Ebook: Computer Vision and Graphics: International Conference, ICCVG 2004, Warsaw, Poland, September 2004, Proceedings

This volume contain 163 contributions from ICCVG04, which is one of the main international conferences in computer vision and computer graphics in Central Europe. This biennial conference was organised in 2004 jointly by the Association for Image Processing, the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, and the Silesian University of Technology.

The conference covers a wide scope, including Computer Vision, Computational Geometry, Geometrical Models of Objects and Sciences, Motion Analysis, Visual Navigation and Active Vision, Image and Video Coding, Color and Multispectral Image Processing, Image Filtering and Enhancement, Virtual Reality and Multimedia Applications, Biomedical Applications, Image and Video Databases, Pattern Recognition, Modelling of Human Visual Perception, Computer Animation, Visualization and Data Presentation.

These proceedings document cutting edge research in computer vision and graphics, and will be an essential reference for all researchers working in the area.

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This volume contain 163 contributions from ICCVG04, which is one of the main international conferences in computer vision and computer graphics in Central Europe. This biennial conference was organised in 2004 jointly by the Association for Image Processing, the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, and the Silesian University of Technology.

The conference covers a wide scope, including Computer Vision, Computational Geometry, Geometrical Models of Objects and Sciences, Motion Analysis, Visual Navigation and Active Vision, Image and Video Coding, Color and Multispectral Image Processing, Image Filtering and Enhancement, Virtual Reality and Multimedia Applications, Biomedical Applications, Image and Video Databases, Pattern Recognition, Modelling of Human Visual Perception, Computer Animation, Visualization and Data Presentation.

These proceedings document cutting edge research in computer vision and graphics, and will be an essential reference for all researchers working in the area.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XXII
METHOD OF ANALYSIS OF LOW RESOLUTION TV IMAGES FOR DEFORMATION MEASUREMENTS OF HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTIONS....Pages 1-6
CO-OCCURRENCES OF ADAPTED FEATURES FOR OBJECT RECOGNITION ACROSS ILLUMINATION CHANGES....Pages 7-12
A FAST AND ROBUST APPROACH FOR THE SEGMENTATION OF MOVING OBJECTS....Pages 13-19
RECONSTRUCTION ACCURACY WITH ID SENSORS....Pages 20-26
SHAPE SIMILARITY TO ALPHANUMERIC SIGN....Pages 27-32
QUALITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION OF DYNAMIC TEXTURES FOR VIDEO RETRIEVAL....Pages 33-38
IMAGE CLASSIFIERS FOR SCENE ANALYSIS....Pages 39-44
VISION-BASED ANALYSIS OF THE TIRE FOOTPRINT SHAPE....Pages 45-51
MEASUREMENT OF THE LENGTH OF PEDESTRIANCROSSINGS THROUGH IMAGE PROCESSING....Pages 51-56
SHAPE RECOVERY OF A STRICTLY CONVEX FROM N-VIEWS SOLID....Pages 57-65
JOINT ESTIMATION OF MULTIPLE LIGHT SOURCES AND REFLECTANCE FROM IMAGES....Pages 61-71
AN ALGORITHM FOR IMPROVED SHADING OF COARSELY TESSELLATED POLYGONAL OBJECTS....Pages 72-79
MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS FOR IRREGULAR MESHES WITH APPEARANCE ATTRIBUTES....Pages 80-86
SMOOTH INTERPOLATION WITH CUMULATIVE CHORD CUBICS....Pages 87-94
A PARALLEL LEAP-FROG ALGORITHM FOR 3-SOURCE PHOTOMETRIC STEREO....Pages 95-102
NOISE REDUCTION IN PHOTOMETRIC STEREO WITH NON-DISTANT LIGHT SOURCES....Pages 103-110
FAST COLOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION BASED ON LEVELLINGS IN FEATURE SPACE....Pages 800-813
HYPERGRAPHS IN DIAGRAMMATIC DESIGN....Pages 111-117
3D MODELING OF OUTDOOR SCENES FROM OMNIDIRECTIONAL RANGE AND COLOR IMAGES....Pages 118-124
USER-CONTROLLED MULTIRESOLUTION MODELING OF POLYGONAL MODELS....Pages 125-130
SHAPE SIMILARITY SEARCH FOR SURFELBASED MODELS....Pages 131-140
DESCRIPTION OF IRREGULAR COMPOSITE OBJECTS BY HYPER-RELATIONS....Pages 141-146
AUTOMATIC FACE SYNTHESIS AND ANALYSIS. A QUICK SURVEY....Pages 147-160
3D DATA PROCESSING FOR 3D FACE MODELLING....Pages 161-166
MODEL OF DEFORMABLE RINGS FOR AIDING THE WIRELESS CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY VIDEO INTERPRETATION AND REPORTING....Pages 167-172
SINGLE-CAMERA STEREOVISION SETUP....Pages 173-178
FEATURE-BASED CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS IN COLOR IMAGE SEQUENCES....Pages 179-186
A VOTING STRATEGY FOR HIGH SPEED STEREO MATCHING....Pages 187-196
VEHICLE DETECTION USING GABOR FILTERS AND AFFINEMOMENTINVARIANTS FROM IMAGE DATA....Pages 197-202
POINTING GESTURE VISUAL RECOGNITION BY BODY FEATURE DETECTION AND TRACKING....Pages 203-208
H.264 BASED CODING OF OMNIDIRECTIONAL VIDEO....Pages 209-215
EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON OF LOSSLESS IMAGE CODERS FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS....Pages 216-221
DISCRETE ORTHOGONAL TRANSFORM FOR GAPPY IMAGE EXTRAPOLATION....Pages 222-227
BIT-RATE CONTROL FOR COMPRESSION OF VIDEO WITH ROI....Pages 228-239
INTRA-FRAME PREDICTION FOR HIGH-PASS FRAMES IN MOTION COMPENSATED WAVELET VIDEO CODING....Pages 240-245
DCT-DOMAIN DOWNSCALING FOR TRANSCODING MPEG-2 VIDEO....Pages 246-251
METAMERSET BASED MEASURES OF GOODNESS FOR COLOUR CAMERAS....Pages 252-258
SMOOTHING JAGGED SPECTRA FOR ACCURATE SPECTRAL SENSITIVITIES RECOVERY....Pages 259-266
COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING USING GENERALIZED WEIGHTED VECTOR FILTERS....Pages 267-272
RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION OF A MULTISPECTRAL CAMERA....Pages 273-278
COLOUR REPRODUCTION ACCURACY OF VISION SYSTEMS....Pages 279-286
FACE TRACKING USING COLOR, ELLIPTICAL SHAPE FEATURES AND A DETECTION CASCADE OF BOOSTED CLASSIFIERS IN PARTICLE FILTER....Pages 287-292
AUTOMATIC CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT BY HISTOGRAM WARPING....Pages 293-300
HIGH QUALITY DEINTERLACING USING INPAINTING AND SHUTTER-MODEL DIRECTED TEMPORAL INTERPOLATION....Pages 301-307
VIRTUAL RESTORATION OF ARTWORKS USING ENTROPY-BASED COLOR IMAGE FILTERING SCHEMES....Pages 308-301
DEFORMATION AND COMPOSITION OF SHADOW FOR VIRTUAL STUDIO....Pages 314-319
OBJECT SELECTION IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS USING AN IMPROVED VIRTUAL POINTER METAPHOR....Pages 320-326
SUPER-RESOLVED VIDEO MOSAICING FOR DOCUMENTS BY EXTRINSIC CAMERA PARAMETER ESTIMATION....Pages 327-336
MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ADAPTATION: MAY ONE FIT ALL?....Pages 337-342
CENTER-POINT MODEL OF DEFORMABLE SURFACE....Pages 343-348
3D VISUALIZATION OF GENE CLUSTERS....Pages 349-354
THE MULTIPLE IMAGE STACK BROWSER SUITE AND ITS ALIGNMENT STRATEGY....Pages 355-360
FAST 3D PRE-SEGMENTATION OF ARTERIES IN COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAMS....Pages 361-366
INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS OF TEXTURES IN ANGIOGRAPHY IMAGES....Pages 367-372
DETECTION OF NON-PARAMETRIC LINES BY EVIDENCE ACCUMULATION: FINDING BLOOD VESSELS IN MAMMOGRAMS....Pages 373-380
HOW USEFUL ARE COLOUR INVARIANTS FOR IMAGE RETRIEVAL?....Pages 381-386
IMAGE RETRIEVAL FOR THE WWW....Pages 387-393
EXTRACTING SEMANTIC INFORMATION FROM ART IMAGES....Pages 394-399
AUTOMATIC FACIAL FEATURE EXTRACTION....Pages 400-405
AN IMPROVED DETECTION ALGORITHM FOR LOCAL FEATURES IN GRAY-LEVEL IMAGES....Pages 406-412
UNSUPERVISED SCALE-SPACE TEXTURE DETECTOR IN MULTI-CHANNEL IMAGES BASED ON THE STRUCTURAL TENSOR....Pages 413-419
STEM-END/CALYX DETECTION IN APPLE FRUITS Comparison of Feature Selection Methods and Classifiers....Pages 420-425
CASCADE OF OPERATORS FOR FACIAL IMAGE RECOGNITION AND INDEXING....Pages 426-435
MCFI-BASED ANIMATION TWEENING ALGORITHM....Pages 438-447
BIOMECHANICALLY BASED MUSCLE MODEL FOR DYNAMIC COMPUTER ANIMATION....Pages 448-455
SPLINE AND IDEAL: FROM REAL TO VIRTUAL SCULPTURES, AND BACK....Pages 457-462
A COMMON FEATURE REPRESENTATION FOR SPEECH FRAMES AND IMAGE CONTOURS....Pages 463-468
RENDERING OF BINARY ALLOYS Example and Validation with Bronze....Pages 469-476
ON VISUALIZATION OF COMPLEX IMAGE-BASEDMARKUP....Pages 477-484
VISUALIZING DIRECTIONAL STRESSES IN A STRESS TENSOR FIELD....Pages 485-490
3D MODELLING OF LARGE ENVIRONMENTS....Pages 491-502
GATED IMAGES: NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR VISION-BASED NAVIGATION....Pages 503-508
EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO FINDING ITERATED FUNCTION SYSTEMS FOR A TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGE....Pages 509-515
MASKS AND EIGENVECTORS WEIGHTS FOR EIGENFACES METHOD IMPROVEMENT....Pages 516-521
A NEW APPROACH TO CORNER DETECTION....Pages 522-527
GENERATION OF AN ACCURATE FACIALGROUND TRUTH FOR STEREO ALGORITHM EVALUATION....Pages 528-533
SUBPIXEL ACCURATE SEGMENTATION OF SMALL IMAGES USING LEVEL CURVES....Pages 534-539
ON THE ACCURACY OF SELECTED IMAGE TEXTURE SEGMENTATION METHODS....Pages 540-545
A SBAN STEREOVISION ALGORITHM Using Hue as Pixel Similarity Criterion....Pages 546-551
MORPHOLOGICAL NORMALIZATION OF IMAGE BINARY CUTS....Pages 552-557
MODEL BASEDMULTI-VIEW ACTIVE CONTOURS FOR QUALITY INSPECTION....Pages 558-564
AUTOMATIC LENS DISTORTION ESTIMATION FOR AN ACTIVE CAMERA....Pages 565-574
A ROBUST DISCRETE APPROACH FOR SHAPE FROM SHADING AND PHOTOMETRIC STEREO....Pages 575-580
COMPUTATION OF ROOM ACOUSTICS USING PROGRAMMABLE VIDEO HARDWARE....Pages 581-586
HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF EWA For Point-Based Three-Dimensional Graphics Rendering....Pages 587-592
THE PERSPECTIVE-N-POINT PROBLEM FOR CATADIOPTRIC SENSORS: AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH....Pages 593-598
DYNAMIC SHADOWMAP REGENERATION WITH EXTENDED DEPTH BUFFERS....Pages 599-606
HIGH PRECISION TEXTURE MAPPING ON 3D FREE-FORM OBJECTS....Pages 607-612
ADAPTIVE Z-BUFFER BASED SELECTIVE ANTIALIASING....Pages 613-618
MORPHOLOGICAL NORMALIZED BINARY OBJECT METAMORPHOSIS....Pages 619-625
BUBBLE TREE DRAWING ALGORITHM....Pages 626-632
SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION OF 3D OBJECTS....Pages 633-641
FEATURE-BASED REGISTRATION OF RANGE IMAGES IN DOMESTIC ENVIRONMENTS....Pages 642-647
ASSESSMENT OF IMAGE SURFACE APPROXIMATION ACCURACY GIVEN BY TRIANGULAR MESHES....Pages 648-654
NON-UNIFORM TERRAIN MESH SIMPLIFICATION USING ADAPTATIVE MERGE PROCEDURES....Pages 655-661
ON USING GRAPHGRAMMARSAND ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION TOSIMULATE AND VISUALIZE THE GROWTH PROCESS OF PLANTS....Pages 662-667
AUTOMATIC TESSELLATION OF QUADRIC SURFACES USING GRASSMANN-CAYLEY ALGEBRA....Pages 668-673
VISUAL PERSON TRACKING IN SEQUENCES SHOT FROM CAMERA IN MOTION....Pages 674-682
A NOVEL OBJECT DETECTION TECHNIQUE IN COMPRESSED DOMAIN....Pages 683-688
A METHOD FOR ESTIMATING DANCE ACTION BASED ON MOTION ANALYSIS....Pages 689-694
A FEATURE BASED MOTION ESTIMATION FOR VEHICLE GUIDANCE....Pages 695-702
FAST UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION OF SEQUENCES FOR FRACTAL SETS....Pages 703-708
OCCLUSION ROBUST TRACKING OFMULTIPLE OBJECTS....Pages 709-714
FACE TRACKING USING CONVOLUTION FILTERS AND SKIN-COLOR MODEL....Pages 715-720
A NEW HYBRID DIFFERENTIAL FILTER FOR MOTION DETECTION....Pages 721-726
PEDESTRIAN DETECTION USING DERIVED THIRD-ORDER SYMMETRY OF LEGS A novel method of motion-based information extraction from video image-sequences....Pages 727-732
AUTOMATIC AND ADAPTIVE FACE TRACKING USING COLOR-BASED PROBABILISTIC NETWORK....Pages 733-739
FAST AND ROBUST OBJECT SEGMENTATION APPROACH FOR MPEG VIDEOS....Pages 740-745
HYBRID ORTHOGONAL APPROXIMATION OF NON-SQUARE AREAS....Pages 746-751
LARGE TEXTURE STORAGE USING FRACTAL IMAGE COMPRESSION....Pages 752-757
CHEN AND LOEFFLER FAST DCT MODIFIED ALGORITHMS IMPLEMENTED IN FPGA CHIPS FOR REAL-TIME IMAGE COMPRESSION....Pages 758-767
AUTOMATIC LANDMARK DETECTION AND VALIDATION IN SOCCER VIDEO SEQUENCES....Pages 768-773
MORE THAN COLOR CONSTANCY: NONUNIFORM COLOR CAST CORRECTION Techniques & Applications....Pages 774-779
IMAGE SEGMENTATION BASED ON GRAPH RESULTING FROM COLOR SPACE CLUSTERING WITH MULTI-FIELD DENSITY ESTIMATION....Pages 780-786
MULTI-FIELD DENSITY ESTIMATION: A ROBUST APPROACH FOR COLOR SPACE CLUSTERING IN IMAGE SEGMENTATION....Pages 787-793
SEGMENTATION-BASED BINARIZATION FOR COLOR DEGRADED IMAGES....Pages 794-799
COMPACT COLOR VIDEO SIGNATURE BY PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS....Pages 808-813
COMPARISON OF DEMOSAICKING METHODS FOR COLOR INFORMATION EXTRACTION....Pages 814-819
BLIND EXTRACTION OF SPARSE IMAGES FROM UNDER-DETERMINED MIXTURES....Pages 820-825
INTERACTIVE CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT BY HISTOGRAM WARPING....Pages 826-831
RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION USE FOR THE RESTORATION OF DAMAGED IMAGES....Pages 832-838
METHODS FOR DESIGNING RECURSIVE FIR FILTERS....Pages 839-844
CAMERA POSITIONING SUPPORT BASED ON POTENTIAL FIELD IN A STATIC VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT....Pages 845-850
GENERATION OF A STATIC POTENTIAL FIELD FOR CAMERA POSITIONING SUPPORT IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT....Pages 851-856
ATMOSPHERE REPRODUCTION OF THE LANDSCAPE IMAGE BY TEXTURE RECONSTRUCTION....Pages 857-862
WAVELET METHODS IN IMPROVING THE DETECTION OF LESIONS IN MAMMOGRAMS....Pages 863-868
ON APPLICATION OF WAVELET TRANSFORMS TO SEGMENTATION OF ULTRASOUND IMAGES....Pages 869-874
MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES FOR DIAGNOSIS OF GLAUCOMA ON FUNDUS EYE IMAGES....Pages 881-887
FLOW REDUCTION MARCHING CUBES ALGORITHM....Pages 881-887
SUPERVISED AND UNSUPERVISED STATISTICAL MODELS FOR CEPHALOMETRY....Pages 888-893
RETRIEVING THERMAL MEDICAL IMAGES....Pages 894-899
VISUALIZING ARTICULAR CARTILAGE USING EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION TO COMPARE SEGMENTATION OFMRIMAGES BY INDEPENDENT RATERS....Pages 900-905
MORPHOLOGICAL METHOD OF MICROCALCIFICATIONS DETECTION IN MAMMOGRAMS....Pages 906-911
BIAS AND NOISE REMOVAL FROM MAGNITUDE MR IMAGES....Pages 912-920
MULTI CAMERA AUTOMATIC VIDEO EDITING....Pages 921-928
CLUSTERING METHOD FOR FAST CONTENTBASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL....Pages 929-934
FULLY AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION AND SEGMENTATION OF FORM DOCUMENT Form Processing....Pages 935-945
LOW RESOLUTION IMAGE SAMPLING FOR PATTERN MATCHING....Pages 946-952
STRUCTURAL OBJECT RECOGNITION BY PROBABILISTIC FEEDBACK....Pages 953-961
EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF MAXIMUM VARIANCE CLUSTER ALGORITHMS....Pages 962-967
DEFORMABLE GRIDS FOR SPEECH READING....Pages 968-974
DIDACTIC PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEM....Pages 975-980
PATTERN MATCHING WITH DIFFERENTIAL VOTING AND MEDIAN TRANSFORMATION DERIVATION Improved Point-Pattern Matching Algorithm for Two-Dimensional Coordinate Lists....Pages 981-986
TWO-DIMENSIONAL-ORIENTED LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS FOR FACE RECOGNITION....Pages 987-992
3D HUMAN MODEL ACQUISITION FROM UNCALIBRATED MONOCULAR VIDEO....Pages 993-1001
A MURA DETECTION BASED ON THE LEAST DETECTABLE CONTRAST OF HUMAN VISION....Pages 1002-1007
USING MULTI-KOHONEN SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS FOR MODELING VISUAL PERCEPTION....Pages 1008-1017
NEW METHODS FOR SEGMENTATION OF IMAGES CONSIDERING THE HUMAN VISION PRINCIPLES....Pages 1018-1023
INTERACTIVE CHARACTER ANIMATION IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS....Pages 1024-1030
EMPATHIC AVATARS IN VRML FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE....Pages 1031-1036
CLOSED FORM SOLUTION FOR C2 ORIENTATION INTERPOLATION....Pages 1037-1042
A COMPRESSION SCHEME FOR VOLUMETRIC ANIMATIONS OF RUNNING WATER....Pages 1043-1048
JOINING NURBS-BASED BODY SECTIONS FOR HUMAN CHARACTER ANIMATION....Pages 1049-1055
MOTION RECOVERY BASED ON FEATURE EXTRACTION FROM 2D IMAGES....Pages 1056-1062
AUDIOVISUAL SYNTHESIS OF POLISH USING TWO- AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANIMATION....Pages 1063-1068
REPRESENTATION AND VISUALIZATION OF DESIGNS WITH THE USE OF HIERARCHICAL GRAPHS....Pages 1069-1074
EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH FOR DATA VISUALIZATION....Pages 1075-1081
CHAOS GAMES IN COLOR SPACE....Pages 1082-1087
AN EFFECTIVE CONTOUR PLOTTING METHOD FOR PRESENTATION OF THE POSTPROCESSED RESULTS A new approach to the contouring....Pages 1088-1093
MESHING TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATION OF ACCURATE RADIOSITY SOLUTION FOR VIRTUAL ART GALLERY....Pages 1094-1099
A PROLONGATION-BASED APPROACH FOR RECOGNIZING CUT CHARACTERS....Pages 1100-1111
Back Matter....Pages 1112-1117
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