Noblesse Workshop on Non-Linear Model Based Image Analysis

3D Image Models.- Cross individual model-based alignment of volumetric images.- Model based segmentation and recognition of anatomical brain structures in 3D MR images.- Precise registration of CT and MR volumes based on a new creaseness measure.- Automatic object modeling for 3D virtual environment.- 3D binary fast morphological shape decomposition.- Stereo image segmentation using hybrid analysis technique.- A simplified representation of 3D human faces adapted from 2D images.- Active shape model-assisted least squares stereo matching for recovery of 3-D facial shape.- Parallel implementation of a 3D nonlinear restoration algorithm.- Keynote Lecture.- A perception-based error criterion and the design of stack filters for image restoration.- Image/Video Restoration.- RCRS filters for digital image sequences.- An automatic system for restoring image sequences.- Restoring images taken from scratched 2-inch tape.- Poster Session Segmentation and Object Oriented Coding.- Object recognition from a perimeter high curvature model using rank conditioned morphological operators.- Texture map coding for arbitrarily shaped 2-D and 3-D video objects.- Aligning arbitrary surfaces using pairwise geometric histograms.- Object tracking for retrival applications in MPEG-2.- Object feature based coding quality prediction for coding scheme selection.- Supervised semantic object segmentation and tracking via EM-based estimation of mixture density parameters.- Interactive object extraction from video sequences for multimedia applications based on multiple features.- Robust morphological scale-space trees.- Image segmentation and the use of genetic algorithms for optimising parameters and algorithm choice.- A class of parallel algorithms for nonlinear variational segmentation: A preprocessfor robust feature-based image coding.- Linear and non-linear modelling of scale-orientation signatures.- Parametric method for tracking and analysing lip movements.- Colour Image Processing (papers marked with a * have colour illustrations contained in a separate Colour Annex).- Optimising lossless co-encoding of wavelet coefficients for entropy encoding.- Directional unsharp masking-based approach for color image enhancement*.- Multidimensional texture characterization using moments.- Activity driven non-linear diffusion for colour image segmentation*.- Old painting digital color restoration*.- Multi-channel adaptive signal processing of colour cinematographic imagery.- Using colour for robust tracking and segmentation.- Keynote Lecture.- The trace transform and its applications.- Database Retrieval.- Image retrieval based on colour and nonlinear texture invariants.- Image matching via the inhomogeneous diffusion of color and texture features.- Shot detection tools in digital video.- Poster Session Image Models, Segmentation and Implementation.- Modeling of texture images by the structuring element of morphological filters.- Two dimensional volterra filter modelling of textured images using weighted constrained optimisation.- A retina-like image representation of primal sketch features extracted using a neural network approach.- Facial feature extraction and determination of pose.- A quantitative methodology for parameters setting in 3D people localization system for surveillance applications.- A segmentation methodology for real 3D images.- An optimal morphological non uniform sampling scheme for sequence image representation and compression.- 3D image analysis of facial shape changes using depth from stereo.- Dense disparity estimation via global and local matching.- Object segmentation and modeling in volumetric images.- Non linear image processing on field programmable gate arrays.- Video Pre and Post Processing (papers marked with a * have colour illustrations contained in a separate Colour Annex).- Noise reduction techniques for video coding applications*.- A robust hybrid bayesian-morphological approach to multidimensional image filtering.- Adaptively weighted vector-median processing of motion fields in block-DCT and object-based video coding.- Preprocessing for the MPEG-2 video coding.- Image interpolation by an integer factor using a non linear technique*.- On the structure of idempotent monotone Boolean functions.- Author index.