Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications: 9th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2004, Puebla, Mexico, October 26-29, 2004. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Use of Context in Automatic Annotation of Sports Videos....Pages 1-12
Content Based Retrieval of 3D Data....Pages 13-24
Clifford Geometric Algebra: A Promising Framework for Computer Vision, Robotics and Learning....Pages 25-36
Adaptive Color Model for Figure-Ground Segmentation in Dynamic Environments....Pages 37-44
Real-Time Infrared Object Tracking Based on Mean Shift....Pages 45-52
Optimal Positioning of Sensors in 2D....Pages 53-58
Computer Vision Algorithms Versus Traditional Methods in Food Technology: The Desired Correlation....Pages 59-66
Radiance Function Estimation for Object Classification....Pages 67-75
Detecting and Ranking Saliency for Scene Description....Pages 76-83
Decision Fusion for Object Detection and Tracking Using Mobile Cameras....Pages 84-91
Selection of an Automated Morphological Gradient Threshold for Image Segmentation....Pages 92-99
Localization of Caption Texts in Natural Scenes Using a Wavelet Transformation....Pages 100-107
A Depth Measurement System with the Active Vision of the Striped Lighting and Rotating Mirror....Pages 108-115
Fast Noncontinuous Path Phase-Unwrapping Algorithm Based on Gradients and Mask....Pages 116-123
Color Active Contours for Tracking Roads in Natural Environments....Pages 124-131
Generation of N-Parametric Appearance-Based Models Through Non-uniform Sampling....Pages 132-139
Gaze Detection by Wide and Narrow View Stereo Camera....Pages 140-147
A New Auto-associative Memory Based on Lattice Algebra....Pages 148-155
Image Segmentation Using Morphological Watershed Applied to Cartography....Pages 156-162
3D Object Surface Reconstruction Using Growing Self-organised Networks....Pages 163-170
Single Layer Morphological Perceptron Solution to the N -Bit Parity Problem....Pages 171-178
Robust Self-organizing Maps....Pages 179-186
Extended Associative Memories for Recalling Gray Level Patterns....Pages 187-194
New Associative Memories to Recall Real-Valued Patterns....Pages 195-202
Feature Maps for Non-supervised Classification of Low-Uniform Patterns of Handwritten Letters....Pages 203-207
Learning Through the KRKa2 Chess Ending....Pages 208-215
One-Class Support Vector Machines and Density Estimation: The Precise Relation....Pages 216-223
Fuzzy Model Based Control Applied to Path Planning Visual Servoing....Pages 224-231
A Color Constancy Algorithm for the Robust Description of Images Collected from a Mobile Robot....Pages 232-240
Unconstrained 3D-Mesh Generation Applied to Map Building....Pages 241-248
A Model of Desertification Process in a Semi-arid Environment Employing Multi-spectral Images....Pages 249-258
A Gesture-Based Control for Handheld Devices Using Accelerometer....Pages 259-266
A Method for Re-illuminating Faces from a Single Image....Pages 267-274
Unsupervised Font Clustering Using Stochastic Versio of the EM Algorithm and Global Texture Analysis....Pages 275-286
Structural Pattern Recognition for Industrial Machine Sounds Based on Frequency Spectrum Analysis....Pages 287-295
An Extended Speech De-noising Method Using GGM-Based ICA Feature Extraction....Pages 296-302
Spanning Tree Recovery via Random Walks in a Riemannian Manifold....Pages 303-311
Discriminant Projections Embedding for Nearest Neighbor Classification....Pages 312-319
Regularization Kernels and Softassign....Pages 320-327
Pattern Recognition via Vasconcelos’ Genetic Algorithm....Pages 328-335
Statistical Pattern Recognition Problems and the Multiple Classes Random Neural Network Model....Pages 336-341
New Bounds and Approximations for the Error of Linear Classifiers....Pages 342-349
A Graphical Model for Human Activity Recognition....Pages 350-357
A Fuzzy Relational Neural Network for Pattern Classification....Pages 358-365
Speaker Verification Using Coded Speech....Pages 366-373
A Radial Basis Function Network Oriented for Infant Cry Classification....Pages 374-380
On the Use of Automatic Speech Recognition for Spoken Information Retrieval from Video Databases....Pages 381-385
Acoustical Analysis of Emotional Speech in Standard Basque for Emotions Recognition....Pages 386-393
Scaling Acoustic and Language Model Probabilities in a CSR System....Pages 394-401
Parallel Algorithm for Extended Star Clustering....Pages 402-409
Hidden Markov Models for Understanding in a Dialogue System....Pages 410-417
Unsupervised Learning of Ontology-Linked Selectional Preferences....Pages 418-424
Advanced Relevance Feedback Query Expansion Strategy for Information Retrieval in MEDLINE....Pages 425-431
Detecting Inflection Patterns in Natural Language by Minimization of Morphological Model....Pages 432-438
Study of Knowledge Evolution in Parallel Computing by Short Texts Analysis....Pages 439-445
JERARTOP: A New Topic Detection System....Pages 446-453
Fractal-Based Approach for Segmentation of Address Block in Postal Envelopes....Pages 454-461
A Proposal for the Automatic Generation of Instances from Unstructured Text....Pages 462-469
An Electronic Secure Voting System Based on Automatic Paper Ballot Reading....Pages 470-477
A Fast Algorithm to Find All the Maximal Frequent Sequences in a Text....Pages 478-486
Refined Method for the Fast and Exact Computation of Moment Invariants....Pages 487-494
Skeletonization of Gray-Tone Images Based on Region Analysis....Pages 495-502
JSEG Based Color Separation of Tongue Image in Traditional Chinese Medicine....Pages 503-508
Estimation of High Resolution Images and Registration Parameters from Low Resolution Observations....Pages 509-516
Automatic Lung Surface Registration Using Selective Distance Measure in Temporal CT Scans....Pages 517-524
An Enhancement to the Constant Range Method for Nonuniformity Correction of Infrared Image Sequences....Pages 525-532
Color Cartographic Pattern Recognition Using the Coarse to Fine Scale Method....Pages 533-540
Cerebral Vessel Enhancement Using Rigid Registration in Three-Dimensional CT Angiography....Pages 541-549
Skeleton-Based Algorithm for Increasing Spectral Resolution in Digital Elevation Model....Pages 550-557
Landform Classification in Raster Geo-images....Pages 558-565
Homotopic Labeling of Elements in a Tetrahedral Mesh for the Head Modeling....Pages 566-573
Grey Level Image Components for Multi-scale Representation....Pages 574-581
Performance Improvement in a Fingerprint Classification System Using Anisotropic Diffusion....Pages 582-588
Image Thresholding via a Modified Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm....Pages 589-596
Video Object Segmentation Using Multiple Features....Pages 597-604
Thinning Algorithm to Generate k-Connected Skeletons....Pages 605-612
Image Processing Using the Quaternion Wavelet Transform....Pages 613-620
Improving Pattern Recognition Based Pharmacological Drug Selection Through ROC Analysis....Pages 621-628
Adaboost to Classify Plaque Appearance in IVUS Images....Pages 629-636
SVM Applied to the Generation of Biometric Speech Key....Pages 637-644
Causal Networks for Modeling Health Technology Utilization in Intensive Care Units....Pages 645-653
Medical Image Segmentation by Level Set Method Incorporating Region and Boundary Statistical Information....Pages 654-660
Measurement of Parameters of the Optic Disk in Ophthalmoscopic Color Images of Human Retina....Pages 661-668
Global Interpretation and Local Analysis to Measure Gears Eccentricity....Pages 669-676
Two Floating Search Strategies to Compute the Support Sets System for ALVOT....Pages 677-684
Feature Selection Using Typical ε : Testors, Working on Dynamical Data....Pages 685-692
Supervised Pattern Recognition with Heterogeneous Features....Pages 693-700
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