2005 OTCBVS PROGRAM

Background Estimation and Modeling

• Background Estimation under Rapid Gain Change in Thermal Imagery
  Hulya Yalcin, Robert Collins, Martial Hebert
• Fusion-based Background-Subtraction using Contour Saliency
  James W. Davis, Vinay Sharma

Target Detection and Tracking Beyond the Visible Spectrum

• Layered Representation for Pedestrian Detection and Tracking in Infrared Imagery
  Congxia Dai, Yunfei Zheng, Xin Li
• Matched Signal Detectors for Hyperspectral Target Detection
  Heesung Kwon, Nasser M. Nasrabadi
• Improved Likelihood Function in Particle-based IR Eye Tracking
  Dan Witzner Hansen, Riad Hammoud, Ronald Satria, Jakob Sørensen
• Tracking Humans using Multi-modal Fusion
  Xiaotao Zou, Bir Bhanu

Poster Session

• Human Activity Recognition in Thermal Infrared Imagery
  Ju Han, Bir Bhanu
• Multi-View Classifier Swarms for Pedestrian Detection and Tracking in 3D Space
  Payam Saisan, Swarup Medasani, Yuri Owechko
• Multi-frame Moving Objects Track Matching Based on an Incremental Major Color Spectrum Histogram Matching Algorithm
  Massimo Piccardi, Eric Dahai Cheng
• Background Modelling in Infrared and Visible Spectrum Video for People Tracking
  C. Ó Conaire, E. Cooke, N. O'Connor, N. Murphy, A. Smeaton
• Real Time Robust Human Detection and Tracking System
  JianPeng Zhou, Jack Hoang

Signal and Video-Based Surveillance

• Integrating LDV Audio and IR Video for Remote Multimodal Surveillance
  Zhigang Zhu, Weihong Li, George Wolberg
• Spaceborne Traffic Monitoring with Dual Channel Synthetic Aperture Radar - Theory and Experiments
  Stefan Hinz, Franz Meyer, Richard Bamler, Andreas Laika
• A Combinational Approach to the Fusion, De-noising and Enhancement of Dual-Energy X-Ray Luggage Images
  Z. Chen, Y. Zheng, B. Abidi, D. Page, M. Abidi

Vision Algorithms for Automotive Applications

• Stereo Vision-based approaches for Pedestrian Detection
  M. Bertozzi, E. Binelli, A. Broggi, M. Del Rose
• Driver Body Characterization and Tracking using Multi-Perspective Thermal Thermal Infrared Imagery
  Shinko Y. Cheng, Sangho Park, Mohan M. Trivedi
• Model-based Validation Approaches and Matching Techniques for Automotive Vision based Pedestrian Detection
  Alberto Broggi, Alessandra Fascioli, Paolo Grisleri, Thorsten Graff, Marc-Michael Meinecke

Classification and Recognition

• Automatic Feature Localization in Thermal Images for Facial Expression Recognition
  Leonardo Trujillo, Gustavo Olague, Riad Hammoud, Benjamin Hernandez
• Human Recognition Based on Face Profiles in Video
  Xiaoli Zhou, Bir Bhanu

Algorithm Performance Evaluation

• Comparative Image Fusion Analysis
  Firooz Sadjadi
• Performance Evaluation of Face Recognition using Visual and Thermal Imagery with Advanced Correlation filters
  Jingu Heo, Marios Savvides, Vijayakumar Bhagavatula