Advances in Visual Computing: 12th International Symposium, ISVC 2016, Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 12-14, 2016, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 10072)

The two volume set LNCS 10072 and LNCS 10073 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2016, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA in December 2016. The 102 revised full papers and 34 poster papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 220 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections : Part I (LNCS 10072) comprises computational bioimaging; computer graphics; motion and tracking; segmentation; pattern recognition; visualization; 3D mapping; modeling and surface reconstruction; advancing autonomy for aerial robotics; medical imaging; virtual reality; computer vision as a service; visual perception and robotic systems; and biometrics. Part II (LNCS 9475) : applications; visual surveillance; computer graphics; and virtual reality Front Matter....Pages I-XXXVI Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Similarity Metric Learning for 2D to 3D Registration of Brain Vasculature....Pages 3-12 Automatic Optic Disk Segmentation in Presence of Disk Blurring....Pages 13-23 An Object Splitting Model Using Higher-Order Active Contours for Single-Cell Segmentation....Pages 24-34 Tensor Voting Extraction of Vessel Centerlines from Cerebral Angiograms....Pages 35-44 Stacked Autoencoders for Medical Image Search....Pages 45-54 CutPointVis: An Interactive Exploration Tool for Cancer Biomarker Cutpoint Optimization....Pages 55-64 Front Matter....Pages 65-65 Adding Turbulence Based on Low-Resolution Cascade Ratios....Pages 67-76 Creating Feasible Reflectance Data for Synthetic Optical Flow Datasets....Pages 77-90 Automatic Web Page Coloring....Pages 91-100 Automatic Content-Aware Non-photorealistic Rendering of Images....Pages 101-112 Improved Aircraft Recognition for Aerial Refueling Through Data Augmentation in Convolutional Neural Networks....Pages 113-122 Front Matter....Pages 123-123 Detecting Tracking Failures from Correlation Response Maps....Pages 125-135 Real-Time Multi-object Tracking with Occlusion and Stationary Objects Handling for Conveying Systems....Pages 136-145 Fast, Deep Detection and Tracking of Birds and Nests....Pages 146-155 Camera Motion Estimation with Known Vertical Direction in Unstructured Environments....Pages 156-166 A Multiple Object Tracking Evaluation Analysis Framework....Pages 167-177 Front Matter....Pages 179-179 Stereo-Image Normalization of Voluminous Objects Improves Textile Defect Recognition....Pages 181-192 Reliability-Based Local Features Aggregation for Image Segmentation....Pages 193-202 Chan-Vese Revisited: Relation to Otsu’s Method and a Parameter-Free Non-PDE Solution via Morphological Framework....Pages 203-212 Image Enhancement by Volume Limitation in Binary Tomography....Pages 213-222 Front Matter....Pages 179-179 Resolution-Independent Superpixels Based on Convex Constrained Meshes Without Small Angles....Pages 223-233 Optimizing Intersection-Over-Union in Deep Neural Networks for Image Segmentation....Pages 234-244 Front Matter....Pages 245-245 A Mobile Recognition System for Analog Energy Meter Scanning....Pages 247-256 Towards Landmine Detection Using Ubiquitous Satellite Imaging....Pages 257-267 Robustness of Rotation Invariant Descriptors for Texture Classification....Pages 268-277 Feature Evaluation for Handwritten Character Recognition with Regressive and Generative Hidden Markov Models....Pages 278-287 DeTEC: Detection of Touching Elongated Cells in SEM Images ....Pages 288-297 Object Detection Based on Image Blur Using Spatial-Domain Filtering with Haar-Like Features....Pages 298-308 Rare Class Oriented Scene Labeling Using CNN Incorporated Label Transfer....Pages 309-320 Pollen Grain Recognition Using Deep Learning....Pages 321-330 Classifying Pollen Using Robust Sequence Alignment of Sparse Z-Stack Volumes....Pages 331-340 Complementary Keypoint Descriptors....Pages 341-352 Two Phase Classification for Early Hand Gesture Recognition in 3D Top View Data....Pages 353-363 Front Matter....Pages 365-365 Adaptive Isosurface Reconstruction Using a Volumetric-Divergence-Based Metric....Pages 367-378 Large Image Collection Visualization Using Perception-Based Similarity with Color Features....Pages 379-390 Chasing Rainbows: A Color-Theoretic Framework for Improving and Preserving Bad Colormaps....Pages 391-402 Interpolation-Based Extraction of Representative Isosurfaces....Pages 403-413 Image-Based Post-processing for Realistic Real-Time Rendering of Scenes in the Presence of Fluid Simulations and Image-Based Lighting....Pages 414-425 A Bioplausible Model for Explaining Café Wall Illusion: Foveal vs. Peripheral Resolution....Pages 426-438 Automated Reconstruction of Neurovascular Networks in Knife-Edge Scanning Microscope Rat Brain Nissl Data Set....Pages 439-448 Front Matter....Pages 365-365 Spatiotemporal LOD-Blending for Artifact Reduction in Multi-resolution Volume Rendering....Pages 449-461 Visual Analytics Using Graph Sampling and Summarization on Multitouch Displays....Pages 462-471 Evaluation of Collaborative Actions to Inform Design of a Remote Interactive Collaboration Framework for Immersive Data Visualizations....Pages 472-481 Front Matter....Pages 483-483 An Efficient Algorithm for Feature-Based 3D Point Cloud Correspondence Search....Pages 485-496 Extraction of Vascular Intensity Directional Derivative on Computed Tomography Angiography....Pages 497-506 Capturing Photorealistic and Printable 3D Models Using Low-Cost Hardware....Pages 507-518 Improved Stereo Vision of Indoor Dense Suspended Scatterers Scenes from De-scattering Images....Pages 519-528 Fully Automatic and Robust 3D Modeling for Range Scan Data of Complex 3D Objects....Pages 529-541 Front Matter....Pages 543-543 Real-Time Detection and Tracking of Multiple Humans from High Bird’s-Eye Views in the Visual and Infrared Spectrum....Pages 545-556 Combining Visual Tracking and Person Detection for Long Term Tracking on a UAV....Pages 557-568 Monocular Visual-Inertial SLAM for Fixed-Wing UAVs Using Sliding Window Based Nonlinear Optimization....Pages 569-581 Change Detection and Object Recognition Using Aerial Robots....Pages 582-592 Parallelized Iterative Closest Point for Autonomous Aerial Refueling....Pages 593-602 Distributed Optimal Flocking Design for Multi-agent Two-Player Zero-Sum Games with Unknown System Dynamics and Disturbance....Pages 603-614 Front Matter....Pages 615-615 MinMax Radon Barcodes for Medical Image Retrieval....Pages 617-627 Semantic-Based Brain MRI Image Segmentation Using Convolutional Neural Network....Pages 628-638 SAHF: Unsupervised Texture-Based Multiscale with Multicolor Method for Retinal Vessel Delineation....Pages 639-648 Unsupervised Caries Detection in Non-standardized Bitewing Dental X-Rays....Pages 649-658 Vessel Detection on Cerebral Angiograms Using Convolutional Neural Networks....Pages 659-668 False Positive Reduction in Breast Mass Detection Using the Fusion of Texture and Gradient Orientation Features....Pages 669-678 Front Matter....Pages 679-679 Enhancing the Communication Spectrum in Collaborative Virtual Environments....Pages 681-690 Narrative Approach to Assess Fear of Heights in Virtual Environments....Pages 691-700 Immersive Industrial Process Environment from a P&ID Diagram....Pages 701-712 Automatic Environment Map Construction for Mixed Reality Robotic Applications....Pages 713-722 Foveated Path Tracing....Pages 723-732 Front Matter....Pages 733-733 OCR as a Service: An Experimental Evaluation of Google Docs OCR, Tesseract, ABBYY FineReader, and Transym....Pages 735-746 Animal Identification in Low Quality Camera-Trap Images Using Very Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Confidence Thresholds....Pages 747-756 A Gaussian Mixture Model Feature for Wildlife Detection....Pages 757-765 Front Matter....Pages 767-767 Age Classification from Facial Images: Is Frontalization Necessary?....Pages 769-778 PH-BRINT: Pooled Homomorphic Binary Rotation Invariant and Noise Tolerant Representation for Face Recognition Under Illumination Variations....Pages 779-789 Multi-Kernel Fuzzy-Based Local Gabor Patterns for Gait Recognition....Pages 790-799 A Comparative Analysis of Deep and Shallow Features for Multimodal Face Recognition in a Novel RGB-D-IR Dataset....Pages 800-811 Front Matter....Pages 813-813 Automated Rebar Detection for Ground-Penetrating Radar....Pages 815-824 Improving Visual Feature Representations by Biasing Restricted Boltzmann Machines with Gaussian Filters....Pages 825-835 Image Fusion Quality Measure Based on a Multi-scale Approach....Pages 836-845 Vision-Based Self-contained Target Following Robot Using Bayesian Data Fusion....Pages 846-857 Dual Back-to-Back Kinects for 3-D Reconstruction....Pages 858-867 Back Matter....Pages 869-873 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.