This proceedings volume collects the scienti?c presentations of the Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, SCIA 2005, which was held at the University of Joensuu, Finland, June 19-22, 2005. The conference was the fourteenth in the series of biennial conferences started in 1980. The name of the series re?ects the fact that the conferences are organized in the Nordic (Scandinavian) countries, following the cycle Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Norway. The event itself has always been international in its participants and presentations. Today there are many conferences in the ?elds related to SCIA. In this s- uation our goal is to keep up the reputation for the high quality and friendly environment of SCIA. We hope that participants feel that it's worth attending the conference. Therefore, both the scienti?c and social program were designed to support the best features of a scienti?c meeting: to get new ideas for research and to have the possibility to exchange thoughts with fellow scientists. To ful?ll the above-mentioned goals, the conference was a single-track event. This meant that a higher percentage of the papers than in earlier SCIAs were presented as posters. We hope that this gave the participants better chances to follow the presentations that they were interested in. SCIA 2005 attracted a record number of submissions: 236 manuscripts. From these, 124 were accepted: 31 oral presentations and 93 poster presentations. This led to an acceptance rate of 53%. The program included also six plenary presentations and three tutorials.

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Invited Talk.- Biometric Recognition: How Do I Know Who You Are?.- Image Segmentation and Understanding.- Hierarchical Cell Structures for Segmentation of Voxel Images.- Paving the Way for Image Understanding: A New Kind of Image Decomposition Is Desired.- Levelset and B-Spline Deformable Model Techniques for Image Segmentation: A Pragmatic Comparative Study.- Steerable Semi-automatic Segmentation of Textured Images.- MSCC: Maximally Stable Corner Clusters.- Invited Talk.- Spectral Imaging Technique for Visualizing the Invisible Information.- Color Image Processing.- Bayesian Image Segmentation Using MRF's Combined with Hierarchical Prior Models.- Feature Extraction for Oil Spill Detection Based on SAR Images.- Light Field Reconstruction Using a Planar Patch Model.- Spectral Estimation of Skin Color with Foundation Makeup.- Color Measurements with a Consumer Digital Camera Using Spectral Estimation Techniques.- Invited Talk.- Image Analysis with Local Binary Patterns.- Applications.- Object Evidence Extraction Using Simple Gabor Features and Statistical Ranking.- Dynamically Visual Learning for People Identification with Sparsely Distributed Cameras.- 3D-Connected Components Analysis for Traffic Monitoring in Image Sequences Acquired from a Helicopter.- Joint Modeling of Facial Expression and Shape from Video.- Development of Direct Manipulation Interface for Collaborative VR/MR Workspace.- Estimating Camera Position and Posture by Using Feature Landmark Database.- Invited Talk.- Geometrical Computer Vision from Chasles to Today.- Theory.- The S-Kernel and a Symmetry Measure Based on Correlation.- Training Cellular Automata for Image Processing.- Functional 2D Procrustes Shape Analysis.- The Descriptive Approach to Image Analysis Current State and Prospects.- A New Method for Affine Registration of Images and Point Sets.- Invited Talk.- Joint Spatial-Temporal Color Demosaicking.- Medical Image Processing.- Shape Based Identification of Proteins in Volume Images.- Thickness Estimation of Discrete Tree-Like Tubular Objects: Application to Vessel Quantification.- Segmentation of Multimodal MRI of Hippocampus Using 3D Grey-Level Morphology Combined with Artificial Neural Networks.- Combined Segmentation and Tracking of Neural Stem-Cells.- Morphons: Paint on Priors and Elastic Canvas for Segmentation and Registration.- Image Compression.- Efficient 1-Pass Prediction for Volume Compression.- Lossless Compression of Map Contours by Context Tree Modeling of Chain Codes.- Optimal Estimation of Homogeneous Vectors.- Projective Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Image Compression and Feature Extraction.- Invited Talk.- A Memory Architecture and Contextual Reasoning Framework for Cognitive Vision.- Valamo Special Session in Digitizing of Cultural Heritage.- Synthesizing the Artistic Effects of Ink Painting.- Application of Spectral Information to Investigate Historical Materials - Detection of Metameric Color Area in Icon Images -.- An Approach to Digital Archiving of Art Paintings.- Poster Presentations 1: Image Analysis, Computer Vision, Machine Vision, and Applications.- Preferential Spectral Image Quality Model.- Three-Dimensional Measurement System Using a Cylindrical Mirror.- Mottling Assessment of Solid Printed Areas and Its Correlation to Perceived Uniformity.- In Situ Detection and Identification of Microorganisms at Single Colony Resolution Using Spectral Imaging Technique.- Dolphins Who's Who: A Statistical Perspective.- Local Shape Modelling Using Warplets.- Learning Based System for Detection and Tracking of Vehicles.- Texture Analysis for Stroke Classification in Infrared Reflectogramms.- Problems Related to Automatic Nipple Extraction.- A Novel Robust Tube Detection Filter for 3D Centerline Extraction.- Reconstruction of Probability Density Functions from Channel Representations.- Non-rigid Registration Using Morphons.- Hybridization of the Ant Colony Optimization with the K-Means Algorithm for Clustering.- Incremental Locally Linear Embedding Algorithm.- On Aligning Sets of Points Reconstructed from Uncalibrated Affine Cameras.- A New Class of Learnable Detectors for Categorisation.- Overlapping Constraint for Variational Surface Reconstruction.- Integation Methods of Model-Free Features for 3D Tracking.- Probabilistic Model-Based Background Subtraction.- A Bayesian Approach for Affine Auto-calibration.- Shape-Based Co-occurrence Matrices for Defect Classification.- Complex Correlation Statistic for Dense Stereoscopic Matching.- Reconstruction from Planar Motion Image Sequences with Applications for Autonomous Vehicles.- Stereo Tracking Error Analysis by Comparison with an Electromagnetic Tracking Device.- Building Detection from Mobile Imagery Using Informative SIFT Descriptors.- Perception-Action Based Object Detection from Local Descriptor Combination and Reinforcement Learning.- Use of Quadrature Filters for Detection of Stellate Lesions in Mammograms.- A Study of the Yosemite Sequence Used as a Test Sequence for Estimation of Optical Flow.- A Versatile Model-Based Visibility Measure for Geometric Primitives.- Pose Estimation of Randomly Organized Stator Housings.- 3D Reconstruction of Metallic Surfaces by Photopolarimetric Analysis.- Inferring and Enforcing Geometrical Constraints on a 3D Model for Building Reconstruction.- Aligning Shapes by Minimising the Description Length.- Segmentation of Medical Images Using Three-Dimensional Active Shape Models.- A Novel Algorithm for Fitting 3-D Active Appearance Models: Applications to Cardiac MRI Segmentation.- Decision Support System for the Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease.- Polygon Mesh Generation of Branching Structures.- Joint Analysis of Multiple Mammographic Views in CAD Systems for Breast Cancer Detection.- Approximated Classification in Interactive Facial Image Retrieval.- Eye-Movements as a Biometric.- Inverse Global Illumination Rendering for Dense Estimation of Surface Reflectance Properties.- Multimodal Automatic Indexing for Broadcast Soccer Video.- Evaluation of the Effect of Input Stimuli on the Quality of Orientation Maps Produced Through Self Organization.- Modeling Inaccurate Perception: Desynchronization Issues of a Chaotic Pattern Recognition Neural Network.- A High-Reliability, High-Resolution Method for Land Cover Classification Into Forest and Non-forest.- Poster Presentations 2: Pattern Recognition, Image Processing,…