Image Analysis and Recognition

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVIII

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2. Image Quality Assessment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Modelling of Subjective Radiological Assessments with Objective Image Quality Measures of Brain and Body CT Images

      • Ilona A. Kowalik-Urbaniak, Jane Castelli, Nasim Hemmati, David Koff, Nadine Smolarski-Koff, Edward R. Vrscay et al.

      Pages 3-13

   3. Blind Image Quality Assessment Through Wakeby Statistics Model

      • Mohsen Jenadeleh, Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam

      Pages 14-21

   4. Improving Image Quality of Tiled Displays

      • Steven B. McFadden, Paul A. S. Ward

      Pages 22-29

3. Image Enhancement

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

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   2. Structural Similarity-Based Optimization Problems with \(L^1\)-Regularization: Smoothing Using Mollifiers

      • Daniel Otero, Davide La Torre, Edward R. Vrscay

      Pages 33-42

   3. Improved Non-Local Means Algorithm Based on Dimensionality Reduction

      • Golam M. Maruf, Mahmoud R. El-Sakka

      Pages 43-50

   4. Non-local Means for Stereo Image Denoising Using Structural Similarity

      • Monagi H. Alkinani, Mahmoud R. El-Sakka

      Pages 51-59

   5. Structural Similarity Optimized Wiener Filter: A Way to Fight Image Noise

      • Mahmud Hasan, Mahmoud R. El-Sakka

      Pages 60-68

4. Image Segmentation, Registration and Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. A Real-Time Framework for Detection of Long Linear Infrastructural Objects in Aerial Imagery

      • Hrishikesh Sharma, Tanima Dutta, V. Adithya, P. Balamuralidhar

      Pages 71-81

   3. Structural Representations for Multi-modal Image Registration Based on Modified Entropy

      • Keyvan Kasiri, Paul Fieguth, David A. Clausi

      Pages 82-89

   4. Attributed Relational Graph-Based Learning of Object Models for Object Segmentation

      • Nasreen Akter, Iker Gondra

      Pages 90-99

   5. Label Fusion for Multi-atlas Segmentation Based on Majority Voting

      • Jie Huo, Guanghui Wang, Q. M. Jonathan Wu, Akilan Thangarajah

      Pages 100-106

5. Image Coding, Compression and Encryption

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. An Optimized Selective Encryption for Video Confidentiality

      • Khalfan Almarashda, Ali Dawood, Thomas Martin, Mohammed Al-Mualla, Harish Bhaskar

      Pages 109-118

   3. Near-Lossless PCA-Based Compression of Seabed Surface with Prediction

      • Paweł Forczmański, Wojciech Maleika

      Pages 119-128

   4. Adaptive Weighted Neighbors Lossless Image Coding

      • AbdulWahab Kabani, Mahmoud R. El-Sakka

      Pages 129-138

6. Dimensionality Reduction and Classification

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2015, held in Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, in July 2015. The 55 revised full papers and 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: image quality assessment; image enhancement; image segmentation, registration and analysis; image coding, compression and encryption; dimensionality reduction and classification; biometrics; face description, detection and recognition; human activity recognition; robotics and 3D vision; medical image analysis; and applications.

• biomedical
• biometric
• character recognition
• classification
• clustering
• computer vision
• image enhancement
• image quality
• image representation
• image segmentation
• mathematical morphology
• medical imaging
• pattern recognition
• remote sensing
• retinal images
• segmentation
• stereo imaging
• support vector machine
• texture analysis
• very high resolution

• University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

  Mohamed Kamel

• University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

  Aurélio Campilho

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