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 All other information and registration details at http://www.spd.eee.strath.ac.uk/noblesse/nmbia98