Ebook: Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision: Second International Conference, SSVM 2009, Voss, Norway, June 1-5, 2009. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Scale Space Methods and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, SSVM 2009, emanated from the joint edition of the 5th International Workshop on Variational, Geometric and Level Set Methods in Computer Vision, VLSM 2009 and the 7th International Conference on Scale Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vision, Scale-Space 2009, held in Voss, Norway in June 2009.

The 71 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on segmentation and detection; image enhancement and reconstruction; motion analysis, optical flow, registration and tracking; surfaces and shapes; scale space and feature extraction.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Scale Space Methods and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, SSVM 2009, emanated from the joint edition of the 5th International Workshop on Variational, Geometric and Level Set Methods in Computer Vision, VLSM 2009 and the 7th International Conference on Scale Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vision, Scale-Space 2009, held in Voss, Norway in June 2009.

The 71 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on segmentation and detection; image enhancement and reconstruction; motion analysis, optical flow, registration and tracking; surfaces and shapes; scale space and feature extraction.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Scale Space Methods and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, SSVM 2009, emanated from the joint edition of the 5th International Workshop on Variational, Geometric and Level Set Methods in Computer Vision, VLSM 2009 and the 7th International Conference on Scale Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vision, Scale-Space 2009, held in Voss, Norway in June 2009.

The 71 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on segmentation and detection; image enhancement and reconstruction; motion analysis, optical flow, registration and tracking; surfaces and shapes; scale space and feature extraction.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Graph Cut Optimization for the Piecewise Constant Level Set Method Applied to Multiphase Image Segmentation....Pages 1-13
Tubular Anisotropy Segmentation....Pages 14-25
An Unconstrained Multiphase Thresholding Approach for Image Segmentation....Pages 26-37
Extraction of the Intercellular Skeleton from 2D Images of Embryogenesis Using Eikonal Equation and Advective Subjective Surface Method....Pages 38-49
On Level-Set Type Methods for Recovering Piecewise Constant Solutions of Ill-Posed Problems....Pages 50-62
The Nonlinear Tensor Diffusion in Segmentation of Meaningful Biological Structures from Image Sequences of Zebrafish Embryogenesis....Pages 63-74
Composed Segmentation of Tubular Structures by an Anisotropic PDE Model....Pages 75-86
Extrapolation of Vector Fields Using the Infinity Laplacian and with Applications to Image Segmentation....Pages 87-99
A Schr?dinger Equation for the Fast Computation of Approximate Euclidean Distance Functions....Pages 100-111
Semi-supervised Segmentation Based on Non-local Continuous Min-Cut....Pages 112-123
Momentum Based Optimization Methods for Level Set Segmentation....Pages 124-136
Optimization of Divergences within the Exponential Family for Image Segmentation....Pages 137-149
Convex Multi-class Image Labeling by Simplex-Constrained Total Variation....Pages 150-162
Geodesically Linked Active Contours: Evolution Strategy Based on Minimal Paths....Pages 163-174
Validation of Watershed Regions by Scale-Space Statistics....Pages 175-186
Adaptation of Eikonal Equation over Weighted Graph....Pages 187-199
A Variational Model for Interactive Shape Prior Segmentation and Real-Time Tracking....Pages 200-211
A Nonlinear Probabilistic Curvature Motion Filter for Positron Emission Tomography Images....Pages 212-223
Finsler Geometry on Higher Order Tensor Fields and Applications to High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging....Pages 224-234
Bregman-EM-TV Methods with Application to Optical Nanoscopy....Pages 235-246
PDE-Driven Adaptive Morphology for Matrix Fields....Pages 247-258
On Semi-implicit Splitting Schemes for the Beltrami Color Flow....Pages 259-270
Multi-scale Total Variation with Automated Regularization Parameter Selection for Color Image Restoration....Pages 271-281
Multiplicative Noise Cleaning via a Variational Method Involving Curvelet Coefficients....Pages 282-294
Projected Gradient Based Color Image Decomposition....Pages 295-306
A Dual Formulation of the TV-Stokes Algorithm for Image Denoising....Pages 307-318
Anisotropic Regularization for Inverse Problems with Application to the Wiener Filter with Gaussian and Impulse Noise....Pages 319-330
Locally Adaptive Total Variation Regularization....Pages 331-342
Basic Image Features (BIFs) Arising from Approximate Symmetry Type....Pages 343-355
An Anisotropic Fourth-Order Partial Differential Equation for Noise Removal....Pages 356-367
Enhancement of Blurred and Noisy Images Based on an Original Variant of the Total Variation....Pages 368-376
Coarse-to-Fine Image Reconstruction Based on Weighted Differential Features and Background Gauge Fields....Pages 377-388
Edge-Enhanced Image Reconstruction Using (TV) Total Variation and Bregman Refinement....Pages 389-400
Nonlocal Variational Image Deblurring Models in the Presence of Gaussian or Impulse Noise....Pages 401-412
A Geometric PDE for Interpolation of M-Channel Data....Pages 413-425
An Edge-Preserving Multilevel Method for Deblurring, Denoising, and Segmentation....Pages 426-438
Fast Dejittering for Digital Video Frames....Pages 439-451
Sparsity Regularization for Radon Measures....Pages 452-463
Split Bregman Algorithm, Douglas-Rachford Splitting and Frame Shrinkage....Pages 464-476
Anisotropic Smoothing Using Double Orientations....Pages 477-489
Image Denoising Using TV-Stokes Equation with an Orientation-Matching Minimization....Pages 490-501
Augmented Lagrangian Method, Dual Methods and Split Bregman Iteration for ROF Model....Pages 502-513
The Convergence of a Central-Difference Discretization of Rudin-Osher-Fatemi Model for Image Denoising....Pages 514-526
Theoretical Foundations for Discrete Forward-and-Backward Diffusion Filtering....Pages 527-538
Total-Variation Based Piecewise Affine Regularization....Pages 539-551
Image Denoising by Harmonic Mean Curvature Flow....Pages 552-564
Tracking Closed Curves with Non-linear Stochastic Filters....Pages 565-575
A Multi-scale Feature Based Optic Flow Method for 3D Cardiac Motion Estimation....Pages 576-587
A Combined Segmentation and Registration Framework with a Nonlinear Elasticity Smoother....Pages 588-599
A Scale-Space Approach to Landmark Constrained Image Registration....Pages 600-611
A Variational Approach for Volume-to-Slice Registration....Pages 612-623
Hyperbolic Numerics for Variational Approaches to Correspondence Problems....Pages 624-635
From a Single Point to a Surface Patch by Growing Minimal Paths....Pages 636-647
Optimization of Convex Shapes: An Approach to Crystal Shape Identification....Pages 648-659
An Implicit Method for Interpolating Two Digital Closed Curves on Parallel Planes....Pages 660-671
Pose Invariant Shape Prior Segmentation Using Continuous Cuts and Gradient Descent on Lie Groups....Pages 672-683
A Non-local Approach to Shape from Ambient Shading....Pages 684-695
An Elasticity Approach to Principal Modes of Shape Variation....Pages 696-708
Pre-image as Karcher Mean Using Diffusion Maps: Application to Shape and Image Denoising....Pages 709-720
Fast Shape from Shading for Phong-Type Surfaces....Pages 721-732
Generic Scene Recovery Using Multiple Images....Pages 733-744
Highly Accurate PDE-Based Morphology for General Structuring Elements....Pages 745-757
Computational Geometry-Based Scale-Space and Modal Image Decomposition....Pages 758-769
Highlight on a Feature Extracted at Fine Scales: The Pointwise Lipschitz Regularity....Pages 770-781
Line Enhancement and Completion via Linear Left Invariant Scale Spaces on SE(2)....Pages 782-794
Spatio-Featural Scale-Space....Pages 795-807
Scale Spaces on the 3D Euclidean Motion Group for Enhancement of HARDI Data....Pages 808-819
On the Rate of Structural Change in Scale Spaces....Pages 820-831
Transitions of a Multi-scale Image Hierarchy Tree....Pages 832-843
Local Scale Measure for Remote Sensing Images....Pages 844-855
Back Matter....Pages 856-867
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