The Conference Programme

... as it happend. The presenting author is written in bold.

Sunday 15th November 1998.

RECEPTION AND REGISTRATION

The School of Engineering building is located in downtown Auckland, within walking distance from O'Rourke Hall, Hyatt, Sheraton etc.

Monday 16th November 1998.

OPENING SESSION

Opening addresses by Chris de Freitas (Pro Vice-Chancellor Tamaki campus, University of Auckland) and Reinhard Klette (Conference Chairman).

SESSION 1: IMAGE ACQUISITION

S. K. Kopparapu and P. Corke (Kenmore, Australia): Keynote Paper

The Effect of Measurement Noise on Camera Calibration Matrix

R. J. Valkenburg (Auckland, New Zealand):

A Bayesian Approach to Camera System Calibration/Spatial Intersection

B. McCallum, M. Nixon, B. Price, R. Fright (Christchurch, New Zealand):

Hand-held Laser Scanning In Practice

A. Stevenson, J. Lasenby (Cambridge, United Kingdom):

Decomplexifying the Absolute Conic

PLENARY TALK: ACTIVE VISION AND MOTION

Steven Beauchemin (Philadelphia, USA), Ruzena Bajcsy (Philadelphia, USA), and John Barron (Ontario, Canada):

Recent Advances in Motion Understanding

LUNCH BREAK

There was a presentation of ongoing research in the AIV lab, Room 221 during the lunch break.

SESSION 2: POSTER PRESENTATIONS

D. G. Bailey (Palmerston North, New Zealand):

Image Capture Modelling for High Resolution Reconstruction

J. Baltes (Auckland, New Zealand):

Practical Camera Calibration for Large Rooms

C.-Y. Chen, R. Klette (Auckland, New Zealand):

Image Registration Methods for Panoramic Image Stitching

C.-Y. Chen, R. Klette (Auckland, New Zealand):

Image Merging Methods in Generating Panoramic Images

M. J. Cree (Hamilton, New Zealand):

Preprocessing of Fluorescein Angiographic Retinal Images

F. C. Fong, R. Klette, T. Poole, M. H. Wong (Auckland, New Zealand):

3D Feature Analysis in Confocal Microscopy Images

C. M. Harding, A. Bainbridge-Smith, R. G. Lane (Christchurch, New Zealand):

Regularised Optical Flow by Modelling Tilted Facets

T.Hattori, W. Fukuda, T. Yamasaki (Kagawa, Japan):

Face Recognition as an Image Subpattern Using Eigenvectors of Variation Set

T. Jiang (Sydney, Australia/Beijing, China):

Optimal Structuring Element Extraction for MST-Based Shapes Description Using Reactive Tabu Search

J. Kautsky, B. Zitova, J. Flusser, G. Peters (Praha, Czech Republic):

Feature point Detection in Blurred Images

P. Kulka (Auckland, New Zealand):

A Survey of Projection Methods for Direct Volume Rendering

P. Li, J. R. Flenley, L. K. Empson (Palmerston North, New Zealand):

Classification of 13 Types of New Zealand Pollen Patterns Using Neural Networks

W.-N. Lie, Y.-H. Lee (San-Hsing, Taiwan):

Application of Linear Prediction to Multispectral Satellite Image Compression

J. Luo (Auckland, New Zealand), K. Schlüns (Berlin, Germany):

Height from Gradients in Polar Coordinates

A. McIvor (Auckland, New Zealand):

A Cubic Facet Based Method for Estimating the Principal Quadric

S. Mills, K. Novins (Dunedin, New Zealand):

Interval Computations in Computer Vision

M. Niimi, H. Hoda, E. Kawaguchi (Tobata, Japan):

A Study on the Steganography using Bit-Plane Complexity Segmentation

C. B. U. Perwass, J. Lasenby (Cambridge, United Kingdom):

A Geometric Analysis of the Trifocal Tensor

S. Verrall, R. Kakarala (Auckland, New Zealand):

3D Symmetry Estimation from Solid Harmonic Coefficients

B. Wünsche (Auckland, New Zealand):

The Visualization Two-Dimensional Second-Order Tensor Fields

N. Yang, R. Klette (Auckland, New Zealand):

Shortest Polygonal Jordan Curve Measurements in 2D Space

H. Yoshiuchi, K. Tsuda, M. Minoh (Kyoto, Japan):

Pattern Recognition Method for Metric Space by Four Points Embedding

R. D. Clarke, D. Phillips, H. L. Zhang, R. Templer, P. Neuhaus (Hamilton, New Zealand):

Robotic Handling of Ovine Meat Cuts

P. Zhang, X. Huang (Chongqing, China), A. McAndrew, H. Shi (Melbourne, Australia):

A Dynamic Distance Measurement of Vehicle Safety Steering

Z. Zheng, H. Wang, E. K. Teoh, K.L. Chan (Singapore):

A New Approach of Gray Level Corner Detection

SESSION 3: DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS

Demonstrations in computer vision laboratories and industrial presentations.

• Industrial presentation: SGI, Room 234.
• Industrial presentation: Industrial Vision Solutions, IRL Room 234.
  • 14:15 (exhibition hall): Roger S Clist: Aphelion Imaging Tools for Windows PC Applications
  • 14:30 (exhibition hall): James Preddey: Using Smart Cameras in Industrial Applications
  • 14:45 (exhibition hall): Roger S Clist: Applying Cognex Vision Processors in Factory QA Installations
• Presentation of ongoing research: CITR main lab, Room 231.

SESSION 4: SEGMENTATION AND APPLICATIONS

S. Subramanian (Bangalore, India), K. L. Chan, X. Mo (Singapore):

Keynote Paper

Regular Texture Fault Detection by Wold-Like Decomposition

M. Moell, G. Borgefors (Uppsala, Sweden):

A Machine-vision Method to Measure Cross-sectional Tracheid Dimensions of Wood using Confocal Microscopy

P. W. Power (Auckland, New Zealand):

Progress in the Automated Recognition of Sheep Pelt Branding

H. L. Zhang, R. D. Clarke (Hamilton, New Zealand):

3-D Ovine Primal Meat Cut Identification and Classification

Y.-M. Su, C.-F. Chen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan):

Preprocessing and Segmentation of Chinese Addresses on Envelopes

N. Alwesh, P. J. Bones, T. J. Connolly (Christchurch, New Zealand):

Superresolution of MR Images

DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS

Demonstrations in computer vision laboratories and industrial presentations.

INFORMAL MEETING: Image and Vision Computing in the Pacific

Tuesday 17th November 1998.

SESSION 5: STEREO IMAGE ANALYSIS

J. Banks, M. Bennamoun, K. Kubik, P. Corke (Brisbane, Australia):

Keynote Paper

A New Method of Error Prediction for Stereo Matching Algorithms

C.-S. Chua, Y. Liang, Y.-K. Ho (Singapore):

Applications of Least Median of Squares Method in Affine Camera Stereo

Y. Li, G. Gimel'farb (Auckland, New Zealand):

On Estimation of Fundamental Matrix in Computational Stereo

Y. Liang, C.-S. Chua, Y.-K. Ho (Singapore):

Robust Recovery of Epipolar Geometry

Special glasses are provided for the next two presentations:

S.-K. Wei, Y.-F. Huang, R. Klette (Auckland, New Zealand):

Color Anaglyphic Panorama Visualization

POSTER (2-3 min presentation only):

Y. F. Huang, S.-K. Wei, R. Klette (Auckland, New Zealand):

Automatic Generation of Stereo Images from Multiple Monocular Object Views

PLENARY TALK on DUALITY PRINCIPLES and MOTION

Luc Florack (Utrecht, The Netherlands):

Duality Principles in Image Processing and Analysis

LUNCH BREAK

There was a presentation of ongoing research in the AIV lab, Room 221 during the lunch break.

SESSION 6: 3-D SCENE ANALYSIS

A. M. McIvor (Auckland, New Zealand):

Using Partial Models for Localising Objects in Range Images

A. K. M. Ng (Auckland, New Zealand), K. Schlüns (Berlin, Germany):

Towards 3D Model Reconstruction from Photometric Stereo

Z. Sun, D. P. Mital, K. L. Chan (Singapore):

A Representation for 3-D Free-form Object Recognition

H. W. Guesgen (Auckland, New Zealand):

On the Limits of Local Constraints Satisfaction Applied to the Polyhedron Labeling Problem

SOCIAL PROGRAMME

Bus excursion. The bus left Tamaki at 14:30 for a scenic tour of Auckland, and arrived at Devonport at 19:30 in time for the conference dinner.

The conference dinner started at 19:30 at Port'O'Call in Devonport. Those who were not taking part in the excursion received a ferry ticket to Devonport with their registration package. The ferry tickets were included in the cost of dinner, and have been provided with the registration package.

Wednesday 18th November 1998.

SESSION 7: IMAGE MODELLING and SEGMENTATION

X. Mo, K. L. Chan (Singapore):

Keynote Paper

Regularity Measures for Quasi-perodic Textures

G. Gimel'farb (Auckland, New Zealand):

On Comparing Two Scenarios for Probabilistic Image Modelling

B. Galvin, K. Novins, B. McCane (Dunedin, New Zealand):

Motion-Based Object Segmentation Using Active Contours

P. P. Dang, P. M. Chau (San Diego, USA):

An Architecture for Edge Detector on Reconfigurable Processor

R. I. Chaplin, M. Siroki, R. M. Hodgson, S. Gunetileke (Palmerston North, New Zealand):

The Development of Mapping Techniques to Incorporate Image Processing Problem Specific Rules into Neural Networks

SESSION 8: THEORY and VISUALISATION

H. C. North, Q. X. Wu, M. A. Schulze (Lincoln, New Zealand):

Centroid Attraction: a Technique for Multiscale Edge Detection

J. Flusser (Praha, Czech Republic):

Effective Boundary-based Calculation of Object Moments

R. Klette (Auckland, New Zealand), J. Zunic (Novi Sad, Yugoslavia):

On the Gravity Centres of "Smooth" Shapes from their Digital Pictures

L. Ming, R. Kakarala (Auckland, New Zealand):

A Convolution Property of Disk Harmonic Coefficients and Symmetry Estimation

R. A. Johnston, T. J. Conolly, R. G. Lane (Christchurch, New Zealand):

Efficient Blind Deconvolution

B. Wünsche (Auckland, New Zealand):

A Survey and Evaluation of Mesh Reduction Techniques for Polygonized Isosurfaces

S.-Z. Zhou, R. Klette (Auckland, New Zealand):

Reconstruction of Multiresolution Terrain Surfaces

SESSION 9: OPEN FORUM RESEARCH

Poster exhibition in room 203, was potentially also open to unreviewed posters. A buffet including wine and beer has been provided.

NOTES

The presentation time for a keynote paper was 30 minutes, a normal paper was 15 minutes, and a poster was 3 minutes. The presentation time included the time for any discussion.

The conference bus left from O'Rourke Hall at 08:20 everyday from Monday to Wednesday to the conference venue at Tamaki campus.

The poster exhibition was in the exhibition room next to the lecture hall. This was open to conference participants throughout the conference, from Monday to Wednesday.