PROVISIONAL PROGRAM FOR WORKSHOP ON
NON LINEAR MODEL BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS
NMBIA98
1-3 July 1998, Thistle Hotel, Glasgow
General Chairman Dr Stephen Marshall, University of Strathclyde on behalf
of EU Noblesse Project 20229
WEDNESDAY 1st JULY
Opening Session
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch and Registration
Welcome Address
14.00 - 14.10
3D Image Models
14.10 -18.00
Chairman: I. PITAS, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Cross individual model-based alignment of volumetric images
M. Gabrani, O. J. Tretiak
Drexel University, USA.
Model based segmentation and recognition of anatomical brain structures in
3D MR images
O. Cuisenaire, M. Ferrant, J. P. Thiran, B. Macq
Telecommunication Labs, Belgium.
Precise registration of CT and MR volumes based on a new creaseness measure
D. Lloret, A. M. Lopez, J. Serrat
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.
Automatic object modelling for 3D virtual environment
S. You, U. Neumann
University of Southern California, USA.
3D binary fast morphological shape decomposition
Nikopoulos, V. Chatzis, I. Pitas
Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece.
15.50 - 16.20 Refreshment Break
Stereo image segmentation using hybrid analysis technique
J. Liu, D. Przewozny
HHI, Einsteinufer 37, Germany.
A simplified representation of 3D human faces adapted from 2D images
G Votsis, N. Tsapatsoulis, K. Karpouzis, S. Kollias
National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
Active shape model-assisted least squares stereo matching for recovery of
3-D facial shape
X. Ju, A. Naftel
Univ. of Central Lancashire, UK.
Parallel implementation of a 3D nonlinear restoration algorithm
M. Razaz, R. Lee
Univ. of East Anglia, UK.
18.00 Close
THURSDAY 2nd JULY
Keynote Lecture
9.00 - 9.40
E. Coyle, Purdue University, USA
Perceptual measures of error and image filtering
Image/Video Restoration
9.40 - 11.00
Chairman: S. MARSHALL, University of Strathclyde, UK.
RCRS filters for digital image sequences
H. Huttenen, P. Kuosmanen
Tampere Univ. of Tech., Finland.
An automatic system for restoring image sequences
E. Decenciere
CMM, 35, rue Saint Honore, France.
Restoring images taken from scratch 2-inch tape
S. Armstrong, A. C. Kokaram, P. J. W. Rayner
Cambridge Univ, UK.
Video scratch detection and removal via image realignment and non-linear
operators.
N. Harvey, S. Marshall
Strathclyde Univ, UK.
11.00 - 11.15 Refreshment break
Poster Session
Segmentation and Object Oriented Coding
11.15 - 12.30
Chairman: E. DECENCIERE, CMM, 35, rue Saint Honore, France.
Object recognition from a perimeter high curvature model using rank
conditional morphological operators
S.J. Rees, I. W. Shewring
University of Glamorgan, UK.
Texture map coding for arbitrarily shaped 2-d and 3-d video objects using
b-spline wavelets
V. Koivunen, M. Sepponen
Tempere Univ. of Tech, Finland.
Representing arbitrary surfaces using pairwise geometric histograms
A. Ashbrook, R. B. Fisher, C. Robertson, N. Werghi
University of Edinburgh, UK.
Object tracking for retrival application and hypermedia links creation in
MPSG-2 sequences
L. Favalli, A. Mecocci, F. Moschetti
Universita' di Pavia, Italy.
Object feature based coding quality prediction for coding scheme selection
P. Fleury
LTS-DE, Switzerland.
Supervised semantic object segmentation and tracking via EM-based
estimation of mixture density parameters
N. O'Conner, S. Marlow
Dublin City University, Ireland.
Interactive object extraction from video sequences for multimedia
applications based on multiple features
R. Castagno
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland.
Scale-space tree representation of images
J. Ruiz-Hidalgo, J. A. Bangham, R. W. Harvey
UEA, UK.
Image segmentation and the use of genetic algorithms for optimising
parameters and algorithm choice
P.G. Ducksbury
DERA, UK.
A class of parallel algo. for nonlinear variational image segmentation: A
preprocess for robust feature-based image coding
J. Heers, C. Schnorr, H. Seigfried Stiehl
Univ. of Hamburg, Germany.
Linear and non-linear modelling of scale-orientation signatures
R. Zwiggelaar, C. J. Taylor
Univ. of Manchester, UK.
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
THURSDAY AFTERNOON
Colour Image Processing
14.00-16.50
Chairman: M. GABBOUJ, Tampere Univ. of Tech., Finland.
The zerotree applied to co-encoded colour planes in the wavelet domain
O. Stromme, D. McGregor
Univ. of Strathclyde, UK.
Directional unsharp masking-based approach for color image enhancement
F. Alaya Cheikh, M. Gabbouj
Tampere Univ. of Tech., Finland.
Multidimensional texture characterization using moments
B. Cramariuc, M. Quinghong, M. Gabbouj
Tampere Univ. of Tech., Finland.
Activity driven non-linear diffusions for colour image segmentation
P. De Smet, R. L. V. P. Marques Pires, D. De Vleeschauwer
Univ. of Gent, Belgium.
15.20 - 15.50 Refreshment Break
Old painting digital color restoration
M. Pappas, I .Pitas
Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Multichannel adaptive signal processing colour cinematographic imagery
S. Minnelly, A. Curley, P. Giaccone, M. Gabbouj
Kingston Univ., UK.
Using colour for robust object tracking and segmentation
Y. Raja, S. McKenna, S. Gong
Queen Mary & Westfield College, UK.
16.50 Close
FRIDAY 3rd JULY
Keynote Lecture
9.00 - 9.40
M.Petrou, University of Surrey, UK.
Non-linear image transformations
Database Retrieval
9.40 - 11.00
Chairman: H. BURKHARDT, University of Freiburg, Germany
Image retrieval based on colour and nonlinear texture invariants
S. Siggelkow, H. Burkhardt
University of Freiburg, Germany.
Image matching via the inhomogeneous diffusion of colour and texture
features
A. Kutics, M. Nakajima
NTT DATA CORPORATION, Japan.
Image database retrival using low volume data
M.Wood, N. W. Campbell, B. T. Thomas
Univ. of Bristol, UK.
Shot detection tools in digital video
X. Ubiergo, S. Bhattacharjee
EPFL, Switzerland.
11. 00 - 11.15 Refreshment Break
Poster Session
Image models and segmentation
11.15-12.30
Chairman: R. CASTAGNO, EPFL, Switzerland.
Modeling of texture images by the structuring element of morphological
filters
A. Taguchi, T. Komori
Masashi Institute of Tech., Japan.
Two dimensional volterra filter modelling of textured images using weighted
constrained optimisation
T. Stathaki, A. G. Constantinides
Imperial College, UK.
A retina-like image representation of primal sketch features extracted
using a neural network approach
H. Gomes, R. B. Fisher, J. Hallam
University of Edinburgh, UK.
Facial feature extraction and determination of pose
A. Nikolaidis, I. Pitas
Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Parameter evaluation of a 3D people localisation system for surveillance
applications
C. Regazzoni, A. Teschioni
University of Genova, Italy.
A segmentation methodology for real 3D images
M. Razaz, D. M. P. Hagyard, R. Lee
Univ. of East Anglia, UK.
An optimal morphological non uniform sampling scheme for sequence image
representation and compression
V. Haese-Coat, S. Saryazdi, J. Ronsin
INSA, Laboratoire d'Architecture et de Traitement des, France.
3D image analysis of facial shape changes using depth from stereo
Z. Mao, A. Naftel
Univ. of Central Lancashire, UK.
Dense disparity estimation via global and local matching
C. J. Tsai, A. K. Katsaggelos
Northwestern Univ., USA.
Object segmentation and modeling in volumetric images
A. G. Bors, I. Pitas
Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece.
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
FRIDAY AFTERNOON
Video Pre- and Post Processing
14.00 - 16.00
Chairman: G. RAMPONI, University of Trieste, Italy.
Nosie reduction techniques for video coding applications
G. Cortelazzo, G. A. Mian, R. Parolari, L. Sbaiz
Dipartimento di Electtronica e Inform, Italy.
A robust hybrid bayesian-morphological approach to multidimensional image
filtering
C. Regazzoni, E. Stringa
DIBE - Univ of Genoa, Italy.
Adaptively weighted vector-median postprocessing of motion fields on
block-dct and object-based video coding
L. Alparone, M. Barni, F. Bartolini
Univ. of Florence, Italy.
A pre-processing scheme for MPEG-2 video coding
J. Mir, et .al.
ALCATEL ITALIA- Transmission System Div., Italy.
Image interpolation by an integer factor using a non linear technique
C. Alessandretti, V. Rochelli, P. Carrai, L. Albani
via Phillips 12, Italy.
On the structure of idempotent monotone Boolean functions
I. Shmulevich
Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
16.00 Refreshments and Close
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