4. ICVS 2006: New York, NY, USA

Cover

• Title Page.
  
• Copyright.
  

Introduction

• Preface.
  
• Committees.
  

System Architectures

• Sebastian Wrede, Marc Hanheide, Sven Wachsmuth, Gerhard Sagerer:
  Integration and Coordination in a Cognitive Vision System. 1
  
• Frank Lömker, Sebastian Wrede, Marc Hanheide, Jannik Fritsch:
  Building Modular Vision Systems with a Graphical Plugin Environment. 2
  
• Ross S. Eaton, Mark R. Stevens, Jonah C. McBride, Greydon T. Foil, Magnús Snorrason:
  A Systems View of Scale Space. 3
  
• Xiaojun Wu, Osamu Takizawa, Takashi Matsuyama:
  Parallel Pipeline Volume Intersection for Real-Time 3D Shape Reconstruction on a PC Cluster. 4
  
• Sang-Hack Jung, Ruzena Bajcsy:
  Learning Physical Activities in Immersive Virtual Environments. 5
  

Vision-Based User Interfaces

• Afshin Sepehri, Yaser Yacoob, Larry S. Davis:
  Parametric Hand Tracking for Recognition of Virtual Drawings. 6
  
• Zhenyao Mo, Ulrich Neumann:
  Lexical Gesture Interface. 7
  
• Yang Liu, Xiabi Liu, Yunde Jia:
  Hand-Gesture Based Text Input for Wearable Computers. 8
  
• Stanislaw Borkowski, James L. Crowley, Julien Letessier, François Bérard:
  User-Centric Design of a Vision System for Interactive Applications. 9
  

Activity Detection and Interpretation

• Alexander Toshev, François Brémond, Monique Thonnat:
  An APRIORI-based Method for Frequent Composite Event Discovery in Videos. 10
  
• Yunqian Ma, Mike Bazakos, Ben Miller, Pradeep Buddharaju:
  Activity Awareness: from Predefined Events to New Pattern Discovery. 11
  
• Markus Vincze, Wolfgang Ponweiser, Michael Zillich:
  Contextual Coordination in a Cognitive Vision System for Symbolic Activity Interpretation. 12
  

Grab Bag

• Divyang K. Masrani, W. James MacLean:
  A Real-Time Large Disparity Range Stereo-System using FPGAs. 13
  
• Hongsheng Zhang, Shahriar Negahdaripour:
  BC&GC-Based Dense Stereo By Belief Propagation. 14
  
• Sean M. O'Malley:
  A Simple, Effective System for Automated Capture of High Dynamic Range Images. 15
  
• Grigory Begelman, Michael Pechuk, Ehud Rivlin, Edmond Sabo:
  System for Computer-Aided Multiresolution Microscopic Pathology Diagnostics. 16
  

Faces

• Ming Yang, Ying Wu, Jim E. Crenshaw, Bruce Augustine, Russell Mareachen:
  Face detection for automatic exposure control in handheld camera. 17
  
• Peng Dai, Guangyou Xu, Thomas Riegel, Eckart Hundt:
  Automatic Face Modeling and Synthesis Based on Image Pairs. 18
  

Robotics

• Pedro E. López-de-Teruel, Alberto Ruiz, Lorenzo Fernández:
  GeoBot: A High Level Visual Perception Architecture for Autonomous Robots. 19
  
• Muhammad Zaheer Aziz, Bärbel Mertsching, M. Salah E.-N. Shafik, Ralf Stemmer:
  Evaluation of Visual Attention Models for Robots. 20
  
• Annalisa Milella, Roland Siegwart:
  Stereo-Based Ego-Motion Estimation Using Pixel Tracking and Iterative Closest Point. 21
  
• Georg Biegelbauer, Markus Vincze:
  3D Vision-Guided Bore Inspection System. 22
  

Calibration and Registration

• Gehua Yang, Charles V. Stewart, Michal Sofka, Chia-Ling Tsai:
  Automatic robust image registration system: Initialization, estimation, and decision. 23
  
• I-Hsien Chen, Sheng-Jyh Wang:
  Efficient Vision-Based Calibration for Visual Surveillance Systems with Multiple PTZ Cameras. 24
  
• Yingen Xiong, Francis K. H. Quek:
  Automatic Aerial Image RegistrationWithout Correspondence. 25
  

Monitoring and Surveillance

• David Thirde, Mark Borg, James M. Ferryman, Florent Fusier, Valéry Valentin, François Brémond, Monique Thonnat:
  A Real-Time Scene Understanding System for Airport Apron Monitoring. 26
  
• Benoît Georis, Magale Maziere, François Brémond:
  Evaluation and Knowledge Representation Formalisms to Improve Video Understanding. 27
  
• Mohamed F. Abdelkader, Rama Chellappa, Qinfen Zheng, LipChen Alex Chan:
  Integrated Motion Detection and Tracking for Visual Surveillance. 28
  
• Zhanfeng Yue, Rama Chellappa, David Guarino:
  Moving Object Verification from Airborne Video. 29
  

Object Recognition and Tracking

• Gerald Fritz, Christin Seifert, Lucas Paletta:
  A Mobile Vision System for Urban Detection with Informative Local Descriptors. 30
  
• Jaewon Sung, Daijin Kim:
  Large Motion Object Tracking using Active Contour Combined Active Appearance Model. 31
  
• Gabriele Peters:
  A Vision System for Interactive Object Learning. 32
  
• Masashi Tanigawa:
  Multi-class object recognition using boosted linear discriminant analysis combined with masking covariance matrix method. 33
  
• Shinko Y. Cheng, Mohan M. Trivedi:
  Multimodal Voxelization and Kinematically Constrained Gaussian Mixture Models for Full Hand Pose Estimation: An Integrated Systems Approach. 34
  

Poster Session A

• Omar Ait-Aider, Nicolas Andreff, Jean-Marc Lavest, Philippe Martinet:
  Exploiting Rolling Shutter Distortions for Simultaneous Object Pose and Velocity Computation Using a Single View. 35
  
• Thomas G. Zimmerman:
  Tracking Shopping Carts Using Mobile Cameras Viewing Ceiling-Mounted Retro-Reflective Bar Codes. 36
  
• Hironobu Fujiyoshi, Takeshi Komura, Ikuko Eguchi Yairi, Kentaro Kayama:
  Road Observation and Information Providing System for Supporting Mobility of Pedestrian. 37
  
• Daniel Hazen, Rohit Puri, Kannan Ramchandran:
  Multi-camera Video Resolution Enhancement by Fusion of Spatial Disparity and Temporal Motion fields. 38
  
• Danijela Ristic, Sai Krishna Vuppala, Axel Gräser:
  Feedback Control for Improvement of Image Processing: An Application of Recognition of Characters on Metallic Surfaces. 39
  
• Vincent Martin, Monique Thonnat, Nicolas Maillot:
  A Learning Approach for Adaptive Image Segmentation. 40
  
• Mohamed E. Hussein, Wael Abd-Almageed, Yang Ran, Larry S. Davis:
  Real-Time Human Detection, Tracking, and Verification in Uncontrolled Camera Motion Environments. 41
  
• Olena Borzenko, Wei Xu, Mark Obsniuk, Arjun Chopra, Piotr Jasiobedzki, Michael R. M. Jenkin, Yves Lespérance:
  Lights and Camera: Intelligently Controlled Multi-channel Pose Estimation System. 42
  
• Sofiane Yous, Norimichi Ukita, Masatsugu Kidode:
  Multiple Active Camera Assignment for High Fidelity 3D Video. 43
  
• Giorgio Panin, Alexander Ladikos, Alois Knoll:
  An Efficient and Robust Real-Time Contour Tracking System. 44
  

Poster Session B

• Davide Scaramuzza, Agostino Martinelli, Roland Siegwart:
  A Flexible Technique for Accurate Omnidirectional Camera Calibration and Structure from Motion. 45
  
• Jérémie Allard, Jean-Sébastien Franco, Clément Ménier, Edmond Boyer, Bruno Raffin:
  The GrImage Platform: A Mixed Reality Environment for Interactions. 46
  
• Andrew Naftel, Shehzad Khalid:
  Motion Trajectory Learning in the DFT-Coefficient Feature Space. 47
  
• Akinori Hidaka, Kenji Nishida, Takio Kurita:
  Face Tracking by Maximizing Classification Score of Face Detector Based on Rectangle Features. 48
  
• Carlo Colombo, Dario Comanducci, Alberto Del Bimbo:
  A Desktop 3D Scanner Exploiting Rotation and Visual Rectification of Laser Profiles. 49
  
• Danica Kragic, Mårten Björkman:
  Strategies for Object Manipulation using Foveal and Peripheral Vision. 50
  
• Ikushi Yoda, Katsuhiko Sakaue, Daisuke Hosotani:
  Multi-point Stereo Camera System for Controlling Safety at Railroad Crossings. 51
  
• Yi Yao, Besma R. Abidi, Mongi A. Abidi:
  Digital Imaging with Extreme Zoom: System Design and Image Restoration. 52
  
• Stefan Gächter, Viet Nguyen, Roland Siegwart:
  Results on Range Image Segmentation for Service Robots. 53
  
• Changhan Park, Joon Ki Paik, Taewoong Choi, Soonhyob Kim, Young-Ouk Kim, Jaechan Namkung:
  Multi-Modal Human Verification Using Face and Speech. 54
  
• Yong Zhao, Gabriel Taubin:
  Real-Time Median Filtering for Embedded Smart Cameras. 55