6th Joint IEEE International Workshop on Object Tracking and Classification in and Beyond the Visible Spectrum June 2009 - Miami Beach, Florida

Welcome message from Chairs Katsushi Ikeuchi, Riad I. Hammoud, Robert W. McMillan, Guoliang Fan

Keynote Speaker and Invited Papers

Keynote: An Overview of Object Tracking in EO and IR

Author:

Dr. Mubark Shah (Univ. of Central Florida)

The HFB Face Database for Heterogeneous Face Biometrics Research

Authors:

Stan Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Zhen Lei (CBSR), Meng Ao (CBSR)

Object Recognition in 3D Lidar Data with Recurrent Neural Network

Authors:

Danil Prokhorov (Toyota Corp)

Vehicle Recgonition, Fusion, Laser imagery

Fusion of a Camera and a Laser Range Sensor for Vehicle Recognition

Authors:

Shirmila Mohottala (The University of Tokyo), Shintaro Ono, Masataka Kagesawa, Katsushi IKEUCHI (University of Tokyo)

Vehicle Matching and Recognition under Large Variations of Pose and Illumination

Authors:

Tingbo Hou (Stony Brook University), Sen Wang (Kodak Research Lab), Hong Qin (Stony Brook University)

Pedestrian Recongition in Far Infrared

Feature based person detection beyond the visible spectrum

Authors:

Kai Juengling (FGAN-FOM), Michael Arens (FGAN-FOM)

Pedestrian Association and Localization in Monocular FIR Video Sequence

Authors:

Mayank Bansal (Sarnoff Corporation), Shunguang Wu (Sarnoff Corporation), Jayan Eledath (Sarnoff Corporation)

Target Tracking

Appearance Learning by Adaptive Kalman Filters for FLIR Tracking

Authors:

Vijay Venkataraman (Oklahoma State University), Guoliang Fan (Oklahoma State University), Xin Fan (Oklahoma State University), Joseph Havlicek (University of Oklahoma)

Dual Domain Auxiliary Particle Filter with Integrated Target Signature Update

Authors:

Colin Johnston (USAF), Nick Mould (University of Oklahoma), Joseph Havlicek (University of Oklahoma), Guoliang Fan (Oklahoma State University)

Background Modeling, Surveillance and Defense

Fuzzy Statistical Modeling of Dynamic Backgrounds for Moving Object Detection in Infrared Videos

Authors:

Fida EL BAF (Laboratory MIA), Thierry BOUWMANS (Laboratory MIA), Bertrand VACHON (Laboratory MIA)

Background Subtraction in Varying Illuminations Using an Ensemble Based on an Enlarged Feature Set

Authors:

Brendan Klare (Michigan State University), Sudeep Sarkar (University of South Florida)

Robust Real-Time 3D Modeling of Static Scenes Using Solely a Time-of-Flight Sensor

Authors:

Jochen Penne (University Erlangen-Nuremberg), Johannes Feulner, Eva Kollorz, Joachim Hornegger

A Rapidly Deployable Virtual Presence Extended Defense System

Authors:

Mark Koch (Sandia National Laboratories), Casey Giron (Sandia National Laboratories), Hung Nguyen (Sandia National Laboratories)

Smart Sensors

Geometric Sequence (GS) Imaging with Bayesian Smoothing for Optical and Capacitive Imaging Sensors

Authors:

Kuntal Sengupta (Merl.com), Fatih Porikli (MERL)

A Smart Sensor with Hyperspectral/Range Fovea and Panoramic Peripheral View

Authors:

Tao Wang (City College of New York), Zhigang Zhu (City College of New York), Harvey Rhody (Rochester Institude of Technology)

Hyperspectral Image Analysis

A Machine Learning Approach for Material Detection in Hyperspectral Images

Authors:

Raphaël Marée (University of Liège), Benjamin Stevens (University of Liège), Pierre Geurts (University of Liège), Yves Guern (ATIS), Philippe Mack (PEPITe S.A.)

An affine Invariant Hyperspectral Texture Descriptor Based Upon Heavy-tailed Distributions and Fourier Analysis

Authors:

Pattaraporn Khuwuthyakorn (The ANU), Antonio Robles-Kelly (ANU/NICTA), Jun Zhou (ANU/NICTA)