Title: Image analysis and recognition
Description: Invited papers -- DIAR: Advances in degradation modeling and processing / Mohamed Cheriet and Reza Farrahi Moghaddam -- Analysis for video coding: Moving it from the encoder to the decoder / Fernando Pereira -- Image restoration and enhancement -- A fast scheme for multiscale signal denoising / Vittoria Bruni, Benedetto Piccoli, and Domenico Vitulano -- Color scratches removal using human perception / Vittoria Bruni, Paola Ferrara, and Domenico Vitulano -- Self-similarity of images in the fourier domain, with applications to MRI / G.S. Mayer, Edward R. Vrscay, M.L. Lauzon, B. G. Goodyear, and J. R. Mitchell -- A simple scaling algorithm based on areas pixels / Alain Horé, François Deschênes, and Djemel Ziou -- A new method for sharpening color images using fuzzy approach / M. Wilscy and Madhu S. Nair -- Wavelet noise reduction based on energy features / Guoyi Fu, Ali Hojjat, and Alan Colchester --^

Fast exact area image upsampling with natural biquadratic histosplines / Nicolas Robidoux, Adam Turcotte, Minglun Gong, and Annie Tousignant -- A new super-resolution algorithm based on areas pixels and the sampling theorem of Papoulis / Alain Horé, François Deschênes, and Djemel Ziou -- Image and video segmentation -- Robust segmentation process to detect incidents on highways / Gonçalo Monteiro, João Marcos, Miguel Ribeiro, and Jorge Batista -- Handling topological changes in the topological active volumes model / N. Barreira, M. G. Penedo, C. Alonso, and J. Rouco -- Image segmentation via iterative histogram thresholding and morphological features analysis / Nadia Brancati, Maria Frucci, and Gabriella Sanniti di Baja -- Vehicle detection based on color and edge information / Lei Gao, Chao Li, Ting Fang, and Zhang Xiong -- A neural network approach for video object segmentation in traffic surveillance / R. M. Luque, E. Domíguez, E. J. Palomo, and J. Muñoz --^

Non-linear image processing -- Color photo denoising via hue, saturation and intensity diffusion / Lei He and Chenyang Xu -- Examining the role of scale in the context of the non-local-means filter / Mehran Ebrahimi and Edward R. Vrscay -- Geometrical mutliscale noise resistant method of edge detection / Agnieszka Lisowska -- A simple, general model for the affine self-similarity of images / SImon K. Alexander, Edward R. Vrscay, and Satoshi Tsurumi -- Image and video coding and encryption -- Efficient bit-rate estimation for mode decision of H. 264 / AVC / Shuwei Sun and Shuming Chen -- Introducing a two dimensional measure for watermarking capacity in images / Farzin Yaghmaee and Mansour Jamzad -- Estimating the detectability of small lesions in high resolution MR compressed images / Juan Paz, Marlen Pérez, Iroel Miranda, and Peter Schelkens -- JPEG artifact removal using error distributions of linear coefficient estimates / Mika Inki --^

Efficient constrained video coding for low complexity decoding / Paulo J. Cordeiro, Juan Gomez-Pulido, and Pedro A. Assunção -- Robust 3D watermarking technique using eigendecomposition and nonnegative matrix factorization / Emad E. Abdallah, A. Ben Hamza, and Prabir Bhattacharya.
Subjects: Optical pattern recognition, Congresses, Image analysis, Informatique, Imaging systems