Advances in Visual Computing 5th International Symposium, ISVC 2009, Las Vegas, NV, USA, November 30 - December 2, 2009, Proceedings, Part II

It is with greatpleasure that we present the proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2009), which was held in Las Vegas, Nevada. ISVC o?ers a common umbrella for the four main areas of visual c- puting includingvision,graphics,visualization,andvirtualreality.Thegoalisto provide a forum for researchers, scientists, engineers, and practitioners throu- out the world to present their latest research ?ndings, ideas, developments, and applications in the broader area of visual computing. This year, the program consisted of 16 oral sessions, one poster session, 7 special tracks, and 6 keynote presentations. Also, this year ISVC hosted the Third Semantic Robot Vision Challenge.The responseto the call for papers was verygood;wereceivedover320submissionsfor themainsymposiumfromwhich we accepted 97 papers for oral presentation and 63 papers for poster presen- tion. Special track papers were solicited separately through the Organizing and Program Committees of each track. A total of 40 papers were accepted for oral presentation and 15 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.

Computer Graphics III.- Layered Volume Splatting.- Real-Time Soft Shadows Using Temporal Coherence.- Real-Time Dynamic Wrinkles of Face for Animated Skinned Mesh.- Protected Progressive Meshes.- Bilateral Filtered Shadow Maps.- LightShop: An Interactive Lighting System Incorporating the 2D Image Editing Paradigm.- Visualization II.- Progressive Presentation of Large Hierarchies Using Treemaps.- Reaction Centric Layout for Metabolic Networks.- Diverging Color Maps for Scientific Visualization.- GPU-Based Ray Casting of Multiple Multi-resolution Volume Datasets.- Dynamic Chunking for Out-of-Core Volume Visualization Applications.- Visualization of the Molecular Dynamics of Polymers and Carbon Nanotubes.- Detection and Tracking.- Propagation of Pixel Hypotheses for Multiple Objects Tracking.- Visibility-Based Observation Model for 3D Tracking with Non-parametric 3D Particle Filters.- Efficient Hypothesis Generation through Sub-categorization for Multiple Object Detection.- Object Detection and Localization in Clutter Range Images Using Edge Features.- Learning Higher-Order Markov Models for Object Tracking in Image Sequences.- Analysis of Numerical Methods for Level Set Based Image Segmentation.- Reconstruction II.- Focused Volumetric Visual Hull with Color Extraction.- Graph Cut Based Point-Cloud Segmentation for Polygonal Reconstruction.- Dense Depth Maps from Low Resolution Time-of-Flight Depth and High Resolution Color Views.- Residential Building Reconstruction Based on the Data Fusion of Sparse LiDAR Data and Satellite Imagery.- Adaptive Sample Consensus for Efficient Random Optimization.- Feature Matching under Region-Based Constraints for Robust Epipolar Geometry Estimation.- Applications.- Lossless Compression Using Joint Predictor for Astronomical Images.- Metric Rectification to Estimate the Aspect Ratio of Camera-Captured Document Images.- Active Learning Image Spam Hunter.- Skin Paths for Contextual Flagging Adult Videos.- Grouping and Summarizing Scene Images from Web Collections.- Robust Registration of Aerial Image Sequences.- Color Matching for Metallic Coatings.- Video Analysis and Event Recognition.- A Shape and Energy Based Approach to Vertical People Separation in Video Surveillance.- Human Activity Recognition Using the 4D Spatiotemporal Shape Context Descriptor.- Adaptive Tuboid Shapes for Action Recognition.- Level Set Gait Analysis for Synthesis and Reconstruction.- Poster Session.- Real-Time Hand Detection and Gesture Tracking with GMM and Model Adaptation.- Design of Searchable Commemorative Coins Image Library.- Visual Intention Detection for Wheelchair Motion.- An Evaluation of Affine Invariant-Based Classification for Image Matching.- Asbestos Detection Method with Frequency Analysis for Microscope Images.- Shadows Removal by Edges Matching.- Online Video Textures Generation.- Deformable 2D Shape Matching Based on Shape Contexts and Dynamic Programming.- 3D Model Reconstruction from Turntable Sequence with Multiple -View Triangulation.- Recognition of Semantic Basketball Events Based on Optical Flow Patterns.- Action Recognition Based on Non-parametric Probability Density Function Estimation.- Asymmetry-Based Quality Assessment of Face Images.- Scale Analysis of Several Filter Banks for Color Texture Classification.- A Novel 3D Segmentation of Vertebral Bones from Volumetric CT Images Using Graph Cuts.- Robust 3D Marker Localization Using Multi-spectrum Sequences.- Measurement of Pedestrian Groups Using Subtraction Stereo.- Vision-Based Obstacle Avoidance Using SIFT Features.- Segmentation of Chinese Postal Envelope Images for Address Block Location.- Recognizability of Polyhexes by Tiling and Wang Systems.- Unsupervised Video Analysis for Counting of Wood in River during Floods.- Robust Facial Feature Detection and Tracking for Head Pose Estimation in a Novel Multimodal Interface for Social Skills Learning.- High Performance Implementation of License Plate Recognition in Image Sequences.- TOCSAC: TOpology Constraint SAmple Consensus for Fast and Reliable Feature Correspondence.- Multimedia Mining on Manycore Architectures: The Case for GPUs.- Human Activity Recognition Based on Transform and Fourier Mellin Transform.- Reconstruction of Facial Shape from Freehand Multi-viewpoint Snapshots.- Multiple-view Video Coding Using Depth Map in Projective Space.- Using Subspace Multiple Linear Regression for 3D Face Shape Prediction from a Single Image.- PedVed: Pseudo Euclidian Distances for Video Events Detection.- Two Algorithms for Measuring Human Breathing Rate Automatically.- Biometric Recognition: When Is Evidence Fusion Advantageous?.- Interactive Image Inpainting Using DCT Based Exemplar Matching.- Noise-Residue Filtering Based on Unsupervised Clustering for Phase Unwrapping.- Adaptive Digital Makeup.- An Instability Problem of Region Growing Segmentation Algorithms and Its Set Median Solution.- Distance Learning Based on Convex Clustering.- Group Action Recognition Using Space-Time Interest Points.- Adaptive Deblurring for Camera-Based Document Image Processing.- A Probabilistic Model of Visual Attention and Perceptual Organization for Constructive Object Recognition.- Gloss and Normal Map Acquisition of Mesostructures Using Gray Codes.- Video Super-Resolution by Adaptive Kernel Regression.- Unification of Multichannel Motion Feature Using Boolean Polynomial.- Rooftop Detection and 3D Building Modeling from Aerial Images.- An Image Registration Approach for Accurate Satellite Attitude Estimation.- A Novel Vision-Based Approach for Autonomous Space Navigation Systems.- An Adaptive Cutaway with Volume Context Preservation.- A 3D Visualisation to Enhance Cognition in Software Product Line Engineering.- A Visual Data Exploration Framework for Complex Problem Solving Based on Extended Cognitive Fit Theory.- Energetic Path Finding across Massive Terrain Data.- The Impact of Image Choices on the Usability and Security of Click Based Graphical Passwords.- Visual Computing for Scattered Electromagnetic Fields.- Visualization of Gene Regulatory Networks.- Autonomous Lighting Agents in Photon Mapping.- Data Vases: 2D and 3D Plots for Visualizing Multiple Time Series.- A Morse-Theory Based Method for Segmentation of Triangulated Freeform Surfaces.- A Lattice Boltzmann Model for Rotationally Invariant Dithering.- Parallel 3D Image Segmentation of Large Data Sets on a GPU Cluster.- A Practical Guide to Large Tiled Displays.- Fast Spherical Mapping for Genus-0 Meshes.- Rendering Virtual Objects with High Dynamic Range Lighting Extracted Automatically from Unordered Photo Collections.- Effective Adaptation to Experience of Different-Sized Hand.- Image Processing Methods Applied in Mapping of Lubrication Parameters.- An Active Contour Approach for a Mumford-Shah Model in X-Ray Tomography.- An Integral Active Contour Model for Convex Hull and Boundary Extraction.- Comparison of Segmentation Algorithms for the Zebrafish Heart in Fluorescent Microscopy Images.- A Quality Pre-processor for Biological Cell Images.- Fast Reconstruction Method for Diffraction Imaging.- Evaluation of Cardiac Ultrasound Data by Bayesian Probability Maps.- Animated Classic Mosaics from Video.- Comparison of Optimisation Algorithms for Deformable Template Matching.- Two Step Variational Method for Subpixel Optical Flow Computation.- A Variational Approach to Semiautomatic Generation of Digital Terrain Models.- Real-Time Articulated Hand Detection and Pose Estimation.- Background Subtraction in Video Using Recursive Mixture Models, Spatio-Temporal Filtering and Shadow Removal.- A Generalization of Moment Invariants on 2D Vector Fields to Tensor Fields of Arbitrary Order and Dimension.- A Real-Time Road Sign Detection Using Bilateral Chinese Transform.- Probabilistic Facial Feature Extraction Using Joint Distribution of Location and Texture Information.- Common Motion Map Based on Codebooks.