Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: Second International Workshop, EMMCVPR’99 York, UK, July 26–29, 1999 Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Kaleem Siddiqi, Allen Tannenbaum, Steven W. Zucker (auth.), Edwin R. Hancock, Marcello Pelillo (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 344
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1654
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, EMMCVPR'99, held in York, UK in July 1999.
The book presents 11 revised full papers together with 11 papers presented at the meeting as posters. Those papers were selected from a total of 33 submissions. The book is divided in sections on shape, minimum description length, Markov random fields, contours, search and consistent labeling, tracking and video, and biomedical applications.

✦ Table of Contents

A Hamiltonian Approach to the Eikonal Equation....Pages 1-13
Topographic Surface Structure from 2D Images Using Shape-from-Shading....Pages 14-30
Harmonic Shape Images: A Representation for 3D Free-Form Surfaces Based on Energy Minimization....Pages 30-43
Deformation Energy for Size Functions....Pages 44-53
On Fitting Mixture Models....Pages 54-69
Bayesian Models for Finding and Grouping Junctions....Pages 70-82
Semi-iterative Inferences with Hierarchical Energy-Based Models for Image Analysis....Pages 83-98
Metropolis vs Kawasaki Dynamic for Image Segmentation Based on Gibbs Models....Pages 99-114
Hyperparameter Estimation for Satellite Image Restoration by a MCMCML Method....Pages 115-130
Auxiliary Variables for Markov Random Fields with Higher Order Interactions....Pages 131-142
Unsupervised Multispectral Image Segmentation Using Generalized Gaussian Noise Model....Pages 142-156
Adaptive Bayesian Contour Estimation: A Vector Space Representation Approach....Pages 157-173
Adaptive Pixel-Based Data Fusion for Boundary Detection....Pages 173-188
Bayesian A * Tree Search with Expected O(N) Convergence Rates for Road Tracking....Pages 189-204
A New Algorithm for Energy Minimization with Discontinuities....Pages 205-220
Convergence of a Hill Climbing Genetic Algorithm for Graph Matching....Pages 221-236
A New Distance Measure for Non-rigid Image Matching....Pages 237-252
Continuous-Time Relaxation Labeling Processes....Pages 253-269
Realistic Animation Using Extended Adaptive Mesh for Model Based Coding....Pages 269-284
Maximum Likelihood Inference of 3D Structure from Image Sequences....Pages 285-300
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Based Correction and Reconstruction of Positron Emission Tomography Images....Pages 301-316
Markov Random Field Modelling of fMRI Data Using a Mean Field EM-algorithm4....Pages 317-330

✦ Subjects

Pattern Recognition; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Logics and Meanings of Programs; Statistical Physics; Mathematical Biology in General