Detailed Technical Program



Wednesday, September 2nd


7:30 Registration

9:00 -  9:20 Opening

9:20 - 10:40 Session 1: Motion Analysis

         Optic Flow using Multi-Scale Anchor Points
         Pieter van Dorst, Bart Janssen, Luc Florack, and Bart M. ter Haar Romeny

         A Methodology for Evaluating Illumination Artifact Removal for Corresponding Images
         Tobi Vaudrey, Andreas Wedel, and Reinhard Klette

         Nonlinear Motion Detection
         Lennart Wietzke and Gerald Sommer

         Extraction of Cardiac Motion Using Scale-Space Features Points and Gauged Reconstruction
         Alessandro Becciu, Bart Janssen, Hans van Assen, Luc Florack, Vivian Roode, and Bart M. ter Haar Romeny

10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 - 12:30 Session 2: Biomedical Image Analysis

         MCMC-based Algorithm to Adjust Scale Bias in Large Series of Electron Microscopical Ultrathin Sections
         Huaizhong Zhang, E. Patricia Rodriguez, Philip Morrow, Sally McClean, and Kurt Saetzler

         Structure-preserving Smoothing of Biomedical Images
         Debora Gil, Aura Hernandrez-Sabate, Mireia Brunat, Steven Jansen, and Jordi Martinez-Villalta

         A Riemannian Scalar Measure for Diffusion Tensor Images
         Andrea Fuster, Laura Astola, and Luc Florack

         A Non-Local Fuzzy Segmentation Method: Application to Brain MRI
         Benoit Caldairou, Franois Rousseau, Nicolas Passat, Piotr Habas, Colin Studholme, and Christian Heinrich

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 - 16:00 Session 3: Biometrics and Object Recognition

         Regression Based Non-Frontal Face Synthesis for Improved Identity Verification
         Yongkang Wong, Conrad Sanderson, and Brian C. Lovell

         Model-based Illumination Correction for Face Images in Uncontrolled Scenarios
         Bas Boom, Luuk Spreeuwers, and Raymond Veldhuis

         Dynamics Analysis of Facial Expressions for Person Identification
         Hidenori Tanaka and Hideo Saito

         Finger-Knuckle-Print Verification Based On Band-Limited Phase-Only Correlation
         Lin Zhang, Lei Zhang, and David Zhang

         Contextual-Guided Bag-of-Visual-Words Model for Multi-class Object Categorization
         Mehdi Mirza-Mohammadi, Sergio Escalera, and Petia Radeva

         Isometric Deformation Modelling for Object Recognition
         Dirk Smeets, Thomas Fabry, Jeroen Hermans, Dirk Vandermeulen, and Paul Suetens

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break

16:00 - 17:50 Poster session 1:  List of presentations

18:00 Social event


Thursday, September 3rd


9:00 - 10:00 Keynote 1

         Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition for the Analysis of Paintings and Drawings:
         New Rigorous Methods Complement Humanistic Scholarship in the Study of Fine Art
         David G. Stork

10:00 - 10:40 Session 4: Graph Representations

         Hypergraphs, Characteristic Polynomials and The Ihara Zeta Function
         Peng Ren, Tatjana Aleksic, Richard C. Wilson, and Edwin R. Hancock

         Feature Ranking Algorithms for Improving Classification of Vector Space Embedded Graphs
         Kaspar Riesen and Horst Bunke

10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 - 12:30 Session 5: Shape Recovery

         3D Object Reconstruction Using Full Pixel Matching
         Yuichi Yaguchi, Kenta Iseki, Nguyen Tien Viet, and Ryuichi Oka

         Rapid Classification of Surface Reflectance from Image Velocities
         Katja Doerschner, Dan Kersten, and Paul Schrater

         On the Recovery of Depth from a Single Defocused Image
         Shaojie Zhuo and Terence Sim

         Iterative Camera Motion and Depth Estimation in a Video Sequence
         Franoise Dibos, Claire Jonchery, and Georges Koepfler

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 - 16:00 Session 6: Segmentation and Tracking

         A Fast Level Set-Like Algorithm with Topology Preserving Constraint
         Martin Maska and Pavel Matula

         Detection of Non-Convex Objects by Dynamic Programming
         Andree Grosse, Kai Rothaus, and Xiaoyi Jiang

         Modelling Human Segmentation Trough Color and Space Analysis
         Agnes Borras and Josep Llados

         Point Cloud Segmentation Based on Radial Reflection
         Mario Richtsfeld and Markus Vincze

         Coarse-to-Fine Tracking of Articulated Objects Using a Hierarchical Spring System
         Nicole Artner, Adrian Ion, and Walter Kropatsch

         Real-time Volumetric Reconstruction and Tracking of Hands in a Desktop Environment
         Christoph John, Ulrich Schwanecke, and Holger Regenbrecht

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break

16:00 - 17:50 Poster session 2:  List of presentations

18:00 Conference dinner


Friday, September 4th


9:00 - 10:00 Keynote 2

         3D Video and Free Viewpoint Video - Technologies, Applications and MPEG Standards
         Aljoscha Smolic

10:00 - 10:40 Session 7: Applications

         Intelligent Video Surveillance for Detecting Snow and Ice Coverage on Electrical Insulators
         of Power Transmission Lines
         Irene Yu-Hua Gu, Unai Sistiaga, Sonja M. Berlijn, and Anders Fahlström

         Performance Evaluation of Airport Lighting Using Mobile Camera Techniques
         Shyama Prosad Chowdhury, Karen McMenemy, and Jian-Xun Peng

10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break

10:40 - 12:30 Poster session 3:  List of presentations

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 - 15:40 Session 8: Image Processing

         Transform Invariant Video Fingerprinting by NMF
         Ozan Gursoy, Bilge Gunsel, and Neslihan Sengor

         Edge-Based Image Compression with Homogeneous Diffusion
         Markus Mainberger and Joachim Weickert

         Nonlinear Diffusion Filters without Parameters for Image Segmentation
         Carlos Platero, Javier Sanguino, and Olga Velasco

         Reduced Inverse Distance Weighting Interpolation for Painterly Rendering
         Giuseppe Papari and Nicolai Petkov

         Color Me Right - Seamless Image Compositing
         Dong Guo and Terence Sim

15:40 - 16:00 Closing

16:00 Farewell