Papers from the BMVC97 Proceedings

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Invited Paper

• Invited Paper: Video Mosaicing using Manifold Projection
  Benny Rousso, Shmuel Peleg and Ilan Finci
  Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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  Session 1: Robust Methods

• The robustness of some scale-spaces
  Richard Harvey, Alison Bosson and J. Andrew Bangham
  University of East Anglia, Norwich

• Robust Recursive Structure and Motion Recovery under Affine Projection
  Miroslav Trajkovic and Mark Hedley
  University of Sydney, Australia

• Needle Map Recovery using Robust Regularizers
  Philip L. Worthington and Edwin R. Hancock
  University of York

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  Session 2: Theoretical Advances

• Weighting Factors in Multiple Expert Fusion
  J. Kittler, A. Hojjatoleslami and T. Windeatt
  University of Surrey

• Analytical Solution of Shape from Shading Problem
  Seong Ik Cho, Hideo Saito and Shinji Ozawa
  Keio University, Yokohama-shi, 223, Japan

• Multi-Level Probabilistic Relaxation
  M. Petrou, M. Mirmehdi and M. Coors
  University of Surrey, Guildford

• A Graph-Decomposition Algorithm for Graph Optimal Monomorphism
  Yasser El-Sonbaty and M. A. Ismail
  Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Egypt

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  Session 3: Shape

• Improving Specificity in PDMs using a Hierarchical Approach
  Tony Heap and David Hogg
  University of Leeds

• Volume Estimation from Sparse Planar Images using Deformable Models
  C. R. Ruff, S. W. Hughes and D. J. Hawkes
  Guy's and St. Thomas's Medical and Dental School

• Measuring Corner Properties
  Paul L. Rosin
  Brunel University, Uxbridge

• A Mixture Model for Representing Shape Variation
  T. F. Cootes and C. J. Taylor
  University of Manchester

• Structurally Gated Pairwise Geometric Histograms for Shape Indexing
  Benoit Huet and Edwin R. Hancock
  University of York

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  Session 4: Humans

• Learning to Identify and Track Faces in Image Sequences
  G. J. Edwards, C. J. Taylor and T. F. Cootes
  University of Manchester

• Face Recognition in Dynamic Scenes
  Stephen J. McKenna, Shaogang Gong and Yogesh Raja
  Queen Mary and Westfield College, London

• Fast Face Localisation and Verification
  J. Matas, K. Jonsson and J. Kittler
  University of Surrey

• Comparing image resamplers via a model of the human vision system
  Richard Harvey, Stephen King, Richard Aldridge and J. Andrew Bangham
  University of East Anglia, Norwich

• Robust Contour Tracking in Echocardiographic Sequences
  Gary Jacob, Alison Noble and Andrew Blake
  Oxford University

• Detecting Stellate Lesions in Mammograms via Statistical Models
  T. Parr, R. Zwiggelaar, C. J. Taylor, S. Astley and C. Boggis
  University of Manchester

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  Session 5: Industrial Applications of Vision I

• Vehicle Tracking with Applications to Collision Alert
  J. M. Ferryman, S. J. Maybank and A. D. Worrall
  University of Reading

• Adaptive Segmentation of Ultrasound Images
  Barbara Levienaise-Obadia and Andrew Gee
  University of Cambridge

• Thresholding for Change Detection
  Paul L. Rosin
  Brunel University, Uxbridge

• Face recognition with the continuous n-tuple classifier
  S. M. Lucas
  University of Essex, Colchester

• Robust and Accurate 3D Measurement of Formed Tube Using Trinocular Stereo Vision
  Paul Wade, David Moran, Jim Graham and C. Brook Jackson
  University of Manchester

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  Session 6: Industrial Applications of Vision II

• Modelling Collective Animal Behaviour using Extended Point Distribution Models
  N. Sumpter, R. D. Boyle and R. D. Tillett
  University of Leeds

• VOICI: Video Overview for Image Cluster Indexing -- a swift browsing tool for a large digital image database using similarities
  J. A. Spierenburg and D. P. Huijsmans
  Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

• Vision for Longitudinal Vehicle Control
  Philip F. McLauchlan and Jitendra Malik
  University of California at Berkeley, USA

• Exploiting shadows in a visual, hand-driven user interface
  Josephine Sullivan and Andrew Blake
  University of Oxford

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  Session 7: Poster Papers

• A Comparison of Fractal Texture Descriptors
  Peter A. Freeborough
  National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London

• Further Five Point Fit Ellipse Fitting
  Paul L. Rosin
  Brunel University, Uxbridge

• Robust reconstruction of 3D space-curves from images at arbitrary angles
  Peter Hall
  University of Wales, Cardiff

• Real-time Dynamic Deformable Meshes for Volumetric Segmentation and Visualisation
  R. Bowden, T. A. Mitchell and M. Sahardi
  Brunel University, Uxbridge

• Distinctive Descriptions for Face Processing
  Darryl Hond and Libor Spacek
  University of Essex

• Fitting 3D point distribution models of fish to stereo images
  N. J. B. McFarlane and R. D. Tillett
  Silsoe Research Institute, Bedford

• A comparative study of approaches to automatic pollen identification
  I. France, A. W. G. Duller, H. F. Lamb and G. A. T. Duller
  University of Wales, Bangor

• A Deformable Model using Probabalistic Labelling and Surface Relaxation to Segment MR Volumes
  Naomi Hill, Roger Boyle and Elizabeth Berry
  University of Leeds

• A Corner Orientation Detector
  F. Chabat, G. Z. Yang, P. Burger and D. M. Hansell
  Royal Brompton Hospital, London

• Implementational Improvements for Active Region Models
  D. C. Alexander and B. F. Buxton
  University College London

• An Integrated Traffic and Pedestrian Model-Based Vision System
  P. Remagnino, A. Baumberg, T Grove, D. Hogg, T. Tan, A. Worrall and K. Baker
  University of Reading, University of Leeds

• Rotation Invariant Retrieval and Annotation of Image Databases
  S. R. Fountain and T. N. Tan
  University of Reading

• Rectification with unconstrained stereo geometry
  Andrea Fusiello, Emanuele Trucco and Alessandro Verri
  Universita di Udine, Italy; Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh; Universita di Genova, Italy

• Vision-based Detection of Kerbs and Steps
  Stephen Se and Michael Brady
  Oxford University

• Spatio-Temporal Approaches to Computation of Optical Flow
  P. R. Giaccone and G. A. Jones
  Kingston University

• Comparison of Combined Shape Descriptors for Irregular Objects
  Jukka Iivarinen, Markus Peura, Jaakko Sarela and Ari Visa
  Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland

• Degenerate Models of Additive and Multiplicative Motion Transparency
  Keith Langley
  University College London

• 3D Surface roughness quantification
  Vassili A. Kovalev, Maria Petrou and Yaroslav S. Bondar
  University of Surrey, Guildford

• Estimation of Objects in Highly Variable Images Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo
  K. M. A. de Souza, J. T. Kent and K. V. Mardia
  University of Leeds

• A Model-Based Technique for the Classification of Textured Surfaces with Illuminant Direction Invariance
  G. McGunnigle and M. J. Chantler
  Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

• Optimal Pairwise Geometric Histograms
  F. J. Aherne, N. A. Thacker and P. I. Rockett
  University of Sheffield

• Color Recognition by Learning: ATR in Color Images
  S. D. Buluswar and B. A. Draper
  University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

• Uncalibrated Stereo Correspondence by Singular Value Decomposition
  Maurizio Pilu and Adele Lorusso
  Hewlett-Packard Research Labs., Bristol

• Rigid Motion Recovery From Less Than Eight Feature Point Matches
  Miroslav Trajkovic and Mark Hedley
  University of Sydney, Australia

• Segmentation of Range Data into Rigid Subsets using Planar Surface Patches
  A. P. Ashbrook, R. B. Fisher, C. Robertson and N. Wergi
  University of Edinburgh

• Improving model shape acquisition by incorporating geometric constraints
  N. Werghi, R. B. Fisher, A. Ashbrook and C. Robertson
  University of Edinburgh

• Correspondence Using Distinct Points Based on Image Invariants
  K. N. Walker, T. F. Cootes and C. J. Taylor
  University of Manchester

• 3D Point Distribution Models of the Cortical Sulci
  A. Caunce and C. J. Taylor
  University of Manchester

• Using Hidden Markov Models and Dynamic Size Functions for Gesture Recognition
  Andrea Sorrentino, Fabio Cuzzolin and Ruggero Frezza
  University of Padova, Italy

• A fixation and viewpoint measure for object-based gaze control
  Rupert Young and John Illingworth
  University of Surrey, Guildford

• Hierarchical recognition of structured hand-printed documents using rule-trees
  C. Cracknell, A. C. Downton and L. Du
  University of Essex, Colchester

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  Invited Paper

• Invited Paper: Neural network experiences between perceptrons and support vectors
  Robert P. W. Duin and Dick de Ridder
  Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

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  Session 8: Documents and Databases

• Document Mosaicing
  Tony Zappala, Andrew Gee and Michael Taylor
  University of Cambridge

• Script and Language Identification from Document Images
  G. S. Peake and T. N. Tan
  University of Reading

• Employing Region Features for Searching an Image Database
  Matthew E. J. Wood, Neill W. Campbell and Barry T. Thomas
  University of Bristol

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  Session 9: Colour and Time

• Selection for Gamut Mapping Colour Constancy
  Graham Finlayson and Steven Hordley
  University of York

• Visual Tracking of Solid Objects Based on an Active Contour Model
  Katrin Stark and Torsten Ihle
  Technical University of Dresden, Germany

• Finding the Epipole from Uncalibrated Optical Flow
  Alexandro Verri and Emanuele Trucco
  Universita di Genova, Italy and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

• Robust Stereo via Temporal Consistency
  S. Crossley, A. J. Lacey, N. A. Thacker and N. L. Seed
  University of Sheffield

• Using Expectation-Maximisation to Learn Dynamical Models from Visual Data
  Ben North and Andrew Blake
  University of Oxford

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  Session 10: Surfaces

• Progress in arbitrary topology deformable surfaces
  A. Saminathan, A. J. Stoddart, A. Hilton and J. Illingworth
  University of Surrey

• Uncalibrated Reconstruction of Curved Surfaces
  Jun Sato and Roberto Cipolla
  University of Cambridge

• A Plane Measuring Device
  A. Criminisi, I. Reid and A. Zisserman
  Oxford University

• A Method of 3D Surface Correspondence for Automated Landmark Generation
  A. D. Brett, A. Hill and C. J. Taylor
  University of Manchester

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  End of conference