Nicu Sebe - Böcker

Multimodal Behavioral Analysis in the Wild: Advances and Challenges presents the state-of- the-art in behavioral signal processing using different data modalities, with a special focus on identifying the strengths and limitations of current technologies. The book focuses on audio and video modalities, while also emphasizing emerging modalities, such as accelerometer or proximity data. It covers tasks at different levels of complexity, from low level (speaker detection, sensorimotor links, source separation), through middle level (conversational group detection, addresser and addressee identification), and high level (personality and emotion recognition), providing insights on how to exploit inter-level and intra-level links.

This is a valuable resource on the state-of-the- art and future research challenges of multi-modal behavioral analysis in the wild. It is suitable for researchers and graduate students in the fields of computer vision, audio processing, pattern recognition, machine learning and social signal processing.

Gives a comprehensive collection of information on the state-of-the-art, limitations, and challenges associated with extracting behavioral cues from real-world scenarios Presents numerous applications on how different behavioral cues have been successfully extracted from different data sources Provides a wide variety of methodologies used to extract behavioral cues from multi-modal data

The two-volume set LNCS 11751 and 11752 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2019, held in Trento, Italy, in September 2019. The 117 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 207 submissions.

The two-volume set LNCS 11751 and 11752 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2019, held in Trento, Italy, in September 2019. The 117 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 207 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of five workshops and an industrial session held at the 20th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2019, in Trento, Italy, in September 2019: Second International Workshop on Recent Advances in Digital Security: Biometrics and Forensics (BioFor 2019);

This book introduces approaches to generalize the benefits of equivariant deep learning to a broader set of learned structures through learned homomorphisms.

The two-volume set LNCS 9516 and LNCS 9517 constitutesthe refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on MultimediaModeling, MMM 2016, held in Miami, FL, USA, in January 2016. The 32 revised full papers and 52 poster papers presentedwere carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions.

The two-volume set LNCS 9516 and 9517 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2016, held in Miami, FL, USA, in January 2016. The 32 revised full papers and 52 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions.

The eight-volume set comprising LNCS volumes 9905-9912 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2016, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in October 2016. The papers cover all aspects of computer vision and pattern recognition such as 3D computer vision; low-level vision and image processing;

The eight-volume set comprising LNCS volumes 9905-9912 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2016, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in October 2016. The papers cover all aspects of computer vision and pattern recognition such as 3D computer vision; low-level vision and image processing;

The eight-volume set comprising LNCS volumes 9905-9912 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2016, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in October 2016. The papers cover all aspects of computer vision and pattern recognition such as 3D computer vision; low-level vision and image processing;

The eight-volume set comprising LNCS volumes 9905-9912 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2016, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in October 2016. The papers cover all aspects of computer vision and pattern recognition such as 3D computer vision; low-level vision and image processing;

The eight-volume set comprising LNCS volumes 9905-9912 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2016, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in October 2016. The papers cover all aspects of computer vision and pattern recognition such as 3D computer vision; low-level vision and image processing;

The eight-volume set comprising LNCS volumes 9905-9912 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2016, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in October 2016. The papers cover all aspects of computer vision and pattern recognition such as 3D computer vision; low-level vision and image processing;

The eight-volume set comprising LNCS volumes 9905-9912 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2016, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in October 2016. The papers cover all aspects of computer vision and pattern recognition such as 3D computer vision; low-level vision and image processing;

The eight-volume set comprising LNCS volumes 9905-9912 constitutes therefereed proceedings of the 14th European Conference on ComputerVision, ECCV 2016, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in October 2016. The 415 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selectedfrom 1480 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2004, held at ECCV 2004 in Prague, Czech Republic in May 2004.The 19 revised full papers presented together with an introductory overview and an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on human-robot interaction, gesture recognition and body tracking, systems, and face and head.

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) lies at the crossroads of many scienti?c areas including arti?cial intelligence, computer vision, face recognition, motion tracking, etc. In order for HCI systems to interact seamlessly with people, they need to understand their environment through vision and auditory input. Mo- over, HCI systems should learn how to adaptively respond depending on the situation. The goal of this workshop was to bring together researchers from the ?eld of computer vision whose work is related to human-computer interaction. The selected articles for this workshop address a wide range of theoretical and - plication issues in human-computer interaction ranging from human-robot - teraction, gesture recognition, and body tracking, to facial features analysis and human-computer interaction systems. This year 74 papers from 18 countries were submitted and 22 were accepted for presentation at the workshop after being reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee. We had therefore a very competitive acceptance rate of less than 30% and as a consequence we had a very-high-quality workshop. Wewouldliketo thankallmembersofthe ProgramCommitteefor their help in ensuring the quality of the papers accepted for publication. We are grateful to Dr. Jian Wang for giving the keynote address. In addition, we wish to thank the organizers of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and our sponsors, University of Amsterdam, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for support in setting up our workshop.

The interests and goals of HCI (human–computer interaction) include understanding, designing, building, and evaluating complex interactive systems - involving many people and technologies. Developments in software and hardware technologies are continuously driving applications in supporting our collaborative and communicative needs as social beings, both at work and at play. At the same time, similar developments are pushing the human–computer interface beyond the desktop and into our pockets, streets, and buildings. Developments in mobile, wearable, and pervasive communications and computing technologies provide exciting challenges and opportunities for HCI. This volume presents the proceedings of the HCI 2006 Workshop, held in conjunction with ECCV 2006 (European Conference on Computer Vision) in Graz, Austria. The goal of this workshop was to bring together researchers from the field of computer vision whose work is related to human–computer interaction.The 11 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. They address a wide range of theoretical and application issues in human–computer interaction. There were four thematic sessions named: face analysis; gesture and emotion recognition; event detection; and applications.

The refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, CIVR 2003, held in Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA in July 2003. The 46 revised full papers presented together with an introduction and 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image retrieval, indexing strategies and structures, feature based retrieval, semantic and learning, video retrieval, user studies, applications, video summarization and analysis, and performance.

Welcome to the International Conference an Image and Video Retrieval, CIVR2002. Ourconferenceisasnapshotofthecurrentworld-wideresearch inimageandvideoretrievalfromdigitallibraries,databases,andmultimedia collections. Topicsrangefromthestateoftheartinsemanticvisualretrievalto videosummarizationtonewfeaturesandmodelingparadigms. Thisyear82papersfrom24countriesweresubmittedand39wereaccepted forpresentationattheconferenceafterbeingreviewedbyatleast3membersof theProgramCommittee. WewouldliketothankallmembersoftheProgramCommittee,aswell astheadditionalrefereeslistedbelow,fortheirhelpinensuringthequalityof thepapersacceptedforpublication. WewouldalsoliketothanktheOrgan- ingCommitteeforalltheire?ortsinmakingtheconferencehappen,aswellas ourtwokeynotespeakers,ArnoldSmeuldersfromtheUniversityofAmsterdam andAlexHauptmannfromCarnegie-MellonUniversity. Finally,wearegrateful tooursponsors,theBritishComputerSocietyInformationRetrievalSpecialist Group,theBritishMachineVisionAssociation(BMVA),theInstituteforImage DataResearch,UniversityofNorthumbria,theInstitutionofElectricalEn- neers(IEE),andtheLeidenInstituteofAdvancedComputerScience(LIACS), LeidenUniversiy. May2002 MichaelS. Lew NicuSebe JohnP.Eakins International Conference an Image andVideo Retrieval 2002 Organization Organizing Committee OrganizingCommitteeChair: JohnP. Eakins (UniversityofNorthumbria,UK) TechnicalProgramChair: MichaelS. Lew (LIACSMediaLab,LeidenUniversity,NL) PractitionerProgramChair: MargaretGraham (UniversityofNorthumbria,UK) PublicityChair: RichardHarvey (UniversityofEastAnglia,UK) Webmaster: PaulLewis(UniversityofSouthampton,UK) LocalChair: ChrisPorter(GettyImages,London,UK) PeterEnser(UniversityofBrighton,UK) AlanSmeaton(DublinCityUniversity,IRL) ProgramCommittee JimAustin UniversityofYork AlbertoDelBimbo UniversityofFlorence LarryChen KodakResearchLabs JohnP. Eakins UniversityofNorthumbria PeterEnser UniversityofBrighton GrahamFinlayson UniversityofEastAnglia DavidForsyth UCBerkeley TheoGevers UniversityofAmsterdam MargaretGraham UniversityofNorthumbria RichardHarvey UniversityofEastAnglia TomHuang UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign JoemonJose UniversityofGlasgow JosefKittler UniversityofSurrey ClementLeung UniversityofMelbourne MichaelS. Lew LIACSMediaLab,LeidenUniversity PaulLewis UniversityofSouthampton StephaneMarchand-Maillet UniversityofGeneva Ji?r'?(George)Matas CVUTPrague MajidMirmehdi UniversityofBristol ChahabNastar LTUtechnologies EricPauwelsKatholieke UniversityofLeuwen MariaPetrou UniversityofSurrey ChrisPorter GettyImages VIII Organization TonyRose ReutersLimited YongRui MicrosoftResearch PhillipeSalembier UniversityofBarcelona StanSclaro?BostonUniversity NicuSebe LIACSMediaLab,LeidenUniversity AlanSmeaton DublinCityUniversity ArnoldSmeulders UniversityofAmsterdam BarryThomas UniversityofBristol Additional Reviewers ErwinBakker LeidenUniversity IraCohen UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign AshutoshGarg UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign Jan-MarkGeusebroek UniversityofAmsterdam AlanHanjalic DelftUniversityofTechnology VickyHodge UniversityofYork NiesHuijsmans LeidenUniversity ThangPham UniversityofAmsterdam CeesSnoek UniversityofAmsterdam QiTian UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign JeroenVendrig UniversityofAmsterdam RoyWang UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign ZiyouXiong UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign Sponsors TheBritishComputerSociety,InformationRetrievalSpecialistGroup TheBritishMachineVisionAssociation TheInstituteforImageDataResearch,UniversityofNorthumbria TheInstitutionofElectricalEngineers TheLeidenInstituteofAdvancedComputerScience,LeidenUniversity Table of Contents ChallengesofImageandVideoRetrieval...1 Michael S. Lew,Nicu Sebe,andJohn P. Eakins Image RetrievalI (Oral) Visualization,EstimationandUser-Modeling forInteractiveBrowsingofImageLibraries...7QiTian, Baback Moghaddam, and Thomas S. Huang RobustShapeMatching...17 Nicu Sebeand Michael Lew Semantics-BasedImageRetrievalbyRegionSaliency...29 WeiWang, YuqingSong,andAidong Zhang TheTruthaboutCorel-EvaluationinImageRetrieval...38 HenningM.. uller, Stephane Marchand-Maillet, andThierry Pun Non-retrieval:BlockingPornographicImages...50 Alison Bosson, Gavin C. Cawley, YiChan, and Richard Harvey ModellingI(Poster) ALinearImage-PairModel andtheAssociatedHypothesisTestforMatching ...61 Gregory Cox andGerhard deJager OntheCoupledForwardandBackwardAnisotropicDi?usionScheme forColorImageEnhancement...70 Bogdan Smolka andKonstantinosN. Plataniotis MultipleRegionsandTheirSpatialRelationship-BasedImageRetrieval...81 ByoungChul KoandHyeran Byun Feature Based Retrieval(Poster) QuerybyFaxforContent-BasedImageRetrieval...

Welcome to the International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis and Mining, MCAM 2007. Our workshop gives a snapshot of the current wor- wide research in multimedia analysis. Through recent advances in computing, networking, and data storage, multimedia will create new interesting technical possibilities in a wide range of ?elds, such as entertainment, commerce, science, medicine, and public safety. To bene?t from this potential, developers need - liable techniques for the analysis, search, and management of multimedia data, as well as distributed system architectures in which these techniques can be embedded to e?ectively help the users. Recently, there have been many workshops and meetings dedicated to M- timedia, but most of them followed the standard pattern consisting mainly of oral and poster presentations. We all feel that there is a need for a meeting that really is a workshop, i.e., one that provides a lot of opportunities for discussions and dissemination. Consequently, the format of the workshop consists of 4 p- els on hot topics in multimedia followedby discussions and poster presentations. The topics of the panels are: Multimedia Analysis and Applications, Multi- dia Search and Mining, P2P Streaming, and Security. This volume contains a number of invited contributions from experts in the area as well as the selected regular contributions. This year 139 submissions from 13 countries were submitted and 46 were accepted for presentation at the conference after being reviewed by the Program Committee members.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction, HCI 2007. Coverage in the 16 revised full papers presented includes affective detection and recognition, human motion tracking, multimedia data modeling and visualization, HCI issues in image/video retrieval, learning in HCI, input and interaction techniques, perceptual user interfaces, wearable and pervasive technologies in HCI and intelligent virtual environments.

It was a great pleasure to organize the First International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding (HBU), which took place as a satellite workshop to International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) on August 22, 2010, in Istanbul, Turkey. This workshop arose from the natural marriage of pattern recognitionwiththerapidlyadvancingareaofhumanbehavioranalysis.Ouraim was to gather researchersdealing with the problem of modeling human behavior under its multiple facets (expression of emotions, display of relational attitudes, performance of individual or joint actions, etc.), with particular attention to pattern recognition approaches that involve multiple modalities and those that model actual dynamics of behavior. The contiguity with ICPR, one of the most important events in the p- tern recognition and machine learning communities, is expected to foster cro- pollination with other areas, for example temporal pattern mining or time - ries analysis, which share their important methodological aspects with human behavior understanding. Furthermore, the presence of this workshop at ICPR was meant to attract researchers, in particular PhD students and postd- toral researchers, to work on the questions of human behavior understanding that is likely to play a major role in future technologies (ambient intelligence, human–robot interaction, arti?cial social intelligence, etc.), as witnessed by a number of researche?orts aimed at collecting and annotating large sets of multi sensor data,collected from observingpeople in naturaland often technologically challenging conditions.

The two volumes contain papers presented in the topical sections on multimedia annotation I and II, interactive and mobile multimedia, classification, recognition and tracking I and II, ranking in search, multimedia representation, multimedia systems, poster papers, special session papers, demo session papers, and video browser showdown.