TABLE OF CONTENTS

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Session 1: Gesture & Behavior Analysis

1-1 Action Recognition of Insects Using Spectral Clustering 1
Maryam Moslemi Naeini, Greg Dutton, Kristina Rothley and Greg Mori, Canada
1-2 Multi Human Trajectory Estimation Using Stochastic Sampling and Its Application to Meeting Recognition 5
Yosuke Matsusaka, Hideki Asoh and Futoshi Asano, Japan
1-3 A Real-Time Hand Gesture Interface Implemented on a Multi-Core Processor 9
Tsukasa Ike, Nobuhisa Kishikawa and Bjorn Stenger, Japan

Session 2: 3D Analysis

2-1 Improving Accuracy of 3-D Reconstruction by Classifying Correspondences 13
Yusuke Takanashi, Yohei Shibata and Yasushi Kanazawa, Japan
2-2 Development of Ladder-type Laser Scanning System for 3-D Modeling of Vertical and Narrow Areas by Space-time Analysis 17
Shintaro Ono and Katsushi Ikeuchi, Japan
2-3 Robust Semi-Dense Matching across Uncalibrated and Widely Separated Views 21
Benjamin Albouy, Sylvie Treuillet and Yves Lucas, France
2-4 An Efficient 3D Geometrical Consistency Criterion for Detection of a Set of Facial Feature Points 25
Mayumi Yuasa, Tatsuo Kozakaya and Osamu Yamaguchi, Japan

Session 3: Poster Session 1

3-1 A Novel Approach to Eigenpalm Features Using Feature-Partitioning Framework 29
Kadappagari Vijaya Kumar and Atul Negi, India
3-2 3-Phase Vehicle Tracking Using Image Alignment and Haar Transform 33
Lap-Chi Cheung and Yiu-Sang Moon, Hong Kong
3-3 Automatic Tracking, Super-Resolution and Recognition of Human Faces from Surveillance Video 37
Frank Lin, Simon Denman, Vinod Chandran and Sridha Sridharan, Australia
3-4 A Case Study of Higher Order Tikhonov Regularization Terms Influence on the Convergence of Active Contours 41
Moqing Zhang and Patrice Delmas, New Zealand
3-5 Paper Surface Topography Using Three-light Photometric Stereo 45
Toni Kuparinen, Ville Kyrki, Jarno Mielikainen and Pekka Toivanen, Finland
3-6 Colour Feature Selection for Face Authentication 49
Mohammad T. Sadeghi, Samaneh Khoshrou and Josef Kittler, Iran
3-7 Detecting the Degree of Anomal in Security Video 53
Kyoko Sudo, Tatsuya Osawa, Xiaojun Wu, Kaoru Wakabayashi and Takayuki Yasuno, Japan
3-8 Automatic Cobb Angle Measurement System by Using Nuclear Medicine Whole Body Bone Scan 57
Jia-Yann Huang, Pan-Fu Kao and Yung-Sheng Chen, Taiwan
3-9 A Proposal of Generalized Horizon View Camera 61
Liwen Gong, Kazuhiko Yamamoto and Kunihito Kato, Japan
3-10 An Efficient Method for Human Behavior Identification 65
Fang-Hsuan Cheng and Fu-Tai Chen, Taiwan
3-11 Image Segmentation Using Region Merging Combined with a Multi-class Spectral Method 69
Fernando C. Monteiro and Aurelio Campilho, Portugal
3-12 Semi-supervised Incremental Learning of Manipulative Tasks 73
Zhe Li, Sven Wachsmuth, Jannik Fritsch and Gerhard Sagerer, Germany
3-13 Location-Based Tracking of Moving Obstacles from a Mobile Robot 78
Thatsaphan Suwannathat, Jun-ichi Imai and Masahide Kaneko, Japan
3-14 A Rear Vehicle Location Algorithm for Lane Change Assist 82
Wei Liu, Chunyan Song, Pengyu Fu, Nan Wang and Huai Yuan, China
3-15 Self-Calibration for Metric 3D Reconstruction Using Homography 86
Cheng-Yuan Tang, Yi-Leh Wu, Pei-Ching Hu, Hsien-Chang Lin and Wen-Chao Chen, Taiwan
3-16 Image Contrast Enhancement by Analysis on Embedded Surfaces of Images 90
Li Tian and Sei-ichiro Kamata, Japan
3-17 Shift-Variant Restoration of Defocused Images Using Shift-Invariant Wavelet Transform 94
Hisanaga Fujiwara, Zhong Zhang, Tetsuo Miyake and Akio Miwa, Japan
3-18 Online Urdu Character Recognition System 98
S. Afaq Husain, Asma Sajjad and Fareeha Anwar, Pakistan
3-19 A Physics-Based Imaging Model of Scanning Electron Microscopes 102
Kousuke Kamada, Takayuki Okatani and Koichiro Deguchi, Japan
3-20 Investigation of Color Spaces for Face Recognition 106
Seunghwan Yoo, Rae-Hong Park and Dong-Gyu Sim, Korea
3-21 Relative Magnitude of Gaussian Curvature Using Neural Network and Object Rotation of Two Degrees of Freedom 110
Yi Ding, Yuji Iwahori, Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Lifeng He, Robert J. Woodham and Hidenori Itoh, Japan
3-22 A Comparison of New Generic Camera Calibration with the Standard Parametric Approach 114
Aubrey K. Dunne, John Mallon and Paul F. Whelan, Ireland
3-23 Pre-processing Algorithms on Digital Mammograms 118
Hengameh Mirzaalian, Mohammad Reza Ahmadzadeh, Saeed Sadri and Mehdi Jafari, Iran
3-24 License Plate Recognition from Low-Quality Videos 122
Chih-Chiang Chen and Jun-Wei Hsieh, Taiwan
3-25 Adaptive Modified PCA for Face Recognition 126
Youness Aliyari Ghassabeh, Hamid Abrishami Moghaddam and Mohammad Teshnehlab, Iran
3-26 Fingerprint Core and Delta Detection by Candidate Analysis 130
Tomohiko Ohtsuka, Daisuke Watanabe and Hiroyuki Aoki, Japan
3-27 Japanese Phone Recognition Using Lip Image Information 134
Takeshi Saitoh, Mitsugu Hisagi and Ryosuke Konishi, Japan
3-28 A SVM Based Method to Detect Color Shift Defects in IC Packages 138
R.M.C.B. Ratnayake, Craig Hicks and M.A. Akbari, Japan
3-29 Object Type Classification Using Structure-based Feature Representation 142
Tomoyuki Nagahashi, Hironobu Fujiyoshi and Takeo Kanade, Japan
3-30 A Review of Tracking Methods under Occlusions 146
Zui Zhang and Massimo Piccardi, Australia
3-31 Fast Graph Segmentation Based on Statistical Aggregation Phenomena 150
Frank Nielsen and Richard Nock, Japan
3-32 Tracking Features with Global Motion Compensation for Drone Camera Servoing 154
Benoît Louvat, Laurent Bonnaud, Nicolas Marchand and Gerard Bouvier, France

Session 4: Invited Talk 1

4-1 Computational Cameras 158
Prof. Shree K. Nayar, Columbia University, USA

Session 5: Motion and Image Sequence Analysis

5-1 A Method for Estimating Rigid Object Motion Using Regularized Scene Flow 167
Hiroki Mizuno and Hironobu Fujiyoshi, Japan
5-2 Probabilistic Motion Segmentation of Videos for Temporal Super Resolution 173
Arasanathan Thayananthan, Masahiro Iwasaki and Roberto Cipolla, UK
5-3 Robust and Efficient 3-D Reconstruction by Self-Calibration 178
Hanno Ackermann and Kenichi Kanatani, Japan
5-4 Linear Tracking of Pose and Facial Features 182
Jose Alonso Ybanez Zepeda, Franck Davoine and Maurice Charbit, France
5-5 A Video Motion Capture System for Interactive Games 186
Ryuzo Okada, Nobuhiro Kondoh and Bjorn Stenger, UK
5-6 Using Space-Time Interest Points for Video Sequence Synchronization 190
Daniel Wedge, Du Huynh and Peter Kovesi, Australia

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Session 6: Image Processing & Graphics

6-1 Real-time Soft Shadows in Mixed Reality Using Shadowing Planes 195
Tetsuya Kakuta, Takeshi Oishi and Katsushi Ikeuchi, Japan
6-2 A High-Speed and Compact Vision System Suitable for Wearable Man-machine Interfaces 199
Takashi Komuro, Björn Werkmann, Takashi Komai, Masatoshi Ishikawa and Shingo Kagami, Japan
6-3 Synthesis Arbitrary Views from Two Images Based on Improved View Morphing Technique 203
Huagang Liang, Shogo Tokai and Hiroyuki Hase, Japan
6-4 Noisy Image Segmentation Based on a Level Set Evolution 207
Khaled Issa and Hiroshi Nagahashi, Japan

Session 7: Multimedia

7-1 Patch Based Localization of Visual Object Class Instances 211
Alexandra Teynor and Hans Burkhardt, Germany
7-2 Correction of Geometric and Photometric Distortion of Document Images Using a Stereo Camera System 215
Yusuke Suzuki, Atsushi Yamashita and Toru Kaneko, Japan
7-3 A Local Keypoint Matching Technique for Transition Detection 219
Chun-Rong Huang, Huai-Ping Lee and Chu-Song Chen, Taiwan
7-4 New Image Encryption Method Based on ICA 223
Ayman Alfalou and Ali Mansour, France

Session 8: Poster Session 2

8-1 View-invariant Human Action Recognition Based on Factorization and HMMs 227
Xi Li and Kazuhiro Fukui, Japan
8-2 Gesture Recognition Using Temporal Templates with Disparity Information 231
Kazunori Onoguchi and Masaaki Sato, Japan
8-3 Vision-based UAV Navigation in Mountain Area 236
Jihwan Woo, Kilho Son, Teng Li, Gwansung Kim and In So Kweon, Korea
8-4 Identifying Hand Gesture Images by Using Genetic Algorithms 240
Tetsuji Kobayashi and Norifumi Machida, Japan
8-5 Enhanced Blood Vessels in Laparoscopy by Using Narrow-Band Imaging 244
Hamed Akbari, Yukio Kosugi, Kazuyuki Kojima, Toshiaki Ohya, Hideki Akamatsu and Naofumi Tanaka, Japan
8-6 An Iris Image Quality Assessment Method Based on Laplacian of Gaussian Operation 248
Jing Wan, Xiaofu He and Pengfei Shi, China
8-7 Calculation of Bedding Angles Inclination from Drill Core Digital Images 252
Thomas Quiniou, Nazha Selmaoui, Christine Laporte-Magoni and Michel Allenbach, New Caledonia
8-8 An Effective Watermark Embedding Algorithm for High JPEG Compression 256
Hui-Yu Huang, Chi-Hung Fan and Wen-Hsing Hsu, Taiwan
8-9 Proposals of Co-occurrence Frequency Image Based Filters 260
Takayuki Fujiwara, Kazuhiko Yamaashi and Hiroyasu Koshimizu, Japan
8-10 Wavelet-Based Multiresolution Features for Detecting Duplications in Images 264
M. K. Bashar, K. Noda, N. Ohnishi, H. Kudo, T. Matsomoto and Y. Takeuchi, Japan
8-11 A New B-Spline Based Active Contour Approach 268
Sergio Nogueira and Yassine Ruichek, France
8-12 Furniture Model Creation Based on Direct Teaching to a Mobile Robot 272
Kimitoshi Yamazaki, Takashi Tsubouchi and Masahiro Tomono, Japan
8-13 A Configurable Window-Based Processing Element for Image Processing on Smart Cameras 276
Fábio Dias, François Berry, Jocelyn Serot and François Marmoiton, France
8-14 Localization of Optic Disk Using Independent Component Analysis and Modified Structural Similarity Measure 281
S. Balasubramanian, Srikanth Khanna and V. Chandrasekaran, India
8-15 Detection of Fundus Lesions Using Classifier Selection 286
Hiroto Nagayoshi, Yoshitaka Hiramatsu, Hiroshi Sako, Mitsutoshi Himaga and Satoshi Kato, Japan
8-16 Contour Retrieval and Matching by Affine Invariant Fourier Descriptors 291
Fatma Chaker, M. Tarak Bannour and Faouzi Ghorbel, Tunisia
8-17 Object Recognition in Real Time via Edge Point Analysis 295
Nauman Iftikhar, Saba Iqbal and Naveed Sarfraz Khattak, Pakistan
8-18 Assessment of Post-Stroke Functioning Using Machine Vision 299
Sonya Allin and Deva Ramanan, USA
8-19 Matching Range Images of Streets with a Residential Map 303
Lihong Tong, Shintaro Ono, Masataka Kagesawa and Katsushi Ikeuchi, Japan
8-20 Particle Filter Based Tracking for Crossing of Targets with Similar Pattern 307
Yuji Iwahori, Shinya Okada, Haruki Kawanaka, Shinji Fukui and Robert J. Woodham, Japan
8-21 Land Cover Boundary Extraction in Rural Aerial Videos 311
Babak Majidi and Alireza Bab-Hadiashar, Australia
8-22 Skin Patch Trajectories as Scene Dynamics Descriptors 315
Beibei Zhan, Ndedi D. Monekosso, Paolo Remagnino, Tajin Rukhsana, Al Mansur and Yoshinori Kuno, UK
8-23 Object Based Contour Detection by Using Graph-cut on Stereo Image 319
Taehoon Kang, Jaeseung Yu, Jangseok Oh, Yunhwan Seol, Kwanghee Choi and Mingi Kim, Korea
8-24 Estimation of Lane State from Car-mounted Camera Using Multiple-model Particle Filter Based on Voting Result for One-dimensional Parameter Space 323
Eisuke Adachi, Hiroaki Inayoshi and Takio Kurita, Japan
8-25 Improving Rotation Invariance of the Volume Local Binary Pattern Operator 327
Guoying Zhao and Matti Pietikäinen, Finland
8-26 The Agent WiSARD Approach to Intelligent Active Video Surveillance Systems 331
Massimo De Gregorio, Italy
8-27 Visual Reconstruction of an Intersection by Integrating Cameras on Multiple Vehicles 335
Daisuke Ota, Shintaro Ono and Katsuhi Ikeuchi, Japan
8-28 Segmentation of Skin Cancer Images Based on Multistep Region Growing 339
Irene Fondón, Carmen Serrano and Begoña Acha, Spain
8-29 Propagation of Uncertainty in Landmark Based Self-localization of Autonomous Mobile Robots 343
Abdul Bais, Robert Sablatnig, Yahya M. Khawaja and Gregor Novak, Austria
8-30 Iris Tracking for Generating Novel Facial Interface Media 347
Takuma Funahashi, Takayuki Fujiwara and Hiroyasu Koshimizu, Japan
8-31 Various Applying of Wavelet Transform in Digital Mammograms for Detecting Masses and Microcalsifications 351
Hengameh Mirzaalian, Mohammad Reza Ahmadzadeh, Saeed Sadri and Mehdi Jafari, Iran
8-32 Represent Image Contents Using Curves and Chain Code 355
Pornchai Mongkolnam, Chakarida Nukoolkit and Thanee Dechsakulthorn, Thailand
8-33 Sign Language Recognition Using Boosted Volumetric Features 359
Helen Cooper and Richard Bowden, UK
8-34 A Simple Tone Mapping for High Dynamic Range Image Visualization Using a Pseudo-Hilbert Scan 363
Jian Zhang, Sei-ichiro Kamata and Li Tian, Japan

Session 9: Invited Talk 2

9-1 Video Mosaicing for Non-Chronological Time Editing 367
Prof. Shmuel Peleg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Session 10: Feature Extraction & Pattern Recognition

10-1 Improved Wavelet Feature Extraction Methods Based on HSV Space for Vehicle Detection 376
Xuezhi Wen, Wei Liu, Nan Wang, Huai Yuan and Hong Zhao, China
10-2 Fisher Non-negative Matrix Factorization with Pairwise Weighting 380
Xi Li and Kazuhiro Fukui, Japan
10-3 Harmonic Shape Histograms for 3D Shape Classification and Retrieval 384
Janis Fehr and Hans Burkhardt, Germany
10-4 Selection of Object Recognition Methods According to the Task and Object Category 388
Al Mansur and Yoshinori Kuno, Japan
10-5 Robust Facial Feature Extraction Using Embedded Hidden Markov Model for Face Recognition under Large Pose Variation 392
Ping-Han Lee, Yun-Wen Wang, Jison Hsu, Ming-Hsuan Yang and Yi-Ping Hung, Taiwan
10-6 A 3D Shape Descriptor Based on Hadamard Transform and Spherical Harmonic Transform 396
Guyu Xin and Hongbin Zha, China

Friday, May 18, 2007

Session 11: Industrial Applications

11-1 Goniometric Imaging of Paper Gloss 400
Tomi Kauppi, Albert Sadovnikov, Lasse Lensu, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Pertti Silfsten and Heikki Kälviäinen, Finland
11-2 One Fish, Two Fish, Butterfish, Trumpeter: Recognizing Fish in Underwater Video 404
Andrew Rova, Greg Mori and Lawrence M. Dill, Canada
11-3 Machine Vision Based Lumber Grain Measurement 408
Matti Niskanen and Olli Silven, Finland
11-4 Geometrical and Statistical Visual Inspection of Imprinted Tablets 412
Marko Bukovec, Ziga Spiclin, Franjo Pernus and Bostjan Likar, Slovenia

Session 12: Medical Image Analysis & Biometrics

12-1 An Unsupervised Learning Approach Based on Hopfield-like Network for Assessing Posterior Capsule Opacification 416
Naoufel Werghi, Rachid Sammouda and Fatma AlKirbi, UAE
12-2 Microscopic Image Segmentation with Two-dimensional Exponential Entropy Based on Hybrid Microcanonical Annealing 420
Amir Nakib, Hamouche Oulhadj and Patrick Siarry, France
12-3 Fingerprint Verification Using Perturbation Method 424
Satoshi Otaka, Yoshihisa Nishiyama, Takahiro Hatano and Toru Wakahara, Japan
12-4 Automatic Cell Image Segmentation Using a Shape-Classification Model 428
Shishir Shah, USA

Session 13: Poster Session 3

13-1 Evaluation of Stereo Matching Systems for Real World Applications Using Structured Light for Ground Truth Estimation 433
Martin Humenberger, Daniel Hartermann and Wilfried Kubinger, Austria
13-2 Stabilizing Illumination Chromaticity Estimation Using the Illumination Line Segment 437
Rei Kawakami and Katsushi Ikeuchi, Japan
13-3 Probabilistically Semantic Labeling of IR Image for UAV 441
Teng Li, Jihwan Woo and In So Kweon, Korea
13-4 Shadow Elimination in Traffic Video Segmentation 445
Hong Liu, Jintao Li, Qun Liu and Yueliang Qian, China
13-5 3D Precise Inspection of Electronic Devices by Single Stereo Vision 449
Takashi Watanabe, Akira Kusano, Takayuki Fujiwara and Hiroyasu Koshimizu, Japan
13-6 Facial Expression Recognition by SVM-based Two-stage Classifier on Gabor Features 453
Fan Chen and Kazunori Kotani, Japan
13-7 Vehicle Orientation Detection Using Vehicle Color and Normalized Cut Clustering 457
Jui-Chen Wu, Jun-Wei Hsieh, Yung-Sheng Chen and Cheng-Min Tu, Taiwan
13-8 Human Tracking Based on Particle Filter in Outdoor Scene 461
Mototsugu Muroi and Heitoh Zen, Japan
13-9 Extracting Object Regions Using Locally Estimated Probability Density Functions 465
Hidenori Takeshima, Takashi Ida and Toshimitsu Kaneko, Japan
13-10 A Three Resolution Framework for Reliable Road Obstacle Detection Using Stereovision 469
Mathias Perrollaz, Raphael Labayrade, Romain Gallen and Didier Aubert, France
13-11 Human Body Region Extraction from Photos 473
Yi Hu, Japan
13-12 A Fast Surface-Based Visual Hull Reconstruction 477
Sofiane Yous and Masatsugu Kidode, Japan
13-13 Automatic Detection of Anatomical Structures in Digital Fundus Retinal Images 483
Anantha Vidya Sagar, S. Balasubramanian and V. Chandrasekaran, India
13-14 Illumination-robust Change Detection Using Texture Based Features 487
Kentaro Yokoi, Japan
13-15 Feature Extraction from Biological Motion of Human Gait Patterns for Emotion Discrimination 492
Hidenori Maruta and Masahiro Ishii, Japan
13-16 Robust Real Time Multi-Layer Foreground Segmentation 496
Simon Denman, Vinod Chandran and Sridha Sridharan, Australia
13-17 Tumor Detection Based on Spatial and Inter-Slice Analysis for MRI Breast Imaging 500
Guo-Shiang Lin, Sin-Kuo Daniel Chai, Wei-Cheng Yeh and Lin-Jie Cheng, Taiwan
13-18 Appearance Manifold with Embedded Covariance Matrix for Robust 3D Object Recognition 504
Lina, Tomokazu Takahashi, Ichiro Ide and Hiroshi Murase, Japan
13-19 A Robust Coarse-to-Fine Method for Pupil Localization in Non-ideal Eye Images 508
Xiaoyan Yuan and Pengfei Shi, China
13-20 Facial Caricaturing Robot COOPER Exhibited at EXPO2005 and Its Improvements 512
Naoya Tokuda, Takayuki Hoshino, Takashi Watanabe, Takuma Funahashi, Takayuki Fujiwara and Hiroyasu Koshimizu, Japan
13-21 Extraction of Corresponding Points from Stereo Images by Using Intersections of Segments 516
Hiroshi Unno, Keikichi Hayashibe and Hitoshi Saji, Japan
13-22 Rat Mammary Gland Analysis in T1 Weighted MR Images 520
Bin Wang, Jianhua Xuan, Matthew T. Freedman, Peter G. Shields and Yue Wang, USA
13-23 A Lawn Weed Detection in Winter Season Based on Color Information 524
Ukrit Watchareeruetai, Yoshinori Takeuchi, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Hiroaki Kudo and Noboru Ohnishi, Japan
13-24 A Novel Approach of 3D Face Reconstruction Using Ellipse Fitting 528
Charoenpong Theekapun, Hiroyuki Hase and Shogo Tokai, Japan
13-25 A Facial Sketch Animation Generator for Mobile Communication 532
Yuehu Liu, Yuanqi Su, Yang Yang, Fengjuan Wang, Maojun Yuan and Zhen Ren, China
13-26 Lane Detection and Tracking through Affine Rectification 536
Qiang He and Chee-Hung Henry Chu, USA
13-27 Statistical Background Subtraction Based on the Exact Per-pixel Distributions 540
Youngbae Hwang, Hanbyul Joo, Jun-Sik Kim and In-So Kweon, Korea
13-28 Periodic Pattern Inspection Using Convolution Masks 544
Y. S. Weng and M. H. Perng, Taiwan
13-29 Robust Small-Object Detection for Outdoor Wide-Area Surveillance 548
Daisuke Abe, Eigo Segawa, Osafumi Nakayama, Morito Shiohara, Shigeru Sasaki, Nobuyuki Sugano and Hajime Kanno, Japan
13-30 Benchmarking 3D Reconstructions from Next Best View Planning 552
Christoph Munkelt, Michael Trummer, Joachim Denzler and Stefan Wenhardt, Germany

Session 14: Invited Talk 3

14-1 Development of Laparoscopic Surgery Training System Using VR Technology 556
Prof. Yoichi Miyake, Chiba University, Japan

Session 15: Intelligent Transportation Systems & Geographic Information System

15-1 Free Parking Space Detection Using Optical Flow-based Euclidean 3D Reconstruction 563
Jae Kyu Suhr, Kwanghyuk Bae, Jaihie Kim and Ho Gi Jung, Korea
15-2 Fast Plane Parameter Estimation from Stereo Images 567
Shigeki Sugimoto and Masatoshi Okutomi, Japan
15-3 Improvement of Cadastral Map Assembling Based on GHT 571
Fei Liu, Wataru Ohyama, Tetsushi Wakabayashi and Fumitaka Kimura, Japan
15-4 Preceding Vehicle Trajectory Prediction by Multi-Cue Integration 575
Feng Han, Yi Tan and Jayan Eledath, USA
15-5 Overtaking Vehicle Detection Method and Its Implementation Using IMAPCAR Highly Parallel Image Processor 579
Kazuyuki Sakurai, Shorin Kyo and Shin'ichiro Okazaki, Japan
15-6 A New Method for Auroral Oval Detection in FUV Imagery 583
Chungaung Cao, Timothy S. Newman, Glynn A. Germany and Jim F. Spann, USA


Author Index 587