Advances in Visual Computing

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XLIV

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2. ST: Object Recognition

   1. Detection of a Large Number of Overlapping Ellipses Immersed in Noise

      • Armando Manuel Fernandes

      Pages 1-10

   2. Recognizing Ancient Coins Based on Local Features

      • Martin Kampel, Maia Zaharieva

      Pages 11-22

   3. Learning Pairwise Dissimilarity Profiles for Appearance Recognition in Visual Surveillance

      • Zhe Lin, Larry S. Davis

      Pages 23-34

   4. Edge-Based Template Matching and Tracking for Perspectively Distorted Planar Objects

      • Andreas Hofhauser, Carsten Steger, Nassir Navab

      Pages 35-44

   5. Enhancing Boundary Primitives Using a Multiscale Quadtree Segmentation

      • Robert Bergevin, Vincent Bergeron

      Pages 45-54

   6. 3D Object Modeling and Segmentation Based on Edge-Point Matching with Local Descriptors

      • Masahiro Tomono

      Pages 55-64

3. Computer Graphics I

   1. Cumulus Cloud Synthesis with Similarity Solution and Particle/Voxel Modeling

      • Bei Wang, Jingliang Peng, C. -C. Jay Kuo

      Pages 65-74

   2. An Efficient Wavelet-Based Framework for Articulated Human Motion Compression

      • Chao-Hua Lee, Joan Lasenby

      Pages 75-86

   3. On Smooth Bicubic Surfaces from Quad Meshes

      • Jianhua Fan, Jörg Peters

      Pages 87-96

   4. Simple Steps for Simply Stepping

      • Chun-Chih Wu, Jose Medina, Victor B. Zordan

      Pages 97-106

   5. Fairing of Discrete Surfaces with Boundary That Preserves Size and Qualitative Shape

      • Jana Kostlivá, Radim Šára, Martina Matýsková

      Pages 107-118

   6. Fast Decimation of Polygonal Models

      • Muhammad Hussain

      Pages 119-128

4. Visualization I

   1. Visualizing Argument Structure

      • Peter Sbarski, Tim van Gelder, Kim Marriott, Daniel Prager, Andy Bulka

      Pages 129-138

   2. Visualization of Industrial Structures with Implicit GPU Primitives

      • Rodrigo de Toledo, Bruno Levy

      Pages 139-150

   3. Cartesian vs. Radial – A Comparative Evaluation of Two Visualization Tools

      • Michael Burch, Felix Bott, Fabian Beck, Stephan Diehl

      Pages 151-160

   4. VoxelBars: An Informative Interface for Volume Visualization

      • Wai-Ho Mak, Ming-Yuen Chan, Yingcai Wu, Ka-Kei Chung, Huamin Qu

      Pages 161-170

   5. Wind Field Retrieval and Display for Doppler Radar Data

      • Shyh-Kuang Ueng, Yu-Chong Chiang

      Pages 171-182

   6. Dual Marching Tetrahedra: Contouring in the Tetrahedronal Environment

      • Gregory M. Nielson

      Pages 183-194

5. ST: Real-Time Vision Algorithm Implementation and Application

   1. Vision-Based Localization for Mobile Robots Using a Set of Known Views

      • Pablo Frank-Bolton, Alicia Montserrat Alvarado-González, Wendy Aguilar, Yann Frauel

      Pages 195-204

It is with greatpleasure that we present the proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2008) in Las Vegas, Nevada. ISVC o?ers a common umbrella for the four main areas of visual computing including vision, graphics, visualization, and virtual reality. Its goal is to provide a forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research ?ndings, ideas, developments and applications in the broader area of visual computing. This year,ISVC grew signi?cantly; the programconsisted of 15 oralsessions, 1 poster session, 8 special tracks, and 6 keynote presentations. The response to the call for papers was very strong; we received over 340 submissions for the main symposium from which we accepted 102 papers for oral presentation and 70 papers for poster presentation. Special track papers were solicited separately through the Organizing and Program Committees of each track. A total of 56 papers were accepted for oral presentation and 8 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.

• 3D vision
• algorithms
• augmented reality
• bioinformatics
• biometrics
• clustering
• combinatorial maps
• computational geometry
• computer graphics
• computer vision
• discrete geometry
• dynamic simulation
• image analysis
• video analysis
• visualization

• 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

• Digital Image Research Center, Kingston University, London, UK

  Paolo Remagnino

• Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, USA

  Fatih Porikli

• Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainsville, USA

  Jörg Peters

• IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, USA

  James Klosowski

• 128 Memorial Mall, Stewart B001, West Lafayette, USA

  Laura Arns

• Denver Museum of Nature and Space, USA

  Yu Ka Chun

• Departmen of Computer Science,, NC State University, Raleigh, USA

  Theresa-Marie Rhyne

• Los Alamos National Labs, Los Alamos, USA

  Laura Monroe

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