Image Analysis and Recognition: 5th International Conference, ICIAR 2008, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, June 25-27, 2008. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2008, held in Póvoa do Varzim, Portugal, in June 2008. The 110 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 226 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image restoration and enhancement, image and video segmentation, non-linear image processing, image and video coding and encryption, indexing and retrieval, computer vision, feature extraction and classification, shape representation and matching, object recognition, character recognition, texture and motion analysis, tracking, biomedical image analysis, biometrics, face recognition, and a special session on recent advances in multimodal biometric systems and applications. Front Matter....Pages - DIAR: Advances in Degradation Modeling and Processing....Pages 1-10 Analysis for Video Coding: Moving It from the Encoder to the Decoder....Pages 11-22 A Fast Scheme for Multiscale Signal Denoising....Pages 23-32 Color Scratches Removal Using Human Perception....Pages 33-42 Self-similarity of Images in the Fourier Domain, with Applications to MRI....Pages 43-52 A Simple Scaling Algorithm Based on Areas Pixels....Pages 53-64 A New Method for Sharpening Color Images Using Fuzzy Approach....Pages 65-74 Wavelet Noise Reduction Based on Energy Features....Pages 75-84 Fast Exact Area Image Upsampling with Natural Biquadratic Histosplines....Pages 85-96 A New Super-Resolution Algorithm Based on Areas Pixels and the Sampling Theorem of Papoulis....Pages 97-109 Robust Segmentation Process to Detect Incidents on Highways....Pages 110-121 Handling Topological Changes in the Topological Active Volumes Model....Pages 122-131 Image Segmentation Via Iterative Histogram Thresholding and Morphological Features Analysis....Pages 132-141 Vehicle Detection Based on Color and Edge Information....Pages 142-150 A Neural Network Approach for Video Object Segmentation in Traffic Surveillance....Pages 151-158 Color Photo Denoising Via Hue, Saturation and Intensity Diffusion....Pages 159-169 Examining the Role of Scale in the Context of the Non-Local-Means Filter....Pages 170-181 Geometrical Multiscale Noise Resistant Method of Edge Detection....Pages 182-191 A Simple, General Model for the Affine Self-similarity of Images....Pages 192-203 Efficient Bit-Rate Estimation for Mode Decision of H.264/AVC....Pages 204-212 Introducing a Two Dimensional Measure for Watermarking Capacity in Images....Pages 213-220 Estimating the Detectability of Small Lesions in High Resolution MR Compressed Images....Pages 221-232 JPEG Artifact Removal Using Error Distributions of Linear Coefficient Estimates....Pages 233-242 Efficient Constrained Video Coding for Low Complexity Decoding....Pages 243-252 Robust 3D Watermarking Technique Using Eigendecomposition and Nonnegative Matrix Factorization....Pages 253-262 OntoAlbum : An Ontology Based Digital Photo Management System....Pages 263-270 Weighted Fuzzy Feature Matching for Region-Based Medical Image Retrieval: Application to Cerebral Hemorrhage Computerized Tomography....Pages 271-280 Video Retrieval Method Using Non-parametric Based Motion Classification....Pages 281-293 A General Algorithm to Recover External Camera Parameters from Pairwise Camera Calibrations....Pages 294-304 Auto Exposure Control for Multiple-Slope Cameras....Pages 305-314 Recovery of Surface Normals and Reflectance from Different Lighting Conditions....Pages 315-325 Real-Time Spherical Videos from a Fast Rotating Camera....Pages 326-335 Near Real-Time 3D Reconstruction from InIm Video Stream....Pages 336-347 A Simple Shadow Based Method for Camera Calibration....Pages 348-356 Monocular Head Pose Estimation....Pages 357-368 Active Exploration Using Bayesian Models for Multimodal Perception....Pages 369-378 Performance Considerations for a Real-Time Integral Image Camera in Ray Tracing Environments....Pages 379-384 Camera Location and Aperture Characterization Using the Transformation between a 2D Plane and the Image Captured by the Camera....Pages 385-394 Optimization in 3D Scene Acquisition with Two Mobile Robots....Pages 395-403 Feature Extraction Using Low-Rank Approximations of the Kernel Matrix....Pages 404-412 Minimizing the Imbalance Problem in Chromatographic Profile Classification with One-Class Classifiers....Pages 413-422 Efficient Bisecting k -Medoids and Its Application in Gene Expression Analysis....Pages 423-434 Feature Extraction for Regression Problems and an Example Application for Pose Estimation of a Face....Pages 435-444 On the Performance of Stacked Generalization Classifiers....Pages 445-454 Binary Image Registration Using Covariant Gaussian Densities....Pages 455-464 Shape Matching Using a Novel Warping Distance Measure....Pages 465-474 Shape Learning with Function-Described Graphs....Pages 475-484 Mo Músaem Fíorúil: A Web-Based Search and Information Service for Museum Visitors....Pages 485-496 A Template-Based Shape Representation Technique....Pages 497-506 From 3D Discrete Surface Skeletons to Curve Skeletons....Pages 507-516 Measuring Graph Similarity Using Spectral Geometry....Pages 517-526 A Method for Blur and Affine Invariant Object Recognition Using Phase-Only Bispectrum....Pages 527-536 An Algorithm for Binary Contour Objects Representation and Recognition....Pages 537-546 Planar Shapes Descriptors Based on the Turning Angle Scalogram....Pages 547-556 An Automatic Method for Video Character Segmentation....Pages 557-566 A Database for Arabic Printed Character Recognition....Pages 567-578 Persian Writer Identification Using Extended Gabor Filter....Pages 579-586 Text Particles Multi-band Fusion for Robust Text Detection....Pages 587-596 Finding Arbitrary Shaped Clusters for Character Recognition....Pages 597-608 Region and Graph-Based Motion Segmentation....Pages 609-618 Rotationally Invariant Hashing of Median Binary Patterns for Texture Classification....Pages 619-629 Is Dense Optic Flow Useful to Compute the Fundamental Matrix?....Pages 630-639 Global Image Feature Extraction Using Slope Pattern Spectra....Pages 640-649 Discovering Constrained Substructures in Bayesian Trees Using the E.M. Algorithm....Pages 650-659 Generalized Least Squares-Based Parametric Motion Estimation Under Non-uniform Illumination Changes....Pages 660-669 Comparison between 2D and 3D Local Binary Pattern Methods for Characterisation of Three-Dimensional Textures....Pages 670-679 Texture Dissimilarity Measures for Background Change Detection....Pages 680-687 Multi-resolution Texture Classification Based on Local Image Orientation....Pages 688-696 Adaboost Video Tracking....Pages 697-705 Image Based Visual Servoing: Estimated Image Jacobian by Using Fundamental Matrix VS Analytic Jacobian....Pages 706-717 Homography-Based Tracking Control for Mobile Robots....Pages 718-728 Real Time Eyes Tracking and Classification for Driver Fatigue Detection....Pages 729-738 A Hybrid Approach for Arabidopsis Root Cell Image Segmentation....Pages 739-749 Fuzzy Local Binary Patterns for Ultrasound Texture Characterization....Pages 750-759 Joint Detection of the Carotid Boundaries in Longitudinal B-Mode Images....Pages 760-769 Automatic MRI Brain Segmentation with Combined Atlas-Based Classification and Level-Set Approach....Pages 770-778 Automatic Detection of the Back Valley on Scoliotic Trunk Using Polygonal Surface Curvature....Pages 779-788 Pharmacokinetic Perfusion Curves Estimation for Liver Tumor Diagnosis from DCE-MRI....Pages 789-797 3-D Deformation Guided On-Line Modification of Multi-leaf Collimators for Adaptive Radiation Therapy....Pages 798-806 Optic Disc Segmentation by Means of GA-Optimized Topological Active Nets....Pages 807-816 Automatic Individual Detection and Separation of Multiple Overlapped Nematode Worms Using Skeleton Analysis....Pages 817-826 Classification and Quantification Based on Image Analysis for Sperm Samples with Uncertain Damaged/Intact Cell Proportions....Pages 827-836 Detection of Clustered Microcalcifications with SUSAN Edge Detector, Adaptive Contrast Thresholding and Spatial Filters....Pages 837-843 Subspace Vector Quantization and Markov Modeling for Cell Phase Classification....Pages 844-853 A Stitching Algorithm for Automatic Registration of Digital Radiographs....Pages 854-862 The Role of Entropy: Mammogram Analysis....Pages 863-872 An Enhanced Histogram Matching Approach Using the Retinal Filter’s Compression Function for Illumination Normalization in Face Recognition....Pages 873-883 Replacement Algorithms for Fingerprint Template Update....Pages 884-893 Optimal Features Subset Selection Using Genetic Algorithms for Iris Recognition....Pages 894-904 A Modified Singular Point Detection Algorithm....Pages 905-914 Fingerprint Image Postprocessing Using Windowing Technique....Pages 915-924 Facial Gender Classification Using Shape from Shading and Weighted Principal Geodesic Analysis....Pages 925-934 Optimization of Face Relevance Maps with Total Classification Error Minimization....Pages 935-944 The Role of Face Parts in Gender Recognition....Pages 945-954 Facial Shape Spaces from Surface Normals....Pages 955-965 A Neural Network Based Cascaded Classifier for Face Detection in Color Images with Complex Background....Pages 966-976 Kernel Weighted Scatter-Difference-Based Discriminant Analysis for Face Recognition....Pages 977-983 Image Level Fusion Method for Multimodal 2D + 3D Face Recognition....Pages 984-992 Human Lips as Emerging Biometrics Modality....Pages 993-1002 Quality-Based Score Normalization for Audiovisual Person Authentication....Pages 1003-1012 Cell Phones Personal Authentication Systems Using Multimodal Biometrics....Pages 1013-1022 Similarity Metrics Analysis for Feature Point Based Retinal Authentication....Pages 1023-1032 A New Data Normalization Function for Multibiometric Contexts: A Case Study....Pages 1033-1040 Evolving Fuzzy Modeling of an Uncalibrated Visual Servoing System....Pages 1041-1050 Alternative Methods for Counting Overlapping Grains in Digital Images....Pages 1051-1060 Image Affine Inpainting....Pages 1061-1070 Segmentation of Hyperspectral Images for the Detection of Rotten Mandarins....Pages 1071-1080 FPGA Implementation of Parallel Alpha-Beta Associative Memories....Pages 1081-1090 From Narrow to Broad Band Design and Selection in Hyperspectral Images....Pages 1091-1100 Computer Vision and Classification Techniques on the Surface Finish Control in Machining Processes....Pages 1101-1110 Improving the Border Detection and Image Enhancement Algorithms in Tableau....Pages 1111-1121 Back Matter....Pages - Invited papers -- DIAR: Advances in degradation modeling and processing / Mohamed Cheriet and Reza Farrahi Moghaddam -- Analysis for video coding: Moving it from the encoder to the decoder / Fernando Pereira -- Image restoration and enhancement -- A fast scheme for multiscale signal denoising / Vittoria Bruni, Benedetto Piccoli, and Domenico Vitulano -- Color scratches removal using human perception / Vittoria Bruni, Paola Ferrara, and Domenico Vitulano -- Self-similarity of images in the fourier domain, with applications to MRI / G.S. Mayer, Edward R. Vrscay, M.L. Lauzon, B. G. Goodyear, and J. R. Mitchell -- A simple scaling algorithm based on areas pixels / Alain Horé, François Deschênes, and Djemel Ziou -- A new method for sharpening color images using fuzzy approach / M. Wilscy and Madhu S. Nair -- Wavelet noise reduction based on energy features / Guoyi Fu, Ali Hojjat, and Alan Colchester -- Fast exact area image upsampling with natural biquadratic histosplines / Nicolas Robidoux, Adam Turcotte, Minglun Gong, and Annie Tousignant -- A new super-resolution algorithm based on areas pixels and the sampling theorem of Papoulis / Alain Horé, François Deschênes, and Djemel Ziou -- Image and video segmentation -- Robust segmentation process to detect incidents on highways / Gonçalo Monteiro, João Marcos, Miguel Ribeiro, and Jorge Batista -- Handling topological changes in the topological active volumes model / N. Barreira, M. G. Penedo, C. Alonso, and J. Rouco -- Image segmentation via iterative histogram thresholding and morphological features analysis / Nadia Brancati, Maria Frucci, and Gabriella Sanniti di Baja -- Vehicle detection based on color and edge information / Lei Gao, Chao Li, Ting Fang, and Zhang Xiong -- A neural network approach for video object segmentation in traffic surveillance / R. M. Luque, E. Domíguez, E. J. Palomo, and J. Muñoz -- Non-linear image processing -- Color photo denoising via hue, saturation and intensity diffusion / Lei He and Chenyang Xu -- Examining the role of scale in the context of the non-local-means filter / Mehran Ebrahimi and Edward R. Vrscay -- Geometrical mutliscale noise resistant method of edge detection / Agnieszka Lisowska -- A simple, general model for the affine self-similarity of images / SImon K. Alexander, Edward R. Vrscay, and Satoshi Tsurumi -- Image and video coding and encryption -- Efficient bit-rate estimation for mode decision of H. 264 / AVC / Shuwei Sun and Shuming Chen -- Introducing a two dimensional measure for watermarking capacity in images / Farzin Yaghmaee and Mansour Jamzad -- Estimating the detectability of small lesions in high resolution MR compressed images / Juan Paz, Marlen Pérez, Iroel Miranda, and Peter Schelkens -- JPEG artifact removal using error distributions of linear coefficient estimates / Mika Inki -- Efficient constrained video coding for low complexity decoding / Paulo J. Cordeiro, Juan Gomez-Pulido, and Pedro A. Assunção -- Robust 3D watermarking technique using eigendecomposition and nonnegative matrix factorization / Emad E. Abdallah, A. Ben Hamza, and Prabir Bhattacharya