Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, Second International Conference, SSVM 2009, Voss, Norway, June 1-5, 2009. Proceedings

Segmentation and Detection.- Graph Cut Optimization for the Piecewise Constant Level Set Method Applied to Multiphase Image Segmentation.- Tubular Anisotropy Segmentation.- An Unconstrained Multiphase Thresholding Approach for Image Segmentation.- Extraction of the Intercellular Skeleton from 2D Images of Embryogenesis Using Eikonal Equation and Advective Subjective Surface Method.- On Level-Set Type Methods for Recovering Piecewise Constant Solutions of Ill-Posed Problems.- The Nonlinear Tensor Diffusion in Segmentation of Meaningful Biological Structures from Image Sequences of Zebrafish Embryogenesis.- Composed Segmentation of Tubular Structures by an Anisotropic PDE Model.- Extrapolation of Vector Fields Using the Infinity Laplacian and with Applications to Image Segmentation.- A Schrodinger Equation for the Fast Computation of Approximate Euclidean Distance Functions.- Semi-supervised Segmentation Based on Non-local Continuous Min-Cut.- Momentum Based Optimization Methods for Level Set Segmentation.- Optimization of Divergences within the Exponential Family for Image Segmentation.- Convex Multi-class Image Labeling by Simplex-Constrained Total Variation.- Geodesically Linked Active Contours: Evolution Strategy Based on Minimal Paths.- Validation of Watershed Regions by Scale-Space Statistics.- Adaptation of Eikonal Equation over Weighted Graph.- A Variational Model for Interactive Shape Prior Segmentation and Real-Time Tracking.- Image Enhancement and Reconstruction.- A Nonlinear Probabilistic Curvature Motion Filter for Positron Emission Tomography Images.- Finsler Geometry on Higher Order Tensor Fields and Applications to High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging.- Bregman-EM-TV Methods with Application to Optical Nanoscopy.- PDE-Driven Adaptive Morphology for Matrix Fields.- On Semi-implicit Splitting Schemes for the Beltrami Color Flow.- Multi-scale Total Variation with Automated Regularization Parameter Selection for Color Image Restoration.- Multiplicative Noise Cleaning via a Variational Method Involving Curvelet Coefficients.- Projected Gradient Based Color Image Decomposition.- A Dual Formulation of the TV-Stokes Algorithm for Image Denoising.- Anisotropic Regularization for Inverse Problems with Application to the Wiener Filter with Gaussian and Impulse Noise.- Locally Adaptive Total Variation Regularization.- Basic Image Features (BIFs) Arising from Approximate Symmetry Type.- An Anisotropic Fourth-Order Partial Differential Equation for Noise Removal.- Enhancement of Blurred and Noisy Images Based on an Original Variant of the Total Variation.- Coarse-to-Fine Image Reconstruction Based on Weighted Differential Features and Background Gauge Fields.- Edge-Enhanced Image Reconstruction Using (TV) Total Variation and Bregman Refinement.- Nonlocal Variational Image Deblurring Models in the Presence of Gaussian or Impulse Noise.- A Geometric PDE for Interpolation of M-Channel Data.- An Edge-Preserving Multilevel Method for Deblurring, Denoising, and Segmentation.- Fast Dejittering for Digital Video Frames.- Sparsity Regularization for Radon Measures.- Split Bregman Algorithm, Douglas-Rachford Splitting and Frame Shrinkage.- Anisotropic Smoothing Using Double Orientations.- Image Denoising Using TV-Stokes Equation with an Orientation-Matching Minimization.- Augmented Lagrangian Method, Dual Methods and Split Bregman Iteration for ROF Model.- The Convergence of a Central-Difference Discretization of Rudin-Osher-Fatemi Model for Image Denoising.- Theoretical Foundations for Discrete Forward-and-Backward Diffusion Filtering.- L 0-Norm and Total Variation for Wavelet Inpainting.- Total-Variation Based Piecewise Affine Regularization.- Image Denoising by Harmonic Mean Curvature Flow.- Motion Analysis, Optical Flow, Registration and Tracking.- Tracking Closed Curves with Non-linear Stochastic Filters.- A Multi-scale Feature Based Optic Flow Method for 3D Cardiac Motion Estimation.- A Combined Segmentation and Registration Framework with a Nonlinear Elasticity Smoother.- A Scale-Space Approach to Landmark Constrained Image Registration.- A Variational Approach for Volume-to-Slice Registration.- Hyperbolic Numerics for Variational Approaches to Correspondence Problems.- Surfaces and Shapes.- From a Single Point to a Surface Patch by Growing Minimal Paths.- Optimization of Convex Shapes: An Approach to Crystal Shape Identification.- An Implicit Method for Interpolating Two Digital Closed Curves on Parallel Planes.- Pose Invariant Shape Prior Segmentation Using Continuous Cuts and Gradient Descent on Lie Groups.- A Non-local Approach to Shape from Ambient Shading.- An Elasticity Approach to Principal Modes of Shape Variation.- Pre-image as Karcher Mean Using Diffusion Maps: Application to Shape and Image Denoising.- Fast Shape from Shading for Phong-Type Surfaces.- Generic Scene Recovery Using Multiple Images.- Scale Space and Feature Extraction.- Highly Accurate PDE-Based Morphology for General Structuring Elements.- Computational Geometry-Based Scale-Space and Modal Image Decomposition.- Highlight on a Feature Extracted at Fine Scales: The Pointwise Lipschitz Regularity.- Line Enhancement and Completion via Linear Left Invariant Scale Spaces on SE(2).- Spatio-Featural Scale-Space.- Scale Spaces on the 3D Euclidean Motion Group for Enhancement of HARDI Data.- On the Rate of Structural Change in Scale Spaces.- Transitions of a Multi-scale Image Hierarchy Tree.- Local Scale Measure for Remote Sensing Images.