Advances in Visual Computing

1. Front Matter

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2. Activity Recognition Via Classification Constrained Diffusion Maps

   • Yunqian Ma, S. B. Damelin, O. Masoud, N. Papanikolopoulos

   Pages 1-8

3. Generating and Updating Textures for a Large-Scale Environment

   • Jinhui Hu, Suya You, Ulrich Neumann

   Pages 9-18

4. Planar Surface Detection in Image Pairs Using Homographic Constraints

   • Qiang He, Chee-hung Henry Chu

   Pages 19-27

5. Robust Quality-Scalable Transmission of JPEG2000 Images over Wireless Channels Using LDPC Codes

   • Abdullah Al Muhit, Teong Chee Chuah

   Pages 28-39

6. A Novelty Detection Approach for Foreground Region Detection in Videos with Quasi-stationary Backgrounds

   • Alireza Tavakkoli, Mircea Nicolescu, George Bebis

   Pages 40-49

7. Procedural Image Processing for Visualization

   • Xiaoru Yuan, Baoquan Chen

   Pages 50-59

8. Tracking of Individuals in Very Long Video Sequences

   • P. Fihl, R. Corlin, S. Park, T. B. Moeslund, M. M. Trivedi

   Pages 60-69

9. A Natural Interface for Sign Language Mathematics

   • Nicoletta Adamo-Villani, Bedřich Beneš, Matt Brisbin, Bryce Hyland

   Pages 70-79

10. A Novel Gait Recognition Method Via Fusing Shape and Kinematics Features

    • Yanmei Chai, Qing Wang, Jingping Jia, Rongchun Zhao

    Pages 80-89

11. Illumination Normalization for Color Face Images

    • Faisal R. Al-Osaimi, Mohammed Bennamoun, Ajmal Mian

    Pages 90-101

12. Real-Time Detection of Out-of-Plane Objects in Stereo Vision

    • Weiguang Guan, Patricia Monger

    Pages 102-111

13. Stereo Imaging with Uncalibrated Camera

    • Xiaokun Li, Chiman Kwan, Baoxin Li

    Pages 112-121

14. Global Hand Pose Estimation by Multiple Camera Ellipse Tracking

    • Jorge Usabiaga, Ali Erol, George Bebis, Richard Boyle, Xander Twombly

    Pages 122-132

15. Vision-Based Self-localization of Autonomous Guided Vehicle Using Landmarks of Colored Pentagons

    • Y. S. Kim, J. C. Kim, E. J. Park, Joonwhoan Lee

    Pages 133-140

16. An Automated System for Contact Lens Inspection

    • A. I. Bazin, T. Cole, B. Kett, M. S. Nixon

    Pages 141-150

17. Efficient Motion Search in Large Motion Capture Databases

    • Yi Lin

    Pages 151-160

18. Real-Time Rendering of Light Shafts on GPU

    • Shuyi Chen, Sheng Li, Guoping Wang

    Pages 161-169

19. Learning the Stylistic Similarity Between Human Motions

    • Yu-Ren Chien, Jing-Sin Liu

    Pages 170-179

20. Effects of Layer Partitioning in Collaborative 3D Visualizations

    • Lars Winkler Pettersson, Andreas Kjellin, Mats Lind, Stefan Seipel

    Pages 180-190

It is with great pleasure that we welcome you all to the proceedings of the 2nd InternationalSymposiumonVisualComputing(ISVC2006)heldinLakeTahoe. Followinga successfulmeeting lastyear,wewitnesseda muchstrongerandmore productive event this year. ISVC o?ers a common umbrella for the four main areas of visual computing including vision, graphics, visualization, and virtual reality. Its goal is to provide a forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitionersthroughouttheworldtopresenttheirlatestresearch?ndings,ideas, developments and applications in the broader area of visual computing. This year, the program consisted of 13 oral sessions, one poster session, ten special tracks, and six keynote presentations. The response to the call for - pers was very strong. We received more than twice the papers received last year. Speci?cally, we received over 280 submissions for the main symposium from which we accepted 65 papers for oral presentation (23% acceptance) and 56 papers for poster presentation (20% acceptance). Special track papers were solicited separately through the Organizing and Program Committees of each track. A total of 57 papers were accepted for presentation in the special tracks. All papers were reviewed with an emphasis on potential to contribute to the state of the art in the ?eld. Selection criteria included accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and signi?cance of results, and presentation quality. The review process was quite rigorous, involving two to three independent blind reviews followed by several days of discussion. During the discussion period we tried to correct anomalies and errors that might have existed in the initial reviews.

• Stereo
• Virtual Reality
• algorithm
• algorithms
• biometrics
• computational geometry
• computer graphics
• computer vision
• data model
• image analysis
• image processing
• modeling
• rendering
• visualization
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity

• Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

  George Bebis

• NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, USA

  Richard Boyle

• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA

  Bahram Parvin

• Desert Research Institute, Reno, USA

  Darko Koracin

• Digital Image Research Center, Kingston University, London, UK

  Paolo Remagnino

• Intel, Santa Clara, USA

  Ara Nefian

• University of California, Irvine, USA

  Gopi Meenakshisundaram

• Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization

  Valerio Pascucci

• Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech

  Jiri Zara

• Rockwell Scientific, Thousand Oaks, USA

  Jose Molineros

• Computer Graphics Group, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

  Holger Theisel

• Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, USA

  Tom Malzbender

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