Ebook: Advances in Visual Computing: 4th International Symposium, ISVC 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 1-3, 2008. Proceedings, Part I

The two volume set LNCS 5358 and LNCS 5359 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2008, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA, in December 2008.

The 102 revised full papers and 70 poster papers presented together with 56 full and 8 poster papers of 8 special tracks were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 340 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computer graphics, visualization, shape/recognition, video analysis and event recognition, virtual reality, reconstruction, motion, face/gesture, and computer vision applications. The 8 additional special tracks address issues such as object recognition, real-time vision algorithm implementation and application, computational bioimaging and visualization, discrete and computational geometry, soft computing in image processing and computer vision, visualization and simulation on immersive display devices, analysis and visualization of biomedical visual data, as well as image analysis for remote sensing data.

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The two volume set LNCS 5358 and LNCS 5359 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2008, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA, in December 2008.

The 102 revised full papers and 70 poster papers presented together with 56 full and 8 poster papers of 8 special tracks were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 340 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computer graphics, visualization, shape/recognition, video analysis and event recognition, virtual reality, reconstruction, motion, face/gesture, and computer vision applications. The 8 additional special tracks address issues such as object recognition, real-time vision algorithm implementation and application, computational bioimaging and visualization, discrete and computational geometry, soft computing in image processing and computer vision, visualization and simulation on immersive display devices, analysis and visualization of biomedical visual data, as well as image analysis for remote sensing data.

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The two volume set LNCS 5358 and LNCS 5359 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2008, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA, in December 2008.

The 102 revised full papers and 70 poster papers presented together with 56 full and 8 poster papers of 8 special tracks were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 340 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computer graphics, visualization, shape/recognition, video analysis and event recognition, virtual reality, reconstruction, motion, face/gesture, and computer vision applications. The 8 additional special tracks address issues such as object recognition, real-time vision algorithm implementation and application, computational bioimaging and visualization, discrete and computational geometry, soft computing in image processing and computer vision, visualization and simulation on immersive display devices, analysis and visualization of biomedical visual data, as well as image analysis for remote sensing data.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Detection of a Large Number of Overlapping Ellipses Immersed in Noise....Pages 1-10
Recognizing Ancient Coins Based on Local Features....Pages 11-22
Learning Pairwise Dissimilarity Profiles for Appearance Recognition in Visual Surveillance....Pages 23-34
Edge-Based Template Matching and Tracking for Perspectively Distorted Planar Objects....Pages 35-44
Enhancing Boundary Primitives Using a Multiscale Quadtree Segmentation....Pages 45-54
3D Object Modeling and Segmentation Based on Edge-Point Matching with Local Descriptors....Pages 55-64
Cumulus Cloud Synthesis with Similarity Solution and Particle/Voxel Modeling....Pages 65-74
An Efficient Wavelet-Based Framework for Articulated Human Motion Compression....Pages 75-86
On Smooth Bicubic Surfaces from Quad Meshes....Pages 87-96
Simple Steps for Simply Stepping....Pages 97-106
Fairing of Discrete Surfaces with Boundary That Preserves Size and Qualitative Shape....Pages 107-118
Fast Decimation of Polygonal Models....Pages 119-128
Visualizing Argument Structure....Pages 129-138
Visualization of Industrial Structures with Implicit GPU Primitives....Pages 139-150
Cartesian vs. Radial – A Comparative Evaluation of Two Visualization Tools....Pages 151-160
VoxelBars: An Informative Interface for Volume Visualization....Pages 161-170
Wind Field Retrieval and Display for Doppler Radar Data....Pages 171-182
Dual Marching Tetrahedra: Contouring in the Tetrahedronal Environment....Pages 183-194
Vision-Based Localization for Mobile Robots Using a Set of Known Views....Pages 195-204
On the Advantages of Asynchronous Pixel Reading and Processing for High-Speed Motion Estimation....Pages 205-215
An Optimized Software-Based Implementation of a Census-Based Stereo Matching Algorithm....Pages 216-227
Mutual Information Based Semi-Global Stereo Matching on the GPU....Pages 228-239
Accurate Optical Flow Sensor for Obstacle Avoidance....Pages 240-247
A Novel 2D Marker Design and Application for Object Tracking and Event Detection....Pages 248-257
Automatic Lung Segmentation of Volumetric Low-Dose CT Scans Using Graph Cuts....Pages 258-267
A Continuous Labeling for Multiphase Graph Cut Image Partitioning....Pages 268-277
A Graph-Based Approach for Image Segmentation....Pages 278-287
Active Contours Driven by Supervised Binary Classifiers for Texture Segmentation....Pages 288-297
Proximity Graphs Based Multi-scale Image Segmentation....Pages 298-307
Improved Adaptive Spatial Information Clustering for Image Segmentation....Pages 308-317
Stable Image Descriptions Using Gestalt Principles....Pages 318-327
A Fast and Effective Dichotomy Based Hash Algorithm for Image Matching....Pages 328-337
Evaluation of Gradient Vector Flow for Interest Point Detection....Pages 338-348
Spatially Enhanced Bags of Words for 3D Shape Retrieval....Pages 349-358
Image Matching Using High Dynamic Range Images and Radial Feature Descriptors....Pages 359-369
Random Subwindows for Robust Peak Recognition in Intracranial Pressure Signals....Pages 370-380
A New Shape Benchmark for 3D Object Retrieval....Pages 381-392
Shape Extraction through Region-Contour Stitching....Pages 393-405
Difference of Gaussian Edge-Texture Based Background Modeling for Dynamic Traffic Conditions....Pages 406-417
A Sketch-Based Approach for Detecting Common Human Actions....Pages 418-427
Multi-view Video Analysis of Humans and Vehicles in an Unconstrained Environment....Pages 428-439
Self-Organizing Maps for the Automatic Interpretation of Crowd Dynamics....Pages 440-449
A Visual Tracking Framework for Intent Recognition in Videos....Pages 450-459
Unsupervised Video Shot Segmentation Using Global Color and Texture Information....Pages 460-467
Progressive Focusing: A Top Down Attentional Vision System....Pages 468-477
The Benefits of Co-located Collaboration and Immersion on Assembly Modeling in Virtual Environments....Pages 478-487
Simple Feedforward Control for Responsive Motion Capture-Driven Simulations....Pages 488-497
Markerless Vision-Based Tracking of Partially Known 3D Scenes for Outdoor Augmented Reality Applications....Pages 498-507
Multiple Camera, Multiple Person Tracking with Pointing Gesture Recognition in Immersive Environments....Pages 508-519
Augmented Reality Using Projective Invariant Patterns....Pages 520-529
Acquisition of High Quality Planar Patch Features....Pages 530-539
Level Set Segmentation of Cellular Images Based on Topological Dependence....Pages 540-551
A Novel Algorithm for Automatic Brain Structure Segmentation from MRI....Pages 552-561
Brain Lesion Segmentation through Physical Model Estimation....Pages 562-571
Calibration of Bi-planar Radiography with a Rangefinder and a Small Calibration Object....Pages 572-581
Identification of Cell Nucleus Using a Mumford-Shah Ellipse Detector....Pages 582-593
Evaluation of Brain MRI Alignment with the Robust Hausdorff Distance Measures....Pages 594-603
User Driven Two-Dimensional Computer-Generated Ornamentation....Pages 604-613
Efficient Schemes for Monte Carlo Markov Chain Algorithms in Global Illumination....Pages 614-623
Adaptive CPU Scheduling to Conserve Energy in Real-Time Mobile Graphics Applications....Pages 624-633
A Quick 3D-to-2D Points Matching Based on the Perspective Projection....Pages 634-645
Deformation-Based Animation of Snake Locomotion....Pages 646-657
GPU-Supported Image Compression for Remote Visualization – Realization and Benchmarking....Pages 658-668
Linear Time Constant-Working Space Algorithm for Computing the Genus of a Digital Object....Pages 669-677
Offset Approach to Defining 3D Digital Lines....Pages 678-687
Curvature and Torsion Estimators for 3D Curves....Pages 688-699
Threshold Selection for Segmentation of Dense Objects in Tomograms....Pages 700-709
Comparison of Discrete Curvature Estimators and Application to Corner Detection....Pages 710-719
Computing and Visualizing Constant-Curvature Metrics on Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds with Boundaries....Pages 720-730
Iris Recognition: A Method to Segment Visible Wavelength Iris Images Acquired On-the-Move and At-a-Distance....Pages 731-742
3D Textural Mapping and Soft-Computing Applied to Cork Quality Inspection....Pages 743-752
Analysis of Breast Thermograms Based on Statistical Image Features and Hybrid Fuzzy Classification....Pages 753-762
Efficient Facial Feature Detection Using Entropy and SVM....Pages 763-771
Type-2 Fuzzy Mixture of Gaussians Model: Application to Background Modeling....Pages 772-781
Unsupervised Clustering Algorithm for Video Shots Using Spectral Division....Pages 782-792
Noise Analysis of a SFS Algorithm Formulated under Various Imaging Conditions....Pages 793-802
Shape from Texture Via Fourier Analysis....Pages 803-814
Full Camera Calibration from a Single View of Planar Scene....Pages 815-824
Robust Two-View External Calibration by Combining Lines and Scale Invariant Point Features....Pages 825-835
Stabilizing Stereo Correspondence Computation Using Delaunay Triangulation and Planar Homography....Pages 836-845
Immersive Visualization and Analysis of LiDAR Data....Pages 846-855
VR Visualisation as an Interdisciplinary Collaborative Data Exploration Tool for Large Eddy Simulations of Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions....Pages 856-866
User Experience of Hurricane Visualization in an Immersive 3D Environment....Pages 867-878
Immersive 3d Visualizations for Software-Design Prototyping and Inspection....Pages 879-890
Enclosed Five-Wall Immersive Cabin....Pages 891-900
Environment-Independent VR Development....Pages 901-912
Combined Registration Methods for Pose Estimation....Pages 913-924
Local Non-planarity of Three Dimensional Surfaces for an Invertible Reconstruction: k-Cuspal Cells....Pages 925-934
A New Variant of the Optimum-Path Forest Classifier....Pages 935-944
Results on Hexagonal Tile Rewriting Grammars....Pages 945-952
Lloyd’s Algorithm on GPU....Pages 953-964
Computing Fundamental Group of General 3-Manifold....Pages 965-974
OmniMap: Projective Perspective Mapping API for Non-planar Immersive Display Surfaces....Pages 975-986
Two-Handed and One-Handed Techniques for Precise and Efficient Manipulation in Immersive Virtual Environments....Pages 987-997
Automotive Spray Paint Simulation....Pages 998-1007
Using Augmented Reality and Interactive Simulations to Realize Hybrid Prototypes....Pages 1008-1017
Immersive Simulator for Fluvial Combat Training....Pages 1018-1027
A Low-Cost, Linux-Based Virtual Environment for Visualizing Vascular Structures....Pages 1028-1039
Visualization of Dynamic Connectivity in High Electrode-Density EEG....Pages 1040-1050
Generation of Unit-Width Curve Skeletons Based on Valence Driven Spatial Median (VDSM)....Pages 1051-1060
Intuitive Visualization and Querying of Cell Motion....Pages 1061-1070
Registration of 2D Histological Images of Bone Implants with 3D SR?CT Volumes....Pages 1071-1080
Measuring an Animal Body Temperature in Thermographic Video Using Particle Filter Tracking....Pages 1081-1091
A New Parallel Approach to Fuzzy Clustering for Medical Image Segmentation....Pages 1092-1101
Tracking Data Structures Coherency in Animated Ray Tracing: Kalman and Wiener Filters Approach....Pages 1102-1114
Hardware Accelerated Per-Texel Ambient Occlusion Mapping....Pages 1115-1124
Comics Stylization from Photographs....Pages 1125-1134
Leaking Fluids....Pages 1135-1143
Multiple Aligned Characteristic Curves for Surface Fairing....Pages 1144-1156
Back Matter....Pages 1157-1166
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