Detailed Technical Program

Monday, August 29th


08:00 Registration

09:10 - 09:30 Opening

09:30 - 10:30 Invited Lecture

     A historical survey of geometric computer vision.          Peter Sturm.

10:30 - 11:10 Session 1: Motion Analysis

     (10:30)* Detection Human Motion with Heel Strikes for surveillance analysis.
         Sung Uk Jung and Mark S Nixon.

     (10:50)* Detecting Customers' Buying Behavior on a Real-life Database.
         Mirela Popa, Tommaso Gritti, Leon Rothkrantz, Caifeng Shan and Pascal Wiggers.

11:10 - 11:40 Coffee break

11:40 - 13:00 Session 2: Image and Shape Models

     (11:40)* A Simplified Gravitational Model for Texture Analysis.
         Jarbas Sá Junior and André R Backes.

     (12:00)* Robustness and modularity of 2-dimensional size functions. An experimental study.
         Silvia Biasotti, Andrea Cerri and Daniela Giorgi.

     (12:20)* A homology-based descripiton for nD subdivided objects.
         H. Molina-Abril, P. Real.

     (12:40)* Statistical Shape Model of Legendre Moments with Active Contour Evolution for Shape Detection and Segmentation.
         Yan Zhang, Bogdan Matuszewski, Aymeric Histace and Frederic Precioso.


13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 - 16:30 Session 3: Segmentation and Grouping

     (14:30)* Efficient Image Segmentation Using Weighted Pseudo-Elastica.
         Matthias Krueger, Patrice Delmas and Georgy Gimel'Farb.

     (14:50)* Automatic conic and line grouping for calibration of central catadioptric camera.
         Wenting Duan and Nigel Allinson.

     (15.10)* Color histogram-based image segmentation.
         Giuliana Ramella and Gabriella Sanniti Di Baja.

     (15:30)* Arc segmentation in linear time.
         Thanh Phuong Nguyen and Isabelle Debled-Rennesson.

     (15:50)* Multi-cue-based Crowd Segmentation in Stereo Vision.
         Ya-Li Hou and Grantham Pang

     (16:10)* Semantic segmentation of microscopic images using a morphological hierarchy.
         Cristian Smochina, Vasile Manta and Walter Kropatsch.

16:30 - 17:10 Poster highlight presentation (Session I)

17:10 - 18:20 Coffee break / Poster Session I

18:40 Bus

20:00 - 21:00 Guided Tour (Reales Alcazares)


Tuesday, August 30th


09:30 - 11:10 Session 4: Object Detection and Recognition

     (09:30)* Multi-Class Object Detection with Hough Forests Using Local Histograms of Visual Words.
         Markus Mühling, Ralph Ewerth, Bing Shi and Bernd Freisleben.

     (09:50)* Graph Clustering using the Jensen-Shannon Kernel.
         Lu Bai and Edwin Hancock.

     (10:10)* CSS-AFFN: A Dataset Representation Model for Active Recognition Systems.
         Elizabeth González.

     (10:30)* PCA Enhanced Training Data for Adaboost.
         Arne Ehlers, Florian Baumann, Ralf Spindler, Birgit Glasmacher, and Bodo Rosenhahn.

     (10:50)* Psychophysically Inspired Bayesian Occlusion Model to Recognize Occluded Faces.
         Ibrahim Venkat, Ahamad Tajudin Khader, K. G. Subramanian and Philippe De Wilde.

11:10 - 11:40 Coffee break

11:40 - 13:00 Session 5: Medical Image Analysis

     (11:40)* Detection of Retinal Vascular Bifurcations by Trainable V4-like Filters.
         George Azzopardi and Nicolai Petkov.

     (12:00)* A Method for Identification and Visualization of Histological Image Structures Relevant to the Cancer Patient Conditions.
         Vassili Kovalev, Alexander Dmitruk, Ihar Safonau, Mikhail Frydman and Sviatlana Shelkovich.

     (12:20)* A Diffeomorphic Matching Based Characterization of the Pelvic Organ Dynamics.
         Mehdi Rahim, Marc-Emmanuel Bellemare, Nicolas Pirró and Rémy Bulot.

     (12:40)* Histogram-based Optical Flow for Functional Imaging in Echocardiography.
         Sönke Schmid, Daniel Tenbrinck, Xiaoyi Jiang, Klaus Schäfers, Klaus Tiemann and Jörg Stypmann.


13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 - 16:30 Poster highlight presentation and Poster Session II

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break

17:00- 18:20 Session 6: 3D Vision

     (17:00)* Tensor Method for Constructing 3D Moment Invariants.
         Tomáš Suk and Jan Flusser.

     (17:20)* Multi-Camera 3D Scanning with a Non-rigid and Space-Time Depth Super-Resolution capability.
         Karima Ouji, Mohsen Ardabilian, Liming Chen, and Faouzi Ghorbel.

     (17:40)* A New Algorithm for 3D Shape Recognition by Means of the 2D Point Distance Histogram.
         Dariusz Frejlichowski.

     (18:00)* Wide Range Face Pose Estimation by Modelling the 3D Arrangement of Robustly Detectable Sub-Parts.
         Thiemo Wiedemeyer, Martin Stommel and Otthein Herzog.

20:30 Bus Gala Dinner

21:00 Gala Dinner


Wednesday, August 31st


09:30 - 10:30 Invited Lecture

     Metric structures on datasets: stability and classification of algorithms.          Facundo Mémoli.

10:30 - 11:10 Session 7: Image Restoration

     (10:30)* Single Image Restoration of Outdoor Scenes.
         Cosmin Ancuti, Codruta Ancuti and Philippe Bekaert.

     (10:50)* Exploiting Image Collections for Recovering Photometric Properties.
         Mauricio Diaz and Peter Sturm.

11:10 - 11:40 Coffee break / Poster Session III

11:40 - 13:20 Poster highlight presentation and Poster Session III

13:20 - 14:40 Lunch break

14:40 - 16:40 Session 8: Tracking and Stereo Vision

     (14:40)* Robust Signal Generation and Analysis of Rat Embryonic Heart Rate In Vitro using Laplacian Eigenmaps and Empirical Mode Decomposition.
         Muhammad Khalid Khan Niazi, Muhammad Talal Ibrahim, Mats F. Nilsson, Anna-Carin Sköld, Ling Guan and Ingela Nyström.

     (15:00)* Radial symmetry guided particle filter for robust iris tracking.
         Francis Martinez, Andrea Carbone and Edwige Pissaloux.

     (15:20)* Spatio-Temporal Stereo Disparity Integration.
         Sandino Morales and Reinhard Klette.

     (15:40)* Refractive Index Estimation using Polarisation and Photometric Stereo.
         Gule Saman and Edwin Hancock.

     (16:00)* 3D Gestural Interaction for Stereoscopic Visualization on Mobile Devices.
         Shahrouz Yousefi, Farid Abedan Kondori and Haibo Li.

     (16:20)* Statistical tuning of Adaptative-Weight Depth Map Algorithms.
         John Congote, Alejandro Hoyos, Iñigo Barandiaran, Oscar Ruiz and Diego Acosta.

16:40 Closing and Farewell.