Technical Program
Tuesday 26, May 2009
8:30 - 8:45 Welcome Address
8:45 - 9:30 Invited Talk I
  • Amnon Shashua Approximate Inference in Graphical Models: The Fenchel Duality Perspective
9:30 - 11:00 Oral session 1: Shape Matching and Recognition
  • Nadia Payet and Sinisa Todorovic, Matching Hierarchies of Deformable Shapes
  • François-Xavier Dupé and Luc Brun, Edition within a graph kernel framework for shape recognition
  • Aykut Erdem and Sibel Tari, Coarse-To-Fine Matching of Shapes using Disconnected Skeletons by Learning Class-Specific Boundary Deformations
11:00 - 11:30 coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 Highlights of Posters
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 17:00 Poster Session I
  • Joao Papa and Alexandre Falcao, A Learning Algorithm for the Optimum-Path Forest Classifier
  • Volkmar Frinken, Kaspar Riesen, and Horst Bunke, Improving Graph Classification by Isomap
  • Kaspar Riesen, Stefan Fankhauser, Horst Bunke, and Peter Dickinson, Efficient Suboptimal Graph Isomorphism
  • Salim Jouili and Salvatore Tabbone, Graph Matching based on Node Signatures
  • Benjamin Raynal, Michel Couprie, and Venceslas Biri, Homeomorphic Alignment of Edge-Weighted Trees
  • Albert Solé-Ribalta and Francesc Serratosa, A structural and semantic probabilistic model for matching and representing a set of graphs
  • David Knossow, Avinash Sharma, Diana Mateus, and Radu P. Horaud, Inexact Matching of Large and Sparse Graphs Using Laplacian Eigenvectors
  • Aline Deruyver and Yann Hodé, Arc-consistency checking with bilevel contraints: an optimization
  • Marcelo Hashimoto and Roberto M. Cesar Jr., Object Detection by Keygraph Classification
  • Walter C. Mankowski, Peter Bogunovich, Ali Shokoufandeh, and Dario D.Salvucci, On Computing Canonical Subsets of Graph-based Behavioral Representations
Wednesday 27, May 2009
8:15 - 9:00 Invited Talk II
Ramin Zabih, Graph cut algorithms for linear inverse systems
9:00 - 11:00 Oral Session II: Graph Clustering
  • Shengping Xia, Edwin R. Hancock, Pairwise Similarity Propagation based Graph Clustering for Scalable Object Indexing and Retrieval
  • Miquel Ferrer, Dimosthenis Karatzas, Ernest Valveny, and Horst Bunke, A Recursive Embedding Approach to Median Graph Computation
  • Peng Ren, Richard C. Wilson, and Edwin R. Hancock, Characteristic Polynomial Analysis on Matrix Representations of Graphs
  • Guillaume Damiand, Colin de la Higuera, Jean-Christophe Janodet, Emilie Samuel, and Christine Solnon, Polynomial Algorithm for Submap Isomorphism: Application to searching patterns in images
11:00 - 11:30 coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 Oral session III: Graph Regularization
  • Hewayda ElGhawalby and Edwin R. Hancock, Graph Regularisation using Gaussian Curvature
  • Yskandar Hamam and Michel Couprie, An Optimisation-Based Approach to Mesh Smoothing: Reformulation and Extensions
  • Francisco Escolano, Daniela Giorgi, Edwin R. Hancock, Miguel A. Lozano, and Bianca Falcidieno, Flow Complexity: Fast Polytopal Graph Complexity and 3D Object Clustering
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 17:00 Poster Session II
  • Endre Katona, A graph based data model for graphics interpretation
  • Rebeca Marfil and Antonio Bandera, Comparison of perceptual grouping criteria within an integrated hierarchical framework
  • Sébastien Fourey and Luc Brun, A first step toward combinatorial pyramids in nD spaces
  • Leila De Floriani, Daniele Panozzo, and Annie Hui, Computing and Visualizing a Graph-Based Decomposition for Non-Manifold Shapes
  • Anders Bjorholm Dahl, Peter Bogunovich, and Ali Shokoufandeh, Texture Segmentation by Contractive Decomposition and Planar Grouping
  • Rimon Elias, Mohab Al Ashraf, and Omar Aly, From Random to Hierarchical Data through an Irregular Pyramidal Structure
  • Pedro Real and Helena Molina-Abril, Cell AT-models for digital volumes
  • Johannes Keustermans, Dieter Seghers, Wouter Mollemans, Dirk Vandermeulen, and Paul Suetens, Image Segmentation Using Graph Representations and Local Appearance and Shape Models
  • Yin Yin, Qi Song, Milan Sonka, Electric Field Theory Motivated Graph Construction for Optimal Medical Image Segmentation
17:00 - 18:00 TC15 meeting
20:00 Social Dinner
Thursday 28, May 2009
8:30 - 10:30 Oral Session IV: Pyramids
  • Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz, Adrian Ion, Mabel Iglesias-Ham, and Walter G. Kropatsch, Irregular Graph Pyramids and Representative Cocycles of Cohomology Generators
  • Martin Drauschke, An Irregular Pyramid for Multi-scale Analysis of Objects and their Parts
  • Hans Meine, Annotated Contraction Kernels for Interactive Image Segmentation
  • Fabien Baldacci, Achille Braquelaire, and Guillaume Damiand, 3D Topological Map Extraction from Oriented Boundary Graph
10:30 - 11:00 coffee break
11:00 - 13:00 Oral session V: Applications
  • Bassam Mokbel, Alexander Hasenfuss, and Barbara Hammer, Graph-based Representation of Symbolic Musical Data
  • Alex Aussem, Sergio Rodrigues de Morais, and Marilys Corbex, Graph-based Analysis of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma with Bayesian Network Learning Methods
  • Nicole Maria Artner, Adrian Ion, and Walter Kropatsch, Tracking Objects Beyond Rigid Motion
  • Steffen Wachenfeld, Klaus Broelemann, Xiaoyi Jiang, and Antonio Krüger, Graph-Based Registration of Partial Images of City Maps Using Geometric Hashing