Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems: 11th International Conference

This volume collects the papers accepted for presentation at the 11th Inter- tionalConferenceonAdvancedConceptsforIntelligentVisionSystems (ACIVS 2009). Following the ?rst meeting in Baden-Baden (Germany) in 1999, which was part of a large multiconference, the ACIVS conference then developed into an independent scienti?c event and has ever since maintained the tra- tion of being a single track conference. ACIVS 2009 attracted computer sci- tists from 25 di?erent countries, mostly from Europe, but also from Australia, New-Zealand and Japan, and from the USA and Mexico. Although ACIVS is a conference on all areas of image and video processing, submissionstendtogatherwithincertainmajor?eldsofinterest.Aswasthecase lastyear, aboutaquarteroftheselectedpapersdealwithimageandvideocoding and processing, including ?ltering and restoration and low-level analysis. Topics related to biometrics (including face recognition), tracking, pattern recognition andsceneunderstandingallremainwellrepresented.Noteworthyarethegrowing number of papers related to medical applications and color processing and the papers related to the Technovision projects. We would like to thank the invited speakers Steve Sangwine (University of Essex, UK) and Jordi Inglada (CNES, France) for enhancing the technical program with their presentations.