Image and Vision Computing
New Zealand 2003

Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
26-28 November, 2003

Table of Contents

Proceedings cover
Preface, and bibliographic information

Wednesday 26 November

Session 1: Opening (9:15 am - 10:15 am)

Keynote Address:

1
The Past, Present & Future of Image Processing Systems Engineering
R.M. (Bob) Hodgson

Session 2: Applications (10:40 am - 12:20 pm)

7
3D Pose Estimation of Beef Carcasses using Symmetry
David W. Penman, Nawar S. Alwesh
13
Background Correction in Forensic Photography
Gordon M. Miskelly, John H. Wagner
18
Defect Analysis of Grit-blasted or Spray-painted Surface Using Vision Sensing Techniques
G. Sen Gupta, Tin Aung Win, Chris Messom, Serge Demidenko, Subhas Mukhodhyay
24
Towards a Human Tracking System for a Mobile Robot Using Neural-Based Motion Detectors
John A. Perrone, Tony Voyle, Margaret E. Jefferies
29
Active Contours and Logarithmic Hue-like Colour Space Applied to Lip Tracking
Patrice Delmas, Mark Lievin

Session 3: Image Retrieval (1:30 pm – 3:00 pm)

Keynote Address:

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Content-based Image Retrieval in Digital Image Databases using Structure, Color and Texture
J.K. Aggarwal
36
A General Framework for Image Retrieval using Reinforced Learning
S.Srisuk, R. Fooprateepsiri, M. Petrou, S. Waraklang, K. Sunat
42
Image Retrieval Using Colour Co-occurrence Histograms
Linjiang Yu, Georgy Gimel’farb

Session 4: Remote Sensing (3:20 pm – 5:00 pm)

48
Vehicle Detection from Airborne Images by Separation of Texture Propertied and their Fusion
Hartwig Hetzheim, Anko Börner
54
A Description of New Zealand Forest using Full-polarisation Radar Imagery
Stephen McNeill, David Pairman
60
Detecting Buildings and Roof Segments by Combining LIDAR Data and Multispectral Images
Franz Rottensteiner, John Trinder, Simon Clode, Kurt Kubik
66
The Effects of Multipath on Bathymetric Synthetic Aperture Sonar using Belief Propagation
Michael Hayes, Philip Barclay
72
Panoramic Mapping using CCD-Line Camera and Laser Scanner with Integrated Position and Orientation System
Ralf Reulke, Aloysius Wehr, Reinhard Klette, Martin Scheele, Karsten Scheibe

Thursday 27 November

Session 5: Poster I (9:00 am – 10:15 am)

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A Traffic Object Detection System for Road Traffic Measurement and Management
Carsten Dalaff, Ralf Reulke, Axel Kroen, Thomas Kahl, Martin Ruhe, Adrian Schischmanow, Gerald Schlotxhauer, Wolfram Tuchscheerer
84
Interactive Modelling of Hair with Texture Maps
Will Baker, Scott A. King
90
An Efficient and Topological Correct Polygonisation Algorithm for Finite Element Data Sets
Burkhard Wünsche, Jenny Zheng Lin
96
Biquadratic Interpolation of Intensity for Fast Shading of Three Dimensional Objects
Ekta Walia, Chandan Singh
102
A Novel Image Retrieval Based on Representative Colors
Jianfeng Ren, Yuli Shen, Lei Guo
108
Multigrid Analysis of Curvature Estimators
Simon Hermann, Reinhard Klette
113
Use of Multiple Surface Normal Approximations in the Shape-from-Shading Using Jacobi’s Iterative Method
Osamu Ikeda
119
Acoustic Timing Simulation of Active Beacons for Measuring the Tow-Path of a Synthetic Aperture Sonar
Edward N. Pilbrow, Michael P. Hayes
125
3D Articulated Structure and Motion Analysis from Monocular Images
Ziaoyun Zhang, Yuncai Liu
131
Laser-Based Finger Tracking System Suitable for MOEMS Integration
Stéphane Perrin, Alvaro Cassinelli, Masatoshi Ishikawa
137
Fast Algorithm for VQ-based Wavelet Coding System
O.O. Khalifa
142
Reconstruction Formulas for Rotational Dynamic Stereo
FaJie Li, Qi Zang, Reinhard Klette
148
Scaling and Power Spectra od Natural Images
R.P. Millane, S. Alzaidi, W.H. Hsiao
154
Feature Points Extraction from Faces
Hua Gu, Guangda Su, Cheng Du
159
Player Segmentation Evaluation for Trajectory Estimation in Soccer Games
Hanjoo Kim, Siwok Nam, Jaihie Kim
163
Spatial and Temporal Segmentation of Continuous Human Motion from Monocular Video Images
Richard D. Green
169
Extraction of Shape of an Object and Construction of Closed Curves using Image Information
Junko Fukuda

Session 6: Phase (10:40 am – 11:40 am)

175
Effects of Spectral Amplitude and Phase Errors on Interpretability of Images
W.H. Hsiao, E. Ip, R.P. Millane
181
Estimating Phase Aberrations from Intensity Data
Theam Yong Chew, Richard G. Lane
187
Comparison of Wavefront Sensing using Subdivision at the Aperture and Focal Planes
Richard M. Clare, Richard G. Lane

Session 7A: Coding (1:20 pm – 3:00 pm)

193
Intra Frame Relay in ECC Video
Bing Du, Anthony Maeder, Miles Moody
199
Using Autoregressive Truncated Singular Value Decomposition Algorithm for Obtaining More Efficiently Compressed Images
A. Sharifinejad
205
A New Image Copyright Protection Algorithm Using Digital Signature of Trading Message and Bar Code Watermark
Ji-Hong Chang, Long-Wen Chang
210
Stereo Image Compression by Quadrant Vector Quantization
Chompoonuch Tengcharoen, Ruttikorn Varakulsiripunth, Tanasak Phanprasit, Manas Sanworasil
215
Watermarking Still Images Using Parameterized Wavelet Systems
Zhuan Qing Huang, Zhuhan Jiang

Session 7B: Biometrics (1:20 pm – 3:00 pm)

221
Accurately Measuring the Size of the Pupil of the Eye
Xiang Lin, Gisela Klette, Reinhard Klette, Jennifer Craig, Simon Dean
227
Palmprint Recognition with PCA and ICA
Tee Connie, Andrew Teoh, Michael Goh, David Ngo
233
An AFIS Using Fingerprint Classification
Chaur-Chin Chen, Yaw-Yi Wang
239
On Training Cascade Face Detectors
Brendan McCane, Kevin Novins

Session 8A: Stereo Imaging (3:40 pm – 5:00 pm)

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Investigation of Directional Filter on Kube-Pentland’s 3D Surface Reflectance Model using Photometric Stereo
Jiahua Wu, Mike J. Chantler
251
3D Reconstruction Using Shape from Photometric Stereo and Contours
Chia-Yen Chen, Reinhard Klette, Chi-Fa Chen
256
Dense Stereo Correspondence Based on Recursive Adaptive Size Multi-Windowing
Sylvia Oi-Yee Chan, Ya-Ping Wong, Jacom K. Daniel
260
Stereo Disparity Estimation in Moment Space
Angeline Pang, R. Mukundan, Ng Liang Shing

Session 8B: Biomedical Applications (3:40 pm – 5:00 pm)

265
Template-Driven 3D Segmentation for Biomedical Images in Confocal Microscopy
Kai-Hsun Lee, Ying-Cheng Chen, Yung-Chang Chen
269
Automated Particle Picking of Biological Molecules Images by Electron Microscopy
Jasmine Banks, Rosalba Rothnagel, Ben Hankamer
275
Toward a Mobility Aid for the Blind
Roger F. Browne

Friday 28 November

Session 9: Poster II (9:00 am – 10:15 am)

280
Microaneurysm Detection in Colour Fundus Images
Lee Streeter, Michael J. Cree
285
Reinventing the Microscope in the Age of Digital Imaging
C.A. Holdaway, R.M. Hodgson
291
Obtaining Three-dimensional Information From Forests using Polarimetric Interferometry
Stephen McNeill, David Pairman
297
Animation of Tree Development
Shuming Lam, Scott A King
303
Modelling of Turbulent Water over Natural Terrain
Fig 3 movie, Fig 4 movie
Nathan Holmberg, Burkhard Wünsche
309
Automated Feature Extraction for Object Recognition
Ilya Levner, Vadim Bulitko, Lihong Li, Greg Lee, Russell Greiner
314
Optimal Wavelets and Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition
G.Y. Chen, T.D. Bui, A. Krzyzak
320
Human Activity Recognition by Head Movement using Elman Network and Neuro-Markovian Hybrids
Henry C.C. Tan, Liyanage C. De Silva
326
A Survey of Coded Image and Video Quality Assessment
Amal Punchihewa, Donald G. Bailey, R.M. Hodgson
332
A Study on the Image Based 3D Modeling by Weighted Bi-directional Registration
Hyo Sung Kim, Yong Gi Park, Ki Gon Nam, Sung Wook Seol, Jae Heum Joo
338
Accuracy Improvement in Camera Calibration
FaJie Li, Qi Zang, Reinhard Klette
343
Combination of PCA and Wavelet Transforms for Face Recognition on 2.5D Images
Chi-Fa Chen, Yu-Shan Tseng, Chia-Yen Chen
348
Robust Tracking Algorithm of Multiple Objects Under Dynamic Environment
Sung-Wook Soel, Jee Hye Jang, Hyo-Sung Kim, Ki-Gon Nam, Chul-Hun Lee
354
Vision System for a Trax Robot
Donald G Bailey
360
Refinement to the Chamfer Matching for a "Centre-on" Fit
Jingying Chen, Paul Tan, Terence Goh

Session 10: Graphics (10:40 am – 12:20 pm)

366
Filmmaking Production System with Rule-based Reasoning
Shen Jinhong, Seiya Miyazaki, Terumasa Aoki, Hiroshi Yasuda
372
Authoring and Visualizing Stereo Panoramic Images with Independent Objects
Johnson Chen, Shou-Kang Wei, Reinhard Klette
378
Efficient Collision Detection for Skeletally Animated Models in Interactive Environments
Vadim Macagon, Burkhard Wünsche
384
A Strategy for 3D Face Analysis and Synthesis
Mark Chan, Chia-Yen Chen, Gareth Barton, Patrice Delmas, Georgy Gimel’farb, Philippe Leclercq, Thomas Fischer
390
Fast Texture Mapping of Photographs on a 3D Facial Model
Yuya Iwakiri, Keisuke Yorioka, Toyohisa Kaneko

Session 11: Techniques (1:20 pm – 3:00 pm)

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More Active Shape Model
Soren Klim, Stig Mortensen, Bjarni Bodvarsson, Lars Hyldstrup, Hans Henrik Thodberg
402
Classification Strategies for Image Classification in Genetic Programming
Will R. Smart, Mengjie Zhang
408
A Real-time FPGA Implementation of a Barrel Distortion Correction Algorithm with Bilinear Interpolation
K.T. Gribbon, C.T. Johnston, D.G. Bailey
414
Sub-pixel Estimation of Local Extrema
Donald G. Bailey
420
Scene Reconstruction by Greedy Belief Propagation
Chris J Forne, Michael P Hayes

Indexes

426
Author index
428
Keyword index