Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition: Joint IAPR International Workshops, SSPR 2006 and SPR 2006, Hong Kong, China, August ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4109)

✍ Scribed by Dit-Yan Yeung (editor), James T. Kwok (editor), Ana Fred (editor), Fabio Roli (editor), Dick de Ridder (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 959
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is the 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 in Hong Kong, August 2006 alongside the Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2006. 38 revised full papers and 61 revised poster papers are included, together with 4 invited papers covering image analysis, character recognition, bayesian networks, graph-based methods and more.

✦ Table of Contents

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