Scale-Space and Morphology in Computer Vision: Third International Conference, Scale-Space 2001 Vancouver, Canada, July 7–8, 2001 Proceedings [1 ed.] 3540423176, 9783540423171

Table of contents :
Using the Vector Distance Functions to Evolve Manifolds of Arbitrary Codimension....Pages 1-13
Computing Optic Flow by Scale-Space Integration of Normal Flow....Pages 14-25
Image Registration, Optical Flow, and Local Rigidity....Pages 26-28
What Do Features Tell about Images?....Pages 39-50
Features in Scale Space: Progress on the 2D 2 nd Order Jet....Pages 51-62
Tracking of Multi-state Hand Models Using Particle Filtering and a Hierarchy of Multi-scale Image Features⋆....Pages 63-74
A Note on Two Classical Shock Filters and Their Asymptotics....Pages 75-84
Bayesian Object Detection through Level Curves Selection....Pages 85-97
A Multi-scale Feature Likelihood Map for Direct Evaluation of Object Hypotheses⋆....Pages 98-110
Total Variation Based Oversampling of Noisy Images....Pages 111-122
Down-Scaling for Better Transform Compression....Pages 123-136
Algebraic and PDE Approaches for Multiscale Image Operators with Global Constraints: Reference Semilattice Erosions and Levelings....Pages 137-148
Adjunctions in Pyramids and Curve Evolution....Pages 149-160
Hierarchies of Partitions and Morphological Segmentation....Pages 161-182
On the Behavior of Spatial Critical Points under Gaussian Blurring A Folklore Theorem and Scale-Space Constraints....Pages 183-192
Scale-Space Theories for Scalar and Vector Images....Pages 193-204
Gaussian Convolutions Numerical Approximations Based on Interpolation....Pages 205-214
Scale-Spaces, PDE’s, and Scale-Invariance....Pages 215-226
Generic Multi-scale Segmentation and Curve Approximation Method....Pages 227-235
Segmentation of Shapes⋆....Pages 236-244
The Influence of the γ-Parameter on Feature Detection with Automatic Scale Selection....Pages 245-254
Scale-Time Kernels and Models....Pages 255-263
Exploring Non-linear Difusion: The Difusion Echo....Pages 264-272
Bilateral Filtering and Anisotropic Difusion: Towards a Unified Viewpoint....Pages 273-280
An Accurate Operator Splitting Scheme for Nonlinear Difusion Filtering....Pages 281-289
Selection of Optimal Stopping Time for Nonlinear Difusion Filtering....Pages 290-298
Complex Difusion Processes for Image Filtering....Pages 299-307
Combing a Porcupine via Stereographic Direction Difusion....Pages 308-316
Inverse Scale Space Theory for Inverse Problems....Pages 317-325
Histograms of Infinitesimal Neighbourhoods....Pages 326-334
Indentation and Protrusion Detection and Its Applications....Pages 335-343
Geodesic Active Contours Applied to Texture Feature Space....Pages 344-352
Color Differential Structure....Pages 353-361
Geometry Motivated Variational Segmentation for Color Images....Pages 362-370
Hierarchical Segmentation Using Dynamics of Multiscale Color Gradient Watersheds....Pages 371-379
Fast Statistical Level Sets Image Segmentation for Biomedical Applications....Pages 380-388
Robust Multi-scale Non-rigid Registration of 3D Ultrasound Images....Pages 389-397
Segmentation-Free Estimation of Length Distributions Using Sieves and RIA Morphology....Pages 398-406
Morphological Tools for Robust Key-Region Extraction and Video Shot Modeling⋆....Pages 407-416
Polyhedral Set Operations for 3D Discrete Object Deformation....Pages 417-425
Inverse Quantization of Digital Binary Images for Resolution Conversion....Pages 426-434