Computer Vision - ECCV '92: Second European Conference on Computer Vision, Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, May 19-22, 1992. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

"This volume collects the papers accepted for presentation at the Second European Conference on Computer Vision, held in Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, May 19-22, 1992. Sixteen long papers, 41 short papers and 48 posters were selected from 308 submissions. The contributions are structured into 14 sections reflecting the major research topics in computer vision currently investigated worldwide. The sections are entitled: features, color, calibration and matching, depth, stereo-motion, tracking, active vision, binocular heads, curved surfaces and objects, reconstruction and shape, recognition, and applications."--PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE Steerable-scalable kernels for edge detection and junction analysis....Pages 3-18 Families of tuned scale-space kernels....Pages 19-23 Contour extraction by mixture density description obtained from region clustering....Pages 24-32 The Möbius strip parameterization for line extraction....Pages 33-37 Edge tracing in a priori known direction....Pages 38-42 Features extraction and analysis methods for sequences of ultrasound images....Pages 43-57 Figure-ground discrimination by mean field annealing....Pages 58-66 Deterministic pseudo-annealing: Optimization in Markov-Random-Fields an application to pixel classification....Pages 67-71 A Bayesian multiple hypothesis approach to contour grouping....Pages 72-77 Detection of general edges and keypoints....Pages 78-86 Distributed belief revision for adaptive image processing regulation....Pages 87-91 Finding face features....Pages 92-96 Detection of specularity using color and multiple views....Pages 99-114 Data and model-driven selection using color regions....Pages 115-123 Recovering shading from color images....Pages 124-132 Shading flows and scenel bundles: A new approach to shape from shading....Pages 135-150 Texture: Plus ça change, .......Pages 151-159 Texture parametrization method for image segmentation....Pages 160-164 Texture segmentation by minimizing vector-valued energy functionals: The Coupled-Membrane model....Pages 165-173 Boundary detection in piecewise homogeneous textured images....Pages 174-183 Surface orientation and time to contact from image divergence and deformation....Pages 187-202 Robust and fast computation of unbiased intensity derivatives in images....Pages 203-211 Testing computational theories of motion discontinuities: A psychophysical study....Pages 212-216 Motion and structure factorization and segmentation of long multiple motion image sequences....Pages 217-221 Motion and surface recovery using curvature and motion consistency....Pages 222-226 Finding clusters and planes from 3D line segments with application to 3D motion determination....Pages 227-236 Hierarchical model-based motion estimation....Pages 237-252 A fast method to estimate sensor translation....Pages 253-257 Identifying multiple motions from optical flow....Pages 258-266 A fast obstacle detection method based on optical flow....Pages 267-271 A parallel implementation of a structure-from-motion algorithm....Pages 272-276 Structure from motion using the ground plane constraint....Pages 277-281 Detecting and tracking multiple moving objects using temporal integration....Pages 282-287 A study of affine matching with bounded sensor error....Pages 291-306 Epipolar line estimation....Pages 307-311 Camera calibration using multiple images....Pages 312-320 Camera self-calibration: Theory and experiments....Pages 321-334 Model-based object pose in 25 lines of code....Pages 335-343 Image blurring effects due to depth discontinuitites: Blurring that creates emergent image details....Pages 347-362 Ellipse based stereo vision....Pages 363-367 Applying two-dimensional delaunay triangulation to stereo data interpolation....Pages 368-372 Local stereoscopic depth estimation using ocular stripe maps....Pages 373-377 Depth computations from polyhedral images....Pages 378-386 Parallel algorithms for the distance transformation....Pages 387-391 A computational framework for determining stereo correspondence from a set of linear spatial filters....Pages 395-410 On visual ambiguities due to transparency in motion and stereo....Pages 411-419 A deterministic approach for stereo disparity calculation....Pages 420-424 Occlusions and binocular stereo....Pages 425-433 Model-based object tracking in traffic scenes....Pages 437-452 Tracking moving contours using energy-minimizing elastic contour models....Pages 453-457 Tracking points on deformable objects using curvature information....Pages 458-466 An egomotion algorithm based on the tracking of arbitrary curves....Pages 467-475 Region-based tracking in an image sequence....Pages 476-484 Combining intensity and motion for incremental segmentation and tracking over long image sequences....Pages 485-493 Active egomotion estimation: A qualitative approach....Pages 497-510 Active perception using DAM and estimation techniques....Pages 511-515 Active/dynamic stereo for navigation....Pages 516-525 Integrating primary ocular processes....Pages 526-541 Where to look next using a Bayes net: Incorporating geometric relations....Pages 542-550 An attentional prototype for early vision....Pages 551-560 What can be seen in three dimensions with an uncalibrated stereo rig?....Pages 563-578 Estimation of relative camera positions for uncalibrated cameras....Pages 579-587 Gaze control for a binocular camera head....Pages 588-596 Computing exact aspect graphs of curved objects: Algebraic surfaces....Pages 599-614 Surface interpolation using wavelets....Pages 615-619 Smoothing and matching of 3-D space curves....Pages 620-629 Shape from texture for smooth curved surfaces....Pages 630-638 Recognising rotationally symmetric surfaces from their outlines....Pages 639-647 Using deformable surfaces to segment 3-D images and infer differential structures....Pages 648-652 Finding parametric curves in an image....Pages 653-657 Determining three-dimensional shape from orientation and spatial frequency disparities....Pages 661-669 Using force fields derived from 3D distance maps for inferring the attitude of a 3D rigid object....Pages 670-675 Segmenting unstructured 3D points into surfaces....Pages 676-680 Finding the pose of an object of revolution....Pages 681-686 Extraction of line drawings from gray value images by non-local analysis of edge element structures....Pages 687-695 A method for the 3D reconstruction of indoor scenes from monocular images....Pages 696-700 Active detection and classification of junctions by foveation with a head-eye system guided by the scale-space primal sketch....Pages 701-709 A new topological classification of points in 3D images....Pages 710-714 A theory of 3D reconstruction of heterogeneous edge primitives from two perspective views....Pages 715-719 Detecting 3-D parallel lines for perceptual organization....Pages 720-724 Integrated skeleton and boundary shape representation for medical image interpretation....Pages 725-729 Critical sets for 3D reconstruction using lines....Pages 730-738 Intrinsic surface properties from surface triangulation....Pages 739-743 Edge classification and depth reconstruction by fusion of range and intensity edge data....Pages 744-748 Image compression and reconstruction using a 1-D feature catalogue....Pages 749-753 Canonical frames for planar object recognition....Pages 757-772 Measuring the quality of hypotheses in model-based recognition....Pages 773-777 Using automatically constructed view-independent relational model in 3D object recognition....Pages 778-786 Learning to recognize faces from examples....Pages 787-791 Face recognition through geometrical features....Pages 792-800 Fusion through interpretation....Pages 801-805 3-D object recognition using passively sensed range data....Pages 806-814 Interpretation of remotely sensed images in a context of multisensor fusion....Pages 815-819 Limitations of non model-based recognition schemes....Pages 820-828 Constraints for recognizing and locating curved 3D objects from monocular image features....Pages 829-833 Polynomial-time object recognition in the presence of clutter, occlusion, and uncertainty....Pages 834-842 Hierarchical shape recognition based on 3-D multiresolution analysis....Pages 843-851 Object recognition by flexible template matching using genetic algorithms....Pages 852-856 Matching and recognition of road networks from aerial images....Pages 857-861 Intensity and edge-based symmetry detection applied to car-following....Pages 865-873 Indexicality and dynamic attention control in qualitative recognition of assembly actions....Pages 874-878 Real-time visual tracking for surveillance and path planning....Pages 879-883 Spatio-temporal reasoning within a traffic surveillance system....Pages 884-892 Template guided visual inspection....Pages 893-901 Hardware support for fast edge-based stereo....Pages 902-906