Advances In Visual Computing: 4th International Symposium, Isvc 2008, Las Vegas, Nv, Usa, December 1-3, 2008, Proceedings, Part Ii (lecture Notes In Computer Science)

The two volume set LNCS 5358 and LNCS 5359 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2008, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA, in December 2008. The 102 revised full papers and 70 poster papers presented together with 56 full and 8 poster papers of 8 special tracks were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 340 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computer graphics, visualization, shape/recognition, video analysis and event recognition, virtual reality, reconstruction, motion, face/gesture, and computer vision applications. The 8 additional special tracks address issues such as object recognition, real-time vision algorithm implementation and application, computational bioimaging and visualization, discrete and computational geometry, soft computing in image processing and computer vision, visualization and simulation on immersive display devices, analysis and visualization of biomedical visual data, as well as image analysis for remote sensing data. Front Matter....Pages - SUNVIZ: A Real-Time Visualization Environment for Space Physics Applications....Pages 1-11 An Efficient Quality-Based Camera Path Planning Method for Volume Exploration....Pages 12-21 A Fast and Simple Heuristic for Metro Map Path Simplification....Pages 22-30 Visual Verification of Hypotheses....Pages 31-42 LDR-LLE: LLE with Low-Dimensional Neighborhood Representation....Pages 43-54 SudokuVis How to Explore Relationships of Mutual Exclusion....Pages 55-64 Identification of Oceanic Eddies in Satellite Images....Pages 65-74 Multi-image Fusion in Remote Sensing: Spatial Enhancement vs. Spectral Characteristics Preservation....Pages 75-84 Classification of Multispectral High-Resolution Satellite Imagery Using LIDAR Elevation Data....Pages 85-94 Semi-supervised Edge Learning for Building Detection in Aerial Images....Pages 95-104 High Resolution Satellite Classification with Graph Cut Algorithms....Pages 105-112 Satellite Image Segmentation Using Wavelet Transforms Based on Color and Texture Features....Pages 113-122 A System for Rapid Interactive Training of Object Detectors....Pages 123-132 An Integrated Method for Multiple Object Detection and Localization....Pages 133-144 A Context Dependent Distance Measure for Shape Clustering....Pages 145-156 A New Accumulator-Based Approach to Shape Recognition....Pages 157-169 Multi-dimensional Scale Saliency Feature Extraction Based on Entropic Graphs....Pages 170-180 Merging Active Contours....Pages 181-191 Contour Extraction Using Particle Filters....Pages 192-201 Combining Line and Point Correspondences for Homography Estimation....Pages 202-213 Integration of Local Image Cues for Probabilistic 2D Pose Recovery....Pages 214-223 Indirect Tracking to Reduce Occlusion Problems....Pages 224-235 Real-Time Lip Contour Extraction and Tracking Using an Improved Active Contour Model....Pages 236-245 Particle Filter Based Object Tracking with Discriminative Feature Extraction and Fusion....Pages 246-256 A New Global Alignment Method for Feature Based Image Mosaicing....Pages 257-266 An Effective Active Vision System for Gaze Control....Pages 267-277 Face Recognition Based on Normalization and the Phase Spectrum of the Local Part of an Image....Pages 278-286 A Novel Shape Registration Framework and Its Application to 3D Face Recognition in the Presence of Expressions....Pages 287-296 Frontal Face Recognition from Video....Pages 297-306 Real Time Hand Based Robot Control Using 2D/3D Images....Pages 307-316 Facial Trait Code and Its Application to Face Recognition....Pages 317-328 Using Multiple Masks to Improve End-to-End Face Recognition Performance....Pages 329-335 Sparse Representation for Ear Biometrics....Pages 336-345 Image-Based Information Guide on Mobile Devices....Pages 346-355 Estimating Atmospheric Visibility Using General-Purpose Cameras....Pages 356-367 Numismatic Object Identification Using Fusion of Shape and Local Descriptors....Pages 368-379 Personalized News Video Recommendation Via Interactive Exploration....Pages 380-389 Browsing a Large Collection of Community Photos Based on Similarity on GPU....Pages 390-399 Security Analysis for Spread-Spectrum Watermarking Incorporating Statistics of Natural Images....Pages 400-409 Multi-view Feature Matching and Image Grouping from Multiple Unordered Wide-Baseline Images....Pages 410-419 Stitching Video from Webcams....Pages 420-429 GpuCV: A GPU-Accelerated Framework for Image Processing and Computer Vision....Pages 430-439 A Comparison Study on Two Multi-scale Shape Matching Schemes....Pages 440-449 PAD Model Based Facial Expression Analysis....Pages 450-459 Calibration and Pose Estimation of a Pox-slits Camera from a Single Image....Pages 460-469 Covariance Matrices for Crowd Behaviour Monitoring on the Escalator Exits....Pages 470-481 User Verification by Combining Speech and Face Biometrics in Video....Pages 482-492 A Gibbsian Kohonen Network for Online Arabic Character Recognition....Pages 493-500 Shading through Defocus....Pages 501-510 A Gabor Quotient Image for Face Recognition under Varying Illumination....Pages 511-520 Personal Identification Using Palmprint and Contourlet Transform....Pages 521-530 Generating Reflection Transparent Image Using Image Fusion Space....Pages 531-540 Fingerprint Images Enhancement in Curvelet Domain....Pages 541-550 Effective Frame Rate Decision by Lagrange Optimization for Frame Skipping Video Transcoding....Pages 551-560 Symmetry of Shapes Via Self-similarity....Pages 561-570 Robust Estimation Approach for NL-Means Filter....Pages 571-580 View-Invariant Pose Recognition Using Multilinear Analysis and the Universum....Pages 581-591 Scaling Up a Metric Learning Algorithm for Image Recognition and Representation....Pages 592-601 Smile Detection for User Interfaces....Pages 602-611 A Novel Segmentation Algorithm for Digital Subtraction Angiography Images: First Experimental Results....Pages 612-623 Image Representation in Differential Space....Pages 624-633 A Four Point Algorithm for Fast Metric Cone Reconstruction from a Calibrated Image....Pages 634-643 Texture-Based Shadow Removal from a Single Color Image....Pages 644-650 Multi-source Airborne IR and Optical Image Fusion and Its Application to Target Detection....Pages 651-660 A New Adaptive Combination Approach to Score Level Fusion for Face and Iris Biometrics Combining Wavelets and Statistical Moments....Pages 661-671 Medical Image Zooming Algorithm Based on Bivariate Rational Interpolation....Pages 672-681 2D Shape Decomposition Based on Combined Skeleton-Boundary Features....Pages 682-691 Removing Pose from Face Images....Pages 692-702 A Real Time Fingers Detection by Symmetry Transform Using a Two Cameras System....Pages 703-712 High Resolution and High Dynamic Range Image Reconstruction from Differently Exposed Images....Pages 713-722 PDE-Based Facial Animation: Making the Complex Simple....Pages 723-732 A Variational Level Set Method for Multiple Object Detection....Pages 733-742 Detecting Thalamic Abnormalities in Autism Using Cylinder Conformal Mapping....Pages 743-751 Extraction of Illumination Effects from Natural Images with Color Transition Model....Pages 752-761 A Novel Macroblock-Level Rate-Distortion Optimization Scheme for H.264/AVC....Pages 762-771 Automatic Segmentation of the Apparent Contour for 3D Modeling of Cutting Tools from Single View....Pages 772-781 On Semantic Object Detection with Salient Feature....Pages 782-791 A Generic and Parallel Algorithm for 2D Image Discrete Contour Reconstruction....Pages 792-801 Spatial Filtering with Multi-scale Segmentation Based on Gaussian Function....Pages 802-812 Visibility-Based Test Scene Understanding by Real Plane Search....Pages 813-822 Real-Time Face Verification for Mobile Platforms....Pages 823-832 3D Human Motion Tracking Using Progressive Particle Filter....Pages 833-842 Visual Servoing for Patient Alignment in ProtonTherapy....Pages 843-850 Improving Recognition through Object Sub-categorization....Pages 851-859 Similarity Measure of the Visual Features Using the Constrained Hierarchical Clustering for Content Based Image Retrieval....Pages 860-868 An Experimental Study of Reconstruction of Tool Cutting Edge Features Using Space Carving Method....Pages 869-878 Real Time Object Tracking in a Video Sequence Using a Fixed Point DSP....Pages 879-888 Gesture Recognition for a Webcam-Controlled First Person Shooter....Pages 889-896 3D Line Reconstruction of a Road Environment Using an In-Vehicle Camera....Pages 897-904 Braille Document Parameters Estimation for Optical Character Recognition....Pages 905-914 Bio-imaging Toolkit for Indexing, Searching, Navigation, Discovery and Annotation....Pages 915-923 Stereoscopic View Synthesis by View Morphing....Pages 924-933 Edge Detection from Global and Local Views Using an Ensemble of Multiple Edge Detectors....Pages 934-941 An Effective and Fast Lane Detection Algorithm....Pages 942-948 Towards Real-Time Monocular Video-Based Avatar Animation....Pages 949-958 Temporal Computational Objects: A Process for Dynamic Surface Generation....Pages 959-969 Hardware-Accelerated Particle-Based Volume Rendering for Multiple Irregular Volumes....Pages 970-979 Immersive Visualization of Casting Flow and Solidification....Pages 980-989 Graph-Based Visual Analytic Tools for Parallel Coordinates....Pages 990-999 Modeling and Visualization Approaches for Time-Varying Volumetric Data....Pages 1000-1010 Ubiquitous Interactive Visualization of 3-D Mantle Convection through Web Applications Using Java....Pages 1011-1021 Streaming Mesh Optimization for CAD....Pages 1022-1033 An Iterative Method for Fast Mesh Denoising....Pages 1034-1043 On the Performance and Scalability of a GPU-Limited Commodity Cluster....Pages 1044-1055 Algorithms for the Automatic Design of Non-formal Urban Parks....Pages 1056-1065 Hybrid Shading Model Based on Device Performance for LOD Adaptive Service....Pages 1066-1075 Incremental Texture Compression for Real-Time Rendering....Pages 1076-1085 Geometry Independent Raindrop Splash Rendering for Generic, Complex Scenes....Pages 1086-1095 Extension of B-Spline Curves with G 2 Continuity....Pages 1096-1105 Building New Mixed Reality Devices....Pages 1106-1114 A Novel Acceleration Coding/Reconstruction Algorithm for Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Presence of Static Magnetic Field In-Homogeneities....Pages 1115-1124 Reconstruction of Some Segmented and Dynamic Scenes: Trifocal Tensors in P 4 Theoretical Set Up for Critical Loci, and Instability....Pages 1125-1136 Efficient Algorithms for Reconstruction of 2D-Arrays from Extended Parikh Images....Pages 1137-1146 Reconstruction of Binary Images with Few Disjoint Components from Two Projections....Pages 1147-1156 A Connection between Z n and Generalized Triangular Grids....Pages 1157-1166 Collage of Hexagonal Arrays....Pages 1167-1175 Discrete Contour Extraction from Reference Curvature Function....Pages 1176-1185 Change Detection with SPOT-5 and FORMOSAT-2 Imageries....Pages 1186-1195 Back Matter....Pages - It Is With Greatpleasure That We Present The Proceedings Of The 4th International Symposium On Visual Computing (isvc 2008) In Las Vegas, Nevada. Isvc O?ers A Common Umbrella For The Four Main Areas Of Visual Computing Including Vision, Graphics, Visualization, And Virtual Reality. Its Goal Is To Provide A Forum For Researchers, Scientists, Engineers And Practitioners Throughout The World To Present Their Latest Research ?ndings, Ideas, Developments And Applications In The Broader Area Of Visual Computing. This Year,isvc Grew Signi?cantly; The Programconsisted Of 15 Oralsessions, 1 Poster Session, 8 Special Tracks, And 6 Keynote Presentations. The Response To The Call For Papers Was Very Strong; We Received Over 340 Submissions For The Main Symposium From Which We Accepted 102 Papers For Oral Presentation And 70 Papers For Poster Presentation. Special Track Papers Were Solicited Separately Through The Organizing And Program Committees Of Each Track. A Total Of 56 Papers Were Accepted For Oral Presentation And 8 Papers For Poster Presentation In The Special Tracks. All Papers Were Reviewed With An Emphasis On Potential To Contribute To The State Of The Art In The ?eld. Selection Criteria Included Accuracy And Originality Of Ideas, Clarity And Signi?cance Of Results, And Presentation Quality. The Review Process Was Quite Rigorous, Involving Two To Three Independent Blind Reviews Followed By Several Days Of Discussion. During The Discussion Period We Tried To Correct Anomalies And Errors That Might Have Existed In The Initial Reviews.