Progress in Pattern Recognition, Speech and Image Analysis: 8th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2003, Havana, Cuba, November 26-29, 2003 Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Neurons, Dendrites, and Pattern Classification....Pages 1-16
Robot Vision for Autonomous Object Learning and Tracking....Pages 17-28
Graduated Scale Inspection Using Computer Vision....Pages 29-37
Vision System for Subpixel Laser Stripe Profile Extraction with Real Time Operation....Pages 38-45
Multi-channel Reconstruction of Video Sequences from Low-Resolution and Compressed Observations....Pages 46-53
3D Rigid Facial Motion Estimation from Disparity Maps....Pages 54-61
Robust Techniques in Least Squares-Based Motion Estimation Problems....Pages 62-70
Inexact Graph Matching for Facial Feature Segmentation and Recognition in Video Sequences: Results on Face Tracking....Pages 71-78
Crater Marking and Classification Using Computer Vision....Pages 79-86
Using Optical Flow for Tracking....Pages 87-94
Another Paradigm for the Solution of the Correspondence Problem in Motion Analysis....Pages 95-103
Improvement of the Fail-Safe Characteristics in Motion Analysis Using Adaptive Technique....Pages 104-112
Spatially Adaptive Algorithm for Impulse Noise Removal from Color Images....Pages 113-120
Improving Phase-Congruency Based Feature Detection through Automatic Scale-Selection....Pages 121-128
Robust Estimation of Roughness Parameter in SAR Amplitude Images....Pages 129-136
Two New Scale-Adapted Texture Descriptors for Image Segmentation....Pages 137-144
Topological Query in Image Databases....Pages 145-152
Reconstructing 3D Objects from Silhouettes with Unknown Viewpoints: The Case of Planar Orthographic Views....Pages 153-162
Enforcing a Shape Correspondence between Two Views of a 3D Non-rigid Object....Pages 163-170
A Colour Constancy Algorithm Based on the Histogram of Feasible Colour Mappings....Pages 171-179
Reconstruction of Surfaces from Cross Sections Using Skeleton Information....Pages 180-187
Extension of a New Method for Surface Reconstruction from Cross Sections....Pages 188-195
Imposing Integrability in Geometric Shape-from-Shading....Pages 196-203
Correcting Radial Lens Distortion Using Image and Point Correspondences....Pages 204-211
Characterization of Surfaces with Sonars Using Time of Flight and Triangulation....Pages 212-220
Non-speech Sound Feature Extraction Based on Model Identification for Robot Navigation....Pages 221-228
Enhancement of Noisy Speech Using Sliding Discrete Cosine Transform....Pages 229-235
Integrating High and Low Smoothed LMs in a CSR System....Pages 236-243
Selection of Lexical Units for Continuous Speech Recognition of Basque....Pages 244-250
Creating a Mexican Spanish Version of the CMU Sphinx-III Speech Recognition System....Pages 251-258
Decision Tree-Based Context Dependent Sublexical Units for Continuous Speech Recognition of Basque....Pages 259-265
Uniclass and Multiclass Connectionist Classification of Dialogue Acts....Pages 266-273
A Technique for Extraction of Diagnostic Data from Cytological Specimens....Pages 274-281
Segmentation and Morphometry of Histological Sections Using Deformable Models: A New Tool for Evaluating Testicular Histopathology....Pages 282-290
Robust Markers for Blood Vessels Segmentation: A New Algorithm....Pages 291-297
Discriminative Power of Lymphoid Cell Features: Factor Analysis Approach....Pages 298-305
Retinal Angiography Based Authentication....Pages 306-313
Suboptimal Classifier for Dysarthria Assessment....Pages 314-321
Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search with the Fukunaga and Narendra Algorithm and Its Application to Chromosome Classification....Pages 322-328
Characterization of Viability of Seeds by Using Dynamic Speckles and Difference Histograms....Pages 329-333
An Adaptive Enhancer with Modified Signal Averaging Scheme to Detect Ventricular Late Potentials....Pages 334-341
A Study on the Recognition of Patterns of Infant Cry for the Identification of Deafness in Just Born Babies with Neural Networks....Pages 342-349
Patients Classification by Risk Using Cluster Analysis and Genetic Algorithms....Pages 350-358
Mathematical Morphology on MRI for the Determination of Iberian Ham Fat Content....Pages 359-366
Automatic Dark Fibres Detection in Wool Tops....Pages 367-374
Musical Style Identification Using Grammatical Inference: The Encoding Problem....Pages 375-382
New Distance Measures Applied to Marble Classification....Pages 383-390
Online Handwritten Signature Verification Using Hidden Markov Models....Pages 391-399
Fast Handwritten Recognition Using Continuous Distance Transformation....Pages 400-407
Stroke Boundary Analysis for Identification of Drawing Tools....Pages 408-415
Solving the Global Localization Problem for Indoor Mobile Robots....Pages 416-423
Restricted Decontamination for the Imbalanced Training Sample Problem....Pages 424-431
An Entropy Maximization Approach to Optimal Model Selection in Gaussian Mixtures....Pages 432-439
Gaussian Mixture Models for Supervised Classification of Remote Sensing Multispectral Images....Pages 440-447
Fast Multistage Algorithm for K-NN Classifiers....Pages 448-455
Some Improvements in Tree Based Nearest Neighbour Search Algorithms....Pages 456-463
Impact of Mixed Metrics on Clustering....Pages 464-471
A Comparison between Two Fuzzy Clustering Algorithms for Mixed Features....Pages 472-479
Extended Star Clustering Algorithm....Pages 480-487
Two New Metrics for Feature Selection in Pattern Recognition....Pages 488-497
Conditions of Generating Descriptive Image Algebras by a Set of Image Processing Operations....Pages 498-505
Completeness Conditions of a Class of Pattern Recognition Algorithms Based on Image Equivalence....Pages 506-511
Typical Segment Descriptors: A New Method for Shape Description and Identification....Pages 512-520
A New Approach That Selects a Single Hyperplane from the Optimal Pairwise Linear Classifier....Pages 521-528
A Characterization of Discretized Polygonal Convex Regions by Discrete Moments....Pages 529-536
Learning probabilistic context-free grammars from treebanks....Pages 537-544
Simulated Annealing for Automated Definition of Fuzzy Sets in Human Central Nervous System Modeling....Pages 545-553
Automatic Tuning of Fuzzy Partitions in Inductive Reasoning....Pages 554-562
Kernel Computation in Morphological Bidirectional Associative Memories....Pages 563-570
Improving Still Image Coding by an SOM-Controlled Associative Memory....Pages 571-579
A Morphological Methodology for Features Identification in Satellite Images for Semi-automatic Cartographic Updating....Pages 580-587
Morphological Neural Networks with Dendrite Computation: A Geometrical Approach....Pages 588-595
A Method for the Automatic Summarization of Topic-Based Clusters of Documents....Pages 596-603
Improving Prepositional Phrase Attachment Disambiguation Using the Web as Corpus....Pages 604-610
Determination of Similarity Threshold in Clustering Problems for Large Data Sets....Pages 611-618
Content-Based Retrieval Using Color, Texture, and Shape Information....Pages 619-626
Off the Shelf Methods for Robust Portuguese Cadastral Map Analysis....Pages 627-634
Simultaneous Segmentation-Recognition-Vectorization of Meaningful Geographical Objects in Geo-Images....Pages 635-642
Geomorphometric Analysis of Raster Image Data to detect Terrain Ruggedness and Drainage Density....Pages 643-650
Morphological Applications for Maps Construction in Path Planning Tasks....Pages 651-658
Compact Mapping in Plane-Parallel Environments Using Stereo Vision....Pages 659-666
An Oscillatory Neural Network for Image Segmentation....Pages 667-674
Generating Three-Dimensional Neural Cells Based on Bayes Rules and Interpolation with Thin Plate Splines....Pages 675-682
A Maximum Entropy Approach to Sampling in EDA – The Single Connected Case....Pages 683-690
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