Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems

Segmentations Application to Cytological Images.- Image and Video Analysis.- A Novel Region-Based Image Retrieval Algorithm Using Selective Visual Attention Model.- Region Analysis of Business Card Images Acquired in PDA Using DCT and Information Pixel Density.- Design of a Hybrid Object Detection Scheme for Video Sequences.- Interactive Object-Based Retrieval Using Relevance Feedback.- Pseudo-stereo Conversion from 2D Video.- An Automated Facial Pose Estimation Using Surface Curvature and Tetrahedral Structure of a Nose.- Dynamic Pursuit with a Bio-inspired Neural Model.- Scene-Cut Processing in Motion-Compensated Temporal Filtering.- Image Indexing by Focus Map.- Distance and Nearest Neighbor Transforms of Gray-Level Surfaces Using Priority Pixel Queue Algorithm.- Flow Coherence Diffusion. Linear and Nonlinear Case.- Updating Geospatial Database: An Automatic Approach Combining Photogrammetry and Computer Vision Techniques.- Affine Invariant Feature Extraction Using Symmetry.- A Hybrid Color-Based Foreground Object Detection Method for Automated Marine Surveillance.- Image Registration Using Uncertainty Transformations.- Majority Ordering and the Morphological Pattern Spectrum.- Image and Video Coding.- A New Reference Free Approach for the Quality Assessment of MPEG Coded Videos.- Reduced-Bit, Full Search Block-Matching Algorithms and Their Hardware Realizations.- Lossy Compression of Images with Additive Noise.- Latency Insensitive Task Scheduling for Real-Time Video Processing and Streaming.- Entropy Reduction of Foveated DCT Images.- Flexible Storage of Still Images with a Perceptual Quality Criterion.- Image De-Quantizing via Enforcing Sparseness in Overcomplete Representations.- Reduction of Blocking Artifacts in Block-Based Compressed Images.- FIMDA: A Fast Intra-frame Mode Decision Algorithm for MPEG-2/H.264 Transcoding.- A New Rate-Distortion Optimization Using Structural Information in H.264 I-Frame Encoder.- BISK Scheme Applied to Sign Encoding and to Magnitude Refinement.- Image and Video Segmentation.- Skeletonization of Noisy Images via the Method of Legendre Moments.- The Hough Transform Application Including Its Hardware Implementation.- A Bayesian Approach for Weighting Boundary and Region Information for Segmentation.- A Fast Sequential Rainfalling Watershed Segmentation Algorithm.- Optimum Design of Dynamic Parameters of Active Contours for Improving Their Convergence in Image Segmentation.- Moving Objects Segmentation Based on Automatic Foreground / Background Identification of Static Elements.- ?-Convergence Approximation to Piecewise Constant Mumford-Shah Segmentation.- A Fully Unsupervised Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on Wavelet-Domain Hidden Markov Tree Models.- A Clustering Approach for Color Image Segmentation.- Medical Applications.- Affine Coregistration of Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Images Using Mutual Information.- Identification of Intestinal Motility Events of Capsule Endoscopy Video Analysis.- A Likelihood Ratio Test for Functional MRI Data Analysis to Account for Colored Noise.- Motion Estimation and Tracking.- Heuristic Algorithm for Computing Fast Template Motion in Video Streams.- Configurable Complexity-Bounded Motion Estimation for Real-Time Video Encoding.- 3DSVHT: Extraction of 3D Linear Motion via Multi-view, Temporal Evidence Accumulation.- Fast Mode Decision and Motion Estimation with Object Segmentation in H.264/AVC Encoding.- Non-rigid Tracking Using 2-D Meshes.- An Offline Bidirectional Tracking Scheme.- On the Performance Improvement of Sub-sampling MPEG-2 Motion Estimation Algorithms with Vector/SIMD Architectures.- A Dynamic Bayesian Network-Based Framework for Visual Tracking.- Background Modeling Using Color, Disparity, and Motion Information.- Noise Reduction and Restauration.- Video Denoising Algorithm in Sliding 3D DCT Domain.- A Novel Histogram Based Fuzzy Impulse Noise Restoration Method for Colour Images.- Mirror Symmetry in Perspective.- Impulse Noise Detection Based on Robust Statistics and Genetic Programming.- FPGA Design and Implementation of a Wavelet-Domain Video Denoising System.- Do Fuzzy Techniques Offer an Added Value for Noise Reduction in Images?.- Noise Reduction of Video Sequences Using Fuzzy Logic Motion Detection.- A Restoration and Segmentation Unit for the Historic Persian Documents.- Cleaning and Enhancing Historical Document Images.- Real-Time Processing and Hardware.- Designing Area and Performance Constrained SIMD/VLIW Image Processing Architectures.- Computing Stereo-Vision in Video Real-Time with Low-Cost SIMD-Hardware.- A Real-Time Iris Image Acquisition Algorithm Based on Specular Reflection and Eye Model.- An Image Sensor with Global Motion Estimation for Micro Camera Module.