Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing 21 - 23 December 1998 New Delhi, India. INVITATION FOR PARTICIPATION General Co-chairs K.K.Biswas, Indian Institute of Technology,New Delhi, 110016, INDIA Narendra Ahuja, University Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Chairs Santanu Chaudhury, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, 110016, INDIA Shree K. Nayar, Columbia University, NY, USA Organizing Committee Chair R. Bahl, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, 110016, INDIA Registration Fees Delegates from abroad : US $ 125 Students from Abroad : US $ 75 Delegates from India Industry : Rs 5000 R & D Organizations : Rs 2000 Students : Rs 500 Programme Committee Ram Nevatia (USC), P. Anandan (Microsoft), Vic Nalwa (Lucent), Anil Jain (MSU), Ramesh Jain (UCSD), Baba Vemuri (UFG), Rama Chellappa (UMD), Jitender Malik (UCB), Sudeep Sarkar (USF), Rangachari Kasturi (PSU), Sameer Singh (Exeter), Prabir Bhattacharya (UNL), Sankar K. Pal (ISICal), S.P.Mudur (NCST), B.N. Chatterji (IITKgp), Amitabha Mukerjee (IITK), B.B.Chaudhuri (ISICal), Subhasis Chaudhuri (IITB), U.B.Desai (IITB), B. Yegnanarayana (IITM), Sukhendu Das (IITM), Subhashis Banerjee (IITD), Jayanta Mukherjee (IITKgp), Prem Kalra (IITD) Venue Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi , INDIA Dates 21-23 December 1998 About the Conference ICVGIP 98 is being started as a forum for exchange of ideas among researchers, both national and international, and to promote future research in the areas of Computer Vision, Graphics, Image Processing, Visualization, Multimedia and Video Data Processing and allied areas. The conference will feature presentations of reviewed papers in single track, poster sessions and several invited talks by reputed experts. Scope Current research in India in the areas of Computer Vision, Robotics, Graphics and Image Processing is limited to a small group of researchers, located mostly in IITs, IISc and R&D organisations. Recently there has been a lot of interest in applying these techniques to areas such as medical, aviation, manufacturing, automobile and other industry. Presently, no society or organisation exists to collaborate and conduct activities and conferences/seminars/workshops in these areas. We envisage a great role of this forum in serving as a platform for the purpose of making fellow researchers meet and disseminate information. It is also expected that the conference will help in generating interest in collaborative projects between academic institutions, industry and the research laboratories. Role of Industry Industry support is essential for the successfully hosting such conferences. It also provides the industry with a platform to publicize their products through demonstrations and presentations. Activities and achievements of the industry in these fields can be highlighted, which would result in better awareness and possible future interactions/collaborations. Plenary Session Invited Speakers: Oliver Faugeras (INRIA Sophia, France) Research Director at INRIA in the Sophia Antipolis Research Unit, he also leads the ROBOTVIS Group. Till summer 1996, he was "Maitre de Conferences" at the ECOLE. He is also an Adjunct Professor in EE and CS department at MIT and member of AI Lab. His current work and interests are geometric approaches to computer vision, algebraic invariants, motion and shape analysis, stereo and software environments. Katsushi Ikeuchi (University of Tokyo) A Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Dr. Ikeuchi has previously worked at MIT and CMU. He has developed the "smoothness constraint", a constraint to force neighboring points to have similar surface orientations. Recently, his main focus is on developing Vision Technologies that enable reduction in programming efforts. Jim Kajiya (Microsoft Corporation, USA) Assistant Director of Microsoft Research, he is on the leading edge of computer graphics technology. Instrumental in the introduction of the Talisman, (microchip project) which enabled desktop PCs to display high-quality 3D images, he is now working on the convergence of the television and the computer. Chandrajit Bajaj (Center for Computational Visualization, University of Texas, Austin, USA) Currently, he is Professor of Computer Sciences at University of Texas, Visualization Chair, TICAM and Director of Computational Visualization Center. His research interests are in the fields of computational algebraic geometry, computer graphics, geometric design, scientific data visualization, and collaborative environments. Sankar K. Pal (Machine Intelligence Unit, ISI, Calcutta) Dr. S.K.Pal is Professor and founding Head of Machine Intelligence Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. He is a recipient of the 1990 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences for his contributions to Pattern Recognition. His research interests mainly include pattern recognition, image processing, artificial intelligence, neural nets, genetic algorithms and fuzzy sets and systems. Conference Presentations Classification of Visual Patterns Statistics-based Off-line Handwritten Signature Verification P.S.Deng, H.R.Tyan, H.Y.M.Liao, C.W.Ho I.I.S., Academia Sinica, Taiwan Automatic Separation of Different Script Lines from Indian Multi-script Documents U.Pal and B.B.Chaudhuri ISI Calcutta, India Perception-based Hierarchical Feature Structure for Texture Image Library Creation Y.V.Venkatesh and A.Anand IISc Bangalore, India A Multichannel Approach to Fingerprint Classification Anil Jain, S.Prabhakar, L.Hong Michigan State University, USA Geometric Framework Collineations and 3D Planar Projective Reconstructions H.Chabbi, L.Theiler, S.Paris University of Fribourg, Switzerland A Reconstruction Based Recognition Scheme for Translationally Repeated Quadrics R.Choudhury, J.B.Srivastava, S.Chaudhury IIT Delhi, India Geometric Techniques for the Computation of Projective Invariants using n Uncalibrated Cameras E.Bayro-Corrochano, J.Lasenby Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany Recognition Propagating Errors into Feature Representation for Robustness of Local Invariants R.Kumar BITS Pilani, India Aspect Graph Construction with Noisy Feature Detectors S.Dutta Roy, S.Chaudhury, S.Banerjee IIT Delhi, India DWT-HMM based Face Recognition System V.V.Kohir , U.B.Desai IIT Bombay, India Recognition of Dynamic Hand Gestures M.Agrawal, S.Sadhwani, S.Chaudhury, S.Banerjee IIT Delhi, India Motion and Navigation Tracking of Tracer Cloud in INSAT Image Sequence D.P.Mukherjee, A. Ray Chaudhari, S.Debnath, J.Das ISI Calcutta, India Reliable and Efficient Image Registration B.C.Vemuri, S.Huang, S.Sahni, C.M.Leonard, J.Fitzsimmons University of Florida, Gainesville, USA Statistical Estimation and Analysis of Two-Frame Motion V.M.Govindu NEC Research Institute, Princeton, USA Achieving Reliable and Robust Navigation of Underground Vehicles Raj Madhavan The University of Sydney, Australia Medical Image Analysis Multiscale Morphological Fusion of MR and CT Images B.Chanda, S.Mukhopadhyay, Pinaki Ghosh ISI Calcutta, India Entropy Theoretic Fusion of Multimodal Medical Images D.P.Mukherjee, P.Dutta, D.Dutta Majumdar ISI Calcutta, India Active Surfaces for Segmentation of Volumetric Tissue Images P.S.Umesh Adiga, B.B.Chaudhuri ISI Calcutta, India Low Level Vision A Feedback Based Algorithm for Line Detection S.Shah, P.S.Sastry, K.P.Unnikrishnan IISc Bangalore, India Deterministic and Stochastic Cynamical Systems for Edge Detection U.S.Ranjan, G.Ananthakrishna, K.R.Ramakrishnan IISc Bangalore, India A Supervised Image Segmentation Scheme using MRF Model and Homotopy Continuation Method P.K.Nanda, P.G.Poonacha REC Rourkela, India Compression Variable Dimension Vector Quantization of Images by Two Dimensional Multipath Search S.S.Selvi, A.Makur IISc Bangalore, India A Backward Motion Compensated Prediction Scheme for the Motion Vectors Gagan.B.Rath, A.Makur IISc Bangalore, India Real-Time Affine Structure Based Video Compression Algorithm S.Chatterjee, S.Banerjee, K.K.Biswas IIT Delhi, India Vision Algorithms Multi-Scale Free-Form Surface Description and Curvature Estimation F.Mokhtarian, N.Khalili, P.Yuen University of Surrey, UK Estimating Light Sources M.K.Singh, N.Ahuja UIUC, USA Parameter Selection for Performance Evaluation of Vision Algorithms S.Chavali, S.Sarkar University of South Florida, USA Robust Template Matching for Noisy Bitmap Images Invariant to Translation and Rotation M.Sanjay, S.Das, B.Yegnanarayana IIT Madras, India Visualization and Modeling Discrete Shading Algorithms for 3D Objects from Medial Sphere Representation M.Ashwatha Kumar, J.Mukherjee, B.N.Chatterji, P.P.Das IIT Kharagpur, India Realism in Cloth Draping : Modeling Air Resistance in Particle Systems N.Damodharan, S.Chandran IIT Bombay, India Interactive Visualization of Triangular Bezier Surfaces S.Kumar Johns Hopkins University, USA Image Based Rendering : A Critical Look P.J.Narayanan CAIR Bangalore, India Decomposing Spline Surfaces into Non-Overlapping Regions for Visible Surface Computation S.Krishnan, D.Manocha AT&T Research Labs, NJ, USA Poster Presentations Improved Image Pyramids using Fast Recursive Basis Filters R.Panda et al., IIT Kharagpur, India Segmentation of Touching Characters in Devanagari V.Bansal et al., IIT Kanpur, India Discrimination of Colours in Different Colour Spaces R.Parthasarathi et al., IIT Kharagpur, India A Scheme of Vectorization of Engineering Drawings S.Mukherjee et al., ISI Calcutta, India Object Recognition using Polygon Matching G.Koley et al., IIT Kharagpur, India Texture Classification using Oriented Laplacian Pyramid S.N.Talbar et al., SGGSCE Nanded, India An Automated Image Processing System for Dynamic Stability Analysis of Human Gait M.Yeasin et al., IIT Bombay, India Genetic Algorithmic Approach for Model-Based Tomographic Estimation R.S.Bichkar et al., IIT Kharagpur, India Computing Beta-Skeletons in Higher Dimensions A.Mukhopadhyay et al., IIT Kanpur, India A Fast Randomized Algorithm for Fractal Image Compression S.K.Ghosh et al., IIT Kharagpur, India Implementation of Real Time Video Tracking System on Multimedia Video Processor S.Pal et al., IIT Kharagpur, India Texture Classification using Second and Third Order Cumulants V.Antoniades et al., University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK Image Point Feature Detection through Curvature Scale Space F.Mokhtarian et al., University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Cross-Sectioning of Three-Dimensional Objects through Medial Sphere Representation M.Aswatha Kumar et al., IIT Kharagpur, India One Dimensional Gabor Filtering for Texture Edge Detection B.Yegnanarayana et al., IIT Madras, India A Neurocontroller based Binocular Vision System for Object Tracking L.Behera et al., BITS Pilani, India On a hybrid Neural Control Scheme for Visuo-motor Coordination L.Behera et al., BITS Pilani, India Generating Synthetic Models of Mountains, Ocean and Clouds S.K.Semwal et al., University of Colorado, USA Structure and Affine Motion Analysis of Satellite Cloud Images L.Zhou et al., University of Delaware, USA Robust Video Shot Change Detection R.Dugad et al., University of Illinois, USA A Vanishing Point and a Triangle for Camera Parameter Estimation T.Moriya et al., SDL Hitachi, Kawasaki, Japan Video Segmentation using Fuzzy Logic R.S.Jadon et al., IIT Delhi, India Retrieval of Images using Similarity-based Queries H.Raman et al., Murdoch University, Perth, Australia Mathematical Morphology : An Image Processing Tool in Measurement of Droplet Size Distribution in Dropwise Condensation N.Maiti et al., BARC Bombay, India Robust Color Image Restoration using Markov Random Field and Earth Movers Distance N.Kaulgud et al., IIT Bombay, India Contour Motion Estimation using Equiprojectivity Based Constraint G.Shivaram et al., CACS, Lafayette, LA, USA On Recognition of Touching Characters in Printed Bangla Documents B.B.Chaudhuri et al., ISI Calcutta, India Bridging Transformation : An Aid to Spatial Transformation in the Discrete Domain B.Chanda et al., ISI Calcutta, India Stereo Correspondence Based on Correlation of Fuzzy Texture Measures C.V.Jawahar, CAIR Bangalore, India Recognition of Off-line Cursive Handwritten Text M.Hanmandlu et al., DST New Delhi, India A Physics-Based Approach to Generation of Super-Resolution Images D.Rajan et al., IIT Bombay, India Signature Verification Based on a Steerable Wavelet Feature Extraction and Neural Network Classification E.A.Fadhel et al., IIT Bombay, India Shape Modeling for Drivable Open Terrains : Some Studies N.Chatterjee et al., University College, London, UK Dynamic Binary Shape Partitioning for Hidden Surface Removal A.Kumar et al., IIT Delhi, India Pixel Selection Methods for Image Interpolation A.Banerjee et al., IIT Bombay, India Optimal Bounding Box Hierarchies for Collision Detection L.M.Reissell et al., The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Non-Shannonian Entropies for Image Thresholding D.P.Mandal et al., ISI Calcutta, India Fractal Based Unstructured Object Recognition S.Kar et al., IIT Bombay, India Industrial Track - Presentations from Industry ( To be announced ) Presentations from R & D Laboratories ( To be announced ) Registration Form (Please Print) Name: Affiliation: Position : Address: Country: Phone (include code): Fax (include code): E-mail: Participation Details :(a) Presenting Paper [ ] (Kindly Tick) (b) Attending Conference [ ] (c) Others (Please Specify) [ ] [If (a)] Title of the paper : Do you 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