Selected Publications
 

1. Book Chapters

  1. Welfer, D. Scharcanski, J. Picture Archiving and Communication Systems Based on Open Standards and Open-Source Software. Handbook of Research on Distributed Medical Informatics and E-Health, A.A. Lazakidou e K. M. Siassiakos, ISI Global,  2008 (English). ISSN: 978-1-60566-002-8.

  2. Arwini, Khadiga; Dodson, C.T.J.; Felipussi, S.; Scharcanski, J. Stochastic Porous Media and Hydrology. Information Geometry: Near Randomness and Near Independence, K. Arwini and C.T.J. Dodson, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1953, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008  (English). ISSN: 0075-8434.

  3. Scharcanski, J. Color Image Segmentation Using Graph Hierarchies and Meanshift. Advances in Graph Theory and Applications, J. Scharcanski et al., UFRGS, 2008 (English). ISSN: 858842507-6.

  4. Scharcanski, J. Estimating Formation Anisotropy, Paper Stochastic Structure Analysis - Archive 2 , Edited by C.T.J. Dodson, W.K.Ng and R.R.Singh. Published in CD-ROM format, University of Toronto Media Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1995.

  5. Shen, H.C.; Chiu, D.K.Y. Chiu; Bie, C.Y.C.; Scharcanski, J.; da Silva, A.P. Alves. Representation Issues in Texture Analysis, Computer Vision: Systems, Theory and Applications , A. Basu (eds)., World Scientific Press, 1993.

2. Journal Papers

  1. Wong, A.; Scharcanski, J. Dynamic Fisher-Tippett Region Merging Approach to Transrectal Ultrasound Prostate Lesion Segmentation. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine, July 2011.

  2. Gavião, W.; Scharcanski, J.; Frahm, J.; Pollefeys, M. Hysteroscopy Video Summarization and Browsing by Estimating the Physician's Attention on Video Segments..To appear in Medical Image Analysis, May 2011.

  3. Wong, A.; Scharcanski, J,; Fieguth, P. Automatic Skin Lesion Segmentation via Iterative Stochastic Region Merging. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine, March 2011.

  4. Cavalcanti, P. G.; Scharcanski, J. Automated Prescreening of Pigmented Skin Lesions Using Standard Cameras. To appear in Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, February 2011.

  5. Scharcanski, D.; Oliveira, B. A.; Cavalcanti, P. G. Yari, Y. A Particle Filtering Approach for Vehicular Tracking Adaptive to Occlusions. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 381 – 389, February 2011.

  6. Welfer, D.; Scharcanski, J.; Marinho, D. R. Fovea Center Detection Based on the Retina Anatomy and Mathematical Morphology. To appear in Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, August 2010.

  7. Welfer, D.; Scharcanski, J.; Kitamura, C. M.;  DalPizzol, M. M.; Ludwig, L. W. B.; Marinho, D. R. Segmentation of the Optic Disk in Color Eye Fundus Images Using an Adaptive Morphological Approach. Computers in Biology and Medicine, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 124-137, February 2010.

  8. Silva, L.S.; Scharcanski, J. Video Segmentation Based on Motion Coherence of Particles in a Video Sequence. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 19, No. 4,  pp. 1036-1049, April 2010.

  9. Welfer, D.; Scharcanski, J.; Marinho, D. R. A Coarse-to-Fine Strategy for Automatically Detecting Exudates in Color Eye Fundus Images. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Vol. 34, pp. 228-235, February 2010.

  10. Scharcanski, J.; Silva, L.S. da; Koff, D.; Wong, A Interactive Modeling and Evaluation of Tumor Growth. Journal of Digital Imaging, DOI: 10.1007/s10278-009-9234-4, October 2009.

  11. Wong, A.; Scharcanski, J. Phase-Adaptive Superresolution of Mammographic Images using Complex Wavelets. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 1140-1146, May 2009.

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  12. Jung, C.R.; Scharcanski, J. Sharpening Dermatological Color Images in the Wavelet Domain. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 4-13, November 2008.

  13. Quartieri, F.R..; Scharcanski, J. Guimarães, L. V; Schuck, A. Representação e Classificação de Texturas da Íris Baseada na Transformada Ótima de Gabor. J. of Theorectical and Applied Computing, Vol. 15, No. 2,  pp. 105-120, October 2008.

  14. Santos, R. P. dos; Scharcanski, J.; Lossless and Near-Lossless Digital Angiography Coding Using a Two-Stage Motion Compensation Approach. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Vol. 32, pp. 379-387, 2008.

  15. Felipussi, S; Scharcanski, J; Comba, J. Measuring Statistical Geometric Properties of Tomographic Images of Soils. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 57, No. 11, pp. 2502-2512, November 2008.

  16. Gavião, W.P.; Scharcanski, J,; Passos, E.P.; Cunha-Filho, J.S. Evaluating the Mid-Secretory Endometrium Appearance Using Hysteroscopic Digital Vídeo Summarization.  Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 70-77, January 2007.

  17. Scharcanski, J. A Wavelet-Based Approach for Analyzing Industrial Stochastic Textures with Applications.  IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man  and Cybernetics (Part A), Vol. 37,  No. 1,  pp. 10 – 22, January 2007.

  18. Scharcanski, J. Stochastic Texture Analysis for Measuring Sheet Formation Variability in Industry. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 55,  No. 5,  pp. 1778 – 1785, October 2006.

  19. Scharcanski, J.; Jung, C.; Denoising and Enhancing Digital Mammographic Images for Visual Screening. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 243-254, June 2006.

  20. Carro, S. A.; Scharcanski, J. A Framework for Medical Visual Information Exchange on the WEB. Computers in Biology and Medicine, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 327-338, April 2006.

  21. Scharcanski, J. Stochastic Texture Analysis for Monitoring Stochastic Processes in Industry.  Pattern Recognition Letters J., Vol. 26, No. 11, pp.1701-1709, August 2005.

  22. Jung, C.R.; Scharcanski, J. Robust Watershed Segmentation Using Wavelets. Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 23, No. 7, pp. 661-669, July 2005.

  23. Carro, S.; Scharcanski, J. Making Medical Visual Information Available on the WEB. J. of Theorectical and Applied Computing, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 33-47, December 2004.

  24. Cunha-Filho, J.S.; Gavião, W.P.; Scharcanski, J,; Passos, E.P.; Digital Hysteroscopy:  A New Diagnostic Method for the Mid-Secretory Endometrium. Fertility and Sterility, Vol. 82, Supplement 2, pp. 295, September 2004.

  25. Jung, C.R.; Scharcanski, J. A Wavelet Transform Approach to Adaptive Image Denoising. Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 278-285, April 2004.

  26. Dodson, C.T.J.; Scharcanski, J. Information Geometric Similarity Measurement for Near-Random Stochastic Processes. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Part A), Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 435-440, July 2003.

  27. Jung, C. R.; Scharcanski, J. Adaptive Image Denoising and Edge Enhancement in Scale-Space Using the Wavelet Transform. Pattern Recognition Letters J., Vol. 24, No. 7, pp. 965-971, April 2003.

  28. Siqueira, M. J.; Scharcanski, J.; Navaux, P. O. A. Echocardiographic Image Sequence Segmentation and Analysis Using Self-Organizing Maps. Journal of VLSI for Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image and Vídeo Technology, Vol. 32, No. ½, pp. 135 – 145, August-September 2002

  29. Scharcanski, J.; Dodson, C. T. J.; Clarke, R. T. Simulating Effects of Fiber Crimp, Flocculation, Density and Orientation on Structure Statistics of Stochastic Fiber Networks.  Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, Vol. 78, No. 6, pp. 389 – 395, June 2002.

  30. Scharcanski, J.; Jung, C. R.; Clarke, R. T. Adaptive Image Denoising Using Scale and Space Consistency. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 1092 – 1101, September 2002.

  31. Scharcanski, J.; Dodson, C. T. J.; Clarke, R. T. Nonwoven Structure Statistics: Simulation of Effects of Fiber Crimp, Flocculation, Density and Orientation. International Nonwovens Journal, Vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 23 – 29, March 2002.

  32. Jung, C. R.; Scharcanski, J. A Wavelet Based Method for Image Filtering Using Scale-Space Continuity. Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 511-520, April 2001.

  33. Scharcanski, J.; Dodson, C.T.J. Stochastic Texture Estimators for Local Anisotropy and its Variability. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 49, No. 5, pp. 971-979, October 2000.

  34. Scharcanski, J.; Dodson, C.T.J. Simulating Colloidal Thickening: Virtual Papermaking. Simulation Journal, Vol. 74, No. 4, pp. 201-207, April 2000.

  35. Scharcanski, J.; Dodson, C.T.J. Local Spatial Anisotropy and its Variability. Journal of Pulp and Paper Science, Vol. 25, No. 11, pp. 393-397, November 1999.

  36. Scharcanski, J.; Zambroni, A. C.; Dodson, C.T.J. Paper Forming Dynamics and Paper Formation. APPITA Journal, Vol. 50, No. 6, pp. 475-480, November 1997.

  37. Scharcanski, J.; Dodson, C.T.J. Neural Network Model for Paper Forming Process. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 826-839, May-June 1997.

  38. Scharcanski, J.; Venetsanopoulos, A.N. Edge Detection of Colour Images Using Directional Operators. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 397-401, April 1997.

  39. Scharcanski, J.; Dodson, C.T.J. Texture Analysis for Estimating Spatial Variability and Anisotropy in Planar Stochastic Structures. Optical Engineering Journal, Vol. 35, No. 8, pp. 2302-2309, August 1996.

  40. Scharcanski, J.; Dodson, C.T.J. Texture Image for Paper Anisotropy and its Variability. APPITA Journal, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 100-104, 1996.

  41. Scharcanski, J.; Dodson, C.T.J. A New Simulator for Paper Forming Using Neural Network Methods. APPITA Journal, Vol. 48, No. 5, pp. 347 - 350, 1995.

  42. Scharcanski, J.; Hovis, J.K.; Shen, H.C. Repreenting the Color Aspect of Texture Images. Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 15, no. 2, 1994, pp. 191-197.

  43. Scharcanski, J.; Shen, H.C.; da Silva, A.P.A. Colour Quantisation for Colour Texture Analysis. IEE Proceedings-E, vol. 140, no. 2, pp. 109-114, March 1993.

  44. Scharcanski, J.; Navaux, P.A.O. SMP - A Massively Parallel System - Definition and Applications. Datanews, 292:54 - 60.

3. Conference Papers

  1. Cavalcanti, P. G.; Scharcanski, J.; Di Persia, L.; Milone, D. An ICA-Based Method for the Segmentation of Pigmented Skin Lesions in Macroscopic Images. To appear in IEEE International Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology 2011, Boston, USA, 30 August - 03 September 2011.

  2. Lopes, C. B.; Gonçalves, A.; Scharcanski, J.; Jung, C. R. Color-Based Lips Extraction Applied to Voice Activity Detection. To appear in 18th. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP 2011), Brussels, Belgium, 11-14 September 2011

  3. Ribeiro, M.; Scharcanski, J.; Schuck, A. An User Identity Authentication Scheme Adaptive to Changes in Face Appearance. To appear in IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC 2011), Hangzhou, China, 10-12 May 2011

  4. Schardosim, L.; Scharcanski, J.; Santos, D.; Stuchi; J.A. Motion Detection in Infrared Retinal Image Sequences. IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC 2011), Hangzhou, China, 10-12 May 2011.

  5. Yari, Y.; Scharcanski, J. Estimation of the Head Pose Based on Monocular Images. SPIE Defense, Security & Sensing (Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security and Applications, Orlando, USA, 25-29 April 2011

  6. Cavalcanti, P. G.; Scharcanski, J. Pigmented Skin Lesion Segmentation on Macroscopic Images. 25th International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, Queenstown, New Zealand, 8-9 November 2010

  7. Yari, Y.; Scharcanski, J. Estimation of the Head Pose Based on Monocular Images. 25th International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, Queenstown, New Zealand, 8-9 November 2010.

  8. Cavalcanti, P. G.; Scharcanski, J.; Lopes, C. B. Shading Attenuation in Human Skin Color Images. To appear in 6th. International Symposium on Visual Computing, Las Vegas, USA, 29 November-1 December 2010.

  9. Zatt, B.; Porto, M.; Scharcanski, J.; Bampi, S. Adaptive GOP Structure Based on Video Content for High Efficiency Video Coding. 17th. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP 2010), Hong-Kong, China, 26-29 September 2010 (pp.3053-3056, ISBN 978-1-4244-7993-1, ISSN 1522-4880).

  10. Oliveira, A. B. Scharcanski, J. Vehicle Counting and Trajectory Detection Based on Particle Filtering. Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação Gráfica e Processamento de Imagens - SIBGRAPI 2010, Gramado, Brasil, 30 August-3 September 2010.

  11. Welfer, D.; Scharcanski, J.; Marinho, D. R. A Morphologic Three-Stage Approach for Detecting Exudates in Color Eye Fundus Images. 25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2010), Sierre, Switzerland, 22-26 March 2010.

  12. Cavalcanti, P. G.; Scharcanski, J. Statistical Analysis and Modeling of Returns Obtained by Writers of American Style Call Options at BOVESPA. 4th. Brazilian Conference on Statistical Modelling in Insurance and Finance (SMIF 2009), Maresias, Brasil, 05-08 April 2009.

  13. Oliveira, A. B.; Scharcanski, J. Index Tracking using the Particle Filtering Approach. 4th. Brazilian Conference on Statistical Modelling in Insurance and Finance (SMIF 2009), Maresias, Brasil, 05-08 April 2009

  14. Welfer, D.; Scharcanski, J.; Marinho, D. R. A Morphological Approach for the Fovea Location in color Fundus Images. International Conference on Information Technology and Communications in Health - ITCH 2009, Laurel Point Inn, Victoria, BC, Canada, February 19 - 22, 2009.

  15. Marcuzzo, M.; Masiero, P. R.; Scharcanski, J. Feature Extraction for the Assessment of Renal Scintigraphic Images. 13ª Conferência Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões, Lisbon, Portugal, 26 October 2007.

  16. Silva da Silva, L.; Gavião, W.; Scharcanski, J.; Koff, D. Tumor Growth Evaluation Using the KLT Approach. Symposium of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine - SIIM 2008, Seattle, USA, 15-18 May 2008.

  17. Silva da Silva, L. Scharcanski, J. Unsupervised Identification of Coherent Motion in Video. Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação Gráfica e Processamento de Imagens - SIBGRAPI 2007, Belo Horizonte, 7-10 October 2007.

  18. Oliveira, A.; Scharcanski, J.; Barone, D. Utilização da Entropia no Rastreamento de Objetos com Filtro de Partículas. Simpósio Brasileiro de Automação Inteligente - SBAI 2007, Florianópolis, Brasil, August 2007.

  19. Santos, R. A. P.; Scharcanski, J. Context Adaptive Lossless and Near-Lossless Coding for Digital Angiographies. IEEE International Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology 2007, Lyon, França, August 2007.

  20. Marcuzzo, M.; Masiero, P. R.; Scharcanski, J. Quantitative Parameters for the Assessment of Renal Scintigraphic Images. IEEE International Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology 2007, Lyon, França, August 2007.

  21. Scharcanski, J. Community Health Engineers. First Workshop of the IEEEP2407 working group on Personalized Health Informatics, London, U.K., 24-25 January 2007.

  22. Scharcanski, J. Lossless and Near Lossless Compression for Mammographic Digital Images. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2006, Atlanta, USA, 8-11 October 2006.

  23. Scharcanski, J. Gavião, W. Hierarchical Summarization of Diagnostic Hysteroscopy Videos. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2006, Atlanta, USA, 8-11 October 2006.

  24. Gavião, W. Scharcanski, J. Cunha-Filho, J. S. Content-Based Diagnostic Hysteroscopy Summaries for Video Browsing. Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação Gráfica e Processamento de Imagens - SIBGRAPI 2005, Natal, 9-12 October 2005.

  25. Scharcanski, J. Gavião, W. Cunha-Filho, J. S. Diagnostic Hysteroscopy Video Summarization and Browsing. IEEE International Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology 2005, Shanghai, China, April 2005.

  26. Silva, L.S. Scharcanski, J. A Lossless Compression Approach for Mammographic Digital Images Based on the Delaunay Triangulation. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2005, Genova, Italy, March 2005.

  27. Scharcanski, J., Jung, C.R.; An Adaptive Approach to Mammographic Image Denosing and Enhancement. Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação Gráfica e Processamento de Imagens - SIBGRAPI 2004, Curitiba, Brasil, 17-20 October 2004.

  28. Cunha-Filho, J. Gavião Neto, W. Scharcanski, J. Pandolfi Passos, E. Digital hysteroscopy: a new diagnostic method for the mid-secretory endometrium.  60th. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Philadelphia , USA, 16-20 October 2004.

  29. Parraga, A.; Scharcanski, J. Uso do Modelo HMT para recuperação de Imagens por similaridade de Textura. Congresso Brasileiro de Automática, Gramado, Brasil, October 2004.

  30. Carro, S.; Scharcanski, J; Lima, V. Difusão de Imagens Médicas na WEB.  Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas Multimídia e WEB (Webmídia'03), Salvador, Brasil, 3-6 November 2003.

  31. Carro, S.; Scharcanski, J; Lima , V. A Web Based Diffusion System for Medical Visual Information. ACM Fifth International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM'03), New Orleans , USA , 7-8 November 2003.

  32. Gavião, W.; Cunha-Filho, J.S.; Scharcanski, J. Semi-Automatic Hysteroscopic Vídeo Summarization. Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação Gráfica e Processamento de Imagens - SIBGRAPI 2003, São Carlos, Brasil, 12-15 October 2003.

  33. Jung, C.R.; Scharcanski, J. Robust Watershed Segmentation Using the Wavelet Transform. Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação Gráfica e Processamento de Imagens - SIBGRAPI 2002, Fortaleza, Brasil, 07-10 October 2002.

  34. Gelain, E. A.; Scharcanski, J.; Heuser, C.A. Recuperação de Informações em Coleções de Documentos por Similaridade de Conteúdo. International Symposium on Document Technologies, São Paulo, Brasil, 17-20 September 2002.

  35. Guimarães, R.R.; Scharcanski, J. Dicom-Database: Uma Ferramenta de Suporte à Extração e Publicação de Imagens Médicas DICOM através da Internet. 1º. Simpósio de Informática do Centro do Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Maria, Brasil, 21-23 August 2002.

  36. Jung, C.R.; Scharcanski, J. Adaptive Image Denoising in Scale-Space Using the Wavelet Transform. Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação Gráfica e Processamento de Imagens - SIBGRAPI 2001, Florianópolis, Brasil, 17-20 October 2001.

  37. Siqueira, M. L.; Gasperin, C.V.; Scharcanski, J.; Zielinsky, P.; Navaux, P.O. Echocardiographic Image Sequence Segmentation Using Self-Organizing Maps. IEEE International Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing, Sydney , Australia, December 2000.

  38. Scharcanski, J.; Olabarriaga, S. Computação de Imagens Médicas: Processamento, Modelagem e Visualização. I Fórum Gaúcho de Informática na Saúde,  São Leopoldo, Brasil, 30-31 October 2000.

  39. Jung, C.R.; Scharcanski, J. Stochastic Texture Image Retrieval and Similarity Matching. Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação Gráfica e Processamento de Imagens - SIBGRAPI 2000, Gramado, Brasil, 17-20 October 2000.

  40. Kallmes, A.; Scharcanski, J.; Dodson, C.T.J. Uniformity and Anisotropy in Nonwoven Fibrous Materials. International Nonwovens Technical Conference, Dallas, USA, 26-28 September 2000.

  41. Siqueira, M. L.; Gasperin, C.V.; Scharcanski, J.; Navaux, P.O. A. Segmentação de Seqüências de Imagens Ecocardiográficas Usando Redes Neurais. VI Congresso Internacional de Ingenieria Informatica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 26 - 28 April 2000.

  42. Scharcanski, J.; Dodson, C.T.J.; Kallmes, P. 2D Optical Sensing of Formation and Anisotropy. TAPPI Process & Product Quality Conference, Anaheim, USA, September 1999.

  43. Piccoli, L.; Dahmer, A,; Scharcanski, J.; Navaux, A.P.O. Fetal Ecocardiographic Image Segmentation Using Neural Networks. IEE Seventh International Conference on Image Processing and Applications, Manchester , U.K., July 1999.

  44. Dahmer, A.; Navaux, A.P.O.; Scharcanski, J. Análise e Segmentação de Imagens Ecocardiográficas Fetais. Fórum Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia na Saúde 1998, Curitiba, Brasil, October 1998.

  45. Scharcanski, J.; Dodson, C.T.J. Modeling and Simulation of Planar Fibre Processes. SCS-IEEE Conference on Computer Simulation Methods and Applications. Orlando , USA, November 1998.

  46. Scharcanski, J.; Dodson, C.T.J. Texture Discrimination for Monitoring and Quality Control of Non-Woven Textiles. 5Th. IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems. Gramado, Brasil, November 1998.

  47. Scharcanski, J.; Dodson, C.T.J. Simulating Paper Forming Using Neural Networks. IEEE Conference on Industry Applications. Birmingham, USA, June 1996.

  48. Scharcanski, J.; Dodson, C.T.J. Simulating the Dynamics of Fibre Networks During Paper Forming. II Conferência Brasileira de Redes Neurais. Curitiba, Brasil. November 1995. (Invited Speaker)..

  49. Alencar, M.; Scharcanski, J. Near Optimum Filtering of Quantized Signals. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. Whistler, Canada. September 1995.

  50. Scharcanski, J.; Dodson, C.T.J. Simulating Paper Forming. 1995 International Paper Physics Conference. Niagara-on-the-Lake , Canada. September 1995.

  51. Scharcanski, J. Venetsanopoulos, A.N.V. Colour Image Edge Detection Using Directional Operators. IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing. Halkidiki , Greece . June 1995. (Invited Speaker).

  52. Scharcanski, J.; Shen, H.C.; Hovis, J. Color Texture Representation Based on MultiScale Feature Boundaries. Visual Communication and Image Processing 92, Boston USA. November 1992.

  53. Scharcanski, J.; Shen, H.C.; Hovis, J. Representation Texture Colors Using a Color Codebook. Canadian, Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 92, Toronto , Canada. September 1992.

  54. Scharcanski, J.; Shen, H.C. Using Color as a Feature in Texture Characterization. 9o. Congresso Brasileiro de Automática, Vitória, Brasil. Setember 1992.

  55. Scharcanski, J.; Shen, H.C.; da Silva, A.P.A. Characteristic Colors for Texture Analysis. Vision Interface 92, Vancouver, Canada. May 1992.

  56. Andrade, D.C.; Musse, S.R.; Scharcanski, J. Um Sistema para o Processamento de Tomografias Computadorizadas. I Encontro Regional de Iniciação Científica, Caxias do Sul, Brasil. Outober 1988.

  57. Scharcanski, J. Un Sistema de Visión Computacional con Aplicación en Robótica. Conferência Internacional de Informática. Havana, Cuba. August 1988.

  58. Segabinizzi, R.; Rocha, M.A.; Kuamoto, A.; Scharcanski, J. SARVI: Um Sistema de Armazenamento, Recuperação e Visualização de Imagens. I Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação Gráfica e Processamento de Imagens. São José dos Campos, Brasil. March 1988.

  59. Scharcanski, J.; Laschuk, A.; Walter, C. Um Sistema de Visão Computacional Bidimensional. XX Congresso Nacional de Informática, São Paulo, Brasil. June 1987.

  60. Gonçalves, A.R.; Basso, K.; Partichelli, P.R.; Scharcanski, J. Sistom: Um Sistema para a Visualização Tridimensional de Tomografias Computadorizadas. XIII Conferência Latino-americana de Informática. Caracas, Venezuela. April 1987.

  61. Bertaço, G.A.; Souza, L.F.M.; Rossoni, M.; Scharcanski, J. Um Sistema de Animação Auxiliada pelo Computador. XIII Conferência Latino-americana de Informática. Caracas, Venezuela. April 1987.

  62. Scharcanski, J. Interação Homem-Máquina e a Comunicação Visual. XIX Congresso Nacional de Informática, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. July 1986.

  63. Oliveira, R.S.; Scharcanski, J. Um Método Concorrente para Distinguir Objetos em Imagens Binárias. I Semana de Informática da UFBA, Salvador, Brasil. June 1986..

  64. Scharcanski, J.; Oliveira, R.S. Um Sistema de Classificação Supervisionada de Silhuetas em Imagens Binárias. XII Conferência Latino-Americana de Informática, Montevideo, Uruguai. April 1986.

  65. Scharcanski, J.; Oliveira, R.S. Um Sistema de Reconhecimento e Aprendizado de Silhuetas em Imagens Binárias. II Congresso Nacional de Automação Industrial, São Paulo, Brasil. September 1985.

  66. Scharcanski, J.; Navaux, P.A.O. SMP - Sistema Maciçamente Paralelo - Definição e Aplicações. XVIII Congresso Nacional de Informática, São Paulo, Brasil. July 1985.