Image Analysis and Recognition, 2004
International Conference ICIAR 2004, Porto, Portugal, September 29 - October 1, 2004, Proceedings, Part I
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, Vol. 3211

ICIAR 2004, the International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, was the ?rst ICIAR conference, and was held in Porto, Portugal. ICIAR will be organized annually, and will alternate between Europe and North America. ICIAR 2005 will take place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The idea of o?ering these conferences came as a result of discussion between researchers in Portugal and Canada to encourage collaboration and exchange, mainly between these two countries, but also with the open participation of other countries, addressing recent advances in theory, methodology and applications. The response to the call for papers for ICIAR 2004 was very positive. From 316 full papers submitted, 210 were accepted (97 oral presentations, and 113 - sters). The review process was carried out by the Program Committee members and other reviewers; all are experts in various image analysis and recognition areas. Each paper was reviewed by at least two reviewing parties. The high q- lity of the papers in these proceedings is attributed ?rst to the authors, and second to the quality of the reviews provided by the experts. We would like to thank the authors for responding to our call, and we wholeheartedly thank the reviewers for their excellent work in such a short amount of time. We are espe- ally indebted to the Program Committee for their e?orts that allowed us to set up this publication. We were very pleased to be able to include in the conference, Prof. Murat KuntfromtheSwissFederalInstituteofTechnology,andProf. Mario ? Figueiredo, oftheInstitutoSuperiorT? ecnico,inPortugal.

Image Segmentation.- Automatic Image Segmentation Using a Deformable Model Based on Charged Particles.- Hierarchical Regions for Image Segmentation.- Efficiently Segmenting Images with Dominant Sets.- Color Image Segmentation Using Energy Minimization on a Quadtree Representation.- Segmentation Using Saturation Thresholding and Its Application in Content-Based Retrieval of Images.- A New Approach to Unsupervised Image Segmentation Based on Wavelet-Domain Hidden Markov Tree Models.- Spatial Discriminant Function with Minimum Error Rate for Image Segmentation.- Detecting Foreground Components in Grey Level Images for Shift Invariant and Topology Preserving Pyramids.- Pulling, Pushing, and Grouping for Image Segmentation.- Image Segmentation by a Robust Clustering Algorithm Using Gaussian Estimator.- A Multistage Image Segmentation and Denoising Method – Based on the Mumford and Shah Variational Approach.- A Multiresolution Threshold Selection Method Based on Training.- Segmentation Based Environment Modeling Using a Single Image.- Unsupervised Color-Texture Segmentation.- Image Processing and Analysis.- Hierarchical MCMC Sampling.- Registration and Fusion of Blurred Images.- A New Numerical Scheme for Anisotropic Diffusion.- An Effective Detail Preserving Filter for Impulse Noise Removal.- A Quantum-Inspired Genetic Algorithm for Multi-source Affine Image Registration.- Nonparametric Impulsive Noise Removal.- BayesShrink Ridgelets for Image Denoising.- Image Salt-Pepper Noise Elimination by Detecting Edges and Isolated Noise Points.- Image De-noising via Overlapping Wavelet Atoms.- Gradient Pile up Algorithm for Edge Enhancement and Detection.- Co-histogram and Image Degradation Evaluation.- MAP Signal Reconstruction with Non Regular Grids.- Comparative Frameworks for Directional Primitive Extraction.- Dynamic Content Adaptive Super-Resolution.- Efficient Classification Method for Autonomous Driving Application.- Image Analysis and Synthesis.- Parameterized Hierarchical Annealing for Scientific Models.- Significance Test for Feature Subset Selection on Image Recognition.- Image Recognition Applied to Robot Control Using Fuzzy Modeling.- Large Display Interaction Using Video Avatar and Hand Gesture Recognition.- Image and Video Coding.- Optimal Transform in Perceptually Uniform Color Space and Its Application in Image Coding.- Lossless Compression of Color-Quantized Images Using Block-Based Palette Reordering.- Fovea Based Coding for Video Streaming.- Influence of Task and Scene Content on Subjective Video Quality.- Evaluation of Some Reordering Techniques for Image VQ Index Compression.- Adaptive Methods for Motion Characterization and Segmentation of MPEG Compressed Frame Sequences.- On the Automatic Creation of Customized Video Content.- Shape and Matching.- Graph Pattern Spaces from Laplacian Spectral Polynomials.- A Hierarchical Framework for Shape Recognition Using Articulated Shape Mixtures.- A New Affine Invariant Fitting Algorithm for Algebraic Curves.- Graph Matching Using Manifold Embedding.- A Matching Algorithm Based on Local Topologic Structure.- 2-D Shape Matching Using Asymmetric Wavelet-Based Dissimilarity Measure.- A Real-Time Image Stabilization System Based on Fourier-Mellin Transform.- A Novel Shape Descriptor Based on Interrelation Quadruplet.- An Efficient Representation of Hand Sketch Graphic Messages Using Recursive Bezier Curve Approximation.- Contour Description Through Set Operations on Dynamic Reference Shapes.- An Algorithm for Efficient and Exhaustive Template Matching.- Modelling of Overlapping Circular Objects Based on Level Set Approach.- A Method for Dominant Points Detection and Matching 2D Object Identification.- Image Description and Recognition.- Character Recognition Using Canonical Invariants.- Finding Significant Points for a Handwritten Classification Task.- The System for Handwritten Symbol and Signature Recognition Using FPGA Computing.- Reconstruction of Order Parameters Based on Immunity Clonal Strategy for Image Classification.- Visual Object Recognition Through One-Class Learning.- Semantic Image Analysis Based on the Representation of the Spatial Relations Between Objects in Images.- Ridgelets Frame.- Adaptive Curved Feature Detection Based on Ridgelet.- Globally Stabilized 3L Curve Fitting.- Learning an Information Theoretic Transform for Object Detection.- Image Object Localization by AdaBoost Classifier.- Cost and Information-Driven Algorithm Selection for Vision Systems.- Gesture Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction Through a Knowledge Based Software Platform.- Appearance-Based Object Detection in Space-Variant Images: A Multi-model Approach.- 3D Object Recognition from Appearance: PCA Versus ICA Approaches.- A Stochastic Search Algorithm to Optimize an N-tuple Classifier by Selecting Its Inputs.- Video Processing and Analysis.- A Multi-expert Approach for Shot Classification in News Videos.- Motion-Compensated Wavelet Video Denoising.- Alpha-Stable Noise Reduction in Video Sequences.- Automatic Text Extraction in Digital Video Based on Motion Analysis.- Fast Video Registration Method for Video Quality Assessment.- Hidden Markov Model Based Events Detection in Soccer Video.- 3D Imaging.- Improving Height Recovery from a Single Image of a Face Using Local Shape Indicators.- Recovery of Surface Height from Diffuse Polarisation.- Vectorization-Free Reconstruction of 3D CAD Models from Paper Drawings.- Plane Segmentation from Two Views in Reciprocal-Polar Image Space.- Tracking of Points in a Calibrated and Noisy Image Sequence.- Multiresolution Approach to “Visual Pattern” Partitioning of 3D Images.- Visual Cortex Frontend: Integrating Lines, Edges, Keypoints, and Disparity.- Estimation of Directional and Ambient Illumination Parameters by Means of a Calibration Object.- Environment Authentication Through 3D Structural Analysis.- Camera Calibration Using Two Concentric Circles.- Three-Dimensional Object Recognition Using a Modified Exoskeleton and Extended Hausdorff Distance Matching Algorithm.- Recognition of 3D Object from One Image Based on Projective and Permutative Invariants.- Wide Baseline Stereo Matching by Corner-Edge-Regions.- Gradient Based Dense Stereo Matching.- Image Retrieval and Indexing.- Accelerating Multimedia Search by Visual Features.- Semantic Browsing and Retrieval in Image Libraries.- Robust Shape Retrieval Using Maximum Likelihood Theory.- A Novel Shape Feature for Image Classification and Retrieval.- A Local Structure Matching Approach for Large Image Database Retrieval.- People Action Recognition in Image Sequences Using a 3D Articulated Object.- CVPIC Compressed Domain Image Retrieval by Colour and Shape.- Automating GIS Image Retrieval Based on MCM.- Significant Perceptual Regions by Active-Nets.- Improving the Boosted Correlogram.- Distance Map Retrieval.- Grass Field Segmentation, the First Step Toward Player Tracking, Deep Compression, and Content Based Football Image Retrieval.- Spatio-temporal Primitive Extraction Using Hermite and Laguerre Filters for Early Vision Video Indexing.- Non-parametric Performance Comparison in Pictorial Query by Content Systems.- Morphology.- Hierarchical Watersheds with Inter-pixel Boundaries.- From Min Tree to Watershed Lake Tree: Theory and Implementation.- From Min Tree to Watershed Lake Tree: Evaluation.- Optimizing Texture Primitives Description Based on Variography and Mathematical Morphology.