Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Computer Vision, 2006. This book covers a range of issues in computer vision, on recognition, statistical models and visual learning, 3D reconstruction and multi-view geometry, energy minimization, tracking and motion, segmentation, shape from X, visual tracking, and more.

Face Detection and Recognition.- Robust Multi-view Face Detection Using Error Correcting Output Codes.- Inter-modality Face Recognition.- Face Recognition from Video Using the Generic Shape-Illumination Manifold.- Illumination and Reflectance Modelling.- A Theory of Spherical Harmonic Identities for BRDF/Lighting Transfer and Image Consistency.- Covariant Derivatives and Vision.- Retexturing Single Views Using Texture and Shading.- Poster Session IV Tracking and Motion.- Feature Points Tracking: Robustness to Specular Highlights and Lighting Changes.- A General Framework for Motion Segmentation: Independent, Articulated, Rigid, Non-rigid, Degenerate and Non-degenerate.- Robust Visual Tracking for Multiple Targets.- Multivalued Default Logic for Identity Maintenance in Visual Surveillance.- A Multiview Approach to Tracking People in Crowded Scenes Using a Planar Homography Constraint.- Multiview Geometry and 3D Methods.- Uncalibrated Factorization Using a Variable Symmetric Affine Camera.- Dense Photometric Stereo by Expectation Maximization.- Space-Time-Scale Registration of Dynamic Scene Reconstructions.- Self-calibration of a General Radially Symmetric Distortion Model.- A Simple Solution to the Six-Point Two-View Focal-Length Problem.- Iterative Extensions of the Sturm/Triggs Algorithm: Convergence and Nonconvergence.- Low-Level Vision, Image Features.- An Efficient Method for Tensor Voting Using Steerable Filters.- Interpolating Orientation Fields: An Axiomatic Approach.- Alias-Free Interpolation.- An Intensity Similarity Measure in Low-Light Conditions.- Direct Energy Minimization for Super-Resolution on Nonlinear Manifolds.- Wavelet-Based Super-Resolution Reconstruction: Theory and Algorithm.- Face/Gesture/Action Detection and Recognition.- Extending Kernel Fisher Discriminant Analysis with the Weighted Pairwise Chernoff Criterion.- Face Authentication Using Adapted Local Binary Pattern Histograms.- An Integrated Model for Accurate Shape Alignment.- Robust Player Gesture Spotting and Recognition in Low-Resolution Sports Video.- Recognition and Segmentation of 3-D Human Action Using HMM and Multi-class AdaBoost.- Segmenting Highly Articulated Video Objects with Weak-Prior Random Forests.- Segmentation and Grouping.- SpatialBoost: Adding Spatial Reasoning to AdaBoost.- Database-Guided Simultaneous Multi-slice 3D Segmentation for Volumetric Data.- Density Estimation Using Mixtures of Mixtures of Gaussians.- Example Based Non-rigid Shape Detection.- Towards Safer, Faster Prenatal Genetic Tests: Novel Unsupervised, Automatic and Robust Methods of Segmentation of Nuclei and Probes.- Object Recognition, Retrieval and Indexing.- Fast Memory-Efficient Generalized Belief Propagation.- Adapted Vocabularies for Generic Visual Categorization.- Identification of Highly Similar 3D Objects Using Model Saliency.- Sampling Strategies for Bag-of-Features Image Classification.- Maximally Stable Local Description for Scale Selection.- Scene Classification Via pLSA.- Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis.- A New 3-D Model Retrieval System Based on Aspect-Transition Descriptor.- Low-Level Vision, Segmentation and Grouping.- Unsupervised Patch-Based Image Regularization and Representation.- A Fast Approximation of the Bilateral Filter Using a Signal Processing Approach.- Learning to Combine Bottom-Up and Top-Down Segmentation.- Multi-way Clustering Using Super-Symmetric Non-negative Tensor Factorization.

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