Advances in Visual Computing: 11th International Symposium, ISVC 2015, Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 14-16, 2015, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 9474)

The two volume set LNCS 9474 and LNCS 9475 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2015, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA in December 2015. The 115 revised full papers and 35 poster papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 260 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: Part I (LNCS 9474) comprises computational bioimaging; computer graphics; motion and tracking; segmentation; recognition; visualization; mapping; modeling and surface reconstruction; advancing autonomy for aerial robotics; medical imaging; virtual reality; observing humans; spectral imaging and processing; intelligent transportation systems; visual perception and robotic systems. Part II (LNCS 9475): applications; 3D computer vision; computer graphics; segmentation; biometrics; pattern recognition; recognition; and virtual reality. Front Matter....Pages I-XXXVII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Graph-Based Visualization of Neuronal Connectivity Using Matrix Block Partitioning and Edge Bundling....Pages 3-13 Fuzzy Skeletonization Improves the Performance of Characterizing Trabecular Bone Micro-architecture....Pages 14-24 Thermal Infrared Image Processing to Assess Heat Generated by Magnetic Nanoparticles for Hyperthermia Applications....Pages 25-34 Visualization Techniques for the Developing Chicken Heart....Pages 35-44 InVesalius: An Interactive Rendering Framework for Health Care Support....Pages 45-54 Front Matter....Pages 55-55 As-Rigid-As-Possible Character Deformation Using Point Handles....Pages 57-70 Image Annotation Incorporating Low-Rankness, Tag and Visual Correlation and Inhomogeneous Errors....Pages 71-81 Extracting Surface Geometry from Particle-Based Fracture Simulations....Pages 82-91 Time-Varying Surface Reconstruction of an Actor’s Performance....Pages 92-101 Interactive Procedural Building Generation Using Kaleidoscopic Iterated Function Systems....Pages 102-111 Front Matter....Pages 113-113 Motion Priors Estimation for Robust Matching Initialization in Automotive Applications....Pages 115-126 Multi-target Tracking Using Sample-Based Data Association for Mixed Images....Pages 127-137 A Hierarchical Frame-by-Frame Association Method Based on Graph Matching for Multi-object Tracking....Pages 138-150 Experimental Evaluation of Rigid Registration Using Phase Correlation Under Illumination Changes....Pages 151-161 Multi-modal Computer Vision for the Detection of Multi-scale Crowd Physical Motions and Behavior in Confined Spaces....Pages 162-173 HMM Based Evaluation of Physical Therapy Movements Using Kinect Tracking....Pages 174-183 Front Matter....Pages 185-185 Segmentation of Partially Overlapping Nanoparticles Using Concave Points....Pages 187-197 Temporally Object-Based Video Co-segmentation....Pages 198-209 An Efficient Non-parametric Background Modeling Technique with CUDA Heterogeneous Parallel Architecture....Pages 210-220 Finding the N-cuts of Watershed Partitions for Image Segmentation....Pages 221-230 Front Matter....Pages 185-185 A Novel Word Segmentation Method Based on Object Detection and Deep Learning....Pages 231-240 Front Matter....Pages 241-241 Estimating the Dominant Orientation of an Object Using Image Segmentation and Principal Component Analysis....Pages 243-252 Label Propagation for Large Scale 3D Indoor Scenes....Pages 253-264 Symmetry Similarity of Human Perception to Computer Vision Operators....Pages 265-274 UT-MARO: Unscented Transformation and Matrix Rank Optimization for Moving Objects Detection in Aerial Imagery....Pages 275-284 Architectural Style Classification of Building Facade Towers....Pages 285-294 Front Matter....Pages 295-295 Visualizing Document Image Collections Using Image-Based Word Clouds....Pages 297-306 Guided Structure-Aligned Segmentation of Volumetric Data....Pages 307-317 Examining Classic Color Harmony Versus Translucency Color Guidelines for Layered Surface Visualization....Pages 318-327 Guidance on the Selection of Central Difference Method Accuracy in Volume Rendering....Pages 328-338 Deep Learning of Neuromuscular Control for Biomechanical Human Animation....Pages 339-348 NEURONAV: A Tool for Image-Guided Surgery - Application to Parkinson’s Disease....Pages 349-358 Front Matter....Pages 359-359 Generation of 3D/4D Photorealistic Building Models. The Testbed Area for 4D Cultural Heritage World Project: The Historical Center of Calw (Germany)....Pages 361-372 Visual Autonomy via 2D Matching in Rendered 3D Models....Pages 373-385 Reconstruction of Face Texture Based on the Fusion of Texture Patches....Pages 386-395 Human Body Volume Recovery from Single Depth Image....Pages 396-405 Dense Correspondence and Optical Flow Estimation Using Gabor, Schmid and Steerable Descriptors....Pages 406-415 Front Matter....Pages 417-417 Efficient Algorithms for Indoor MAV Flight Using Vision and Sonar Sensors....Pages 419-431 Victim Detection from a Fixed-Wing UAV: Experimental Results....Pages 432-443 Autonomous Robotic Aerial Tracking, Avoidance, and Seeking of a Mobile Human Subject....Pages 444-454 Front Matter....Pages 417-417 Inspection Operations Using an Aerial Robot Powered-over-Tether by a Ground Vehicle....Pages 455-465 Autonomous Guidance for a UAS Along a Staircase....Pages 466-475 Nonlinear Controller of Quadcopters for Agricultural Monitoring....Pages 476-487 Front Matter....Pages 489-489 Groupwise Shape Correspondences on 3D Brain Structures Using Probabilistic Latent Variable Models....Pages 491-500 Automatic Segmentation of Extraocular Muscles Using Superpixel and Normalized Cuts....Pages 501-510 More Usable V-EGI for Volumetric Dataset Registration....Pages 511-520 A Robust Energy Minimization Algorithm for MS-Lesion Segmentation....Pages 521-530 Impact of the Number of Atlases in a Level Set Formulation of Multi-atlas Segmentation....Pages 531-537 Probabilistic Labeling of Cerebral Vasculature on MR Angiography....Pages 538-548 Front Matter....Pages 549-549 Lateral Touch Detection and Localization for Interactive, Augmented Planar Surfaces....Pages 551-560 A Hybrid Real-Time Visual Tracking Using Compressive RGB-D Features....Pages 561-573 High-Quality Consistent Illumination in Mobile Augmented Reality by Radiance Convolution on the GPU....Pages 574-585 Efficient Hand Articulations Tracking Using Adaptive Hand Model and Depth Map....Pages 586-598 Eye Gaze Correction with a Single Webcam Based on Eye-Replacement....Pages 599-609 Front Matter....Pages 611-611 Gradient Local Auto-Correlations and Extreme Learning Machine for Depth-Based Activity Recognition....Pages 613-623 An RGB-D Camera Based Walking Pattern Detection Method for Smart Rollators....Pages 624-633 Evaluation of Vision-Based Human Activity Recognition in Dense Trajectory Framework....Pages 634-646 Analyzing Activities in Videos Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Granger Causality....Pages 647-656 Statistical Adaptive Metric Learning for Action Feature Set Recognition in the Wild....Pages 657-667 Front Matter....Pages 669-669 Learning Discriminative Spectral Bands for Material Classification....Pages 671-681 Front Matter....Pages 669-669 A Deep Belief Network for Classifying Remotely-Sensed Hyperspectral Data....Pages 682-692 Variational Inference for Background Subtraction in Infrared Imagery....Pages 693-705 Image Based Approaches for Tunnels’ Defects Recognition via Robotic Inspectors....Pages 706-716 Deep Learning-Based Man-Made Object Detection from Hyperspectral Data....Pages 717-727 Hyperspectral Scene Analysis via Structure from Motion....Pages 728-738 Front Matter....Pages 739-739 Detecting Road Users at Intersections Through Changing Weather Using RGB-Thermal Video....Pages 741-751 Safety Quantification of Intersections Using Computer Vision Techniques....Pages 752-761 Vehicles Detection in Stereo Vision Based on Disparity Map Segmentation and Objects Classification....Pages 762-773 Traffic Light Detection at Night: Comparison of a Learning-Based Detector and Three Model-Based Detectors....Pages 774-783 Modelling and Experimental Study for Automated Congestion Driving....Pages 784-794 Front Matter....Pages 795-795 Aperio: A System for Visualizing 3D Anatomy Data Using Virtual Mechanical Tools....Pages 797-808 Quasi-Conformal Hybrid Multi-modality Image Registration and its Application to Medical Image Fusion....Pages 809-818 CINAPACT-Splines: A Family of Infinitely Smooth, Accurate and Compactly Supported Splines....Pages 819-829 Vis3D+: An Integrated System for GPU-Accelerated Volume Image Processing and Rendering....Pages 830-841 Ontology-Based Visual Query Formulation: An Industry Experience....Pages 842-854 Front Matter....Pages 855-855 Dynamic Target Tracking and Obstacle Avoidance using a Drone....Pages 857-866 An Interactive Node-Link Visualization of Convolutional Neural Networks....Pages 867-877 DPN-LRF: A Local Reference Frame for Robustly Handling Density Differences and Partial Occlusions....Pages 878-887 3D Perception for Autonomous Robot Exploration....Pages 888-900 Group Based Asymmetry–A Fast Saliency Algorithm....Pages 901-910 Front Matter....Pages 855-855 Prototype of Super-Resolution Camera Array System....Pages 911-920 Back Matter....Pages 921-926 The two volume set LNCS 8887 and 8888 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2014, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA. The 74 revised full papers and 55 poster papers presented together with 39 special track papers were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 280 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: Part I (LNCS 8887) comprises computational bioimaging, computer graphics; motion, tracking, feature extraction and matching, segmentation, visualization, mapping, modeling and surface reconstruction, unmanned autonomous systems, medical imaging, tracking for human activity monitoring, intelligent transportation systems, visual perception and robotic systems. Part II (LNCS 8888) comprises topics such as computational bioimaging , recognition, computer vision, applications, face processing and recognition, virtual reality, and the poster sessions.