SCIA 2007, Aalborg, 10-14 June

Program

Sunday 10 June

Tutorials: see separate program.

Monday 11 June

08:30-08:45 Welcome address: Peter Johansen

08:45-09:45 Invited talk: Jitendra Malik, University of California at Berkeley, USA. (Chair: Peter Johansen)

09:45-10:05 Coffee

10:05-11:25 Contributed talks: Appearance & Shape Modeling. (Chair: Jussi Parkkinen)

• "Accurate Interpolation in Appearance-based Pose Estimation" Erik Jonsson and Michael Felsberg
• "Automatic Segmentation of Overlapping Fish Using Shape Priors" Sigmund Clausen, Katharina Greiner, Odd Andersen, Knut-Andreas Lie, Helene Schulerud and Tom Kavli
• "Automatic Feature Point Correspondences and Shape Analysis With Missing Data and Outliers Using MDL" Kalle Åström, Olof Enquist, Anders Ericsson, Johan Karlsson and Fredrik Kahl
• "Variational Segmentation of Image Sequences Using Deformable Shape Priors" Ketut Fundana, Niels Chr. Overgaard and Anders Heyden

11:25-11:35 Break

11:35-12:55 Contributed talks: Face Detection, Tracking & Recognition. (Chair: Magnus Borga)

• "Real-Time Face Detection Using Illumination Invariant Features" Klaus Kollreider, Hartwig Fronthaler and Josef Bigun
• "Face Detection Using Multiple Cues" Thomas B. Moeslund, Jess S. Petersen and Lasse D. Skalski
• "Individual Discriminative Face Recognition Models Based on Subsets of Features" Line H. Clemmensen,David D. Gomez and Bjarne K. Ersbøll
• "Occluded Facial Expression Tracking" Hugo Mercier, Julien Peyras, and Patrice Dalle

12:55-14:15 Lunch

14:15-15:15 Invited talk: Henrik I. Christensen, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA and Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. (Chair: Heikki Kälviäinen)

15:15-16:30 Coffee + Poster Session 1

• "Multiresolution Approach in Computing NTF" Arto Kaarna, Alexey Andriyashin, Shigeki Nakauchi and Jussi Parkkinen
• "Generation and Empirical Investigation of hv-Convex Discrete Sets" Péter Balézs
• "The Statistical Properties of Local Log-Contrast in Natural Images" Jussi T. Lindgren, Jarmo Hurri and Aapo Hyvärinen
• "A Novel Parameter Decomposition Approach for Recovering Poses of Distal Locking Holes from Single Calibrated Fluoroscopic Image" Guoyan Zheng and Xuan Zhang
• "Covariance Estimation for SAD Block Matching" Johan Skoglund and Michael Felsberg
• "Infrared-Visual Image Registration Based on Corners and Hausdorff Distance" Tomislav Hrkac, Zoran Kalafatic and Josip Krapac
• "Watertight Multi-View Reconstruction Based On Volumetric Graph Cuts" Mario Sormann, Christopher Zach, Joachim Bauer, Konrad Karner and Horst Bischof
• "Grain Size Measurement of Crystalline Products Using Maximum Difference Method" Leena Lepistö, Iivari Kunttu, Matti Lähdeniemi, Tero Tähti and Juha Nurmi
• "Robust Boundary Delineation Using Random-Phase-Shift Active Contours" Astrit Rexhepi and Farzin Mokhtarian
• "Accurate Spatial Neighborhood Relationships for Arbitrarily-Shaped Objects using Hamilton-Jacobi GVD" Sumit K. Nath, Kannappan Palaniappan and Filiz Bunyak
• "FyFont: Find-your-Font in Large Font Databases" Martin Solli and Reiner Lenz
• "Efficiently Capturing Object Contours for Non-Photorealistic Rendering" Jiyoung Park and Juneho Yi
• "Weighted Distances Based on Neighbourhood Sequences in Non-Standard Three-Dimensional Grids" Robin Strand
• "Unsupervised Perceptual Segmentation of Natural Color Images Using Fuzzy-Based Hierarchical Algorithm" Junji Maeda, Akimitsu Kawano, Sato Saga and Yukinori Suzuki
• "Line-Stepping for Shell Meshes" Kenny Erleben and Jon Sporring
• "Nonlinear Functionals in the Construction of Multiscale Affine Invariants" Esa Rahtu, Mikko Salo and Janne Heikkilä
• "A New Fuzzy Impulse Noise Detection Method for Colour Images" Samuel Morillas, Stefan Schulte, Etienne E. Kerre and Guillermo Peris-Fajarnés
• "On Reasoning over Tracking Events" Daniel Rowe, Jordi Gonzàlez, Ivan Huerta and Juan J. Villanueva
• "FPGA Implementation of kNN Classifier Based on Wavelet Transform and Partial Distance Search" Yao-Jung Yeh, Hui-Ya Li, Wen-Jyi Hwang and Chiung-Yao Fang
• "Affine Illumination Compensation for Multispectral Images" Pedro Latorre Carmona, Reiner Lenz, Filiberto Pla and Jose M. Sotoca
• "GPU-Based Edge-Directed Image Interpolation" Martin Kraus, Mike Eissele and Magnus Strengert
• "Graph-Based Range Image Registration Combining Geometric and Photometric Features" Ikuko Shimizu, Akihiro Sugimoto and Radim Sára
• "Automatic Identification and Validation of Tie Points on Hyperspectral Satellite Images from CHRIS/PROBA" André R. S. Marcal
• "Boneless Pose Editing and Animation" J. Andreas Bærentzen, Kristian Evers Hansen and Kenny Erleben
• "Text Driven Face-Video Synthesis Using GMM and Spatial Correlation" Dereje Teferi, Maycel I. Faraj and Josef Bigun
• "Accurate 3D Left-Right Brain Hemisphere Segmentation in MR Images Based on Shape Bottlenecks and Partial Volume Estimation" Lu Zhao, Jussi Tohka and Ulla Ruotsalainen
• "Image Inpainting by Cooling and Heating" David Gustavsson, Kim S. Pedersen and Mads Nielsen
• "Evaluating a General Class of Filters for Image Denoising" Luis Pizarro, Stephan Didas, Frank Bauer and Joachim Weickert
• "Efficient Feature Extraction for Fast Segmentation of MR Brain Images" László Szilágyi, Sándor M. Szilágyi and Zoltán Benyó
• "Automated Mottling Assessment of Colored Printed Areas" Albert Sadovnikov, Lasse Lensu and Heikki Kälviäinen
• "Image Based Measurements of Single Cell mtDNA Mutation Load" Amin Allalou, Frans M. van de Rijke, Roos Jahangir Tafrechi, Anton K. Raap and Carolina Wählby
• "A PCA-Based Technique to Detect Moving Objects" Nicolas Verbeke and Nicole Vincent
• "Page Frame Detection for Marginal Noise Removal from Scanned Documents" Faisal Shafait, Joost van Beusekom, Daniel Keysers and Thomas M. Breuel

16:30-17:50 Contributed talks: Medical & Biological Applications. (Chair: Rasmus Larsen)

• "Model Based Cardiac Motion Tracking Using Velocity Encoded Magnetic Resonance Imaging" Erik Bergvall, Erik Hedström, Håkan Arheden and Gunnar Sparr
• "Fractal Analysis of Mammograms" Fredrik Georgsson, Stafan Jansson and Christina Olsén
• "Reconstructing Teeth with Bite Information" Katrine Hommelhoff Jensen and Jon Sporring
• "Sparse Statistical Deformation Model for the Analysis of Craniofacial Malformations in the Crouzon Mouse" Hildur Ólafsdóttir, Michael Sass Hansen, Karl Sjöstrand, Tron A. Darvann, Nuno V. Hermann, Estanislao Oubel, Bjarne K. Ersbøll, Rasmus Larsen, Alejandro F. Frangi, Per Larsen, Chad A. Perlyn, Gillian M. Morriss-Kay and Sven Kreiborg

18- Reception

Tuesday 12 June

08:30-09:30 Invited talk: Paul Debevec, University of Southern California, USA. (Chair: Thomas Moeslund)

09:30-09:40 Break

09:40-11:00 Contributed talks: Computer Vision. (Chair: Fritz Albregtsen)

• "Monocular Point Based Pose Estimation of Artificial Markers by Using Evolutionary Computing" Teuvo Heimonen and Janne Heikkilä
• "Camera-to-Camera Mapping for Hybrid Pan-Tilt-Zoom Sensors Calibration" Julie Badri, Christophe Tilmant, Jean-Marc Lavest, Quonc-Cong Pham and Patrick Sayd
• "Recursive Structure and Motion Estimation Based on Hybrid Matching Constraints" Anders Heyden, Fredrik Nyberg and Ola Dahl
• "Efficient Symmetry Detection Using Local Affine Frames" Hugo Cornelius, Michal Perdoch, Jirí Matas and Gareth Loy

11:00-11:20 Coffee

11:20-12:40 Contributed talks: 2D & 3D Reconstruction. (Chair: Janne Heikkilä)

• "Triangulation of Points, Lines and Conics" Klas Josephson and Fredrik Kahl
• "Robust Variational Reconstruction from Multiple Views" Natalia Slesareva, Thomas Bühler, Kai Uwe Hagenburg, Joachim Weickert, Andrés Bruhn, Zachi Karni and Hans-Peter Seidel
• "A Robust Approach for 3D Cars Reconstruction" Adrien Auclair, Laurent Cohen and Nicole Vincent
• "Novel Stereoscopic View Generation by Image-Based Rendering Coordinated with Depth Information" Maiya Hori, Masayuki Kanbara and Naokazu Yokoya

12:40-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Invited talk: Henrik Wann Jensen, University of California at San Diego, USA and Technical University of Denmark. (Chair: Kim Steenstrup Pedersen)

15:00-16:15 Coffee + Poster Session 2

• "Representing Pairs of Orientations in the Plane" Magnus Herberthson, Anders Brun and Hans Knutsson
• "Improved Chamfer Matching Using Interpolated Chamfer Distance and Subpixel Search" Tai-Hoon Cho
• "Automatic Segmentation of Fibroglandular Tissue" Christina Olsén and Aamir Mukhdoomi
• "Temporal Bayesian Network for Scenario Recognition" Ahmed Ziani and Cina Motamed
• "Comparison of Combining Methods of Correlation Kernels in kPCA and kCCA for Texture Classification With Kansei Information " Yo Horikawa and Yujiro Ohnishi
• "A Visual System for Hand Gesture Recognition in Human-Computer Interaction" Matti-Antero Okkonen, Vili Kellokumpu, Matti Pietikäinen and Janne Heikkilä
• "Single View Motion Tracking by Depth and Silhouette Information" Daniel Grest, Volker Krüger and Reinhard Koch
• "Face Recognition with Irregular Region Spin Images" Yang Li, William A. P. Smith and Edwin R. Hancock
• "Performance Evaluation of Adaptive Residual Interpolation, a Tool for Inter-layer Prediction in H.264/AVC Scalable Video Coding" Koen De Wolf, Davy De Schrijver, Jan De Cock, Wesley De Neve and Rik Van de Walle
• "3D Deformable Registration for Monitoring Radiotherapy Treatment in Prostate Cancer" Borja Rodríguez-Vila, Johanna Pettersson, Magnus Borga, Feliciano García-Vicente and Enrique J. Gómez and Hans Knutsson
• "Reconstruction of 3D Curves for Quality Control" Hanna Martinsson, Francois Gaspard, Adrien Bartoli and Jean-Marc Lavest
• "Video Segmentation and Shot Boundary Detection Using Self-Organizing Maps" Hannes Muurinen and Jorma Laaksonen
• "Surface-to-Surface Registration Using Level Sets" Mads Fogtmann Hansen, Søren Erbou, Martin Vester-Christensen, Rasmus Larsen, Bjarne K. Ersbøll and Lars Bager Christensen
• "Multiple Object Tracking via Multi-layer Multi-modal Framework" Hang-Bong Kang and Kihong Chun
• "Colorimetric and Multispectral Image Acquisition Using Model-Based and Empirical Device Characterization" Daniel Nyström
• "Robust Pseudo-Hierarchical Support Vector Clustering" Michael Sass Hansen, Karl Sjöstrand, Hildur Ólafsdóttir, Henrik B. W. Larsson and Mikkel B. Stegmann and Rasmus Larsen
• "Using Importance Sampling for Bayesian Feature Space Filtering" Anders Brun, Björn Svensson, Carl-Fredrik Westin, Magnus Herberthson and Andreas Wrangsjö and Hans Knutsson
• "Robust Moving Region Boundary Extraction Using Second Order Statistics" Astrit Rexhepi and Farzin Mokhtarian
• "A Linear Mapping for Stereo Triangulation" Klas Nordberg
• "Double Adaptive Filtering of Gaussian Noise Degraded Images" Tuan D. Pham
• "Automatic Extraction and Classification of Vegetation Areas from High Resolution Images in Urban Areas" Corina Iovan, Didier Boldo, Matthieu Cord and Mats Erikson
• "An Intelligent Image Retrieval System Based on the Synergy of Color and Artificial Ant Colonies" Konstantinos Konstantinidis, Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis and Ioannis Andreadis
• "Filtering Video Volumes Using the Graphics Hardware" Andreas Langs and Matthias Biedermann
• "Performance Comparison of Techniques for Approximating Image-Based Lighting by Directional Light Sources" Claus B. Madsen and Rune E. Laursen
• "A Statistical Model of Head Asymmetry in Infants with Deformational Plagiocephaly" Stéphanie Lanche, Tron A. Darvann, Hildur Ólafsdóttir, Nuno V. Hermann, Andrea E. Van Pelt, Daniel Govier, Marissa J. Tenenbaum, Sybill Naidoo, Per Larsen, Sven Kreiborg, Rasmus Larsen and Alex A. Kane
• "Real-Time Visual Recognition of Objects and Scenes Using P-Channel Matching" Michael Felsberg and Johan Hedborg
• "Graph Cut Based Segmentation of Soft Shadows for Seamless Removal and Augmentation" Michael Nielsen and Claus B. Madsen
• "Shadow Resistant Direct Image Registration" Daniel Pizarro and Adrien Bartoli
• "Classification of Biological Objects Using Active Appearance Modelling and Color Cooccurrence Matrices" Anders Bjorholm Dahl, Henrik Aanæs, Rasmus Larsen and Bjarne K. Ersbøll
• "Estimation of Non-Cartesian Local Structure Tensor Fields" Björn Svensson, Anders Brun, Mats Andersson and Hans Knutsson
• "Similar Pattern Discrimination by Filter Mask Learning with Probabilistic Descent" Yoshiaki Kurosawa
• "Robust Pose Estimation Using the SwissRanger SR-3000 Camera" Sigurjón Árni Gudmundsson, Rasmus Larsen and Bjarne K. Ersbøll
• "Pseudo-Real Image Sequence Generator for Optical Flow Computations" Vladimír Ulman and Jan Hubený

(16:15-17.15 DSAGM-general assembly - for DSAGM members only)

19:00- Conference dinner

Wednesday 13 June

08:30-09:30 Invited talk: Aapo Hyvärinen, University of Helsinki, Finland. (Chair: Kalle Åström)

09:30-09:40 Break

09:40-11:00 Contributed talks: Motion Analysis. (Chair: Ivar Austvoll)

• "Using Hidden Markov Models for Recognizing Action Primitives in Complex Actions" Volker Krüger and Daniel Grest
• "Variational Segmentation Using Dynamical Models for Rigid Motion" Jan Erik Solem and Anders Heyden
• "Context-Free Detection of Events" Benedikt Kaiser and Gunther Heidemann
• "Supporting Structure From Motion with a 3D-Range-Camera" Birger Streckel, Bogumil Bartczak, Reinhard Koch and Andreas Kolb

11:00-11:20 Coffee

11:20-12:40 Contributed talks: Feature Extraction & Object Recognition. (Chair: Anne Schistad Solberg)

• "Object Recognition Using Frequency Domain Blur Invariant Features" Ville Ojansivu and Janne Heikkilä
• "Regularized Neighborhood Component Analysis" Zhirong Yang and Jorma Laaksonen
• "Finding the Minimum-Cost Path Without Cutting Corners" R. Joop van Heekeren, Frank G. A. Faas and Lucas J. van Vliet
• "Object Class Detection Using Local Image Features and Point Pattern Matching Constellation Search" Alexander Drobchenko, Jarmo Ilonen, Joni-Kristian Kamarainen, Albert Sadovnikov, Heikki Kälviäinen and Miroslav Hamouz

12:40-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:20 Contributed talks: Classification & Segmentation. (Chair: Anders Heyden)

• "Image Segmentation with Context" Anders P. Eriksson, Carl Olsson and Fredrik Kahl
• "Improving Hyperspectral Classifiers: The Difference Between Reducing Data Dimensionality and Reducing Classifier Parameter Complexity" Asbjørn Berge and Anne Schistad Solberg
• "A Hierarchical Texture Model for Unsupervised Segmentation of Remotely Sensed Images" Giuseppe Scarpa, Michal Haindl and Josiane Zerubia
• "A Framework for Multiclass Reject in ECOC Classification Systems" Claudio Marrocco, Paolo Simeone and Francesco Tortorella
• "Scale-Space Texture Classification Using Combined Classifiers" Mehrdad J. Gangeh, Bart M. ter Haar Romeny and Chikkannan Eswaran

15:20-15:40 Coffee

Thursday 14 June

Workshop: see separate program.