Front matter
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An Automated Multichannel Procedure for cDNA Microarray Image Processing
Rastislav Lukac, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, Bogdan Smolka and Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos
9-16
A Modified Nearest Neighbor Method for Image Reconstruction in Fluorescence Microscopy
Koji Yano and Itsuo Kumazawa
17-24
An Improved Clustering-Based Approach for DNA Microarray Image Segmentation
Luis Rueda and Li Qin
25-32
A Spatially Adaptive Filter Reducing Arc Stripe Noise for Sector Scan Medical Ultrasound Imaging
Qianren Xu, M. Kamel and M. M. A. Salama
33-42
Fuzzy-Snake Segmentation of Anatomical Structures Applied to CT Images
Gloria Bueno, Antonio Martínez-Albalá and Antonio Adán
43-50
Topological Active Volumes for Segmentation and Shape Reconstruction of Medical Images
N. Barreira and M. G. Penedo
51-58
Region of Interest Based Prostate Tissue Characterization Using Least Square Support Vector Machine LS-SVM
S. S. Mohamed, M. M. A. Salama, M. Kamel and K. Rizkalla
59-67
Ribcage Boundary Delineation in Chest X-ray Images
Carlos Vinhais and Aurélio Campilho
68-75
A Level-Set Based Volumetric CT Segmentation Technique: A Case Study with Pulmonary Air Bubbles
José Silvestre Silva, Beatriz Sousa Santos, Augusto Silva and Joaquim Madeira
76-83
Robust Fitting of a Point Distribution Model of the Prostate Using Genetic Algorithms
Fernando Arámbula Cosío
84-91
A Quantification Tool to Analyse Stained Cell Cultures
E. Glory, A. Faure, V. Meas-Yedid, F. Cloppet and Ch. Pinset, et al.
92-99
Dynamic Pedobarography Transitional Objects by Lagrange’s Equation with FEM, Modal Matching and Optimization Techniques
Raquel Ramos Pinho and João Manuel R. S. Tavares
100-107
3D Meshes Registration : Application to Statistical Skull Model
M. Berar, M. Desvignes, G. Bailly and Y. Payan
108-115
Detection of Rib Borders on X-ray Chest Radiographs
Rui Moreira, Ana Maria Mendonça and Aurélio Campilho
116-123
Isosurface-Based Level Set Framework for MRA Segmentation
Yongqiang Zhao and Minglu Li
124-131
Segmentation of the Comet Assay Images
Bogdan Smolka and Rastislav Lukac
132-140
Automatic Extraction of the Retina AV Index
I. G. Caderno, M. G. Penedo, C. Mariño, M. J. Carreira and F. Gomez-Ulla, et al.
141-149
Image Registration in Electron Microscopy. A Stochastic Optimization Approach
J. L. Redondo, P. M. Ortigosa, I. García and J. J. Fernández
150-157
Evolutionary Active Contours for Muscle Recognition
A. Caro, P. G. Rodríguez, M. L. Durán, J. A. Ávila and T. Antequera, et al.
158-165
Automatic Lane and Band Detection in Images of Thin Layer Chromatography
António V. Sousa, Rui Aguiar, Ana Maria Mendonça and Aurélio Campilho
166-174
Automatic Tracking of Arabidopsis thaliana Root Meristem in Confocal Microscopy
Bernardo Garcia, Ana Campilho, Ben Scheres and Aurélio Campilho
175-182
A New File Format for Decorative Tiles
Rafael Dueire Lins
183-190
Projection Profile Based Algorithm for Slant Removal
Moisés Pastor, Alejandro Toselli and Enrique Vidal
191-199
Novel Adaptive Filtering for Salt-and-Pepper Noise Removal from Binary Document Images
Amr R. Abdel-Dayem, Ali K. Hamou and Mahmoud R. El-Sakka
200-208
Automated Seeded Region Growing Method for Document Image Binarization Based on Topographic Features
Yufei Sun, Yan Chen, Yuzhi Zhang and Yanxia Li
209-216
Image Segmentation of Historical Documents: Using a Quality Index
Carlos A. B. de Mello
217-225
A Complete System for Detection and Identification of Tabular Structures from Document Images
S. Mandal, S. P. Chowdhury, A. K. Das and Bhabatosh Chanda
226-233
Underline Removal on Old Documents
João R. Caldas Pinto, Pedro Pina, Lourenço Bandeira, Luís Pimentel and Mário Ramalho
234-240
A New Algorithm for Skew Detection in Images of Documents
Rafael Dueire Lins and Bruno Tenório Ávila
241-248
Blind Source Separation Techniques for Detecting Hidden Texts and Textures in Document Images
Anna Tonazzini, Emanuele Salerno, Matteo Mochi and Luigi Bedini
249-256
Efficient Removal of Noisy Borders from Monochromatic Documents
Bruno Tenório Ávila and Rafael Dueire Lins
257-264
Robust Dichromatic Colour Constancy
Gerald Schaefer
265-272
Soccer Field Detection in Video Images Using Color and Spatial Coherence
Arnaud Le Troter, Sebastien Mavromatis and Jean Sequeira
273-280
New Methods to Produce High Quality Color Anaglyphs for 3-D Visualization
Ianir Ideses and Leonid Yaroslavsky
281-288
A New Color Filter Array Interpolation Approach for Single-Sensor Imaging
Rastislav Lukac, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis and Bogdan Smolka
289-297
A Combinatorial Color Edge Detector
Soufiane Rital and Hocine Cherifi
298-305
A Fast Probabilistic Bidirectional Texture Function Model
Michal Haindl and Jiří Filip
306-313
Model-Based Texture Segmentation
Michal Haindl and Stanislav Mikeš
314-322
A New Gabor Filter Based Kernel for Texture Classification with SVM
Mahdi Sabri and Paul Fieguth
323-330
Grading Textured Surfaces with Automated Soft Clustering in a Supervised SOM
J. Martín-Herrero, M. Ferreiro-Armán and J. L. Alba-Castro
331-338
Textures and Wavelet-Domain Joint Statistics
Zohreh Azimifar, Paul Fieguth and Ed Jernigan
339-346
Video Segmentation Through Multiscale Texture Analysis
Miguel Alemán-Flores and Luis Álvarez-León
347-354
Estimation of Common Groundplane Based on Co-motion Statistics
Zoltan Szlavik, Laszlo Havasi and Tamas Sziranyi
355-362
An Adaptive Estimation Method for Rigid Motion Parameters of 2D Curves
Turker Sahin and Mustafa Unel
363-371
Classifiers Combination for Improved Motion Segmentation
Ahmad Al-Mazeed, Mark Nixon and Steve Gunn
372-380
A Pipelined Real-Time Optical Flow Algorithm
Miguel V. Correia and Aurélio Campilho
381-388
De-interlacing Algorithm Based on Motion Objects
Junxia Gu, Xinbo Gao and Jie Li
389-396
Automatic Selection of Training Samples for Multitemporal Image Classification
T. B. Cazes, R. Q. Feitosa and G. L. A. Mota
397-404
Parallel Computation of Optical Flow
Antonio G. Dopico, Miguel V. Correia, Jorge A. Santos and Luis M. Nunes
405-412
Lipreading Using Recurrent Neural Prediction Model
Takuya Tsunekawa, Kazuhiro Hotta and Haruhisa Takahashi
413-420
Multi-model Adaptive Estimation for Nonuniformity Correction of Infrared Image Sequences
Jorge E. Pezoa and Sergio N. Torres
421-428
A MRF Based Segmentatiom Approach to Classification Using Dempster Shafer Fusion for Multisensor Imagery
A. Sarkar, N. Banerjee, P. Nair, A. Banerjee and S. Brahma, et al.
429-436
Regularized RBF Networks for Hyperspectral Data Classification
G. Camps-Valls, A. J. Serrano-López, L. Gómez-Chova, J. D. Martín-Guerrero and J. Calpe-Maravilla, et al.
437-445
A Change-Detection Algorithm Enabling Intelligent Background Maintenance
Luigi Di Stefano, Stefano Mattoccia and Martino Mola
446-453
Dimension Reduction and Pre-emphasis for Compression of Hyperspectral Images
C. Lee, E. Choi, J. Choe and T. Jeong
454-462
Viewpoint Independent Detection of Vehicle Trajectories and Lane Geometry from Uncalibrated Traffic Surveillance Cameras
José Melo, Andrew Naftel, Alexandre Bernardino and José Santos-Victor
463-470
Robust Tracking and Object Classification Towards Automated Video Surveillance
Jose-Luis Landabaso, Li-Qun Xu and Montse Pardas
471-480
Detection of Vehicles in a Motorway Environment by Means of Telemetric and Visual Data
Sonia Izri, Eric Brassart, Laurent Delahoche, Bruno Marhic and Arnaud Clérentin
481-488
High Quality-Speed Dilemma: A Comparison Between Segmentation Methods for Traffic Monitoring Applications
Alessandro Bevilacqua, Luigi Di Stefano and Alessandro Lanza
489-496
Automatic Recognition of Impact Craters on the Surface of Mars
Teresa Barata, E. Ivo Alves, José Saraiva and Pedro Pina
497-503
Classification of Dune Vegetation from Remotely Sensed Hyperspectral Images
Steve De Backer, Pieter Kempeneers, Walter Debruyn and Paul Scheunders
504-511
SAR Image Classification Based on Immune Clonal Feature Selection
Xiangrong Zhang, Tan Shan and Licheng Jiao
512-519
Depth Extraction System Using Stereo Pairs
Rizwan Ghaffar, Noman Jafri and Shoab Ahmed Khan
520-527
Fast Moving Region Detection Scheme in Ad Hoc Sensor Network
Yazhou Liu, Wen Gao, Hongxun Yao, Shaohui Liu and Lijun Wang
528-535
LOD Canny Edge Based Boundary Edge Selection for Human Body Tracking
Jihun Park, Tae-Yong Kim and Sunghun Park
536-543
Object Boundary Edge Selection for Accurate Contour Tracking Using Multi-level Canny Edges
Tae-Yong Kim, Jihun Park and Seong-Whan Lee
544-551
Reliable Dual-Band Based Contour Detection: A Double Dynamic Programming Approach
Mohammad Dawood, Xiaoyi Jiang and Klaus P. Schäfers
552-562
Tracking Pedestrians Under Occlusion Using Multiple Cameras
Jorge P. Batista
563-571
Application of Radon Transform to Lane Boundaries Tracking
R. Nourine, M. Elarbi Boudihir and S. F. Khelifi
572-580
A Speaker Tracking Algorithm Based on Audio and Visual Information Fusion Using Particle Filter
Xin Li, Luo Sun, Linmi Tao, Guangyou Xu and Ying Jia
581-588
Kernel-Bandwidth Adaptation for Tracking Object Changing in Size
Ning-Song Peng, Jie Yang and Jia-Xin Chen
589-596
Tracking Algorithms Evaluation in Feature Points Image Sequences
Vanessa Robles, Enrique Alegre and Jose M. Sebastian
597-605
Short-Term Memory-Based Object Tracking
Hang-Bong Kang and Sang-Hyun Cho
606-613
Real Time Multiple Object Tracking Based on Active Contours
Sébastien Lefèvre and Nicole Vincent
614-622
An Object Tracking Algorithm Combining Different Cost Functions
D. Conte, P. Foggia, C. Guidobaldi, A. Limongiello and M. Vento
623-632
Vehicle Tracking at Traffic Scene with Modified RLS
Hadi Sadoghi Yazdi, Mahmood Fathy and A. Mojtaba Lotfizad
633-642
Understanding In-Plane Face Rotations Using Integral Projections
Henry Nicponski
643-650
Feature Fusion Based Face Recognition Using EFM
Dake Zhou and Xin Yang
651-659
Real-Time Facial Feature Extraction by Cascaded Parameter Prediction and Image Optimization
Fei Zuo and Peter H. N. de With
660-667
Frontal Face Authentication Through Creaseness-Driven Gabor Jets
Daniel González-Jiménez and José Luis Alba-Castro
668-675
A Coarse-to-Fine Classification Scheme for Facial Expression Recognition
Xiaoyi Feng, Abdenour Hadid and Matti Pietikäinen
676-683
Fast Face Detection Using QuadTree Based Color Analysis and Support Vector Verification
Shu-Fai Wong and Kwan-Yee Kenneth Wong
684-691
Three-Dimensional Face Recognition: A Fishersurface Approach
Thomas Heseltine, Nick Pears and Jim Austin
692-699
Face Recognition Using Improved-LDA
Dake Zhou and Xin Yang
700-708
Analysis and Recognition of Facial Expression Based on Point-Wise Motion Energy
Hanhoon Park and Jong-Il Park
709-716
Face Class Modeling Using Mixture of SVMs
Julien Meynet, Vlad Popovici and Jean-Philippe Thiran
717-724
Comparing Robustness of Two-Dimensional PCA and Eigenfaces for Face Recognition
Muriel Visani, Christophe Garcia and Christophe Laurent
725-732
Useful Computer Vision Techniques for Human-Robot Interaction
O. Deniz, A. Falcon, J. Mendez and M. Castrillon
733-740
Face Recognition with Generalized Entropy Measurements
Yang Li and Edwin R. Hancock
741-749
Facial Feature Extraction and Principal Component Analysis for Face Detection in Color Images
Saman Cooray and Noel O’Connor
750-758
Fingerprint Enhancement Using Circular Gabor Filter
En Zhu, Jianping Yin and Guomin Zhang
759-769
A Secure and Localizing Watermarking Technique for Image Authentication
Abdelkader H. Ouda and Mahmoud R. El-Sakka
770-777
A Hardware Implementation of Fingerprint Verification for Secure Biometric Authentication Systems
Yongwha Chung, Daesung Moon, Sung Bum Pan, Min Kim and Kichul Kim
778-785
Inter-frame Differential Energy Video Watermarking Algorithm Based on Compressed Domain
Lijun Wang, Hongxun Yao, Shaohui Liu, Wen Gao and Yazhou Liu
786-793
Improving DTW for Online Handwritten Signature Verification
M. Wirotius, J. Y. Ramel and N. Vincent
794-801
Distribution of Watermark According to Image Complexity for Higher Stability
Mansour Jamzad and Farzin Yaghmaee
802-809
Comparison of Intelligent Classification Techniques Applied to Marble Classification
João M. C. Sousa and João R. Caldas Pinto
810-817
Inspecting Colour Tonality on Textured Surfaces
Xianghua Xie, Majid Mirmehdi and Barry Thomas
818-825
Automated Visual Inspection of Glass Bottles Using Adapted Median Filtering
Domingo Mery and Olaya Medina
826-833
Neuro-Fuzzy Method for Automated Defect Detection in Aluminium Castings
Sergio Hernández, Doris Sáez and Domingo Mery
834-840
Online Sauter Diameter Measurement of Air Bubbles and Oil Drops in Stirred Bioreactors by Using Hough Transform
L. Vega-Alvarado, M. S. Cordova, B. Taboada, E. Galindo and G. Corkidi
841-848
Defect Detection in Textile Images Using Gabor Filters
Céu L. Beirão and Mário A. T. Figueiredo
849-856
Geometric Surface Inspection of Raw Milled Steel Blocks
Ingo Reindl and Paul O’Leary
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