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Advances in Intelligent Vision Systems: Methods and Applications - Part II

  1. Egg laying is an important phase of the life cycle of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans). Previous studies examined egg-laying events manually. This paper presents a method for automatic detection o...

    Authors: Wei Geng, Pamela Cosman, Megan Palm and William R. Schafer
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2005 2005:968352
  2. A robust vision-based traffic monitoring system for vehicle and traffic information extraction is developed in this research. It is challenging to maintain detection robustness at all time for a highway survei...

    Authors: Akio Yoneyama, Chia-Hung Yeh and C.-C. Jay Kuo
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2005 2005:912501
  3. Obstacle detection and classification in a complex urban area are highly demanding, but desirable for pedestrian protection, stop & go, and enhanced parking aids. The most difficult task for the system is to s...

    Authors: Yingping Huang, Shan Fu and Chris Thompson
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2005 2005:910950
  4. The introduction of multispectral imaging in pathology problems such as the identification of prostatic cancer is recent. Unlike conventional RGB color space, it allows the acquisition of a large number of spe...

    Authors: Muhammad Atif Tahir, Ahmed Bouridane, Fatih Kurugollu and Abbes Amira
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2005 2005:906054
  5. The automatic analysis of digital video scenes often requires the segmentation of moving objects from a static background. Historically, algorithms developed for this purpose have been restricted to small fram...

    Authors: Darren E. Butler, V. Michael Bove Jr. and Sridha Sridharan
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2005 2005:841926
  6. High-resolution satellite imagery provides an important new data source for building extraction. We demonstrate an integrated strategy for identifying buildings in 1-meter resolution satellite imagery of urban...

    Authors: Xiaoying Jin and Curt H. Davis
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2005 2005:745309
  7. A lot of work has been devoted to content-based image retrieval from large image databases. The traditional approaches are based on the analysis of the whole image content both in terms of low-level and semant...

    Authors: Joseph Machrouh and Philippe Tarroux
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2005 2005:730172
  8. Identifying moving objects in a video sequence is a fundamental and critical task in many computer-vision applications. Background subtraction techniques are commonly used to separate foreground moving objects...

    Authors: Sen-Ching S. Cheung and Chandrika Kamath
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2005 2005:726261
  9. We present an object identification methodology applied in a navigation assistance for visually impaired (NAVI) system. The NAVI has a single board processing system (SBPS), a digital video camera mounted head...

    Authors: R. Nagarajan, G. Sainarayanan, Sazali Yaacob and Rosalyn R. Porle
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2005 2005:670191
  10. We present a new version of our content-based image retrieval system RETIN. It is based on adaptive quantization of the color space, together with new features aiming at representing the spatial relationship b...

    Authors: Matthieu Cord, Sylvie Philipp-Foliguet, Philippe-Henri Gosselin and Jérôme Fournier
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2005 2005:649689
  11. Automatic surveillance of airport surface is one of the core components of advanced surface movement, guidance, and control systems (A-SMGCS). This function is in charge of the automatic detection, identificat...

    Authors: Jesús García, José M. Molina, Juan A. Besada and Javier I. Portillo
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2005 2005:640283
  12. Most object recognition schemes fail in case of illumination changes between the color image acquisitions. One of the most widely used solutions to cope with this problem is to compare the images by means of t...

    Authors: Damien Muselet, Ludovic Macaire and Jack-Gérard Postaire
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2005 2005:639763
  13. A path generation method for robot-based welding systems is proposed. The method that is a modification of the method "teaching by showing" is supported by the recently developed pseudo stereovision system (PS...

    Authors: Theodore P. Pachidis, Kostas N. Tarchanidis, John N. Lygouras and Philippos G. Tsalides
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2005 2005:520734
  14. Combining multiple neural networks has been used to improve the decision accuracy in many application fields including pattern recognition and classification. In this paper, we investigate the potential of thi...

    Authors: Hassiba Nemmour and Youcef Chibani
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2005 2005:413784
  15. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging sensor presents an important advantage for the earth change observation independently of weather conditions. However, the SAR image provides an incomplete information (as...

    Authors: Youcef Chibani
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2005 2005:404562
  16. We are interested in designing a reusable and robust activity monitoring platform. We propose three good properties that an activity monitoring platform should have to enable its reusability for different appl...

    Authors: Alberto Avanzi, François Brémond, Christophe Tornieri and Monique Thonnat
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2005 2005:318538
  17. The emerging cognitive vision paradigm deals with vision systems that apply machine learning and automatic reasoning in order to learn from what they perceive. Cognitive vision systems can rate the relevance a...

    Authors: Christian Bauckhage, Marc Hanheide, Sebastian Wrede, Thomas Käster, Michael Pfeiffer and Gerhard Sagerer
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2005 2005:302161
  18. We propose a method to segment the ground plane from a mobile robot's visual field of view and then measure the height of nonground plane features above the mobile robot's ground plane. Thus a mobile robot can...

    Authors: Nick Pears, Bojian Liang and Zezhi Chen
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2005 2005:191358
  19. Video surveillance in outdoor areas is hampered by consistent background motion which defeats systems that use motion to identify intruders. While algorithms exist for masking out regions with motion, a better...

    Authors: Robert Pless
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2005 2005:101240