Advances in Visual Computing

Robust Mosaicking of Stereo Digital Elevation Models from the Ames Stereo Pipeline.- Medical Imaging.- Tissue Fate Prediction in Acute Ischemic Stroke Using Cuboid Models.- 3D Vector Flow Guided Segmentation of Airway Wall in MSCT.- Graph-Based Segmentation of Lymph Nodes in CT Data.- Electron Microscopy Image Segmentation with Graph Cuts Utilizing Estimated Symmetric Three-Dimensional Shape Prior.- Retinal Vessel Extraction with the Image Ray Transform.- Automatic Liver Segmentation from CT Scans Using Multi-layer Segmentation and Principal Component Analysis.- ST: Low Cost Virtual Reality: Expanding Horizons.- Low Cost VR Meets Low Cost Multi-touch.- IQ-Station: A Low Cost Portable Immersive Environment.- A Fiducial-Based Tangible User Interface for White Matter Tractography.- Immersive Molecular Visualization and Interactive Modeling with Commodity Hardware.- ST: Best Practices in Teaching Visual Computing.- Multi-institutional Collaboration in Delivery of Team-Project-Based Computer Graphics Studio Courses.- A Workflow Based Process Visual Analyzer (ProVisZer) for Teaching and Learning.- Teaching Geometric Modeling Algorithms and Data Structures through Laser Scanner Acquisition Pipeline.- Creating Passion for Augmented Reality Applications - A Teaching Concept for a Lab Course.- Applications.- Object Material Classification by Surface Reflection Analysis with a Time-of-Flight Range Sensor.- Retrieving Images of Similar Geometrical Configuration.- An Analysis-by-Synthesis Approach to Rope Condition Monitoring.- Fast Parallel Model Estimation on the Cell Broadband Engine.- Organizing and Browsing Image Search Results Based on Conceptual and Visual Similarities.- Evaluation of a Difference of Gaussians Based Image Difference Metric in Relation to Perceived Compression Artifacts.- Visualization II.- Distance Field Illumination: A Rendering Method to Aid in Navigation of Virtual Environments.- Indirect Shader Domain Rendering.- Visual Exploration of Stream Pattern Changes Using a Data-Driven Framework.- RibbonView: Interactive Context-Preserving Cutaways of Anatomical Surface Meshes.- Interactive Visualisation of Time-Based Vital Signs.- Using R-Trees for Interactive Visualization of Large Multidimensional Datasets.- Combining Automated and Interactive Visual Analysis of Biomechanical Motion Data.- Video Analysis and Event Recognition.- Human Activity Recognition: A Scheme Using Multiple Cues.- A Platform for Monitoring Aspects of Human Presence in Real-Time.- Egocentric Visual Event Classification with Location-Based Priors.- View Invariant Activity Recognition with Manifold Learning.- Arm-Hand Behaviours Modelling: From Attention to Imitation.- Hand Detection and Gesture Recognition Exploit Motion Times Image in Complicate Scenarios.- Face Verification Using Indirect Neighbourhood Components Analysis.- Poster Session.- Efficient Algorithms for Image and High Dimensional Data Processing Using Eikonal Equation on Graphs.- 3D DCT Based Compression Method for Integral Images.- Plant Texture Classification Using Gabor Co-occurrences.- A Compressive Sensing Algorithm for Many-Core Architectures.- An Incremental PCA-HOG Descriptor for Robust Visual Hand Tracking.- Probabilistic Learning of Visual Object Composition from Attended Segments.- Propagating Uncertainty in Petri Nets for Activity Recognition.- Mixture of Gaussians Exploiting Histograms of Oriented Gradients for Background Subtraction.- Human Pose Recognition Using Chamfer Distance in Reduced Background Edge for Human-Robot Interaction.- Modeling Clinical Tumors to Create Reference Data for Tumor Volume Measurement.- Spectral Image Decolorization.