Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: Third International Workshop, Emmcvpr 2001, Sophia Antipolis, France, September 3-5, 2001, Proceedings

by Figueriredo, Mario; Zerubia, Josiane; Jain, Anil K.

• ISBN13: 9783540425236
• ISBN10: 3540425233
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, EMMCVPR 2001, held in Sophia Antipolis, France in September 2001. The 42 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The book offers topical sections on probabilistic models and estimation; image modeling and synthesis; clustering, grouping, and segmentation; optimization and graphs; and shapes, curves, surfaces, and templates.

Table of Contents

I Probabilistic Models and Estimation
A Double-Loop Algorithm to Minimize the Bethe Free Energy	3	(16)
Alan Yuille
A Variational Approach to Maximum a Posteriori Estimation for Image Denoising	19	(15)
A. Ben Hamza
Hamid Krim
Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Template of a Rigid Moving Object	34	(16)
Pedro M. Q. Aguiar
Jose M. F. Moura
Metric Similarities Learning through Examples: An Application to Shape Retrieval	50	(13)
Alain Trouve
Yong Yu
A Fast MAP Algorithm for 3D Ultrasound	63	(12)
Joao M. Sanches
Jorge S. Marques
Designing the Minimal Structure of Hidden Markov Model by Bisimulation	75	(16)
Manuele Bicego
Agostino Dovier
Vittorio Murino
Relaxing Symmetric Multiple Windows Stereo Using Markov Random Fields	91	(14)
Andrea Fusiello
Umberto Castellani
Vittorio Murino
Matching Images to Models - Camera Calibration for 3-D Surface Reconstruction	105	(13)
Robin D. Morris
Vadim N. Smelyanskiy
Peter C. Cheeseman
A Hierarchical Markov Random Field Model for Figure-Ground Segregation	118	(16)
Stella X. Yu
Tai Sing Lee
Takeo Kanade
Articulated Object Tracking via a Genetic Algorithm	134	(19)
Jairo Rocha
Arnau Mir
II Image Modelling and Synthesis
Learning Matrix Space Image Representations	153	(16)
Anand Rangarajan
Supervised Texture Segmentation by Maximising Conditional Likelihood	169	(16)
Georgy Gimel'farb
Designing Moire Patterns	185	(16)
Guy Lebanon
Alfred M. Bruckstein
Optimization of Paintbrush Rendering of Images by Dynamic MCMC Methods	201	(15)
Tamas Sziranyi
Zoltan Toth
Illumination Invariant Recognition of Color Texture Using Correlation and Covariance Functions	216	(19)
Mohammed Al-Rawi
Yang Jie
III Clustering, Grouping, and Segmentation
Path Based Pairwise Data Clustering with Application to Texture Segmentation	235	(16)
Bernd Fischer
Thomas Zoller
Joachim M. Buhmann
A Maximum Likelihood Framework for Grouping and Segmentation	251	(16)
Antonio Robles-Kelly
Edwin R. Hancock
Image Labeling and Grouping by Minimizing Linear Functionals over Cones	267	(16)
Christian Schellewald
Jens Keuchel
Christoph Schnorr
Grouping with Directed Relationships	283	(15)
Stella X. Yu
Jianbo Shi
Segmentations of Spatio-Temporal Images by Spatio-Temporal Markov Random Field Model	298	(16)
Shunsuke Kamijo
Katsushi Ikeuchi
Masao Sakauchi
Highlight and Shading Invariant Color Image Segmentation Using Simulated Annealing	314	(14)
Paul Fieguth
Slawo Wesolkoswki
Edge Based Probabilistic Relaxation for Sub-pixel Contour Extraction	328	(16)
Toshiro Kubota
Terry Huntsberger
Jeffrey T. Martin
Two Variational Models for Multispectral Image Classification	344	(15)
Christophe Samson
Laure Blanc-Feraud
Gilles Aubert
Josiane Zerubia
IV Optimization and Graphs
An Experimental Comparison of Min-cut/Max-flow Algorithms for Energy Minimization in Vision	359	(16)
Yuri Boykov
Vladimir Kolmogorov
A Discrete/Continuous Minimization Method in Interferometric Image Processing	375	(16)
Jose M.B. Dias
Jose M.N. Leitao
Global Energy Minimization: A Transformation Approach	391	(16)
Kar-Ann Toh
Global Feedforward Neural Network Learning for Classification and Regression	407	(16)
Kar-Ann Toh
Juwei Lu
Wei-Yun Yau
Matching Free Trees, Maximal Cliques, and Monotone Game Dynamics	423	(15)
Marcello Pelillo
Efficiently Computing Weighted Tree Edit Distance Using Relaxation Labeling	438	(16)
Andrea Torsello
Edwin R. Hancock
Estimation of Distribution Algorithms: A New Evolutionary Computation Approach for Graph Matching Problems	454	(15)
Endika Bengoetxea
Pedro Larranaga
Isabelle Bloch
Aymeric Perchant
A Complementary Pivoting Approach to Graph Matching	469	(11)
Alessio Massaro
Marcello Pelillo
Application of Genetic Algorithms to 3-D Shape Reconstruction in an Active Stereo Vision System	480	(17)
Sanghyuk Woo
Albert Dipanda
Franck Marzani
V Shapes, Curves, Surfaces, and Templates
A Markov Process Using Curvature for Filtering Curve Images	497	(16)
Jonas August
Steven W. Zucker
Geodesic Interpolating Splines	513	(15)
Vincent Camion
Laurent Younes
Averaged Template Matching Equations	528	(16)
Anil N. Hirani
Jerrold E. Marsden
James Arvo
A Continuous Shape Descriptor by Orientation Diffusion	544	(16)
Hsing-Kuo Pao
Davi Geiger
Multiple Contour Finding and Perceptual Grouping as a Set of Energy Minimizing Paths	560	(16)
Laurent D. Cohen
Thomas Deschamps
Shape Tracking Using Centroid-Based Methods	576	(16)
Arnaldo J. Abrantes
Jorge S. Marques
Optical Flow and Image Registration: A New Local Rigidity Approach for Global Minimization	592	(16)
Martin Lefebure
Laurent D. Cohen
Spherical Object Reconstruction Using Star-Shaped Simplex Meshes	608	(13)
Pavel Matula
David Svoboda
Gabor Feature Space Diffusion via the Minimal Weighted Area Method	621	(15)
Chen Sagiv
Nir A. Sochen
Yehoshua Y. Zeevi
3D Flux Maximizing Flows	636	(15)
Kaleem Siddiqi
Alexander Vasilevskiy
Author Index	651