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2000 International Conferenceon Image Processing

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Volume II of III

September 10-13, 2000Vancouver Convention & Exposition Centre

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society

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TABLE OF CONTENTSVolume II

TA01: CONVERGENCE OF IMAGE/VIDEO PROCESSING, COMPUTERVISION, AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS

OVERVIEW OF IBR: SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE ISSUES II - 1T. Whined, Microsoft Research, USA

TWO APPROACHES TO INCORPORATE APPROXIMATE GEOMETRY INTO II - 5MULTI-VIEW IMAGE CODINGB. Girod, Stanford University, USA, M. Magnor, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

FROM IMAGE AND VIDEO COMPRESSION TO COMPUTER GRAPHICS II - 9T. Chen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

THE GEOMETRY-IMAGE REPRESENTATION TRADEOFF FOR RENDERING II - 13S. Kang, R. Szeliski, P. Anandan, Microsoft Corporation, USA

VIDEO EDITING USING FIGURE TRACKING AND IMAGE-BASED RENDERING II - 17J. Rehg, Compaq Cambridge Research Lab, USA, S. Kang, Microsoft Research, USA, T.-J. Cham, CompaqCambridge Research Lab, USA

ON THE COMPRESSION OF IMAGE BASED RENDERING SCENE II - 21J. Li, H. Shum, Y.-Q. Zhang, Microsoft Research, China

A SPECTRAL ANALYSIS FOR LIGHT FIELD RENDERING II - 25S. Chan, University of Hong Kong, China, H.-Y. Shum, Microsoft Research, China

TA02: JPEG 2000

JPEG 2000: OVERVIEW, ARCHITECTURE, AND APPLICATIONS II • 29M. Gormish, Ricoh Silicon Valley, Inc., USA, D. Lee, Hewlett Packard, USA, M. Marcellin, University ofArizona, USA

EMBEDDED BLOCK CODING IN JPEG 2000 II - 33D. Taubman, University of New South Wales, Australia, E. Ordentlich, iCompression, USA, M.Weinberger, G. Seroussi, Hewlett Packard, USA, I. Ueno, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan, F. Ono,Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics, Japan

VISUAL OPTIMIZATION TOOLS IN JPEG 2000 II - 37W. Zeng, S. Daly, S. Lei, Sharp Laboratories of America, USA

EFFICIENT REGION OF INTEREST CODING TECHNIQUES IN THE UPCOMIMG II • 41JPEG2000 STILL IMAGE CODING STANDARDC. Christopoulos, J. Askelof, M. Larsson, Ericsson Radio Systems AB, Sweden

JPEG 2000 NEXT GENERATION IMAGE COMPRESSION SYSTEM FEATURES A N D . . . . II - 45SYNTAXM. Boliek, Ricoh Silicon Valley, Inc., USA, J. Houchin, Eastman Kodak Company, USA, G. Wu, RicohSilicon Valley, Inc., USA

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AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF JPEG 2000 FUNCTIONALITIES II - 49D. Santa-Cruz, T. Ebrahimi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland

JASPER: A SOFTWARE-BASED JPEG-2000 CODEC IMPLEMENTATION 1 1 - 5 3M. Adams, F. Kossentini, University of British Columbia, Canada

MONTION-JPEG 2000 STANDARDIZATION AND TARGET MARKET II - 57T. Fukuhara, K. Katoh, S. Kimura, K. Hosaka, A. Leung, Sony Corporation, Japan

TA03: WATERMARKING II

A ROBUST OBLIVIOUS WATERMARKING SCHEME II - 61M. Ramkumar, A. Akansu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

GEOMETRIC-INVARIANT ROBUST WATERMARKING THROUGH CONSTELLATION . . . II - 65MATCHING IN THE FREQUENCY DOMAINR. Caldelli, University of Florence, Italy, M. Barni, University of Siena, Italy, F. Bartolini, A. Piva,University of Florence, Italy

JOINT HALFTONING AND WATERMARKING II - 69D. Kacker, Shutterfly, Inc., USA, J. Allebach, Purdue University, USA

IMAGE WATERMARKING BY MOMENT INVARIANTS II - 73M. Alghoniemy, A. Tewfik, University of Minnesota, USA

GENERALIZED 2-D CYCLIC PATTERNS FOR SECRET WATERMARK GENERATION... II - 77D. Delannay, B. Macq, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

A SCHEME FOR JOINT WATERMARKING AND COMPRESSION OF VIDEO II - 80R. Dugad, N. Ahuja, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

ROBUST OBLIVIOUS DIGITAL WATERMARKING USING IMAGE TRANSFORM II - 84PHASE MODULATIONF. Alturki, R. Mersereau, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

WAVELET-BASED WATERMARKING FOR TAMPER PROOFING OF STILL IMAGES... . II - 88H. Inoue, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Japan, A. Miyazaki, Kyushu University, Japan, T.Katsura, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Japan

TA04: IMAGE SEGMENTATION II

SPATIAL SEGMENTATION OF COLOR IMAGES ACCORDING TO THE MDL II - 92FORMALISMS. Pateux, IRISA, France

SYMMETRIC REGION GROWING II - 96S.-Y. Wan, W. Higgins, Penn State University, USA

TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK FOR CONTOUR-BASED GROUPING II - 100AND OBJECT RECOGNITION USING MARKOV RANDOM FIELDSD. Schlueter, S. Wachsmuth, G. Sagerer, Bielefeld University, Germany, S. Posch, University ofHalle-Wittenberg, Germany

AM-FM IMAGE SEGMENTATION II - 104T. Tangsukson, J. Havlicek, University of Oklahoma, USA

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JOINT REGION MERGING CRITERIA FOR WATERSHED-BASED IMAGE II - 108SEGMENTATION5. Hernandez, K. Barner, University of Delaware, USA

PERCEPTIBLE LEVEL LINES AND ISOPERIMETRIC RATIO II - 112J. Froment, Universite Paris, France

TEXTURE SEGMENTATION USING MOVING AVERAGE MODELING APPROACH II - 116P. Chanyagorn, K. Eom, George Washington University, USA

COLOR SEGMENTATION AND FIGURE-GROUND SEGREGATION OF NATURAL II - 120IMAGESS. Wong, W. Leow, National University of Singapore, Singapore

TA05: WIRELESS VIDEO TRANSMISSION

CHANNEL CONDITION ARQ RATE CONTROL FOR REAL-TIME WIRELESS VIDEO.. . . II - 124UNDER BUFFER CONSTRAINTSP.-C. Hu, Z.-L. Zhang, M. Kaveh, University of Minnesota, USA

PERCEPTUALLY-BASED ROBUST IMAGE TRANSMISSION OVER WIRELESS II - 128CHANNELSM. Buckley, M. Ramos, S. Hemami, S. Wicker, Cornell University, USA

EFFICIENT IMAGE AND CHANNEL CODING FOR WIRELESS PACKET NETWORKS . . . II - 132P. Sherwood, X. Tian, K. Zeger, University of California, San Diego, USA

TRANSMISSION OF MULTIPLE DESCRIPTION AND LAYERED VIDEO OVER AN II - 136EGPRS WIRELESS NETWORKA. Reibman, AT&T Labs - Research, USA, Y. Wang, Polytechnic University, USA, X. Qiu, Z. Jiang, K.Chawla, AT&T Labs - Research, USA

UNEQUAL ERROR PROTECTION FOR FOVEATION-BASED ERROR RESILIENCE II - 140OVER MOBILE NETWORKSS. Lee, Lucent Technologies, USA, C. Podilchuk, Bell Labs, USA, V. Krishnan, A. Bovik, University ofTexas at Austin, USA

A NOVEL PRODUCT CODING AND DECODING SCHEME FOR WIRELESS IMAGE II - 144TRANSMISSIONL. Cao, C. Chen, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA

INFLUENCE OF ENCODER PARAMETERS ON THE DECODED VIDEO QUALITY II - 148FOR MPEG-4 OVER W-CDMA MOBILE NETWORKSL. Ducla Soares, Instituto Superior Tecnico / Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Portugal, S. Adachi, NTTDoCoMo, Inc., Japan, F. Pereira, Instituto Superior Tecnico / Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Portugal

LONG-TERM MEMORY MOTION-COMPENSATED PREDICTION FOR ROBUST II - 152VIDEO TRANSMISSIONT. Wiegand, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, N. Faerber, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg,Germany and Stanford University, USA, K. Stuhlmueller, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, B.Girod, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany and Stanford University, USA

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TA06: FRACTAL CODING AND VECTOR QUANTIZATION

FAST CODE ENHANCEMENT WITH LOCAL SEARCH FOR FRACTAL IMAGE II - 156COMPRESSIONR. Hamzaoui, D. Saupe, M. Hiller, University of Leipzig, Germany

VQ IMAGE CODING USING SUB-VECTOR TECHNIQUES II - 160J.-S. Pan, National Kaohsiung Institute of Technology, Taiwan, Z. Lu, S. Sun, Harbin Institute ofTechnology, China

AN EFFICIENT DECODING SCHEME FOR FRACTAL IMAGE COMPRESSION II - 164H.-T. Chu, C.-C. Chen, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan

VECTOR QUANTIZATION WITH EDGE RECONSTRUCTION II - 167R. lordache, Tampere University of Technology, Finland, A. Beghdadi, Universite Paris, France, I. Tabus,Tampere University of Technology, Finland

LINEARLY CONSTRAINED GENERALIZED LLOYD ALGORITHM FOR VIRTUAL II - 171CODEBOOK VECTOR QUANTIZATIONL. Winger, University of Waterloo, Canada

BLOCK TRUNCATION CODING USING EDGENESS INFORMATION II - 175A. Beghdadi, Universite Paris, France, R. lordache, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

USE OF GAUSSIAN CODEBOOK FOR RESIDUAL VECTOR QUANTIZERS II - 179M. Khataie, Harris Corporation, Canada, M. Soleymani, M. Ahmad, Concordia University, Canada

ADAPTIVE POST-PROCESSING FOR FRACTAL IMAGE COMPRESSION II - 183N. Giang, D. Saupe, University of Leipzig, Germany

DETERMINING AND CONTROLLING CONVERGENCE IN FRACTAL IMAGE CODING.. II - 187T. Tan, University of Sydney, Australia, H. Yan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

PYRAMID TEXTURE COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION USING II - 191INTERPOLATIVE VECTOR QUANTIZATIONY.-S. Kwon, I.-C. Park, C.-M. Kyung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

COMPRESSION OF HYPERSPECTRAL DATA USING VECTOR QUANTISATION AND.. II - 195THE DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMM. Pickering, M. Ryan, Australia Defense Force Academy, Australia

ASYMPTOTIC CLOSED-LOOP DESIGN OF PREDICTIVE MULTI-STAGE VECTOR II - 199QUANTIZERSH. Khalil, K. Rose, University of California, USA

FRACTAL CODING OF SHAPES BASED ON A PROJECTED IFS MODEL II - 203£. Guerin, E. Tosan, A. Baskurt, University Claude Bernard Lyon I, France

TA07: FACIAL IMAGE PROCESSING

LOW-COMPLEXITY FACE-ASSISTED VIDEO CODING 1 1 - 2 0 7C.-W. Lin, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, Y.-J. Chang, Y.-C. Chen, National Tsing-HuaUniversity, Taiwan

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RECONSTRUCTION OF LOCAL FEATURES FOR FACIAL VIDEO COMPRESSION II - 211S. Chatterjee, S. Banerjee, K. Biswas, Indian Institute of Technology, Hauz Khas, India

TWO SUBSPACE METHODS TO DISCRIMINATE FACES AND CLUTTERS II • 215L. Meng, T. Nguyen, Boston University, USA

THREE DIMENSIONAL FACIAL MODEL ADAPTATION II - 219N. Sarris, M. Strintzis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

A SYSTEM FOR THE AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF 3-D FACIAL FEATURE II - 223POINTS FOR FACE MODEL CALIBRATIONY. Yan, K. Challapali, Philips Research, USA

MODE-BASED HUMAN FACE DETECTION IN UNCONSTRAINED SCENES II - 227M. Fouad, A. Darwish, S. Shaheen, F. Bayoumi, Cairo University, Egypt

EXTRACTION OF A SYMMETRIC OBJECT FOR EYEGLASS FACE ANALYSIS II - 231USING ACTIVE CONTOUR MODELY. Saito, Y. Kenmochi, K. Kotani, Japan Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Japan

FACE DETECTION BY FACETS: COMBINED BOTTOM-UP AND TOP-DOWN II - 235SEARCH USING COMPOUND TEMPLATESG. Hoist, University of British Columbia, Canada

A SIMPLE AND EFFICIENT FACE DETECTION ALGORITHM FOR VIDEO II - 239DATABASE APPLICATIONSA. Albiol, Politechnic University of Valencia, Spain, L. Torres, Politechnic University of Catalonia, Spain,C. Bouman, E. Delp, Purdue University, USA

RECOVERING FRONTAL-POSE IMAGE FROM A SINGLE PROFILE IMAGE II - 243J. Ma, N. Ahuja, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, C. Neti, A. Senior, IBM T.J. WatsonResearch Center, USA

EFFICIENT FACE DETECTION FOR MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS II - 247N. Tsapatsoulis, Y. Avrithis, S. Kollias, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

ORIENTATION TEMPLATE MATCHING FOR FACE LOCALIZATION IN COMPLEX II - 251VISUAL SCENESB. Froba, C. Kublbeck, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Germany

LIP CONTOUR EXTRACTION USING A DEFORMABLE MODEL II - 255A.-C. Liew, S.-H. Leung, W.-H. Lau, City University of Hong Kong, China

A NEW APPROACH TO TRACKING WITH ACTIVE CONTOURS II - 259M. Pardas, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain, E.Sayrol, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

TA08: VIDEO INDEXING AND EDITING I

IMAGE AND AUDIO SEQUENCE VISUALIZATION AND INTERACTION II - 263MECHANISMS FOR STRUCTURED VIDEO BROWSING AND EDITINGC. Toklu, S.-P. Liou, Siemens Corporate Research, USA

VIDEO SUMMARIZATION USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING IN EIGENSPACE II - 267K. Masumitsu, T. Echigo, IBM Research, Japan

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LOW-COMPLEXITY GLOBAL MOTION ESTIMATION FROM P-FRAME MOTION II • 271VECTORS FOR MPEG-7 APPLICATIONSA. Smolic, M. Hoeynck, J.-R. Ohm, Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, Germany

KEY FRAME SELECTION TO REPRESENT A VIDEO II - 275F. Dufaux, Compaq Cambridge Research Lab, USA

SEGMENTATION AND TRACKING OF VIDEO OBJECTS : SUITED TO 1 1 - 2 7 9CONTENT-BASED VIDEO INDEXING, INTERARCTIVE TELEVISION ANDPRODUCTION SYSTEMSM. Maziere, F. Chassaing, France Telecom, France

NOVEL APPROACH TO DETERMINING TEMPO AND DRAMATIC STORY SECTIONS.. II - 283IN MOTION PICTURESB. Adams, Curtin University of Technology, Australia, C. Dorai, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA,S. Venkatesh, Curtin University of Technology, Australia

A REGION BASED DESCRIPTOR FOR SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF MOTION II - 287ACTIVITY FOR COMPRESSED VIDEOA. Divakaran, K. Peker, H. Sun, Mitsubishi Electric ITA, USA

FAST DISSOLVE OPERATIONS FOR MPEG VIDEO CONTENTS II - 291A. Yoneyama, KDD, Japan, Y. Hizume, Science University of Tokyo, Japan, Y. Nakajima, KDD, Japan

SPATIO-TEMPORAL JOINT PROBABILITY IMAGES FOR VIDEO SEGMENTATION II - 295Z.-N. Li, Simon Fraser University, Canada, J. Wei, City University of New York, USA

SYNTHETIC SUMMARIES OF VIDEO SEQUENCES USING A MULTIRESOLUTION II - 299BASED KEY FRAME SELECTION TECHNIQUE IN A PERCEPTUALLY UNIFORMCOLOR SPACEP. Campisi, A. Neri, Universita' degli Studi di Roma Tre, Italy

WIPE PRODUCTION IN MPEG-2 COMPRESSED VIDEO II - 303W. Fernando, C. Canagarajah, D. Bull, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

TA09: IMAGE INTERPOLATION AND SPATIAL TRANSFORMATIONS

TEXTURE MAPPING BY SUCCESIVE REFINEMENT II - 307S. Horbelt, P. Thevenaz, M. Unser, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

NEW EDGE DIRECTED INTERPOLATION II - 311X. Li, M. Orchard, Princeton University, USA

POCS-BASED IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION FROM IRREGULARLY-SPACED 1 1 - 3 1 5SAMPLESR. Stasinski, Hogskolen i Narvik, Norway, J. Konrad, INRS-Telecommunications, Canada

WAVELET-BASED RECONSTRUCTION OF IRREGULARLY-SAMPLED IMAGES: II - 319APPLICATION TO STEREO IMAGINGC. Vazquez, J. Konrad, INRS-Telecommunications, Canada, E. Dubois, University of Ottawa, Canada

PREDICTION OF IMAGE DETAIL II - 323D. Muresan, T. Parks, Cornell University, USA

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FAST BINARY IMAGE RESOLUTION INCREASING BY K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR II - 327LEARNINGH. Kim, P. Barreto, University Sao Paulo, Brazil

A NEAR EXACT IMAGE EXPANSION SCHEME FOR BI-LEVEL IMAGES II - 331S. Zahir, A. Agha, R. Ward, University of British Columbia, Canada

COMPLETE PARAMETRIZATION OF PIECEWISE POLYNOMIAL INTERPOLATORS.... II - 335ACCORDING TO DEGREE, SUPPORT, REGULARITY, AND ORDERP. Thevenaz, T. Blu, M. Unser, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland

INTERPOLATION IN THE DST AND DCT DOMAINS II - 339S. Martucci, NEC Research Institute, USA

TWO FAST EXTRAPOLATION / SUPERRESOLUTION ALGORITHMS II - 343P. Ferreira, University of Aveiro, Portugal

MODELING AND EXTRAPOLATION OF PRIOR SCENE INFORMATION FOR SET .. II - 347THEORETIC RESTORATION AND SUPER-RESOLUTION OF DIFFRACTION-LIMITEDIMAGESS. Bhattacharjee, M. Sundareshan, University of Arizona, USA

AN EFFICIENT WAVELET-BASED ALGORITHM FOR IMAGE SUPERRESOLUTION II - 351N. Nguyen, Stanford University, USA, P. Milanfar, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

IMAGE MAGNIFICATION USING DECIMATED ORTHOGONAL WAVELET II - 355TRANSFORMF. Nicolier, IUT Le Creuson, France, F. Truchetet, IUT Le CREUSOT, France

THREE ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTING THE 2-D DISCRETE HARTLEY II - 359TRANSFORMA. Grigoryan, Texas A&M University, USA, S. Agaian, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

TA10: WAVELETS AND FILTER BANKS

WAVELET TRANSFORM FOOTPRINTS: CATCHING SINGULARITIES FOR II - 363COMPRESSION AND DENOISINGP. Dragotti, Ecole Polytechnique Federate de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, M. Vetterli, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, USA and Ecole Polytechnique Federate de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

ORTHONORMAL FINITE RIDGELET TRANSFORM FOR IMAGE COMPRESSION II - 367M. Do, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland, M. Vetterli, University of California,Berkeley, USA and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland

MULTISCALE CLASSIFICATION USING COMPLEX WAVELETS AND HIDDEN II • 371MARKOV TREE MODELSJ. Romberg, H. Choi, R. Baraniuk, Rice University, USA, N. Kingsbury, University of Cambridge, UnitedKingdom

A DUAL-TREE COMPLEX WAVELET TRANSFORM WITH IMPROVED II - 375ORTHOGONALITY AND SYMMETRY PROPERTIESN. Kingsbury, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

NON-REDUNDANT, DIRECTION ALL Y SELECTIVE, COMPLEX WAVELETS II - 379R. van Spaendonck, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, F. Fernandes, M. Coates, S. Burrus,Rice University, USA

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PATTERN EXTRACTION AND SYNTHESIS USING A HIERARCHICAL II - 383WAVELET-BASED FRAMEWORKC. Scott, R. Nowak, Rice University, USA

NON-SEPARABLE NON-LINEAR DECOMPOSITIONS WITH APPLICATIONS TO II - 387IMAGE COMPRESSIONE. Cardoso, Jr., E. da Silva, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

TOTAL VARIATION IMPROVED WAVELET THRESHOLDING IN IMAGE II - 391COMPRESSIONT. Chan, H. Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

A WAVELET CORE FOR VIDEO PROCESSING II - 395C. Diou, L. Torres, M. Robert, L1RMM, France

A NEW SERIES OF BIORTHOGONAL WAVELET FILTERS FOR IMAGE II - 399COMPRESSIONM. Zhao, Biomedical Center, China, Y. Zhao, Concordia University, Canada

SUBIMAGE EXTRACTION BY INTEGER-TYPE LIFTING WAVELET TRANSFORMS II - 4035. Takano, K. Niijima, Kyushu University, Japan

LINEAR-PHASE PARAUNITARY FILTER BANKS WITH UNEQUAL LENGTH II - 407T. Kuroko, T. Urushibara, M. Ikehara, Keio University, Japan

TA11: IMAGE PROCESSING AND CODING FOR APPLICATIONS

JOINT SPACE-FREQUENCY SEGMENTATION, ENTROPY CODING AND THE II - 411COMPRESSION OF ULTRASOUND IMAGESE. Chiu, J. Vaisey, S. Atkins, Simon Fraser University, Canada

ROBUST QUANTIZATION TABLE DESIGN FOR ECHOCARDIAC IMAGES II - 415A. Al-Fahoum, A. Reza, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,, USA

SPACE-TIME COMPRESSION OF FLIR VIDEO II - 419L. Russo, Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company, USA

GEOMETRIC AND TOPOLOGICAL LOSSY COMPRESSION OF DENSE RANGE II - 423IMAGESA. Sappa, LAAS - CNRS, France, M. Garcia, Rovira i Virgili University, Spain, B. Vintimilla, PolytechnicUniversity of Catalonia, Spain

DIRECT MINUTIAE EXTRACTION FROM GRAY-LEVEL FINGERPRINT IMAGE BY II - 427RELATIONSHIP EXAMINATIONJ. Liu, Z. Huang, K. Chan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

WAVELET-BASED CODING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC IMAGES... . II - 431AROUND LAND MASSESJ. Fowler, Mississippi State University, USA, D. Fox, Naval Research Laboratory, USA

HUMAN GAIT AND POSTURE ANALYSIS FOR DIAGNOSING NEUROLOGICAL II - 435DISORDERSH. Lee, L Guan, J. Burne, University of Sydney, Australia

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NONLINEAR DISTORTION CORRECTION IN ENDOSCOPIC VIDEO IMAGES II - 439C. Zhang, J. Helferty, Penn State University, USA, G. McLennan, University of Iowa, USA, W. Higgins,Penn State University, USA

A DEFORMATION MODEL FOR BIOTISSUES BEHAVIOUR SIMULATION II - 443S. Di Bona, O. Salvetti, Italian National Research Council, Italy

GLOBAL 3D RIGID REGISTRATION OF MEDICAL IMAGES II - 447C. Fookes, J. Williams, M. Bennamoun, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

VQ BASED BAYESIAN IMAGE FILTERING II - 451M. Gratia, I. Echave, Universidad Pais Vasco, Spain, J. Ruiz-Cabello, Universidad Complutense, Spain

MULTIDIMENSIONAL ELASTIC REGISTRATION OF IMAGES USING SPLINES II - 455J. Kybic, M. Unser, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland

REGISTRATION OF DIGITAL OPHTHALMIC IMAGES USING VECTOR MAPPING II - 459N. Ryan, C. Heneghan, University College Dublin, Ireland, M. Cahill, Institute of Ophthamology, Ireland

TA12: APPLICATIONS OF IMAGE ANALYSIS

DUAL-BAND PASSIVE INFRARED IMAGERY FOR AUTOMATIC CLUTTER II - 463REJECTIONL. Chan, S. Der, N. Nasrabadi, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USA

IMAGE METRICS FOR CLUTTER CHARACTERIZATION II - 467K. Namuduri, K. Bouyoucef, L. Kaplan, Clark Atlanta University, USA

GENDER CLASSIFICATION USING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES II - 471M.-H. Yang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, B. Moghaddam, Mitsubishi ElectricCorporation, USA

A MODULAR CLUTTER REJECTION TECHNIQUE FOR FLIR IMAGERY USING II - 475REGION-BASED PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSISS. Rizvi, T. Saadawi, City University of New York, USA, N. Nasrabadi, U.S. Army Research Laboratory,USA

COMPARATIVE STUDY ON STATISTICAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION COMBINED.... II - 479WITH MODIFICATION OF THE NUMBER OF PROJECTIONSK. Morikawa, K. Ogawa, Hosei University, Japan

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION OF LUNG REGIONS IN CHEST RADIOGRAPHS:A II - 483MODEL GUIDED APPROACHH. Luo, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, R. Gaborski, Rochester Institute of Technology,USA, R. Acharya, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

ROBUST ESTIMATION OF PLANAR RIGID BODY MOTION IN MAGNETIC II - 487RESONANCE IMAGINGA. Fahmy, B. Tawfik, Y. Kadah, Cairo University, Egypt

3D CURVES TRACKING AND ITS APPLICATION TO CORTICAL SULCI DETECTION.. II - 491C. Renault, M. Desvignes, M. Revenu, GREYC-ISMRA, France

A DEVICE TO CLASSIFY SURFACE ORIENTATION FROM POLARIZATION IMAGES.. II - 495P. Terrier, V. Devlaminck, Universite' des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France

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A NEW REFERENCE POINT FOR FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION II - 499K. Rerkrai, V. Areekul, Kasetsart University, Thailand

RELIABLE AND FAST FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION FOR SECURITY II - 503APPLICATIONSS. Huvanandana, C. Kim, J.-N. Hwang, University of Washington, USA

AN ADAPTIVE PARALLEL SYSTEM DEDICATED TO PROJECTIVE IMAGE II - 507MATCHINGE. Pissaloux, Laboratoire de Robotique de Paris and Universite de Rouen, France, F. Le Coat, Laboratoire deRobotique de Paris, France , A. Tissot, F. Durbin, CEA/DRIF/DCRE/SEIM, France

TP01: DVD TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS

DVD: GROUND ZERO IN THE CONVERGENCE ZONE II - 511J. Taylor, Microsoft Corporation, USA

DVD-18: APPLICATION OPPORTUNITIES & MANUFACTURING 1 1 - 5 1 2R. Seidel, Warner Advanced Media Operations, USA

DVD: THE BRIDGE TO BROADBAND II - 513T. Collart, Interactual Technologies, USA

MASTERING FOR DVD II - 514G. Smith, Paramount Pictures, USA

DVD: REDEFINING MULTIMEDIA II - 515P. Nasiopoulos, Daikin US, USA

SILICON SOLUTIONS FOR RECORDABLE DVD PRODUCTS ENABLING STORAGE II - 516OF DIGITAL VIDEO FOR MASS MARKETSB. Saffari, Z. Najam, C-Cube Microsystems, USA

DVD APPLICATIONS IN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY II - 517S. Benedetto, Pioneer, USA

TP02: IMAGE AND VIDEO DATABASES II

WAVELET-BASED SALIENT POINTS FOR IMAGE RETRIEVAL II - 518E. Loupias, Laboratoire Reconnaissance de Formes et Vision, France, N. Sebe, Institute of AdvancedComputer Science, The Netherlands, S. Bres, J.-M. Jolion, Laboratoire Reconnaissance de Formes et Vision,France

FAST RETRIEVAL METHODS FOR IMAGES WITH SIGNIFICANT VARIATIONS II - 522P. Fieguth, R. Wan, University of Waterloo, Canada

MULTIRESOLUTION-HISTOGRAM INDEXING AND RELEVANCE FEEDBACK II - 526LEARNING FOR IMAGE RETRIEVALP. Muneesawang, L. Guan, University of Sydney, Australia

IMAGE TEXTURE DESCRIPTION USING COMPLEX WAVELET TRANSFORM II - 530S. Hatipoglu, S. Mitra, University of California, USA, N. Kingsbury, University of Cambridge, UnitedKingdom

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IMAGE DATABASES, SCALE AND FRACTAL TRANSFORMS II - 534B. Schouten, P. deZeeuw, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, The Netherlands

SHAPE MATCHING USING A CURVATURE BASED POLYGONAL APPROXIMATION... II - 538IN SCALE-SPACEA. Pinheiro, E. Izquierdo, M. Ghanbari, University of Essex, United Kingdom

IMAGE RETRIEVAL WITH LOCAL AND SPATIAL QUERIES II - 542B. Moghaddam, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, USA, H. Biermann, New York University, USA, D.Margaritis, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

IMAGE RETRIEVAL ON UNCOMPRESSED AND COMPRESSED DOMAINS II • 546R.-F. Chang, W.-J. Kuo, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan, H.-C. Tsai

TP03: MOTION ESTIMATION II

MOTION ESTIMATION USING THE SPATIO-TEMPORAL CONTINUOUS WAVELET II - 550TRANSFORM: NEW RESULTS AND ALTERNATIVE IMPLEMENTATIONSF. Mujica, Texas Instruments, USA, R. Murenzi, Clark Atlanta University, USA, M. Smith, GeorgiaInstitute of Technology, USA, S.-I. Park, Motorola, USA

MESH AND "CRACK LINES": APPLICATION TO OBJECT-BASED MOTION II - 554ESTIMATION AND HIGHER SCALABILITYG. Marquant, S. Pateux, C. Labit, IRISA/INRIA, France

HIERARCHICAL MOTION ESTIMATION WITH SPATIAL TRANSFORMS II - 558F. Lopes, M. Ghanbari, University of Essex, United Kingdom

MOTION ESTIMATION WITH INCOMPLETE INFORMATION USING II - 562OMNI-DIRECTIONAL VISIONJ. Lee, U. Neumann, University of Southern California, USA

MOTION ESTIMATION USING ADAPTIVE BLOCKSIZE OBSERVATION MODEL A N D . . II - 566EFFICIENT MULTISCALE REGULARIZATION5. Tandjung, T. Gunawan, M. Chong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

PARAMETRIC DESCRIPTION OF OBJECT MOTION USING EMUS II - 570A. Ekin, University of Rochester, USA, R. Mehrotra, Eastman Kodak Company, USA, A. Tekalp,University of Rochester, USA

DIRECTIONAL FILTERS AND A NEW STRUCTURE FOR ESTIMATION OF OPTICAL.. II - 574FLOW/. Austvoll, Stavanger University College, Norway

OPTICAL FLOW ESTIMATION USING FORWARD-BACKWARD CONSTRAINT II - 578EQUATIONA. Randriantsoa, Y. Berthoumieu, Universite Bordeaux, France

TP04: DOCUMENT PROCESSING

SCANNER-MODEL-BASED DOCUMENT IMAGE IMPROVEMENT II - 582M. Bern, D. Goldberg, Xerox PARC, USA

ON DATA-FILLING ALGORITHMS FOR MRC LAYERS II - 586R. De Queiroz, Xerox Corporation, USA

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ANALYSIS, UNDERSTANDING AND REPRESENTATION OF CHINESE NEWSPAPER... II - 590WITH COMPLEX LAYOUTM. Chen, X. Ding, J. Liang, Tsinghua University, China

A NOVEL SCHEME FOR IMAGE ROTATION FOR DOCUMENT PROCESSING II - 594K. Mahata, A. Ramakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science, India

OPTIMIZING BLOCK-THRESHOLD SEGMENTATION FOR MRC COMPRESSION II - 597R. de Queiroz, Z. Fan, Xerox Corporation, USA, T. Tran, Johns Hopkins University, USA

DOCUMENT IMAGE MATCHING BASED ON COMPONENT BLOCKS II - 601H. Peng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Southeast University, China, F. Long, W.-C. Siu, Z. Chi,D. Feng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

HOUGH TECHNIQUE FOR BAR CHARTS DETECTION AND RECOGNITION IN II - 605DOCUMENT IMAGESY. Zhou, C. Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore

CANCELLATION OF SHOW-THROUGH IN DUPLEX SCANNING II - 609G. Sharma, Xerox Corporation, USA

TP05: TOMOGRAPHY

BAYESIAN MULTIRESOLUTION ALGORITHM FOR PET RECONSTRUCTION II - 613T. Frese, C. Bouman, Purdue University, USA, N. Rouze, G. Hutchins, Indiana University School ofMedicine, USA, K. Sauer, University of Notre Dame, USA

LOCAL VECTOR TOMOGRAPHY BY USE OF WAVELETS II - 617K. Strahlen, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden

EXTRACTION OF ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION WITH FACTOR ANALYSIS II - 621Y. Nyui, K. Ogawa, Hosei University, Japan, E. Kunieda, Keio University, Japan

OBJECT-BASED RECONSTRUCTION USING COUPLED TOMOGRAPHIC FLOWS II - 625H. Feng, D. Castanon, W. Karl, Boston University, USA, E. Miller, Northeastern University, USA

TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION OF HOMOGENEOUS OBJECTS USING M U L T I . . . . H - 629STEP ARTK. Strahlen, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden

A MULTILEVEL DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION ALGORITHM FOR FAST O(NA2LOGN) II - 633REPROJECTION OF TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGESA. Boag, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, Y. Bresler, E. Michielssen, University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign, USA

EXTRACTION OF PULMONARY FISSURES FROM THIN-SECTION CT IMAGES . . . H - 637USING CALCULATION OF SURFACE-CURVATURES AND MORPHOLOGY FILTERSM. Kubo, N. Niki, University ofTokushima, Japan, K. Eguchi, National Shikoku Cancer Center Hospital,Japan, M. Kaneko, M. Kusumoto, N. Moriyama, National Cancer Center Hospital, Japan, H. Omatsu, R.Kakinuma, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Japan, H. Nishiyama, Social Health Insurance MedicalCenter, Japan, K. Mori, Tochigi Cancer Center, Japan, N. Yamaguchi, National Cancer Center ResearchInstitute, Japan

IMAGING NEAR-SURFACE BURIED STRUCTURE WITH HIGH-RESOLUTION II - 641SURFACE-WAVE GROUP-VELOCITY TOMOGRAPHYJ. Martin, T. Kubota, University of South Carolina, USA, L. Long, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

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TP06: VIDEO ENHANCEMENT

ENHANCEMENT OF COMPRESSED VIDEO USING VISUAL QUALITY II - 645MEASUREMENTSC. Segall, A. Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA

A MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI ESTIMATOR FOR HIGH RESOLUTION VIDEO II - 649RECONSTRUCTION FROM MPEG VIDEOY. Altunbasak, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, A. Patti, 1000 Liberate Technologies, USA

SIMULTANEOUS MOTION ESTIMATION AND RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT OF II - 653COMPRESSED LOW RESOLUTION VIDEOJ. Mateos, Universidad de Granada, Spain, A. Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA, R. Molina,Universidad de Granada, Spain

FLICKER REDUCTION IN OLD FILMS II - 657V. Naranjo, A. Albiol, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

BLOTCHES CORRECTION AND CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT FOR OLD FILM II - 660PICTURESL. Tenze, G. Ramponi, S. Carrato, University of Trieste, Italy

LOCALLY ADAPTIVE DEBLOCKING FILTER FOR LOW BIT RATE VIDEO II - 664B. Cahill, C. Heneghan, University College Dublin, Ireland

LOW-COMPLEXITY POST-PROCESSING FOR ARTIFACT REDUCTION IN II - 668BLOCK-DCT BASED VIDEO CODINGL. Atzori, University of Cagliari, Italy, F. De Natale, University ofTrento, Italy, F. Granelli, University ofGenoa, Italy

A ROBUST METHOD OF IMAGE FLICKER CORRECTION FOR II - 672HEAVILY-CORRUPTED OLD FILM SEQUENCEST. Ohuchi, T. Seto, T. Komatsu, T. Saito, Kanagawa University, Japan

SELECTIVE SHARPNESS ENHANCEMENT OF HEAVILY-CORRUPTED OLD FILM II - 676SEQUENCEST. Seto, T. Ohuchi, T. Komatsu, T. Saito, Kanagawa University, Japan

MOTION COMPENSATED DE-INTERLACING FOR BOTH REALTIME VIDEO AND II - 680STILL IMAGESD. Van De Ville, W. Philips, I. Lemahieu, Ghent University, Belgium

NON-LINEAR TECHNIQUES FOR VIDEO-DEINTERLACING II - 684A. Giani, P. White, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, W. Collis, M. Weston, Snell andWilcox, United Kingdom

TP07: IMAGE PROCESSING APPLICATIONS

ROAD DETECTION IN SAR IMAGES USING GENETIC ALGORITHM WITH REGION.. . . II - 688GROWING CONCEPTB.-K. Jeon, J.-H. Jang, K.-S. Hong, POSTECH, South Korea

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HANDWRITTEN CHINESE CHARACTER RECOGNITION THROUGH A VIDEO II - 692CAMERAX. Tang, C. Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, J. Liu, Nanyang Technological University,Singapore

A METHOD FOR SEGMENTATION OF CURSIVE HANDWRITINGS AND ITS II - 696APPLICATION TO CHARACTER SHAPE EXTRACTIONJ. Gao, X. Ding, Tsinghua University, China

ANALYSIS AND RECONSTRUCTION OF BROKEN HANDWRITTEN DIGITS II - 700D. Yu, University of Sydney, Australia, H. Yan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

A NEW MORPHOLOGICAL METHOD FOR CURSIVE WORD SEGMENTATION II - 704L. Veloso, R. de Sousa, J. de Carvalho, Federal University ofParaiba, Brazil

COMBUSTION ANALYSIS BY IMAGE PROCESSING OF PREMIXED FLAMES II - 708G. Baldini, ENEL-CESI, Italy, P. Campadelli, R. Lanzarotti, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy

EXTRACTION OF TREE GROUPS FROM HIGH-RESOLUTION DIGITAL SURFACE II - 712MODELSS. Mayer, German Aerospace Center, Germany

AN ALGORITHM FOR CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT AND SEGMENTATION OF II - 716COMPLEX GEOPHYSICAL IMAGESC. Gout, Universite de Pau, France, S. Vieira-Teste, TOPCAD SA, France

CRATERS DETECTION VIA POSSIBILISTIC SHELL CLUSTERING II - 720M. Barni, A. Mecocci, G. Perugini, University of Siena, Italy

ACTIVE CONTOUR BASED ROCK SOLE RECOGNITION II - 724C.-H. Kuo, A. Tewfik, University of Minnesota, USA

AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF URBAN REGIONS FROM MULTISPECTRAL SPOT II - 728SATELLITE IMAGERYQ. Jiang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, T. Keaton, HRL Laboratories, LLC, USA

TEXTURE-BASED SEGMENTATION OF SATELLITE WEATHER IMAGERY II - 732V. Lakshmanan, National Severe Storms Laboratory, USA, V. DeBrunner, University of Oklahoma, USA,R. Rabin, National Severe Storms Laboratory, USA

DEFORMATION OF A CARTOGRAPHIC ROAD NETWORK ON A SPOT SATELLITE... . II - 736IMAGEG. Rellier, X. Descombes, J. Zerubia, 1NRIA, France

TP08: STEREOSCOPIC AND 3-D IMAGE ANALYSIS

RANGE IMAGE SEGMENTATION WITH APPLICATION TO CAD MODEL II - 740ACQUISITION/. Khalifa, University of Waterloo, Canada, M. Moussa, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, M. Kamel,University of Waterloo, Canada

DENSE RANGE IMAGE SMOOTHING USING ADAPTIVE REGULARIZATION II - 744Y. Sun, University of Tennessee, USA, J.-K. Paik, Chung-Ang University, South Korea, J. Price, M.Abidi, University of Tennessee, USA

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GRADIENT BASED POLYHEDRAE SEGMENTATION FOR 3-D RANGE IMAGE II - 748S. Li, D. Zhao, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA

INCREMENTAL SHAPE RECONSTRUCTION USING STEREO IMAGE SEQUENCES II - 752T. Moyung, P. Fieguth, University of Waterloo, Canada

RECOVERING THE VANISHING SELF-POLAR TRIANGLE FROM A SINGLE VIEW II - 756OF A PLANAR PATTERNP. Gurdjos, R. Payrissat, IRIT - UPS, France

OBJECT MODELING USING SPACE CARVING II - 760E. Hemayed, A. Farag, University of Louisville, USA

ROBUST DEPTH-MAP ESTIMATION FROM IMAGE SEQUENCES WITH PRECISE II - 764CAMERA OPERATION PARAMETERSW. Zheng, Y. Kanatsugu, Y. Shishikui, Y. Tanaka, NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories,Japan

A HIERARCHICAL GENETIC DISPARITY ESTIMATION ALGORITHM FOR II - 768MULTIVIEW IMAGE SYNTHESISL. Luo, D. Clewer, D. Bull, C. Canagarajah, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

GENERATION OF A DISPARITY PANORAMA USING A 3-CAMERA CAPTURING II - 772SYSTEMK. Yamada, T. Ichikawa, Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan, Japan, T. Naemura, K.Aizawa, Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan and University of Tokyo, Japan, T. Saito,Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan and Kanagawa University, Japan

A NEW METHOD FOR PERSPECTIVE VIEW REGISTRATION II - 776L. Lucchese, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA and Universita' di Padova, Italy

A GENERALIZED 3D SHAPE SAMPLING METHOD AND FILE FORMAT FOR II - 780STORAGE OR INDEXINGJ.-J. Chen, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan, C.-C. Chiang, Industrial Tech. ResearchInstitute, Taiwan, D. Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan

TP09: COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING

CHROMATICITY DIFFUSION II - 784B. Tang, G. Sapiro, University of Minnesota, USA, V. Caselles, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

ENHANCEMENT OF COLOR IMAGES IN POOR VISIBILITY CONDITIONS II - 788K. Tan, J. Oakley, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

HYPERCOMPLEX WIENER-KHINTCHINE THEOREM WITH APPLICATION TO II - 792COLOR IMAGE CORRELATIONT. Ell, , USA, S. Sangwine, University of Reading, United Kingdom

COMPARISON OF COLOR IMAGE EDGE DETECTORS IN MULTIPLE COLOR II - 796SPACESS. Wesolkowski, University of Guelph, Canada, M. Jernigan, University of Waterloo, Canada, R. Dony,University of Guelph, Canada

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UNSUPERVISED COLOR TEXTURE FEATURE EXTRACTION AND SELECTION FOR... II - 800SOCCER IMAGE SEGMENTATIONN. Vandenbroucke, L. Macaire, Laboratoire dAutomatique, France, J.-G. Postaire, Universite des Sciences etTechnologies de Lille, France

WAVELET-BASED COLOR IMAGE DENOISING II - 804B. Thomas, Sierra Imaging, Inc., USA, J. Rodriguez, University of Arizona, USA

A FUZZY COLOR CREDIBILITY APPROACH TO COLOR IMAGE FILTERING II - 808C. Vertan, N. Boujemaa, INR1A, France, V. Buzuloiu, Politehnica University, Romania

A COLOR EDGE DETECTOR BASED ON DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY II - 812M. Chapron, ENSEA-ETIS, France

A NORMALIZED COLOR DIFFERENCE EDGE DETECTOR BASED ON QUATERNION .. II - 816REPRESENTATIONC. Cai, Huaqiao University, China, S. Mitra, University of California, USA

A COLOR EDGE DETECTOR BASED ON STATISTICAL RUPTURE TESTS II - 820M. Chapron, ENSEA-ETIS, France

GAMUT CLIPPING IN COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING II - 824C. Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, S. Kwok, Hong Kong University of Science &Technology, China

TP10: VIDEO CODING II

DICTIONARY APPROXIMATION FOR MATCHING PURSUIT VIDEO CODING II - 828R. Neff, A. Zakhor, University of California, Berkeley, USA

ADAPTIVE GOP STRUCTURE SELECTION FOR REAL-TIME MPEG-2 VIDEO II - 832ENCODINGY. Yokoyama, NEC Corporation, Japan

LOW BIT-RATE SUBBAND VIDEO CODING USING CONTEXT MODELS II - 836M. Coban, R. Mersereau, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

EFFICIENT CODING OF SEGMENTATION MAPS FOR LAYERED OBJECT II - 840REPRESENTATIONSH. Schwarz, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut fur Nachrichtentechnik Berlin, Germany, E. Miiller, Universitat Rostock,Germany

VIDEO COMPRESSION USING INTEGER DCT II - 844Y.-J. Chen, S. Oraintara, T. Nguyen, Boston University, USA

ON IMPROVING MPEG SPATIAL SCALABILITY II - 848M. Domanski, A. Luczak, S. Mackowiak, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

TRELLIS-BASED R-D OPTIMAL QUANTIZATION IN H.263+ II - 852M. Luttrell, J. Wen, PacketVideo Corporation, USA, J. Villasenor, University of California, Los Angeles,USA

SCALABLE LOSSY TO LOSSLESS VIDEO CODING VIA ADAPTIVE 3D WAVELET II - 855TRANSFORM AND CONTEXT MODELINGT. Qiu, X. Wu, Z. Xiao, University of Western Ontario, Canada

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SIGNIFICANCE TREE IMAGE SEQUENCE CODING WITH DCT-BASED PYRAMID II - 859STRUCTUREC.-K. Cheong, K.-S. Cho, S.-W. Lee, Hoseo University, South Korea

AN EFFICIENT ALGORITHM FOR REALIZING MATCHING PURSUITS AND ITS II • 863APPLICATIONS IN MPEG4 CODING SYSTEMK.-P. Cheung, Y.-H. Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

ADAPTIVE MOTION VECTOR VECTOR QUANTIZATION FOR VIDEO CODING II - 867L. da Silva Cruz, University of Coimbra, Portugal, J. Woods, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

MESH BASED VIDEO CODING AT VERY LOW BITRATE II - 871N. Laurent, G. Robert, France Telecom, France

EFFICIENT MOTION COMPENSATION ALGORITHM BASED ON SECOND-ORDER II - 875PREDICTIONS. Kim, C.-S. Kim, S. Lee, Seoul National University, South Korea

TP11: SHAPE AND 3D MODEL CODING

AN INTERACTIVE QUALITY EVALUATION OF REDUCED POLYGON MODEL II - 879D. Kase, T. Hamamoto, S. Hangai, Science University of Tokyo, Japan

A COARSE-TO-FINE APPROACH FOR THE GENERATION AND TRACKING OF II - 883MESH OBJECTS FROM A NATURAL IMAGE SEQUENCEJ.-T. Ko, S.-J. Wang, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan

FEATURE-BASED VIDEO MOSAIC II - 887C.-T. Hsu, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, T.-H. Cheng, Philips Research East Asia - Taipei,Taiwan, R. Beuker, Philips Semiconductors B.V., The Netherlands, J.-K. Horng, Philips Research East Asia- Taipei, Taiwan

CONTOUR ANALYSIS USING TIME-VARYING AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL II - 891K. Eom, George Washington University, USA

REGION-BASED SCANNING FOR IMAGE COMPRESSION II - 895S.-I. Kamata, Y. Hayashi, Kyushu University, Japan

ADAPTIVE CONTOUR SAMPLING AND CODING USING SKELETON AND II - 899CURVATUREF. Jaillet, Y. Ghamri Doudane, M. Melkemi, A. Baskurt, University Claude Bernard Lyon I, France

CONSTRAINED AND UNCONSTRAINED SIMPLIFICATION OF IMAGE PARTITIONS... II - 903ENCODED WITH THE METHOD OF TRANSITION POINTSA. Pinho, University of Aveiro, Portugal

ON DPCM AND ITS VARIATION APPLIED TO GEOMETRY COMPRESSION II - 907F. Ng, Intel Corporation, USA, B.-L. Yeo, EXP.com, USA, M. Yeung, Intel Corporation, USA

HIERARCHICAL CODING OF 3D MODELS WITH SUBDIVISION SURFACES II - 911F. Moran, N. Garcia, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

SHAPE APPROXIMATION THROUGH RECURSIVE SCALABLE LAYER II - 915GENERATIONG. Melnikov, A. Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA

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MODEL-AIDED CODING OF MULTI-VIEWPOINT IMAGE DATA II - 919M. Magnor, P. Eisert, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, B. Girod, Stanford University, USA

FOREGROUND/BACKGROUND BIT ALLOCATION FOR REGION-OF-INTEREST II - 923CODINGD. Chai, Edith Cowan University, Australia, K. Ngan, University of Western Australia, Australia, A.Bouzerdoum, Edith Cowan University, Australia

TP12: MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSING AND IMAGE ANALYSIS

SEGMENTATION-FREE SKELETONIZATION OF GRAY-SCALE IMAGES VIA PDE'S . . . .H • 927D. Chung, G. Sapiro, University of Minnesota, USA

A GRAYSCALE HIT-OR-MISS TRANSFORM BASED ON LEVEL SETS II - 931B. Raducanu, M. Grana, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain

FIRST STEPS TOWARDS A SELF-DUAL MORPHOLOGY II - 934H. Heijmans, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, The Netherlands, R. Keshet, Hewlett-PackardLaboratories, Israel

A PDE APPROACH TO NONLINEAR IMAGE SIMPLIFICATION VIA LEVELINGS II - 938AND RECONSTRUCTION FILTERSP. Maragos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, F. Meyer, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France

MULTIRESOLUTION HIDDEN MARKOV TREES FOR ANALYSIS OF AUTOMATIC II - 942TARGET RECOGNITION ALGORITHMSD. Stanford, Mathsoft, USA, J. Pitton, University of Washington, USA

FAST CLASSIFICATION USING WEIGHTED DISTORTION II - 946A. Aiyer, R. Gray, Stanford University, USA

IMPULSE RESTORATION TEMPLATE MATCHING UNDER GEOMETRIC II - 950UNCERTAINTIESR. Dufour, E. Miller, Northeastern University, USA, N. Galatsanos, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

A PYRAMIDAL ALGORITHM FOR AREA MORPHOLOGY II - 9545. Acton, University of Virginia, USA

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