This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2006. The book presents 45 revised full papers and 65 revised poster papers. Topical sections include noise reduction and restoration, segmentation, motion estimation and tracking, video processing and coding, camera calibration, image registration and stereo matching, biometrics and security, medical imaging, image retrieval and image understanding, and more.

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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 Calibration, Image Registration and Stereo Matching.- Optimal Parameters Selection for Non-parametric Image Registration Methods.- Camera Calibration from a Single Frame of Planar Pattern.- Stereo Matching Using Scanline Disparity Discontinuity Optimization.- A New Stereo Matching Model Using Visibility Constraint Based on Disparity Consistency.- Refine Stereo Correspondence Using Bayesian Network and Dynamic Programming on a Color Based Minimal Span Tree.- Estimation of Rotation Parameters from Blurred Image.- Hierarchical Stereo Matching: From Foreground to Background.- Biometrics and Security.- Gabor Feature Based Face Recognition Using Supervised Locality Preserving Projection.- Alternative Fuzzy Clustering Algorithms with L1-Norm and Covariance Matrix.- A Statistical Approach for Ownership Identification of Digital Images.- Rigid and Non-rigid Face Motion Tracking by Aligning Texture Maps and Stereo-Based 3D Models.- Curve Mapping Based Illumination Adjustment for Face Detection.- Common Image Method(Null Space + 2DPCAs) for Face Recognition.- Discrete Choice Models for Static Facial Expression Recognition.- Scalable and Channel-Adaptive Unequal Error Protection of Images with LDPC Codes.- Robust Analysis of Silhouettes by Morphological Size Distributions.- Enhanced Watermarking Scheme Based on Texture Analysis.- A Robust Watermarking Algorithm Using Attack Pattern Analysis.- Probability Approximation Using Best-Tree Distribution for Skin Detection.- Fusion Method of Fingerprint Quality Evaluation: From the Local Gabor Feature to the Global Spatial-Frequency Structures.- 3D Face Recognition Based on Non-iterative Registration and Single B-Spline Patch Modelling Techniques.- Automatic Denoising of 2D Color Face Images Using Recursive PCA Reconstruction.- Facial Analysis and Synthesis Scheme.- Medical Imaging.- Detection of Pathological Cells in Phase Contrast Cytological Images.- Water Flow Based Complex Feature Extraction.- Seeded Region Merging Based on Gradient Vector Flow for Image Segmentation.- System for Reading Braille Embossed on Beverage Can Lids for Authentication.- Leukocyte Segmentation in Blood Smear Images Using Region-Based Active Contours.- Multiresolution Lossy-to-Lossless Coding of MRI Objects.- A Novel Fuzzy Segmentation Approach for Brain MRI.- Extrema Temporal Chaining: A New Method for Computing the 2D-Displacement Field of the Heart from Tagged MRI.- Data Fusion and Fuzzy Spatial Relationships for Locating Deep Brain Stimulation Targets in Magnetic Resonance Images.- Robust Tracking of Migrating Cells Using Four-Color Level Set Segmentation.- Image Retrieval and Image Understanding.- Robust Visual Identifier for Cropped Natural Photos.- Affine Epipolar Direction from Two Views of a Planar Contour.- Toward Visually Inferring the Underlying Causal Mechanism in a Traffic-Light-Controlled Crossroads.- Computer Vision Based Travel Aid for the Blind Crossing Roads.- A Novel Stochastic Attributed Relational Graph Matching Based on Relation Vector Space Analysis.- A New Similarity Measure for Random Signatures: Perceptually Modified Hausdorff Distance.- Tracking of Linear Appearance Models Using Second Order Minimization.- Visibility of Point Clouds and Mapping of Unknown Environments.- Adjustment for Discrepancies Between ALS Data Strips Using a Contour Tree Algorithm.- Visual Bootstrapping for Unsupervised Symbol Grounding.- A 3D Model Acquisition System Based on a Sequence of Projected Level Curves…