Sixth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP)
December 16-19, 2008    Bhubaneswar, India

16 th     D   E   C   E   M   B   E   R  
08:30-09:30 R E G I S T R A T I O N
09:30-10:30 I N A U G U R A T I O N, Venue: Chanakya Hall
10:30-10:50 T E A / C O F F E E     B R E A K
10:50-11:50 Plenary Talk-I

Wavelets and differential operators: from Fractals to Marr’s primal sketch
Venue: Chanakya Hall

Michael Unser, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Duration Session Paper Title Authors
11:50-13:30
Oral Session–I:

Image Filtering

Venue: Chanakya Hall
Session Chair: B.N.Chatterji, B.P.Poddar Institute of Management and Technology, Kolkata
Robust Watermarking Scheme based on Multiresolution Fractional Fourier Transform Gaurav Bhatnagar, Balasubramanian Raman
An Adaptive Clustering based Non-Linear Filter for the Restoration of Impulse Corrupted Digital Images S. Saudia, Justin Varghese, Krishnan Nallaperumal, Santhosh P Mathew, S.Alwin, S.K. Thakur
Impulse Noise Removal from Color Images with Hopfield Neural Network and Improved Vector Median Filter G. Phani Deepti, Maruti V. Borker, Jayanthi Sivaswamy
Image denoising using matched biorthogonal wavelets Sanjeev Pragada, Jayanthi Sivaswamy
Edge Detectors Based Anisotropic Diffusion for Enhancement of Digital Images V. B. Surya Prasath, Arindama Singh
13:30-14:30 L U N C H     B R E A K
14:30-16:10
Theme Sessions:
Event Recognition in Video- I

Venue: Chanakya Hall
Session Chair: Andrew Zisserman, University of Oxford, U.K.
Graphical Models for Activity Recognition Ramakant Nevatia, Professor, Univ. of Southern California, USA
Volumetric Approaches for Video Event Detection in Crowded Scenes Rahul Sukthankar, senior principal research scientist at Intel Research Pittsburgh and adjunct research professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon, USA
Theme Sessions :

Medical Imaging-I

Venue: Birbal Hall
Session Chair: Baba C. Vemuri, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Clinical applications of computational neuroanatomy Guido Gerig , Dept. of Computer Science , University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Technology trends in Diffusion Tensor Imaging Carl-Fredrik Westin, Director, Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging (LMI), Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School , Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
16:10-16:20 T E A / C O F F E E     B R E A K
16:20-18:10
Theme Sessions:
Event Recognition in Video - II

Venue: Chanakya Hall
Session Chair: Andrew Zisserman, University of Oxford, U.K.
Crowd Segmentation and Video Analytics at GE Peter Tu, GE Global Reseacrh
Integrating Recognition and Reasoning in Smart Environments Venu Govindraju, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo), USA
Theme Sessions:

Medical Imaging - II

Venue: Birbal Hall
Session Chair: Baba C. Vemuri, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Multi-Parametric Image Analysis Ragini Verma, Section of Biomedical Image Analysis, Dept. of Radiology ,University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Research Directions in GE Rakesh Mullick, GE Research , Bangalore

17 th     D   E   C   E   M   B   E   R  
09:00-10:00 Plenary Talk III

Light Field Photography and Microscopy
Venue: Chanakya Hall

Marc Levoy, Professor of Computer Science and (jointly) Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, USA
10:00-11:20
Oral Session–II:

Biomedical and Other Applications

Venue: Chanakya Hall
Session Chair: Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Robust Detection of Microaneurysms for Sight Threatening Retinopathy Screening Abhir Bhalerao, Amiya Patanaik, Sarabjot Anand, Pounnusamy Saravanan
Unsupervised Segmentation of Retinal Blood Vessels using a Single Parameter Vesselness Measure Nancy M. Salem, Asoke K. Nandi
Segmentation of Exudates and Optic Disc in Retinal Images Giri Babu Kande, P.V. Subbaiah, T.S. Savithri
Design and Implementation of a robust Palm Biometrics Recognition and Verification System Saurabh Parashar, Anand Vardhan, C. Patvardhan, Prem Kumar Kalra
11:20-11:30 T E A / C O F F E E     B R E A K
11:30-13:30
Oral Session–III:

Vision and Learning

Venue: Chanakya Hall
Session Chair: Ramakant Nevatia, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
A Scalable Projective Bundle Adjustment Algorithm using the $L_{\infty}$ Norm Kaushik Mitra, Rama Chellappa
Frequency Domain Visual Servoing using Planar Contours Visesh Chari, Avinash Sharma, Anoop Namboodiri, C. V. Jawahar
Monocular Depth by Nonlinear Diffusion Mariella Dimiccoli, Jean-Michel Morel, Philippe Salembier
Automated flower classification over a large number of classes Maria-Elena Nilsback, Andrew Zisserman
Learning Feature Trajectories Using Gabor Filter Bank for Human Activity Segmentation and Recognition Sunil Kumar Gupta, Y Senthil Kumar , K R Ramakrishnan
Object Mining using a Matching Graph on Very Large Image Collections James Philbin, Andrew Zisserman
13:30-14:30 L U N C H     B R E A K
13:50-15:50
Session Chair: Suman Mitra, DAIIT, Gandhinagar, India
Poster Session-I:
Venue: Bowling Alley

Sensors, Imaging Model and Simulation
Automatic perspective camera calibration based on an incomplete set of chessboard markers Alessandro Bevilacqua, Alessandro Gherard, Ludovico Carozza
Gesture Based English Character Recognition for Human Machine Interaction in Interactive Set top box Using Multi factor analysis T. Chattopadhyay, Provat Biswas, Biswanath Saha, Arpan Pal
How much zoom is the right zoom from the perspective of Super-Resolution? Himanshu Arora, Anoop Namboodiri
Image-based Multiscale Shape Description using Gaussian Filter Cem Direkoglu, Mark S. Nixon
Computational and Statistical Methods
An Algebraic Framework for Discrete Basis Functions in Computer Vision Paul O'Leary, Matthew Harker
Regularization of incompletely, irregularly and randomly sampled data C. S. Sastry
Localized Hierarchical Graph Cuts Anubha Rastogi, Balaji Krishnamurthy
Fast, Processor-Cardinality Agnostic PRNG with a Tracking Application Andrew Janowczyk, Sharat Chandran, Srinivas Aluru
Edge Detection in Speckled SAR Images with Improved ROEWA Jennifer J. Ranjani, M. Gokila, S. J. Thiruvengadam
Image and Video Compression
Lossless Compression of Digital Mammography Using Fixed Block Segmentation and Pixel Grouping Ravi kumar.M.S, S. Koliwad, Dwarakish G.S.
Surveillance Video Synopsis Vikas Choudhary, A.K. Tiwary
A Switched Predictive Coding Method for Lossless Video Coding Anil Kumar Tiwari, R. V. Raja Kumar
Parametric Video Compression Scheme using AR based Texture Synthesis Aditya Khandelia, Saurabh Gorecha, Brejesh Lall, Santanu Chaudhury, Mona Mathur
Image and Video Processing Architecture
A Parallel Architecture for Successive Elimination Block Matching Algorithm B.K.N. Srinivasarao, Indrajit Chakrabarti
High Speed and Memory Efficient Parallel Bit Plane Coding Architecture for JPEG2000 Tenugu Suman, Sumit Kumar Chatterjee, Indrajit Chakrabarti
VLSI Implementation of Fast Connected Component Labeling using Finite State Machine Based Cell Network Pradipta Roy, P.K.Biswas
A Novel Key-frame Detection Technique using Statistical Run Test and Majority Voting P. P. Mohanta, S. K. Saha, B. Chanda
Image and Video Security
JPEG2000 Compatible Watermarking of Text in Images K.A. Navas, M.L. Aravind, M. Sasikumar
Fast and Secure Real-Time Video Encryption C. Narsimha Raju, Ganugula Umadevi, Kannan Srinathan, C. V. Jawahar
Quantization Based Data Hiding Scheme for Efficient Quality Access Control of Images using DWT via Lifting Amit Phadikar, Santi P. Maity, Malay K. Kundu
Improved SVD-Based Watermarking for Digital Images Soo-Chang Pei, Hsin-Hua Liu
StegoHunter: Steganalysis of LSB Embedded Images based on Adaptive Threshold Close Color Pair Signature S.Geetha, Siva S.Sivatha Sindhu ,R. Renganathan, P. Janakiraman, N.Kamaraj
15:40-16:00 T E A / C O F F E E     B R E A K
16:00-17:40
Theme Sessions:
Multimedia Pattern Anlysis

Venue: Chanakya Hall
Session Chair: Ajay K. Ray, IIT Kharagpur, India
Recent Development in Duplicate Video Detection Techniques C.J. Kuo, Univ. of Southern California, USA
Multimedia Surveillance Systems Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore

18 th     D   E   C   E   M   B   E   R  
09:00-10:00 Plenary Talk IV

Scene Segmentation with Latent Topic Markov Field Models - and - Classification and Dimensionality Reduction using Convex Class Models
Venue: Chanakya Hall

Bill Triggs, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS
10:00-11:20
Oral Session-IV:

Document Image Processing

Venue: Chanakya Hall
Session Chair: B.B. Chaudhuri, ISI, Kolkata, India
Improving image decomposition method of 3-MRC coding of scanned document images Gopal Lakhani
Recognition of Multi-Oriented Touching Characters in Graphical Documents Partha Pratim Roy, Umapada Pal, Josep Llados
Document Image Segmentation as a Spectral Partitioning Problem Praveen Dasigi, Raman Jain, C.V.Jawahar
A Color Based Image Segmentation and its Application to Text Segmentation Anandarup Roy, Swapan Kumar Parui, Amitav Paul, Utpal Roy
11:20-11:30 T E A / C O F F E E     B R E A K
11:30-13:10
Oral Session-V:

Motion and Video Analysis

Venue: Chanakya Hall
Session Chair: K. R. Ramakrishnan, IISC, Bangalore
On improving space-time super resolution using a small set of video inputs Uma Mudenagudi, Subhashis Banerjee, Prem Kalra
Fragment Based Tracking for Scale and Orientation Adaptation V. Srikrishnan , T.Nagaraj, S. Chaudhuri
Integrated Detect-Track Framework for Multi-view Face Detection in Video Anoop K.R., Paresh Anandathirtha, K.R.Ramakrishnan, Mohan Kankanahalli
A Framework for Analysis of Surveillance Videos Ayesha Choudhary, Santanu Chaudhury, Subhashis Banerjee
Multi-Resolution Tracking in Space and Time S. Dutta Roy, S. D. Tran, L. S. Davis, B. Sreenivasa Vikram
13:10-14:30 L U N C H     B R E A K
13:45-15:45
Session Chair: Sumantra Dutta Roy, IIT, Delhi
Poster Session-II:
Venue: Bowling Alley

3D Shape and Structure Analysis
Range Map with Missing Data - Joint Resolution Enhancement and Inpainting Arnav Bhavsar, A. N. Rajagopalan
Constraint shortest path computation on polyhedral surfaces Synave Rémi, Gueorguieva Stefka, Desbarats Pascal
Object Category Recognition with Projected Texture Avinash Sharma, Anoop Namboodiri
Motion and Video Analysis
Semantic Event Detection and Classification in Cricket Video Sequence M. H. Kolekar, K. Palaniappan, S. Sengupta
Unusual Activity Analysis using Video Epitomes and pLSA Ayesha Choudhary, Manish Pal, Subhashis Banerjee, Santanu Chaudhury
An Evolutionary Based Slow and Fast Moving Video Object Detection Scheme Using Compound Markov Random Field Model Badri Narayan Subudhi, Pradipta Kumar Nanda
Attention-Based super resolution from videos Dileep Vaka, P. J. Narayanan, C. V. Jawahar
Robust Fall Detection using Human Shape and Multi-class Support Vector Machine Homa Foroughi, A. Rezavanian, A. Paziraee
Pattern Analysis and Classification
Subjective performance of texture based algorithm for face verification: The role of databases R. Raghavendra, Ashok Rao, G. Hemantha Kumar
Texture Classification Using Three Circular Filters Shripad Kondra, Vincent Torre
Discriminant function Revisited For Incremental Learning R.K. Agrawal, Rajni Bala, Manju Bala
A Sampling-Resampling based Bayesian Learning Approach for Object Tracking Abhishek Singh, Padmini Jaikumar, Suman K Mitra
Implementation of the “Local Rank Differences” Image Feature Using SIMD Instructions of CPU Adam Herout, Pavel Zemcik, Roman Juranek, Michal Hradis
Information Slicing: An Application to Object Classification in Satellite Images Hina Shah, Suman Mitra, Asim Banerjee
Combining Skin-Color Detector and Evidence Aggregated Random Field Models Towards Validating Face Detection Results Sreekar Krishna, Sethuraman Panchanathan
Object Category Detection by Statistical Test of Hypothesis Gaurav Sharma, Santanu Chaudhury, J. B. Srivastava
Visualization
Ray Casting Deformable Models on the GPU Suryakant Patidar, P. J. Narayanan
On Exploiting Affine Repetitions for 3D Reconstruction from a Single Image Geetika Sharma, Santanu Chaudhury, J. B. Srivastava
Visibility Analysis for New View Synthesis from Images Bishwajit Sharma, Subrata Rakshit
Fast Content Aware Image Retargeting Awadhesh Srivastava, K.K. Biswas
Animation Geometry Compression using the Linear Discriminant Analysis A.R.Vamsidhar, P.K. Bora, Sanjib Das
15:40-16:00 T E A / C O F F E E     B R E A K
16:00-18:00
Industry Session

Venue: Chanakya Hall
Session Chair: K.K. Biswas, IIT, Delhi, India
Adobe India
Cisco India
Google India
HP Labs India
Philips Electronics India Limited
Siemens India
Texas Instruments (India) Pvt Limited
18:00-18:30 IUPRAI Meeting for next ICVGIP, Venue: Birbal Hall
19:30-20:30 Cultural Function, Venue: Chanakya Hall
20:30-22:00 C O N F E R E N C E     B A N Q U E T

19 th     D   E   C   E   M   B   E   R  
09:00-10:00 Plenary Talk–V

Scene and Pose Associated Camera Motion Synthesis
Venue: Chanakya Hall

Prem Kalra, IIT Delhi
10:00-11:20
Oral Session-VI:

3D Modeling and Visualization-I

Venue: Chanakya Hall
Session Chair: Sharat Chandran, IIT, Bombay
Visibility Cuts: A System for Rendering Dynamic Virtual Environments Soumyajit Deb, Ankit Gupta
Multi-Scale Method for Adaptive Mesh Editing Based on Rigidity Estimation Jiongxin Liu, Guangda Su
Explosion Simulation using Compressible Fluids Abhinav Golas, Akram Khan, Prem K. Kalra, Subodh Kumar
Algebraic Splat Representation and Rendering for Point Based Models Naveen Kumar Reddy Bolla, P. J. Narayanan
11:20-11:30 T E A / C O F F E E     B R E A K
11:30-13:00
Oral Session-VII:

3D Modeling and Visualization-II

Venue: Chanakya Hall
Session Chair: Soumyajit Deb, Microsoft Research, India
Real-time Rendering and Manipulation of Large Terrains Shiben Bhattacharjee, Suryakant Patidar, P J Narayanan
GPU-based Hierarchical Computation for View Independent Visibility Rhushabh Goradia, Prekshu Ajmera, Sharat Chandran
Real-time Painterly Rendering of Terrains Shiben Bhattacharjee, S. Patidar, P J Narayanan
Color Harmonization for Videos Nikhil Sawant and Niloy Mitra
13:00-14:00 L U N C H     B R E A K
13:30-15:30
Session Chair: Anoop Namboodiri, IIIT, Hyderabad
Poster Session-III:
Venue: Bowling Alley

Biomedical and other Applications
Incorporating Cohort Information for Reliable Palmprint Authentication Ajay Kumar
Colour Retinal Image Enhancement based on Domain Knowledge Gopal Datt Joshi, Jayanthi Sivaswamy
Image Analysis
Anisotropic Diffusion and Segmentation of Colored Flowers Shoma Chatterjee
Mutual Information based Registration and Region based Wavelet Fusion of Images V.S. Roshn
Invariance Properties of AM-FM Image Features with Application to Template Tracking R. Senthil Prakash, R. Aravind
Adaptive nonlinear image denoising and restoration using a cooperative Bayesian estimation approach Akshaya Kumar Mishra, Alexander Wong, D.A. Clausi, P.W.Fieguth
Change Detection and Object Segmentation: A Histogram of Features-Based Energy Minimization Approach Nilanjan Ray, Baidya Nath Saha, Hong Zhang
Single Frame Super-resolution: A New Learning Based Approach and Use of IGMRF Prior Prakash P. Gajjar, Manjunath V. Joshi
A Novel Window-based Corner Detection Algorithm for Gray-scale Images Ambar Dutta, Avijit Kar, B. N. Chatterji
Segmentation of Circular and Rectangular Shapes in an Image Using Helmholtz Principle Snehasis Mukherjee, Dipti Prasad Mukherjee
Multiple Objects Tracking via Topology Adaptive Active Membrane Sitansu Kumar Das, Dipti Prasad Mukherjee
Document Image Processing
MRC Compression of Compound Documents Using Threshold Segmentation, Iterative Data-filling and H.264/AVC-INTRA Alexandre Zaghetto, Ricardo L. de Queiroz, D. Mukherjee
Palm Leaf Manuscript/Color Document Image Enhancement by Sridhar Cherala, Priti P. Rege
Trilingual Script Separation of Handwritten Postal Document K. Roy, K. Majumder
Degraded Document Image Enhancement using Hybrid Thresholding and Mathematical Morphology Nija Babu, Preethi N.G, Shylaja S.S
On Automatic Authenticity Verification of Printed Security Documents Utpal Garain, Biswajit Halder
Satellite Data Analysis and Interpretation
A Bayesian Learning Based Approach for Clustering of Satellite Images Abhishek Singh, Padmini Jaikumar, Suman K Mitra
A Fuzzy approach to Region-of-interest coding in JPEG-2000 for ATR Applications from High Resolution Satellite Images K.C. Emmanuel Sanjay Raj, S. Venkatraman, G. Vardhan
A Fourier Transform-based Approach to Fusion High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing Images Juliana Gouveia Denipote, Maria Stela Veludo de Paiva
15:10-15:20 T E A / C O F F E E     B R E A K
15:20-17:00
Oral Session-VIII:

Pattern Analysis and Classification

Venue: Chanakya Hall
Session Chair: Dipti Prasad Mukherjee, ISI, Kolkata
Face Expression Recognition through Broken Symmetries Vito DiGesu, Bertrand Zavidovique, Marco Elio Tabacchi
Adaptation and Learning for Image Based Navigation S. Achar, C.V. Jawahar
Objects from Animacy: Discovery in Joint Shape and Haar Feature Space Sudipto Nandi, Prithwijit Guha, K.S. Venkatesh
A Novel Learning-based Framework for Detecting Interesting Events in Soccer Videos Nisha Jain,Santanu Chaudhury,Sumantra Dutta Roy, Prasenjit Mukherjee, Krishanu Seal, K. Talluri
Audio-Visual Person Authentication with Multiple "Visualized-Speech Features" and Multiple Face Profiles Amitava Das, Ohil K. Manyam, Makarand Tapaswi
17:00-17:30 C L O S I N G    S E S S I O N, Venue: Chanakya Hall