2008 15th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2008) San Diego, California, USA 12 – 15 October 2008 Pages 1-644 IEEE Catalog Number: CFP08CIP-PRT ISBN: 978-1-4244-1765-0 TABLE OF CON T EN T S WS-LW: ICIP WORKSHOP ON MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION RETRIEVAL ORAL SESSION WS-LW: INCORPORATING SPATIO-TEMPORAL MID-LEVEL FEATURES ......................................1 IN A REGION SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM FOR VIDEO SEQUENCES Iván González-Díaz, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain; Kevin McGuinness, Tomasz Adamek, Noel E. O’connor, Dublin City University, Ireland; Fernando Díaz-de-María, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain WS-LW: SPATIOTEMPORAL MODELING AND MATCHING OF VIDEO ............................................5 SHOTS Eric Galmar, Benoit Huet, EURECOM, France WS-LW: CROWD BEHAVIOURS ANALYSIS IN DYNAMIC VISUAL SCENES ....................................9 OF COMPLEX ENVIRONMENT Li-Qun Xu, Arasanathan Anjulan, British Telecommunications PLC, United Kingdom WS-LW: A PROBABILISTIC MODEL FOR FLOOD DETECTION IN VIDEO .....................................13 SEQUENCES Paulo Vinicius Koerich Borges, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom; Joceli Mayer, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil; Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom WS-PW: ICIP WORKSHOP ON MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION RETRIEVAL POSTER SESSION WS-PW: A GROUND-TRUTH FOR MOTION-BASED VIDEO-OBJECT ...............................................17 SEGMENTATION Fabrizio Tiburzi, Marcos Escudero, Jesús Bescós, José María Martínez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain WS-PW: COMBINED NONLINEAR INVERSE DIFFUSION FILTER AND ...........................................21 TRIANGLE METHOD USED FOR NOISE REMOVAL FROM POLYGONAL SHAPES Vesna Zeljkovic, Claude Tameze, Robert Vincelette, Delaware State University, United States WS-PW: THE SPARSE IMAGE REPRESENTATION FOR AUTOMATED ...........................................25 IMAGE RETRIEVAL Pavel Praks, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic; Radek Kucera, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic; Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom WS-PW: A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO AUTOMATIC RUSHES VIDEO ...............................29 SUMMARIZATION Werner Bailer, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria; Emilie Dumont, EURECOM, France; Slim Essid, Telecom ParisTech, France; Bernard Merialdo, EURECOM, France WS-PW: DYNAMIC ORGANIZATION OF AUDIOVISUAL DATABASE USING A .............................33 USER-DEFINED SIMILARITY MEASURE BASED ON LOW-LEVEL FEATURES Jérémy Philippeau, INA/IRIT, France; Jean Carrive, INA, France; Philippe Joly, Julien Pinquier, IRIT, France WS-PW: EYE DETECTION BASED ON THE POLYNOMIAL HERMITE .............................................37 EXPANSION Licia Capodiferro, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy; Elio D. Di Claudio, Giovanni Jacovitti, University of Rome, Italy; Federica Mangiatordi, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy WS-PW: ESTIMATION AND REPRESENTATION OF ACCUMULATED .............................................41 MOTION CHARACTERISTICS FOR SEMANTIC EVENT DETECTION Georgios Th. Papadopoulos, Vasileios Mezaris, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Michael G. Strintzis, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece WS-PW: GRADUAL TRANSITION DETECTION USING COLOR .........................................................45 COHERENCE AND OTHER CRITERIA IN A VIDEO SHOT META-SEGMENTATION FRAMEWORK Efthymia Tsamoura, Vasileios Mezaris, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute / Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece WS-PW: DESCRIBING LOW-LEVEL IMAGE FEATURES USING THE ...............................................49 COMM ONTOLOGY Miroslav Vacura, Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic; Carsten Saathoff, Thomas Franz, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany; Raphael Troncy, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), Netherlands WS-PW: USING REGION SEMANTICS AND VISUAL CONTEXT FOR ................................................53 SCENE CLASSIFICATION Evaggelos Spyrou, Phivos Mylonas, Yannis Avrithis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece WS-PW: IDENTIFYING AND RETRIEVING DISTRESS IMAGES FROM ............................................57 ROAD PAVEMENT SURVEYS Henrique Oliveira, Paulo Lobato Correia, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal WS-PW: HD MOTION ESTIMATION IN A WAVELET PYRAMID IN ...................................................61 JPEG2000 CONTEXT Claire Morand, Jenny Benois-Pineau, Jean-Philippe Domenger, University of Bordeaux, France WS-PW: ON THE ROLE OF STRUCTURE IN PART-BASED OBJECT .................................................65 DETECTION Giuseppe Passino, Ioannis Patras, Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom WS-PW: FAST DIALOGUE INDEXING BASED ON STRUCTURE .........................................................69 INFORMATION Sergio Benini, Pierangelo Migliorati, Riccardo Leonardi, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy WS-PW: VIDEO SCENE DETECTION USING DOMINANT SETS ...........................................................73 Ufuk Sakarya, TÜBITAK UZAY (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Space Technologies Research Institute), Turkey; Ziya Telatar, Ankara University, Turkey WS-PW: USING A GAME TO EVALUATE IMAGE RETRIEVAL, .........................................................77 ORGANIZATION, AND ANNOTATION Liam M. Mayron, Oge Marques, Florida Atlantic University, United States WS-PW: IMAGE RETRIEVAL AND WEB 2.0 -- WHERE CAN WE GO FROM ....................................81 HERE? Christian Bauckhage, Tansu Alpcan, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany; Robert Wetzker, Winfried Umbrath, Technical University Berlin, Germany WS-PW: MEAN SHIFT CLUSTERING FOR PERSONAL PHOTO ALBUM ..........................................85 ORGANIZATION E. Ardizzone, Marco La Cascia, Universita degli Studi di Palermo, Italy; F. Vella, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy WS-PW: WEB VIDEO RETRIEVAL BASED ON THE EARTH MOVER’S ............................................89 DISTANCE BY INTEGRATING COLOR, MOTION AND SOUND Keisuke Takada, Keiji Yanai, University of Electro-Communications, Japan WS-PW: A MULTIMODAL APPROACH TO MUSIC TRANSCRIPTION ...............................................93 Marco Paleari, Benoit Huet, Antony Schutz, Dirk Slock, EURECOM, France MA-L1: IMAGE AESTHETICS, MOOD AND EMOTION MA-L1.1: MULTIDIMENSIONAL IMAGE VALUE ASSESSMENT AND RATING ..............................97 FOR AUTOMATED ALBUMING AND RETRIEVAL Alexander Loui, Mark Wood, Anthony Scalise, John Birkelund, Eastman Kodak Company, United States MA-L1.2: EMOTIONAL VALENCE CATEGORIZATION USING HOLISTIC ....................................101 IMAGE FEATURES Victoria Yanulevskaya, Jan van Gemert, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; Katharina Roth, Ann-Katrin Herbold, University Clinic of Bonn, Germany; Nicu Sebe, Jan-Mark Geusebroek, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands MA-L1.3: ALGORITHMIC INFERENCING OF AESTHETICS AND EMOTION ...............................105 IN NATURAL IMAGES: AN EXPOSITION Ritendra Datta, Jia Li, James Z. Wang, Pennsylvania State University, United States MA-L1.4: ANALYSIS OF HUMAN ATTRACTIVENESS USING MANIFOLD .....................................109 KERNEL REGRESSION Bradley Davis, Svetlana Lazebnik, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States MA-L1.5: AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PAINTERS .....................................113 BASED ON THEIR WORK Marco Bressan, Claudio Cifarelli, Florent Perronnin, Xerox, France MA-L1.6: A SURVEY ON EMOTIONAL SEMANTIC IMAGE RETRIEVAL........................................117 Weining Wang, Qianhua He, South China University of Technology, China MA-L1.7: IMAGE HARMONY FOR CONSUMER IMAGES ....................................................................121 Elena Fedorovskaya, Carman Neustaedter, Wei Hao, Eastman Kodak Company, United States MA-L2: IMAGE CODING I MA-L2.1: INTRA PREDICTION USING TEMPLATE MATCHING WITH ..........................................125 ADAPTIVE ILLUMINATION COMPENSATION Yunfei Zheng, Thomson / West Virginia University, United States; Peng Yin, Oscar Divorra Escoda, Thomson, United States; Xin Li, West Virginia University, United States; Cristina Gomila, Thomson, United States MA-L2.2: IMAGE COMPRESSION WITH GENERALIZED LIFTING AND .......................................129 PARTIAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE SIGNAL PDF Julio Rolon, Philippe Salembier, Xavier Alameda, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain MA-L2.3: IMAGE COMPRESSION USING HIGH ORDER WEDGELETS IN A .................................133 GENERALIZED QUAD-TREE Azar Rahimi, Ashraf A.Kassim, National University of Singapore, Singapore MA-L2.4: INTRA PREDICTION VERSUS WAVELETS AND LAPPED ................................................137 TRANSFORMS IN AN H.264/AVC CODER Rafael G. de Oliveira, Ricardo L. de Queiroz, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil MA-L2.5: MULTISCALE RECURRENT PATTERN IMAGE CODING WITH A .................................141 FLEXIBLE PARTITION SCHEME Nelson Francisco, Instituto de Telecomunicações/UTAD, Portugal; Nuno Rodrigues, Instituto de Telecomunicações/ESTG IPLeiria, Portugal; Eduardo Silva, Univ. Fed. Rio Janeiro, Brazil; Murilo Carvalho, Univ. Fed. Fluminense, Brazil; Sérgio Faria, Instituto de Telecomunicações/ESTG IPLeiria, Portugal; Vitor Silva, Instituto de Telecomunicações/Univ. Coimbra, Portugal; Manuel Reis, Univ. Trás-os-Montes Alto Douro, Portugal MA-L2.6: DIRECTION-ADAPTIVE PARTITIONED BLOCK TRANSFORM FOR ............................145 IMAGE CODING