Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications: 11th Iberoamerican Congress in Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2006 Cancun, Mexico, November 14-17, 2006 Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Skeletonization of Digital Objects....Pages 1-13
Maximin Initialization for Cluster Analysis....Pages 14-26
Case-Based Object Recognition with Application to Biological Images....Pages 27-37
A New Method of Illumination Normalization for Robust Face Recognition....Pages 38-47
A Fast Method for Localization of Local Illumination Variations and Photometric Normalization in Face Images....Pages 48-57
Gender Classification Using Principal Geodesic Analysis and Gaussian Mixture Models....Pages 58-67
Gender Classification of Faces Using Adaboost....Pages 68-78
General Pose Face Recognition Using Frontal Face Model....Pages 79-88
Approximating 3D Facial Shape from Photographs Using Coupled Statistical Models....Pages 89-98
A Comparative Study of Face Representations in the Frequency Domain....Pages 99-108
Face Recognition with Region Division and Spin Images....Pages 109-117
Extraction of Blood Vessels in Ophthalmic Color Images of Human Retinas....Pages 118-126
A Fast Adaboosting Based Method for Iris and Pupil Contour Detection....Pages 127-136
In-Vivo IVUS Tissue Classification: A Comparison Between RF Signal Analysis and Reconstructed Images....Pages 137-146
Smoothing Segmented Lung Boundary in Chest CT Images Using Scan Line Search....Pages 147-156
Automated Ultrasonic Measurement of Fetal Nuchal Translucency Using Dynamic Programming....Pages 157-167
A Method for Detection and Modeling of the Human Spine Based on Principal Curvatures....Pages 168-177
Linear Radial Patterns Characterization for Automatic Detection of Tonic Intestinal Contractions....Pages 178-187
A Machine Learning Framework Using SOMs: Applications in the Intestinal Motility Assessment....Pages 188-197
From Lossy to Lossless Wavelet Image Coding in a Tree-Based Encoder with Resolution Scalability....Pages 198-207
3D Mumford-Shah Based Active Mesh....Pages 208-217
Fast 2D-3D Point-Based Registration Using GPU-Based Preprocessing for Image-Guided Surgery....Pages 218-226
GA–SSD–ARC–NLM for Parametric Image Registration....Pages 227-236
Eigenconjugation: An Approach for Computing Image Similarity....Pages 237-246
Image Contrast Enhancement Based on Block-Wise Intensity-Pair Distribution with Two Expansion Forces....Pages 247-256
Guiding a Bottom-Up Visual Attention Mechanism to Locate Specific Image Regions Using a Distributed Genetic Optimization....Pages 257-266
ORIENT-CAM, A Camera That Knows Its Orientation and Some Applications....Pages 267-276
Irregular Pyramid Segmentations with Stochastic Graph Decimation Strategies....Pages 277-286
Color Texture Segmentation by Decomposition of Gaussian Mixture Model....Pages 287-296
Texture Features and Segmentation Based on Multifractal Approach....Pages 297-305
Object Segmentation Using Growing Neural Gas and Generalized Gradient Vector Flow in the Geometric Algebra Framework....Pages 306-315
A Clustering Based Approach for Automatic Image Segmentation: An Application to Biplane Ventriculograms....Pages 316-325
An Image Segmentation Algorithm Using Iteratively the Mean Shift....Pages 326-335
A Robust Region Based Level Set Framework for Medical Image Segmentation....Pages 336-344
Color Texture Segmentation Based on Quaternion-Gabor Features....Pages 345-353
Corner Detection by Searching Two Class Pattern Substrings....Pages 354-362
Model-Based Localization Method by Non-speech Sound Via Wavelet Transform and Dynamic Neural Network....Pages 363-370
An Application of Neural Networks for Image Reconstruction in Electrical Capacitance Tomography Applied to Oil Industry....Pages 371-380
Combining Neural Networks for Gait Classification....Pages 381-388
Training of Multilayer Perceptron Neural Networks by Using Cellular Genetic Algorithms....Pages 389-398
Combining Neural Networks and Clustering Techniques for Object Recognition in Indoor Video Sequences....Pages 399-405
Evaluation of Time and Frequency Domain-Based Methods for the Estimation of Harmonics-to-Noise-Ratios in Voice Signals....Pages 406-415
A Combined Classifier of Cry Units with New Acoustic Attributes....Pages 416-425
Practical Considerations for Real-Time Implementation of Speech-Based Gender Detection....Pages 426-436
On the Processing of Fuzzy Patterns for Text Independent Phonetic Speech Segmentation....Pages 437-445
A RLS Filter for Nonuniformity and Ghosting Correction of Infrared Image Sequences....Pages 446-454
Correlation Filters for Detection and Localization of Objects in Degraded Images....Pages 455-463
Statistical Recursive Filtering Estimation of Detector Offset Nonuniformity in Infrared Imaging Systems....Pages 464-473
3D Vector Directional Filters to Process Video Sequences....Pages 474-480
Object Recognition and Tracking in Video Sequences: A New Integrated Methodology....Pages 481-490
Conceptual K-Means Algorithm Based on Complex Features....Pages 491-501
Spatial Data Description by Means of Knowledge-Based System....Pages 502-510
Search Method of Time Sensitive Frequent Itemsets in Data Streams....Pages 511-518
Image Compression Algorithm Based on Morphological Associative Memories....Pages 519-528
A Novel Approach to Automatic Color Matching....Pages 529-538
The Associative Recall of Spatial Correlated Patterns....Pages 539-548
Associative Memories Applied to Image Categorization....Pages 549-558
Robustness Analysis of the Neural Gas Learning Algorithm....Pages 559-568
Feature Selection Based on Mutual Correlation....Pages 569-577
Oscillating Feature Subset Search Algorithm for Text Categorization....Pages 578-587
Two Step Ant Colony System to Solve the Feature Selection Problem....Pages 588-596
Simultaneous Features and Objects Selection for Mixed and Incomplete Data....Pages 597-605
Selecting Objects for ALVOT....Pages 606-613
Feature Extraction Using Clustering of Protein....Pages 614-623
A Theoretical Comparison of Two Linear Dimensionality Reduction Techniques....Pages 624-633
A New Approach to Multi-class Linear Dimensionality Reduction....Pages 634-643
Automatic Band Selection in Multispectral Images Using Mutual Information-Based Clustering....Pages 644-654
Orientation Invariant Features for Multiclass Object Recognition....Pages 655-664
On the Design and Implementation of a High Performance Configurable Architecture for Testor Identification....Pages 665-673
Proposal for a Unified Methodology for Evaluating Supervised and Non-supervised Classification Algorithms....Pages 674-685
Monte Carlo Evaluation of the Hausdorff Distance for Shape Matching....Pages 686-695
A Fast Probabilistic Model for Hypothesis Rejection in SIFT-Based Object Recognition....Pages 696-705
Diagnosis of Chronic Idiopathic Inflammatory Bowel Disease Using Bayesian Networks....Pages 706-715
Learning Variability of Image Feature Appearance Using Statistical Methods....Pages 716-725
Probabilistic Shot Boundary Detection Using Interframe Histogram Differences....Pages 726-732
A Probabilistic Approach to Build 2D Line Based Maps from Laser Scans in Indoor Environments....Pages 733-742
Egomotion Estimation as an Appearance-Based Classification Problem....Pages 743-752
Decoding of Ternary Error Correcting Output Codes....Pages 753-763
Context-Based Gesture Recognition....Pages 764-773
Spectral Median Graphs Applied to Graphical Symbol Recognition....Pages 774-783
Deterministic Tourist Walks as an Image Analysis Methodology Based....Pages 784-793
Approaches to Classification of Multichannel Images....Pages 794-803
Fast Fingerprint Matching Based on the Novel Structure Combining the Singular Point with Its Neighborhood Minutiae....Pages 804-813
A New Nearest Neighbor Rule for Text Categorization....Pages 814-823
Alignment of Paragraphs in Bilingual Texts Using Bilingual Dictionaries and Dynamic Programming....Pages 824-833
Document Mining Based on Semantic Understanding of Text....Pages 834-843
Authorship Attribution Using Word Sequences....Pages 844-853
Document Representation Based on Maximal Frequent Sequence Sets....Pages 854-863
Building an Optimal WSD Ensemble Using Per-Word Selection of Best System....Pages 864-872
Pixel-Wise Histograms for Visual Segment Description and Applications....Pages 873-882
eVLBI Development in TIGO....Pages 883-891
Satellite Tracks Removal in Astronomical Images....Pages 892-901
Detection of Coding Regions in Large DNA Sequences Using the Short Time Fourier Transform with Reduced Computational Load....Pages 902-909
Time Series Pattern Recognition Based on MAP Transform and Local Trend Associations....Pages 910-919
System Classification by Using Discriminant Functions of Time-Frequency Features....Pages 920-928
Gabor Kernels for Textured Image Representation and Classification....Pages 929-935
Local Linear Approximation for Kernel Methods: The Railway Kernel....Pages 936-944
Fusion of Gaussian Kernels Within Support Vector Classification....Pages 945-953
Support Vector Machine with External Recurrences for Modeling Dynamic Cerebral Autoregulation....Pages 954-963
An Approach to Automatic Target Recognition in Radar Images Using SVM....Pages 964-973
Analysis of Algebraic Expressions Derived from Genetic Multivariate Polynomials and Support Vector Machines: A Case Study....Pages 974-984
Image Compression by a Time Enhanced Self Organizing Map....Pages 985-992
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