Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns [electronic resource] : 15th International Conference, CAIP 2013, York, UK, August 27-29, 2013, Proceedings, Part II / edited by Richard Wilson, Edwin Hancock, Adrian Bors, William Smith.

Table of Contents - Part II Classified-Distance Based Shape Descriptor for Application to Image Retrieval -- A Shape Descriptor Based on Trainable COSFIRE Filters for the Recognition of Handwritten Digits -- Supporting Ancient Coin Classification by Image-Based Reverse Side Symbol Recognition -- Eyewitness Face Sketch Recognition Based on Two-Step Bias Modeling -- Weighted Semi-Global Matching and Center-Symmetric Census Transform for Robust Driver Assistance -- HandwrittenWord Image Matching Based on Heat Kernel Signature -- Wrong Roadway Detection for Multi-lane Roads -- Blind Deconvolution Using Alternating Maximum a Posteriori Estimation with Heavy-Tailed Priors. Focus Fusion with Anisotropic Depth Map Smoothing -- Accurate Fibre Orientation Measurement for Carbon Fibre Surfaces -- Benchmarking GPU-Based Phase Correlation for Homography-Based Registration of Aerial Imagery -- Robustness of Point Feature Detection -- Depth Super-Resolution by Enhanced Shift and Add -- Using Region-Based Saliency for 3D Interest Points Detection -- Accurate 3D Multi-marker Tracking in X-ray Cardiac Sequences Using a Two-Stage Graph Modeling Approach -- 3D Mesh Decomposition Using Protrusion and Boundary Part Detection -- Isometrically Invariant Description of Deformable Objects Based on the Fractional Heat Equation -- Discriminant Analysis Based Level Set Segmentation for Ultrasound Imaging -- Region Based Contour Detection by Dynamic Programming -- Sparse Coding and Mid-Level Superpixel-Feature for _0-Graph Based -- Unsupervised Image Segmentation -- Intuitive Large Image Database Browsing Using Perceptual Similarity Enriched by Crowds -- Irreversibility Analysis of Feature Transform-Based Cancelable Biometrics -- L∞ Norm Based Solution for Visual Odometry -- Matching Folded Garments to Unfolded Templates Using Robust Shape Analysis Techniques -- Multi-scale Image Segmentation Using MSER -- Multi-spectral Material Classification in Landscape Scenes Using Commodity Hardware -- Multispectral Stereo Image Correspondence -- NLP EAC Recognition by Component Separation in the Eye Region -- OPF-MRF: Optimum-Path Forest and Markov Random Fields for Contextual-Based Image Classification -- Orthonormal Diffusion Decompositions of Images for Optical Flow Estimation -- Pairwise Similarity for Line Extraction from Distorted Images -- Plant Leaf Classification Using Color on a Gravitational Approach -- Semi-automatic Image Annotation -- Segmentation of Skin Spectral Images Using Simulated Illuminations -- Robust Visual Object Tracking via Sparse Representation and Reconstruction -- Sphere Detection in Kinect Point Clouds Via the 3D Hough Transform -- Watermark Optimization of 3D Shapes for Minimal Distortion and High Robustness -- Wavelet Network and Geometric Features Fusion Using Belief Functions for 3D Face Recognition -- A Color-Based Selective and Interactive Filter Using Weighted TV -- A Composable Strategy for Shredded Document Reconstruction.- Global-Local Approach to Saliency Detection -- A Moving Average Bidirectional Texture Function Model -- A Multiscale Blob Representation of Mammographic Parenchymal Patterns and Mammographic Risk Assessment -- Alternating Optimization for Lambertian Photometric Stereo Model with Unknown Lighting Directions -- An Automated Visual Inspection System for the Classification of the Phases of Ti-6Al-4V Titanium Alloy -- Analysis of Bat Wing Beat Frequency Using Fourier Transform -- Automated Ground-Plane Estimation for Trajectory Rectification -- Breast Parenchymal Pattern Analysis in Digital Mammography: Associations between Tab`ar and Birads Tissue Compositions -- Color Transfer Based on Earth Mover's Distance and Color Categorization -- Empirical Comparison of Visual Descriptors for Multiple Bleeding Spots Recognition in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Video -- Exploring Interest Points and Local Descriptors forWord Spotting Application on Historical Handwriting Images -- Gravitational Based Texture Roughness for Plant Leaf Identification -- Heterogeneity Index for Directed Graphs -- High-Precision Lens Distortion Correction Using Smoothed Thin Plate Splines -- Identification Using Encrypted Biometrics -- Illumination Effects in Quantitative Virtual Microscopy -- Improving the Correspondence Establishment Based on Interactive Homography Estimation -- Interactive Segmentation of Media-Adventitia Border in IVUS -- Kernel Maximum Mean Discrepancy for Region Merging Approach -- Laplacian Derivative Based Regularization for Optical Flow Estimation in Driving Scenario -- Local and Global Statistics-Based Explicit Active Contour for Weld Defect Extraction in Radiographic Inspection -- Minimum Entropy Models for Laser Line Extraction -- A Convenient and Fast Method of Endoscope Calibration under Surgical Environment -- SAMSLAM: Simulated AnnealingMonocular SLAM -- Spatial Patch Blending for Artefact Reduction in Pattern-Based Inpainting Techniques -- Spatio-temporal Support for Range Flow Based Ego-Motion Estimators -- Tracking for Quantifying Social Network of Drosophila Melanogaster -- Virtual Top View: Towards Real-Time Aggregation of Videos to Monitor Large Areas -- Writer Identification in Old Music Manuscripts Using Contour-Hinge Feature and Dimensionality Reduction with an Autoencoder -- Human Action Recognition Using Temporal Segmentation and Accordion Representation -- Effective Diversification for Ambiguous Queries in Social Image Retrieval.