Computer Vision - ACCV'98: Third Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Hong Kong, China, January 8 - 10, 1998, Proceedings, Volume I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

These two volumes constitute the refereed proceedings of the Third Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV'98, held in Hong Kong, China, in January 1998. The volumes present together a total of 58 revised full papers and 112 revised posters selected from over 300 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on biometry, physics-based vision, color vision, robot vision and navigation, OCR and applications, low-level processing, active vision, face and hand posture recognition, segmentation and grouping, computer vision and virtual reality, motion analysis, and object recognition and modeling. Pen computing — An overview....Pages 1-1 Research issues in biometrics....Pages 2-9 Automatic on-line signature verification....Pages 10-15 Integrating faces and fingerprints for personal identification....Pages 16-23 Automated fingerprint pattern classification error analysis....Pages 24-31 A high-dimensional indexing scheme for scalable fingerprint-based identification....Pages 32-39 Sign of surface curvature from shading images using neural network....Pages 40-47 On the classification of singular points for the global shape from shading problem: A study of the constraints imposed by isophotes....Pages 48-55 Determination of sign of gaussian curvature of surface having general reflectance property....Pages 56-63 Estimating depth through the fusion of photometric stereo images....Pages 64-71 Out of the dark: Using shadows to reconstruct 3D surfaces....Pages 72-79 Estimation of reflection parameters from a color image....Pages 80-87 A natural norm for color processing....Pages 88-95 A color normalization algorithm for image indexing....Pages 96-103 Adaptive color-image embeddings for database navigation....Pages 104-111 A large capacity steganography using color BMP images....Pages 112-119 Dynamic calibration of an active vision system to compute the ground plane transformation....Pages 120-127 Identification of 3D reference structures for video-based localization....Pages 128-135 Directing robots with visual primitives for navigation and micro-manipulation....Pages 136-143 Combining camera and laser radar for ALV navigation....Pages 144-151 Stereo vision-based obstacle detection for partially sighted people....Pages 152-159 Evaluation and application of recognition confidence in OCR....Pages 160-167 A new nonlinear shape normalization method for off-line handwritten Chinese character recognition....Pages 168-175 A novel triangulation procedure for thinning cursive text....Pages 176-183 Digital geometric methods in image analysis and compression....Pages 184-191 Detection and enhancement of small masses via precision multiscale analysis....Pages 192-199 A method of industrial parts surface inspection based on an optics model....Pages 200-207 Illumination color from the blurred inter-reflection of a reference nose....Pages 208-215 Shape recovery from one image under multiple light sources....Pages 216-223 Spherical and cylindrical light source models for shape recovery....Pages 224-231 Polyhedral shape recovery based on interrefiections....Pages 232-239 Improved supervised color constancy for color inspection....Pages 240-247 Unsupervised filtering of Munsell spectra....Pages 248-255 Foveated vision for scene exploration....Pages 256-263 Evolutionary methods applied to binocular disparity estimation....Pages 264-271 Robust epipolar geometry using genetic algorithm....Pages 272-279 New development of stereo vision: A solution for motion stereo correspondence....Pages 280-287 Acquisition of three-dimensional information using omnidirectional stereo vision....Pages 288-295 Error analysis in stereo vision....Pages 296-304 Detecting targets in SAR images: A machine learning approach....Pages 305-312 Precise matching by Robust estimation of deformation and local coherence....Pages 313-320 Active viewpoint control for shape from occluding contours....Pages 321-328 Point selection: A new comparison scheme for size functions (With an application to monogram recognition)....Pages 329-337 Sketch up: Towards qualitative shape data management....Pages 338-345 Robust matching and hierarchical recognition of 2-D shapes using “Chain of Circles”....Pages 346-353 Finding the center of rotational symmetry from noisy forms....Pages 354-361 Recognition in wavelet-compressed imagery....Pages 362-369 Fast image template and dictionary matching algorithms....Pages 402-409 Recognition of planar shapes using algebraic invariants from higher degree implicit polynomials....Pages 378-385 Object recognition and orientation via Zernike moments....Pages 386-393 A study of Zernike moment computing....Pages 394-401 Query expansion by raw image features and text annotations in image retrieval....Pages 402-409 Montage : An image database for the fashion, textile, and clothing industry in Hong Kong....Pages 410-417 Auto cameraman via collaborative sensing agents....Pages 418-425 Dynamic adaptive data structures for semantic analysis and synthesis of video information....Pages 426-433 Recognition of simple curved surfaces from 3D surface data....Pages 434-441 A recursive fitting-and-splitting algorithm for 3-D object modeling based on superquadrics....Pages 442-449 Learning and recognizing 3D objects by using partial planar curve matching method....Pages 450-457 Contour matching technique for 3D object recognition using Kalman filter....Pages 458-465 Kalman filter based matching technique for 3D object recognition....Pages 466-473 A generating method for 3-dimensional knitting cloth shapes....Pages 474-481 A fast mesh deformation method to build spherical representation models of 3D objects....Pages 482-489 Semi-automatic 3D object digitizing system using range images....Pages 490-497 Image guided surgical systems....Pages 498-498 Technical evaluation of biometric systems....Pages 499-506 Face recognition from sequences using models of identity....Pages 507-514 Enhancing human face detection using motion and active contours....Pages 515-522 Learning identity and behaviour with neural networks....Pages 523-530 Open sesame! Speech, password or key to secure your door?....Pages 531-541 A unified framework for image-derived invariants....Pages 542-549 Stereo correspondences in scale space....Pages 550-557 Fast stereo matching in compressed video....Pages 558-565 Robust total least squares based optic flow computation....Pages 566-573 Image processing via the beltrami operator....Pages 574-581 Efficient contour extraction in color images....Pages 582-589 Color edge detection using orthogonal polynomials....Pages 590-597 Fast and robust Segmentation of natural color scenes....Pages 598-606 Segmentation and tracking using colour mixture models....Pages 607-614 Object tracking using adaptive colour mixture models....Pages 615-622 A learning approach to fixating on 3D targets with active cameras....Pages 623-631 Automatic detection and tracking of human heads using an active stereo vision system....Pages 632-639 Front propagation and level-set approach for geodesic active stereovision....Pages 640-647 A Bayes nets-based prediction/verification scheme for active visual reconstruction....Pages 648-655 Actively building models with VIRTUE....Pages 656-663 Using RBF networks to map GWT ridge images to pose....Pages 664-671 3-D pose estimation and model refinement of an articulated object from a monocular image sequence....Pages 672-679 Face synthesis with arbitrary pose and expression from several images....Pages 680-687 Live facial expression generation based on mixed reality....Pages 688-697 Real-time tracking of human hands from a sign-language image sequence....Pages 698-705 The model-based dynamic hand posture identification using genetic algorithm....Pages 706-713 Parallel implementation of fractal image compression using multiple digital signal processors....Pages 714-721 Comparison of mean field annealing and multiresolution analysis in missing data estimation....Pages 722-729 Segmentation of mrf based image using hierarchical genetic algorithm....Pages 730-737 Motion compensated color video classification using Markov Random Fields....Pages 738-745 Edge-preserving smoothing by convex minimization....Pages 746-753