Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications: 12th Iberoamericann Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2007, Valparaiso, Chile, November 13-16, 2007. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Learning in Computer Vision: Some Thoughts....Pages 1-12
Biometric Recognition: Overview and Recent Advances....Pages 13-19
A Family of Novel Graph Kernels for Structural Pattern Recognition....Pages 20-31
A System Biology Approach for the Steady-State Analysis of Gene Signaling Networks....Pages 32-41
 Σ - Δ Background Subtraction and the Zipf Law....Pages 42-51
Model-Based Correlation Measure for Nonuniformity Gain and Offset Parameters of Infrared Focal-Plane-Array Sensors....Pages 52-60
A Cyclostationary Analysis Applied to Detection and Diagnosis of Faults in Helicopter Gearboxes....Pages 61-70
Robust Industrial Machine Sounds Identification Based on Frequency Spectrum Analysis....Pages 71-77
Using Adaptive Filter to Increase Automatic Speech Recognition Rate in a Digit Corpus....Pages 78-87
SSM – A Novel Method to Recognize the Fundamental Frequency in Voice Signals....Pages 88-95
Channel / Handset Mismatch Evaluation in a Biometric Speaker Verification Using Shifted Delta Cepstral Features....Pages 96-105
Phone-Segments Based Language Identification for Spanish, Basque and English....Pages 106-114
A New Algorithm to Compute the Distance Between Multi-dimensional Histograms....Pages 115-123
Fuzzy Vector Directional Filters for Multichannel Image Denoising....Pages 124-133
EZW-Based Image Compression with Omission and Restoration of Wavelet Subbands....Pages 134-141
Multi-class Binary Object Categorization Using Blurred Shape Models....Pages 142-151
Video Analysis Via Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction....Pages 152-161
Graph Cuts Approach to MRF Based Linear Feature Extraction in Satellite Images....Pages 162-171
A Multiple Substructure Matching Algorithm for Fingerprint Verification....Pages 172-181
Bayesian Edge Regularization in Range Image Segmentation....Pages 182-191
Image Segmentation Using Automatic Seeded Region Growing and Instance-Based Learning....Pages 192-201
Morphological Distinguished Regions....Pages 202-211
Set of Methods for Spontaneous ICH Segmentation and Tracking from CT Head Images....Pages 212-220
Efficient Rotation-Discriminative Template Matching....Pages 221-230
Texture Classification Through Combination of Sequential Colour Texture Classifiers....Pages 231-240
Deterministic Component of 2-D Wold Decomposition for Geometry and Texture Descriptors Discovery....Pages 241-250
Robust Feature Descriptors for Efficient Vision-Based Tracking....Pages 251-260
Smooth Image Surface Approximation by Piecewise Cubic Polynomials....Pages 261-270
An Analysis of Automatic Gender Classification....Pages 271-280
A Method for Segmentation of Local Illumination Variations and Photometric Normalization in Face Images....Pages 281-290
Computing the Eccentricity Transform of a Polygonal Shape....Pages 291-300
Robust Color Contour Object Detection Invariant to Shadows....Pages 301-310
An Evaluation of Video Cut Detection Techniques....Pages 311-320
Surface–Normal Estimation with Neighborhood Reorganization for 3D Reconstruction....Pages 321-330
Weighted Principal Geodesic Analysis for Facial Gender Classification....Pages 331-339
Range and Intensity Vision for Rock-Scene Segmentation....Pages 340-349
Human Detection in Indoor Environments Using Multiple Visual Cues and a Mobile Robot....Pages 350-359
A Method for Estimating Authentication Performance over Time, with Applications to Face Biometrics....Pages 360-369
Generalizing Dissimilarity Representations Using Feature Lines....Pages 370-379
FS-EX Plus: A New Algorithm for the Calculation of Typical FS-Testor Set....Pages 380-386
Confusion Matrix Disagreement for Multiple Classifiers....Pages 387-396
An Empirical Study of the Behavior of Classifiers on Imbalanced and Overlapped Data Sets....Pages 397-406
Fast k Most Similar Neighbor Classifier for Mixed Data Based on a Tree Structure....Pages 407-416
Conditional Mutual Information Based Feature Selection for Classification Task....Pages 417-426
Robust Alternating AdaBoost....Pages 427-436
Face Recognition Using Some Aspects of the Infant Vision System and Associative Memories....Pages 437-446
Two-Stage ACO to Solve the Job Shop Scheduling Problem....Pages 447-456
A Novel Hybrid Taguchi-Grey-Based Method for Feature Subset Selection....Pages 457-465
On Using a Pre-clustering Technique to Optimize LDA-Based Classifiers for Appearance-Based Face Recognition....Pages 466-476
Certainty Measure of Pairwise Line Segment Perceptual Relations Using Fuzzy Logic....Pages 477-486
Automatic Image Annotation Using a Semi-supervised Ensemble of Classifiers....Pages 487-495
Object Selection Based on Subclass Error Correcting for ALVOT....Pages 496-505
CT-EXT: An Algorithm for Computing Typical Testor Set....Pages 506-514
Evaluating a Zoning Mechanism and Class-Modular Architecture for Handwritten Characters Recognition....Pages 515-524
Median M-Type Radial Basis Function Neural Network....Pages 525-533
A Precise Electrical Disturbance Generator for Neural Network Training with Real Level Output....Pages 534-545
A New Algorithm for Training Multi-layered Morphological Networks....Pages 546-555
Joint Diagonalization of Kernels for Information Fusion....Pages 556-563
Support Vector Regression Methods for Functional Data....Pages 564-573
Monitoring Nonlinear Profiles Using Support Vector Machines....Pages 574-583
MP-Polynomial Kernel for Training Support Vector Machines....Pages 584-593
Adaptive ECG Compression Using Support Vector Machine....Pages 594-603
Incremental Multiple Sequence Alignment....Pages 604-613
Mass Spectrometry Based Cancer Classification Using Fuzzy Fractal Dimensions....Pages 614-623
Bayesian Detection of Coding Regions in DNA/RNA Sequences Through Event Factoring....Pages 624-634
Coding Region Prediction in Genomic Sequences Using a Combination of Digital Signal Processing Approaches....Pages 635-642
Using Typical Testors for Feature Selection in Text Categorization....Pages 643-652
Towards Automatic Generation of Conceptual Interpretation of Clustering....Pages 653-663
ACONS: A New Algorithm for Clustering Documents....Pages 664-673
Mixed Data Object Selection Based on Clustering and Border Objects....Pages 674-683
Modification of the Growing Neural Gas Algorithm for Cluster Analysis....Pages 684-693
Bagging with Asymmetric Costs for Misclassified and Correctly Classified Examples....Pages 694-703
Distribution-Based Semantic Similarity of Nouns....Pages 704-713
Segment-Based Classes for Language Modeling Within the Field of CSR....Pages 714-723
TextLec: A Novel Method of Segmentation by Topic Using Lower Windows and Lexical Cohesion....Pages 724-733
European Portuguese Accent in Acoustic Models for Non-native English Speakers....Pages 734-742
A Statistical User Simulation Technique for the Improvement of a Spoken Dialog System....Pages 743-752
A New Approach for Cervical Vertebrae Segmentation....Pages 753-762
Automatic Clump Splitting for Cell Quantification in Microscopical Images....Pages 763-772
A Semi-supervised Learning Method for Motility Disease Diagnostic....Pages 773-782
Lung Structure Classification Using 3D Geometric Measurements and SVM....Pages 783-792
Edge Detection in Ventriculograms Using Support Vector Machine Classifiers and Deformable Models....Pages 793-802
Breast Cancer Diagnosis Based on a Suitable Combination of Deformable Models and Artificial Neural Networks Techniques....Pages 803-811
Infected Cell Identification in Thin Blood Images Based on Color Pixel Classification: Comparison and Analysis....Pages 812-821
Coregistration of Small Animal PET and Autoradiography for in vivo–ex vivo Comparison....Pages 822-830
Noise Pattern Recognition of Airplanes Taking Off: Task for a Monitoring System....Pages 831-840
Echocardiographic Image Sequence Compression Based on Spatial Active Appearance Model....Pages 841-850
Unified Neural Network Based Pathologic Event Reconstruction Using Spatial Heart Model....Pages 851-860
Fuzzy Spatial Growing for Glioblastoma Multiforme Segmentation on Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging....Pages 861-870
Conformal Geometric Algebra for Endoscope-Traking System Calibration in Neurosurgery....Pages 871-880
Quality Controlled Multimodal Fusion of Biometric Experts....Pages 881-890
Fully Automatic and Robust Approach for Remote Sensing Image Registration....Pages 891-900
Robust Local Localization of a Mobile Robot in Indoor Environments Using Virtual Corners....Pages 901-910
An Algorithm for Foreground-Background Separation in Low Quality Patrimonial Document Images....Pages 911-920
Information Extraction and Classification from Free Text Using a Neural Approach....Pages 921-929
Formal Distance vs. Association Strength in Text Processing....Pages 930-939
Restoration of Double-Sided Ancient Music Documents with Bleed-Through....Pages 940-949
Multiple Assessment for Multiple Users in Virtual Reality Training Environments....Pages 950-956
Dynamic Penalty Based GA for Inducing Fuzzy Inference Systems....Pages 957-966
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