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Invited Talks

Page numberTitle and authors
1
From Medical Images to Virtual Surgery: Combining Geometrical, Physical and Physiological Modeling
Nicholas Ayache
3
Multiview Reconstruction of Static and Dynamic Scenes
Richard Hartley
5
Reversible Data Embedding Based on the Haar Wavelet Decomposition
Henk Heijmans and Lute Kamstra
15
Computational Geometry, Image Processing and Robot Path Planning
Ray Jarvis
17
Visual Human Face Tracking and its Application to Lip-Reading and Emotion Recognition
T. S. Huang


Image Processing 1

Page numberTitle and authors
19
Anisoplanatic Image Restoration at ADFA
Donald Fraser, Andrew Lambert, M. Reza Sayyah Jahromi, Murat Tahtali and David Clyde
29
Shift-invariance in the Discrete Wavelet Transform
Andrew P. Bradley
39
Diamond, Hexagon, and General Polygonal Shaped Window Smoothing
Changming Sun


Face Recognition 1

Page numberTitle and authors
49
3D Face Recognition Using Longitudinal Section and Transection
Yeunghak Lee
59
Face Recognition: A Comparison of Appearance-Based Approaches
Thomas Heseltine, Nick Pears, Jim Austin and Zezhi Chen
69
Face Recognition Based on Multiple Region Features
Jiaming Li, Geoff Poulton, Ying Guo and Rong-yu Qiao


Segmentation 1

Page numberTitle and authors
79
Determining the Number of Clusters in a Mixture by Iterative Model Space Refinement - with Application to Free-swimming Fish Detection
Fiona Evans, Michael Alder and Christopher deSilva
89
Color Image Segmentation Using Global Information and Local Homogeneity
Hanzi Wang and David Suter
99
3-D Surface Segmentation of Free-Form Objects Using Implicit Algebraic Surfaces
Rachid Benlamri and Yousuf Al-Marzooqi


Registration

Page numberTitle and authors
109
Significance-Based Multi-View Hausdorff Distance for Non-Rigid Object Registration
Yongsheng Gao
117
Automatic Registration of Aerial Image and Digital Map for Detection of Earthquake Damaged Areas
Yasuharu Yanamura and Hitoshi Saji
127
Real-Time Detection, Registration and Recognition Using Pixel-Level Fusion of Active/Passive Imagery
Alan Steinberg and Robert Pack


Image Processing 2

Page numberTitle and authors
137
Image Error Concealment Based on Watermarking
Shinfeng D. Lin, Shih-Chieh Shie and Jie-Wei Chen
145
Robust Estimation in Gaussian Mixtures Using Multiresolution Kd-trees
Shu-Kay Ng and Geoffrey McLachlan
155
Estimation of Surface Normal of a Curved Surface Using Texture
Angeline Loh and Peter Kovesi
165
Gaussian Blurring-Deblurring for Improved Image Compression
Moi Hoon Yap, Michel Bister and Hong Tat Ewe


Motion 1

Page numberTitle and authors
175
Unsupervised Segmentation of Moving MPEG Blocks Based on Classification of Temporal Information
Ofer Miller, Amir Averbuch and Yosi Keller
185
Model Selection Criteria in Computer Vision: Are They Different?
Niloofar Gheissari and Alireza Bab-Hadiashar
195
Issues in Automated Visual Surveillance
Anthony Dick and Michael Brooks
205
Recognition of Motion in Depth by a Fixed Camera
Viet Huynh Quang Huy, Michio Miwa, Hidenori Maruta and Makoto Sato


Medical Imaging

Page numberTitle and authors
215
Segmentation of Blood Vessels in Subtraction Angiographic Images
Martin Franz and Rene Schueffny
225
A Modified Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm for Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance Images
Lei Jiang and Wenhui Yang
233
Enhancement and Segmentation of Scar Color Images after a Scoliosis Surgery
Thomas Hurtut, Farida Cheriet, Julie Joncas and Jean Dansereau
243
Accurate Curvilinear Modeling for Precise Measurements of Tubular Structures
Rongxin Li and S\'ebastien Ourselin


Object Recognition 1

Page numberTitle and authors
253
Visual Investigation Using Circular Partitioning of Abstract Images
Abdolah Chalechale, Golshah Nghdy and Alfred Mertins
263
Mapping between Digital and Continuous Projections via the Discrete Radon Transform in Fourier Space
Andrew Kingston and Imants Svalbe
273
Gesture Classification Using Hidden Markov Models and Viterbi Path Counting
Nianjun Liu and Brian Lovell
283
A Fast Skeletonization Method
Ju Jia Zou


Image Processing 3

Page numberTitle and authors
289
Image Indexing Technique and Its Parallel Retrieval on PVM
Wichian Premchaiswadi, Nucharee Premchaiswadi, Teianchai Patnasirivakin, Sutasinee Chimlek and Senosuke Narita
299
An Efficient Implementation of Max Tree with Linked List and Hash Table
Xiaoqiang Huang, Mark Fisher and Dan Smith
309
Phase Congruency Detects Corners and Edges
Peter Kovesi


Object Recognition 2

Page numberTitle and authors
319
Text String Extraction in Delaunay Triangulation
Huimin Grace Guo, Yi Xiao and Hong Yan
329
Dagobert -- A New Coin Recognition and Sorting System
Michael Noelle, Harald Penz, Michael Rubik, Konrad Mayer and Igor Holländer and Reinhard Granec
339
A New Shape Matching Measure for Nonlinear Distorted Object Recognition
Sanun Srisuk, Marut Tamsri, Rerkchai Fooprateepsiri, Pipat Sookavatana and Khamron Sunat


Virtual Environments/Graphics 1

Page numberTitle and authors
349
Rendering of `Play of Color' using Stratified Model based on Amorphous Structure of Opal
Masataka Imura, Takaaki Abe, Ichiroh Kanaya, Yoshihiro Yasumuro, Yoshitsugu Manabe and Kunihiro Chihara
359
An Experimental Implementation of a Networked Hapto-Acoustic Virtual Reality Environment Applied to Surgical Education Using the High Speed CeNTIE Research Network
Tony Adriaansen and Chris Gunn
369
Edge-based Non-uniform Light Field Mapping
Wendong Wang, Baocai Yin and Dehui Kong


Motion 2

Page numberTitle and authors
379
Contour Tracking without Prior Information
Albert Akhriev and Chang-Yeong Kim
389
Motion Field Estimation for Temporal Textures
David Edwards, Johnny Chang, Lin Shi and Yizhou Yu
399
Probabilistic Multiple Cue Integration for Particle Filter Based Tracking
Chunhua Shen, Anton van~den~Hengel and Anthony Dick


Poster 1

Page numberTitle and authors
409
The Parameterization of Joint Rotation with the Unit Quaternion
Qiang Liu and Edmond Prakash
419
Improved Automatic Skin Detection in Color Images
Filipe Tomaz, Tiago Candeias and Hamid Shahbazkia
429
Automatic Image Shadow Identification using LPF in Homomorphic Processing System
Hamideh Etemadnia and Mohammad Reza Alsharif
439
CT Reconstruction Using FBP with Sinusoidal Amendment for Metal Artefact Reduction
Julian J. Liu, Stephen R. Watt-smith and Stephen M. Smith
449
FNS, CFNS and HEIV: Extending Three Vision Parameter Estimation Methods
Wojciech Chojnacki, Michael Brooks, Anton van~den~Hengel and Darren Gawley
459
A Hough Based Eye Direction Detection Algorithm without On-site Calibration
Takeshi Takegami, Toshiyuki Gotoh, Seiichiro Kagei and Reiko Tachino
469
Background Modeling and Subtraction Using a Local-linear-dependence-based Cauchy Statistical Model
Ying Ming, Jingjue Jiang and Jun Ming
479
Techniques for Accelerated View-Dependent Mesh Refinement
James Strauss and Amitava Datta
489
Separating a Colour Texture from an Arbitrary Background
Linjiang Yu and Georgy Gimel'farb
499
Adapting Interest Point Detection to Illumination Conditions
Flore Faille
509
Maximum-Likelihood Circle-Parameter Estimation via Convolution
Emanuel Zelniker and Vaughan Clarkson
519
Towards Closed Form Solutions to the MultiView Constraints of Curves and Surfaces
David McKinnon and Brian Lovell
529
Isotropic Subpixel Measurement of Circular Objects
Russell Horney, Imants Svalbe and Peter Wells
539
A Novel Edge Enhanced Error Diffusion
Tae-Ha Kang, Tae-Seung Lee, Syng-Yup Ohn and Byong-Won Hwang
549
Automatic Image Mosaic System Using Image Feature Detection and Taylor Series
SooHyun Cho, YunKoo Chung and JaeYeon Lee


Segmentation 2

Page numberTitle and authors
561
Segmentation by Adaptive Prediction and Region Merging
Marc Van~Droogenbroeck and Hugues Talbot
571
Color Image Segmentation based on Automatic Derivation of Local Thresholds
Ety Navon, Ofer Miller and Amir Averbuch
581
False-Peaks-Avoiding Mean Shift Method for Unsupervised Peak-Valley Sliding Image Segmentation
Hanzi Wang and David Suter
591
Automatic Extraction of Signatures from Bank Cheques and Other Documents
Vamsi Krishna Madasu, Mohd. Hafizuddin Mohd. Yusof, Madasu Hanmandlu and Kurt Kubik


Stereo

Page numberTitle and authors
601
Relative Pose Estimation for Instrumented, Calibrated Imaging Platforms
Oscar Pizarro, Ryan Eustice and Hanumant Singh
613
Dense Disparity Maps Respecting Occlusions and Object Separation Using Partial Differential Equations
Dennis Maier, Andreas Roessle, Juergen Hesser and Reinhard Maenner
623
Embedded Voxel Colouring
Carlos Leung, Ben Appleton and Changming Sun
633
A Robust Method for Estimating the Fundamental Matrix
C. L. Feng and Y. S. Hung


Virtual Environments/Graphics 2

Page numberTitle and authors
643
Synthesising Textures Using Variable Neighbourhood Searching
Minh Tran and Amitava Datta
653
Consistent Presentation of Interactive Virtual Objects in Real Space with 3D Markers --Interactive Virtual Interior Simulation--
Yoshihiro Yasumuro, Yu Ishikawa, Masataka Imura, Yoshitsugu Manabe and Kunihiro Chihara
663
Computing Image-Based Reprojection Error on Graphics Hardware
John Bastian and Anton van~den~Hengel


Object Recognition 3

Page numberTitle and authors
673
Building Detection Using LIDAR Data and Multispectral Images
Franz Rottensteiner, John Trinder, Simon Clode and Kurt Kubik
683
Learning Semantic Concepts from Visual Data Using Neural Networks
Xiaohang Ma and Dianhui Wang
693
Algebraic Curve Fitting Support Vector Machines
Christian Walder, Brian Lovell and Peter Kootsookos


Image Analysis

Page numberTitle and authors
703
Testing for Curves in a Binary Image
Y. C. Cheng
711
A Bi-Scale-Space for the Analysis of Blobs
Paul Jackway
721
Mixed Texture Composition: Determining the Proportion of Structured and Statistical Components.
Carolyn Evans and Han Zhang


Face Recognition 2

Page numberTitle and authors
731
Fusion of Color Photometric Stereo Method and Slit Pattern Projection Method to Measure Three-Dimensional Shapes of a Human Face
Hitoshi Saji and Hiromasa Nakatani
741
Real-time Surveillance System by Use of the Face Understanding Technologies
Yi-Tsung Chien, Yea-Shuan Huang, Sheng-Wen Jeng, Yao-Hong Tsai and Hung-Xin Zhao


Poster 2

Page numberTitle and authors
751
Better Compression Rate For Images With The Deployment of ATSVD
Ahmad Sharifinejad
761
Volumetric Medical Imaging Environment
Bobi Gilburd, Michal Holtzman-Gazit, Alon Spira, Dorit Goldsher and Ron Kimmel
771
Concept of Color Correction on Multi-Channel CMOS Sensors
Stephan Henker, Jens-Uwe Schluessler and Rene Schueffny
781
Fast Adaptive Algorithm for Time-Critical Color Quantization Application
Kiattisin Kanjanawanishkul and Bunyarit Uyyanonvara
791
Compressing Sets of Similar Medical Images Using Multilevel Centroid Technique
Yasser El-Sonbaty, Meer Hamza and George Basily
801
Image Ownership Verification via Private Pattern and Watermarking Wavelet Filters
Zhuan Qing Huang and Zhuhan Jiang
811
Compression of Dynamic PET Based on Principal Component Analysis and JPEG 2000 in Sinogram Domain
Zhe Chen and (David) Dagan Feng
821
Automatic Fault Detection for 3D Seismic Data
David Gibson, Michael Spann and Jonathan Turner
831
Adaptive Magnetic Resonance Image Denoising Using Mixture Model and Wavelet Shrinkage
Lei Jiang and Wenhui Yang
839
Deformable Grid in Image Recognition
Jikun Yan, Jian Min Xi and Hui Zheng
849
Epipole Estimation under Pure Camera Translation
Zezhi Chen, Nick Pears, John McDermid and Thomas Heseltine
859
Handheld Person Verification System Using Face Image
Yao-Hong Tsai, Raymond Fu, Li-Wu Huang, Ching-Chun Huang and Cheng-Yi Liu
869
A Virtual Environment to Simulate the Experience of Psychosis
Jasmine Banks, Jennifer Tichon, Geoffery Ericksson, Sean Ivermee, Kevin Burrage and Peter Yellowlees
879
Fast Circle Detection Using Gradient Pair Vectors
Ali Ajdari Rad, Karim Faez and Navid Qaragozlou
889
A Region-based Matching Approach for 3D-Roof Reconstruction from HR Satellite Stereo Pairs
Nesrine Chehata, Franck Jung, Marc-Pierrot Desseilligny and Georges Stamon
899
Robust Face Localisation Using Motion, Colour and Fusion
Darren Butler, Chris McCool, Matthew McKay, Scott Lowther, Vinod Chandran and Sridha Sridharan
909
Heuristics for Image Retrieval Using Spatial Configurations
Bill Smyth, Chiou-Peng Lam, Xin Chen and Valerie Maxville
919
Extracting Boundaries from Images by Comparing Cooccurrence Matrices
Astrit Rexhepi and Azriel Rosenfeld
929
A Mean Eigenwindow Method for Partially Occluded/Destroyed Objects Recognition
M. Masudur Rahman and Seiji Ishikawa
937
Image Matching using TI Multi-wavelet Transform
Asim Bhatti, Saeid Nahavandi and Hong Zheng
947
Face Boundary Extraction
Yi Xiao and Hong Yan


Segmentation 3

Page numberTitle and authors
957
Two-Level Image Segmentation Based on Region and Edge Integration
Qing Wu and Yizhou Yu
967
A Model Set Based Object Segmentation Method Using Level Set Approach
Xun Wang, Zhigang Peng, Feng Gao and William Wee
977
Multi Resolution Image Segmentation with Border Smoothness for Scalable Object-based Wavelet Coding
Fardin Akhlaghian Tab, Golshah Naghdy and Alfred Mertins
987
Globally Optimal Surfaces by Continuous Maximal Flows
Ben Appleton and Hugues Talbot


Video Analysis

Page numberTitle and authors
997
Wideband MC-CDMA and Rake Receivers for UEP with Wavelet Video Transmission over AWGN and Rayleigh Fading Channels
Minh Hung Le and Ranjith Liyana-Pathirana
1007
Automatic Adaptive Segmentation of Moving Objects Based on Spatio-Temporal Information
Ofer Miller, Amir Averbuch and Yosi Keller
1017
TLIB: A Real-time Computer Vision Library for HCI
S\'ebastien Grange, Terry Fong and Charles Baur
1027
ECC Video - An Active Approach for Error Resilience
Bing Du, Anthony Maeder and Miles Moody