Preliminary Programme (subject to change)

Monday 23 Tuesday 24 Wednesday 25
8:15 Registration 8:30 Registration 8:30 Registration
9:15 Opening
9:30 Keynote #1
9:00 Keynote #2
10:00 Sq Km Array
9:00 Panel Discussion
10:30 Tea break 10:30 Tea break 10:30 Tea break
10:50 Oral session #1
Optical flow and tracking
10:50 Oral session #3
Camera calibration and quality
10:50 Poster session #3
12:10 Closing and awards
12:30 Lunch break 12:30 Lunch break 12:30 Lunch break
1:30 Poster session #1 1:30 Poster session #2  
3:00 Tea break 3:00 Tea break  
3:20 Oral session #2
Depth and 3D
3:20 Oral session #4
Fuzzy, genetic, expert techniques
 
  5:00 Steering committee  
  6:30-10:00 Conference dinner  

Oral session 1 (Monday morning): Optical flow and tracking

  • Spatial Reasoning for Robot Navigation Using the Helmholtz-Hodge Decomposition of Omnidirectional Optical Flow, Yoshihiko Mochizuki; Atsushi Imiya
  • Smart Wheelchair Guidance using Optical Flow, Karl van Workum; Richard Green
  • A New Inconsistency Measure for Linear Systems and Two Applications in Motion Analysis, Yan Niu; Anthony Dick; Michael J Brooks
  • Real-time correlogram tracking for airborne traffic surveillance, Ratheesh Kalarot; John Morris
  • Application of Tabu Search Optimization in Real-time Video Tracking, Hongzhi Gao; Richard Green

Poster session 1 (Monday afternoon):

  • Assessment of Digital Elevation Model Accuracy using ALOS-PRISM Stereo Imagery, Stephen J McNeill; Stella Belliss
  • Effectiveness of a strip-mining approach for VQ Image Coding using GPGPU implementation, Akiyoshi Wakatani
  • Robust Rigid Registration for Image Matching with Arbitrary Extrinsic Photometric Noise, Al Shorin
  • Red Blood Cell Segmentation from SEM Image, Brendan McCane
  • Facial Expressions Using A Quadratic Deformation Model: Analysis and Synthesis, Mohammad Obaid; Chiang Tay; Ramakrishnan Mukundan; Andrew Bainbridge-Smith
  • Face Recognition from Single Sample Based on Human Face Perception, Ce Zhan; Wanqing Li; Philip Ogunbona
  • Towards a generalized colour image segmentation for kiwifruit detection, Pavithra Wijethunga; Sandhya Samarasinghe; Don Kulasiri; Ian Woodhead
  • Stereo Accuracy for Collision Avoidance, Waqar Khan; John Morris; Reinhard Klette
  • Multiclass Object Classification for Computer Vision using Linear Genetic Programming, Carlton Downey
  • Development and Characterisation of an Easily Configurable Range Imaging System, Adrian Jongenelen; Dale A Carnegie; Andrew Payne; Adrian Dorrington
  • Analysis of Appearance Space Attributes for Texture Synthesis and Morphing, Burkhard Wuensche; Felix Manke
  • A Bag-of-Words Speedometer for Single Camera SLAM, Tom Botterill; Richard Green; Steven Mills
  • Ground-plane Detection Using Stereo Depth Values for Wheelchair Guidance, Ran Gong; Richard Green
  • Directed Correspondence Search: Finding Feature Correspondences In Images Using the Harmony Search Algorithm, Jaco Fourie; Steven Mills; Richard Green
  • An environment for vision science experiments, Oliver Giles; Zhe Chen; Rick Millane
  • Evaluation of Three Local Descriptors on Low Resolution Images for Robot Navigation, Du Huynh; Amritpal Saini; Wei Liu
  • Sign Language Analysis and Recognition: A Preliminary Investigation*, Shujjat Khan; Gourab Sen Gupta; Donald G. Bailey; Serge N. Demidenko; Christopher H. Messom
    * The research is supported by the Royal Society of New Zealand grant ISATA08-13 under the Bilateral Research Activities Programme
  • Model-based Least-squares Optimal Interpolation, Andrew Gilman; Donald G. Bailey; Stephen Marsland
  • Current Work in the .enpeda.. Project, John Morris; Ralf Haeusler; Ruyi Jiang; Reinhard Klette
  • SIFT-Based Object Recognition with Fast Alphabet Creation and Reduced Curse of Dimensionality, Martin Stommel; Otthein Herzog

Oral session 2 (Monday afternoon): Depth and 3D

  • Breaking the ’Ton’: Achieving 1% depth accuracy from stereo in real time, John Morris; Georgy Gimel'farb
  • A statistical method for display and segmentation of 3D image data, Bahareh Vafadar; Bing Wu; Phil Bones
  • Matching 2-D Ellipses to 3-D Circles, with application to Vehicle Pose Identification, Marcus Hutter; Nathan Brewer
  • Automatic Joint and Skeleton Computation for the Animation of Sketch-based 3D Objects, Burkhard Wuensche; Rong Yang
  • Automatic and Efficient 3D Face Feature Segmentation with Active Contours, Matthias Krueger

Oral session 3 (Tuesday morning): Camera calibration and quality

  • Validation of a Polynomial Model for Generic Cameras, Andreas Luber; Ralf Reulke
  • Calibration of the Relative Poses of Multiple Cameras, Robert J Valkenburg; Nawar Alwesh
  • Camera Shading Calibration Using a Spatially Modulated Field, Johann A Schoonees; Terry Palmer
  • An Efficient and Selective Image Compression Scheme using Huffman and Adaptive Interpolation, Shipra Sharma; Sunil Bhooshan
  • Improving the Image Quality of Spectral CT Volume Rendering, Niels J. A. de Ruiter

Poster session 2 (Tuesday afternoon):

  • Human Motion Capture and Representation, Chiang Tay; Richard Green
  • Boosted Dynamic Active Shape Model, Yu Chen; Xiongcai Cai; Arcot Sowmya
  • Integrity-Based Fuzzy C-Means Resilient to Cluster Size Sensitivity, Phen Lan Lin; Yan Hao Lai
  • Segmentation and tracking of individual Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria in dense populations of motile cells, Pascal Vallotton; Changming Sun; Dadong Wang; Lynne Turnbull; Prabhakar Ranganathan; Cynthia Whitchurch
  • Spatial Relationships over Sparse Representations, Nicolas Loménie; Daniel Racoceanu
  • A new homogenity-based approach to edge detection using PSO, Mahdi Setayesh; Mengjie Zhang; Mark Johnston
  • Camera Orientation Based on Matching Road Networks, Karsten Kozempel; Ralf Reulke
  • Optimisation and Comparison Framework for Monocular Camera-Based Face Tracking, Stefan Marks; John Windsor; Burkhard Wuensche
  • Measured Effects of Temperature on Illumination-Independent Camera Noise, Kenji Irie; Alan McKinnon; Keith Unsworth; Ian Woodhead
  • Obstacle Avoidance on a Mobile Inverted Pendulum Robot, Robert Tang; Richard Green
  • An Efficient Region-based Skin Color Model for Reliable Face Localization, Pathompong Ruangyam
  • Automatic Lung Segmentation in HRCT Images with Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease Using Graph-Cut, Laurent Massoptier; Avishkar Misra; Arcot Sowmya
  • Mosaicing of Microscope Images based on SURF, Wen Rong; Hui Chen; Jiaju Liu; Yanyan Xu; Zhe Li
  • Tracking Hand-off in Large Surveillance Networks, Alex Cichowski; Christopher Madden; Henry Detmold; Anthony Dick; Anton van den Hengel; Rhys Hill
  • Super-Resolution by Prediction Based Sub-pel Motion Estimation, Damith J Mudugamuwa; Xiangjian He
  • Pose Estimation of Femur Fracture Segments for Image Guided Orthopedic Surgery, Pavan Gamage
  • A Comparison of Terrain Classification Using Local Feature Measurements of 3-Dimensional Colour Pointcloud Data, Danny Gibbins; Leszek Swierkowski
  • Contextual Image Filtering, Erik R Urbach
  • Undue Influence: Mitigating Range-Intensity Coupling in AMCW 'Flash' Lidar Using Scene Texture, John P Godbaz; Michael J. Cree; Adrian Dorrington
  • Learning to Tune Level Set Methods, Xiongcai Cai; Arcot Sowmya

Oral session 4 (Tuesday afternoon): Fuzzy, genetic and expert techniques

  • Genetic Programming for Image Classification with Unbalanced Data, Urvesh Bhowan; Mengjie Zhang
  • Detecting Motion from Noisy Scenes using Genetic Programming, Brian Pinto; Andy Song
  • The New Segmentation and Fuzzy Logic based Multi-Sensor Image Fusion, Jamal Saeedi; Karim Faez
  • Impact of Quasi-expertise on Knowledge Acquisition in Computer Vision, Avishkar Misra; Arcot Sowmya; Paul Compton
  • Dynamic Colour Adaptation for Colour Object Tracking, Guy K. Kloss; Heesang Shin; Napoleon H. Reyes

Poster session 3 (Wednesday morning):

  • User-Driven Lossy Compression for Images and Video, Nathan Brewer; Nianjun Liu; Li Cheng; Lei Wang
  • Modelling of Elastic Deformation using Stereo Vision and Smooth Particles Hydrodynamics, Yuk Hin Chan; Alfonso Strozzi; Anthony Lau; Rui Gong; Patrice Delmas; Georgy Gimel'farb
  • A Part-based Template Matching Method for Multi-view Human Detection, Thanh Duc Nguyen
  • Charge sharing between pixels in the spectral Medipix2 x-ray detector, Hansjörg Zeller; Stephane Dufreneix; Michael James Clark; Phil Butler; Anthony Butler; Nick Cook; Lukas Tlustos
  • Adaptive Pixel Classifier for Binary Structured Light - A probabilistic kernel approach, Hsiang-Jen Chien; Chia-Yen Chen; Chi-Fa Chen; Yih-Ming Su
  • Reduction of Computational Complexity of Hough Transforms using a Convolution Approach, Christopher Hollitt
  • Improving feature extraction for automatic medical image categorisation, Jeremiah D. Deng
  • A silhouette based technique for locating and rendering foot movements over a plane, Ben McDonald; Richard Green
  • Dimensionality Reduction in Face Detection: A Genetic Programming Approach, Kourosh Neshatian; Mengjie Zhang
  • Boosting Minimalist Classifiers for Blemish Detection in Potatoes, Michael Barnes
  • Detecting and Recognizing Numerical Strings in Farsi Document Images, Ali Abedi; Karim Faez; Saeed Mozaffari
  • General Traffic Sign Recognition by Feature Matching, Feixiang Ren; Jinsheng Huang; Reinhard Klette
  • Kernel PCA of HOG features for posture detection, Peng Cheng; Wanqing Li; Philip Ogunbona
  • Face Recognition Using HMAX Method for Feature Extraction and Support Vector Machine Classifier, Zohreh Yaghoubi; Karim Faez; Morteza Eliasi; Sara Motamed
  • Hierarchical Block-based Image Registration for Computing Multiple Image Motions, Gareth van Essen; Stephen Marsland; JP Lewis
  • Surface Projection for Mixed Pixel Restoration, Robert Larkins; Michael J. Cree; Adrian Dorrington; John P Godbaz
  • Fusing Image Representations for Classification Using Support Vector Machines, Can Demirkesen; Hocine Cherifi
  • Edge Strength Evaluation with Reaction-Diffusion Systems, Atsushi Nomura
  • Options in using Graphics for Evaluating Correspondence Algorithms, Ralf Haeusler; Ruyi Jiang; Sandino Morales; Reinhard Klette