Advances in Visual Computing

Segmentation.- Active Contours Driven by Supervised Binary Classifiers for Texture Segmentation.- Proximity Graphs Based Multi-scale Image Segmentation.- Improved Adaptive Spatial Information Clustering for Image Segmentation.- Stable Image Descriptions Using Gestalt Principles.- Shape/Recognition I.- A Fast and Effective Dichotomy Based Hash Algorithm for Image Matching.- Evaluation of Gradient Vector Flow for Interest Point Detection.- Spatially Enhanced Bags of Words for 3D Shape Retrieval.- Image Matching Using High Dynamic Range Images and Radial Feature Descriptors.- Random Subwindows for Robust Peak Recognition in Intracranial Pressure Signals.- A New Shape Benchmark for 3D Object Retrieval.- Shape Extraction through Region-Contour Stitching.- Video Analysis and Event Recognition.- Difference of Gaussian Edge-Texture Based Background Modeling for Dynamic Traffic Conditions.- A Sketch-Based Approach for Detecting Common Human Actions.- Multi-view Video Analysis of Humans and Vehicles in an Unconstrained Environment.- Self-Organizing Maps for the Automatic Interpretation of Crowd Dynamics.- A Visual Tracking Framework for Intent Recognition in Videos.- Unsupervised Video Shot Segmentation Using Global Color and Texture Information.- Progressive Focusing: A Top Down Attentional Vision System.- Virtual Reality I.- The Benefits of Co-located Collaboration and Immersion on Assembly Modeling in Virtual Environments.- Simple Feedforward Control for Responsive Motion Capture-Driven Simulations.- Markerless Vision-Based Tracking of Partially Known 3D Scenes for Outdoor Augmented Reality Applications.- Multiple Camera, Multiple Person Tracking with Pointing Gesture Recognition in Immersive Environments.- Augmented Reality Using Projective Invariant Patterns.- Acquisition of High Quality Planar Patch Features.- ST: Computational Bioimaging and Visualization.- Level Set Segmentation of Cellular Images Based on Topological Dependence.- A Novel Algorithm for Automatic Brain Structure Segmentation from MRI.- Brain Lesion Segmentation through Physical Model Estimation.- Calibration of Bi-planar Radiography with a Rangefinder and a Small Calibration Object.- Identification of Cell Nucleus Using a Mumford-Shah Ellipse Detector.- Evaluation of Brain MRI Alignment with the Robust Hausdorff Distance Measures.- Computer Graphics II.- User Driven Two-Dimensional Computer-Generated Ornamentation.- Efficient Schemes for Monte Carlo Markov Chain Algorithms in Global Illumination.- Adaptive CPU Scheduling to Conserve Energy in Real-Time Mobile Graphics Applications.- A Quick 3D-to-2D Points Matching Based on the Perspective Projection.- Deformation-Based Animation of Snake Locomotion.- GPU-Supported Image Compression for Remote Visualization - Realization and Benchmarking.- ST: Discrete and Computational Geometry I.- Linear Time Constant-Working Space Algorithm for Computing the Genus of a Digital Object.- Offset Approach to Defining 3D Digital Lines.- Curvature and Torsion Estimators for 3D Curves.- Threshold Selection for Segmentation of Dense Objects in Tomograms.- Comparison of Discrete Curvature Estimators and Application to Corner Detection.- Computing and Visualizing Constant-Curvature Metrics on Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds with Boundaries.- ST: Soft Computing in Image Processing and Computer Vision.- Iris Recognition: A Method to Segment Visible Wavelength Iris Images Acquired On-the-Move and At-a-Distance.- 3D Textural Mapping and Soft-Computing Applied to Cork Quality Inspection.- Analysis of Breast Thermograms Based on Statistical Image Features and Hybrid Fuzzy Classification.- Efficient Facial Feature Detection Using Entropy and SVM.- Type-2 Fuzzy Mixture of Gaussians Model: Application to Background Modeling.- Unsupervised Clustering Algorithm for Video Shots Using Spectral Division.- Reconstruction.- Noise Analysis of a SFS Algorithm Formulated under Various Imaging Conditions.- Shape from Texture Via Fourier Analysis.- Full Camera Calibration from a Single View of Planar Scene.- Robust Two-View External Calibration by Combining Lines and Scale Invariant Point Features.- Stabilizing Stereo Correspondence Computation Using Delaunay Triangulation and Planar Homography.- ST: Visualization and Simulation on Immersive Display Devices.- Immersive Visualization and Analysis of LiDAR Data.- VR Visualisation as an Interdisciplinary Collaborative Data Exploration Tool for Large Eddy Simulations of Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions.- User Experience of Hurricane Visualization in an Immersive 3D Environment.- Immersive 3d Visualizations for Software-Design Prototyping and Inspection.- Enclosed Five-Wall Immersive Cabin.- Environment-Independent VR Development.- ST: Discrete and Computational Geometry II.- Combined Registration Methods for Pose Estimation.- Local Non-planarity of Three Dimensional Surfaces for an Invertible Reconstruction: k-Cuspal Cells.- A New Variant of the Optimum-Path Forest Classifier.- Results on Hexagonal Tile Rewriting Grammars.- Lloyd's Algorithm on GPU.- Computing Fundamental Group of General 3-Manifold.- Virtual Reality II.- OmniMap: Projective Perspective Mapping API for Non-planar Immersive Display Surfaces.- Two-Handed and One-Handed Techniques for Precise and Efficient Manipulation in Immersive Virtual Environments.- Automotive Spray Paint Simulation.- Using Augmented Reality and Interactive Simulations to Realize Hybrid Prototypes.- Immersive Simulator for Fluvial Combat Training.- A Low-Cost, Linux-Based Virtual Environment for Visualizing Vascular Structures.- ST: Analysis and Visualization of Biomedical Visual Data.- Visualization of Dynamic Connectivity in High Electrode-Density EEG.- Generation of Unit-Width Curve Skeletons Based on Valence Driven Spatial Median (VDSM).- Intuitive Visualization and Querying of Cell Motion.- Registration of 2D Histological Images of Bone Implants with 3D SR?CT Volumes.- Measuring an Animal Body Temperature in Thermographic Video Using Particle Filter Tracking.- A New Parallel Approach to Fuzzy Clustering for Medical Image Segmentation.- Computer Graphics III.- Tracking Data Structures Coherency in Animated Ray Tracing: Kalman and Wiener Filters Approach.- Hardware Accelerated Per-Texel Ambient Occlusion Mapping.- Comics Stylization from Photographs.- Leaking Fluids.- Automatic Structure-Aware Inpainting for Complex Image Content.- Multiple Aligned Characteristic Curves for Surface Fairing.