Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXI

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2. Low-Level Image Processing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. BNRFBE Method for Blur Estimation in Document Images

      • Van Cuong Kieu, Florence Cloppet, Nicole Vincent

      Pages 3-14

   3. Edge Width Estimation for Defocus Map from a Single Image

      • Andrey Nasonov, Alexandra Nasonova, Andrey Krylov

      Pages 15-22

   4. RSD-DOG: A New Image Descriptor Based on Second Order Derivatives

      • Darshan Venkatrayappa, Philippe Montesinos, Daniel Diep, Baptiste Magnier

      Pages 23-34

   5. Ringing Artifact Suppression Using Sparse Representation

      • Alexey V. Umnov, Andrey S. Krylov, Andrey V. Nasonov

      Pages 35-45

   6. Patch-Based Mathematical Morphology for Image Processing, Segmentation and Classification

      • Olivier Lézoray

      Pages 46-57

   7. Time Ordering Shuffling for Improving Background Subtraction

      • Benjamin Laugraud, Philippe Latour, Marc Van Droogenbroeck

      Pages 58-69

   8. Fast and Low Power Consumption Outliers Removal for Motion Vector Estimation

      • Giuseppe Spampinato, Arcangelo Bruna, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Puglisi

      Pages 70-80

   9. Adaptive Scale Selection for Multiscale Image Denoising

      • Federico Angelini, Vittoria Bruni, Ivan Selesnick, Domenico Vitulano

      Pages 81-92

   10. Secure Signal Processing Using Fully Homomorphic Encryption

       • Thomas Shortell, Ali Shokoufandeh

       Pages 93-104

3. Video Processing and Camera Networks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. Towards a Bayesian Video Denoising Method

      • Pablo Arias, Jean-Michel Morel

      Pages 107-117

   3. Collaborative, Context Based Activity Control Method for Camera Networks

      • Marek Kraft, Michał Fularz, Adam Schmidt

      Pages 118-129

   4. EFIC: Edge Based Foreground Background Segmentation and Interior Classification for Dynamic Camera Viewpoints

      • Gianni Allebosch, Francis Deboeverie, Peter Veelaert, Wilfried Philips

      Pages 130-141

   5. A Unified Camera Calibration from Arbitrary Parallelograms and Parallepipeds

      • Jae-Hean Kim, Jin Sung Choi

      Pages 142-153

   6. Motion Compensation Based on Robust Global Motion Estimation: Experiments and Applications

      • Mathieu Pouzet, Patrick Bonnin, Jean Laneurit, Cédric Tessier

      Pages 154-166

   7. Bayesian Fusion of Back Projected Probabilities (BFBP): Co-occurrence Descriptors for Tracking in Complex Environments

      • Mark Moyou, Koffi Eddy Ihou, Rana Haber, Anthony Smith, Adrian M. Peter, Kevin Fox et al.

      Pages 167-180

   8. Embedded System Implementation for Vehicle Around View Monitoring

      • Wan-Jhen Lo, Daw-Tung Lin

      Pages 181-192

4. Motion and Tracking

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2015, held Catania, Italy, in October 2015. The 76 revised full papers were carefully selected from 129 submissions. Acivs 2015 is a conference focusing on techniques for building adaptive, intelligent, safe and secure imaging systems. The focus of the conference is on following topic: low-level Image processing, video processing and camera networks, motion and tracking, security, forensics and biometrics, depth and 3D, image quality improvement and assessment, classification and recognition, multidimensional signal processing, multimedia compression, retrieval, and navigation.

• Biometrics
• Computer vision
• Image search
• Multimedia streaming
• Video search
• 3D imaging
• Activity recognition and understanding
• Autonomous surveillance
• Clustering and classification
• Computational imaging
• Computer vision representations
• Embedded system
• Human machine interaction
• Image processing
• Image segmentation
• Mobile devices
• Object detection
• Tracking
• Video denoising
• Video segmentation

• Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy

  Sebastiano Battiato

• Arcueil CX, France

  Jacques Blanc-Talon

• Catania, Italy

  Giovanni Gallo

• Gent, Belgium

  Wilfried Philips

• CSIRO, Sydney, Australia

  Dan Popescu

• Vision Lab., University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium

  Paul Scheunders

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