Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems

Image and Video Coding.- Performance Analysis of Generalized Zerotree Coders Varying the Maximum Zerotree Degree.- Passive Error Concealment for Wavelet Coded Images with Efficient Reconstruction of High-Frequency Content.- Applying Open-Loop Coding in Predictive Coding Systems.- Network Security Using Biometric and Cryptography.- Bit Domain Encryption.- A Multiresolution Robust Watermarking Approach for Scalable Wavelet Image Compression.- Improving Image Vector Quantization with a Genetic Accelerated K-Means Algorithm.- Systems and Applications.- Efficient and Flexible Cluster-and-Search for CBIR.- An Evaluation Methodology for Image Mosaicing Algorithms.- High-Speed Acquisition and Pre-processing of Polarimetric Image Sequences.- Nighttime Vehicle Detection for Intelligent Headlight Control.- Fourier-Based Inspection of Free-Form Reflective Surfaces.- An Iterative Kalman Filter Approach to Camera Calibration.- An Efficient Hardware Architecture without Line Memories for Morphological Image Processing.- Embedding of a Real Time Image Stabilization Algorithm on SoPC Platform, a Chip Multi-processor Approach.- “Local Rank Differences” Image Feature Implemented on GPU.- Real-Time Wavelet-Spatial-Activity-Based Adaptive Video Enhancement Algorithm for FPGA.- MIDIAS: An Integrated 2D/3D Sensor System for Safety Applications.- Configurable Passband Imaging Spectrometer Based on Acousto-optic Tunable Filter.- Basic Video-Surveillance with Low Computational and Power Requirements Using Long-Exposure Frames.- Parallel Algorithm for Concurrent Computation of Connected Component Tree.- Distributed Smart Camera Calibration Using Blinking LED.- Real-Time Hough Transform on 1-D SIMD Processors: Implementation and Architecture Exploration.- Sub-optimal Camera Selection in Practical Vision Networks through Shape Approximation.- Video Processing.- A Real-Time Vision System for Traffic Signs Recognition Invariant to Translation, Rotation and Scale.- Dynamic Selection of Characteristics for Feature Based Image Sequence Stabilization.- Video-Based Fall Detection in the Home Using Principal Component Analysis.- Fluid Flow Measurement in Thermographic Video Sequences by Wavelet-Multiresolution Optical Flow Estimation.- Video Object Segmentation Based on Feedback Schemes Guided by a Low-Level Scene Ontology.- Adaptive Metadata Management System for Distributed Video Content Analysis.- Synchronizing Video Sequences from Temporal Epipolar Lines Analysis.- Automatic Feature-Based Stabilization of Video with Intentional Motion through a Particle Filter.- Filtering and Restoration.- Image Denoising Using Similarities in the Time-Scale Plane.- Video Denoising and Simplification Via Discrete Regularization on Graphs.- A Robust Method for Edge-Preserving Image Smoothing.- Atmospheric Turbulence Restoration by Diffeomorphic Image Registration and Blind Deconvolution.- Sequential Blind PSF Estimation and Restoration of Aerial Multispectral Images.- Phase Unwrapping in Fringe Projection Systems Using Epipolar Geometry.- Decision Trees in Binary Tomography for Supporting the Reconstruction of hv-Convex Connected Images.- Multidimensional Noise Removal Based on Fourth Order Cumulants.- Defocus Blur Correcting Projector-Camera System.- Multidimensional Noise Removal Method Based on PARAFAC Decomposition.- Segmentation and Feature Extraction.- A New Algorithm for Dominant Point Detection by Quasi-collinear Break Points Supression.- Robust Curvature Extrema Detection Based on New Numerical Derivation.- Geodesic Active Contours with Combined Shape and Appearance Priors.- Nonparametric Level-Set Segmentation Based on the Minimization of the Stochastic Complexity.- A Geometric Primitive Extraction Process for Remote Sensing Problems.- Use of Local Surface Curvature Estimation for Adaptive Vision System Based on Active Light Projection.- Spatially-Variant Directional Mathematical Morphology Operators Based on a Diffused Average Squared Gradient Field.- Spherical Edge Detector: Application to Omnidirectional Imaging.- Towards Fully Automatic Image Segmentation Evaluation.- Fast Saliency-Based Motion Segmentation Algorithm for an Active Vision System.- A Multicomponent Image Segmentation Framework.- An Interval-Valued Fuzzy Morphological Model Based on Lukasiewicz-Operators.- Curvature Estimation and Curve Inference with Tensor Voting: A New Approach.- Attention-Based Segmentation on an Image Pyramid Sequence.- A Pseudo-logarithmic Image Processing Framework for Edge Detection.- Graffiti Detection Using a Time-Of-Flight Camera.- Contour Detection for Industrial Image Processing by Means of Level Set Methods.- Knee Point Detection in BIC for Detecting the Number of Clusters.- Grey-Scale Morphology with Spatially-Variant Rectangles in Linear Time.- Image Segmentation Based on Supernodes and Region Size Estimation.- An Image Quality Metric Based on a Colour Appearance Model.- Fuzzy Rule Iterative Feature Selection (FRIFS) with Respect to the Choquet Integral Apply to Fabric Defect Recognition.- Simple and Robust Optic Disc Localisation Using Colour Decorrelated Templates.- Active Contours without Edges and with Simple Shape Priors.- Tracking, Scene Understanding and Computer Vision.- A Robust Method for Filling Holes in 3D Meshes Based on Image Restoration.- A Comparison of Multiclass SVM Methods for Real World Natural Scenes.- Intuitionistic Fuzzy Clustering with Applications in Computer Vision.- Object Tracking Using Naive Bayesian Classifiers.- 3D Tracking Using Multi-view Based Particle Filters.- Motion Recovery for Uncalibrated Turntable Sequences Using Silhouettes and a Single Point.- Semantic Map Generation from Satellite Images for Humanitarian Scenarios Applications.- An Effective Salience-Based Algorithm for Shape Matching.- A New Ground Movement Compensation Approach for Obstacle Detection Using an In-Vehicle Camera.- Foliage Recognition Based on Local Edge Information.- On Bin Configuration of Shape Context Descriptors in Human Silhouette Classification.- Kernel Based Approach for High Dimensional Heterogeneous Image Features Management in CBIR Context.- Scene Reconstruction Using MRF Optimization with Image Content Adaptive Energy Functions.- Blur and Contrast Invariant Fast Stereo Matching.- A Generalized Appriou’s Model for Evidential Classification of Multispectral Images: A Case Study of Algiers City.- Medical Imaging.- Fuzzy Clustering and Active Contours for Histopathology Image Segmentation and Nuclei Detection.- Mosaicing of Fibered Fluorescence Microscopy Video.- Fusion of Multi-view Tissue Classification Based on Wound 3D Model.- Effective Segmentation for Dental X-Ray Images Using Texture-Based Fuzzy Inference System.- Breast Mass Segmentation in Mammographic Images by an Effective Region Growing Algorithm.- Biometrics and Surveillance.- Pedestrian Detection and Tracking Based on Far Infrared Visual Information.- Crowd Behavior Recognition for Video Surveillance.- Face Recognition Using Symbolic KPCA Plus Symbolic LDA in the Framework of Symbolic Data Analysis: Symbolic Kernel Fisher Discriminant Method.- Face Recognition Using Parabola Edge Map.- Human Pose Estimation in Vision Networks Via Distributed Local Processing and Nonparametric Belief Propagation.- Model-Based Gait Recognition Using Multiple Feature Detection.- A New Segmentation Approach for Ear Recognition.- Robust Lip Contours Localization and Tracking Using Multi Features – Statistical Shape Models.- 3D Face Recognition Evaluation on Expressive Faces Using the IV 2 Database.- Reliable Eyelid Localization for Iris Recognition.- Head Pose Determination Using Synthetic Images.- A Fast and Fully Automatic Ear Recognition Approach Based on 3D Local Surface Features.- Open or Closed Mouth State Detection: Static Supervised Classification Based on Log-Polar Signature.- Gabor Filter-Based Fingerprint Anti-spoofing.- Improved Infrared Face Identification Performance Using Nonuniformity Correction Techniques.- Constrained Phase–Based Personalized Facial Feature Tracking.