Advances in Visual Computing

An NPR Technique for Pointillistic and Mosaic Images with Impressionist Color Arrangement.- Active View Optimization for Viewing Objects in Motion.- Adding Hand Motion to the Motion Capture Based Character Animation.- Oversimplified Euler Operators for a Non-oriented, Non-manifold B-Rep Data Structure.- The Number of Gaps in Binary Pictures.- Video Codec for Classical Cartoon Animations with Hardware Accelerated Playback.- Retinal Image Registration for NIH's ETDRS.- Using Multimodal MR Data for Segmentation and Topology Recovery of the Cerebral Superficial Venous Tree.- Loop Removal from Colon Central Path Through Skeleton Scale-Space Tracking.- Multiscale Segmentation of HRCT Images Using Bipolar Incoherent Filtering.- Building Statistical Atlas of White Matter Fiber Tract Based on Vector/Tensor Field Reconstruction in Diffusion Tensor MRI.- Interactive 3D Heart Chamber Partitioning with a New Marker-Controlled Watershed Algorithm.- Inferring Cause/Effect Relationships in Multi-sensor Ambient Intelligence Systems.- Toward a Unified Probabilistic Framework for Object Recognition and Segmentation.- Distributed Multi-camera Surveillance for Aircraft Servicing Operations.- Mining Paths of Complex Crowd Scenes.- Geometric and Photometric Analysis for Interactively Recognizing Multicolor or Partially Occluded Objects.- A Three-Level Graph Based Interactive Volume Segmentation System.- Self-organizing Deformable Model: A New Method for Fitting Mesh Model to Given Object Surface.- Image-Based Deformation of Objects in Real Scenes.- Comparing Sphere-Tree Generators and Hierarchy Updates for Deformable Objects Collision Detection.- Simulating Complex Organ Interactions: Evaluation of a Soft Tissue Discrete Model.- Face Verification in Polar Frequency Domain: A BiologicallyMotivated Approach.- Face Alignment and Adaptive Weight Assignment for Robust Face Recognition.- Face Detection in Low-Resolution Images.- Investigating the Impact of Face Categorization on Recognition Performance.- A Novel Approach on Silhouette Based Human Motion Analysis for Gait Recognition.- A Hybrid HMM/DPA Adaptive Gesture Recognition Method.- Hifocon: Object and Dimensional Coherence and Correlation in Multidimensional Visualization.- Efficient Compression of Visibility Sets.- Rendering Optimizations Guided by Head-Pose Estimates and Their Uncertainty.- Acceptance of Visual Search Interfaces for the Web - Design and Empirical Evaluation of a Book Search Interface.- Distributed and Collaborative Biomedical Data Exploration.- Image Database Navigation: A Globe-Al Approach.- Viewpoint Interpolation Using an Ellipsoid Head Model for Video Teleconferencing.- Real-Time Video Annotations for Augmented Reality.- A Tree-Structured Model of Visual Appearance Applied to Gaze Tracking.- Emotional Expression in Virtual Agents Through Body Language.- Visual Tracking for Seamless 3D Interactions in Augmented Reality.- ARISupport - Interaction Support for Augmented Reality Systems.- Background Updating for Visual Surveillance.- Pattern Discovery for Video Surveillance.- Real-Time Crowd Density Estimation Using Images.- Automatic Robust Background Modeling Using Multivariate Non-parametric Kernel Density Estimation for Visual Surveillance.- Recognition of Complex Human Behaviors in Pool Environment Using Foreground Silhouette.- Adaptive Background Subtraction with Multiple Feedbacks for Video Surveillance.- A Vectorial Self-dual Morphological Filter Based on Total Variation Minimization.- Wavelet Transform Based Gaussian Point Spread Function Estimation.- One-PointHexagonal Inner Search for Fast Motion Estimation.- Self-Describing Context-Based Pixel Ordering.- Lossless Compression of CCD Sensor Data.- Geometric Approach to Segmentation and Protein Localization in Cell Cultured Assays.- Multi-level Thresholding Using Entropy-Based Weighted FCM Algorithm in Color Image.- Adaptive Robust Structure Tensors for Orientation Estimation and Image Segmentation.- Structural and Textural Skeletons for Noisy Shapes.- Accurate and Efficient Computation of High Order Zernike Moments.- 3D Model Generation from Image Sequences Using Global Geometric Constraint.- Efficient Shot Boundary Detection for Action Movies Using Blockwise Motion-Based Features.- Text Localization and Extraction from Complex Color Images.- Using Linguistic Models for Image Retrieval.- Content-Based Image Retrieval Via Vector Quantization.- Multi-aspect Target Tracking in Image Sequences Using Particle Filters.- Segmentation and Recognition of Traffic Signs Using Shape Information.- Detection and Tracking Multiple Pedestrians from a Moving Camera.- Event Detection in Underground Stations Using Multiple Heterogeneous Surveillance Cameras.- Large-Scale Geospatial Indexing for Image-Based Retrieval and Analysis.- An Interactive Visualization Method for Integrating Digital Elevation Models and Geographic Information Systems Vector Layers.- Splines Interpolation in High Resolution Satellite Imagery.- Tool for Storm Analysis Using Multiple Data Sets.- 3D Modeling and Adaptation for Virtual Heritage System.- Direct Point Rendering on GPU.- An Artistic Portrait Caricature Model.- Capturing and View-Dependent Rendering of Billboard Models.- Error-Bounded Solid Voxelization for Polygonal Model Based on Heuristic Seed Filling.- Riemannian Mean Curvature Flow.- 3D Shape from Unorganized 3D Point Clouds.- 3D Hand Pose Reconstruction with ISOSOM.- A Motion Capture System for Sign Language Synthesis: Overview and Related Issues.- Dynamic Visualization of Spatially Referenced Information.- WYSIWYG-Tool Tips: Enhancing Tool Tips with Translucent Preview Bitmaps.- Motion Visualization of Ultrasound Imaging.- Two Novel Complete Sets of Similarity Invariants.- Detection of Text Region and Segmentation from Natural Scene Images.- ARM Based Microcontroller for Image Capturing in FPGA Design.- Contraction Mapping Calibration.- Discrimination of Natural Contours by Means of Time-Scale-Frequency Decompositions.- Color and Edge Refinement Method for Content Based Image Retrieval.- Selecting a Discriminant Subset of Co-occurrence Matrix Features for Texture-Based Image Retrieval.- An Automatic Relevance Feedback in Image Retrieval Using Belief Functions.- A Fast Full Search Algorithm for Variable Block-Based Motion Estimation of H.264.- Adaptive Switching Linear Predictor for Lossless Image Compression.- Toward Real Time Fractal Image Compression Using Graphics Hardware.- Motion Based Segmentation Using MPEG Streams and Watershed Method.- Efficient Depth Edge Detection Using Structured Light.- Image Smoothing and Segmentation by Graph Regularization.