Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications: 10th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2005, Havana, Cuba, November 15-18, 2005. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
CT and PET Registration Using Deformations Incorporating Tumor-Based Constraints....Pages 1-12
Surface Grading Using Soft Colour-Texture Descriptors....Pages 13-23
Support Vector Machines with Huffman Tree Architecture for Multiclass Classification....Pages 24-33
Automatic Removal of Impulse Noise from Highly Corrupted Images....Pages 34-41
Smoothing of Polygonal Chains for 2D Shape Representation Using a G 2 -Continuous Cubic A-Spline....Pages 42-50
A Robust Statistical Method for Brain Magnetic Resonance Image Segmentation....Pages 51-58
Inference Improvement by Enlarging the Training Set While Learning DFAs....Pages 59-70
A Computational Approach to Illusory Contour Perception Based on the Tensor Voting Technique....Pages 71-80
A Novel Clustering Technique Based on Improved Noising Method....Pages 81-92
Object Recognition in Indoor Video Sequences by Classifying Image Segmentation Regions Using Neural Networks....Pages 93-102
Analysis of Directional Reflectance and Surface Orientation Using Fresnel Theory....Pages 103-111
Lacunarity as a Texture Measure for Address Block Segmentation....Pages 112-119
Measuring the Quality Evaluation for Image Segmentation....Pages 120-127
Frame Deformation Energy Matching of On-Line Handwritten Characters....Pages 128-137
Nonlinear Civil Structures Identification Using a Polynomial Artificial Neural Network....Pages 138-145
A Method of Automatic Speaker Recognition Using Cepstral Features and Vectorial Quantization....Pages 146-153
Classification of Boar Spermatozoid Head Images Using a Model Intracellular Density Distribution....Pages 154-160
Speech Recognition Using Energy Parameters to Classify Syllables in the Spanish Language....Pages 161-170
A Strategy for Atherosclerotic Lesions Segmentation....Pages 171-180
Image Scale-Space from the Heat Kernel....Pages 181-192
A Naive Solution to the One-Class Problem and Its Extension to Kernel Methods....Pages 193-204
Nonlinear Modeling of Dynamic Cerebral Autoregulation Using Recurrent Neural Networks....Pages 205-213
Neural Network Approach to Locate Motifs in Biosequences....Pages 214-221
Free-Shaped Object Recognition Method from Partial Views Using Weighted Cone Curvatures....Pages 222-232
Automatic Braille Code Translation System....Pages 233-241
Automatic Extraction of DNA Profiles in Polyacrilamide Gel Electrophoresis Images....Pages 242-251
The Use of Bayesian Framework for Kernel Selection in Vector Machines Classifiers....Pages 252-261
Genetic Multivariate Polynomials: An Alternative Tool to Neural Networks....Pages 262-270
Non-supervised Classification of 2D Color Images Using Kohonen Networks and a Novel Metric....Pages 271-284
Data Dependent Wavelet Filtering for Lossless Image Compression....Pages 285-294
A Robust Matching Algorithm Based on Global Motion Smoothness Criterion....Pages 295-301
Dynamic Hierarchical Compact Clustering Algorithm....Pages 302-310
A Robust Footprint Detection Using Color Images and Neural Networks....Pages 311-318
Computing Similarity Among 3D Objects Using Dynamic Time Warping....Pages 319-326
Estimation of Facial Angular Information Using a Complex-Number-Based Statistical Model....Pages 327-338
An Efficient Path-Generation Method for Virtual Colonoscopy....Pages 339-347
Estimation of the Deformation Field for the Left Ventricle Walls in 4-D Multislice Computerized Tomography....Pages 348-359
Edition Schemes Based on BSE....Pages 360-367
Conceptual K-Means Algorithm with Similarity Functions....Pages 368-376
Circulation and Topological Control in Image Segmentation....Pages 377-391
Global k-Means with Similarity Functions....Pages 392-399
Reconstruction-Independent 3D CAD for Calcification Detection in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Using Fuzzy Particles....Pages 400-408
Simple and Robust Hard Cut Detection Using Interframe Differences....Pages 409-419
Development and Validation of an Algorithm for Cardiomyocyte Beating Frequency Determination....Pages 420-430
A Simple Feature Reduction Method for the Detection of Long Biological Signals....Pages 431-439
A Fast Motion Estimation Algorithm Based on Diamond and Simplified Square Search Patterns....Pages 440-449
Selecting Prototypes in Mixed Incomplete Data....Pages 450-459
Diagnosis of Breast Cancer in Digital Mammograms Using Independent Component Analysis and Neural Networks....Pages 460-469
Automatic Texture Segmentation Based on Wavelet-Domain Hidden Markov Tree....Pages 470-480
Reward-Punishment Editing for Mixed Data....Pages 481-488
Stable Coordinate Pairs in Spanish: Statistical and Structural Description....Pages 489-497
Development of a New Index to Evaluate Zooplanktons’ Gonads: An Approach Based on a Suitable Combination of Deformable Models....Pages 498-505
The Performance of Various Edge Detector Algorithms in the Analysis of Total Hip Replacement X-rays....Pages 506-517
An Incremental Clustering Algorithm Based on Compact Sets with Radius α ....Pages 518-527
Image Registration from Mutual Information of Edge Correspondences....Pages 528-539
A Recursive Least Square Adaptive Filter for Nonuniformity Correction of Infrared Image Sequences....Pages 540-546
MSCT Lung Perfusion Imaging Based on Multi-stage Registration....Pages 547-555
Statistical and Linguistic Clustering for Language Modeling in ASR....Pages 556-565
A Comparative Study of KBS, ANN and Statistical Clustering Techniques for Unattended Stellar Classification....Pages 566-577
An Automatic Goodness Index to Measure Fingerprint Minutiae Quality....Pages 578-585
Classifier Selection Based on Data Complexity Measures....Pages 586-592
De-noising Method in the Wavelet Packets Domain for Phase Images....Pages 593-600
A Robust Free Size OCR for Omni-Font Persian/Arabic Printed Document Using Combined MLP/SVM....Pages 601-610
A Modified Area Based Local Stereo Correspondence Algorithm for Occlusions....Pages 611-619
An Evaluation of Wavelet Features Subsets for Mammogram Classification....Pages 620-630
A New Method for Iris Pupil Contour Delimitation and Its Application in Iris Texture Parameter Estimation....Pages 631-641
Flexible Architecture of Self Organizing Maps for Changing Environments....Pages 642-653
Automatic Segmentation of Pulmonary Structures in Chest CT Images....Pages 654-662
Blind Deconvolution of Ultrasonic Signals Using High-Order Spectral Analysis and Wavelets....Pages 663-670
Statistical Hypothesis Testing and Wavelet Features for Region Segmentation....Pages 671-678
Evaluating Content-Based Image Retrieval by Combining Color and Wavelet Features in a Region Based Scheme....Pages 679-690
Structure in Soccer Videos: Detecting and Classifying Highlights for Automatic Summarization....Pages 691-700
Multiscale Vessel Segmentation: A Level Set Approach....Pages 701-709
Quantified and Perceived Unevenness of Solid Printed Areas....Pages 710-719
Active Contour and Morphological Filters for Geometrical Normalization of Human Face....Pages 720-728
Medical Image Segmentation and the Use of Geometric Algebras in Medical Applications....Pages 729-740
Similarity Measures in Documents Using Association Graphs....Pages 741-751
Real-Time Kalman Filtering for Nonuniformity Correction on Infrared Image Sequences: Performance and Analysis....Pages 752-761
Maximum Correlation Search Based Watermarking Scheme Resilient to RST....Pages 762-769
Phoneme Spotting for Speech-Based Crypto-key Generation....Pages 770-777
Evaluation System Based on EFuNN for On-Line Training Evaluation in Virtual Reality....Pages 778-785
Tool Insert Wear Classification Using Statistical Descriptors and Neuronal Networks....Pages 786-793
Robust Surface Registration Using a Gaussian-Weighted Distance Map in PET-CT Brain Images....Pages 794-803
Optimal Positioning of Sensors in 3D....Pages 804-812
Automatic Window Design for Gray-Scale Image Processing Based on Entropy Minimization....Pages 813-824
On Shape Orientation When the Standard Method Does Not Work....Pages 825-836
Fuzzy Modeling and Evaluation of the Spatial Relation “Along”....Pages 837-848
A Computational Model for Pattern and Tile Designs Classification Using Plane Symmetry Groups....Pages 849-860
Spectral Patterns for the Generation of Unidirectional Irregular Waves....Pages 861-868
Recognition of Note Onsets in Digital Music Using Semitone Bands....Pages 869-879
Tool-Wear Monitoring Based on Continuous Hidden Markov Models....Pages 880-890
Hand Gesture Recognition Via a New Self-organized Neural Network....Pages 891-904
Image Thresholding of Historical Documents Using Entropy and ROC Curves....Pages 905-916
De-noising of Underwater Acoustic Signals Based on ICA Feature Extraction....Pages 917-924
Efficient Feature Extraction and De-noising Method for Chinese Speech Signals Using GGM-Based ICA....Pages 925-932
Adapted Wavelets for Pattern Detection....Pages 933-944
Edge Detection in Contaminated Images, Using Cluster Analysis....Pages 945-953
Automatic Edge Detection by Combining Kohonen SOM and the Canny Operator....Pages 954-965
An Innovative Algorithm for Solving Jigsaw Puzzles Using Geometrical and Color Features....Pages 966-976
Image Dominant Colors Estimation and Color Reduction Via a New Self-growing and Self-organized Neural Gas....Pages 977-988
Oversegmentation Reduction Via Multiresolution Image Representation....Pages 989-996
A Hybrid Approach for Image Retrieval with Ontological Content-Based Indexing....Pages 997-1004
Automatic Evaluation of Document Binarization Results....Pages 1005-1014
A Comparative Study on Support Vector Machine and Constructive RBF Neural Network for Prediction of Success of Dental Implants....Pages 1015-1026
A Fast Distance Between Histograms....Pages 1027-1035
Median Associative Memories: New Results....Pages 1036-1046
Language Resources for a Bilingual Automatic Index System of Broadcast News in Basque and Spanish....Pages 1047-1054
3D Assisted 2D Face Recognition: Methodology....Pages 1055-1065
Automatic Annotation of Sport Video Content....Pages 1066-1078
Conformal Geometric Algebra for 3D Object Recognition and Visual Tracking Using Stereo and Omnidirectional Robot Vision....Pages 1079-1090
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