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.

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 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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 http://www.spd.eee.strath.ac.uk/noblesse/nmbia98