Advances in Visual Computing 4th International Symposium, ISVC 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 1-3, 2008, Proceedings, Part II

It is with greatpleasure that we present the proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2008) in Las Vegas, Nevada. ISVC o?ers a common umbrella for the four main areas of visual computing including vision, graphics, visualization, and virtual reality. Its goal is to provide a forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research ?ndings, ideas, developments and applications in the broader area of visual computing. This year,ISVC grew signi?cantly; the programconsisted of 15 oralsessions, 1 poster session, 8 special tracks, and 6 keynote presentations. The response to the call for papers was very strong; we received over 340 submissions for the main symposium from which we accepted 102 papers for oral presentation and 70 papers for poster presentation. Special track papers were solicited separately through the Organizing and Program Committees of each track. A total of 56 papers were accepted for oral presentation and 8 papers for poster presentation in the special tracks. All papers were reviewed with an emphasis on potential to contribute to the state of the art in the ?eld. Selection criteria included accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and signi?cance of results, and presentation quality. The review process was quite rigorous, involving two to three independent blind reviews followed by several days of discussion. During the discussion period we tried to correct anomalies and errors that might have existed in the initial reviews.

Visualization II.- SUNVIZ: A Real-Time Visualization Environment for Space Physics Applications.- An Efficient Quality-Based Camera Path Planning Method for Volume Exploration.- A Fast and Simple Heuristic for Metro Map Path Simplification.- Visual Verification of Hypotheses.- LDR-LLE: LLE with Low-Dimensional Neighborhood Representation.- SudokuVis How to Explore Relationships of Mutual Exclusion.- ST: Image Analysis for Remote Sensing Data.- Identification of Oceanic Eddies in Satellite Images.- Multi-image Fusion in Remote Sensing: Spatial Enhancement vs. Spectral Characteristics Preservation.- Classification of Multispectral High-Resolution Satellite Imagery Using LIDAR Elevation Data.- Semi-supervised Edge Learning for Building Detection in Aerial Images.- High Resolution Satellite Classification with Graph Cut Algorithms.- Satellite Image Segmentation Using Wavelet Transforms Based on Color and Texture Features.- Shape/Recognition II.- A System for Rapid Interactive Training of Object Detectors.- An Integrated Method for Multiple Object Detection and Localization.- A Context Dependent Distance Measure for Shape Clustering.- A New Accumulator-Based Approach to Shape Recognition.- Multi-dimensional Scale Saliency Feature Extraction Based on Entropic Graphs.- Merging Active Contours.- Contour Extraction Using Particle Filters.- Motion.- Combining Line and Point Correspondences for Homography Estimation.- Integration of Local Image Cues for Probabilistic 2D Pose Recovery.- Indirect Tracking to Reduce Occlusion Problems.- Real-Time Lip Contour Extraction and Tracking Using an Improved Active Contour Model.- Particle Filter Based Object Tracking with Discriminative Feature Extraction and Fusion.- A New Global Alignment Method for Feature Based Image Mosaicing.- An Effective Active Vision System for Gaze Control.- Face/Gesture.- Face Recognition Based on Normalization and the Phase Spectrum of the Local Part of an Image.- A Novel Shape Registration Framework and Its Application to 3D Face Recognition in the Presence of Expressions.- Frontal Face Recognition from Video.- Real Time Hand Based Robot Control Using 2D/3D Images.- Facial Trait Code and Its Application to Face Recognition.- Using Multiple Masks to Improve End-to-End Face Recognition Performance.- Sparse Representation for Ear Biometrics.- Computer Vision Applications.- Image-Based Information Guide on Mobile Devices.- Estimating Atmospheric Visibility Using General-Purpose Cameras.- Numismatic Object Identification Using Fusion of Shape and Local Descriptors.- Personalized News Video Recommendation Via Interactive Exploration.- Browsing a Large Collection of Community Photos Based on Similarity on GPU.- Security Analysis for Spread-Spectrum Watermarking Incorporating Statistics of Natural Images.- Multi-view Feature Matching and Image Grouping from Multiple Unordered Wide-Baseline Images.- Stitching Video from Webcams.- Poster.- GpuCV: A GPU-Accelerated Framework for Image Processing and Computer Vision.- A Comparison Study on Two Multi-scale Shape Matching Schemes.- PAD Model Based Facial Expression Analysis.- Calibration and Pose Estimation of a Pox-slits Camera from a Single Image.- Covariance Matrices for Crowd Behaviour Monitoring on the Escalator Exits.- User Verification by Combining Speech and Face Biometrics in Video.- A Gibbsian Kohonen Network for Online Arabic Character Recognition.- Shading through Defocus.- A Gabor Quotient Image for Face Recognition under Varying Illumination.- Personal Identification Using Palmprint and Contourlet Transform.- Generating Reflection Transparent Image Using Image Fusion Space.- Fingerprint Images Enhancement in Curvelet Domain.- Effective Frame Rate Decision by Lagrange Optimization for Frame Skipping Video Transcoding.- Symmetry of Shapes Via Self-similarity.- Robust Estimation Approach for NL-Means Filter.- View-Invariant Pose Recognition Using Multilinear Analysis and the Universum.- Scaling Up a Metric Learning Algorithm for Image Recognition and Representation.- Smile Detection for User Interfaces.- A Novel Segmentation Algorithm for Digital Subtraction Angiography Images: First Experimental Results.- Image Representation in Differential Space.- A Four Point Algorithm for Fast Metric Cone Reconstruction from a Calibrated Image.- Texture-Based Shadow Removal from a Single Color Image.- Multi-source Airborne IR and Optical Image Fusion and Its Application to Target Detection.- A New Adaptive Combination Approach to Score Level Fusion for Face and Iris Biometrics Combining Wavelets and Statistical Moments.- Medical Image Zooming Algorithm Based on Bivariate Rational Interpolation.- 2D Shape Decomposition Based on Combined Skeleton-Boundary Features.- Removing Pose from Face Images.- A Real Time Fingers Detection by Symmetry Transform Using a Two Cameras System.- High Resolution and High Dynamic Range Image Reconstruction from Differently Exposed Images.- PDE-Based Facial Animation: Making the Complex Simple.- A Variational Level Set Method for Multiple Object Detection.- Detecting Thalamic Abnormalities in Autism Using Cylinder Conformal Mapping.- Extraction of Illumination Effects from Natural Images with Color Transition Model.- A Novel Macroblock-Level Rate-Distortion Optimization Scheme for H.264/AVC.- Automatic Segmentation of the Apparent Contour for 3D Modeling of Cutting Tools from Single View.- On Semantic Object Detection with Salient Feature.- A Generic and Parallel Algorithm for 2D Image Discrete Contour Reconstruction.- Spatial Filtering with Multi-scale Segmentation Based on Gaussian Function.- Visibility-Based Test Scene Understanding by Real Plane Search.- Real-Time Face Verification for Mobile Platforms.- 3D Human Motion Tracking Using Progressive Particle Filter.- Visual Servoing for Patient Alignment in ProtonTherapy.- Improving Recognition through Object Sub-categorization.- Similarity Measure of the Visual Features Using the Constrained Hierarchical Clustering for Content Based Image Retrieval.- An Experimental Study of Reconstruction of Tool Cutting Edge Features Using Space Carving Method.- Real Time Object Tracking in a Video Sequence Using a Fixed Point DSP.- Gesture Recognition for a Webcam-Controlled First Person Shooter.- 3D Line Reconstruction of a Road Environment Using an In-Vehicle Camera.- Braille Document Parameters Estimation for Optical Character Recognition.- Bio-imaging Toolkit for Indexing, Searching, Navigation, Discovery and Annotation.- Stereoscopic View Synthesis by View Morphing.- Edge Detection from Global and Local Views Using an Ensemble of Multiple Edge Detectors.- An Effective and Fast Lane Detection Algorithm.- Towards Real-Time Monocular Video-Based Avatar Animation.- Temporal Computational Objects: A Process for Dynamic Surface Generation.- Hardware-Accelerated Particle-Based Volume Rendering for Multiple Irregular Volumes.- Immersive Visualization of Casting Flow and Solidification.- Graph-Based Visual Analytic Tools for Parallel Coordinates.- Modeling and Visualization Approaches for Time-Varying Volumetric Data.- Ubiquitous Interactive Visualization of 3-D Mantle Convection through Web Applications Using Java.- Streaming Mesh Optimization for CAD.- An Iterative Method for Fast Mesh Denoising.- On the Performance and Scalability of a GPU-Limited Commodity Cluster.- Algorithms for the Automatic Design of Non-formal Urban Parks.- Hybrid Shading Model Based on Device Performance for LOD Adaptive Service.- Incremental Texture Compression for Real-Time Rendering.- Geometry Independent Raindrop Splash Rendering for Generic, Complex Scenes.- Extension of B-Spline Curves with G 2 Continuity.- Building New Mixed Reality Devices.- A Novel Acceleration Coding/Reconstruction Algorithm for Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Presence of Static Magnetic Field In-Homogeneities.- Reconstruction of Some Segmented and Dynamic Scenes: Trifocal Tensors in ?4 Theoretical Set Up for Critical Loci, and Instability.-