Second Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision 2005

Draft Program, March 29, 2005

Monday, May 9th

8:50-9:00: Opening

• Introductionary comments by Chairs Ioannis Rekleitis and Robert Sim

• Conference Information

9:00-9:40 Object Recognition

• 117: An Object Detection System using Image Reconstruction with PCA

  • Luis Malagon, Olac Fuentes

• 203: Patch-Duplets for Object Recognition and Pose Estimation

  • Bjorn Johansson, Anders Moe

9:40-10:20 Medical Imaging

• 142: Resampling 4-D Images Using Adaptive Filtering

  • Alexander Andreopoulos, John K. Tsotsos

• 150: Modeling Prior Shape and Appearance Knowledge in Watershed Segmentation

  • Xiaoxing Li, Ghassan Hamarneh

10:20-10:40 Coffee break.

10:40-11:00 Medical Imaging (cont'd)

• 226: Identifying Precursory Cancer Lesions Using Temporal Texture Analysis

  • Aldrin Barreto-Flores, Leopoldo Altamirano, Rosa María Morales, Juan D. Cisneros-Aragon

11:00-12:00 Invited Speaker

Variational Principles for Diffusion Weighted MRI Restoration and Segmentation

Baba Vemuri, University of Florida

12:00-1:30 Lunch Break

Tuesday, May 10

8:40-9:40 Early Vision and Stereo Vision

• 124: An Attentional Framework for Stereo Vision

  • Neil Bruce, John Tsotsos

• 114: New Multi-baseline Stereo by Counting Interest Points

  • Tomokazu Sato, Naokazu Yokoya

• 242: Photometric Stereo via Locality Sensitive High-Dimension Hashing

  • Lin Zhong, James J. Little

9:40-10:20 Scene Analysis and Tracking

• 204: Detection of Occlusion Edges from the Derivatives of Weather Degraded Images

  • Daniel Lévesque, François Deschênes

• 145: Topology Inference for a Vision-Based Sensor Network

  • Dimitri Marinakis, Gregory Dudek

10:20-10:40 Coffee Break

10:40-11:00 Scene Analysis and Tracking (cont'd)

• 227: 3D SSD Tracking with Estimated 3D Planes

  • Dana Cobzas

11:00-12:00 Special Session on Intelligent Systems

• 219: Real-Time Video Surveillance with Self-Organizing Maps

  • Mohamed Dahmane, Jean Meunier

• 133: Body Tracking in Human Walk from Monocular Video Sequences

  • Frédéric Jean, Robert Bergevin, Alexandra Branzan Albu

• 157: Analysis of Player Actions in Selected Hockey Game Situations

  • Fahong Li, Robert J. Woodham

12:00-1:30 Lunch Break

1:30-2:30 Invited Speaker

Distributed Multi-Robot Exploration and Mapping
Dieter Fox, University of Washington

2:30-3:30 Robot Vision

• 154: Coordination of Multiple Agents for Probabilistic Object Tracking

  • Roozbeh Mottaghi, Shahram Payandeh

• 138: 3D Feature Tracking Using a Dynamic Structured Light System

  • Fernando Molina, Antonio Adan, Andres S. Vazquez

• 212: PDE-Based Robust Robotic Navigation

  • Aly Farag, M. Sabry Hassouna, Alaa E. Abdel-Hakim

3:30-3:50 Coffee Break

3:50-5:10 Robot Vision (cont'd)

• 198: Collaborative Exploration for a Group of Self-Interested Robots

  • Declan O'Beirne, Michael Schukat

• 162: Singularity Avoidance in Uncalibrated Visual Servoing

  • Masoud Shahamiri

• 122: Feature Planning for Robust Execution of General Robot Tasks using Visual Servoing

  • Mads Paulin

• 159: Video with ground-truth for validation of visual registration, tracking and navigation algorithms

  • Rustam Stolkin, Alistair Greig, John Gilby

5:10-6:10 Motion Analysis

• 127: Monocular Collision Warning System

  • Felix Woelk, Stefan Gehrig, Reinhard Koch

• 185: View Matching with Blob Features

  • Per-Erik Forssen, Anders Moe

• 215: Collision and Event Detection using Geometric Features in Spatio-temporal Volumes

  • Mathieu Marquis Bolduc, François Deschênes

6:30-7:00 No host bar @ University Club

7:00-9:00 Banquet @ University Club

Wednesday, May 11

8:40-9:20 Learning

• 106: Auto-correlation Wavelet Support Vector Machine and its Applications to Regression

  • Guangyi Chen, Gregory Dudek

• 118: Minimum Bayes Error Features for Visual Recognition by Sequential Feature Selection and Extraction

  • Gustavo Carneiro, Nuno Vasconcelos

9:20-10:20 Invited Speaker

Looking at People

David Forsyth, University of California, Berkeley

10:20-10:40 Coffee Break

10:40-11:00 Pattern Recognition

• 213: A linear Euclidean distance transform algorithm based on the Linear-time Legendre Transform

  • Yves Lucet

11:00-12:00 Human Activity Recognition and Surveillance

• 240: People tracking using robust motion detection and estimation

  • Markus Latzel, John K. Tsotsos, Emilie Darcourt

• 147: Automatic Detection of Heads in Colored Images

  • Justin Garcia, Niels da Vitoria Lobo, Mubarak Shaw, Jason Feinstein

• 192: Detecting Abnormal Gait

  • Christian Bauckhage, John Tsotsos, Fran Bunn

12:00-1:30 Lunch Break

1:30-3:30 Poster Session

3:30-3:50 Face Recognition

• 238: Face Recognition with Weighted Locally Linear Embedding

  • Nathan Mekuz, Christian Bauckhage, John Tsotsos

3:50-6:30: Special Session: Second Workshop on Face Processing in Video (FpiV’05)

• 1: Real-time Detection of Faces in Video Streams

  • M. Castrillón, O. Déniz, and M. Hernández and Juan Méndez

• 2: A Unified Stochastic Model for Detecting and Tracking Faces

  • Sachin Gangaputra and Donald Geman

• 3: Face Exemplars Selection from Video Streams for Online Learning

  • M. Castrillón, O. Déniz, and M. Hernández and J. Lorenzo

• 4: 3D Model-Assisted Face Recognition in Video

  • Unsang Park, Hong Chen, and Anil Jain

• 5: Video-based framework for face recognition in video

  • Dmitry O. Gorodnichy

• 6: Face as Mouse Through Visual Face Tracking

  • Jilin Tu, Thomas Huang, and Hai Tao

• 7: Multi-view Head Pose Estimation Using Neural Networks

  • Michael Voit, Kai Nickel, Rainer Stiefelhagen

• 8: Head Pose Estimation of Partially Occluded Faces

  • Markus Thorsten Wenzel and Wolfram Schiffmann

Poster Session 1: Monday May 9, 3:30-5:30

• 128: A Computer Vision System for Monitoring Medication Intake,

  • David Batz, Michael Batz, Neils Lobo, Mubarak Shah

• 171: Automated Behavioral Phenotype Detection and Analysis

  • Alan Shimoide, Ilmi Yoon, Megumi Fuse, Holly Beale, Rahul Singh

• 152: Average Cell Orientation, Shape and Size Estimated from Tissue Images

  • Peter Iles, David A. Clausi, Shannon M. Puddister, G. Wayne Brodland

• 233: Immersive Panoramic Imagery

  • Mark Fiala

• 187: A Novel Scheme for Fingerprint Identification

  • Tsong-Liang Huang, Che-Wei Liu, Jui-Peng Lin, Chien-Ying Li, Ting-Yi Kuo

• 197: Histogram Equalization using Neighborhood Metrics

  • Mark Eramian, David Mould

• 216: Recognizing Hand raising gestures using HMM

  • Monowar Hossain, Michael Jenkin

• 201: Upper Body Pose Estimation from Stereo and Hand-face Tracking

  • Jane Mulligan

• 129: Comparing classification metrics for labeling segmented remote sensing images

  • Philippe Maillard, David A. Clausi

• 196: Segmentation of Laparoscopic Images: Integrating Graph-Based Segmentation and Multistage Region Merging

  • Yueyun Shu, Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau, Farida Cheriet

• 139: Segmentation and feature extraction to evaluate the stomach dynamic

  • Mohammed Benjelloun

• 107: Scene Reconstruction with Sparse Range Information

  • Guangyi Chen, Gregory Dudek, Luz A. Torres-Mendez

• 143: On Processing and Mosaicing of Forward-Scan Acoustic Video Imagery

  • Shahriar Negahdaripour, Pezhman Firoozfam, Payam Sabzmeydani

• 140: Using vanishing points to correct camera rotation

  • Andrew Gallagher

• 110: Iterative Corner Extraction and Matching for Mosaic Construction

  • Salem Alkaabi, Farzin Deravi

• 190: Spatial Decomposition of the Hough Transform

  • James Heather, Xue Yang

• 231: Seeing the trees before the forest

  • Daniel Asmar, John Zelek, Samer Abdallah

• 131: Head Tracking with Shape Modeling and Detection

  • Maolin Chen, Seokcheol Kee

Poster Session 2: Wednesday May 11, 1:30-3:30

• 207: Registration Uncertainty for Robot Self-localization in 3D

  • Pifu Zhang, Jason Gu, Evangelos Milios

• 211: A Quantitative Comparison of 4 Algorithms for Recovering Dense Accurate Depth

  • Baozhong Tian, John Barron

• 119: Structure From Motion Using SIFT Features and the PH Transform with Panoramic Imagery

  • Mark Fiala

• 199: Granular flows need special tools

  • Alberto Biancardi, Paolo Ghilardi, Matteo Pagliardi

• 177: Generalizing Inverse Perspective

  • Mohamed Kotb, Steven Beauchemin

• 191: Recognition of Partially Occluded Objects using Perfect Hashing: An Efficient and Robust Approach

  • R. Dinesh, D.S. Guru,

• 136: Detection of multi-part objects by top-down perceptual grouping

  • Vénérée Randrianarisoa, Jean-François Bernier, Robert Bergevin

• 245: Design and Implementation of a Robot Soccer team based on Omni-directional Wheels

  • Nadir Ould-khessal

• 239: Kinematic motion variables estimation using eye-in-hand robot camera system

  • Siddharth Verma, Inna Sharf, Gregory Dudek

• 223: Background Subtraction Using Self-Identifying Patterns

  • Mark Fiala, Chang Shu

• 170: A New Photo Consistency Test for Voxel Coloring

  • Jianfeng Yin, Jeremy Cooperstock

• 113: An Experimental Comparison of a Hierarchical Range Image Segmentation Algorithm

  • Gustavo Osorio, Pierre Boulanger, Flavio Prieto

• 172: Combining Local and Global Features for Image Segmentation Using Iterative Classification and Region Merging

  • Qiyao Yu, David A. Clausi

• 205: 3D Reconstruction of Environments for Planetary Exploration

  • Sébastien Gemme, Joseph Nsasi Bakambu, Ioannis Rekleitis

• 151: Controlling Camera and Lights for Intelligent Image Acquisition and Merging

  • Olena Borzenko, Yves Lesperance, Michael Jenkin

• 102: Feature-Based 3-D Surface Reconstruction Directed by Grid Space Projection

  • Wesam Dawoud, Mohamed Taher

• 220: Face detection using combinations of classifiers

  • Geovany A. Ramirez, Olac Fuentes