Image and Vision Computing, Volume 27

Volume 27, Numbers 1-2, January 2009

• Robert Sim, Greg Mori, Yiannis Rekleitis:
  Second and Third Canadian Conferences on Computer and Robot Vision. 1
  
• Luis Malagón-Borja, Olac Fuentes:
  Object detection using image reconstruction with PCA. 2-9
  
• M. Sabry Hassouna, Alaa E. Abdel-Hakim, Aly A. Farag:
  PDE-based robust robotic navigation. 10-18
  
• Daniel Lévesque, François Deschênes:
  Novel depth cues from light scattering. 19-36
  
• Yves Lucet:
  New sequential exact Euclidean distance transform algorithms based on convex analysis. 37-44
  
• Fahong Li, Robert J. Woodham:
  Video analysis of hockey play in selected game situations. 45-58
  
• Ghassan Hamarneh, Xiaoxing Li:
  Watershed segmentation using prior shape and appearance knowledge. 59-68
  
• Dana Cobzas, Martin Jägersand, Peter F. Sturm:
  3D SSD tracking with estimated 3D planes. 69-79
  
• Nathan Mekuz, Christian Bauckhage, John K. Tsotsos:
  Subspace manifold learning with sample weights. 80-86
  
• Ady Ecker, Shimon Ullman:
  A hierarchical non-parametric method for capturing non-rigid deformations. 87-98
  
• Per-Erik Forssén, Anders Moe:
  View matching with blob features. 99-107
  
• Christian Bauckhage, John K. Tsotsos, Frank E. Bunn:
  Automatic detection of abnormal gait. 108-115
  
• Dimitri Marinakis, Gregory Dudek:
  Self-calibration of a vision-based sensor network. 116-130
  
• Gustavo Carneiro, Nuno Vasconcelos:
  Minimum Bayes error features for visual recognition. 131-140
  
• Sven Fleck, Florian Busch, Peter Biber, Wolfgang Straßer:
  Graph cut based panoramic 3D modeling and ground truth comparison with a mobile platform - The Wägele. 141-152
  
• Jasper Snoek, Jesse Hoey, Liam Stewart, Richard S. Zemel, Alex Mihailidis:
  Automated detection of unusual events on stairs. 153-166
  
• Robert Sim, James J. Little:
  Autonomous vision-based robotic exploration and mapping using hybrid maps and particle filters. 167-177
  
• Weihua Xiong, Brian V. Funt:
  Stereo retinex. 178-188
  
• Wei-Lwun Lu, Kenji Okuma, James J. Little:
  Tracking and recognizing actions of multiple hockey players using the boosted particle filter. 189-205
  
• Piali Das, Olga Veksler, Vyacheslav Zavadsky, Yuri Boykov:
  Semiautomatic segmentation with compact shape prior. 206-219
  

Volume 27, Number 3, February 2009

• Massimo Tistarelli, Josef Bigün:
  Image and vision computing journal special issue on multimodal biometrics. 221
  
• Massimo Tistarelli, Manuele Bicego, Enrico Grosso:
  Dynamic face recognition: From human to machine vision. 222-232
  
• Klaus Kollreider, Hartwig Fronthaler, Josef Bigün:
  Non-intrusive liveness detection by face images. 233-244
  
• Richa Singh, Mayank Vatsa, Afzel Noore:
  Face recognition with disguise and single gallery images. 245-257
  
• Davide Maltoni, Raffaele Cappelli:
  Advances in fingerprint modeling. 258-268
  
• Tobias Scheidat, Claus Vielhauer, Jana Dittmann:
  Handwriting verification - Comparison of a multi-algorithmic and a multi-semantic approach. 269-278
  
• Elena Vildjiounaite, Vesa Kyllönen, Heikki Ailisto:
  Empirical evaluation of combining unobtrusiveness and security requirements in multimodal biometric systems. 279-292
  
• Mayank Vatsa, Richa Singh, Afzel Noore:
  Feature based RDWT watermarking for multimodal biometric system. 293-304
  
• Ben A. M. Schouten, Bart Jacobs:
  Biometrics and their use in e-passports. 305-312
  

Volume 27, Number 4, March 2009

• Feng Zhang, Shang-qian Liu, Da-bao Wang, Wei Guan:
  Aircraft recognition in infrared image using wavelet moment invariants. 313-318
  
• Pradeep Gnanaprakasam, Johné M. Parker, Subburengan Ganapathiraman, Zhen Hou:
  Efficient 3D characterization of raised topological defects in smooth specular coatings. 319-330
  
• Martyn N. J. Paley, Li Sze Chow, Elspeth H. Whitby, Greg G. Cook:
  Modelling of axonal fields in the optic nerve for direct MR detection studies. 331-341
  
• Hongchuan Yu, Mohammed Bennamoun, Chin-Seng Chua:
  An extension of min/max flow framework. 342-353
  
• André Vital Saúde, Michel Couprie, Roberto de Alencar Lotufo:
  Discrete 2D and 3D euclidean medial axis in higher resolution. 354-363
  
• Yu He, Kim-Hui Yap, Li Chen, Lap-Pui Chau:
  A soft MAP framework for blind super-resolution image reconstruction. 364-373
  
• Guido de Croon, Ida G. Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, Eric O. Postma:
  Comparing active vision models. 374-384
  
• Salah Ameer, Otman A. Basir:
  Image compression using plane fitting with inter-block prediction. 385-390
  
• Thomas Haenselmann, Marcel Busse, Stephan Kopf, Thomas King, Wolfgang Effelsberg:
  Multi perspective panoramic imaging. 391-401
  
• Maria Pavlou, Nigel M. Allinson:
  Automated encoding of footwear patterns for fast indexing. 402-409
  
• Lianghai Jin, Dehua Li, Enmin Song:
  Combining vector ordering and spatial information for color image interpolation. 410-416
  
• James Humphreys, Andrew Hunter:
  Multiple object tracking using a neural cost function. 417-424
  
• Gwanggil Jeon, Marco Anisetti, Donghyung Kim, Valerio Bellandi, Ernesto Damiani, Jechang Jeong:
  Fuzzy rough sets hybrid scheme for motion and scene complexity adaptive deinterlacing. 425-436
  
• Jianguo Zhang, Shaogang Gong:
  People detection in low-resolution video with non-stationary background. 437-443
  
• Ghassan A. Al-Kindi, Bijan Shirinzadeh:
  Feasibility assessment of vision-based surface roughness parameters acquisition for different types of machined specimens. 444-458
  
• Ward Van Aerschot, Maarten Jansen, Adhemar Bultheel:
  Normal mesh based geometrical image compression. 459-468
  
• Seyed Hossein Khatoonabadi, Mohammad Rahmati:
  Automatic soccer players tracking in goal scenes by camera motion elimination. 469-479
  
• Allan Hanbury, Beatriz Marcotegui:
  Morphological segmentation on learned boundaries. 480-488
  
• Jesmin F. Khan, Reza R. Adhami, Sharif M. A. Bhuiyan:
  A customized Gabor filter for unsupervised color image segmentation. 489-501
  

Volume 27, Number 5, April 2009

• Matthias Seise, Stephen J. McKenna, Ian W. Ricketts, Carlos A. Wigderowitz:
  Parts-based segmentation with overlapping part models using Markov chain Monte Carlo. 504-513
  
• Andrew N. Stein, Martial Hebert:
  Local detection of occlusion boundaries in video. 514-522
  
• Diane Larlus, Frédéric Jurie:
  Latent mixture vocabularies for object categorization and segmentation. 523-534
  
• Ivan Laptev:
  Improving object detection with boosted histograms. 535-544
  
• Mark Everingham, Josef Sivic, Andrew Zisserman:
  Taking the bite out of automated naming of characters in TV video. 545-559
  
• José Miguel Buenaposada, Enrique Muñoz, Luis Baumela:
  Efficient illumination independent appearance-based face tracking. 560-578
  
• Karl Pauwels, Marc M. Van Hulle:
  Optic flow from unstable sequences through local velocity constancy maximization. 579-587
  
• Ethan Eade, Tom Drummond:
  Edge landmarks in monocular SLAM. 588-596
  
• Nuno Gracias, Mohammad H. Mahoor, Shahriar Negahdaripour, Arthur Gleason:
  Fast image blending using watersheds and graph cuts. 597-607
  

Volume 27, Number 6, May 2009

• Sabrina Rami-Shojaei, Corinne Vachier, Christophe Schmitt:
  Automatic analysis of 2D foam sequences: Application to the characterization of aqueous proteins foams stability. 609-622
  
• Dalong Li:
  Support vector regression based image denoising. 623-627
  
• Michael Felsberg, Sinan Kalkan, Norbert Krüger:
  Continuous dimensionality characterization of image structures. 628-636
  
• B. R. Schlei:
  A new computational framework for 2D shape-enclosing contours. 637-647
  
• L. R. Luis Rodriguez Benitez, Juan Moreno García, José Jesús Castro-Schez, Javier Albusac, Luis Jimenez Linares:
  Automatic objects behaviour recognition from compressed video domain. 648-657
  
• Chuen-Horng Lin, Rong-Tai Chen, Yung-Kuan Chan:
  A smart content-based image retrieval system based on color and texture feature. 658-665
  
• Carlo Arcelli, Gabriella Sanniti di Baja, Luca Serino:
  A parallel algorithm to skeletonize the distance transform of 3D objects. 666-672
  
• Miguel Segui Prieto, Alastair R. Allen:
  Using self-organising maps in the detection and recognition of road signs. 673-683
  
• Hideaki Kawano, Noriaki Suetake, Byungki Cha, Takashi Aso:
  Sharpness preserving image enlargement by using self-decomposed codebook and Mahalanobis distance. 684-693
  
• Lance M. Kaplan, Nasser M. Nasrabadi:
  Block Wiener-based image registration for moving target indication. 694-703
  
• Asif Masood, Muhammad Sarfraz:
  Capturing outlines of 2D objects with Bézier cubic approximation. 704-712
  
• Mohammad Faizal Ahmad Fauzi, Paul H. Lewis:
  Query by low-quality image. 713-724
  
• Hong Zhou, Yonghuai Liu, Longzhuang Li, Baogang Wei:
  A clustering approach to free form surface reconstruction from multi-view range images. 725-747
  
• Mark S. Drew, Tim K. Lee, Andrew Rova:
  Shape retrieval with eigen-CSS search. 748-755
  
• Santiago Aja-Fernández, Gonzalo Vegas-Sánchez-Ferrero, Marcos Martín-Fernández, Carlos Alberola-López:
  Automatic noise estimation in images using local statistics. Additive and multiplicative cases. 756-770
  
• Martin Lillholm, Lewis D. Griffin:
  Statistics and category systems for the shape index descriptor of local 2nd order natural image structure. 771-781
  
• Wei Pei, Yong-ying Zhu, Chong Liu, Zeyi Xia:
  Non-uniformity correction for SLM microscopic images. 782-789
  
• Christian Daul, Juan Manuel Lopez-Hernandez, Didier Wolf, Gilles Karcher, Gérard Ethévenot:
  3-D multimodal cardiac data superimposition using 2-D image registration and 3-D reconstruction from multiple views. 790-802
  
• Caifeng Shan, Shaogang Gong, Peter W. McOwan:
  Facial expression recognition based on Local Binary Patterns: A comprehensive study. 803-816
  
• Zheng Li, Pohuang Jiang, Hong Ma, Jian Yang, DongMing Tang:
  A model for dynamic object segmentation with kernel density estimation based on gradient features. 817-823
  

• Sungho Kim, In-So Kweon:
  Simultaneous place and object recognition using collaborative context information. 824-833
  

Volume 27, Number 7, June 2009

• Luc Brun, Francisco Escolano:
  Preface. 835-836
  

• Rocío González-Díaz, M. J. Jimenez, Belén Medrano, Pedro Real:
  A tool for integer homology computation: lambda-AT-model. 837-845
  
• Samuel Peltier, Adrian Ion, Walter G. Kropatsch, Guillaume Damiand, Yll Haxhimusa:
  Directly computing the generators of image homology using graph pyramids. 846-853
  

• Huiying Shen, James Coughlan, Volodymyr Ivanchenko:
  Figure-ground segmentation using factor graphs. 854-863
  
• Kai Rothaus, Xiaoyi Jiang, Paul Rhiem:
  Separation of the retinal vascular graph in arteries and veins based upon structural knowledge. 864-875
  
• Aline Deruyver, Yann Hodé:
  Qualitative spatial relationships for image interpretation by using a conceptual graph. 876-886
  
• Yll Haxhimusa, Walter G. Kropatsch, Zygmunt Pizlo, Adrian Ion:
  Approximative graph pyramid solution of the E-TSP. 887-896
  

• Wendy Aguilar, Yann Frauel, Francisco Escolano, M. Elena Martínez-Pérez, Arturo Espinosa-Romero, Miguel Angel Lozano:
  A robust Graph Transformation Matching for non-rigid registration. 897-910
  
• Samuel Rota Bulò, Andrea Torsello, Marcello Pelillo:
  A game-theoretic approach to partial clique enumeration. 911-922
  
• Jan Hendrik Metzen, Tim Kröger, Andrea Schenk, Stephan Zidowitz, Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Xiaoyi Jiang:
  Matching of anatomical tree structures for registration of medical images. 923-933
  
• David Emms, Richard C. Wilson, Edwin R. Hancock:
  Graph matching using the interference of discrete-time quantum walks. 934-949
  
• Kaspar Riesen, Horst Bunke:
  Approximate graph edit distance computation by means of bipartite graph matching. 950-959
  

• Miguel Angel Lozano, Francisco Escolano, Boyan Bonev, Pablo Suau, Wendy Aguilar, Juan Manuel Sáez, Miguel Cazorla:
  Region and constellations based categorization of images with unsupervised graph learning. 960-978
  
• Pasquale Foggia, Gennaro Percannella, Carlo Sansone, Mario Vento:
  Benchmarking graph-based clustering algorithms. 979-988
  

Volume 27, Number 8, July 2009

• Daniel Soukup, Ulrich Bodenhofer, Markus Mittendorfer-Holzer, Konrad Mayer:
  Semi-automatic identification of print layers from a sequence of sample images: A case study from banknote print inspection. 989-998
  
• R. Krishnamoorthi, N. Kannan:
  A new integer image coding technique based on orthogonal polynomials. 999-1006
  
• Chi-Yi Tsai, Kai-Tai Song:
  Dynamic visual tracking control of a mobile robot with image noise and occlusion robustness. 1007-1022
  
• Arjan Kuijper:
  Geometrical PDEs based on second-order derivatives of gauge coordinates in image processing. 1023-1034
  
• Chengqing Li, Shujun Li, Guanrong Chen, Wolfgang A. Halang:
  Cryptanalysis of an image encryption scheme based on a compound chaotic sequence. 1035-1039
  
• G. Y. Chen, G. Dudek:
  Auto-correlation wavelet support vector machine. 1040-1046
  
• Hsien-Huang P. Wu, Meng-Tu Lee, Ping-Kuo Weng, Soon-Lin Chen:
  Epipolar geometry of catadioptric stereo systems with planar mirrors. 1047-1061
  
• John A. Robinson:
  Covariance estimation in full- and reduced-dimensionality image classification. 1062-1071
  
• F. Farshidi, Shahin Sirouspour, Thia Kirubarajan:
  Robust sequential view planning for object recognition using multiple cameras. 1072-1082
  
• Antonio Adán, Andrés S. Vázquez, Carlos Cerrada, Santiago Salamanca:
  Moving surface extraction based on unordered hexagonal perfect submaps projection: Applications to 3D feature tracking. 1083-1096
  
• Cecilia Di Ruberto, Luigi Cinque:
  Decomposition of two-dimensional shapes for efficient retrieval. 1097-1107
  
• Kresimir Delac, Mislav Grgic, Sonja Grgic:
  Face recognition in JPEG and JPEG2000 compressed domain. 1108-1120
  
• Dirk Colbry, George C. Stockman:
  The 3DID face alignment system for verifying identity. 1121-1133
  
• Vahid Abolghasemi, Alireza Ahmadyfard:
  An edge-based color-aided method for license plate detection. 1134-1142
  
• Gustavo Carneiro, Allan D. Jepson:
  The quantitative characterization of the distinctiveness and robustness of local image descriptors. 1143-1156
  
• Michael Fussenegger, Peter M. Roth, Horst Bischof, Rachid Deriche, Axel Pinz:
  A level set framework using a new incremental, robust Active Shape Model for object segmentation and tracking. 1157-1168
  
• Yuan Mei, Huaijiang Sun, Deshen Xia:
  A gradient-based combined method for the computation of fingerprints' orientation field. 1169-1177
  
• E. Mouragnon, Maxime Lhuillier, Michel Dhome, Fabien Dekeyser, Patrick Sayd:
  Generic and real-time structure from motion using local bundle adjustment. 1178-1193
  
• Robert Bodor, Andrew Drenner, Duc Fehr, Osama Masoud, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos:
  View-independent human motion classification using image-based reconstruction. 1194-1206
  
• Miguel Ángel Martín-Fernández, Rubén Cárdenes, Emma Muñoz-Moreno, Rodrigo de Luis García, Marcos Martín-Fernández, Carlos Alberola-López:
  Automatic articulated registration of hand radiographs. 1207-1222
  

• Mark Polak, Hong Zhang, Ming Hong Pi:
  An evaluation metric for image segmentation of multiple objects. 1223-1227
  

Volume 27, Number 9, August 2009

• Aluizio R. F. Araújo, Diogo C. Costa:
  Local adaptive receptive field self-organizing map for image color segmentation. 1229-1239
  
• Kazuhiro Hotta:
  Pose independent object classification from small number of training samples based on kernel principal component analysis of local parts. 1240-1251
  
• Ju-Chin Chen, Jenn-Jier James Lien:
  A view-based statistical system for multi-view face detection and pose estimation. 1252-1271
  
• Frédéric Jean, Robert Bergevin, Alexandra Branzan Albu:
  Computing and evaluating view-normalized body part trajectories. 1272-1284
  
• Demetrios Gerogiannis, Christophoros Nikou, Aristidis Likas:
  The mixtures of Student's t-distributions as a robust framework for rigid registration. 1285-1294
  
• Cheolkon Jung, Qifeng Liu, Joongkyu Kim:
  Accurate text localization in images based on SVM output scores. 1295-1301
  
• Zhaohua Hu, Xin Fan, Yaoliang Song, Dequn Liang:
  Joint trajectory tracking and recognition based on bi-directional nonlinear learning. 1302-1312
  
• Jaewon Sung, Daijin Kim:
  Real-time facial expression recognition using STAAM and layered GDA classifier. 1313-1325
  
• Patrick Dickinson, Andrew Hunter, Kofi Appiah:
  A spatially distributed model for foreground segmentation. 1326-1335
  
• Baopu Li, Max Q.-H. Meng:
  Texture analysis for ulcer detection in capsule endoscopy images. 1336-1342
  
• Amir Nakib, Hamouche Oulhadj, Patrick Siarry:
  A thresholding method based on two-dimensional fractional differentiation. 1343-1357
  
• Yulian Zhu, Jun Liu, Songcan Chen:
  Semi-random subspace method for face recognition. 1358-1370
  
• Chengqing Li, Shujun Li, Muhammad Asim, Juana Nunez, Gonzalo Álvarez, Guanrong Chen:
  On the security defects of an image encryption scheme. 1371-1381
  
• Fadi Dornaika, Angel Domingo Sappa:
  A featureless and stochastic approach to on-board stereo vision system pose. 1382-1393
  
• Erchan Aptoula, Sébastien Lefèvre:
  On the morphological processing of hue. 1394-1401
  
• Yinhui Zhang, Yunsheng Zhang, Zifen He, Xiangyang Tang:
  Multiscale fusion of wavelet-domain hidden Markov tree through graph cut. 1402-1410
  
• Ying Zheng, Guangyao Li, Xiehua Sun, Xinmin Zhou:
  A geometric active contour model without re-initialization for color images. 1411-1417
  

Volume 27, Number 10, September 2009

• Paolo Remagnino, Gian Luca Foresti:
  Computer vision methods for ambient intelligence. 1419-1420
  
• Yin Chen, Rick S. Blum:
  A new automated quality assessment algorithm for image fusion. 1421-1432
  
• Jordi Gonzàlez, Daniel Rowe, Javier Varona, F. Xavier Roca:
  Understanding dynamic scenes based on human sequence evaluation. 1433-1444
  
• Philip Kelly, Noel E. O'Connor, Alan F. Smeaton:
  Robust pedestrian detection and tracking in crowded scenes. 1445-1458
  
• Christian Micheloni, Lauro Snidaro, Gian Luca Foresti:
  Exploiting temporal statistics for events analysis and understanding. 1459-1469
  

• Hung-Khoon Tan, Chong-Wah Ngo:
  Localized matching using Earth Mover's Distance towards discovery of common patterns from small image samples. 1470-1483
  
• Yuko Uematsu, Hideo Saito:
  Multiple planes based registration using 3D Projective Space for Augmented Reality. 1484-1496
  
• Babak Mahdian, Stanislav Saic:
  Using noise inconsistencies for blind image forensics. 1497-1503
  
• Khaled M. Shaaban, Nagwa M. Omar:
  Region-based Deformable Net for automatic color image segmentation. 1504-1514
  
• Nazli Ikizler, Pinar Duygulu:
  Histogram of oriented rectangles: A new pose descriptor for human action recognition. 1515-1526
  
• Dong-Gyu Sim, Yongmin Kim:
  Detection and compression of moving objects based on new panoramic image modeling. 1527-1539
  
• Stefano Berretti, Alberto Del Bimbo, Pietro Pala:
  3D Mesh decomposition using Reeb graphs. 1540-1554
  
• Shing Chun Benny Lam, Brendan McCane, Robert Allen:
  Automated tracking in digitized videofluoroscopy sequences for spine kinematic analysis. 1555-1571
  
• J. Novo, Manuel G. Penedo, José Santos:
  Localisation of the optic disc by means of GA-optimised Topological Active Nets. 1572-1584
  
• K. L. Mak, P. Peng, K. F. C. Yiu:
  Fabric defect detection using morphological filters. 1585-1592
  
• Alec Mills, Gregory Dudek:
  Image stitching with dynamic elements. 1593-1602
  
• Mohammad Reza Daliri, Vincent Torre:
  Shape and texture clustering: Best estimate for the clusters number. 1603-1614
  
• Hadi Grailu, Mojtaba Lotfizad, Hadi Sadoghi Yazdi:
  1-D chaincode pattern matching for compression of Bi-level printed farsi and arabic textual images. 1615-1625
  
• Chen-Chung Liu, Kai-Wen Chuang:
  An outdoor time scenes simulation scheme based on support vector regression with radial basis function on DCT domain. 1626-1636
  

Volume 27, Number 11, October 2009

• Gösta H. Granlund:
  Special issue on Perception, Action and Learning. 1639-1640
  
• John G. Taylor, Matthew Hartley, N. Taylor, Christo Panchev, Stathis Kasderidis:
  A hierarchical attention-based neural network architecture, based on human brain guidance, for perception, conceptualisation, action and reasoning. 1641-1657
  
• Hanspeter A. Mallot, Kai Basten:
  Embodied spatial cognition: Biological and artificial systems. 1658-1670
  
• Michael Felsberg, Johan Wiklund, Gösta H. Granlund:
  Exploratory learning structures in artificial cognitive systems. 1671-1687
  
• Erik Jonsson, Michael Felsberg:
  Efficient computation of channel-coded feature maps through piecewise polynomials. 1688-1694
  
• Karel Zimmermann, Tomás Svoboda, Jiri Matas:
  Anytime learning for the NoSLLiP tracker. 1695-1701
  
• Mikhail Shevchenko, David Windridge, Josef Kittler:
  A linear-complexity reparameterisation strategy for the hierarchical bootstrapping of capabilities within perception-action architectures. 1702-1714
  
• Eng-Jon Ong, Liam Ellis, Richard Bowden:
  Problem solving through imitation. 1715-1728
  
• Fredrik Larsson, Erik Jonsson, Michael Felsberg:
  Simultaneously learning to recognize and control a low-cost robotic arm. 1729-1739