Computer Vision - ECCV '94: Third European Conference on Computer Vision, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2 - 6, 1994. Proceedings, Volume 1(800 Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) has established itself as a major event in this exciting and very active field of research. This two-volume proceedings collects the 115 papers accepted for presentation at the 3rd ECCV, held in Stockholm in May 1994. The papers were selected from over 300 submissions and together give a well balanced reflection of the state of the art in computer vision. The papers in Volume I are grouped under the following headings: Geometry and shape, Optical flow and motion fields, Image features, Motion and flow, Motion segmentation and tracking, Ego-motion and 3D recovery, Recognition, Shape modelling, Shape estimation, Calibration and multiple views, and Stereo and calibration

Table of Contents:
Evolutionary fronts for topology-independent shape modeling and recovery.- Epipolar fields on surfaces.- Stability and likelihood of views of three dimensional objects.- Topological reconstruction of a smooth manifold-solid from its occluding contour.- Optical flow estimation: Advances and comparisons.- Multiple constraints for optical flow.- Motion field of curves: Applications.- Sufficient image structure for 3-D motion and shape estimation.- A comparison between the standard Hough Transform and the Mahalanobis distance Hough Transform.- Junction classification by multiple orientation detection.- Following corners on curves and surfaces in the scale space.- Scale-space properties of quadratic edge detectors.- A scalar function formulation for optical flow.- First order optic flow from log-polar sampled images.- Recursive non-linear estimation of discontinuous flow fields.- The use of optical flow for the autonomous navigation.- An image motion estimation technique based on a combinedstatistical test and spatiotemporal generalised likelihood ratio approach.- Independent motion segmentation and collision prediction for road vehicles.- An MRF based motion detection algorithm implemented on analog resistive network.- Occlusion ambiguities in motion.- A robust tracking of 3D motion.- Robust multiple car tracking with occlusion reasoning.- Shape from motion algorithms: A comparative analysis of scaled orthography and perspective.- Robust egomotion estimation from affine motion parallax.- Integrated 3D analysis of flight image sequences.- Recursive affine structure and motion from image sequences.- Shape models from image sequences.- Vibration modes for nonrigid motion analysis in 3D images.- Applying VC-dimension analysis to object recognition.- Extraction of groups for recognition.- Model based pose estimation of articulated and constrained objects.- Seeing behind occlusions.- Face recognition: The problem of compensating for changes in illumination direction.- Learning flexible models from image sequences.- A direct recovery of superquadric models in range images using recover-and-select paradigm.- Segmentation and recovery of SHGCs from a real intensity image.- Recognizing hand gestures.- Pose refinement of active models using forces in 3D.- Recovering surface curvature and orientation from texture distortion: A least squares algorithm and sensitivity analysis.- Direct estimation of local surface shape in a fixating binocular vision system.- Deriving orientation cues from stereo images.- Shape-adapted smoothing in estimation of 3-D depth cues from affine distortions of local 2-D brightness structure.- Utilizing symmetry in the reconstruction of three-dimensional shape from noisy images.- Consistency and correction of line-drawings, obtained by projections of piecewise planar objects.- On the enumerative geometry of aspect graphs.- Geometry-driven curve evolution.- Quantitative measurement of manufactured diamond shape.- Hierarchical shape representation using locally adaptive finite elements.- Camera calibration from spheres images.- Self calibration of a stereo head mounted onto a robot arm.- Analytical methods for uncalibrated stereo and motion reconstruction.- Self-calibration from multiple views with a rotating camera.- Trilinearity in visual recognition by alignment.- What can two images tell us about a third one?.- A robust method for road sign detection and recognition.- Pose determination and recognition of vehicles in traffic scenes.- Performance comparison of ten variations on the interpretation-tree matching algorithm.- Recognition of human facial expressions without feature extraction.- Pulsed neural networks and perceptive grouping.- Projective invariants for planar contour recognition.- Divided we fall: Resolving occlusions using causal reasoning.- Camera calibration of a head-eye system for active vision.- Linear pushbroom cameras.- Robust recovery of the epipolar geometry for an uncalibrated stereo rig.- A stability analysis of the Fundamental matrix.- Canonic representations for the geometries of multiple projective views.