Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns: 13th International Conference, CAIP 2009, Münster, Germany, September 2-4, 2009, Proceedings

Invited Talks.- An Overview of 3D Video and Free Viewpoint Video.- Computer Vision and Computer Graphics Analysis of Paintings and Drawings: An Introduction to the Literature.- Biometrics.- Head Pose Estimation by a Stepwise Nonlinear Regression.- Model-Based Illumination Correction for Face Images in Uncontrolled Scenarios.- A New Gabor Phase Difference Pattern for Face and Ear Recognition.- Is White Light the Best Illumination for Palmprint Recognition?.- Second-Level Partition for Estimating FAR Confidence Intervals in Biometric Systems.- Smooth Multi-Manifold Embedding for Robust Identity-Independent Head Pose Estimation.- Retracted: Human Age Estimation by Metric Learning for Regression Problems.- Face Detection Using GPU-Based Convolutional Neural Networks.- Gaussian Weak Classifiers Based on Haar-Like Features with Four Rectangles for Real-time Face Detection.- Model Based Analysis of Face Images for Facial Feature Extraction.- Dynamics Analysis of Facial Expressions for Person Identification.- Regression Based Non-frontal Face Synthesis for Improved Identity Verification.- Differential Feature Analysis for Palmprint Authentication.- Combining Facial Appearance and Dynamics for Face Recognition.- Finger-Knuckle-Print Verification Based on Band-Limited Phase-Only Correlation.- Calibration.- Calibration of Radially Symmetric Distortion by Fitting Principal Component.- Calibration of Rotating Sensors.- Document Analysis.- A New Approach for Segmentation and Recognition of Arabic Handwritten Touching Numeral Pairs.- Ridges Based Curled Textline Region Detection from Grayscale Camera-Captured Document Images.- Kernel PCA for HMM-Based Cursive Handwriting Recognition.- Improved Handwriting Recognition by Combining Two Forms of Hidden Markov Models and a Recurrent Neural Network.- Embedded Bernoulli Mixture HMMs for Continuous Handwritten Text Recognition.- Recognition-Based Segmentation of Nom Characters from Body Text Regions of Stele Images Using Area Voronoi Diagram.- A Novel Approach for Word Spotting Using Merge-Split Edit Distance.- Hierarchical Decomposition of Handwritten Manuscripts Layouts.- Camera-Based Online Signature Verification with Sequential Marginal Likelihood Change Detector.- Separation of Overlapping and Touching Lines within Handwritten Arabic Documents.- Combining Contour Based Orientation and Curvature Features for Writer Recognition.- Features.- A Novel Approach to Estimate Fractal Dimension from Closed Curves.- Saliency Based on Decorrelation and Distinctiveness of Local Responses.- Incorporating Shape Features in an Appearance-Based Object Detection System.- Symmetry Detection for Multi-object Using Local Polar Coordinate.- Detection of Non-convex Objects by Dynamic Programming.- Finding Intrinsic and Extrinsic Viewing Parameters from a Single Realist Painting.- A Model for Saliency Detection Using NMFsc Algorithm.- Directional Force Field-Based Maps: Implementation and Application.- A Spatio-Temporal Isotropic Operator for the Attention-Point Extraction.- Homological Tree-Based Strategies for Image Analysis.- Affine Moment Invariants of Color Images.- Graph Representations.- Graph-Based k-Means Clustering: A Comparison of the Set Median versus the Generalized Median Graph.- Algorithms for the Sample Mean of Graphs.- A Hypergraph-Based Model for Graph Clustering: Application to Image Indexing.- Hypergraphs, Characteristic Polynomials and the Ihara Zeta Function.- Feature Ranking Algorithms for Improving Classification of Vector Space Embedded Graphs.- Graph-Based Object Class Discovery.- Image Processing.- The Clifford-Hodge Flow: An Extension of the Beltrami Flow.- Speedup of Color Palette Indexing in Self–Organization of Kohonen Feature Map.- Probabilistic Satellite Image Fusion.- A Riemannian Scalar Measure for Diffusion Tensor Images.- Structure-Preserving Smoothing of Biomedical Images.- Fast Block Clustering Based Optimized Adaptive Mediod Shift.- Color Me Right–Seamless Image Compositing.- Transform Invariant Video Fingerprinting by NMF.- A Model Based Method for Overall Well Focused Catadioptric Image Acquisition with Multi-focal Images.- Colorization Using Segmentation with Random Walk.- Edge-Based Image Compression with Homogeneous Diffusion.- Color Quantization Based on PCA and Kohonen SOFM.- On Adapting the Tensor Voting Framework to Robust Color Image Denoising.- Two-Dimensional Windowing in the Structural Similarity Index for the Colour Image Quality Assessment.- Reduced Inverse Distance Weighting Interpolation for Painterly Rendering.- Nonlinear Diffusion Filters without Parameters for Image Segmentation.- Color Quantization by Multiresolution Analysis.- Total Variation Processing of Images with Poisson Statistics.- Fast Trilateral Filtering.- Image Registration.- Joint Affine and Radiometric Registration Using Kernel Operators.- MCMC-Based Algorithm to Adjust Scale Bias in Large Series of Electron Microscopical Ultrathin Sections.- Image and Video Retrieval.- Accelerating Image Retrieval Using Factorial Correspondence Analysis on GPU.- Color Based Bags-of-Emotions.- Measuring the Influence of Concept Detection on Video Retrieval.- Medical Imaging.- SEM Image Analysis for Quality Control of Nanoparticles.- Extraction of Cardiac Motion Using Scale-Space Features Points and Gauged Reconstruction.- A Non-Local Fuzzy Segmentation Method: Application to Brain MRI.- Development of a High Resolution 3D Infant Stomach Model for Surgical Planning.- Improved Arterial Inner Wall Detection Using Generalized Median Computation.- Parcellation of the Auditory Cortex into Landmark–Related Regions of Interest.- Automatic Fontanel Extraction from Newborns’ CT Images Using Variational Level Set.- Modeling and Measurement of 3D Deformation of Scoliotic Spine Using 2D X-ray Images.- A Comparative Study on Feature Selection for Retinal Vessel Segmentation Using FABC.- Directional Multi-scale Modeling of High-Resolution Computed Tomography (HRCT) Lung Images for Diffuse Lung Disease Classification.- Statistical Deformable Model-Based Reconstruction of a Patient-Specific Surface Model from Single Standard X-ray Radiograph.- Object and Scene Recognition.- Plant Species Identification Using Multi-scale Fractal Dimension Applied to Images of Adaxial Surface Epidermis.- Fast Invariant Contour-Based Classification of Hand Symbols for HCI.- Recognition of Simple 3D Geometrical Objects under Partial Occlusion.- Shape Classification Using a Flexible Graph Kernel.- Bio-inspired Approach for the Recognition of Goal-Directed Hand Actions.- Wide-Baseline Visible Features for Highly Dynamic Scene Recognition.- Jumping Emerging Substrings in Image Classification.- Human Action Recognition Using LBP-TOP as Sparse Spatio-Temporal Feature Descriptor.- Contextual-Guided Bag-of-Visual-Words Model for Multi-class Object Categorization.- Isometric Deformation Modelling for Object Recognition.- Image Categorization Based on a Hierarchical Spatial Markov Model.- Soft Measure of Visual Token Occurrences for Object Categorization.- Indexing Large Visual Vocabulary by Randomized Dimensions Hashing for High Quantization Accuracy: Improving the Object Retrieval Quality.- Pattern Recognition.- Design of Clinical Support Systems Using Integrated Genetic Algorithm and Support Vector Machine.- Decision Trees Using the Minimum Entropy-of-Error Principle.- k/K-Nearest Neighborhood Criterion for Improvement of Locally Linear Embedding.- A Parameter Free Approach for Clustering Analysis.- Fitting Product of HMM to Human Motions.- Reworking Bridging for Use within the Image Domain.- Detection of Ambiguous Patterns Using SVMs: Application to Handwritten Numeral Recognition.- Shape Recovery.- Accurate 3D Modelling by Fusion of Potentially Reliable Active Range and Passive Stereo Data.- Rapid Classification of Surface Reflectance from Image Velocities.- Structure-Preserving Regularisation Constraints for Shape-from-Shading.- 3D Object Reconstruction Using Full Pixel Matching.- Rapid Inference of Object Rigidity and Reflectance Using Optic Flow.- On the Recovery of Depth from a Single Defocused Image.- Segmentation.- Modelling Human Segmentation Trough Color and Space Analysis.- A Metric and Multiscale Color Segmentation Using the Color Monogenic Signal.- An Interactive Level Set Approach to Semi-automatic Detection of Features in Food Micrographs.- Shape Detection from Line Drawings by Hierarchical Matching.- A Fast Level Set-Like Algorithm with Topology Preserving Constraint.- Significance Tests and Statistical Inequalities for Segmentation by Region Growing on Graph.- Scale Space Hierarchy of Segments.- Point Cloud Segmentation Based on Radial Reflection.- Locally Adaptive Speed Functions for Level Sets in Image Segmentation.- Improving User Control with Minimum Involvement in User-Guided Segmentation by Image Foresting Transform.- 3D Image Segmentation Using the Bounded Irregular Pyramid.- The Gabor-Based Tensor Level Set Method for Multiregional Image Segmentation.- Embedded Geometric Active Contour with Shape Constraint for Mass Segmentation.- An Efficient Parallel Algorithm for Graph-Based Image Segmentation.- Stereo and Video Analysis.- Coarse-to-Fine Tracking of Articulated Objects Using a Hierarchical Spring System.- Cooperative Stereo Matching with Color-Based Adaptive Local Support.- Iterative Camera Motion and Depth Estimation in a Video Sequence.- Performance Prediction for Unsupervised Video Indexing.- New Lane Model and Distance Transform for Lane Detection and Tracking.- Real-Time Volumetric Reconstruction and Tracking of Hands in a Desktop Environment.- Stereo Localization Using Dual PTZ Cameras.- Object Tracking in Video Sequences by Unsupervised Learning.- A Third Eye for Performance Evaluation in Stereo Sequence Analysis.- OIF - An Online Inferential Framework for Multi-object Tracking with Kalman Filter.- Real-Time Stereo Vision: Making More Out of Dynamic Programming.- Optic Flow Using Multi-scale Anchor Points.- A Methodology for Evaluating Illumination Artifact Removal for Corresponding Images.- Nonlinear Motion Detection.- Texture Analysis.- Rotation Invariant Texture Classification Using Binary Filter Response Pattern (BFRP).- Near-Regular Texture Synthesis.- Texture Editing Using Frequency Swap Strategy.- A Quantitative Evaluation of Texture Feature Robustness and Interpolation Behaviour.- Applications.- Nonlinear Dimension Reduction and Visualization of Labeled Data.- Performance Evaluation of Airport Lighting Using Mobile Camera Techniques.- Intelligent Video Surveillance for Detecting Snow and Ice Coverage on Electrical Insulators of Power Transmission Lines.- Size from Specular Highlights for Analyzing Droplet Size Distributions.- Capturing Physiology of Emotion along Facial Muscles: A Method of Distinguishing Feigned from Involuntary Expressions.- Atmospheric Visibility Monitoring Using Digital Image Analysis Techniques.- Minimized Database of Unit Selection in Visual Speech Synthesis without Loss of Naturalness.- Analysis of Speed Sign Classification Algorithms Using Shape Based Segmentation of Binary Images.- Using CCD Moiré Pattern Analysis to Implement Pressure-Sensitive Touch Surfaces.- Enhanced Landmine Detection from Low Resolution IR Image Sequences.- Erratum.- Erratum to: Cooperative Stereo Matching with Color-Based Adaptive Local Support.- Erratum to: Human Age Estimation by Metric Learning for Regression Problems.