Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems

Structure.- Biometrics and Security.- Action Recognition with Semi-global Characteristics and Hidden Markov Models.- Patch-Based Experiments with Object Classification in Video Surveillance.- Neural Network Based Face Detection from Pre-scanned and Row-Column Decomposed Average Face Image.- Model-Based Image Segmentation for Multi-view Human Gesture Analysis.- A New Partially Occluded Face Pose Recognition.- Large Head Movement Tracking Using Scale Invariant View-Based Appearance Model.- Robust Shape-Based Head Tracking.- Evaluating Descriptors Performances for Object Tracking on Natural Video Data.- A Simple and Efficient Eigenfaces Method.- A New Approach to Face Localization in the HSV Space Using the Gaussian Model.- Gait Recognition Using Active Shape Models.- Statistical Classification of Skin Color Pixels from MPEG Videos.- A Double Layer Background Model to Detect Unusual Events.- Realistic Facial Modeling and Animation Based on High Resolution Capture.- Image Processing and Restoration.- Descriptor-Free Smooth Feature-Point Matching for Images Separated by Small/Mid Baselines.- A New Supervised Evaluation Criterion for Region Based Segmentation Methods.- A Multi-agent Approach for Range Image Segmentation with Bayesian Edge Regularization.- Adaptive Image Restoration Based on Local Robust Blur Estimation.- Image Upscaling Using Global Multimodal Priors.- A Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Filter for Detail-Preserving Restoration of Digital Images Corrupted by Impulse Noise.- Contrast Enhancement of Images Using Partitioned Iterated Function Systems.- A Spatiotemporal Algorithm for Detection and Restoration of Defects in Old Color Films.- Medical Image Processing.- Categorizing Laryngeal Images for Decision Support.- Segmentation of the Human Trachea Using Deformable Statistical Models of Tubular Shapes.- Adaptive Image Content-Based Exposure Control for Scanning Applications in Radiography.- Shape Extraction Via Heat Flow Analogy.- Adaptive Vision System for Segmentation of Echographic Medical Images Based on a Modified Mumford-Shah Functional.- Detection of Individual Specimens in Populations Using Contour Energies.- Logarithmic Model-Based Dynamic Range Enhancement of Hip X-Ray Images.- A New Color Representation for Intensity Independent Pixel Classification in Confocal Microscopy Images.- Colon Visualization Using Cylindrical Parameterization.- Particle Filter Based Automatic Reconstruction of a Patient-Specific Surface Model of a Proximal Femur from Calibrated X-Ray Images for Surgical Navigation.- Video Coding and Processing.- Joint Tracking and Segmentation of Objects Using Graph Cuts.- A New Fuzzy Motion and Detail Adaptive Video Filter.- Bridging the Gap: Transcoding from Single-Layer H.264/AVC to Scalable SVC Video Streams.- Improved Pixel-Based Rate Allocation for Pixel-Domain Distributed Video Coders Without Feedback Channel.- Multiview Depth-Image Compression Using an Extended H.264 Encoder.- Grass Detection for Picture Quality Enhancement of TV Video.- Exploitation of Combined Scalability in Scalable H.264/AVC Bitstreams by Using an MPEG-21 XML-Driven Framework.- Moving Object Extraction by Watershed Algorithm Considering Energy Minimization.- Constrained Inter Prediction: Removing Dependencies Between Different Data Partitions.- Performance Improvement of H.264/AVC Deblocking Filter by Using Variable Block Sizes.- Real-Time Detection of the Triangular and Rectangular Shape Road Signs.- High-Resolution Multi-sprite Generation for Background Sprite Coding.- Motion Information Exploitation in H.264 Frame Skipping Transcoding.- Joint Domain-Range Modeling of Dynamic Scenes with Adaptive Kernel Bandwidth.- Competition Based Prediction for Skip Mode Motion Vector Using Macroblock Classification for the H.264 JM KTA Software.- Efficiency of Closed and Open-Loop Scalable Wavelet Based Video Coding.- Spatio-temporal Information-Based Simple Deinterlacing Algorithm.- Image Interpretation.- Fast Adaptive Graph-Cuts Based Stereo Matching.- A Fast Level-Set Method for Accurate Tracking of Articulated Objects with an Edge-Based Binary Speed Term.- Real-Time Vanishing Point Estimation in Road Sequences Using Adaptive Steerable Filter Banks.- Self-Eigenroughness Selection for Texture Recognition Using Genetic Algorithms.- Analysis of Image Sequences for Defect Detection in Composite Materials.- Remote Sensing Imagery and Signature Fields Reconstruction Via Aggregation of Robust Regularization with Neural Computing.- A New Technique for Global and Local Skew Correction in Binary Documents.- System for Estimation of Pin Bone Positions in Pre-rigor Salmon.- Vertebral Mobility Analysis Using Anterior Faces Detection.- Image Processing Algorithms for an Auto Focus System for Slit Lamp Microscopy.- Applying Image Analysis and Probabilistic Techniques for Counting Olive Trees in High-Resolution Satellite Images.- An Efficient Closed-Form Solution to Probabilistic 6D Visual Odometry for a Stereo Camera.- Color Image Segmentation Based on Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Region Merging.- Image Interpretation.- ENMIM: Energetic Normalized Mutual Information Model for Online Multiple Object Tracking with Unlearned Motions.- Geometrical Scene Analysis Using Co-motion Statistics.- Cascade of Classifiers for Vehicle Detection.- Aerial Moving Target Detection Based on Motion Vector Field Analysis.- Image Coding.- Embedding Linear Transformations in Fractal Image Coding.- Digital Watermarking with PCA Based Reference Images.- JPEG2000 Coding Techniques Addressed to Images Containing No-Data Regions.- A New Optimum-Word-Length-Assignment (OWLA) Multiplierless Integer DCT for Lossless/Lossy Image Coding and Its Performance Evaluation.- On Hybrid Directional Transform-Based Intra-band Image Coding.- Analysis of the Statistical Dependencies in the Curvelet Domain and Applications in Image Compression.- A Novel Image Compression Method Using Watermarking Technique in JPEG Coding Process.- Improved Algorithm of Error-Resilient Entropy Coding Using State Information.