Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns: 9th International Conference, Caip 2001 Warsaw, Poland, September 5-7, 2001 Proceedings (Paperback, 2001)

Image Indexing (MPEG-7).- MPEG-7: Evolution or Revolution?.- The MPEG-7 Visual Description Framework - Concepts, Accuracy, and Applications.- MPEG-7 Color Descriptors and Their Applications.- Texture Descriptors in MPEG-7.- An Overview of MPEG-7 Motion Descriptors and Their Applications.- MPEG-7 MDS Content Description Tools and Applications.- Image Retrieval Using Spatial Color Information.- Image Compression.- Lifting-Based Reversible Transforms for Lossy-to-Lossless Wavelet Codecs.- Coding of Irregular Image Regions by SA DFT.- Fast PNN Using Partial Distortion Search.- Near-Lossless Color Image Compression with No Error Accumulation in Multiple Coding Cycles.- Hybrid Lossless Coder of Medical Images with Statistical Data Modelling.- A Simple Algorithm for Ordering and Compression of Vector Codebooks.- MPEG 2-Based Video Coding with Three-Layer Mixed Scalability.- The Coefficient Based Rate Distortion Model for the Low Bit Rate Video Coding.- Shape-Adaptive DCT Algorithm - Hardware Optimized Redesign.- Pattern Recognition.- Superquadric-Based Object Recognition.- Weighted Graph-Matching Using Modal Clusters.- Discovering Shape Categories by Clustering Shock Trees.- Feature Selection for Classification Using Genetic Algorithms with a Novel Encoding.- A Contribution to the Schlesinger's Algorithm Separating Mixtures of Gaussians.- Diophantine Approximations of Algebraic Irrationalities and Stability Theorems for Polynomial Decision Rules.- Features Invariant Simultaneously to Convolution and Affine Transformation.- A Technique for Segmentation of Gurmukhi Text.- Efficient Computation of Body Moments.- Genetic Programming with Local Improvement for Visual Learning from Examples.- Improved Recognition of Spectrally Mixed Land Cover Classes Using Spatial Textures and Voting Classifications.- Texture Feature Extraction and Classification.- Medical Imaging.- Today's and Tomorrow's Medical Imaging.- A New Approach for Model-Based Adaptive Region Growing in Medical Image Analysis.- Attempts to Bronchial Tumor Motion Tracking in Portal Images during Conformal Radiotherapy Treatment.- Color Thinning with Applications to Biomedical Images.- Dynamic Active Contour Model for Size Independent Blood Vessel Lumen Segmentation and Quantification in High-Resolution Magnetic Resonance Images.- Medical Active Thermography - A New Image Reconstruction Method.- 3-D Modeling and Parametrisation of Pelvis and Hip Joint.- Cardiac Rhythm Analysis Using Spatial ECG Parameters and SPART Method.- Deformable Contour Based Algorithm for Segmentation of the Hippocampus from MRI.- Edge-Based Robust Image Registration for Incomplete and Partly Erroneous Data.- Motion Analysis.- Real Time Segmentation of Lip Pixels for Lip Tracker Initialization.- Particle Image Velocimetry by Feature Tracking.- Estimation of Motion through Inverse Finite Element Methods with Triangular Meshes.- Face Tracking Using the Dynamic Grey World Algorithm.- Fast Local Estimation of Optical Flow Using Variational and Wavelet Methods.- A Method to Analyse the Motion of Solid Particle in Oscillatory Stream of a Viscous Liquid.- An Optimization Approach for Translational Motion Estimation in Log-Polar Domain.- Tracking People in Sport: Making Use of Partially Controlled Environment.- Augmented Reality.- Linear Augmented Reality Registration.- Shape and Position Determination Based on Combination of Photogrammetry with Phase Analysis of Fringe Patterns.- Automated Acquisition of Lifelike 3D Human Models from Multiple Posture Data.- Augmented Reality and Semi-automated Landmarking of Cephalometric Radiographs.- Industrial Applications.- On Restoration of Degraded Cinematic Sequences by Means of Digital Image Processing.- Vision Based Measurement System to Quantify Straightness Defect in Steel Sheets.- Positioning of Flexible Boom Structure Using Neural Networks.- Material Identification Using Laser Spectroscopy and Pattern Recognition Algorithms.- Scanner Sequence Compensation.- The In