"Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns" ed. by Walter G. Kropatsch, Martin Kampel, Allan Hanbury

The 120 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 251 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on motion detection and tracking, medical imaging, biometrics, colour, curves and surfaces beyond two dimensions, reading characters, words, lines etc., image segmentation, shape, im age registration and matching, signal decomposition and invariants, as well as features and classification.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, CAIP 2007, held in Vienna, Austria, in August 2007.

Table of Contents
Invited Talks
Human Perception of 3D Shapes - Zygmunt Pizlo
Connection Geometry, Color, and Stereo - Ohad Ben-Shahar, Gang Li, and Steven W. Zucker
Motion Detection and Tracking
Adaptable Model-Based Tracking Using Analysis-by-Synthesis Techniques - Harald Wuest, Folker Wientapper, and Didier Stricker
Mixture Models Based Background Subtraction for Video Surveillance Applications - Chris Poppe, Gaetan Martens, Peter Lambert, and Rik Van de Walle
Applicability of Motion Estimation Algorithms for an Automatic Detection of Spiral Grain in CT Cross-Section Images of Logs - Karl Entacher, Christian Lenz, Martin Seidel, Andreas Uhl, and Rudolf Weiglmaier
Deterministic and Stochastic Methods for Gaze Tracking in Real-Time - avier Orozco, F. Xavier Roca, and Jordi Gonzalez
Integration of Multiple Temporal and Spatial Scales for Robust Optic
Flow Estimation in a Biologically Inspired Algorithm - Cornelia Beck, Thomas Gottbehuet, and Heiko Neumann
Classification of Optical Flow by Constraints - Yusuke Kameda and Atsushi Imiya
Target Positioning with Dominant Feature Elements. - Zhuan Qing Huang and Zhuhan Jiang
Speeding-Up Differential Motion Detection Algorithms Using a Change-Driven Data Flow Processing Strategy .- Jose A. Boluda and Fernando Pardo
Foreground and Shadow Detection Based on Conditional Random F- Christian Thurau and V´aclav Hlavac
Human Action Recognition in Table-Top Scenarios: An HMM-Based Analysis to Optimize the Performance - Pradeep Reddy Raamana, Daniel Grest, and Volker Krueger
Grouping of Articulated Objects with Common Axis - Levente Hajder
Decision Level Multiple Cameras Fusion Using Dezert-Smarandache Theory - Esteban Garcia and Leopoldo Altamirano
Occlusion Removal in Video Microscopy - Brian Eastwood and Russell M. Taylor II
A Modular Approach for Automating Video Analysis - Gayathri Nadarajan and Arnaud Renouf
Rectified Reconstruction from Stereo Pairs and Robot Mapping . - Antonio Javier Gallego, Rafael Molina, Patricia Compa˜n, and Carlos Villagra
Estimation Track–Before–Detect Motion Capture Systems State Space Spatial Component - Przemyslaw Mazurek
Medical Imaging
Real-Time Active Shape Models for Segmentation of 3D Cardiac Ultrasound - Jøger Hansegard, Fredrik Orderud, and Stein I. Rabben
Effects of Preprocessing Eye Fundus Images on Appearance Based Glaucoma Classification - Jorg Meier, Rudiger Bock, Georg Michelson, Laszlo G. Nyul, and Joachim Hornegger
Flexibility Description of the MET Protein Stalk Based on the Use of Non-uniform B-Splines - Magnus Gedda and Stina Svensson
Virtual Microscopy Using JPEG2000 - Francisco Gomez, Marcela Iregui, and Eduardo Romero
A Statistical-Genetic Algorithm to Select the Most Significant Features in Mammograms - Gonzalo V. S´anchez-Ferrero and Juan Ignacio Arribas
Biomarker Selection System, Employing an Iterative Peak Selection Method, for Identifying Biomarkers Related to Prostate Cancer - Panagiotis Bougioukos, Dionisis Cavouras, Antonis Daskalakis, Ioannis Kalatzis, Spiros Kostopoulos, Pantelis Georgiadis, George Nikiforidis, and Anastasios Bezerianos
Automatic Segmentation of Femur Bones in Anterior-Posterior Pelvis
X-Ray Images - Feng Ding, Wee Kheng Leow, and Tet Sen Howe
Assessing Artery Motion Compensation in IVUS - Debora Gil, Oriol Rodriguez-Leor, Petia Radeva, and Aura Hern`andez
Assessing Estrogen Receptors’ Status by Texture Analysis of Breast
Tissue Specimens and Pattern Recognition Methods - Spiros Kostopoulos, Dionisis Cavouras, Antonis Daskalakis, Ioannis Kalatzis, Panagiotis Bougioukos, George Kagadis, Panagiota Ravazoula, and George Nikiforidis
Multimodal Evaluation for Medical Image Segmentation - Rub´en C´ardenes, Meritxell Bach, Ying Chi, Ioannis Marras, Rodrigo de Luis, Mats Anderson, Peter Cashman, and Matthieu Bultelle
Automated 3D Segmentation of Lung Fields in Thin Slice CT Exploiting Wavelet Preprocessing - Panayiotis Korfiatis, Spyros Skiadopoulos, Philippos Sakellaropoulos, Christina Kalogeropoulou, and Lena Costaridou
Reconstruction of Heart Motion from 4D Echocardiographic Images - Michal Chlebiej, Krzysztof Nowinski, Piotr Scislo, and Piotr Bala
Quantification of Bone Remodeling in the Proximity of Implants - Hamid Sarve, Carina B. Johansson, Joakim Lindblad, Gunilla Borgefors, and Victoria Franke Stenport
Delaunay-Based Vector Segmentation of Volumetric Medical Images - Michal Spanel, Premysl Krsek, Miroslav Svub, Vıt Stancl, and Ondrej Siler
Non-uniform Resolution Recovery Using Median Priors in Tomographic
Image Reconstruction Methods - Munir Ahmad and Andrew Todd-Pokropek
Detection of Postmenopausal Alteration of Bone Structure in Digitized X-rays - Constantin Vertan, Ion S¸tefan, and Laura Florea
Blood Detection in IVUS Images for 3D Volume of Lumen Changes Measurement Due to Different Drugs Administration - David Rotger, Petia Radeva, Eduard Fernandez-Nofrerıas, and Josepa Mauri
Eigenmotion-Based Detection of Intestinal Contractions - Laura Igual, Santi Seguı, Jordi Vitri`a, Fernando Azpiroz, and Petia Radeva
Brain Tissue Classification with Automated Generation of Training
Data Improved by Deformable Registration - Daniel Schwarz and Tomas Kasparek
On Simulating 3D Fluorescent Microscope Images - David Svoboda, Marek Kasık, Martin Maska, Jan Hubeny, Stanislav Stejskal, and Michal Zimmermann
Hierarchical Detection of Multiple Organs Using Boosted Features - Samuel Hugueny and Mikael Rousson
Biometrics
Monitoring of Emotion to Create Adaptive Game for Children with Mild Autistic - P. Ravindra S. De Silva, Masatake Higashi, Stephen G. Lambacher, and Minetada Osano
A Simplified Human Vision Model Applied to a Blocking Artifact Metric - Hantao Liu and Ingrid Heynderickx
Estimating Reflectance Functions Using a Cyberware 3030 Scanner - Matthew P. Dickens and Edwin R. Hancock
Are Younger People More Difficult to Identify or Just a Peer-to-Peer Effect - Wai Han Ho, Paul Watters, and Dominic Verity
Lip Biometrics for Digit Recognition - Maycel Isaac Faraj and Josef Bigun
An Embedded Fingerprint Authentication System Integrated with a Hardware-Based Truly Random Number Generator - Murat Erat, Kenan Danı¸sman, Salih Erg¨un, Alper Kanak, and Mehmet Kayaoglu
A New Manifold Representation for Visual Speech Recognition - Dahai Yu, Ovidiu Ghita, Alistair Sutherland, and Paul F. Whelan
Fingerprint Hardening with Randomly Selected Chaff Minutiae - Alper Kanak and ˙ Ibrahim So˜gukpınar
Wavelet-Based Fingerprint Region Selection .- Almudena Lindoso, Luis Entrena, and Judith Liu-Jimenez
Face Shape Recovery and Recognition Using a Surface Gradient Based Statistical Model - Mario Castel´an and Edwin R. Hancock
Representation of Facial Features by Catmull-Rom Splines - Marco Maggini, Stefano Melacci, and Lorenzo Sarti
Automatic Quantitative Mouth Shape Analysis - Augusto Salazar, Jorge Hern´andez, and Flavio Prieto
Color
Color Adjacency Histograms for Image Matching - Allan Hanbury and Beatriz Marcotegui
Segmentation of Distinct Homogeneous Color Regions in Images - Daniel Mohr and Gabriel Zachmann
Estimating the Color of the Illuminant Using Anisotropic Diffusion - Marc Ebner
Restoration of Color Images Degraded by Space-Variant Motion Blur - Michal Sorel and Jan Flusser
Real-Time Elimination of Brightness in Color Images by MS Diagram and Mathematical Morphology - Francisco Ortiz
Curves and Surfaces Beyond 2 Dimensions
Surface Reconstruction Using Polarization and Photometric Stereo - Gary A. Atkinson and Edwin R. Hancock
Curvature Estimation in Noisy Curves - Thanh Phuong Nguyen and Isabelle Debled-Rennesson
3D+t Reconstruction in the Context of Locally Spheric Shaped Data Observation - Wafa Rekik, Dominique Bereziat, and Severine Dubuisson
Robust Fitting of 3D Objects by Affinely Transformed Superellipsoids Using Normalization - Frank Ditrich and Herbert Suesse
Fast and Precise Weak-Perspective Factorization - Levente Hajder, Akos Pernek, and Csaba Kazo
A Graph-with-Loop Structure for a Topological Representation of 3D Objects - Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz, Mar´ıa Jos´e Jim´enez, Belen Medrano, and Pedro Real
Reading Characters, Words, Lines…
Print Process Separation Using Interest Regions - Reinhold Huber-M¨ork, Dorothea Heiss-Czedik, Konrad Mayer, Harald Penz, and Andreas Vrabl
Histogram-Based Lines and Words Decomposition for Arabic Omni Font-Written OCR Systems; Enhancements and Evaluation - Mohamed Attia and Mohamed El-Mahallawy
Semi-automatic Training Sets Acquisition for Handwriting Recognition - Jerzy Sas and Urszula Markowska-Kaczmar
Gabor-Based Recognizer for Chinese Handwriting from Segmentation-Free Strategy - Tong-Hua Su, Tian-Wen Zhang, De-Jun Guan, and Hu-Jie Huang
Image Based Recognition of Ancient Coins - Maia Zaharieva, Martin Kampel, and Sebastian Zambanini
Text Area Detection in Digital Documents Images Using Textural Features - Ilktan Ar and M. Elif Karsligil
Image Segmentation
Optimal Threshold Selection for Tomogram Segmentation by Reprojection of the Reconstructed Image - K. Joost Batenburg and Jan Sijbers
A Level Set Bridging Force for the Segmentation of Dendritic Spines - Karsten Rink and Klaus Tonnies
Knowledge from Markers in Watershed Segmentation - Sebastien Lefevre
Image Segmentation Using Topological Persistence - David Letscher and Jason Fritts
Image Modeling and Segmentation Using Incremental Bayesian Mixture Models - Constantinos Constantinopoulos and Aristidis Likas
Model-Based Segmentation of Multimodal Images .- Xin Hong, Sally McClean, Bryan Scotney, and Philip Morrow
Image Segmentation Based on Height Maps - Gabriele Peters and Jochen Kerdels
Shape
Measuring the Orientability of Shapes - Paul L. Rosin
A 3–Subiteration Surface–Thinning Algorithm - Kalman Palagyi
Extraction of River Networks from Satellite Images by Combining Mathematical Morphology and Hydrology - Pierre Soille and Jacopo Grazzini
Fractal Active Shape Models - Polychronis Manousopoulos, Vassileios Drakopoulos, and Theoharis Theoharis
Decomposition for Efficient Eccentricity Transform of Convex Shapes - Adrian Ion, Samuel Peltier, Yll Haxhimusa, and Walter G. Kropatsch
Euclidean Shortest Paths in Simple Cube Curves at a Glance - Fajie Li and Reinhard Klette
A Fast and Robust Ellipse Detection Algorithm Based on Pseudo-random Sample Consensus - Ge Song and Hong Wang
A Definition for Orientation for Multiple Component Shapes - Jovisa Zunic and Paul L. Rosin
Definition of a Model-Based Detector of Curvilinear Regions - Cedric Lemaıtre, Johel Miteran, and Jirı Matas
A Method for Interactive Shape Detection in Cattle Images Using Genetic Algorithms - Horacio M. Gonzalez–Velasco, Carlos J. Garcıa–Orellana, Miguel Macıas–Macıas, Ramon Gallardo–Caballero, and Fernando J. Alvarez–Franco
A New Phase Field Model of a ‘Gas of Circles’ for Tree Crown Extraction from Aerial Images - Peter Horv´ath and Ian H. Jermyn
Shape Signature Matching for Object Identification Invariant to Image Transformations and Occlusion - Stamatia Giannarou and Tania Stathaki
Junction Detection and Multi-orientation Analysis Using Streamlines - Frank G.A. Faas and Lucas J. van Vliet
Decomposing a Simple Polygon into Trapezoids - Fajie Li and Reinhard Klette
Shape Recognition and Retrieval: A Structural Approach Using Velocity Function - Hamidreza Zaboli, Mohammad Rahmati, and Abdolreza Mirzaei
Improved Morphological Interpolation of Elevation Contour Data with Generalised Geodesic Propagations .- Jacopo Grazzini and Pierre Soille
Image Registration and Matching
Cylindrical Phase Correlation Method - Jakub Bican and Jan Flusser
Extended Global Optimization Strategy for Rigid 2D/3D Image Registration - Alexander Kubias, Frank Deinzer, Tobias Feldmann, and Dietrich Paulus
A Fast B-Spline Pseudo-inversion Algorithm for Consistent Image Registration - Antonio Tristan and Juan Ignacio Arribas
Robust Least-Squares Image Matching in the Presence of Outliers - Patrice Delmas, Georgy Gimel’farb, Al Shorin, and John Morris
A Neural Network String Matcher - Abdolreza Mirzaei, Hamidreza Zaboli, and Reza Safabakhsh
Incorporating Spatial Information into 3D-2D Image Registration - Guoyan Zheng
Performance Evaluation and Recent Advances of Fast Block-Matching Motion Estimation Methods for Video Coding
Spectral Eigenfeatures for Effective DP Matching in Fingerprint Recognition - Boris Danev and Toshio Kamei
Registering Long-Term Image Series - Detlev Droege and Dietrich Paulus
Graph Similarity Using Interfering Quantum Walks - David Emms, Edwin R. Hancock, and Richard C. Wilson
Signal Decomposition and Invariants
Visual Speech Recognition Using Motion Features and Hidden Markov Models - Wai Chee Yau, Dinesh Kant Kumar, and Hans Weghorn
Feature Extraction of Weighted Data for Implicit Variable Selection - Luis Sanchez, Fernando Martınez, German Castellanos, and Augusto Salazar
Analysis of Prediction Mode Decision in Spatial Enhancement Layers in H.264/AVC SVC - Koen De Wolf, Davy De Schrijver, Wesley De Neve, Saar De Zutter, Peter Lambert, and Rik Van de Walle
Object Recognition by Implicit Invariants - Jan Flusser, Jaroslav Kautsky, and Filip Sroubek
An Automatic Microarray Image Gridding Technique Based on Continuous Wavelet Transform - Emmanouil Athanasiadis, Dionisis Cavouras, Panagiota Spyridonos, Ioannis Kalatzis, and George Nikiforidis
Image Sifting for Micro Array Image Enhancement - Pooria Jafari Moghadam and Mohamad H. Moradi
Wavelet Based Local Coherent Tomography with an Application in Terahertz Imaging - Xiao-Xia Yin, Brian W.-H. Ng, Bradley Ferguson, and Derek Abbott
Nonlinear Approximation of Spatiotemporal Data Using Diffusion Wavelets - Marie Wild
A New Wavelet-Based Texture Descriptor for Image Retrieval - Esther de Ves, Ana Ruedin, Daniel Acevedo, Xaro Benavent, and Leticia Seijas
Space-Variant Restoration with Sliding Discrete Cosine Transform - Vitaly Kober and Jacobo Gomez Agis
Features and Classification
Comparative Evaluation of Classical Methods, Optimized Gabor Filters and LBP for Texture Feature Selection and Classification - Jaime Melendez, Domenec Puig, and Miguel Angel Garcia
A Multiple Classifier Approach for the Recognition of Screen-Rendered Text - Steffen Wachenfeld, Stefan Fleischer, and Xiaoyi Jiang
Improving Stability of Feature Selection Methods - Pavel Krızek, Josef Kittler, and Vaclav Hlavac
A Movie Classifier Based on Visual Features - Hui-Yu Huang, Weir-Sheng Shih, and Wen-Hsing Hsu
An Efficient Method for Filtering Image-Based Spam E-mail - Ngo Phuong Nhung and Tu Minh Phuong
SVM-Based Active Feedback in Image Retrieval Using Clustering and Unlabeled Data - Rujie Liu, Yuehong Wang, Takayuki Baba, Yusuke Uehara, Daiki Masumoto, and Shigemi Nagata
Hierarchical Classifiers for Detection of Fractures in X-Ray Images - Joshua Congfu He, Wee Kheng Leow, and Tet Sen Howe
An Efficient Nearest Neighbor Classifier Using an Adaptive Distance Measure - Omid Dehzangi, Mansoor J. Zolghadri, Shahram Taheri, and Abdollah Dehzangi
Accurate Identification of a Markov-Gibbs Model for Texture Synthesis by Bunch Sampling - Georgy Gimelfarb and Dongxiao Zhou
Texture Defect Detection - Michal Haindl, Jirı Grim, and Stanislav Mikes
Extracting Salient Points and Parts of Shapes Using Modified kd-Trees - Christian Bauckhage
Author Index