Day 1 (21.12.98)
 
 08:30 AM		Inauguration
 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM	Plenary Talk I - O.D. Faugeras
 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM	Tea
 
 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM	Low Level Vision
 
 A Feedback Based Algorithm for Line Detection
 		Shesha Shah, P. S. Sastry and  K. P. Unnikrishnan
 Deterministic and Stochastic Dynamical Systems for Edge Detection
 		U. S. Ranjan, G. Ananthakrishna and  K. R. Ramakrishnan
 A Supervised Image Segmentation Scheme using MRF Model and
 		Homotopy Continuation Method
 		P. K. Nanda ,  P. G. Poonacha  and U. B. Desai	
 
 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM	Medical Image Analysis
 
 Multiscale Morphological Fusion of MR and CT Images
 		Bhabatosh Chanda, Susanta Mukhopadhyay and Pinaki Ghosh
 Entropy Theoretic Fusion of Multimodal Medical Images
 		Dipti Prasad Mukherjee, Paramartha Dutta and
 		Dwijesh Dutta Majumder
 Active Surfaces for Segmentation of Volumetric Tissue Images
 		P. S. Umesh Adiga and  B. B. Chaudhuri
 
 12:15 PM - 01:15 PM	Poster Session I
 			Low Level Processing
 			Stereo, Camera Calibration and Motion Analysis 
 			Applications
 
 			Low Level Processing
 
 Improved Image Pyramids using Fast Recursive Basis Filters
 		Rutuparna Panda, B.N. Chatterji
 One-Dimensional Gabor Filtering For Texture Edge Detection
 		B.Yegnanarayana, G.Pavan Kumar, Sukhendu Das
 Discrimination of Colours in Different Colour Spaces
 		R. Parthasarathi, Jayanta Mukherjee
 Robust Color Image Restoration Using Markov Random
                 Field and Earth Movers Distance
 		Narasimha Kaulgud, U.B. Desai
 A Physics-based Approach to Generation of Super-resolution Images
 		Deepu Rajan, Subhasis Chaudhuri
 Pixel Selection Methods for Image Interpolation
 		Asim Banerjee, S.Chaudhuri , S.C. Sahasrabuddhe
 Image Point Feature Detection through Curvature Scale Space
 		Farzin Mokhtarian, Riku Suomela, Ka Cheung Chan
 Bridging Transformation: An Aid to Spatial
                 Transformation in the Discrete Domain
 		Bhabatosh Chanda, R. M. Haralick
 
 		Stereo, Camera Calibration and Motion Analysis
 
 Stereo Correspondence Based on Correlation of Fuzzy Texture Measures
 		C.V. Jawahar
 A Vanishing Point and a Triangle for Camera Parameter Estimation
 		Toshio Moriya, Haruo Takeda
 Structure and Non-Rigid Motion Analysis of Satellite Cloud Images
 		Lin Zhou, Chandra Kambhamettu, Dmitry B.Goldgof
 Contour Motion Estimation Using Equiprojectivity Based Constraint
 		Guruprasad Shivaram, Guna Seetharaman
 Implementation of real time video tracking system
                 on Multimedia video processor
 		Sarbajit Pal, P.K. Biswas
 A Neurocontroller based Binocular Vision System for Object Tracking
 	       Laxmidhar Behera, G.Prem Krishna
 On a Hybrid Neural Control Scheme for Visuo-motor Co-ordination
 		Laxmidhar Behera, K. Nandagopal
 
 			Applications
 
 An Automated Image Processing System for Dynamic 
 		Stability Analysis of Human Gait
 		M. Yeasin, S. Chaudhuri
 Genetic Algorithmic Approach for Model-Based Tomographic Estimation
 		R.S. Bichkar, A.K. Ray
 Mathematical Morphology: An Image Processing Tool in
 Measurement of Droplet Size Distrubution in Dropwise Condensation
 		N. Maiti, U.B. Desai, A.K. Ray, L.M. Gantayet
 
 01:15 PM - 02:00 PM	Lunch
 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM	Plenary Talk II - K. Ikeuchi
 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM	Tea
 
 03:15 PM - 04:30 PM	Motion and Navigation
 
 Reliable and Efficient Image Registration
 		B. C. Vemuri, S. Huang, S. Sahni, C. M. Leonard
 		and  J. Fitzsimmons
 Tracking of Tracer Cloud in INSAT Image Sequence
 		D. P. Mukherjee, A. RayChaudhari, S. Debnath and J. Das
 Statistical Estimation and Analysis of Two-Frame Motion
 		Venu Madhav Govindu
 Achieving Reliable and Robust Navigation of Underground Vehicles
 		- Theory and Experimental Results
 		Raj Madhavan
 
 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM 	R&D Session I
 
 			Day 2 (22.12.98)
 
 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM	Plenary Talk III - J. Kajiya
 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM 	Tea
 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM 	Visualization and Modeling
 
 Discrete Shading Algorithms for 3D Objects from Medial Sphere
 		Representation
 		Jayanta Muhkerjee, Aswatha Kumar M., P. P. Das
 		and  B. N. Chatterji
 Realism in Cloth Draping : Modeling Air Resistance in Particle Systems
 		N. Damodharan and  Sharat Chandran
 Interactive Visualization of Triangular Bezier Surfaces
 		Subodh Kumar
 Decomposing Spline Surfaces into Non-Overlapping Regions for
 		Visible Surface Computation
 		S. Krishnan and  D. Manocha
 Image Based Rendering: A Critical Look
 		P.J. Narayanan
 
 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM	Poster Session II
 
 			Classification and Recognition
 			Image and Video Document Management
 			Document Image Analysis
 			Visualization and Modeling
 
 			Classification and Recognition
 
 Texture Classification using oriented Laplacian Pyramid
 		S.N. Talbar, T.R. Sontakke
 Texture Classification using second and third order cumulants
 		Vladimiros Antoniades, Asoke K. Nandi
 Shape Modelling for Drivable Open Terrains: Some Studies
 		Niladri Chatterjee, B.F. Buxton
 Fractal Based Unstructured Object Recognition
 		S. Kar, S. Chandran
 
 			Image and Video Document Management
 
 A Fast Randomized Algorithm for Fractal Image Compression
 		S.K. Ghosh, Jayanta Mukherjee, P.P. Das
 Retrieval of Images using Similarity-Based Queries
 		H. Raman, S. Venkatesh, C.P. Lam
 Robust Video Shot Change Detection
 		Rakesh Dugad, Krishna Ratakonda, Narendra Ahuja
 Video Segmentation Using Fuzzy Logic
 		R.S. Jadon, S. Chaudhury, K.K. Biswas
 
 			Document Image Analysis
 
 Segmentation of Touching Characters in Devanagari
                 Veena Bansal, R.M.K. Sinha
 On Recognition of touching Characters in Printed Bangla Documents
 		U. Garain, B.B. Chaudhuri
 Recognition of Off-line Cursive Handwritten Text
 		M. Hanmandlu, Pankaj Kumar, K.R. Murali Mohan
 Signature Verification Based on a Steerable Wavelet Feature 
 		Extraction and Neural Network Classification
 		Emad A. Fadhel, Pushpak Bhattacharya
 A Scheme of Vectorization of Engineering Drawings
 		Susanta Mukhopadhyay, Bhabatosh Chanda
 
 			Visualization and Modeling
 
 Computing beta-skeletons in higher dimensions
 		Asish Mukhopadhyay, S.V. Rao
 Cross-Sectioning of Three Dimensional Objects
                 through Medial Sphere Representation
 		Jayanta Mukherjee, Aswatha Kumar M., P.P. Das,
 		B.N. Chatterji
 Dynamic Binary Space Partitioning for Hidden Surface Removal
 		Alok Kumar, Vivek Kwatra, Balpreet Singh, 
 		Sanjiv Kapoor
 Optimal bounding box hierarchies for collision detection
 		L.-M. Reissell, Dinesh K. Pai
 Generating Synthetic Models of Mountains, Ocean, and Clouds
 		Sudhanshu K. Semwal, Joakim Karl Johnson
 
 01:15 PM - 02:00 PM	Lunch
 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM	Plenary Talk IV - C. Bajaj
 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM	Tea
 
 03:15 PM - 04:30 PM	Vision Algorithms
 
 Parameter Selection for Performance Evaluation of Vision Algorithms
 		Srikanth Chavali and Sudeep Sarkar
 Multi-Scale Free-Form Surface Description
 		Farzin Mokhtarian, Nasser Khalili and Peter Yuen
 Estimating Light Sources
 		Maneesh K. Singh and Narendra Ahuja
 Robust Template Matching for Noisy Bitmap Images Invariant to
 		Translation and Rotation
 		M. Sanjay, Sukhendu Das and  B. Yegnanarayana
 
 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM	Industry Session
 
 			Day 3 (23.12.98)
 
 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM	Plenary Talk V - S.K. Pal
 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM 	Tea
 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM 	Compression
 
 Variable Dimension Vector Quantization of Images by Two
 		Dimensional Multipath Search
 		S. Sethu Selvi and  Anamitra Makur
 A Backward Motion Compensated Prediction Scheme for the Motion Vectors
 		Gagan  B. Rath and  Anamitra Makur
 Real-Time Affine Structure Based Video Compression Algorithm
 		Shoma Chatterjee, Subhashis Banerjee and  K. K. Biswas
 
 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM	Geometric Framework
 
 Collineations and 3D Planar Projective Reconstructions
 		Houda Chabbi, Lukas Theiler and Stephane Paris
 Geometric Techniques for the Computation of Projective Invariants
 		using n Uncalibrated Cameras
 		Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano and  Joan Lasenby
 A Reconstruction Based Recognition Scheme for Translationally
 		Repeated Quadrics
 		Ragini Choudhury, J. B. Srivastava and Santanu Chaudhury
 
 12:15 PM - 01:15 PM 	R&D Session II
 01:15 PM - 02:00 PM 	Lunch
 02:00 PM - 03:20 PM 	Classification of Visual Patterns
 
 Statistics-based Off-line Handwritten Signature Verification
 		Peter S. Deng, Hsian-Rong Tyan, H. Y. Mark Liao
 		and Chin-Wen Ho
 Automatic Separation of Different Script Lines from Indian
 		Multi-script Documents
 		U. Pal and B. B. Chaudhuri
 Perception-based Hierarchical Feature Structure for Texture Image
 		Library Creation
 		Y .V. Venkatesh and A. Anand
 A Multichannel Approach to Fingerprint Classification
 		Anil K. Jain, S. Prabhakar and L. Hong
 
 03:20 PM - 03:30 PM	Tea
 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM	Recognition
 
 Propagating Errors into Feature Representation for Robustness 
 		of Local Invariants
 		Rajeev  Kumar
 Aspect Graph Construction with Noisy Feature Detectors
 		Sumantra Dutta Roy, Santanu Chaudhury and
 		Subhashis Banerjee
 DWT-HMM based  Face Recognition System
 		Vinayadatt V. Kohir  and  U. B. Desai
 Recognition of Dynamic Hand Gestures
 		M. Agrawal, S. Sadhwani, S. Chaudhury and  S. Banerjee
 
 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM 	Valedictory Session
 
 			Registration Schedule
 
 02:30 PM - 09:00 PM	20.12.98
 08:00 AM - 10:00 AM 	21.12.98, 22.12.98, 23.12.98
 
 Venue: Institute Foyer, I.I.T,Delhi