IPCV'09: July 14, 2009 Schedule

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


SESSION 2-IPCV:   RECOGNITION TECHNIQUES
                  Chair: Mohamad Adnan Al-Alaoui, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
                  July 14, 2009 (Tuesday); 08:00am - 10:20am
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 4)

08:00 - 08:20am:  Recognizing Human Postures and Poses in Monocular Still Images
                  J. P. Wachs, D. Goshorn and M. Kolsch
                  Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA

08:20 - 08:40am:  Handwritten Digits Recognition
                  Zong Chen
                  Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA

08:40 - 09:00am:  Handgrip Recognition on Joystick
                  Zong Chen
                  Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA

09:00 - 09:20am:  Noise Effect of Saudi Accented Arabic Alphadigit in
                  Automatic Speech Recognition
                  Yousef Ajami Alotaibi, Khondaker Abdullah-Al-Mamun, Ghulam Muhammad
                  King Saud University, Saudi Arabia & University of Southampton, UK

09:20 - 09:40am:  Al-Alaoui Pattern Recognition Algorithm: A MSE Asymptotic
                  Bayesian Approach to Boosting
                  Mohamad Adnan Al-Alaoui
                  American University of Beirut, Lebanon

09:40 - 10:00am:  Action Recognition for Simple and Complex Actions Using Time
                  of Flight Cameras
                  Serban Oprisescu, Constantin Burlacu, Vasile Buzuloiu
                  LAPI, Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti, Romania

10:00 - 10:20am:  Binary Plankton Image Classification Using Pairwise Classifiers
                  Feng Zhao, Xiaoou Tang, Feng Lin, and Hock Soon Seah
                  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore &
                  University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

10:20 - 10:40am:  BREAK


SESSION 3-IPCV:   DATABASES + INDEXING + DATA HIDING + IMAGE COPYRIGHT + WAVELETS
                  Co-Chairs: Prof. Charlie Obimbo* and Nagarjuna Reddy Resu**
                  *University of Guelph, Canada
                  **Vellore Institute of Technology University, Vellore, India
                  July 14, 2009 (Tuesday); 10:40am - 12:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 4)

10:40 - 11:00am:  Evaluation and Benchmarking of Image Database Navigation Tools
                  William Plant, Gerald Schaefer
                  Aston University, UK & Loughborough University, UK

11:00 - 11:20am:  Three-Coefficient Scaling Functions and Biorthogonal Wavelets
                  Baiqiao Deng
                  Columbus State University, Georgia, USA

11:20 - 11:40am:  A Watermark Generation Algorithm Using The Mersenne Twister
                  Charlie Obimbo
                  University of Guelph, Canada

11:40 - 12:00pm:  Image Completion in Redundant Wavelet Domain
                  Yonghui Wang, Suxia Cui, Jian-ao Lian, Yonggao Yang, Cajetan M. Akujuobi
                  CECSTR and Prairie View A&M University, Texas, USA

12:00 - 12:20pm:  Content Adaptive Error Concealment for Packetized Zero-tree
                  Wavelet Coded Images over Lossy Networks
                  Narek Zohrabyan and Jane Dong
                  California State University, Los Angeles, California, USA

12:20 - 01:00pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)


SESSION 4-IPCV:   SEGMENTATION + FEATURE EXTRACTION + REGISTRATION + CLASSIFICATION + EDGE DETECTION
                  Co-Chairs: Dr. Ali Mohammad-Djafari* and Dr. Mihai Ivanovici**
                  *Directeur de recherche au CNRS, SUPELEC, France
                  **Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
                  July 14, 2009 (Tuesday); 01:00pm - 03:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 4)

01:00 - 01:20pm:  Using Threshold Techniques With K-Means Approach For MRI Segmentation
                  Jale Bektas, Turgay Ibrikci
                  Mersin University, Turkey & Cukurova University, Turkey

01:20 - 01:40pm:  Automatic Breast Tumor Detection Using Cellular Characteristics,
                  Multi-Resolution Analysis And Neural Networks
                  Guillermo Palacios, J. R. Beltran, Raquel Lacuesta
                  University of Zaragoza, Spain

01:40 - 02:00pm:  Denoising and Segmentation of 3D Brain Images
                  Mayank Vatsa, Richa Singh, Afzel Noore
                  IIIT Delhi, India & WVU, USA

02:00 - 02:20pm:  Segmentation of Semi-Transparent Objects Using a Variant of the
                  Mumford-Shah Model
                  Yan Nei Law, Hwee Kuan Lee, Chaoqiang Liu, Andy Yip
                  Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR, Singapore &
                  National University of Singapore, Singapore

02:20 - 02:40pm:  A Comparative Study of Segmentation Techniques Used for MR Brain Images
                  K. Somasundaram and T. Kalaiselvi
                  Gandhigram Rural University, India

02:40 - 03:00pm:  Automated Seed Counting Algorithm
                  Chang L. Kim, Amar Raheja, and David W. Still
                  California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California, USA

03:00 - 03:20pm:  Topology Based Method of Segmentation of Gray Scale Images 
                  Peter Saveliev
                  Marshall University, USA

03:20 - 03:40pm:  BREAK


SESSION 5-IPCV:   WORKSHOP ON SOFT COMPUTING IN IMAGE PROCESSING & COMPUTER VISION - SCIPCV
                  Co-Chairs: Dr. Gerald Schaefer and Dr. Mike Nachtegael
                  Loughborough University, UK & Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
                  July 14, 2009 (Tuesday); 03:40pm - 06:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 4)

03:40 - 04:00pm:  Probabilistic Darwin Machines for Object Detection
                  Xavier Baro and Jordi Vitria
                  Computer Vision Center, UAB, Spain

04:00 - 04:20pm:  A New Fuzzy Approach to Mammographic Breast Mass Segmentation
                  Farhang Sahba and Anastasios Venetsanopoulos
                  University of Toronto, Canada

04:20 - 04:40pm:  Fuzzy Rule-Based Classification Systems in Medical Image Understanding
                  Wojciech Tarnawski, Gerald Schaefer, Tomoharu Nakashima, Lukasz Miroslaw
                  Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland &
                  Loughborough University, UK & Osaka Prefecture University, Japan &
                  University of Zurich, Switzerland

04:40 - 05:00pm:  Fuzzy Image Retrieval: A Selection of Recent Advances
                  Mike Nachtegael, Gerald Schaefer, Tom M?lange, Etienne Kerre
                  Ghent University, Belgium & Loughborough University, UK

05:00 - 05:20pm:  Fingerprint Indexing Using Minutiae and Pore Features
                  Richa Singh, Mayank Vatsa, Afzel Noore
                  IIIT Delhi, India%%WVU, USA

05:20 - 05:40pm:  An Effective Color Quantization Method Based On The
                  Competitive Learning Paradigm
                  M. Emre Celebi
                  Louisiana State University in Shreveport, USA

05:40 - 06:00pm:  Ant Colony Classification for Analysis of Image Features in
                  Breast Thermograms
                  Gerald Schaefer
                  Loughborough University, UK


06:00 - 09:00pm:  KEYNOTE & INVITED PRESENTATIONS + TUTORIALS
                  (Please see the lists at the begining of this booklet)

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