Front matter
3-18
A Double-Loop Algorithm to Minimize the Bethe Free Energy
Alan Yuille
19-34
A Variational Approach to Maximum a Posteriori Estimation for Image Denoising
A. Ben Hamza and Hamid Krim
34-49
Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Template of a Rigid Moving Object
Pedro M. Q. Aguiar and José M. F. Moura
50-62
Metric Similarities Learning through Examples: An Application to Shape Retrieval
Alain Trouvé and Yong Yu
63-74
A Fast MAP Algorithm for 3D Ultrasound
João M. Sanches and Jorge S. Marques
75-90
Designing the Minimal Structure of Hidden Markov Model by Bisimulation
Manuele Bicego, Agostino Dovier and Vittorio Murino
91-105
Relaxing Symmetric Multiple Windows Stereo Using Markov Random Fields
Andrea Fusiello, Umberto Castellani and Vittorio Murino
105-117
Matching Images to Models — Camera Calibration for 3-D Surface Reconstruction
Robin D. Morris, Vadim N. Smelyanskiy and Peter C. Cheeseman
118-133
A Hierarchical Markov Random Field Model for Figure-Ground Segregation
Stella X. Yu, Tai Sing Lee and Takeo Kanade
134-149
Articulated Object Tracking via a Genetic Algorithm
Jairo Rocha and Arnau Mir
153-168
Learning Matrix Space Image Representations
Anand Rangarajan
169-184
Supervised Texture Segmentation by Maximising Conditional Likelihood
Georgy Gimel’farb
185-200
Designing Moiré Patterns
Guy Lebanon and Alfred M. Bruckstein
201-215
Optimization of Paintbrush Rendering of Images by Dynamic MCMC Methods
Tamás Szirányi and Zoltán Tóth
216-231
Illumination Invariant Recognition of Color Texture Using Correlation and Covariance Functions
Mohammed Al-Rawi and Yang Jie
235-250
Path Based Pairwise Data Clustering with Application to Texture Segmentation
Bernd Fischer, Thomas Zöller and Joachim M. Buhmann
251-267
A Maximum Likelihood Framework for Grouping and Segmentation
Antonio Robles-Kelly and Edwin R. Hancock
267-282
Image Labeling and Grouping by Minimizing Linear Functionals over Cones
Christian Schellewald, Jens Keuchel and Christoph Schnörr
283-297
Grouping with Directed Relationships
Stella X. Yu and Jianbo Shi
298-313
Segmentations of Spatio-Temporal Images by Spatio-Temporal Markov Random Field Model
Shunsuke Kamijo, Katsushi Ikeuchi and Masao Sakauchi
314-327
Highlight and Shading Invariant Color Image Segmentation Using Simulated Annealing
Paul Fieguth and Slawo Wesolkowski
328-343
Edge Based Probabilistic Relaxation for Sub-pixel Contour Extraction
Toshiro Kubota, Terry Huntsberger and Jeffrey T. Martin
344-356
Two Variational Models for Multispectral Image Classification
Christophe Samson, Laure Blanc-Féraud, Gilles Aubert and Josiane Zerubia
359-374
An Experimental Comparison of Min-cut/Max-flow Algorithms for Energy Minimization in Vision
Yuri Boykov and Vladimir Kolmogorov
375-390
A Discrete/Continuous Minimization Method in Interferometric Image Processing
José M. B. Dias and José M. N. Leitão
391-406
Global Energy Minimization: A Transformation Approach
Kar-Ann Toh
407-422
Global Feedforward Neural Network Learning for Classification and Regression
Kar-Ann Toh, Juwei Lu and Wei-Yun Yau
423-437
Matching Free Trees, Maximal Cliques, and Monotone Game Dynamics
Marcello Pelillo
438-453
Efficiently Computing Weighted Tree Edit Distance Using Relaxation Labeling
Andrea Torsello and Edwin R. Hancock
454-469
Estimation of Distribution Algorithms: A New Evolutionary Computation Approach for Graph Matching Problems
Endika Bengoetxea, Pedro Larrañaga, Isabelle Bloch and Aymeric Perchant
469-479
A Complementary Pivoting Approach to Graph Matching
Alessio Massaro and Marcello Pelillo
480-493
Application of Genetic Algorithms to 3-D Shape Reconstruction in an Active Stereo Vision System
Sanghyuk Woo, Albert Dipanda and Franck Marzani
497-512
A Markov Process Using Curvature for Filtering Curve Images
Jonas August and Steven W. Zucker
513-527
Geodesic Interpolating Splines
Vincent Camion and Laurent Younes
528-543
Averaged Template Matching Equations
Anil N. Hirani, Jerrold E. Marsden and James Arvo
544-559
A Continuous Shape Descriptor by Orientation Diffusion
Hsing-Kuo Pao and Davi Geiger
560-575
Multiple Contour Finding and Perceptual Grouping as a Set of Energy Minimizing Paths
Laurent D. Cohen and Thomas Deschamps
576-591
Shape Tracking Using Centroid-Based Methods
Arnaldo J. Abrantes and Jorge S. Marques
592-607
Optical Flow and Image Registration: A New Local Rigidity Approach for Global Minimization
Martin Lefébure and Laurent D. Cohen
608-620
Spherical Object Reconstruction Using Star-Shaped Simplex Meshes
Pavel Matula and David Svoboda
621-635
Gabor Feature Space Diffusion via the Minimal Weighted Area Method
Chen Sagiv, Nir A. Sochen and Yehoshua Y. Zeevi
636-650
3D Flux Maximizing Flows
Kaleem Siddiqi and Alexander Vasilevskiy
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