Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications : 15th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2010, Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 8-11, 2010, Proceedings

by Bloch, Isabelle; Cesar, Roberto M., Jr.

• ISBN13: 9783642166860
• ISBN10: 3642166865
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-05
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2010, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in November 2010. The 70 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 145 submissions. The papers feature current research on mathematical methods and computing techniques for pattern recognition, computer vision, image analysis, and speech recognition, as well as their applications in such diverse areas as robotics, industry, health, entertainment, space exploration, telecommunications, data mining, document analysis, and natural language processing and recognition to name only few of them.

Table of Contents

Invited Talks
Recent Advances in Karnel Machines	p. 1
Design of Pattern Classifiers Using Optimum-Path Forest with Applications in Image Analysis	p. 2
Vision-Based Control of Robot Motion	p. 3
Soft Computing, f-Granulation and Pattern Recognition	p. 4
Computational Illumination	p. 5
Color, Shape and Texture
Color Texture Analysis and Classification: An Agent Approach Based on Partially Self-avoiding Deterministic Walks	p. 6
Characterizing 3D Shapes Using Fractal Dimension	p. 14
Multiresolution Histogram Analysis for Color Reduction	p. 22
Graphs and Hypergraphs
Graphs of Words Embedding for Molecular Structure-Activity Relationship Analysis	p. 30
A Hypergraph Reduction Algorithm for Joint Segmentation and Classification of Satellite Image Content	p. 38
A Static Video Summarization Method Based on Hierarchical Clustering	p. 46
Biomedical Imaging
Histopathological Image Classification Using Stain Component Features on a pLSA Model	p. 55
Modified Expectation Maximization Algorithm for MRI Segmentation	p. 63
Generation of Synthetic Multifractal Realistic Surfaces Based on Natural Model and Lognormal Cascade: Application to MRI Classification	p. 71
Retrieval, Mining and Learning
Content-Based Emblem Retrieval Using Zernike Moments	p. 79
A New Algorithm for Training SVMs Using Approximate Minimal Enclosing Balls	p. 87
A Hybrid Face Recognition Approach Using GPUMLib	p. 96
Learning, Recognition and Clustering
Self-training for Handwritten Text Line Recognition	p. 104
Improving the Dynamic Hierarchical Compact Clustering Algorithm by Using Feature Selection	p. 113
Background Division, A Suitable Technique for Moving Object Detection	p. 121
Bayesian and Statistical Methods
Concept Formation Using Incremental Gaussian Mixture Models	p. 128
Integrating Phonological Knowledge in ASR Systems for Spanish Language	p. 136
Inference of Restricted Stochastic Boolean GRN's by Bayesian Error and Entropy Based Criteria	p. 144
Coding and Compression, Video, Tracking
Grid Smoothing: A Graph-Based Approach	p. 153
A Quality Analysis on JPEG 2000 Compressed Leukocyte Images by Means of Segmentation Algorithms	p. 161
Comments on Matrix-Based Secret Sharing Scheme for Images	p. 169
A Very Low Bit-Rate Minimalist Video Encoder Based on Matching Pursuits	p. 176
An Unified Transition Detection Based on Bipartite Graph Matching Approach	p. 184
A New Dissimilarity Measure for Trajectories with Applications in Anomaly Detection	p. 193
Modelling Postures of Human Movements	p. 202
Detection and Tracking of Driver's Hands in Real Time	p. 212
Speech, Natural Language, Document
Speaker Verification in Noisy Environment Using Missing Feature Approach	p. 220
Fast k-NN Classifier for Documents Based on a Graph Structure	p. 228
Comparative Analysis between Wavelets for the Identification of Pathological Voices	p. 236
Comparison of HMM and DTW for Isolated Word Recognition System of Punjabi Language	p. 244
A Combination of Classifiers for the Pronominal Anaphora Resolution in Basque	p. 253
Text Segmentation by Clustering Cohesion	p. 261
Multiple Clues for License Plate Detection and Recognition	p. 269
Image Filtering and Segmentation
Non Local Image Denoising Using Image Adapted Neighborhoods	p. 277
A Quantitative Evaluation of Fixed-Pattern Noise Reduction Methods in Imaging Systems	p. 285
Vessel Centerline Tracking in CTA and MRA Images Using Hough Transform	p. 295
Automatic Image Segmentation Optimized by Bilateral Filtering	p. 311
Color Image Segmentation by Means of a Similarity Function	p. 319
Image Segmentation Using Quadtree-Based Similarity Graph and Normalized Cut	p. 329
A Genetic-Algorithm-Based Fusion System Optimization for 3D Image Interpretation	p. 338
Feature Extraction, Shape, Texture, Geometry and Morphology
Quaternion Atomic Function Wavelet for Applications in Image Processing	p. 346
A Complex Network-Based Approach for Texture Analysis	p. 354
Enhancing Gabor Wavelets Using Volumetric Fractal Dimension	p. 362
Comparison of Shape Descriptors for Mice Behavior Recognition	p. 370
Ridge Linking Using an Adaptive Oriented Mask Applied to Plant Root Images with Thin Structures	p. 378
Parameter Estimation for Ridge Detection in Images with Thin Structures	p. 386
Experimental Comparison of Orthogonal Moments as Feature Extraction Methods for Character Recognition	p. 394
Face Segmentation and Recognition, Biometry
Improving Face Segmentation in Thermograms Using Image Signatures	p. 402
On Combining Local DCT with Preprocessing Sequence for Face Recognition under Varying Lighting Conditions	p. 410
On Improving Dissimilarity-Based Classifications Using a Statistical Similarity Measure	p. 418
A Rotation Invariant Face Recognition Method Based on Complex Network	p. 426
Illumination Invariant Face Image Representation Using Quaternions	p. 434
A Contrario Detection of False Matches in Iris Recognition	p. 442
Statistical Approaches, Learning, Classification, Mining
A Functional Density-Based Nonparametric Approach for Statistical Calibration	p. 450
Feature Extraction Using Circular Statistics Applied to Volcano Monitoring	p. 458
Improving the Accuracy of the Optimum-Path Forest Supervised Classifier for Large Datasets	p. 467
Assessment of a Modified Version of the EM Algorithm for Remote Sensing Data Classification	p. 476
A Sequential Minimal Optimization Algorithm for the All-Distances Support Vector Machine	p. 484
Aerosol Optical Thickness Retrieval from Satellite Observation Using Support Vector Regression	p. 492
An Overproduce-and-Choose Strategy to Create Classifier Ensembles with Tuned SVM Parameters Applied to Real-World Fault Diagnosis	p. 500
Multi-Objective Semi-Supervised Feature Selection and Model Selection Based on Pearson's Correlation Coefficient	p. 509
Introducing ROC Curves as Error Measure Functions: A New Approach to Train ANN-Based Biomedical Data Classifiers	p. 517
Partition Selection Approach for Hierarchical Clustering Based on Clustering Ensemble	p. 525
The Imbalanced Problem in Morphological Galaxy Classification	p. 533
Exploiting Contextual Information for Image Re-ranking	p. 541
Assessing the Role of Spatial Relations for the Object Recognition Task	p. 549
Automatic Representation of Semantic Abstraction of Geographical Data by Means of Classification	p. 557
Author Index	p. 569
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