This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2007, held in Delft, The Netherlands, August 2007. Coverage includes 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, as well as classification and recognition.

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Computer Vision.- A Framework for Scalable Vision-Only Navigation.- Visual Tracking by Hypothesis Testing.- A New Approach to the Automatic Planning of Inspection of 3D Industrial Parts.- Low Latency 2D Position Estimation with a Line Scan Camera for Visual Servoing.- Optimization of Quadtree Triangulation for Terrain Models.- Analyzing DGI-BS: Properties and Performance Under Occlusion and Noise.- Real-Time Free Viewpoint from Multiple Moving Cameras.- A Cognitive Modeling Approach for the Semantic Aggregation of Object Prototypes from Geometric Primitives: Toward Understanding Implicit Object Topology.- A Multi-touch Surface Using Multiple Cameras.- Fusion, Detection and Classification.- Fusion of Bayesian Maximum Entropy Spectral Estimation and Variational Analysis Methods for Enhanced Radar Imaging.- A PDE-Based Approach for Image Fusion.- Improvement of Classification Using a Joint Spectral Dimensionality Reduction and Lower Rank Spatial Approximation for Hyperspectral Images.- Learning-Based Object Tracking Using Boosted Features and Appearance-Adaptive Models.- Spatiotemporal Fusion Framework for Multi-camera Face Orientation Analysis.- Independent Component Analysis-Based Estimation of Anomaly Abundances in Hyperspectral Images.- Unsupervised Multiple Object Segmentation of Multiview Images.- Image Processing and Filtering.- Noise Removal from Images by Projecting onto Bases of Principal Components.- A Multispectral Data Model for Higher-Order Active Contours and Its Application to Tree Crown Extraction.- A Crossing Detector Based on the Structure Tensor.- Polyphase Filter and Polynomial Reproduction Conditions for the Construction of Smooth Bidimensional Multiwavelets.- Multidimensional Noise Removal Method Based on Best Flattening Directions.- Low-Rank Approximation for Fast Image Acquisition.- A Soft-Switching Approach to Improve Visual Quality of Colour Image Smoothing Filters.- Comparison of Image Conversions Between Square Structure and Hexagonal Structure.- Biometrics and Security.- Action Recognition with Semi-global Characteristics and Hidden Markov Models.- Patch-Based Experiments with Object Classification in Video Surveillance.- Neural Network Based Face Detection from Pre-scanned and Row-Column Decomposed Average Face Image.- Model-Based Image Segmentation for Multi-view Human Gesture Analysis.- A New Partially Occluded Face Pose Recognition.- Large Head Movement Tracking Using Scale Invariant View-Based Appearance Model.- Robust Shape-Based Head Tracking.- Evaluating Descriptors Performances for Object Tracking on Natural Video Data.- A Simple and Efficient Eigenfaces Method.- A New Approach to Face Localization in the HSV Space Using the Gaussian Model.- Gait Recognition Using Active Shape Models.- Statistical Classification of Skin Color Pixels from MPEG Videos.- A Double Layer Background Model to Detect Unusual Events.- Realistic Facial Modeling and Animation Based on High Resolution Capture.- Image Processing and Restoration.- Descriptor-Free Smooth Feature-Point Matching for Images Separated by Small/Mid Baselines.- A New Supervised Evaluation Criterion for Region Based Segmentation Methods.- A Multi-agent Approach for Range Image Segmentation with Bayesian Edge Regularization.- Adaptive Image Restoration Based on Local Robust Blur Estimation.- Image Upscaling Using Global Multimodal Priors.- A Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Filter for Detail-Preserving Restoration of Digital Images Corrupted by Impulse Noise.- Contrast Enhancement of Images Using Partitioned Iterated Function Systems.- A Spatiotemporal Algorithm for Detection and Restoration of Defects in Old Color Films.- Medical Image Processing.- Categorizing Laryngeal Images for Decision Support.- Segmentation of the Human Trachea Using Deformable Statistical Models of Tubular Shapes.- Adaptive Image Content-Based Exposure Control for Scanning Applications in Radiography.- Shape Extraction Via Heat Flow Analogy.- Adaptive Vision System for Segmentation of Echographic Medical Images Based on a Modified Mumford-Shah Functional.- Detection of Individual Specimens in Populations Using Contour Energies.- Logarithmic Model-Based Dynamic Range Enhancement of Hip X-Ray Images.- A New Color Representation for Intensity Independent Pixel Classification in Confocal Microscopy Images.- Colon Visualization Using Cylindrical Parameterization.- Particle Filter Based Automatic Reconstruction of a Patient-Specific Surface Model of a Proximal Femur from Calibrated X-Ray Images for Surgical Navigation.- Video Coding and Processing.- Joint Tracking and Segmentation of Objects Using Graph Cuts.- A New Fuzzy Motion and Detail Adaptive Video Filter.- Bridging the Gap: Transcoding from Single-Layer H.264/AVC to Scalable SVC Video Streams.- Improved Pixel-Based Rate Allocation for Pixel-Domain Distributed Video Coders Without Feedback Channel.- Multiview Depth-Image Compression Using an Extended H.264 Encoder.- Grass Detection for Picture Quality Enhancement of TV Video.- Exploitation of Combined Scalability in Scalable H.264/AVC Bitstreams by Using an MPEG-21 XML-Driven Framework.- Moving Object Extraction by Watershed Algorithm Considering Energy Minimization.- Constrained Inter Prediction: Removing Dependencies Between Different Data Partitions.- Performance Improvement of H.264/AVC Deblocking Filter by Using Variable Block Sizes.- Real-Time Detection of the Triangular and Rectangular Shape Road Signs.- High-Resolution Multi-sprite Generation for Background Sprite Coding.- Motion Information Exploitation in H.264 Frame Skipping Transcoding.- Joint Domain-Range Modeling of Dynamic Scenes with Adaptive Kernel Bandwidth.- Competition Based Prediction for Skip Mode Motion Vector Using Macroblock Classification for the H.264 JM KTA Software.- Efficiency of Closed and Open-Loop Scalable Wavelet Based Video Coding.- Spatio-temporal Information-Based Simple Deinterlacing Algorithm.- Image Interpretation.- Fast Adaptive Graph-Cuts Based Stereo Matching.- A Fast Level-Set Method for Accurate Tracking of Articulated Objects with an Edge-Based Binary Speed Term.- Real-Time Vanishing Point Estimation in Road Sequences Using Adaptive Steerable Filter Banks.- Self-Eigenroughness Selection for Texture Recognition Using Genetic Algorithms.- Analysis of Image Sequences for Defect Detection in Composite Materials.- Remote Sensing Imagery and Signature Fields Reconstruction Via Aggregation of Robust Regularization with Neural Computing.- A New Technique for Global and Local Skew Correction in Binary Documents.- System for Estimation of Pin Bone Positions in Pre-rigor Salmon.- Vertebral Mobility Analysis Using Anterior Faces Detection.- Image Processing Algorithms for an Auto Focus System for Slit Lamp Microscopy.- Applying Image Analysis and Probabilistic Techniques for Counting Olive Trees in High-Resolution Satellite Images.- An Efficient Closed-Form Solution to Probabilistic 6D Visual Odometry for a Stereo Camera.- Color Image Segmentation Based on Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Region Merging.- Image Interpretation.- ENMIM: Energetic Normalized Mutual Information Model for Online Multiple Object Tracking with Unlearned Motions.- Geometrical Scene Analysis Using Co-motion Statistics.- Cascade of Classifiers for Vehicle Detection.- Aerial Moving Target Detection Based on Motion Vector Field Analysis.- Image Coding.- Embedding Linear Transformations in Fractal Image Coding.- Digital Watermarking with PCA Based Reference Images.- JPEG…