Pattern Recognition

Stereo and Structure from Motion.- Reconstructing Reflective and Transparent Surfaces from Epipolar Plane Images.- Structure from Motion Using Rigidly Coupled Cameras without Overlapping Views.- Highly Accurate Depth Estimation for Objects at Large Distances.- A Low-Rank Constraint for Parallel Stereo Cameras.- Poster Session.- Multi-Resolution Range Data Fusion for Multi-View Stereo Reconstruction.- 3D Object Class Geometry Modeling with Spatial Latent Dirichlet Markov Random Fields.- Discriminative Joint Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Human Action Classification.- Joint Shape Classification and Labeling of 3-D Objects Using the Energy Minimization Framework.- A Coded 3d Calibration Method for Line-Scan Cameras.- Confidence-Based Surface Prior for Energy-Minimization Stereo Matching.- A Monte Carlo Strategy to Integrate Detection and Model-Based Face Analysis.- Scale-Aware Object Tracking with Convex Shape Constraints on RGB-D Images.- Learning How to Combine Internal and External Denoising Methods.- A Comparison of Directional Distances for Hand Pose Estimation.- Approximate Sorting.- Sequential Gaussian Mixture Models for Two-Level Conditional Random Fields.- Synthezising Real World Stereo Challenges.- Pedestrian Path Prediction with Recursive Bayesian Filters: A Comparative Study.- An Improved Model for Estimating the Meteorological Visibility from a Road Surface Luminance Curve.- Performance Evaluation of Narrow Band Methods for Variational Stereo Reconstruction.- Discriminative Detection and Alignment in Volumetric Data.- Distances Based on Non-rigid Alignment for Comparison of Different Object Instances.- Young Researchers' Forum.- Stixel-Based Target Existence Estimation under Adverse Conditions.- Three-Dimensional Data Compression with Anisotropic Diffusion.- Automatic Level Set Based Cerebral Vessel Segmentation and Bone Removal in CT Angiography Data Sets.- Action Recognition with HOG-OF Features.- Image Based 6-DOF Camera Pose Estimationwith

Joachim Weickert is Full Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Saarland University (Saarbrücken, Germany) where he heads the Mathematical Image Analysis Group. He performs research in image processing, computer vision and scientific computing, focusing on techniques based on partial differential equations and variational methods.