Program

The proceedings are available online on IEEE Xplore.

Awards

Best Paper Award	Tian Xu and Paul Cockshot Guided Filtering based Pyramidical Stereo Matching for Unrectified Images
Best Student Paper Award	Daniel Biedermann, Matthias Ochs and Rudolf Mester COnGRATS: Realistic Simulation of Traffic Sequences for Autonomous Driving
Best Poster Award	Rafael Guillermo Gonzalez Acuña, Junli Tao and Reinhard Klette Generalization of Otsu’s Binarizationinto Recursive Colour Image Segmentation

Schedule

The conference program is as follows:

	Mon, Nov 23	Tue, Nov 24
8:30–9:30	Registrations	Registrations
9:30–10:30	Keynote: Barbara Breen	Keynote: Paul Rosin
10:30–11:10	Oral presentations	Oral presentations
11:10–11:40	Morning tea	Morning tea
11:40–13:00	Oral presentations	Oral presentations
13:00–14:00	Lunch	Lunch / IVCNZ steering committee meeting
14:00–15:10	Poster presentations	Poster presentations
15:10–15:40	Afternoon tea	Afternoon tea
15:40–17:00	Oral presentations	Oral presentations
17:30–19:00	New Zealand Robotics, Automation and Sensing AGM and Workshop
Evening	Banquet: Five Knots at the Tamaki Yacht Club

Visiting the IVCNZ and PSIVT

The IVCNZ is co-located with the Pacific Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT). Registration for the IVCNZ includes admission to the PSIVT workshops. It is possible to register for both conferences.

Mon:	IVCNZ sessions + PSIVT workshops + IVCNZ banquet
Tue:	IVCNZ sessions + PSIVT workshops
Wed:	PSIVT sessions
Thu:	PSIVT sessions + banquet
Fri:	PSIVT sessions

Keynote speech: Remote sensing in conservation and ecological research

by Barbara Breen

The Auckland University of Technology unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) research team are leaders in the application of UAV technology and remote sensing in conservation and ecological research. The team works in partnership with industry to customise and develop unmanned systems for use in New Zealand and extreme environments such as Antarctica, desert systems and offshore islands.

Low flying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) offer ecologists new opportunities to collect scale appropriate data at high spatial and temporal resolution. The presentation will showcase the use of UAVs in spatial ecology and demonstrate existing post processing tools for UAV imagery. The talk will explore opportunities for use of computer vision techniques for analysis of high resolution video imagery in a variety of environments and ecological studies.

Dr Barbara Bollard Breen is a senior lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences at AUT. Her research interests are in GIS applications, ecosystem management, cultural landscapes and spatial ecology. She has over 20 years’ experience working in government and NGO’s in both Australia and New Zealand. Her research focus has been the identification and selection of Protected Areas, using remote sensing technology, such as UAV, to map habitats and landscapes for conservation planning and integrating social data with environmental and biological information using decision support systems, multivariate statistics and GIS.

Barbara Breen's website at the AUT

Keynote speech: Non-Photorealistic Rendering of Images

by Paul Rosin

Computer Scientists have been inspired by artists to develop many non-photorealistic rendering techniques that can take an input image and produce a wide variety of artistic effects such as oil painting, watercolour, pointillist, etc. Their application can simply be for fun (e.g. to make consumer photographs more interesting), but there are also many other applications such as scientific visualisation, film production effects, technical illustration, etc.

The talk will overview several NPR techniques developed by Paul Rosin and Yu-Kun Lai, that aim to generate results that are relatively minimal rendering, in terms of using a combination of refined lines and regions and a small number of tones or colours. The aim is to achieve a rendering that is abstracted but retains sufficient elements from the original image so that (for example) it can be used to generate recognisable portraits.

Paul L. Rosin is a Professor at the School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University. Previous posts include Brunel University, Joint Research Centre, Italy and Curtin University of Technology, Australia. His research interests include shape analysis, curve segmentation, low level image processing, machine vision approaches to remote sensing, medical and biological image analysis, mesh processing, non-photorealistic rendering, the analysis of shape in art and architecture, and application of cellular automata to image processing.

Paul Rosin's website at Cardiff University, UK

Detailed conference program

Monday, Nov. 23:

Paper no.	10:30–11:10 Oral presentations
	Chair: Steven Mills
70	Daniel Biedermann, Matthias Ochs and Rudolf Mester COnGRATS: Realistic Simulation of Traffic Sequences for Autonomous Driving
127	Tian Xu and William Cockshott Guided Filtering based Pyramidical Stereo Matching for Unrectified Images
	11:40–13:00 Oral presentations
	Chair: Michael Cree
45	Huan Feng, Steven Mills, David Eyers, Zhiyi Huang and Xiaolong Shen Optimal Space Subdivision for Parallel Approximate Nearest Neighbour Determination
47	Agata Migalska and John Lewis An Information Theoretic Approach to Reflectional Symmetry Detection
71	Jordan Campbell, Steven Mills and Mike Paulin Mutual Information of Image Intensity and Gradient Flux for Markerless Pose Estimation
72	Matthew Collett Self-normalising linear camera resection
	14:00–15:10 Poster presentations
2	Evgeny Patrikeev and John Lewis Texture-aware Edit Propagation
18	Mohammad Awrangjeb and Guojun Lu A Triangulation-based Technique for Building Boundary Identification from Point Cloud Data
20	Xiping Fu, Brendan McCane, Steven Mills and Michael Albert How to select hashing bits? A direct measurement approach
27	Yuan Liu, Shangqi Lai, Tianyi Du and Yizhou Yu Hybrid Superpixel Segmentation
30	Cheng Yang and John Collins A Model for Honey Bee Tracking On 2D Video
37	Jonathan Headlee and Eric Balster A No-Reference Image Enhancement Quality Metric and Fusion Technique
44	Wei Mou, Shuai Yang, Han Wang and Shuzhi Sam Ge Place Recognition By Using Multiple Feature Types
46	Rafael Guillermo, Junli Tao and Reinhard Klette Generalisation of Otsu’s Binarization into Recursive Colour Image Segmentation
49	Xiaohan Yu, Shengwu Xiong and Yongsheng Gao Leaf image retrieval using combined feature of vein and contour
55	Xiaozheng Mou and Han Wang Global Sparsity Potentials for Obstacle Detection from Unmanned Surface Vehicles
76	Ting-Hsiang Huang, Zhen-Qi Zhuang, Chia-Yen Chen, Bao Rong Chang and Chia-Chen Kuo Feature Tracking Using Epipolar Geometry for Ego-Motion Estimation
89	Ricardo David Castaneda Marin, Richard Green and Joshua McCulloch A Hidden Markov Model For Modeling and Extracting Vine Structure in Images
100	Henry Williams, Syed Saud Naqvi, Will N. Browne and Christopher Hollitt Introduction of a Human Based Attention Model for Robotic navigation
103	Bo-Yao Lin and Chu-Song Chen Two Parallel Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Pedestrian Detection
109	Safar Alqahtani, Andre Barczak, Napoleon Reyes, Teo Susnjak and Austen Ganley Automatic Alignment and Comparison on Images of Petri Dishes containing Cell Colonies
118	Sumeer Khan, Suet-Peng Yong and Jeremiah Deng Ensemble Classification with modified SIFT Descriptor for Medical Image Modality
119	Eleanor Da Fonseca, Andrew Ensor and Seth Hall Object Recognition using ColourFAST Feature Point Clusters
129	Bharat Munshi and Navjyoti Singh Palette Based Colour Transfer using Image Segmentation
137	Bernardt Duvenhage Long Range Image Enhancement
143	Mahmudul Hassan ‘Affordance’ detection by mid-level physical parts
	15:40–17:00 Oral presentations
	Chair: Michael Hayes
59	Arthur Roberts, Will Browne and Christopher Hollitt Accurate Marker Based Distance Measurement with Single Camera
102	Ni Liu, Georgy Gimel'farb and Patrice Delmas Learning Long-range Local Ternary Patterns for Texture Recognition
114	Phil Bones and Julian Maclaren Coping with motion in MRI: developments since TRELLIS
147	Michael Cree Vectorised SIMD Implementations of Morphology Algorithms

Monday, late afternoon:

Time	17:30–19:00 New Zealand Robotics, Automation and Sensing
17:30	AGM
18:00	Research forum (brief updates) Inspection Robotics & Assistive technology in Medicine: Will Browne Autonomous Robotics in Rugged Outdoor Environments: Bruce MacDonald UAVs: Richard Green 3D Reconstruction: Steven Mills Sensor development: Ian Woodhead & John Kennedy
18:20	Industry forum: brief reports from NZ industry representatives Speakers TBA
18:40	General discussion forum

Tuesday, Nov. 24:

Paper no.	10:30–11:10 Oral presentations
	Chair: Will Browne
40	Rui Dusselaar and Manoranjan Paul Hyperspectral Image Coding using Spectral Prediction Modelling in HEVC Coding Framework
125	Ralph Versteegen, Georgy Gimel'farb and Patricia Riddle Texture Modelling with Non-contiguous Filters
	11:40–13:00 Oral presentations
	Chair: Brendan McCane
61	Dongwei Liu and Reinhard Klette Sharpness and Contrast Measures on Videos
77	Andrew Lensen, Harith Al-Sahaf, Mengjie Zhang and Bing Xue A Hybrid Genetic Programming Approach to Feature Detection and Image Classification
82	Pallab Podder, Manoranjan Paul and Manzur Murshed Foreground Motion and Spatial Saliency-based Efficient HEVC Video Coding
98	Ghassen Selmi, Zouhour Ben Azzouz and Dhafer Malouche The Volume Radius Function: A new Descriptor for the Segmentation of Volumetric Medical Images
	14:00–15:10 Poster presentations
9	Faisal Algashaam, Kien Nguyen, Wageeh Boles and Vinod Chandran Periocular recognition under expession variation using Higher Order Spectral features
13	Shaoguang Zhou, Guojun Lu, Shyh Wei Teng and Dengsheng Zhang Extracting Road Centerlines from Binary Road Images by Optimizing Geodesic Lines
14	Minh Nguyen, Rui Gong, Patrice Delmas and Wei Qi Yan Toward a Real-time Belief Propagation Stereo Reconstruction for Computers, Robots, and Beyond
17	Hannah Sofian, Suraya Mohammad, Joel Chia Ming Than and Norliza Mohd Noor Lumen Coronary Artery Border Detection Using Texture and Chi-square Classification
21	Shoichi Takei, Shuichi Akizuki and Manabu Hashimoto SHORT: A Fast 3D Feature Description based on Estimating Occupancy in Spherical Shell Regions
23	Raniyah Wazirali and Zenon Chaczko Perceptual Threshold in DWT For Optimum Embedding Rate in Data Hiding Using HVS and GA
36	Mohammad Esmaeilpour, Faezeh Allahabadi and Zeinab Esmaeilpour Regularized Logistic Regression Algorithm Learns Progressive Sweep Algorithm
43	Kwok-Ping Chan, Xinxin Zhan and Jiali Wang Facial Expression Recognition by Correlated Topic Models and Bayes Modeling
57	Rui Gong, Georgy Gimel'farb and Patrice Delmas Semi-global Stereo Matching Under Large and Spatially Variant Perceptive Deviations
60	Matthew Stephenson, Adrian Clark and Richard Green Novel Methods for Reflective Symmetry Detection in Scanned 3D Models
66	Siti Tasnim Mahamud and Bahbibi Rahmatullah Image Quality Assessment Based On Properties of HVS and Principle of Image Structure
74	Ahmed Ben Said and Sebti Foufou Modified total variation regularization using fuzzy complement for image denoising
75	Siyu Xia, Junkang Zhang, Kaiyue Lu and Kai Qin Road Detection via Unsupervised Feature Learning
87	Jaco Cronje Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Dense Non-Uniform Motion Deblurring
92	Wan-Duo Ma, Andrew Chalmers, Thomas Iorns and Taehyun Rhee Synthesizing Radiance Maps from Legacy Outdoor Photographs for Real-time IBL on HMDs
106	Romain Arnal and Rick Millane Uniqueness for ab initio phase retrieval in macromolecular X-ray crystallography
110	D M Motiur Rahaman and Manoranjan Paul Free View-Point Video Synthesis Using Gaussian Mixture Modelling
111	Sang Nguyen, My Nguyen, An Huynh and Lung Vu A Novel Method for Video Enhancement – RGB Local Context-based Fusion
113	Amal Amami, Zouhour Ben Azouz and Monia Turki Weakly supervised 3D Reconstruction of the Knee Joint from MR Images Using a Volumetric Active Appearance Model
124	Anubha Kalra, Andrew Lowe and Ahmed Al-Jumaily Point Tracking on a thin elastomer to emulate Skin-stretch induced motion artifacts in Electrocardiogram measurement
126	Md. Zia Uddin A Depth Video-based Facial Expression Recognition System Using GDA, LDP, Optical Flows, and HMM
128	Kunal Swami, Gaurav Khandelwal, Kunal Sekhri and Ajay Vijayvargiya A New Method of Flash Image Shadow Detection and Patch-based Correction of Shadow Regions
131	Shuo Yang, Jianxun Li and Zhangyuan Gu Nonlocal Mathematical Morphology and Spatially-Variant Connected operators
134	Syed Afaq Ali Shah, Mohammed Bennamoun and Farid Boussaid Automatic 3D Face Landmark Localization Based on 3D Vector Field Analysis
135	Zizui Chen, Mohamed Shehata, Andrew Smith and Carnahan Heather Feasibility of a semi-automated approach to grading point of care ultrasound image generation skills
142	Wei Li, Trevor Gee, Patrice Delmas and Heide Friedrich Tsai’s calibration applied for close-range hydraulic engineering research
148	Bourhane Kadmiry and Chee Kit Wong Perception Scheme for Fruits Detection in Trees for Autonomous Agricultural Robot Applications
	15:40–17:00 Oral presentations
	Chair: Rick Millane
83	Fahad Bashir Alvi and Russel Pears Use of Spatio-Temporal Modeling for Age Invariant Face Recognition
90	Maria Mikhisor, Geoff Wyvill, Brendan McCane and Steven Mills Adapting Generic Trackers for Tracking Faces
99	Amir Hajirassouliha, Barbara Kmiecik, Andrew J. Taberner, Martyn P. Nash and Poul M. F. Nielsen A Hand-held Low-cost Stereoscopic Device for Measuring Dynamic Deformations of Skin In Vivo
138	Bo Jiang, Sijiang Liu, Siyu Xia, Xiao Yu, Mengmeng Ding, Xuedong Hou and Yu Gao Video-based Document Image Scanning Using a Mobile Device

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