Image Analysis and Recognition/

Action, Gestures and Audio-Visual Recognition

Audio-Visual Emotion Analysis Using Semi-Supervised Temporal Clustering with Constraint Propagation
Rodrigo Araujo, Mohamed S. Kamel

Exemplar-Based Human Action Recognition with Template Matching from a Stream of Motion Capture
Daniel Leightley, Baihua Li, Jamie S. McPhee, Moi Hoon Yap, John Darby

A New Visual Speech Recognition Approach for RGB-D Cameras
Ahmed Rekik, Achraf Ben-Hamadou, Walid Mahdi

2D Appearance Based Techniques for Tracking the Signer Configuration in Sign Language Video Recordings
Ville Viitaniemi, Matti Karppa, Jorma Laaksonen

Computer Aided Hearing Assessment: Detection of Eye Gesture Reactions as a Response to the Sound
A. Fernández, Marcos Ortega, Manuel G. Penedo

Multi-sensor Acceleration-Based Action Recognition
Florian Baumann, Irina Schulz, Bodo Rosenhahn

Incremental Learning of Hand Gestures Based on Submovement Sharing
Ryo Kawahata, Yanrung Wang, Atsushi Shimada, Takayoshi Yamashita, Rin-ichiro Taniguchi

Gait Analysis from Video: Camcorders vs. Kinect
Hoang Anh Nguyen, Jean Meunier

Person Re-identification Using Region Covariance in a Multi-feature Approach
Volker Eiselein, Gleb Sternharz, Tobias Senst, Ivo Keller, Thomas Sikora

Multi-biometric Score-Level Fusion and the Integration of the Neighbors Distance Ratio
Naser Damer, Alexander Opel

Adaptive Haar-Like Features for Head Pose Estimation
Nam-Jun Pyun, Halima Sayah, Nicole Vincent

Face and Palmprint Recognition Using Hierarchical Multiscale Adaptive LBP with Directional Statistical Features
Ghada Shams, Mohamed Ismail, Sohier Bassiouny, Nagia Ghanem

Multispectral Iris Recognition Using Patch Based Game Theory
Foysal Ahmad, Kaushik Roy, Khary Popplewell

Medical Image Processing and Analysis
Front Matter

Periodic Background Pattern Detection and Removal for Cell Tracking
Tiago Esteves, Ângela Carvalho, Fernando Jorge Monteiro, Pedro Quelhas

Nerve Detection in Ultrasound Images Using Median Gabor Binary Pattern
Oussama Hadjerci, Adel Hafiane, Pascal Makris, Donatello Conte, Pierre Vieyres, Alain Delbos

Automatic Localization of Skin Layers in Reflectance Confocal Microscopy
Eduardo Somoza, Gabriela Oana Cula, Catherine Correa, Julie B. Hirsch

Medical Image Processing and Analysis
Thermal Signature Using Non-redundant Temporal Local Binary-Based Features
Adnan Al Alwani, Youssef Chahir, Francois Jouen

matological Image Hair Removal
Alexandra Nasonova, Andrey Nasonov, Andrey Krylov, Ivan Pechenko, Alexey Umnov, Natalia Makhneva

3D Multimodal Visualization of Subdural Electrodes with Cerebellum Removal to Guide Epilepsy Resective Surgery Procedures
Nádia Moreira da Silva, Ricardo Rego, João Paulo Silva Cunha

Medical Image Segmentation


On the Automatic Normalization of Plaque Regions in Ultrasound Images of the Carotid
José Rouco, Jorge Novo, Aurélio Campilho

Automatic Tear Film Segmentation Based on Texture Analysis and Region Growing
Beatriz Remeseiro, Katherine M. Oliver, Eilidh Martin, Alan Tomlinson, Daniel G. Villaverde, Manuel G. Penedo

An Improved Segmentation Method for Non-melanoma Skin Lesions Using Active Contour Model
Qaisar Abbas, Irene Fondón, Auxiliadora Sarmiento, M. Emre Celebi

Statistical-Based Segmentation of Bone Structures via Continuous Max-Flow Optimization
Jose-Antonio Pérez Carrasco, Carmen Serrano Gotarredona, Cristina Suárez-Mejías, Begoña Acha-Piñero

A Portable Multi-CPU/Multi-GPU Based Vertebra Localization in Sagittal MR Images
Mohamed Amine Larhmam, Sidi Ahmed Mahmoudi, Mohammed Benjelloun, Saïd Mahmoudi, Pierre Manneback

An Automated Level-set Approach for Identification of Aortic Valve Borders in Short Axis Windows of Transesophageal Echo Sequences (TEE)
César Veiga, Francisco Calvo, Emilio Paredes-Galán, Pablo Pazos, Carlos Peña, Andrés Íñiguez

Reliable Lung Segmentation Methodology by Including Juxtapleural Nodules
J. Novo, J. Rouco, A. Mendonça, Aurélio Campilho

Computer-Aided Diagnosis

Fully Automatic 3D Glioma Extraction in Multi-contrast MRI
Pavel Dvorak, Karel Bartusek

Grading Cancer from Liver Histology Images Using Inter and Intra Region Spatial Relations
Mickaël Garnier, Maya Alsheh Ali, Johanne Seguin, Nathalie Mignet, Thomas Hurtut, Laurent Wendling

eFis: A Fuzzy Inference Method for Predicting Malignancy of Small Pulmonary Nodules
Aydın Kaya, Ahmet Burak Can

Degradation Adaptive Texture Classification: A Case Study in Celiac Disease Diagnosis Brings New Insight
Michael Gadermayr, Andreas Uhl, Andreas Vécsei

Retinal Image Analysis

Optic Disk Localization for Gray-Scale Retinal Images Based on Patch Filtering
F. Sattar, Aurélio Campilho, M. Kamel

Automatic Optic Disc Detection in Retinal Fundus Images Based on Geometric Features
Isabel N. Figueiredo, Sunil Kumar

Optic Nerve Head Detection via Group Correlations in Multi-orientation Transforms
Erik Bekkers, Remco Duits, Bart ter Haar Romeny

Retinal Image Analysis
A Robust Algorithm for Optic Disc Segmentation from Colored Fundus Images
Anam Usman, Sarmad Abbas Khitran, M. Usman Akram, Yasser Nadeem

Coupled Parallel Snakes for Segmenting Healthy and Pathological Retinal Arteries in Adaptive Optics Images
Nicolas Lermé, Florence Rossant, Isabelle Bloch, Michel Paques, Edouard Koch

Automatic Arteriovenous Nicking Identification by Color Fundus Images Analysis
Carla Pereira, Diana Veiga, Luís Gonçalves, Manuel Ferreira

Detection of Hemorrhages in Colored Fundus Images Using Non Uniform Illumination Estimation
M. Usman Akram, Sarmad Abbas Khitran, Anam Usman, Ubaid ullah Yasin

Automatic Robust Segmentation of Retinal Layers in OCT Images with Refinement Stages
Ana González-López, Marcos Ortega, Manuel G. Penedo, Pablo Charlón

3D Imaging

Accurate Multi-View Stereo 3D Reconstruction for Cost-Effective Plant Phenotyping
Lu Lou, Yonghuai Liu, Jiwan Han, John H. Doonan

Truncated Signed Distance Function: Experiments on Voxel Size
Diana Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Philipp Werner

Human Activity Analysis in a 3D Bird’s-eye View
Gang Hu, Derek Reilly, Ben Swinden, Qigang Gao

3D Spatial Layout Propagation in a Video Sequence
Alejandro Rituerto, Roberto Manduchi, Ana C. Murillo, J. J. Guerrero

SASCr3: A Real Time Hardware Coprocessor for Stereo Correspondence
Luca Puglia, Mario Vigliar, Giancarlo Raiconi

Motion Analysis and Tracking

Adaptive Feature Selection for Object Tracking with Particle Filter
Darshan Venkatrayappa, Désiré Sidibé, Fabrice Meriaudeau, Philippe Montesinos

Exploiting Color Constancy for Robust Tracking Under Non-uniform Illumination
Sinan Mutlu, Samuel Rota Bulò, Oswald Lanz

Wavelet Subspace Analysis of Intraoperative Thermal Imaging for Motion Filtering
Nico Hoffmann, Julia Hollmach, Christian Schnabel, Yordan Radev, Matthias Kirsch, Uwe Petersohn et al.

A Spatio-temporal Approach for Multiple Object Detection in Videos Using Graphs and Probability Maps
Henrique Morimitsu, Roberto M. Cesar Jr., Isabelle Bloch

Adopting Feature-Based Visual Odometry for Resource-Constrained Mobile Devices
Michał Fularz, Michał Nowicki, Piotr Skrzypczyński

Strategy for Folding Clothing on the Basis of Deformable Models
Yasuyo Kita, Fumio Kanehiro, Toshio Ueshiba, Nobuyuki Kita

Multiple Camera Approach for SLAM Based Ultrasonic Tank Roof Inspection
Christian Freye, Christian Bendicks, Erik Lilienblum, Ayoub Al-Hamadi


Robot Vision
On Tracking and Matching in Vision Based Navigation
Adam Schmidt, Marek Kraft, Michal Fularz

Biologically Inspired Vision for Indoor Robot Navigation
M. Saleiro, K. Terzić, D. Lobato, J. M. F. Rodrigues, J. M. H. du Buf