Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference Proceedings 2018

Abstract

With IMVIP 2018 the series of Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing conferences reaches a landmark occasion: IMVIP 2018 is the 20th edition in a series of which the inaugural meeting was held at the Magee campus of Ulster University in 1997. Ulster University hosted IMVIP again in 2003 and 2008 (at the Coleraine campus) and in 2014 (at Magee). Now, in 2018, Ulster University hosts IMVIP for the fifth time, and for the first time at the Belfast campus, under the organisation of the School of Computing. In the two decades since 1997, the IMVIP conference has been hosted throughout the island of Ireland: four times at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (1998, 2001, 2007 and 2017), three times at Dublin City University (1999, 2006 and 2011) and at Trinity College Dublin (2004, 2009 and 2015), twice at Queen’s University Belfast (2000 and 2005) and at the National University of Ireland, Galway (2002 and 2016), and at the University of Limerick (2010). IMVIP is established as Ireland's primary meeting for those researching in the fields of machine vision and image processing, providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and the presentation of research conducted both within Ireland and worldwide. IMVIP is a single track conference consisting of high quality previously unpublished contributed papers focussing on both theoretical research and practical experiences in all areas of computer vision. After a rigorous review process, this year 22 papers were selected for oral presentation at the conference, with a further 10 selected for poster presentation. We thank sincerely the members of the Programme Committee for generously giving their time, effort and expertise in reviewing the submissions. Continuing the tradition of inviting internationally-renowned experts in the theory and application of computer vision to IMVIP, we are delighted to have keynote presentations at IMVIP 2018 from Prof. Hiroshi Ishikawa, Director of the Computer Vision and Analysis Lab at Waseda University, Tokyo; Prof. Jiri Matas, Centre for Machine Perception at the Czech Technical University, Prague; and Prof. dr. Zeno Geradts, senior forensic scientist at the Netherlands Forensic Institute and Professor of Forensic Data Science at the University of Amsterdam. IMVIP is run in association with the Irish Pattern Recognition and Classification Society (iprcs.org), a member organisation of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS). In addition to IPRCS, we would like to thank the School of Computing at Ulster University for their support for and sponsorship of IMVIP 2018. The Organising Committee extends a warm welcome to all speakers and delegates of the 20th Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, and we hope that you will thoroughly enjoy both the professional and social aspects of IMVIP 2018 in Belfast.