Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: First Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2003, Puerto de Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, JUne 4-6, 2003. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Solids Characterization Using Modeling Wave Structures....Pages 1-10
A Probabilistic Model for the Cooperative Modular Neural Network....Pages 11-18
Robust Learning Algorithm for the Mixture of Experts....Pages 19-27
A Robust and Effective Learning Algorithm for Feedforward Neural Networks Based on the Influence Function....Pages 28-36
Regularization of 3D Cylindrical Surfaces....Pages 37-44
Non-rigid Registration of Vessel Structures in IVUS Images....Pages 45-52
Underwater Cable Tracking by Visual Feedback....Pages 53-61
A Hierarchical Clustering Strategy and Its Application to Proteomic Interaction Data....Pages 62-69
A New Optimal Classifier Architecture to Aviod the Dimensionality Curse....Pages 70-79
Learning from Imbalanced Sets through Resampling and Weighting....Pages 80-88
Morphological Recognition of Olive Grove Patterns....Pages 89-96
Combining Multi-variate Statistics and Dempster-Shafer Theory for Edge Detection in Multi-channel SAR Images....Pages 97-107
High-Level Clothes Description Based on Colour-Texture and Structural Features....Pages 108-116
A New Method for Detection and Initial Pose Estimation Based on Mumford-Shah Segmentation Functional....Pages 117-125
Tracking Heads Using Piecewise Planar Models....Pages 126-133
Support Vector Machines for Crop Classification Using Hyperspectral Data....Pages 134-141
Vehicle License Plate Segmentation in Natural Images....Pages 142-149
High-Accuracy Localization of an Underwater Robot in a~Structured Environment Using Computer Vision....Pages 150-157
Determine the Composition of Honeybee Pollen by Texture Classification....Pages 158-167
Automatic Word Codification for the RECONTRA Connectionist Translator....Pages 168-175
The ENCARA System for Face Detection and Normalization....Pages 176-183
Prediction and Discrimination of Pharmacological Activity by Using Artificial Neural Networks....Pages 184-192
A Spatio-temporal Filtering Approach to Motion Segmentation....Pages 193-203
Annotated Image Retrieval System Based on Concepts and Visual Property....Pages 204-211
Multimodal Attention System for an Interactive Robot....Pages 212-220
New Wavelet-Based Invariant Shape Representation Functions....Pages 221-228
A Feature Selection Wrapper for Mixtures....Pages 229-237
Tracking People for Automatic Surveillance Applications....Pages 238-245
A User Authentication Technic Using a~Web Interaction Monitoring System....Pages 246-254
Recovering Camera Motion in a~Sequence of Underwater Images through Mosaicking....Pages 255-262
Best Achievable Compression Ratio for Lossy Image Coding....Pages 263-270
Performance and Improvements of a~Language Model Based on Stochastic Context-Free Grammars....Pages 271-278
Segmentation of Curvilinear Objects Using a~Watershed-Based Curve Adjacency Graph....Pages 279-286
Automatic Keyframing of Human Actions for Computer Animation....Pages 287-296
Robust Line Matching and Estimate of Homographies Simultaneously....Pages 297-307
Modeling High-Order Dependencies in Local Appearance Models....Pages 308-316
An Experimental Evaluation of K-nn for Linear Transforms of Positive Data....Pages 317-325
Wavelet Packet Image Coder Using Coefficients Partitioning for Remote Sensing Images....Pages 326-335
Generation and Use of Synthetic Training Data in Cursive Handwriting Recognition....Pages 336-345
Video-Sensor for Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects....Pages 346-353
Estimation of Anti-bacterial Culture Activity from Digital Images....Pages 354-359
Robust Extraction of Vertices in Range Images by Constraining the Hough Transform....Pages 360-369
Comparison of Log-linear Models and Weighted Dissimilarity Measures....Pages 370-377
Motion Segmentation Using Distributed Genetic Algorithms....Pages 378-385
Supervised Locally Linear Embedding Algorithm for Pattern Recognition....Pages 386-394
Hash–Like Fractal Image Compression with Linear Execution Time....Pages 395-402
Learning of Stochastic Context-Free Grammars by Means of Estimation Algorithms and Initial Treebank Grammars....Pages 403-410
Computer-Aided Prostate Cancer Detection in Ultrasonographic Images....Pages 411-419
Ultrasound to Magnetic Resonance Volume Registration for Brain Sinking Measurement....Pages 420-427
Segmentation of Range Images in a~Quadtree....Pages 428-436
Associative Memory for Early Detection of Breast Cancer....Pages 437-444
Bayesian SPECT Image Reconstruction with Scale Hyperparameter Estimation for Scalable Prior....Pages 445-452
Reducing Training Sets by NCN-based Exploratory Procedures....Pages 453-461
Probabilistic Observation Models for Tracking Based on Optical Flow....Pages 462-469
Simplified Texture Unit: A~New Descriptor of the Local Texture in Gray-Level Images....Pages 470-477
Active Region Segmentation of Mammographic Masses Based on Texture, Contour and Shape Features....Pages 478-485
Refining 3D Recovering by Carving through View Interpolation and Stereovision....Pages 486-493
Chromosome Classification Using Continuous Hidden Markov Models....Pages 494-501
Generalized k-Medians Clustering for Strings....Pages 502-509
A Quadtree-Based Unsupervised Segmentation Algorithm for Fruit Visual Inspection....Pages 510-517
Shape Deformation Models Using Non-uniform Objects in Multimedia Applications....Pages 518-529
An Experimental Comparison of Dimensionality Reduction for Face Verification Methods....Pages 530-537
Bayesian Image Estimation from an Incomplete Set of Blurred, Undersampled Low Resolution Images....Pages 538-546
A Procedure for Biological Sensitive Pattern Matching in Protein Sequences....Pages 547-555
An Algebra for the Treatment of Multivalued Information Systems....Pages 556-563
Adaptive Learning for String Classification....Pages 564-571
Multiple Segmentation of Moving Objects by Quasi-simultaneous Parametric Motion Estimation....Pages 572-579
Fusion of Color and Shape for Object Tracking under Varying Illumination....Pages 580-588
Extending Fast Nearest Neighbour Search Algorithms for Approximate k-NN Classification....Pages 589-597
ART-VENA: Retinal Vaseular Caliber Measurement....Pages 598-605
Use of Band Ratioing for Color Texture Classification....Pages 606-615
Does Independent Component Analysis Play a~Role in Unmixing Hyperspectral Data?....Pages 616-625
Vertex Component Analysis: A~Fast Algorithm to Extract Endmembers Spectra from Hyperspectral Data....Pages 626-635
On the Relationship between Classification Error Bounds and Training Criteria in Statistical Pattern Recognition....Pages 636-645
Application of Multinomial Mixture Model to Text Classification....Pages 646-653
An Empirical Comparison of Stack-Based Decoding Algorithms for Statistical Machine Translation....Pages 654-663
Detection of Colour Channels Uncoupling for Curvature-Insensitive Segmentation....Pages 664-672
Analyzing Periodic Motion Classification....Pages 673-680
Finding Breaking Curves in 3D Surfaces....Pages 681-688
Robust Segmentation and Decoding of a~Grid Pattern for Structured Light....Pages 689-696
A New Reference Point Detection Algorithm Based on Orientation Pattern Labeling in Fingerprint Images....Pages 697-703
Global Motion Estimation in Sprite Generation by Eliminating Local Object Motions....Pages 704-711
Automatic Inspection of Wooden Pallets Using Contextual Segmentation Methods....Pages 712-721
Gabor Wavelets and Auto-organised Structures for Directional Primitive Extraction....Pages 722-732
A Colour Tracking Procedure for Low-Cost Face Desktop Applications....Pages 733-739
Local Motion Estimation from Stereo Image Sequences....Pages 740-747
A Change Validation System for Aerial Images Based on a Probabilistic Latent Variable Model....Pages 748-757
Petrographic Classification at the Macroscopic Scale Using a Mathematical Morphology Based Approach....Pages 758-765
On the Efficiency of Luminance-Based Palette Reordering of Color-Quantized Images....Pages 766-772
Feature-Driven Recognition of Music Styles....Pages 773-781
Multiple Model Approach to Deformable Shape Tracking....Pages 782-792
Pixel-Based Texture Classification by Integration of Multiple Texture Feature Evaluation Windows....Pages 793-801
Vessel Segmentation and Branching Detection Using an Adaptive Profile Kalman Filter in Retinal Blood Vessel Structure Analysis....Pages 802-809
Reconstruction of Quadrics from Two Polarization Views....Pages 810-820
Some Results about the Use of Tree/String Edit Distances in a~Nearest Neighbour Classification Task....Pages 821-828
Line Detection Using Ridgelets Transform for Graphic Symbol Representation....Pages 829-837
Tree-Structured Representation of Musical Information....Pages 838-846
Comparative Study of the Baum-Welch and Viterbi Training Algorithms Applied to Read and Spontaneous Speech Recognition....Pages 847-857
Skin Lesions Diagnosis Based on Fluorescence Image Processing: Simple Parameters Scanning....Pages 858-867
Incrementally Assessing Cluster Tendencies with a~Maximum Variance Cluster Algorithm....Pages 868-875
Musical Style Recognition by Detection of Compass....Pages 876-883
Subtexture Components for Texture Description....Pages 884-892
A 3D Ultrasound System for Medical Diagnosis....Pages 893-901
Shot Segmentation Using a~Coupled Markov Chains Representation of Video Contents....Pages 902-909
Estimating Confidence Measures for Speech Recognition Verification Using a~Smoothed Naive Bayes Model....Pages 910-918
A New Wavelets Image Fusion Strategy....Pages 919-926
Quality Assessment of Manufactured Roof-Tiles Using Digital Sound Processing....Pages 927-934
Graph Representations for Web Document Clustering....Pages 935-942
Learning Decision Trees and Tree Automata for a~Syntactic Pattern Recognition Task....Pages 943-950
MOTRICO Project – Geometric Construction and Mesh Generation of Blood Vessels by Means of the Fusion of Angiograms and IVUS....Pages 951-961
Skipping Fisher’s Criterion....Pages 962-969
New Class of Filters for Impulsive Noise Removal in Color Images....Pages 970-978
On the Nonparametric Impulsive Noise Reduction in Multichannel Images....Pages 979-985
Robust Hash Functions for Visual Data: An Experimental Comparison....Pages 986-993
Error Concealment Using Discontinuity Features....Pages 994-1002
Geometric Properties of the 3D Spine Curve....Pages 1003-1011
Oriented Matroids for Shape Representation and Indexing....Pages 1012-1019
Combining Phrase-Based and Template-Based Alignment Models in Statistical Translation....Pages 1020-1031
The Log-polar Image Representation in Pattern Recognition Tasks....Pages 1032-1040
Appearance Tracking for Video Surveillance....Pages 1041-1048
Sinusoidal Modelling with Complex Exponentials for Speech and Audio Signals....Pages 1049-1056
Smoothing Techniques for Tree-k-Grammar-Based Natural Language Modeling....Pages 1057-1065
Colour Constancy Algorithm Based on the Minimization of the Distance between Colour Histograms....Pages 1066-1073
Video Segmentation for Traffic Monitoring Tasks Based on Pixel-Level Snakes....Pages 1074-1081
Optimal Detection of Symmetry Axis in Digital Chest X-ray Images....Pages 1082-1089
Low Complexity Motion Estimation Based on Spatio-temporal Correlations....Pages 1090-1098
Set-Permutation-Occurrence Matrix Based Texture Segmentation....Pages 1099-1107
Semi-automatic Segmentation of the Prostate....Pages 1108-1116
Entropy Vector Median Filter....Pages 1117-1125
That Elusive Diversity in Classifier Ensembles....Pages 1126-1138
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