we received over 300 submissions for the main symposium from which we accepted 93 papers for oral presentation and 73 papers for poster p- sentation. A total of 44 papers were accepted for oral presentation and 6 papers for poster presentation in the special tracks.

Calibration, Pose Estimation, and Reconstruction.- Multiple Camera Self-calibration and 3D Reconstruction Using Pedestrians.- Robust Radial Distortion from a Single Image.- Projective Reconstruction of General 3D Planar Curves from Uncalibrated Cameras.- A Novel Photometric Method for Real-Time 3D Reconstruction of Fingerprint.- 3D Camera Pose Estimation Using Line Correspondences and 1D Homographies.- Near-Optimal Selection of Views and Surface Regions for ICP Pose Estimation.- Segmentation.- Region and Edge-Adaptive Sampling and Boundary Completion for Segmentation.- Universal Seed Skin Segmentation.- A Sharp Concentration-Based Adaptive Segmentation Algorithm.- Segmentation for Hyperspectral Images with Priors.- The Curve Filter Transform – A Robust Method for Curve Enhancement.- Split Bregman Method for Minimization of Region-Scalable Fitting Energy for Image Segmentation.- Stereo.- A Correlation-Based Approach for Real-Time Stereo Matching.- Photometric Stereo under Low Frequency Environment Illumination.- Simultaneous Vanishing Point Detection and Camera Calibration from Single Images.- Inferring Planar Patch Equations from Sparse View Stereo Images.- Single Camera Stereo System Using Prism and Mirrors.- A Region-Based Randomized Voting Scheme for Stereo Matching.- Virtual Reality II.- Adaptive Neighbor Pairing for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics.- System Structures for Efficient Rendering in Virtual Worlds and Virtual Testbeds.- Prismfields: A Framework for Interactive Modeling of Three Dimensional Caves.- Efficient Marker Matching Using Pair-Wise Constraints in Physical Therapy.- Learning and Prediction of Soft Object Deformation Using Visual Analysis of Robot Interactions.- Registration.- A Novel Consistency Regularizer for Meshless Nonrigid ImageRegistration.- Robust Rigid Shape Registration Method Using a Level Set Formulation.- A Meshless Method for Variational Nonrigid 2-D Shape Registration.- A New Simple Method to Stitch Images with Lens Distortion.- Robust Mosaicking of Stereo Digital Elevation Models from the Ames Stereo Pipeline.- Medical Imaging.- Tissue Fate Prediction in Acute Ischemic Stroke Using Cuboid Models.- 3D Vector Flow Guided Segmentation of Airway Wall in MSCT.- Graph-Based Segmentation of Lymph Nodes in CT Data.- Electron Microscopy Image Segmentation with Graph Cuts Utilizing Estimated Symmetric Three-Dimensional Shape Prior.- Retinal Vessel Extraction with the Image Ray Transform.- Automatic Liver Segmentation from CT Scans Using Multi-layer Segmentation and Principal Component Analysis.- ST: Low Cost Virtual Reality: Expanding Horizons.- Low Cost VR Meets Low Cost Multi-touch.- IQ-Station: A Low Cost Portable Immersive Environment.- A Fiducial-Based Tangible User Interface for White Matter Tractography.- Immersive Molecular Visualization and Interactive Modeling with Commodity Hardware.- ST: Best Practices in Teaching Visual Computing.- Multi-institutional Collaboration in Delivery of Team-Project-Based Computer Graphics Studio Courses.- A Workflow Based Process Visual Analyzer (ProVisZer) for Teaching and Learning.- Teaching Geometric Modeling Algorithms and Data Structures through Laser Scanner Acquisition Pipeline.- Creating Passion for Augmented Reality Applications – A Teaching Concept for a Lab Course.- Applications.- Object Material Classification by Surface Reflection Analysis with a Time-of-Flight Range Sensor.- Retrieving Images of Similar Geometrical Configuration.- An Analysis-by-Synthesis Approach to Rope Condition Monitoring.- Fast Parallel Model Estimation on the CellBroadband Engine.- Organizing and Browsing Image Search Results Based on Conceptual and Visual Similarities.- Evaluation of a Difference of Gaussians Based Image Difference Metric in Relation to Perceived Compression Artifacts.- Visualization II.- Distance Field Illumination: A Rendering Method to Aid in Navigation of Virtual Environments.- Indirect Shader Domain Rendering.- Visual Exploration of Stream Pattern Changes Using a Data-Driven Framework.- RibbonView: Interactive Context-Preserving Cutaways of Anatomical Surface Meshes.- Interactive Visualisation of Time-Based Vital Signs.- Using R-Trees for Interactive Visualization of Large Multidimensional Datasets.- Combining Automated and Interactive Visual Analysis of Biomechanical Motion Data.- Video Analysis and Event Recognition.- Human Activity Recognition: A Scheme Using Multiple Cues.- A Platform for Monitoring Aspects of Human Presence in Real-Time.- Egocentric Visual Event Classification with Location-Based Priors.- View Invariant Activity Recognition with Manifold Learning.- Arm-Hand Behaviours Modelling: From Attention to Imitation.- Hand Detection and Gesture Recognition Exploit Motion Times Image in Complicate Scenarios.- Face Verification Using Indirect Neighbourhood Components Analysis.- Poster Session.- Efficient Algorithms for Image and High Dimensional Data Processing Using Eikonal Equation on Graphs.- 3D DCT Based Compression Method for Integral Images.- Plant Texture Classification Using Gabor Co-occurrences.- A Compressive Sensing Algorithm for Many-Core Architectures.- An Incremental PCA-HOG Descriptor for Robust Visual Hand Tracking.- Probabilistic Learning of Visual Object Composition from Attended Segments.- Propagating Uncertainty in Petri Nets for Activity Recognition.- Mixture of Gaussians Exploiting Histograms of Oriented Gradients for Background Subtraction.- Human Pose Recognition Using Chamfer Distance in Reduced Background Edge for Human-Robot Interaction.- Modeling Clinical Tumors to Create Reference Data for Tumor Volume Measurement.- Spectral Image Decolorization.