Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems

Noise Reduction and Restoration.- Directional Filtering for Upsampling According to Direction Information of the Base Layer in the JVT/SVC Codec.- A New Fuzzy-Based Wavelet Shrinkage Image Denoising Technique.- Mathematical Models for Restoration of Baroque Paintings.- Motion Blur Concealment of Digital Video Using Invariant Features.- Hybrid Sigma Filter for Processing Images Corrupted by Multiplicative Noise.- Automatic Restoration of Old Motion Picture Films Using Spatiotemporal Exemplar-Based Inpainting.- Dedicated Hardware for Real-Time Computation of Second-Order Statistical Features for High Resolution Images.- Greyscale Image Interpolation Using Mathematical Morphology.- Dilation Matrices for Nonseparable Bidimensional Wavelets.- Evolutionary Tree-Structured Filter for Impulse Noise Removal.- Perceived Image Quality Measurement of State-of-the-Art Noise Reduction Schemes.- Multiway Filtering Applied on Hyperspectral Images.- Segmentation.- A Linear-Time Approach for Image Segmentation Using Graph-Cut Measures.- The RIM Framework for Image Processing.- A Proposal Method for Corner Detection with an Orthogonal Three-Direction Chain Code.- A Charged Active Contour Based on Electrostatics.- Comparison of Statistical and Shape-Based Approaches for Non-rigid Motion Tracking with Missing Data Using a Particle Filter.- An Active Contour Model Guided by LBP Distributions.- Characterizing the Lacunarity of Objects and Image Sets and Its Use as a Technique for the Analysis of Textural Patterns.- Adaptive Vision Leveraging Digital Retinas: Extracting Meaningful Segments.- A Fast Dynamic Border Linking Algorithm for Region Merging.- Motion Estimation and Tracking.- Fast Sub-pixel Motion Estimation for H.264.- Temporal Error Concealment Based on Optical Flow in the H.264/AVC Standard.- Foreground-to-Ghost Discrimination in Single-Difference Pre-processing.- Moving Object Removal Based on Global Feature Registration.- Object Tracking Using Discriminative Feature Selection.- Color-Based Multiple Agent Tracking for Wireless Image Sensor Networks.- A Fast Motion Vector Search Algorithm for Variable Blocks.- Video Processing and Coding.- Constrained Region-Growing and Edge Enhancement Towards Automated Semantic Video Object Segmentation.- Spatio-temporal Composite-Features for Motion Analysis and Segmentation.- New Intra Luma Prediction Mode in H.264/AVC Using Collocated Weighted Chroma Pixel Value.- Fast Mode Decision for H.264/AVC Using Mode Prediction.- Performing Deblocking in Video Coding Based on Spatial-Domain Motion-Compensated Temporal Filtering.- Improving DCT-Based Coders Through Block Oriented Transforms.- Improvement of Conventional Deinterlacing Methods with Extrema Detection and Interpolation.- Adaptive Macroblock Mode Selection for Reducing the Encoder Complexity in H.264.- Dynamic Light Field Compression Using Shared Fields and Region Blocks for Streaming Service.- Complexity Scalability in Motion-Compensated Wavelet-Based Video Coding.- Spatial Error Concealment with Low Complexity in the H.264 Standard.- A Real-Time Content Adaptation Framework for Exploiting ROI Scalability in H.264/AVC.- Complexity Reduction Algorithm for Intra Mode Selection in H.264/AVC Video Coding.- Simple and Effective Filter to Remove Corner Outlier Artifacts in Highly Compressed Video.- Content-Based Model Template Adaptation and Real-Time System for Behavior Interpretation in Sports Video.- New Approach to Wireless Video Compression with Low Complexity.- Fast Multi-view Disparity Estimation for Multi-view Video Systems.- AddCanny: Edge Detector for Video Processing.- Video-Based Facial Expression Hallucination: A Two- Level Hierarchical Fusion Approach.- Blue Sky Detection for Picture Quality Enhancement.- Requantization Transcoding in Pixel and Frequency Domain for Intra 16x16 in H.264/AVC.- Motion-Compensated Deinterlacing Using Edge Information.- Video Enhancement for Underwater Exploration Using Forward Looking Sonar.- Camera Calibrat