3. CRV 2006: Quebec City, Canada

Introduction

• Preface.
  
• Invited Talks.
  
• Program Committee.
  

Learning and Recognition

• Dan Levi, Shimon Ullman:
  Learning to classify by ongoing feature selection. 1
  
• Jean-Francois Bernier, Robert Bergevin:
  Generic Detection of Multi-Part Objects by High-Level Analysis. 2
  
• Per-Erik Forssén, Anders Moe:
  Autonomous Learning of Object Appearances using Colour Contour Frames. 3
  
• Ehsan Fazl Ersi, John S. Zelek:
  Local Feature Matching For Face Recognition. 4
  
• Jasper Snoek, Jesse Hoey, Liam Stewart, Richard S. Zemel:
  Automated Detection of Unusual Events on Stairs. 5
  
• Wei-Lwun Lu, James J. Little:
  Simultaneous Tracking and Action Recognition using the PCA-HOG Descriptor. 6
  

Image and Video Retrieval

• Wei Pan, François Deschênes:
  Interpreting Camera Operations in the Context of Content-based Video Indexing and Retrieval. 7
  
• Langis Gagnon, France Laliberté, Marc Lalonde, Mario Beaulieu:
  Toward an Application of Content-Based Video Indexing to Computer- Assisted Descriptive Video. 8
  
• Oliver van Kaick, Greg Mori:
  Automatic Classification of Outdoor Images by Region Matching. 9
  

Motion Analysis

• Minglun Gong:
  A GPU-based Algorithm for Estimating 3D Geometry and Motion in Near Real-time. 10
  
• John L. Barron, Marc Daniel, Jean-Luc Mari:
  Using 3D Spline Differentiation to Compute Quantitative Optical Flow. 11
  
• Adam Rachmielowski, Dana Cobzas, Martin Jägersand:
  Robust SSD tracking with incremental 3D structure estimation. 12
  
• Vivek Kumar Singh, Subhransu Maji, Amitabha Mukerjee:
  Confidence Based updation of Motion Conspicuity in Dynamic Scenes. 13
  

Stereo

• Masao Shimizu, Masatoshi Okutomi:
  Reflection Stereo - Novel Monocular Stereo using a Transparent Plate -. 14
  
• Weihua Xiong, Brian V. Funt:
  Stereo Retinex. 15
  
• James J. Clark:
  Photometric Stereo with Nearby Planar Distributed Illuminants. 16
  
• Kiana Hajebi, John S. Zelek:
  Sparse Disparity Map from Uncalibrated Infrared Stereo Images. 17
  
• Shufei Fan, Frank P. Ferrie:
  Photo Hull Regularized Stereo. 18
  

Robotics I

• Sven Fleck, Florian Busch, Peter Biber, Wolfgang Straßer:
  Graph Cut based Panoramic 3D Modeling and Ground Truth Comparison with a Mobile Platform - The Wagele -. 19
  
• Hans de Ruiter, Beno Benhabib:
  Colour-Gradient Redundancy for Real-time Spatial Pose Tracking in Autonomous Robot Navigation. 20
  
• Robert Sim, Pantelis Elinas, Matt Griffin, Alex Shyr, James J. Little:
  Design and analysis of a framework for real-time vision-based SLAM using Rao-Blackwellised particle filters. 21
  
• Derek Johns, Gregory Dudek:
  Urban Position Estimation from One Dimensional Visual Cues. 22
  

Robotics II

• Joseph Lam, Fei Long, Gerhard Roth, Michael A. Greenspan:
  Determining Shot Accuracy of a Robotic Pool System. 23
  
• Andrew Hogue, Andrew German, James E. Zacher, Michael Jenkin:
  Underwater 3D Mapping: Experiences and Lessons learned. 24
  
• Aniket Murarka, Joseph Modayil, Benjamin Kuipers:
  Building Local Safety Maps for a Wheelchair Robot using Vision and Lasers. 25
  

Segmentation

• Alice R. Malisia, Hamid R. Tizhoosh:
  Image Thresholding Using Ant Colony Optimization. 26
  
• Darren MacDonald, Jochen Lang, Michael McAllister:
  Evaluation of Colour Image Segmentation Hierarchies. 27
  
• Piali Das, Olga Veksler:
  Semiautomatic Segmentation with Compact Shapre Prior. 28
  
• Jean-Marie Beaulieu:
  Pseudo-convex Contour Criterion for Hierarchical Segmentation of SAR Images. 29
  
• Slawo Wesolkowski, Paul W. Fieguth:
  Hierarchical Region Mean-Based Image Segmentation. 30
  
• Jundong Liu:
  Robust Image Segmentation using Local Median. 31
  

Camera Calibration

• Onay Urfahuglo, Thorsten Thormählen, Hellward Broszio, Patrick Mikulastik:
  Error Analysis of Camera Parameter Estimation based on Collinear Features. 32
  

Virtual Reality

• Jonathan Dupont, François Deschênes:
  Toward a Realistic Interpretation of Blue-spill for Blue-screen Matting. 33
  
• P. Ravindra De Silva, Ajith P. Madurapperuma, Ashu Marasinghe, Minetada Osano:
  Integrating Animated Pedagogical Agent as Motivational Supporter into Interactive System. 34
  
• Christian Dompierre, Denis Laurendeau:
  Avatar: a virtual reality based tool for collaborative production of theater shows. 35
  

Special Session: First International Workshop on Video Processing for Security (VP4S-06)

• Mookyung Park, Namsu Moon, Sangrim Ryu, Jeongpyo Kong, Yongjin Lee, Wangjin Mun:
  A Pixel-Weighting Method for Discriminating Objects of Different Sizes in an Image Captured from a Single Camera. 36
  
• S. Indupalli, M. A. Ali, Boubakeur Boufama:
  A Novel Clustering-Based Method for Adaptive Background Segmentation. 37
  
• Rafik Bourezak, Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau:
  Object detection and tracking using iterative division and correlograms. 38
  
• Trevor Ahmedali, James J. Clark:
  Collaborative Multi-Camera Surveillance with Automated Person Detection. 39
  
• Valery A. Petrushin, Gang Wei, Omer Shakil, Damian Roqueiro, Anatole Gershman:
  Multiple-Sensor Indoor Surveillance System. 40
  
• Unsang Park, Anil K. Jain:
  3D Face Reconstruction from Stereo Video. 41
  
• Paolo Abeni, Madalina Baltatu, Rosalia D'Alessandro:
  User Authentication based on Face Recognition with Support Vector Machines. 42
  

Poster Session 1

• Miguel Aguilera, A. Ben Hamza:
  An Information-Theoretic Approach to Georegistration of Digital Elevation Maps. 43
  
• Richard Khoury:
  An Enhanced Positioning Algorithm for a Self-Referencing Hand-Held 3D Sensor. 44
  
• Vorapoj Patanavijit, Somchai Jitapunkul:
  An Iterative Super-Resolution Reconstruction of Image Sequences using a Bayesian Approach with BTV prior and Affine Block-Based Registration. 45
  
• Chaur-Chin Chen, Cheng-Yan Kao, Chun-Fan Chang, Hsueh-Ting Chu, Chiung-Nien Chen:
  Simple Software for Microarray Image Analysis. 46
  
• Donovan H. Parks, Martin D. Levine:
  The McGill Object Detection Suite. 47
  
• Wided Miled, Jean-Christophe Pesquet:
  Disparity Map Estimation Using A Total Variation Bound. 48
  
• Munib Arshad Chughtai, Naveed Khattak:
  An Edge Preserving Locally Adaptive Anti-aliasing Zooming Algorithm with Diffused Interpolation. 49
  
• Djamel Merad, Jean-Yves Didier, Mihaela Scuturici:
  Tracking 3D free form object in video sequence. 50
  
• Alexander Wong, William Bishop:
  Expert Knowledge Based Automatic Regions-of-Interest (ROI) Selection in Scanned Documents for Digital Image Encryption. 51
  
• Xiaojun Du, Dongwook Cho, Tien D. Bui:
  Image Inpainting and Segmentation using Hierarchical Level Set Method. 52
  
• Moi Hoon Yap, Eran A. Edirisinghe, Helmut E. Bez:
  Object Boundary Detection in Ultrasound Images. 53
  
• Pierre-Alexandre Fortin, Patrick Hébert:
  Handling Occlusions in Real-time Augmented Reality : Dealing with Movable Real and Virtual Objects. 54
  
• Arjun Chopra, Mark Obsniuk, Michael R. M. Jenkin:
  The Nomad 200 and the Nomad SuperScout: Reverse engineered and resurrected. 55
  
• Sarawut Tae-O-Sot, Somchai Jitapunkul, Supatana Auethavekiat:
  Shape-Based Object Segmentation with Simultaneous Intensity Adjustment. 56
  
• Gaurav Mittal, Sreela Sasi:
  Robust Preprocessing Algorithm for Face Recognition. 57
  
• Mark Fiala:
  Using Normalized Interest Point Trajectories Over Scale for Image Search. 58
  
• Nicolas Saunier, Tarek Sayed:
  A feature-based tracking algorithm for vehicles in intersections. 59
  
• Imran Ahmad, Muhammad Talal Ibrahim:
  Image Classification and Retrieval using Correlation. 60
  

Poster Session 2

• Joseph Nsasi Bakambu, Pierre Allard, Erick Dupuis:
  3D Terrain Modeling for Rover Localization and Navigation. 61
  
• Rahmadi Kurnia, Md. Altab Hossain, Yoshinori Kuno:
  Use of Spatial Reference Systems in Interactive Object Recognition. 62
  
• Dmitry O. Gorodnichy, Arjun Yogeswaran:
  Detection and tracking of pianist hands and fingers. 63
  
• Aaron Langille, Minglun Gong:
  An Efficient Match-based Duplication Detection Algorithm. 64
  
• Hanene Chettaoui, Guillaume Thomann, Chokri Ben Amar, Tanneguy Redarce:
  Extracting and tracking Colon's "Pattern" from Colonoscopic Images. 65
  
• Mark Gerrits, Philippe Bekaert:
  Local Stereo Matching with Segmentation-based Outlier Rejection. 66
  
• Abdul Bais, Robert Sablatnig, Jason Gu:
  Single landmark based self-localization of mobile robots. 67
  
• Jun Zhou, Christopher M. Clark:
  Autonomous fish tracking by ROV using Monocular Camera. 68
  
• H. Deng, X. Tian, K. Yamazaki, M. Mori:
  Line Extraction with Composite Background Subtract. 69
  
• Florian Kangni, Robert Laganière:
  Epipolar Geometry for the Rectification of Cubic Panoramas. 70
  
• Karam Shahid, Galina Okouneva, D. McTavish, J. Karpynczyk:
  Stability Improvement of Vision Algorithms. 71
  
• Isabelle Bégin, Frank P. Ferrie:
  Comparison of Super-Resolution Algorithms Using Image Quality Measures. 72
  
• Ye Lu, Ze-Nian Li:
  Object Extraction and Reconstruction in Active Video. 73
  
• Osamu Ikeda:
  Accurate Photometric Stereo Using Four Surface Normal Approximations. 74
  
• Jean-François Dupuis, Marc Parizeau:
  Evolving a Vision-Based Line-Following Robot Controller. 75
  
• Alan Brunton, Chang Shu, Gerhard Roth:
  Belief Propagation on the GPU for Stereo Vision. 76
  
• Xiaoxing Li, Greg Mori, Hao Zhang:
  Expression-Invariant Face Recognition with Expression Classification. 77