WACV 2007  Program Schedule for Feb. 21st, 2007 and Feb. 22nd, 2007
Austin, Texas
Feb 21st, 2007 DAY I
8.15 AM Welcome remarks by WACV '07 General Chairs
Program Introduction by WACV '07  Program Chairs
8.30 AM - 9.10 AM Invited Plenary Talk : "Persistence in Computer Vision" by Dr. Tom Strat
9.10 AM - 10.25 AM Oral Session I : Face
Identity Verification Via the 3DID Face Alignment System
Dirk Colbry, George Stockman
Local Graph Matching for Face Recognition
Ehsan Fazl-Ersi, John S. Zelek
3D Face Recognition Using the Complex Wavelet Structural Similarity Metric
S. Gupta, M. P. Sampat, Z. Wang, M. K. Markey, A. C. Bovik
10.25 AM - 10:40 AM Break
10:40 AM - 12.20 PM Oral Session II : Robotics and Navigation
Performance Evaluation of Vision-Based Navigation and Landing on a Rotorcraft Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
David Hubbard, Bryan Morse, Colin Theodore, Mark Tischler, Timothy McLain
Nonlinear Mean Shift for Robust Pose Estimation
Raghav Subbarao, Yakup Genc, Peter Meer
Localization and Mapping for Autonomous Navigation in Outdoor Terrains. A Stereo Vision Approach
Motilal Agrawal, Kurt Konolige, Robert C. Bolles
Egomotion estimation in monocular infra-red image sequence for night vision applications
Sang-Hack Jung, Jayan Eledath
12.20 PM - 1.00 PM Lunch
1.00 PM - 3.30 PM Posters and Demos Session I
Pose Estimation Based on Two Images from Different Views
Yuxing Mao, Chunhua Feng, Ching Y. Suen
A Drifting-proof Framework for Tracking and Online Appearance Learning
Tony X. Han, Ming Liu, Thomas S. Huang
Interactive Image Repair with Assisted Structure and Texture Completion
Bryan S. Morse, Teryl Arnold
A Novel Algorithm for Estimating Vehicle Speed from Two Consecutive Images
Xiao Chen He, Nelson H. C. Yung
Stereo Matching and 3D Visualization for Gamma-Ray Cargo Inspection
Zhigang Zhu, Yu-Chi Hu
Feature-based Part Retrieval for Interactive 3D Reassembly
Devi Parikh, Rahul Sukthankar, Tsuhan Chen, Mei Chen
Map-Enhanced UAV Image Sequence Registration
Yuping Lin, Qian Yu, Gerard Medioni
Video-based Metrology of Water Droplet Spreading on Nanostructured Sur face
Steven Cheng, Jianguo Fan, Xingzhi Luo, Suchendra M. Bhandarkar, Yiping Zhao
Maneuvering Aid for Large Vehicle using Omnidirectional Cameras
Tobias Ehlgen, Tomas Pajdla
A fast and accurate tensor-based optical flow algorithm implemented in FPGA
Dah-Jye Lee, Zhaoyi Wei, Brent Nelson, Michael Martineau
Motion Estimation using a General Purpose Neural Network Simulator for Visual Attention
Florentin D. Vintila, John K. Tsotsos
Geometric and Timing Calibration for Unsynchronized Cameras Using Trajectories of a Moving Marker
Takekazu Kato, Mami Noguchi
Dense Surface from Infrared Stereo
Kiana Hajebi, John S. Zelek
Object Categorization Robust to Surface Markings using Entropy-guided Codebook
Sungho Kim, In So Kweon
Vector field characterization in ERS-1 imagery of sea-ice
Mani Thomas, Cathleen A. Geiger, Chandra Kambhamettu
Vision Based System for Monitoring Intermodal Freight Trains
Avinash Kumar, Narendra Ahuja, John M. Hart, U. K. Visesh,  P. J. Narayanan,  C. V. Jawahar
A new affine registration algorithm for matching 2d point sets
Jeffrey Ho, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Baba Vemuri, Anand Rangarajan
3.30 PM - 5.10 PM Oral Session III : Indexing and Restoration
Automated Insect Identification through Concatenated Histograms of Loc al Appearance Features
Enrique Larios, Hongli Deng, Wei Zhang, Matt Sarpola, Jenny Yuen, Robert Paasch, Andrew Moldenke, David Lytle,   Salvador Ruiz Correa, Eric Mortensen, Linda Shapiro, Tom Dietterich
Chart Image Classification Using Multiple-Instance Learning
Weihua Huang, Chew Lim Tan
Clustering Billions of Images with Large Scale Nearest Neighbor Search
Henry A. Rowley, Charles Rosenberg, Ting Liu
Warped Document Image Restoration Using Shape-from-Shading and Physica lly-based Modeling
Li Zhang, Chew Lim Tan
Feb. 22nd, 2007 DAY II
8.00 AM - 9.15 AM Oral Session IV : HCI
hMouse. Head Tracking Driven Virtual Computer Mouse
Yun Fu, Thomas S. Huang
3D Hand Model Fitting for Virtual Keyboard System
Huan Du, Edoardo Charbon
VIM. Vision for Interactive Music
Terence Sim, Dennis Ng, Rajkumar Janakiraman
9.15 AM - 10.25 AM Panel Discussion: "Computer vision for autonomous robots and smart survelliance, where are we and what is needed next"
Jim Rehg, Ramesh Vishwanathan, Isaac Cohen, Jayan Eledath
10.25 AM - 10.40 AM Break
10.40.AM -12.20 PM Oral Session V : Surveillance
Extraction of Person Silhouettes from Surveillance Imagery using MRFs
Vinay Sharma, James W. Davis, Ambrish Tyagi
Building Adaptive Camera Models for Video Surveillance
Alexander M. Morison, James W. Davis, David D. Woods
Geodesic Active Contour Based Fusion of Visible and Infrared Video for Persistent Object Tracking
Filiz Bunyak, Kannappan Palaniappan, Guna Seetharaman, Sumit Nath
Fast Multi-scale Template Matching Using Binary Features
Feng Tang, Hai Tao
12:20 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch
1.00 PM - 3:30 PM Posters and Demos Session II
Human Pose Inference from Stereo Cameras
Feng Guo, Gang Qian
3D Finite Element Modeling of Nonrigid Breast Deformation for Feature Registration in X-ray and MR Images
Yong Zhang, Dmitry B. Goldgof, Sudeep Sarkar
Tracking 3D Human Motion in Compact Base Space
Xu Zhao, Minglei Tong, Yuncai Liu
A Two-stage Algorithm for Shoreline Detection
Xiaojin Gong, Anbumani Subramanian, Chris Wyatt
On Channel Reliability Measure Training for Multi-Camera Face Recognition
Binglong Xie, Terry Boult, Visvanathan Ramesh, Ying Zhu
Facial Strain Pattern as a Soft Forensic Evidence
Vasant Manohar, Yong Zhang, Dmitry B. Goldgof, Sudeep Sarkar
2DCCA: A Novel Method for Small Sample Size Face Recognition
Cairong Zou
Segmenting Biological Particles in Multispectral Microscopy Images
Shishir Shah
Threshold-based 3D Tumor Segmentation using Level Set (TSL)
Sima Taheri, Sim Heng Ong, Vincent Chong
Robust Dissolve Detection Using Local Feature Tracking
San Ko, J. G. Jeong, J. Y. Kim
Image Segmentation of Overlapping Particles in Automatic Size Analysis Using Multi-Flash Imaging
T.K. Koh, S. Morgan, N.J. Miles, B.R. Hayes-Gill
Recovery of 3D Pose of Bones in Single 2D X-ray Images
Piyush Kanti Bhunre, Wee Kheng Leow, Tet Sen Howe
Real-time detection of semi-transparent watermarks in decompressed video
Balint Seeber, Neil Yager, Adnan Amin
The Camera-Driven Interactive Table
Christopher Schwarz, Niels da Vitoria Lobo
A Multi-view Analysis of Pedestrian-Vechile Activity in Crowded Scenes using Combined Homography
Sangho Park, Mohan M. Trivedi
Using Image Flow to Detect Eye Blinks in Color Videos
Ric Heishman, Zoran Duric
Probabilistic Hierarchical Face Model for Feature Localization
Feng Tang
3.30 PM - 5.10 PM Oral Session VI : Medical and Mail
An Accurate Mutual Information-based Registration of Digitized Radiographs to Homogenous and  Inhomogeneous Objects
Souha Aouadi, Laurent Sarry
Automatic Extraction of Proximal Femur Contours from Calibrated Fluoroscopic Images
Guoyan Zheng, Xiao Dong, Miguel A. G. Ballester
Hairline Fracture Detection using MRF and Gibbs Sampling
Ananda Chowdhury, Archan Bhattacharya, Suchi Bhandarkar, Gauri Datta, Jack Yu, Ramon Figueroa
Automatic Deformation Detection for Visual Post Inspection
Dirk Padfield, Glen Brooksby, Robert Kaucic