Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition : Joint IAPR International Workshops, SSPR 2006 and SPR 2006, Hong Kong, China, August 17-19, 2006, Proceedings

by Yeung, Dit-Yan; Kwok, James T.; Fred, Ana; Roli, Fabio; De Ridder, Dick

• ISBN13: 9783540372363
• ISBN10: 3540372369
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-15
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition, SSPR 2006 and the 6th International Workshop on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition, SPR 2006, held jointly in Hong Kong, China in August 2006 as a satellite event of the 18th International Conference of Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2006.The 38 revised full papers and 61 revised poster papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 217 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image analysis, vision, character recognition, bayesian networks, graph-based methods, similarity and feature extraction, image and video, vision, kernel-based methods, recognition and classification, similarity and feature extraction, document analysis, graph-based methods, recognition and classification, image analysis, facial image analysis, representation, feature selection, clustering, multiple classifier systems, recognition and classification, unsupervised learning, dimensionality, representation, biometrics, and applications.

Table of Contents

Invited Talks
Structured Output Prediction with Support Vector Machines	p. 1
On the Theory and Applications of Sequence Based Estimation of Independent Binomial Random Variables	p. 8
Symmetries from Uniform Space Covering in Stochastic Discrimination	p. 22
Structural Inference of Sensor-Based Measurements	p. 41
SSPR
Image Analysis
A Multiphase Level Set Evolution Scheme for Aerial Image Segmentation Using Multi-scale Image Geometric Analysis	p. 56
Experiments on Robust Image Registration Using a Markov-Gibbs Appearance Model	p. 65
Fully Automatic Segmentation of Coronary Vessel Structures in Poor Quality X-Ray Angiogram Images	p. 74
Smoothing Tensor-Valued Images Using Anisotropic Geodesic Diffusion	p. 83
Vision
Diffusion of Geometric Affinity for Surface Integration	p. 92
Comparative Study of People Detection in Surveillance Scenes	p. 100
A Class of Generalized Median Contour Problem with Exact Solution	p. 109
Character Recognition
Structural and Syntactic Techniques for Recognition of Ethiopic Characters	p. 118
Context Driven Chinese String Segmentation and Recognition	p. 127
Support Vector Machines for Mathematical Symbol Recognition	p. 136
Bayesian Networks
Bayesian Class-Matched Multinet Classifier	p. 145
Bayesian Network Structure Learning by Recursive Autonomy Identification	p. 154
Graph-Based Methods
Fast Suboptimal Algorithms for the Computation of Graph Edit Distance	p. 163
A Spectral Generative Model for Graph Structure	p. 173
Considerations Regarding the Minimum Spanning Tree Pyramid Segmentation Method	p. 182
Similarity and Feature Extraction
A Random Walk Kernel Derived from Graph Edit Distance	p. 191
Edit Distance for Ordered Vector Sets: A Case of Study	p. 200
Shape Retrieval Using Normalized Fourier Descriptors Based Signatures and Cyclic Dynamic Time Warping	p. 208
Poster Papers
Image and Video
Watermarking for 3D CAD Drawings Based on Three Components	p. 217
Hierarchical Video Summarization Based on Video Structure and Highlight	p. 226
Direct Curvature Scale Space in Corner Detection	p. 235
Vision
Aligning Concave and Convex Shapes	p. 243
Research on Iterative Closest Contour Point for Underwater Terrain-Aided Navigation	p. 252
Image-Based Absolute Positioning System for Mobile Robot Navigation	p. 261
An Evaluation of Three Popular Computer Vision Approaches for 3-D Face Synthesis	p. 270
Optical Flow Computation with Fourth Order Partial Differential Equations	p. 279
Kernel-Based Methods
Transforming Strings to Vector Spaces Using Prototype Selection	p. 287
Shape Categorization Using String Kernels	p. 297
Trace Formula Analysis of Graphs	p. 306
A Robust Realtime Surveillance System	p. 314
Recognition and Classification
Ubiquitous Intelligent Sensing System for a Smart Home	p. 322
Object Recognition Using Multiresolution Trees	p. 331
A Robust and Hierarchical Approach for Camera Motion Classification	p. 340
Time Series Analysis of Grey Forecasting Based on Wavelet Transform and Its Prediction Applications	p. 349
A Study of Touchless Fingerprint Recognition System	p. 358
Development of a Block-Based Real-Time People Counting System	p. 366
A Classification Approach for the Heart Sound Signals Using Hidden Markov Models	p. 375
Structure Analysis Based Parking Slot Marking Recognition for Semi-automatic Parking System	p. 384
Similarity and Feature Extraction
A Fast and Exact Module-Distance Between Histograms	p. 394
Using Learned Conditional Distributions as Edit Distance	p. 403
An Efficient Distance Between Multi-dimensional Histograms for Comparing Images	p. 412
Document Analysis
Finding Captions in PDF-Documents for Semantic Annotations of Images	p. 422
Effective Handwritten Hangul Recognition Method Based on the Hierarchical Stroke Model Matching	p. 431
Graph-Based Methods
Graph Embedding Using Commute Time	p. 441
Graph Based Multi-class Semi-supervised Learning Using Gaussian Process	p. 450
Point Pattern Matching Via Spectral Geometry	p. 459
Graph-Based Fast Image Segmentation	p. 468
Modeling of Remote Sensing Image Content Using Attributed Relational Graphs	p. 475
A Graph-Based Method for Detecting and Classifying Clusters in Mammographic Images	p. 484
SPR
A Speedup Method for SVM Decision	p. 494
Generalization Error of Multinomial Classifier	p. 502
Combining Accuracy and Prior Sensitivity for Classifier Design Under Prior Uncertainty	p. 512
Using Co-training and Self-training in Semi-supervised Multiple Classifier Systems	p. 522
Image Analysis
MRF Based Spatial Complexity for Hyperspectral Imagery Unmixing	p. 531
Effectiveness of Spectral Band Selection/Extraction Techniques for Spectral Data	p. 541
Edge Detection in Hyperspectral Imaging: Multivariate Statistical Approaches	p. 551
Semi-supervised PCA-Based Face Recognition Using Self-training	p. 560
Facial Shadow Removal	p. 569
A Sequential Monte Carlo Method for Bayesian Face Recognition	p. 578
Outlier Detection Using Ball Descriptions with Adjustable Metric	p. 587
HMM-Based Gait Recognition with Human Profiles	p. 596
Representation
Maxwell Normal Distribution in a Manifold and Mahalanobis Metric	p. 604
Augmented Embedding of Dissimilarity Data into (Pseudo-)Euclidean Spaces	p. 613
Feature Selection
Feature Over-Selection	p. 622
Flexible-Hybrid Sequential Floating Search in Statistical Feature Selection	p. 632
Clustering
EM Cluster Analysis for Categorical Data	p. 640
Two Entropy-Based Methods for Learning Unsupervised Gaussian Mixture Models	p. 649
Maximum Likelihood Estimates for Object Detection Using Multiple Detectors	p. 658
Confidence Based Gating of Multiple Face Authentication Experts	p. 667
Poster Papers
Multiple Classifier Systems
Diversity Analysis for Ensembles of Word Sequence Recognisers	p. 677
Adaptive Classifier Selection Based on Two Level Hypothesis Tests for Incremental Learning	p. 687
Combining SVM and Graph Matching in a Bayesian Multiple Classifier System for Image Content Recognition	p. 696
Comparison of Classifier Fusion Methods for Classification in Pattern Recognition Tasks	p. 705
AUC-Based Linear Combination of Dichotomizers	p. 714
Recognition and Classification
Confidence Score Based Unsupervised Incremental Adaptation for OOV Words Detection	p. 723
Polynomial Network Classifier with Discriminative Feature Extraction	p. 732
Semi-supervised Classification with Active Query Selection	p. 741
On the Use of Different Classification Rules in an Editing Task	p. 747
Mono-font Cursive Arabic Text Recognition Using Speech Recognition System	p. 755
From Indefinite to Positive Semi-Definite Matrices	p. 764
A Multi-stage Approach for Anchor Shot Detection	p. 773
Unsupervised Learning
An Improved Possibilistic C-Means Algorithm Based on Kernel Methods	p. 783
Identifiability and Estimation of Probabilities from Multiple Databases with Incomplete Data and Sampling Selection	p. 792
Unsupervised Image Segmentation Using a Hierarchical Clustering Selection Process	p. 799
Application of a Two-Level Self Organizing Map for Korean Online Game Market Segmentation	p. 808
Clustering Based on Compressed Data for Categorical and Mixed Attributes	p. 817
Dimensionality
On Optimizing Kernel-Based Fisher Discriminant Analysis Using Prototype Reduction Schemes	p. 826
Sparse Covariance Estimates for High Dimensional Classification Using the Cholesky Decomposition	p. 835
Generic Blind Source Separation Using Second-Order Local Statistics	p. 844
Hyperspectral Data Selection from Mutual Information Between Image Bands	p. 853
Representation
Model Selection Using a Class of Kernels with an Invariant Metric	p. 862
Non-Euclidean or Non-metric Measures Can Be Informative	p. 871
Biometrics
Merging and Arbitration Strategy Applied Bayesian Classification for Eye Location	p. 881
Recognizing Face or Object from a Single Image: Linear vs. Kernel Methods on 2D Patterns	p. 889
A Coupled Statistical Model for Face Shape Recovery	p. 898
Analysis and Selection of Features for the Fingerprint Vitality Detection	p. 907
Recognizing Facial Expressions with PCA and ICA onto Dimension of the Emotion	p. 916
Applications
An Audio Copyright Protection Schemes Based on SMM in Cepstrum Domain	p. 923
Combining Features to Improve Oil Spill Classification in SAR Images	p. 928
Author Index	p. 937
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