Table of Contents
Video Processing
Video Quality Analysis for Concert Video Mashup Generation Prarthana Shrestha Hans Weda Mauro Barbieri Peter H.N. de With 1
Speeding Up Structure from Motion on Large Scenes Using Parallelizable Partitions Koen Douterloigne Sidharta Gautama Wilfried Philips 13
Mapping GOPS in an Improved DVC to H.264 Video Transcoder Alberto Corrales-Garcia Gerardo Fernandez-Escribano Francisco Jose Quiles 22
Scalable H.264 Wireless Video Transmission over MIMO-OFDM Channels Manu Bansal Mohammad Jubran Lisimachos P. Kondi 34
A GPU-Accelerated Real-Time NLMeans Algorithm for Denoising Color Video Sequences Bart Goossens Hiêp Luong Jan Aelterman Aleksandra Pizurica Wilfried Philips 46
An Efficient Mode Decision Algorithm for Combined Scalable Video Coding Tae-Jung Kim Bo-Seok Seo Jae-Won Suh 58
A Novel Rate Control Method for H.264/AVC Based on Frame Complexity and Importance Haibing Chen Mei Yu Feng Shao Zongju Peng Fucui Li Gangyi Jiang 69
Digital Image Tamper Detection Based on Multimodal Fusion of Residue Features Girija Chetty Julian Goodwin Monica Singh 79
Surveillance and Camera Networks
Fire Detection in Color Images Using Markov Random Fields David Van Hamme Peter Veelaert Wilfried Philips Kristof Teelen 88
A Virtual Curtain for the Detection of Humans and Access Control Olivier Barnich Sébastien Piérard Marc Van Droogenbroeck 98
A New System for Event Detection from Video Surveillance Sequences Ali Wali Najib Ben Aoun Hichem Karray Chokri Ben Amar Adel M. Alimi 110
Evaluation of Human Detection Algorithms in Image Sequences Yannick Benezeth Baptiste Hemery Hélène Laurent Bruno Emile Christophe Rosenberger 121
Recognizing Objects in Smart Homes Based on Human Interaction Chen Wu Hamid Aghajan 131
Football Players Classification in a Multi-camera Environment Pier Luigi Mazzeo Paolo Spagnolo Marco Leo Tiziana D'Orazio 143
SUNAR: Surveillance Network Augmented by Retrieval Petr Chmelar Ales Lanik Jozef Mlich 155
Object Tracking over Multiple Uncalibrated Cameras Using Visual, Spatial and Temporal Similarities Daniel Wedge Adele F. Scott Zhonghua Ma Jeroen Vendrig 167
Machine Vision
A Template Matching and Ellipse Modeling Approach to Detecting Lane Markers Amol Borkar Monson Hayes Mark T. Smith 179
An Analysis of the Road Signs Classification Based on the Higher-Order Singular Value Decomposition of the Deformable Pattern Tensors Boguslaw Cyganek 191
An Effective Rigidity Constraint for Improving RANSAC in Homography Estimation David Monnin Etienne Bieber Gwenaël Schmitt Armin Schneider 203
Exploiting Neighbors for Faster Scanning Window Detection in Images Pavel Zemcík Michal Hradiš Adam Herout 215
Remote Sensing
Optimisation-Based Image Grid Smoothing for SST Images Guillaume Noel Karim Djouani Yskandar Hamam 227
Estimating 3D Polyhedral Building Models by Registering Aerial Images Fadi Dornaika Karim Hammoudi 239
Content-Based Retrieval of Aurora Images Based on the Hierarchical Representation Soo K. Kim Heggere S. Ranganath 249
Improved Grouping and Noise Cancellation for Automatic Lossy Compression of AVIRIS Images Nikolay Ponomarenko Vladimir Lukin Mikhail Zriakhov Arto Kaarna 261
New Saliency Point Detection and Evaluation Methods for Finding Structural Differences in Remote Sensing Images of Long Time-Span Samples Andrea Kovacs Tamas Sziranyi 272
Recognition, Classification and Tracking
Regularized Kernel Locality Preserving Discriminant Analysis for Face Recognition Xiaohua Gu Weiguo Gong Liping Yang Weihong Li 284
An Appearance-Based Prior for Hand Tracking Mathias Kölsch 292
Image Recognition through Incremental Discriminative Common Vectors Katerine Díaz-Chito Francesc J. Ferri Wladimiro Díaz-Villanueva 304
Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition Using Boosted Component-Based Spatiotemporal Features and Multi-classifier Fusion Xiaohua Huang GuoyingZhao Matti Pietikäinen Wenming Zheng 312
Gender Classification on Real-Life Faces Caifeng Shan 323
Face Recognition Using Contourlet Transform and Multidirectional Illumination from a Computer Screen Ajmal Mian 332
Shape and Texture Based Plant Leaf Classification Thibaut Beghin James S. Cope Paolo Remagnino Sarah Barman 345
A New Approach of GPU Accelerated Visual Tracking Chuantao Zang Koichi Hashimoto 354
Recognizing Human Actions by Using Spatio-temporal Motion Descriptors Ákos Utasi Andrea Kovács 366
Author Index 377
