George Bebis Richard Boyle Bahram Parvin Darko Koracin Paolo Remagnino Ära Nefian Gopi Meenakshisundaram Valerio Pascucci Jiri Zara Jose Molineros Holger Theisel Thomas Malzbender (Eds.)

Advances in Visual Computing

Second International Symposium, ISVC 2006 Lake Tahoe, NV, USA, November 6-8, 2006 Proceedings, Part I

Springer

Table of Contents - Par t I

Activity Recognition Via Classification Constrained Diffusion Map« 1 Yunqian Ma, S.B. Damelin, 0. Masoud, N. Papanikolopoulos

Generating and Updating Textures for a Large-Scale Environment 9 Jinhui Hu, Suya You, Ulrich Neumann

Planar Surface Detection in Image Pairs Using Homographic Constraints 19

Qiang He, Chee-hung Henry Chu

Robust Quality-Scalable Transmission of JPEG2000 Images over Wireless Channels Using LDPC Codes 28

Abdullah AI Muhit, Teong Chee Chuah

A Novelty Detection Approach for Forcground Region Detection in Videos with Quasi-stationary Backgrounds 40

Alireza Tavakkoli, Mircea Nicolescu, George Bebis

Procedural Image Processing for Visualization 50 Xiaoru Yuan, Baoquan Chen

Tracking of Individuais in Very Long Video Sequences 60 P. Fihl, R. Corlin, S. Park, T.B. Moeslund, M.M. Trivedi

A Natural Interface for Sign Language Mathematics 70 Nicoletta Adamo- Villani, Bedfich Benes, Matt Brisbin, Bryce Hyland

A Novel Gait Recognition Method Via Fusing Shape and Kinematics Features 80

Yanmei Chat, Qing Wang, Jingping Jia, Rongchun Zhao

Illumination Normalization for Color Face Images 90 Faisal R. Al-Osaim.i, Mohammed Bennamoun, Ajmal Mian

Real-Time Detection of Out-of-Plane Objects in Stereo Vision 102 Weiguang Guan, Patricia Monger

Stereo Imaging with Uncalibrated Camera 112 Xiaokun Li, Chiman Kwan, Baoxin Li

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Global Hand Pose Estimation by Multiple Camera Ellipse Tracking 122 Jorge Usabiaga, Ali Erol, George Bebis, Richard Boyle, Xander Twombly

Vision-Based Self-localization of Autonomous Guided Vehicle Using Landmarks of Colored Pentagons 133

Y.S. Kim, J.C. Kim, E.J. Park, Joonwhoan Lee

An Automated System for Contact Lens Inspection 141 AI Bazin, T. Cole, B. Kett, M.S. Nixon

Emcient Motion Search in Large Motion Capture Databases 151 Yi hin

Real-Time Rendering of Light Shafts on GPU 161 Shuyi Chen, Sheng Li, Guoping Wang

Learning the Stylistic Similarity Between Human Motions 170 Yu-Ren Chien, Jing-Sin Liu

Effects of Layer Partitioning in Collaborative 3D Visualizations 180 Lars Winkler Pettersson, Andreas Kjellin, Mats Lind, Stefan Seipel

GPU-Based Active Contour Segmentation Using Gradient Vector Flow 191

Zhiyu He, Falko Kuester

Active Single Landmark Based Global Localization of Autonomous Mobile Robots 202

Abdul Bais, Robert Sablatnig, Jason Gu, Stefan Mahlknecht

Iterative Estimation of 3D Transformations for Object Alignment 212 Tao Wang, Anup Basu

Temporal Alignment of Time Varying MRI Datasets for High Resolution Medical Visualization 222

Meghna Singh, Anup Basu, Mrinal Mandal

Physically Interacting with Four Dimensions 232 Hui Zhang, Andrew J. Hanson

Low Level Moving-Feature Extraction Via Heat Flow Analogy 243 Gern Direkoglu, Mark S. Nixon

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Shape Tracking and Registration for 4D Visualization of MRI and Structure 253

Irene Cheng, Sharrnin Nilufar, Anup Basu, Randy Goebel

History Trees as Descriptors of Macromolecular Structures 263 Deniz Sarioz, T. Yung Kong, Gabor T. Herman

Pusing Features in Direct Volume Rendered Images 273 Yingcai Wu, Huamin Qu, Hong Zhou, Ming-Yuen Chan

Binocular Uncalibrated Photometrie Stereo 283 Hui Kong, Pengfei Xu, Eam Khwang Teoh

Empirical Evaluation of a Visual Interface for Exploring Message Boards 293

Beomjin Kirn, Philip Johnson, Jason Baker

Direct Estimation of the Stereo Geometry from Monocular Normal Flows 303

Ding Yuan, Ronald Chung

Singular Value Decomposition-Based Illumination Compensation in Video 313

Ki-Youn Lee, Rae-Hong Park

Facial Expression Transformations for Expression-Invariant Face Recognition 323

Hyung-Soo Lee, Daijin Kim

A High-Speed Parallel Architecture for Stereo Matching 334 Sungchan Park, Hong Jeong

Light Simulation in a Distributed Driving Simulator 343 Stefan Lietsch, Henning Zabel, Martin Eikermann, Veit Wittenberg, Jan Berssenbrügge

Self-adaptive RBF Neural Networks for Face Recognition 353 S. Gharai, S. Thakur, S. Lahiri, J.K. Sing, D.K. Basu, M. Nasipuri, M. Kundu

An Improved Representation of Junctions Through Asymmetrie Tensor Diffusion 363

Shawn Arseneau, Jeremy R. Cooper'stock

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Accurate Extraction of Reciprocal Space Information from Transmission Electron Microscopy Images 373

Edward Rosten, Susan, Cox

GPU Accelerated Isosurface Extraction on Tetrahedral Grids 383 Luc Buatois, Guülaume Caumon, Bruno Levy

Enhancing Information on Large Scenes by Mixing RenderingK 393 Vincent Boyer, Dominique Sobczyk

Auto-focusing in Extreme Zoom Surveillance: A System Approach with Application to Faces 401

Yi Yao, Besrna Abidi, Michael Tousek, Mongi Abidi

Trifocal Transfer Based Novel View Syiithesis for Micromanipulation . . . . 411 Julien Bert, Sounkalo Dembele, Nadine Lejort-Piat

Simulation of Diabetic Retinopathy Neovascularization in Color Digital Fundus Images 421

Xinyu Xu, Baoxin Li, Jose F. Florez, Helen K. Li

Mesh Optimisation Using Edge Information in Feature-Based Surface Reconstruction 434

Jun Liu, Roger Hubbold

Finite Sample Bias of Robust Scale Estimators in Computer Vision Problems 445

Reza Hoseinnezhad, Alireza Bab-Hadiashar, David Suter

Flexible Segmentation and Smoothing of DT-MRI Fields Through a Customizable Structure Tensor 455

Thomas Schultz, Bernhard Burgeth, Joachim WeickeH

Using Visualizations to Support Design and Debugging in Virtual Reality 465

Cara Winterbottom, Edwin Blake, James Gain

Strategies for Part-Based Shape Analysis Using Skeletons 475 Wooi-Boon Goh

Automatic Learning of Articulated Skeletons from 3D Marker Trajectories 485

Edüson de Aguiar, Christian Theobalt, Hans-Peter Seidel

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Real Time Hand Gesture Rccogiiitioii Including Hand Segmentation and Tracking 495

Thomas Coogan, George Awad, Junwei Han, Alistair Sutherland

Physically-Based Real-Time Diffraction Using Spherical Harmonics 505 Clifford Lindsay, Emmanuel Agu

3D Segmentation of Mammospheres for Localization Studies 518 Ju Han, Hang Chang, Qing Yang, Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, Bahram Parvin

Viewpoint Selection for Angiographie Volume 528 Ming- Yuen Chan, Huamin Qu, Yingcai Wu, Hong Zhou

Recognizing Action Primitives in Complex Actions Using Hidden Markov Models 538

V. Krüger

Polyhedrization of Discrete Convex Volumes 548 Valentin E. Brimkov, Reneta Barneva

Automatic Camera Calibration and Scene Reconstruction with Scale-Invariant Features 558

Jun Liu, Roger Hubbold

Surface Fitting to Curves with Energy Control 569 Wen-Ke Wang, Hui Zhang, Jun-Hai Yong, Jia-Guang Sun

Blob Tracking with Adaptive Feature Selection and Accurate Scale Determination 579

Jingping Jia, David Feng, Yanmei Chai, Rongchun Zhao, Zheru Chi

Self-Calibration with Two Views Using the Scale-Invariant Feature Transforrn 589

Jae-Ho Yun, Rae-Hong Park

Improved Face Recognition Using Extended Modular Principal Component Analysis 599

Changhan Park, Inho Paek, Joonki Paik

Shape Reconstruction by Line Voting in Discrete Space Kosuke Sato, Atsushi Imiya, Tornoya Sakai

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Characterization of the Closest Discrete Approximation of a Line in the 3-Dimensional Space gi o

J.-L. Toutant

Margin Maximizing Discriminant Analysis for Multi-shot Based Object Recognition fi?s

Hui Kong, Eam Khwang Teoh, P eng fei Xu

A Novel 3D Statistical Shape Model for Segmentation of Medical Images

Zheen Zhao, Eam Khwang Teoh

Scale Consistent Image Completion 54g Michal Holtzman-Gazit, Irad Yavneh

EXDRAP: An Extended Dead Reckoning Architectural Pattern for the Development of Web-Based DVE Applications 660

Nerssi Nasiri Amini, Mostafa Haghjoo

Optimal Parameterizations of Bezier Surfaces 672 Yi-Jun Yang, Jun-Hai Yong, Hui Zhang, Jean-Claude Paul, Jiaguang Sun

Constrained Delaunay Triangulation Using Delaunay Visibility 682 Yi-Jun Yang, Hui Zhang, Jun-Hai Yong, Wei Zeng, Jean-Claude Paul, Jiaguang Sun

Immersing Tele-operators in Collaborative Augmented Reality 692 Jane Hwang, Namgyu Kim, Gerard J. Kim

GrayCut - Object Segmentation in IR-Images 702 Christian Ruwwe, Udo Zölzer

Unsupervised Clustering of Shapes 7 1 2

Mohammad Reza Daliri, Vincent Torre

Markerless Pose Tracking for Augmented Reality 721 Chunrong Yuan

Lip Detection Using Confidence-Based Adaptive Thresholding 731 Im Young Kim, Seung You Na, Ronald Cole

Optic Flow Integration at Multiple Spatial Frequencies - Neural Mechanism. and Algorithm 7 4 1

Cornelia Beck, Pierre Bayerl, Heiko Neumann

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A Critical Appraisal of the Box Counting Method to Asscss thc Fractal Dimension of Tree Crowns 751

D. Da Silva, F. Boudon, C. Godin, 0. Puech, C. Smith, H. Sinoquet

3D Surface Reconstruction and Registration for Image Guided Medialization Laryngoplasty 761

Ge Jin, Sang-Joon Lee, James K. Hahn, Steven Bielamowicz, Rajat Mittal, Raymond Walsh

Vision-Based User Interfaces for Health Applications: A Survey 771 Alexandra Branzan Albu

Multiple Hypothesis Target Tracking Using Merge and Split of Graph's Nodes 783

Yunqian Ma, Qian Yu, Isaac Cohen

Understanding 3D Emotions Through Compact Anthropometric Autoregressive Models 793

Charlotte Ghys, Nikos Paragios, Benedicte Bas de

Graph-Based Multi-resolntion Temporal-Bascd Face Reconstruction 803 Charlotte Ghys, Nikos Paragios, Benedicte Basale

Web-Based Interface for the Visualization of Microarray Data 813 B. Vanteru, J. Shadk, M. Yeasin

3D and Texture Modelling of Precolombian Objects 822 Jorge Hernändez, Flavio Prieto

Segmcntation of Triangulär Meshes Using Multi-scale Normal Variation 831

Kyungha Min, Moon-Ryul Jung

Integration of Multiple Methods for Class and Specific Object Recognition 841

AI Mansur, Md. Altab Hossain, Yoshinori Kuno

An EfHcient Photon Mapping Algorithm for Rendering Light-Emitting Fluids 850

Kyungha Min

Face Recognition Using 2D and 3D Multimodal Local Features 860 Ajmal Mian, Mohammed Bennamoun, Robyn Owens

Adaptive Background Generation for Video Object Segmentation 871 Taekyung Kim, Joonki Paik

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Omnidircctional Camera Calibration and 3D Reconstrnction by Contour Matching ggX

Yongho Hwang, Jaeman Lee, Hyunki Hong

Real-Time GPU-Based Simulation of Dynamic Terrain 891 Anthony S. Aquilio, Jeremy C. Brooks, Ying Zhu, G. Scott Owen

High-Resolution Video from Series of Still Photographs 901 Ge Jin, James K. Hahn

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