Advances in Visual Computing

ST: Computational Bioimaging I.- Ontology-Driven Image Analysis for Histopathological Images.- Attribute-Filtering and Knowledge Extraction for Vessel Segmentation.- A Human Inspired Local Ratio-Based Algorithm for Edge Detection in Fluorescent Cell Images.- A Non-rigid Multimodal Image Registration Method Based on Particle Filter and Optical Flow.- Stitching of Microscopic Images for Quantifying Neuronal Growth and Spine Plasticity.- Computer Graphics I.- Semi-uniform, 2-Different Tessellation of Triangular Parametric Surfaces.- Fast and Reliable Decimation of Polygonal Models Based on Volume and Normal Field.- Lattice-Boltzmann Water Waves.- A Texture-Based Approach for Hatching Color Photographs.- Camera Pose Estimation Based on Angle Constraints.- Feature-Preserving 3D Thumbnail Creation with Voxel-Based Two-Phase Decomposition.- ST: Behavior Detection and Modeling.- Learning Scene Entries and Exits Using Coherent Motion Regions.- Adding Facial Actions into 3D Model Search to Analyse Behaviour in an Unconstrained Environment.- Aggregating Low-Level Features for Human Action Recognition.- Incorporating Social Entropy for Crowd Behavior Detection Using SVM.- Introducing a Statistical Behavior Model into Camera-Based Fall Detection.- ST: Low-Level Color Image Processing.- On Contrast-Preserving Visualisation of Multispectral Datasets.- Color Gamut Extension by Projector-Camera System.- Shading Attenuation in Human Skin Color Images.- Color Constancy Algorithms for Object and Face Recognition.- Chromatic Sensitivity of Illumination Change Compensation Techniques.- Study on Image Color Stealing in Log-Polar Space.- Feature Extraction and Matching.- How to Overcome Perceptual Aliasing in ASIFT?.- Speeding Up HOG and LBP Features for Pedestrian Detection by MultiresolutionTechniques.- Utilizing Invariant Descriptors for Finger Spelling American Sign Language Using SVM.- Bivariate Feature Localization for SIFT Assuming a Gaussian Feature Shape.- Linear Dimensionality Reduction through Eigenvector Selection for Object Recognition.- Symmetry Enhanced Adaboost.- Object Category Classification Using Occluding Contours.- Visualization I.- Fractal Map: Fractal-Based 2D Expansion Method for Multi-scale High-Dimensional Data Visualization.- Visual Network Analysis of Dynamic Metabolic Pathways.- Interpolating 3D Diffusion Tensors in 2D Planar Domain by Locating Degenerate Lines.- Indented Pixel Tree Plots.- Visualizing Multivariate Hierarchic Data Using Enhanced Radial Space-Filling Layout.- An Efficient Method for the Visualization of Spectral Images Based on a Perception-Oriented Spectrum Segmentation.- A New Marching Cubes Algorithm for Interactive Level Set with Application to MR Image Segmentation.- Motion and Tracking.- Attention-Based Target Localization Using Multiple Instance Learning.- Introducing Fuzzy Spatial Constraints in a Ranked Partitioned Sampling for Multi-object Tracking.- Object Tracking and Segmentation in a Closed Loop.- Optical Flow Estimation with Prior Models Obtained from Phase Correlation.- Conservative Motion Estimation from Multi-image Sequences.- Gradient-Based Modified Census Transform for Optical Flow.- Depth Assisted Occlusion Handling in Video Object Tracking.- ST: Unconstrained Biometrics: Advances and Trends.- Acquisition Scenario Analysis for Face Recognition at a Distance.- Enhancing Iris Matching Using Levenshtein Distance with Alignment Constraints.- A Mobile-Oriented Hand Segmentation Algorithm Based on Fuzzy Multiscale Aggregation.- Analysis of Time Domain Information for Footstep Recognition.- Shaped Wavelets for Curvilinear Structures for Ear Biometrics.- Face Recognition Using Sparse Representations and Manifold Learning.- Face Recognition in Videos Using Adaptive Graph Appearance Models.- ST: Computational Bioimaging II.- A Spatial-Temporal Frequency Approach to Estimate Cardiac Motion.- Mitosis Extraction in Breast-Cancer Histopathological Whole Slide Images.- Predicting Segmentation Accuracy for Biological Cell Images.- Multiscale Analysis of Volumetric Motion Field Using General Order Prior.- A Multi-relational Learning Approach for Knowledge Extraction in in Vitro Fertilization Domain.- Computer Graphics II.- Reconstruction of Spectra Using Empirical Basis Functions.- Experimental Study on Approximation Algorithms for Guarding Sets of Line Segments.- Toward an Automatic Hole Characterization for Surface Correction.- A Local-Frame Based Method for Vector Field Construction on Raw Point Cloud.- Preprocessed Global Visibility for Real-Time Rendering on Low-End Hardware.- A Spectral Approach to Nonlocal Mesh Editing.- ST: 3D Mapping, Modeling and Surface Reconstruction.- Markov Random Field-Based Clustering for the Integration of Multi-view Range Images.- Robust Wide Baseline Scene Alignment Based on 3D Viewpoint Normalization.- Modified Region Growing for Stereo of Slant and Textureless Surfaces.- Synthetic Shape Reconstruction Combined with the FT-Based Method in Photometric Stereo.- Lunar Terrain and Albedo Reconstruction of the Apollo 15 Zone.- Super-Resolution Mosaicking of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Surveillance Video Using Levenberg Marquardt (LM) Algorithm.- Virtual Reality I.- Computer-Generated Tie-Dyeing Using a 3D Diffusion Graph.- VR Menus: Investigation of Distance, Size, Auto-scale, and Ray Casting vs. Pointer-Attached-to-Menu.- Contact Geometryand Visual Factors for Vibrotactile-Grid Location Cues.- Computer-Assisted Creation of 3D Models of Freeway Interchanges.- Automatic Learning of Gesture Recognition Model Using SOM and SVM.