ICIAP 2009 - 15th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing

TECHNICAL PROGRAM

University of Salerno - Fisciano

Day 1 Tuesday 8 September

Lloyd's Baia Hotel - Vietri sul Mare

UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO - FISCIANO

Tuesday 8 September

09.30 13.00	Tutorial 3D Video Processing for Immersive 3D Videoconferencing Oliver Schreer
14.30 18.00	Tutorial Human-centered Vision Systems Hamid Aghajan and Nicu Sebe

LLOYD'S BAIA HOTEL - VIETRI SUL MARE

Tuesday 8 September

17.30 19.30

Conference Registration

Wednesday 9 September

08.00 08.40	Conference Registration
08.40 09.00 Room F	Opening
09.00 10.00 Room F	Invited Speaker Session Chair - M. Vento Computer analysis of lighting in realist master art: Current methods and future challenges David G. Stork
10.00 11.00 Room F	Computer Graphics and Image processing Session Chair - G. Sanniti di Baja Re-photography and Environment Monitoring using a Social Sensor Network Paul Chippendale, Michele Zanin and Claudio Andreatta Region-based Illuminant Estimation for Effective Color Correction Simone Bianco, Francesca Gasparini and Raimondo Schettini SVR-based jitter reduction for markerless Augmented Reality Samuele Salti and Luigi Di Stefano
11.00 11.30	Coffee Break
11.30 12.30 Room F	Low and Middle Level Processing Session Chair - V. Cantoni A new technique for image magnification Carlo Arcelli, Maria Frucci and Gabriella Sanniti di Baja Nonlocal Similarity Image Filtering Yifei Lou, Paolo Favaro, Stefano Soatto and Andrea Bertozzi FESID: Finite Element Scale Invariant Detector Dermot Kerr, Sonya Coleman and Bryan Scotney
12.30 13.30 Room F	2D and 3D Segmentation Session Chair - L. Brun Conditions for Segmentation of 2D Translations of 3D Objects Shafriza Nisha Basah, Alireza Bab-Hadiashar and Reza Hoseinnezhad Semantic-based Segmentation and Annotation of 3D Models Laura Papaleo and Leila De Floriani Segmentation of wood fibres in 3D CT images using graph cuts Erik L. G. Wernersson, Anders Brun and Cris L. Luengo Hendiks
13.30 15.00	Lunch
15.00 16.00 Room F	Feature Extraction and Image Analysis Session Chair - C. Sansone Automatic estimation of the inlier threshold in robust multiple structures fitting

Roberto Toldo and Andrea Fusiello

Integration of Contextual Information in Online Handwriting Representation
Sara Izadi and Ching Y. Suen

Reducing Keypoint Database Size
Shahar Jamshy, Eyal Krupka and Yehezkel Yeshurun

16.00 16.20

Coffee Break

16.20 17.20

Room F

Object Detection and Recognition

Session Chair - A. Del Bimbo

Detection of a Hand Holding a Cellular Phone using Multiple Image Features
Hiroto Nagayoshi, Takashi Watanabe, Tatsuhiko Kagehiro, Hisao Ogata, Tsukasa Yasue and Hiroshi Sako

Object Detection by Estimating and Combining High-Level Features
Geoffrey Levine and Gerald DeJong

Plant leaf identification using multi-scale fractal dimension
Andr R Backes and Odemir M Bruno

17.20 18.20

Room F

Video Analysis and Processing

Session Chair - R. Cucchiara

Shadow removal in outdoor video sequences by automatic thresholding of division images
Srinivasa Rao Dammavalam, Claudio Piciarelli, Christian Micheloni and GianLuca Foresti

Video sequences association for people re-identification across multiple non-overlapping cameras
Dung Nghi Truong Cong, Catherine Achard, Louahdi Khoudour and Lounis Douadi

Video Event Classification Using Bag of Words and String Kernels
Lamberto Ballan, Marco Bertini, Alberto Del Bimbo and Giuseppe Serra

18.20 - 19.00

Room F

In Memoriam of Vito di Ges: an engaging traveling companion

19.30

Welcome Cocktail

Thursday 10 September

09.00 10.00 Room F	Contest Session Session Chair - F. Roli First International Fingerprint Liveness Detection Competition LivDet 2009 Gian Luca Marcialis, Aaron Lewicke, Bozhao Tan, Pietro Coli, Fabio Roli, Stephanie Schuckers, Dominic Grimberg, Alberto Congiu, Alessandra Tidu
10.00 11.00 Room F	Pattern Analysis and Classification Session Chair - F. Tortorella Nonlinear Embedded Map Projection for Dimensionality Reduction Simone Marinai, Emanuele Marino and Giovanni Soda A hybrid approach handling imbalanced datasets Paolo Soda A new generative feature set based on entropy distance for discriminative classification Alessandro Perina, Marco Cristani, Umberto Castellani and Vittorio Murino
11.00 11.30	Coffee Break
11.30 12.30 Room F	Learning Session Chair - L.P. Cordella A Riemannian Self-Organizing Map Dongjun Yu, Edwin R. Hancock and William A. P. Smith The impact of reliability evaluation on a semi-supervised learning approach Pasquale Foggia, Gennaro Percannella, Carlo Sansone and Mario Vento Towards a theoretical framework for learning multi-modal patterns for embodied agents Nicoletta Noceti, Barbara Caputo, Claudio Castellini, Luca Baldassarre, Annalisa Barla, Lorenzo Rosasco, Francesca Odone and Giulio Sandini
12.30 13.30 Room F	Graphs and Trees Session Chair - P. Foggia Learning Class Specific Graph Prototypes Shengping Xia and Edwin R. Hancock Tree covering within a graph kernel framework for shape classification Francois-Xavier Dupe and Luc Brun On the Training Patterns Pruning for Optimum-Path Forest Joao P. Papa and Alexandre X. Falcao
13.30 15.00	Lunch
15.00 18.20 Room E	Demo and Poster Session 1: Applications 1 . Vision-based markerless gaming interface Pietro Azzari and Luigi Di Stefano 2 . Quality assessment of the MPEG-4 scalable video CODEC Florian Niedermeier, Michael Niedermeier and Harald Kosch 3 . An Automatic Method for Counting Annual Rings in Noisy Sawmill Images Kristin Norell 4 . A License Plate Extraction Algorithm based on Edge Statistics and Region Growing Manuel Vargas, Sergio L. Toral, Federico Barrero and Francisco Corts 5 . Boat Speed Monitoring using Artificial Vision Alberto Broggi, Pietro Cerri, Paolo Grisleri and Marco Paterlini 6 . Theia: Multispectral Image Analysis and Archaeological Survey Vito Roberto and Massimiliano Hofer 7 . A Self-updating Multiexpert System for Face Identification Andrea F. Abate, Maria De Marsico, Michele Nappi and Daniel Riccio 8 . Characterisation of retinal feature points applied to a biometric system David Calvo, Marcos Ortega, Manuel G. Penedo, Jos Rouco and Beatriz Remeseiro 9 . Coastline Detection from SAR Images by Level Set Model Maria Mercede Cerimele, Luigi Cinque, Rossella Cossu and Roberta Galiffa 10 . Wavelet-based Feature Extraction for Handwritten Numerals Diego Romero, Ana Ruedin and Leticia Seijas 11 . A Texture Based Shoe Retrieval System for Shoe Marks of Real Crime Scenes Francesca Dardi, Federico Cervelli and Sergio Carrato 12 . Encephalic NMR Tumor Diversification By Textural Interpretation Danilo Avola and Luigi Cinque 13 . Pathnodes integration of standalone Particle Filters for people tracking on distributed surveillance systems Roberto Vezzani, Davide Baltieri and Rita Cucchiara 14 . On Improving the Efficiency of Eigenface Method Using a Novel Facial Feature Aleksey Izmailov and Adam Krzyzak 15 . Semiotic Design of a Hypermedia for Cultural Heritage Vito Roberto and Elio Toppano 16 . An Experimental Analysis of the Relationship between Biometric Template Update and the Doddingtons Zoo: A Case Study in Face Verification Ajita Rattani, Gian Luca Marcialis and Fabio Roli 17 . Similarity searches in face databases Annalisa Franco and Dario Maio 18 . Vision-based Motion Capture of Interacting Multiple People Hiroaki Egashira, Atsushi Shimada, Daisaku Arita and Rin-ichiro Taniguchi 19 . Probabilistic Corner Detection for Facial Feature Extraction Edoardo Ardizzone, Marco La Cascia and Marco Morana 20 . License Plate Detection and Character Recognition Roberto Marmo, Fabio Caccia and Luca Lombardi 21 . Towards a Subjective-Centered Analysis for Automated Video Surveillance Michela Farenzena, Loris Bazzani, Vittorio Murino and Marco Cristani 22 . Geometric-Aligned Cancelable Fingerprint Templates Bian Yang, Christoph Busch, Mohammad Derawi, Patrick Bours and Davrondzhon Gafurov 23 . Multi-class Binary Symbol Classification with Circular Blurred Shape Models Sergio Escalera, Alicia Forns, Oriol Pujol and Petia Radeva 24 . A Hybrid Approach to Land Cover Classification from Multi Spectral Images Primo Zingaretti, Emanuele Frontoni, Eva Savina Malinverni and Adriano Mancini 25 . A 3D Scanner for Transparent Glass Gonen Eren, Olivier Aubreton, Fabrice Meriaudeau, L.A. Sanchez Secades, David Fofi, A. Teoman Naskali, Frederic Truchetet and Aytul Ercil 26 . Red Eye Detection through Bag-of-Keypoints Classification Sebastiano Battiato, Mirko Guarnera, Tony Meccio and Giuseppe Messina 27 . A New Large Urdu Database for Off-Line Handwriting Recognition Malik Waqas Sagheer, Chun Lei He, Nicola Nobile and Ching Suen 28 . Object matching in distributed video surveillance systems by LDA-based appearance descriptors Liliana Lo Presti, Stan Sclaroff and Marco La Cascia 29 . Many-to-Many Matching under the l ₁ Norm M. Fatih Demirci and Yusuf Osmanlioglu 30 . Analysis and classification of Crithidia Luciliae fluorescent images Paolo Soda, Leonardo Onofri, Amelia Rigon and Giulio Iannello 31 . Confidence Measures for Error Correction in Interactive Transcription of Handwritten Text Lionel Tarazn, Daniel Prez, Nicols Serrano, Vicent Alabau, Oriol Ramos Terrades, Alberto Sanchis and Alfons Juan 32 . On the quantitative estimation of short-term aging in human faces Marcos Ortega, Linda Brodo, Manuele Bicego and Massimo Tistarelli 33 . 3D Neural Model-based Stopped Object Detection Lucia Maddalena and Alfredo Petrosino 34 . A New Linguistic-Perceptual Event Model for Spatio-Temporal Event Detection and Personalized Retrieval of Sports Video Minh-Son Dao, Sharma Ishan Nath and Noboru Babaguchi 35 . Towards Protein Interaction Analysis through Surface Labeling Virginio Cantoni, Riccardo Gatti and Luca Lombardi 36 . A semi-automated method for the measurement of the fetal nuchal translucency in ultrasound images Ezio Catanzariti, Giovanni Fusco, Francesco Isgr, Salavatore Masecchia, Roberto Prevete and Matteo Santoro 37 . Video Background Segmentation Using Adaptive Background Models Xiaoyu Wu, Yangsheng Wang and Jituo Li 38 . On a New Measure of Classifier Competence Applied to the Design of Multiclassifier Systems Tomasz Woloszynski and Marek Kurzynski 39 . Dense Two-Frame Stereo Correspondence by Self-Organizing Neural Network Marco Vanetti, Ignazio Gallo and Elisabetta Binaghi	16.00 16.20 Coffee Break 16.20 18.20 Room D Meeting of the Italian Chapter of IAPR

18.20

Gala Dinner

Friday 11 September

09.00 9.50 Room F	Invited Speaker Session Chair - F. Esposito Learning with Missing or Incomplete Data Bogdan Gabrys
9.50 10.40 Room F	Invited Speaker Session Chair - F. Esposito Image Analysis and Machine Learning: How to Foster a Stronger Connection? Stan Matwin
10.40 11.00 Room F	Discussion Session Chair - F. Esposito
11.00 11.30	Coffee Break
11.30 12.30 Room F	Shape Analysis Session Chair - L. Shapiro Discrete Distortion for Surface Meshes

Mohammed Mostefa Mesmoudi, Leila De Floriani and Paola Magillo

Recognition of occluded shapes using size functions
Barbara Di Fabio, Claudia Landi and Filippo Medri

A new algorithm for polygonal approximation based on Ant Colony Optimization
Cecilia Di Ruberto and Andrea Morgera

12.30 13.30

Room F

Face Analysis

Session Chair - G. Foresti

Webcam-based Visual Gaze Estimation
Roberto Valenti, Jacopo Staiano, Nicu Sebe and Theo Gevers

Real-time Probabilistic Tracking of Faces in Video
Giuseppe Boccignone, Paola Campadelli, Alessandro Ferrari and Giuseppe Lipori

A Robust Iris Localization Model based on Phase Congruency and Least Trimmed Squares Estimation
Lili Pan, Mei Xie, Tao Zheng and Jianli Ren

13.30 15.00

Lunch

15.00 16.00

Room F

Medical Imaging

Session Chair - E. Ardizzone

Sudden changes detection in WCE video
Giovanni Gallo, Eliana Granata and Giuseppe Scarpulla

Shape-Based Classification of 3D Head Data
Linda G. Shapiro, Katarzyna Wilamowska, Indriyati Atmosukarto, Jia Wu, Carrie Heike, Matthew Speltz and Michael Cunningham

Automatic regularization through total variation for denoising digital radiographic images
Mirko Lucchese and Alberto Borghese

16.00 16.20

Coffee Break

16.20 18.20

Room E

Poster Session 2: Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition

1 . A real-time occlusion aware hardware structure for disparity map computation
Christos Georgoulas and Ioannis Andreadis

2 . A Graph-based approach for Shape Skeleton Analysis
Andr R. Backes and Odemir M. Bruno

3 . Reconnecting broken ridges in fingerprint images
Nadia Brancati, Maria Frucci and Gabriella Sanniti di Baja

4 . Optimum Sensors for Chromaticity Constancy in the Pixel
Sivalogeswaran Ratnasingam and Steve Collins

5 . An Improved Adaptive Smoothing Method
Xin Hu, Hui Peng, Joseph Kesler, Xiang Cai, William G. Wee and Jing-Huei Lee

6 . Objective Quality Assessment Measurement for Typhoon Cloud Image Enhancement
Changjiang Zhang, Juan Lu and Jinshan Wang

7 . Fuzzy Smoothed Composition of Local Mapping Transformations for Non-Rigid Image Registration
Edoardo Ardizzone, Roberto Gallea, Orazio Gambino and Roberto Pirrone

8 . Improving the Accuracy of a Score Fusion approach based on Likelihood Ratio in Multimodal Biometric Systems
Emanuela Marasco and Carlo Sansone

9 . Evaluation of a foreground segmentation algorithm for 3D camera sensors
Luca Bianchi, Piercarlo Dondi, Riccardo Gatti, Luca Lombardi and Paolo Lombardi

10 . Image Quality Assessment Based on Multi-Scale Geometric Analysis
Mingna Liu, Xin Yang and Yanfeng Shang

11 . Connected component labeling techniques on modern architectures
Costantino Grana, Borghesani Daniele and Rita Cucchiara

12 . Estimation of Object Position Based on Color and Shape Contextual Information
Takashi Ishihara, Kazuhiro Hotta and Haruhisa Takahashi

13 . Hallucinating Faces: Global Linear modal Based Super-Resolution and Position Based Residue Compensation
Xiang Ma, Junping Zhang and Chun Qi

14 . Joint Affine and Illumination Estimation Using Scale Manipulation Features
Kobi Bentolila and Joseph Francos

15 . Real-time descriptorless feature tracking
Antonio L. Rodrguez, Pedro E. Lpez-de-Teruel and Alberto Ruiz

16 . Adaptive Sharpening with Overshoot Control
Antonio Buemi, Gaetano Santoro, Arcangelo Bruna and Mirko Guarnera

17 . Applying Visual Object Categorization and Memory Colors for Automatic Color Constancy
Esa Rahtu, Jarno Nikkanen, Juho Kannala, Leena Lepist and Janne Heikkil

18 . Anomaly-based detection of IRC botnets by means of one-class Support Vector Classifiers
Claudio Mazzariello and Carlo Sansone

19 . Detection of Duplicated Regions in Tampered Digital Images by Bit-Plane Analysis
Edoardo Ardizzone and Giuseppe Mazzola

20 . Color features performance comparison for image retrieval
Daniele Borghesani, Costantino Grana and Rita Cucchiara

21 . An Adaptive Technique for Accurate Feature Extraction from Regular and Irregular Image Data
Sonya Coleman, Shan Suganthan and Bryan Scotney

22 . Processing Hexagonal Images in a Virtual Environment
Sonya Coleman, Bryan Scotney and Bryan Gardiner

23 . Pixel coverage segmentation for improved feature estimation
Natasa Sladoje and Joakim Lindblad

24 . A Generic Method of Line Matching for Central Imaging Systems under Short-Baseline Motion
Saleh Mosaddegh, David Fofi and Pascal Vasseur

25 . Reconstructing 3D Facial Shape using Spherical Harmonics
Chengming Zou, Guanghui Zhao and Edwin R. Hancock

26 . Retinex combined with Total Variation for Image Illumination Normalization
Luigi Cinque and Gabriele Morrone

27 . A color-based interest operator
Marta Penas Centeno and Linda G. Shapiro

28 . An evaluation of scale and noise sensitivity of fibre orientation estimation in volume images
Maria Axelsson

29 . Real-Time Online Video Object Silhouette Extraction Using Graph Cuts on the GPU
Zachary A. Garrett and Hideo Saito

30 . A Novel Recognition Approach for Sketch-Based Interfaces
Danilo Avola, Andrea Del Buono, Giorgio Gianforme and Stefano Paolozzi

31 . Simultaneous Document Margin Removal and Skew Correction Based on Corner Detection in Projection Profiles
Mehdi Haji, Tien D. Bui and Ching Y. Suen

32 . Towards a Linear Combination of Dichotomizers by Margin Maximization
Claudio Marrocco, Mario Molinara, Maria Teresa Ricamato and Francesco Tortorella