| Acknowledgements | p. XI |
| Preface | p. XIII |
| Invited lectures | p. XV |
| Scientific committee | p. XVII |
| Invited Keynotes/Lectures | |
| Active vision systems and catadioptric vision systems for robotic applications | p. 3 |
| Digital geometry for image analysis and processing | p. 9 |
| Multimodality in brain imaging: Methodological aspects and applications | p. 17 |
| Perceptual users interfaces and their applications | p. 23 |
| Contour detection by surround suppression of texture | p. 29 |
| Computer vision and digital inclusion of persons with special needs: Overview and state of art | p. 33 |
| MR diffusion tensor imaging | p. 39 |
| Contributed Papers | |
| Object contour tracking in videos by using adaptive mixture models and shape priors | p. 47 |
| Image analysis methodology to study the evolution of chromium penetration in chromium tannage | p. 53 |
| Surveillance and tracking in feature point region with predictive filter of variable state | p. 57 |
| Terrestrial laser technology in sporting craft 3D modelling | p. 63 |
| External anatomical shapes reconstruction from turntable image sequences using a single off-the-shelf camera | p. 69 |
| Patient specific heart models from high resolution CT | p. 75 |
| Exploring non-Gaussian behaviour in EEG data using random field methods | p. 81 |
| Multimodal macula mapping by deformable image registration | p. 85 |
| Isogeometric analysis of blood flow: A NURBS-based approach | p. 91 |
| Computing statistics from a graph representation of road networks in satellite images for indexing and retrieval | p. 97 |
| 3D visualization of radiosurgical treatment plans - experience with Java3D and VTK | p. 101 |
| A 3-D mechanical model for the pelvic surgery | p. 107 |
| Monte Carlo simulations studies in small animal PET | p. 111 |
| Discrete volume polyhedrization: Complexity and bounds on performance | p. 117 |
| Contextual classification of remotely sensed images with integer linear programming | p. 123 |
| Two methodologies for iris detection and location in face images | p. 129 |
| Accessing earth observation data using JPEG2000 | p. 135 |
| Generating segmented tetrahedral meshes from regular volume data for simulation and visualization applications | p. 141 |
| Microstructure features identification in ferritic-paerlitic ductile irons | p. 147 |
| Discrete level set segmentation for pupil morphology characterization | p. 153 |
| 3D watershed transformation based on connected faces structure | p. 159 |
| Computer-aided detection of pulmonary nodules in low-dose CT | p. 165 |
| Analyzing objects in images for estimating the delamination influence on load carrying capacity of composite laminates | p. 169 |
| Decimation and smoothing of triangular meshes based on curvature from the polyhedral Gauss map | p. 175 |
| 3D reconstruction of the middle ear for FEM simulation | p. 181 |
| Acquisition of 3D regular prismatic models in urban environments from DSM and orthoimages | p. 185 |
| Automated generation of 3D bone model from planar X-ray image for patient-specific finite element modeling applications | p. 191 |
| Physical simulation using FEM, modal analysis and the dynamic equilibrium equation | p. 197 |
| An evolution model of parametric surface deformation using finite elements based on B-splines | p. 205 |
| Influence of sphericity parameter on the detection of singularities in synthetic images | p. 211 |
| 3D morpho-topological analysis of asymmetric neuronal morphogenesis in developing zebrafish | p. 215 |
| Applied methods for transparent materials inspection | p. 221 |
| Region growing segmentation approach for image indexing and retrieval | p. 227 |
| Vehicles measuring and classification | p. 233 |
| Textual description of mages | p. 241 |
| Optimal image registration via efficient local stochastic search | p. 247 |
| Rapid prototyping technology in medical applications: A critical review | p. 255 |
| Road extraction from high-resolution satellite images using level set methods | p. 261 |
| Multimedia interface with an intelligent wheelchair | p. 267 |
| Tracking the 3D deformation of hexahedric samples, using video information from two perpendicular faces. Application to uniaxial tension tests of hyperelastic materials | p. 275 |
| Automatic analysis of dermoscopy images - a review | p. 281 |
| Fast estimation of skeleton points on 3D deformable meshes | p. 289 |
| AD3RI a tool for computer - automatic Drusen detection | p. 295 |
| Best multiple-view selection: Application to the visualization of urban rescue simulations | p. 301 |
| Automatic vertebra detection in X-Ray images | p. 307 |
| Line-based pose estimation through rotational motion analysis | p. 313 |
| A region growing approach for pulmonary vessel tree segmentation using adaptive threshold | p. 319 |
| Active surfaces acceleration methods | p. 325 |
| Artery-vein separation of human vasculature from 3D thoracic CT Angio Scans | p. 331 |
| LVQ acrosome integrity assessment of boar sperm cells | p. 337 |
| Reconstruction of 3D models from medical images: Application to female pelvic organs | p. 343 |
| Efficient approximation of the mahalanobis distance for tracking with the Kalman filter | p. 349 |
| Defect detection in raw hide and wet blue leather | p. 355 |
| Biomodels reconstruction based on 2D medical images | p. 361 |
| Robust vision algorithms for quadruped soccer robots | p. 367 |
| Integrated graphical environment for support nonlinear dynamic software for the analysis of plane frames | p. 373 |
| Morphological dynamic study of human vocal tract | p. 381 |
| Implant trajectory estimation during femoral screw-plate osteosynthesis operation | p. 387 |
| The use of virtual reality models in Civil Engineering training | p. 393 |
| A system for the acquisition and analysis of the 3D mandibular movement to be used in dental medicine | p. 399 |
| Hierarchical morphological analysis for generic detection of shapes in grayscale images | p. 405 |
| LSAVISION a framework for real time vision mobile robotics | p. 411 |
| A gait analysis laboratory for rehabilitation of patients with musculoskeletal impairments | p. 417 |
| Visual assessment of image representations on mobile phones | p. 423 |
| Mass lesion detection in mammographic images using Haralik textural features | p. 429 |
| Methodologies to build automatic point distribution models for faces represented in images | p. 435 |
| Locally adaptive smoothing method based on B-splines | p. 441 |
| Acquisition and filtering of digital video in real time using Matlab GUIs | p. 449 |
| Integration of skin segmentation methods using ANNs | p. 453 |
| Author index | p. 461 |
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