The two volume set LNCS 5358 and LNCS 5359 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2008, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA, in December 2008.
The 102 revised full papers and 70 poster papers presented together with 56 full and 8 poster papers of 8 special tracks were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 340 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computer graphics, visualization, shape/recognition, video analysis and event recognition, virtual reality, reconstruction, motion, face/gesture, and computer vision applications. The 8 additional special tracks address issues such as object recognition, real-time vision algorithm implementation and application, computational bioimaging and visualization, discrete and computational geometry, soft computing in image processing and computer vision, visualization and simulation on immersive display devices, analysis and visualization of biomedical visual data, as well as image analysis for remote sensing data.
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It is with greatpleasure that we present the proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2008) in Las Vegas, Nevada. ISVC o?ers a common umbrella for the four main areas of visual computing including vision, graphics, visualization, and virtual reality. Its goal is to provide a forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research ?ndings, ideas, developments and applications in the broader area of visual computing. This year,ISVC grew signi?cantly; the programconsisted of 15 oralsessions, 1 poster session, 8 special tracks, and 6 keynote presentations. The response to the call for papers was very strong; we received over 340 submissions for the main symposium from which we accepted 102 papers for oral presentation and 70 papers for poster presentation. Special track papers were solicited separately through the Organizing and Program Committees of each track. A total of 56 papers were accepted for oral presentation and 8 papers for poster presentation in the special tracks. All papers were reviewed with an emphasis on potential to contribute to the state of the art in the ?eld. Selection criteria included accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and signi?cance of results, and presentation quality. The review process was quite rigorous, involving two to three independent blind reviews followed by several days of discussion. During the discussion period we tried to correct anomalies and errors that might have existed in the initial reviews.
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Visualization II.- SUNVIZ: A Real-Time Visualization Environment for Space Physics Applications.- An Efficient Quality-Based Camera Path Planning Method for Volume Exploration.- A Fast and Simple Heuristic for Metro Map Path Simplification.- Visual Verification of Hypotheses.- LDR-LLE: LLE with Low-Dimensional Neighborhood Representation.- SudokuVis How to Explore Relationships of Mutual Exclusion.- ST: Image Analysis for Remote Sensing Data.- Identification of Oceanic Eddies in Satellite Images.- Multi-image Fusion in Remote Sensing: Spatial Enhancement vs. Spectral Characteristics Preservation.- Classification of Multispectral High-Resolution Satellite Imagery Using LIDAR Elevation Data.- Semi-supervised Edge Learning for Building Detection in Aerial Images.- High Resolution Satellite Classification with Graph Cut Algorithms.- Satellite Image Segmentation Using Wavelet Transforms Based on Color and Texture Features.- Shape/Recognition II.- A System for Rapid Interactive Training of Object Detectors.- An Integrated Method for Multiple Object Detection and Localization.- A Context Dependent Distance Measure for Shape Clustering.- A New Accumulator-Based Approach to Shape Recognition.- Multi-dimensional Scale Saliency Feature Extraction Based on Entropic Graphs.- Merging Active Contours.- Contour Extraction Using Particle Filters.- Motion.- Combining Line and Point Correspondences for Homography Estimation.- Integration of Local Image Cues for Probabilistic 2D Pose Recovery.- Indirect Tracking to Reduce Occlusion Problems.- Real-Time Lip Contour Extraction and Tracking Using an Improved Active Contour Model.- Particle Filter Based Object Tracking with Discriminative Feature Extraction and Fusion.- A New Global Alignment Method for Feature Based Image Mosaicing.- An Effective Active Vision System for Gaze Control.- Face/Gesture.- Face Recognition Based on Normalization and the Phase Spectrum of the Local Part of an Image.- A Novel Shape Registration Framework and Its Application to 3D Face Recognition in the Presence of Expressions.- Frontal Face Recognition from Video.- Real Time Hand Based Robot Control Using 2D/3D Images.- Facial Trait Code and Its Application to Face Recognition.- Using Multiple Masks to Improve End-to-End Face Recognition Performance.- Sparse Representation for Ear Biometrics.- Computer Vision Applications.- Image-Based Information Guide on Mobile Devices.- Estimating Atmospheric Visibility Using General-Purpose Cameras.- Numismatic Object Identification Using Fusion of Shape and Local Descriptors.- Personalized News Video Recommendation Via Interactive Exploration.- Browsing a Large Collection of Community Photos Based on Similarity on GPU.- Security Analysis for Spread-Spectrum Watermarking Incorporating Statistics of Natural Images.- Multi-view Feature Matching and Image Grouping from Multiple Unordered Wide-Baseline Images.- Stitching Video from Webcams.- Poster.- GpuCV: A GPU-Accelerated Framework for Image Processing and Computer Vision.- A Comparison Study on Two Multi-scale Shape Matching Schemes.- PAD Model Based Facial Expression Analysis.- Calibration and Pose Estimation of a Pox-slits Camera from a Single Image.- Covariance Matrices for Crowd Behaviour Monitoring on the Escalator Exits.- User Verification by Combining Speech and Face Biometrics in Video.- A Gibbsian Kohonen Network for Online Arabic Character Recognition.- Shading through Defocus.- A Gabor Quotient Image for Face Recognition under Varying Illumination.- Personal Identification Using Palmprint and Contourlet Transform.- Generating Reflection Transparent Image Using Image Fusion Space.- Fingerprint Images Enhancement in Curvelet Domain.- Effective Frame Rate Decision by Lagrange Optimization for Frame Skipping Video Transcoding.- Symmetry of Shapes Via Self-similarity.- Robust Estimation Approach for NL-Means Filter.- View-Invariant Pose Recognition Using Multilinear Analysis and the Universum.- Scaling Up a Metric Learning Algorithm for Image Recognition and Representation.- Smile Detection for User Interfaces.- A Novel Segmentation Algorithm for Digital Subtraction Angiography Images: First Experimental Results.- Image Representation in Differential Space.- A Four Point Algorithm for Fast Metric Cone Reconstruction from a Calibrated Image.- Texture-Based Shadow Removal from a Single Color Image.- Multi-source Airborne IR and Optical Image Fusion and Its Application to Target Detection.- A New Adaptive Combination Approach to Score Level Fusion for Face and Iris Biometrics Combining Wavelets and Statistical Moments.- Medical Image Zooming Algorithm Based on Bivariate Rational Interpolation.- 2D Shape Decomposition Based on Combined Skeleton-Boundary Features.- Removing Pose from Face Images.- A Real Time Fingers Detection by Symmetry Transform Using a Two Cameras System.- High Resolution and High Dynamic Range Image Reconstruction from Differently Exposed Images.- PDE-Based Facial Animation: Making the Complex Simple.- A Variational Level Set Method for Multiple Object Detection.- Detecting Thalamic Abnormalities in Autism Using Cylinder Conformal Mapping.- Extraction of Illumination Effects from Natural Images with Color Transition Model.- A Novel Macroblock-Level Rate-Distortion Optimization Scheme for H.264/AVC.- Automatic Segmentation of the …