Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis

First Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis IbPRIA’2003.- Solids Characterization Using Modeling Wave Structures.- A Probabilistic Model for the Cooperative Modular Neural Network.- Robust Learning Algorithm for the Mixture of Experts.- A Robust and Effective Learning Algorithm for Feedforward Neural Networks Based on the Influence Function.- Regularization of 3D Cylindrical Surfaces.- Non-rigid Registration of Vessel Structures in IVUS Images.- Underwater Cable Tracking by Visual Feedback.- A Hierarchical Clustering Strategy and Its Application to Proteomic Interaction Data.- A New Optimal Classifier Architecture to Aviod the Dimensionality Curse.- Learning from Imbalanced Sets through Resampling and Weighting.- Morphological Recognition of Olive Grove Patterns.- Combining Multi-variate Statistics and Dempster-Shafer Theory for Edge Detection in Multi-channel SAR Images.- High-Level Clothes Description Based on Colour-Texture and Structural Features.- A New Method for Detection and Initial Pose Estimation Based on Mumford-Shah Segmentation Functional.- Tracking Heads Using Piecewise Planar Models.- Support Vector Machines for Crop Classification Using Hyperspectral Data.- Vehicle License Plate Segmentation in Natural Images.- High-Accuracy Localization of an Underwater Robot in a~Structured Environment Using Computer Vision.- Determine the Composition of Honeybee Pollen by Texture Classification.- Automatic Word Codification for the RECONTRA Connectionist Translator.- The ENCARA System for Face Detection and Normalization.- Prediction and Discrimination of Pharmacological Activity by Using Artificial Neural Networks.- A Spatio-temporal Filtering Approach to Motion Segmentation.- Annotated Image Retrieval System Based on Concepts and Visual Property.- Multimodal Attention System for an Interactive Robot.- New Wavelet-Based Invariant Shape Representation Functions.- A Feature Selection Wrapper for Mixtures.- Tracking People for Automatic Surveillance Applications.- A User Authentication Technic Using a~Web Interaction Monitoring System.- Recovering Camera Motion in a~Sequence of Underwater Images through Mosaicking.- Best Achievable Compression Ratio for Lossy Image Coding.- Performance and Improvements of a~Language Model Based on Stochastic Context-Free Grammars.- Segmentation of Curvilinear Objects Using a~Watershed-Based Curve Adjacency Graph.- Automatic Keyframing of Human Actions for Computer Animation.- Robust Line Matching and Estimate of Homographies Simultaneously.- Modeling High-Order Dependencies in Local Appearance Models.- An Experimental Evaluation of K-nn for Linear Transforms of Positive Data.- Wavelet Packet Image Coder Using Coefficients Partitioning for Remote Sensing Images.- Generation and Use of Synthetic Training Data in Cursive Handwriting Recognition.- Video-Sensor for Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects.- Estimation of Anti-bacterial Culture Activity from Digital Images.- Robust Extraction of Vertices in Range Images by Constraining the Hough Transform.- Comparison of Log-linear Models and Weighted Dissimilarity Measures.- Motion Segmentation Using Distributed Genetic Algorithms.- Supervised Locally Linear Embedding Algorithm for Pattern Recognition.- Hash–Like Fractal Image Compression with Linear Execution Time.- Learning of Stochastic Context-Free Grammars by Means of Estimation Algorithms and Initial Treebank Grammars.- Computer-Aided Prostate Cancer Detection in Ultrasonographic Images.- Ultrasound to Magnetic Resonance Volume Registration for Brain Sinking Measurement.- Segmentation of Range Images in a~Quadtree.- Associative Memory for Early Detection of Breast Cancer.- Bayesian SPECT Image Reconstruction with Scale Hyperparameter Estimation for Scalable Prior.- Reducing Training Sets by NCN-based Exploratory Procedures.- Probabilistic Observation Models for Tracking Based on Optical Flow.- Simplified Texture Unit: A~New Descriptor of the Local Texture in Gray-Level Images.- Active Region Segmentation of Mammographic Masses Based on Texture, Contour and Shape Features.- Refining 3D Recovering by Carving through View Interpolation and Stereovision.- Chromosome Classification Using Continuous Hidden Markov Models.- Generalized k-Medians Clustering for Strings.- A Quadtree-Based Unsupervised Segmentation Algorithm for Fruit Visual Inspection.- Shape Deformation Models Using Non-uniform Objects in Multimedia Applications.- An Experimental Comparison of Dimensionality Reduction for Face Verification Methods.- Bayesian Image Estimation from an Incomplete Set of Blurred, Undersampled Low Resolution Images.- A Procedure for Biological Sensitive Pattern Matching in Protein Sequences.- An Algebra for the Treatment of Multivalued Information Systems.- Adaptive Learning for String Classification.- Multiple Segmentation of Moving Objects by Quasi-simultaneous Parametric Motion Estimation.- Fusion of Color and Shape for Object Tracking under Varying Illumination.- Extending Fast Nearest Neighbour Search Algorithms for Approximate k-NN Classification.- ART-VENA: Retinal Vaseular Caliber Measurement.- Use of Band Ratioing for Color Texture Classification.- Does Independent Component Analysis Play a~Role in Unmixing Hyperspectral Data?.- Vertex Component Analysis: A~Fast Algorithm to Extract Endmembers Spectra from Hyperspectral Data.- On the Relationship between Classification Error Bounds and Training Criteria in Statistical Pattern Recognition.- Application of Multinomial Mixture Model to Text Classification.- An Empirical Comparison of Stack-Based Decoding Algorithms for Statistical Machine Translation.- Detection of Colour Channels Uncoupling for Curvature-Insensitive Segmentation.- Analyzing Periodic Motion Classification.- Finding Breaking Curves in 3D Surfaces.- Robust Segmentation and Decoding of a~Grid Pattern for Structured Light.- A New Reference Point Detection Algorithm Based on Orientation Pattern Labeling in Fingerprint Images.- Global Motion Estimation in Sprite Generation by Eliminating Local Object Motions.- Automatic Inspection of Wooden Pallets Using Contextual Segmentation Methods.- Gabor Wavelets and Auto-organised Structures for Directional Primitive Extraction.- A Colour Tracking Procedure for Low-Cost Face Desktop Applications.- Local Motion Estimation from Stereo Image Sequences.- A Change Validation System for Aerial Images Based on a Probabilistic Latent Variable Model.- Petrographic Classification at the Macroscopic Scale Using a Mathematical Morphology Based Approach.- On the Efficiency of Luminance-Based Palette Reordering of Color-Quantized Images.- Feature-Driven Recognition of Music Styles.- Multiple Model Approach to Deformable Shape Tracking.- Pixel-Based Texture Classification by Integration of Multiple Texture Feature Evaluation Windows.- Vessel Segmentation and Branching Detection Using an Adaptive Profile Kalman Filter in Retinal Blood Vessel Structure Analysis.- Reconstruction of Quadrics from Two Polarization Views.- Some Results about the Use of Tree/String Edit Distances in a~Nearest Neighbour Classification Task.- Line Detection Using Ridgelets Transform for Graphic Symbol Representation.- Tree-Structured Representation of Musical Information.- Comparative Study of the Baum-Welch and Viterbi Training Algorithms Applied to Read and Spontaneous Speech Recognition.- Skin Lesions Diagnosis Based on Fluorescence Image Processing: Simple Parameters Scanning.- Incrementally Assessing Cluster Tendencies with a~Maximum Variance Cluster Algorithm.- Musical Style Recognition by Detection of Compass.- Subtexture Components for Texture Description.- A 3D Ultrasound System for Medical Diagnosis.- Shot Segmentation Using a~Coupled Markov Chains Representation of Video Contents.- Estimating Confidence Measures for Speech Recognition Verification Using a~Smoothed Naive Bayes Model.- A New Wavelets Image Fusion Strategy.- Quality Assessment of Manufactured Roof-Tiles Using Digital Sound Processing.- Graph Representations for Web Document Clustering.- Learning Decision Trees and Tree Automata for a~Syntactic Pattern Recognition Task.- MOTRICO Project – Geometric Construction and Mesh Generation of Blood Vessels by Means of the Fusion of Angiograms and IVUS.- Skipping Fisher’s Criterion.- New Class of Filters for Impulsive Noise Removal in Color Images.- On the Nonparametric Impulsive Noise Reduction in Multichannel Images.- Robust Hash Functions for Visual Data: An Experimental Comparison.- Error Concealment Using Discontinuity Features.- Geometric Properties of the 3D Spine Curve.- Oriented Matroids for Shape Representation and Indexing.- Combining Phrase-Based and Template-Based Alignment Models in Statistical Translation.- The Log-polar Image Representation in Pattern Recognition Tasks.- Appearance Tracking for Video Surveillance.- Sinusoidal Modelling with Complex Exponentials for Speech and Audio Signals.- Smoothing Techniques for Tree-k-Grammar-Based Natural Language Modeling.- Colour Constancy Algorithm Based on the Minimization of the Distance between Colour Histograms.- Video Segmentation for Traffic Monitoring Tasks Based on Pixel-Level Snakes.- Optimal Detection of Symmetry Axis in Digital Chest X-ray Images.- Low Complexity Motion Estimation Based on Spatio-temporal Correlations.- Set-Permutation-Occurrence Matrix Based Texture Segmentation.- Semi-automatic Segmentation of the Prostate.- Entropy Vector Median Filter.- That Elusive Diversity in Classifier Ensembles.