Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: Second Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2005, Estoril, Portugal, June 7-9, 2005, Proceedings, Part II

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Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Testing Some Improvements of the Fukunaga and Narendra’s Fast Nearest Neighbour Search Algorithm in a Spelling Task....Pages 3-10
Solving Particularization with Supervised Clustering Competition Scheme....Pages 11-18
Adaptive Optimization with Constraints: Convergence and Oscillatory Behaviour....Pages 19-26
Data Characterization for Effective Prototype Selection....Pages 27-34
A Stochastic Approach to Wilson’s Editing Algorithm....Pages 35-42
Parallel Perceptrons, Activation Margins and Imbalanced Training Set Pruning....Pages 43-50
Boosting Statistical Local Feature Based Classifiers for Face Recognition....Pages 51-58
Dynamic and Static Weighting in Classifier Fusion....Pages 59-66
A Novel One-Parameter Regularized Kernel Fisher Discriminant Method for Face Recognition....Pages 67-74
AutoAssign – An Automatic Assignment Tool for Independent Components....Pages 75-82
Improving the Discrimination Capability with an Adaptive Synthetic Discriminant Function Filter....Pages 83-90
Globally Exponential Stability of Non-autonomous Delayed Neural Networks....Pages 91-96
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Comparison of Two Different Prediction Schemes for the Analysis of Time Series of Graphs....Pages 99-106
Grouping of Non-connected Structures by an Irregular Graph Pyramid....Pages 107-114
An Adjacency Grammar to Recognize Symbols and Gestures in a Digital Pen Framework....Pages 115-122
Graph Clustering Using Heat Content Invariants....Pages 123-130
Matching Attributed Graphs: 2nd-Order Probabilities for Pruning the Search Tree....Pages 131-138
Synthesis of Median Spectral Graph....Pages 139-146
Feature Selection for Graph-Based Image Classifiers....Pages 147-154
Machine Learning with Seriated Graphs....Pages 155-162
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Time Reduction of Stochastic Parsing with Stochastic Context-Free Grammars....Pages 163-171
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Segment Extraction Using Burns Principles in a Pseudo-color Fuzzy Hough Transform....Pages 175-182
Texture Interpolation Using Ordinary Kriging....Pages 183-190
Spectral Methods in Image Segmentation: A Combined Approach....Pages 191-198
Mathematical Morphology in Polar-Logarithmic Coordinates. Application to Erythrocyte Shape Analysis....Pages 199-206
Signal Subspace Identification in Hyperspectral Linear Mixtures....Pages 207-214
Automatic Selection of Multiple Texture Feature Extraction Methods for Texture Pattern Classification....Pages 215-222
Dynamic Texture Recognition Using Normal Flow and Texture Regularity....Pages 223-230
Detector of Image Orientation Based on Borda-Count....Pages 231-238
Color Image Segmentation Using Acceptable Histogram Segmentation....Pages 239-246
Adding Subsurface Attenuation to the Beckmann-Kirchhoff Theory....Pages 247-254
Multi-scale Cortical Keypoint Representation for Attention and Object Detection....Pages 255-262
Evaluation of Distances Between Color Image Segmentations....Pages 263-270
An Algorithm for the Detection of Multiple Concentric Circles....Pages 271-278
Image Corner Detection Using Hough Transform....Pages 279-286
Dissimilarity Measures for Visual Pattern Partitioning....Pages 287-294
A Comparative Study of Highlights Detection and Elimination by Color Morphology and Polar Color Models....Pages 295-302
Algorithm for Crest Detection Based on Graph Contraction....Pages 303-310
A Learning Framework for Object Recognition on Image Understanding....Pages 311-318
A Roof Edge Detection Model....Pages 319-327
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A Dynamic Stroke Segmentation Technique for Sketched Symbol Recognition....Pages 328-335
Application of Wavelet Transforms and Bayes Classifier to Segmentation of Ultrasound Images....Pages 336-342
Use of Neural Networks in Automatic Caricature Generation: An Approach Based on Drawing Style Capture....Pages 343-351
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Information Theoretic Text Classification Using the Ziv-Merhav Method....Pages 355-362
Spontaneous Handwriting Text Recognition and Classification Using Finite-State Models....Pages 363-370
Combining Global and Local Threshold to Binarize Document of Images....Pages 371-378
Extended Bi-gram Features in Text Categorization....Pages 379-386
Combining Fuzzy Clustering and Morphological Methods for Old Documents Recovery....Pages 387-394
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A New Algorithm for Pattern Optimization in Protein-Protein Interaction Extraction System....Pages 397-404
Curvature Based Clustering for DNA Microarray Data Analysis....Pages 405-412
Support Vector Machines for HIV-1 Protease Cleavage Site Prediction....Pages 413-420
Medial Grey-Level Based Representation for Proteins in Volume Images....Pages 421-428
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Automatic Classification of Breast Tissue....Pages 431-438
On Reproducibility of Ultrasound Image Classification....Pages 439-446
Prior Based Cardiac Valve Segmentation in Echocardiographic Sequences: Geodesic Active Contour Guided by Region and Shape Prior....Pages 447-454
Bayesian Reconstruction for Transmission Tomography with Scale Hyperparameter Estimation....Pages 455-462
Automatic Segmentation and Registration of Lung Surfaces in Temporal Chest CT Scans....Pages 463-470
Breast Segmentation with Pectoral Muscle Suppression on Digital Mammograms....Pages 471-478
Semivariogram and SGLDM Methods Comparison for the Diagnosis of Solitary Lung Nodule....Pages 479-486
Anisotropic 3D Reconstruction and Restoration for Rotation-Scanning 4D Echocardiographic Images Based on MAP-MRF....Pages 487-494
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Comparison of Feature Extraction Methods for Breast Cancer Detection....Pages 495-502
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Multiscale Approach for Thinning Ridges of Fingerprint....Pages 505-512
Discriminative Face Recognition Through Gabor Responses and Sketch Distortion....Pages 513-520
Compact and Robust Fingerprints Using DCT Coefficients of Key Blocks....Pages 521-528
Fingerprint Matching Using Minutiae Coordinate Systems....Pages 529-536
The Contribution of External Features to Face Recognition....Pages 537-544
Iris Recognition Based on Quadratic Spline Wavelet Multi-scale Decomposition....Pages 545-552
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An Utterance Verification Algorithm in Keyword Spotting System....Pages 555-561
A Clustering Algorithm for the Fast Match of Acoustic Conditions in Continuous Speech Recognition....Pages 562-570
Adaptive Signal Models for Wide-Band Speech and Audio Compression....Pages 571-578
Cryptographic-Speech-Key Generation Architecture Improvements....Pages 579-585
Performance of a SCFG-Based Language Model with Training Data Sets of Increasing Size....Pages 586-594
Speaker Dependent ASRs for Huastec and Western-Huastec Náhuatl Languages....Pages 595-602
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Phrase-Based Alignment Models for Statistical Machine Translation....Pages 605-613
Automatic Segmentation of Bilingual Corpora: A Comparison of Different Techniques....Pages 614-621
Word Translation Disambiguation Using Multinomial Classifiers....Pages 622-629
Different Approaches to Bilingual Text Classification Based on Grammatical Inference Techniques....Pages 630-637
Semantic Similarity Between Sentences Through Approximate Tree Matching....Pages 638-646
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A Text Categorization Approach for Music Style Recognition....Pages 649-657
The MORFO3D Foot Database....Pages 658-665
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Fast Surface Grading Using Color Statistics in the CIE Lab Space....Pages 666-673
Quantitative Identification of Marbles Aesthetical Features....Pages 674-681
Leather Inspection Based on Wavelets....Pages 682-688
Multispectral Image Segmentation by Energy Minimization for Fruit Quality Estimation....Pages 689-696
Thresholding Methods on MRI to Evaluate Intramuscular Fat Level on Iberian Ham....Pages 697-704
Automatic Mask Extraction for PIV-Based Dam-Break Analysis....Pages 705-712
Analysis of Meso Textures of Geomaterials Through Haralick Parameters....Pages 713-719
Decision Fusion for Target Detection Using Multi-spectral Image Sequences from Moving Cameras....Pages 720-727
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