Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing    (VIIP 2005)

July 9 – September 9, 2005
Benidorm, Spain
Editor(s): J.J. Villanueva
475 pages
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Track Applications FreeSubscription
480-032 ELIN: A Newspaper Universal Multimedia Access Platform based on MPEG Standards
J. Casademont, F. Perdrix (Spain), M. Einhoff (Germany), J. Paradells (Spain), G. Dummer (Germany), and A. Boyer (France)
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480-059 Histogram Warping based Correction of the Light Attenuation with Depth of Data Sets Captured by a Confocal Microscope
M. Čapek, L. Kubínová, K. Hána, and P. Smrčka (Czech Republic)
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480-063 A System for Automatic Detection of Defects in Welding Radiographic Images
R. Vilar, J. Zapata, and R. Ruiz (Spain)
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480-080 Multi-Bits Image Fingerprinting Resisting to Collusion and RST Attacks
W.-G. Kim, S.H. Lee, Y.-S. Seo, and Y. Suh (Korea)
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480-095 Automatic Identification of Tree Crowns in Different Topology
C.-C. Ko, C.-S. Lin, J.-P. Huang, and R.-C. Hsu (Taiwan)
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480-120 Temporal Extension to Exemplar-based Inpainting Applied to Scratch Correction in Damaged Image Sequences
G. Forbin, B. Besserer, J. Boldyš, and D. Tschumperlé (France)
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480-124 A Mechanism to Automate the Generation of Digital Library Image Metadata and to Provide Content Search
B. do Carmo Langiano and M.S. Sunye (Brazil)
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480-133 Simplification of Texture in 3D Urban Models using the Hough Transform
I.R. Khan and M. Okuda (Japan)
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480-194 Fingerprint Matching using Oriented-Dependent Minutiae Texture
F. Benhammadi, H. Hentous, K. Bey Beghdad, and M. Aissani (Algeria)
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480-236 Automatic Quantification of In Vitro Endothelial Cell Networks using Mathematical Morphology
J. Angulo (France) and S. Matou (UK)
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480-240 Application of an Adaptive Background Model for Monitoring Honeybees
U. Knauer, M. Himmelsbach, F. Winkler, F. Zautke, K. Bienefeld, and B. Meffert (Germany)
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480-275 Accurate Robot Localization using a Single Camera
C. Ricolfe-Viala and A.-J. Sánchez-Salmerón (Spain)
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480-807 Combining Morphological Interpolation and Biomechanical Inverse Kinematics to Simulate Bipedal Locomotion
N. Pronost, G. Nicolas, G. Dumont, and F. Multon (France)
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480-808 Detection and Classification of Passing Objects for a Security System
R. Sanchez, T. Umezaki, Y. Inoue, M. Hoguro, and M. Fujino (Japan)
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Track Face Recognition and Facial Expression Analysis FreeSubscription
480-024 Location Detection of Face Features by DCT Coefficients
D. Zhong and I. Defée (Finland)
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480-062 An Immersive Gesture Controlled Interface for Virtual Document Information Spaces
A. Ebert, M. Deller, and M. Bender (Germany)
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480-068 Efficient Immersive Visualization of Virtual Document Spaces
M. Deller, M. Bender, D. Wagner, A. Ebert, S. Agne, and B. Klein (Germany)
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480-081 Connected Components Labeling based Face Detection and Pose Estimation using PCA
T. Kabakli, T. Celik, H. Ozkaramanli, H. Demirel, and M. Uyguroglu (Turkey)
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480-089 Accurate 3D Model based Face Tracking for Facial Expression Recognition
M. Anisetti, V. Bellandi, and F. Beverina (Italy)
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480-090 Upper-Face Expression Features Extraction System for Video Sequences
V. Bellandi, M. Anisetti, and F. Beverina (Italy)
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480-097 3D Visualization of Vertebra by Freehand Ultrasound Scanning
Y.Yasumuro, M. Imura, Y. Manabe, and K. Chihara (Japan)
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480-104 Real-Time Face and Hand Detection
D. González-Ortega, F.J. Díaz-Pernas, J.F. Díez-Higuera, M. Martínez-Zarzuela, and D. Boto-Giralda (Spain)
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480-197 A Passive and Multimodal Biometric System for Personal Identification
M. Masudur Rahman, R. Hartley (Australia), and S. Ishikawa (Japan)
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480-217 A Robust Algorithm for Face Detection in Color Images
I.M. Mansour and S.R. Weshah (Jordan)
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Track Image Acquisition and Camera Calibration FreeSubscription
480-043 A Practical Way to Initialize Camera Parameters using the Absolute Conic
T. Pribanic (Croatia), P. Sturm (France), and M. Cifrek (Croatia)
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480-052 An Adaptive Real-Time Method for Controlling the Luminosity in Digital Video Acquisition
J. Torres and J.M. Menéndez (Spain)
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480-222 Improving the Condition Number to Achieve a Robust Camera Calibration Process
C. Ricolfe-Viala and A.-J. Sánchez-Salmerón (Spain)
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480-241 Parallax-based Estimation of the Direction of Heading
F. Wenzel and R.-R. Grigat (Germany)
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480-259 Performance Comparison of Computational Retina Models
J.C. Martins and L.A. Sousa (Portugal)
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Track Image Analysis FreeSubscription
480-033 Puzzle Image Mosaic
G. Di Blasi, G. Gallo, and M. Petralia (Italy)
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480-038 Image Sequences Filtering using Adaptive Weighted Averaging Filter WITHOUT Estimating Noise Variance
M. Saeidi, S.A. Motamedi, A. Behrad, B. Saeidi, Roghayeh Saeidi, and Reza Saeidi (USA)
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480-085 A New Multi-Scale/Multi-Directional Method for Detection of Abnormalities in Random Textures
A. Monadjemi (Iran)
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480-096 A Novel Two Pass Hexagonal Search Algorithm for Motion Estimation
Y. Wu and G. Megson (UK)
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480-119 Diffraction Pattern Analysis for Accurate 2D Non-Contact Dimensional Measurements
Z. Nagy and M. Kohoutek (Czech Republic)
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480-131 Traffic Light Silhouettes Recognition using Fourier Descriptors
P. Foucher, D. Moreno Eddowes, and J. Lopez Krahe (France)
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480-215 A Ray-based Subpixel Detection Algorithm for Contour Pixels of a Circle
G. Pisinger, R. Kickingereder, and T. Hanning (Germany)
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480-229 Simple-Shape Classification based on the Human Visual System
V. Vonikakis, I. Andreadis, and A. Gasteratos (Greece)
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Track Document and Video Analysis FreeSubscription
480-026 Automated Metadata Extraction to Preserve the Digital Contents of Biomedical Collections
G.R. Thoma, S. Mao, and D. Misra (USA)
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480-041 Representing Compressed Data by Images
M. Madi (United Arab Emirates)
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480-099 A Tree Structured-based Caption Text Detection Approach
M. León, S. Mallo, and A. Gasull (Spain)
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480-105 Distinguishing Excitement Movie Clips using Movement and Pace Features
S.C. Watanapa, B. Thipakorn, and N. Charoenkitkarn (Thailand)
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480-225 Neuro-Fuzzy Segmentation of Document Images
P. Górecki (Italy, Poland), C. Castiello, and L. Caponetti (Italy)
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Track Image Coding and Compression FreeSubscription
480-067 Lossless Bit-Plane Compression of Microarray Images using 3D Context Models
A.J.R. Neves, A.J. Pinho, and A.R.C. Paiva (Portugal)
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480-070 Shot Detection Method for Low Bit-Rate Video Coding
J. Sastre, G. Castelló, V. Naranjo, J.M. López, and A. Ferreras (Spain)
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480-072 Spatial Characteristics-based Fast Mode Decision in H.264/AVC
C.T. Lim, K.P. Lim, D. Wu, X. Lin, and C.C. Ko (Singapore)
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480-073 A Real-Time H.264 Video Streaming System
D. Wu, K.P. Lim, S. Wu, Z.Z. Zhou, X. Lin, S. Rahardja, and C.C. Ko (Singapore)
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480-074 Multiple Adaptive Transform based Image Compression Technique
S. Minasyan, J. Astola, and D. Guevorkian (Finland)
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480-094 HICOD2000 – Integrated System for Coding, Protection and Trading of Earth Observation Products in JPEG2000
C. Serrão, A. Serra, and M. Dias (Portugal)
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480-106 Directionally Sensitive Bilinear Concealment for H264
A.J. Armstrong, S.T.C. Beesley, C. Grecos, and D.J. Parish (UK)
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480-117 4:1:1 vs. 4:2:0 on DV Formats. Which's Better?
D. Jiménez, D. Ruíz, and J.M. Menéndez (Spain)
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480-121 Quality Strips for Models with Level of Detail
O.E. Ripollés, M. Chover, and F. Ramos (Spain)
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480-122 A New Approach to Object based Video Compositing in the Compressed Domain
M. Abdel-Maguid and M. Moniri (UK)
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480-195 Image Compression with Adaptive Thresholding
G.K. Kharate, A.A. Ghatol, and P.P. Rege (India)
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480-255 A 2D Forward/Inverse Architecture for 4x4 ICT Transform of H.264 Oriented to FPGA
A.M. Patiño (Mexico), M.M. Peiró, and F.J. Ballester (Spain)
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480-261 Active Macroblock Skipping in the H.264 Video Coding Standard
S.T.C. Beesley, A.J. Armstrong, C. Grecos, and D.J. Parish (UK)
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480-273 Reversible Watermarking in the VQ-Compressed Domain
B. Yang (PRC), Z.-M. Lu (Germany), and S.-H. Sun (PRC)
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Track Image Processing FreeSubscription
480-044 Morphological Color Processing based on Distances. Application to Color Denoising and Enhancement by Centre and Contrast Operators
J. Angulo (France)
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480-061 Colour Correction in Theory and Practice
S.D. Hordley, J.F. Paul, and G.D. Finlayson (UK)
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480-065 Hough Transform with Weighting Edge-Maps
C. Ruwwe, U. Zölzer (Germany), and O. Duprat (France)
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480-199 Image Sequences Filtering using a New Nonlinear Method
M. Saeidi, S.A. Motamedi, B. Saeidi, A. Behrad, Roghayeh Saeidi, and Reza Saeidi (Iran, USA)
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480-204 Automatic Image Stabilization for Omni-Directional Systems
I. Potucek (Czech Republic)
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480-211 Image Restoration with an Affine Constraint
A. Tanaka, H. Imai, and M. Miyakoshi (Japan)
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480-244 Appearance based Salient Point Detection with Intrinsic Scale-Frequency Descriptor
P. Moreno, A. Bernardino, and J. Santos-Victor (Portugal)
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480-816 ECG Feature Extraction using Daubechies Wavelets
S.Z. Mahmoodabadi, A. Ahmadian, and M.D. Abolhasani (Iran)
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Track 3D Image Processing FreeSubscription
480-036 Flexible Hand-Held 3D Scanner and Its Applications
K. Kawasue and T. Ishimatsu (Japan)
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480-037 Improving Depth Estimation using Colour Information in Stereo Vision
P. Compañ, R. Satorre, R. Rizo, and R. Molina (Spain)
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480-057 Discrete and Continuous Reconstruction of 3D Scenes from Disparity Maps
A.J. Gallego Sánchez, R.Molina Carmona, and C. Villagrá Arnedo (Spain)
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480-066 Fast Mesh-based Coding of Depth Map Sequences for Efficient 3D-Video Reproduction using OpenGL
S. Grewatsch and E. Müller (Germany)
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480-103 Reconstruction of Topology Valid Boundary of Discrete Object from 3D Range Images
S. Gueorguieva and P. Desbarats (France)
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480-109 An Iterative Method for 3D Reconstruction under Orthography
E. Kaliva and A. Delopoulos (Greece)
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480-226 Enhancement of Fast Acquired Disparity Maps using a 1-D Cellular Automation Filter
L. Kotoulas, A. Gasteratos, G.Ch. Sirakoulis, C. Georgoulas, and I. Andreadis (Greece)
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Track Image Segmentation FreeSubscription
480-047 Random Walks for Interactive Alpha-Matting
L. Grady, T. Schiwietz, S. Aharon (USA), and R. Westermann (Germany)
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480-054 Unsupervised Skin Colour Modelling for Hand Segmentation
M. Leo, T. D'Orazio, A. Caroppo, P. Spagnolo, and C. Guaragnella (Italy)
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480-055 Motion Compensated Background Filtering using Scheduled Motion Estimation and Estimated Rank Comparison
M.J. Knowles and M. Spann (UK)
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480-101 Unbiased Watershed Hierarchical 3D Segmentation
J. Betser, S. Delest, and R. Boné (France)
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480-125 A Random Field Approach to Unsupervised Texture Image Segmentation
C.-T. Li and R. Wilson (UK)
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480-267 Image Segmentation with the Exact Watershed Transform
H. Meine and U. Köthe (Germany)
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480-805 Parallel Image Segmentation with Level Set Methods
M. Jeon (Korea), M. Alexander, and N. Pizzi (Canada)
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Track Medical Image Processing FreeSubscription
480-023 A Computer Aided Detection System for Mammograms based on Asymmetry and Feature Extraction Techniques
M. Jirari (USA)
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480-031 Medical Image Enhancement using Logarithmic Image Processing
E. Zaharescu (Romania)
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480-039 Tumor Segmentation and Visualization of Femur using MRI
C.-C. Ko, L.-Y. Yang, and C.-J. Lin (Taiwan)
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480-049 Correction of Translational Motion Artifacts in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
J.R. Maclaren, P.J. Bones, R.P. Millane, and R. Watts (New Zealand)
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480-051 Automatic Synthesis of Parametric Images in Dynamic MRI Imaging
J. Ruminski and B. Karczewski (Poland)
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480-091 The Effects of Noise in the Textural Analysis Thoracic CT Scans
J. Malone, K. Law, S. Prabhu, and P. Goddard (UK)
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480-092 Distributed Processing in Medical, Parametric Imaging
J. Ruminski (Poland)
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480-114 Maximum Entropy Deconvolution for Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging
S.A. Drabycz, R.A. Brown, A.G. Law, and J.R. Mitchell (Canada)
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480-116 Texture Analysis for Non-Invasive Identification of Brain Tumor Genotype from MRI
R.A. Brown, M.C. Zlatescu, J.G. Cairncross, and J.R. Mitchell (Canada)
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480-230 The Use of Co-Occurrence Features in Medical Imaging: An Empirical Study
J. Malone, S. Prabhu, and P. Goddard (UK)
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480-264 Observation of Quiescent State of Muscle Tone by NMR Image Texture Analysis
M. Stupka (Czech Republic)
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480-276 Mapping Gross Tumor Volumes from Exhale to Inhale Breath-Hold Computed Tomography Images
J. Noyola-Martinez, T. Guerrero, Y. Borghero, K. Sanders, C. Stevens, M. Guerrero, and R. Guerra (USA)
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480-800 Measurements of the Optical Properties of Breast Tissues in Vitro using Mueller Matrix Polarimetry
S. Firdous, M. Ikram, and M. Faisal (Pakistan)
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Track Pattern Analysis and Recognition FreeSubscription
480-040 Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Pattern Recognition
O. Okun (Finland) and H. Priisalu (Estonia)
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480-058 Static Pose Estimation by Image Skeletonisation
C. Castiello, A.M. Fanelli, M.A. Torsello, T. D'Orazio, and P. Spagnolo (Italy)
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480-060 Extracting Random Vibration Components from Global Motion Vectors
S. Gómez, V. Naranjo, A. Albiol, and J.M. Mossi (Spain)
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480-083 Local Invariant Object Localization based on Gabor Feature Space
R. Heintz, G. Schäfer, and G. Bretthauer (Germany)
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480-087 Integration of Classifiers Working in Discrete and Real Valued Feature Space Applied in Two-Way Opto-Electronic Image Recognition System
K.A. Cyran (Poland)
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480-098 Nearest Neighbor Vector based Palmprint Verification
M.D. Jain, S.N. Pradeep, and R. Balasubramanian (India)
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480-107 A Voting Margin Approach for the Detection of Retinal Microaneurysms
I. Autio, J.C. Borrás, I. Immonen, P. Jalli, and E. Ukkonen (Finland)
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480-110 Articulated Object Modelling using Neural Gas Networks
S. García, D. Rowe, J. Gonzàlez, and J.J. Villanueva (Spain)
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480-111 Comparing Three PCA-based Methods for the 3D Visualization of Imaging Spectroscopy Data
A. Broersen, R. van Liere, and R.M.A. Heeren (The Netherlands)
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480-129 Comparison of Active Contour Acceleration Methods
J. Olivier, R. Boné, and J.-J. Rousselle (France)
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480-132 A Generic Approach to Naked Images Detection
J.-S. Lee and S.-C. Su (Taiwan)
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480-227 A Novel 1D Approach to Shape Representation and Matching
Y. Ebrahim, W. Abdelsalam, M. Ahmed, and S.-C. Chau (Canada)
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480-257 Triangular Traffic Sign Detection through Hough Transform
P. García-Díaz, S. Maldonado-Bascón, S. Lafuente-Arroyo, and R. Sánchez-Mentero (Spain)
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480-266 A Combined Statistical/Neural Network Multi-Scale Edge Detector
I. Williams, N. Bowring, E. Guest, P. Twigg, Y. Fan, and D. Gadsby (UK)
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480-270 A Novel Image Fusion Algorithm based on Kernel-PCA, DWT and Structural Similarity
Anwar-ul-Haq, A.M. Mirza, and S. Qamar (Pakistan)
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Track Rendering and Surface Reconstruction FreeSubscription
480-046 3D Segmentation using Active Surface: A Survey and a New Model
J. Mille, R. Boné, P. Makris, and H. Cardot (France)
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480-064 Multiresolution Surface Reconstruction from Scattered Data based on Hybrid Meshes
P. Keller and M. Bertram (Germany)
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480-069 Hardware based Bézier Patch Renderer
G. Reis (Germany)
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480-196 XSplat: External Memory Multiresolution Point Visualization
R. Pajarola (Switzerland), M. Sainz, and R. Lario (Spain)
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480-228 Adaptive Algorithm for Large Scale Terrain Rendering
D.D. Rančić, I.D. Antolović, and Z.D. Džunić (Serbia and Montenegro)
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480-238 Healing of Surfaces using Intrinsic Property of a Curve
A. Tiwari, V. Pathak, S. Prakash, A. Chatterjee, and S.G. Dhande (India)
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480-252 Integration of Point-based Rendering into a Common Scene Graph System
F. Goetz, L. Hillebrand, and G. Domik (Germany)
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Track Tracking FreeSubscription
480-016 Real-Time Object Tracking based on a Limited, Discontinuous Feature Set
N. Al-Najdawi, E.A. Edirisinghe, and H.E. Bez (UK)
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480-102 Fast Self-Motion Vector Estimation
E. Nakamura, I. Sugihara, and K. Sawada (Japan)
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480-115 Wide Area Marker based Tracking
M. Rubio (Cuba), R. Quirós, E. Pulido, J. Heurta, and E. Camahort (Spain)
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480-123 Camera Pose Determination based on 4 Coplanar Points using Tori Parameters
F.J. Caramelo, N.C. Ferreira, and J.J.P. Lima (Portugal)
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480-253 Geometric Deformable Models with Topology Analysis for Shape Modeling
B. Yang and M. Allili (Canada)
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Track Visualization FreeSubscription
480-034 Quantifying Differences in Skeletonization Algorithms: A Case Study
K.J. Kruszyński, R. van Liere and J. Kaandorp (The Netherlands)
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480-035 Circle to Circle Transition with a Single Cubic Spiral
Z. Habib and M. Sakai (Japan)
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480-042 Visualization of the Neural Pathway From DT-MRI Data Set: A Method for Setting Start Point of Neural Pathway
K. Sakai, T. Azuma, K. Koyamada, and S. Tsutsumi (Japan)
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480-231 Exploring Spatially Referenced Information through 2D Marching Graph
M.L. Huang and Q. Wu (Australia)
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480-242 Topology-Preserving Distance Functions for Tessellations
H. Hagen, M. Ruby, I. Scheler, and M. Schneider (Germany)
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480-243 Explorative Analysis of Graph Pyramids using Interactive Visualization Techniques
A. Kerren (Germany)
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480-251 Assessment of Town Planning Decisions as a Novel Application Field for Virtual Characters
P. Dannenmann, H. Barthel, R. Ganser, and G. Steinebach (Germany)
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Track Special Session: Intelligent Visual Assistance FreeSubscription
480-809 Haptic Interaction with Computer-Animated Cognitive Characters in Virtual Environments
H. Barthel, T. Bierz, and P. Dannenmann (Germany)
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480-810 Three-Dimensional Map Generating System by a Walk
Y. Manabe, R. Yamazaki, Y. Yasumuro, and K. Chihara (Japan)
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480-811 Navigational Aspects of an Interactive 3D Exploration System for Cardiovascular Structures
T. Wischgoll, E. Moritz, and J. Meyer (USA)
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480-812 Tablepresenter: A Life-Like Agent Explaining Tables
K. Kondo, K. Yamamoto, and T. Noma (Japan)
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480-813 Content-based Browsing in Large News Video Databases
M. Rautiainen, T. Ojala, and T. Seppänen (Finland)
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480-815 Smart Video Surveillance for Workplace Applications: Implications, Technologies and Requirements
M.H. Sedky, M. Moniri, and C.C. Chibelushi (UK)
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This publication covers the following topics: Applications; Face Recognition and Facial Expression Analysis; Image Acquisition and Camera Calibration; Image Analysis; Document and Video Analysis; Image Coding and Compression; Image Processing; 3D Image Processing; Image Segmentation; Medical Image Processing; Pattern Analysis and Recognition; Rendering and Surface Reconstruction; Tracking; Visualization; and Intelligent Visual Assistance.

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