ThisLectureNotesinComputerScience(LNCS)volumecontainsthepapersp- sentedatthe ThirdInternationalWorkshoponComputationalForensics(IWCF 2009), held August 13-14, 2009 at The Netherlands Forensic Institute in The Hague, The Netherlands. Computational forensics is a research domain focusing on the investigation of forensic problems using computational methods. Its primary goal is the d- covery and advancement of forensic knowledge involving modeling, computer simulation, and computer-based analysis and recognition in studying and so- ing forensic problems. The Computational Forensics Workshop...

This volume collects the papers accepted for presentation atMIRAGE 2009. TheMIRAGE conference is continuing to receive international recognition, with this year's presentations coming from 25 countries despite the large wor- wide ?nancial crisis. This time Asia submitted far fewer papers than previously and fewer than Europe. France provedto be the most active scienti?cally with a total of 16 submitted papers. Germany came second (10 submitted papers) and China third (8 papers). We received a total of 83 submissions and accepted 41 as oral presentations, over the three-day event. All papers...

The two-volume set LNCS 5761 and LNCS 5762 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2009, held in London, UK, in September 2009. Based on rigorous peer reviews, the program committee carefully selected 259 revised papers from 804 submissions for presentation in two volumes. The second volume includes 134 papers divided in topical sections on shape modelling and analysis; motion analyysis, physical based modelling and image reconstruction; neuro, cell and multiscale image analysis; image...

The two-volume set LNCS 5761 and LNCS 5762 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2009, held in London, UK, in September 2009. Based on rigorous peer reviews, the program committee carefully selected 259 revised papers from 804 submissions for presentation in two volumes. The first volume includes 125 papers divided in topical sections on cardiovascular image guided intervention and robotics; surgical navigation and tissue interaction; intra-operative imaging and endoscopic navigation;...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2009, held in Vietri sul Mare, Italy, in September 2009. The 107 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 168 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computer graphics and image processing, low and middle level processing, 2D and 3D segmentation, feature extraction and image analysis, object detection and recognition, video analysis and processing, pattern analysis and classification,...

th This volume is an edition of the papers selected from the 12 FIRA RoboWorld C- gress, held in Incheon, Korea, August 16-18, 2009. The Federation of International Robosoccer Association (FIRA - www. fira. net) is a non-profit organization, which organizes robotic competitions and meetings around the globe annually. The RoboSoccer competitions started in 1996 and FIRA was - tablished on June 5, 1997. The Robot Soccer competitions are aimed at promoting the spirit of science and technology to the younger generation. The congress is a forum in which to share ideas and future directions of...

This volume contains the research papers presented at the Joint COST 2101 & 2102 International Conference on Biometric ID Management and Multimodal Communi- tion, BioID_MultiComm 2009, hosted by the Biometric Recognition Group, ATVS, at the Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, during September 16-18, 2009. BioID_MultiComm 2009 was a joint international conference organized coope- tively by COST Actions 2101 & 2102. COST 2101 Action focuses on "Biometrics for Identity Documents and Smart Cards (BIDS)," while COST 2102 Action is entitled "Cross-Modal Analysis of...

Held for the ?rst time outside Europe, the 15th International Conference on DiscreteGeometryforComputer ImagerytookplaceinMontr eal(Canada)from September30toOctober2,2009.Thisconferenceaddressedalargeinternational audience: 61 papers were submitted originating from 14 di?erent countries. Following a thorough reviewing process, remodeled for the previous conf- ence held in Lyon, 42 papers were accepted and scheduled for either oral (21) or poster presentation (21). All these papers appear in these proceedings, and whether a paper was presented orally or not was based on our appreciation of...

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...

Motion analysis is central to both human and machine vision. It involves the interpretation of image data over time and is crucial for a range of motion tasks suchasobstacledetection, depthestimation, videoanalysis, sceneinterpretation, videocompressionandotherapplications. Motionanalysisis unsolvedbecauseit requires modeling of the complicated relationships between the observed image data and the motion of objects and motion patterns (e. g., falling rain) in the visual scene. The Dagstuhl Seminar 08291 on Statistical and Geometrical Approaches to Visual Motion Analysis was held during July...