Advances in Visual Computing

1. Front Matter

   PDF

2. ST: Object Recognition

   1. Which Shape Representation Is the Best for Real-Time Hand Interface System?

      • Serkan Genç, Volkan Atalay

      Pages 1-11

   2. Multi-target and Multi-camera Object Detection with Monte-Carlo Sampling

      • Giorgio Panin, Sebastian Klose, Alois Knoll

      Pages 12-21

   3. Spatial Configuration of Local Shape Features for Discriminative Object Detection

      • Lech Szumilas, Horst Wildenauer

      Pages 22-33

   4. A Bag of Features Approach for 3D Shape Retrieval

      • Janis Fehr, Alexander Streicher, Hans Burkhardt

      Pages 34-43

   5. Efficient Object Pixel-Level Categorization Using Bag of Features

      • David Aldavert, Arnau Ramisa, Ricardo Toledo, Ramon Lopez de Mantaras

      Pages 44-54

3. Computer Graphics I

   1. Relighting Forest Ecosystems

      • Jay E. Steele, Robert Geist

      Pages 55-66

   2. Cartoon Animation Style Rendering of Water

      • Mi You, Jinho Park, Byungkuk Choi, Junyong Noh

      Pages 67-78

   3. Deformable Proximity Queries and Their Application in Mobile Manipulation Planning

      • M. Gissler, C. Dornhege, B. Nebel, M. Teschner

      Pages 79-88

   4. Speech-Driven Facial Animation Using a Shared Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model

      • Salil Deena, Aphrodite Galata

      Pages 89-100

   5. Extracting Principal Curvature Ridges from B-Spline Surfaces with Deficient Smoothness

      • Suraj Musuvathy, Elaine Cohen

      Pages 101-110

   6. Adaptive Partitioning of Vertex Shader for Low Power High Performance Geometry Engine

      • B. V. N. Silpa, Kumar S. S. Vemuri, Preeti Ranjan Panda

      Pages 111-124

4. Visualization I

   1. Visualized Index-Based Search for Digital Libraries

      • Jon Scott, Beomjin Kim, Sanyogita Chhabada

      Pages 125-134

   2. Generation of an Importance Map for Visualized Images

      • Akira Egawa, Susumu Shirayama

      Pages 135-146

   3. Drawing Motion without Understanding It

      • Vincenzo Caglioti, Alessandro Giusti, Andrea Riva, Marco Uberti

      Pages 147-156

   4. Image Compression Based on Visual Saliency at Individual Scales

      • Stella X. Yu, Dimitri A. Lisin

      Pages 157-166

   5. Fast Occlusion Sweeping

      • Mayank Singh, Cem Yuksel, Donald House

      Pages 167-178

   6. An Empirical Study of Categorical Dataset Visualization Using a Simulated Bee Colony Clustering Algorithm

      • James D. McCaffrey

      Pages 179-188

5. ST: Visual Computing for Robotics

   1. Real-Time Feature Acquisition and Integration for Vision-Based Mobile Robots

      • Thomas Hübner, Renato Pajarola

      Pages 189-200

   2. Matching Planar Features for Robot Localization

      • Baptiste Charmette, Eric Royer, Frédéric Chausse

      Pages 201-210

It is with greatpleasure that we present the proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2009), which was held in Las Vegas, Nevada. ISVC o?ers a common umbrella for the four main areas of visual c- puting includingvision,graphics,visualization,andvirtualreality.Thegoalisto provide a forum for researchers, scientists, engineers, and practitioners throu- out the world to present their latest research ?ndings, ideas, developments, and applications in the broader area of visual computing. This year, the program consisted of 16 oral sessions, one poster session, 7 special tracks, and 6 keynote presentations. Also, this year ISVC hosted the Third Semantic Robot Vision Challenge.The responseto the call for papers was verygood;wereceivedover320submissionsfor themainsymposiumfromwhich we accepted 97 papers for oral presentation and 63 papers for poster presen- tion. Special track papers were solicited separately through the Organizing and Program Committees of each track. A total of 40 papers were accepted for oral presentation and 15 papers for poster presentation in the special tracks. All papers were reviewed with an emphasis on potential to contribute to the state of the art in the ?eld. Selection criteria included accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and signi?cance of results, and presentation quality. The review process was quite rigorous, involving two to three independent blind reviews followed by several days of discussion. During the discussion period we tried to correct anomalies and errors that might have existed in the initial reviews.

• Active contour
• Animation
• HCI
• Optical flow
• ava
• computed tomography (CT)
• computer vision
• image processing
• image segmentation
• motion capture
• object recognition
• photorealistic
• scene understanding
• vertex shader
• visual analysis

• Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

  George Bebis

• NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, USA

  Richard Boyle

• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA

  Bahram Parvin

• Desert Research Institute, Reno, USA

  Darko Koracin, Daniel Coming

• Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan

  Yoshinori Kuno

• Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

  Junxian Wang

• Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

  Jun-Xuan Wang

• Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA

  Junxian Wang

• Department of Informatics, Univ. of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  Renato Pajarola

• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA

  Peter Lindstrom

• University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Sankt Augustin, Germany

  André Hinkenjann

• Humana Inc., Louisville, USA

  Miguel L. Encarnação

• SCI Institute & School of Computing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

  Cláudio T. Silva

Policies and ethics