Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems

1. Front Matter

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2. Vision

   1. Robust Visual Odometry Using Uncertainty Models

      • David Van Hamme, Peter Veelaert, Wilfried Philips

      Pages 1-12

   2. Supervised Visual Vocabulary with Category Information

      • Yunqiang Liu, Vicent Caselles

      Pages 13-21

   3. Nonparametric Estimation of Fisher Vectors to Aggregate Image Descriptors

      • Hervé Le Borgne, Pablo Muñoz Fuentes

      Pages 22-33

   4. Knowledge-Driven Saliency: Attention to the Unseen

      • M. Zaheer Aziz, Michael Knopf, Bärbel Mertsching

      Pages 34-45

   5. A Comparative Study of Vision-Based Lane Detection Methods

      • Nadra Ben Romdhane, Mohamed Hammami, Hanene Ben-Abdallah

      Pages 46-57

   6. A New Multi-camera Approach for Lane Departure Warning

      • Amol Borkar, Monson Hayes, Mark T. Smith

      Pages 58-69

3. Classification, Recognition and Tracking

   1. Feature Space Warping Relevance Feedback with Transductive Learning

      • Daniele Borghesani, Dalia Coppi, Costantino Grana, Simone Calderara, Rita Cucchiara

      Pages 70-81

   2. Improved Support Vector Machines with Distance Metric Learning

      • Yunqiang Liu, Vicent Caselles

      Pages 82-91

   3. A Low-Cost System to Detect Bunches of Grapes in Natural Environment from Color Images

      • Manuel J. C. S. Reis, Raul Morais, Carlos Pereira, Olga Contente, Miguel Bacelar, Salviano Soares et al.

      Pages 92-102

   4. Fuzzy Cognitive Maps Applied to Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Classifications

      • Gonzalo Pajares, Javier Sánchez-Lladó, Carlos López-Martínez

      Pages 103-114

   5. Swarm Intelligence Based Searching Schemes for Articulated 3D Body Motion Tracking

      • Bogdan Kwolek, Tomasz Krzeszowski, Konrad Wojciechowski

      Pages 115-126

   6. Combining Linear Dimensionality Reduction and Locality Preserving Projections with Feature Selection for Recognition Tasks

      • Fadi Dornaika, Ammar Assoum, Alireza Bosaghzadeh

      Pages 127-138

   7. A New Anticorrelation-Based Spectral Clustering Formulation

      • Julia Dietlmeier, Ovidiu Ghita, Paul F. Whelan

      Pages 139-149

   8. Simultaneous Partitioned Sampling for Articulated Object Tracking

      • Christophe Gonzales, Séverine Dubuisson, Xuan Son N’Guyen

      Pages 150-161

4. Segmentation

   1. A Geographical Approach to Self-Organizing Maps Algorithm Applied to Image Segmentation

      • Thales Sehn Korting, Leila Maria Garcia Fonseca, Gilberto Câmara

      Pages 162-170

   2. A Multi-Layer ‘Gas of Circles’ Markov Random Field Model for the Extraction of Overlapping Near-Circular Objects

      • Jozsef Nemeth, Zoltan Kato, Ian Jermyn

      Pages 171-182

   3. Evaluation of Image Segmentation Algorithms from the Perspective of Salient Region Detection

      • Bogdan Popescu, Andreea Iancu, Dumitru Dan Burdescu, Marius Brezovan, Eugen Ganea

      Pages 183-194

   4. Robust Active Contour Segmentation with an Efficient Global Optimizer

      • Jonas De Vylder, Jan Aelterman, Wilfried Philips

      Pages 195-206

   5. A Method to Generate Artificial 2D Shape Contour Based in Fourier Transform and Genetic Algorithms

      • Maurício Falvo, João Batista Florindo, Odemir Martinez Bruno

      Pages 207-215

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2011, held in Ghent, Belgium, in August 2011. The 66 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 124 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on classification recognition, and tracking, segmentation, images analysis, image processing, video surveillance and biometrics, algorithms and optimization; and 3D, depth and scene understanding.

• biometric recognition
• computer vision
• feature detection
• object tracking
• texture analysis
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity

• DGA, Bagneux, France

  Jacques Blanc-Talon

• VITO-TAP, MOl, Belgium

  Richard Kleihorst

• Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

  Wilfried Philips

• CSIRO ICT Centre, Sydney, Australia

  Dan Popescu

• Physics, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

  Paul Scheunders

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