6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CAIP '95, Prague, Czech Republic
September 6-8, 1995
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM (preliminary)
Tuesday September 5, 1995
20:00-21:30 Icebreaker Party
Wednesday September 6, 1995
08:45-09:00 Opening
09:00-10:00 Invited Talk: Takeo Kanade
10:00-10:20 Coffee break
10:20-11:40 2 parallel oral sessions A1, B1
11:40-13:10 Lunch
13:10-14:20 Poster session A
14:20-14:40 Coffee break
14:40-15:40 2 parallel oral sessions A2, B2
15:40-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:00 2 parallel oral sessions A3, B3
19:00-23:00 Concert, banquet
Thursday September 7, 1995
09:00-10:00 Invited Talk: Josef Kittler
10:00-10:20 Coffee break
10:20-11:40 2 parallel oral sessions A4, B4
11:40-13:10 Lunch
13:10-14:20 Poster session B
14:20-14:40 Coffee break
14:40-15:40 2 parallel oral sessions A5, B5
15:40-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:00 2 parallel oral sessions A6, B6
17:30 Walk, beer party
Friday September 8, 1995
09:00-10:00 Invited Talk: Shimon Ullman
10:00-10:20 Coffee break
10:20-11:40 2 parallel oral sessions A7, B7
11:40-13:10 Lunch
13:10-14:10 2 parallel oral sessions A8, B8
14:10-14:30 Coffee break
14:30-15:30 2 parallel oral sessions A9, B9
15:30 Conference closing
17:00 Sightseeing
INVITED TALK Wednesday, 9:00-10:00
Spatial and Feature Space Clustering: Applications in
Image Analysis
Josef Kittler and George Matas
SESSION A1: INVARIANTS
Wednesday, 10:20-11:40
Groups for Grouping
Luc Van Gool, Theo Moons, and Marc Proesmans
Invariant Standard Positions of Ordered Sets of Points
Irene Rothe and Herbert Suesse
Skew-Symmetry Detection via Invariant Signatures
Alfred M. Bruckstein and Doron Shaked
Efficient Matching of Space Curves
Tomas Pajdla and Luc Van Gool
SESSION B1: SEGMENTATION AND GROUPING
Wednesday, 10:20-11:40
A Complexity Space for Curve Grouping
Benoit Dubuc and Steven W. Zucker
Segmentation in Scale Space
Rolf D. Henkel
An Unsupervised Region Growing Method for 3D Image Segmentation
Franco Chiavetta and Vito Di Gesu
Segmentation of Images for Environmental Studies by using a Simple
Markov/Gibbs Random Field Model
Georgy Gimel'farb and Nelly Kovalevskaya
SESSION A2: OPTICAL FLOW
Wednesday, 14:40-15:40
Optical Flow Computation in the Log-Polar Plane
Kostas Daniilidis and Volker Krueger
Computation of 3D-Motion Parameters using the Log-Polar Transform
Kostas Daniilidis
A Statistical Regularization Framework for Estimating Normal Displacements
along Contours with Subpixel Accuracy
Yann Ricquebourg and Patrick Bouthemy
SESSION B2: MODEL RECOVERY AND PARAMETER ESTIMATION
Wednesday, 14:40-15:40
ExSel++: A General Framework to Extract Parametric Models
Markus Stricker and Ales Leonardis
Generic 3D Shape Model: Acquisitions and Applications
Xinquan Shen and David Hogg
Guidelines for Choosing Optimal Parameters of Elasticity for Snakes
Ole Vilhelm Larsen, Petia Radeva, and Enric Marti
SESSION A3: TRACKING
Wednesday, 16:00-17:00
Tracking Surfaces via Texture-Mapping: A Boot-Strapping Approach
Alistair J. Bray
Motion-Based Identification of Deformable Templates
Christoph Schnoerr and Wladimir Peckar
Extending the Point Distribution Model using Polar Coordinates
Tony Heap and David Hogg
SESSION B3: SCENE AND OBJECT REPRESENTATION
Wednesday, 16:00-17:00
Intermediate Views for Face Recognition
Michael S. Lew, Alfred C. She, and Thomas S. Huang
Rendering Real-World Objects using View Interpolation
Tomas Werner, Roger David Hersch, and Vaclav Hlavac
Modelling 3-D Rigid Solid Objects Using The View Signature II Representation
Scheme
Peter A. R. Cole and M. Shamim Khan
INVITED TALK Thursday, 9:00-10:00
(topic will be announced)
Takeo Kanade
SESSION A4: STRUCTURE FROM MOTION
Thursday, 10:20-11:40
An Automatic and Robust Algorithm for Determining Motion and Structure
>from Two Perspective Images
Zhengyou Zhang
3-D Scene Reconstruction from Image Sequences
H. V. Nguyen and M. Hanajik
Triangulation
Richard I. Hartley and Peter Sturm
3D Surface Reconstruction Using Occluding Contours
Edmond Boyer and Marie Odile Berger
SESSION B4: LOW LEVEL VISION: TEXTURE, IMAGE REDUNDANCY AND
SIMILARITY
Thursday, 10:20-11:40
Image Redundancy and Classification
Espen Volden, Gerard Giraudon, and Marc Berthod
Towards a Measure of Diversity between Gray-Scale Images
Valery V. Starovoitov
Pattern Orientation and Texture Symmetry
Dmitry Chetverikov
Multiscale Texture Enhancement
Joachim Weickert
SESSION A5: MOTION DETECTION
Thursday, 14:40-15:40
Spatio-Temporal Robust Motion Estimation and Segmentation
Benoit Duc, Philippe Schroeter, and Josef Biguen
A New Spatiotemporal Approach for Image Analysis. Application to Motion
Detection
Alice Caplier and Franck Luthon
Dense Non-Rigid Motion Estimation in Sequences of Medical Images using
Differential Constraints
Serge Benayoun and Nicholas Ayache
SESSION B5: LOW LEVEL VISION I
Thursday, 14:40-15:40
Topological and Geometrical Corners by Watershed
Laurent Najman and Regis Vaillant
Crest Lines Detection by Valleys Spreading
E. Piegay, N. Selmaoui, and C. Leschi
The Distance Transform for Line Patterns: Generalisation and Development
Tony P. Pridmore and Sergey V. Ablameyko
SESSION A6: APPLICATIONS: MOTION DETECTION AND TRACKING
Thursday, 16:00-17:00
Mobile Detection Based on Histogram Difference
D. Maravall, J. A. Sanandres, and L. Baumela
Particle Tracking in Space Time Sequences
Frank Hering, Michael Merle, Dietmar Wierzimok, and Bernd Jaehne
Plant Tracking-Based Motion Analysis in a Crop Field
J. M. Sanchiz, F. Pla, J. A. Marchant, and R. Brivot
SESSION B6: LOW LEVEL VISION II
Thursday, 16:00-17:00
An Adaptive k-NN Rule Based on Dempster-Shafer Theory
L. M. Zouhal and T. Denoeux
Shadows, Defocus and Reliable Estimation
James Elder and Steven Zucker
Estimating the Initial Values of Unobservable Variables in Visual Probabilistic
Networks
Chee-Keong Kwoh and Duncan Fyfe Gillies
INVITED TALK Friday, 9:00-10:00
Object Recognition and Classification
Shimon Ullman
SESSION A7: STRUCTURE AND MATCHING
Friday, 10:20-11:40
Relational Matching with Active Graphs
Richard C. Wilson and Edwin R. Hancock
Matching Delaunay Triangulations by Relaxation Labelling
Andrew M. Finch, Richard C. Wilson, and Edwin R. Hancock
Approximate String Matching by Finite Automata
Borivoj Melichar
Affine Matching of Intermediate Symbolic Representations
Axel Pinz, Manfred Prantl, and Harald Ganster
SESSION B7: APPLICATIONS: MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
Friday, 10:20-11:40
Automatic Classification of Skin Tumours with High Resolution Surfaces
Profiles
Th. Ross, H. Handels, J. Kreusch, H. Busche, H. H. Wolf, and S. J. Poeppl
4-Dimensional Modelling of the Human Heart
Edilberto Strauss and Peter Burger
Structure Adaptive Anisotropic Filtering for MR Image Enhancement
G. Z. Yang, P. Burger, D. N. Firmin, and S. R. Underwood
In Situ Determination of Cell Concentration in Bioreactors with a new Depth
>from Focus Technique
T. Scholz, B. Jaehne, H. Suhr, G. Wehnert, P. Geissler, and K. Schneider
SESSION A8: ACTIVE VISION, SHADING
Friday, 13:10-14:10
Closing the Loop: Pursuing a Moving Object by a Moving Observer
Peter Nordlund and Tomas Uhlin
An Algorithm for a Linear Shape from Shading Problem
Ryszard Kozera
Isophotes the Physical Key to Tractable Local Shading Analysis
Radim Sara
SESSION B8: HUMAN FACE RECOGNITION AND TRACKING
Friday, 13:10-14:10
Efficient High Order Neural Network for Rotation, Translation and Distance
Invariant Recognition of Gray Scale Images
Rafal Foltyniewicz
Learning Human Face Detection in Cluttered Scenes
Kah-Kay Sung and Tomaso Poggio
Head Pose Computation for Very Low Bit-rate Video Coding
Ricardo Lopez and Thomas S. Huang
SESSION A9: CALIBRATION AND POSE ESTIMATION
Friday, 14:30-15:30
Self-Calibration of an Affine Camera from Multiple Views
Long Quan and Roger Mohr
Stereo Calibration by Planar Grid Lines
A. Polanski, K. Wojciechowski and A. Borek
Monocular Pose Estimation of Circular Primitives
R. Neubauer and K. Voss
SESSION B9: CONTOUR
Friday, 14:30-15:30
A New Method of Extracting Closed Contours Using Maximal Discs
Gabriele Lohman
A Simple Algorithm to Evaluate the Local Symmetry at Each Point of a Closed
Contour
Jose M. Inesta Quereda and Mateo Buendia Gomez
On Boundary Approximation
Fridrich Sloboda and Bedrich Zatko
POSTER SESSION A
Wednesday, 13:10-14:20
Texture Classification of Mouse Liver Cell Nuclei Using Invariant Moments of
Connected Consistent Regions
Fritz Albregtsen, Helene Schulerud, and Luren Yang
Text Recognition from Grey Level Images Using Hidden Markov Models
Kjersti Aas, Line Eikvil, and Tove Andersen
New Models of Image Restoration
Artiom Grigorian
An Improved Model of Snakes for Model-Based Segmentation
Petia Radeva, Joan Serrat, and Enric Marti
The Weighted Backprojection Techniques of Image Reconstruction
I. G. Kazantsev
Fusion of Bayesian Estimation and MTF Inversion Techniques for Improved
Array Imaging in Scattering Media
Yuri V. Shkvarko and Alexey S. Netjukhailo
Case Based Reasoning for Image Interpretation
Petra Perner
Classification of Corrosion Images by Wavelet Signatures and LVQ Networks
S. Livens, P. Scheunders, G. Van De Wouwer, D. Van Dyck, H. Smets, J.
Winkelmans, and W. Bogaerts
Knowledge Acquisition for Image Analysis using Hypermedia Interface
Boiko Balev, Arnold Bloemer, and Oliver Dehning
Interpretation of Printed Forms for Blind People
Torsten Ihle, Helmut Schirmer, and Siegfried Fuchs
Automatic Segmentation of Boundaries in Line Segment and Circular Arcs
G. Schmid, L. Altamirano Robles, and W. Eckstein
Moment-Based Affine-Invariant Fitting of Elliptical Segments
K. Voss, H. Suesse, and R. Neubauer
Compression of Binary Images Based on Covering
Vito Di Gesu, Salvatore Mantaci, and Gaetano Tortorici
Motion Detection with Fuzzy Logic in Real-Time
V. Gustin, A. Lapajne, and M. Cufer
Use of Explicit Knowledge for the Reconstuction of 3-D Object Geometry
C.-E. Liedtke, O. Grau, and S. Growe
Detecting Grey Level Symmetry: the Frequency Domain Approach
Yossi Gofman and Nahum Kiryati
A New Method to Threshold Images of Flat Binary Scenes under Uneven
Lighting
Leszek Luchowski
Improving Snake Performance via a Dual Active Contour
Steve R. Gunn and Mark S. Nixon
SMD Position Measurement by a Kohonen Network Compared with Image
Processing
Robert P. W. Duin and Edwin Th. G. Hoek
Estimating Feature Discriminant Power in Decision Tree Classifiers
I. Gracia, F. Pla, F. J. Ferri, and P. Garcia
Surface Tracking by Statistical Contour Dispersal
Nigel G. Sharp and Edwin R. Hancock
On Feature Selection via Rough Sets
Ludmila I. Kuncheva and Roumen K. Kounchev
Tree Neural Classifier for Character Recognition
Jan Voracek
Multiscale Extraction and Representation of Features from Medical Images
Marta Fidrich and Jean-Philippe Thirion
Line Representation of Elongated Shapes
M. Frucci and A. Marcelli
Fast Computation of 3-D Geometric Moments Using a Discrete Gauss Theorem
Luren Yang, Fritz Albregtsen, and Torfinn Taxt
On the Group Algebras' Hierarchy Pertaining to the Parametrization of Fast
Algorithms of Discrete Orthogonal Transforms
V. M. Chernov
Understanding of Ridge-Valley Lines on Image-Intensity Surfaces in
Scale-Space
Supoj Chinveeraphan, Satoshi Watanabe, Ryo Takamatsu, and Makoto Sato
Computer Analysis and Recognition of Cognitive Phase Space Electrocardio-
graphic Image
Leonid Fainzilberg and Tatiana Potapova
A New Algorithm for Probabilistic Relaxation based on the Baum Eagon
Theorem
A. J. Stoddart, M. Petrou, and J. Kittler
Segmentation and Estimation of the Optical Flow
Adrian G. Bors and Ioannis Pitas
Automated Detection of Fluorescent Cells and Measurement of their
DNA-Content
W. Boecker, H.-W. Gantenberg, W.-U. Mueller, and C. Streffer
A Highly Selective HT-Based Algorithm for Detecting Extended, Almost
Rectilinear Shapes
Rita Cucchiara and Fabio Filicori
Invariants and Object Modelling Using Clifford Algebra
Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano and Gerald Sommer
Joint Invariants of a Triplet of Coplanar Conics: Stability and
Discriminating Power for Object Recognition
Francoise Veillon, Long Quan, and Peter Sturm
Using Mirror Cameras for Estimating Spatial Depth
Jens Arnspang, Henrik Nielsen, Morten Christensen, and Knud Henriksen
Combining Head Tracking and Pupil Monitoring in Vision-Based
Human-Computer Interaction
C. Colombo, A. Del Bimbo, and S. De Magistris
Active-Camera Calibration Using Iterative Image Feature Localization
W. Brent Seales and David Eggert
POSTER SESSION B
Thursday, 13:10-14:20
Projective Invariants for Polygons
Tomas Suk and Jan Flusser
A Multi-Model Image Line Reconstruction
Michal Haindl and Stanislava Simberova
Tools for Automatic Recognition of Character Strings in Maps
Line Eikvil, Kjersti Aas, and Marit Holden
Towards Higher Decimation Ratios
Walter G. Kropatsch
Digital Plane Parametrization by Least Squares Fits
Reinhard Klette, Ivan Stojmenovic, and Jovisa Zunic
A Supervised Approach to the Evaluation of Image Segmentation Methods
Luren Yang, Fritz Albregtsen, Tor Lonnestad, and Per Grottum
Experimental Investigation on Editing k-NN Rule by a Genetic Algorithm
Ludmila I. Kuncheva and Yordan K. Yotzov
Heterogeneous Morphing of Multimodal Medical Information
Vojtech Jankovic, Eugen Ruzicky, and Eduard Groeller
Recognition and Pose Determination of 3-D Objects Using Multiple Views
Ales Leonardis, Stane Kovacic, and Franjo Pernus
Bayesian Extraction of Differential Surface Structure
M. Turner and E. R. Hancock
A Proposal for the Implementation of a Parallel Watershed Algorithm
A. Meyster and J. B. T. M. Roerdink
A Neural Network Energy Minimization Approach to Approximation of
2-Dimensional Shapes
Todd Law, Hidenori Itoh, and Hirohisa Seki
Visual Detection of Defects in Moulded Plastic Drippers
A. Anzalone and A. Machi'
Segmentation Modeling
Anthony Hoogs and Ruzena Bajcsy
Inverting the Reflectance Map with Binary Search
Francois Faure
Feature Selection for the Tree-Wavelet Transform
P. L. Palmer, N. Fatemi-Ghomi, and M. Petrou
Performance Comparison of a Deterministic and a Stochastic Method for Image
Classification
Shan Yu and Konrad Weigl
Advances in the Statistical Methodology for the Selection of Image Descriptors
for Visual Pattern Representation and Classification
Pavel Pudil, Jana Novovicova, Francesco Ferri, and Josef Kittler
Affine Stereo Calibration
Peter Sturm and Long Quan
Triple Features for Linear Distorted Images
Alexander Kadyrov
Finding Postirradiation Reaction in Lungs from Digitized X-rays
L. Chmielewski, E. Chmielewska, M. Sklodowski, W. Cudny,
and J. Skoczylas
Estimating Time to Contact with Curves, Avoiding Calibration and Aperture
Problem
Jens Arnspang, Knud Henriksen, and Robert Stahr
Constraining Probabilistic Relaxation with Symbolic Attributes
Mohamad Hatef and Josef Kittler
Local Fourier Phase and Disparity Estimates: An Analytical Study
Atsuto Maki, Lars Bretzner, and Jan-Olof Eklundh
Direct Obstacle Detection and Motion from Spatio-Temporal Derivatives
Paer Fornland
Direct Estimation of Rotation from Two Frames via Epipolar Search
Sebastien Roy and Ingemar J. Cox
Dynamic Character Recognition Using an Elastic Matching
Fidimahery Andrianasy and Maurice Milgram
Visual Robot Guidance for an Insertion Task
Dorin Ungureanu, Luc Van Gool, and Theo Moons
Robust Surface Reconstruction from Stereo SEM Images
Drahomira Janova and Jiri Jan
Adaptive Wavelets for Signal Analysis
Jaroslav Kautsky and Radka Turcajova
A Common Framework for Preattentive and Attentive Vision using Steerable
Filters
Markus Michaelis, Rainer Herpers, and Gerald Sommer
Static Global Scheduling for Optimal Computer Vision and Image Processing
Operations on Distributed-Memory Multiprocessors
Cheolwhan Lee, Yuan-Fang Wang, and Tao Yang
Robust Patch Concept for Egomotion Estimation
Christoph Herwig and Hans-Otto Carmesin
Parallel Thinning Algorithm Based on the Wave Propagation Model
Franck Xia
Film Editing Reconstruction and Semantic Analysis
J. M. Corridoni and A. Del Bimbo
Measuring Time-to-Contact Using Active Camera Control
W. Brent Seales
The Color Constancy Problem: An Illumination Invariant Mapping Approach
Rafael Wiemker
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CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
Dr. Eva Matyskova
Czech Technical University
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Karlovo nam. 13
121 35 Praha 2
Czech Republic
Phone: +42-2-2435 7465 Fax: +42-2-290 159
FURTHER INFORMATION
E-mail: caip95@vision.felk.cvut.cz
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WWW: http://sgi.felk.cvut.cz/~vision/cvl/cvl.html
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Ruzena Bajcsy University of Pennsylvania, USA
Gerald Sommer Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet Kiel, Germany
LOCAL ORGANIZER
Vaclav Hlavac Czech Technical University Prague
REGISTRATION FEE
until July 15, 1995 late
regular 490,- DEM 560,- DEM
student 360,- DEM 410,- DEM
student without
proceedings 265,- DEM 315,- DEM
IAPR_member 460,- DEM 530,- DEM
The full registration fee includes participation in all CAIP '95
professional activities, proceedings, three lunches, the conference
reception, and parties. Cancellations received in writing before
August 15, 1995 will be entitled to a refund minus a 15% processing
fee. No fees will be returned for cancellation requests received
after August 15, 1995.
ACCOMMODATION
An accommodation will be available in the hotel KRYSTAL (within five
minutes walking distance from the conference place):
Hotel KRYSTAL (C***)
Jose Martiho 2/407
160 00 Praha 6 - Veleslavin
Czech Republic
Phone +42-2-316 2761 Fax +42-2-316 4215
Single and double rooms with bathroom are available. The hotel
rooms for the time of the conference should be booked through
the conference secretariat, which implies slightly lower prices.
All prices are including breakfast:
during the conference before or after
(four nights) the conference
Single room 60,- DEM per night 75,- DEM per night
Double room 80,- DEM per night 100,- DEM per night
The accommodation should be paid together with the registration fee
to the same account. Cancellations will be accepted and refunded if
received by August 31, 1995.
Accommodation for participants and accompanying persons before and/or
after the conference can also be booked through the conference
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