Pages 551-560
Symmetry of Shapes Via Self-similarity....Pages 561-570
Robust Estimation Approach for NL-Means Filter....Pages 571-580
View-Invariant Pose Recognition Using Multilinear Analysis and the Universum....Pages 581-591
Scaling Up a Metric Learning Algorithm for Image Recognition and Representation....Pages 592-601
Smile Detection for User Interfaces....Pages 602-611
A Novel Segmentation Algorithm for Digital Subtraction Angiography Images: First Experimental Results....Pages 612-623
Image Representation in Differential Space....Pages 624-633
A Four Point Algorithm for Fast Metric Cone Reconstruction from a Calibrated Image....Pages 634-643
Texture-Based Shadow Removal from a Single Color Image....Pages 644-650
Multi-source Airborne IR and Optical Image Fusion and Its Application to Target Detection....Pages 651-660
A New Adaptive Combination Approach to Score Level Fusion for Face and Iris Biometrics Combining Wavelets and Statistical Moments....Pages 661-671
Medical Image Zooming Algorithm Based on Bivariate Rational Interpolation....Pages 672-681
2D Shape Decomposition Based on Combined Skeleton-Boundary Features....Pages 682-691
Removing Pose from Face Images....Pages 692-702
A Real Time Fingers Detection by Symmetry Transform Using a Two Cameras System....Pages 703-712
High Resolution and High Dynamic Range Image Reconstruction from Differently Exposed Images....Pages 713-722
PDE-Based Facial Animation: Making the Complex Simple....Pages 723-732
A Variational Level Set Method for Multiple Object Detection....Pages 733-742
Detecting Thalamic Abnormalities in Autism Using Cylinder Conformal Mapping....Pages 743-751
Extraction of Illumination Effects from Natural Images with Color Transition Model....Pages 752-761
A Novel Macroblock-Level Rate-Distortion Optimization Scheme for H.264/AVC....Pages 762-771
Automatic Segmentation of the Apparent Contour for 3D Modeling of Cutting Tools from Single View....Pages 772-781
On Semantic Object Detection with Salient Feature....Pages 782-791
A Generic and Parallel Algorithm for 2D Image Discrete Contour Reconstruction....Pages 792-801
Spatial Filtering with Multi-scale Segmentation Based on Gaussian Function....Pages 802-812
Visibility-Based Test Scene Understanding by Real Plane Search....Pages 813-822
Real-Time Face Verification for Mobile Platforms....Pages 823-832
3D Human Motion Tracking Using Progressive Particle Filter....Pages 833-842
Visual Servoing for Patient Alignment in ProtonTherapy....Pages 843-850
Improving Recognition through Object Sub-categorization....Pages 851-859
Similarity Measure of the Visual Features Using the Constrained Hierarchical Clustering for Content Based Image Retrieval....Pages 860-868
An Experimental Study of Reconstruction of Tool Cutting Edge Features Using Space Carving Method....Pages 869-878
Real Time Object Tracking in a Video Sequence Using a Fixed Point DSP....Pages 879-888
Gesture Recognition for a Webcam-Controlled First Person Shooter....Pages 889-896
3D Line Reconstruction of a Road Environment Using an In-Vehicle Camera....Pages 897-904
Braille Document Parameters Estimation for Optical Character Recognition....Pages 905-914
Bio-imaging Toolkit for Indexing, Searching, Navigation, Discovery and Annotation....Pages 915-923
Stereoscopic View Synthesis by View Morphing....Pages 924-933
Edge Detection from Global and Local Views Using an Ensemble of Multiple Edge Detectors....Pages 934-941
An Effective and Fast Lane Detection Algorithm....Pages 942-948
Towards Real-Time Monocular Video-Based Avatar Animation....Pages 949-958
Temporal Computational Objects: A Process for Dynamic Surface Generation....Pages 959-969
Hardware-Accelerated Particle-Based Volume Rendering for Multiple Irregular Volumes....Pages 970-979
Immersive Visualization of Casting Flow and Solidification....Pages 980-989
Graph-Based Visual Analytic Tools for Parallel Coordinates....Pages 990-999
Modeling and Visualization Approaches for Time-Varying Volumetric Data....Pages 1000-1010
Ubiquitous Interactive Visualization of 3-D Mantle Convection through Web Applications Using Java....Pages 1011-1021
Streaming Mesh Optimization for CAD....Pages 1022-1033
An Iterative Method for Fast Mesh Denoising....Pages 1034-1043
On the Performance and Scalability of a GPU-Limited Commodity Cluster....Pages 1044-1055
Algorithms for the Automatic Design of Non-formal Urban Parks....Pages 1056-1065
Hybrid Shading Model Based on Device Performance for LOD Adaptive Service....Pages 1066-1075
Incremental Texture Compression for Real-Time Rendering....Pages 1076-1085
Geometry Independent Raindrop Splash Rendering for Generic, Complex Scenes....Pages 1086-1095
Extension of B-Spline Curves with G 2 Continuity....Pages 1096-1105
Building New Mixed Reality Devices....Pages 1106-1114
A Novel Acceleration Coding/Reconstruction Algorithm for Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Presence of Static Magnetic Field In-Homogeneities....Pages 1115-1124
Reconstruction of Some Segmented and Dynamic Scenes: Trifocal Tensors in ℙ 4 Theoretical Set Up for Critical Loci, and Instability....Pages 1125-1136
Efficient Algorithms for Reconstruction of 2D-Arrays from Extended Parikh Images....Pages 1137-1146
Reconstruction of Binary Images with Few Disjoint Components from Two Projections....Pages 1147-1156
A Connection between ℤ n and Generalized Triangular Grids....Pages 1157-1166
Collage of Hexagonal Arrays....Pages 1167-1175
Discrete Contour Extraction from Reference Curvature Function....Pages 1176-1185
Change Detection with SPOT-5 and FORMOSAT-2 Imageries....Pages 1186-1195
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