
Image Analysis and Processing - ICIAP 2015
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Content
- Intro
- Preface
- Organization
- Contents - Part I
- Contents - Part II
- Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
- Transfer Learning Through Greedy Subset Selection
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Related Work
- 3 Transfer Learning Through Subset Selection
- 4 Greedy Algorithm for k-Source Selection
- 5 Experiments
- 6 Conclusions
- References
- MEG: Multi-Expert Gender Classification from Face Images in a Demographics-Balanced Dataset
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Pool of Experts
- 2.1 Score Generation by Likelihood Ratio (LR)
- 2.2 Score Generation by Support Vector Machines (SVM)
- 3 Fusion Strategies
- 4 The Image Dataset
- 5 Experiments and Results
- 6 Conclusions
- References
- An Edge-Based Matching Kernel Through Discrete-Time Quantum Walks
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Preliminary Concepts
- 2.1 Directed Line Graphs
- 2.2 Discrete-Time Quantum Walks
- 2.3 The Relation to Perron-Frobenius Operators
- 2.4 Depth-Based Representations Based on Quantum Walks
- 3 An Edge-Based Matching Kernel for Graphs
- 3.1 Edge-Based Matching Through Discrete-Time Quantum Walks
- 3.2 An Edge-Based Matching Kernel
- 4 Experimental Results
- 5 Conclusion
- References
- Implicit Boundary Learning for Connectomics
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Method
- 2.1 Finding Labels to Optimize Segmentation
- 2.2 Difference to Learn Membrane
- 3 Experiments and Results
- 4 Conclusion
- References
- A Parzen-Based Distance Between Probability Measures as an Alternative of Summary Statistics in Approximate Bayesian Computation
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Approximate Bayesian Computation Based on Kernel Embeddings
- 2.1 Short Summary on ABC Methods
- 2.2 Metrics between Probability Measures by Using Kernels
- 2.3 Kernel Embeddings as Summary Statistics for ABC
- 2.4 Extension to ABC SMC
- 3 Experimental Setup
- 3.1 Datasets
- 3.2 Validation
- 3.3 Procedure
- 4 Results and Discussion
- 4.1 Results from Synthetic Data
- 4.2 Results from Nonlinear Ecological Dynamic System
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Unsupervised Classification of Raw Full-Waveform Airborne Lidar Data by Self Organizing Maps
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methodology
- 3 Experiments and Results
- 4 Discussion and Conclusion
- References
- Fitting Multiple Models via Density Analysis in Tanimoto Space
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Method
- 2.1 Preference Trick
- 2.2 Density Based Analysis for Model Extraction
- 3 Experimental Evaluation
- 4 Conclusion
- References
- Bag of Graphs with Geometric Relationships Among Trajectories for Better Human Action Recognition
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Related Work
- 3 Trajectory Extraction
- 4 Description of the Proposed Approach
- 4.1 Extraction of the Graph Descriptors
- 4.2 Bag of Graphs
- 5 Experimental Study
- 5.1 Action Recognition Datasets
- 5.2 Results
- 6 Conclusion
- References
- Have a SNAK. Encoding Spatial Information with the Spatial Non-alignment Kernel
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Related Work
- 3 Spatial Non-Alignment Kernel
- 3.1 Translation and Size Invariance
- 4 Experiments
- 4.1 Data Sets Description
- 4.2 Implementation and Evaluation Procedure
- 4.3 Parameter Tuning
- 4.4 Pascal VOC Experiment
- 4.5 Birds Experiment
- 5 Conclusion and Future Work
- References
- Convolved Multi-output Gaussian Processes for Semi-Supervised Learning
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Multi-output Gaussian Processes
- 3 Semi-Supervised Learning for Multi-output GPs
- 3.1 Graph Regularization
- 3.2 The EM Algorithm
- 4 Experimental Setup
- 4.1 Databases
- 4.2 Procedure
- 5 Results and Discussion
- 6 Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Volcano-Seismic Events Classification Using Document Classification Strategies
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Proposed Approach
- 2.1 Dictionary Building
- 2.2 Event Description
- 2.3 From Documents to Feature Vectors
- 2.4 Document Classification
- 3 Experiments
- 3.1 Experimental Details
- 3.2 Results and Comparison with other Methods
- 3.3 Effect of the Parameters
- 3.4 Interpretability
- 4 Conclusions
- References
- Unsupervised Feature Selection by Graph Optimization
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A Brief Review of Graph-Based Unsupervised Feature Selection Methods
- 3 Unsupervised Feature Selection by Graph Optimization
- 4 Optimization Algorithm for Problem (5)
- 5 Experiments and Comparisons
- 6 Conclusion
- References
- Gait Recognition Robust to Speed Transition Using Mutual Subspace Method
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Gait Recognition Using Mutual Subspace Method
- 2.1 Mutual Subspace Method
- 2.2 Gait Recognition Using an Image Set-Based Matching
- 3 Experiments
- 3.1 Experimental Settings
- Datasets.
- Evaluation Setting.
- 3.2 Evaluation
- 4 Conclusions
- References
- Path-Based Dominant-Set Clustering
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Path-Based Dominant Sets
- 2.1 Dominant Set Clustering
- 2.2 Using Path-Based Similarity
- 3 Experiments
- 3.1 Synthetic Data Clustering
- 3.2 Experiments on Real-World Data
- 4 Conclusion
- References
- Global and Local Gaussian Process for Multioutput and Treed Data
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Gaussian Process
- 2.2 Multiple Output Gaussian Process
- 2.3 Global and Local Multi Output Treed GP
- 3 Results
- 3.1 Validation and Error Measures
- 3.2 Results over Simulated Data
- 3.3 Results over Real Data
- 4 Conclusions
- References
- BRISK Local Descriptors for Heavily Occluded Ball Recognition
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Ball Recognition Evaluation
- 2.1 Moving Object Segmentation
- 2.2 Circle Detection
- 2.3 Feature Extraction
- 2.4 Supervised Classifier
- 2.5 Experimental Setup
- 3 Experimental Results
- 4 Conclusion and Future Work
- References
- Neighborhood Selection for Dimensionality Reduction
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Algorithm
- 3 Experimental Results and Future Works
- References
- Crowdsearching Training Sets for Image Classification
- 1 Introduction
- 2 State of the Art
- 3 Proposed Methodology
- 4 Experiments and Results
- 4.1 Comparison Against the Semantic Trainer
- 4.2 Generalization Capability
- 4.3 Comparison against OPTIMOL
- 5 Conclusion
- References
- The Color of Smiling: Computational Synaesthesia of Facial Expressions
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Background and Rationales
- 3 Methods
- 4 From Face Expression to Mood
- 5 The Color of Mood
- 6 Conclusion and Further Outlooks
- References
- Learning Texture Image Prior for Super Resolution Using Restricted Boltzmann Machine
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Learning Texture Image Prior
- 2.1 Modeling Individual Texture with the RBM
- 2.2 Implicit Mixture Modeling for Multiple Textures
- 3 A MAP Framework for Super Resolution
- 3.1 Image Formation Modeling
- 3.2 Embedding Multiple Texture Prior in the MAP Framework
- 4 Experiment
- 4.1 Dataset and Learning cRBM
- 4.2 Multiple Texture Super Resolution
- 5 Conclusion
- References
- GRUNTS: Graph Representation for UNsupervised Temporal Segmentation
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Graph Representation
- 2.1 Skeleton
- 2.2 Polygonal Approximation
- 2.3 Building the Graph
- 3 The Frame Kernel Matrix
- 4 Aligned Cluster Analysis (ACA)
- 5 The GRUNTS Algorithm
- 6 Experiments
- 6.1 Weizmann Dataset
- 6.2 KTH Dataset
- 6.3 MSR Action3D Dataset
- 7 Conclusions
- References
- A Strict Pyramidal Deep Neural Network for Action Recognition
- 1 Introduction
- 2 3DPyraNet
- 2.1 PyraNet
- 2.2 Weighting Scheme
- 2.3 Proposed Architecture
- 3 Results and Discussion
- 4 Conclusions
- References
- Nerve Localization by Machine Learning Framework with New Feature Selection Algorithm
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Nerve Detection System
- 2.1 Pre-processing
- 2.2 Feature Extraction
- 2.3 Feature Selection
- 2.4 Proposed Feature Selection Algorithm
- 2.5 Classification
- 3 Experiment Results
- 4 Conclusion
- References
- Human Tracking Using a Top-Down and Knowledge Based Approach
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Top-Down Approach
- 3 Knowledge Related to Tracking
- 3.1 Scene Knowledge
- 3.2 Human Trajectories Knowledge
- 3.3 From Knowledge to Model
- 4 Preliminary Results and Discussions
- 5 Conclusion and Future Directions
- References
- Shape Analysis and 3D Computer Vision
- Fuzzy ``Along'' Spatial Relation in 3D. Application to Anatomical Structures in Maxillofacial CBCT
- 1 Introduction
- 2 General Approach to Define ``Along''
- 3 Inter-Objects Region
- 4 Elongation Measure
- 4.1 Common Definition
- 4.2 Alongness Degree Based on Object Boundaries
- 4.3 Including Distance Information
- 4.4 Using Distance to Take into Account Only Close Parts
- 5 Extension to Fuzzy Objects
- 6 Experimental Results
- 7 Conclusion
- References
- Compression and Querying of Arbitrary Geodesic Distances
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Related Work
- 3 Algorithm
- 3.1 Patch Subdivision
- 3.2 Geodesic Precomputation
- 3.3 Graph Pruning
- 3.4 Query Step
- 4 Results
- 4.1 Parameters Tuning
- 4.2 Preprocessing Time
- 4.3 Speedup and Comparisons
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Comparing Persistence Diagrams Through Complex Vectors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Preliminaries
- 3 Persistence Diagrams vs Complex Vectors
- 4 Experimental Results
- References
- Pop-up Modelling of Hazy Scenes
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Related Work
- 2.1 Interactive 3D Modelling
- 2.2 Automatic 3D Modelling
- 3 Model Construction
- 3.1 Dehazing
- 3.2 Clustering and Plane-fitting
- 3.3 Inpainting
- 3.4 Edge Blending
- 4 Results
- 4.1 Evaluation
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- 3D Geometric Analysis of Tubular Objects Based on Surface Normal Accumulation
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Fast and Simple Centerline Extraction on 3D Tubular Object
- 2.1 Accumulation Images from Normal Vectors
- 2.2 Centerline Tracking from Image Accumulation
- 2.3 Skeleton Position Optimization
- 3 Reconstruction Results and Geometric Analysis
- 4 Conclusion and Discussion
- References
- Tongue in Cheek
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Shape in Image Processing and Computer Graphics
- 3 Shape in Other Fields
- 4 The Shape of the Tongue
- 4.1 Speech Production
- 4.2 Instrumentation
- 4.3 Patterns of Tongue Movement
- 4.4 A Modest Proposal for Imaging and Image Processing of Tongue Motion
- 5 Conclusion
- References
- Where Is the Ground? Quality Measures for the Planar Digital Terrain Model in Terrestrial Laser Scanning
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Data
- 3 Method
- 3.1 Quality Measures Proposed
- 3.2 Assessment
- 4 Results and Discussion
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Extending the sGLOH Descriptor
- 1 Introduction
- 2 sGLOH Description
- 3 The sGLOH2 Extension
- 4 Evaluation
- 5 Running Time
- 6 Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Fast Superpixel-Based Hierarchical Approach to Image Segmentation
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Proposed Technique
- 2.1 Region Distance Metrics
- 3 Complexity
- 4 Performance Evaluation
- 4.1 Metrics
- 4.2 Results
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Supertetras: A Superpixel Analog for Tetrahedral Mesh Oversegmentation
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Related Work
- 2.1 Superpixels in Image Processing
- 2.2 Tetrahedral Domain
- 3 Algorithm
- 3.1 Distance Metric
- 3.2 Notes on Time and Space Complexity
- 4 Results
- 4.1 Enabling Normalized Cuts on Large Datasets
- 5 Future Work
- References
- Extraction of Successive Patterns in Document Images by a New Concept Based on Force Histogram and Thick Discrete Lines
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Main Frameworks
- 2.1 Force Histogram Background
- 2.2 Discrete Line Background
- 2.3 Overall System Description
- 3 Extraction of Successive Patterns
- 3.1 Model Hypotheses
- 3.2 Kernel Pattern Definition
- 3.3 Optimal Bounding Mask Area
- 3.4 Kernel Propagation
- 4 Experimental Results
- 4.1 Setting
- 4.2 Simple Case: Disconnected Patterns
- 4.3 Complex Cases: Occulted Patterns and Symmetry
- 4.4 Discussion About Limitations
- 5 Conclusion
- References
- Hierarchical Mesh Segmentation Editing Through Rotation Operations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Related Work
- 3 Update Operators
- 4 Implementation and Preliminary Results
- 4.1 Hierarchy Update Based on an Input Function
- 4.2 Hierarchy Update Based on an Input Segmentation
- 5 Conclusions
- Local Feature Extraction in Log-Polar Images
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Log-Polar Mapping
- 3 Feature Detection in the Log-Polar Domain
- 3.1 Direct Feature Detection in the Log-Polar Domain
- 3.2 Feature Detection Based on Embedded Processing in the Log-Polar Transform
- 4 Results
- 5 Conclusion
- References
- Scale-Space Techniques for Fiducial Points Extraction from 3D Faces
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Extraction of Morphological Features
- 2.1 Precomputation Phase
- 2.2 Identification of Fiducial Points
- 3 Experiments and Results
- 4 Conclusions
- References
- Filtering Non-Significant Quench Points Using Collision Impact in Grassfire Propagation
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Theory and Algorithms
- 2.1 Collision Impact and Its Relations with Skeletal Features
- 2.3 The Filtering Algorithm for Noisy Quench Voxels
- 3 Experiments and Results
- 4 Conclusions
- References
- Robust and Efficient Camera Motion Synchronization via Matrix Decomposition
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Overview
- 2 Rotation Synchronization
- 2.1 The R-GoDec Algorithm
- 2.2 Robust Rotation Synchronization
- 3 Translation Synchronization
- 3.1 Refining the Relative Translation Directions
- 3.2 A Fast Spectral Method
- 4 Experiments
- 5 Conclusion
- References
- Novel View-Synthesis from Multiple Sources for Conversion to 3DS
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Background
- 2.1 Planar Parallax
- 2.2 Uncalibrated Motion Description
- 3 Proposed Method
- 3.1 Virtual Camera Orientation
- 3.2 Stereo Processing
- 3.3 Forward Mapping of Parallax Maps
- 3.4 Merging of Parallax Maps
- 3.5 Backward Mapping of Colour
- 4 Experiments
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Dynamic Optimal Path Selection for 3D Triangulation with Multiple Cameras
- 1 Introduction
- 2 General Scenario and Main Contributions
- 3 Game-Theoretical Optimal Path Selection
- 3.1 Hypotheses
- 3.2 Payoff
- 3.3 Evolution
- 4 Experimental Evaluation
- 5 Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Smartphone-Based Obstacle Detection for the Visually Impaired
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Related Work
- 3 Method Description
- 3.1 Scene Reconstruction
- 3.2 Obstacle Detection
- 4 Evaluation
- 5 Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Efficient Moving Point Handling for Incremental 3D Manifold Reconstruction
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Manifold Reconstruction
- 2.1 Incremental Manifold Extraction with Tetrahedra Weighting
- 3 Reconstructing a Manifold with Moving Points
- 3.1 The Straightforward Approach
- 3.2 The Efficient Approach
- 4 Experimental Validation
- 5 Conclusion and Future Work
- Volumetric 3D Reconstruction and Parametric Shape Modeling from RGB-D Sequences
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methodology
- 2.1 Motion Estimation
- 2.2 Model Reconstruction
- 2.3 Fruit Segmentation
- 2.4 Parametric Fruit Modeling
- 3 Experimental Evaluation
- 3.1 Experimental Methods
- 3.2 Results
- 4 Conclusion
- References
- Biomedical Applications
- Efficient Resolution Enhancement Algorithm for Compressive Sensing Magnetic Resonance Image Reconstruction
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Sparsity of MRI Reconstruction
- 3 Sparsity-Based HR MRI Reconstruction
- 4 Simulation
- 4.1 Setup
- 4.2 Simulation Results
- 4.3 Visual Comparisons
- 4.4 Objective Results
- 5 Conclusion
- References
- Towards Accurate Segmentation of Fibroglandular Tissue in Breast MRI Using Fuzzy C-Means and Skin-Folds Removal
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Material and Method
- 2.1 Material
- 2.2 Method
- 3 Evaluation
- 4 Conclusion and Future Works
- References
- Robust and Fast Vessel Segmentation via Gaussian Derivatives in Orientation Scores
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Theory
- 2.1 Invertible Orientation Scores on SE(2)
- 2.2 Left-Invariant Gaussian Derivatives on Orientation Scores
- 2.3 Scale-Invariant Matched Filters
- 3 Validation and Experimental Results
- 3.1 Settings
- 3.2 Difficult Structures Preservation
- 3.3 Validation of Vessel Calibers
- 3.4 Comparison with the State-of-the-Art
- 3.5 Speed Comparison
- 4 Conclusion
- References
- Information-Based Cost Function for a Bayesian MRI Segmentation Framework
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Information-Based Cost Function
- 2.2 Optimization Framework
- 3 Experimental Setup
- 3.1 Image Database Description
- 3.2 Evaluation of Performed Segmentation
- 4 Concluding Remarks
- References
- Learning by Sampling for White Blood Cells Segmentation
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Background and Related Works
- 3 On Mean Shift Technique
- 4 SVM for Segmentation
- 5 System Implementation
- 5.1 First Step
- 5.2 Second Step
- 5.3 Third Step
- 6 Conclusions
- References
- Fully Automatic Brain Tumor Segmentation by Using Competitive EM and Graph Cut
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Theoretical Background
- 2.1 Graph Cut
- 2.2 CEM Algorithm
- 2.3 Graph Cut Initialisation through CEM Algorithm
- 2.4 CEM-Graph Cut for Multicentric Brain Tumor Segmentation
- 3 Experimental Results
- 3.1 Evaluation Metrics
- 3.2 Experiments Performed on the In-House Collected Dataset
- 3.3 Experiments Performed on the MICCAI BRATS Public Dataset
- 3.4 Comparison Analysis
- 4 Conclusions
- References
- An Automatic Method for Metabolic Evaluation of Gamma Knife Treatments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Related Works
- 3 Materials and Methods
- 3.1 Phantom Studies
- 3.2 Clinical Study
- 3.3 Automatic Segmentation
- 3.4 Evaluation
- 4 Experimental Results
- 4.1 Trials and Results on Phantoms
- 4.2 Trials and Results on the Clinical study
- 5 Discussions and Future Works
- References
- Spinal Canal and Spinal Marrow Segmentation by Means of the Hough Transform of Special Classes of Curves
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Background Material and Methods
- 2.1 Curve with 3 Convexities
- 3 Applications
- 4 Conclusions
- References
- A New Graph-Based Method for Automatic Segmentation
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Proposed Method
- 2.1 Graph Notations
- 2.2 Proposed Cost Function and Algorithm
- 2.3 Graph Cut
- 3 The Application Case
- 4 Quantitative Evaluation
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Color Spaces in Data Fusion of Multi-temporal Images
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Color Space and Metrics
- 2.1 Color Space
- 2.2 Color Metrics
- 3 The Proposed Method
- 3.1 Triphasic CT of the Liver
- 3.2 Color Fusion
- 4 Experimental Results
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- TRAgen: A Tool for Generation of Synthetic Time-Lapse Image Sequences of Living Cells
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Current Approaches to Analysis of Tracking Performance
- 1.2 Background on Biomedical Image Simulation
- 1.3 Contribution of This Paper
- 2 Method
- 2.1 Cell Motion
- 2.2 Cell Shape Changes
- 3 Results
- 3.1 Case Study: Comparison Against Real Annotated Data
- 4 Conclusion
- References
- Automatic Image Analysis and Classification for Urinary Bacteria Infection Screening
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Automatic Image Analysis of Petri Plates
- 2.1 Selection of the Chromatic Space
- 2.2 Background Removal
- 3 Classification
- 4 Colony Detection and Bacterial Count
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- LBP-TOP for Volume Lesion Classification in Breast DCE-MRI
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Related Work
- 3 Materials and Methods
- 3.1 The Proposed Approach
- 3.2 LBP Feature
- 3.3 ROI Classification
- 3.4 Validation
- 4 Experimental Results
- 5 Discussion and Conclusion
- References
- Kernel Centered Alignment Supervised Metric for Multi-Atlas Segmentation
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Materials and Methods
- 2.1 Image Similarity Metrics
- 2.2 Spatial Enhancement of Image Metrics
- 2.3 Supervised Image Metric Learning
- 3 Experimental Setup
- 3.1 Database and Image Preprocessing
- 3.2 Metric Parameter Learning
- 3.3 Similarity Metric Evaluation
- 4 Discussion and Concluding Remarks
- References
- Multimedia
- Emotions in Abstract Art: Does Texture Matter?
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Related Work
- 3 Texture Analysis
- 3.1 MART Dataset: A Dataset of Abstract Paintings
- 3.2 User Study for Assessing Feelings Induced by Abstract Paintings
- 3.3 Inverse Perlin Parametrization
- 3.4 Coloured vs. Gray-Scale Images
- 4 Visual Attention and Emotional Content
- 5 Classifying Positive and Negative Images
- 6 Conclusions
- References
- Movie Genre Classification by Exploiting MEG Brain Signals
- 1 Introduction
- 2 State of the Art
- 3 MEG Signal Analysis
- 3.1 Dataset
- 3.2 MEG Feature Extraction
- 3.3 Multimedia Content Feature Extraction
- 3.4 Annotating Movie Genres
- 3.5 Correlation Analysis
- 3.6 Classification Procedure
- 4 Results and Discussion
- 4.1 Correlation Results
- 4.2 Classification Results
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Egocentric Video Personalization in Cultural Experiences Scenarios
- 1 Introduction and Related Work
- 2 Video Personalization
- 3 VAEX System: A Web Tool for Egocentric Video Personalization
- 4 Experimental Results
- 4.1 Behavior Pattern Detection
- 4.2 Participants and Experiments
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Advanced Content Based Image Retrieval for Fashion
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Learning a Proper Distance for Histogram
- 3 Proposed Pipeline
- 4 Experiments and Results
- 5 Conclusion
- References
- Author Index
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