P R O V I S I O N A L P R O G R A M M E ----------------------------------------- SEVENTH BRITISH MACHINE VISION CONFERENCE ----------------------------------------- 9-12 September 1996 The University of Edinburgh Up-to-date information: http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/BMVC96/bmvc96.htm Or contact: GENERAL CHAIR PROGRAMME CHAIR Robert B Fisher Emanuele Trucco University of Edinburgh Heriot-Watt University rbf@aifh.ed.ac.uk mtc@cee.hw.ac.uk LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS INDUSTRIAL LINKS Gillian M Hayes Paul Siebert University of Edinburgh The Turing Institute gmh@aifh.ed.ac.uk P.Siebert@turing.gla.ac.uk *Monday 9 September ---------------------------- [14:00-17:30 Tutorial:] Vision through Optimisation N A Thacker, University of Sheffield T F Cootes, University of Manchester *Tuesday 10 September --------------------------- [9:00- 9:10 Welcome] R. B. Fisher, General Chair [9:10-10:10 Invited Talk:] Attention and figure-ground segmentation in active vision Prof. Jan-Olof Eklundh Department of Numerical Analysis and Computing Studies, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden [10:10-10:50 Session 1:] Matching Surfaces Estimating Pose Uncertainty for Surface Registration Stoddart, A J; Lemke, S; Hilton, A; and Renn, T University of Surrey Free-Form Surface Matching using Mean Field Theory Stoddart, A J and Brunnstrom K University of Surrey [10:50-11:20 Coffee] [11:20-12:40 Session 2:] Shape Ridge Curves and Shape Analysis Kent, J T; Mardia, K V and West, J M University of Leeds Robust and Efficient Shape Indexing through Curvature Scale Space Mokhtarian, F; Abbasi, S and Kittler, J University of Surrey Affine Integral Invariants for Extracting Symmetry Axes Sato, J and Cipolla, R University of Cambridge Detecting Bilateral Symmetry of 3D Point Sets from Affine Views Thorhallsson, T University of Oxford [12:40-14:00 Lunch] [14:00-15:20 Session 3:] Features, Segmentation Part Segmentation from 2D Edge Images by the MDL Criterion Pilu, M and Fisher, R B University of Edinburgh Fast Feature Detection and Matching for Machine Vision Trajkovic, M and Hedley, M University of Sydney 1-D Fourier Transform Coefficients for Rotation Invariant Texture Segmentation Arof, H and Deravi, F University of Wales Ultrasound Image Segmentation using a Point Distribution Model in a Bayesian Framework Glasbey, C A University of Edinburgh [15:20-16:20 Tea] and Poster Session 1 Complex Feedback Strategies for Hypothesis Generation and Verification Mirmehdi, M; Palmer, P L; Kittler, J and Dabis, H University of Surrey Cell Identification in Differential Interference Contrast Microscope Images using Edge Detection Young, D and Gray, A J University of Strathclyde Correction of Scanning and Projection Errors in an Active Depth Sensor Zhang, G; Gallaher, Y and Wallace, A M Heriot-Watt University Techniques for Assessing Polygonal Approximations of Curves Rosin, P Brunel University On the use the ID Boolean Model for the Description of Binary Textures Petrou, M; Arrigo, M and Vons, H University of Surrey Learning Operators for View-Independent Object Recognition Pauli, J Christian-Albrechts-Universitat, Germany Region Based Coding of Volume Data using Finite Mixture Model Ichimura, N Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan Using Geometric Information in Prototype Selection for the Nearest Neighbour Rule Sanchez, J S; Pla, F and Ferri, F J Universitat Jaume I and Universitat de Valencia A Stochastic Framework for Object Localisation Shao, Y and Mayhew, J E W University of Sheffield Document Feature Recognition using a Mesh of Associative Memories O'Keefe, S E M and Austin, J University of York Segmentation of Natural Images Using Self-Organising Feature Maps Campbell, N W; Thomas, B T and Troscianko, T University of Bristol Monocular Reconstruction of 3-D Bilateral Symmetrical Objects Tan, T N University of Reading Identifying Planar Regions in a Scene using Uncalibrated Stereo Vision Hamid, G; Hollinghurst, N and Cipolla, R University of Cambridge Measurement Errors in Polarization Vision Systems Liang, B; Wallace, A M and Trucco, E Heriot-Watt University Surface Reflectance Recovery under Point Light Illumination Fisher, R B and Gionis, A P University of Edinburgh Object Recognition Using Colour, Shape and Affine Invariant Ratios Walcott, P A City University [16:20-18:00 Session 4:] Model Fitting, Matching, Recognition B-Fitting: An Estimation Technique with Automatic Parameter Selection Thacker, N A; Prendergast, D and Rockett, P I University of Sheffield Attention in Iconic Object Matching Grove, T D and Fisher, R B University of Edinburgh Class-based Recognition of 3D Objects Represented by Volumetric Primitives Borges, D L and Fisher R B University of Edinburgh Hierarchical Shape Fitting using an Iterated Linear Filter Baumberg, A University of Leeds A Method of Non-Rigid Correspondence for Automatic Landmark Identification Hill, A and Taylor, C J University of Manchester [20:30 Subscription Membership Open Meeting] *Wednesday 11 September -------------------------------------- [9:00-10:00 Invited talk:] Computers Seeing Action Prof Aaron F Bobick MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Mass, USA [10:00-10:40 Session 5:] Motion-Based Reconstruction Piecewise Shape Reconstruction by Incremental Factorization Held, A Real World Computing Partnership, Japan SSD Disparity Estimation for Dynamic Stereo Trucco, E; Roberto, V; Tinonin, S and Corbatto, M Heriot-Watt University and University of Udine, Italy [10:40-11:10 Coffee] [11:10-12:30 Session 6:] Deformable Models Active Shape Model Search using Pairwise Geometric Histograms Di Mauro, E C; Cootes, T F; Taylor, C J and Lanitis, A University of Manchester Automated B-Spline Curve Representation with MDL-based Active Contours Cham, T-J and Cipolla, R University of Cambridge Training PDMs on Models: The Case of Deformable Superellipses Pilu, M; Fitzgibbon, A W and Fisher, R B University of Edinburgh Data Driven Refinement of Active Shape Model Search Cootes, T F and Taylor, C J University of Manchester [12:30-14:00 Lunch] [14:00-15:20 Session 7:] Tracking Zooming while Tracking Using Affine Transfer Hayman, E; Reid, I D and Murray, D W University of Oxford Neural Networks in Human Motion Tracking - An Experimental Study Xu, Li-Qun and Hogg, D University of Abertay and University of Leeds Detecting and Tracking Linear Features Efficiently Clarke, J C; Carlsson, S and Zisserman, A University of Oxford and Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Affine Visual Servoing Cross, G M T and Cipolla, R University of Cambridge [15:20-16:20 Tea] and Poster Session 2 Self Calibration and 3D Reconstruction from Lines with a Single Translating Camera Thirion, E and Ronse, C Universite Louis Pasteur Analysing Error of Fit Functions for Ellipses Rosin, P Brunel University Face Recognition using Radial Basis Function Neural Networks Howell, J A and Buxton, H University of Sussex Spatial-Temporal Reasoning Based on Object Motion Teal, M K and Ellis, T J University of Bournemouth Automatically Locating an Area of Interest and Maintaining a Reference Image to Aid the Real-Time Tracking of Objects Cornish, M T and Wakefield, J P University of Huddersfield Automatic Measurement of Inhibition Zones in Petri Dish Samples Steinbakk, H S and Palmer, P L University of Surrey Region Template Correlation for FLIR Target Tracking Parry, H S; Marshall, A D and Markham, K C University of Wales and British Aerospace (Dynamics) Ltd A Model-Driven Stereo Correspondence Algorithm Using Dynamic Programming Shao, Y and Mayhew, J E W University of Sheffield Slaving Head and Eye Movements for Visual Telepresence Heuring, J J and Murray, D W University of Oxford On Uncalibrated Motion-Based Inspection for Conveyor-Belt Systems Pascoletti, A and Trucco, E Universita di Udine and Heriot-Watt University Independent 3D Motion Detection through Robust Regression in Depth Layers Argyros, A A; Lourakis, M I A; Trahanias, P E and Orphanoudakis, S C FORTH and University of Crete Uncalibrated Visual Servoing Spratling, M and Cipolla, R University of Cambridge Error Propagation for 2D-to-3D Matching with Application to Underwater Navigation Christmas, W J; Kittler, J and Petrou, M University of Surrey Visual Motion Estimation for Tumbling Satellite Capture Zampato, M; Pistellato, R and Maddalena, D Tecnomare, Italy Multiresolution Active Contour Models in Textured- Stereo Images Grace, A E and Pycock, D University of Birmingham Estimating Motion in Noisy, Textured Images: Optical Flow in Medical Ultrasound Cooper, D H and Graham, J University of Manchester On Accurate and Robust Estimation of Fundamental Matrix Bober, M; Georgis, N and Kittler, J University of Surrey Knowledge-Based Anisotropic Diffusion of Vector-Valued 4-Dimensional Cardiac MR Images Sanchez-Ortiz, G I; Rueckert, D and Burger, P Imperial College Filter for Car Tracking Based on Acceleration and Steering Angle Maybank, S J; Worrall, A D and Sullivan, G D University of Reading A Proposal of Pattern Space Trajectory for Gesture Spotting Recognition Nagaya, S; Seki, S and Oka, R Tsukuba Research Center, Japan [16:20-18:00 Session 8:] Motion and Active Vision Steering and Navigation Behaviours Using Fixation Murray, D W; Reid, I D and Davison, A J University of Oxford Correcting Motion-Induced Registration Errors in 3-D Ultrasound Images Rohling, R and Gee, A University of Cambridge Robust Parameterization and Computation of the Trifocal Tensor Torr, P H S and Zisserman, A University of Oxford Linear Projective Reconstruction from Matching Tensors Triggs, B INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France Self-Calibration of a Moving Camera by Pre-Calibration Sturm, P GRAVIR-IMAG and INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France [19:30 Conference Dinner] Playfair Library, Old College *Thursday 12 September ------------------------------------------ [9:00-10:40 Session 9:] Applications Registering Incomplete Radar Images using the EM Algorithm Moss, S and Hancock, E R University of York Model-based Vehicle Detection and Classification using Orthographic Approximations Sullivan, G D; Baker, K D; Worrall, A D; Attwood, C I and Remagnino, P M University of Reading Automatic Measurement of Vertebral Shape using Active Shape Models Smyth, PP; Taylor, CJ and Adams, JE University of Manchester Finding Orientated Line Patterns in Digital Mammographic Images Zwiggelaar, R; Parr, T C and Taylor, C J University of Manchester Surface Approximation from Industrial SEM Images Lacey, A J; Thacker, N A and Yates, R B University of Sheffield [10:40-11:10 Coffee] [11:10-12:30 Session 10:] Faces Estimation of Face Position and Pose with Labeled Graphs Kruger, N; Potzsch, M; Maurer, T and Rinne, M Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany Scale and Orientation Invariance in Human Face Detection Yow, K C and Cipolla, R University of Cambridge Face Tracking and Pose Representation McKenna, S; Gong, S and Collins, J J Queen Mary and Westfield College Statistical Models of Face Images: Recent Advances Edwards, G J; Lanitis, A; Taylor, C J and Cootes, T F University of Manchester [12:30-12:40 Closing] [12:40-14:00 Lunch]