This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2008, held in Juan-les-Pins, France, in October 2008.
The 33 revised full papers and 69 posters presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 179 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image and video coding; systems and applications; video processing; filtering and restoration; segmentation and feature extraction; tracking, scene understanding and computer vision; medical imaging; and biometrics and surveillance.
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Image and Video Coding.- Performance Analysis of Generalized Zerotree Coders Varying the Maximum Zerotree Degree.- Passive Error Concealment for Wavelet Coded Images with Efficient Reconstruction of High-Frequency Content.- Applying Open-Loop Coding in Predictive Coding Systems.- Network Security Using Biometric and Cryptography.- Bit Domain Encryption.- A Multiresolution Robust Watermarking Approach for Scalable Wavelet Image Compression.- Improving Image Vector Quantization with a Genetic Accelerated K-Means Algorithm.- Systems and Applications.- Efficient and Flexible Cluster-and-Search for CBIR.- An Evaluation Methodology for Image Mosaicing Algorithms.- High-Speed Acquisition and Pre-processing of Polarimetric Image Sequences.- Nighttime Vehicle Detection for Intelligent Headlight Control.- Fourier-Based Inspection of Free-Form Reflective Surfaces.- An Iterative Kalman Filter Approach to Camera Calibration.- An Efficient Hardware Architecture without Line Memories for Morphological Image Processing.- Embedding of a Real Time Image Stabilization Algorithm on SoPC Platform, a Chip Multi-processor Approach.- "Local Rank Differences" Image Feature Implemented on GPU.- Real-Time Wavelet-Spatial-Activity-Based Adaptive Video Enhancement Algorithm for FPGA.- MIDIAS: An Integrated 2D/3D Sensor System for Safety Applications.- Configurable Passband Imaging Spectrometer Based on Acousto-optic Tunable Filter.- Basic Video-Surveillance with Low Computational and Power Requirements Using Long-Exposure Frames.- Parallel Algorithm for Concurrent Computation of Connected Component Tree.- Distributed Smart Camera Calibration Using Blinking LED.- Real-Time Hough Transform on 1-D SIMD Processors: Implementation and Architecture Exploration.- Sub-optimal Camera Selection in Practical Vision Networks through Shape Approximation.- Video Processing.- A Real-Time Vision System for Traffic Signs Recognition Invariant to Translation, Rotation and Scale.- Dynamic Selection of Characteristics for Feature Based Image Sequence Stabilization.- Video-Based Fall Detection in the Home Using Principal Component Analysis.- Fluid Flow Measurement in Thermographic Video Sequences by Wavelet-Multiresolution Optical Flow Estimation.- Video Object Segmentation Based on Feedback Schemes Guided by a Low-Level Scene Ontology.- Adaptive Metadata Management System for Distributed Video Content Analysis.- Synchronizing Video Sequences from Temporal Epipolar Lines Analysis.- Automatic Feature-Based Stabilization of Video with Intentional Motion through a Particle Filter.- Filtering and Restoration.- Image Denoising Using Similarities in the Time-Scale Plane.- Video Denoising and Simplification Via Discrete Regularization on Graphs.- A Robust Method for Edge-Preserving Image Smoothing.- Atmospheric Turbulence Restoration by Diffeomorphic Image Registration and Blind Deconvolution.- Sequential Blind PSF Estimation and Restoration of Aerial Multispectral Images.- Phase Unwrapping in Fringe Projection Systems Using Epipolar Geometry.- Decision Trees in Binary Tomography for Supporting the Reconstruction of hv-Convex Connected Images.- Multidimensional Noise Removal Based on Fourth Order Cumulants.- Defocus Blur Correcting Projector-Camera System.- Multidimensional Noise Removal Method Based on PARAFAC Decomposition.- Segmentation and Feature Extraction.- A New Algorithm for Dominant Point Detection by Quasi-collinear Break Points Supression.- Robust Curvature Extrema Detection Based on New Numerical Derivation.- Geodesic Active Contours with Combined Shape and Appearance Priors.- Nonparametric Level-Set Segmentation Based on the Minimization of the Stochastic Complexity.- A Geometric Primitive Extraction Process for Remote Sensing Problems.- Use of Local Surface Curvature Estimation for Adaptive Vision System Based on Active Light Projection.- Spatially-Variant Directional Mathematical Morphology Operators Based on a Diffused Average Squared Gradient Field.- Spherical Edge Detector: Application to Omnidirectional Imaging.- Towards Fully Automatic Image Segmentation Evaluation.- Fast Saliency-Based Motion Segmentation Algorithm for an Active Vision System.- A Multicomponent Image Segmentation Framework.- An Interval-Valued Fuzzy Morphological Model Based on Lukasiewicz-Operators.- Curvature Estimation and Curve Inference with Tensor Voting: A New Approach.- Attention-Based Segmentation on an Image Pyramid Sequence.- A Pseudo-logarithmic Image Processing Framework for Edge Detection.- Graffiti Detection Using a Time-Of-Flight Camera.- Contour Detection for Industrial Image Processing by Means of Level Set Methods.- Knee Point Detection in BIC for Detecting the Number of Clusters.- Grey-Scale Morphology with Spatially-Variant Rectangles in Linear Time.- Image Segmentation Based on Supernodes and Region Size Estimation.- An Image Quality Metric Based on a Colour Appearance Model.- Fuzzy Rule Iterative Feature Selection (FRIFS) with Respect to the Choquet Integral Apply to Fabric Defect Recognition.- Simple and Robust Optic Disc Localisation Using Colour Decorrelated Templates.- Active Contours without Edges and with Simple Shape Priors.- Tracking, Scene Understanding and Computer Vision.- A Robust Method for Filling Holes in 3D Meshes Based on Image Restoration.- A Comparison of Multiclass SVM Methods for Real World Natural Scenes.- Intuitionistic Fuzzy Clustering with Applications in Computer Vision.- Object Tracking Using Naive Bayesian Classifiers.- 3D Tracking Using Multi-view Based Particle Filters.- Motion Recovery for Uncalibrated Turntable Sequences Using Silhouettes and a Single Point.- Semantic Map Generation from Satellite Images for Humanitarian Scenarios Applications.- An Effective Salience-Based Algorithm for Shape Matching.- A New Ground Movement Compensation Approach for Obstacle Detection Using an In-Vehicle Camera.- Foliage Recognition Based on Local Edge Information.- On Bin Configuration of Shape Context Descriptors in Human Silhouette Classification.- Kernel Based Approach for High Dimensional Heterogeneous Image Features Management in CBIR Context.- Scene Reconstruction Using MRF Optimization with Image Content Adaptive Energy Functions.- Blur and Contrast Invariant Fast Stereo Matching.- A Generalized Appriou's Model for Evidential Classification of Multispectral Images: A Case Study of Algiers City.- Medical Imaging.- Fuzzy Clustering and Active Contours for Histopathology Image Segmentation and Nuclei Detection.- Mosaicing of Fibered Fluorescence Microscopy Video.- Fusion of Multi-view Tissue Classification Based on Wound 3D Model.- Effective Segmentation for Dental X-Ray Images Using Texture-Based Fuzzy Inference System.- Breast Mass Segmentation in Mammographic Images by an Effective Region Growing Algorithm.- Biometrics and Surveillance.- Pedestrian Detection and Tracking Based on Far Infrared Visual Information.- Crowd Behavior Recognition for Video Surveillance.- Face Recognition Using Symbolic KPCA Plus Symbolic LDA in the Framework of Symbolic Data Analysis: Symbolic Kernel Fisher Discriminant Method.- Face Recognition Using Parabola Edge Map.- Human Pose Estimation in Vision Networks Via Distributed Local Processing and Nonparametric Belief Propagation.- Model-Based Gait Recognition Using Multiple Feature Detection.- A New Segmentation Approach for Ear Recognit…