Computer Vision Systems: 6th International Conference, ICVS 2008 Santorini, Greece, May 12-15, 2008, Proceedings

by Gasteratos, Antonios; Vincze, Markus; Tsotsos, John K.

• ISBN13: 9783540795469
• ISBN10: 3540795464
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-03
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, ICVS 2008, held in Santorini, Greece, May 12-15, 2008.The 23 revised papers presented together with 30 poster presentations and 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 128 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cognitive vision, monitor and surveillance, computer vision architectures, calibration and registration object recognition and tracking, learning, human machine interaction as well as cross modal systems.

Table of Contents

Visual Search in Static and Dynamic Scenes Using Fine-Grain Top-Down Visual Attention	p. 3
Integration of Visual and Shape Attributes for Object Action Complexes	p. 13
3D Action Recognition and Long-Term Prediction of Human Motion	p. 23
Tracking of Human Hands and Faces through Probabilistic Fusion of Multiple Visual Cues	p. 33
Enhancing Robustness of a Saliency-Based Attention System for Driver Assistance	p. 43
Covert Attention with a Spiking Neural Network	p. 56
Salient Region Detection and Segmentation	p. 66
The SAFEE On-Board Threat Detection System	p. 79
Region of Interest Generation in Dynamic Environments Using Local Entropy Fields	p. 89
Real-Time Face Tracking for Attention Aware Adaptive Games	p. 99
Rek-Means: A k-Means Based Clustering Algorithm	p. 109
Smoke Detection in Video Surveillance: A MoG Model in the Wavelet Domain	p. 119
Feature Extraction and Classification by Genetic Programming	p. 131
GPU-Based Multigrid: Real-Time Performance in High Resolution Nonlinear Image Processing	p. 141
Attention Modulation Using Short- and Long-Term Knowledge	p. 151
PCA Based 3D Shape Reconstruction of Human Foot Using Multiple Viewpoint Cameras	p. 161
An On-Line Interactive Self-adaptive Image Classification Framework	p. 171
Communication-Aware Face Detection Using Noc Architecture	p. 181
A System for Geometrically Constrained Single View Reconstruction	p. 193
Monocular Omnidirectional Visual Odometry for Outdoor Ground Vehicles	p. 206
Eyes and Cameras Calibration for 3D World Gaze Detection	p. 216
Evaluating Multiview Reconstruction	p. 228
Detecting and Recognizing Abandoned Objects in Crowded Environments	p. 241
Diagnostic System for Intestinal Motility Disfunctions Using Video Capsule Endoscopy	p. 251
An Approach for Tracking the 3D Object Pose Using Two Object Points	p. 261
Adaptive Motion-Based Gesture Recognition Interface for Mobile Phones	p. 271
Weighted Dissociated Dipoles: An Extended Visual Feature Set	p. 281
Scene Classification Based on Multi-resolution Orientation Histogram of Gabor Features	p. 291
Automatic Object Detection on Aerial Images Using Local Descriptors and Image Synthesis	p. 302
CEDD: Color and Edge Directivity Descriptor: A Compact Descriptor for Image Indexing and Retrieval	p. 312
Ranking Corner Points by the Angular Difference between Dominant Edges	p. 323
Skeletonization Based on Metrical Neighborhood Sequences	p. 333
Bottom-Up and Top-Down Object Matching Using Asynchronous Agents and a Contrario Principles	p. 343
A Tale of Two Object Recognition Methods for Mobile Robots	p. 353
A Segmentation Approach in Novel Real Time 3D Plant Recognition System	p. 363
Face Recognition Using a Color PCA Framework	p. 373
Online Learning for Bootstrapping of Object Recognition and Localization in a Biologically Motivated Architecture	p. 383
Vein Segmentation in Infrared Images Using Compound Enhancing and Crisp Clustering	p. 393
Multiscale Laplacian Operators for Feature Extraction on Irregularly Distributed 3-D Range Data	p. 403
A System That Learns to Tag Videos by Watching Youtube	p. 415
Geo-located Image Grouping Using Latent Descriptions	p. 425
Functional Object Class Detection Based on Learned Affordance Cues	p. 435
Increasing Classification Robustness with Adaptive Features	p. 445
Learning Visual Quality Inspection from Multiple Humans Using Ensembles of Classifiers	p. 454
Learning Contextual Variations for Video Segmentation	p. 464
Learning to Detect Aircraft at Low Resolutions	p. 474
A Novel Feature Selection Based Semi-supervised Method for Image Classlfication	p. 484
Sub-class Error-Correcting Output Codes	p. 494
Spatio-temporal 3D Pose Estimation of Objects in Stereo Images	p. 507
Automatic Initialization for Facial Analysis in Interactive Robotics	p. 517
Face Recognition Across Pose Using View Based Active Appearance Models (VBAAMs) on CMU Multi-PIE Dataset	p. 527
Object Category Detection Using Audio-Visual Cues	p. 539
Multimodal Interaction Abilities for a Robot Companion	p. 549
Author Index	p. 559
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