Tentative Program

Some changes in scheduling are still pending.

Detailed Program - Vision Interface (VI)

Sunday, May 14

14:00 - 16:00

Opening Plenary

Room 407-C

Julie Payette, Canadian Space Agency Astronaut

Mission STS-96 to the International Space Station - Building the Future

16:00 - 17:30

Canada First Robotic Games

Room 407-A

17:30- 19:30

Welcoming Reception

Foyer - Meeting Room Level

VI Program Committee

Gregory Dudek, McGill University, Canada, General Co-chair

Mohamed Cheriet, École de technologie supérieure, Canada, General Co-Chair

Monday, May 15

07:30 - 08:30

Continental Breakfast

Foyer - Meeting Room Level

08:30 — 09:15

Plenary

Room 407-C

Takeo Kanade, Director, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Robotics: Renewed Opportunities and Approaches

09:15 - 09:30

Coffee Break

Foyer - Meeting Room Level

09:30 - 10:50

Parallel Session

Room 411-C

Human-Computer Interfaces

Chairs: F. Ferrie, (McGill University, Canada) A. Mitiche (INRS-Telecommunications, Canada)

Presentations:

Temporal Registration Using a Kalman Filter for Augmented Reality Applications

C. Jaynes and J. Hou (The Metaverse Lab, University of Kentucky, USA)

Recognizing Activity for Computer Assistant Posture Learning

C. Hu, T. Feng, S. Ma and H. Lu (National Lab of Pattern Recognition, P.R. China)

Active Perception in Virtual Humans

T. Rabie and D. Terzopoulos (University of Toronto, Canada)

10:50 - 11:10

Coffee Break

Foyer - Meeting Room Level

11:10 - 12:30

Parallel Session

Room 411-C

Reconstruction

Chairs: B. Boufama (University of Windsor), G. Roth (National Research Council of Canada, Canada)

Presentations:

2D Robot Localization with Image-Based Panoramic Models Using Vertical Line Features

D. Cobzas and H. Zhang (University of Alberta, Canada)

Novel View Synthesis - A Comparative Analysis Study

A. Habed and B. Boufama (University of Windsor)

Using Projective Vision to Find Camera Positions in an Image Sequence

G. Roth and A. Whitehead (National Research Council of Canada, Canada)

Physically Valid Triangulation of Sparsely Matched Images Using Texture Information - Application to View-Synthesis

J.S. Perrier, G. Agam, and P. Cohen (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada)

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch (tickets holders only)

Room 401-AB

14:00 - 15:40

Parallel Session

Room 411-C

Recognition and Shape

Chairs: F. Nouboud, (Université de Trois-Rivieres, Canada) K. Siddiqi (McGill University, Canada)

Presentations:

Physics-Based Skeletons

S. Bouix; P. Dimitrov; C. Phillips; K. Siddiqi (McGill University, Canada)

A Self-Adjusting Mechanism for Active Contour Models

J. Wang and X. Li (University of Alberta, Canada)

Face Recognition in Fourier Space

Face Recognition from Range Images Using Point Signature

F. Han, C.S. Chua and Y.K. Ho (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Face Recognition Using Neural Networks and Eigenfaces

A. Sehad, H. Hocini, A. Hadid, M. Djeddi, and S. Ameur (Centre de Developpement des Technologies Avancees, Algeria)

15:40 - 16:00

Coffee Break

Inside Demo & Poster Room — 407-B

16:00 - 17:40

Parallel Session

Room 411-C

Medical Imaging

Chairs: G. Stamon (Universite de Paris 5-Sorbonne, France), J. Meunier (Universite de Montreal, Canada)

Presentations:

Peel-Off Scanning to Obtain Radial Differentiation of Fractal and Complexity Features in Cell Nuclei

B. Nielsen, F. Albregtsen, and S. Baheerathan (University of Oslo, Norway)

Unsupervised Restoration of Brain SPECT Volumes

M. Mignotte, and J. Meunier (Univ. de Montreal, Canada)

Non-Recursive Paired Tracking for Vessel Extraction from Retinal Images

M. Lalonde, L. Gagnon (CRIM, Canada) and M.C. Boucher (Depart. D’ophtalmologie, Univ. de Montreal, Canada)

Extraction Automatique d'Objets Cellulaires en Imagerie Médicale Microscopique - Une Approche Intégrant les Contours Actifs avec des Informations Contours et Régions

S. SchÄpp, A. Elmoataz, R. Clouard, P. Herlin, and D. Bloyet (Service d’Anatomie Pathologie, Centre Francois Baclesse, France)

Suivi de Courbes 3D - Application à la détection des Sillons Corticaux

C. Renault, M. Desvignes, and M. Revenu (GREYC-ISMRA Lab., France)

20:00 - 22:00

Electronic Theatre

Room 407-C

Tuesday, May 16

07:30 — 08:30

Continental Breakfast

Foyer - Meeting Room Level

08:30 — 09:15

Plenary

Room 407-C

Kevin Ostby, President, FANUC Robotics Canada and VP, General Industries and Marketing, FANUC Robotics North America, Inc.

Innovative Robotic Solutions Move into New Industries

09:15 - 09:30

Coffee Break

Foyer - Meeting Room Level

09:30 - 10:50

Invited Speaker

Room 411-C

Horst Bunke, Department of Computer Science, University of Bern, Switzerland

Graph Matching — Recent Theoretical Results, Algorithms, and Applications

Chair: M. Cheriet (Ecole de technologie superieure, Canada)

10:50 - 11:10

Coffee Break

Foyer - Meeting Room Level

11:10 - 12:30

Parallel Session

Room 411-C

Statistical Methods

Chairs: K. Yamamoto (Gifu University, Japan), R. Plamondon (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada)

Presentations:

PNN Model for Parzen's PDF Estimation of Image Histograms

E. Aitnouri, S. Wang and D. Ziou (University of Sherbrooke, Canada)

Handling Context Dependence with Dual Hidden Markov Models

R. Plamondon Li, Ferd (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada),

A Maximum Likelihood Investigation into Color Indexing

N. Sebe and M. Lew (Leiden Insitute of Advanced Computer Science, The Netherlands)

Superresolution Reconstruction of Infra-red Image Sequences by Wavelet Expansion

J. Li, Y. Sheng (Laval U., Canada), L. Sévigny (Defence Research Establishment Valcartier, Canada), P. Valin (Lockheed Martin Electronic Systems Canada, Canada)

12:30 — 14:00

Lunch (tickets holders only)

Room 401-AB

14:00 - 15:40

Parallel Session

Room 411-C

Image Restoration and Reconstruction

Chairs: J-P Asselin de Beauville (Universite de Tours, France / AUF, Canada), A. Diou (Universite de Bourgogne, France)

Presentations:

Image Modeling by Hypergraph: Application to Noise Cancellation

M. Elhassouni, S. Rital, A. Bretto, H. Cherifi, and D. Aboutajdine (Universite d’Aghadir, Marroco)

Filtrage Morphologique de Représentations par Triangulations de Delaunay

N. Loménie, L. Gallo, N. Cambou, and G. Stamon (Universite de Paris 5 — Sorbonne, France)

Calibration d'un Système de Vision par Lumière Structurée

Y. Voisin, F. Marzani, and A. Diou (Universite de Bourgogne, France)

Vers un Paramétrage Local Automatique d'Opérateurs de Vision Précoce en Imagerie Aérienne Oblique

R. Thomas, G. Stamon, M-V Serfaty-Dutron, and R. Horak (Universite de Paris 5 — Sorbonne, France)

Calcul d'un Estime de Description Minimale du Mouvement et du Relief dans une Scène à partir d'une séquence d'Images

S. Hadjres and A. Mitiche (INRS-Telecommunications, Canada)

15:40 - 16:00

Coffee Break

Demo and Poster Room — 407-B

16:00 - 17:40

Parallel Session

Room 411-C

Applications

Chairs: T. Kasvand (Concordia University, Canada), J. Zelek (Guelph University, Canada)

Presentations:

Differential Invariants Under Gamma Correction

A. Siebert (Univ. of British Columbia, Canada)

Artificial Vision as an Interface Between Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing: First Results of a Case Study on Urban Quality of Life and Ambrosia artemisiifolia cartography (common ragweed)

P. Maupin; P. Apparicio; R. Lepage; Basel Solaiman (Ecole de technologie superieure, Canada)

Automated Monitoring of Pigs from Afar

J. Zelek, N. Bruce, and R. Kanwar (Guelph University, Canada)

Discrimination de Surfaces Texturées 3D: Application à la Caractérisation de l'Usure de Revêtements Routiers

M. Khoudeir, J. Brochard, B. Augereau, and V. Legeay (Université de Poiters, France)

Protein Structure Determination - Combining Inexact Graph Matching and Deformable Templates

K. Baxter and J. Glasgow (Queen’s University, Canada)

18:30 - 22:30

AI/GI/VI Banquet

Room 611-A

Wednesday, May 17

07:30 — 08:30

Continental Breakfast

Foyer - Meeting Room Level

08:30 — 09:15

Plenary

Room 407-C

Ian W. Hunter, Hatsopolus Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

Nanorobotic Scientific Instruments

09:15 - 09:30

Coffee Break

Demo and Poster Room — 407-B

09:30 - 10:50

Parallel Session

Room 411-C

Motion

Chairs: M. Jenkin (York University, Canada), J. Barron (University of Western Ontario)

Presentations:

Real-Time Detecting and Labelling of Human Body

Y. Yang, C.S. Chua, and Y.K. Ho (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Motion Analysis of Human Based on Coplanar Constraint

C. Pan and S. Ma (National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Chinese Academy of Science, P.R. China)

Robust Region-Based Motion Estimation for Video Compression

J. Soon Yew The and M. Spann (University of Bermingham, U.K.)

Quantitative Regularized Range Flow

J. Barron and H. Spies (University of Western Ontario, Canada)

10:50 - 11:10

Coffee Break

Demo and Poster Room — 407-B

11:10 - 12:30

Invited Speaker

Room 411-C

Next Generation Computing

Alex Pentland, The Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Chair: G. Dudek (McGill University, Canada)

14:00 - 15:40

Invited Speaker

Room 411-C

Stochastic Tracking of Human Motion

Michael J. Black, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and Brown University, USA

Chairs: M. Cheriet (Ecolle de technologie superieure, Canada), G. Dudek (Mcgill University, Canada)

Presentation:

On Prototyping Human Image Annotation

T. Caelli (University of Alberta, Canada)

15:40 - 16:00

Coffee Break

Foyer - Meeting Room Level

16:00 - 17:30

Parallel Session

Room 411-C

Image Understanding

Chairs: S. Beauchemin (Carleton University, Canada), N. Vincent (Universite de Tours, France)

Presentations:

Robust Subpixel Edge Localization for Dimensional Measurements by Computer Vision

F. Truchetet; O. Laligant; F. Nicolier (Université de Bourgogne, France)

A Multiscale Method for Text and Line Extraction from Gray-Level Noisy Images

T. Freche and N. Vincent (Université de Tours, France)

ZIPf Law: A Tool for Image Characterisation

M. Makris and N. Vincent (Université de Tours)

Comparative Performance for Isolated Points Detection Operators: Application on Surface Defects Extraction

R. Seulin, G. Delcroix, and F. Merienne (Université de Bourgone, France)

Recognition of Characters Distorted by Camera Angle

Y. Notake, K. Kato, and K. Yamamoto (Gifu University, Japan)

Posters

Posters Presentations

Room 407-B

Monday, May 15 - 13:00 - 18:00

Tuesday, May 16 - 11:00 - 18:00

Wednesday, May 17 - 9:15 - 12:30

Posters

Multiple-model Based Human Tracking

Y. Ren, C.S. Chua, and Y.K. Ho (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Reconstruction of the damaged Fossils using Biological Unique Model

T. Miyagawa, H. Tanahashi, K. Kato, and K. Yamamoto (Gifu, Japan)

Handwriting Information Extraction from Check Background Based on a Multiscale Wavelet Transform

H. Douzi, D. Mammass (Uinversite d’Aghadir, Morroco), and F. Nouboud (Universite de Trois-Rivieres, Canada)

Système de Gestion de Documents: du Document Papier Vers le Document Électronique

L. Bouzidi, S. Tayeb-Bey-Meziane, and Lionel Poulet (Universite de Lyon, France)

Multiple-Face Tracking System Using Multiple Cameras

M. Ohya, H. Hongo, K. Kato, and K. Yamamoto (Gifu, Japan)

MRI and Neuroreceptor SPECT Brain Images Registration Based on Anisotropic Diffusion

S. Cormier, N. Boujemaa, A. Simon, and L. Pourcelot (Universite de Tours, France)

Face Recognition Under Varying Views

A. Sehad, A. Hadid, H. Hocini, M. Djeddi, and S. Ameur (Centre de Developpements des Technologies Avancees, Algeria)

Détection des Arbres Individuels dans des Images de Haute Résolution

M. Bouzkraoui and J.M. Beaulieu (Universite de Laval, Canada)

Fast Classification of Road, Grass and Trees from Color Outdoor Scenes

A Novel Library System

J. Yamamatsu, K. Iwata, K. Yamamoto, K. Kato, and M. Ishida (Gifu, Japan)

Traitement d'Images dans une Étude du Genou au Moyen d'une Caractérisation du Condyle

J.J. Rousselle, G. Verley, J. Brilhaut, N. Vincent, V. Sabard, and Luc Favard (Universite de Tours, France)

Hidden Markov Models for Pattern Extraction

L. Serradura, T. Brouard, M. Slimane, and N. Vincent (Universite de Tours)

Acceleration of Binning Nearest Neighbour Methods

M. Greenspann, G. Godin (University of Toronto), and J. Talbot (CNRC, Canada)

Segmentation of Range Images Using Local Approximation of Scan Lines

I. Khalifa, M. Moussa, and M. Kamel (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Pavement Roughness Estimation Using Path Tortuosity and 2-D Lacunarity Measure

A. Lina, P. Cohen, and J.Y. Herve (Ecole Polytechnique, Canada)

Image Segmentation by Edge-Adaptive Binarization and Morphological Edges Detection

Aishy Amer and E. Dubois (INRS-Telecommunications, Canada)

Perceptual Textural Features Corresponding to Human Visual Perception

N. Abbadeni, D. Ziou, and S. Wang (Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada)

Clam Shell Analysis Using Rational Wavelet Transform

F. Nicolier, M. Toubin, A. Baussard, and F. Truchetet (Universite de Bourgogne, France)

3-D Scanners

J. Haverien, J. Röning (University of Oulu, Finland)

Composing a Bird's Eye View

R. Laganiere (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Improved Segmentation and Extrapolation for Block-based Shape-Adaptive Coding

Y. Zhao and D. Malah (Technion - Israel Institute for Technology, Israel)

Online Aspect Control of 3D Product Metallisation

G. Delcroix, B. Lamalle, P. Gorria, and F. Merienne (Université de Bourgogne, France)

Relation Morphogenese-Ontogegese: La Preuve par l'Image

E. Verrecchia, A. Diou, and F. Truchetet (Université de Bourgogne, France)

Vision-Based Occupancy Modeling

D.O. Gorodnichy and W. Armtrong (University of Alberta, Canada)