Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition,: International Conference, SIP 2009, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2009, Jeju Island, Korea, December 10-12, 2009. Proceedings Book

A Blind Image Wavelet-Based Watermarking Using Interval Arithmetic Teruya Minamoto Kentaro Aoki Mitsuaki Yoshihara 1

Hand Gesture Spotting Based on 3D Dynamic Features Using Hidden Markov Models Mahmoud Elmezain Ayoub Al-Hamadi Bernd Michaelis 9

Objective Quality Evaluation of Laser Markings for Assembly Control Jost Schnee Norbert Bachfischer Dirk Berndt Matthias Hübner Christian Teutsch 17

An Improved Object Detection and Contour Tracking Algorithm Based on Local Curvature Jung-Ho Lee Fang Hua Jong Whan Jang 25

An Efficient Method for Noisy Cell Image Segmentation Using Generalized α-Entropy Samy Sadek Ayoub Al-Hamadi Bernd Michaelis Usama Sayed 33

An Algorithm for Moving Multi-target Prediction in a Celestial Background Lu Zhang Bingliang Hu Yun Li Weiwei Yu 41

Automatic Control Signal Generation of a CCD Camera for Object Tracking Jin-Tat Kim Yong-In Yun Jong-Soo Choi 48

An Efficient Approach for Region-Based Image Classification and Retrieval Samy Sadek Ayoub Al-Hamadi Bernd Michaelis Usama Sayed 56

An Improved Design for Digital Audio Effect of Flanging Jianping Chen Xiaodong Ji Xiang Gu Jinjie Zhou 65

Robust Speech Enhancement Using Two-Stage Filtered Minima Controlled Recursive Averaging Negar Ghourchian Sid-Ahmed Selouani Douglas OShaughnessy 72

Automatic Colon Cleansing in CTC Image Using Gradient Magnitude and Similarity Measure Krisorn Chunhapongpipat Laddawan Vajragupta Bundit Chaopathomkul Nagul Cooharojananone Rajalida Lipikorn 82

A Scale and Rotation Invariant Interest Points Detector Based on Gabor Filter Wanying Xu Xinsheug Huang Yongbin Zheng Yuzhuang Yan Wet Zhang 90

Signature Verification Based on Handwritten Text RecognitionSerestina Viriri Jules-R. Tapamo 98

Effect of Image Linearization on Normalized Compression Distance Jonathan Mortensen Jia die Wu Jacob Furst John Rogers Daniela Raicu 106

A Comparative Study Of of Blind Speech Separation Using Subspace Methods and Higher Order Statistics Yasmina Benabderrahmane Sid Ahmed Selouani Douglas O'Shaughnessy Habib Hamam 117

Automatic Fatigue Detection of Drivers through Yawning Analysis Tayyaba Azim M. Arfan Jaffar M. Ramzan Anwar M. Mirza 125

GA-SVM Based Lungs Nodule Detection and Classification M. Arfan Jaffar Ayyaz Hussain Fauzia Jabeen M. Nazir Anwar M. Mirza 133

Link Shifting Based Pyramid Segmentation for Elongated Regions Milos Stojmenovic Andres Solis Montero Amiya Nayak 141

A Robust Algorithm for Fruit-Sorting under Variable Illumination Janakiraman L. Kausik Gopal Aravamudhan 153

Selection of Accurate and Robust Classification Model for Binary Classification Problems Muhammad A. Khan Zahoov Jan M. Ishtiaq M. Asif Khan Anwar M. Mirza 161

Robust Edge-Enhanced Fragment Based Normalized Correlation Tracking in Cluttered and Occluded Imagery Muhammad Imran Khan Javed Ahmed Ahmad Ali Asif Masood 169

Robust and Imperceptible Watermarking of Video Streams for Low Power Devices Muhammad Ishtiaq M. Arfan Jaffar Muhammad A. Khan Zahoor Jan Anwar M. Mirza 177

A New Ensemble Scheme for Predicting Human Proteins Subcellular Locations Abdul Majid Tae-Sun Choi 185

Designing Linear Phase FIR Filters with Particle Swarm Optimization and Harmony Search Abdolreza Shirvani Kaveh Khezri Farbod Razzazi Caro Lucas 193

Blind Image Steganalysis Based on Local Information and Human Visual System Soodeh Bakhshandeh Javad Ravan Jamjah Bahram Zahir Azami 201

An Effective Combination of MPP Contour-Based Features for Off-Line Text-Independent Arabic Writer Identification Mohamed Nidhal Abdi Maher Khemakhem Hanene Ben-Abdallah 209

Ringing Artifact Removal in Digital Restored Images Using Multi-resolution Edge Map Sangjin Kim Sinyoung Jun Eunsung Lee Jeongho Shin Joonki Paik 221

Upmixing Stereo Audio into 5.1 Channel Audio for Improving Audio Realism Chan Jun Chun Yong Guk Kim Jong Yeol Yang Hong Kook Kim 228

Multiway Filtering Based on Multilinear Algebra Tools Salah Bourennane Caroline Fossati 236

LaMOC-A Location Aware Mobile Cooperative System Junzhong Gu Liang He Jing Yang 250

Modelling of Camera Phone Capture Channel for JPEG Colour Barcode Images Keng T. Tan Siong Khai Ong Douglas Chat 259

Semantic Network Adaptation Based on QoS Pattern Recognition for Multimedia Streams Ernesto Exposito Mathieu Gineste Myriam Lamolle Jorge Gomez 267

Active Shape Model-Based Gait Recognition Using Infrared Images Daehee Kim Seungwon Lee Joonki Paik 275

About Classification Methods Based on Tensor Modelling for Hyperspectral Images Salah Bourennane Caroline Fossati s282

Comparative Analysis of Wavelet-Based Scale-Invariant Feature Extraction Using Different Wavelet Bases Joohyun Lim Youngouk Kim Joonki Paik 297

A Novel Video Segmentation Algorithm with Shadow Cancellation and Adaptive Threshold Techniques C.P. Yasira Beevi S. Natarajan 304

Considerations of Image Compression Scheme Hiding a Part of Coded Data into Own Image Coded Data Hideo Kuroda Makoto Fujimura Kazumasa Hamano 312

Binarising SIFT-Descriptors to Reduce the Curse of Dimensionality in Histogram-Based Object Recognition Martin Stommel Otthein Herzog 320

Author Index 329