Computer Vision and Computer Graphics. Theory and Applications: International Conference VISIGRAPP 2007, Barcelona, Spain, March 8-11, 2007, Revised Selected ... in Computer and Information Science)

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Communications
in Computer and Information Science 21
José Braz Alpesh Ranchordas
Hélder J. Araújo João Madeiras Pereira (Eds.)
Computer Vision
and Computer Graphics
Theory and Applications
International Conference VISIGRAPP 2007
Barcelona, Spain, March 8-11, 2007
Revised Selected Papers
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Preface
This book includes selected papers from VISIGRAPP 2007, the Joint Conference on
Computer Vision and Computer Graphics, comprising two component conferences,
namely, the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications
(VISAPP) and the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Appli-
cations (GRAPP), held in Barcelona, Spain, during March 8–11, 2007.
We received quite a high number of paper submissions: 382 in total for both confer-
ences. We had contributions from more than 50 countries in all five continents. This
confirms the success and global dimension of these jointly organized conferences. After
a rigorous double-blind evaluation method, a total of 78 submissions were accepted as
full papers. From those, 18 got selected for inclusion in this book. To ensure the scien-
tific quality of the contributions, these were selected from papers that were evaluated
with the highest scores by the VISIGRAPP Program Committee members and then they
were extended and revised by the authors. Special thanks go to all contributors and refe-
rees, without whom this book would not have been possible.
VISIGRAPP 2007 included four invited keynote lectures, presented by internation-
ally recognized researchers. The presentations represented an important contribution
to increasing the overall quality of the conference. We would like to express our ap-
preciation to all invited keynote speakers, in alphabetical order: Jake K. Aggarwal
(The University of Texas at Austin/USA), André Gagalowicz (INRIA/France), Wolf-
gang Heidrich (University of British Columbia/Canada), Mel Slater (Universitat
Politècnica de Catalunya/Spain).
We wish to thank all those who supported and helped to organize the conference.
First and foremost we would like to acknowledge the collaboration from Eurographics
and CVC - Computer Vision Center. Moreover, on behalf of the conference Organiz-
ing Committee, we would like to thank the authors, whose work mostly contributed to
a very successful conference, and to the members of the Program Committee, whose
expertise and diligence were instrumental to the quality of the final contributions. We
also wish to thank all the members of the Organizing Committee whose work and
commitment were invaluable. Last but not least, we would like to thank Springer for
their collaboration in getting this book to print.

July 2008 José Braz
AlpeshKumar Ranchordas
Helder Araújo
João Madeiras Pereira
Conference Committee

Conference Co-chairs
José Braz Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal (GRAPP)
AlpeshKumar Ranchordas INSTICC, Portugal (VISAPP)
Program Co-chairs
Hélder J. Araújo Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal (VISAPP)
João Madeiras Pereira IST/INESC-ID, Portugal (GRAPP)
Pere-Pau Vázquez Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain (GRAPP)
Jordi Vitrià Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain (VISAPP)
Organizing Committee
Paulo Brito INSTICC, Portugal
Marina Carvalho INSTICC, Portugal
Helder Coelhas INSTICC, Portugal
Andreia Costa INSTICC, Portugal
Vítor Duarte INSTICC, Portugal
Bruno Encarnação INSTICC, Portugal
Luís Marques INSTICC, Portugal
Vitor Pedrosa INSTICC, Portugal
Mónica Saramago INSTICC, Portugal
GRAPP Program Committee
Francisco Abad, Spain Jacob Barhak, USA
Sergey Ablameyko, Belarus William Baxter, Japan
Marco Agus, Italy Rafael Bidarra, The Netherlands
Trémeau Alain, France Jiri Bittner, Czech Republic
Daniel Aliaga, USA Manfred Bogen, Germany
Carlos Ureña Almagro, Spain Kadi Bouatouch, France
Marco Attene, Italy Ronan Boulic, Switzerland
Dolors Ayala, Spain Willem F. Bronsvoort, The Netherlands
Sigal Ar, Israel Pere Brunet, Spain
Sergei Azernikov, USA Guido Brunnett, Germany
VIII Organization
Sam Buss, USA Mashhuda Glencross, UK
Patrick Callet, France Enrico Gobbetti, Italy
Emilio Camahort, Spain Michael Goesele, USA
Pedro Cano, Spain Abel Gomes, Portugal
Juan Carlos Torres Cantero, Spain Eduard Gröller, Austria
Maria Beatriz Carmo, Portugal Tom Gross, Germany
Leocadio González Casado, Spain Alain Grumbach, France
Teresa Chambel, Portugal Stefan Gumhold, Germany
Chun-Fa Chang, Taiwan Igor Guskov, USA
Norishige Chiba, Japan Mario Gutierrez, Mexico
Eng-Wee Chionh, Singapore Peter Hall, UK
Hwan-Gue Cho, Korea Helwig Hauser, Austria
Min-Hyung Choi, USA Vlastimil Havran, Czech Republic
Miguel Chover, Spain José Tiberio Hernandez, Colombia
Yiorgos Chrysanthou, Cyprus Adrian Hilton, UK
Ana Paula Cláudio, Portugal Nancy Hitschfeld, Chile
Sabine Coquillart, France Christoph M. Hoffmann, USA
Nuno Correia, Portugal Toby Howard, UK
António Cardoso Costa, Portugal Zhiyong Huang, Singapore
Balázs Csébfalvi, Hungary Roger Hubbold, UK
Carsten Dachsbacher, France Insung Ihm, Korea
Hervé Delingette, France Andres Iglesias, Spain
John Dingliana, Ireland Patricio Inostroza, Chile
Jean-Michel Dischler, France Jiri Janacek, Czech Republic
Sasa Divjak, Slovenia Frederik Jansen, The Netherlands
Stéphane Donikian, France Jie Tang, China
David Duce, UK Robert Joan-Arnyo, Spain
Roman Durikovic, Japan Andrew Johnson, USA
James Edge, UK Chris Joslin, Canada
Francisco R. Feito, Spain Marcelo Kallmann, USA
Petr Felkel, Czech Republic Arie Kaufman, USA
Inmaculada Garcia Fernandez, Spain Jan Kautz, UK
Fernando Nunes Ferreira, Portugal HyungSeok Kim, Korea
Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, Brazil Young J. Kim, Korea
Pablo Figueroa, Colombia Yoshifumi Kitamura, Japan
Anath Fischer, Israel Stanislav Klimenko, Russia
Eugene Fiume, Canada Josef Kohout, Czech Republic
Julian Flores, Spain Ivana Kolingerova, Czech Republic
Leila De Floriani, Italy David Laidlaw, USA
Martin Fuchs, Germany Won-Sook Lee, Canada
Ioannis Fudos, Greece Miguel Leitão, Portugal
Tadahiro Fujimoto, Japan Heinz U. Lemke, Germany
Aphrodite Galata, UK Hendrik Lensch, Germany
Manuel Gamito, UK Suresh Lodha, USA
Marina Gavrilova, Canada Celine Loscos, UK
Miguel Gea, Spain Steve Maddock, UK
Michael Gleicher, USA Joaquim Madeira, Portugal
Organization IX
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Switzerland Manuel Próspero dos Santos, Portugal
Marcus Magnor, Germany Muhammad Sarfraz, Saudi Arabia
Stephen Mann, Canada Francis Schmitt, France
Michael Manzke, Ireland Rafael J. Segura, Spain
Michael McCool, Canada Ariel Shamir, Israel
Tom Mertens, Belgium Ilan Shimshoni, Israel
Dominique Michelucci, France Peter Shirley, USA
Laurent Moccozet, Switzerland Deborah Silver, USA
Ramon Molla, Spain A. Augusto Sousa, Portugal
Torsten Möller, Canada Alexei Sourin, Singapore
Claudio Montani, Italy Oliver Staadt, USA
Matthias Mueller-Fischer, Switzerland Tapio Takala, Finland
Franck Multon, France Ayellet Tal, Israel
Ken Museth, Sweden Tiow Seng Tan, Singapore
Isabel Navazo, Spain José Carlos Teixeira, Portugal
Laszlo Neumann, Spain Matthias Teschner, Germany
Gennadiy Nikishkov, Japan Daniel Thalmann, Switzerland
Alexander Nischelwitzer, Austria Holger Theisel, Germany
Marc Olano, USA Christian Theobalt, Germany
Victor Ostromoukhov, Canada Gui Yun Tian, UK
Miguel A. Otaduy, Switzerland Walid Tizani, UK
Zhigeng Pan, China Anna Ursyn, USA
Georgios Papaioannou, Greece Francisco Velasco, Spain
Alexander Pasko, Japan Luiz Velho, Brazil
Nuria Pelechano, USA Frederic Vexo, Switzerland
João Pereira, Portugal Max Viergever, The Netherlands
Bernard Péroche, France Anna Vilanova , The Netherlands
Steve Pettifer, UK Ivan Viola, Norway
Dimitri Plemenos, France Wenping Wang, China
Voicu Popescu, USA Andreas Weber, Germany
Anna Puig, Spain Daniel Weiskopf, Canada
Enrico Puppo, Italy Gerold Wesche, Germany
Werner Purgathofer, Austria Alexander Wilkie, Austria
Ari Rappoport, Israel Michael Wimmer, Austria
Stephane Redon, France Burkhard Wuensche, New Zealand
Maria-Cecilia Rivara, Chile Gabriel Zachmann, Germany
Przemyslaw Rokita, Poland Jian J. Zhang, UK
Daniela Romano, UK Jianmin Zheng, Singapore
Bodo Rosenhahn, Germany Alan Zundel, USA
VISAPP Program Committee
Henrik Aanæs, Denmark Selim Aksoy, Turkey
Wael Abd-Almageed, USA Ernesto Andrade, UK
Samer M. Abdallah, Lebanon Helder Araújo, Portugal
Peggy Agouris, USA Mohammed Bennamoun, Australia
X Organization
Alexandre Bernardino, Portugal Dan Witzner Hansen, Denmark
Prabir Bhattacharya, Canada Allen Hanson, USA
S.A. Billings, UK Thomas Henderson, USA
Nicolas Perez de la Blanca, Spain Ellen Hildreth, USA
Jacques Blanc-Talon, France Joachim Hornegger, Germany
Isabelle Bloch, France Hsi-Chin Hsin, Taiwan
Alain Boucher, Vietnam Benoit Huet, France
Pierre Boulanger, Canada Mark Huiskes, The Netherlands
Salah Bourennane, France John Illingworth, UK
Thomas Breuel, Germany Luca Iocchi, Italy
Christopher Brown, USA Michael Jenkin, Canada
Hans du Buf, Portugal Tianzi Jiang, China
Rob Byrd, USA Xiaoyi Jiang, Germany
Jens Michael Carstensen, Denmark Frédéric Jurie, France
John Carter, UK George Kamberov, USA
Roberto Cesar Jr., Brazil Gerda Kamberova, USA
Andrea Cavallaro, UK Bill Kapralos, Canada
Rama Chellappa, USA Andrzej Kasinski, Poland
Sheng Yong Chen, Hong Kong Ullrich Koethe, Germany
Yung-Fu Chen, Taiwan Esther Koller-Meier, Switzerland
Hocine Cherifi, France Constantine Kotropoulos, Greece
Ronald Chung, Hong Kong Murat Kunt, Switzerland
James Clark, Canada Kyoung Mu Lee, Korea
Isaac Cohen, USA Bastian Leibe, Switzerland
Fabio Cuzzolin, USA Ales Leonardis, Slovenia
Kostas Daniilidis, USA Michael Lew, The Netherlands
Roy Davies, UK Baoxin Li, USA
Chris Debrunner, USA Ching-Chung Li, USA
Joachim Denzler, Germany Peihua Li, China
Jorge Dias, Portugal XueLong Li, UK
John Dingliana, Ireland Jianming Liang, USA
Zoran Duric, USA Jenn-Jier James Lien, Taiwan
Laurent Duval, France Angeles López, Spain
Aly Farag, USA Rastislav Lukac, Canada
Marco Ferretti, Italy Ezio Malis, France
Mário Figueiredo, Portugal Geovanni Martinez, Costa Rica
Robert Fisher, UK Stephen Maybank, UK
Jan Flusser, Czech Republic Brendan McCane, New Zealand
Alejandro Frangi, Spain Gerard Medioni, USA
Donald Fraser, Australia Mahmoud Melkemi, France
Sidharta Gautama, Belgium J.P. Mellor, USA
Daniel Giusto, Italy Emanuele Menegatti, Italy
Vicente Grau, UK Ajmal Mian, Australia
Michael Greenspan, Canada Max Mignotte, Canada
Igor Gurevich, Russia Majid Mirmehdi, UK
Jiro Gyoba, Japan Ali Mohammad-Djafari, France
Ghassan Hamarneh, Canada Stefan Müller-Schneiders, Germany
Organization XI
Vittorio Murino, Italy Peter Sturm, France
Hammadi Nait-Charif, UK Jianbo Su, China
Bernd Neumann, Germany Sriram Subramanian, Canada
Shawn Newsam, USA Shamik Sural, India
Heinrich Niemann, Germany Yung-Nien Sun, Taiwan
Mark Nixon, UK Eric Sung, Singapore
Lucas Paletta, Austria Qi Tian, USA
Jussi Parkkinen, Finland Sinisa Todorovic, USA
Arthur Pece, Denmark John Tsotsos, Canada
Justus Piater, Belgium Peter Veelaert, Belgium
Ioannis Pitas, Greece Konstantinos Veropoulos, USA
Filiberto Pla, Spain Dimitri Van De Ville, Switzerland
Dan Popescu, Australia Sven Wachsmuth, Germany
David Pycock, UK Ellen Walker, USA
Gang Qian, USA Frank Wallhoff, Germany
Petia Radeva, Spain Song Wang, USA
Bogdan Raducanu, Spain Uian-Kai Wang, Taiwan
Paolo Remagnino, UK Yongmei Michelle Wang, USA
Eraldo Ribeiro, USA Jonathan Wu, Canada
Edward Riseman, USA Shuicheng Yan, USA
Ovidio Salvetti, Italy Faguo Yang, USA
Muhammad Sarfraz, Saudi Arabia June-Ho Yi, USA
Gerald Schaefer, UK Dong Xu, USA
Li Shen, USA John Zelek, Canada
Franc Solina, Slovenia Ying Zheng, UK
Domenico Sorrenti, Italy Zhigang Zhu, USA
José Martínez Sotoca, Spain Djemel Ziou, Canada
GRAPP Auxiliary Reviewers
Edilson de Aguiar, Germany Oliver Mattausch, Austria
Naveed Ahmed, Germany Peter Rautek, Austria
Jean-Paul Balabanian, Norway Daniel Scherzer, Austria
Raphael Bürger, Austria Robert Tobler, Austria
Juergen Gall, Germany Zsolt Tóth, Slovakia
Ralf Habel, Austria Erald Vuçini, Austria
Nils Hasler, Germany Hongchuan Yu, UK
Stephan Mantler, Austria
VISAPP Auxiliary Reviewers
Ksenia Shubina, Canada Erich Leung, Canada
Neil Bruce, Canada Davide Moroni, Italy
Juan Dai, Hong Kong Yuan Yuan, UK
Jacob Gryn, Canada Barbara Zitova, Czech Republic