Advances in Visual Computing

1. Front Matter

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2. Visualization II

   1. SUNVIZ: A Real-Time Visualization Environment for Space Physics Applications

      • S. Eliuk, P. Boulanger, K. Kabin

      Pages 1-11

   2. An Efficient Quality-Based Camera Path Planning Method for Volume Exploration

      • Ming-Yuen Chan, Wai-Ho Mak, Huamin Qu

      Pages 12-21

   3. A Fast and Simple Heuristic for Metro Map Path Simplification

      • Tim Dwyer, Nathan Hurst, Damian Merrick

      Pages 22-30

   4. Visual Verification of Hypotheses

      • Thorsten May, Joern Kohlhammer

      Pages 31-42

   5. LDR-LLE: LLE with Low-Dimensional Neighborhood Representation

      • Yair Goldberg, Ya’acov Ritov

      Pages 43-54

   6. SudokuVis How to Explore Relationships of Mutual Exclusion

      • Gudrun Klinker

      Pages 55-64

3. ST: Image Analysis for Remote Sensing Data

   1. Identification of Oceanic Eddies in Satellite Images

      • Armando Manuel Fernandes

      Pages 65-74

   2. Multi-image Fusion in Remote Sensing: Spatial Enhancement vs. Spectral Characteristics Preservation

      • Manfred Ehlers

      Pages 75-84

   3. Classification of Multispectral High-Resolution Satellite Imagery Using LIDAR Elevation Data

      • María C. Alonso, José A. Malpica

      Pages 85-94

   4. Semi-supervised Edge Learning for Building Detection in Aerial Images

      • Fenglei Yang, Ye Duan, Yue Lu

      Pages 95-104

   5. High Resolution Satellite Classification with Graph Cut Algorithms

      • Adrian A. López, José A. Malpica

      Pages 105-112

   6. Satellite Image Segmentation Using Wavelet Transforms Based on Color and Texture Features

      • Ricardo Dutra da Silva, Rodrigo Minetto, William Robson Schwartz, Helio Pedrini

      Pages 113-122

4. Shape/Recognition II

   1. A System for Rapid Interactive Training of Object Detectors

      • Nathaniel Roman, Robert Pless

      Pages 123-132

   2. An Integrated Method for Multiple Object Detection and Localization

      • Dipankar Das, Al Mansur, Yoshinori Kobayashi, Yoshinori Kuno

      Pages 133-144

   3. A Context Dependent Distance Measure for Shape Clustering

      • Rolf Lakaemper, JingTing Zeng

      Pages 145-156

   4. A New Accumulator-Based Approach to Shape Recognition

      • Karthik Krish, Wesley Snyder

      Pages 157-169

   5. Multi-dimensional Scale Saliency Feature Extraction Based on Entropic Graphs

      • P. Suau, F. Escolano

      Pages 170-180

   6. Merging Active Contours

      • Ismail Ben Ayed, Amar Mitiche

      Pages 181-191

   7. Contour Extraction Using Particle Filters

      • ChengEn Lu, Longin Jan Latecki, Guangxi Zhu

      Pages 192-201

It is with greatpleasure that we present the proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2008) in Las Vegas, Nevada. ISVC o?ers a common umbrella for the four main areas of visual computing including vision, graphics, visualization, and virtual reality. Its goal is to provide a forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research ?ndings, ideas, developments and applications in the broader area of visual computing. This year,ISVC grew signi?cantly; the programconsisted of 15 oralsessions, 1 poster session, 8 special tracks, and 6 keynote presentations. The response to the call for papers was very strong; we received over 340 submissions for the main symposium from which we accepted 102 papers for oral presentation and 70 papers for poster presentation. Special track papers were solicited separately through the Organizing and Program Committees of each track. A total of 56 papers were accepted for oral presentation and 8 papers for poster presentation in the special tracks. All papers were reviewed with an emphasis on potential to contribute to the state of the art in the ?eld. Selection criteria included accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and signi?cance of results, and presentation quality. The review process was quite rigorous, involving two to three independent blind reviews followed by several days of discussion. During the discussion period we tried to correct anomalies and errors that might have existed in the initial reviews.

• 3D vision
• OCR
• algorithms
• augmented reality
• bioinformatics
• combinatorial maps
• computational geometry
• computer vision
• discrete geometry
• dynamic simulation
• feature selection
• formal languages
• image analysis
• video analysis
• visualization

• Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

  George Bebis

• NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, USA

  Richard Boyle

• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA

  Bahram Parvin

• Desert Research Institute, Reno, USA

  Darko Koracin

• Digital Image Research Center, Kingston University, London, UK

  Paolo Remagnino

• Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, USA

  Fatih Porikli

• Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainsville, USA

  Jörg Peters

• IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, USA

  James Klosowski

• 128 Memorial Mall, Stewart B001, West Lafayette, USA

  Laura Arns

• Denver Museum of Nature and Space, USA

  Yu Ka Chun

• Departmen of Computer Science,, NC State University, Raleigh, USA

  Theresa-Marie Rhyne

• Los Alamos National Labs, Los Alamos, USA

  Laura Monroe

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