Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition: Joint IAPR International Workshops SSPR 2002 and SPR 2002 Windsor, Ontario, Canada, August 6–9, 2002 Proceedings

Spectral Methods for View-Based 3-D Object Recognition Using Silhouettes....Pages 1-14
Machine Learning for Sequential Data: A Review....Pages 15-30
Graph-Based Methods for Vision: A Yorkist Manifesto....Pages 31-46
Reducing the Computational Cost of Computing Approximated Median Strings....Pages 47-55
Tree k -Grammar Models for Natural Language Modelling and Parsing....Pages 56-63
Algorithms for Learning Function Distinguishable Regular Languages....Pages 64-73
Non-bayesian Graph Matching without Explicit Compatibility Calculations....Pages 74-83
Spectral Feature Vectors for Graph Clustering....Pages 83-93
Identification of Diatoms by Grid Graph Matching....Pages 94-103
String Edit Distance, Random Walks and Graph Matching....Pages 104-112
Learning Structural Variations in Shock Trees....Pages 113-122
A Comparison of Algorithms for Maximum Common Subgraph on Randomly Connected Graphs....Pages 123-132
Inexact Multisubgraph Matching Using Graph Eigenspace and Clustering Models....Pages 133-142
Optimal Lower Bound for Generalized Median Problems in Metric Space....Pages 143-151
Structural Description to Recognising Arabie Characters Using Decision Tree Learning Techniques....Pages 152-158
Feature Approach for Printed Document Image Analysis....Pages 159-167
Example-Driven Graphics Recognition....Pages 168-176
Estimation of Texels for Regular Mosaics Using Model-Based Interaction Maps....Pages 177-186
Using Graph Search Techniques for Contextual Colour Retrieval....Pages 186-194
Comparing Shape and Temporal PDMs....Pages 195-204
Linear Shape Recognition with Mixtures of Point Distribution Models....Pages 205-215
Curvature Weighted Evidence Combination for Shape-from-Shading....Pages 216-224
Probabilistic Decisions in Production Net An Example from Vehicle Recognition....Pages 225-233
Hierarchical Top Down Enhancements of Robust PCA....Pages 234-243
An Application of Machine Learning Techniques for the Classification of Glaucomatous Progression....Pages 243-251
Estimating the Joint Probability Distribution of Random Vertices and Arcs by Means of Second-Order Random Graphs....Pages 252-262
Successive Projection Graph Matching....Pages 263-271
Compact Graph Model of Handwritten Images: Integration into Authentification and Recognition....Pages 272-280
A Statistical and Structural Approach for Symbol Recognition, Using XML Modelling....Pages 281-290
A New Algorithm for Graph Matching with Application to Content-Based Image Retrieval....Pages 291-300
Efficient Computation of 3-D Moments in Terms of an Object’s Partition....Pages 301-309
A Visual Attention Operator Based on Morphological Models of Images and Maximum Likelihood Decision....Pages 310-319
Disparity Using Feature Points in Multi Scale....Pages 320-328
Detecting Perceptually Important Regions in an Image Based on Human Visual Attention Characteristic....Pages 329-338
Development of Spoken Language User Interfaces: A Tool Kit Approach....Pages 339-347
Document Image De-warping for Text/Graphics Recognition....Pages 348-357
A Complete OCR System for Gurmukhi Script....Pages 358-367
 Texprint : A New Algorithm to Discriminate Textures Structurally....Pages 368-377
Optical Music Interpretation....Pages 378-387
On the Segmentation of Color Cartographic Images....Pages 387-395
Combination of Tangent Vectors and Local Representations for Handwritten Digit Recognition....Pages 538-547
Training Set Expansion in Handwritten Character Recognition....Pages 548-556
Document Classification Using Phrases....Pages 557-565
Projection Pursuit Fitting Gaussian Mixture Models....Pages 396-404
Asymmetric Gaussian and Its Application to Pattern Recognition....Pages 405-413
Modified Predictive Validation Test for Gaussian Mixture Modelling....Pages 414-423
Spatial Representation of Dissimilarity Data via Lower-Complexity Linear and Nonlinear Mappings....Pages 488-497
A Method to Estimate the True Mahalanobis Distance from Eigenvectors of Sample Covariance Matrix....Pages 498-507
Non-iterative Heteroscedastic Linear Dimension Reduction for Two-Class Data....Pages 508-517
Some Experiments in Supervised Pattern Recognition with Incomplete Training Samples....Pages 518-527
Recursive Prototype Reduction Schemes Applicable for Large Data Sets....Pages 528-537
Performance Analysis and Comparison of Linear Combiners for Classifier Fusion....Pages 424-432
Comparison of Two Classification Methodologies on a Real-World Biomedical Problem....Pages 433-441
Evidence Accumulation Clustering Based on the K-Means Algorithm....Pages 442-451
Face Detection by Learned Affine Correspondences....Pages 566-575
Shape-from-Shading for Highlighted Surfaces....Pages 576-586
A Kernel Approach to Metric Multidimensional Scaling....Pages 452-460
On Feature Selection with Measurement Cost and Grouped Features....Pages 461-469
Classifier-Independent Feature Selection Based on Non-parametric Discriminant Analysis....Pages 470-479
Effects of Many Feature Candidates in Feature Selection and Classification....Pages 480-487
Texture Description by Independent Components....Pages 587-596
Fusion of Multiple Cue Detectors for Automatic Sports Video Annotation....Pages 597-605
Query Shifting Based on Bayesian Decision Theory for Content-Based Image Retrieval....Pages 607-616
Recursive Model-Based Colour Image Restoration....Pages 617-626
Human Face Recognition with Different Statistical Features....Pages 627-635
A Transformation-Based Mechanism for Face Recognition....Pages 636-643
Face Detection Using Integral Projection Models....Pages 644-653
Illumination Normalized Face Image for Face Recognition....Pages 654-661
Towards a Generalized Eigenspace-Based Face Recognition Framework....Pages 662-671
Automatic Segmentation of Speech at the Phonetic Level....Pages 672-680
Class-Discriminative Weighted Distortion Measure for VQ-based Speaker Identification....Pages 681-688
Alive Fishes Species Characterization from Video Sequences....Pages 689-698
Automatic Cut Detection in MPEG Movies: A Multi-expert Approach....Pages 699-708
Bayesian Networks for Incorporation of Contextual Information in Target Recognition Systems....Pages 709-717
Extending LAESA Fast Nearest Neighbour Algorithm to Find the k Nearest Neighbours....Pages 718-724
A Fast Approximated k -Median Algorithm....Pages 725-733
A Hidden Markov Model-Based Approach to Sequential Data Clustering....Pages 734-743
Genetic Algorithms for Exploratory Data Analysis....Pages 743-751
Piecewise Multi-linear PDF Modelling, Using an ML Approach....Pages 752-760
Decision Tree Using Class-Dependent Feature Subsets....Pages 761-769
Fusion of n-Tuple Based Classifiers for High Performance Handwritten Character Recognition....Pages 770-779
A Biologically Plausible Approach to Cat and Dog Discrimination....Pages 779-788
Morphologically Unbiased Classifier Combination through Graphical PDF Correlation....Pages 789-797
Classifiers under Continuous Observations....Pages 798-805
Texture Classification Based on Coevolution Approach in Multiwavelet Feature Space....Pages 806-813
Probabilistic Signal Models to Regularise Dynamic Programming Stereo....Pages 814-822
The Hough Transform without the Accumulators....Pages 823-832
Robust Gray-Level Histogram Gaussian Characterisation....Pages 833-841
Model-Based Fatique Fractographs Texture Analysis....Pages 842-849
Hierarchical Multiscale Modeling of Wavelet-Based Correlations....Pages 850-859