Color Analysis -- On Determining the Color of the Illuminant Using the Dichromatic Reflection Model -- Probabilistic Color Optical Flow -- Illumination Invariant Color Texture Analysis Based on Sum- and Difference-Histograms -- Color Image Compression: Early Vision and the Multiresolution Representations -- Stereo Vision -- Optic Flow Goes Stereo: A Variational Method for Estimating Discontinuity-Preserving Dense Disparity Maps -- Lens Model Selection for Visual Tracking -- Omnidirectional Vision with Frontal Stereo -- Stereo Vision Based Reconstruction of Huge Urban Areas from an Airborne Pushbroom Camera (HRSC) -- Calibration–Free Hand–Eye Calibration: A Structure–from–Motion Approach -- Invited Paper -- Simple Solvers for Large Quadratic Programming Tasks -- Segmentation and Grouping -- Voxel-Wise Gray Scale Invariants for Simultaneous Segmentation and Classification -- Automatic Foreground Propagation in Image Sequences for 3D Reconstruction -- Agglomerative Grouping of Observations by Bounding Entropy Variation -- Three-Dimensional Shape Knowledge for Joint Image Segmentation and Pose Estimation -- Goal-Directed Search with a Top-Down Modulated Computational Attention System -- Automatic Speech Understanding -- Telephone-Based Speech Dialog Systems -- Robust Parallel Speech Recognition in Multiple Energy Bands -- Pronunciation Feature Extraction -- Multi-lingual and Multi-modal Speech Processing and Applications -- 3D View Registration and Surface Modeling -- Cluster-Based Point Cloud Analysis for Rapid Scene Interpretation -- A Novel Parameter Decomposition Approach to Faithful Fitting of Quadric Surfaces -- 3D Surface Reconstruction by Combination of Photopolarimetry and Depth from Defocus -- Vision-Based 3D Object Localization Using Probabilistic Models of Appearance -- Projective Model for Central Catadioptric Cameras Using Clifford Algebra -- A New Methodology for Determination and Correction of Lens Distortion in 3D Measuring Systems Using Fringe Projection -- A Method for Fast Search of Variable Regions on Dynamic 3D Point Clouds -- 6D-Vision: Fusion of Stereo and Motion for Robust Environment Perception -- A Method for Determining Geometrical Distortion of Off-The-Shelf Wide-Angle Cameras -- Motion and Tracking -- A System for Marker-Less Human Motion Estimation -- A Fast Algorithm for Statistically Optimized Orientation Estimation -- A Direct Method for Real-Time Tracking in 3-D Under Variable Illumination -- Efficient Combination of Histograms for Real-Time Tracking Using Mean-Shift and Trust-Region Optimization -- Spiders as Robust Point Descriptors -- A Comparative Evaluation of Template and Histogram Based 2D Tracking Algorithms -- Bayesian Method for Motion Segmentation and Tracking in Compressed Videos -- Nonlinear Body Pose Estimation from Depth Images -- Computational Learning -- Conservative Visual Learning for Object Detection with Minimal Hand Labeling Effort -- Rapid Online Learning of Objects in a Biologically Motivated Recognition Architecture -- Semidefinite Clustering for Image Segmentation with A-priori Knowledge -- Separable Linear Discriminant Classification -- Improving a Discriminative Approach to Object Recognition Using Image Patches -- Comparison of Multiclass SVM Decomposition Schemes for Visual Object Recognition -- Shape Priors and Online Appearance Learning for Variational Segmentation and Object Recognition in Static Scenes -- Over-Complete Wavelet Approximation of a Support Vector Machine for Efficient Classification -- Regularization on Discrete Spaces -- Recognition of 3D Objects by Learning from Correspondences in a Sequence of Unlabeled Training Images -- Self-learning Segmentation and Classification of Cell-Nuclei in 3D Volumetric Data Using Voxel-Wise Gray Scale Invariants -- Applications -- License Plate Character Segmentation Using Hidden Markov Chains -- Digital Subtraction CT Lung Perfusion Image Based on 3D Affine Registration -- Combination of Tangent Distance and an Image Distortion Model for Appearance-Based Sign Language Recognition -- Volumetric Analysis of a Sinter Process in Time -- Network Snakes-Supported Extraction of Field Boundaries from Imagery -- Structure Features for Content-Based Image Retrieval -- Blind Background Subtraction in Dental Panoramic X-Ray Images: An Application Approach -- Robust Head Detection and Tracking in Cluttered Workshop Environments Using GMM -- Uncertainity and Robustness -- Stability and Local Feature Enhancement of Higher Order Nonlinear Diffusion Filtering -- Estimation of Geometric Entities and Operators from Uncertain Data -- Wiener Channel Smoothing: Robust Wiener Filtering of Images -- Signal and Noise Adapted Filters for Differential Motion Estimation -- Variational Deblurring of Images with Uncertain and Spatially Variant Blurs -- Energy Tensors: Quadratic, Phase Invariant Image Operators -- Invited Paper -- Object Categorization and the Need for Many-to-Many Matching.