Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects First International Workshop, AMDO 2000 Palma de Mallorca, Spain, September 7-9, 2000 Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, AMDO 2000, held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain in September 2000. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. As the first book devoted to articulated motion and deformable objects, this collection covers the following issues: geometry and physics of deformable objects, motion analyis, articulated motion and animation, visualization of deformable models, 3D-recovery from motion, single or multiple view human motion analysis and synthesis, and applications.

Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects AMDO2000.- Robust Manipulation of Deformable Objects Using Model Based Technique.- Shape Recognition Algorithm Robust under Partial Occlusions and Affine Deformations.- Adaptation of ASM to Lips Edge Detection.- Elastic Deformations Using Finite Element Methods in Computer Graphic Applications.- Analysis of Human Motion Using Snakes and Neural Networks.- Stability and Complexity Study of Animated Elastically Deformable Objects.- Multi-part Non-rigid Object Tracking Based on Time Model-Space Gradients.- Spatio-Temporal Modeling in the Farmyard Domain.- Recognition of Articulated Objects in SAR Images.- A Robust Method for Motion Estimation in Image Sequences.- Spectral Correspondence for Deformed Point-Set Matching.- Visualization of Local Movements for Optimal Marker Positioning.- Matching a Human Walking Sequence with a VRML Synthetic Model.- Model Adaptation and Posture Estimation of Moving Articulated Object Using Monocular Camera.- Automatic Selection of Keyframes for Activity Recognition.