Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns: 10th International Conference, CAIP 2003, Groningen, The Netherlands, August 25-27, 2003, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2756))

This Volume Presents The Proceedings Of The 10th International Conference On Computer Analysis Of Images And Patterns (caip 2003). This Conference - Ries Started About 18 Years Ago In Berlin. Initially, The Conference Served As A Forum For Meetings Between Scientists From Western- And Eastern-bloc Co- Tries. Nowadays, The Conference Attracts Participants From All Over The World. The Conference Gives Equal Weight To Posters And Oral Presentations, And The Selected Presentation Mode Is Based On The Most Appropriate Communication Medium. The Programme Follows A Single-track Format, Rather Than Parallel S- Sions. Non-overlapping Oral And Poster Sessions Ensure That All Attendees Have The Opportunity To Interact Personally With Presenters. As For The Numbers, We Received A Total Of 160 Submissions. All Papers Were Reviewed By Two To Three Members Of The Programme Committee. The ?nal - Lection Was Carried Out By The Conference Chairs. Out Of The 160 Papers, 42 Were Selected For Oral Presentation And 52 As Posters. At This Point, We Wish To Thank The Programme Committee And Additional Referees For Their Timely And High-quality Reviews. The Paper Submission And Review Procedure Was Carried Out Electronically. We Thank Marcin Morg´ Os From Scalar–it Solutions For P- Viding Us With The Web-based Participant Registration System. We Also Thank The Invited Speakers Nicholas Ayache, John Daugman, And Dariu Gavrila, For Kindly Accepting Our Invitation. Analysis And Understanding -- Video -- Segmentation -- Shape -- Classification -- Face Recognition -- Interpolation And Spatial Transformations -- Filtering. Nicolai Petkov, Michel A. Westenberg (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages - On Design and Applications of Cylindrical Panoramas....Pages 1-8 Finding the Symmetry Axis of a Perspectively Projected Plane Curve....Pages 9-16 Representing Orientation in n -Dimensional Spaces....Pages 17-24 Docking of Polygons Using Boundary Descriptor....Pages 25-32 Area and Moment Computation for Objects with a Closed Spline Boundary....Pages 33-40 Construction of Complete and Independent Systems of Rotation Moment Invariants....Pages 41-48 A Structural Framework for Assembly Modeling and Recognition....Pages 49-56 Simple Points in 2D and 3D Binary Images....Pages 57-64 Viewpoint Selection – Planning Optimal Sequences of Views for Object Recognition....Pages 65-73 Epipolar Plane Images as a Tool to Seek Correspondences in a Dense Sequence....Pages 74-81 Computing Neck-Shaft Angle of Femur for X-Ray Fracture Detection....Pages 82-89 Illuminance Flow....Pages 90-97 Rough Surface Correction and Re-illumination Using the Modified Beckmann Model....Pages 98-106 Towards a Real Time Panoramic Depth Sensor....Pages 107-115 Depth Recovery from Noisy Gradient Vector Fields Using Regularization....Pages 116-123 Bunch Sampling for Fast Texture Synthesis....Pages 124-131 Automatic Detection of Specular Reflectance in Colour Images Using the MS Diagram....Pages 132-139 Skeletonization of Character Based on Wavelet Transform....Pages 140-148 A New Sharpness Measure Based on Gaussian Lines and Edges....Pages 149-156 A New Tracking Technique: Object Tracking and Identification from Motion....Pages 157-164 Evaluation of an Adaptive Composite Gaussian Model in Video Surveillance....Pages 165-172 Low Complexity Motion Estimation Based on Spatio-Temporal Correlations and Direction of Motion Vectors....Pages 173-181 Stereo System for Tracking Moving Object Using Log-Polar Transformation and Zero Disparity Filtering....Pages 182-189 Monte Carlo Visual Tracking Using Color Histograms and a Spatially Weighted Oriented Hausdorff Measure....Pages 190-197 Object Classification and Tracking in Video Surveillance....Pages 198-205 Video Retrieval by Context-Based Interpretation of Time-to-Collision Descriptors....Pages 206-213 Trajectory Estimation Based on Globally Consistent Homography....Pages 214-221 Real-Time Optic Flow Computation with Variational Methods....Pages 222-229 Adaptive Stabilization of Vibration on Archive Films....Pages 230-237 A Genetic Algorithm with Automatic Parameter Adaptation for Video Segmentation....Pages 238-245 Two-Step Unassisted Video Segmentation Using Fast Marching Method....Pages 246-253 Video Mosaicking for Arbitrary Scene Imaged under Arbitrary Camera Motion....Pages 254-261 Multi-loop Scalable MPEG-2 Video Coders....Pages 262-269 Multimedia Simulation of Colour Blindness and Colour Enhancement Assisted Colour Blindness....Pages 270-277 Coefficient Partitioning Scanning Order Wavelet Packet Algorithm for Satellite Images....Pages 278-284 Support Vector Machines for Road Extraction from Remotely Sensed Images....Pages 285-292 Fingerprint Matching Based on Directional Image Feature in Polar Coordinate System....Pages 293-300 Efficient Algorithm of Eye Image Check for Robust Iris Recognition System....Pages 301-308 Recognition of Car License Plate by Using Dynamical Thresholding Method and Enhanced Neural Networks....Pages 309-319 Generalizing the Active Shape Model by Integrating Structural Knowledge to Recognize Hand Drawn Sketches....Pages 320-328 Automatic Segmentation of Diatom Images....Pages 329-336 Topological Active Volumes....Pages 337-344 Genetic Algorithm to Set Active Contour....Pages 345-352 Unsupervised Segmentation Incorporating Colour, Texture, and Motion....Pages 353-360 Image Segmentation Based on Transformations with Reconstruction Criteria....Pages 361-368 Gaussian-Weighted Moving-Window Robust Automatic Threshold Selection....Pages 369-376 Shape from Photometric Stereo and Contours....Pages 377-384 A Fast Algorithm for Constructing Parameterizations of Three-Dimensional Simply Connected Digital Objects....Pages 385-392 A Visual Comparison of Shape Descriptors Using Multi-Dimensional Scaling....Pages 393-401 Part-Based Shape Recognition Using Gradient Vector Field Histograms....Pages 402-409 Measuring Sigmoidality....Pages 410-417 Optimization and Tracking of Polygon Vertices for Shape Coding....Pages 418-425 Greedy Algorithm for a Training Set Reduction in the Kernel Methods....Pages 426-433 Learning Statistical Structure for Object Detection....Pages 434-441 Blind Source Separation Using Variational Expectation-Maximization Algorithm....Pages 442-450 Graph Clustering with Tree-Unions....Pages 451-459 Writer Style from Oriented Edge Fragments....Pages 460-469 Font Classification Using NMF....Pages 470-477 Arabic Character Recognition Using Structural Shape Decomposition....Pages 478-486 Classifier Combination through Clustering in the Output Spaces....Pages 487-493 An Image-Based System for Spoken-Letter Recognition....Pages 494-502 A Comparative Study of Morphological and Other Texture Features for the Characterization of Atherosclerotic Carotid Plaques....Pages 503-511 A Computation of Fingerprint Similarity Measures Based on Bayesian Probability Modeling....Pages 512-520 Classifying Sketches of Animals Using an Agent-Based System....Pages 521-529 Iris Recognition for Iris Tilted in Depth....Pages 530-539 Spectral Clustering of Graphs....Pages 540-548 Adaptive Segmentation of Remote-Sensing Images for Aerial Surveillance....Pages 549-554 Detecting and Classifying Road Turn Directions from a Sequence of Images....Pages 555-562 Classification of Connecting Points in Thai Printed Characters by combining Inductive Logic Programming with Backpropagation Neural Network....Pages 563-570 Design of a Multilayered Feed-Forward Neural Network Using Hypersphere Neurons....Pages 571-578 Analytical Decision Boundary Feature Extraction for Neural Networks with Multiple Hidden Layers....Pages 579-587 Feasible Adaptation Criteria for Hybrid Wavelet – Large Margin Classifiers....Pages 588-595 A New Fisher-Based Method Applied to Face Recognition....Pages 596-605 Merging Subspace Models for Face Recognition....Pages 606-613 A Face Processing System Based on Committee Machine: The Approach and Experimental Results....Pages 614-622 Multi-class Support Vector Machines with Case-Based Combination for Face Recognition....Pages 623-629 Partial Faces for Face Recognition: Left vs Right Half....Pages 630-637 Face Recognition by Fisher and Scatter Linear Discriminant Analysis....Pages 638-645 Optimizing Eigenfaces by Face Masks for Facial Expression Recognition....Pages 646-654 Polyhedral Scene: Mosaic Construction from 2 Images Taken under the General Case....Pages 655-663 Modeling Adaptive Deformations during Free-Form Pose Estimation....Pages 664-672 Super-resolution Capabilities of the Hough-Green Transform....Pages 673-680 The Generalised Radon Transform: Sampling and Memory Considerations....Pages 681-688 Monocentric Optical Space....Pages 689-696 Cumulative Chord Piecewise-Quartics for Length and Curve Estimation....Pages 697-705 PDE Based Method for Superresolution of Gray-Level Images....Pages 706-713 Interpolating Camera Configurations....Pages 714-721 Discrete Morphology with Line Structuring Elements....Pages 722-729 Weighted Thin-Plate Spline Image Denoising....Pages 730-737 The D-Dimensional Inverse Vector-Gradient Operator and Its Application for Scale-Free Image Enhancement....Pages 738-745 A Simple and Efficient Algorithm for Detection of High Curvature Points in Planar Curves....Pages 746-753 Modelling Non-linearities in Images Using an Auto-associative Neural Network....Pages 754-761 Conditions of Similarity between Hermite and Gabor Filters as Models of the Human Visual System....Pages 762-769 Offset Smoothing Using the USAN’s Principle....Pages 770-777 Back Matter....Pages - This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, CAIP 2003, held in Groningen, The Netherlands in August 2003. The 94 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on analysis and understanding, video analysis, segmentation, shape, classification, face recognition, interpolation and spatial transformations, and filtering