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     Image and Video Coding
     Performance Analysis of Generalized Zerotree Coders Varying t he
     Maximum Zerotree Degree                                                        1
        Luca Cicala
     Passive Error Concealment for Wavelet Coded Images with Efficient
     Reconstruction of High-Frequency Content                                      13
        Joost Rombaut, Aleksandra Pizurica, and Wilfrid Philips
     Applying Open-Loop Coding in Predictive Coding Systems                       25
       Adrian Munteanu, Frederik Verbist, Jan Cornelis, and
       Peter Schelkens
     Network Security Using Biometric a nd C ryptography                           38
        Sandip Dutta, Avijit Kar, N.C. Mahanti, and B.N. Chatterji
     Bit Domain Encryption                                                        45
        Anil Yekkala and C.E. Veni Madhavan
     A Multiresolution Robust Watermarking Approach for Scalable
     Wavelet Image Compression                                                     57
       Habibollah Danyali and Mehran Deljavan Amiri
     Improving Image Vector Quantization with a Genetic Accelerated
     K-Means Algorithm                                                            67
        Carlos R.B. Azevedo, Tiago A.E. Ferreira, Waslon T.A. Lopes, and
        Francisco Madeira

     Systems and Applications
     Efficient a nd Flexible Cluster-and-Search for C BIR                          77
         Anderson Rocha, Jurandy Almeida, Mario A. Nascimento,
         Ricardo Torres, and Siome Goldenstein
     An Evaluation Methodology for Image Mosaicing Algorithms                     89
       Pietro Azzari, Luigi Di Stefano, and Stefano Mattoccia
     High-Speed Acquisition a nd Pre-processing of Polarimetric Image
     Sequences                                                                    101
        Luc Gendre, Alban Foulonneau, and Laurent Bigue
    Nighttime Vehicle Detection for Intelligent Headlight Control                 113
       Antonio Lopez, Jorg Hilgenstock, Andreas Busse, Ramon Baldrich,
       Felipe Lumbreras, and Joan Serrat


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Fourier-Based Inspection of Free-Form Reflective Surfaces              125
   Y. Caulier and S. Bourennane
An Iterative Kalman Filter Approach to Camera Calibration              137
   Carlos Ricolje-Viala and Antonio-Jose Sdnchez-Saimeron
An Efficient Hardware Architecture without Line Memories for
Morphological Image Processing                                         147
   Christophe Clienti, Michel Bilodeau, and Serge Beucher
Embedding of a Real Time Image Stabilization Algorithm on SoPC
Platform, a Chip Multi-processor Approach                              157
   Jean Pierre Derutin, Lionel Damez, and Alexis Landrault
"Local Rank Differences" Image Feature Implemented on GPU              170
   Lukds Polok, Adam Herout, Pavel Zemcik, Michal Hradis,
   Roman Jurdnek, and Radovan Josth
Real-Time Wavelet-Spatial-Activity-Based Adaptive Video
Enhancement Algorithm for FPGA                                         182
   V. Zlokolica, M. Katona, M. Juenke, Z. Krajacevic, N. Teslic, and
   M. Temerinac
MIDIAS: An Integrated 2D/3D Sensor System for Safety
Applications                                                           194
  Tobias Hanning and Aless Lasaruk
Configurable Passband Imaging Spectrometer Based on Acousto-optic
Tunable Filter                                                         206
   Joan Vila-Frances, Luis Gomez-Chova, Julia Amords-Lopez, and
   Javier Calpe-Maravilla
Basic Video-Surveillance with Low Computational and Power
Requirements Using Long-Exposure Frames                                218
   Vincenzo Caglioti and Alessandro Giusti
Parallel Algorithm for Concurrent Computation of Connected
Component Tree                                                         230
   P. Matas, E. Doklddalovd, M. AMI, T. Grandpierre, L. Najrnan,
   M. Poupa, and V. Georgiev
Distributed Smart Camera Calibration Using Blinking LED                242
   Michael Koch, Zoran Zivkovic, Richard Kleihorst, and
   Henk Corporaal
Real-Time Hough Transform on 1-D SIMD Processors: Implementation
and Architecture Exploration                                           254
   Yifan He, Zoran Zivkovic, Richard Kleihorst, Alexander Danilin,
   Henk Corporaal, and Bart Mesman
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Sub-optimal Camera Selection in P ractical Vision Networks through
Shape Approximation                                                       266
   Huang Lee, Linda Tessens, Marleen Morbee, Hamid Aghajan, and
   Wilfried Philips

Video Processing
A Real-Time Vision System for Traffic Signs Recognition Invariant t o
Translation, Rotation and Scale                                           278
   Boguslaw Cyganek
Dynamic Selection of Characteristics for Feature Based Image Sequence
Stabilization                                                             290
   Hugo Jimenez and Joaquin Salas

Video-Based Fall Detection in t he Home Using Principal Component
Analysis                                                                  298
   Lykele Hazelhoff, Jungong Han, and Peter H.N. de With
Fluid Flow Measurement in T hermographic Video Sequences by
Wavelet-Multiresolution Optical Flow Estimation                           310
   Hugo Franco, Alvaro Perea, Eduardo Romero, and Daniel Rodriguez
Video Object Segmentation Based on Feedback Schemes Guided by a
Low-Level Scene Ontology                                                  322
   Alvaro Garcia and Jesus Bescos

Adaptive Metadata Management System for Distributed Video Content
Analysis                                                                  334
   C. Carincotte, X. Desurmont, and A. Bastide
Synchronizing Video Sequences from Temporal Epipolar Lines
Analysis                                                                  346
   Vincent Guitteny, Ryad Benosman, and Christophe Charbuillet
Automatic Feature-Based Stabilization of Video with Intentional
Motion through a P article Filter                                         356
   Carlos R. del-Bianco, Fernando Jaureguizar, Luis Salgado, and
   Narciso Garcia

Filtering and Restoration
Image Denoising Using Similarities in t he Time-Scale Plane               368
   Vittoria Bruni and Domenico Vitulano
Video Denoising and Simplification Via Discrete Regularization on
Graphs                                                                    380
   Mahmoud Ghoniem, Youssef Chahir, and Abderrahim Elmoataz
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A Robust Method for Edge-Preserving Image Smoothing                                    390
   Gang Dong and Kannappan Palaniappan
Atmospheric Turbulence Restoration by Diffeomorphic Image
Registration and Blind Deconvolution                                                   400
   Jerome Gilles, Tristan Dagobert, and Carlo De Franchis
Sequential Blind PSF Estimation and Restoration of Aerial
Multispectral Images                                                                   410
   Pejman Rahmani, Benoit Vozel, and Kacem Chehdi
Phase Unwrapping in Fringe Projection Systems Using Epipolar
Geometry                                                                               422
   Christian Brduer-Burchardt, Christoph Munkelt, Matthias Heinze,
   Peter Kiihmstedt, and Gunther Notni
Decision Trees in Binary Tomography for Supporting the Reconstruction
of hv-Convex Connected Images                                                          433
    Peter Baldzs and Mihdly Gara
Multidimensional Noise Removal Based o n F o u r t h Order C u m u l a n t s . . . .   4 44
   Damien Letexier, Salah Bourennane, and Jacques Blanc-Talon
Defocus Blur Correcting Projector-Camera System                                        453
   Yuji Oyamada and Hideo Saito
Multidimensional Noise Removal Method Based on PARAFAC
Decomposition                                                                          465
   Florian Joyeux, Damien Letexier, Salah Bourennane, and
   Jacques Blanc-Talon

Segmentation and Feature Extraction
A New Algorithm for Dominant Point Detection by Quasi-collinear
Break Points Supression                                           474
   A. Carmona-Poyato, N.L. Fernandez-Garcia, and R, Munoz-Salinas
Robust Curvature Extrema Detection Based on New Numerical
Derivation                                                                             485
   Cedric Join and Salvatore Tabbone
Geodesic Active Contours with Combined Shape and Appearance
Priors                                                                                 494
   Rami Ben-Ari and Dror Aiger
Nonparametric Level-Set Segmentation Based on the Minimization of
the Stochastic Complexity                                                              506
   Marc Allain, Nicolas Bertaux, and Frederic Galland
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A Geometric Primitive Extraction Process for Remote Sensing
Problems                                                                518
   Florent Lafarge, Georgy Gimel'farb, and Xavier Descombes

Use of Local Surface Curvature Estimation for Adaptive Vision System
Based on Active Light Projection                                        530
   Wanjing Li, Martin Bb'hler, Rainer Schutze, Franck S. Marzani,
   Yvon Voisin, and Frank Boochs

Spatially-Variant Directional Mathematical Morphology Operators
Based on a Diffused Average Squared Gradient Field                      542
   Rafael Verdu-Monedero and Jesus Angulo

Spherical Edge Detector: Application to Omnidirectional Imaging         554
   Stephanie Bigot, Djemaa Kachi, and Sylvain Durand

Towards Fully Automatic Image Segmentation Evaluation                   566
  Lutz Goldmann, Tomasz Adamek, Peter Vajda, Mustafa Karaman,
  Roland Morzinger, Eric Galmar, Thomas Sikora, Noel E. O 'Connor,
   Thien Ha-Minh, Touradj Ebrahimi, Peter Schallauer, and
  Benoit Huet

Fast Saliency-Based Motion Segmentation Algorithm for an Active
Vision System                                                           578
   M. Salah E.-N. Shafik and Baerbel Mertsching

A Multicomponent Image Segmentation Framework                           589
  J. Driesen and P. Scheunders

An Interval-Valued Fuzzy Morphological Model Based on
Lukasiewicz-Operators                                                   601
   M. Nachtegael, P. Sussner, T. Melange, and E.E. Kerre

Curvature Estimation and Curve Inference with Tensor Voting: A New
Approach                                                                613
   Gabriele Lombardi, Elena Casiraghi, and Paola Campadelli

Attention-Based Segmentation on an Image Pyramid Sequence               625
   Masayasu Atsumi

A Pseudo-logarithmic Image Processing Framework for Edge
Detection                                                               637
   Constantin Vertan, Alina Oprea, Corneliu Florea, and Laura Florea

Graffiti Detection Using a Time-Of-Flight Camera                        645
   Federico Tombari, Luigi Di Stefano, Stefano Mattoccia, and
   Andrea Zanetti
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Contour Detection for I ndustrial Image Processing by Means of Level
Set Methods                                                                655
   J. Marot, Y. Caulier, A. Kuleschov, K. Spinnler, and S. Bourennane

Knee Point Detection in BIC for Detecting t he Number of Clusters          664
   Qinpei Zhao, Ville Hautamaki, and Pasi Frdnti

Grey-Scale Morphology with Spatially-Variant Rectangles in Linear
Time                                                                       674
   Petr Doklddal and Eva Doklddalovd

Image Segmentation Based on Supernodes a nd Region Size
Estimation                                                                 686
    Yuan Yuan, Lihong Ma, and Hanqing Lu

An Image Quality Metric Based on a Colour Appearance Model                 696
   Li Gui and Alastair R. Allen

Fuzzy Rule Iterative Feature Selection (FRIFS) with Respect t o the
Choquet Integral Apply t o Fabric Defect Recognition                       708
   Emmanuel Schmitt, Vincent Bombardier, and Laurent Wendling

Simple and Robust Optic Disc Localisation Using Colour Decorrelated
Templates                                                                  719
   Tomi Kauppi and Heikki Kalvidinen

Active Contours without Edges and with Simple Shape Priors                 730
   Eduard Sojka, Jan Gaura, and Michal Krumnikl

Tracking, Scene Understanding and Computer Vision
A Robust Method for Filling Holes in 3D Meshes Based on Image
Restoration                                                                742
   Emiliano Perez, Santiago Salamanca, Pilar Merchdn, Antonio Addn,
   Carlos Cerrada, and Inocente Cambero

A Comparison of Multiclass SVM Methods for Real World Natural
Scenes                                                                     752
   Can Demirkesen and Hocine Cherifi

Intuitionistic Fuzzy Clustering with Applications in C omputer Vision...   764
   Dimitris K. Iakovidis, Nikos Pelekis, Evangelos Kotsifakos, and
    Ioannis Kopanakis

Object Tracking Using Naive Bayesian Classifiers                           775
   Nemanja Petrovic, Ljubomir Jovanov, Aleksandra Pizurica, and
   Wilfried Philips
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3D Tracking Using Multi-view Based Particle Filters                      785
   Raul Mohedano, Narciso Garcia, Luis Salgado, and
   Fernando Jaureguizar
Motion Recovery for Uncalibrated Turntable Sequences Using
Silhouettes and a Single Point                                           796
    Hui Zhang, Ling Shao, and Kwan- Fee K. Wong
Semantic Map Generation from Satellite Images for Humanitarian
Scenarios Applications                                                   808
   Corina Vaduva, Daniela Faur, Anca Popescu, Inge Gavat, and
   Mihai Datcu
An Effective Salience-Based Algorithm for Shape Matching                 818
   Glauco V. Pedrosa, Cristiane F. Santos, Marcos A. Batista,
   Henrique C. Fernandes, and Celia A.Z. Barcelos
A New Ground Movement Compensation Approach for Obstacle
Detection Using an In-Vehicle Camera                                     828
   Changhui Yang, Hitoshi Hongo, and Shinichi Tanimoto
Foliage Recognition Based on Local Edge Information                      838
   David Van Hamme, Peter Veelaert, Wilfried Philips, Kristof Teelen,
   Niels Stevens, and Bart Vermeersch
On Bin Configuration of Shape Context Descriptors in Human
Silhouette Classification                                                850
   Mark Barnard and Janne Heikkild
Kernel Based Approach for High Dimensional Heterogeneous Image
Features Management in CBIR Context                                      860
   /. Daoudi, K. Idrissi, and S.E. Ouatik
Scene Reconstruction Using MRF Optimization with Image Content
Adaptive Energy Functions                                                872
   Ping Li, Rene Klein Gunnewiek, and Peter H.N. de With
Blur and Contrast Invariant Fast Stereo Matching                         883
   Matteo Pedone and Janne Heikkild
A Generalized Appriou's Model for Evidential Classification of
Multispectral Images: A Case Study of Algiers City                       891
  Abdenour Bouakache, Radja Khedam, Aichouche Belhadj-Aissa, and
  Gregoire Mercier

Medical Imaging
Fuzzy Clustering and Active Contours for Histopathology Image
Segmentation and Nuclei Detection                                        903
   Adel Hafiane, Filiz Bunyak, and Kannappan Palaniappan
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Mosaicing of Fibered Fluorescence Microscopy Video                    915
  Steve De Backer, Frans Cornelissen, Jan Lemeire, Rony Nuydens,
   Theo Meert, Peter Schelkens, and Paul Scheunders

Fusion of Multi-view Tissue Classification Based on Wound 3D
Model                                                                 924
   Hazem Wannous, Yves Lucas, Sylvie Treuillet, and Benjamin Albouy

Effective Segmentation for Dental X-Ray Images Using Texture-Based
Fuzzy Inference System                                                936
    Y.H. Lai and P.L. Lin

Breast Mass Segmentation in Mammographic Images by an Effective
Region Growing Algorithm                                              948
   Arianna Mencattini, Giulia Rabottino, Marcello Salmeri,
   Roberto Lojacono, and Emanuele Colini


Biometrics and Surveillance
Pedestrian Detection a nd Tracking Based o n Far Infrared Visual
Information                                                           958
   Daniel Olmeda, Cristina Hilario, Arturo de la Escalera, and
   Jose M. Armingol

Crowd Behavior Recognition for Video Surveillance                     970
   Shobhit Saxena, Francois Bremond, Monnique Thonnat, and
   Ruihua Ma

Face Recognition Using Symbolic KPCA Plus Symbolic LDA in
the Framework of Symbolic Data Analysis: Symbolic Kernel Fisher
Discriminant Method                                                   982
   P.S. Hiremath and C.J. Prabhakar

Face Recognition Using Parabola Edge Map                              994
   Francis Deboeverie, Peter Veelaert, Kristof Teelen, and
   Wilfried Philips

Human Pose Estimation in Vision Networks Via Distributed Local
Processing and Nonparametric Belief Propagation                       1006
   Chen Wu and Hamid Aghajan

 Model-Based Gait Recognition Using Multiple Feature Detection        1018
   Donghyeon Kim, Daehee Kim, and Joonki Paik

 A New Segmentation Approach for E ar Recognition                     1030
    Sepehr Attarchi, Karim Faez, and Aref Rafiei
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Robust Lip Contours Localization and Tracking Using Multi
Features - Statistical Shape Models                                      1038
   Quoc Dinh Nguyen and Maurice Milgram

3D Face Recognition Evaluation on Expressive Faces Using the IV2
Database                                                                 1050
   Joseph Colineau, Johan D'Hose, Boulbaba Ben Amor,
   Mohsen Ardabilian, Liming Chen, and Bernadette Dorizzi

Reliable Eyelid Localization for Iris Recognition                        1062
   Mathieu Adam, Florence Rossant, Frederic Amiel,
   Beata Mikovicova, and Thomas Ea

Head Pose Determination Using Synthetic Images                           1071
   Kevin Bailly and Maurice Milgram

A Fast and Fully Automatic Ear Recognition Approach Based on 3D
Local Surface Features                                                   1081
   S.M.S. Islam, R. Davies, A.S. Mian, and M. Bennamoun

Open or Closed Mouth State Detection: Static Supervised Classification
Based on Log-Polar Signature                                             1093
   Christian Bouvier, Alexandre Benoit, Alice Caplier, and
   Pierre-Yves Coulon

Gabor Filter-Based Fingerprint Anti-spoofing                             1103
  Shankar Bhausaheb Nikam and Suneeta Agarwal

Improved Infrared Face Identification Performance Using Nonuniformity
Correction Techniques                                                    1115
   Cesar San Martin, Pablo Meza, Sergio Torres, and Roberto Carrillo

Constrained Phase-Based Personalized Facial Feature Tracking             1124
  Mohamed Dahmane and Jean Meunier

Author Index                                                             1135