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Takeo KanadeCarnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Josef KittlerUniversity of Surrey, Guildford, UK

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George Bebis Richard BoyleBahram Parvin Darko Koracin Baoxin LiFatih Porikli Victor ZordanJames Klosowski Sabine CoquillartXun Luo Min Chen David Gotz (Eds.)

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Sabine Coquillart, E-mail: sabine.coquillart@inria.fr

Xun Luo, E-mail: xun.luo@ieee.org

Min Chen, E-mail: min.chen@oerc.ox.ac.uk

David Gotz, E-mail: dgotz@us.ibm.com

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Preface

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you all to the 9th International Sym-posium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2013) in Rethymnon, Crete, Greece. ISVCprovides a common umbrella for the four main areas of visual computing in-cluding vision, graphics, visualization, and virtual reality. The goal is to pro-vide a forum for researchers, scientists, engineers, and practitioners through-out the world to present their latest research findings, ideas, developments, andapplications in the broader area of visual computing.

This year, the program consists of 11 oral sessions, one poster session, 6 spe-cial tracks, and 6 keynote presentations. The response to the call for papers wasvery good; we received over 220 submissions for the main symposium from whichwe accepted 63 papers for oral presentation and 35 papers for poster presenta-tion. Special track papers were solicited separately through the Organizing andProgram Committees of each track. A total of 32 papers were accepted for oralpresentation in the special tracks.

All papers were reviewed with an emphasis on their potential to contributeto the state-of-the-art in the field. Selection criteria included accuracy and orig-inality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and presentation quality. Thereview process was quite rigorous, involving two - three independent blind re-views followed by several days of discussion. During the discussion period wetried to correct anomalies and errors that might have existed in the initial re-views. Despite our efforts, we recognize that some papers worthy of inclusionmay not have been included in the program. We offer our sincere apologies toauthors whose contributions might have been overlooked.

We wish to thank everybody who submitted their work to ISVC 2012 forreview. It was because of their contributions that we succeeded in having atechnical program of high scientific quality. In particular, we would like tothank the ISVC 2013 area chairs, the organizing institutions (UNR, DRI, LBNL,and NASA Ames), the industrial sponsors (BAE Systems, Intel, Ford, HewlettPackard, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Toyota, General Electric), the In-ternational Program Committee, the special track organizers and their ProgramCommittees, the keynote speakers, the reviewers, and especially the authors thatcontributed their work to the symposium. In particular, we would like to expressour appreciation to MERL and Dr. Fatih Porikli for their sponsorship of the“best” paper award this year.

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We sincerely hope that ISVC 2013 will offer opportunities for professionalgrowth. We wish you a pleasant time in Crete, Greece.

July 2013 George BebisRichard Boyle

Bahram ParvinDarko Koracin

Baoxin LiFatih Porikli

Victor ZordanJames KlosowskiSabine Coquillart

Xun LuoMin Chen

David Gotz

Organization

ISVC 2013 Steering Committee

Bebis George University of Nevada at Reno, USABoyle Richard NASA Ames Research Center, USAParvin Bahram Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USAKoracin Darko Desert Research Institute, USA

ISVC 2013 Area Chairs

Computer Vision

Li Baoxin Arizona State University, USAPorikli Fatih Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL),

USA

Computer Graphics

Zordan Victor University of California at Riverside, USAKlosowski James AT&T Research Labs, USA

Virtual Reality

Coquillart Sabine Inria, FranceLuo Xun Qualcomm Research, USA

Visualization

Chen Min University of Oxford, UKGotz David IBM, USA

Publicity

Erol Ali ASELSAN, Turkey

Local Arrangements

Zaboulis Xenophon ICS-FORTH, Greece

VIII Organization

Special Tracks

Wang Junxian Microsoft, USA

ISVC 2013 Keynote Speakers

Zorin Dennis New York University, USABelongie Serge University of California at San Diego, USAErtl Thomas University of Stuttgart, GermanyHoogs Anthony Kitware, USAMetaxas Dimitris Rutgers University, USASlater Mel ICREA-University of Barcelona, Spain

ISVC 2013 International Program Committee

(Area 1) Computer Vision

Abidi Besma University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USAAbou-Nasr Mahmoud Ford Motor Company, USAAggarwal J.K. University of Texas at Austin, USAAlbu Branzan Alexandra University of Victoria, CanadaAmayeh Gholamreza Foveon, USAAmbardekar Amol Microsoft, USAAgouris Peggy George Mason University, USAArgyros Antonis University of Crete, GreeceAsari Vijayan University of Dayton, USAAthitsos Vassilis University of Texas at Arlington, USABasu Anup University of Alberta, CanadaBekris Kostas Rutgers University, USABhatia Sanjiv University of Missouri-St. Louis, USABimber Oliver Johannes Kepler University Linz, AustriaBourbakis Nikolaos Wright State University, USABrimkov Valentin State University of New York, USACampadelli Paola University of Milan, ItalyCavallaro Andrea Queen Mary, University of London, UKCharalampidis Dimitrios University of New Orleans, USAChellappa Rama University of Maryland, USAChen Yang HRL Laboratories, USACheng Hui Sarnoff Corporation, USACheng Shinko HRL Labs, USACremers Daniel Technical University of Munich, GermanyCui Jinshi Peking University, ChinaDagher Issam University of Balamand, LebanonDarbon Jerome CNRS-Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan,

France

Organization IX

Demirdjian David Vecna Robotics, USADuan Ye University of Missouri-Columbia, USADoulamis Anastasios Technical University of Crete, GreeceEl-Ansari Mohamed Ibn Zohr University, MoroccoEl-Gammal Ahmed University of New Jersey, USAEng How Lung Institute for Infocomm Research, SingaporeErol Ali ASELSAN, TurkeyFan Guoliang Oklahoma State University, USAFan Jialue Northwestern University, USAFerri Francesc University of Valencia, SpainFerryman James University of Reading, UKForesti GianLuca University of Udine, ItalyFowlkes Charless University of California at Irvine, USAFukui Kazuhiro The University of Tsukuba, JapanGalata Aphrodite The University of Manchester, UKGeorgescu Bogdan Siemens, USAGoh Wooi-Boon Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeGuerra-Filho Gutemberg Intel, USAGuevara Angel Miguel University of Porto, PortugalGustafson David Kansas State University, USAHammoud Riad BAE Systems, USAHarville Michael Hewlett Packard Labs, USAHe Xiangjian University of Technology, AustraliaHeikkil Janne University of Oulu, FinlandHongbin Zha Peking University, ChinaHou Zujun Institute for Infocomm Research, SingaporeHua Gang IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USAImiya Atsushi Chiba University, JapanJia Kevin IGT, USAKamberov George Stevens Institute of Technology, USAKampel Martin Vienna University of Technology, AustriaKamberova Gerda Hofstra University, USAKakadiaris Ioannis University of Houston, USAKettebekov Sanzhar Keane inc., USAKimia Benjamin Brown University, USAKisacanin Branislav Texas Instruments, USAKlette Reinhard Auckland University, New ZealandKokkinos Iasonas Ecole Centrale de Paris, FranceKollias Stefanos National Technical University of Athens,

GreeceKomodakis Nikos Ecole Centrale de Paris, FranceKozintsev Igor Intel, USAKuno Yoshinori Saitama University, JapanKim Kyungnam HRL Laboratories, USALatecki Longin Jan Temple University, USALee D.J. Brigham Young University, USA

X Organization

Levine Martin McGill University, CanadaLi Chunming Vanderbilt University, USALi Xiaowei Google Inc., USALim Ser N. GE Research, USALisin Dima VidoeIQ, USALee Hwee Kuan Bioinformatics Institute A*STAR, SingaporeLee Seong-Whan Korea University, South KoreaLeung Valerie MathWorks, FranceLi Shuo GE Healthecare, CanadaLourakis Manolis ICS-FORTH, GreeceLoss Leandro Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USALuo Gang Harvard University, USAMa Yunqian Honeywell Labs, USAMaeder Anthony University of Western Sydney, AustraliaMakrogiannis Sokratis NIH, USAMaltoni Davide University of Bologna, ItalyMaybank Steve Birkbeck College, UKMedioni Gerard University of Southern California, USAMelenchn Javier Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, SpainMetaxas Dimitris Rutgers University, USAMing Wei Konica Minolta Laboratory, USAMirmehdi Majid Bristol University, UKMonekosso Dorothy University of Ulster, UKMorris Brendan University of Nevada at Las Vegas, USAMueller Klaus Stony Brook University, USAMuhammad Ghulam King Saud University, Saudi ArabiaMulligan Jeff NASA Ames Research Center, USAMurray Don Point Grey Research, CanadaNait-Charif Hammadi Bournemouth University, UKNefian Ara NASA Ames Research Center, USANicolescu Mircea University of Nevada at Reno, USANixon Mark University of Southampton, UKNolle Lars The Nottingham Trent University, UKNtalianis Klimis National Technical University of Athens,

GreeceOr Siu Hang The Chinese University of Hong Kong,

Hong KongPapadourakis George Technological Education Institute, GreecePapanikolopoulos Nikolaos University of Minnesota, USAPati Peeta Basa CoreLogic, IndiaPatras Ioannis Queen Mary, University of London, UKPavlidis Ioannis University of Houston, USAPetrakis Euripides Technical University of Crete, GreecePeyronnet Sylvain University Paris-Sud, FrancePinhanez Claudio IBM Research, Brazil

Organization XI

Piccardi Massimo University of Technology, AustraliaPietikainen Matti LRDE/University of Oulu, FinlandPitas Ioannis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GreecePorikli Fatih Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USAPrabhakar Salil DigitalPersona Inc., USAPrati Andrea University IUAV of Venice, ItalyProkhorov Danil Toyota Research Institute, USAQian Gang Arizona State University, USARaftopoulos Kostas National Technical University of Athens,

GreeceRegazzoni Carlo University of Genoa, ItalyRegentova Emma University of Nevada at Las Vegas, USARemagnino Paolo Kingston University, UKRibeiro Eraldo Florida Institute of Technology, USARobles-Kelly Antonio National ICT Australia, AustraliaRoss Arun Michigan State University, USASamal Ashok University of Nebraska, USASamir Tamer Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, USASandberg Kristian Computational Solutions, USASarti Augusto DEI Politecnico di Milano, ItalySavakis Andreas Rochester Institute of Technology, USASchaefer Gerald Loughborough University, UKScalzo Fabien University of California at Los Angeles, USAScharcanski Jacob UFRGS, BrazilShah Mubarak University of Central Florida, USAShi Pengcheng Rochester Institute of Technology, USAShimada Nobutaka Ritsumeikan University, JapanSingh Rahul San Francisco State University, USASkurikhin Alexei Los Alamos National Laboratory, USASouvenir Richard University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USASu Chung-Yen National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

(R.O.C.)Sugihara Kokichi University of Tokyo, JapanSun Zehang Apple, USASyeda-Mahmood Tanveer IBM Almaden, USATan Kar Han Hewlett Packard, USATan Tieniu Chinese Academy of Sciences, ChinaTavakkoli Alireza University of Houston at Victoria, USATavares, Joao Universidade do Porto, PortugalTeoh Eam Khwang Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeThiran Jean-Philippe Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

(EPFL), SwitzerlandTistarelli Massimo University of Sassari, ItalyTong Yan University of South Carolina, USATsechpenakis Gabriel Indiana University - Purdue University

Indianapolis, USA

XII Organization

Tsui T.J. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong KongTrucco Emanuele University of Dundee, UKTubaro Stefano Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Uhl Andreas Salzburg University, AustriaVelastin Sergio Kingston University London, UKVeropoulos Kostantinos GE Healthcare, GreeceVerri Alessandro University of Genoa, ItalyWang C.L. Charlie The Chinese University of Hong Kong,

Hong KongWang Junxian Microsoft, USAWang Song University of South Carolina, USAWang Yunhong Beihang University, ChinaWebster Michael University of Nevada at Reno, USAWolff Larry Equinox Corporation, USAWong Kenneth The University of Hong Kong, Hong KongXiang Tao Queen Mary, University of London, UKXue Xinwei Fair Isaac Corporation, USAXu Meihe University of California at Los Angeles, USAYang Ming-Hsuan University of California at Merced, USAYang Ruigang University of Kentucky, USAYi Lijun SUNY at Binghampton, USAYu Ting GE Global Research, USAYu Zeyun University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USAYuan Chunrong University of Tuebingen, GermanyZabulis Xenophon ICS-FORTH, GreeceZervakis Michalis Technical University of Crete, GreeceZhang Yan Delphi Corporation, USAZiou Djemel University of Sherbrooke, CanadaZhou Huiyu Queen’s University Belfast, UKAbd Rahni Mt Piah Universiti Sains Malaysia, MalaysiaAbram Greg Texas Advanced Computing Center, USAAdamo-Villani Nicoletta Purdue University, USAAgu Emmanuel Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USAAndres Eric University of Poitiers, FranceArtusi Alessandro Universitat de Girona, SpainBaciu George Hong Kong PolyU, Hong KongBalcisoy Selim Saffet Sabanci University, TurkeyBarneva Reneta State University of New York, USABelyaev Alexander Heriot-Watt University, UKBenes Bedrich Purdue University, USABerberich Eric Max-Planck Institute, GermanyBilalis Nicholas Technical University of Crete, GreeceBimber Oliver Johannes Kepler University Linz, AustriaBouatouch Kadi University of Rennes I, FranceBrimkov Valentin State University of New York, USA

Organization XIII

Brown Ross Queensland University of Technology, AustraliaBruckner Stefan Vienna University of Technology, AustriaCallahan Steven University of Utah, USACapin Tolga Bilkent University, TurkeyChaudhuri Parag Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, IndiaChen Min University of Oxford, UKCheng Irene University of Alberta, CanadaChiang Yi-Jen Polytechnic Institute of New York University,

USAChoi Min-Hyung University of Colorado at Denver, USAComba Joao Univ. Fed. do Rio Grande do Sul, BrazilCrawfis Roger Ohio State University, USACremer Jim University of Iowa, USACulbertson Bruce HP Labs, USADana Kristin Rutgers University, USADebattista Kurt University of Warwick, UKDeng Zhigang University of Houston, USADick Christian Technical University of Munich, GermanyDingliana John Trinity College, IrelandEl-Sana Jihad Ben Gurion University of The Negev, IsraelEntezari Alireza University of Florida, USAFabian Nathan Sandia National Laboratories, USADe Floriani Leila University of Genoa, ItalyFuhrmann Anton VRVis Research Center, AustriaGaither Kelly University of Texas at Austin, USAGao Chunyu Epson Research and Development, USAGeist Robert Clemson University, USAGelb Dan Hewlett Packard Labs, USAGooch Amy University of Victoria, CanadaGu David Stony Brook University, USAGuerra-Filho Gutemberg Intel, USAHabib Zulfiqar COMSATS Institute of Information

Technology, PakistanHadwiger Markus KAUST, Saudi ArabiaHaller Michael Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences,

AustriaHamza-Lup Felix Armstrong Atlantic State University, USAHan JungHyun Korea University, South KoreaHand Randall Lockheed Martin Corporation, USAHao Xuejun Columbia University and NYSPI, USAHernandez Jose Tiberio Universidad de los Andes, ColombiaHou Tingbo Google Inc., USAHuang Jian University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USAHuang Mao Lin University of Technology, AustraliaHuang Zhiyong Institute for Infocomm Research, SingaporeHussain Muhammad King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

XIV Organization

Jeschke Stefan Vienna University of Technology, AustriaJones Michael Brigham Young University, USAJulier Simon J. University College London, UKKakadiaris Ioannis University of Houston, USAKamberov George Stevens Institute of Technology, USAKo Hyeong-Seok Seoul National University, South KoreaKolingerova Ivana University of West Bohemia, Czech RepublicLai Shuhua Virginia State University, USALewis R. Robert Washington State University, USALi Bo Samsung, USALi Frederick University of Durham, UKLindstrom Peter Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USALinsen Lars Jacobs University, GermanyLoviscach Joern Fachhochschule Bielefeld, GermanyMagnor Marcus TU Braunschweig, GermanyMartin Ralph Cardiff University, UKMeenakshisundaram Gopi University of California-Irvine, USAMendoza Cesar NaturalMotion Ltd., USAMetaxas Dimitris Rutgers University, USAMudur Sudhir Concordia University, CanadaMusuvathy Suraj Siemens, USAMyles Ashish University of Florida, USANait-Charif Hammadi University of Dundee, ScotlandNasri Ahmad American University of Beirut, LebanonNoh Junyong KAIST, South KoreaNoma Tsukasa Kyushu Institute of Technology, JapanOkada Yoshihiro Kyushu University, JapanOlague Gustavo CICESE Research Center, MexicoOliveira Manuel M. Univ. Fed. do Rio Grande do Sul, BrazilOwen Charles Michigan State University, USAOstromoukhov Victor M. University of Montreal, CanadaPascucci Valerio University of Utah, USAPatchett John Los Alamons National Lab, USAPeters Jorg University of Florida, USAPronost Nicolas Utrecht University, The NetherlandsQin Hong Stony Brook University, USARautek Peter Vienna University of Technology, AustriaRazdan Anshuman Arizona State University, USARosen Paul University of Utah, USARosenbaum Rene University of California at Davis, USARudomin Isaac Barcelona Supercomputing Center, SpainRushmeier Holly Yale University, USASander Pedro The Hong Kong University of Science and

Technology, Hong KongSapidis Nickolas University of Western Macedonia, GreeceSarfraz Muhammad Kuwait University, Kuwait

Organization XV

Scateni Riccardo University of Calgiari, ItalySchaefer Scott Texas A&M University, USA

Sequin Carlo University of California-Berkeley, USAShead Timothy Sandia National Laboratories, USASourin Alexei Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeStamminger Marc REVES/Inria, FranceSu Wen-Poh Griffith University, AustraliaSzumilas Lech Research Institute for Automation and

Measurements, PolandTan Kar Han Hewlett Packard, USATarini Marco University dell’Insubria, ItalyTeschner Matthias University of Freiburg, GermanyTorchelsen Rafael Piccin Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul, BrazilUmlauf Georg HTWG Constance, GermanyVanegas Carlos University of California at Berkeley, USAWald Ingo University of Utah, USAWalter Marcelo UFRGS, BrazilWimmer Michael Technical University of Vienna, AustriaWylie Brian Sandia National Laboratory, USAWyman Chris University of Calgary, CanadaWyvill Brian University of Iowa, USAYang Qing-Xiong University of Illinois at Urbana, USAYang Ruigang University of Kentucky, USAYe Duan University of Missouri-Columbia, USAYi Beifang Salem State University, USAYin Lijun Binghamton University, USAYoo Terry National Institutes of Health, USAYuan Xiaoru Peking University, ChinaZhang Jian Jun Bournemouth University, UKZeng Jianmin Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeZara Jiri Czech Technical University in Prague,

Czech Republic

(Area 3) Virtual Reality

Alcaiz Mariano Technical University of Valencia, SpainArns Laura Purdue University, USABalcisoy Selim Sabanci University, TurkeyBehringer Reinhold Leeds Metropolitan University, UKBenes Bedrich Purdue University, USABilalis Nicholas Technical University of Crete, GreeceBlach Roland Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering,

GermanyBlom Kristopher University of Barcelona, SpainBogdanovych Anton University of Western Sydney, AustraliaBrady Rachael Duke University, USABrega Jose Remo Ferreira Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil

XVI Organization

Brown Ross Queensland University of Technology, AustraliaBues Matthias Fraunhofer IAO in Stuttgart, GermanyCapin Tolga Bilkent University, Turkey

Chen Jian Brown University, USACooper Matthew University of Linkiping, SwedenCoquillart Sabine Inria, FranceCraig Alan NCSA University of Illinois at Urbana, USACremer Jim University of Iowa, USAEdmunds Timothy University of British Columbia, CanadaEgges Arjan Universiteit Utrecht, The NetherlandsEncarnao L. Miguel ACT Inc., USAFigueroa Pablo Universidad de los Andes, ColombiaFox Jesse Stanford University, USAFriedman Doron IDC, IsraelFuhrmann Anton VRVis Research Center, AustriaGregory Michelle Pacific Northwest National Lab, USAGupta Satyandra K. University of Maryland, USAHaller Michael FH Hagenberg, AustriaHamza-Lup Felix Armstrong Atlantic State University, USAHerbelin Bruno EPFL, SwitzerlandHinkenjann Andre Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied

Sciences, GermanyHollerer Tobias University of California at Santa Barbara, USAHuang Jian University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USAHuang Zhiyong Institute for Infocomm Research, SingaporeJulier Simon J. University College London, UKKaufmann Hannes Vienna University of Technology, AustriaKiyokawa Kiyoshi Osaka University, JapanKozintsev Igor Intel, USAKuhlen Torsten RWTH Aachen University, GermanyLee Cha University of California at Santa Barbara, USALiere Robert van CWI, The NetherlandsMalzbender Tom Hewlett Packard Labs, USAMantler Stephan VRVis Research Center, AustriaMolineros Jose Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, USAMuller Stefan University of Koblenz, GermanyOwen Charles Michigan State University, USAPaelke Volker Institut de Geomatica, SpainPeli Eli Harvard University, USAPettifer Steve The University of Manchester, UKPronost Nicolas Utrecht University, The NetherlandsPugmire Dave Los Alamos National Lab, USAQian Gang Arizona State University, USARaffin Bruno Inria, FranceRaij Andrew University of South Florida, USARichir Simon Arts et Metiers ParisTech, France

Organization XVII

Rodello Ildeberto University of San Paulo, BrazilSandor Christian University of South Australia, AustraliaSapidis Nickolas University of Western Macedonia, GreeceSchulze Jurgen University of California at San Diego, USASherman Bill Indiana University, USASlavik Pavel Czech Technical University in Prague,

Czech RepublicSourin Alexei Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeSteinicke Frank University of Wurzburg, GermanySuma Evan University of Southern California, USAStamminger Marc REVES/Inria, FranceSrikanth Manohar Indian Institute of Science, IndiaVercher Jean-Louis University de la Mediterranee, FranceWald Ingo University of Utah, USAYu Ka Chun Denver Museum of Nature and Science, USAYuan Chunrong University of Tuebingen, GermanyZachmann Gabriel Clausthal University, GermanyZara Jiri Czech Technical University in Prague,

Czech RepublicZhang Hui Indiana University, USAZhao Ye Kent State University, USA

(Area 4) Visualization

Andrienko Gennady Fraunhofer Institute IAIS, GermanyAvila Lisa Kitware, USAApperley Mark University of Waikato, New ZealandBalzs Csbfalvi Budapest University of Technology and

Economics, HungaryBrady Rachael Duke University, USABenes Bedrich Purdue University, USABilalis Nicholas Technical University of Crete, GreeceBonneau Georges-Pierre Grenoble University, FranceBruckner Stefan Vienna University of Technology, AustriaBrown Ross Queensland University of Technology, AustraliaBhler Katja VRVis Research Center, AustriaCallahan Steven University of Utah, USAChen Jian Brown University, USAChen Min University of Oxford, UKChiang Yi-Jen Polytechnic Institute of New York University,

USACooper Matthew University of Linkoping, SwedenChourasia Amit University of California at San Diego, USACrossno Patricia Sandia National Laboratories, USADaniels Joel University of Utah, USADick Christian Technical University of Munich, GermanyDoleisch Helmut SimVis GmbH, Austria

XVIII Organization

Duan Ye University of Missouri-Columbia, USADwyer Tim Monash University, Australia

Entezari Alireza University of Florida, USAErtl Thomas University of Stuttgart, GermanyDe Floriani Leila University of Maryland, USAFujishiro Issei Keio University, JapanGeist Robert Clemson University, USAGotz David IBM, USAGrinstein Georges University of Massachusetts Lowell, USAGoebel Randy University of Alberta, CanadaGrg Carsten University of Colorado at Denver, USAGregory Michelle Pacific Northwest National Lab, USAHadwiger Helmut Markus KAUST, Saudi ArabiaHagen Hans Technical University of Kaiserslautern,

GermanyHamza-Lup Felix Armstrong Atlantic State University, USAHealey Christopher North Carolina State University at Raleigh,

USAHochheiser Harry University of Pittsburgh, USAHollerer Tobias University of California at Santa Barbara, USAHong Lichan University of Sydney, AustraliaHong Seokhee Palo Alto Research Center, USAHotz Ingrid Zuse Institute Berlin, GermanyHuang Zhiyong Institute for Infocomm Research, SingaporeJiang Ming Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USAJoshi Alark Yale University, USAJulier Simon J. University College London, UKLaramee Robert Swansea University, UKLewis R. Robert Washington State University, USALiere Robert van CWI, The NetherlandsLim Ik Soo Bangor University, UKLinsen Lars Jacobs University, GermanyLiu Zhanping University of Pennsylvania, USAMa Kwan-Liu University of California at Davis, USAMaeder Anthony University of Western Sydney, AustraliaMalpica Jose Alcala University, SpainMasutani Yoshitaka The University of Tokyo Hospital, JapanMatkovic Kresimir VRVis Research Center, AustriaMcCaffrey James Microsoft Research / Volt VTE, USAMelancon Guy CNRS UMR 5800 LaBRI and Inria Bordeaux

Sud-Ouest, FranceMiksch Silvia Vienna University of Technology, AustriaMonroe Laura Los Alamos National Labs, USAMorie Jacki University of Southern California, USAMoreland Kenneth Sandia National Laboratories, USAMudur Sudhir Concordia University, Canada

Organization XIX

Museth Ken Linkpings University, SwedenPaelke Volker Institut de Geomatica, Spain

Papka Michael Argonne National Laboratory, USAPeikert Ronald Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich,

SwitzerlandPettifer Steve The University of Manchester, UKPugmire Dave Los Alamos National Lab, USARabin Robert University of Wisconsin at Madison, USARaffin Bruno Inria, FranceRazdan Anshuman Arizona State University, USARhyne Theresa-Marie North Carolina State University, USARosenbaum Rene University of California at Davis, USAScheuermann Gerik University of Leipzig, GermanyShead Timothy Sandia National Laboratories, USAShen Han-Wei Ohio State University, USASips Mike Stanford University, USASlavik Pavel Czech Technical University in Prague,

Czech RepublicSourin Alexei Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeThakur Sidharth Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI),

USATheisel Holger University of Magdeburg, GermanyThiele Olaf University of Mannheim, GermanyToledo de Rodrigo Petrobras PUC-RIO, BrazilTricoche Xavier Purdue University, USAUmlauf Georg HTWG Constance, GermanyViegas Fernanda IBM, USAWald Ingo University of Utah, USAWan Ming Boeing Phantom Works, USAWeinkauf Tino Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, GermanyWeiskopf Daniel University of Stuttgart, GermanyWischgoll Thomas Wright State University, USAWylie Brian Sandia National Laboratory, USAWu Yin Indiana University, USAXu Wei Stony Brook University, USAYeasin Mohammed Memphis University, USAYuan Xiaoru Peking University, ChinaZachmann Gabriel Clausthal University, GermanyZhang Hui Indiana University, USAZhao Ye Kent State University, USAZheng Ziyi Stony Brook University, USAZhukov Leonid Caltech, USA

XX Organization

ISVC 2013 Special Tracks

1. Computational Bioimaging

Organizers:Tavares Joo Manuel R.S. University of Porto, PortugalNatal Jorge Renato University of Porto, PortugalCunha Alexandre Caltech, USA

2. 3D Mapping, Modeling and Surface Reconstruction

Organizers:Nefian Ara Carnegie Mellon University/NASA Ames

Research Center, USAEdwards Laurence NASA Ames Research Center, USAHuertas Andres NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, USAVisentin Gianfranco ESA European Space Research and Technology

Centre, The NetherlandsLourakis Manolis Foundation for Research and Technology,

GreeceChliveros Georgios Foundation for Research and Technology,

Greece

3. Visual Computing in Digital Cultural Heritage

Organizers:Doulamis Anastasios D. Technical University of Crete, GreeceDoulamis Nikolaos D. National Technical University of Athens,

GreeceIoannides Marinos Cyprus University of Technology, CyprusGeorgopoulos Andreas National Technical University of Athens,

GreeceVoulodimos Athanasios National Technical University of Athens,

Greece

4. Sparse Methods for Computer Vision, Graphics and MedicalImaging

Organizers:Metaxas Dimitris Rutgers University, USAAxel Leon New York University, USAZhang Shaoting Rutgers University, USA

5. Visual Computing with Multimodal Data Streams

Organizers:Zhang Hui Indiana University, USADu Yingzi Indiana University-Purdue University

Indianapolis, USABoyles Mike Indiana University, USAWernert Eric Indiana University, USA

Organization XXI

Thakur Sidharth Renaissance Computing Institute, USARuan Guangchen Indiana University, USA

6. Intelligent Environments: Algorithms and Applications

Organizers:Bebis George University of Nevada at Reno, USANicolescu Mircea University of Nevada at Reno, USABourbakis Nikolaos Wright State University, USATavakkoli Alireza University of Houston at Victoria, USA

Organizing Institutions and Sponsors

Table of Contents – Part I

ST: Computational Bioimaging I

What Is the Role of Color Symmetry in the Detection ofMelanomas? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Margarida Ruela, Catarina Barata, and Jorge S. Marques

Automatic Quantitative Assessment of the Small Bowel Motility withCine-MRI Sequence Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Xing Wu, Shaojian Zhuo, and Wu Zhang

Pharynx Segmentation from MRI Data for Analysis of Sleep RelatedDisoders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Tatyana Ivanovska, Johannes Dober, René Laqua,Katrin Hegenscheid, and Henry Völzke

Fully Automated Brain Tumor Segmentation Using Two MRIModalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Mohamed Ben Salah, Idanis Diaz, Russell Greiner,Pierre Boulanger, Bret Hoehn, and Albert Murtha

Evaluation of Color Based Keypoints and Features for the Classificationof Melanomas Using the Bag-of-Features Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Catarina Barata, Jorge S. Marques, and Jorge Rozeira

Barrel-Type Distortion Compensated Fourier Feature Extraction . . . . . . . 50Michael Gadermayr, Andreas Uhl, and Andreas Vécsei

Computer Graphics I

Rotation-Aware LayerPaint System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Jiazhi Xia, Shenghui Liao, and Juncong Lin

Digital Circlism as Algorithmic Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Sourav De and Partha Bhowmick

Color Edge Preserving Smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79Ali Alsam and Hans Jakob Rivertz

Parallel 3D 12-Subiteration Thinning Algorithms Based on Isthmuses . . . 87Kálmán Palágyi

Depth Peeling Algorithm for the Distance Field Computation ofOverlapping Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Marcin Ryciuk and Joanna Porter-Sobieraj

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Evaluation of Rendering Algorithms Using Position-Dependent SceneProperties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Claudius Jähn, Benjamin Eikel, Matthias Fischer, Ralf Petring, andFriedhelm Meyer auf der Heide

Motion, Tracking, and Recognition

Improving Robustness and Precision in GEI + HOG ActionRecognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Tenika P. Whytock, Alexander Belyaev, and Neil M. Robertson

A Unified Framework for 3D Hand Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129Rudra P.K. Poudel, Jose A.S Fonseca, Jian J. Zhang, andHammadi Nait-Charif

A Multiple Velocity Fields Approach to the Detection of PedestriansInteractions Using HMM and Data Association Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Ricardo A. Ribeiro, Jorge S. Marques, and João M. Lemos

Human Activity Recognition Using Hierarchically-Mined FeatureConstellations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Antonios Oikonomopoulos and Maja Pantic

An Active Vision Approach to Height Estimation with Optical Flow . . . . 160Sotirios Ch. Diamantas and Prithviraj Dasgupta

Structure Descriptor for Articulated Shape Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171Li Han, Jiangyue Hu, and Lin Li

Segmentation

A Machine Learning Approach to Horizon Line Detection Using LocalFeatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Touqeer Ahmad, George Bebis, Emma E. Regentova, and Ara Nefian

Pose Invariant Deformable Shape Priors Using L1 Higher Order SparseGraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Bo Xiang, Nikos Komodakis, and Nikos Paragios

Connected Components Labeling on the GPU with Generalization toVoronoi Diagrams and Signed Distance Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

A. Rasmusson, T.S. Sørensen, and G. Ziegler

Foreground Detection with a Moving RGBD Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216P. Koutlemanis, X. Zabulis, A. Ntelidakis, and Antonis A. Argyros

Image Segmentation Using Iterated Graph Cuts with Residual Graph . . . 228Michael Holuša and Eduard Sojka

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Pressure Based Segmentation in Volumetric Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238Thamer S. Alathari and Mark S. Nixon

Visualization I

On Connectedness of Discretized Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246Valentin E. Brimkov

Visualizing 3D Time-Dependent Foam Simulation Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255Dan R. Lipşa, Robert S. Laramee, Simon Cox, and I. Tudur Davies

Analyzing and Reducing DTI Tracking Uncertainty by CombiningDeterministic and Stochastic Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Khoa Tan Nguyen, Anders Ynnerman, and Timo Ropinski

TimeExplorer: Similarity Search Time Series by Their Signatures . . . . . . 280Tuan Nhon Dang and Leland Wilkinson

A New Visual Comfort-Based Stereoscopic Image RetargetingMethod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Sang-Hyun Cho and Hang-Bong Kang

ST: 3D Mapping, Modeling and SurfaceReconstruction

Simultaneous Color Camera and Depth Sensor Calibration withCorrection of Triangulation Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Jae-Hean Kim, Jin Sung Choi, and Bon-Ki Koo

Improving Image-Based Localization through Increasing CorrectFeature Correspondences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Guoyu Lu, Vincent Ly, Haoquan Shen, Abhishek Kolagunda, andChandra Kambhamettu

Reconstructing Plants in 3D from a Single Image Using Analysis-by-Synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Jérôme Guénard, Géraldine Morin, Frédéric Boudon, andVincent Charvillat

Rapid Disparity Prediction for Dynamic Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333Jun Jiang, Jun Cheng, and Baowen Chen

A Solution to the Similarity Registration Problem of VolumetricShapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Wanmu Liu, Sasan Mahmoodi, Michael J. Bennett, andTom Havelock

3D Surface Reconstruction Using Polynomial Texture Mapping . . . . . . . . 353Mohammed Elfarargy, Amr Rizq, and Marwa Rashwan

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Feature Extraction, Matching and Recognition

Keypoint Detection and Matching on High Resolution SphericalImages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Christiano Couto Gava, Jean-Marc Hengen, Bertram Taetz, andDidier Stricker

Scene Perception and Recognition in Industrial Environments forHuman-Robot Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Nikhil Somani, Emmanuel Dean-León, Caixia Cai, and Alois Knoll

Good Appearance and Shape Descriptors for Object CategoryRecognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Pedro F. Proença, Filipe Gaspar, and Miguel Sales Dias

Object Recognition for Service Robots through Verbal InteractionBased on Ontology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Hisato Fukuda, Satoshi Mori, Yoshinori Kobayashi,Yoshinori Kuno, and Daisuke Kachi

Corner Detection in Spherical Images via the Accelerated Segment Teston a Geodesic Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Hao Guan, William A.P. Smith, and Peng Ren

Object Categorization in Context Based on Probabilistic Learningof Classification Tree with Boosted Features and Co-occurrenceStructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Masayasu Atsumi

Computer Graphics II

Reconstruction of Wire Structures from Scanned Point Clouds . . . . . . . . . 427Kotaro Morioka, Yutaka Ohtake, and Hiromasa Suzuki

Real-Time Simulation of Vehicle Tracks on Soft Terrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437Xiao Chen and Ying Zhu

Real-Time 3D Rendering of Heterogeneous Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448Ralf Petring, Benjamin Eikel, Claudius Jähn, Matthias Fischer, andFriedhelm Meyer auf der Heide

Sketch-Based Image Warping Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459Jiazhi Xia and Zhi-Quan Cheng

Saliency-Guided Color Transfer between Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468Jiazhi Xia

Memory Efficient Shortest Path Algorithms for Cactus Graphs . . . . . . . . . 476Boris Brimkov

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ST: Sparse Methods for Computer Vision, Graphicsand Medical Imaging

Localization of Multi-pose and Occluded Facial Features via SparseShape Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

Yang Yu, Shaoting Zhang, Fei Yang, and Dimitris Metaxas

Collaborative Sparse Representation in Dissimilarity Spacefor Classification of Visual Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

Ilias Theodorakopoulos, George Economou, and Spiros Fotopoulos

A Novel Technique for Space-Time-Interest Point Detection andDescription for Dance Video Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

Soumitra Samanta and Bhabatosh Chanda

Efficient Transmission and Rendering of RGB-D Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517Zahid Riaz, Thorsten Linder, Sven Behnke, Rainer Worst, andHartmut Surmann

Face Processing and Recognition

Shared Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model for Multi-view FacialExpression Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

Stefanos Eleftheriadis, Ognjen Rudovic, and Maja Pantic

Face Verification Using Local Binary Patterns and Maximum APosteriori Vector Quantization Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539

Elhocine Boutellaa, Farid Harizi, Messaoud Bengherabi,Samy Ait-Aoudia, and Abdenour Hadid

Face Box Shape and Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550Eric Christiansen, Iljung S. Kwak, Serge Belongie, andDavid Kriegman

3D Face Pose and Animation Tracking via Eigen-Decomposition BasedBayesian Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562

Ngoc-Trung Tran, Fakhr-Eddine Ababsa, Maurice Charbit,Jacques Feldmar, Dijana Petrovska-Delacrétaz, and Gérard Chollet

Local Orientation Patterns for 3D Surface Texture Analysis of NormalMaps: Application to Facial Skin Condition Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572

Alassane Seck, Hannah Dee, and Bernard Tiddeman

Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583

Table of Contents – Part II

Visualization II

The Reflection Layer Extension to the Stereoscopic Highlight Techniquefor Node-Link Diagrams: An Empirical Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Ragaad AlTarawneh, Jens Bauer, Shah Rukh Humayoun,Patric Keller, and Achim Ebert

Adaptive Semantic Visualization for Bibliographic Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Kawa Nazemi, Reimond Retz, Jürgen Bernard,Jörn Kohlhammer, and Dieter Fellner

A Methodology for Interactive Spatial Visualization of AutomotiveFunction Architectures for Development and Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Moritz Cohrs, Stefan Klimke, and Gabriel Zachmann

Navigation Recommendations for Exploring Hierarchical Graphs . . . . . . . 36Stefan Gladisch, Heidrun Schumann, and Christian Tominski

A Tool for Visualizing Large-Scale Interactions between Turbulenceand Particles in 3D Space through 2D Trajectory Visualization . . . . . . . . 48

Guoyu Lu, Vincent Ly, Xiaolong Wang, Rohith M.V.,Orlando Ayala, Lian-Ping Wang, and Chandra Kambhamettu

ST: Visual Computing with Multimodal DataStreams

Visual Query Specification and Interaction with Industrial EngineeringData . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Alberto Malagoli, Mariano Leva, Stephen Kimani,Alessandro Russo, Massimo Mecella,Sonia Bergamaschi, and Tiziana Catarci

Performance Anchored Score Normalization for Multi-biometricFusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Naser Damer, Alexander Opel, and Alexander Nouak

Towards a Contextualized Visual Analysis of HeterogeneousManufacturing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Mario Aehnelt, Hans-Jörg Schulz, and Bodo Urban

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Visual Statistics Cockpits for Information Gathering in thePolicy-Making Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Dirk Burkhardt, Kawa Nazemi, Christian Stab, Martin Steiger,Arjan Kuijper, and Jörn Kohlhammer

ST: Visual Computing in Digital Cultural Heritage

Feature Weight Optimization and Pruning in Historical TextRecognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Fredrik Wahlberg and Anders Brun

A Constraint Inductive Learning- Spectral Clustering Methodologyfor Personalized 3D Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Nikolaos Doulamis, Christos Yiakoumettis, George Miaoulis, andEftychios Protopapadakis

Beat Synchronous Dance Animation Based on Visual Analysisof Human Motion and Audio Analysis of Music Tempo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Costas Panagiotakis, Andre Holzapfel, Damien Michel, andAntonis A. Argyros

Combining Unsupervised Clustering with a Non-linear DeformationModel for Efficient Petroglyph Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Vincenzo Deufemia and Luca Paolino

Analysing User Needs for a Unified 3D Metadata Recording andExploitation of Cultural Heritage Monuments System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

E. Maravelakis, A. Konstantaras, A. Kritsotaki, D. Angelakis, andM. Xinogalos

Precise 3D Reconstruction of Cultural Objects Using CombinedMulti-component Image Matching and Active ContoursSegmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Christos Stentoumis, Georgios Livanos, Anastasios Doulamis,Eftychios Protopapadakis, Lazaros Grammatikopoulos, andMichael Zervakis

ST: Intelligent Environments: Algorithms andApplications

People Tracking Based on Predictions and Graph-Cuts Segmentation . . . 158Amira Soudani and Ezzeddine Zagrouba

A Framework for Quick and Accurate Access of Interesting VisualEvents in Surveillance Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Fei Yuan, Chu Tang, Shu Tian, and Hongwei Hao

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Detecting and Tracking Unknown Number of Objects with DirichletProcess Mixture Models and Markov Random Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Ibrahim Saygin Topkaya, Hakan Erdogan, and Fatih Porikli

Grassmannian Spectral Regression for Action Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189Sherif Azary and Andreas Savakis

Layered RC Circuit Model for Background Subtraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199Karel Mozdřeň, Eduard Sojka, Radovan Fusek, and Milan Šurkala

Pairwise Kernels for Human Interaction Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210Saeid Motiian, Ke Feng, Harika Bharthavarapu,Sajid Sharlemin, and Gianfranco Doretto

Applications

A Vision-Based Algorithm for Parking Lot Utilization Evaluation UsingConditional Random Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Tomas Fabian

Automatic Pain Intensity Estimation with Heteroscedastic ConditionalOrdinal Random Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Ognjen Rudovic, Vladimir Pavlovic, and Maja Pantic

Robot Trajectory Planning Using OLP and Structured Light 3DMachine Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

M. Rodrigues, M. Kormann, C. Schuhler, and P. Tomek

Improving Accessibility of Virtual Worlds by Automatic ObjectLabeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Ilias Apostolopoulos, Eelke Folmer, and George Bebis

Hierarchical Image Geo-location on a World-Wide Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266Alexandru N. Vasile and Octavia Camps

An Image Based Approach for Content Analysis in DocumentCollections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Reinhold Huber-Mörk and Alexander Schindler

Virtual Reality

Simultaneous Bidirectional Geometric Model Synchronization betweenCAD and VR Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Dimo Chotrov and Stoyan Maleshkov

A Hand-Held 3-D Display System with Haptic Sensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298Kai Ki Lee, Kin-Hong Wong, Michael Ming-Yuen Chang, andYing-Kin Yu

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Primitive Human Action Recognition Based on Partitioned SilhouetteBlock Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Toru Abe, Masaru Fukushi, and Daisuke Ueda

Fast and Accurate Unknown Object Segmentation for RoboticSystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Lazaros Nalpantidis, Bjarne Großmann, and Volker Krüger

Differential Progressive Path Tracing for High-Quality Previsualizationand Relighting in Augmented Reality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Peter Kán and Hannes Kaufmann

Projection on Suitable Sub-surface Selected in Indoor Environment . . . . . 339Shafaq Mussadiq and Rehan Hafiz

Visualization III

A Framework for the Visualization of Finite-Time ContinuumMechanics Effects in Time-Varying Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Alexy Agranovsky, Harald Obermaier, and Kenneth I. Joy

Visual Access to Optimization Problems in Strategic EnvironmentalAssessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Tobias Ruppert, Jürgen Bernard, Alex Ulmer, Arjan Kuijper, andJörn Kohlhammer

Mesh Generation from Layered Depth Images Using IsosurfaceRaycasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Steffen Frey, Filip Sadlo, and Thomas Ertl

FractVis: Visualizing Microseismic Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384Ahmed E. Mostafa, Sheelagh Carpendale, Emilio Vital Brazil,David Eaton, Ehud Sharlin, and Mario Costa Sousa

Visualization of Frequent Itemsets with Nested Circular Layout andBundling Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Gwenael Bothorel, Mathieu Serrurier, and Christophe Hurter

Poster

Automatically Extracting Hairstyles from 2D Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406Chuan-Kai Yang and Chia-Ning Kuo

Evaluation of Image Forgery Detection Using Multi-scale Weber LocalDescriptors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Sahar Q. Saleh, Muhammad Hussain, Ghulam Muhammad, andGeorge Bebis

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Energy-Transfer Features for Pedestrian Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425Radovan Fusek, Eduard Sojka, Karel Mozdřeň, and Milan Šurkala

Basic Shape Classification Using Spatially Normalised Fourier ShapeSignature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Chin Yeow Wong, Stephen Ching-Feng Lin, Guannan Jiang, andNgai Ming Kwok

Normalized Matting of Interest Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446Jaehwan Kim and Ilkwon Jeong

Speeding Up SURF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454Peter Abeles

Distortion Adaptive Image Classification – An Alternative toBarrel-Type Distortion Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Michael Gadermayr, Andreas Uhl, and Andreas Vécsei

Moving Horizon Estimation of Pedestrian Interactions Based onMultiple Velocity Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Ana Portelo, Sandra Pacheco, Mário A.T. Figueiredo,João M. Lemos, and Jorge S. Marques

Evaluating and Comparing of 3D Shape Descriptors for ObjectRecognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Alexander Ceron and Flavio Prieto

Gender Recognition Using Fusion of Local and Global FacialFeatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

Anwar M. Mirza, Muhammad Hussain, Huda Almuzaini,Ghulam Muhammad, Hatim Aboalsamh, and George Bebis

Curvelet Transform and Local Texture Based Image ForgeryDetection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

Muneer H. Al-Hammadi, Ghulam Muhammad,Muhammad Hussain, and George Bebis

Camera Distance from Face Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513Arturo Flores, Eric Christiansen, David Kriegman, andSerge Belongie

Towards Robust Gait Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523Tenika P. Whytock, Alexander Belyaev, and Neil M. Robertson

Direct Encoding for Sampled Color Pictures with LocationConsideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532

Chulhee Lee, Jaehoon Lee, and Guiwon Seo

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Real-Time Hand Gesture Recognition for Uncontrolled EnvironmentsUsing Adaptive SURF Tracking and Hidden Conditional RandomFields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542

Yi Yao and Chang-Tsun Li

Examination of Hybrid Image Feature Trackers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552Peter Abeles

3D Shape Estimation Based on Sparsity in Stereo Matching . . . . . . . . . . . 562Naoto Hirose, Tatsuki Yasunobe, and Akira Kawanaka

Color Image Compression by Riemannian B-Tree Triangular Coding . . . . 572Olfa Triki and Mourad Zéräı

Human Tracking and Counting Using the KINECT Range SensorBased on Adaboost and Kalman Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582

Lei Zhu and Kin-Hong Wong

Hand Pose Estimation from a Single RGB-D Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592Alina Kuznetsova and Bodo Rosenhahn

3D Human Tracking in a Top View Using Depth Information Recordedby the Xtion Pro-Live Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

Cyrille Migniot and Fakhreddine Ababsa

Determination of Object Directions Using Optical Flow for CrowdMonitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613

Aravinda S. Rao, Jayavardhana Gubbi, Slaven Marusic,Andrew Maher, and Marimuthu Palaniswami

Evolutionary Techniques for Procedural Texture Automation . . . . . . . . . . 623Alaa Eldin M. Ibrahim

Voxel-Based Harmonic Map for Voxel-Based ModelDeformation/Manipulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633

Tomoaki Nagaoka

A Novel Approach to Retrieval of Similar Patterns in BiologicalImages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643

Andrzej Sluzek

Variational Model for Image Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653Qiong Lou, Jialin Peng, Fa Wu, and Dexing Kong

Sky Segmentation by Fusing Clustering with Neural Networks . . . . . . . . . 663Ali Pour Yazdanpanah, Emma E. Regentova, Ajay Kumar Mandava,Touqeer Ahmad, and George Bebis

An Interactive Web Based Spatio-Temporal Visualization System . . . . . . 673Anil Ramakrishna, Yu-Han Chang, and Rajiv Maheswaran

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One-to-Two Digital Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681Ali Mahdavi Amiri, Faraz Bhojani, and Faramarz Samavati

Storygraph: Telling Stories from Spatio-temporal Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693Ayush Shrestha, Ying Zhu, Ben Miller, and Yi Zhao

Organizing Visual Data in Structured Layout by MaximizingSimilarity-Proximity Correlation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703

Grant Strong, Rune Jensen, Minglun Gong, and Anne C. Elster

Mixing Geometrically Diverse Window Managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714Anthony Savidis and Andreas Maragudakis

Classifier Comparison for Repeating Motion Based VideoClassification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725

Kahraman Ayyildiz and Stefan Conrad

Implementation of Source Engine for Virtual Tours in ManufacturingFactories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737

Petr Horejsi and Jiri Polcar

Evaluating 3D Vision for Command and Control Applications . . . . . . . . . 747Britton Wolfe, Beomjin Kim, Benjamin Aeschliman, andRobert Sedlmeyer

Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757