Invited Session -- Self-Organizing Trees and Forests: A Powerful Tool in Pattern Clustering and Recognition -- On Optimizing Dissimilarity-Based Classification Using Prototype Reduction Schemes -- Image Restoration and Enhancement -- General Adaptive Neighborhood Image Restoration, Enhancement and Segmentation -- Frozen-State Hierarchical Annealing -- Fast and Robust Filtering-Based Image Magnification -- An Efficient Post-processing Using DCT Domain Projections Onto Convex Sets -- Rank-Ordered Differences Statistic Based Switching Vector Filter -- Mathematical Analysis of "Phase Ramping" for Super-Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging -- Blind Blur Estimation Using Low Rank Approximation of Cepstrum -- An Image Interpolation Scheme for Repetitive Structures -- A Discontinuous Finite Element Method for Image Denoising -- An Edge-Preserving Multigrid-Like Technique for Image Denoising -- Fuzzy Bilateral Filtering for Color Images -- MPEG Postprocessing System Using Edge Signal Variable Filter -- Computational Framework for Family of Order Statistic Filters for Tensor Valued Data -- Gaussian Noise Removal by Color Morphology and Polar Color Models -- Image Segmentation -- A Shape-Based Approach to Robust Image Segmentation -- Novel Statistical Approaches to the Quantitative Combination of Multiple Edge Detectors -- Bio-inspired Motion-Based Object Segmentation -- An Effective and Fast Scene Change Detection Algorithm for MPEG Compressed Videos -- Automatic Segmentation Based on AdaBoost Learning and Graph-Cuts -- Accurate Contour Detection Based on Snakes for Objects with Boundary Concavities -- Graph-Based Spatio-temporal Region Extraction -- Performance Evaluation of Image Segmentation -- Improvement of Image Transform Calculation Based on a Weighted Primitive -- Topological Active Nets Optimization Using Genetic Algorithms -- An Evaluation Measure of Image Segmentation Based on Object Centres -- Active Shape Model Based Segmentation and Tracking of Facial Regions in Color Images -- Image and Video Processing and Analysis -- On the Adaptive Impulsive Noise Attenuation in Color Images -- A Simple Method for Designing 2D /M/-Channel Near-PR Filter Banks with Linear Phase Property -- Fast Hermite Projection Method -- Posterior Sampling of Scientific Images -- Image Denoising Using the Lyapunov Equation from Non-uniform Samples -- New Method for Fast Detection and Removal of Impulsive Noise Using Fuzzy Metrics -- Background Subtraction Framework Based on Local Spatial Distributions -- Morphological Image Interpolation to Magnify Images with Sharp Edges -- Adaptive Kernel Based Tracking Using Mean-Shift -- Real Time Sobel Square Edge Detector for Night Vision Analysis -- A New Video Images Text Localization Approach Based on a Fast Hough Transform -- Video Sequence Matching Using Singular Value Decomposition -- The Papoulis-Gerchberg Algorithm with Unknown Signal Bandwidth -- Image and Video Coding and Encryption -- Continuous Evolution of Fractal Transforms and Nonlocal PDE Imaging -- A Fast Algorithm for Macroblock Mode Selection in H.264 Video Coding -- Visual Secret Sharing Scheme: Improving the Contrast of a Recovered Image Via Different Pixel Expansions -- Fast and Efficient Basis Selection Methods for Embedded Wavelet Packet Image Coding -- Fractal Image Coding as Projections Onto Convex Sets -- DCT-Domain Predictive Coding Method for Video Compression -- Simple Detection Method and Compensation Filter to Remove Corner Outlier Artifacts -- Rate Control Algorithm for High Quality Compression of Static Test Image in Digital TV System -- JPEG2000-Based Resolution- and Rate-Constrained Layered Image Coding -- A Permutation-Based Correlation-Preserving Encryption Method for Digital Videos -- A Fast Scheme for Converting DCT Coefficients to H.264/AVC Integer Transform Coefficients -- A Fast Full Search Algorithm for Motion Estimation Using Priority of Matching Scan -- Using Space-Time Coding for Watermarking Color Images -- Blind PSNR Estimation of Video Sequences, Through Non-uniform Quantization Watermarking -- Pattern Recognition Using Neighborhood Coding -- Image Retrieval and Indexing -- Naming of Image Regions for User-Friendly Image Retrieval -- Shape Retrieval Using Shape Contexts and Cyclic Dynamic Time Warping -- Topological Active Nets for Object-Based Image Retrieval -- Iterative 3-D Pose Correction and Content-Based Image Retrieval for Dorsal Fin Recognition -- Feature Selection for Retrieval Purposes -- DCT-Domain Image Retrieval Via Block-Edge-Patterns -- Visual Aspect: A Unified Content-Based Collaborative Filtering Model for Visual Document Recommendation -- IntelliSearch: Intelligent Search for Images and Text on the Web -- Automatic Shot-Change Detection Algorithm Based on Visual Rhythm Extraction -- Motion Analysis -- Global Motion Estimation: Feature-Based, Featureless, or Both ?! -- Background Updating with the Use of Intrinsic Curves -- Towards a New Paradigm for Motion Extraction -- Fast Motion Estimation Using Spatio Temporal Filtering -- Optic Flow from Multi-scale Dynamic Anchor Point Attributes -- The Effect of Presmoothing Image Sequences on the Computation of Optical Flow -- Optical Flow Based Frame Interpolation of Ultrasound Images -- An Iterative Multiresolution Scheme for SFM -- Occlusion-Based Accurate Silhouettes from Video Streams -- Tracking -- Towards Constrained Optimal 3D Tracking -- A Generic Approach to Object Matching and Tracking -- Image Based Visual Servoing: A New Method for the Estimation of the Image Jacobian in Dynamic Environments -- QP_TR Trust Region Blob Tracking Through Scale-Space with Automatic Selection of Features -- Human Posture Analysis Under Partial Self-occlusion -- Particle Filtering with Dynamic Shape Priors -- The OBSERVER: An Intelligent and Automated Video Surveillance System -- A Novel Spatio-temporal Approach to Handle Occlusions in Vehicle Tracking -- A Robust Particle Filter-Based Face Tracker Using Combination of Color and Geometric Information.