Fabio Roli

Sergio Vitulano

This volume contains the Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP 2005), held in Cagliari, Italy, at the conference centre “Centro della Cultura e dei Congressi”, on September 6–8, 2005. ICIAP 2005 was the thirteenth edition of a series of conferences organized every two years by the Italian group of researchersa?liated to the International Association for Pattern Recognition (GIRPR) with the aim to bring together researchers in image processing and pattern recognition from around the world. As for the previous editions, conference topics concerned the theory of image analysis and processing and its classical and Internet-driven applications. The central theme of ICIAP 2005 was “Pattern Recognition in the Internet and Mobile Communications Era”. The interest for such a theme was con?rmed by the large number of papers dealing with it, the special session devoted to pattern recognition for computer network security, and the emphasis of two invited talks on Internet and mobile communication issues. ICIAP 2005 received 217 paper submissions. Fifteen papers were collected into the two special sessions dealing with Pattern Recognition for Computer Network Security and Computer Vision for Augmented Reality and Augmented Environments.

13th International Conference, Cagliari, Italy, September 6-8, 2005, Proceedings

Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2005

This volume emphasizes the primary role played by images in computer science. In the last two decades images have replaced written texts; the enormous possibilities of the image language have overcome written language in an ever-more-restricted ambit.An image is better than one thousand words; so it was straightforward to apply visual language in the field of computer science. Nowadays everything that appears on a computer screen is an image, regardless of whether it is a word or a picture. Is it possible to realize an e-learning program without working in terms of images? The answer is undoubtedly no, even if several problems arise in this context: the qualitative and quantitative content of the image we need to use for a specific task; the psychological effect on the user, including the level of attention and the correct perception of the image significance. Most of these problems form the basis of image-understanding techniques.Widespread use of images requires organization of the information in the databank or database, whose dimensions are sometimes so wide as to be too complex to manage; therefore information retrieval techniques arise from this need. The new instruments used in image and/or remote diagnosis, image transmission, the respect of the law in force and the ever-more-relevant image storage capacity required for this task imply the use of techniques of visual language and information retrieval.The proceedings have been selected for coverage in: OCo Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings- (ISTP- / ISI Proceedings)OCo Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)"

E-learning, Understanding, Information Retrieval, Medical : Proceedings of the First International Workshop, Cagliari, Italy, 9-10 June 2003

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2005, held in Cagliari, Italy in September 2005.The 143 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 217 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on pattern recognition for computer network security, computer vision for augmented reality and augmented environments, low and middle level processing, image segmentation, feature extraction and image analysis, graphs, shape and motion, image modelling and computer graphics, image communication, coding and security, computer architectures, technologies and tools, multimedia data bases, video processing and analysis, pattern classification and learning, stereo vision, 3D vision, medical applications, biometrics, and applications.

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