Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems

Video Processing.- Video Quality Analysis for Concert Video Mashup Generation.- Speeding Up Structure from Motion on Large Scenes Using Parallelizable Partitions.- Mapping GOPS in an Improved DVC to H.264 Video Transcoder.- Scalable H.264 Wireless Video Transmission over MIMO-OFDM Channels.- A GPU-Accelerated Real-Time NLMeans Algorithm for Denoising Color Video Sequences.- An Efficient Mode Decision Algorithm for Combined Scalable Video Coding.- A Novel Rate Control Method for H.264/AVC Based on Frame Complexity and Importance.- Digital Image Tamper Detection Based on Multimodal Fusion of Residue Features.- Surveillance and Camera Networks.- Fire Detection in Color Images Using Markov Random Fields.- A Virtual Curtain for the Detection of Humans and Access Control.- A New System for Event Detection from Video Surveillance Sequences.- Evaluation of Human Detection Algorithms in Image Sequences.- Recognizing Objects in Smart Homes Based on Human Interaction.- Football Players Classification in a Multi-camera Environment.- SUNAR Surveillance Network Augmented by Retrieval.- Object Tracking over Multiple Uncalibrated Cameras Using Visual, Spatial and Temporal Similarities.- Machine Vision.- A Template Matching and Ellipse Modeling Approach to Detecting Lane Markers.- An Analysis of the Road Signs Classification Based on the Higher-Order Singular Value Decomposition of the Deformable Pattern Tensors.- An Effective Rigidity Constraint for Improving RANSAC in Homography Estimation.- Exploiting Neighbors for Faster Scanning Window Detection in Images.- Remote Sensing.- Optimisation-Based Image Grid Smoothing for SST Images.- Estimating 3D Polyhedral Building Models by Registering Aerial Images.- Content-Based Retrieval of Aurora Images Based on the Hierarchical Representation.- Improved Grouping and Noise Cancellation for Automatic Lossy Compression of AVIRIS Images.- New Saliency Point Detection and Evaluation Methods for Finding Structural Differences in Remote Sensing Images of Long Time-Span Samples.- Recognition, Classification and Tracking.- Regularized Kernel Locality Preserving Discriminant Analysis for Face Recognition.- An Appearance-Based Prior for Hand Tracking.- Image Recognition through Incremental Discriminative Common Vectors.- Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition Using Boosted Component-Based Spatiotemporal Features and Multi-classifier Fusion.- Gender Classification on Real-Life Faces.- Face Recognition Using Contourlet Transform and Multidirectional Illumination from a Computer Screen.- Shape and Texture Based Plant Leaf Classification.- A New Approach of GPU Accelerated Visual Tracking.- Recognizing Human Actions by Using Spatio-temporal Motion Descriptors.