Advances in Image and Video Technology

Keynote Lectures.- An Image-Based Approach to Interactive 3D Virtual Exhibition.- Information Just-in-Time: An Approach to the Paperless Office.- Sampling Less and Reconstructing More for Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Phase is an Important Low-Level Image Invariant.- Multimedia Hardware and Image Sensor Technologies.- A Pipelined 8x8 2-D Forward DCT Hardware Architecture for H.264/AVC High Profile Encoder.- A Real Time Infrared Imaging System Based on DSP & FPGA.- Motion Compensation Hardware Accelerator Architecture for H.264/AVC.- High Throughput Hardware Architecture for Motion Estimation with 4:1 Pel Subsampling Targeting Digital Television Applications.- Graphics and Visualization.- Fast Directional Image Completion.- Out-of-Order Execution for Avoiding Head-of-Line Blocking in Remote 3D Graphics.- A Fast Mesh Deformation Method for Neuroanatomical Surface Inflated Representations.- Mosaic Animations from Video Inputs.- Image Analysis.- Grayscale Template-Matching Invariant to Rotation, Scale, Translation, Brightness and Contrast.- Bimodal Biometric Person Identification System Under Perturbations.- A 3D Object Retrieval Method Using Segment Thickness Histograms and the Connection of Segments.- Facial Occlusion Reconstruction: Recovering Both the Global Structure and the Local Detailed Texture Components.- Cyclic Linear Hidden Markov Models for Shape Classification.- Neural Network Classification of Photogenic Facial Expressions Based on Fiducial Points and Gabor Features.- Image In-painting by Band Matching, Seamless Cloning and Area Sub-division.- Image Feature Extraction Using a Method Derived from the Hough Transform with Extended Kalman Filtering.- Nonlinear Dynamic Shape and Appearance Models for Facial Motion Tracking.- Direct Ellipse Fitting and Measuring Based on Shape Boundaries.- Approximate ESPs on Surfaces of Polytopes Using a Rubberband Algorithm.- Sub-grid Detection in DNA Microarray Images.- Modelling Intermittently Present Features Using Nonlinear Point Distribution Models.- Measuring Linearity of Ordered Point Sets.- Real-Time Color Image Watermarking Based on D-SVD Scheme.- Recognizing Human Iris by Modified Empirical Mode Decomposition.- Segmentation of Scanned Insect Footprints Using ART2 for Threshold Selection.- Meshless Parameterization for Dimensional Reduction Integrated in 3D Voxel Reconstruction Using a Single PC.- An Efficient Biocryptosystem Based on the Iris Biometrics.- Subjective Image-Quality Estimation Based on Psychophysical Experimentation.- Adaptive Color Filter Array Demosaicking Based on Constant Hue and Local Properties of Luminance.- Multiple View Imaging and Processing.- Automatic Multiple Visual Inspection on Non-calibrated Image Sequence with Intermediate Classifier Block.- Image-Based Refocusing by 3D Filtering.- Online Multiple View Computation for Autostereoscopic Display.- Horizontal Human Face Pose Determination Using Pupils and Skin Region Positions.- Segmentation-Based Adaptive Support for Accurate Stereo Correspondence.- 3D Reconstruction of a Human Body from Multiple Viewpoints.- 3D Posture Representation Using Meshless Parameterization with Cylindrical Virtual Boundary.- Using the Orthographic Projection Model to Approximate the Perspective Projection Model for 3D Facial Reconstruction.- Multi-target Tracking with Poisson Processes Observations.- Proposition and Comparison of Catadioptric Homography Estimation Methods.- External Calibration of Multi-camera System Based on Efficient Pair-wise Estimation.- Computer Vision Applications.- Fast Automatic Compensation of Under/Over- Exposured Image Regions.- Motion Estimation Applied to Reconstruct Undersampled Dynamic MRI.- Real-Time Hand Gesture Detection and Recognition Using Boosted Classifiers and Active Learning.- Spatial Visualization of the Heart in Case of Ectopic Beats and Fibrillation.- A Single-View Based Framework for Robust Estimation of Height and Position of Moving People.- Robust Tree-Ring Detection.- A New Approach for Fingerprint Verification Based on Wide Baseline Matching Using Local Interest Points and Descriptors.- SVM with Stochastic Parameter Selection for Bovine Leather Defect Classification.- Incremental Perspective Motion Model for Rigid and Non-rigid Motion Separation.- Vision-Based Guitarist Fingering Tracking Using a Bayesian Classifier and Particle Filters.- Accuracy Estimation of Detection of Casting Defects in X-Ray Images Using Some Statistical Techniques.- A Radial Basis Function for Registration of Local Features in Images.- Hardware Implementation of Image Recognition System Based on Morphological Associative Memories and Discrete Wavelet Transform.- Detection and Classification of Human Movements in Video Scenes.- Image Registration by Simulating Human Vision.- Face and Gesture-Based Interaction for Displaying Comic Books.- Better Foreground Segmentation for 3D Face Reconstruction Using Graph Cuts.- Practical Error Analysis of Cross-Ratio-Based Planar Localization.- People Counting in Low Density Video Sequences.- Simulation of Automated Visual Inspection Systems for Specular Surfaces Quality Control.- Low Cost Virtual Face Performance Capture Using Stereo Web Cameras.- Hidden Markov Models Applied to Snakes Behavior Identification.- Image and Video Coding.- SP Picture for Scalable Video Coding.- Studying the GOP Size Impact on the Performance of a Feedback Channel-Based Wyner-Ziv Video Codec.- Wyner-Ziv Video Coding with Side Matching for Improved Side Information.- On Digital Image Representation by the Delaunay Triangulation.- Low-Complexity TTCM Based Distributed Video Coding Architecture.- Adaptive Key Frame Selection for Efficient Video Coding.- Multimedia Processing.- Application of Bayesian Network for Fuzzy Rule-Based Video Deinterlacing.- Markov Random Fields and Spatial Information to Improve Automatic Image Annotation.- Shape-Based Image Retrieval Using k-Means Clustering and Neural Networks.- Very Fast Concentric Circle Partition-Based Replica Detection Method.- Design of a Medical Image Database with Content-Based Retrieval Capabilities.- A Real-Time Object Recognition System on Cell Broadband Engine.- A Study of Zernike Invariants for Content-Based Image Retrieval.