Advances in Visual Computing: 13th International Symposium, ISVC 2018, Las Vegas, NV, USA, November 19 – 21, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 11241)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2018, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA in November 2018. The total of 66 papers presented in this volume was carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: ST: computational bioimaging; computer graphics; visual surveillance; pattern recognition; vitrual reality; deep learning; motion and tracking; visualization; object detection and recognition; applications; segmentation; and ST: intelligent transportation systems. Front Matter ....Pages I-XXI Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Automatic Registration of Serial Cerebral Angiography: A Comparative Review (Alice Tang, Zhiyuan Zhang, Fabien Scalzo)....Pages 3-14 Skull Stripping Using Confidence Segmentation Convolution Neural Network (Kaiyuan Chen, Jingyue Shen, Fabien Scalzo)....Pages 15-24 Skin Cancer Segmentation Using a Unified Markov Random Field (Omran Salih, Serestina Viriri)....Pages 25-33 Heart Modeling by Convexity Preserving Segmentation and Convex Shape Decomposition (Xue Shi, Lijun Tang, Shaoxiang Zhang, Chunming Li)....Pages 34-43 Front Matter ....Pages 45-45 PSO-Based Newton-Like Method and Iteration Processes in the Generation of Artistic Patterns (Ireneusz Gościniak, Krzysztof Gdawiec)....Pages 47-56 An Evaluation of Smoothing and Remeshing Techniques to Represent the Evolution of Real-World Phenomena (José Duarte, Paulo Dias, José Moreira)....Pages 57-67 Biomimetic Perception Learning for Human Sensorimotor Control (Masaki Nakada, Honglin Chen, Demetri Terzopoulos)....Pages 68-78 Porous Structure Design in Tissue Engineering Using Anisotropic Radial Basis Functions (Ye Guo, Ke Liu, Zeyun Yu)....Pages 79-90 Front Matter ....Pages 91-91 Accurate and Efficient Non-Parametric Background Detection for Video Surveillance (William Porr, James Easton, Alireza Tavakkoli, Donald Loffredo, Sean Simmons)....Pages 93-105 A Low-Power Neuromorphic System for Real-Time Visual Activity Recognition (Deepak Khosla, Ryan Uhlenbrock, Yang Chen)....Pages 106-115 Video-Based Human Action Recognition Using Kernel Relevance Analysis (Jorge Fernández-Ramírez, Andrés Álvarez-Meza, Álvaro Orozco-Gutiérrez)....Pages 116-125 Robust Incremental Hidden Conditional Random Fields for Human Action Recognition (Michalis Vrigkas, Ermioni Mastora, Christophoros Nikou, Ioannis A. Kakadiaris)....Pages 126-136 Front Matter ....Pages 137-137 Rotation Symmetry Object Classification Using Structure Constrained Convolutional Neural Network (Seunghwa Yu, Seugnkyu Lee)....Pages 139-146 A Hough Space Feature for Vehicle Detection (Chunling Tu, Shengzhi Du)....Pages 147-156 Gender Classification Based on Facial Shape and Texture Features (Mayibongwe H. Bayana, Serestina Viriri, Raphael Angulu)....Pages 157-166 Authentication-Based on Biomechanics of Finger Movements Captured Using Optical Motion-Capture (Brittany Lewis, Christopher J. Nycz, Gregory S. Fischer, Krishna K. Venkatasubramanian)....Pages 167-179 Specific Document Sign Location Detection Based on Point Matching and Clustering (Huaixin Xiong)....Pages 180-190 Front Matter ....Pages 191-191 Training in Virtual Environments for Hybrid Power Plant (Max G. Chiluisa, Rubén D. Mullo, Víctor H. Andaluz)....Pages 193-204 Visualizing Viewpoint Movement on Driving by Space Information Rendering (Satoru Morita)....Pages 205-214 Virtual Reality System for Children Lower Limb Strengthening with the Use of Electromyographic Sensors (Eddie E. Galarza, Marco Pilatasig, Eddie D. Galarza, Victoria M. López, Pablo A. Zambrano, Jorge Buele et al.)....Pages 215-225 A Comparative Study of Virtual UI for Risk Assessment and Evaluation (Naila Bushra, Daniel Carruth, Shuchisnigdha Deb)....Pages 226-236 Sensory Fusion and Intent Recognition for Accurate Gesture Recognition in Virtual Environments (Sean Simmons, Kevin Clark, Alireza Tavakkoli, Donald Loffredo)....Pages 237-248 Front Matter ....Pages 249-249 Accuracy of a Driver-Assistance System in a Collision Scenario (Waqar Khan, Reinhard Klette)....Pages 251-263 Classify Broiler Viscera Using an Iterative Approach on Noisy Labeled Training Data (Anders Jørgensen, Jens Fagertun, Thomas B. Moeslund)....Pages 264-273 Instance-level Object Recognition Using Deep Temporal Coherence (Miguel Lagunes-Fortiz, Dima Damen, Walterio Mayol-Cuevas)....Pages 274-285 DUPL-VR: Deep Unsupervised Progressive Learning for Vehicle Re-Identification (Raja Muhammad Saad Bashir, Muhammad Shahzad, Muhammad Moazam Fraz)....Pages 286-295 Front Matter ....Pages 297-297 Particle Filter Based Tracking and Mapping (Nils Höhner, Anna Katharina Hebborn, Stefan Müller)....Pages 299-308 Multi-branch Siamese Networks with Online Selection for Object Tracking (Zhenxi Li, Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau, Wassim Bouachir)....Pages 309-319 Deep Convolutional Correlation Filters for Forward-Backward Visual Tracking (Yong Wang, Robert Laganière, Daniel Laroche, Ali Osman Ors, Xiaoyin Xu, Changyun Zhu)....Pages 320-331 The Bird Gets Caught by the WORM: Tracking Multiple Deformable Objects in Noisy Environments Using Weight ORdered Logic Maps (Debajyoti Karmaker, Ingo Schiffner, Michael Wilson, Mandyam V. Srinivasan)....Pages 332-343 A Mumford Shah Style Unified Framework for Layering: Pitfalls and Solutions (Fareed ud din Mehmood Jafri, Martin Fritz Mueller, Anthony Joseph Yezzi)....Pages 344-356 Front Matter ....Pages 357-357 Visualization of Parameter Sensitivity of 2D Time-Dependent Flow (Karsten Hanser, Ole Klein, Bastian Rieck, Bettina Wiebe, Tobias Selz, Marian Piatkowski et al.)....Pages 359-370 Non-stationary Generalized Wishart Processes for Enhancing Resolution over Diffusion Tensor Fields (Jhon F. Cuellar-Fierro, Hernán Darío Vargas-Cardona, Andrés M. Álvarez, Álvaro A. Orozco, Mauricio A. Álvarez)....Pages 371-381 Reduced-Reference Image Quality Assessment Based on Improved Local Binary Pattern (Xi-kui Miao, Dah-Jye Lee, Xiang-zheng Cheng, Xiao-yu Yang)....Pages 382-394 Web System for Visualization of Weather Data of the Hydrometeorological Network of Tungurahua, Ecuador (Jaime Santana, Fernando A. Chicaiza, Víctor H. Andaluz, Patrick Reuter)....Pages 395-406 Analysis and Visualization of Sports Performance Anxiety in Tennis Matches (Shiraj Pokharel, Ying Zhu)....Pages 407-419 Front Matter ....Pages 421-421 Detailed Sentence Generation Architecture for Image Semantics Description (Imran Khurram, Muhammad Moazam Fraz, Muhammad Shahzad)....Pages 423-432 Pupil Localization Using Geodesic Distance (Radovan Fusek)....Pages 433-444 Parallel Curves Detection Using Multi-agent System (Shengzhi Du, Chunling Tu)....Pages 445-454 Can Deep Learning Learn the Principle of Closed Contour Detection? (Xinhua Zhang, Yijing Watkins, Garrett T. Kenyon)....Pages 455-460 Front Matter ....Pages 461-461 DensSiam: End-to-End Densely-Siamese Network with Self-Attention Model for Object Tracking (Mohamed H. Abdelpakey, Mohamed S. Shehata, Mostafa M. Mohamed)....Pages 463-473 Convolutional Adaptive Particle Filter with Multiple Models for Visual Tracking (Reza Jalil Mozhdehi, Yevgeniy Reznichenko, Abubakar Siddique, Henry Medeiros)....Pages 474-486 Scale-Aware RPN for Vehicle Detection (Lu Ding, Yong Wang, Robert Laganière, Xinbin Luo, Shan Fu)....Pages 487-499 Object Detection to Assist Visually Impaired People: A Deep Neural Network Adventure (Fereshteh S. Bashiri, Eric LaRose, Jonathan C. Badger, Roshan M. D’Souza, Zeyun Yu, Peggy Peissig)....Pages 500-510 Large Scale Application Response Time Measurement Using Image Recognition and Deep Learning (Lan Vu, Uday Kurkure, Hari Sivaraman, Aravind Bappanadu)....Pages 511-526 Front Matter ....Pages 527-527 Vision-Depth Landmarks and Inertial Fusion for Navigation in Degraded Visual Environments (Shehryar Khattak, Christos Papachristos, Kostas Alexis)....Pages 529-540 Efficient Nearest Neighbors Search for Large-Scale Landmark Recognition (Federico Magliani, Tomaso Fontanini, Andrea Prati)....Pages 541-551 Patient’s Body Motion Study Using Multimodal RGBDT Videos (Mohammad A. Haque, Simon S. Kjeldsen, Federico G. Arguissain, Iris Brunner, Kamal Nasrollahi, Ole Kæseler Andersen et al.)....Pages 552-564 Marker Based Thermal-Inertial Localization for Aerial Robots in Obscurant Filled Environments (Shehryar Khattak, Christos Papachristos, Kostas Alexis)....Pages 565-575 Shape-Based Smoothing of Binary Digital Objects Using Signed Distance Transform (Xiaoliu Zhang, Cheng Chen, Gregory Chang, Punam K. Saha)....Pages 576-584 Front Matter ....Pages 585-585 Patch-Based Potentials for Interactive Contour Extraction (Thoraya Ben Chattah, Sébastien Bougleux, Olivier Lézoray, Atef Hamouda)....Pages 587-597 A New Algorithm for Local Blur-Scale Computation and Edge Detection (Indranil Guha, Punam K. Saha)....Pages 598-606 Semantic Segmentation by Integrating Classifiers for Different Difficulty Levels (Daisuke Matsuzuki, Kazuhiro Hotta)....Pages 607-615 Front Matter ....Pages 617-617 Fast Image Dehazing Methods for Real-Time Video Processing (Yang Chen, Deepak Khosla)....Pages 619-628 GPU Accelerated Non-Parametric Background Subtraction (William Porr, James Easton, Alireza Tavakkoli, Donald Loffredo, Sean Simmons)....Pages 629-639 Budget-Constrained Online Video Summarisation of Egocentric Video Using Control Charts (Paria Yousefi, Clare E. Matthews, Ludmila I. Kuncheva)....Pages 640-649 p-Laplacian Regularization of Signals on Directed Graphs (Zeina Abu Aisheh, Sébastien Bougleux, Olivier Lézoray)....Pages 650-661 A Dense-Depth Representation for VLAD Descriptors in Content-Based Image Retrieval (Federico Magliani, Tomaso Fontanini, Andrea Prati)....Pages 662-671 Front Matter ....Pages 673-673 Augmented Reality System for Training and Assistance in the Management of Industrial Equipment and Instruments (Edison A. Chicaiza, Edgar I. De la Cruz, Víctor H. Andaluz)....Pages 675-686 Alternative Treatment of Psychological Disorders Such as Spider Phobia Through Virtual Reality Environments (Joseph Armas, Víctor H. Andaluz)....Pages 687-697 The Skyline as a Marker for Augmented Reality in Urban Context (Mehdi Ayadi, Leo Valque, Mihaela Scuturici, Serge Miguet, Chokri Ben Amar)....Pages 698-711 Oil Processes VR Training (Víctor H. Andaluz, José L. Amaquiña, Washington X. Quevedo, Jorge Mora-Aguilar, Daniel Castillo-Carrión, Roberto J. Miranda et al.)....Pages 712-724 Front Matter ....Pages 725-725 Multiple Object Tracking in Urban Traffic Scenes with a Multiclass Object Detector (Hui-Lee Ooi, Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau, Nicolas Saunier, David-Alexandre Beaupré)....Pages 727-736 Autonomous Bus Boarding Robotic Wheelchair Using Bidirectional Sensing Systems (Shamim Al Mamun, Hisato Fukuda, Antony Lam, Yoshinori Kobayashi, Yoshinori Kuno)....Pages 737-747 Road User Abnormal Trajectory Detection Using a Deep Autoencoder (Pankaj Raj Roy, Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau)....Pages 748-757 Traffic Flow Classification Using Traffic Cameras (Mohammad Shokrolah Shirazi, Brendan Morris)....Pages 758-767 Back Matter ....Pages 769-771 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. It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2018), which was held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. ISVC provides a common umbrella for the four main areas of visual computing including vision, graphics, visualization, and virtual reality. The goal is to provide a forum for researchers, scientists, engineers, and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research findings, ideas, developments, and applications in the broader area of visual computing