Image Analysis: 13th Scandinavian Conference, SCIA 2003, Halmstad, Sweden, June 29 - July 2, 2003, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

This book constitutes the refeered proceedings of the 13th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, SCIA 2003, held in Halmstad, Sweden in June/July 2003. The 148 revised full papers presented together with 6 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation. The papers are organized in topical sections on feature extraction, depth and surface, shape analysis, coding and representation, motion analysis, medical image processing, color analysis, texture analysis, indexing and categorization, and segmentation and spatial grouping. The Emergence of Visual Categories - A Computational Perspective....Pages 1-3 Multiresolution Texture Analysis of Surface Reflection Images....Pages 4-10 Robust Multi-scale Extraction of Blob Features....Pages 11-18 Orientation Fields Filtering by Derivates of a Gaussian....Pages 19-27 Character Prototyping in Document Images Using Gabor Filters....Pages 28-35 3D-Orientation Space; Filters and Sampling....Pages 36-42 End-Stop Exemplar Based Recognition....Pages 43-50 Quadtree Decomposition Texture Analysis in Paper Formation Determination....Pages 51-59 A Note on Evaluation of Image Recognition Systems....Pages 60-66 Curvature Consistency for Shape-from-Shading....Pages 67-74 An Extended Perspective Three Points Problem....Pages 75-82 Omnidirectional Camera Model and Epipolar Geometry Estimation by RANSAC with Bucketing?....Pages 83-90 Auto Camera Calibration Method for Person Tracking Applications....Pages 91-100 Dense Stereomatching Algorithm Performance for View Prediction and Structure Reconstruction....Pages 101-107 To See What You Cannot See....Pages 108-108 Photo-Identification of Humpback and Gray Whales Using Affine Moment Invariants....Pages 109-116 Environmental Monitoring Using Image Analysis....Pages 117-124 Robust Curve Detection Using a Radon Transform in Orientation Space....Pages 125-132 Similarity Measure for Corner Redetection....Pages 133-139 An Integrated System for Automatic Face Recognition....Pages 140-147 New Geometric Transform Based on Stochastic Geometry in the Context of Pattern Recognition....Pages 148-155 Modeling of Pose Effects in Oriented Filter Responses for Head Pose Estimation....Pages 156-162 Segmentation of Faces in Video Footage Using Controlled Weights on HSV Color....Pages 163-170 Bidimensional Empirical Mode Decomposition Modified for Texture Analysis....Pages 171-177 Primitive and Point Configuration Texture Model and Primitive Estimation Using Mathematical Morphology....Pages 178-185 Experimentation on the Use of Chromaticity Features, Local Binary Pattern, and Discrete Cosine Transform in Colour Texture Analysis....Pages 186-192 Learning an Object Model for Feature Matching in Clutter....Pages 193-199 Curvature Dependent Skeletonization....Pages 200-207 Detecting Distinguished Regions by Saliency....Pages 208-215 Horizon Picking in 3D Seismic Images....Pages 216-222 Temporal Dynamical Interactions between Multiple Layers of Local Image Features for Event Detection in Video Sequences....Pages 223-231 Iterative Orientation Tuning in V1: A Simple Cell Circuit with Cross-Orientation Suppression....Pages 232-238 Automatic Reconstruction of Silhouettes Using B-Splines....Pages 239-246 Estimation of Curvature along Curves with Application to Fibres in 3D Images of Paper....Pages 247-254 Registration of Seal Images Using Contour Analysis....Pages 255-261 Estimation of Curvature Based Shape Properties of Surfaces in 3D Grey-Value Images....Pages 262-267 A Framework for the Analysis of Majority Voting....Pages 268-274 Multiple Genetic Snakes for People Segmentation in Video Sequences....Pages 275-282 Structure-Preserving Segmentation of Individual Tree Crowns by Brownian Motion....Pages 283-289 Extracting Symbolic Descriptors for Interactive Object Retrieval....Pages 290-297 Soft Morphological Filtering of Spectral Images....Pages 298-304 Shortest Route on Gray-Level Map Using Distance Transform on Curved Space....Pages 305-310 Segmentation and Free Space Detection Using Gabor Filters....Pages 311-319 Digital Watermarking of Spectral Images with Three-Dimensional Wavelet Transform....Pages 320-327 Context Clustering in Lossless Compression of Gray-Scale Image....Pages 328-334 Anatomical Coordinate System for Bilateral Registration of Mammograms....Pages 335-342 Image Segmentation Using Dynamic Run-Length Coding Technique....Pages 343-348 Defect Image Classification and Retrieval with MPEG-7 Descriptors....Pages 349-355 Two-Dimensional Channel Representation for Multiple Velocities....Pages 356-362 Two-Frame Motion Estimation Based on Polynomial Expansion....Pages 363-370 Tracking the Pose of Objects through Subspace....Pages 371-378 An Automatic Traffic Surveillance System for Vehicle Tracking and Classification....Pages 379-386 Affine Structure from Translational Motion in Image Sequences....Pages 387-394 Computerized Cell Image Analysis: Past, Present, and Future....Pages 395-407 Segmentation of Cell Nuclei in Tissue by Combining Seeded Watersheds with Gradient Information....Pages 408-414 Automated Interpretation of Ventilation-Perfusion Lung Scintigrams for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism Using Support Vector Machines....Pages 415-421 Model Based Segmentation for Retinal Fundus Images....Pages 422-429 A Multiscale Decomposition Approach to Gel Image Interpretation....Pages 430-437 Fast 3D Mean Shift Filter for CT Images....Pages 438-445 Analysing the Curvature of the Pectoralis Muscle in Mammograms....Pages 446-453 ASM Driven Snakes in Rheumatoid Arthritis Assessment....Pages 454-461 Segmentation of T1-MRI of the Human Cortex Using a 3D Grey-Level Morphology Approach....Pages 462-469 Generalized Use of Homographies for Piecewise Planar Reconstruction....Pages 470-476 Rough Surface Estimation Using the Kirchhoff Model....Pages 477-484 Normalized Averaging Using Adaptive Applicability Functions with Applications in Image Reconstruction from Sparsely and Randomly Sampled Data....Pages 485-492 Consistent Multi-view Reconstruction from Epipolar Geometries with Outliers....Pages 493-500 A Comparison of Viewing Geometries for Augmented Reality....Pages 501-508 Some Issues of Biological Shape Modelling with Applications....Pages 509-519 Protein Spot Detection by Symmetry Derivatives of Gaussians....Pages 520-525 Reconstructing the Optical Thickness from Hoffman Modulation Contrast Images....Pages 526-533 A Robust Medical Image Recognition System Employing Edge-Based Feature Vector Representation....Pages 534-540 Information Technology for the Morphological Analysis of the Lymphoid Cell Nuclei....Pages 541-548 Illumination Correction from Psoriasis Image Data....Pages 549-556 Building an Image-Based System to Automatically Score Psoriasis....Pages 557-564 Automated Interpretation of Cardiac Scintigrams....Pages 565-570 Estimating Motion in Ultrasound Images of the Small Bowel: Optical Flow without Image Structure....Pages 571-578 3D Wiener Filtering to Reduce Reverberations in Ultrasound Image Sequences....Pages 579-586 Segmentation of Laparoscopic Images for Computer Assisted Surgery....Pages 587-594 Segmentation of Histopathological Section Using Snakes....Pages 595-602 3D-Color-Structure-Code — A Hierarchical Region Growing Method for Segmentation of 3D-Images....Pages 603-608 Bucketing Techniques in Robust Regression for Computer Vision....Pages 609-616 Tracking Human Heads Based on Interaction between Hypotheses with Certainty....Pages 617-624 Two Linear Methods for Camera Calibration and Their Applications to Augmented Reality and 3D Reconstruction....Pages 625-631 PDE Based Surface Estimation for Structure from Motion....Pages 632-639 An Improved Variogram Analysis of the Maximum Expected Disparity in Stereo Images....Pages 640-645 Detection of Strong Shadows in Monochromatic Video Streams....Pages 646-653 Image Matching Using Distance Transform....Pages 654-660 Contour/Texture Approach for Visual Tracking....Pages 661-668 Simplified Vehicle Calibration Using Multilinear Constraints....Pages 669-676 A Single-Scan Algorithm for Connected Components Labelling in a Traffic Monitoring Application....Pages 677-684 Simultaneous Inpainting and Motion Estimation of Highly Degraded Video-Sequences....Pages 685-692 Reconstruction of Linearly Parameterized Models from a Single Image Using the Vanishing Points....Pages 693-700 Generalizing the Virtual Camera Pose for View Synthesis....Pages 701-708 Structure Estimation and Surface Triangulation of Deformable Objects....Pages 709-716 3-D Modeling of an Outdoor Scene from Multiple Image Sequences by Estimating Camera Motion Parameters....Pages 717-724 Crossing Line Profile: A New Approach to Detecting Defects in Aluminium Die Casting....Pages 725-732 On 3D Scanning, Reconstruction, Enhancement, and Segmentation of Logs....Pages 733-740 Loglets: Generalized Quadrature and Phase for Local Spatio-Temporal Structure Estimation....Pages 741-748 Image Decomposition by Radial Basis Functions....Pages 749-754 Anisotropic Channel Filtering....Pages 755-762 2D Grey-Level Convex Hull Computation: A Discrete 3D Approach....Pages 763-770 Modelling of Shapes without Landmarks....Pages 771-777 Polygonal Approximation of Closed Contours....Pages 778-785 Modeling Knot Geometry in Norway Spruce from Industrial CT Images....Pages 786-791 Qualitative Characterization and Use of Prior Information....Pages 792-799 Spectral Color Imaging....Pages 800-803 A 3D-Polar Coordinate Colour Representation Well Adapted to Image Analysis....Pages 804-811 Enhanced Model for Chromaticity Differences....Pages 812-819 Using Real Shadows to Create Virtual Ones....Pages 820-827 Surface Shape from Specularities....Pages 828-835 Matching Occluded Objects Invariant to Rotations, Translations, Reflections, and Scale Changes....Pages 836-843 A Fuzzy Connectivity Tree for Hierarchical Extraction of Venous Structures....Pages 844-852 Measuring Perimeter and Area in Low Resolution Images Using a Fuzzy Approach....Pages 853-860 Probabilistic Generative Modelling....Pages 861-868 Supervised Segmentation of Volume Textures Using 3D Probabilistic Relaxation....Pages 869-876 Modification of Spatial Distribution in Primitive and Point Configuration Texture Model....Pages 877-884 Multi-scale Binary Patterns for Texture Analysis....Pages 885-892 Perceptual Organization of Directional Primitives Using a Pseudocolor Hough Transform....Pages 893-898 Object Recognition under Various Lighting Conditions....Pages 899-906 Filter Banks, Wavelets, and Frames with Applications in Computer Vision and Image Processing (A Review)....Pages 907-921 Bottom Reflectance Influence on a Color Correction Algorithm for Underwater Images....Pages 922-926 Searching Technique in a Spectral Image Database....Pages 927-933 Color Image Segmentation Using a Model-Based Clustering and a MFA-EM Algorithm....Pages 934-941 Detection of Vehicles Using Gabor Filters and Affine Moment Invariants from an Image....Pages 942-952 Adaptive Spatial and Temporal Prefiltering for Video Compression....Pages 953-960 A Comparison of Digital Length Estimators for Image Features....Pages 961-968 Detecting Moving Objects with an Omnidirectional Camera Based on Adaptive Background Subtraction....Pages 969-974 Implementation of Linear Prediction Models for Lossless Compression of Hyperspectral Images in Novel Parallel Environments....Pages 975-982 Techniques for Parallel Execution of the Particle Filter....Pages 983-990 Efficient Image Matching Algorithms Based on Procedures of Searching for 2D Templates....Pages 991-997 Implementation of the USB Token System for Fingerprint Verification....Pages 998-1005 Method for Image Informational Properties Exploitation in Pattern Recognition Environment....Pages 1006-1013 LWDOS: Language for Writing Descriptors of Outline Shapes....Pages 1014-1021 Real-Time Tracking of Video Sequences in a Panoramic View for Object-Based Video Coding....Pages 1022-1029 Bootstrapping Sequential Monte Carlo Tracking....Pages 1030-1037 Tracking Weather Storms Using 3D Doppler Radial Velocity Information....Pages 1038-1043 Using Optical Flow as Evidence for Probabilistic Tracking....Pages 1044-1049 Extraction of Multiple Motion Trajectories in Human Motion....Pages 1050-1057 Predicting Detection Events from Bayesian Scene Recognition....Pages 1058-1065 On the Similarity Based Impulsive Noise Removal Technique for Multichannel Images....Pages 1066-1073 Panoramic Movie Generation Using an Omnidirectional Multi-camera System for Telepresence....Pages 1074-1081 Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Data and the Complex Wishart Distribution....Pages 1082-1089 Binary Co-occurrence Matrix in Image Database Indexing....Pages 1090-1097 Color-Based Image Retrieval from High-Similarity Image Databases....Pages 1098-1105 Using Image Segments in PicSOM CBIR System....Pages 1106-1113 Image Retrieval Using Mixture Models and EM Algorithm....Pages 1114-1121 Finding Object Categories in Cluttered Images Using Minimal Shape Prototypes....Pages 1122-1129 Automatic Extraction of Object Region from Photographs....Pages 1130-1137 Stroke Segmentation in Infrared Reflectograms....Pages 1138-1145 Multi-oriented English Text Line Identification....Pages 1146-1153 A Modified Fast Marching Method....Pages 1154-1161 Texture Classification by Combining Local Binary Pattern Features and a Self-Organizing Map....Pages 1162-1169 The Excellently Received Call For Papers Of The 13th Scandinavian Conference On Image Analysis, June 29–july 2 (scia 2003) Resulted In The Selected Articles Of This Proceedings. Additionally The Volume Also Contains Invited Contributions From – Ivar Austvoll, Stavanger University College (no), – Lars B? A? Ath, Halmstad University (se), – Ewert Bengtsson, Uppsala University (se), – Rasmus Larsen, Technical University Of Denmark (dk), – Jussi Parkkinen, University Of Joensuu (fi), – Pietro Perona, California Institute Of Technology (us) Which Brings The Total Number Of Articles To 152. The Theme Of The Papers Are Dominated By The Categories – Feature Extraction – Depth And Surface – Medical Image Processing – Shape Analysis – Segmentation And Spatial Grouping – Coding And Representation – Motion Analysis – Texture Analysis – Color Analysis – Indexing And Categorization Which Also Represent The Topical Groupings Of This Book. The Particularly Strong Response To The Feature Extraction, Depth And Surface, And Medical Image Processing Themes Makes Us Believe That These Areas Are C- Rently Expansive, Partly Because Of The Rich Set Of Problems Which Remain To Be Addressed. Invited -- Feature Extraction I -- Depth And Surface I -- Invited -- Feature Extraction, Shape Analysis -- Coding And Representation -- Motion Analysis -- Invited -- Medical Image Processing -- Depth And Surface Ii -- Invited -- Medical Image Processing, Depth And Surface -- Feature Extraction Ii -- Shape Analysis I -- Invited -- Color Analysis -- Shape Analysis Ii -- Texture Analysis -- Invited -- Motion Analysis, Color Analysis -- Indexing And Categorization -- Segmentation And Spatial Grouping. Josef Bigun, Tomas Gustavsson (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References And Index.