IMVIP 2005

30 August 2005, Tuesday

9.15 – 10.00 Invited Paper I

Unsupervised Multiresolution Face-Kernel Recognition Models

Maria Pavlou and Prof. Nigel M. Allinson, University of Sheffield, UK.

10.30 – 13.00 Session1: Video Processing and Coding

A Novel Unequal Error Protection Scheme for Low Bit-rate Mobile Video Transmission

A. Sheikh Akbari, P. Bagheri Zadeh and J. J. Soraghan,

University of Strathclyde, UK.

Adaptive Lagrange Multiplier for Low Bit Rates in H.264

Yury V. Ivanov and C.J. Bleakley, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Full-Frame Video Coding for Facial Video Sequences based on Principle Component Analysis

Ulrik Soderstrom and Haibo Li, Umea University, Sweden.

Coherent Segmentation of Video into Syntactic Regions

Alan F. Smeaton, Hervé Le Borgne, Noel E. O’Connor, Tomasz Adamek, Oliver Smyth and Seán De Burca, Dublin City University, Ireland.

Hardware Implementation of a Conceptual Decoder for Real Time Analysis of MPEG-2 DVB-T stream

Michael Janiaut, Camel Tanougast, Christian Mannino, Hassan Rabah,

Yves Berviller and Serge Weber,

Laboratoire d’Instrumentation Electronique de Nancy, France.

14.00 – 15.40 Session 2: Watermarking and Feature Extraction

An Efficient Distributed Watermarking Scheme Using Block Information Measure

Khaled A. Nagaty, T. M. Nazmy and Marwa Ali, Ain-Shams University, Egypt.

Host Adaptive Image Watermarking in the Dual Tree Wavelet Domain

A. Ian Thompson, A. Bouridane, F. Kurugollu and F. Khelifi,

Queen's University, Belfast, UK.

Direct Feature Extraction on Range Image Data

Sonya Coleman, Bryan Scotney and Dermot Kerr, University of Ulster, UK.

A Novel Approach to the Evaluation of Gabor and Wavelet Texture

for the Segmentation of Aerial Scenes

Padraig Corcoran and Adam Winstanley, National University of Ireland, Ireland.

16.00 – 18.00 Session 3: Pattern Recognition

How to Solve Classification and Contour Estimation Problems Using Conditional Probability

S.S. Belaifa and L. Lemmou, Boumerdes University, Algeria.

Pattern Recognition Methods for Identification of Shellfish Larvae

Jonathan Campbell, John Slater, John Gillespie, Ivan Bendezu

and Fionn Murtagh, Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Ireland.

An Invariant Salient Region Detector

Ling Shao, Queen's University, Belfast, UK.

Sub-Linear Feature Detection from Bathymetric Data-Sets with Webcom-G

Martin P. Kenirons, Oisin Curran, John Cunniffe, Seamus Torpey,

Jenny Ryan, Paul Ryan and Andrew Shearer, National University of Ireland, Ireland.

31 August 2005, Wednesday

9.15 – 10.00 Invited Paper I

Quantitative Analysis of Qualitative Images

Prof. Charles M. Falco, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.

10.30 – 13.00 Session 4: Machine Vision and Applications

A Machine Vision System for Forensic Analysis

Ovidiu Ghita, René Gapert, Laura Monks, Jason Last

and Paul F. Whelan, Dublin City University, Ireland.

Face Recognition Using a Hybrid Neural Network

K.Z. Haroutunian, M. Farrokhi, M. Jahed Motlag

and C.M. Khodavardian, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran.

Mobile Stereo Vision for the Identification of Defective Road Studs

Ciara Mulvihill, Catherine Deegan, Conor Fitzgerald, Charles Markham

and Simon McLoughlin, Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Ireland.

Flexible Silhouette Based Creation of Virtual Humans

Eamonn Boyle and Derek Molloy, Dublin City University, Ireland.

Measuring Biaxial Strain in Rubber Using Stereo Vision

S.D. McLoughlin, N. Murphy, J. Hanley, B. Lanigan and C.E. Markham,

National University of Ireland, Ireland.

14.00 – 15.40 Session 5: Image Coding and Retrieval

A Novel Progressive Image Coding Scheme for Handheld Videophone Applications

P. Bagheri Zadeh, A. Sheikh Akbari and J. J. Soraghan,

Glasgow Caledonian University, UK.

Applying mpiJava to Fractal Image Compression

Daniel C. Doolan, Sabin Tabirca and David Murphy,

National University of Ireland, Ireland.

Real-Time Exploitation of Inter-Colour Frame Correlation for

Lossless Image Compression

Padraig Ryan and Joseph Connell, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland.

Visualisation Method for “Glance-Over” Browsing in Document Retrieval

Hiroshi Sako and Atsushi Hiroike, Central research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., Japan.

16.00 – 16.50 Session 6: Pattern Recognition Applications and Modelling

PDF Estimation Techniques for Salient Region Detection

Ling Shao, Queen's University, Belfast, UK.

Enhancing Imaging Signatures of Supernova Remnants Using Point-Spread Function Matching Techniques

Seathrún Ó Tuairisg and Andrew Shearer, National University of Ireland, Ireland.

14.00 – 18.00 Poster Session

Performance of a Statistical Colour Snake with Normalised RGB, HSV, and TSL Colour Models

Mary Looney, Donal O’Donovan and Joe Connell, Cork Institute of Technology,

Ireland.

Facial Expression Classification Using a One-Against-All Support Vector Machine

John Ghent and John McDonald, National University of Ireland, Ireland.

3D Optical Flow Methods in Cardiac Imaging

Joan Condell and John Barron, University of Western Ontorio, Canada.

Exterospecific Flow Field Decomposition for Robust Motion Estimation

Fabian Campbell-West and Paul Miller, Queen's University, Belfast, UK.

Flexible Extraction of Human Shape in Real-Time Using Motion-Tuned Active-Contour Based Segmentation

Olivier Bompis, Marine Sorin, Eamonn Boyle and Derek Molloy

Dublin City University, Ireland.

A New Approach for the Choice of a Color Space for Skin Detection

K. Chenaoua and A. Bouridane, Queen's University, Belfast, UK

Segmentation Methods for Optical Microscopy Images: A Practical Survey

Christopher Hudy, Jonathan Campbell and John Slater,

Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Ireland.

Efficient Hardware Architectures for Mpeg-4 Core Profile

Daniel Larkin, Andrew Kinane, Valentin Muresan, and Noel O’Connor,

Dublin City University, Ireland.