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MPR2007 Program

Friday, November 16

9:30 Welcome (Chair : Hiromi T.Tanaka)

Eiji Okubo (Dean of College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University)

9:40-10:40 Keynote Speech (Chair : Hiromi T.Tanaka)

The History of Robotics Research and Education in Ritsumeikan University
   Sadao Kawamura (Ritsumeikan Univ.)

10:40-10:50 Break

10:50-12:20 Overviews (Chair and Commentator : Yoshiaki Shirai)

Progress of Related Research in Peking University
   Hongbin Zha (Peking Univ.)

Recent Activities of Real World Robotics Group of Kyushu University
   Rin-ichiro Taniguchi (Kyushu Univ.)

Progress of Haptic Communication Project in Ritsumeikan University
   Hiromi T.Tanaka (Ritsumeikan Univ.)

12:20-13:00 Poster Appeal Session (Chair: Xin Yin, Satoshi Yamaguchi)

13:00-14:30 Lunch and Poster Session

14:30-15:50 Session1 Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Chair : Yen-Wei Chen and Liwei Wang)

On Learning with Dissimilarity Functions
   Liwei Wang, Cheng Yang, and Jufu Feng (Peiking Univ.)

Generalized N-dimensional Principal Component Analysis (GND-PCA) and Its Application on Construction of Statistical Appearance Models for Medical Volumes with Fewer Samples
   Rui Xu and Yen-Wei Chen (Ritsumeikan Univ.)

Detecting Motion Primitives by Logical DP Matching
   Seiichi Uchida (Kyushu Univ.), Akihiro Mori (Toshiba Corp.) , Ryo Kurazume, Rin-ichiro Taniguchi, and Tsutomu Hasegawa (Kyushu Univ.)

Automatic Facial Expression Recognition based on Pixel-pattern-based Texture Feature
   Hu-Chuan Lu, Ying-Jie Huang (Dalian Univ. of Technology), and Yen-Wei Chen (Ritsumeikan Univ.)

15:50-16:00 Break

16:00-17:00 Session2 Image Processing and Image Analysis (Chair : Kozaburo Hachimura and Chao Xu)

Multiview Video Coding with SIFT-Aided Position Correction Based on H.264/AVC
   Wenjia Yuan, Lin Liu, and Chao Xu (Peking Univ.)

Real-Time Recognition of Body Motion for Virtual Dance Collaboration System
   Seiya Tsuruta, Yamato Kawauchi, Woong Choi, and Kozaburo Hachimura (Ritsumeikan Univ.)

Learning Meaningful Interactions from Observation by Repetitious Motion Analysis
   Koichi Ogawara (Kyushu Univ.)

17:00-18:10 Break and Poster Session

19:00- Banquet＠Versare

Saturday, November 17

9:30-10:50 Session3 Computer Vision and Image Processing (Chair : Tsutomu Hasegawa and Chao Zhang)

3D Reconstruction of Specular and Transparent Objects by Stereo Cameras and Phase-Shift
   Masaki Yamazaki, Sho Iwata, and Gang Xu (Ritsumeikan Univ.)

Improvement in Robustness of Vision-based Real-time Human Posture Analysis Using Incremental Learnable Self-Organizing Map
   Atsushi Shimada, Madoka Kanouchi (Kyushu Univ.), Daisaku Arita (Institute of Systems and Information Techologies/KYUSHU), and Rin-ichiro Taniguchi (Kyushu Univ.)

Environmental Mapping by Trinocular Vision for Self-Localization Using Monocular Vision
   Yoko Ogawa，Nobutaka Shimada, and Yoshiaki Shirai (Ritsumeikan Univ.)

Converting Thermal Infrared Face Images into Normal Gray-Level Images
   Mingsong Dou, Chao Zhang (Peking Univ.), Pengwei Hao (Peking Univ. and Univ. of London), and Jun Li (Univ. of London)

10:50-11:00 Break

11:00-12:20 Session4 Speech and Image Processing (Chair : Seiichi Uchida and Dingsheng Luo)

A Multi-Scale Fan-Chirp Transform based Monaural Speech Separation System
   Pei Zhao, Zhiping Zhang, Xihong Wu, and Huisheng Chi (Peking Univ.)

Learning Effective Features for Chinese Text Categorization
   Dingsheng Luo, Xinhao Wang, Xihong Wu, and Huisheng Chi (Peking Univ.)

An Improved HMM for On-Line Handwriting Chinese Character Recognition using Pen-Coordinate and Pen-Direction Features
   Yoshinori Katayama, Seiichi Uchida, and Hiroaki Sakoe (Kyushu Univ.)

Sign Language Recognition using HMM which Accepts Various Movements
   Tadashi Matsuo and Yoshiaki Shirai (Ritsumeikan Univ.)

12:20-13:40 Lunch and Poster Session (Committee Meeting)

13:40-15:00 Session5 Computer Vision and Robotics (Chair : Shinichi Hirai and Jinshi Cui)

A Feature Tracking-based Approach for Local Deformation Fields Measurement of Biological Tissue from MR Volumes
   Penglin Zhang (Ritsumeikan Univ. and Wuhan Univ.), Shinichi Hirai, and Kazumi Endo (Ritsumeikan Univ.)

A Decision Method of Placement of Tactile Elements for Recognizing Tasks Executed by a Human Hand
   Kazuya Matsuo, Kouji Murakami, and Tsutomu Hasegawa (Kyushu Univ.)

Evaluation of Communication Delay and Stability in Volume-Based Haptic Communication
   Takahide Tanaka, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Yasufumi Takama, Tsujino Yoshinori, and Hiromi T.Tanaka (Ritsumeikan Univ.)

Synchronized Ego-motion Recovery of Two Face-to-face Cameras
   Jinshi Cui (Peiking Univ.), Yasushi Yagi (Osaka Univ.), Hongbin Zha(Peiking Univ.), Yasuhiro Mukaigawa, and Kazuaki Kondo (Osaka Univ.)

15:00-15:10 Break

15:10-16:10 Session 6 Internet Technology and Visualization (Chair : Ryo Kurazume and Ying Tan)

Effective Variation Management for Pseudo Periodical Streams
   Lv-an Tang, Bin Cui, Hongyan Li, Gaoshan Miao, Dongqing Yang, and Xinbiao Zhou (Peking Univ.)

Generation of Urban 3D Model based on GIS Data --Application in Generation of Kyoto in the Edo era--
   Yoshihiro Kosaka (Ritsumeikan Univ.), Yuzuru Isoda (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific Univ.), Akihiro Tsukamoto, Takuya Okumura, Susumu Nakata, and Satoshi Tanaka (Ritsumeikan Univ.)

Recognition of Electronic Junk Mails based on Artificial Immune System
   Ying Tan and Guangchen Ruan (Peking Univ.)

16:10- Closing Address (Hiromi T.Tanaka)

Information of poster paper
The size of the poster is A0 (width: 841mm, height:1189mm). The authors of poster paper need to present their study for four times. The authors of poster paper have 2 minutes oral presentation in the Poster Appeal Session which is held from 12:20 to 13:00 in November 16th. Detail timetable is list as follow:

Friday, November 16, 12:20-13:00 Poster Appeal Session (Chair: Xin Yin, Satoshi Yamaguchi)
Friday, November 16, 13:00-14:30 Lunch and Poster Session
Friday, November 16, 17:00-18:10 Break and Poster Session
Saturday, November 17, 12:20-13:40 Lunch and Poster Session (Committee Meeting)

The poster paper list:

Paper ID
PS1:	Estimating Friction Characteristics with Haptic Vision Dai Yamashiro and Hiromi T.Tanaka (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
PS2:	Identification of Nonuniform Physical Parameters through Measurement of Inner Deformation Kazumi Endo, Penglin Zhang, Shinichi Hirai (Ritsumeikan University), and Shinichi Tokumoto (Industrial Technology Center of Wakayama Prefecture)
PS3:	In-vivo Experiments of 3D Femoral Shape Estimation Using Two 2D Fluoroscopic Images Yumi Iwashita, Ryo Kurazume, Kahori Nakamura (Kyushu Univ.), Toshiyuki Okada, Yoshinobu Sato, Nobuhiko Sugano, Tsuyoshi Koyama (Osaka Univ.), and Tsutomu Hasegawa (Kyushu Univ.)
PS4:	ICA Shrinkage Filters for PET Images Tatsuya Hiramoto (Ritsumeikan Univ.), Xianhua Han (Ritsumeikan Univ., Central South Univ. of Forestry and Technology), Yen-Wei Chen (Ritsumeikan Univ.), Keishi Kitamura, Akihiro Ishikawa, Yoshihiro Inoue, Kouichi Shibata, Yukio Mishina, and Yoshihiro Mukuta (Shimadzu Corp.)
PS5:	High-Quality Volume Visualizer Designed for Computer Simulation of Radiation Therapy Kyoko Hasegawa (Japan Science and Technology Agency), Ayumu Saitoh (Univ. of Hyogo), Akinori Kimura (Ashikaga Instiute of Technology), Satoshi Tanaka (Ritsumeikan Univ.), and Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerrator Research Organization)
PS6:	Reconstructing 3D Woven Structure for the Transparent Woven Fabrics Based on Texture and Reflection Analysis Ryo Ozaki, Yuki Takeda, and Hiromi T.Tanaka (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
PS7:	Study on CPS SLAM Yukihiro Tobata, Ryo Kurazume, and Tsutomu Hasegawa (Kyushu Univ.)
PS8:	Virtual Flower Arrangement by using Mixed Reality Hiromitsu Naruse and Kozaburo Hachimura (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
PS9:	Calibration of Distributed Vision Network in Unified Coordinate System by Mobile Robots Tsuyoshi Yokoya, Tsutomu Hasegawa, Ryo Kurazume, and Kouji Murakami (Kyushu Univ.)
PS10:	Calibrating Multi-Camera by Multi-Captured Object Kou Yamada and Seiichi Uchida (Kyushu Univ.)
PS11:	Automatic Optical Inspection of Micro Drill Bit in Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing Based on Pattern Classification Guifang Duan, Yen-Wei Chen (Ritsumeikan Univ.), and Takeshi Sakekawa (Remixpoint Inc.)
PS12:	Real-time Tracking across non-Overlapping Cameras based on Estimated Camera Networks Shuhei Noda, Atsushi Shimada (Kyushu Univ.), Daisaku Arita (Kyushu Univ., Institute of Systems and Information Technologhies/KYUSHU), and Rin-ichiro Taniguchi (Kyushu Univ.)
PS13:	Automatic Synthesis of Training Data for Sign Language Recognition using HMM Satoko Shinjo, Yutaka Yamada, Tadashi Matsuo, Yoshiaki Shirai, and Nobutaka Shimada (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
PS14:	Global and Local Optimization Strategies for Tracking Problem Ikko Fujimura and Seiichi Uchida (Kyushu Univ.)
PS15:	Segmentation of Dancing Movement by Extracting Features from Motion Capture Data Masafumi Sonoda, Seiya Tsuruta, Mitsu Yoshimura, and Kozaburo Hachimura (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
PS16:	Character Spotting for Historical Woodblock-Printed Books Toshifumi Teguri, Mitsu Yoshimura, and Kozaburo Hachimura (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
PS17:	Shot Supporting System for a Beginner of Billiards Using a Projector-Camera System --Correcting Player's Stance in Shooting-- Yusuke Ogata, Akira Suganuma, Atsushi Shimada (Kyushu Univ.), Daisaku Arita (Institute of Systems and Information Technologies/KYUSHU), and Rin-ichiro Taniguchi (Kyushu Univ.)
PS18:	Human Contour Extraction for Automatic Outdoor Golf-Swing Diagnosis Tomonori Mochizuki (Ritsumeikan Univ.), Masahiko Ueda (SRI R and D Ltd.), Yoshiaki Shirai and Nobutaka Shimada (Ritsumeikan Univ.)