Image Analysis and Recognition: 16th International Conference, ICIAR 2019, Waterloo, ON, Canada, August 27–29, 2019, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 11662)

This two-volume set LNCS 11662 and 11663 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2019, held in Waterloo, ON, Canada, in August 2019. The 58 full papers presented together with 24 short and 2 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 142 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Image Processing; Image Analysis; Signal Processing Techniques for Ultrasound Tissue Characterization and Imaging in Complex Biological Media; Advances in Deep Learning; Deep Learning on the Edge; Recognition; Applications; Medical Imaging and Analysis Using Deep Learning and Machine Intelligence; Image Analysis and Recognition for Automotive Industry; Adaptive Methods for Ultrasound Beamforming and Motion Estimation. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Proximal Splitting Networks for Image Restoration (Raied Aljadaany, Dipan K. Pal, Marios Savvides)....Pages 3-17 A Deep Learning Approach for Real-Time 3D Human Action Recognition from Skeletal Data (Huy Hieu Pham, Houssam Salmane, Louahdi Khoudour, Alain Crouzil, Pablo Zegers, Sergio A. Velastin)....Pages 18-32 Image Structure Subspace Learning Using Structural Similarity Index (Benyamin Ghojogh, Fakhri Karray, Mark Crowley)....Pages 33-44 Motion-Augmented Inference and Joint Kernels in Structured Learning for Object Tracking (Kumara Ratnayake, Maria A. Amer)....Pages 45-54 An Efficient Algorithm for Computing the Derivative of Mean Structural Similarity Index Measure (Isabel Molina Orihuela, Mehran Ebrahimi)....Pages 55-66 Drift Detection Using SVM in Structured Object Tracking (Kumara Ratnayake, Maria A. Amer)....Pages 67-76 Principal Component Analysis Using Structural Similarity Index for Images (Benyamin Ghojogh, Fakhri Karray, Mark Crowley)....Pages 77-88 Blind Quality Assessment of Multiply Distorted Images Using Deep Neural Networks (Zhongling Wang, Shahrukh Athar, Zhou Wang)....Pages 89-101 Layered Embeddings for Amodal Instance Segmentation (Yanfeng Liu, Eric T. Psota, Lance C. Pérez)....Pages 102-111 CNN-Based Real-Time Parameter Tuning for Optimizing Denoising Filter Performance (Subhayan Mukherjee, Navaneeth Kamballur Kottayil, Xinyao Sun, Irene Cheng)....Pages 112-125 Locally Linear Image Structural Embedding for Image Structure Manifold Learning (Benyamin Ghojogh, Fakhri Karray, Mark Crowley)....Pages 126-138 Fitting Smooth Manifolds to Point Clouds in a Level Set Formulation (Hossein Soleimani, George Poothicottu Jacob, Oleg V. Michailovich)....Pages 139-149 KFBin: Kalman Filter-Based Approach for Document Image Binarization (Abderrahmane Rahiche, Mohamed Cheriet)....Pages 150-161 AVC, HEVC, VP9, AVS2 or AV1? — A Comparative Study of State-of-the-Art Video Encoders on 4K Videos (Zhuoran Li, Zhengfang Duanmu, Wentao Liu, Zhou Wang)....Pages 162-173 An Improved Simulated Annealing Approach for Reconstructing Binary Images with Fixed Number of Strips (Judit Szűcs, Péter Balázs)....Pages 174-185 WaveM-CNN for Automatic Recognition of Sub-cellular Organelles (Duc Hoa Tran, Michel Meunier, Farida Cheriet)....Pages 186-194 Tracking in Urban Traffic Scenes from Background Subtraction and Object Detection (Hui-Lee Ooi, Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau, Nicolas Saunier)....Pages 195-206 An Improved Weighted Average Reprojection Image Denoising Method (Halimah Alsurayhi, Mahmoud R. El-Sakka)....Pages 207-215 Hybrid HMM/DNN System for Arabic Handwriting Keyword Spotting (Ahmed Cheikh Rouhou, Yousri Kessentini, Slim Kanoun)....Pages 216-227 A Reconstruction-Free Projection Selection Procedure for Binary Tomography Using Convolutional Neural Networks (Gergely Pap, Gábor Lékó, Tamás Grósz)....Pages 228-236 Augmenting Reality of Tracked Video Objects Using Homography and Keypoints (Julien Valognes, Niloufar Salehi Dastjerdi, Maria Amer)....Pages 237-245 Initial Conditions of Reaction-Diffusion Algorithm Designed for Image Edge Detection (Atsushi Nomura)....Pages 246-251 Vision-Based Target Objects Recognition and Segmentation for Unmanned Systems Task Allocation (Wenbo Wu, Pierre Payeur, Omar Al-Buraiki, Matthew Ross)....Pages 252-263 Bayesian Learning of Infinite Asymmetric Gaussian Mixture Models for Background Subtraction (Ziyang Song, Samr Ali, Nizar Bouguila)....Pages 264-274 Deep Demosaicing for Edge Implementation (Ramchalam Ramakrishnan, Shangling Jui, Vahid Partovi Nia)....Pages 275-286 A Scene-Based Augmented Reality Framework for Exhibits (Julien Li-Chee-Ming, Zheng Wu, Randy Tan, Ryan Tan, Naimul Mefraz Khan, Andy Ye et al.)....Pages 287-296 Existence, Uniqueness and Asymptotic Behaviour of Intensity-Based Measures Which Conform to a Generalized Weber’s Model of Perception (Dongchang Li, Davide La Torre, Edward R. Vrscay)....Pages 297-308 HMM Based Keyword Spotting System in Printed/Handwritten Arabic/Latin Documents with Identification Stage (Ahmed Cheikh Rouhou, Yousri Kessentini, Slim Kanoun)....Pages 309-320 Front Matter ....Pages 321-321 Emotion Recognition with Spatial Attention and Temporal Softmax Pooling (Masih Aminbeidokhti, Marco Pedersoli, Patrick Cardinal, Eric Granger)....Pages 323-331 CNN-Based Watershed Marker Extraction for Brick Segmentation in Masonry Walls (Yahya Ibrahim, Balázs Nagy, Csaba Benedek)....Pages 332-344 Improving Person Re-identification by Background Subtraction Using Two-Stream Convolutional Networks (Mahmoud Ghorbel, Sourour Ammar, Yousri Kessentini, Mohamed Jmaiel)....Pages 345-356 Safely Caching HOG Pyramid Feature Levels, to Speed up Facial Landmark Detection (Gareth Higgins, Ling Guan, Azhar Quddus, Ali Shahidi Zandi)....Pages 357-363 Construction and Optimization of Feature Descriptor Based on Dynamic Local Intensity Order Relations of Pixel Group (Wen-Hung Liao, Carolyn Yu, Yi-Chieh Wu)....Pages 364-375 Segmentation of Breast MRI Scans in the Presence of Bias Fields (Hossein Soleimani, Jose Rincon, Oleg V. Michailovich)....Pages 376-387 Spatially-Coherent Segmentation Using Hierarchical Gaussian Mixture Reduction Based on Cauchy-Schwarz Divergence (Adama Nouboukpo, Mohand Said Allili)....Pages 388-396 Automatic Evaluation of Speech Therapy Exercises Based on Image Data (Zuzana Bílková, Adam Novozámský, Adam Domínec, Šimon Greško, Barbara Zitová, Markéta Paroubková)....Pages 397-404 Front Matter ....Pages 405-405 Predicting Structural Properties of Cortical Bone by Combining Ultrasonic Attenuation and an Artificial Neural Network (ANN): 2-D FDTD Study (Kaustav Mohanty, Omid Yousefian, Yasamin Karbalaeisadegh, Micah Ulrich, Marie Muller)....Pages 407-417 B-line Detection and Localization by Means of Deep Learning: Preliminary In-vitro Results (Ruud J. G. van Sloun, Libertario Demi)....Pages 418-424 Front Matter ....Pages 425-425 Behavior-Based Compression for Convolutional Neural Networks (Koji Kamma, Yuki Isoda, Sarimu Inoue, Toshikazu Wada)....Pages 427-439 Unsupervised Deep Shape from Template (Mohammad Ali Bagheri Orumi, M. Hadi Sepanj, Mahmoud Famouri, Zohreh Azimifar, Alexander Wong)....Pages 440-451 Strategies for Improving Single-Head Continual Learning Performance (Alaa El Khatib, Fakhri Karray)....Pages 452-460 Affine Variational Autoencoders (Rene Bidart, Alexander Wong)....Pages 461-472 Back Matter ....Pages 473-475 The two volumes LNCS 8814 and 8815 constitute the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2014, held in Vilamoura, Portugal, in October 2014. The 107 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 177 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: image representation and models; sparse representation; image restoration and enhancement; feature detection and image segmentation; classification and learning methods; document image analysis; image and video retrieval; remote sensing; applications; action, gestures and audio-visual recognition; biometrics; medical image processing and analysis; medical image segmentation; computer-aided diagnosis; retinal image analysis; 3D imaging; motion analysis and tracking; and robot vision.