IPCV'08: July 16, 2008 Schedule

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6:45am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)


SESSION 9-IPCV:   RECOGNITION TECHNIQUES (Chair: TBA)
                  July 16, 2008 (Wednesday); 08:00am - 10:40am
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 7)

08:00 - 08:20am:  Seasonal Adaptation of Vegetation Color in Satellite Images
                  Srinivas Jakkula, Vamsi K. R. Mantena, Ramu Pedada,
                  Yuzhong Shen, and Jiang Li
                  Old Dominion University, USA

08:20 - 08:40am:  Online Arabic Character Recognition for Handheld Devices
                  Khaled Al-Ghoneim and Abdulrahman Alarifi
                  Technical & Vocational Training Corporation, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia;
                  King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

08:40 - 09:00am:  A New Spectral Feature for Shape Comparison
                  Omer M. Soysal, Jianhua Chen, and Helmut Schneider
                  Louisiana State University, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, USA

09:00 - 09:20am:  Decorrelation of the Color Space, Feature/Decision Fusion,
                  and Concurrent Neural Classifiers for Color Pattern Recognition
                  Victor-Emil Neagoe
                  Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania

09:20 - 09:40am:  Speech Recognition System of Arabic Digits Based on A
                  Telephony Arabic Corpus
                  Yousef Ajami Alotaibi, Mansour Alghamdi, and Fahad Alotaiby
                  King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

09:40 - 10:00am:  Performance Comparison of Laplacian-Based Features
                  Mohamed A. Khabou, Mohamed B. H. Rhouma and Lotfi Hermi
                  University of West Florida, USA

10:00 - 10:20am:  Brian Tumor Detection in MRI Images
                  S. Rahimi, M. Zargham, and N. Mogharreban
                  Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Illinois, USA

10:20 - 10:40am:  A Novel Wavelet Fusion Method for Contrast Correction and
                  Visibility Enhancement of Color Images
                  M. Wilscy and Jisha John
                  University of Kerala, India

10:40 - 11:00am:  BREAK


11:00 - 12:20pm:  During this period, IPCV'08 attendees are encouraged to participate
                  in sessions belonging to ICAI'08, GEM'08, MLMTA'08, MSV'08,
                  CGVR'08, IKE'08, or FECS'08.  These sessions discuss topics
                  that overlap the scope of IPCV'08.

12:20 - 01:20pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)


SESSION 10-IPCV:  VIDEO + MULTIMEDIA (Chair: TBA)
                  July 16, 2008 (Wednesday); 01:20pm - 03:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 7)

01:20 - 01:40pm:  Multiple-Choice Multi-Dimensional Knapsack Problem-Based
                  Video Personalization
                  Yong Wei and Suchendra M. Bhandarkar
                  North Georgia College and State University, USA;
                  The University of Georgia, USA

01:40 - 02:00pm:  Rate Control with Adaptive Initial Quantization Parameter
                  Prediction Algorithm for H.264/AVC
                  Soon-young Kwon and Sang-heon Lee
                  Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu, Korea

02:00 - 02:20pm:  Design and Implementation of High-Resolution Multimedia Player
                  in Personal Mobile System
                  Sang-heon Lee and Soon-young Kwon
                  Digital Convergence Team, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science
                  and Technology (DGIST), Daegu, Korea

02:20 - 02:40pm:  Processing the Sonography Video to Measure the Distance
                  Varying of the Carotid Artery
                  Peng Chen, Kamil Riha, and Dongmei Fu
                  University of Science and Technology Beijing, P. R. China;
                  Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

02:40 - 03:00pm:  FREE SLOT


03:00 - 03:40pm:  DISCUSSION SESSION C-IPCV (Refreshments will be available)
                  July 16, 2008 (Wednesday)
                  (LOCATION: Hallways - Ballrooms 1-5)

                  O. An Adaptive Noise Filtering Algorithm Based on the Maximum
                     Noise Fraction
                     Rhonda D. Phillips, Jingwei Zhang, Layne T. Watson,
                     Christine E. Blinn, and Randolph H. Wynne
                     Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Virginia, USA
                  O. Color Image Enhancement Using the Model of Retinal Processing
                     Shu Xian, Wen Wang, Jin Zheng, Bo Li, and Jiantao Zhao
                     Beihang University, Beijing, P. R. China
                  O. A Modified Mixture of MLP Experts for Face Recognition
                     Nina Taheri Makhsoos, Alireza Hajiany, Reza Ebrahimpour, and
                     Ghodrat Sepidnam
                     Ferdowsi University, Iran; Shahid Rajaee University, Iran
                  O. Linear Pose Estimation for Computer Vision
                     K. Krishnamoorthy
                     Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, India
                  O. Cooperative System for Metric Spatial Data Gathering and
                     Processing in Real Time
                     Jan Stankovic and Pavel Dergel
                     VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
                  O. Shot Boundary Detection Based on Mutual Information and Canny
                     Edge Detector
                     Zhao Huan and  Li Xiuhuan
                     Hunan University, China
                  O. Color Image Enhancement Using the Model of Retinal Processing
                     Shu Xian, Wen Wang, Jin Zheng, Bo Li, and Jiantao Zhao
                     Beihang University,Beijing, China
                  O. Content Based Video Retrieval Using Color-Texture Feature
                     B. V. Patel and B. B. Meshram
                     Shah & Anchor Kutchhi Polytechnic, India
                  O. A Pollution Classification Algorithm Using  Remote Sensing
                     Images as Input
                     E. A. Yfantis
                     University of Nevada, USA
                  O. Challenges for Image Analysis in Chemical Industry Research
                     W. A. Heeschen, B. C. Dems, M. A. Mangnus, S. Costeux, and F. O. Kotoye


SESSION 11-IPCV:  IMAGE COMPRESSION METHODS (Chair: TBA)
                  July 16, 2008 (Wednesday); 03:40pm - 06:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 7)

03:40 - 04:00pm:  Hierarchical Minimum Spanning Trees for Lossy Image Set Compression
                  Anthony Schmieder, Howard Cheng, Barry Gergel, and Xiaobo Li
                  University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada;
                  University of Alberta, Canada

04:00 - 04:20pm:  Performance Study of Discrete Tchebichef Transform Based MPEG Video Codec
                  Chetan M. Bokariya and Jane Dong
                  California State University, Los Angeles, USA

04:20 - 04:40pm:  A Study of Prediction Measures for Lossy Image Set Compression
                  Barry Gergel, Anthony Schmieder, Xiaobo Li, and Howard Cheng
                  University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada;
                  University of Alberta, Canada

04:40 - 05:00pm:  Energy Efficiency of Data Compression with Wavelets
                  Savithra Eratne, Sebastian Puthenpurayil, and Eugene John
                  University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA;
                  University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA

05:00 - 05:20pm:  FGPA Implementation for Preprocessing of JPEG2000
                  Wei Pi, Jucheng Yang, and DongSun Park
                  Chonbuk National University, Korea

05:20 - 05:40pm:  A Modified No Search Algorithm for Fractal Image Compression
                  Mehdi Salarian, Babak Mohamadinia, and Jalil Rasekhi
                  University of Allame Mohaddes Nuri

05:40 - 06:00pm:  Weighted Embedded Zero Tree for Scalable Video Compression
                  Roya Choupani, Stephan Wong, and Mehmet R. Tolun
                  Cankaya University, Ankara, Turkey;
                  Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands


06:00 - 09:30pm:  Tutorials (please see the list of tutorials)

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