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