Advances in Visual Computing

It is with great pleasure that we present the proceedings of the 6th Inter- tional, Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2010), which was held in Las Vegas, Nevada. ISVC provides a common umbrella for the four main areas of visual computing including vision, graphics, visualization, and virtual reality. The goal is to provide a forum for researchers, scientists, engineers, and pr- titioners throughout the world to present their latest research ? ndings, ideas, developments, and applications in the broader area of visual computing. This year, the program consisted of 14 oral sessions, one poster session, 7 special tracks, and 6 keynote presentations. The response to the call for papers was very good; we received over 300 submissions for the main symposium from which we accepted 93 papers for oral presentation and 73 papers for poster p- sentation. Special track papers were solicited separately through the Organizing and Program Committees of each track. A total of 44 papers were accepted for oral presentation and 6 papers for poster presentation in the special tracks.

Poster Session. - Lunar Image Classification for Terrain Detection. - Surface Modeling of the Corpus Callosum from MRI Scans. - Track Detection for Autonomous Trains. - Local Descriptors for Document Layout Analysis. - CT Image Segmentation Using Structural Analysis. - Phase Space for Face Pose Estimation. - Contour Based Shape Retrieval. - Illumination Normalization for Robust Face Recognition Using Discrete Wavelet Transform. - Feature-Based Lung Nodule Classification. - Multiple-object Tracking in Cluttered and Crowded Public Spaces. - Compliant Interframe Coding for Motion-JPEG2000. - EVP-Based Multiple-View Triangulation. - An Improved Shape Matching Algorithm for Deformable Objects Using a Global Image Feature. - Multi-scale Topo-morphometric Opening of Arteries and Veins: An Evaluative Study via Pulmonary CT Imaging. - Video Event Detection as Matching of Spatiotemporal Projection. - PixelLaser: Computing Range from Monocular Texture. - A Spatio-Spectral Algorithm for Robust and Scalable Object Tracking in Videos. - Driving Fatigue Detection Using Active Shape Models. - Outlier Removal in Stereo Reconstruction of Orbital Images. - Random Sampling Nonlinear Optimization for Camera Self-calibration with Modeling of Intrinsic Parameter Space. - Facial Fraud Discrimination Using Detection and Classification. - Segmentation of Abdominal Organs Incorporating Prior Knowledge in Small Animal CT. - Method of Interest Points Characterization Based C-HOG Local Descriptor. - Stereo-Based Object Segmentation Combining Spatio-Temporal Information. - Fast Motion Estimation Based on Search Range Adjustment Using Neighboring MVDs. - Towards Computational Understanding of Skill Levels in Simulation-Based Surgical Training via Automatic Video Analysis. - Biomedical Image Retrieval in a Fuzzy Feature Space with Affine Region Detection and Vector Quantization of a Scale-Invariant Descriptor. - Model Distribution Dependant Complexity Estimation on Textures. - Integrating Multiple Uncalibrated Views for Human 3D Pose Estimation. - A Novel Histogram-Based Feature Representation and Its Application in Sport Players Classification. - Facial Expression Recognition Using Facial Features and Manifold Learning. - Blurring Mean-Shift with a Restricted Data-Set Modification for Applications in Image Processing. - Detecting Straight Line Segments Using a Triangular Neighborhood. - Size Distribution Estimation of Stone Fragments via Digital Image Processing. - Image Enhancement by Median Filters in Algebraic Reconstruction Methods: An Experimental Study. - 3D Curvature-Based Shape Descriptors for Face Segmentation: An Anatomical-Based Analysis. - Computational Hemodynamics in Intracranial Vessels Reconstructed from Biplane Angiograms. - Object Distance Estimation Based on Stereo Vision and Color Segmentation with Region Matching. - Multiscale Information Fusion by Graph Cut through Convex Optimization. - A Fast Level Set-Like Algorithm for Region-Based Active Contours. - A Novel Hardware Architecture for Rapid Object Detection Based on Adaboost Algorithm. - Using Perceptual Color Contrast for Color Image Processing. - GPU Acceleration of Robust Point Matching. - A Wavelet-Based Face Recognition System Using Partial Information. - A Study of Hierarchical Correlation Clustering for Scientific Volume Data. - Subversion Statistics Sifter. - A Lossy/Lossless Coding Algorithm Using Histogram. - Stereo Matching in Mean Shift Attractor Space. - Undecimated Wavelet Transform-Based Image Interpolation. - The Influence of Multimodal 3D Visualizations on Learning Acquisition. - Visualizing Gene Co-expression as Google Maps. - A New Approach for Lighting Effect Rendering. - SemaTime - Timeline Visualization of Time-Dependent Relations and Semantics. - Comics Stylizations of 3D Scenes Using GPU. - Discovering Novelty in Gene Data: From Sequential Patterns to Visualization. - A Differential-Geometrical Framework for Color Image Quality Measures. - Three Dimensional Reconstruction Using Vertical Constraints from a Photograph. - A Framework for Visual and Haptic Collaboration in Shared Virtual Spaces. - Design and Costs Estimation of Electrical Substations Based on Three-Dimensional Building Blocks. - Generating Shaded Image with Lighting Using Image Fusion Space. - Automatic Detection of Morphologically Distinct Objects in Biomedical Images Using Second Generation Wavelets and Multiple Marked Point Process. - Imaging-Based Computation of the Dynamics of Pelvic Floor Deformation and Strain Visualization Analysis. - Exploiting Multiple Cameras for Environmental Pathlets. - On Supervised Human Activity Analysis for Structured Environments. - Human Behavior Analysis at a Point of Sale.