BMVC2000                     
The Eleventh British Machine Vision Conference
University of Bristol, 11-14 September 2000

Table of Contents


Invited Paper I - Prof. Eric Grimson (AI Lab, MIT, US)

Computer Vision Methods for Image Guided Surgery
E Grimson, M Leventon, O Faugeras, and W Wells
 

Session I - Colour Analysis

Colour Invariance at a Pixel
G Finlayson, S Hordley, J Marchant and C Onyango, University Of East Anglia, UK

A Novel Dynamic Region Segmentation Method Based on Quantative Colour Space Selection
Y Fang and T Tan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China
 

Session II - Face and Gesture Recognition

Building Temporal Models for Gesture Recognition
R Bowden and M Sarhadi, Brunel University, UK

On Matching Scores for LDA-based Face Verification
J Kittler, Y Li and J Matas, University of Surrey, UK

Coupled-View Active Appearance Models
T Cootes, G Wheeler, K Walker and C Taylor, University of Manchester, UK

Compensating for Ensemble-Specificity Effects when Building Facial Models
N Costen, T Cootes and C Taylor, University of Manchester, UK

Efficient Head Pose Estimation with Gabor Wavelet Networks
V Krüger and G Sommer, Christian-Albrechts University, Germany
 

Session III - Texture Analysis

Shape from Texture: Homogeneity Revisited
A Criminisi and A Zisserman, University of Oxford, UK

Estimating the Structure of Textured Surfaces Using Local Affine Flow
A Calway, University of Bristol, UK

Detecting Multiple Texture Planes using Local Spectral  Distortion
E Ribeiro and  E Hancock, University of York, UK

Probabilistic PCA and ICA Subspace Mixture Models for Image Segmentation
D de Ridder, J Kittler and R Duin, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
 

Poster Session I

A New Method for Computing Optical Flow
W Clocksin, University of Cambridge, UK

Gaze Determination via Images of Irises
J-G Wang and E Sung, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Pose Invariant Face Recognition by Face Synthesis
M Lee and S Ranganath, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Statistical Properties of the Hybrid Radon-Fourier Technique
V Leavers, University of Manchester, UK

Motion Segmentation in Long Image Sequences
S Mills and K Novins, University of Otago, New Zealand

Modelling and Tracking Articulated Motion from Multiple Camera Views
M Ringer and J Lasenby, University of Cambridge, UK

Estimating Vision Parameters given Data with Covariances
W Chojnacki, M Brooks, A van den Hengel and D Gawley, University of Adelaide, Australia

Classification of Texture Images using Multi-scale Statistical Estimators of Fractal Parameters
S Deguy, C Debain, and A Benassi, IUT, France

Parameterised Moving Shape Extraction
M Grant, M Nixon and P Lewis, University of Southampton, UK

Fast Computation of a Boundary Preserving  Estimate of Optical Flow
R El-Feghali and A Mitiche, INRS-TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Canada

A Statistical Geometric Framework for Reconstruction of Scene Models
A Manessis, A Hilton, P McLauchlan and P Palmer, University of Surrey, UK

Robust Facial Feature Tracking
F Bourel, C Chibelushi and A Low, Staffordshire University, UK

Recognising the Dynamics of Faces across Multiple Views
Y Li, S Gong and H Liddell, Queen Mary & Westfield College, UK

Resolving Visual Uncertainty and Occlusion through Probabilistic Reasoning
J Sherrah and S Gong, Queen Mary & Westfield College, UK

The Cross Ratio: A Revisit to its Probability Density Function
D Huynh, Murdoch University, Australia

Automatic Selection of Optimal Views in Multi-view Object Recognition
F Mokhtarian and S Abbasi, University of Surrey, UK

A Statistical Consistency Check for the Space Carving Algorithm
A Broadhurst and R Cipolla, University of Cambridge, UK

Colour Constancy from Hyper-Spectral Data
T Gevers, H Stokman and J van de Weijer, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Extraction of Motion Data from Image Sequences to Assist Animators
D Gibson, N Campbell, C Dalton and B Thomas, University of Bristol, UK

Face Recognition using the Moving Window Classifier
M Hoque and M Fairhurst, University of Kent, UK

Integrated Segmentation and Depth Ordering
D Tweed and A Calway, University of Bristol, UK
 

Session IV - Motion, Tracking, and Sequence Analysis

Detecting Lameness in Livestock using Resampling Condensation and Multi-stream Cyclic Hidden Markov Models
D Magee and R Boyle, University of Leeds, UK

Segmentation of Multiple Motions by Edge Tracking between Two Frames
P Smith, T Drummond and R Cipolla, University of Cambridge, UK

A Hierarchical Model of Dynamics for Tracking People with a Single Video Camera
I Karaulova, P Hall and A Marshall, University of Cardiff, UK

Video Shot Cut Detection using Adaptive Thresholding
Y Yusoff, W Christmas and J Kittler, University of Surrey, UK
 

Invited Paper II - Prof. Luc van Gool (ESAT, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

Wide Baseline Stereo Matching based on Local, Affinely Invariant Regions
T Tuytelaars and L van Gool
 

Session V - Applications I

Automatic 3D Modelling of Architecture
A Dick, P Torr and R Cipolla, University of Cambridge, UK

A New Approach for Vanishing Point Detection in Architectural Environments
C Rother, KTH, Sweden
 

Poster Session II

Inspection of Surface Strain in Materials using Optical Flow
K Chivers and W Clocksin, University of Cambridge, UK

Morphological Change Detection Algorithms for Surveillance Applications
E Stringa, Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety, Italy

Straight Lines and Circles in the Log-Polar Image
D Young, University of Sussex, UK

A Highly Robust Regressor and its Application in Computer Vision
E Izquierdo, Queen Mary & Westfield College, UK

Free-Form 3-D Object Recognition at Multiple Scales
F Mokhtarian, N Khalili and P Yuen, University of Surrey, UK

Using the CSM Correspondence Calculation Algorithm to Quantify Differences between Surfaces
E Guest, E Berry and D Morris, Leeds General Infirmary, UK

3D Imaging of Transparent Objects
A Wallace, P Csakany, G Buller and A Walker, Heriot-Watt University, UK

Iterative Computation of 3D Plane Parameters
H Baltzakis and P Trahanias, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece

Rotation Invariant Classification of 3D Surface Textures using Photometric Stereo and Surface Magnitude Spectra
M Chantler and J Wu, Heriot-Watt University, UK

A New Easy Camera Calibration Technique Based on Circular Points
X Meng, H Li and Z Hu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R.China

Data and Decision Level Fusion of Temporal Information for Automatic Target Recognition
K Messer and J Kittler, University of Surrey, UK

Dual Representations for Vision-Based 3D Reconstruction
E Grossmann and J Victor, IST, Portugal

Quantifying Ambiguities in Inferring Vector-Based 3D Models
E-J Ong and S Gong, Queen Mary & Westfield College, UK

An Interactive System for Constraint-Based Modelling
D Robertson, R Cipolla, University of Cambridge, UK

Error Propogation from Camera Motion to Epipolar Constraint
X Shen, P Palmer, P McLauchlan and A Hilton, University of Surrey, UK

A Comparative Study on Disparity Analysis Based on Convergent and Rectified Views
O Schreer, N Brandenburg and P Kauff, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik Berlin GmbH, Germany

Tracking Multiple People Under Occlusion Using Multiple Cameras
T-H Chang, S Gong and E-J Ong, Queen Mary & Westfield College, UK

On Resolving Ambiguities in Arbitrary-Shape extraction by the HT
E Montiel, A Aguado and M Nixon, University of Surrey, UK

Grouping Line-segments using Eigenclustering
A A Robles Kelly and E Hancock, University of York, UK

Particular Forms of Homography Matrices
D Lingrand, INRIA, France

Object Recognition using the Invariant Pixel-Set Signature
J Matas, J Burianek and J Kittler, University of Surrey, UK
 

Session VI - Multi-View Techniques

Image Mosaicing using Sequential Bundle Adjustments
P McLauchlan and A Jaenicke, University of Surrey, UK

Robust Point Correspondence by Concave Minimization
J Maciel and J Costeira, Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Portugal

Zoom-lens Camera Calibration From Noisy Data With Outliers
M Ahmed and A Farag, University of Louisville, USA

An Evaluation of the Performance of RANSAC Algorithms for Stereo Camera Calibrarion
A Lacey, N Pinitkarn and N Thacker, University of Manchester, UK

3D Model Acquisition by Tracking 2D Wireframes
M Brown, T Drummond and R Cipolla, University of Cambridge, UK
 

Session VII - Applications II

Automatic Analysis of Fluorescence In-Situ Hybridisation Images
W Clocksin and B Lerner, University of Cambridge, UK

Finding Text Regions using Localised Statistical Measures
P Clark and M Mirmehdi, University of Bristol, UK

Evolving Automatic Target Detection Algorithms by Logically Combining Decision Spaces
K Benson, DERA, UK

Focus based Feature Extraction for Pallets Recognition
R Cucchiara, M Piccardi and A Prati, Universitá di Modena, Italy

A Multiscale Method for the Reassembly of Fragmented Objects
H Leitao and J Stolfi, UNICAMP, Brazil

An EM / E-MRF Strategy for Underwater Navigation
R Stolkin, M Hodgetts and A Greig, Sira Limited, UK
 

Session VIII - Object Recognition

Parallel Chains, Delayed Rejection and Reversible Jump MCMC for Object Recognition
M Harkness and P Green, University of Bristol, UK

Combining Local Recognition Methods for Better Recognition
B Lamiroy, S Picard and P Gros, INRIA, France

Region-Based Object Recognition: Pruning Multiple Representations and Hypotheses
A Ahmadyfard and J Kittler, University of Surrey, UK

Interactive Visual Dialog
T Arbel and F Ferrie, McGill University, Canada

Recognizing Objects From Curvilinear Motion
T Arbel, F Ferrie and M Mitran, McGill University, Canada
 

Session IX - Segmentation Techniques

A Concentration-Based Adaptive Approach to Region Merging of Optimal Time and Space Complexities
C Fiorio and R Nock, LIRMM, France

Invariant Characterization of the Hough Transform for Pose Estimation of Arbitrary Shapes
A Aguado, E Montiel and M Nixon, University of Surrey, UK

Non-Parametric Image Subtraction using Grey Level Scattergrams
P Bromiley, N Thacker and P Courtney, University of Manchester, UK

Transforming Pixel Signatures into an Improved Metric Space
A Holmes and C Taylor, University of Manchester, UK

Local Smoothness in terms of Variance: the Adaptive Gaussian Filter
G Gomez, ITESM, Mexico


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