IEEE Catalog Number: ISBN:

CFP09CIP-PRT 978-1-4244-5653-6

2009 16th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2009)

Cairo, Egypt 7 – 10 November 2009

Pages 1-724

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SA-L1: TRANSFORMS FOR IMAGE CODING ADAPTIVE DIRECTIONAL WAVELET TRANSFORM USING PRE-DIRECTIONAL FILTERING.............................................. 1

Yuichi Tanaka, Madoka Hasegawa, Shigeo Kato, Masaaki Ikehara, Truong Nguyen

LOW-COMPLEXITY ENHANCED LAPPED TRANSFORM FOR IMAGE CODING IN JPEG XR / HD PHOTO ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 5

Aldo Maalouf, Mohamed Chaker Larabi

JOINT SPARSITY-BASED OPTIMIZATION OF A SET OF ORTHONORMAL 2-D SEPARABLE BLOCK TRANSFORMS .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 9

Joel Sole, Peng Yin, Yunfei Zheng, Cristina Gomila

ON THE CODING GAIN OF INTRA-PREDICTIVE TRANSFORMS ................................................................................................... 13Jizheng Xu, Feng Wu, Wenjun Zhang

NON SEPARABLE 2D FACTORIZATION OF SEPARABLE 2D DWT FOR LOSSLESS IMAGE CODING................................. 17Masahiro Iwahashi, Hitoshi Kiya

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ENERGY COMPACTION AFFECTED BY THE DIMENSIONALITY OF KARHUNEN-LOEVE TRANSFORM.................................................................................................................................................... 21

Yukihiro Bandoh, Hiroki Ohbayashi, Seishi Takamura, Kazuto Kamikura, Yoshiyuki Yashima

SPARSE APPROXIMATION WITH ADAPTIVE DICTIONARY FOR IMAGE PREDICTION ....................................................... 25Mehmet Turkan, Christine Guillemot

IMAGE COMPRESSION WITH DOWNSAMPLING AND OVERLAPPED TRANSFORM AT LOW BIT RATES ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 29

Jiaji Wu, Yan Xing, Guangming Shi, Licheng Jiao

SA-L2: FACE RECOGNITION AND ANALYSIS ROBUST LOW-RESOLUTION FACE IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION USING HIGH-RESOLUTION FEATURES ........................................................................................................................................................................... 33

Pablo Hennings-Yeomans, B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar, Simon Baker

FACIAL MARKS: SOFT BIOMETRIC FOR FACE RECOGNITION................................................................................................... 37Anil Jain, Unsang Park

BIOLAB-ICAO: A NEW BENCHMARK TO EVALUATE APPLICATIONS ASSESSING FACE IMAGE COMPLIANCE TO ISO/IEC 19794-5 STANDARD ................................................................................................................................... 41

Davide Maltoni, Annalisa Franco, Matteo Ferrara, Dario Maio, Antonio Nardelli

SPATIAL GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL FOR GENDER RECOGNITION...................................................................................... 45Zhen Li, Zhou Xi, Thomas S. Huang

DETERMINING DISCRIMINATIVE ANATOMICAL POINT PAIRINGS USING ADABOOST FOR 3D FACE RECOGNITION ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 49

Steven Cadavid, Jindan Zhou, Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb

HOW WOULD YOU LOOK AS YOU AGE? .............................................................................................................................................. 53Narayanan Ramanathan, Rama Chellappa

SPECULARITY REMOVAL FOR ENHANCING FACE RECOGNITION ........................................................................................... 57Rui Ishiyama, Masato Tsukada

LEARNING WEIGHTED SIMILARITY MEASUREMENTS FOR UNCONSTRAINED FACE RECOGNITION ........................ 61Andre Störmer, Gerhard Rigoll

SA-L3: DIGITAL IMAGING IN CULTURAL HERITAGE DETERMINATION OF THE METHOD OF DRAWING OF PREHISTORIC WALL-PAINTINGS VIA ORIGINAL METHODS OF PATTERN RECOGNITION AND IMAGE ANALYSIS .......................................................................... 65

Panayiotis Rousopoulos, Dimitris Arabadjis, Michalis Panagopoulos, Constantin Papaodysseus, Elena Papazoglou

A FRAMEWORK FOR THE REGISTRATION OF COLOR IMAGES WITH 3D MODELS ............................................................ 69Louis Borgeat, Guillaume Poirier, J-Angelo Beraldin, Guy Godin, Philippe Massicotte, Michel Picard

CHARACTERIZING ELEGANCE OF CURVES COMPUTATIONALLY FOR DISTINGUISHING MORRISSEAU PAINTINGS AND THE IMITATIONS ............................................................................................................................ 73

Lei Yao, Jia Li, James Wang

APPLICATION OF BILATERAL FILTERING AND GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELING FOR THE RETRIEVAL OF PAINTINGS ...................................................................................................................................................................... 77

Maria Luszczkiewicz, Bogdan Smolka

AUTOMATIC FREEZE FRAME DETECTION FOR VIDEO PRESERVATION................................................................................ 81Peter Schallauer, Hannes Fassold, Martin Winter, Werner Bailer

RESTORATION OF DIGITIZED VIDEO SEQUENCES: AN EFFICIENT DROP-OUT DETECTION AND REMOVAL FRAMEWORK .......................................................................................................................................................................... 85

Hagen Kaprykowsky, Mohan Liu, Patrick Ndjiki-Nya

SCRATCH DETECTION SUPPORTED BY COHERENCY ANALYSIS OF MOTION VECTOR FIELDS .................................... 89Stefan Müller, Jürgen Bühler, Sebastian Weitbruch, Cedric Thebault, Ingo Doser, Olaf Neisse

TEMPORAL VIDEO STRUCTURING FOR PRESERVATION AND ANNOTATION OF VIDEO CONTENT ............................. 93Christian Petersohn

SA-L4: IMAGE WATERMARKING: CAPACITY AND SECURITY CLIENT SIDE EMBEDDING FOR ST-DM WATERMARKS ................................................................................................................. 97

Alessandro Piva, Tiziano Bianchi, Alessia De Rosa

IMPROVED WATERMARK DETECTION ROBUST TO CAMCORDER CAPTURE BASED ON QUADRANGLE ESTIMATION ..................................................................................................................................................................101

Min-Jeong Lee, Kyung-Su Kim, Young-Ho Suh, Heung-Kyu Lee

DESIGN OF HIGH CAPACITY 3D PRINT CODES AIMING FOR ROBUSTNESS TO THE PS CHANNEL AND EXTERNAL DISTORTIONS .............................................................................................................................................................105

Joceli Mayer, José Carlos M. Bermudez, Andrei P. Legg, Bartolomeu F. Uchôa-Filho, Debargha Mukherjee, Amir Said, Ramin Samadani, Steven Simske

IMPROVING EMBEDDING EFFICIENCY VIA MATRIX EMBEDDING: A CASE STUDY .........................................................109Yunkai Gao, Xiaolong Li, Tieyong Zeng, Bin Yang

OPTIMAL LINEAR DETECTOR FOR SPREAD SPECTRUM BASED MULTIDIMENSIONAL SIGNAL WATERMARKING.......................................................................................................................................................................................113

Tuan Nguyen, David Taubman

SECURITY EVALUATION OF INFORMED WATERMARKING SCHEMES..................................................................................117Sofiane Braci, Rémy Boyer, Claude Delpha

MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERROR DETECTOR FOR MULTIMESSAGE SPREAD SPECTRUM EMBEDDING .................................................................................................................................................................................................121

Amir Valizadeh, Z. Jane Wang

DISTRIBUTION INDEPENDENT BLIND WATERMARKING............................................................................................................125Sayed Mohammad Ebrahim Sahraeian, Mohammad Ali Akhaee, Farokh Marvasti

SA-L5: DEBLURRING I LOCAL BAYESIAN IMAGE RESTORATION USING VARIATIONAL METHODS AND GAMMA-NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................129

Javier Mateos, Tom E. Bishop, Rafael Molina, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

BAYESIAN BLIND DECONVOLUTION FROM DIFFERENTLY EXPOSED IMAGE PAIRS ......................................................133S. Derin Babacan, Jingnan Wang, Rafael Molina, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

MOTION BLUR ADAPTIVE IDENTIFICATION FROM NATURAL IMAGE MODEL .................................................................137Hongwei Sun, Michel Desvignes, Yunhui Yan

A SENSOR-BASED APPROACH TO LINEAR BLUR IDENTIFICATION FOR REAL-TIME VIDEO ENHANCEMENT ..........................................................................................................................................................................................141

Maria E. Angelopoulou, Christos-Savvas Bouganis, Peter Y. K. Cheung

JOINT DECONVOLUTION AND DEMOSAINCING .............................................................................................................................145Ferréol Soulez, Eric Thiébaut

ROBUST INTER-SCALE NON-BLIND IMAGE MOTION DEBLURRING .......................................................................................149Chao Wang, Lifeng Sun, Zhuoyuan Chen, Shiqiang Yang, Jianwei Zhang

HIGH-QUALITY NON-BLIND MOTION DEBLURRING ....................................................................................................................153Chao Wang, Lifeng Sun, Zhuoyuan Chen, Shiqiang Yang, Jianwei Zhang

SPACE-VARIANT DEBLURRING USING ONE BLURRED AND ONE UNDEREXPOSED IMAGE ...........................................157Michal Sorel, Filip Sroubek

SA-PA: IMAGE REGISTRATION A PROBABILISTIC DEMONS ALGORITHM FOR TEXTURE-RICH IMAGE REGISTRATION ...............................................161

Di Yang, Hongdong Li

ALIGNED MATCHING: AN EFFICIENT IMAGE MATCHING TECHNIQUE ...............................................................................165Duanduan Yang, Andrzej Sluzek

AFFINE ALIGNMENT OF COMPOUND OBJECTS: A DIRECT APPROACH ................................................................................169Csaba Domokos, Zoltan Kato

A MULTI-MODAL AUTOMATIC IMAGE REGISTRATION TECHNIQUE BASED ON COMPLEX WAVELETS....................................................................................................................................................................................................173

Milad Ghantous, Soumik Ghosh, Magdy Bayoumi

FEATURE CORRESPONDENCE WITH CONSTRAINED GLOBAL SPATIAL STRUCTURES ..................................................177Ziming Zhang, Ze-Nian Li, Mark Drew

MULTI-SENSOR IMAGE REGISTRATION BASED-ON LOCAL PHASE COHERENCE .............................................................181Rania Hassen, Zhou Wang, Magdy Salama

FAST IMAGE REGISTRATION WITH NON-STATIONARY GAUSS-MARKOV RANDOM FIELD TEMPLATES..................................................................................................................................................................................................185

Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy, Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan, Andreas Spanias

ON THE OPTIMALITY OF MUTUAL INFORMATION AS AN IMAGE REGISTRATION OBJECTIVE FUNCTION .....................................................................................................................................................................................................189

Lilla Zöllei, William M. Wells

MULTI-MODAL IMAGE REGISTRATION USING FUZZY KERNEL REGRESSION ..................................................................193Edoardo Ardizzone, Roberto Gallea, Orazio Gambino, Roberto Pirrone

MATCHING POINTS IN POOR EDGE INFORMATION IMAGES ....................................................................................................197Alberto Posse, Juan Torres, José Manuel Menéndez

GEOMETRIC REGISTRATION OF IMAGES WITH ARBITRARILY-SHAPED LOCAL INTENSITY VARIATIONS FROM SHADOWS..............................................................................................................................................................201

Mohamed Fouad Abdelmotagally, Richard Dansereau, Anthony Whitehead

BIM: IMAGE MATCHING USING BIOLOGICAL GENE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT ..................................................................205Hung-Sik Kim, Hau-Wen Chang, Haibin Liu, Jeongkyu Lee, Dongwon Lee

ELIMINATING STRUCTURE MISALIGNMENTS USING ROBUST MATCHING AND IMAGE EDITING BASED ON SEAM CARVING .....................................................................................................................................................................209

Hyung Il Koo, Jung Gap Kuk, Nam Ik Cho

INTEGRAL P-CHANNELS FOR FAST AND ROBUST REGION MATCHING ................................................................................213Alain Pagani, Didier Stricker, Michael Felsberg

ADAPTED PROCESSING OF CATADIOPTRIC IMAGES USING POLARIZATION IMAGING ................................................217Samia Ainouz-Zemouche, Olivier Morel, Saleh Mosaddegh, David Fofi

OMNIDIRECTIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING USING GEODESIC METRIC ..................................................................................221Cédric Demonceaux, Pascal Vasseur

SA-PB: IMAGE AND VIDEO INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL I EFFICIENT IMAGE RETRIEVAL IN DCT DOMAIN BY HYPOTHESIS TESTING ......................................................................225

Daan He, Zhenmei Gu, Nick Cercone

SUBSPACE CLUSTERING OF IMAGES USING ANT COLONY OPTIMISATION........................................................................229Tomas Piatrik, Ebroul Izquierdo

VIDEO COPY RECOGNITION BY ORIENTED PCA AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS ................................................................233Xianfeng Yang, Min Yuan

DETECTING DUPLICATE VIDEO BASED ON CAMERA TRANSITIONAL BEHAVIOR ...........................................................237Ping-Hao Wu, Tanaphol Thaipanich, C.-C. Jay Kuo

A FAST CUBE-BASED VIDEO SHOT RETRIEVAL USING 3D MOMENT-PRESERVING TECHNIQUE ................................241Wei-Kan Huang, Chi-Han Chuang, Shyi-Chyi Cheng, Jun-Wei Hsieh

FINE: FRACTAL INDEXING BASED ON NEIGHBORHOOD ESTIMATION .................................................................................245Michele Nappi, Daniel Riccio, Maria De Marsico

A ROBUST FRAMEWORK FOR ALIGNING LECTURE SLIDES WITH VIDEO ...........................................................................249Wang Xiangyu, Ramanathan Subramanian, Mohan Kankanhalli

COPULA-BASED STATISTICAL MODELS FOR MULTICOMPONENT IMAGE RETRIEVAL IN THE WAVELET TRANSFORM DOMAIN ........................................................................................................................................................253

Sarra Sakji, Amel Benazza-Benyahia

SEMANTIC ANNOTATION OF PERSONAL VIDEO CONTENT USING AN IMAGE FOLKSONOMY ....................................257Hyun-Seok Min, Jaeyoung Choi, Wesley De Neve, Yong Man Ro, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

SEMANTIC KEYWORD EXTRACTION VIA ADAPTIVE TEXT BINARIZATION OF UNSTRUCTURED UNSOURCED VIDEO...................................................................................................................................................................................261

Michele Merler, John Kender

WAVELET-BASED COLOUR TEXTURE RETRIEVAL USING THE KULLBACK-LEIBLER DIVERGENCE BETWEEN BIVARIATE GENERALIZED GAUSSIAN MODELS .......................................................................................................265

Geert Verdoolaege, Yves Rosseel, Michiel Lambrechts, Paul Scheunders

WINDOWS AND FACADES RETRIEVAL USING SIMILARITY ON GRAPH OF CONTOURS ..................................................269Jean-Emmanuel Haugeard, Sylvie Philipp-Foliguet, Frédéric Precioso

CUBIC-SPLINES NEURAL NETWORK-BASED SYSTEM FOR IMAGE RETRIEVAL ................................................................273Samy Sadek, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Bernd Michailes, Usama Sayed

EFFICIENT IMAGE CONCEPT INDEXING BY HARMONIC AND ARITHMETIC PROFILES ENTROPY ............................277Hervé Glotin, Zhong-Qiu Zhao, Stephane Ayache

ROBUST VIDEO MINING BASED ON LOCAL SIMILARITY ALIGNMENT OF MOTION TRAJECTORIES ........................281Xiang Ma, Ashfaq Khokhar, Dan Schonfeld

SA-PC: OBJECT RECOGNITION AND CLASSIFICATION A FOOD IMAGE RECOGNITION SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE KERNEL LEARNING................................................................285

Taichi Joutou, Keiji Yanai

PFID: PITTSBURGH FAST-FOOD IMAGE DATASET.........................................................................................................................289Mei Chen, Kapil Dhingra, Wen Wu, Lei Yang, Rahul Sukthankar, Jie Yang

COMBINING IMAGE-LEVEL AND OBJECT-LEVEL INFERENCE FOR WEAKLY SUPERVISED OBJECT RECOGNITION. APPLICATION TO FISHERIES ACOUSTICS. .......................................................................................................293

Riwal Lefort, Ronan Fablet, Imen Karoui, Jean-Marc Boucher

EXPANDED BAG OF WORDS REPRESENTATION FOR OBJECT CLASSIFICATION ..............................................................297Tinglin Liu, Jing Liu, Qinshan Liu, Hanqing Lu

HIERARCHICAL WORD IMAGE REPRESENTATION FOR PARTS-BASED OBJECT RECOGNITION ................................301Xiangang Cheng, Yiqun Hu, Liang-Tien Chia

GABOR WAVELET BASED AUTOMATIC COIN CLASSSIFICATION ...........................................................................................305Taraggy Ghanem, Mohammed Moustafa, Hussein Shahein, Ain Shams

FILTER OBJECT CATEGORIES USING COBOOST WITH 1ST AND 2ND ORDER FEATURES ..............................................309Xi Liu, Zhiping Shi, Zhongzhi Shi

LIFT-BUTTON DETECTION AND RECOGNITION FOR SERVICE ROBOT IN BUILDINGS....................................................313Xinguo Yu, Li Dong, Liyuan Li, Kah Eng Hoe

OBJECT CATEGORIZATION USING BOOSTING WITHIN HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN MODEL.......................................317Yi Ji, Khalid Idrissi, Atilla Baskurt

DIRECTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS TO A REFERENCE OBJECT: A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH BASED ON FORCE FIELDS......................................................................................................................................................................................321

Pascal Matsakis, Jingbo Ni, Melanie Veltman

ROBUST SIFT-BASED FEATURE MATCHING USING KENDALL’S RANK CORRELATION MEASURE.............................325Georgios Kordelas, Petros Daras

CATEGORY SENSITIVE CODEBOOK CONSTRUCTION FOR OBJECT CATEGORY RECOGNITION ................................329Chunjie Zhang, Jing Liu, Yi Ouyang, Qi Tian, Hanqing Lu, Songde Ma

USING SILHOUETTE FOR POSE ESTIMATION OF OBJECT WITH SURFACE OF REVOLUTION ......................................333Ming Zhang, Yinqiang Zheng, Yuncai Liu

DETECTING IMAGE POINTS OF GENERAL IMBALANCE .............................................................................................................337Qi Li, Dacheng Tao

SA-PD: IMAGE AND VIDEO INTERPOLATION A STOCHASTIC MODEL-BASED APPROACH TO IMAGE AND TEXTURE INTERPOLATION .............................................341

Hagai Kirshner, Moshe Porat

WAVELET BASED SEAM CARVING FOR CONTENT-AWARE IMAGE RESIZING ...................................................................345Jong-Woo Han, Kang-Sun Choi, Tae-Shick Wang, Sung-Hyun Cheon, Sung-Jea Ko

NONLOCAL BACK-PROJECTION FOR ADAPTIVE IMAGE ENLARGEMENT...........................................................................349Weisheng Dong, Lei Zhang, Guangming Shi, Xiaolin Wu

INTERPOLATING FINE TEXTURESS WITH FIELDS OF EXPERTS PRIOR ................................................................................353Kai Guo, Xiaokang Yang, Rui Zhang, Songyu Yu, Hongyuan Zha

LEARNING COLOR IMAGE EXPANSION FILTERS...........................................................................................................................357Atsunori Kanemura, Shin-Ichi Maeda, Shin Ishii

IMAGE INTERPOLATION WITH EDGE-PRESERVING DIFFERENTIAL MOTION REFINEMENT ......................................361Marco Cagnazzo, Wided Miled, Thomas Maugey, Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu

GEODESIC NEIGHBORHOODS FOR PIECEWISE AFFINE INTERPOLATION OF SPARSE DATA .......................................365Gabriele Facciolo, Vicent Caselles

FAST ONE-PASS MOTION COMPENSATED FRAME INTERPOLATION IN HIGH-DEFINITION VIDEO PROCESSING ................................................................................................................................................................................................369

Yen-Lin Lee, Truong Nguyen

EFFICIENT MOTION COMPENSATED FRAME RATE UPCONVERSION USING MULTIPLE INTERPOLATIONS AND MEDIAN FILTERING...................................................................................................................................373

Martin Luessi, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

MOTION VECTOR PROCESSING BASED ON TRAJECTORY CURVE ANALYSIS FOR MOTION COMPENSATED FRAME INTERPOLATION ........................................................................................................................................377

Ai-Mei Huang, Truong Nguyen

REGION-BASED MOTION-COMPENSATED FRAME RATE UP-CONVERSION BY HOMOGRAPHY PARAMETER INTERPOLATION .............................................................................................................................................................381

Engin Turetken, A. Aydin Alatan

EDGE-PRESERVING NONLINEAR ITERATIVE IMAGE RESAMPLING METHOD...................................................................385Andrey S. Krylov, Alexey S. Lukin, Andrey V. Nasonov

ENHANCEMENT FOR TEMPORAL RESOLUTION OF VIDEO BASED ON MULTI-FRAME FEATURE TRAJECTORY AND OCCLUSION COMPENSATION .........................................................................................................................389

Yang-Ho Cho, Ho-Yeong Lee, Du-Sik Park, Chang-Yeong Kim

IMPROVEMENT ON OPTICAL FLOW BASED VIDEO DEINTERLACING BY ADOPTING FLOW VECTOR AND INTENSITY RELIABILITIES ...........................................................................................................................................................393

Yun-Jun Choi, Kyoung Won Lim, Jong Beom Ra

SA-PE: SHAPE BASED REPRESENTATION AND PROCESSING I 2-D SHAPE REPRESENTATION USING IMPROVED FOURIER DESCRIPTORS.........................................................................397

Jonas De Vylder, Wilfried Philips

SHAPES AS EMPIRICAL DISTRIBUTIONS ...........................................................................................................................................401Bernardo Rodrigues Pires, Jose M. F. Moura

SHAPE GEODESICS FOR BOUNDARY-BASED OBJECT RECOGNITION AND RETRIEVAL .................................................405Kamal Nasreddine, Abdesslam Benzinou, Ronan Fablet

A DECISION STEP FOR SHAPE CONTEXT MATCHING ..................................................................................................................409Mariano Tepper, Daniel Acevedo, Norberto Goussies, Julio Jacobo-Berlles, Marta Mejail

SCALE-SPACE APPROACH FOR THE COMPARISON OF HK AND SC CURVATURE DESCRIPTIONS AS APPLIED TO OBJECT RECOGNITION ..................................................................................................................................................413

Erdem Akagündüz, Omer Eskizara, Ilkay Ulusoy

MEANINGFUL 3D SHAPE PARTITIONING USING MORSE FUNCTIONS ....................................................................................417Djamila Aouada, Hamid Krim

A NOVEL MOMENTS GENERATION INSPIRED BY 3D SPHERICAL HARMONICS FOR ROBUST 2D SHAPE DESCRIPTION ................................................................................................................................................................................421

Noureddine Ennahnahi, Adil Bouhouch, Mohammed Oumsis, Mohammed Meknassi

IMPROVED ACTIVE SHAPE MODEL FOR AUTOMATIC OPTICAL PHASE IDENTIFICATION OF MICRODRILL BITS IN PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD PRODUCTION..............................................................................................425

Guifang Duan, Yen-Wei Chen

MODELING THE PATTERN SPECTRUM AS A MARKOV PROCESS AND ITS USE FOR EFFICIENT SHAPE CLASSIFICATION .........................................................................................................................................................................429

Elias Zois, Vassilis Anastassopoulos

A PROBABILISTIC SHAPE FILTER FOR ONLINE CONTOUR TRACKING ................................................................................433Ibrahima Ndiour, Omar Arif, Jochen Teizer, Patricio Vela

EXPLORING THE BAG-OF-WORDS METHOD FOR 3D SHAPE RETRIEVAL.............................................................................437Xiaolan Li, Afzal Godil

EXPLOITING CURVATURE TO COMPUTE THE MEDIAL AXIS WITH CONSTRAINED CENTROIDAL VORONOI DIAGRAM ON DISCRETE DATA ........................................................................................................................................441

Julien Dardenne, Sébastien Valette, Nicolas Siauve, Bassem Khaddour, Rémy Prost

EFFICIENT HIERARCHICAL GRAPH MATCHING ...........................................................................................................................445Paul Morrison, Ju Jia Zou

MINIMUM DESCRIPTION LENGTH APPROXIMATION OF DIGITAL CURVES .......................................................................449Alexander Kolesnikov

SA-PF: COLOR ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING I THE LACUNARITY OF COLOUR FRACTAL IMAGES ......................................................................................................................453

Mihai Ivanovici, Noel Richard

A NEW COLOR FILTER ARRAY WITH OPTIMAL SENSING PROPERTIES ...............................................................................457Laurent Condat

HEAT KERNELS OF GENERALIZED LAPLACIANS- APPLICATION TO COLOR IMAGE SMOOTHING...........................461Thomas Batard, Michel Berthier

IMAGE AND VIDEO COLORIZATION BASED ON PRIORITIZED SOURCE PROPAGATION ................................................465Jun-Hee Heu, Dae-Young Hyun, Sang-Uk Lee, Chang-Su Kim

SIMPLIFICATION OF COLOR IMAGES USING SEMI-FLAT MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATORS AND STATISTICAL METRICS. ..........................................................................................................................................................................469

Arnaud Garcia, Corinne Vachier

IMPROVED REVERSIBLE INTEGER-TO-INTEGER COLOR TRANSFORMS .............................................................................473Soo-Chang Pei, Jian-Jiun Ding

JOINT DEMOSAICKING AND DENOISING WITH SPACE-VARYING FILTERS ........................................................................477Daniele Menon, Giancarlo Calvagno

THE COLOR MONOGENIC SIGNAL: A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING. APPLICATION TO COLOR OPTICAL FLOW.......................................................................................................................................481

Guillaume Demarcq, Laurent Mascarilla, Pierre Courtellemont

AN ACCURATE ALGORITHM FOR COLOR TO GRAY AND BACK ..............................................................................................485Fuminori Nohara, Takahiko Horiuchi, Shoji Tominaga

COLOR QUANTIZATION BY 3D SPHERICAL FIBONACCI LATTICES........................................................................................489Soo-Chang Pei, Hsin-Hua Liu, Jun-Horng Chen

DEMOSAICING USING VARIABLE-SIZE CLASSIFIERS AND PROPORTIONAL WEIGHTS ..................................................493Chung-Yen Su, Jen-Kang Tseng

A NEW COLOUR SPACE FOR SKIN TONE DETECTION..................................................................................................................497Abbas Cheddad, Joan Condell, Kevin Curran, Paul Mc Kevitt

REGION-BASED COLOR TRANSFER FROM MULTI-REFERENCE WITH GRAPH-THEORETIC REGION CORRESPONDENCE ESTIMATION........................................................................................................................................................501

Wan-Chien Chiou, Chiou-Ting Hsu

SA-PG: STEREOSCOPIC AND 3D RENDERING PHOTO-CONSISTENT SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION FROM NOISY POINT CLOUDS ..........................................................505

Ehsan Aganj, Renaud Keriven, Jean-Philippe Pons

PLANE METRIC RECTIFICATION FROM A SINGLE VIEW OF MULTIPLE COPLANAR CIRCLES ...................................509Manolis Lourakis

IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF DEPTH IMAGE BASED RENDERING FOR 3D VIDEO SYSTEMS ......................................513Zefeng Ni, Dong Tian, Sitaram Bhagavathy, Joan Llach, Bangalore S. Manjunath

MODEL-BASED SHAPE RECOVERY FROM SINGLE IMAGES OF GENERAL AND UNKNOWN LIGHTING......................................................................................................................................................................................................517

Ham Rara, Shireen Elhabian, Thomas Starr, Aly Farag

EFFICIENT SURFACE COMPLETION USING PRINCIPAL CURVATURE AND ITS EVALUATION......................................521Norihiko Kawai, Tomokazu Sato, Naokazu Yokoya

JOINT RENDERING AND SEGMENTATION OF FREE-VIEWPOINT IMAGES ...........................................................................525Masato Ishii, Keita Takahashi, Takeshi Naemura

GENETIC ALGORITHMS FOR 3D RECONSTRUCTION WITH SUPERSHAPES .........................................................................529Sophie Voisin, Mongi Abidi, Sebti Foufou, Frederic Truchetet

SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION FROM MULTIPLE IMAGES FILTERING NON-LAMBERT REGIONS ...............................533Soner Buyukatalay, Ozlem Birgul, Ugur Halici

IMAGE MOSAICING VIA QUADRIC SURFACE ESTIMATION WITH PRIORS FOR TUNNEL INSPECTION.....................537Krisada Chaiyasarn, Tae-Kyun Kim, Fabio Viola, Roberto Cipolla, Kenichi Soga

ROBUST 3D POSE ESTIMATION FROM MULTIPLE VIDEO CAMERAS .....................................................................................541Chong Chen, Dan Schonfeld

VARIATIONAL MODEL-BASED 3D BUILDING EXTRACTION FROM REMOTE SENSING DATA .......................................545Konstanitnos Karantzalos, Nikos Paragios

REGION-BASED ALL-IN-FOCUS LIGHT FIELD RENDERING........................................................................................................549Goran Petrovic, Aneez Kadermohideen Shahulhameed, Sveta Zinger, Peter H. N. De With

DEPTH IMAGE-BASED RENDERING WITH LOW RESOLUTION DEPTH...................................................................................553Quang Nguyen, Minh Do, Sanjay Patel

SA-PH: GEOSCIENCES AND REMOTE SENSING UNSUPERVISED SEABED SEGMENTATION OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR IMAGERY VIA WAVELET FEATURES AND SPECTRAL CLUSTERING ...................................................................................................................557

David Williams

OBJECT EXTRACTION FROM HIGH RESOLUTION SAR IMAGES USING A BIRTH AND DEATH DYNAMICS ....................................................................................................................................................................................................561

Fatih Arslan, Xavier Descombes, Josiane Zerubia

SEISMIC FAULT DETECTION USING MARKED POINT PROCESSES..........................................................................................565Barna Keresztes, Olivier Lavialle, Monica Borda

FUSION AND INVERSION OF SAR DATA TO OBTAIN A SUPERRESOLUTION IMAGE .........................................................569Ali Mohammad-Djafari, Franck Daout, Philippe Fargette

ALIGNING THE FRAMES OF A NON STATIONARY IMAGING FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETER FOR SPECTRUM RETRIEVAL ..............................................................................................................................573

Ahmed Mahgoub, Thanh Nguyen, Raphael Desbien, Andre Zaccarin

AUTOMATIC ESTIMATION OF FINE TERRAIN MODELS FROM MULTIPLE HIGH-RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES ..................................................................................................................................................................................577

Nicolas Champion, Didier Boldo, Marc Pierrot-Deseilligny, Georges Stamon

REGISTRATION OF HIGH-DIMENSIONAL REMOTE SENSING DATA BASED ON A NEW DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION RULE ................................................................................................................................................581

Min Xu, Hao Chen, Pramod Varshney

LANDMINES RECOGNITION SYSTEM USING THERMOVISION TECHNIQUE ........................................................................585Khaled Mahar, Mohamed Badwy, Mary Riad

LARGE-SCALE 3D SCENE MODELING BY REGISTRATION OF LASER RANGE DATA WITH GOOGLE MAPS IMAGES..............................................................................................................................................................................................589

Anuraag Agrawal, Miki Matsumura, Atsushi Nakazawa, Haruo Takemura

OPTIMAL DYNAMIC TOMOGRAPHY FOR WIDE-SENSE STATIONARY SPATIAL RANDOM FIELDS .............................593Mark Butala, Farzad Kamalabadi

AERIAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION FOR FLOOD RISK ANALYSIS ................................................................................................597Neil Robertson, Tak Chan

STRUCTURE-ORIENTED GAUSSIAN FILTER FOR SEISMIC DETAIL PRESERVING SMOOTHING ..................................601Wei Wang, Jinghuai Gao, Kang Li, Ke Ma, Xia Zhang

SA-PI: VIDEO CODING I FULL RATE DISTORTION OPTIMIZATON OF MPEG-2 VIDEO CODING ...................................................................................605

En-Hui Yang, Longji Wang

FAST BINARY PARTITION TREE BASED VARIABLE-SIZE BLOCK-MATCHING FOR VIDEO CODING ..........................609Yi Luo, Mehmet Celenk

DIRECTIONAL WAVELET TRANSFORMS FOR PREDICTION RESIDUALS IN VIDEO CODING.........................................613Fatih Kamisli, Jae Lim

NOVEL RESIDUAL PREDICTION SCHEME FOR HYBRID VIDEO CODING ..............................................................................617Sung Dae Kim, Sung Jo Hwang, Myung Hoon Sunwoo

MOTION COMPENSATION USING GEOMETRY AND AN ELASTIC MOTION MODEL ..........................................................621Abdullah A. Muhit, Mark Pickering, Michael Frater

DRIFT-FREE MULTIPLE DESCRIPTION INTRA VIDEO CODING ................................................................................................625Pedro D. F. Correia, Pedro A. A. Assunção, Vitor M. M. Silva

AN ADAPTIVE REFERENCE FRAME SELECTION METHOD FOR MULTIPLE REFERENCE FRAME MOTION ESTIMATION IN THE H.264/AVC..........................................................................................................................................629

Dongsan Jeon, Hyunwook Park

LOSSLESS IMAGE AND VIDEO CODING BASED ON H.264/AVC INTRA PREDICTIONS WITH SIMPLIFIED INTERPOLATIONS .............................................................................................................................................................633

Shih-Tse Wei, Shang-Ru Shen, Bin-Da Liu, Jar-Ferr Yang

NEW CAVLC DESIGN FOR LOSSLESS INTRA CODING ..................................................................................................................637Jin Heo, Seung-Hwan Kim, Yo-Sung Ho

SPATIO-TEMPORAL SCALABILITY BASED ON MOTION-COMPENSATED DCT TEMPORAL FILTERS .........................641Randa Atta, Rawya Rizk, Mohammad Ghanbari

OPTIMAL WAVELET DIFFERENCING METHOD FOR ROBUST MOTION DETECTION .......................................................645Vladimir Crnojevic, Borislav Antic, Dubravko Culibrk

SA-PJ: BIOMEDICAL IMAGING: DETECTION, SCREENING, AND DIAGNOSIS STATISTICAL–BASED LINEAR VESSEL STRUCTURE DETECTION IN MEDICAL IMAGES ................................................649

Mouloud Adel, Monique Rasigni, Thierry Gaidon, Caroline Fossati, Salah Bourennane

KEYFRAMES DETECTION AND ANALYSIS IN VOCAL FOLDS RECORDINGS USING HIERARCHICAL MOTION TECHNIQUES AND TEXTURE INFORMATION ................................................................................................................653

El Mehdi Ismaili Alaoui, Amaia Mendez, El Hassane Ibn-Elhaj, Begonya Garcia

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION MODELING FOR DETECTION OF CLUSTERED MICROCALCIFICATIONS ............................657Hao Jing, Yongyi Yang

SYMMETRY-INTEGRATED INJURY DETECTION FOR BRAIN MRI............................................................................................661Yu Sun, Bir Bhanu, Shiv Bhanu

ULTRAFAST OPTIC DISC LOCALIZATION USING PROJECTION OF IMAGE FEATURES ...................................................665Ahmed Mahfouz, Ahmed Fahmy

A NOVEL TWO SOURCES ULTRASOUND MODULATED OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHIC SYSTEM FOR SCREENING BREAST CANCER THROUGH ELASTICITY CHARACTERIZATION ..................................................................669

M. Suheshkumar Singh, K. Rajan, R. M. Vasu, Sijeesh K.

AUTOMATIC SCREENING OF BLADDER CELLS FOR CANCER DIAGNOSIS...........................................................................673Grigory Begelman, Ehud Rivlin

A MULTISCALE IMAGE ENHANCEMENT METHOD FOR CALCIFICATION DETECTION IN SCREENING MAMMOGRAMS .................................................................................................................................................................677

Xiaoming Liu, Jinshan Tang, Xiaolong Zhang

IDENTIFYING CANCER REGIONS IN VITAL-STAINED MAGNIFICATION ENDOSCOPY IMAGES USING ADAPTED COLOR HISTOGRAMS ..........................................................................................................................................................681

André Sousa, Mário Dinis-Ribeiro, Miguel Areia, Miguel Coimbra

SP-L1: COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING COLOR CONSTANCY USING STAGE CLASSIFICATION.................................................................................................................685

Rui Lu, Arjan Gijsenij, Theo Gevers, Koen Van De Sande, Jan-Mark Geusebroek, De Xu

PHYSICS-BASED ILLUMINANT COLOR ESTIMATION AS AN IMAGE SEMANTICS CLUE ..................................................689Christian Riess, Elli Angelopoulou

SHADOW EDGE DETECTION USING GEOMETRIC AND PHOTOMETRIC FEATURES .........................................................693Arjan Gijsenij, Theo Gevers

FACE IMAGE ENHANCEMENT USING 3D AND SPECTRAL INFORMATION ............................................................................697Charles Dubout, Masato Tsukada, Rui Ishiyama, Chisato Funayama, Sabine Süsstrunk

AN EFFICIENT METHOD FOR ROBUST GRADIENT ESTIMATION OF RGB COLOR IMAGES ...........................................701Ehsan Nezhadarya, Rabab K. Ward

COLOR CONSTANCY IN THE COMPRESSED DOMAIN...................................................................................................................705Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, Sanjit K. Mitra

FAST VIGNETTING CORRECTION AND COLOR MATCHING FOR PANORAMIC IMAGE STITCHING ...........................709Colin Doutre, Panos Nasiopoulos

MULTI-BAND COLOR IMAGE DEBLURRING USING CONTOURLETS FOR FLUID LENS CAMERA SYSTEMS........................................................................................................................................................................................................713

Jack Tzeng, Chun-Chen Liu, Truong Nguyen

SP-L2: STEREOSCOPIC AND 3D CODING 3D DISPLAY DEPENDENT QUALITY EVALUATION AND RATE ALLOCATION IN STEREO VIDEO CODING ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................717

Gorkem Saygili, C. Goktug Gurler, A. Murat Tekalp

DEPTH MAP DISTORTION ANALYSIS FOR VIEW RENDERING AND DEPTH CODING ........................................................721Woo-Shik Kim, Antonio Ortega, Polin Lai, Dong Tian, Cristina Gomila

DENSE DISPARITY MAP REPRESENTATIONS FOR STEREO IMAGE CODING .......................................................................725Mounir Kaaniche, Wided Miled, Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu, Amel Benazza-Benyahia, Jean-Christophe Pesquet

VIEW-DEPENDENT GEOMETRY CODING OF 3D SCENES .............................................................................................................729Frédéric Payan, François Mériaux, Marc Antonini

UTILISATION OF EDGE ADAPTIVE UPSAMPLING IN COMPRESSION OF DEPTH MAP VIDEOS FOR ENHANCED FREE-VIEWPOINT RENDERING ....................................................................................................................................733

Erhan Ekmekcioglu, Marta Mrak, Stewart T. Worrall, Ahmet Kondoz

DEPTH MAP COMPRESSION VIA COMPRESSED SENSING ...........................................................................................................737Michel Sarkis, Klaus Diepold

CODING AND INTERMEDIATE VIEW SYNTHESIS OF MULTIVIEW VIDEO PLUS DEPTH ..................................................741Karsten Müller, Aljoscha Smolic, Kristina Dix, Philipp Merkle, Thomas Wiegand

MULTI-VIEW DEPTH ESTIMATION BASED ON VISUAL-HULL ENHANCED HYBRID RECURSIVE MATCHING FOR 3D VIDEO CONFERENCE SYSTEMS ....................................................................................................................745

Ingo Feldmann, Nicole Atzpadin, Oliver Schreer, Jose-Carlos Pujol-Alcolado, Jose-Luis Landabaso, Oscar Divorra Escoda

SP-L3: RECONFIGURABLE VIDEO CODING: OVERVIEW AND RECENT ADVANCES RECONFIGURABLE VIDEO CODING: OBJECTIVES AND TECHNOLOGIES ............................................................................749

Christophe Lucarz, Ihab Amer, Marco Mattavelli

AN RVC DATAFLOW DESCRIPTION OF THE AVC CONSTRAINED BASELINE PROFILE DECODER...............................753Jérôme Gorin, Mickaël Raulet, Yuan-Long Cheng, He Yuan Lin, Nicolas Siret, Kazuo Sugimoto, Gwo Giun Lee

TOWARDS A COMPREHENSIVE RVC VTL: A CAL DESCRIPTION OF AN EFFICIENT AVC BASELINE ENCODER ......................................................................................................................................................................................................757

Hussein Aman-Allah, Ehab Hanna, Karim Maarouf, Ihab Amer

MOTION ESTIMATION ACCELERATOR WITH USER SEARCH STRATEGY IN AN RVC CONTEXT .................................761Julien Dubois, Richard Thavot, Romuald Mosqueron, Johel Miteran, Christophe Lucarz

IMPLEMENTING FULLY CONFIGURABLE VIDEO CODING .........................................................................................................765Iain Richardson, Sampath Kannangara, Maja Bystrom, James Philp, Manuel De Frutos Lopez

DECODER DESCRIPTION SYNTAX FOR FULLY CONFIGURABLE VIDEO CODING .............................................................769James Philp, Chaminda Kannangara, Maja Bystrom, Manuel De Frutos Lopez, Iain Richardson

A HIGH THROUGHPUT CABAC ALGORITHM USING SYNTAX ELEMENT PARTITIONING...............................................773Vivienne Sze, Anantha P. Chandrakasan

SP-L4: IMAGE AND VIDEO RETRIEVAL AUTOMATIC DISCOVERY OF IMAGE FAMILIES: GLOBAL VS. LOCAL FEATURES ............................................................777

Mohamed Aly, Peter Welinder, Mario Munich, Pietro Perona

A SPATIALLY AWARE GENERATIVE MODEL FOR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION, TOPIC DISCOVERY AND SEGMENTATION ...............................................................................................................................................................................781

Iván González-Díaz, Darío García-García, Fernando Díaz-De-María

BOOSTING OBJECT RETRIEVAL BY ESTIMATING PSEUDO-OBJECTS....................................................................................785Kuan-Hung Lin, Kuan-Ting Chen, Winston Hsu, Chun-Jen Lee, Tien-Hsu Li

A SPECTRAL METHOD FOR CONTEXT BASED DISAMBIGUATION OF IMAGE ANNOTATIONS......................................789Dimitri Semenovich, Arcot Sowmya

CONCEPT MODEL-BASED UNSUPERVISED WEB IMAGE RE-RANKING ..................................................................................793Shenghua Gao, Xiangang Cheng, Huan Wang, Liang-Tien Chia

A VIDEO RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM USING RANDOM PROJECTIONS ......................................................................................797Li Gao, Zhu Li, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

LOCALIZED NULL SPACE REPRESENTATION FOR DYNAMIC UPDATING AND DOWNDATING IN IMAGE AND VIDEO DATABASES ...........................................................................................................................................................801

Xu Chen, Dan Schonfeld, Ashfaq Khokhar

A WEB COMMUNITY-BASED VIDEO RETRIEVAL METHOD USING CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS ......................................................................................................................................................................................................805

Yasutaka Hatakeyama, Takahiro Ogawa, Satoshi Asamizu, Miki Haseyama

SP-L5: BIOMEDICAL IMAGING FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY IMAGING DENOISING WITH LOG-EUCLIDEAN PRIORS AND PHOTOBLEACHING COMPENSATION.................................................................................................................................................809

Isabel Rodrigues, João Sanches

IMPROVED GLOBAL CARDIAC TRACTOGRAPHY WITH SIMULATED ANNEALING ..........................................................813Carole Frindel, Marc Robini, Joël Schaerer, Pierre Croisille, Yue-Min Zhu

IN VIVO TRACKING OF 3D ORGANS USING SPHERICAL HARMONICS AND SUBSPACE CLUSTERING........................817Dan Wang, Ahmed H. Tewfik

PARTICLE TRACKING IN FLUORESCENT MICROSCOPY IMAGES IMPROVED BY MORPHOLOGICAL SOURCE SEPARATION ..............................................................................................................................................................................821

Nicolas Chenouard, Isabelle Bloch, Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin

CARDIAC PERFUSION DEFECT DETECTION USING GATED DYNAMIC SPECT IMAGING ................................................825Xiaofeng Niu, Yongyi Yang, Miles Wernick

RECONSTRUCTING FT-IR SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING DATA WITH A SPARSE PRIOR .....................................................829Spencer P. Brady, Minh Do, Rohit Bhargava

FAST BILINEAR EXTRAPOLATION OF 3D ISING FIELD PARTITION FUNCTION. APPLICATION TO FMRI IMAGE ANALYSIS. ..........................................................................................................................................................................833

Laurent Risser, Jérôme Idier, Philippe Ciuciu, Thomas Vincent

SKEWNESS AS FEATURE FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE USING SPECT IMAGES ...........................837Diego Salas-Gonzalez, Juan M. Górriz, Javier Ramírez, Ignacio Álvarez, Miriam López, Fermín Segovia, Manuel Gómez-Río

SP-PA: OBJECT DETECTION AND TRACKING DISTORTION INVARIANT ROAD SIGN DETECTION .......................................................................................................................841

Jesmin Khan, Sharif Bhuiyan, Reza Adhami

OVERSEGMENT AN IMAGE TO GET THE CANDIDATE DETECTION WINDOWS ................................................................. N/ARongguo Zhang, Baihua Xiao, Chunheng Wang

PARKING SPACE DETECTION FROM VIDEO BY AUGMENTING TRAINING DATASET ......................................................845Wei Yu, Tsuhan Chen

GENERATIVE MODEL FOR ABANDONED OBJECT DETECTION ................................................................................................849Jianting Wen, Haifeng Gong, Xia Zhang, Wenze Hu

MINING FAMILIES OF FEATURES FOR EFFICIENT OBJECT DETECTION .............................................................................853Xavier Perrotton, Marc Sturzel, Michel Roux

OPTIMUM KERNEL FUNCTION DESIGN FROM SCALE SPACE FEATURES FOR OBJECT DETECTION ........................857Sharmin Nilufar, Nilanjan Ray, Hong Zhang

KERNEL COVARIANCE IMAGE REGION DESCRIPTION FOR OBJECT TRACKING .............................................................861Omar Arif, Patricio Vela

TRACKING OF MULTIPLE INTERACTING OBJECTS USING A NOVEL PREDICTION MODEL .........................................865Zhijie Wang, Hong Zhang, Nilanjan Ray

EFFECTIVE OBJECT TRACKING BY MATCHING OBJECT AND BACKGROUND MODELS USING ACTIVE CONTOURS ...................................................................................................................................................................................869

Mohand Saïd Allili

MULTI-OBJECT TRACKING IN NON-STATIONARY VIDEO USING BACTERIAL FORAGING SWARMS.........................873Hoang Thanh Nguyen, Bir Bhanu

INTERACTIVE ROTOSCOPING: EXTRACTING AND TRACKING OBJECT SKETCH .............................................................877Han Lv, Huazhong Liang Lin, Kun Zeng, Nong Sang

TRACKING ARTICULATED OBJECTS WITH PHYSICS ENGINES................................................................................................881Fabrice De Chaumont, Alexandre Dufour, Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin

OBJECT TRACKING USING MULTIPLE FRAGMENTS ....................................................................................................................885Claudio R. Jung, Amir Said

OBJECT TRACKING BY BIDIRECTIONAL LEARNING WITH FEATURE SELECTION ..........................................................889Heng Wang, Xinwen Hou, Cheng-Lin Liu

SP-PB: VIDEO STREAMING AND ERROR CONCEALMENT COST MODELS FOR FAILURE MANAGEMENT ON A PEER TO PEER VOD SYSTEM............................................................893

Rodrigo Godoi, Alvaro Chalar, Porfidio Hernández

UNEQUAL LOSS-PROTECTED MULTIPLE DESCRIPTION CODING OF SCALABLE SOURCE STREAMS USING A PROGRESSIVE APPROACH ....................................................................................................................................................897

Majid Roohollah Ardestani, Alireza Aminlou, Ali Asghar Beheshti Shirazi

MULTIPLE DESCRIPTION FOR ROBUST SCALABLE VIDEO CODING ......................................................................................901Daniele Alfonso, Riccardo Bernardini, Luca Celetto, Roberto Rinaldo, Pamela Zontone

H.264 VIDEO STREAMING WITH DATA-PARTITIONING AND GROWTH CODES ..................................................................905Rouzbeh Razavi, Martin Fleury, Muhammad Altaf, Hanadi Samak, Mohammad Ghanbari

AN AUTOMATIC STRUCTURE-AWARE IMAGE EXTRAPOLATION APPLIED TO ERROR CONCEALMENT ..........................................................................................................................................................................................909

Haricharan Lakshman, Patrick Ndjiki-Nya, Martin Koeppel, Dimitar Doshkov, Thomas Wiegand

CONTENT-ADAPTIVE MACROBLOCK PARTITIONING SCHEME FOR ERROR CONCEALMENT OF H.264/AVC CODED VIDEO ........................................................................................................................................................................913

Santosh Chapaneri, Jeffrey Rodriguez

JOINT RESOURCES ALLOCATION FOR COOPERATIVE VIDEO TRANSMISSION.................................................................917Hongjiang Xiao, Qionghai Dai, Xiangyang Ji

LOW COMPLEXITY ERROR CONCEALMENT SCHEME FOR INTRA-FRAMES IN H.264/AVC............................................921Santosh Chapaneri, Jeffrey Rodriguez

IMAGE ERROR CONCEALMENT USING EDGE MAP AND LINEAR PREDICTION RESIDUE WATERMARKING AND SPATIAL SMOOTHING................................................................................................................................925

Shabnam Sodagari, Peyman Hesami, Alireza Nasiri Avanaki

RESILIENT TRANSMISSION OF MOTION DATA IN MULTIPLE DESCRIPTION CODING OF VIDEO ...............................929Moyuresh Biswas, Michael Frater, Mark Pickering, John Arnold

HILL CLIMBING ALGORITHM FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF LAYERED JPEG2000 VIDEO UNDER MULTIPLE RATE CONSTRAINTS ..........................................................................................................................................................933

Francesc Auli-Llinas, Han Oh, Ali Bilgin, Michael W. Marcellin

A TEMPORAL ERROR CONCEALMENT ALGORITHM FOR H.264/AVC BASED ON EDGE DIRECTIONS ........................937Xiaoyu Deng, Yi Liu, Chaoqun Hong, Jiajun Bu, Chun Chen

BANDWIDTH-AWARE MULTIPLE MULTICAST TREE FORMATION FOR P2P SCALABLE VIDEO STREAMING USING HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERS ............................................................................................................................941

Muge Fesci Sayit, E. Turhan Tunali, A. Murat Tekalp

ADAPTIVE VIDEO STREAMING WITH LONG TERM FEEDBACKS .............................................................................................945Nicolas Tizon, Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu, Marco Cagnazzo

SP-PC: SALIENCY AND INTEREST POINTS DETECTION FAST AND ROBUST DOMINANT POINTS DETECTION ON DIGITAL CURVES ........................................................................949

Thanh Phuong Nguyen, Isabelle Debled-Rennesson

SALIENCY-BASED AUTOMATIC TARGET DETECTION IN FORWARD LOOKING INFRARED IMAGES ........................953Wei Li, Chunhong Pan, Li-Xiong Liu

HOW TO APPLY SPATIAL SALIENCY INTO OBJECTIVE METRICS FOR JPEG COMPRESSED IMAGES? .....................957Judith Redi, Hantao Liu, Paolo Gastaldo, Rodolfo Zunino, Ingrid Heynderickx

AN ATTENTION MODEL FOR EXTRACTING COMPONENTS THAT MERIT IDENTIFICATION ........................................961Mohammad Jahangiri, Maria Petrou

A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON ATTEBTION-BASED RATE ADAPTATION FOR SCALABLE VIDEO CODING ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................965

Chia-Ming Tsai, Chia-Wen Lin, Weisi Lin, Wen-Hsiao Peng

COLOUR SALIENCY-BASED PARAMETER OPTIMISATION FOR ADAPTIVE COLOUR SEGMENTATION .........................................................................................................................................................................................969

Dana E. Ilea, Paul F. Whelan

IMAGE RETARGETING USING IMPORTANCE DIFFUSION ...........................................................................................................973Sunghyun Cho, Hanul Choi, Yasuyuki Matsushita, Seungyong Lee

EXCEPTIONAL MOTION FRAMES DETECTION BY MEANS OF SPATIOTEMPORAL REGION OF INTEREST FEATURES ...............................................................................................................................................................................977

Md. Haidar Sharif, Chabane Djeraba

DETERMINING THE SCALE OF INTEREST REGIONS IN VIDEOS...............................................................................................981Roman Filipovych, Eraldo Ribeiro

AUTOMATIC SCALE SELECTION FOR CORNERS AND JUNCTIONS .........................................................................................985Chunhui Cui, King Ngi Ngan

ISOCENTRIC COLOR SALIENCY IN IMAGES ....................................................................................................................................989Roberto Valenti, Nicu Sebe, Theo Gevers

SALIENCY-ENHANCED IMAGE AESTHETICS CLASS PREDICTION ..........................................................................................993Lai-Kuan Wong, Kok-Lim Low

WAVELET BASED STATISTICAL DETECTION OF SALIENT POINTS BY THE EXPLOITATION OF THE INTERSCALE REDUNDANCIES...............................................................................................................................................................997

Walid Ayadi, Amel Benazza-Benyahia

SALIENCY DETECTION FOR CONTENT-AWARE IMAGE RESIZING .......................................................................................1001Radhakrishna Achanta, Sabine Süsstrunk

SP-PD: VIDEO CODING II EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS FOR A GEOMETRIC-PARTITION-BASED VIDEO CODER ...............................................1005

Renan U. Ferreira, Edson M. Hung, Ricardo L. De Queiroz, Debargha Mukherjee

IN-LOOP FILTER USING BLOCK-BASED FILTER CONTROL FOR VIDEO CODING ............................................................1009Takashi Watanabe, Naofumi Wada, Goki Yasuda, Akiyuki Tanizawa, Takeshi Chujoh, Tomoo Yamakage

TEMPORAL DOWN-SAMPLING ALGORITHM OF HIGH FRAME-RATE VIDEO FOR REDUCING INTER-FRAME PREDICTION ERROR ...............................................................................................................................................................1013

Yukihiro Bandoh, Seishi Takamura, Kazuto Kamikura, Yoshiyuki Yashima

PARAMETRIC INTERPOLATION FILTER FOR MOTION COMPENSATED PREDICTION ..................................................1017Jie Dong, King Ngi Ngan

ADAPTIVE INTERPOLATION WITH FLEXIBLE FILTER STRUCTURES FOR VIDEO CODING ........................................1021Dmytro Rusanovskyy, Kemal Ugur, Moncef Gabbouj

WEIGHTED PREDICTION METHODS FOR IMPROVED MOTION COMPENSATION ...........................................................1025Athanasios Leontaris, Alexis M. Tourapis

MOTION VECTOR CODING USING OPTIMAL PREDICTOR ........................................................................................................1029Jungyoup Yang, Kwanghyun Won, Yung-Lyul Lee, Byeungwoo Jeon

INTRA PREDICTION METHOD BASED ON THE LINEAR RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CHANNELS FOR YUV 4:2:0 INTRA CODING.............................................................................................................................................................1033

Sang Heon Lee, Nam Ik Cho

MACROBLOCK FEATURE AND MOTION INVOLVED MULTI-STAGE FAST INTER MODE DECISION ALGORITHM IN H.264/AVC VIDEO CODING ....................................................................................................................................1037

Yiqing Huang, Qin Liu, Takeshi Ikenaga

ADAPTIVE SPATIAL WAVELETS FOR MOTION-COMPENSATED ORTHOGONAL VIDEO TRANSFORMS ............................................................................................................................................................................................1041

Markus Flierl

ADAPTIVE QUANTIZATION WITH BALANCED DISTORTION DISTRIBUTION AND ITS APPLICATION TO H.264 INTRA CODING........................................................................................................................................................................1045

Xiang Yu, Da-Ke He, En-Hui Yang

VIDEO CODING USING GLOBAL MOTION TEMPORAL FILTERING .......................................................................................1049Alexander Glantz, Andreas Krutz, Martin Haller, Thomas Sikora

INTRA-DISTANCE DERIVED WEIGHTED DISTORTION FOR ERROR RESILIENCE............................................................1053Sunday Nyamweno, Ramdas Satyan, Fabrice Labeau

SP-PE: SHAPE BASED REPRESENTATION AND PROCESSING II 2D-3D REGISTRATION OF DEFORMABLE SHAPESWITH MANIFOLD PROJECTION .........................................................1057

Alessio Del Bue, Marko Stosic, Marija Dodig, Joao Xavier

ROBUST AFFINE INVARIANT SHAPE IMAGE RETRIEVAL USING THE ICA ZERNIKE MOMENT SHAPE DESCRIPTOR ..............................................................................................................................................................................................1061

Ye Mei, Dimitrios Androutsos

A SHAPE DESCRIPTORS COMPARISON FOR ORGANS DEFORMATION SEQUENCE CHARACTERIZATION IN MRI SEQUENCES.....................................................................................................................................1065

Mehdi Rahim, Marc-Emmanuel Bellemare, Nicolas Pirro, Remy Bulot

A MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODEL FOR EXTRACTING NEAR-CIRCULAR SHAPES ......................................................1069Tamas Blaskovics, Zoltan Kato, Ian Jermyn

INTRODUCING SHAPE PRIORS IN OBJECT-BASED TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION ..............................................1073Gil Gaullier, Pierre Charbonnier, Fabrice Heitz

SHAPE PRIOR CRITERION BASED ON TCHEBICHEF MOMENTS IN VARIATIONAL REGION GROWING....................................................................................................................................................................................................1077

Jean-Loïc Rose, Chantal Revol-Muller, Delphine Charpigny, Christophe Odet

PRINCIPAL MOMENTS FOR EFFICIENT REPRESENTATION OF 2D SHAPE..........................................................................1081João F. P. Crespo, Gustavo A. S. Lopes, Pedro M. Q. Aguiar

VARIATIONAL LEVEL-SET WITH GAUSSIAN SHAPE MODEL FOR CELL SEGMENTATION ..........................................1085Arnaud Gelas, Kishore Mosaliganti, Alexandre Gouaillard, Lydie Souhait, Ramil Noche, Nikolaus Obholzer, Sean Megason

OBJECT SEGMENTATION BY TRAVERSING A POSE-SHAPE MANIFOLD .............................................................................1089Saurav Basu, Scott T. Acton

ESTIMATION OF DISCRETE CURVATURE BASED ON CHAIN-CODE PAIRING AND DIGITAL STRAIGHTNESS .........................................................................................................................................................................................1093

Shyamosree Pal, Partha Bhowmick

NONLINEAR REGISTRATION OF BINARY SHAPES .......................................................................................................................1097Jozsef Nemeth, Csaba Domokos, Zoltan Kato

LOCAL CONTOUR DESCRIPTORS AROUND SCALE-INVARIANT KEYPOINTS ....................................................................1101Andrea Kovács, Tamás Szirányi

SP-PF: VIDEO SURVEILLANCE AN EFFICIENT AND ROBUST SEQUENTIAL ALGORITHM FOR BACKGROUND ESTIMATION IN VIDEO SURVEILLANCE ..........................................................................................................................................................................1105

Vikas Reddy, Conrad Sanderson, Brian Lovell

OBJECT DETECTION AND TRACKING FOR NIGHT SURVEILLANCE BASED ON SALIENT CONTRAST ANALYSIS ....................................................................................................................................................................................................1109

Liangsheng Wang, Kaiqi Huang, Yongzhen Huang, Tieniu Tan

DETECTING CONTEXTUAL ANOMALIES OF CROWD MOTION IN SURVEILLANCE VIDEO ..........................................1113Fan Jiang, Ying Wu, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

A COMPACT OPTICAL FLOW BASED MOTION REPRESENTATION FOR REAL-TIME ACTION RECOGNITION IN SURVEILLANCE SCENES ...................................................................................................................................1117

Shiquan Wang, Kaiqi Huang, Tieniu Tan

A HIERARCHICAL IMAGE KERNEL WITH APPLICATION TO PEDESTRIAN IDENTIFICATION FOR VIDEO SURVEILLANCE ..........................................................................................................................................................................1121

Chia-Te Liao, Shang-Hong Lai, Wen-Hao Wang

SEGMENTATION OF MOTION OBJECTS FROM SURVEILLANCE VIDEO SEQUENCES USING PARTIAL CORRELATION ..........................................................................................................................................................................................1125

R. Girisha, S. Murali

ROBUST OBJECT TRACKING USING CORRESPONDENCE VOTING FOR SMART SURVEILLANCE VISUAL SENSING NODES .......................................................................................................................................................................1129

Mayssaa Al Najjar, Soumik Ghosh, Magdy Bayoumi

HEAD DETECTION FOR VIDEO SURVEILLANCE BASED ON CATEGORICAL HAIR AND SKIN COLOUR MODELS ....................................................................................................................................................................................1133

Zui Zhang, Hatice Gunes, Massimo Piccardi

SHADOW DETECTION IN VIDEO SURVEILLANCE BY MAXIMIZING AGREEMENT BETWEEN INDEPENDENT DETECTORS .................................................................................................................................................................1137

Juan C. Sanmiguel, José M. Martínez

FEATURE CLUSTERING FOR VEHICLE DETECTION AND TRACKING IN ROAD TRAFFIC SURVEILLANCE ........................................................................................................................................................................................1141

Jun Yang, Yang Wang, Getian Ye, Arcot Sowmya, Bang Zhang, Jie Xu

ESTIMATING TRAFFIC INTENSITY USING PROFILE IMAGES ON RECTIFIED IMAGES ..................................................1145Cristina Maduro, Katherine Batista, Jorge Batista

EXTRACTION OF CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS ...................................................1149Andrea Beoldo, Alessio Dore, Carlo Regazzoni

ESTIMATION AND ANALYSIS OF URBAN TRAFFIC FLOW.........................................................................................................1153Joonsoo Lee, Alan C. Bovik

SP-PG: SUPER-RESOLUTION TV-REGULARIZED GENERATION OF PLANAR IMAGES FROM OMNICAMS .......................................................................1157

Yannick Boursier, Laurent Jacques, Didier Raboud, Pascal Frossard, Jalal Fadili, Pierre Vandergheynst

MAP-MRF SUPER-RESOLUTION IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION USING MAXIMUM PSEUDO-LIKELIHOOD PARAMETER ESTIMATION .......................................................................................................................................1161

Ana Martins, Alexandre Levada, Murillo Homem, Nelson Mascarenhas

SUPER-RESOLUTION WITH CONTINUOUS SCAN SHIFT .............................................................................................................1165François Orieux, Thomas Rodet, Jean-François Giovannelli

IMPROVING THE SPATAIL RESOLUTION BASED ON 4D LIGHT FIELD DATA ....................................................................1169Jaeguyn Lim, Hyunwook Ok, Byungkwan Park, Jooyoung Kang, Seongdeok Lee

HIGH RESOLUTON IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION: A NEW IMAGER VIA MOVABLE RANDOM EXPOSURE ..................................................................................................................................................................................................1173

Guangming Shi, Da-Hua Gao, Dan-Hua Liu, Liang-Jun Wang

A HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGE RECONSTUCTION METHOD FROM LOW-RESOLUTION IMAGE SEQUENCE ..................................................................................................................................................................................................1177

Yeol-Min Seong, Hyunwook Park

SUPER RESOLUTION OF TIME-OF-FLIGHT DEPTH IMAGES UNDER CONSIDERATION OF SPATIALLY VARYING NOISE VARIANCE.................................................................................................................................................................1181

Torsten Edeler, Kevin Ohliger, Stephan Hussmann, Alfred Mertins

LOCALITY PRESERVING CONSTRAINTS FOR SUPER-RESOLUTION WITH NEIGHBOR EMBEDDING .......................1185Bo Li, Harbin Hong Chang, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen

NEW MOTION COMPENSATION MODEL VIA FREQUENCY CLASSIFICATION FOR FAST VIDEO SUPER-RESOLUTION ...............................................................................................................................................................................1189

Kwok-Wai Hung, Wan-Chi Siu

IMPROVEMENT ON LEARNING-BASED SUPER-RESOLUTION BY ADOPTING RESIDUAL INFORMATION AND PATCH RELIABILITY .....................................................................................................................................1193

Changhyun Kim, Kyuha Choi, Jong Beom Ra

DIRECTIONALLY ADAPTIVE SUPER-RESOLUTION .....................................................................................................................1197Emre Turgay, Gozde B. Akar

SP-PH: FACE DETECTION AND VERIFICATION INFORMATIVE FREQUENT ASSEMBLED FEATURE FOR FACE DETECTION ......................................................................1201

Bang Zhang, Getian Ye, Yang Wang, Wei Wang, Jie Xu, Gunawan Herman, Jun Yang

EARLY TERMINATING ALGORITHMS FOR ADABOOST BASED DETECTORS ....................................................................1205Arif Mahmood, Sohaib Khan

CAT FACE DETECTION WITH TWO HETEROGENEOUS FEATURES.......................................................................................1209Tatsuo Kozakaya, Satoshi Ito, Susumu Kubota, Osamu Yamaguchi

FEA-ACCU CASCADE FOR FACE DETECTION ................................................................................................................................1213Shengye Yan, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao

RAPID STEREO-VISION ENHANCED FACE DETECTION .............................................................................................................1217Sergey Kosov, Kristina Scherbaum, Kamil Faber, Thorsten Thormählen, Hans-Peter Seidel

FACE DETECTION THROUGH COMPACT CLASSIFIER USING ADAPTIVE LOOK-UP-TABLE ........................................1221Yuya Hanai, Tadahiro Kuroda

FACE DETECTION USING GENERALISED INTEGRAL IMAGE FEATURES............................................................................1225Alister Cordiner, Philip Ogunbona, Wanqing Li

RANDOM PROJECTIONS FOR FACE DETECTION UNDER RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS ....................................................1229Grigorios Tsagkatakis, Andreas Savakis

A NEW PROBABILISTIC LOCAL BINARY PATTERN FOR FACE VERIFICATION ................................................................. N/ANutao Tan, Lei Huang, Changping Liu

COMBINATION OF KERNELS APPLIED TO FACE VERIFICATION ..........................................................................................1233Isaac Martin De Diego, Cristina Conde, Ángel Serrano, Enrique Cabello

MODELING MAGNITUDES OF GABOR COEFFICIENTS: THE BETA-RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTION ..................................1237Daniel Gonzalez-Jimenez, Enrique Argones-Rua, Jose Luis Alba-Castro

DISCRIMINANT FEATURE EXTRACTION BASED ON CENTER DISTANCE ...........................................................................1241Hui Yan, Wankou Yang, Jian Yang, Jingyu Yang

SP-PI: IMAGE SECURITY I PERFOMANCE ANALYSIS OF THE FRIDRICH-GOLJAN SELF-EMBEDDING AUTHENTICATION METHOD ......................................................................................................................................................................................................1245

Gabriel Domínguez-Conde, Pedro Comesaña-Alfaro, Fernando Pérez-González

EFFECTIVE IMAGE SPLICING DETECTION BASED ON IMAGE CHROMA............................................................................1249Wei Wang, Jing Dong, Tieniu Tan

A NOVEL PUBLIC KEY SELF-EMBEDDING FRAGILE WATERMARKING TECHNIQUE FOR IMAGE AUTHENTICATION...................................................................................................................................................................................1253

Ammar M. Hassan, Yassin M. Y. Hasan, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Mohamed A. A. Wahab, Bernd Michailes

A COMPRESSIVE-SENSING BASED WATERMARKING SCHEME FOR SPARSE IMAGE TAMPERING IDENTIFICATION ......................................................................................................................................................................................1257

Giuseppe Valenzise, Marco Tagliasacchi, Stefano Tubaro, Giacomo Cancelli, Mauro Barni

A NEW SCHEME OF SHARING SECRETS IN STEGO IMAGES WITH AUTHENTICATION .................................................1261Chin-Pan Huang

SELECTIVE AND SCALABLE ENCRYPTION OF ENHANCEMENT LAYERS FOR DYADIC SCALABLE H.264/AVC BY SCRAMBLING OF SCAN PATTERNS........................................................................................................................1265

Zafar Shahid, Marc Chaumont, William Puech

IMAGE ADAPTIVE SELECTIVE ENCRYPTION OF VECTOR QUANTIZATION INDEX COMPRESSION.........................1269Yassin M. Y. Hasan, Mohammed F. A. Ahmed, Tarik Abdelhamid

SECURE IMAGE HASHING VIA MINIMUM DISTORTION ESTIMATION .................................................................................1273Chao-Yung Hsu, Chun-Shien Lu, Soo-Chang Pei

COMPRESSIVE SENSING-BASED IMAGE HASHING ......................................................................................................................1277Li-Wei Kang, Chun-Shien Lu, Chao-Yung Hsu

A LOW-COMPLEXITY REDUCED-REFERENCE PRINT IDENTIFICATION ALGORITHM ..................................................1281Matthew Gaubatz, Robert Ulichney, David Rouse

SP-PJ: DEBLURRING II SPARSE REPRESENTATION BASED ITERATIVE INCREMENTAL IMAGE DEBLURRING .................................................1285

Haichao Zhang, Yanning Zhang

JOINT IMAGE RESTORATION AND SEGMENTATION USING GAUSS-MARKOV-POTTS PRIOR MODELS AND VARIATIONAL BAYESIAN COMPUTATION .........................................................................................................1289

Hacheme Ayasso, Ali Mohammad-Djafari

BLIND DEBLURRING OF FOREGROUND-BACKGROUND IMAGES ..........................................................................................1293Mariana S. C. Almeida, Luís B. Almeida

LCD MOTION BLUR REDUCTION USING FIR FILTER BANKS ...................................................................................................1297Shay Har-Noy, Truong Nguyen

A GENERALIZED VECTOR-VALUED TOTAL VARIATION ALGORITHM ...............................................................................1301Paul Rodriguez, Brendt Wohlberg

SINGLE CHANNEL 2-D AND 3-D BLIND IMAGE DECONVOLUTION FOR CIRCULARLY SYMMETRIC FIR BLURS ...................................................................................................................................................................................................1305

Kwang Eun Jang, Hee Won Yang, Jong Chul Ye

MOTION BLUR ESTIMATION OF HANDHELD CAMERA USING REGULAR- AND SHORT-EXPOSURE IMAGE PAIR ...............................................................................................................................................................................................1309

Hiroshi Kano, Haruo Hatanaka, Shimpei Fukumoto, Haruhiko Murata

IMAGE DEBLURRING BY EXPLOITING INHERENT BI-LEVEL REGIONS ..............................................................................1313Po-Hao Huang, Yu-Mo Lin, Hao-Liang Yang, Shang-Hong Lai

A TOTAL VARIATION PROJECTION ALGORITHM .......................................................................................................................1317Jalal Fadili, Gabriel Peyré

IMAGE DECONVOLUTION BY STEIN BLOCK THRESHOLDING ...............................................................................................1321Christophe Chesneau, Jalal Fadili, Jean-Luc Starck

SP1-PK: TEXTURE ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS ILLUMINATION INVARIANT AND ROTATIONAL INSENSITIVE TEXTURAL REPRESENTATION .................................1325

Pavel Vacha, Michal Haindl

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TEXTURE COARSENESS MEASURES ........................................................................................1329Jesús Chamorro-Martínez, Pedro Martínez-Jiménez

TEXTURE FEATURES CORRESPONDING TO HUMAN TOUCH FEELING ...............................................................................1333Galal Elkharraz, Stefan Thumfart, Dyar Akay, Christian Eitzinger, Brian Henson

PARALLELOGRAMMIC NEIGHBORHOOD SYSTEM FOR NONPARAMETRIC MRF BASED TEXTURE SYNTHESIS..................................................................................................................................................................................................1337

Arnab Sinha, Ajay Kkv, Sumana Gupta

GEOMETRIC AND TEXTURE INPAINTING BASED ON DISCRETE REGULARIZATION ON GRAPHS ............................1341Mahmoud Ghoniem, Youssef Chahir, Abderrahim Elmoataz

TEXTURE DEPENDENT FEATURE SELECTION FOR PANORAMA ...........................................................................................1345Jiang Gao

HIGHER ORDER TEAGER-KAISER OPERATORS FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS: PART II - A MULTICOMPONENT IMAGE DEMODULATION..............................................................................................................................1349

El Hadji Diop, Abdel Boudraa

A UNIFIED GRADIENT DOMAIN METHOD FOR SEAMLESS IMAGE PROCESSING ............................................................1353Shiming Ge, Kongqiao Wang, Hao Wang, Feng Zhao

SP2-PK: TEXTURE SEGMENTATION AND CLASSIFICATION A HIERARCHICAL GRAPH-BASED MARKOVIAN CLUSTERING APPROACH FOR THE UNSUPERVISED SEGMENTATION OF TEXTURED COLOR IMAGES........................................................................................................................1357

Rachid Hedjam, Max Mignotte

AN ACTI VE CONTOURS METHOD BASED ON INTENSITY AND REDUCED GABOR FEATURES FOR TEXTURE SEGMENTATION ..................................................................................................................................................................1361

Huchuan Lu, Yunyun Liu, Zhipeng Sun, Yen-Wei Chen

A 3D DISCRETE CURVELET BASED METHOD FOR SEGMENTING DYNAMIC TEXTURES ..............................................1365Sloven Dubois, Renaud Péteri, Michel Ménard

INTEGRATING LOCAL FEATURE AND GLOBAL STATISTICS FOR TEXTURE ANALYSIS ...............................................1369Yong Xu, Sibin Huang, Hui Ji

COLOR TEXTURE CLASSIFICATION BY A DISCRETE STATISTICAL MODEL AND FEATURE SELECTION .................................................................................................................................................................................................. N/A

Nizar Bouguila, Riad Hammoud

GABOR-BASED TEXTURE CLASSIFICATION THROUGH EFFICIENT PROTOTYPE SELECTION VIA NORMALIZED CUT...................................................................................................................................................................................1373

Jaime Melendez, Domenec Puig, Miguel Angel Garcia

MA-L1: DISTRIBUTED VIDEO CODING OPTIMIZED FRAME STRUCTURE USING DISTRIBUTED SOURCE CODING FOR INTERACTIVE MULTIVIEW VIDEO STREAMING .......................................................................................................................................................1377

Gene Cheung, Ngai-Man Cheung, Antonio Ortega

DISTRIBUTED COMPRESSED VIDEO SENSING...............................................................................................................................1381Thong Do, Yi Chen, Dzung Nguyen, Nam Nguyen, Lu Gan, Trac D. Tran

CONTENT ADAPTIVE GOP SIZE CONTROL WITH FEEDBACK CHANNEL SUPPRESSION IN DISTRIBUTED VIDEO CODING.............................................................................................................................................................1385

Charles Yaacoub, Joumana Farah, Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu

MULTIPLE CHANNEL DIVISION FOR EFFICIENT DISTRIBUTED VIDEO CODING.............................................................1389Sang-Uk Park, Young-Yoon Lee, Jin-Woo Choi, Jung-Won Kang, Chang-Su Kim, Sang-Uk Lee

ADAPTIVE SOURCE REPRESENTATION FOR DISTRIBUTED VIDEO CODING.....................................................................1393Grégory Huchet, Jean-Yves Chouinard, Demin Wang, André Vincent

ADAPTIVE CORRELATION ESTIMATION FOR GENERAL WYNER-ZIV VIDEO CODING .................................................1397Xiaopeng Fan, Oscar C. Au, Ngai-Man Cheung

ON LOW-COMPLEXITY VIDEO ENCODING THROUGH FEEDBACK .......................................................................................1401Chuohao Yeo, Kannan Ramchandran

AQT-DVC: ADAPTIVE QUANTIZATION FOR TRANSFORM-DOMAIN DISTRIBUTED VIDEO CODING .........................1405Wei-Jung Chien, Lina Karam

MA-L2: MACHINE LEARNING FOR IMAGE AND VIDEO CLASSIFICATION IMAGE CLASSIFICATION VIA SVM USING IN-BETWEEN UNIVERSUM SAMPLES .............................................................. N/A

Shuo Chen, Changshui Zhang

SELECTING REPRESENTATIVE AND DISTINCTIVE DESCRIPTORS FOR EFFICIENT LANDMARK RECOGNITION ...........................................................................................................................................................................................1409

Sheng Gao, Joo-Hwee Lim

LEARNING CONTEXTUAL RULES FOR PRIMING OBJECT CATEGORIES IN IMAGES......................................................1413Roland Perko, Lucas Paletta, Ales Leonardis

SELECTING RELEVANT VISUAL FEATURES FOR SPEECHREADING.....................................................................................1417Virginia Estellers, Mihai Gurban, Jean-Philippe Thiran

CONTENT-BASED 3D OBJECT RETRIEVAL USING 2D VIEWS ...................................................................................................1421Thibault Napoleon, Hichem Sahbi

AN INCREMENTAL LEARNING FRAMEWORK COMBINING SAMPLE CONFIDENCE AND DISCRIMINATION WITH AN APPLICATION TO AUTOMATIC IMAGE ANNOTATION.......................................................1425

Byungki Byun, Chin-Hui Lee

OBJECT DETECTION VIA BOOSTED DEFORMABLE FEATURES..............................................................................................1429Mohamed Hussein, Fatih Porikli; Larry Davis

AN INCREMENTAL EXTREMELY RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFIER FOR ONLINE LEARNING AND TRACKING ..................................................................................................................................................................................................1433

Aiping Wang, Guowei Wan, Zhiquan Cheng, Sikun Li

MA-L3: SPARSITY TOUR OF INVERSE PROBLEMS AN OVERVIEW OF INVERSE PROBLEM REGULARIZATION USING SPARSITY ..................................................................1437

Jean-Luc Starck, Jalal Fadili

A FAST AND ACCURATE FIRST-ORDER ALGORITHM FOR COMPRESSED SENSING .......................................................1441Jerome Bobin, Emmanuel Candes

MONOTONE OPERATOR SPLITTING FOR OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS IN SPARSE RECOVERY .................................1445Jalal Fadili, Jean-Luc Starck

DEQUANTIZING COMPRESSED SENSING WITH NON-GAUSSIAN CONSTRAINTS..............................................................1449Laurent Jacques, David Hammond, Jalal Fadili

OPTICAL FLOW AND DEPTH FROM MOTION FOR OMNIDIRECTIONAL IMAGES USING A TV-L1 VARIATIONAL FRAMEWORK ON GRAPHS .....................................................................................................................................1453

Luigi Bagnato, Pascal Frossard, Pierre Vandergheynst

IMAGE RESTORATION USING A SPARSE QUADTREE DECOMPOSITION REPRESENTATION.......................................1457Adam Scholefield, Pier Luigi Dragotti

STRUCTURED SPACE PURSUITS FOR GEOMETRIC SUPER-RESOLUTION...........................................................................1461Stephane Mallat, Guoshen Yu

SPARSITY AND MORPHOLOGICAL DIVERSITY FOR HYPERSPECTRAL DATA ANALYSIS ............................................1465Jerome Bobin, Yassir Moudden, Jean-Luc Starck, Jalal Fadili

MA-L4: IMAGE FORENSICS AND AUTHENTICATION SECURE DISTORTION COMPUTATION AMONG UNTRUSTING PARTIES USING HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION .............................................................................................................................................................................................1469

Shantanu Rane, Wei Sun, Anthony Vetro

DISTORTION METRICS FOR PREDICTING AUTHENTICATION FUNCTIONALITY OF PRINTED SECURITY DETERRENTS .......................................................................................................................................................................1473

Matthew Gaubatz, Steven Simske, Shawn Gibson

ADDING GAUSSIAN NOISE TO “DENOISE” JPEG FOR DETECTING IMAGE RESIZING ....................................................1477Lakshmanan Nataraj, Anindya Sarkar, Bangalore S. Manjunath

IMAGE TAMPER DETECTION BASED ON DEMOSAICING ARTIFACTS..................................................................................1481Ahmet Emir Dirik, Nasir Memon

DEVICE TEMPORAL FORENSICS: AN INFORMATION THEORETIC APPROACH................................................................1485Junwen Mao, Orhan Bulan, Gaurav Sharma, Suprakash Datta

COLOR LASER PRINTER IDENTIFICATION BY ANALYZING STATISTICAL FEATURES ON DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM.........................................................................................................................................................................1489

Jung-Ho Choi, Dong-Hyuck Im, Hae-Yeoun Lee, Jun-Taek Oh, Jin-Ho Ryu, Heung-Kyu Lee

SOURCE CAMERA IDENTIFICATION USING ENAHNCED SENSOR PATTERN NOISE ........................................................1493Chang-Tsun Li

DEGRADED PARTIAL PALMPRINT RECOGNITION FOR FORENSIC INVESTIGATIONS ..................................................1497Moussadek Laadjel, Fatih Kurugollu, Ahmed Bouridane, Said Boussakta

MA-L5: MULTIFRAME IMAGE RESTORATION I NEW RESULTS ON PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF SUPER-RESOLUTION IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ......................1501

Junlan Yang, Dan Schonfeld

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT METHOD VIA BLUR AND NOISY IMAGE FUSION ..........................................................................1505Marius Tico, Kari Pulli

A NOVEL METHOD FOR MULTI-FOCUS IMAGE FUSION ............................................................................................................1509Radu Ciprian Bilcu, Sakari Alenius, Markku Vehvilainen

MULTIFRAME IMAGE RESTORATION IN THE PRESENCE OF NOISY BLUR KERNEL......................................................1513Miyoun Jung, Antonio Marquina, Luminita A. Vese

AN DISCRETE-TIME ALGORITHM FOR FAST IMAGE RESTORATION BASED ON GENERALIZED LAD ESTIMATION ............................................................................................................................................................................................... N/A

Xia Youshen

JOINT IMAGE REGISTRATION AND SUPER-RESOLUTION RECONSTRUCTION BASED ON REGULARIZED TOTAL LEAST NORM ...............................................................................................................................................1517

Qing Wang, Xiaoli Song

COMPUTATIONAL FILTER-APERTURE APPROACH FOR SINGLE-VIEW MULTI-FOCUSING ........................................1521Vivek Maik, Dohee Cho, Sangjin Kim, Donghwan Har, Joonki Paik

AN IMPROVED HDR IMAGE SYNTHESIS ALGORITHM ...............................................................................................................1525Saartje De Neve, Bart Goossens, Hiêp Luong, Wilfried Philips

MA-PA: MOTION ESTIMATION AND COMPENSATION FAST PARTIAL DISTORTION ELIMINATION BASED ON A MAXIMUM ERROR CONSTRAINT FOR MOTION ESTIMATION ............................................................................................................................................................................1529

Sangkeun Lee, Jae-Young Lee, Jin-Hee Lee, Joonki Paik, Jong-Soo Choi

STATISTICAL REGION SELECTION FOR ROBUST IMAGE STABILIZATION USING FEATURE-HISTOGRAM ...............................................................................................................................................................................................1533

Jinhee Lee, Younguk Park, Sangkeun Lee, Joonki Paik

KERNEL BASED SUB-PIXEL MOTION ESTIMATION.....................................................................................................................1537Paul Hill, David Bull

FAST AND EFFICIENT FRACTIONAL PIXEL MOTION ESTIMATION FOR H.264/AVC VIDEO CODING........................1541Humaira Nisar, Tae-Sun Choi

LOW-COMPLEXITY ALGORITHM FOR FRACTIONAL-PIXEL MOTION ESTIMATION .....................................................1545Mohammed Sayed, Wael Badawy, Graham Jullien

FAST SUB-PEL MOTION VECTOR PREDICTION VIA BLOCK CLASSIFICATION.................................................................1549Qi Zhang, Yunyang Dai, C.-C. Jay Kuo

FAST BLOCK MOTION ESTIMATION BY EDGE BASED PARTIAL DISTORTION SEARCH ...............................................1553Mohammed Golam Sarwer, Q. M. Jonathan Wu

HIGHLY-PARALLELIZED MOTION ESTIMATION FOR SCALABLE VIDEO CODING.........................................................1557Marijn J. H. Loomans, Cornelis J. Koeleman, Peter H. N. De With

A NEW CROSS-DIAMOND SEARCH ALGORITHM FOR FAST BLOCK MOTION ESTIMATION ........................................1561Shiping Zhu, Jun Tian, Xiaodong Shen, Kamel Belloulata

HIGHER ORDER PREDICTION FOR SUB-PIXEL MOTION ESTIMATION................................................................................1565Damith J Mudugamuwa, Xiangjian He, Chung-Hyun Ahn, Jie Yang

QUANTIZATION BASED NEAREST-NEIGHBOR-PRESERVING METRIC APPROXIMATION ............................................1569Hye-Yeon Cheong, Antonio Ortega

THE IMPACT OF NONLINEAR FILTERING AND CONFIDENCE INFORMATION ON OPTICAL FLOW ESTIMATION IN A LUCAS & KANADE FRAMEWORK ..................................................................................................................1573

Michael Heindlmaier, Lang Yu, Klaus Diepold

BLOCK-MATCHING TRANSLATION AND ZOOM MOTION-COMPENSATED PREDICTION BY SUB-SAMPLING...................................................................................................................................................................................................1577

Ka-Man Wong, Lai-Man Po, Kwok-Wai Cheung, Chu Hai, Ka-Ho Ng

EFFICIENT MOTION COMPENSATION USING MULTIPLE WARPED REFERENCE PICTURES BASED ON FEATURE TRACKING AND SEGMENTATION...........................................................................................................................1581

Seung-Wook Park, Joon-Young Park, Byeong-Moon Jeon

MOTION VECTOR PROCESSING USING THE COLOR INFORMATION ...................................................................................1585Ai-Mei Huang, Truong Nguyen

FALLING SNOW MOTION ESTIMATION BASED ON A SEMI-TRANSPARENT AND PARTICLE TRAJECTORY MODEL ............................................................................................................................................................................1589

Hidetomo Sakaino, Yang Shen, Yuanhang Pan, Lizhuang Ma

MA-PB: COLOR ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING II A NEW RANDOM COLOR FILTER ARRAY WITH GOOD SPECTRAL PROPERTIES.............................................................1593

Laurent Condat

COLOR-IMAGE DECOMPOSITION UTILIZING INTER-CHANNEL COLOR CROSS-CORRELATIONS WITH ITS APPLICATION TO DENOISING .........................................................................................................................................1597

Takahiro Saito, Haruya Aizawa, Nobuhiro Fujii, Takashi Komatsu

OPTIMAL COLOR SPACES FOR IMAGE DEMOSAICING .............................................................................................................1601Evgeny Gershikov, Moshe Porat

A GENERIC VARIATIONAL APPROACH FOR DEMOSAICKING FROM AN ARBITRARY COLOR FILTER ARRAY ..........................................................................................................................................................................................1605

Laurent Condat

COLOR IMAGE DEHAZING USING THE NEAR-INFRARED .........................................................................................................1609Lex Schaul, Clément Fredembach, Sabine Süsstrunk

COLOR QUANTIZATION USING PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS FOR INITIALIZATION OF KOHONEN SOFM.............................................................................................................................................................................................................1613

Dimitris Mavridis, Nikos Papamarkos

COLOR CONSTANCY USING DENOISING METHODS AND CEPSTRAL ANALYSIS..............................................................1617Anustup Choudhury, Gerard Medioni

GENERATING OPTIMAL LOOK-UP TABLES TO ACHIEVE COMPLEX COLOR SPACE TRANSFORMATIONS ...............................................................................................................................................................................1621

Satyam Srivastava, Thanh Ha, Edward Delp, Jan Allebach

LABELLING COLOR IMAGES BY MODELLING THE COLORS DENSITY USING A LINEAR COMBINATION OF GAUSSIANS AND EM ALGORITHM ...............................................................................................................1625

Asem Ali, Amal Farag, Aly Farag

EFFECTIVE INITIALIZATION OF K-MEANS FOR COLOR QUANTIZATION..........................................................................1629M. Emre Celebi

COLORIZATION OF GRAYSCALE IMAGES AND VIDEOS USING A SEMI-AUTOMATIC APPROACH............................1633Vivek George Jacob, Sumana Gupta

ON THE USE OF COLOR APPEARANCE MODELING FOR EFFICIENT COMPRESSED-DOMAIN IMAGE ENHANCEMENT ........................................................................................................................................................................................1637

Maria Chatzigiorgaki, Athanassios Skodras

EDGE-PRESERVING COLORIZATION USING DATA-DRIVEN RANDOM WALKS WITH RESTART ................................1641Tae Hoon Kim, Kyoung Mu Lee, Sang Uk Lee

FAST IMPLEMENTATION OF VECTOR DIRECTIONAL FILTERS .............................................................................................1645M. Emre Celebi

MA-PC: REMOTE SENSING: DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION CONTRIBUTION OF AIRBORNE FULL-WAVEFORM LIDAR AND IMAGE DATA FOR URBAN SCENE CLASSIFICATION......................................................................................................................................................................................1649

Nesrine Chehata, Li Guo, Clément Mallet

MULTI-CLASS SVM FOR FORESTRY CLASSIFICATION ..............................................................................................................1653Nabil Hajj Chehade, Jean-Guy Boureau, Claude Vidal, Josiane Zerubia

SAR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING THE INSAR COHERENCE FOR SOIL DEGRADATION CARTOGRAPHY IN THE SOUTH OF TUNISIA..................................................................................................................................1657

Amor Elmzoughi, Riadh Abdelfattah, Ziad Belhadj

OBJECT ORIENTED HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFICATION OF HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGES ........................................................................................................................................................................................................1661

Ons Ghariani, Riadh Tebourbi

CLASSIFICATION OF WATER REGIONS IN SAR IMAGES USING LEVEL SETS AND NON-PARAMETRIC DENSITY ESTIMATION ...........................................................................................................................................................................1665

Margarida Silveira, Sandra Heleno

HYPERSPECTRAL DATA CLASSIFICATION USING MARGIN INFUSED RELAXED ALGORITHM..................................1669Jiming Li, Zhenfang Hu, Yuntao Qian

2D TREE DETECTION IN LARGE URBAN LANDSCAPES USING AERIAL LIDAR DATA .....................................................1673George Chen, Avideh Zakhor

A MEASURE FOR CHANGE DETECTION IN VERY HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGES BASED ON TEXTURE ANALYSIS ..........................................................................................................................................................1677

Antoine Lefebvre, Thomas Corpetti, Laurence Hubert-Moy

CLASSIFYING URBAN LANDSCAPE IN AERIAL LIDAR USING 3D SHAPE ANALYSIS ........................................................1681Matthew Carlberg, Peiran Gao, George Chen, Avideh Zakhor

TOWARDS AUTOMATIC TREE CROWN DETECTION AND DELINEATION IN SPECTRAL FEATURE SPACE USING PCNN AND MORPHOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION .........................................................................................1685

Zhengrong Li, Ross Hayward, Jinglan Zhang, Yuee Liu, Rodney Walker

A NOVEL APPROACH FOR POLYGONAL ROOFTOP DETECTION IN SATELLITE/AERIAL IMAGERIES.....................1689Masoud S. Nosrati, Parvaneh Saeedi

LIDAR WAVEFORM MODELING USING A MARKED POINT PROCESS ...................................................................................1693Clément Mallet, Florent Lafarge, Frédéric Bretar, Uwe Soergel, Christian Heipke

MULTIREGION LEVEL-SET SEGMENTATION OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES.........................................1697Michael Ying Yang

SAR SEA ICE IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING AN EDGE-PRESERVING REGION-BASED MRF ......................................1701Xuezhi Yang, David Clausi

MA-PD: BIOMEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING I WAVELET-BASED PARALLEL MRI REGULARIZATION USING BIVARIATE SPARSITY PROMOTING PRIORS .........................................................................................................................................................................................................1705

Lotfi Chaâri, Amel Benazza-Benyahia, Jean-Christophe Pesquet, Philippe Ciuciu

TWO-STAGE REGISTRATION OF SUBSTRCUTURES IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE BRAIN IMAGING...........................1709Siamak Yousefi, Nasser Kehtarnavaz, Kaundinya Gopinath, Richard Briggs

TONGUE TRACKING IN ULTRASOUND IMAGES WITH ACTIVE APPEARANCE MODELS ...............................................1713Anastasios Roussos, Athanassios Katsamanis, Petros Maragos

A BIO-INSPIRED CNN WITH RE-INDEXING ENGINE FOR LOSSLESS DNA MICROARRAY COMPRESSION AND SEGMENTATION ..............................................................................................................................................1717

Sebastiano Battiato, Francesco Rundo

FLUORESCENCE DIFFUSE OPTICAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION WITH \EMPH{A PRIORI ............................................1721Lu Zhou, An Jin, Birsen Yazici

DATA FUSION OF LEFT VENTRICLE ELECTRO-ANATOMICAL MAPPING AND MULTISLICE COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY........................................................................................................................................................1725

Francois Tavard, Antoine Simon, Christophe Leclercq, Dominique Pavin, Alfredo Hernandez, Mireille Garreau

LOCAL MOTION ANALYSIS IN 4D LUNG CT USING FAST GROUPWISE REGISTRATION ................................................1729Daniel Bystrov, Torbjoern Vik, Heinrich Schulz, Tobias Klinder, Stefan Schmidt

HYBRID PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION FOR 3-D IMAGE REGISTRATION.................................................................1733Yen-Wei Chen, Aya Mimori, Chen-Lun Lin

A PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATION OF A MAGNETIC INDUCTION TOMOGRAPHY: IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM ON THE CLEARSPEED ADVANCE ACCELERATOR BOARD.....................................1737

Yasheng Maimaitijiang, Mohammed Ali Roula, Khaled Sobaihi, Stuart Watson, Robert J. Williams, Huw Griffiths

IMAGES WITHIN THE ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD.............................................................................................................1741Rita Noumeir, Jean François Pambrun

EXPLOITING LOCAL STRUCTURE FOR TRACKING PLANT CELLS IN NOISY IMAGES ...................................................1745Min Liu, Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury, Venugopala Reddy Gonehal

LEVEL EMBEDDED MEDICAL IMAGE COMPRESSION BASED ON VALUE OF INTEREST ...............................................1749Wen Sun, Yan Lu, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li

CONSTRUCTION OF A LINEAR UNBIASED DIFFEOMORPHIC PROBABILISTIC LIVER ATLAS FROM CT IMAGES .................................................................................................................................................................................................1753

Wei Xiong, S. H. Ong, Qi Tian, Guozhen Xu, Jiayin Zhou, Jiang Liu, Sudhakar Venkatash

INTENSITY COMPENSATION OF THE MITOCHONDRIA TILTED IMAGE SEQUENCE OBTAINED FROM THE TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY..............................................................................................................1757

Dong Sik Kim

MA-PE: PERCEPTUAL BASED PROCESSING CHANNELIZED HOTELLING OBSERVERS FOR THE DETECTION OF 2D SIGNALS IN 3D SIMULATED IMAGES ........................................................................................................................................................................................................1761

Ljiljana Platiša, Bart Goossens, Ewout Vansteenkiste, Aldo Badano, Wilfried Philips

CHARACTERIZATION OF DIFFERENCE DETECTION THRESHOLDS IN AWGN-DEGRADED IMAGES BY USING FULL REFERENCE METRICS ...........................................................................................................................................1765

Ronaldo Zampolo, Diego Gomes, Rui Seara

REALISTIC HDR TONE-MAPPING BASED ON CONTRAST PERCEPTION MATCHING ......................................................1769Zhongkang Lu, Susanto Rahardja

COMPUTATIONAL PRIMITIVES OF VISUAL PERCEPTION........................................................................................................1773Yongzhen Huang, Kaiqi Huang, Tieniu Tan

SINGLE IMAGE DEFOCUS MAP ESTIMATION USING LOCAL CONTRAST PRIOR..............................................................1777Yu-Wing Tai, Michael Brown

SCENE IMAGE SEGMENTATION BASED ON PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION ......................................................................1781Chang Cheng, Andreas Koschan, David Page, Mongi Abidi

PERCEPTION-BASED HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE COMPRESSION IN GRADIENT DOMAIN .................................................1785Wen-Fu Lee, Tsung-Yi Lin, Mei-Lan Chu, Tai-Hsiang Huang, Homer H. Chen

VISYLLABLE-SPECIFIC FACIAL TRANSITION MOTION EMBEDDING AND EXTRACTION ............................................1789Yuru Pei, Hongbin Zha

NATURAL RENDERING OF COLOR IMAGE BASED ON RETINEX ............................................................................................1793Shaohua Chen, Azeddine Beghdadi

HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE RENDERING FOR YUV IMAGES WITH A CONSTRAINT ON PERCEPTUAL CHROMA PRESERVATION ....................................................................................................................................................................1797

Masato Toda, Masato Tsukada, Akira Inoue, Tetsuaki Suzuki

EMOTIONAL IDENTITY OF MOVIES ..................................................................................................................................................1801Luca Canini, Sergio Benini, Pierangelo Migliorati, Riccardo Leonardi

RENDITION-BASED VIDEO EDITING FOR PUBLIC CONTENTS AUTHORING ......................................................................1805Atsuo Yoshitaka, Yoshiki Deguchi

A HYBRID VISUAL FEATURE EXTRACTION METHOD FOR AUDIO-VISUAL SPEECH RECOGNITION .......................1809Guanyong Wu, Jie Zhu, Haihua Xu

OPTIMAL POWER ALLOCATION FOR MINIMIZING VISUAL DISTORTION OVER MIMO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ...............................................................................................................................................................1813

Jincheol Park, Uk Jang, Taegeun Oh, Sanghoon Lee, Alan C. Bovik

MA-PF: IMAGE AND VIDEO INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL II A NOVEL SEMANTIC MODEL FOR VIDEO CONCEPT DETECTION .........................................................................................1817

Songhao Zhu, Yuncai Liu

INDEXATION OF SYRIAC MANUSCRIPTS USING DIRECTIONAL FEATURES ......................................................................1821Petra Bilane, Stephane Bres, Khalil Challita, Hubert Emptoz

EVOLUTIONARY IMAGE RETRIEVAL...............................................................................................................................................1825Mattia Broilo, Francesco G. B. De Natale

MEAN SHIFT FEATURE SPACE WARPING FOR RELEVANCE FEEDBACK ............................................................................1829Yao-Jen Chang, Keisuke Kamataki, Tsuhan Chen

UTILIZING AFFECTIVE ANALYSIS FOR EFFICIENT MOVIE BROWSING .............................................................................1833Shiliang Zhang, Qi Tian, Qingming Huang, Wen Gao, Shipeng Li

MODELING LATENT ASPECTS FOR AUTOMATIC IMAGE ANNOTATION.............................................................................1837Zhixin Li, Zhiping Shi, Zhiqing Li, Zhongzhi Shi

BROWSING AN IMAGE DATABASE UTILIZING THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN IMAGES AND FEATURES ...................................................................................................................................................................................................1841

Raghavendra Singh

IMAGE RETRIEVAL BASED ON BAG OF IMAGES ..........................................................................................................................1845Jun Zhang, Lei Ye

CAPTION TEXT EXTRACTION FOR INDEXING PURPOSES USING A HIERARCHICAL REGION-BASED IMAGE MODEL ..........................................................................................................................................................................................1849

Miriam Leon, Veronica Vilaplana, Antoni Gasull, Ferran Marques

OPTIMIZATION ON ACTIVE LEARNING STRATEGY FOR OBJECT CATEGORY RETRIEVAL .......................................1853David Gorisse, Matthieu Cord, Frédéric Precioso

A JOINT MODEL OF COMPLEX WAVELET COEFFICIENTS FOR TEXTURE RETRIEVAL ...............................................1857Roland Kwitt, Andreas Uhl

TEMPORALLY CONSISTENT CAPTION DETECTION IN VIDEOS USING A SPATIOTEMPORAL 3D METHOD ......................................................................................................................................................................................................1861

Dong-Qing Zhang, Sitaram Bhagavathy, Joan Llach

SPATIO-TEMPORAL TUBE KERNEL FOR ACTOR RETRIEVAL ................................................................................................1865Shuji Zhao, Frédéric Precioso, Matthieu Cord

COMPLEXITY REGULARIZED PATTERN MATCHING .................................................................................................................1869Jana Zujovic, Onur Guleryuz

MA-PG: IMAGE CODING I STILL IMAGE CODING USING A WAVELET-LIKE TRANSFORM ..............................................................................................1873

Aldo Maalouf, Mohamed Chaker Larabi, Christine Fernandez-Maloigne

ENCODING SCHEME FOR MULTI-COMPONENT IMAGES CONTAINING NO-DATA REGIONS.......................................1877Jorge Gonzalez-Conejero, Joan Bartrina-Rapesta, Joan Serra-Sagristà

LIFTING-BASED DESIGN OF REVERSIBLE CELLULAR AUTOMATA FOR SCALABLE CODING OF BINARY IMAGES .......................................................................................................................................................................................1881

Lorenzo Cappellari, Giancarlo Calvagno

PARALLEL AND ELEMENT-REDUCED ERROR-DIFFUSED BLOCK TRUNCATION CODING ...........................................1885Jing-Ming Guo, Chih-Yu Lin

EVALUATION OF FLOATING POINT IMAGE COMPRESSION....................................................................................................1889Thomas Richter

A BLOCK BASED ENCODING ALGORITHM FOR MATCHING PURSUIT IMAGE CODING ................................................1893Alireza Shoa, Shahram Shirani

CONTEXT BASED LOSSLESS CODER BASED ON RLS PREDICTOR ADAPTION SCHEME ................................................1897Grzegorz Ulacha, Ryszard Stasinski

A STUDY ON AN EVOLUTIONARY PIXEL PREDICTOR AND ITS PROPERTIES....................................................................1901Seishi Takamura, Masaaki Matsumura, Yoshiyuki Yashima

LOW POWER DCT USING HIGHLY SCALABLE MULTIPLIERS .................................................................................................1905Ricardo Castellanos, Hari Kalva, Ravi Shankar

AN ALGORITHM FOR MEAN PYRAMIDS VECTOR QUANTIZATION USING HADAMARD TRANSFORM AND TREE STRUCTURE..........................................................................................................................................................................1909

Ahmed Swilem, Moheb Girgis, Elnomairy Zanaty, Rania Ramadan

A FILTER BANKS DESIGN USING A MULTIOBJECIVE GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR AN IMAGE CODING SCHEME .....................................................................................................................................................................................1913

Abdelkader Boukhobza, Abdennacer Bounoua, Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed, Nasreddine Taleb

COMPONENT-BASED IMAGE CODING USING NON-LOCAL MEANS FILTERING AND AN AUTOREGRESSIVE TEXTURE MODEL ..............................................................................................................................................1917

Johannes Ballé, Bastian Jurczyk, Aleksandar Stojanovic

MA-PH: BIOMETRICS I FLEXIBLE IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND QUALITY ASSESSMENT FOR REAL-TIME IRIS RECOGNITION ...........................................................................................................................................................................................1921

Marcelo Mottalli, Marta Mejail, Julio Jacobo-Berlles

OBJECT TRAJECTORY CLUSTERING VIA TENSOR ANALYSIS ................................................................................................1925Huiyu Zhou, Dacheng Tao, Yuan Yuan, Xuelong Li

QUALITY-BASED DYNAMIC THRESHOLD FOR IRIS MATCHING ............................................................................................1929Wenbo Dong, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, Zhuoshi Wei

LOW-COMPLEXITY IRIS RECOGNITION WITH ORIENTED WAVELETS ..............................................................................1933Vladan Velisavljevic

AN EFFICIENT IRIS RECOGNITION USING LOCAL FEATURE DESCRIPTOR.......................................................................1937Hunny Mehrotra, Badrinath G. S., Banshidhar Majhi, Phalguni Gupta

PRINCIPAL LINE BASED ICP ALIGNMENT FOR PALMPRINT VERIFICATION ....................................................................1941Wei Li, Lei Zhang, David Zhang, Jingqi Yan

DIRECTIONAL ENERGY BASED PALMPRINT IDENTIFICATION USING NON SUBSAMPLED CONTOURLET TRANSFORM.................................................................................................................................................................1945

Mustafa Mumtaz, Atif Bin Mansoor, Hassan Masood

PALMPRINT RECOGNITION USING COARSE-TO-FINE STATISTICAL IMAGE REPRESENTATION..............................1949Yufei Han, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan

A PALMPRINT RECOGNITION ALGORITHM USING PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS OF PHASE INFORMATION ..........................................................................................................................................................................................1953

Satoshi IItsuka, Kazuyuki Miyazawa, Takafumi Aoki

A PALMPRINT RECOGNITION ALGORITHM USING PHASE-BASED CORRESPONDENCE MATCHING.......................1957Koichi Ito, Satoshi IItsuka, Takafumi Aoki

FINGER-KNUCKLE-PRINT: A NEW BIOMETRIC IDENTIFIER ...................................................................................................1961Lin Zhang, Lei Zhang, David Zhang

PALMPRINT VERIFICATION USING CONSISTENT ORIENTATION CODING ........................................................................1965Zhenhua Guo, Wangmeng Zuo, Lei Zhang, David Zhang

MA-PI: DOCUMENT PROCESSING AND PRINTING RECOGNITION DRIVEN PAGE ORIENTATION DETECTION ......................................................................................................1969

Yves Rangoni, Faisal Shafait, Joost Van Beusekom, Thomas M. Breuel

IMPROVED LAYER PROCESSING FOR MRC COMPRESSION OF SCANNED DOCUMENTS ..............................................1973Alexandre Zaghetto, Ricardo L. De Queiroz

AN INK TEXTURE DESCRIPTOR FOR NIR-IMAGED MEDIEVAL DOCUMENTS ...................................................................1977Aaron Licata, Alexandra Psarrou, Vassiliki Kokla

PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION OF BRAILLE DOCUMENT PARAMETERS .............................................................................1981Majid Yoosefi Babadi, Behrooz Nasihatkon, Zohreh Azimifar, Paul Fieguth

CIRCULAR BLURRED SHAPE MODEL FOR SYMBOL SPOTTING IN DOCUMENTS ............................................................1985Sergio Escalera, Alicia Fornés, Oriol Pujol, Alberto Escudero, Petia Radeva

NESTED STATE INDEXING IN PAIRWISE MARKOV NETWORKS FOR FAST HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT IMAGE RULE-LINE REMOVAL....................................................................................................................................1989

Huaigu Cao, Rohit Prasad, Premkumar Natarajan, Venu Govindaraju

CURLED TEXTLINE INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM GRAYSCALE CAMERA-CAPTURED DOCUMENT IMAGES ...............................................................................................................................................................................1993

Syed Saqib Bukhari, Faisal Shafait, Thomas M. Breuel

SKETCH RECOGNITION USING PARTICLE SWARM ALGORITHMS .......................................................................................1997Maha El Meseery, Mahmoud Fakhr El Din, Samia Mashali, Magda Fayek, Nevin Darwish

TEXT DETECTION FROM NATURAL SCENE IMAGES USING TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS AND SPARSE REPRESENTATIONS.................................................................................................................................................................................. N/A

Wumo Pan, T. D. Bui, C. Y. Suen

A MULTIDIMENSIONAL SMOOTHING ALGORITHM WITH APPLICATIONS TO DIGITAL COLOR PRINTER CALIBRATION ........................................................................................................................................................................2001

Sohail Dianat, Bruce Brewington, Lalit Mestha

ANALYSIS OF GREEN NOISE ERROR DIFFUSION..........................................................................................................................2005Niranjan Damera-Venkata

BLOCK-BASED THRESHOLD MODULATION ERROR DIFFUSION ............................................................................................2009Yan Zhou, Chun Chen, Qiang Wang, Jiajun Bu

MA-PJ: IMAGE RECOGNITION AND CLASSIFICATION A NEW FEATURE EXTRACTION METHOD FOR IMAGE RECOGNITION USING STRUCTURAL TWO-DIMENSIONAL LOCALITY PRESERVING PROJECTIONS ...........................................................................................................2013

Haixian Wang

FOURIER-BASED ROTATION INVARIANT IMAGE FEATURES ..................................................................................................2017Sam Mavandadi, Parham Aarabi, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

BETA MIXTURE MODELS AND THE APPLICATION TO IMAGE CLASSIFICATION ............................................................2021Zhanyu Ma, Arne Leijon

MULTIPLE KERNEL MAXIMUM MARGIN CRITERION ...............................................................................................................2025Quanquan Gu, Jie Zhou

SCENE CLASSIFICATION BASED ON LOCAL AUTOCORRELATION OF SIMILARITIES WITH SUBSPACES .................................................................................................................................................................................................2029

Kazuhiro Hotta

MEASURING CONCEPTUAL RELATION OF VISUAL WORDS FOR VISUAL CATEGORIZATION ...................................2033Teng Li, In-So Kweon

MARGIN AND DOMAIN INTEGRATED CLASSIFICATION ...........................................................................................................2037Yen-Lun Chen, Yuan F. Zheng

IDENTIFICATION OF JPEG 2000 IMAGES IN ENCRYPTED DOMAIN FOR DIGITAL CINEMA..........................................2041Osamu Watanabe, Tomonori IIda, Takahiro Fukuhara, Hitoshi Kiya

TWO DIMENSIONAL NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION ...........................................................................................2045Quanquan Gu, Jie Zhou

VISION-BASED ROAD DETECTION USING ROAD MODELS ........................................................................................................2049José M. Álvarez, Theo Gevers, Antonio M. López

EFFICIENT REDUCTION OF SUPPORT VECTORS IN KERNEL-BASED METHODS..............................................................2053Takumi Kobayashi, Nobuyuki Otsu

BAGGING BASED PLANKTON IMAGE CLASSIFICATION............................................................................................................2057Feng Zhao, Feng Lin, Hock Soon Seah

MA-PK: STEREOSCOPIC AND 3D MATCHING STEREO MATCHING USING HIERARCHICAL BELIEF PROPAGATION ALONG AMBIGUITY GRADIENT...................................................................................................................................................................................................2061

Sumit Srivastava, Seong Jong Ha, Sang Hwa Lee, Nam Ik Cho, Sang Uk Lee

TRINOCULAR STEREO MATCHING WITH COMPOSITE DISPARITY SPACE IMAGE. .......................................................2065Mozerov Mikhail, Jordi Gonzàlez, Xavier Roca, Juan Villanueva

LOCAL STEREO MATCHING USING GEODESIC SUPPORT WEIGHTS ....................................................................................2069Asmaa Hosni, Michael Bleyer, Margrit Gelautz, Christoph Rhemann

A FAST AND EFFECTIVE OUTLIER DETECTION METHOD FOR MATCHING UNCALIBRATED IMAGES ...................2073Feng Zhao, Hao Wang, Xiujuan Chai, Shiming Ge

A SPEEDED-UP LOCAL DESCRIPTOR FOR DENSE MATCHING ................................................................................................2077Gangqiang Zhao, Ling Chen, Gencai Chen

A NEW METHOD FOR STEREO MATCHING USING PIXEL COOPERATIVE OPTIMIZATION ..........................................2081Myung-Ho Ju, Hang-Bong Kang

MULTI-VIEW OBJECT MATCHING AND TRACKING USING CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS .......................2085Marin Ferecatu, Hichem Sahbi

LAMP: LINEAR APPROACH FOR MATCHING POINTS .................................................................................................................2089Manuel Marques, João Costeira

A GLOBAL-TO-LOCAL SCHEME FOR IMBALANCED POINT MATCHING .............................................................................2093Qi Li, Zhonghang Xia, Dacheng Tao

MA1-PL: COMPRESSIVE SENSING AND SPARSE REPRESENTATIONS COMPRESSED SENSING IN MICROSCOPY WITH RANDOM PROJECTIONS IN THE FOURIER DOMAIN ....................2097

Marcio De Moraes Marim, Elsa D. Angelini, Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin

A FAST DECODER FOR COMPRESSED SENSING BASED MULTIPLE DESCRIPTION IMAGE CODING.........................2101Md Mashud Hyder, Kaushik Mahata

COMPRESSED SENSING IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION BASED ON MORPHOLOGICAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS ....................................................................................................................................................................................................2105

Xingxiu Li, Zhihui Wei, Liang Xiao, Yubao Sun, Jian Yang

A NOVEL FRAMEWORK FOR IMAGING USING COMPRESSED SENSING ..............................................................................2109Pradeep Sen, Soheil Darabi

TWO DIMENSIONAL COMPRESSIVE CLASSIFIER FOR SPARSE IMAGES .............................................................................2113Armin Eftekhari, Hamid Abrishami Moghaddam, Massoud Babaie-Zadeh, Mohammad-Shahram Moin

COMPRESSED SENSING FOR SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGING ............................................................................2117Vishal Patel, Glenn Easley, Dennis Healy, Rama Chellappa

SPARSE IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS WITH SHIFT-INVARIANT TREE-STRUCTURED DICTIONARIES ......................2121Makoto Nakashizuka, Hidenari Nishiura, Youji IIguni

SUB CLUSTERING K-SVD: SIZE VARIABLE DICTIONARY LEARNING FOR SPARSE REPRESENTATIONS.................................................................................................................................................................................2125

Jianzhou Feng, Li Song, Xiaokang Yang, Wenjun Zhang

MA1-PM: EDGE DETECTION ROBUST COLOR EDGE DETECTION THROUGH TENSOR VOTING .........................................................................................2129

Rodrigo Moreno, Miguel Angel Garcia, Domenec Puig, Carme Julià

A NEW METHODOLOGY FOR EVALUATION OF EDGE DETECTORS .....................................................................................2133Rodrigo Moreno, Domenec Puig, Carme Julià, Miguel Angel Garcia

DYNAMIC EDGE DETECTION AND ANALYSIS BY MULTIPLE FRAME BASED DERIVATIVE TENSOR........................2137Hidetomo Sakaino, Xiqun Lu

DETECTION OF HIGH FREQUENCY REGIONS IN MULTIRESOLUTION ................................................................................2141Virgínia Mota, Eder Perez, Tássio Castro, Alexandre Chapiro, Marcelo Vieira

EDGE DETECTION USING MORPHOLOGICAL AMOEBAS IN NOISY IMAGES .....................................................................2145Won Yeol Lee, Se Yun Kim, Young Woo Kim, Jae Young Lim, Dong Hoon Lim

IMAGE MULTI-SCALE EDGE DETECTION USING 3-D HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL BASED ON THE NON-DECIMATED WAVELET ...............................................................................................................................................................2149

Renqi Zhang, Wanli Ouyang, Wai-Kuen Cham

MA2-PL: DATA FUSION FOR IMAGE PROCESSING MULTI-SENSOR IMAGE FUSION USING SUBBAND DECOMPOSED MULTISCALE RETINEX ..........................................2153

Jae Ho Jang, Yoonsung Bae, Jong Beom Ra

ZERO AND INFINITY IMAGES IN MULTI-SCALE IMAGE FUSION............................................................................................2157Mohammed Hossny, Saeid Nahavandi, Doug Creighton

THE DIRECT USE OF CURVELETS IN MULTIFOCUS FUSION ....................................................................................................2161Harishwaran Hariharan, Andreas Koschan, Mongi Abidi

A NEW DECISION FUSION TECHNIQUE FOR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION ...............................................................................2165Mete Ozay, Fatos T. Yarman Vural

IMAGE FUSION ALGORITHMS AND METRICS DUALITY INDEX .............................................................................................2169Mohammed Hossny, Saeid Nahavandi

UNSUPERVISED TEXTURE SEGMENTATION USING FEATURE SELECTION AND FUSION .............................................2173Suranjana Samanta, Sukhendu Das

LDA BASED COLOR INFORMATION FUSION FOR VISUAL OBJECTS TRACKING..............................................................2177Fei Qi, Xiaowei Song, Guangming Shi

IMAGE FUSION IN COMPRESSED SENSING.....................................................................................................................................2181Xiaoyan Luo, Jun Zhang, Jingyu Yang, Qionghai Dai

MP-L1: VISUAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT A NOVEL APPROACH FOR COMPUTING AND POOLING STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY INDEX IN THE DISCRETE WAVELET DOMAIN ............................................................................................................................................................2185

Soroosh Rezazadeh, Stéphane Coulombe

QUANTIFYING COLOR IMAGE DISTORTIONS BASED ON ADAPTIVE SPATIO-CHROMATIC SIGNAL DECOMPOSITIONS ...................................................................................................................................................................................2189

Umesh Rajashekar, Zhou Wang, Eero Simoncelli

NATURAL IMAGE UTILITY ASSESSMENT USING IMAGE CONTOURS...................................................................................2193David Rouse, Sheila Hemami

NO-REFERENCE TEMPORAL QUALITY METRIC FOR VIDEO IMPAIRED BY FRAME FREEZING ARTEFACTS ................................................................................................................................................................................................2197

Quan Huynh-Thu, Mohammad Ghanbari

STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY METRICS FOR TEXTURE ANALYSIS AND RETRIEVAL ........................................................2201Jana Zujovic, Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, David L. Neuhoff

AN OBJECTIVE VIDEO QUALITY METRIC BASED ON SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTORTION...............................................2205Junyong You, Miska Hannuksela, Moncef Gabbouj

IMAGE QUALITY MONITORING USING SPREAD SPECTRUM WATERMARKING ..............................................................2209Ehsan Nezhadarya, Z. Jane Wang, Rabab K. Ward

OBJECTIVE PERCEPTUAL VIDEO QUALITY MEASUREMENT METHOD BASED ON HYBRID NO REFERENCE FRAMEWORK ..................................................................................................................................................................2213

Osamu Sugimoto, Sei Naito, Shigeyuki Sakazawa, Atsushi Koike

MP-L2: ADAPTIVE MORPHOLOGY OVERVIEW OF ADAPTIVE MORPHOLOGY: TRENDS AND PERSPECTIVES .........................................................................2217

Petros Maragos, Corinne Vachier

MINIMUM SPANNING TREE ADAPTIVE IMAGE FILTERING .....................................................................................................2221Jean Stawiaski, Fernand Meyer

GENERAL ADAPTIVE NEIGHBORHOOD MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY .......................................................................2225Jean-Charles Pinoli, Johan Debayle

ADAPTIVITY AND GROUP INVARIANCE IN MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY .................................................................2229Jos B. T. M. Roerdink

ADAPTIVE LATTICES ON THE UNIT SPHERE. APPLICATION TO REMOTE SENSING ......................................................2233Jean Serra

DIRECTION-ADAPTIVE GREY-LEVEL MORPHOLOGY. APPLICATION TO 3D VASCULAR BRAIN IMAGING .....................................................................................................................................................................................................2237

Olena Tankyevych, Hugues Talbot, Petr Dokladál, Nicolas Passat

ADAPTIVE MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY: A UNIFIED REPRESENTATION THEORY................................................2241Nidhal Bouaynaya, Dan Schonfeld

STUDY ON NONLOCAL MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATORS ..........................................................................................................2245Philippe Salembier

PERCEPTION-ORIENTED VIDEO CODING BASED ON TEXTURE ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS ......................................2249Patrick Ndjiki-Nya, Dave Bull, Thomas Wiegand

DYNAMIC TEXTURE SYNTHESIS USING A SPATIAL TEMPORAL DESCRIPTOR ................................................................2253Yimo Guo, Guoying Zhao, Jie Chen, Matti Pietikäinen, Zhengguang Xu

MULTISCALE SKEWED HEAVY TAILED MODEL FOR TEXTURE ANALYSIS.......................................................................2257Nour-Eddine Lasmar, Youssef Stitou, Yannick Berthoumieu

PERCEPTUAL QUALITY EVALUATION FOR TEXTURE AND MOTION BASED VIDEO CODING ....................................2261Marc Bosch, Fengqing Zhu, Edward Delp

UNSUPERVISED IMAGE COMPRESSION USING GRAPHCUT TEXTURE SYNTHESIS.........................................................2265Stephen Ierodiaconou, James Byrne, David Bull, David Redmill, Paul Hill

SYNTHESIS-IN-THE-LOOP FOR VIDEO TEXTURE CODING .......................................................................................................2269Aleksandar Stojanovic, Mathias Wien, Thiow Keng Tan

RATE-DISTORTION OPTIMIZATION FOR AUTOMATIC SPRITE VIDEO CODING USING H.264/AVC ...........................2273Andreas Krutz, Alexander Glantz, Michael Frater, Thomas Sikora

CLASSIFIED PATCH LEARNING FOR SPATIAL SCALABLE VIDEO CODING........................................................................2277Xiaoyan Sun, Feng Wu

MP-L4: IMAGING ON MULTICORE AND GRAPHICS PROCESSORS FRAME-LEVEL HEURISTIC SCHEDULING MULTI-VIEW VIDEO CODING ON SYMMETRIC MULTI-CORE ARCHITECTURE...........................................................................................................................................................................2281

Yi Pang, Jiangtao Wen, Lifeng Sun, Weidong Hu, Shiqiang Yang

PARALLEL RATE-DISTORTION OPTIMIZED INTRA MODE DECISION ON MULTI-CORE GRAPHICS PROCESSORS USING GREEDY-BASED ENCODING ORDERS .....................................................................................................2285

Ngai-Man Cheung, Oscar C. Au, Man-Cheung Kung, Xiaopeng Fan

THEORY AND APPLICATION OF IMAGE NEIGHBORHOOD PARALLEL PROCESSING ....................................................2289Guangda Su, Jiongxin Liu, Yan Shang, Boya Chen, Shi Chen

RESOURCE PREDICTION AND QUALITY CONTROL FOR PARALLEL EXECUTION OF HETEROGENEOUS MEDICAL IMAGING TASKS.............................................................................................................................2293

Rob Albers, Eric Suijs, Peter H. N. De With

EFFICIENT DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF VISUAL COMPUTING ALGORITHMS ON THE GPU........................2297In Kyu Park, Nitin Singhal, Man Hee Lee, Sungdae Cho

A PARALLEL MAPPING OF OPTICAL FLOW TO COMPUTE UNIFIED DEVICE ARCHITECTURE FOR MOTION-BASED IMAGE SEGMENTATION.......................................................................................................................................2301

Peter Kuchnio, David Capson

LOW COMPLEXITY NEAR-LOSSLESS IMAGE CODER FOR EFFICIENT BUS TRAFFIC IN VERY LARGE SIZE MULTIMEDIA SOC .........................................................................................................................................................................2305

Yun Gu Lee, Byung Cheol Song, Nak Hoon Kim, Tae Hee Kim, Woo Hyun Joo

A GPU-BASED VISION SYSTEM FOR REAL TIME DETECTION OF FASTENING ELEMENTS IN RAILWAY INSPECTION ..........................................................................................................................................................................2309

Pasquale De Ruvo, Arcangelo Distante, Ettore Stella, Francescomaria Marino

MP-L5: STEREOSCOPIC AND MULTI-VIEW PROCESSING COMPRESSIVE SENSING OF LIGHT FIELDS....................................................................................................................................2313

S. Derin Babacan, Reto Ansorge, Martin Luessi, Rafael Molina, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

VIRTUAL VIEW SYNTHESIS USING MULTI-VIEW VIDEO SEQUENCES .................................................................................2317Il-Lyong Jung, Taeyoung Chung, Kwanwoong Song, Chang-Su Kim

VIRTUAL VIEW RENDERING USING SUPER-RESOLUTION WITH MULTIVIEW IMAGES................................................2321Bumsub Ham, Dongbo Min, Jinwook Choi, Kwanghoon Sohn

VIEW INTERPOLATION USING DEFOCUSED STEREO IMAGES: A SPACE-INVARIANT FILTERING APPROACH..................................................................................................................................................................................................2325

Akira Kubota, Tomohito Hamanaka, Yoshinori Hatori

DEPTH ESTIMATION BASED ON MULTIVIEW MATCHING WITH DEPTH/COLOR SEGMENTATION AND MEMORY EFFICIENT BELIEF PROPAGATION .....................................................................................................................2329

Tomas Montserrat, Jaume Civit, Oscar Divorra Escoda, Jose-Luis Landabaso

ROBUST STEREO MATCHING WITH FAST NORMALIZED CROSS-CORRELATION OVER SHAPE-ADAPTIVE REGIONS................................................................................................................................................................................2333

Ke Zhang, Jiangbo Lu, Gauthier Lafruit, Rudy Lauwereins, Luc Van Gool

A BAYESIAN FORMULATION FOR SUB-PIXEL REFINEMENT IN STEREO ORBITAL IMAGERY ...................................2337Ara Nefian, Kyle Husmann, Michael Broxton, Vinh To, Michael Lundy, Matthew Hancher

AUTOMATIC DEPTH PROFILING OF 2D CINEMA- AND PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES ..........................................................2341Dzevdet Burazerovic, Patrick Vandewalle, Robert-Paul Berretty

MP-PA: IMAGE AND VIDEO SEGMENTATION I AN ADAPTIVE AND PROGRESSIVE APPROACH FOR EFFICIENT GRADIENT-BASED MULTIRESOLUTION COLOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION ..............................................................................................................2345

Sreenath Rao Vantaram, Eli Saber, Sohail Dianat, Mark Shaw, Ranjit Bhaskar

TEXT SEGMENTATION IN NATURAL SCENES USING TOGGLE-MAPPING ...........................................................................2349Jonathan Fabrizio, Beatriz Marcotegui, Matthieu Cord

SKIN AND NON-SKIN PROBABILITY APPROXIMATION BASED ON DISCRIMINATIVE TREE DISTRIBUTION...........................................................................................................................................................................................2353

Sanaa El Fkihi, Mohamed Daoudi, Driss Aboutajdine

PRECISE HEAD SEGMENTATION ON ARBITRARY BACKGROUNDS ......................................................................................2357David C. Schneider, Benjamin Prestele, Peter Eisert

SOLIDITY BASED LOCAL THRESHOLD FOR OIL SAND IMAGE SEGMENTATION.............................................................2361Jichuan Shi, Hong Zhang, Nilanjan Ray

MODIFIED GRABCUT FOR UNSUPERVISED OBJECT SEGMENTATION ................................................................................2365Mohammad Jahangiri, Daniel Heesch

SEED IMAGE SELECTION IN INTERACTIVE COSEGMENTATION...........................................................................................2369Dhruv Batra, Devi Parikh, Adarsh Kowdle, Tsuhan Chen, Jiebo Luo

RANDOM SWAP EM ALGORITHM FOR FINITE MIXTURE MODELS IN IMAGE SEGMENTATION ................................2373Qinpei Zhao, Ville Hautamäki, Ismo Kärkkäinen, Pasi Fränti

A NOVEL TWO-TIER BAYESIAN BASED METHOD FOR HAIR SEGMENTATION.................................................................2377Dan Wang, Shiguang Shan, Wei Zeng, Hongming Zhang, Xilin Chen

BAYESIAN IMAGE SEGMENTATION WITH MEAN SHIFT ...........................................................................................................2381Huiyu Zhou, Gerald Schaefer, M. Emre Celebi, Minrui Fei

A VOTING APPROACH TO LEARN AFFINITY MATRIX FOR ROBUST CLUSTERING .......................................................... N/AToufiq Parag, Ahmed Elgammal

A GRAPH-CUT BASED ALGORITHM FOR APPROXIMATE MRF OPTIMIZATION ...............................................................2385Aymen Shabou, Florence Tupin, Jérôme Darbon

A HIDDEN PROPERTY OF THE GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW DIFFUSION PROCESS............................................................2389Tiberiu Radulescu, Vasile Buzuloiu

AUTOMATIC SKELETON EXTRACTION AND SPLITTING OF TARGET OBJECTS ..............................................................2393Sang Min Yoon, Holger Graf

SCENE TEXT DETECTION SUITABLE FOR PARALLELIZING ON MULTI-CORE .................................................................2397Jin Man Park, Hee Jin Chung, Yeong Kyeong Seong

ACTIVE VECTOR GRAPH FOR REGULARIZED TESSELATION.................................................................................................2401Auguste Genovesio

MP-PB: FACE BASED IDENTIFICATION AND PROCESSING AUTOMATIC CLOSED EYE CORRECTION .......................................................................................................................................2405

Jean-Charles Bazin, Dang-Quang Pham, In-So Kweon, Kuk-Jin Yoon

SEMI ADAPTIVE APPEARANCE MODELS FOR LIP TRACKING ................................................................................................2409Quoc Dinh Nguyen, Maurice Milgram

GENDER AND ETHNICITY IDENTIFICATION FROM SILHOUETTED FACE PROFILES.....................................................2413Usman Tariq, Yuxiao Hu, Thomas S. Huang

AUTOMATIC FRONTAL FACE ANNOTATION AND AAM BUILDING FOR ARBITRARY EXPRESSIONS FROM A SINGLE FRONTAL IMAGE ONLY .......................................................................................................................................2417

Akshay Asthana, Asim Khwaja, Roland Goecke

EXTRACTING GENDER DISCRIMINATING FEATURES FROM FACIAL NEEDLE-MAPS ...................................................2421Jing Wu, William Smith, Edwin Hancock, Michal Kawulok

A SUPER-RESOLUTION BASED METHOD TO SYNTHESIZE VISUAL IMAGES FROM NEAR INFRARED......................2425Ming Shao, Yunhong Wang, Yiding Wang

DISCRMINATIVE GEOMETRY PRESERVING PROJECTIONS ....................................................................................................2429Dongjin Song, Dacheng Tao

REGULARIZED SINGLE-KERNEL CONDITIONAL DENSITY ESTIMATION FOR FACE DESCRIPTION ........................2433John Robinson

AGE REGRESSION FROM FACES USING RANDOM FORESTS....................................................................................................2437Albert Montillo, Haibin Ling

INNER AND OUTER LIP CONTOUR TRACKING USING CUBIC CURVE PARAMETRIC MODELS ...................................2441Sébastien Stillittano, Vincent Girondel, Alice Caplier

3D FACIAL VISUALIZATION THROUGH ADAPTIVE SPREAD SPECTRUM SYNCHRONOUS SCALABLE (A4S) DATA HIDING ..................................................................................................................................................................................2445

Khizar Hayat, William Puech, Gilles Gesquière, Gérard Subsol

INTERACTIVE MODELING OF 3D FACIAL EXPRESSIONS WITH HIERARCHICAL GAUSSIAN PROCESS LATENT VARIABLE MODELS ...........................................................................................................................................2449

Fuhao Shi, Yuru Pei, Hongbin Zha

LABELFACES: PARSING FACIAL FEATURES BY MULTICLASS LABELING WITH AN EPITOME PRIOR ....................2453Jonathan Warrell, Simon J. D. Prince

FACE DETECTION DIRECTLY FROM H.264 COMPRESSED VIDEO WITH CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK ...................................................................................................................................................................................................2457

Shin-Shan Zhuang, Shang-Hong Lai

MP-PC: BIOMEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING II AUTOMATIC SCORING OF CDMAM USING A MODEL OF THE RECOGNITION THRESHOLD OF THE HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM: R*................................................................................................................................................................2461

Gabriel Prieto, Margarita Chevalier, Eduardo Guibelalde

PET IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION USING PRIOR INFORMATION FROM CT OR MRI ..........................................................2465Filip Sroubek, Michal Sorel, Jiri Boldys, Jan Sroubek

IMPROVEMENT OF SPATIAL RESOLUTION IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING USING QUADRATIC PHASE MODULATION ...................................................................................................................................................2469

Satoshi Ito, Yoshifumi Yamada

LINKED GEOMETRIC FEATURES FOR MODELING THE FLUID FLOW IN DEVELOPING EMBRYONIC VERTEBRATE HEARTS ...........................................................................................................................................................................2473

Francis Deboeverie, Frédéric Maes, Peter Veelaert, Wilfried Philips

3D SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION USING HMH ALGORITHM ....................................................................................................2477Bruno Dutailly, Hélène Coqueugniot, Pascal Desbarats, Stefka Gueorguieva, Rémi Synave

FAST PSEUDO-ENHANCEMENT CORRECTION IN CT COLONOGRAPHY USING LINEAR SHIFT-INVARIANT FILTERS...............................................................................................................................................................................2481

Richard Boyes, Greg Slabaugh, Gareth Beddoe

NONLINEAR CARDIAC DEFORMATION RECOVERY FROM MEDICAL IMAGES ................................................................2485Ken C. L. Wong, Linwei Wang, Heye Zhang, Pengcheng Shi

FEATURE-BASED REGISTRATION OF CONFOCAL FLUORESCENCE ENDOMICROSCOPY IMAGES...........................2489Feng Zhao, Feng Lin, Kemao Qian, Hock Soon Seah, Sun-Yuan Kung

3D MEDICAL IMAGE COMPRESSION BASED ON MULTIPLIERLESS LOW-COMPLEXITY RKLT AND SHAPE-ADAPTIVE WAVELET TRANSFORM ....................................................................................................................................2493

Lei Wang, Jiaji Wu, Licheng Jiao, Guangming Shi

3D SCALABLE LOSSLESS COMPRESSION OF MEDICAL IMAGES BASED ON GLOBAL AND LOCAL SYMMETRIES .............................................................................................................................................................................................2497

Victor Sanchez, Rafeef Abugharbieh, Panos Nasiopoulos

ON INTEREST POINT DETECTION UNDER A LANDMARK-BASED MEDICAL IMAGE REGISTRATION CONTEXT ....................................................................................................................................................................................................2501

Pedro Martins, Paulo Carvalho

EQUILIBRIUM MODELING FOR 3D CURVILINEAR STRUCTURE TRACKING OF CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY IMAGES ...........................................................................................................................................................................2505

Yang Zhao, Hongkai Xiong, Kai Zhang, Xiaobo Zhou

RETRIEVAL OF DENTAL RADIOGRAPHS FOR POST-MORTEM IDENTIFICATION............................................................2509Ayman Abaza, Arun Ross, Hany Ammar

AN ADAPTIVE MESHLESS METHOD FOR SPECTRALLY RESOLVED BIOLUMINESCENCE TOMOGRAPHY ..........................................................................................................................................................................................2513

Chenghu Qin, Jie Tian, Xin Yang, Kai Liu, Jinchao Feng, Guorui Yan, Shouping Zhu, Min Xu

MP-PD: HUMAN DETECTION AND TRACKING RAPID AND ROBUST HUMAN DETECTION AND TRACKING BASED ON OMEGA-SHAPE FEATURES..........................2517

Min Li, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Kaiqi Huang, Tieniu Tan

A NOVEL TEMPLATE MATCHING METHOD FOR HUMAN DETECTION ...............................................................................2521Duc Thanh Nguyen, Wanqing Li, Philip Ogunbona

QUASI MONTE CARLO PARTITIONED FILTERING FOR VISUAL HUMAN MOTION CAPTURE .....................................2525Mathias Fontmarty, Patrick Danes, Frédéric Lerasle

GENDER CLASSIFICATION IN UNCONTROLLED SETTINGS USING ADDITIVE LOGISTIC MODELS ..........................2529Simon J. D. Prince, Jania Aghajanian

HUMAN DETECTION IN A CHALLENGING SITUATION...............................................................................................................2533Ya-Li Hou, Grantham K. H. Pang

K-MEANS BASED SEGMENTATION FOR REAL-TIME ZENITHAL PEOPLE COUNTING....................................................2537Borislav Antic, Dragan Letic, Dubravko Culibrk, Vladimir Crnojevic

STATISTICAL VIDEO ANALYSIS FOR CROWDS COUNTING......................................................................................................2541Antonio Albiol, Alberto Albiol, Julia Silla

CROWD COUNTING AND SEGMENTATION IN VISUAL SURVEILLANCE ..............................................................................2545Lu Wang, Nelson Yung

MULTIPLE CURVATURE BASED APPROACH TO HUMAN UPPER BODY PARTS DETECTION WITH CONNECTED ELLIPSE MODEL FINE-TUNING ................................................................................................................................2549

Richard Yi Da Xu, Michael Kemp

TOWARDS A LOW COST MULTI-CAMERA MARKER BASED HUMAN MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM ...........................2553Cristian Canton-Ferrer, Josep R. Casas, Montse Pardàs

HUMAN IDENTIFICATION FROM HUMAN MOVEMENTS ...........................................................................................................2557Nikolaos Gkalelis, Anastasios Tefas, Ioannis Pitas

LEARNING LOCAL MODELS FOR 2D HUMAN MOTION TRACKING .......................................................................................2561Wenzhong Wang, Xiaoming Deng, Xianjie Qiu, Shihong Xia, Zhaoqi Wang

LEARNING LARGE MARGIN LIKELIHOODS FOR REALTIME HEAD POSE TRACKING ...................................................2565Elisa Ricci, Jean-Marc Odobez

AN EFFICIENT METHOD FOR EYE TRACKING AND EYE-GAZED FOV ESTIMATION ......................................................2569Xiaokun Li, William G. Wee

MP-PE: COMPUTER AIDED RADIOLOGY CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT IN DERMOSCOPY IMAGES BY MAXIMIZING A HISTOGRAM BIMODALITY MEASURE ........................................................................................................................................................................2573

M. Emre Celebi, Hitoshi Iyatomi, Gerald Schaefer

QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF BREAST DENSE TISSUE ON MAMMOGRAMS ...............................................................2577Zhiqiang Lao, Zhimin Huo

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS IN DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY USING COMBINED SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE AND LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYASIS CLASSIFICATION ..............................................................................2581

Mohamed Alolfe, Wael Mohamed, Abobaker Youssef, Ahmed Mohamed, Yasser Kaddah

SRAD AND OPTICAL FLOW BASED EXTERNAL ENERGY FOR ECHOCARDIOGRAMS WITH PRIMITIVE SHAPE PRIORS ...................................................................................................................................................................2585

Ali Hamou, Mahmoud El-Sakka

A VARIATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR 3D COLONIC POLYP VISUALIZATION IN VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY.........................................................................................................................................................................................2589

Dongqing Chen, Aly Farag, Robert Falk, Gerald Dryden

ON CLINICAL VALIDATION OF FLY-OVER VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE FOR VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY.........................................................................................................................................................................................2593

Dongqing Chen, Aly Farag, Robert Falk, Gerald Dryden

AN INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR PET TUMOUR DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATION .....................................................2597Mhd Saeed Sharif, Abbes Amira

ROBUST EXTRACTION OF URINARY STONES FROM CT DATA USING ATTRIBUTE FILTERS ......................................2601Georgios K. Ouzounis, Stilianos Giannakopoulos, Constantinos E. Simopoulos, Michael H. F. Wilkinson

TWO-LEVEL REGRESSION OF BODY MASS DISTRIBUTION FROM X-RAY IMAGE DATABASE ....................................2605Sang Le, Mei Kay Lee, Anthony Fang

FROM HEMORRHAGE TO MIDLINE SHIFT: A NEW METHOD OF TRACING THE DEFORMED MIDLINE IN TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY CT IMAGES ................................................................................................................2609

Ruizhe Liu, Shimiao Li, Chew Lim Tan, Boon Chuan Pang, C. C. Tchoyoson Lim, Cheng Kiang Lee, Qi Tian, Zhuo Zhang

NONLINEAR POST-BEAMFORMING FILTERING OF PULSE-ECHO ULTRASOUND FOR CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT ........................................................................................................................................................................................2613

Emad Ebbini

DIFFUSE LUNG DISEASE CLASSIFICATION IN HRCT LUNG IMAGES USING GENERALIZED GAUSSIAN DENSITY MODELING OF WAVELETS COEFFICIENTS ...........................................................................................2617

Kiet T. Vo, Sowmya Arcot

ASSESSMENT OF EXERCISE-INDUCED IMMUNE CELL APOPTOSIS USING MORPHOLOGICAL IMAGE PROCESSING ..............................................................................................................................................................................................2621

Refaat Mohamed, Ayman El-Baz, James Navalta

UFEEL: USING HAPTICS AND STEREO TO PLACE LANDMARKS IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL VOLUMETRIC IMAGES...........................................................................................................................................................................2625

Paul Southam, Johann Strasser, Karen Lee, Jerome Avondo, Andrew Bangham

MP-PF: IMAGE ACQUISITION AND COMPRESSION SYSTEMS 1080P 60HZ INTRA-FRAME CODEC BASED ON RGB COLOR SPACE FOR WIRELESS AV STREAMING .......................2629

Byung Cheol Song, Yongseok Yi, Yun-Gu Lee, Jun Hyuk Ko, Tae Hee Kim

AN H.264/SVC MEMORY ARCHITECTURE SUPPORTING SPATIAL AND COARSE-GRAINED QUALITY SCALABILITIES .........................................................................................................................................................................................2633

Niranjan Narvekar, Bharatan Konnanath, Shalin Mehta, Santosh Chintalapati, Ismail Alkamal, Chaitali Chakrabarti, Lina Karam

ARCHITECTURE DESIGN OF A HIGH-PERFORMANCE DUAL-SYMBOL BINARY ARITHMETIC CODER FOR JPEG2000 ............................................................................................................................................................................................2637

Minsoo Rhu, In-Cheol Park

A FEASIBLE VLSI ENGINE FOR SOFT-INPUT-SOFT-OUTPUT FOR JOINT SOURCE CHANNEL CODES .......................2641Simone Zezza, Saeid Nooshabadi, Guido Masera

MEMORY-LESS BIT-PLANE CODER ARCHITECTURE FOR JPEG2000 WITH CONCURRENT COLUMN-STRIPE CODING ........................................................................................................................................................................................2645

Minsoo Rhu, In-Cheol Park

ENHANCED LOW-LIGHT AUTO-FOCUS SYSTEM MODEL IN DIGITAL STILL AND CELL-PHONE CAMERAS ....................................................................................................................................................................................................2649

Mark Gamadia, Nasser Kehtarnavaz

NEW DIGITAL CAMERA SENSOR ARCHITECTURE FOR LOW LIGHT IMAGING ...............................................................2653Mrityunjay Kumar, Efrain Morales, James Adams, Wei Hao

OPTICAL IMAGING WITH SCANNING MEMS MIRROR – A SINGLE PHOTODETECTOR APPROACH..........................2657Li Li, Mohammad Mirza, Vladimir Stankovic, Lijie Li, Lina Stankovic, Deepak Uttamchandani, Samuel Cheng

EXPLOITING REDUNDANCY TO SOLVE THE POISSON EQUATION USING LOCAL INFORMATION............................2661Firas Hassan, Lavanya Vytla, Joan E. Carletta

HARDWARE-EFFICIENT VIRTUAL HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGE REPRODUCTION ...................................................2665Wei-Ming Ke, Tsun-Hsien Wang, Ching-Te Chiu

LOW LATENCY AND HIGH THROUGHPUT DEDICATED LOOP OF TRANSFORMS AND QUANTIZATION FOCUSING IN THE H.264/AVC INTRA PREDICTION .....................................................................................2669

Daniel Palomino, Felipe Sampaio, Robson Dornelles, Luciano Agostini

HARDWARE OPTIMIZATIONS OF VARIABLE BLOCK SIZE HADAMARD TRANSFORM FOR H.264/AVC FREXT...........................................................................................................................................................................................................2673

Zhenyu Liu, Dongsheng Wang, Takeshi Ikenaga

MODEL AND HARDWARE EMULATION OF THE FIRST SYNAPSE OF THE RETINA USING DISCRETE-TIME CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS ...........................................................................................................................................2677

J. J. Martinez, J. Toledo, J. Garrigos, J. Ferrandez, E. Fernandez

MP-PG: BIOMETRICS II A NOVEL FINGER-VEIN RECOGNITION METHOD WITH FEATURE COMBINATION ........................................................2681

Jinfeng Yang, Jinli Yang, Yihua Shi, Lihui Jiang

ENHANCED DTW BASED ON-LINE SIGNATURE VERIFICATION..............................................................................................2685Mostafa Khalil, Mohammed Moustafa, Hazem Abbas

A FINGERPRINT MATCHING ALGORITHM USING PROBABILISTIC GRAPHICAL MODEL ............................................. N/ADong-jin Fan, Ju-fu Feng

VARIATIONAL LEVEL SET METHOD AND GAME THEORY APPLIED FOR NONIDEAL IRIS RECOGNITION ............................................................................................................................................................................................ N/A

Kaushik Roy, Prabir Bhattacharya

FUSION OF STATIC IMAGE AND DYNAMIC INFORMATION FOR SIGNATURE VERIFICATION....................................2689Fernando Alonso-Fernandez, Julian Fierrez, Marcos Martinez-Diaz, Javier Ortega-Garcia

NOVEL BOOSTING FRAMEWORK FOR SUBUNIT-BASED SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION .........................................2693George Awad, Junwei Han, Alistair Sutherland

FAST EYE LOCALIZATION BASED ON PIXEL DIFFERENCES ...................................................................................................2697Jianfeng Ren, Xudong Jiang

FOOTPRINT TRACKING AND RECOGNITION USING A PRESSURE SENSING FLOOR .......................................................2701Jiqing Zhang, Gang Qian, Assegid Kidane

CONNECTED COMPONENT BASED TECHNIQUE FOR AUTOMATIC EAR DETECTION....................................................2705Surya Prakash, Umarani Jayaraman, Phalguni Gupta

CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL: AN APPLICATION TO TATTOO IMAGES .............................................................2709Anil Jain, Jung-Eun Lee, Rong Jin, Nicholas Gregg

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FEATURES FOR FINGERPRINT INDEXING .................................................................................2713Shihua He, Chao Zhang, Pengwei Hao

PIECEWISE LINEAR AGING FUNCTION FOR FACIAL AGE ESTIMATION ............................................................................2717Shenglan Ben, Jiansheng Chen, Guangda Su

MP-PH: MULTIFRAME IMAGE RESTORATION II EXTRACTION OF NON-BINARY BLOTCH MATTES.......................................................................................................................2721

Mohamed Ahmed, Francois Pitie, Anil C. Kokaram

THE DISCRETE ORTHONORMAL STOCKWELL TRANSFORM FOR IMAGE RESTORATION ..........................................2725Yanwei Wang, Jeff Orchard

RECONSTRUCTION OF DEGRADED IMAGES USING GENETIC ALGORITM FOR ARCHIVE FILM RESTORATION...........................................................................................................................................................................................2729

Byunggeun Kim, Kyung-Tai Kim, Eun Yi Kim

FAST MCMC SEPARATION FOR MRF MODELLED ASTROPHYSICAL COMPONENTS ......................................................2733Koray Kayabol, Ercan E. Kuruoglu, Bulent Sankur, Emanuele Salerno, Luigi Bedini

LOW-LIGHT IMAGING METHOD WITH VISIBLE-BAND AND WIDE-BAND IMAGE PAIR .................................................2737Youngjin Yoo, Wonhee Choe, Jaehyun Kwon, Sungchan Park, Seongdeok Lee, Chang-Yong Kim

ON THE METHOD OF MULTICOPY VIDEO ENHANCEMENT IN TRANSFORM DOMAIN ..................................................2741Viet Anh Nguyen, Yap Peng Tan, Zhenzhong Chen

AUTOMATIC SCENE RELIGHTING FOR VIDEO CONFERENCING ...........................................................................................2745Stephen Mangiat, Jerry Gibson

VIDEO OBJECT INPAINTING USING POSTURE MAPPING ..........................................................................................................2749Chih-Hung Ling, Chia-Wen Lin, Chih-Wen Su, Hong-Yuan Mark Liao, Yong-Sheng Chen

SELF-SIMILARITY INPAINTING ..........................................................................................................................................................2753Paul Ardis, Christopher Brown

SCALE-SPACE METHOD OF IMAGE RINGING ESTIMATION.....................................................................................................2757Andrey Nasonov, Andrey S. Krylov

MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI SUPER-RESOLUTION OF COMPRESSED VIDEO USING A NEW MULTICHANNEL IMAGE PRIOR .........................................................................................................................................................2761

Stefanos Belekos, Nikolaos Galatsanos, S. Derin Babacan, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

MP-PI: IMAGE CODING II A COMPACT FORMAT FOR CODING OF TEXTURE IN 3D URBAN MODELS .........................................................................2765

Ishtiaq Rasool Khan, Masahiro Okuda

EFFICIENT VLSI ARCHITECTURE FOR BIT PLANE ENCODER OF JPEG 2000 .....................................................................2769Kishor Sarawadekar, Swapna Banerjee

DIRECTION-ADAPTIVE CONTEXT MODELING FOR SIGN CODING IN EMBEDDED WAVELET IMAGE CODER ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................2773

Sungjei Kim, Jinwoo Jeong, Yong-Goo Kim, Yungho Choi, Yoonsik Choe

IMPROVING MULTISCALE RECURRENT PATTERN IMAGE CODING WITH LEAST-SQUARES PREDICTION MODE .................................................................................................................................................................................2777

Danillo B. Graziosi, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, Eduardo A. B. Da Silva, Sérgio M. M. De Faria, Murilo B. De Carvalho

REGION ADAPTIVE SPECTRAL TRANSFORMATION FOR WAVELET BASED COLOR IMAGE COMPRESSION ..........................................................................................................................................................................................2781

Ulug Bayazit

E-LTW: AN ENHANCED LTW ENCODER WITH SIGN CODING AND PRECISE RATE CONTROL ....................................2785Otoniel Lopez, Miguel Martinez, Pablo Piñol, Manuel Perez Malumbres, Jose Oliver

FAST 2D INTRA PREDICTION (2DIP) MODE DECISION FOR IMAGE AND VIDEO CODING ..............................................2789Yunyang Dai, Qi Zhang, C.-C. Jay Kuo

RATE DISTORTION OPTIMIZED CURVE DETERMINATION FOR CURVED WAVELET IMAGE CODING....................2793Dong Zheng, Liang Zhang, Demin Wang, André Vincent

ADAPTIVE LINEAR PREDICTION FOR BLOCK-BASED LOSSY IMAGE CODING.................................................................2797Jianle Chen, Woo-Jin Han

A GENERIC FINGERPRINT IMAGE COMPRESSION TECHNIQUE BASED ON WAVE ATOMS DECOMPOSITION .....................................................................................................................................................................................2801

Abdul Adeel Mohammed, Rashid Minhas, Q. M. Jonathan Wu, Maher A. Sid-Ahmed

DESIGN OF THREE-CHANNEL FILTER BANKS FOR LOSSLESS IMAGE COMPRESSION..................................................2805Tilo Strutz

MP-PJ: MULTISPECTRAL AND HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING BAND SELECTION BASED GAUSSIAN PROCESSES FOR HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING IMAGES CLASSIFICATION ....................................................................................................................................................................2809

Futian Yao, Yuntao Qian

IMPROVING SVM CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY USING A HIERARCHICAL APPROACH FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES ...................................................................................................................................................................2813

Begüm Demir, Sarp Ertürk

PANSHARPENING OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES USING SPATIAL DISTORTION OPTIMIZATION .............................2817Muhammad Murtaza Khan, Jocelyn Chanussot, Luciano Alparone

3D AND MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING FOR SUBCUTANEOUS VEINS DETECTION ...............................................................2821Fabrice Meriaudeau, Vincent Paquit, Nicolas Walter, Jeffery Price, Kenneth Tobin

PIGMENT IDENTIFICATION BY ANALYTICAL IMAGING USING MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES .......................................2825Jay Arre Toque, Yuji Sakatoku, Ari Ide-Ektessabi

A NEW FEATURE SELECTION ALGORITHM FOR MULTISPECTRAL AND POLARIMETRIC VEHICLE IMAGES ........................................................................................................................................................................................................2829

Songyot Nakariyakul

UNSUPERVISED ENDMEMBER EXTRACTION: APPLICATION TO HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES FROM MARS.............................................................................................................................................................................................................2833

Bin Luo, Jocelyn Chanussot, Sylvain Douté

A HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE RESTORATION TECHNIQUE .........................................................................................................2837Yifan Zhang, Arno Duijster, Paul Scheunders

UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES BY USING LINEAR UNMIXING ALGORITHM ..............................................................................................................................................................................................2841

Bin Luo, Jocelyn Chanussot

COPULA-SET MEASURES ON TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS FOR CHANGE DETECTION ..............................................................2845Jamal Atif, Jérôme Darbon

MP-PK: IMAGE SECURITY II RAW TOOL IDENTIFICATION THROUGH DETECTED DEMOSAICING REGULARITY......................................................2849

Hong Cao, Alex Chichung Kot

A FRAMEWORK FOR VIDEO FORENSICS BASED ON LOCAL AND TEMPORAL FINGERPRINTS ..................................2853Séverine Baudry, Bertrand Chupeau, Frédéric Lefèbvre

CONTENT-BASED AUTHENTICATION ALGORITHM FOR BINARY IMAGES ........................................................................2857Xinzhi Yao, Hongmei Liu, Wei Rui, Jiwu Huang

RETRIEVAL OF SHOEMARKS USING HARRIS POINTS AND SIFT DESCRIPTOR.................................................................2861Omar Nibouche, Ahmed Bouridane, Danny Crookes, Mourad Gueham, Moussadek Laadjel

A HYBRID MODEL FOR DIGITAL CAMERA SOURCE IDENTIFICATION ...............................................................................2865Min-Jen Tsai, Cheng-Sheng Wang, Jung Liu

A TEXTURE RECOGNITION SYSTEM OF REAL SHOE MARKS TAKEN FROM CRIME SCENES .....................................2869Federico Cervelli, Francesca Dardi, Sergio Carrato

PRINTER FORENSICS BASED ON PAGE DOCUMENT’S GEOMETRIC DISTORTION ..........................................................2873Yubao Wu, Xiangwei Kong, Xin’Gang You, Yiping Guo

COMPUTER GRAPHICS CLASSIFICATION BASED ON MARKOV PROCESS MODEL AND BOOSTING FEATURE SELECTION TECHNIQUE ...................................................................................................................................................2877

Patchara Sutthiwan, Xiao Cai, Yun-Qing Shi, Hong Zhang

CAMERA BRAND AND MODEL IDENTIFICATION USING MOMENTS OF 1-D AND 2-D CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTIONS...........................................................................................................................................................2881

Guanshuo Xu, Yun-Qing Shi, Wei Su

DETECTION OF FORGERY IN PAINTINGS USING SUPERVISED LEARNING ........................................................................2885Gungor Polatkan, Sina Jafarpour, Andrei Brasoveanu, Shannon Hughes, Ingrid Daubechies

MP1-PL: DISTRIBUTED AND MULTI-VIEW CODING HYBRID WYNER-ZIV AND INTRA VIDEO CODING WITH PARTIAL MATCHING MOTION ESTIMATION AT THE DECODER .........................................................................................................................................................2889

Said Benierbah, Mohammed Khamadja

SPATIAL NON-STATIONARY CORRELATION NOISE MODELING FOR WYNER-ZIV ERROR RESILIENCE VIDEO CODING................................................................................................................................................................2893

Yongsheng Zhang, Hongkai Xiong, Li Song, Songyu Yu

A GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR SIDE INFORMATION ENHANCEMENT IN DISTRIBUTED VIDEO CODING ........................................................................................................................................................................................................2897

Charles Yaacoub, Joumana Farah, Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu

JOINT LEARNING FOR SIDE INFORMATION AND CORRELATION MODEL BASED ON LINEAR REGRESSION MODEL IN DISTRIBUTED VIDEO CODING ...........................................................................................................2901

Xianming Liu, Debin Zhao, Yongbing Zhang, Siwei Ma, Qingming Huang, Wen Gao

WYNER-ZIV TO H.264 VIDEO TRANSCODER ...................................................................................................................................2905Jose Luis Martinez, Hari Kalva, Gerardo Fernandez-Escribano, W. A. C. Fernando, Pedro Cuenca

AN EFFICIENT LOW RANDOM-ACCESS DELAY PANORAMA-BASED MULTIVIEW VIDEO CODING SCHEME .......................................................................................................................................................................................................2909

Mahsa T. Pourazad, Panos Nasiopoulos, Rabab K. Ward

ADAPTIVE APPEARANCE COMPENSATED VIEW SYNTHESIS PREDICTION FOR MULTIVIEW VIDEO CODING ........................................................................................................................................................................................................2913

Shinya Shimizu, Hideaki Kimata, Yoshimitsu Ohtani

FAST MODE DECISION FOR MULTI-VIEW VIDEO CODING .......................................................................................................2917Liquan Shen, Tao Yan, Zhi Liu, Zhaoyang Zhang, Ping An, Lei Yang

TA-L1: DENOISING I NON-LOCAL IMAGE SMOOTHING BY APPLYING ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION PDE'S IN THE SPACE OF PATCHES .....................................................................................................................................................................................................2921

David Tschumperle, Luc Brun

EFFICIENT MULTIVARIATE SKELLAM SHRINKAGE FOR DENOISING PHOTON-LIMITED IMAGE DATA: AN EMPIRICAL BAYES APPROACH ......................................................................................................................................2925

Keigo Hirakawa, Patrick Wolfe

A NOTE ON THE BREGMANIZED TOTAL VARIATION AND DUAL FORMS ...........................................................................2929Jérôme Darbon, Igor Ciril, Antonio Marquina, Tony F. Chan, Stanley Osher

COMPLEX DIFFUSION ON IMAGE GRAPHS ....................................................................................................................................2933Dohyung Seo, Baba Vemuri

FEATURE-PRESERVING KERNEL DIFFUSION FOR SURFACE DENOISING ..........................................................................2937Khaled Tarmissi, Abdessamad Ben Hamza

NL-MEANS AND AGGREGATION PROCEDURES ............................................................................................................................2941Joseph Salmon, Erwan Le Pennec

MULTILATERAL FILTERING: A NOVEL FRAMEWORK FOR GENERIC SIMILARITY-BASED IMAGE DENOISING .................................................................................................................................................................................................2945

Irfan Butt, Nasir Rajpoot

STRUCTURE-PRESERVING SPECKLE REDUCTION OF SAR IMAGES USING NONLOCAL MEANS FILTERS .......................................................................................................................................................................................................2949

Xuezhi Yang, David Clausi

TA-L2: ACTIVE-CONTOUR AND LEVEL-SET BASED SEGMENTATION SEGMENTATION USING THE EDGE STRENGTH FUNCTION AS A SHAPE PRIOR WITHIN A LOCAL DEFORMATION MODEL .........................................................................................................................................................................2953

Erkut Erdem, Sibel Tari, Luminita A. Vese

MULTIPHASE ACTIVE CONTOUR SEGMENTATION CONSTRAINED BY EVOLVING MEDIAL AXES...........................2957Yan Zhang, Bogdan Matuszewski

IMAGE SEGMENTATION IN A KERNEL-INDUCED SPACE ..........................................................................................................2961Mohamed Ben Salah, Amar Mitiche, Ismail Ben Ayed

MULTIPLE SHAPE MODELS FOR SIMULTANEOUS OBJECT CLASSIFICATION AND SEGMENTATION .....................2965Federico Lecumberry, Álvaro Pardo, Guillermo Sapiro

UNSUPERVISED TEXTURE SEGMENTATION USING ACTIVE CONTOURS DRIVEN BY THE CHERNOFF GRADIENT FLOW .....................................................................................................................................................................................2969

Foued Derraz, Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed, Nacim Betrouni, Azzeddine Chikh, Antonio Pinti, Fethi Bereksi-Reguig

SEGMENTATION ON SURFACES WITH THE CLOSEST POINT METHOD...............................................................................2973Li (Luke) Tian, Colin B. Macdonald, Steven J. Ruuth

POLAR SNAKES: A FAST AND ROBUST PARAMETRIC ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL..........................................................2977Christophe Collewet

DISCRETE CURVATURE CALCULATION FOR FAST LEVEL SET SEGMENTATION ...........................................................2981Jan Kybic, Jakub Kratky

TA-L3: COMPRESSIVE SENSING BLOCK COMPRESSED SENSING OF IMAGES USING DIRECTIONAL TRANSFORMS .........................................................2985

Sungkwang Mun, James Fowler

INFORMATIVE SENSING OF NATURAL IMAGES ...........................................................................................................................2989Hyun Sung Chang, Yair Weiss, William Freeman

RANDOMNESS-IN-STRUCTURED ENSEMBLES FOR COMPRESSED SENSING OF IMAGES..............................................2993Abdolreza Abdolhosseini Moghadam, Hayder Radha

ENHANCING SPARSITY USING GRADIENTS FOR COMPRESSIVE SENSING ........................................................................2997Vishal Patel, Glenn Easley, Rama Chellappa, Dennis Healy

COMPRESSIVE IMAGE SAMPLING WITH SIDE INFORMATION ...............................................................................................3001Vladimir Stankovic, Lina Stankovic, Samuel Cheng

COMPRESSIVE-UNIFORM HYBRID SENSING FOR IMAGE ACQUISITION AND COMMUNICATION ............................3005Xiaolin Wu, Xiangjun Zhang

MODIFIED COMPRESSIVE SENSING FOR REAL-TIME DYNAMIC MR IMAGING ...............................................................3009Wei Lu, Namrata Vaswani

ON THE EMPIRICAL RATE-DISTORTION PERFORMANCE OF COMPRESSIVE SENSING ................................................3013Adriana Schulz, Luiz Velho, Eduardo Da Silva

TA-L4: VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS SCALING PEER-TO-PEER VIDEO-ON-DEMAND SYSTEMS USING HELPERS ........................................................................3017

Hao Zhang, Jiajun Wang, Minghua Chen, Kannan Ramchandran

POLLUTION-RESISTANT PEER-TO-PEER LIVE STREAMING USING TRUST MANAGEMENT ........................................3021Bo Hu, H. Vicky Zhao

PRE-FETCHING BASED ON VIDEO ANALYSIS FOR INTERACTIVE REGION-OF-INTEREST STREAMING OF SOCCER SEQUENCES..............................................................................................................................................3025

Aditya Mavlankar, Bernd Girod

PRICING-BASED DECENTRALIZED RATE ALLOCATION FOR MULTIPLE VIDEO STREAMS ........................................3029Mayank Tiwari, Theodore Groves, Pamela Cosman

MAP ESTIMATION OF MULTIPLE DESCRIPTION ENCODED VIDEO TRANSMITTED OVER NOISY CHANNELS ..................................................................................................................................................................................................3033

Marie Andree Agostini, Marc Antonini, Michel Kieffer

AUTOMATIC AND ADAPTIVE NETWORK-AWARE MACROBLOCK INTRA REFRESH FOR ERROR-RESILIENT H.264/AVC VIDEO CODING .............................................................................................................................................3037

Paulo Nunes, Luis Ducla Soares, Fernando Pereira

A GAME THEORY BASED CLASSIFICATION FOR DISTRIBUTED DOWNLOADING OF MULTIPLE DESCRIPTION CODED VIDEO...............................................................................................................................................................3041

Simone Milani, Giancarlo Calvagno

RATE-DISTORTION OPTIMIZED JPEG2000-BASED SCALABLE INTERACTIVE VIDEO (JSIV) WITH MOTION AND QUANTIZATION BIN SIDE-INFORMATION ..........................................................................................................3045

Aous Naman, David Taubman

TA-L5: VISUAL ATTENTION: MODELS AND APPLICATIONS IN IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING WHAT WE SEE IS MOST LIKELY TO BE WHAT MATTERS: VISUAL ATTENTION AND APPLICATIONS.....................3049

Olivier Le Meur, Patrick Le Callet

ON THE ROLE OF CONTEXT IN PROBABILISTIC MODELS OF VISUAL SALIENCY ...........................................................3053Neil D B Bruce, Pierre Kornprobst

INCREMENTAL SPARSE SALIENCY DETECTION ..........................................................................................................................3057Yin Li, Yue Zhou, Lei Xu, Xiaochao Yang, Jie Yang

STUDYING THE ADDED VALUE OF VISUAL ATTENTION IN OBJECTIVE IMAGE QUALITY METRICS BASED ON EYE MOVEMENT DATA ....................................................................................................................................................3061

Hantao Liu, Ingrid Heynderickx

MAIN SUBJECT DETECTION VIA ADAPTIVE FEATURE SELECTION .....................................................................................3065Cuong Vu, Damon Chandler

ADVERTISE GENTLY - IN-IMAGE ADVERTISING WITH LOW INTRUSIVENESS .................................................................3069Huiying Liu, Xuekan Qiu, Qingming Huang, Shuqiang Jiang, Changsheng Xu

REGION-OF-INTEREST INTRA PREDICTION FOR H.264/AVC ERROR RESILIENCE ..........................................................3073Fadi Boulos, Wei Chen, Benoît Parrein, Patrick Le Callet

EFFICIENT PERCEPTUAL ATTENTIVE SUPER-RESOLUTION...................................................................................................3077Nabil Sadaka, Lina Karam

TA-PA: IMAGE AND VIDEO ENHANCEMENT ENHANCEMENT OF INTERLACED IMAGES BY FUZZY REASONING APPROACH .............................................................3081

Gwanggil Jeon, Sang-Jun Park, Joohyun Lee, Rokkyu Lee, Seungjong Kim, Jechang Jeong

ENHANCEMENT OF AERIAL IMAGES USING THRESHOLD DECOMPOSITION ADAPTIVE MORPHOLOGICAL FILTER...................................................................................................................................................................3085

Tarek A. Mahmoud

GAMUT FITTING FOR IMAGE COMPOSITION APPLICATIONS ................................................................................................3089Wenxian Yang, Jianmin Zheng, Jianfei Cai

REMOVING SHADOWS FROM A SINGLE REAL-WORLD COLOR IMAGE ..............................................................................3093Kang Yao, Junyu Dong

ONE SCAN SHADOW COMPENSATION AND VISUAL ENHANCEMENT OF COLOR IMAGES...........................................3097Felix Albu, Constantin Vertan, Corneliu Florea, Alexandru Drimbarean

VIRTUAL RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT OF SCALE INVARIANT TEXTURED IMAGES USING STOCHASTIC PROCESSES .....................................................................................................................................................................3101

Emilie Koenig, Pierre Chainais

COLOR IMAGE ENHANCEMENT USING RETINEX WITH ROBUST ENVELOPE...................................................................3105Chih-Tsung Shen, Wen-Liang Hwang

EFFICIENT MULTI-SCALE RETINEX ALGORITHM USING MULTI-RATE IMAGE PROCESSING ...................................3109Takeshi Okuno, Takao Nishitani

AN ALGORITHM FOR AUTOMATIC SKIN SMOOTHING IN DIGITAL PORTRAITS .............................................................3113Changhyung Lee, Morgan Schramm, Mireille Boutin, Jan Allebach

LOCAL ADAPTIVE TONE MAPPING WITH COMPOSITE MULTIPLE GAMMA FUNCTIONS ............................................3117Sohsuke Shimoyama, Masaki Igarashi, Masayuki Ikebe, Junichi Motohisa

DYNAMIC RANGE COMPRESSION BASED ON STATISTICAL ANALYSIS...............................................................................3121Keun-Dong Lee, Sujung Kim, Seong-Dae Kim

BILATERAL ENHANCERS ......................................................................................................................................................................3125Carlo Gatta, Petia Radeva

NONSUBSAMPLED HIGHER-DENSITY DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM: FILTER DESIGN AND APPLICATION IN IMAGE CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT...............................................................................................................3129

Arash Vosoughi, Mohammad Bagher Shamsollahi, Azadeh Vosoughi

HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE COMPRESSION BY HALF QUADRATIC REGULARIZATION ......................................................3133Zhengguo Li, Susanto Rahardja, Susu Yao, Jinghong Zheng, Wei Yao

OPTIMAL MOTION COMPENSATED SPATIO-TEMPORAL FILTER FOR QUALITY ENHANCEMENT OF H.264/AVC COMPRESSED VIDEO SEQUENCES................................................................................................................................3137

Dung Vo, Truong Nguyen

TA-PB: BACKGROUND AND FOREGROUND SEGMENTATION FAST BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION ALGORITHM USING TWO-LEVEL SAMPLING AND SILHOUETTE DETECTION.....................................................................................................................................................................3141

Dae-Youn Lee, Jae-Kyun Ahn, Chang-Su Kim

GMM-BASED EFFICIENT FOREGROUND DETECTION WITH ADAPTIVE REGION UPDATE...........................................3145Hao Li, Alin Achim, David Bull

A PROPOSED MULTI-SCALE APPROACH WITH AUTOMATIC SCALE SELECTION FOR IMAGE CHANGE DETECTION .............................................................................................................................................................................3149

Eid Emary, Khaled Mostafa, Hoda Onsi

A GLOBAL PROBABILISTIC FRAMEWORK FOR THE FOREGROUND, BACKGROUND AND SHADOW CLASSIFICATION TASK..........................................................................................................................................................................3153

Jose-Luis Landabaso, Jose-Carlos Pujol-Alcolado, Tomas Montserrat, David Marimon, Jaume Civit, Oscar Divorra Escoda

MULTL-RESOLUTION BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION FOR DYNAMIC SCENES .................................................................3157Bineng Zhong, Shaohui Liu, Hongxun Yao, Baochang Zhang

PLANAR BACKGROUND ELIMINATION IN RANGE IMAGES: A PRACTICAL APPROACH...............................................3161Alexandre Vrubel, Olga R. P. Bellon, Luciano Silva

CORNER-BASED BACKGROUND SEGMENTATION USING ADAPTIVE RESONANCE THEORY ......................................3165Stefano Maludrottu, Carlo Regazzoni, Hany Sallam, Ihab Talkhan, Amir Atiya

BAYESIAN FOREGROUND SEGMENTATION AND TRACKING USING PIXEL-WISE BACKGROUND MODEL AND REGION BASED FOREGROUND MODEL .................................................................................................................3169

Jaime Gallego, Montse Pardàs, Gloria Haro

NEIGHBORING IMAGE PATCHES EMBEDDING FOR BACKGROUND MODELING .............................................................3173Bineng Zhong, Hongxun Yao, Shaohui Liu

NON-PARAMETRIC NATURAL IMAGE MATTING .........................................................................................................................3177Muhammad Sarim, Adrian Hilton, Jean-Yves Guillemaut, Hansung Kim

BASE SELECTION IN ESTIMATING SPARSE FOREGROUND IN VIDEOS ................................................................................3181Mert Dikmen, Shen-Fu Tsai, Thomas S. Huang

GRAPH-BASED FOREGROUND EXTRACTION IN EXTENDED COLOR SPACE .....................................................................3185Hansung Kim, Adrian Hilton

MULTI-RESOLUTION ILLUMINATION COMPENSATION FOR FOREGROUND EXTRACTION .......................................3189Xavier Suau, Josep R. Casas, Javier Ruiz-Hidalgo

VECTOR FIELD FITTING FOR REAL-TIME ENVIRONMENT MATTING OF TRANSPARENT OBJECTS .......................3193Qi Duan, Jianfei Cai, Jianmin Zheng

TA-PC: REAL-TIME IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING

A HYBRID FACE DETECTION APPROACH FOR REAL-TIME DEPOLYMENT ON MOBILE DEVICES............................3197

Mohammad Rahman, Nasser Kehtarnavaz, Jianfeng Ren

A 100MHZ HARDWARE-EFFICIENT BOOST CASCADED FACE DETECTION DESIGN........................................................3201Wei-Su Wong, Chih-Rung Chen, Ching-Te Chiu

ARCHITECTURE DESIGN FOR A LOW-COST AND LOW-COMPLEXITY FOREGROUND OBJECT SEGMENTATION WITH MULTI-MODEL BACKGROUND MAINTENANCE ALGORITHM..................................................3205

De-Zhang Peng, Chung-Yuan Lin, Wen-Tsai Sheu, Tsung-Han Tsai

LIGHT SPEED LABELING FOR RISC ARCHITECTURES ..............................................................................................................3209Lionel Lacassagne, Bertrand Zavidovique

ONLINE DETECTION OF SNOW COVERAGE AND SWING ANGLES OF ELECTRICAL INSULATORS ON POWER TRANSMISSION LINES USING VIDEOS..............................................................................................................................3213

Irene Y. H. Gu, Unai Sistiaga, Sonja Berlijn, Anders Fahlström

REAL-TIME FPGA ARCHITECTURE OF MODIFIED STABLE EULER-NUMBER ALGORITHM FOR IMAGE BINARIZATION...........................................................................................................................................................................3217

Naeem Abbasi, Jacques Athow, Aishy Amer

HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF A CASCADE PARTICLE FILTER ...................................................................................3221Hiroki Sugano, Ryusuke Miyamoto

ROBUST LANE DETECTION AND TRACKING WITH RANSAC AND KALMAN FILTER......................................................3225Amol Borkar, Monson Hayes, Mark Smith

MOTION DETECTION: FAST AND ROBUST ALGORITHMS FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS...................................................3229Lionel Lacassagne, Antoine Manzanera, Antoine Dupret

HISTOGRAM COMPUTATION BASED ON IMAGE BITWISE DECOMPOSITION ...................................................................3233Andrés Frías-Velázquez, Josep Ramon Morros

GRADIENT ANGLE HISTOGRAMS FOR EFFICIENT LINEAR HOUGH TRANSFORM..........................................................3237Ravi Kumar Satzoda, Suchitra Sathyanarayana, Srikanthan Thambipillai

REAL-TIME OPTIMAL-MEMORY IMAGE ROTATION FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS ............................................................3241Serene Banerjee, Anjaneyulu Kuchibhotla

AN EFFICIENT ADAPTIVE MANIPULATION ARCHITECTURE FOR REAL TIME VIDEO CODING IN FREQUENCY DOMAIN.............................................................................................................................................................................3245

Yasser Ismail, Mohsen Shaaban, Jason McNeely, Magdy Bayoumi

REAL-TIME SCREEN IMAGE SCALING AND ITS GPU ACCELERATION ................................................................................3249Wen Sun, Yan Lu, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li

TA-PD: FACE RECOGNITION I ILLUMINATION-ROBUST FACE RECOGNITION USING RETINA MODELING ......................................................................3253

Ngoc-Son Vu, Alice Caplier

FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION BASED ON GRAPH-PRESERVING SPARSE NON-NEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION ....................................................................................................................................................................3257

Ruicong Zhi, Markus Flierl, Qiuqi Ruan, Bastiaan Kleijn

AN GEOMETRICALLY INTUITIVE MARGINAL DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS METHOD WITH APPLICATION TO FACE RECOGNITION...........................................................................................................................................3261

Jian Yang, Zhenghong Gu, Jingyu Yang

A MODEL-BASED FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION ALGORITHM USING PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS ......................................................................................................................................................................3265

Nicholas Vretos, Nikos Nikolaidis, Ioannis Pitas

A NOVEL FEATURE EXTRACTION METHOD USING PYRAMID HISTOGRAM OF ORIENTATION GRADIENTS FOR SMILE RECOGNITION ..........................................................................................................................................3269

Yang Bai, Lihua Guo, Lianwen Jin, Qinghua Huang

RECOGNITION OF EXPRESSION VARIANT FACES FROM ONE SAMPLE IMAGE PER ENROLLED SUBJECT ......................................................................................................................................................................................................3273

Hamidreza Rashidy Kanan, Yongsheng Gao

FACE RECOGNITION USING SIFT FEATURES ................................................................................................................................3277Cong Geng, Xudong Jiang

FACE RECOGNITION WITH SALIENT LOCAL GRADIENT ORIENTATION BINARY PATTERNS....................................3281Shu Liao, Albert C. S. Chung

PATCH-BASED FACE RECOGNITION FROM VIDEO .....................................................................................................................3285Changbo Hu, Josh Harguess, J. K. Aggarwal

ASYMMETRIC 3D/2D FACE RECOGNITION BASED ON LBP FACIAL REPRESENTATION AND CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS...........................................................................................................................................3289

Di Huang, Mohsen Ardabilian, Yunhong Wang, Liming Chen

ELASTIC BLOCK SET RECONSTRUCTION FOR FACE RECOGNITION...................................................................................3293Dong Li, Xudong Xie, Kin-Man Lam, Zhigang Jin

USING SPARSE REGRESSION TO LEARN EFFECTIVE PROJECTIONS FOR FACE RECOGNITION................................3297Yongxin Xi, Peter Ramadge

LINEAR AND NONLINEAR DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION FOR FACE RECOGNITION ..................................................3301Weilin Huang, Hujun Yin

IDENTITY AND EXPRESSION RECOGNITION ON LOW DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLDS .......................................................3305Pedro Martins, Jorge Batista

TA-PE: BIOMEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION A VARIATIONAL APPROACH TO AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION OF RNFL ON OCT DATA SETS OF THE RETINA ...............................................................................................................................................................................................3309

Lu Zongqing, Liao Qingmin, Yang Fan

SUBSAMPLING STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE LEARNING-BASED RETINA VESSEL SEGMENTATION ...........................3313Roland Harangozo, Peter Veres, Andras Hajdu

EXTRACTION OF RETINAL BLOOD VESSELS BY CURVELET TRANSFORM........................................................................3317Mahdad Esmaili, Hossein Rabbani, Alireza Mehri, Alireza Dehghani

ULTRASOUND DESPECKLING FOR ACTIVE CONTOUR SEGMENTATION ...........................................................................3321Yiming Ma, Peter Tay

SKIN LESION EXTRACTION IN DERMOSCOPIC IMAGES BASED ON COLOUR ENHANCEMENT AND ITERATIVE SEGMENTATION ...............................................................................................................................................................3325

Gerald Schaefer, Maher Rajab, M. Emre Celebi, Hitoshi Iyatomi

EVALUATION OF RETINAL VESSEL SEGMENTATION METHODS FOR MICROANEURYSMS DETECTION ................................................................................................................................................................................................3329

Charles Iury Oliveira Martins, Fátima Nelsizeuma Sombra De Medeiros, Rodrigo M. Veras, Francisco Nivando Bezerra, Roberto Marcondes Cesar Júnior

SEGMENTATION OF MEDICAL IMAGES USING GEO-THEORETIC DISTANCE MATRIX IN FUZZY CLUSTERING..............................................................................................................................................................................................3333

Tuan Pham, Uwe Eisenblätter, Jonathan Golledge, Bernhard T. Baune, Klaus Berger

MULTI-KERNEL SVM BASED CLASSIFICATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR SEGMENTATION OF MRI MULTI-SEQUENCE ...................................................................................................................................................................................3337

Nan Zhang, Su Ruan, Stéphane Lebonvallet, Qingmin Liao, Yuemin Zhu

REMOVAL OF ABDOMINAL WALL FOR 3D VISUALIZATION AND SEGMENTATION OF ORGANS IN CT VOLUME................................................................................................................................................................................................3341

Feng Ding, Wee Kheng Leow, Sudhakar Venkatesh

FULLY AUTOMATIC 3-D SEGMENTATION OF KNEE BONE COMPARTMENTS BY ITERATIVE LOCAL BRANCH-AND-MINCUT ON MR IMAGES FROM OSTEOARTHRITIS INITIATIVE (OAI) ....................................................3345

Sang Hyun Park, Soochahn Lee, Hackjoon Shim, Il Dong Yun, Sang Uk Lee, Kyoung Ho Lee, Heung Sik Kang, Joon Koo Han

SEGMENTATION OF TRABECULAR BONES FROM VERTEBRAL BODIES IN VOLUMETRIC CT SPINE IMAGES ........................................................................................................................................................................................................3349

Melih Aslan, Asem Ali, Ben Arnold, Rachid Fahmi, Aly Farag, Ping Xiang

CELLULAR PROTEOMIC CHARACTERIZATION USING ACTIVE SHAPE AND NON-GAUSSIAN STOCHASTIC TEXTURE MODELS .......................................................................................................................................................3353

Mohammed Ali Roula

INCORPORATING PRIOR INFORMATION IN THE FUZZY C-MEAN ALGORITHM WITH APPLICATION TO BRAIN TISSUES SEGMENTATION IN MRI..................................................................................................................................3357

Moumen Elmelegy, Hashim Mokhtar

TA-PF: H.264/AVC VIDEO CODING COMPLEXITY SCALABLE RATE-DISTORTION OPTIMIZATION FOR H.264/AVC................................................................3361

Yih Han Tan, Wei Siong Lee, Jo Yew Tham, Susanto Rahardja

MODIFIED H.264 INTRA PREDICTION FOR COMPRESSION OF VIDEO AND IMAGES CAPTURED WITH A COLOR FILTER ARRAY ......................................................................................................................................................................3365

Colin Doutre, Panos Nasiopoulos

AN EFFICIENT AND FAST MODE DECISION METHOD FOR INTER SLICE OF H.264/AVC ................................................3369Jin Young Lee, Dongsan Jun, Hyunwook Park

JOINT RATE-DISTORTION MODEL FOR H.264/AVC RATE CONTROL ....................................................................................3373Yimin Zhou, Yu Sun, Ishfaq Ahmad, Shixin Sun

INTER MODE SELECTION FOR H.264/AVC USING TIME-EFFICIENT LEARNING-THEORETIC ALGORITHMS ............................................................................................................................................................................................3377

Yuri Vatis, Ligang Lu, Ashish Jagmohan

PERCEPTUALLY-FRIENDLY H.264/AVC VIDEO CODING ............................................................................................................3381Zhenzhong Chen, Christine Guillemot

AN ADAPTIVE DIVIDE-AND-PREDICT CODING FOR INTRA-FRAME OF H.264/AVC ..........................................................3385Yinji Piao, Hyunwook Park

FAST TEMPORAL PREDICTION SELECTION FOR H.264/AVC SCALABLE VIDEO CODING .............................................3389Hung-Chih Lin, Hsueh-Ming Hang, Wen-Hsiao Peng

NON-LINEAR RATE CONTROL FOR H.264/AVC VIDEO ENCODER WITH MULTIPLE PICTURE TYPES USING IMAGE-STATISTICS AND MOTION-BASED MACROBLOCK PRIORITIZATION .....................................................3393

Muhammad Shafique, Bastian Molkenthin, Jörg Henkel

NEW H.264 INTRA-RATE ESTIMATION AND INTER-RATE CONTROL DRIVEN BY IMPROVED MAD-BASED CONTRAST SENSITIVITY ........................................................................................................................................................3397

Miryem Hrarti, Hakim Saadane, Mohamed Chaker Larabi, Ahmed Tamtaoui Driss Aboutajdine

CONTEXT-ADAPTIVE HYBRID VARIABLE LENGTH CODING IN H.264/AVC ........................................................................3401Junlin Li, Ghassan Alregib, Dihong Tian, Wen H. Chen, Pi Sheng Chang

DEPTH MAP ENHANCED MACROBLOCK PARTITIONING FOR H.264 VIDEO CODING OF COMPUTER GRAPHICS CONTENT ..............................................................................................................................................................................3405

Philipp Fechteler, Peter Eisert

EFFECTIVE INTRA-ONLY RATE CONTROL FOR H.264/AVC ......................................................................................................3409Ling Tian, Yu Sun, Ishfaq Ahmad, Shixin Sun

TA-PG: CAMERA CALIBRATION, MODELING, AND CONDITIONING EYE REFLECTION ANALYSIS AND APPLICATION TO DISPLAY-CAMERA CALIBRATION .............................................3413

Christian Nitschke, Atsushi Nakazawa, Haruo Takemura

STATIONARY VIDEO CAMERA AUTO-EXPOSURE CONDITIONING........................................................................................3417Ramin Samadani, Wai-Tian Tan

MODELING OF IMAGE SHUTTERS AND MOTION BLUR IN ANALOG AND DIGITAL CAMERA SYSTEMS......................................................................................................................................................................................................3421

Michael Schöberl, Siegfried Fößel, Hans Bloss, André Kaup

OPTIMIZED ENERGY ALLOCATION IN BATTERY POWERED IMAGE SENSOR NETWORKS .........................................3425Chao Yu, Gaurav Sharma

DIGITAL CAMERA IP-PIPELINE BASED ON BV-G COLOR-IMAGE DECOMPOSITION ......................................................3429Takahiro Saito, Daisuke Yamada, Takashi Komatsu

EMPIRICAL MODELING FOR COLORIMETRIC CHARACTERIZATION OF DIGITAL CAMERAS ..................................3433Simone Bianco, Raimondo Schettini, Leonardo Vanneschi

TASK-ORIENTED CAMERA ASSIGNMENT IN A VIDEO NETWORK .........................................................................................3437Yiming Li, Bir Bhanu

VIDEO STABILIZATION FOR A HAND-HELD CAMERA BASED ON 3D MOTION MODEL .................................................3441Jung-Ming Wang, Han-Ping Chou, Sei-Wang Chen, Chiou-Shann Fuh

ROUGH COMPRESSED DOMAIN CAMERA POSE ESTIMATION THROUGH OBJECT MOTION ......................................3445Christian Käs, Henri Nicolas

CAMERA PLACEMENT USING PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION IN VISUAL SURVEILLANCE APPLICATIONS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................3449

Nicola Conci, Leonardo Lizzi

PROBABILISTIC MATCHING OF LINES FOR THEIR HOMOGRAPHY .....................................................................................3453Taemin Kim, Jihwan Woo, In-So Kweon

EFFICIENT PLANE DETECTION FROM A SINGLE MOVING CAMERA ...................................................................................3457Samia Bouchafa, Antoine Patri, Bertrand Zavidovique

TA-PH: STEREOSCOPIC AND 3D PROCESSING I OPTIONS FOR A NEW EFFICIENT, COMPATIBLE, FLEXIBLE 3D STANDARD......................................................................3461

W. H. A. (Fons) Bruls, Rene Klein Gunnewiek

A SIMPLE AND EFFICIENT APPROACH FOR 3D MESH APPROXIMATE CONVEX DECOMPOSITION..........................3465Khaled Mamou, Faouzi Ghorbel

MULTIRESOLUTION DECOMPOSITION FOR TRIANGULAR MESH GEOMETRY CODING BASED ON STRUCTURING SURROUNDING VERTICES .....................................................................................................................................3469

Shuji Watanabe, Akira Kawanaka

CONTEXT-CONDITIONED COMPOSITE CODING OF 3D MESHES BASED ON WAVELETS ON SURFACES ...................................................................................................................................................................................................3473

Leon Denis, Shahid M. Satti, Adrian Munteanu, Jan Cornelis, Peter Schelkens

A TRIANGLE-FAN-BASED APPROACH FOR LOW COMPLEXITY 3D MESH COMPRESSION ...........................................3477Khaled Mamou, Titus Zaharia, Françoise Preteux

ESTIMATING HOMOGRAPHIES WITHOUT NORMALIZATION.................................................................................................3481Prasanna Rangarajan, Panos Papamichalis

EFFICIENT DISTANCE ESTIMATION FOR FITTING IMPLICIT QUADRIC SURFACES.......................................................3485Angel D. Sappa, Mohammad Rouhani

SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL UP-CONVERSION TECHNIQUE FOR DEPTH VIDEO .................................................................3489Jinwook Choi, Dongbo Min, Bumsub Ham, Kwanghoon Sohn

SUSAN 3D OPERATOR, PRINCIPAL SALIENCY DEGREES AND DIRECTIONS EXTRACTION AND A BRIEF STUDY ON THE ROBUSTNESS TO NOISE.............................................................................................................................3493

Nicolas Walter, Olivier Aubreton, Yohan D. Fougerolle, Olivier Laligant

HIERARCHICAL REGION-BASED REPRESENTATION FOR SEGMENTATION AND FILTERING WITH DEPTH IN SINGLE IMAGES ...................................................................................................................................................................3497

Mariella Dimiccoli, Philippe Salembier

EFFICIENT EDGE, MOTION AND DEPTH-RANGE ADAPTIVE PROCESSING FOR ENHANCEMENT OF MULTI-VIEW DEPTH MAP SEQUENCES............................................................................................................................................3501

Erhan Ekmekcioglu, Vladan Velisavljevic, Stewart T. Worrall

IMPROVED QUALITY MULTIPLE DESCRIPTION 3D MESH CODING WITH OPTIMAL FILTERING..............................3505Begüm Demir, Sarp Ertürk, Oguzhan Urhan

TA-PI: HUMAN ACTION ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION LEARNING INSTANCE-TO-CLASS DISTANCE FOR HUMAN ACTION RECOGNITION .......................................................3509

Zhengxiang Wang, Yiqun Hu, Liang-Tien Chia

VIEW-INVARIANT ACTION RECOGNITION USING CROSS RATIOS ACROSS FRAMES ....................................................3513Yeyin Zhang, Kaiqi Huang, Yongzhen Huang, Tieniu Tan

AN EFFICIENT BAYESIAN FRAMEWORK FOR ON-LINE ACTION RECOGNITION .............................................................3517Roberto Vezzani, Massimo Piccardi, Rita Cucchiara

DETECTION OF ASYMMETRIC EYE ACTION UNITS IN SPONTANEOUS VIDEOS ...............................................................3521Mina Mikhail, Rana El Kaliouby

CAPTURING HUMAN ACTIVITY BY A CURVE ................................................................................................................................3525Sheng Yi, Hamid Krim

NORMALIZED SCORING OF HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS BY ON-LINE LEARNING AND ITS APPLICATION TO GESTURE-SEQUENCE PERCEPTION ..............................................................................................................3529

Mio Nishiyama, Tadashi Shibata

RECOGNIZING HUMAN ACTIONS BY FUSING SPATIO-TEMPORAL APPEARANCE AND MOTION DESCRIPTORS............................................................................................................................................................................................3533

Lamberto Ballan, Marco Bertini, Alberto Del Bimbo, Lorenzo Seidenari, Giuseppe Serra

TOWARDS A VISUAL-HULL BASED MULTI-AGENT SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM ...................................................................3537Pilar Callau Uson, Kaori Hagihara, Diego Ruiz, Benoit Macq

HAND TRAJECTORY-BASED GESTURE SPOTTING AND RECOGNITION USING HMM.....................................................3541Mahmoud Elmezain, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Bernd Michailes

ENHANCED GAIT RECOGNITION BASED ON WEIGHTED DYNAMIC FEATURE.................................................................3545Nini Liu, Jiwen Lu, Yap Peng Tan, Zhenzhong Chen

A NEW REPRESENTATION METHOD OF HEAD IMAGES FOR HEAD POSE ESTIMATION ...............................................3549Xiangyang Liu, Hongtao Lu, Heng Luo

HEAD PAN ANGLE ESTIMATION BY A NONLINEAR REGRESSION ON SELECTED FEATURES .....................................3553Kevin Bailly, Maurice Milgram

TA-PJ: VISUAL TRACKING CONTOUR TRACKING WITH ABRUPT MOTION ............................................................................................................................3557

Wei Li, Xiaoqin Zhang, Weiming Hu

INCREMENTAL CO-BOOST FOR VISUAL TRACKING ................................................................................................................... N/AHuaping Liu, Fuchun Sun

OPTIMAL DETECTION AND TRACKING OF FEATURE POINTS USING MUTUAL INFORMATION ................................3561Amaury Dame, Eric Marchand

TRACKING A GROUP OF HIGHLY CORRELATED TARGETS.....................................................................................................3565Yuanwei Lao, Yuan F. Zheng

A NEW TRACKING METHOD FOR SMALL INFRARED TARGETS.............................................................................................3569Lei Yang, Weiping Lu, Jie Yang

L_2 APPROXIMATION FOR EFFICIENT DEFORMABLE SURFACE 3D TRACKING .............................................................. N/AShuhan Shen, Wenhuan Shi, Yuncai Liu

ONLINE SUBJECTIVE FEATURE SELECTION FOR OCCLUSION MANAGEMENT IN TRACKING APPLICATIONS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................3573

Loris Bazzani, Marco Cristani, Manuele Bicego, Vittorio Murino

MULTIPLE HYPOTHESIS TRACKING IN CLUTTERED CONDITION ........................................................................................3577Nicolas Chenouard, Isabelle Bloch, Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin

VISUAL TRACKING OF OBJECT SILHOUETTES ............................................................................................................................3581Guy Boudoukh, Ido Leichter, Ehud Rivlin

BETTER COMPUTER VISION UNDER VIDEO COMPRESSION, AN EXAMPLE USING MEAN SHIFT TRACKING ..................................................................................................................................................................................................3585

Salman Aslam, Aaron Bobick, Christopher Barnes, Osman Sezer

CONTEXT RANKING MACHINE AND ITS APPLICATION TO RIGID LOCALIZATION OF DEFORMABLE OBJECTS ......................................................................................................................................................................................................3589

Birkan Tunc, S. Kevin Zhou, Jin-Hyeong Park, Muhittin Gokmen

TA-PK: ROBUST WATERMARKING LIST DECODING OF REED SOLOMON CODES FOR WAVELET BASED COLOUR IMAGE WATERMARKING SCHEME ..................................................................................................................................................................3593

Wadood Abdul, Philippe Carré, Philippe Gaborit

COMBATING DESYNCHRONIZATION ATTACKS ON BLIND WATERMARKING SYSTEMS: A MESSAGE PASSING APPROACH ...............................................................................................................................................................................3597

Shankar Sadasivam, Pierre Moulin

ENHANCING ROBUSTNESS OF DIGITAL IMAGE WATERMARKS USING CONTOURLET TRANSFORM .....................3601Shereen Ghannam, Fatma El-Zahraa Abou-Chadi

DIVERSITY ASSISTED GCIC FOR SPREAD SPECTRUM WATERMARK DETECTION USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS ............................................................................................................................................................................................3605

Santi Prasad Maity, Seba Maity, Jaya Sil

DOUBLE EMBEDDING IN THE QUANTIZATION INDEX MODULATION FRAMEWORK ....................................................3609Anindya Sarkar, Bangalore S. Manjunath

BLIND AND ROBUST MESH WATERMARKING USING MANIFOLD HARMONICS...............................................................3613Kai Wang, Ming Luo, Adrian G. Bors, Florence Denis

SECURITY ENHANCEMENT BY ADOPTING THE CHAOTIC SYSTEM FOR WAVELET TREE BASED DIGITAL IMAGE WATERMARKING ...................................................................................................................................................3617

Min-Jen Tsai

A QUASI BLIND WATERMARK EXTRACTION OF WATERMARKED NATURAL PRESERVE TRANSFORM IMAGES .............................................................................................................................................................................3621

Mamdouh Fahmy, Omar Fahmy, Gamal Fahmy

AN OBJECT-BASED NON-BLIND WATERMARKING THAT IS ROBUST TO NON-LINEAR GEOMETRICAL DISTORTION ATTACKS ..........................................................................................................................................3625

Toshihiko Yamasaki, Yasumasa Nakai, Kiyoharu Aizawa

TP-L1: TRANSCODING TRANSCODING OF H.264/AVC TO SVC WITH MOTION DATA REFINEMENT .......................................................................3629

Jan De Cock, Stijn Notebaert, Kenneth Vermeirsch, Peter Lambert, Rik Van De Walle

TOWARD OPTIMAL REAL-TIME TRANSCODING USING REQUANTIZATION IN THE DCT DOMAIN ..........................3633Ora Gendler, Moshe Porat

MAPPING MOTION VECTORS FOR A WYNER-ZIV VIDEO TRANSCODER ............................................................................3637Eduardo Peixoto, Ricardo L. De Queiroz, Debargha Mukherjee

TRANSCODING IN THE BLOCK DCT SPACE....................................................................................................................................3641Kapinaiah Viswanath, Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, Prabir Kumar Biswas

EFFICIENT MOTION VECTOR RE-ESTIMATION FOR MPEG-2 TO H.264/AVC TRANSCODING WITH ARBITRARY DOWN-SIZING RATIOS ..................................................................................................................................................3645

Qiang Tang, Panos Nasiopoulos, Rabab Ward

LOGO INSERTION TRANSCODING FOR H.264/AVC COMPRESSED VIDEO ...........................................................................3649Di Xu, Panos Nasiopoulos

EFFICIENT INTER/INTRA MODE DECISION FOR H.264/AVC INTER FRAME TRANSCODING ........................................3653Chien-Da Wu, Yinyi Lin

A TWO-LEVEL RATE CONTROL APPROACH FOR VIDEO TRANSCODING ...........................................................................3657Maria Pantoja, Nam Ling

TP-L2: ADVANCES IN REMOTE SENSING IMAGE PROCESSING RECENT ADVANCES IN REMOTE SENSING IMAGE PROCESSING ..........................................................................................3661

Devis Tuia, Gustavo Camps-Valls

QUALITY EVALUATION OF PROGRESSIVE LOSSY-TO-LOSSLESS REMOTE-SENSING IMAGE CODING...................3665Ian Blanes, Joan Serra-Sagristà

HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE ENHANCEMENT WITH VECTOR BILATERAL FILTERING .....................................................3669Honghong Peng, Raghuveer Rao

TOTAL VARIATION RESTORATION OF SPECKLED IMAGES USING A SPLIT BREGMAN ALGORITHM ....................3673José Bioucas-Dias, Mário Figueiredo

SPATIAL-SPECTRAL ENDMEMBER EXTRACTION FROM HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY USING MULTI-BAND MORPHOLOGY AND VOLUME OPTIMIZATION .................................................................................................3677

Antonio Plaza, Javier Plaza, Gabriel Martin

DIRECTIONAL MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY FOR THE DETECTION OF THE ROAD NETWORK IN VERY HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING IMAGES ..............................................................................................................3681

Silvia Valero, Jocelyn Chanussot, Jon Atli Benediktsson, Hugues Talbot, Bjorn Waske

KERNEL METHODS IN ORTHOGONALIZATION OF MULTI- AND HYPERVARIATE DATA .............................................3685Allan Aasbjerg Nielsen

APPLICATION OF DSM THEORY FOR SAR IMAGE CHANGE DETECTION ...........................................................................3689Sofiane Hachicha, Ferdaous Chaabane

TP-L3: SCALABLE AND HIERARCHICAL VIDEO CODING BIT ALLOCATION FOR JOINT SPATIAL-QUALITY SCALABILITY IN H.264/SVC ................................................................3693

Jiaying Liu, Zongming Guo, Yongjin Cho

OPTIMIZATION OF ENCODING CONFIGURATION IN SCALABLE MULTIPLE DESCRIPTION CODING FOR RATE-ADAPTIVE P2P VIDEO MULTICASTING ......................................................................................................................3697

Tenzile Berkin Abanoz, A. Murat Tekalp

JOINT SCALABLE MODELING OF MOTION AND BOUNDARY GEOMETRY WITH QUAD-TREE NODE MERGING ....................................................................................................................................................................................................3701

Reji Mathew, David Taubman

BIDIRECTIONAL SCALABLE MOTION FOR SCALABLE VIDEO CODING ..............................................................................3705Hu Chen, Meng-Ping Kao, Truong Nguyen

MACROBLOCK SAMPLING AND MODE RANKING FOR COMPLEXITY SCALABILITY IN MOBILE H.264 VIDEO CODING ..............................................................................................................................................................................3709

Tiago Fonseca, Ricardo Queiroz

“VOODOO” ERROR PREDICTION FOR BIT-DEPTH SCALABLE VIDEO CODING ................................................................3713Jason McNeely, Magdy Bayoumi

LOWCOMPLXITY ALGORITHM FOR INTER-LAYER RESIDUAL PREDICTION OF H.264/SVC........................................3717Yoshitaka Morigami, Tian Song, Takafumi Katayama, Takashi Shimamoto

MODEL BASED ANALYSIS FOR QUANTIZATION PARAMETER CASCADING IN HIERARCHICAL VIDEO CODING..........................................................................................................................................................................................3721

Xiang Li, Peter Amon, Andreas Hutter, André Kaup

TP-L4: OPTICAL IMAGING GEOMETRICAL PLENOPTIC SAMPLING ..........................................................................................................................................3725

Chong Chen, Dan Schonfeld

COMPUTATIONAL INVERSE COHERENT WAVE FIELD IMAGING .........................................................................................3729Vladimir Katkovnik, Artem Migukin, Jaakko Astola

ACCURATE 3D SHAPE ESTIMATION BASED ON COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION .......................................................3733Seong-O Shim, Tae-Sun Choi

SPECULAR AND DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE IN MICROFACET MODELS ..................................................................................3737William Smith, Edwin Hancock

LOW-COMPLEXITY DIGITAL FILTER BANK FOR STRONGLY ABERRATED OPTICAL SYSTEMS HAVING VARIABLE F-NUMBERS ........................................................................................................................................................3741

Guotong Feng, M. Dirk Robinson, Kathrin Berkner

NEW IMAGE PROCESSING CHALLENGES FOR JOINTLY DESIGNED ELECTRO-OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEMS......................................................................................................................................................................................................3745

M. Dirk Robinson, David Stork

MODEL-BASED METHODS FOR DEVELOPING COLOR TRANSFORMATION BETWEEN TWO DISPLAY DEVICES ......................................................................................................................................................................................................3749

Thanh Ha, Satyam Srivastava, Edward Delp, Jan Allebach

DESIGNING COLOR FILTER ARRAYS FOR THE JOINT CAPTURE OF VISIBLE AND NEAR-INFRARED IMAGES ........................................................................................................................................................................................................3753

Yue Lu, Clément Fredembach, Martin Vetterli, Sabine Süsstrunk

TP-L5: MULTIRESOLUTION PROCESSING HIGHER-ORDER RIESZ TRANSFORMS AND STEERABLE WAVELET FRAMES...................................................................3757

Michael Unser, Dimitri Van De Ville

A FILTER DESIGN TECHNIQUE FOR IMPROVING THE DIRECTIONAL SELECTIVITY OF THE FIRST SCALE OF THE DUAL-TREE COMPLEX WAVELET TRANSFORM............................................................................................3761

Bart Goossens, Aleksandra Pizurica, Wilfried Philips

FRACTIONAL LAPLACIAN PYRAMIDS .............................................................................................................................................3765Ricard Delgado-Gonzalo, Pouya Tafti, Michael Unser

DESIGN OF HILBERT TRANSFORM PAIRS OF ORTHONORMAL WAVELET BASES USING REMEZ EXCHANGE ALGORITHM ......................................................................................................................................................................3769

Xi Zhang

TWO-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRIC LIFTING ...................................................................................................................................3773Joshua Blackburn, Minh Do

A CONTENT-ADAPTIVE WAVELET-LIKE TRANSFORM FOR ALIASING SUPPRESSION IN IMAGE AND VIDEO COMPRESSION ............................................................................................................................................................................3777

Jonathan Gan, David Taubman

BEST BASIS DENOISING WITH NON-STATIONARY WAVELET PACKETS.............................................................................3781Nizar Ouarti, Gabriel Peyré

WAVELET LEADER MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS FOR TEXTURE CLASSIFICATION ........................................................3785Herwig Wendt, Patrice Abry, Stéphane Jaffard, Hui Ji, Zuowei Shen

TP-PA: DENOISING II SAR IMAGE DESPECKLING USING UNDECIMATED DIRECTIONAL FILTER BANKS AND MEAN SHIFT ....................3789

Gong Zhang, Wenhua Shi, Jing Xu, Ning Li, Mark J. T. Smith

ITERATIVE SOFT COLOR-SHRINKAGE FOR COLOR-IMAGE DENOISING ...........................................................................3793Takahiro Saito, Nobuhiro Fujii, Takashi Komatsu

CONTEXT-BASED BIAS REMOVAL OF STATISTICAL MODELS OF WAVELET COEFFICIENTS FOR IMAGE DENOISING ..................................................................................................................................................................................3797

Weisheng Dong, Xiaolin Wu, Guangming Shi, Lei Zhang

MDL CONTEXT MODELING OF IMAGES WITH APPLICATION TO DENOISING .................................................................3801Guangtao Zhai, Xiaolin Wu, Xiaokang Yang, Wenjun Zhang

WEIGHTED AVERAGE DENOISING WITH SPARSE ORTHONORMAL TRANSFORMS .......................................................3805Osman G. Sezer, Yucel Altunbasak

POISSON-HAAR TRANSFORM: A NONLINEAR MULTISCALE REPRESENTATION FOR PHOTON-LIMITED IMAGE DENOISING ...............................................................................................................................................................3809

Stamatios Lefkimmiatis, George Papandreou, Petros Maragos

WAVELET BASED DENOISING BY CORRELATION ANALYSIS FOR HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGING ...................3813Jens Kaftan, Andre Bell, Claude Seiler, Til Aach

A NOVEL WAVELET DOMAIN STATISTICAL APPROACH FOR DENOISING SAR IMAGES ..............................................3817Maryam Amirmazlaghani, Hamidreza Amindavar

A NEW EFFICIENT NONLINEAR FILTER BASED ON SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES FOR IMAGE DENOISING .................................................................................................................................................................................................3821

David Márquez, Michel Devy, Joan Solà

FAST SUBSPACE-BASED TENSOR DATA FILTERING ...................................................................................................................3825Julien Marot, Caroline Fossati, Salah Bourennane

FAST NON-LOCAL ALGORITHM FOR IMAGE DENOISING.........................................................................................................3829Venkateswarlu Karnati, Mithun Uliyar, Sumit Dey

MARKOVIAN CLUSTERING FOR THE NON-LOCAL MEANS IMAGE DENOISING...............................................................3833Rachid Hedjam, Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Mohamed Cheriet

EFFICIENT POISSON DENOISING FOR PHOTOGRAPHY .............................................................................................................3837Hugues Talbot, Harold Phelippeau, Mohamed Akil, Stefan Bara

IMPLEMENTATION AND APPLICATION OF LOCAL COMPUTATION OF WAVELET COEFFICIENTS IN THE DUAL-TREE COMPLEX WAVELETS..........................................................................................................................................3841

Iman A. El-Shehaby, Trac D. Tran

ASYMMETRIC ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION .......................................................................................................................................3845Romulus Terebes, Olivier Lavialle, Christian Germain, Monica Borda, Sorin Pop

TP-PB: IMAGE AND VIDEO RESTORATION PHOTOMETRIC CORRECTION OF RETINAL IMAGES BY POLYNOMIAL INTERPOLATION..........................................3849

Jiang Liu, Shijian Lu, Joo-Hwee Lim, Zhuo Zhang, Tan Ngan Meng, Wing Kee Wong, Huiqi Li, Tien Yin Wong

JOINT BIAS AND GAIN NONUNIFORMITY CORRECTION OF INFRARED VIDEOS USING TENSORIAL-RLS TECHNIQUE .......................................................................................................................................................................................3853

Daniel Pipa, Eduardo Da Silva, Carla Pagliari, Marcelo Perez

JOINT RECOVERY AND SEGMENTATION OF POLARIMETRIC IMAGES USING A COMPOUND MRF AND MIXTURE MODELING ...................................................................................................................................................................3857

Giorgos Sfikas, Christian Heinrich, Jihad Zallat, Christophoros Nikou, Nikolaos Galatsanos

DETECTING AND ELIMINATING CHROMATIC ABERRATION IN DIGITAL IMAGES ........................................................3861Soon-Wook Chung, Byoung-Kwang Kim, Woo-Jin Song

IMAGE RESTORATION THROUGH L0 ANALYSIS-BASED SPARSE OPTIMIZATION IN TIGHT FRAMES .....................3865Javier Portilla

BLIND SEPARATION OF POSITION VARYING MIXED IMAGES ................................................................................................3869Ran Kaftory, Yehoshua Y. Zeevi

A HARDCOPY BACKUP AND RECONSTRUCTION SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL IMAGES...........................................................3873Eric Hoarau, Ingeborg Tastl, Nathan Moroney

HVS-AWARE ROI-BASED ILLUMINATION AND COLOR RESTORATION ...............................................................................3877Heechul Han, Kwanghoon Sohn

DEBLOCKING METHOD USING A PERCPETUAL RECURSIVE FILTER ..................................................................................3881Aladine Chetouani, Ghiles Mostafaoui, Azeddine Beghdadi

POSTPROCESSING MPEG BASED ON ESTIMATED QUANTIZATION PARAMETERS .........................................................3885Huiying Li, Søren Forchhammer

SPARSITY-BASED DEARTIFACTING FILTERING IN VIDEO COMPRESSION........................................................................3889Jun Xu, Yunfei Zheng, Peng Yin, Joel Sole, Cristina Gomila, Dapeng Wu

BLOCKING EFFECT REDUCTION IN LOW BITRATE VIDEO ON A MOBILE PLATFORM .................................................3893Aleksandar Petrov, Tomislav Kartalov, Zoran Ivanovski

WEB CARTOON VIDEO HALLUCINATION .......................................................................................................................................3897Zhiwei Xiong, Xiaoyan Sun, Feng Wu

NONSTANDARD DIFFUSION IN IMAGE RESTORATION AND DECOMPOSITION ................................................................3901Abdallah El Hamidi, Clara Ghannam, Gilles Bailly-Maitre, Michel Ménard

IMAGE RESTORATION BY MIXTURE MODELLING OF AN OVERCOMPLETE LINEAR REPRESENTATION ...................................................................................................................................................................................3905

Luis Mancera, S. Derin Babacan, Rafael Molina, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

TP-PC: IMAGE MODELING AND FILTERING MULTI-LAYER FILTERING APPROACH FOR MAP IMAGES.......................................................................................................3909

Minjie Chen, Mantao Xu, Pasi Fränti

MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL MODELING OF IMAGES IN WAVELET AND CURVELET DOMAIN USING THE BESSEL K FORM DENSITIES........................................................................................................................................... N/A

Larbi Boubchir, Rachid Boumaza, Besnik Pumo

A PDE MODEL FOR 2D INTRINSIC MODE FUNCTIONS ................................................................................................................3913El Hadji Diop, Radjesvarane Alexandre, Abdel Boudraa

LINEAR FILTERING AND MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY ON AN IMAGE: A BRIDGE.................................................3917Olivier Strauss, Kevin Loquin

FAST ALGORITHMS FOR THE COMPUTATION OF RANKLETS................................................................................................3921Fabrizio Smeraldi

FM FILTERS FOR MODULATION DOMAIN IMAGE PROCESSING ............................................................................................3925Chuong Nguyen, Patrick Campbell, Joseph Havlicek

BLOCK-WISE IMPLEMENTATION OF DIRECTIONAL GENLOT ...............................................................................................3929Shogo Muramatsu, Minoru Hiki

AN EXTENSION OF COMPONENT-TREES TO PARTIAL ORDERS .............................................................................................3933Nicolas Passat, Benoît Naegel

PCA GAUSSIANIZATION FOR IMAGE PROCESSING.....................................................................................................................3937Valero Laparra, Gustavo Camps-Valls, Jesús Malo

THE DYNAMICS OF IMAGE DENOISING VIEWED AS DAMPED ELASTIC DEFORMATION .............................................3941Vadim Ratner, Yehoshua Y. Zeevi

GENERALISED AMBIENT REFLECTION MODELS FOR LAMBERTIAN AND PHONG SURFACES ..................................3945Xiaozheng Zhang, Yongsheng Gao

SKEWED LOG-STABLE MODEL FOR NATURAL IMAGES PIXEL BLOCK-VARIANCE .......................................................3949Juan Ramón Troncoso-Pastoriza, Fernando Pérez-González

EFFICIENT DESIGN OF 2-D NONSEPARABLE FILTERS OF LOW COMPLEXITY .................................................................3953Kaveh Fanian, Tuan Duong Hoang, Truong Nguyen

NON-UNIFORM BACKLIGHTING COMPUTATION FOR HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE DISPLAYS .........................................3957Jiefu Zhai, Joan Llach

TP-PD: IMAGE AND VIDEO SEGMENTATION II A MULTIPHASE REGION-BASED FRAMEWORK FOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION BASED ON LEAST SQUARE METHOD ....................................................................................................................................................................................3961

G. Chen, Xin Meng, T. Hu, X. Y. Guo, Li-Xiong Liu, Haiying Zhang

A FAST FIRST-SCAN ALGORITHM FOR LABEL-EQUIVALENCE-BASED CONNECTED-COMPONENT LABELING .................................................................................................................................................................................................... N/A

Lifeng He, Yuyan Chao, Kenji Suzuki, Hidenori Itoh

FEATURE SPACE BASED IMAGE SEGMENTATION VIA DENSITY MODIFICATION...........................................................3965Debashis Sen, Sankar Pal

ACCURATE SEMANTIC IMAGE LABELING BY FAST GEODESIC PROPAGATION..............................................................3969Xiaowu Chen, Dongyue Zhao, Yibiao Zhao, Liang Lin

ILLUMINATION INVARIANT UNSUPERVISED SEGMENTER .....................................................................................................3973Michal Haindl, Stanislav Mikes, Pavel Vacha

MORPHOLOGICAL SEGMENTATION OF BUILDING FACADE IMAGES .................................................................................3977Jorge Hernández, Beatriz Marcotegui

IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING ITERATIVE WATERSHEDING PLUS RIDGE DETECTION.............................................3981Li Chen, Min Jiang, Jianxun Chen

AN UNSUPERVISED IMAGE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM BASED ON THE MACHINE LEARNING OF APPROPRIATE FEATURES.....................................................................................................................................................................3985

Sang Hak Lee, Hyung Il Koo, Nam Ik Cho

A CONTRARIO HIERARCHICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION ........................................................................................................3989Juan Cardelino, Vicent Caselles, Marcelo Bertalmío, Gregory Randall

THE WHOLE MESH DEFORMATION MODEL FOR 2D AND 3D IMAGE SEGMENTATION .................................................3993Przemyslaw Lenkiewicz, Manuela Pereira, Mário Freire, José Fernandes

A SOFT MULTIPHASE SEGMENTATION MODEL VIA GAUSSIAN MIXTURE ........................................................................3997Celia Barcelos, Yunmei Chen, Fuhua Chen

ENHANCED MODEL SELECTION FOR MOTION SEGMENTATION ..........................................................................................4001Luca Zappella, Xavier Lladó, Joaquim Salvi

EFFICIENT NUMERICAL SCHEMES FOR GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW ...................................................................................4005Djamal Boukerroui

FAST BLOCK BASED CONNECTED COMPONENTS LABELING .................................................................................................4009Costantino Grana, Daniele Borghesani, Rita Cucchiara

TP-PE: PARTICLE FILTERING AND TRACKING A MULTI-RESOLUTION PARTICLE FILTER TRACKING IN A MULTI-CAMERA ENVIRONMENT .................................4013

Yifan Zhou, Henri Nicolas, Jenny Benois-Pineau

3D ARM MOVEMENT TRACKING USING ADAPTIVE PARTICLE FILTER ..............................................................................4017Feng Guo, Gang Qian

M2SIR: A MULTI MODAL SEQUENTIAL IMPORTANCE RESAMPLING ALGORITHM FOR PARTICLE FILTERS .......................................................................................................................................................................................................4021

Thierry Chateau, Yann Goyat, Laurent Trassoudaine

JOINT PARTICLE FILTERS AND MULTI-MODE ANISOTROPIC MEAN SHIFT FOR ROBUST TRACKING OF VIDEO OBJECTS WITH PARTITIONED AREAS ........................................................................................................................4025

Zulfiqar Khan, Irene Y. H. Gu, Andrew Backhouse

AN OBJECT TRACKING METHOD USING PARTICLE FILTER AND SCALE SPACE MODEL ............................................4029Pyeonggang Heo, Su-Jin Park, Sang-Hun Jin, Bo Yeoun Yeou, Hyunwook Park

A KERNEL PARTICLE FILTER MULTI-OBJECT TRACKING USING GABOR-BASED REGION COVARIANCE MATRICES ......................................................................................................................................................................4033

Hélio Palaio, Jorge Batista

BEYOND ICONDENSATION: AICONDENSATION AND AFCONDENSATION FOR VISUAL TRACKING WITH LOW-LEVEL AND HIGH-LEVEL CUES ..................................................................................................................................4037

Yonggang Jin

TRACKING OCCLUDED TARGETS IN HIGH-SIMILARITY BACKGROUND: AN ONLINE TRAINING,NON-LOCAL APPEARANCE MODEL AND PERIODIC HYBRID PARTICLE FILTER WITH PROJECTIVE TRANSFORMATION ......................................................................................................................................................4041

Yi Wang, Richard Schultz

MEASUREMENT-BASED RECLUSTERING FOR MULTIPLE OBJECT TRACKING WITH PARTICLE FILTERS .......................................................................................................................................................................................................4045

Marcos Nieto, Carlos Cuevas, Luis Salgado

LIKELIHOOD TUNING FOR PARTICLE FILTER IN VISUAL TRACKING ................................................................................4049Mathias Fontmarty, Frédéric Lerasle, Patrick Danes

APPRAISAL OF AN ENHANCED PARTICALE FILTER FOR OBJECT TRACKING .................................................................4053Howida Abd El-Halym, Imbaby I. Mahmoud, A. Abdeltawab, S. E.-D. Habib

SEQUENTIAL PARTICLE FILTERING FOR CONDITIONAL DENSITY PROPAGATION ON GRAPHS .............................4057Pan Pan, Dan Schonfeld

ROBUST VISUAL TRACKING BASED ON SIMPLIFIED BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED FEATURES......................................4061Min Li, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Kaiqi Huang, Tieniu Tan

MULTICHANNEL DUAL DOMAIN INFRARED TARGET TRACKING FOR HIGHLY EVOLUTIONARY TARGET SIGNATURES ............................................................................................................................................................................4065

Colin Johnston, Nicholas Mould, Joseph Havlicek

TP-PF: FACE RECOGNITION II FACE VIRTUAL POSE GENERATION USING ALIGNED LOCALLY LINEAR REGRESSION FOR FACE RECOGNITION ...........................................................................................................................................................................................4069

Mohammad H. Rohban, Hamid R. Rabiee, Arash Vahdat

3D-AIDED PROFILE-BASED FACE RECOGNITION.........................................................................................................................4073Boris Efraty, Dat Chu, Emil Ismailov, Shishir Shah, Ioannis Kakadiaris

FACE RECOGNITION USING GENDER INFORMATION................................................................................................................4077Wonjun Hwang, Haibing Ren, Hyunwoo Kim, Seok-Cheol Kee, Junmo Kim

A CONVERGENT SOLUTION TO TWO DIMENSIONAL LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS ...........................................4081Chen Wei, Huang Kaiqi, Tan Tieniu, Tao Dacheng

MULTI-MODAL EAR AND FACE MODELING AND RECOGNITION ..........................................................................................4085Mohammad H. Mahoor, Steven Cadavid, Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb

DISTANT FACE RECOGNITION BASED ON SPARSE STEREO RECONSTRUCTION.............................................................4089Ham Rara, Shireen Elhabian, Asem Ali, Mike Miller, Thomas Starr, Aly Farag

PARTIALLY OCCLUDED FACE COMPLETION AND RECOGNITION .......................................................................................4093Yue Deng, Dong Li, Xudong Xie, Kin-Man Lam, Qionghai Dai

IMAGE COMPRESSION MISMATCH EFFECT ON COLOR IMAGE BASED FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEM ........................................................................................................................................................................................................4097

Jaeyoung Choi, Yong Man Ro, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

FAST AND EFFICIENT 3D FACE RECOGNITION USING WAVELET NETWORKS ................................................................4101Salwa Said, Boulbaba Ben Amor, Mourad Zaied, Chokri Ben Amar, Mohamed Daoudi

ILLUMINATION INVARIANT FACE RECOGNITION IN LOGARITHM DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM DOMAIN .......................................................................................................................................................................................................4105

Ahmed Abbas, Mahmoud Khalil, Sohair Abdelhay, Hossam Fahmy

FACE IDENTIFICATION USING LINEAR REGRESSION ................................................................................................................4109Imran Naseem, Roberto Togneri, Mohammed Bennamoun

NOVEL FACE RECOGNITION APPROACH BASED STEERABLE PYRAMID FEATURE EXTRACTION ..........................4113Mohamed El_aroussi, Mohammed El_hassouni, Sanaa Ghouzali, Mohammed Rziza, Driss Aboutajdine

TP-PG: BIOMEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS CHROMOSOME IMAGE RECOGNITION WITH SUBREGION SEARCH ITERATION ............................................................4117

Toru Abe, Chieko Hamada, Tetsuo Kinoshita

MULTIPLE OBJECT DECOMPOSITION BASED ON INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS OF MULTI-ENERGY X-RAY PROJECTIONS ............................................................................................................................................4121

Dong-Goo Kang, Younghun Sung, Sungsu Kim, Seongdeok Lee, Changyeong Kim

A FRACTAL DIMENSION BASED OPTIMAL WAVELET PACKET ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE FOR CLASSIFICATION OF MENINGIOMA BRAIN TUMOURS ..............................................................................................................4125

Omar Al-Kadi

TEXTURE ANALYSIS USING NAKAGAMI-MRF MODEL: PRELIMINARY RESULTS ON ULTRASOUND IMAGES OF PRIMARY CHOROIDAL MELANOMAS ......................................................................................................................4129

Nizar Bouhlel, Salwa Hajjaji, Sylvie Sevestre, Pascal Laugier

TOWARDS A COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF WOUND-COMPOSITION USING COLOR-IMAGE PROCESSING ..............................................................................................................................................................................................4133

Rohit Nayak, Pramod Kumar, Ramesh R. Galigekere

INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS BASED RING ARTIFACT REDUCTION IN CONE-BEAM CT IMAGES ........................................................................................................................................................................................................4137

Yen-Wei Chen, Guifen Duan

SCALE INVARIANT DESCRIPTORS IN PATTERN ANALYSIS OF MELANOCYTIC LESIONS ............................................4141Carlos S. Mendoza, Carmen Serrano, Begoña Acha

A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF CT ACQUISITION PARAMETERS ON LOW-LEVEL FEATURES EXTRACTED FROM CT IMAGES OF THE LUNG ......................................................................................................4145

Joseph Wantroba, Daniela Raicu, Jacob Furst

MULTISCALE AM-FM ANALYSIS OF PNEUMOCONIOSIS X-RAY IMAGES............................................................................4149Victor Murray, Marios Pattichis, Herbert Davis, Eduardo S. Barriga, Peter Soliz

A COMPUTER-AIDED DISTINCTION OF BORDERLINE GRADES OF ORAL CANCER ........................................................4153Mustafa Sami, Masahisa Saito, Hisakazu Kikuchi, Takashi Saku

SEGMENTATION, TRACKING, AND ANALYSIS OF FOCAL ADHESION DYNAMICS IN CELLULAR MICROSCOPY IMAGING ........................................................................................................................................................................4157

Thomas Würflinger, Antonio S. Sechi, Til Aach

SEGMENTATION AND REGISTRATION BASED ANALYSIS OF MICROSCOPY IMAGES ....................................................4161Kevin Lorenz, Francisco Serrano, Paul Salama, Edward Delp

TP-PH: WATERMARKING AND APPLICATIONS WATERMARKING FOR DEPTH-IMAGE-BASED RENDERING ....................................................................................................4165

Eren Halici, A. Aydin Alatan

AN IMPROVED LOSSLESS DATA HIDING BASED ON SPACE FILLING CURVES..................................................................4169Xiao-Yi Yu, Aiming Wang

MODIFIED VERSIONS OF TIAN'S DIFFERENCE EXPANSION REVERSIBLE WATERMARKING...................................... N/ADinu Coltuc

COMPARISON OF WATERMARKING ALGORITHMS VIA A GA-BASED BENCHMARKING TOOL .................................4173Valentina Conotter, Giulia Boato, Claudio Fontanari, Francesco G. B. De Natale

SPATIAL SELF-SYNCHRONIZING VIDEO WATERMARKING TECHNIQUE ...........................................................................4177Tae-Woo Oh, Min-Jeong Lee, Kyung-Su Kim, Young-Suk Yoon, Heung-Kyu Lee

REVERSIBLE DATA HIDING FOR ORDERED DITHERED HALFTONE IMAGES ...................................................................4181Brian Lien, Wei-Dyi Pei

HIGH CAPACITY, REVERSIBLE DATA HIDING IN MEDICAL IMAGES ...................................................................................4185Mehdi Fallahpour, David Megias, Mohammad Ghanbari

COLOR-IMAGE WATERMARKING USING MULTIVARIATE POWER-EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION ........................4189Roland Kwitt, Peter Meerwald, Andreas Uhl

A NOVEL UNIVERSAL STEGANALYSER DESIGN: “LOGSV” ......................................................................................................4193Gokhan Gul, Fatih Kurugollu

REVERSIBLE IMAGE WATERMARKING BASED ON FULL CONTEXT PREDICTION .........................................................4197Ming Chen, Zhenyong Chen, Xiao Zeng, Zhang Xiong

IMAGE AUTHENTICATION AND TAMPER DETECTION USING TWO COMPLEMENTARY WATERMARKS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................4201

Xiaojun Qi, Xing Xin, Ran Chang

WAVELET BASED FUZZY PERCEPTUAL MASK FOR IMAGES ..................................................................................................4205Mukesh Motwani, Rakhi Motwani, Frederick C. Harris Jr.

TP-PI: STEREOSCOPIC AND 3D PROCESSING II HIERARCHICAL 3D PERCEPTION FROM A SINGLE IMAGE ......................................................................................................4209

Ping Luo, Jiajie He, Liang Lin, Hongyang Chao

DEPTH BASED OBJECT PRIORITISATION FOR 3D VIDEO COMMUNICATION OVER WIRELESS LAN .......................4213Sabih Nasir, Chaminda Thushara, Marta Mrak, Stewart Worrall, Ahmet Kondoz

A ROBUST ROAD PROFILE ESTIMATION METHOD FOR LOW TEXTURE STEREO IMAGES..........................................4217Thanh Sach Le, Kiyoaki Atsuta, Kazuhiko Hamamoto, Shozo Kondo

ROBUST FEATURE CORRESPONDENCES FROM A LARGE SET OF UNSORTED WIDE BASELINE IMAGES ........................................................................................................................................................................................................4221

Yanpeng Cao, John McDonald

REAL TIME STEREO VISION USING EXPONENTIAL STEP COST AGGREGATION ON GPU ............................................4225Wei Yu, Tsuhan Chen, James C. Hoe

AFFTRACK: ROBUST TRACKING OF FEATURES IN VARIABLE-ZOOM VIDEOS ................................................................4229Rodrigo Minetto, Neucimar J. Leite, Jorge Stolfi

STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO ERROR CONCEALMENT FOR MISSING FRAME RECOVERY USING DISPARITY-BASED FRAME DIFFERENCE PROJECTION .............................................................................................................4233

Yibin Chen, Canhui Cai, Kai-Kuang Ma

SHAPE FROM FOCUS USING KERNEL REGRESSION....................................................................................................................4237Muhammad Tariq Mahmood, Tae-Sun Choi

OVERLAP ELIMINATION FOR REGISTERED RANGE IMAGES .................................................................................................4241Xiaokun Li, William G. Wee

PARALLEL HIGH RESOLUTION REAL-TIME VISUAL HULL ON GPU.....................................................................................4245Wolfgang Waizenegger, Ingo Feldmann, Peter Eisert, Peter Kauff

HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGING FOR STEREOSCOPIC SCENE REPRESENTATION......................................................4249Huei-Yung Lin, Wei-Zhe Chang

3-D STRUCTURE RECOVERY FROM 2-D OBSERVATIONS ..........................................................................................................4253Huiyu Zhou, Gerald Schaefer, Tangwei Liu, Faquan Lin

TP-PJ: VIDEO EVENT DETECTION AND SUMMARIZATION TEMPORAL SALIENT GRAPH FOR SPORTS EVENT DETECTION ............................................................................................4257

Reede Ren, Joemon M. Jose

SEMANTIC LABELING OF TRACK EVENTS USING TIME SERIES SEGMENTATION AND SHAPE ANALYSIS ....................................................................................................................................................................................................4261

Josh Harguess, J. K. Aggarwal

EVENT DETECTION USING MULTIPLE EVENT PROBABILITY SEQUENCES .......................................................................4265Naresh Cuntoor

COMBINING MULTIMODAL AND TEMPORAL CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION FOR SEMANTIC VIDEO ANALYSIS ....................................................................................................................................................................................................4269

Georgios Th. Papadopoulos, Vasileios Mezaris, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Michael G. Strintzis

MOTION-FOCUSING KEY FRAME EXTRACTION AND VIDEO SUMMARIZATION FOR LANE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM.......................................................................................................................................................................4273

Congcong Li, Yi-Ta Wu, Shiaw-Shian Yu, Tsuhan Chen

THEMATIC VIDEO THUMBNAIL SELECTION.................................................................................................................................4277Yuli Gao, Tong Zhang, Jun Xiao

A FUZZY LOGIC METHOD OF FEATURE REPRESENTATION FOR SHOT BOUNDARY DETECTION ............................4281Juan Chen, Stan Ipson, Jianmin Jiang

CONCURRENT TRANSITION AND SHOT DETECTION IN FOOTBALL VIDEOS USING FUZZY LOGIC .........................4285Mohammed Refaey, Khaled El-Sayed, Sanaa Hanafy, Larry Davis

SOCCER VIDEO SUMMARIZATION USING ENHANCED LOGO DETECTION ........................................................................4289Mohamed Eldib, Bassam Abou Zaid, Hossam Zawbaa, Mohamed El-Zahar, Motaz El-Saban

A RESOURCE ALLOCATION FRAMEWORK FOR SUMMARIZING TEAM SPORT VIDEOS ...............................................4293Fan Chen, Christophe De Vleeschouwer

TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS IN NATURAL IMAGES USING MIXTURES OF VECTOR FIELDS ..............................................4297Jacinto Nascimento, Mário Figueiredo, Jorge Marques

A RULE-BASED HIERARCHICAL FRAMEWORK FOR VIDEO PARSING IN COMPRESSED DOMAIN ............................. N/ALi Gao, Chaohuan Hou, Donghui Wang, Shefeng Yan

TP-PK: QUALITY ASSESSMENT REDUCED-REFERENCE IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT BASED ON PERCEPTUAL IMAGE HASHING ......................4301

Xudong Lv, Z. Jane Wang

NOISE ESTIMATION AND ADAPTIVE FILTERING DURING VISUAL TRACKING ................................................................4305Ibrahima Ndiour, Patricio Vela

A NO-REFERENCE PERCEPTUAL BLUR METRIC USING HISTOGRAM OF GRADIENT PROFILE SHARPNESS.................................................................................................................................................................................................4309

Luhong Liang, Jianhua Chen, Siwei Ma, Debin Zhao, Wen Gao

SUBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF A NO-REFERENCE VIDEO QUALITY MONITORING ALGORITHM FOR H.264/AVC VIDEO OVER A NOISY CHANNEL ..................................................................................................................................4313

Matteo Naccari, Marco Tagliasacchi, Stefano Tubaro

VISUAL RELEVANCE EVALUATION USING RATE DISTORTION ANALYSIS IN THE CIRCULAR HARMONIC FUNCTIONS DOMAIN ......................................................................................................................................................4317

Stefania Colonnese, Stefano Rinauro, Lorenzo Rossi, Gaetano Scarano

EVALUATION METRIC FOR IMAGE UNDERSTANDING ..............................................................................................................4321Baptiste Hemery, Hélène Laurent, Christophe Rosenberger

REALISM ASSESSMENT OF COLOR COMPATIBILITY USING A SINGLE IMAGE................................................................4325Bing-Yi Wong, Chia-Kai Liang, Tai-Hsu Lin, Homer H. Chen

AUTOMATIC GROUND-TRUTHING USING VIDEO REGISTRATION FOR ON-BOARD DETECTION ALGORITHMS ............................................................................................................................................................................................4329

José M. Álvarez, Ferran Diego, Joan Serrat, Antonio M. López, Daniel Ponsa

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION USING MANDELBROT IMAGES FOR IMAGE REGISTRATION ALGORITHMS ............................................................................................................................................................................................4333

Koichi Ito, Ayako Suzuki, Sei Nagashima, Takafumi Aoki

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF PROBABILITY DENSITY ESTIMATORS FOR UNSUPERVISED INFORMATION THEORETICAL REGION MERGING.....................................................................................................................4337

Felipe Calderero, Ferran Marques, Antonio Ortega

PPIQ: A PROBABILISTIC FRAMEWORK FOR IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT ...................................................................4341Koohyar Minoo, Truong Nguyen

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