Advances in Pattern Recognition: Joint IAPR International Workshops SSPR 2000 and SPR 2000 Alicante, Spain, August 30 – September 1, 2000 Proceedings

Some Notes on Twenty One 21 Nearest Prototype Classifiers....Pages 1-16
Adaptive Graphical Pattern Recognition Beyond Connectionist-Based Approaches....Pages 17-27
Current Trends in Grammatical Inference....Pages 28-31
Classifier’s Complexity Control while Training Multilayer Perceptrons....Pages 32-44
A Framework for Classifier Fusion: Is It Still Needed?....Pages 45-56
Image Pattern Recognition Based on Examples— A Combined Statistical and Structural-Syntactic Approach....Pages 57-66
A Hybrid System for the Recognition of Hand-Written Characters....Pages 67-76
Improving Statistical Measures of Feature Subsets by Conventional and Evolutionary Approaches....Pages 77-86
Selection of Classifiers Based on Multiple Classifier Behaviour....Pages 87-93
The Adaptive Subspace Map for Image Description and Image Database Retrieval....Pages 94-103
Adaptive Automatic Target Recognition with SVM Boosting for Outlier Detection....Pages 104-113
A Multiresolution Causal Colour Texture Model....Pages 114-122
Writer Identification: Statistical Analysis and Dichotomizer....Pages 123-132
Syntactic Pattern Recognition by Error Correcting Analysis on Tree Automata....Pages 133-142
Offline Recognition of Syntax-Constrained Cursive Handwritten Text....Pages 143-153
Structural Classification for Retrospective Conversion of Documents....Pages 154-162
Segmentation of Date Field on Bank Cheques....Pages 163-172
Grammars and Discourse Theory to Describe and Recognize Mechanical Assemblies....Pages 173-182
Computation of the N Best Parse Trees for Weighted and Stochastic Context-Free Grammars....Pages 183-192
Partitional vs Hierarchical Clustering Using a Minimum Grammar Complexity Approach....Pages 193-202
Encoding Nondeterministic Finite-State Tree Automata in Sigmoid Recursive Neural Networks....Pages 203-210
Retrieval of Partially Visible Shapes through Structural Feature Indexing....Pages 211-220
A Structural Matching Algorithm Using Generalized Deterministic Annealing....Pages 221-225
Alignment and Correspondence Using Singular Value Decomposition....Pages 226-235
Graph Matching: Fast Candidate Elimination Using Machine Learning Techniques....Pages 236-245
Efficient Alignment and Correspondence Using Edit Distance....Pages 246-255
Irregular Pyramids with Combinatorial Maps....Pages 256-265
A New Error-Correcting Distance for Attributed Relational Graph Problems....Pages 266-276
Distance between Attributed Graphs and Function-Described Graphs Relaxing 2 nd Order Restrictions....Pages 277-286
A Graph Labelling Approach for Connected Feature Selection....Pages 287-296
Region-Based Representation for Object Recognition by Relaxation Labelling....Pages 297-307
Shape Boundary Tracking with Hidden Markov Models....Pages 308-317
Parallel Techniques for Rule-Based Scene Interpretation....Pages 318-326
Curvature Estimation Using Shape-from-Texture....Pages 327-336
Efficient Techniques for a Very Accurate Measurement of Dissimilarities between Cyclic Patterns....Pages 337-346
Planar Symmetry Detection by Random Sampling and Voting Process....Pages 347-356
Assessing the Computational Effort for Structural 3D Vehicle Recognition....Pages 357-366
Guided Relinking of Graph Pyramids....Pages 367-376
Texture Indexing by a Hierarchical Representation....Pages 377-386
Surface Skeletons Detected on the D 6 Distance Transform....Pages 387-396
Selection Strategies for Ambiguous Graph Matching by Evolutionary Optimisation....Pages 397-406
Studies of Radical Model for Retrieval of Cursive Chinese Handwritten Annotations....Pages 407-416
A Statistical-Estimation Method for Stochastic Finite-State Transducers Based on Entropy Measures....Pages 417-426
Efficient Subgraph Isomorphism with ‘A Priori’ Knowledge....Pages 427-436
Pyramid and Interior....Pages 437-446
Prototype Learning with Attributed Relational Graphs....Pages 447-456
Lossless Compression of Surfaces Described as Points....Pages 457-461
A Class of Solvable Consistent Labeling Problems....Pages 462-471
Character Recognition, Orientation, and Scale Estimation Thanks to the Fourier Mellin Transform....Pages 472-481
Using the Dual of Proximity Graphs for Binary Decision Tree Design....Pages 482-490
Bayesian Approach to Mixture Models for Discrimination....Pages 491-500
Pattern Classification Based on a Piecewise Multi-linear Model for the Class Probability Densities....Pages 501-510
Selection of the Number of Components Using a Genetic Algorithm for Mixture Model Classifiers....Pages 511-520
The Moments of the Mixel Distribution and Its Application to Statistical Image Classification....Pages 521-531
Statistical Pattern Recognition Using the Normalized Complex Moment Components Vector....Pages 532-539
Initial Matching of Multiple-View Images by Affine Approximation of Relative Distortions....Pages 540-549
Local Discriminant Regions Using Support Vector Machines for Object Recognition....Pages 550-559
Stochastic Models for Recognition of Occluded Objects....Pages 560-570
A Vector Approach to the Analysis of (Patterns with) Spatial Dependence....Pages 571-580
The Foundational Theory of Optimal Bayesian Pairwise Linear Classifiers....Pages 581-590
The Optimum Classifier and the Performance Evaluation by Bayesian Approach....Pages 591-600
A New Approximation Method of the Quadratic Discriminant Function....Pages 601-610
An Optimal Reject Rule for Binary Classifiers....Pages 611-620
Decontamination of Training Samples for Supervised Pattern Recognition Methods....Pages 621-630
The Role of Combining Rules in Bagging and Boosting....Pages 631-640
Confidence Combination Methods in Multi-expert Systems....Pages 641-649
Reducing the Training Times of Neural Classifiers with Dataset Condensing....Pages 650-657
Non-linear Invertible Representation for Joint Statistical and Perceptual Feature Decorrelation....Pages 658-667
A Divergence Criterion for Classifier-Independent Feature Selection....Pages 668-676
Comparison of Classifier-Specific Feature Selection Algorithms....Pages 677-686
Combined Classifier Optimisation via Feature Selection....Pages 687-695
Design Choices and Theoretical Issues for Relative Feature Importance, a Metric for Nonparametric Discriminatory Power....Pages 696-705
Real-Coded Genetic Algorithms Based on Mathematical Morphology....Pages 706-715
A New Model and Process Architecture for Facial Expression Recognition....Pages 716-726
Biologically Inspired Architecture of Feedforward Networks for Signal Classification....Pages 727-736
Optimal Threshold Estimation Using Prototype Selection....Pages 737-746
Basic and Fine Structure of Pairwise Interactions in Gibbs Texture Models....Pages 747-756
Segmentation of Text and Graphics/Images Using the Gray-Level Histogram Fourier Transform....Pages 757-766
Fast and Accurate Handwritten Character Recognition Using Approximate Nearest Neighbours Search on Large Databases....Pages 767-776
A Family of Divergences between φ-Probabilistic Sets with Application to Handshape Recognition....Pages 777-787
Rotated, Scaled, and Noisy 2D and 3D Texture Classification with the Bispectrum-Based Invariant Feature....Pages 787-795
Multiple Comparison Procedures for Determining the Optimal Complexity of a Model....Pages 796-805
Image Pattern Recognition in Natural Environment Using Morphological Feature Extraction....Pages 806-815
A Statistical Matrix Representation Using Sliced Orthogonal Nonlinear Correlations for Pattern Recognition....Pages 816-822
A Fast Approximately k —Nearest—Neighbour Search Algorithm For Clasification Tasks....Pages 823-831
Design of a Telerobotic Interface System by Using Object Recognition Techniques....Pages 832-841
Comparison of Four Initialization Techniques for the K -Medians Clustering Algorithm....Pages 842-852
Sensory Flow Segmentation Using a Resource Allocating Vector Quantizer....Pages 853-862
Multiple Reject Thresholds for Improving Classification Reliability....Pages 863-871
Clustering with EM: Complex Models vs. Robust Estimation....Pages 872-881
A Simple Implementation of the Stochastic Discrimination for Pattern Recognition....Pages 882-887
Adaptive Image Filtering and Segmentation Using Robust Estimation of Intensity....Pages 888-897