ICVGIP 2006 Tentative Conference Program

 

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Conference Program at a Glance

Day 1, 13th December 2006

 

9.00-9.45

Inauguration

Full day

Theme Session 1:

Digital Image Exploitation for Autonomous Vehicles

Half day (Morning)

Theme Session 2:

Animation

Half day (Afternoon)

Theme Session 3:

Medical Imaging

 

 

Day 2, 14th December 2006

 

9.00-10.00

Plenary Talk 1 – Michael Black

10.00-10.50

Oral Session 1 – Image Restoration and Super-Resolution

10.50-11.05

Coffee break

11.05-13.10

Oral Session 2 – Tracking, Surveillance and Video Analysis

13.10-14.00

Lunch

14.00-16.00

Poster Session 1

16.00-16.15

Tea break

16.15-17.15

Plenary Talk 2 – Subhasis Chaudhuri

17.15-18.30

Oral Session 3 – Image Filtering / Processing

19.30 +

Conference Banquet

 

Day 3, 15th December 2006

 

9.00-10.00

Plenary Talk 3 – David Salesin

10.00-11.40

Oral Session 4 – Tracking, Surveillance and Stereo

11.40-11.55

Coffee break

11.55-13.10

Oral Session 5 – Graphics and Visualization

13.10-14.00

Lunch

14.00-16.00

Poster Session 2

16.00-16.15

Tea break

16.15-17.55

Oral Session 6 – Segmentation and Classification

 

Day 4, 16th December 2006

 

9.00-10.00

Plenary Talk 4 – Philip Torr

10.00-11.40

Oral Session 7 – Recognition, Biometrics and CBIR

11.40-11.55

Coffee break

11.55-12.45

Oral Session 8 – Compression

12.45-13.35

Oral Session 9 – Document Processing / OCR

13.35-14.15

Lunch

14.15-15.15

Plenary Talk 5 – Nebojsa Jojic

15.15-15.30

Tea break

15.30-17.30

Poster Session 3

17.30-17.45

Closing Session


ICVGIP 2006 Detailed Conference Program

 

Day 1, 13th December 2006

 

9.00-9.45

Inauguration

Full Day

Theme Session 1:

Digital Image Exploitation for Autonomous Vehicles

Half Day

(Morning)

Theme Session 2:

Animation

Half Day

(Afternoon)

Theme Session 3:

Medical Imaging

 

 

Theme Sessions

 

·         Theme Session 1: Digital Image Exploitation for Autonomous Vehicles:

o        Image Exploitation capabilities are required for using high-revisit multi-sensor, multi-resolution imagery from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle or other ground or ship based reconnaissance platforms for the purpose of intelligent information gathering. Another related emerging area is the exploitation of these same imagery for autonomous navigation of the imaging platforms themselves. In order to give a boost to these critical research areas within the country, it is planned to organize a one-day workshop on the theme of "Image Exploitation".

o        The purpose of this Theme Session is to bring together eminent personalities in the field of Image Exploitation from the country and abroad from such diverse backgrounds as Academics, Defense / Space research and private Industries. The day long activities will include invited talks, short presentations from various institutions and a brainstorming session with the objective of matching up research capabilities with user requirements.

o        The Session will be inaugurated by Shri M Natarajan, Scientific Advisor to Raksha Mantri, invited talks from Prof. Narendra Ahuja, UIUC, USA, Dr. Harpreet Sahani, Director, Vision and Learning Laboratory, Sarnoff Corporation USA, Dr. K L Majumdar, Head Image Processing, SAC Ahmedabad and Shri G. Elangovan, Director ADE .

 

·         Theme Session 2: Animation:

This theme sesssion will include various aspects of human animation. The speakers of the session are: Prof. Nadia Magnenat Thalmann from University of Geneva and Prof. Daniel Thalmann from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)

  • Prof. Nadia Magnenat Thalmann will speak on “Problems and solutions in clothing research”

§         Abstract - Since more than 15 years, we are working on the simulation of virtual clothes. First we used lagrange models, then physical based particules and now we are developping real-time simulation of clothes and virtual try on simulation. It includes the measurements of physical parameters, the adequate RT of the fabrics and cloth, the automatic dressing up on any sized person and a virtual try on. This presentation will show the development of this research and many results in the fashion industry. For more information, see www.miralab.unige.ch

  • Prof. Daniel Thalmann will speak onReal-time Autonomous Crowds of Virtual Humans”

§         Abstract - For many years, this was a challenge to produce realistic virtual crowds for special effects in movies. Now, there is a new challenge: the production of real-time autonomous Virtual Crowds. Real-time crowds are necessary for games, VR systems for training and simulation and crowds in Augmented Reality applications. Autonomy is the only way to create believable crowds reacting to events in real-time. But, this requires to solve many problems: flexible animation of individuals, behavioural animation, real-time rendering, level of details, interface.

 

·         Theme Session3: Medical Imaging:

This theme session will cover various aspects of Medical Imaging. The speakers of the session are: Prof. Baba C. Vemuri from University of Florida, Prof. Dimitris Metaxas from Rutgers University and Prof. Guido Gerig from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

  • In this theme session, we have three exciting talks scheduled. The talks cover a breadth of state-of-the-art techniques including, neuro-anatomical shape analysis performed from using standard magnetic resonance brain images (MRI), diffusion weighted MRI analysis and cardiac modeling & analysis from tagged MRI. MR is one of the most widely used non-invasive imaging technique in clinical practise today and this theme session will provide a variety of state-of-the-art image analysis techniques to extract appropriate information for use in the development of diagnostic assistance tools.
  • Neuro-anatomical structural analysis is essential in a variety of tasks including but not limited to, brain development studies, understanding of neuro-degenerative disorders e.g., schizophrenia, epilepsy, alzheimers etc. MRI provides contrast based delineation of several of the neuro-anatomical structures and in the first talk, automatic methods to achieve this segmentation will be described along with techniques to model these structures and carry out the necessary shape analysis.
  • The second talk will focus on a relatively new modality of MR imaging called diffusion weighted MRI. This modality of imaging makes the MR signal sensitive to diffusion of water molecules in the presence of tissue. In the presence of tissue rich in axons, the water molecules exhibit highly anisotropic diffusion and this information can be used to map out the axonal connectivity patterns in, for example, the corpus callosum, the optic chiasm etc. Disruption of these connectivity patterns caused by neuro-degenerative disorders can be observed non-invasively using diffusion MRI. In this second talk, novel automatic tools for analysis of diffusion weighted MRI will be presented along with appropriate visualization techniques.
  • Finally, in the third talk, novel methods of 4-dimensional analysis of tagged MR scans of the heart will be presented. Tagged MR imaging is an innovative MR technique that allows one to non-invasively project a grid pattern on the heart and using powerful image analysis techniques, one can recover the cardiac motion, perform stres strain analysis and classification. This talk will focus on various aspects of this analysis including deformable modeling of the heart, motion estimation, stress-strain analysis etc.

 

 


Day 2, 14th December 2006

 

9.00-10.00

Plenary Talk 1 – Michael Black

10.00-10.50

Oral Session 1 – Image Restoration and Super-Resolution

10.00-10.25

Edge Model Based High Resolution Image Generation

Malay Kumar Nema, Subrata Rakshit,  Subhasis Chaudhuri

10.25-10.50

Grey-scale Photograph Geometry Informed by Dodging and Burning

Carlos Phillips, Kaleem Siddiqi

10.50-11.05

Coffee break

11.05-13.10

Oral Session 2– Tracking, Surveillance and Video Analysis

11.05-11.30

Inverse Composition for Multi-Kernel Tracking

Rémi Megret, Mounia Mikram, Yannick Berthoumieu

11.30-11.55

Tracking Facial Features using Mixture of Point Distribution Models

Atul Kanaujia, Yuchi Huang, Dimitris Metaxas

11.55-12.20

Improved Kernel-Based Object Tracking Under Occluded Scenarios

Vinay P. Namboodiri, Amit Ghorawat, Subhasis Chaudhuri

12.20-12.45

Integrated Tracking and Recognition of Human Activities in Shape Space

Bi Song, Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury, N. Vaswani

12.45-13.10

Task Specfic Factors for Video Characterization

Ranjeeth Kumar, S. Manikandan, C.V. Jawahar

13.10-14.00

Lunch

14.00-16.00

Poster Session 1

 

Image Restoration and Super-Resolution

 

A Discontinuity Adaptive Method for Super-resolution of License Plates

K. V. Suresh, A. N. Rajagopalan

 

Explicit Non-flat Time Evolution for PDE-based Image Restoration

Seongjai Kim, Song-Hwa Kwon

 

Decimation Estimation and Super-Resolution Using Zoomed Observation

Prakash P. Gajjar, Manjunath V. Joshi, Asim Banerjee, Suman Mitra

 

Segmentation and Classification

 

Nonparametric Neural Network Model Based on Rough-Fuzzy Membership Function for Classification of Remotely Sensed Images

Niraj Kumar, Anupam Agrawal

 

Aggregation Pheromone Density based Image Segmentation

Susmita Ghosh, Megha Kothari, Ashish Ghosh

 

Remote Sensing Image Classification: A Neuro-Fuzzy MCS Approach

B. Uma Shankar, Saroj K. Meher, Ashish Ghosh, Lorenzo Bruzzone

 

A Hierarchical Approach to Landform Classification of Satellite Images using a Fusion Strategy

Aakanksha Gagrani, Lalit Gupta, B. Ravindran, Sukhendu Das, Pinaki Roychowdhury, V. K. Panchal

 

Image Filtering / Processing

 

Speckle Reduction in Images with WEAD and WECD

Jeny Rajan, M.R. Kaimal

 

Image Filtering in the Compressed Domain

Jayanta Mukherjee, Sanjit K. Mitra

 

Significant Pixel Watermarking Using Human Visual System Model in Wavelet Domain

Jayalakshmi M., S. N. Merchant, U. B. Desai

 

Early Vision and Image Processing: Evidences Favouring a Dynamic Receptive Field Model

Kuntal Ghosh, Sandip Sarkar, Kamales Bhaumik

 

An Alternative Curvature Measure for Topographic Feature Detection

Jayanthi Sivaswamy, Gopal Datt Joshi, B. R. Siva Chandra

 

Nonlinear Enhancement of Extremely High Contrast Images for Visibility Improvement

K. Vijayan Asari, Ender Oguslu, Saibabu Arigela

 

Compression

 

Adaptive Scalable Wavelet Difference Reduction Method for Efficient Image Transmission

Bindulal T.S., M.R. Kaimal

 

GAP-RBF Based NR Image Quality Measurement for JPEG Coded Images

R. Venkatesh Babu, S. Suresh

 

A Novel Error Resilient Temporal Adjacency Based Adaptive Multiple State Video Coding Over Error Prone Channels

Ragunathan M, C. Mala

 

Adaptive Data Hiding in Compressed Video Domain

Arijit Sur, Jayanta Mukherjee

 

Biometric

 

Dempster-Shafer Theory Based Classifier Fusion for Improved Fingerprint Verification Performance

Richa Singh, Mayank Vatsa, Afzel Noore, Sanjay K. Singh

 

Fingerprint Image Enhancement Using Decimation Free Directional Adaptive Mean Filtering

Muhammad Talal Ibrahim, Imtiaz A. Taj, M. Khalid Khan, M. Aurangzeb Khan

16.00-16.15

Tea break

16.15-17.15

Plenary Talk 2 – Subhasis Chaudhuri

17.15-18.30

Oral Session 3 – Image Filtering / Processing

17.15-17.40

An Improved ‘Gas of Circles’ Higher-Order Active Contour Model and Its Application to Tree Crown Extraction

Péter Horváth, Ian H. Jermyn, Zoltan Kato, Josiane Zerubia

17.40-18.05

A New Extension of Kalman Filter to Non-Gaussian Priors

G.R.K.S. Subrahmanyam,  A.N. Rajagopalan,  R. Aravind

18.05-18.30

A Computational Model for Boundary Detection

Gopal Datt Joshi, Jayanthi Sivaswamy

19.30+

Conference Banquet


Day 3, 15th December 2006

 

9.00-10.00

Plenary Talk 3 – David Salesin

10.00-11.40

Oral Session 4 – Tracking, Surveillance and Stereo

10.00-10.25

Learning Efficient Linear Predictors for Motion Estimation

Jiří Matas, Karel Zimmermann, Tomáš Svoboda, Adrian Hilton

10.25-10.50

Object Localization by Subspace Clustering of Local Descriptors

C. Bouveyron, J. Kannala, C. Schmid, S. Girard

10.50-11.15

Spatiotemporal Discovery: Appearance + Behavior = Agent

Prithwijit Guha, Amitabha Mukerjee, K.S. Venkatesh

11.15-11.40

Using Strong Shape Priors for Stereo

Yunda Sun, Pushmeet Kohli, Matthieu Bray, Philip H.S. Torr

11.40-11.55

Coffee break

11.55-13.10

Oral Session 5 – Graphics and Visualization

11.55-12.20

Culling Object Hierarchy to Frustum Hierarchy

Nirnimesh, Pawan Harish, P.J. Narayanan

12.20-12.45

Secondary and Tertiary Structural Fold Elucidation from 3D EM Maps of Macromolecules

Chandrajit Bajaj, Samrat Goswami

12.45-13.10

Real-time Streaming and Rendering of Terrains

Soumyajit Deb, Shiben Bhattacharjee, Suryakant Patidar, P.J. Narayanan

13.10-14.00

Lunch

14.00-16.00

Poster Session 2

 

Tracking and Surveillance

 

Fusion of Thermal Infrared and Visible Spectrum Video for Robust Surveillance

Praveen Kumar, Ankush Mittal, Padam Kumar

 

Dynamic Events as Mixtures of Spatial and Temporal Features

Karteek Alahari, C. V. Jawahar

 

Discriminative Actions for Recognising Events

Karteek Alahari, C. V. Jawahar

 

Graphics and Visualization

 

Ad-Hoc Multi-Planar Projector Displays

Kashyap Paidimarri, Sharat Chandran

 

PACE: Polygonal Approximation of Thick Digital Curves Using Cellular Envelope

Partha Bhowmick, Arindam Biswas, Bhargab B. Bhattacharya

 

Texture Guided Realtime Painterly Rendering of Geometric Models

Shiben Bhattacharjee, Neeharika Adabala

 

Real-Time Camera Walks Using Light Fields

Biswarup Choudhury, Deepali Singla, Sharat Chandran

 

Massive Autonomous Characters: Animation and Interaction

In-Gu Kang, JungHyun Han

 

Clickstream Visualization Based on Usage Patterns

Srinidhi Kannappady, Sudhir P. Mudur, Nematollaah Shiri

 

GPU Objects

Sunil Mohan Ranta, Jag Mohan Singh, P.J. Narayanan

 

Progressive Decomposition of Point Clouds Without Local Planes

Jag Mohan Singh, P.J. Narayanan

 

Stereo / Camera Calibration

 

An Efficient Adaptive Window Based Disparity Map Computation Algorithm by Dense Two Frame Stereo Correspondence

Narendra Kumar Shukla, Vivek Rathi, Vijaykumar Chakka

 

Robust Homography-based Control for Camera Positioning in Piecewise Planar Environments

D. Santosh Kumar, C.V. Jawahar

 

Direct Estimation of Homogeneous Vectors: An Ill-Solved Problem in Computer Vision

Matthew Harker, Paul O'Leary

 

Video Analysis

 

Video Shot Boundary Detection Algorithm

Kyong-Cheol Ko, Young-Min Cheon, Gye-Young Kim, Hyung-Il Choi, Seong-Yoon Shin, Yang-Won Rhee

 

Modeling of Echocardiogram Video Based on Views and States

Aditi Roy, Shamik Sural, Jayanta Mukherjee, A.K. Majumdar

 

Video Completion for Indoor Scenes

Vardhman Jain, P.J. Narayanan

 

Reducing False Positives in Video Shot Detection Using Learning Techniques

Nithya Manickam, Aman Parnami, Sharat Chandran

 

Text Driven Temporal Segmentation of Cricket Videos

Pramod Sankar K., Saurabh Pandey, C.V. Jawahar

16.00-16.15

Tea break

16.15-17.55

Oral Session 6 – Segmentation and Classification

16.15-16.40

Description of Interest Regions with Center-Symmetric Local Binary Patterns

Marko Heikkilä, Matti Pietikäinen, Cordelia Schmid

16.40-17.05

An Automatic Image Segmentation Technique Based on Pseudo-Convex Hull

Sanjoy Kumar Saha, Amit Kumar Das,  Bhabatosh Chanda

17.05-17.30

Single-Histogram Class Models for Image Segmentation

Florian Schroff, Antonio Criminisi, Andrew Zisserman

17.30-17.55

Learning Class-Specific Edges for Object Detection and Segmentation

Mukta Prasad, Andrew Zisserman, Andrew Fitzgibbon, M. Pawan Kumar, Philip H.S. Torr


Day 4, 16th December 2006

 

9.00-10.00

Plenary Talk 4 – Philip H.S. Torr

10.00-11.40

Oral Session 7 – Recognition, Biometrics and CBIR

10.00-10.25

Continuous Hand Gesture Segmentation and Co-articulation Detection

Manas Kamal Bhuyan, Debashis Ghosh, Prabin Kumar Bora

10.25-10.50

OBJCUT for Face Detection

Pushmeet Kohli, Jon Rihan, Philip H.S. Torr

10.50-11.15

Fingerprint Matching Based on Octantal Nearest-Neighbor Structure and Core Points

Li-min Yang, Jie Yang, Hong-Tao Wu

11.15-11.40

Retrieving Images for Remote Sensing Applications

Neela Sawant, Sharat Chandran, B. Krishna Mohan

11.40-11.55

Coffee break

11.55-12.45

Oral Session 8 – Compression

11.55-12.20

An Integrated Approach for Downscaling MPEG Video

Sudhir Porwal, Jayanta Mukherjee

12.20-12.45

DCT Domain Transcoding of H.264/AVC Video to MPEG-2 Video

Vasant Patil, Tummala Kalyani, Atul Bhartia, Rajeev Kumar, Jayanta Mukherjee

12.45-13.35

Oral Session 9 – Document Processing / OCR

12.45-13.10

Learning Segmentation of Documents with Complex Scripts

K.S. Sesh Kumar, Anoop M. Namboodiri, C.V. Jawahar

13.10-13.35

Machine Learning for Signature Verification

Harish N. Srinivasan, Sargur Srihari, Matthew J. Beal

13.35-14.15

Lunch

14.15-15.15

Plenary Talk 5 – Nebojsa Jojic

15.15-15.30

Tea break

15.30-17.30

Poster Session 3

 

Recognition

 

Selection of Wavelet Subbands using Genetic Algorithm for Face Recognition

Vinod Pathangay, Sukhendu Das

 

Object Recognition Using Reflex Fuzzy Min-Max Neural Network with Floating Neurons

A.V.Nandedkar, P.K.Biswas

 

Extended Fitting methods of Active Shape Model for the Location of Facial Feature Points

Chunhua Du, Jie Yang, Qiang Wu, Tianhao Zhang, Huahua Wang, Lu Chen, Zheng Wu

 

Pose Invariant Generic Object Recognition with Orthogonal Axis Manifolds in Linear Subspace

Manisha Kalra, P. Deepti, R. Abhilash, Sukhendu Das

 

A Profilometric Approach to 3D Face Reconstruction and Its Application to Face Recognition

Surath Raj Mitra, K.R. Ramakrishnan

 

Face Recognition Technique Using Symbolic Linear Discriminant Analysis Method

P.S.Hiremath, Prabhakar C.J.

 

Two-Dimensional Optimal Transform for Appearance Based Object Recognition

B.H. Shekar, D.S. Guru, P. Nagabhushan

 

Computing Eigen Space from Limited Number of Views for Recognition

Paresh K. Jain, Kartik Rao P., C.V. Jawahar

 

Face Recognition from Images with High Pose Variations by Transform Vector Quantization

Amitava Das, Manoj Balwani, Rahul Thota, Prasanta Ghosh

 

Document Processing / OCR

 

Text Localization and Extraction from Complex Gray Images

Farshad Nourbaksh, Peeta Basa Pati, A.G. Ramakrishnan

 

OCR of Printed Telugu Text with High Recognition Accuracies

C. Vasantha Lakshmi, Ritu Jain, C. Patvardhan

 

A MLP Classifier for Both Printed and Handwritten Bangla Numeral Recognition

Angshul Majumdar, B.B. Chaudhuri

 

Recognition of Offline Handwritten Devnagari Characters using Quadratic Classifier

N. Sharma, U. Pal, F. Kimura, S.Pal

 

On Recognition of Handwritten Bangla Characters

U. Bhattacharya, M. Shridhar, S. K. Parui

 

Evaluation Framework for Video OCR

Padmanabhan Soundararajan, Matthew Boonstra, Vasant Manohar, Valentina Korzhova, Dmitry Goldgof, Rangachar Kasturi, Shubha Prasad, Harish Raju, Rachel Bowers, John Garafolo

 

Enabling Search over Large Collections of Telugu Document Images - An Automatic Annotation Based Approach

Pramod Sankar K., C. V. Jawahar

 

Content-Based Image Retrieval

 

Content-Based Image Retrieval Using Wavelet Packets and Fuzzy Spatial Relations

Minakshi Banerjee, Malay K. Kundu

 

Content Based Image Retrieval Using Region Labelling

J. Naveen Kumar Reddy, Chakravarthy Bhagvati, S. Bapi Raju, Arun K. Pujari, B. L. Deekshatulu

17.30-17.45

Closing Session