Image Analysis and Recognition: 9th International Conference, ICIAR 2012, Aveiro, Portugal, June 25-27, 2012. Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7324)

The two-volume set LNCS 7324/7325 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Image and Recognition, ICIAR 2012, held in Aveiro, Portugal, in June 2012. The 107 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 207 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on clustering and classification; image processing; image analysis; motion analysis and tracking; shape representation; 3D imaging; applications; biometrics and face recognition; human activity recognition; biomedical image analysis; retinal image analysis; and call detection and modeling. Front Matter....Pages - Multi-stage Visible Wavelength and Near Infrared Iris Segmentation Framework....Pages 1-10 Two Unconstrained Biometric Databases....Pages 11-19 Multibiometric System Using Level Set Method and Particle Swarm Optimization....Pages 20-29 Explicit Integration of Identity Information from Skin Regions to Improve Face Recognition....Pages 30-37 Hand-Geometry Based Recognition System....Pages 38-45 Local Gradient Increasing Pattern (LGIP) for Facial Representation and Gender Recognition....Pages 46-53 Quality-Based Fingerprint Segmentation....Pages 54-63 A New Multi-camera Based Facial Expression Analysis Concept....Pages 64-71 Entropy in Biometric Face Template Analysis....Pages 72-79 Combining Face with Face-Part Detectors under Gaussian Assumption....Pages 80-89 Generalized Local Discriminant Embedding for Face Recognition....Pages 90-97 Depth Information in Human Gait Analysis: An Experimental Study on Gender Recognition....Pages 98-105 A Depth Camera Based Fall Recognition System for the Elderly....Pages 106-113 Heuristic and Voxel-Based Signature for Hand Posture Recognition Using a Range Camera....Pages 114-121 A Compound Eigenspace for Recognizing Directed Human Activities....Pages 122-129 Hand Detection and Tracking Using the Skeleton of the Blob for Medical Rehabilitation Applications....Pages 130-137 Denoising 3D Medical Images Using a Second Order Variational Model and Wavelet Shrinkage....Pages 138-145 Robust Impulse-Noise Filtering for Biomedical Images Using Numerical Interpolation....Pages 146-155 Segmenting Multiple Sclerosis Lesions Using a Spatially Constrained K-Nearest Neighbour Approach....Pages 156-163 A Segmentation Model and Application to Endoscopic Images....Pages 164-171 Dental X-Ray Image Segmentation and Object Detection Based on Phase Congruency....Pages 172-179 Automatic Lane Detection in Chromatography Images....Pages 180-187 Segmentation and Detection of Colorectal Polyps Using Local Polynomial Approximation....Pages 188-197 Hemoglobin and Melanin Quantification on Skin Images....Pages 198-205 Lung Tumor Segmentation Using Electric Flow Lines for Graph Cuts....Pages 206-213 Segmentation and Analysis of the Oral and Nasal Cavities from MR Time Sequences....Pages 214-221 Automatic Internal Segmentation of Caudate Nucleus for Diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder....Pages 222-229 Automated Segmentation of Brain Tumor Using Optimal Texture Features and Support Vector Machine Classifier....Pages 230-239 Class-Specific Mahalanobis Distance Metric Learning for Biological Image Classification....Pages 240-248 Supervised Content Based Image Retrieval Using Radiology Reports....Pages 249-258 Computer Aided Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease from MRI Brain Images....Pages 259-267 Separability Analysis of Color Classes on Dermoscopic Images....Pages 268-277 Pedicle Detection in Planar Radiographs Based on Image Descriptors....Pages 278-285 Function-Valued Mappings, Total Variation and Compressed Sensing for diffusion MRI....Pages 286-295 Structure from Motion Based Approaches to 3D Reconstruction in Minimal Invasive Laparoscopy....Pages 296-303 Non-rigid Diffeomorphic Image Registration of Medical Images Using Polynomial Expansion....Pages 304-312 An Illumination Model of the Trachea Appearance in Videobronchoscopy Images....Pages 313-320 Adaptive Windowing for Optimal Visualization of Medical Images Based on a Structural Fidelity Measure....Pages 321-330 Descriptive Image Feature for Object Detection in Medical Images....Pages 331-338 3D Retinal Vascular Network from Optical Coherence Tomography Data....Pages 339-346 The Significance of the Vessel Registration for a Reliable Computation of Arteriovenous Ratio....Pages 347-354 Fast Segmentation of Retinal Blood Vessels Using a Deformable Contour Model....Pages 355-362 Detection of Retinal Vascular Bifurcations by Rotation- and Scale-Invariant COSFIRE Filters....Pages 363-371 Detection of Neovascularization for Screening of Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy....Pages 372-379 Ensemble Classification System Applied for Retinal Vessel Segmentation on Child Images Containing Various Vessel Profiles....Pages 380-389 Automatic Cup-to-Disc Ratio Estimation Using Active Contours and Color Clustering in Fundus Images for Glaucoma Diagnosis....Pages 390-399 Detection of Peri-Papillary Atrophy and RNFL Defect from Retinal Images....Pages 400-407 Automatic Photoreceptor Detection in In-Vivo Adaptive Optics Retinal Images: Statistical Validation....Pages 408-415 Automatic Detection of Optic Disc from Retinal Fundus Images Using Dynamic Programming....Pages 416-423 Automatic Localization of the Optic Disc in Retinal Images Based on the Entropy of Vascular Directions....Pages 424-431 Automatic Assessment of Leishmania Infection Indexes on In Vitro Macrophage Cell Cultures....Pages 432-439 Analysis of Whole Slide Images of Equine Tendinopathy....Pages 440-447 Curvelet-Based Texture Description to Classify Intact and Damaged Boar Spermatozoa....Pages 448-455 Comparison of Methods for Splitting of Touching and Overlapping Macrophages in Fluorescent Micrographs....Pages 456-464 Segmentation of Muscle Fibres in Fluorescence Microscopy Images....Pages 465-472 Generation of Synthetic Image Datasets for Time-Lapse Fluorescence Microscopy....Pages 473-482 Cervical Cell Classification Based Exclusively on Nucleus Features....Pages 483-490 Back Matter....Pages - 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.