Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns

by Hlavac, Vaclav; Sara, Radim

• ISBN13: 9783540602682
• ISBN10: 3540602682
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-12-01
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

This book presents the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, CAIP '95, held in Prague, Czech Republic in September 1995.The volume presents 61 full papers and 75 posters selected from a total of 262 submissions and thus gives a comprehensive view on the state-of-the-art in computer analysis of images and patterns, research, design, and advanced applications. The papers are organized in sections on invariants, segmentation and grouping, optical flow, model recovery and parameter estimation, low level vision, motion detection, structure and matching, active vision and shading, human face recognition, calibration, contour, and sessions on applications in diverse areas.

Table of Contents

Groups for Grouping: A Strategy for the Exploitation of Geometrical Constraints	p. 1
Invariant Standard Positions of Ordered Sets of Points	p. 9
Skew Symmetry Detection via Invariant Signatures	p. 17
Efficient Matching of Space Curves	p. 25
A Complexity Space for Curve Grouping	p. 33
Segmentation in Scale Space	p. 41
An Unsupervised Region Growing Method for 3-D Image Segmentation	p. 49
Segmentation of Images for Environmental Studies Using a Simple Markov/Gibbs Random Field Model	p. 57
Optical Flow Computation in the Log-Polar Plane	p. 65
A Statistical Regularization Framework for Estimating Normal Displacements along Contours with Subpixel Accuracy	p. 73
Computation of 3-D-Motion Parameters Using the Log-Polar Transform	p. 82
ExSel++: A General Framework to Extract Parametric Models	p. 90
Generic 3-D Shape Model: Acquisitions and Applications	p. 98
Guidelines for Choosing Optimal Parameters of Elasticity for Snakes	p. 106
Tracking Surfaces via Texture-Mapping: A Boot-Strapping Approach	p. 114
Motion-Based Identification of Deformable Templates	p. 122
Extending the Point Distribution Model Using Polar Coordinates	p. 130
Intermediate Views for Face Recognition	p. 138
Rendering Real-World Objects without 3-D Model	p. 146
Modelling 3-D Rigid Solid Objects Using The View Signature II Representation Scheme	p. 154
Spatial and Feature Space Clustering: Applications in Image Analysis	p. 162
An Automatic and Robust Algorithm for Determining Motion and Structure from Two Perspective Images	p. 174
3-D Scene Reconstruction from Image Sequences	p. 182
Triangulation	p. 190
3-D Surface Reconstruction Using Occluding Contours	p. 198
Image Redundancy and Classification	p. 206
Towards a Measure of Diversity between Grey-Scale Images	p. 214
Pattern Orientation and Texture Symmetry	p. 222
Multiscale Texture Enhancement	p. 230
Spatio-Temporal Robust Motion Estimation and Segmentation	p. 238
A New Spatiotemporal Approach for Image Analysis. Application to Motion Detection	p. 246
Dense Non-Rigid Motion Estimation in Sequences of Medical Images Using Differential Constraints	p. 254
Topological and Geometrical Corners by Watershed	p. 262
Crest Lines Detection by Valleys Spreading	p. 270
The Distance Transform for Line Patterns: Generalisation and Development	p. 278
Mobile Detection Based on Histogram Difference	p. 286
Particle Tracking in Space Time Sequences	p. 294
Plant Tracking-Based Motion Analysis in a Crop Field	p. 302
An Adaptive k-NN Rule Based on Dempster-Shafer Theory	p. 310
Shadows, Defocus and Reliable Estimation	p. 318
Estimating the Initial Values of Unobservable Variables in Visual Probabilistic Networks	p. 326
Relational Matching with Active Graphs	p. 334
Approximate String Matching by Finite Automata	p. 342
Matching Delaunay Triangulations by Probabilistic Relaxation	p. 350
Affine Matching of Intermediate Symbolic Representations	p. 359
Automatic Classification of Skin Tumours with High Resolution Surface Profiles	p. 368
4 Dimensional Modelling of the Human Heart	p. 376
Structure Adaptive Anisotropic Filtering for Magnetic Resonance Image Enhancement	p. 384
In Situ Determination of Cell Concentration in Bioreactors with a new Depth from Focus Technique	p. 392
Closing the Loop: Pursuing a Moving Object by a Moving Observer	p. 400
An Algorithm for a Linear Shape-from-Shading Problem	p. 408
Isophotes: the Key to Tractable Local Shading Analysis	p. 416
Efficient High Order Neural Network for Rotation, Translation and Distance Invariant Recognition of Gray Scale Images	p. 424
Learning Human Face Detection in Cluttered Scenes	p. 432
Head Pose Computation for Very Low Bit-Rate Video Coding	p. 440
Self-Calibration of an Affine Camera	p. 448
Stereo Calibration by Planar Grid Lines	p. 456
Monocular Pose Estimation of Circular Primitives	p. 464
A New Method of Extracting Closed Contours Using Maximal Discs	p. 472
A Simple Algorithm to Evaluate the Local Symmetry at each Point of a Closed Contour	p. 480
On Boundary Approximation	p. 488
Texture Classification of Mouse Liver Cell Nuclei Using Invariant Moments of Consistent Regions	p. 496
Text Recognition from Grey Level Images Using Hidden Markov Models	p. 503
New Models of Image Restoration	p. 509
An Improved Model of Snakes for Model-Based Segmentation	p. 515
The Weighted Backprojection Techniques of Image Reconstruction	p. 521
Fusion of Bayesian Estimation and MTF Inversion Techniques for Improved Array Imaging in Scattering Media	p. 526
Case Based Reasoning for Image Interpretation	p. 532
Classification of Corrosion Images by Wavelet Signatures and LVQ Networks	p. 538
Knowledge Acquisition for Image Analysis using Hypermedia Interface	p. 544
Interpretation of Printed Forms for Blind People	p. 550
Automatic Segmentation of Boundaries in Line Segments and Circular Arcs	p. 556
Moment-Based Invariant Fitting of Elliptical Segments	p. 562
Compression of Binary Images Based on Covering	p. 568
Motion Detection with Fuzzy Logic in Real Time	p. 574
Use of Explicit Knowledge for the Reconstruction of 3-D Object Geometry	p. 580
Detecting Grey Level Symmetry: The Frequency Domain Approach	p. 588
A New Method to Threshold Images of Flat Binary Scenes under Uneven Lighting	p. 594
Improving Snake Performance via a Dual Active Contour	p. 600
SMD Position Measurement by a Kohonen Network Compared with Image Processing	p. 606
Estimating Feature Discriminant Power in Decision Tree Classifiers	p. 612
Statistical Surface Tracking	p. 618
On Feature Selection via Rough Sets	p. 625
Tree Neural Classifier for Character Recognition	p. 631
Multiscale Extraction of Features from Medical Images	p. 637
Line Representation of Elongated Shapes	p. 643
Fast Computation of 3-D Geometric Moments Using a Discrete Gauss' Theorem	p. 649
On the Group Algebras' Hierarchy Pertaining to the Parametrization of Fast Algorithms of Discrete Orthogonal Transforms	p. 655
Understanding of Ridge-Valley Lines on Image-Intensity Surfaces in Scale-Space	p. 661
Computer Analysis and Recognition of Cognitive Phase Space Electrocardiographic Image	p. 668
A New Algorithm for Probabilistic Relaxation based on the Baum Eagon Theorem	p. 674
Segmentation and Estimation of the Optical Flow	p. 680
Automated Detection of Fluorescent Cells and Measurement of their DNA-Content	p. 686
A Highly Selective HT Based Algorithm for Detecting Extended, Almost Rectilinear Shapes	p. 692
Object Modelling and Collision Avoidance Using Clifford Algebra	p. 699
Joint Invariants of a Triplet of Coplanar Conics: Stability and Discriminating Power for Object Recognition	p. 705
Using Mirror Cameras for Estimating Depth	p. 711
Combining Head Tracking and Pupil Monitoring in Vision-Based Human-Computer Interaction	p. 717
Active-Camera Calibration Using Iterative Image Feature Localization	p. 723
The Projective Invariants for Polygons	p. 729
A Multi-Model Image Line Reconstruction	p. 735
Tools for Automatic Recognition of Character Strings in Maps	p. 741
Towards Higher Decimation Ratios	p. 747
A Representation of Digital Planes by Least Square Fits	p. 753
A Supervised Approach to the Evaluation of Image Segmentation Methods	p. 759
Experimental Investigation on Editing for the k-NN Rule through a Genetic Algorithm	p. 766
Heterogeneous Morphing of Multimodal Medical Information	p. 772
Recognition and Pose Determination of 3-D Objects Using Multiple Views	p. 778
Bayesian Extraction of Differential Surface Structure	p. 784
A Proposal for the Implementation of a Parallel Watershed Algorithm	p. 790
A Neural Network Energy Minimization Approach to Approximation of 2-Dimensional Shapes	p. 796
Visual Detection of Defects in Moulded Plastic Drippers	p. 802
Segmentation Modeling	p. 808
Inverting the Reflectance Map with Binary Search	p. 814
Feature Selection for the Tree-Wavelet Transform	p. 820
Performance Comparison of a Deterministic and a Stochastic Method for Image Classification	p. 826
Advances in the Statistical Methodology for the Selection of Image Descriptors for Visual Pattern Representation and Classification	p. 832
Affine Stereo Calibration	p. 838
Triple Features for Linear Distorted Images	p. 844
Finding Postirradiation Reaction in Lungs from Digitized X-rays	p. 850
Estimating Time to Contact with Curves, Avoiding Calibration and Aperture Problem	p. 856
Constraining Probabilistic Relaxation with Symbolic Attributes	p. 862
Local Fourier Phase and Disparity Estimates: An Analytical Study	p. 868
Direct Obstacle Detection and Motion from Spatio-Temporal Derivatives	p. 874
Direct Estimation of Rotation from Two Frames via Epipolar Search	p. 880
Dynamic Character Recognition Using an Elastic Matching	p. 888
Visual Robot Guidance for an Insertion Task	p. 894
Robust Surface Reconstruction from Stereo SEM Images	p. 900
Adaptive Wavelets for Signal Analysis	p. 906
A Common Framework for Preattentive and Attentive Vision using Steerable Filters	p. 912
Static Global Scheduling for Optimal Computer Vision and Image Processing Operations on Distributed-Memory Multiprocessors	p. 920
Robust Patch Concept for Egomotion Estimation	p. 926
Parallel Thinning Algorithm Based on the Wave Propagation Model	p. 932
Film Editing Reconstruction and Semantic Analysis	p. 938
Measuring Time-To-Contact Using Active Camera Control	p. 944
The Color Constancy Problem: An Illumination Invariant Mapping Approach	p. 950
Author Index	p. 957
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