Computer vision computer graphics collaboration techniques : third international conference MIRAGE 2007 Rocquencourt France March 28 30 2007 ; proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Computer Graphics collaboration techniques involving image analysis synthesis approaches MIRAGE 2007 held in Rocquencourt France in March 2007. The 55 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 198 submissions. The papers cover foundational and methodological issues such as model based imaging and analysis image based modeling and 3D reconstruction data driven animation image and video based lighting and rendering model based vision approaches model based indexing and database retrieval model based object tracking in image sequences model based image and shape analysis model based video compression techniques. Application issues addressed are human computer interfaces video games and entertainment industry media productions from and for films broadcasts and games post production computer animation virtual effects realistic 3D simulation virtual prototyping multimedia applications multimedia database classification virtual and augmented reality medical and biomedical applications. Written for: Researchers and professionals Keywords: 3D vision algorithmic learning biomedical images classification clustering computer vision face identification face reconstruction gesture recognition image analysis image processing image registration image retrieval image segmentation machine learning neural networks object detection object recognition object tracking pattern recognition ray tracing segmentation