Image Analysis and Processing : 9th International Conference, ICIAP '97 Florence, Italy, September 17-19, 1997 Proceedings, Volume I

This Book Is Part Of The Refereed 2-volume Proceedings Of The 9th International Conference On Image Analysis And Processing, Iciap'97, Held In Florence, Italy, September 1997. Both Volumes Together Present Several Keynote Contributions And 173 Revised Papers Selected From Over 300 Submissions. The Contributing Authors (more Than 400 In Number) Provide A Wealth Of New Results In The Areas Of Image Analysis, Pattern Recognition And Computer Vision. Among The Basic Topics Covered Are Image Enhancement, Image Segmentation, Image Compression, Motion Analysis, Object Recognition, Image Understanding, And Special Hardware Architectures And Systems, Etc. Among The Application Areas Covered Are Biomedical Imaging, Character Recognition, Safety And Surveillance, Object Identification, Etc. Alberto Del Bimbo (ed.). Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Challenges and opportunities for PR&CV research in year 2000 and beyond....Pages 1-5 Multi-scale gradient magnitude watershed segmentation....Pages 6-13 Segmentation of multispectral images of works of art through principal component analysis....Pages 14-21 Multiscale edge detection via normal changes....Pages 22-29 Extending adjacency to fuzzy sets for coping with imprecise image objects....Pages 30-37 Adaptive selection of image classifiers....Pages 38-45 Classification reliability and its use in multi-classifier systems....Pages 46-53 Color linear model....Pages 54-61 A computational approach to color illusions....Pages 62-69 Improved textured images segmentation using an energy functional....Pages 70-78 Contribution to the colour segmentation by means of an algorithm which reduces the CCDs saturation problems....Pages 79-86 Pyramid-based multi-sensor image data fusion with enhancement of textural features....Pages 87-94 Texture analysis using pairwise interaction maps....Pages 95-102 Estimation of the color image gradient with perceptual attributes....Pages 103-110 Contour line extraction from color images of scanned maps....Pages 111-118 Subjective analysis of edge detectors in color image processing....Pages 119-126 Similarity measures for binary and gray level Markov Random Field textures....Pages 127-133 A simple and effective edge detector....Pages 134-141 Improvements to image magnification....Pages 142-149 Refining surface curvature with relaxation labeling....Pages 150-157 Dynamic scale-space theories....Pages 158-165 Reconstructing digital sets from X-rays....Pages 166-173 Pattern recognition from compressed labelled trees of fuzzy regions....Pages 174-181 Optimality analysis of edge detection algorithms for range images....Pages 182-189 Analysis situs and image processing....Pages 190-197 Defining cost functions and profitability measures for digraphs associated with raster DEMs....Pages 198-205 Using proximity and spatial homogeneity in neighbourhood-based classifiers....Pages 206-213 Image segmentation by means of fuzzy entropy measure....Pages 214-222 Efficient region segmentation through ‘creep-and-merge’....Pages 223-230 An automatic transformation from bimodal to pseudo-binary images....Pages 231-238 A new deformable model for 3D image segmentation....Pages 239-246 Evolutionary image segmentation....Pages 247-254 Discontinuity adaptive MRF model for synthetic aperture radar image analysis....Pages 255-262 Region growing Euclidean distance transforms....Pages 263-270 COP: A new method for extracting edges and corners....Pages 271-278 An integrated approach for segmentation and representation of range images....Pages 279-286 Two-dimensional fractal segmentation of natural images....Pages 287-294 Fast segmentation of range images....Pages 295-302 Image compression based on Centipede Model....Pages 303-310 Unsupervised texture segmentation using feature distributions....Pages 311-318 Color based object recognition....Pages 319-326 Color texture classification by wavelet energy correlation signatures....Pages 327-334 Cross-media color matching using neural networks....Pages 335-342 Object recognition and performance bounds....Pages 343-360 Relating image warping to 3D geometrical deformations....Pages 361-368 Using top-down and bottom-up analysis for a multi-scale skeleton hierarchy....Pages 369-376 A new algorithm for 3D profilometry based on phase measurement....Pages 377-384 Surface modeling and display from range and color data....Pages 385-397 An improved active shape model: Handling occlusion and outliers....Pages 398-405 Perspective matching using the EM algorithm....Pages 406-413 Identifying human face profiles with semi-local integral invariants....Pages 414-421 Adaptive fovea structures for space-variant sensors....Pages 422-429 Structural characterisation of image processing operators....Pages 430-437 Easy calibration of pan/tilt camera heads and online computation of the epipolar correspondences....Pages 438-445 Integration of spatio-temporal information for motion detection by means of fuzzy reasoning....Pages 446-453 Adaptive motion estimation and video vector quantization based on spatiotemporal non-linearities of human perception....Pages 454-461 Integral based approach for determining motion vector fields....Pages 462-469 A practical algorithm for structure and motion recovery from long sequence of images....Pages 470-477 Object pose by affine iterations....Pages 478-485 Robust motion estimation using chrominance information in colour image sequences....Pages 486-493 Temporal prediction of video sequences using an image warping technique based on color segmentation....Pages 494-501 Motion and intensity-based segmentation and its application to traffice monitoring....Pages 502-509 A geometrically deformable contour model....Pages 510-518 Non-visible deformations....Pages 519-526 Two-step parameter-free elastic image registration with prescribed point displacements....Pages 527-534 Learning for feature selection and shape detection....Pages 535-542 Experiments on the decomposition of arbitrarily shaped binary morphological structuring elements....Pages 543-550 Bézier modelling of cracks....Pages 551-558 An adaptive deformable template for mouth boundary modeling....Pages 559-566 A two-stage framework for polygon retrieval using Minimum Circular Error Bound....Pages 567-574 Topology and shape preserving parallel thinning for 3D digital images — a new approach....Pages 575-581 Convergence of model based shape from shading....Pages 582-587 Quantitative assessment of two skeletonization algorithms adapted to rectangular grids....Pages 588-595 An algorithm for the global solution of the shape-from-shading model....Pages 596-603 A statistical classification method for hierarchical irregular objects....Pages 604-611 Multi-level dynamic programming for axial motion stereo line matching....Pages 612-619 Analysis of grey-level features for line segment stereo matching....Pages 620-627 3-D object positioning from monocular image brightnesses....Pages 628-635 Camera calibration based on 3D-point-grid....Pages 636-643 A geometric modeling tool for stereo-matching and reconstruction of a model of 3D-scene....Pages 644-652 Estimating translation/deformation motion through phase correlation....Pages 653-660 Robust fitting of 3D CAD models to video streams....Pages 661-668 Experiments with a new area-based stereo algorithm....Pages 669-676 Adaptive stereo matching in correlation scale-space....Pages 677-684 Hierarchical depth mapping from multiple cameras....Pages 685-692 Fast error-correcting graph isomorphism based on model precompilation....Pages 693-700 Function-described graphs applied to 3D object representation....Pages 701-708 Cooperative vision in a multi-agent architecture....Pages 709-716