Progress in Pattern Recognition, Speech and Image Analysis

Neurons, Dendrites, and Pattern Classification.- Robot Vision for Autonomous Object Learning and Tracking.- Graduated Scale Inspection Using Computer Vision.- Vision System for Subpixel Laser Stripe Profile Extraction with Real Time Operation.- Multi-channel Reconstruction of Video Sequences from Low-Resolution and Compressed Observations.- 3D Rigid Facial Motion Estimation from Disparity Maps.- Robust Techniques in Least Squares-Based Motion Estimation Problems.- Inexact Graph Matching for Facial Feature Segmentation and Recognition in Video Sequences: Results on Face Tracking.- Crater Marking and Classification Using Computer Vision.- Using Optical Flow for Tracking.- Another Paradigm for the Solution of the Correspondence Problem in Motion Analysis.- Improvement of the Fail-Safe Characteristics in Motion Analysis Using Adaptive Technique.- Spatially Adaptive Algorithm for Impulse Noise Removal from Color Images.- Improving Phase-Congruency Based Feature Detection through Automatic Scale-Selection.- Robust Estimation of Roughness Parameter in SAR Amplitude Images.- Two New Scale-Adapted Texture Descriptors for Image Segmentation.- Topological Query in Image Databases.- Reconstructing 3D Objects from Silhouettes with Unknown Viewpoints: The Case of Planar Orthographic Views.- Enforcing a Shape Correspondence between Two Views of a 3D Non-rigid Object.- A Colour Constancy Algorithm Based on the Histogram of Feasible Colour Mappings.- Reconstruction of Surfaces from Cross Sections Using Skeleton Information.- Extension of a New Method for Surface Reconstruction from Cross Sections.- Imposing Integrability in Geometric Shape-from-Shading.- Correcting Radial Lens Distortion Using Image and Point Correspondences.- Characterization of Surfaces with Sonars Using Time of Flight and Triangulation.- Non-speech Sound Feature Extraction Based on Model Identification for Robot Navigation.- Enhancement of Noisy Speech Using Sliding Discrete Cosine Transform.- Integrating High and Low Smoothed LMs in a CSR System.- Selection of Lexical Units for Continuous Speech Recognition of Basque.- Creating a Mexican Spanish Version of the CMU Sphinx-III Speech Recognition System.- Decision Tree-Based Context Dependent Sublexical Units for Continuous Speech Recognition of Basque.- Uniclass and Multiclass Connectionist Classification of Dialogue Acts.- A Technique for Extraction of Diagnostic Data from Cytological Specimens.- Segmentation and Morphometry of Histological Sections Using Deformable Models: A New Tool for Evaluating Testicular Histopathology.- Robust Markers for Blood Vessels Segmentation: A New Algorithm.- Discriminative Power of Lymphoid Cell Features: Factor Analysis Approach.- Retinal Angiography Based Authentication.- Suboptimal Classifier for Dysarthria Assessment.- Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search with the Fukunaga and Narendra Algorithm and Its Application to Chromosome Classification.- Characterization of Viability of Seeds by Using Dynamic Speckles and Difference Histograms.- An Adaptive Enhancer with Modified Signal Averaging Scheme to Detect Ventricular Late Potentials.- A Study on the Recognition of Patterns of Infant Cry for the Identification of Deafness in Just Born Babies with Neural Networks.- Patients Classification by Risk Using Cluster Analysis and Genetic Algorithms.- Mathematical Morphology on MRI for the Determination of Iberian Ham Fat Content.- Automatic Dark Fibres Detection in Wool Tops.- Musical Style Identification Using Grammatical Inference: The Encoding Problem.- New Distance Measures Applied to Marble Classification.- Online Handwritten Signature Verification Using Hidden Markov Models.- Fast Handwritten Recognition Using Continuous Distance Transformation.- Stroke Boundary Analysis for Identification of Drawing Tools.- Solving the Global Localization Problem for Indoor Mobile Robots.- Restricted Decontamination for the Imbalanced Training Sample Problem.- An Entropy Maximization Approach to Optimal Model Selection in Gaussian Mixtures.- Gaussian Mixture Models for Supervised Classification of Remote Sensing Multispectral Images.- Fast Multistage Algorithm for K-NN Classifiers.- Some Improvements in Tree Based Nearest Neighbour Search Algorithms.- Impact of Mixed Metrics on Clustering.- A Comparison between Two Fuzzy Clustering Algorithms for Mixed Features.- Extended Star Clustering Algorithm.- Two New Metrics for Feature Selection in Pattern Recognition.- Conditions of Generating Descriptive Image Algebras by a Set of Image Processing Operations.- Completeness Conditions of a Class of Pattern Recognition Algorithms Based on Image Equivalence.- Typical Segment Descriptors: A New Method for Shape Description and Identification.- A New Approach That Selects a Single Hyperplane from the Optimal Pairwise Linear Classifier.- A Characterization of Discretized Polygonal Convex Regions by Discrete Moments.- Learning probabilistic context-free grammars from treebanks.- Simulated Annealing for Automated Definition of Fuzzy Sets in Human Central Nervous System Modeling.- Automatic Tuning of Fuzzy Partitions in Inductive Reasoning.- Kernel Computation in Morphological Bidirectional Associative Memories.- Improving Still Image Coding by an SOM-Controlled Associative Memory.- A Morphological Methodology for Features Identification in Satellite Images for Semi-automatic Cartographic Updating.- Morphological Neural Networks with Dendrite Computation: A Geometrical Approach.- A Method for the Automatic Summarization of Topic-Based Clusters of Documents.- Improving Prepositional Phrase Attachment Disambiguation Using the Web as Corpus.- Determination of Similarity Threshold in Clustering Problems for Large Data Sets.- Content-Based Retrieval Using Color, Texture, and Shape Information.- Off the Shelf Methods for Robust Portuguese Cadastral Map Analysis.- Simultaneous Segmentation-Recognition-Vectorization of Meaningful Geographical Objects in Geo-Images.- Geomorphometric Analysisof Raster Image Data to detect Terrain Ruggedness and Drainage Density.- Morphological Applications for Maps Construction in Path Planning Tasks.- Compact Mapping in Plane-Parallel Environments Using Stereo Vision.- An Oscillatory Neural Network for Image Segmentation.- Generating Three-Dimensional Neural Cells Based on Bayes Rules and Interpolation with Thin Plate Splines.- A Maximum Entropy Approach to Sampling in EDA - The Single Connected Case.