Image Analysis and Recognition

1. Front Matter

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2. Biometrics and Face Recognition

   1. Multi-stage Visible Wavelength and Near Infrared Iris Segmentation Framework

      • Andreas Uhl, Peter Wild

      Pages 1-10

   2. Two Unconstrained Biometric Databases

      • Hélder P. Oliveira, Filipe Magalhães

      Pages 11-19

   3. Multibiometric System Using Level Set Method and Particle Swarm Optimization

      • Kaushik Roy, Mohamed S. Kamel

      Pages 20-29

   4. Explicit Integration of Identity Information from Skin Regions to Improve Face Recognition

      • Garsah Farhan Al-Qarni, Farzin Deravi

      Pages 30-37

   5. Hand-Geometry Based Recognition System

      • Hélder Matos, Hélder P. Oliveira, Filipe Magalhães

      Pages 38-45

   6. Local Gradient Increasing Pattern (LGIP) for Facial Representation and Gender Recognition

      • Lu Bing Zhou, Han Wang

      Pages 46-53

   7. Quality-Based Fingerprint Segmentation

      • Ntethelelo A. Mngenge, Fulufhelo V. Nelwamondo, Tendani Malumedzha, Ntsika Msimang

      Pages 54-63

   8. A New Multi-camera Based Facial Expression Analysis Concept

      • Robert Niese, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Bernd Michaelis

      Pages 64-71

   9. Entropy in Biometric Face Template Analysis

      • Maria De Marsico, Michele Nappi, Daniel Riccio

      Pages 72-79

   10. Combining Face with Face-Part Detectors under Gaussian Assumption

       • Andreas Uhl, Peter Wild

       Pages 80-89

   11. Generalized Local Discriminant Embedding for Face Recognition

       • F. Dornaika, A. Bosaghzadeh

       Pages 90-97

3. Human Activity Recognition

   1. Depth Information in Human Gait Analysis: An Experimental Study on Gender Recognition

      • Ricard Borràs, Àgata Lapedriza, Laura Igual

      Pages 98-105

   2. A Depth Camera Based Fall Recognition System for the Elderly

      • Rachit Dubey, Bingbing Ni, Pierre Moulin

      Pages 106-113

   3. Heuristic and Voxel-Based Signature for Hand Posture Recognition Using a Range Camera

      • Hervé Lahamy, Derek Lichti

      Pages 114-121

   4. A Compound Eigenspace for Recognizing Directed Human Activities

      • Abdunnaser Diaf, Boubakeur Boufama, Rachid Benlamri

      Pages 122-129

   5. Hand Detection and Tracking Using the Skeleton of the Blob for Medical Rehabilitation Applications

      • Pedro Gil-Jiménez, Beatriz Losilla-López, Rafael Torres-Cueco, Aurélio Campilho, Roberto López-Sastre

      Pages 130-137

4. Biomedical Image Analysis

   1. Denoising 3D Medical Images Using a Second Order Variational Model and Wavelet Shrinkage

      • Minh-Phuong Tran, Renaud Péteri, Maitine Bergounioux

      Pages 138-145

   2. Robust Impulse-Noise Filtering for Biomedical Images Using Numerical Interpolation

      • Jinwei Xu, Tuan D. Pham

      Pages 146-155

   3. Segmenting Multiple Sclerosis Lesions Using a Spatially Constrained K-Nearest Neighbour Approach

      • Mark Lyksborg, Rasmus Larsen, Per Soelberg Sørensen, Morten Blinkenberg, Ellen Garde, Hartwig R. Siebner et al.

      Pages 156-163

The two-volume set LNCS 7324/7325 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Image and Recognition, ICIAR 2012, held in Aveiro, Portugal, in June 2012. The 107 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 207 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on clustering and classification; image processing; image analysis; motion analysis and tracking; shape representation; 3D imaging; applications; biometrics and face recognition; human activity recognition; biomedical image analysis; retinal image analysis; and call detection and modeling.

• biomedical data
• computer graphics
• machine learning
• smartphone programming
• unconstrained optimization
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity

• Faculty of Engineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

  Aurélio Campilho

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

  Mohamed Kamel

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