BMVC (British Machine Vision Conference) 2007

Automatic Player Detection, Labeling and Tracking in Broadcast Soccer Video J. Liu (Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences), X. Tong (Intel China Research Center), W. Li, T. Wang (Intel Corporation), Y. Zhang (Intel China Research Center), H. Wang (Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences), B. Yang, L. Sun and S. Yang (Tsinghua Univeristy).

Motion Segmentation Using Inference in Dynamic Bayesian Networks M. Toussaint (Technical University of Berlin), V. Willert (Honda Research Institute Europe), J. Eggert and E. Korner (Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH).

Layered Active Contours for Tracking G. D. Pryor, P. Vela, T. u. Rehman and A. Tannenbaum (Georgia Institute of Technology).

Discovering Planes and Collapsing the State Space in Visual SLAM A. P. Gee, D. Chekhlov, W. W. Mayol and A. D. Calway (University of Bristol).

Session 2: Surveillance/Registration

Spatial modelling of multi-layered LiDAR images using reversible jump MCMC S. Hernandez-Marin, A. M. Wallace and G. J. Gibson (Heriot Watt University).

A Probabilistic Framework for Recognizing Similar Actions using Spatio-Temporal Features A. Patron and I. Reid (University of Oxford).

Associating People Dropping off and Picking up Objects D. Damen and D. Hogg (University of Leeds).

A New Framework for Automatic Registration of 2D/3D Texture Images A. S. El-Baz (University of Louisville) and G. Gimel'farb (University of Auckland,).

Fast Multigrid Optimal Mass Transport for Image Registration and Morphing T. u. Rehman, G. Pryor and A. Tannenbaum (Georgia Institute of Technology).

Poster Session 1

Image Enhancement Using Vector Quantisation Based Interpolation W. P. Cockshott, S. L. Balasuriya, I. P. Gunawan and J. P. Siebert (University of Glasgow).

Binary Co-occurrences of Weak Descriptors M. Winter and H. Bischof (Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision (ICG)).

Rotation, Rescaling and Occlusion Invariant Object Retrieval M. Lecca and S. Messelodi (Fondazione Bruno Kessler).

the DIARETDB1 diabetic retinopathy database and evaluation protocol T. Kauppi (Lappeenranta University of Technology), V. Kalesnykiene (University of Kuopio), J.-K. Kamarainen, L. Lensu (Lappeenranta University of Technology), I. Sorri, A. Raninen, R. Voutilainen (University of Kuopio), H. Uusitalo (University of Tampere), H. Kalviainen (Lappeenranta University of Technology) and J. Pietila (Perimetria Ltd.).

Hilbert-Huang Transform-based Local Regions Descriptors D. Han, W. Li, W. Guo (Jilin University) and Z. Li (Shandong University of Technology).

Robust Active Appearance Models with Iteratively Rescaled Kernels M. G. Roberts, T. F. Cootes and J. E. Adams (The University of Manchester).

Towards Automated Visual Assessment of Progress in Construction Projects T. C. Lukins (Heriot Watt University) and E. Trucco (University of Dundee).

High Accuracy Computation of Rank-Constrained Fundamental Matrix Y. Sugaya (Toyohashi University of Technology) and K. Kanatani (Okayama University).

Automated Segmentation of Low-Light Level Imagery using Poisson MAP-MRF Labelling H. Gribben, P. Miller, H. Wang (Queen's University Belfast) and M. Browne (Andor Technology).

Real-Time Humans Detection in Urban Scenes J. BEGARD, N. ALLEZARD and P. SAYD (CEA LIST).

Generalised Linear Pose Estimation A. Ess, A. Neubeck and L. van Gool (ETH Zurich).

Colour Transfer by Feature Based Histogram Registration C. R. Senanayake and D. C. Alexander (University College London).

Towards Real-Time Traffic Sign Recognition by Class-Specific Discriminative Features A. Ruta (Brunel University, West London), Y. Li (Brunel University) and X. Liu (Brunel University, West London).

Identifying Lens Distortions in Image Registration by Learning from Examples B. Moeller and S. Posch (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg).

Epsilon Stereo Pairs J. Yu and Y. Ding (University of Delaware).

Learning object classes from structure X. Bai, Y.-Z. Song and P. M. Hall (University of Bath).

Unsupervised extraction of coherent regions for image based rendering J. Berent and P. L. Dragotti (Imperial College London).

Fibre Centred Tensor Faces B. P. Tiddeman, D. W. Hunter and Y. Meng (University of st andrews).

A framework for learning to recognize and segment object classes using weakly supervised training data C. Pantofaru and M. Hebert (Carnegie Mellon University).

Camera calibration for miniature, low-cost, wide-angle imaging systems O. Frank, R. Katz, C.-L. Tisse and H. Durrant-Whyte (University of Sydney).

An Automatic Framework for Figure-Ground Segmentation in Cluttered Backgrounds L. Loss, G. Bebis, M. Nicolescu (University of Nevada, Reno) and A. N. Skurikhin (Los Alamos National Laboratory).

Colour Constancy Based on Model Selection C. Li and P. M. Hall (University of Bath).

Interest-point Based Face Recognition from Range Images F. R. Al-Osaimi, M. Bennamoun and A. S. Mian (The University of Western Australia).

Class-Specific Binary Correlograms for Object Recognition J. Amores (INRIA), N. Sebe (University of Amsterdam) and P. Radeva (Computer Vision Center).

Overcoming Parallax and Sampling Density Issues in Image Mosaicing of Non-Planar Scenes Z. QI and J. R. Cooperstock (McGill University).

Simple Representation and Approximate Search of Feature Vectors for Large-Scale Object Recognition K. Kise, K. Noguchi and M. Iwamura (Osaka Prefecture University).

Local Image Features for Shoeprint Image Retrieval H. Su, D. Crookes, A. Bouridane and M. Gueham (Queen's University, Belfast).

Bayesian Surface Estimation from Multiple Cameras Using a Prior Based on the Visual Hull and its Application to Image Based Rendering A. Mullins, A. Bowen, R. G. Wilson and N. Rajpoot (University of Warwick).

A multi-class SVM classifier for automatic hand washing quality assessment D. F. Llorca (Alcala University), F. Vilarino, J. Zhou and G. Lacey (Trinity College Dublin).

A Combined RANSAC-Hough Transform Algorithm for Fundamental Matrix Estimation R. Den Hollander (TNO Defence, Security and Safety) and A. Hanjalic (Delft University of Technology).

Super-resolution of faces using the epipolar constraint R. Den Hollander, D.-J. De Lange and K. Schutte (TNO Defence, Security and Safety).

Beyond Facial Expressions: Learning Human Emotion from Body Gestures C. Shan, S. Gong and P. W. McOwan (Queen Mary, University of London).

Incremental LDA Learning by Combining Reconstructive and Discriminative Approaches M. Uray (Graz University of Technology), D. Skocaj (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science), P. M. Roth, H. Bischof (Graz University of Technology) and A. Leonardis (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science).

A single-perspective novel panoramic view from radially distorted non-central images R. Molana and K. Daniilidis (University of Pennsylvania).

Finsler Level Set Segmentation for Imagery in Oriented Domains V. Mohan, J. Melonakos (Georgia Institute of Technology), M. Niethammer, M. Kubicki (Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital) and A. Tannenbaum (Georgia Institute of Technology).

Enforcing 3D Constraints To Improve Object and Scene Recognition R. Hewitt (University of California, San Diego), L. Goncalves (Evolution Robotics Retail) and M. E. Munich (Evolution Robotics).

Session 3: Biometrics

Who are you? - real-time person identification N. Apostoloff and A. Zisserman (University of Oxford).

Segmented AAMs Improve Person-Indepedent Face Fitting J. Peyras (Università Statale di Milano).

Gender Classification using Shape from Shading J. Wu (the university of york, uk), W. A. Smith and E. R. Hancock (University of York).

Capturing Correlations Among Facial Parts for Facial Expression Analysis C. Shan, S. Gong and P. W. McOwan (Queen Mary, University of London).

Facial Emotions and Emotion Intensity Levels Classification and Classification Evaluation M. Beszedes (Slovak University of Technology) and P. F. Culverhouse (University of Plymouth).

Session 4: Segmentation

A variational framework combining level-sets and thresholding. S. Dambreville, A. Tannenbaum, A. Yezzi and M. Niethammer (Georgia Institute of Technology).

Delving into the whorl of flower segmentation M.-E. Nilsback and A. Zisserman (University of Oxford).

Improving Spatial Support for Objects via Multiple Segmentations T. Malisiewicz and A. A. Efros (Carnegie Mellon University).

Segmenting Highly Textured Nonstationary Background D. M. Russell and S. Gong (Queen Mary, University of London).

Zipf's Law in Image Coding Schemes M. S. Crosier and L. D. Griffin (University College London).

Automatic 3D Object Segmentation in Multiple Views using Volumetric Graph-Cuts N. D. F. Campbell, G. Vogiatzis, C. Hernandez and R. Cipolla (University of Cambridge).

Session 5: Image/Video Retrieval

Conditional Random Field for Natural Scene Categorization Y. Wang and s. Gong (Queen Mary, University of London).

Word Co-occurrence and Markov Random Fields for Improving Automatic Image Annotation H. J. Escalante, M. Montes y Gomez and L. E. Sucar (Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Optica y Electonica (INAOE)).

Topology-Preserved Diffusion Distance for Histogram Comparison W. Yan (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Q. Wang (Stanford University), Q. Liu, H. Lu and S. Ma (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences).

Image Retrieval through Qualitative Representations over Semantic Features Z. U. Qayyum and A. G. Cohn (University of Leeds).

Distance-Free Image Retrieval Based on Stochastic Diffusion over Bipartite Graphs C. Bauckhage (Deutsche Telekom).

Poster Session 2

Generic and Real-Time Structure from Motion E. Mouragnon (CEA), M. Lhuillier (Universite Blaise Pascal), M. Dhome (CNRS/Universite Blaise Pascal), F. Dekeyser and P. Sayd (CEA).

An Evaluation of Shape Descriptors for Image Retrieval in Human Pose Estimation P. A. Tresadern (University of Salford) and I. Reid (University of Oxford).

Fully Automated Laser Range Calibration M. Antone and Y. Friedman (BAE Systems AIT).

Isolating Motion and Color in a Motion Blurred Image A. Giusti and V. Caglioti (Politecnico di Milano).

Evolutionary feature selection for probabilistic object recognition, novel object detection and object saliency estimation using GMMs L. Trujillo (CICESE Ensenada,Mexico), G. Olague (CICESE), F. Fernandez (Universidad de Extremadura) and E. Lutton (INRIA).

All Pairs Shortest Path Formulation for Multiple Object Tracking with Application to Tennis Video Analysis F. Yan, B. Christmas and J. Kittler (University of Surrey).

Managing Particle Spread via Hybrid Particle Filter/Kernel Mean Shift Tracking T. P. Pridmore, A. Naeem and S. Mills (Nottingham University).

Shape from Texture: Fast Estimation of Planar Surface Orientation via Fourier Analysis F. Galasso and J. Lasenby (Dept. of Engineering, Signal Processing Lab., University of Cambridge).

Robust Multi-View Change Detection A. Lanza, L. Di Stefano (University of Bologna), J. Berclaz, F. Fleuret and P. Fua (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)).

Multicues 3D Monocular Upper Body Tracking Using Constrained Belief Propagation P. Noriega and O. Bernier (France Telecom R&D).

Refining implicit function representations of 3-D scenes M. Grum and A. G. Bors (University of York).

Structure from Motion via Two-State Pipeline of Extended Kalman Filters B. Clipp, G. F. Welch, J.-M. Frahm and M. Pollefeys (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

Higher-order Autoregressive Models for Dynamic Textures M. Hyndman, A. Jepson and D. J. Fleet (University of Toronto).

Automatic Identification of Morphometric Landmarks in Digital Images S. Palaniswamy, N. Thacker and C. P. Klingenberg (The University of Manchester).

Tracking Through Clutter Using Graph Cuts J. Malcolm, Y. Rathi and A. Tannenbaum (Georgia Institute of Technology).

Boosted Regression Active Shape Models D. Cristinacce and T. F. Cootes (The University of Manchester).

Shape Recovery Using Stochastic Heat Flow V. P. Namboodiri and S. Chaudhuri (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay).

Time Varying Volumetric Scene Reconstruction Using Scene Flow T. M. A. Smith, D. Redmill, N. Canagarajah and D. Bull (University of Bristol).

Fast Motion Estimation on Range Image Sequences acquired with a 3-D Camera S. Matzka, Y. R. Petillot and A. M. Wallace (Heriot Watt University).

A Practical Approach for Super-Resolution using Photometric cue and Graph Cuts S. Sharma and M. V. Joshi (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, India).

Integrating Stereo with Shape-from-Shading derived Orientation Information T. S. F. Haines and R. C. Wilson (University of York).

Active Segmentation and Adaptive Tracking Using Level Sets Z. Chen and A. M. Wallace (Heriot Watt University).

Tracking Using Online Feature Selection and a Local Generative Model T. E. Woodley (University of Cambridge), B. Stenger (Toshiba Research Europe) and R. Cipolla (University of Cambridge).

Geometrical constraint based 3D reconstruction using implicit coplanarities R. Furukawa (Hiroshima City University) and H. Kawasaki (Saitama University).

Non-Gibbsian Markov random field models for contextual labelling of structured scenes D. Heesch (Imperial College, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ ) and M. Petrou (Imperial College London).

A phase field model incorporating generic and specific prior knowledge applied to road network extraction from VHR satellite images T. Peng (Chinese Academy of Sciences), I. H. Jermyn (INRIA), V. Prinet (Chinese Academy of Sciences), J. Zerubia (INRIA) and B. Hu (Chinese Academy of Sciences).

Unsupervised Learning of Shape Manifolds N. Rajpoot (University of Warwick), M. Arif (Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS)) and A. H. Bhalerao (University of Warwick).

Multi-scale Adaptive Mask 3D Rigid Registration of Ultrasound and CT Images Z. Zhijun, S. Jerome, M. K. Soo, B. Yan and C. K. Yeung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong).

Human Pose Extraction from Monocular Videos using Constrained Non-Rigid Factorization A. Shaji, S. Chandran (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay), B. Siddiquie (University of Maryland) and D. Suter (Monash University).

Layered image model using binary PCA transparency masks Z. Zivkovic (University of Amsterdam).

Improved Face Model Fitting on Video Sequences x. Liu, F. Wheeler and P. Tu (GE Global Research).

Batch Algorithm with Additional Shape Constraints for Non-Rigid Factorization Y. R. Loke and S. Ranganath (National University of Singapore).

Denoising Manifold and Non-Manifold Point Clouds R. Unnikrishnan and M. Hebert (Carnegie Mellon University).

Navier-Stokes formulation for modelling turbulent optical flow A. Doshi and A. G. Bors (University of York).

MOTEXATION: Multiple Object Tracking with Expectation-Maximization Algorithm Y. Jin and F. Mokhtarian (University of Surrey).

Fitting Surface of Free Form Objects using Optimized NURBS Patches Network with Evolutionary Strategies (mu + lambda) - ES J. W. Branch (Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Sede Medellin), F. Prieto (Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Manizales) and P. Boulanger (University of Alberta).

Session 6: Object Recognition

Object Detection Using Shape Codebook X. Yu and L. Yi (University of Maryland).

Retina Sampling Feature Detection and Saccades; A Statistical Perspective. N. Thacker (The University of Manchester) and C. Leek (University of Wales Bangor).

Unsupervised Category Discovery in Images Using Sparse Neural Coding S. Waydo and C. Koch (California Institute of Technology).

Improvement of Retrieval Speed and Required Amount of Memory for Geometric Hashing by Combining Local Invariants M. Iwamura, T. Nakai and K. Kise (Osaka Prefecture University).

Generic Object Recognition via Shock Patch Fragments O. C. Ozcanli and B. B. Kimia (Brown University).

Session 7: Shape Modelling and Analysis

Using Priors for Improving Generalization in Non-Rigid Structure-from-Motion S. I. Olsen (University of Copenhagen) and A. E. Bartoli (CNRS).

Automated Analysis of Deformable Structure in Groups of Images V. S. Petrovic, T. F. Cootes, A. M. Mills, C. J. Twining and C. J. Taylor (The University of Manchester).

Implicit Active Model using Radial Basis Function Interpolated Level Sets X. Xie and M. Mirmehdi (University of Bristol).

Distribution-based Level Set Segmentation for Brain MR Images J. Liu, D. Chelberg (Ohio University), C. Smith and H. Chebrolu (University of Kentucky).

Sparse MRF Appearance Models for Fast Anatomical Structure Localisation R. Donner (Graz University of Technology), B. Micusik (Vienna University of Technology), G. Langs and H. Bischof (Graz University of Technology).

Session 8: Video Analysis

On New View Synthesis Using Multiview Stereo O. J. Woodford, I. Reid (University of Oxford), P. Torr (Oxford Brookes University) and A. W. Fitzgibbon (Microsoft Research).

Indoor Place Recognition using Online Independent Support Vector Machines F. Orabona (University of Genoa), C. Castellini (LIRA-Lab, University of Genova, Italy), B. Caputo (IDIAP), J. Luo (IDIAP Research Institute) and G. Sandini (Italian Institute of Technology).

Session 1: Tracking