Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence : First International Conference, PReMI 2005, Kolkata, India, December 20-22, 2005, Proceedings

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Keynote Papers.- Data Clustering: A User’s Dilemma.- Pattern Recognition in Video.- Rough Sets in Perception-Based Computing.- Conversational Case-Based Reasoning.- Computational Molecular Biology of Genome Expression and Regulation.- Human Activity Recognition.- Invited Papers.- A Novel T2-SVM for Partially Supervised Classification.- S_Kernel: A New Symmetry Measure.- Geometric Decision Rules for Instance-Based Learning Problems.- Building Brains for Robots: A Psychodynamic Approach.- Designing Smart Environments: A Paradigm Based on Learning and Prediction.- Towards Generic Pattern Mining.- Multi-aspect Data Analysis in Brain Informatics.- Small Object Detection and Tracking: Algorithm, Analysis and Application.- Illumination Invariant Face Alignment Using Multi-band Active Appearance Model.- Globally Optimal 3D Image Reconstruction and Segmentation Via Energy Minimisation Techniques.- Go Digital, Go Fuzzy.- A Novel Personal Authentication System Using Palmprint Technology.- World Wide Wisdom Web (W4) and Autonomy Oriented Computing (AOC): What, When, and How?.- Semantic Web Research Trends and Directions.- Contributory Papers Clustering, Feature Selection and Learning.- Feature Extraction for Nonlinear Classification.- Anomaly Detection in a Multi-engine Aircraft.- Clustering Within Quantum Mechanical Framework.- Linear Penalization Support Vector Machines for Feature Selection.- Linear Regression for Dimensionality Reduction and Classification of Multi Dimensional Data.- A New Approach for High-Dimensional Unsupervised Learning: Applications to Image Restoration.- Unsupervised Classification of Remote Sensing Data Using Graph Cut-Based Initialization.- Hybrid Hierarchical Learning from Dynamic Scenes.- Reference Extraction and Resolution for Legal Texts.- Classification.- Effective Intrusion Type Identification with Edit Distance for HMM-Based Anomaly Detection System.- A Combined fBm and PPCA Based Signal Model for On-Line Recognition of PD Signal.- Handwritten Bangla Digit Recognition Using Classifier Combination Through DS Technique.- Arrhythmia Classification Using Local Hölder Exponents and Support Vector Machine.- A Voltage Sag Pattern Classification Technique.- Face Recognition Using Topological Manifolds Learning.- A Context-Sensitive Technique Based on Support Vector Machines for Image Classification.- Face Recognition Technique Using Symbolic PCA Method.- A Hybrid Approach to Speaker Recognition in Multi-speaker Environment.- Design of Hierarchical Classifier with Hybrid Architectures.- Neural Networks and Applications.- Human-Computer Interaction System with Artificial Neural Network Using Motion Tracker and Data Glove.- Recurrent Neural Approaches for Power Transformers Thermal Modeling.- Artificial Neural Network Engine: Parallel and Parameterized Architecture Implemented in FPGA.- Neuronal Clustering of Brain fMRI Images.- An Optimum RBF Network for Signal Detection in Non-Gaussian Noise.- A Holistic Classification System for Check Amounts Based on Neural Networks with Rejection.- A Novel 3D Face Recognition Algorithm Using Template Based Registration Strategy and Artificial Neural Networks.- Fuzzy Logic and Applications.- Recognition of Fault Signature Patterns Using Fuzzy Logic for Prevention of Breakdowns in Steel Continuous Casting Process.- Development of an Adaptive Fuzzy Logic Based Control Law for a Mobile Robot with an Uncalibrated Camera System.- Fuzzy Logic Based Control of Voltage and Reactive Power in Subtransmission System.- Fuzzy-Symbolic Analysis for Classification of Symbolic Data.- Handwritten Character Recognition Systems Using Image-Fusion and Fuzzy Logic.- Classification of Remotely Sensed Images Using Neural-Network Ensemble and Fuzzy Integration.- Intelligent Learning Rules for Fuzzy Control of a Vibrating Screen.- Fuzzy Proximal Support Vector Classification Via Generalized Eigenvalues.- Segmentation of MR Images of the Human Brain Using Fuzzy Adaptive Radial Basis Function Neural Network.- Optimization and Representation.- Design of Two-Dimensional IIR Filters Using an Improved DE Algorithm.- Systematically Evolving Configuration Parameters for Computational Intelligence Methods.- A Split-Based Method for Polygonal Approximation of Shape Curves.- Symbolic Data Structure for Postal Address Representation and Address Validation Through Symbolic Knowledge Base.- The Linear Factorial Smoothing for the Analysis of Incomplete Data.- An Improved Shape Descriptor Using Bezier Curves.- Isothetic Polygonal Approximations of a 2D Object on Generalized Grid.- An Evolutionary SPDE Breeding-Based Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimizer: Application in Coordination of Robot Ants for Camera Coverage Area Optimization.- An Improved Differential Evolution Scheme for Noisy Optimization Problems.- Image Processing and Analysis.- Facial Asymmetry in Frequency Domain: The “Phase” Connection.- An Efficient Image Distortion Correction Method for an X-ray Digital Tomosynthesis System.- Eigen Transformation Based Edge Detector for Gray Images.- Signal Processing for Digital Image Enhancement Considering APL in PDP.- A Hybrid Approach to Digital Image Watermarking Using Singular Value Decomposition and Spread Spectrum.- Image Enhancement by High-Order Gaussian Derivative Filters Simulating Non-classical Receptive Fields in the Human Visual System.- A Chosen Plaintext Steganalysis of Hide4PGP V 2.0.- Isolation of Lung Cancer from Inflammation.- Learning to Segment Document Images.- A Comparative Study of Different Texture Segmentation Techniques.- Run Length Based Steganography for Binary Images.- Video Processing and Computer Vision.- An Edge-Based Moving Object Detection for Video Surveillance.- An Information Hiding Framework for Lightweight Mobile Devices with Digital Camera.- Applications of the Discrete Hodge Helmholtz Decomposition to Image and Video Processing.- A Novel CAM for the Luminance Levels in the Same Chromaticity Viewing Conditions.- Estimation of 2D Motion Trajectories from Video Object Planes and Its Application in Hand Gesture Recognition.- 3D Facial Pose Tracking in Uncalibrated Videos.- Fusing Depth and Video Using Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter.- Specifying Spatio Temporal Relations for Multimedia Ontologies.- Motion Estimation of Elastic Articulated Objects from Image Points and Contours.- Parsing News Video Using Integrated Audio-Video Features.- Image Retrieval and Data Mining.- A Hybrid Data and Space Partitioning Technique for Similarity Queries on Bounded Clusters.- Image Retrieval by Content Using Segmentation Approach.- A Wavelet Based Image Retrieval.- Use of Contourlets for Image Retrieval.- Integration of Keyword and Feature Based Search for Image Retrieval Applications.- Finding Locally and Periodically Frequent Sets and Periodic Association Rules.- An Efficient Hybrid Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering (HHAC) Technique for Partitioning Large Data Sets.- Density-Based View Materialization.- On Simultaneous Selection of Prototypes and Features in Large Data.- Knowledge Enhancement Through Ontology-Guided Text Mining.- Bioinformatics Application.- A Novel Algorithm for Automatic Species Identification Using Principal Component Analysis.- Analyzing the Effect of Prior Knowledge in Genetic Regulatory Network Inference.- New Genetic Operators for Solving TSP: Application to Microarray Gene Ordering.- Genetic Algorithm for Double Digest Problem.- Intelligent Data Recognition of DNA Sequences Using Statistical Models.- Parallel Sequence Alignment: A Lookahead Approach.- Evolutionary Clustering Algorithm with Knowledge-Based Evaluation for Fuzzy Cluster Analysis of Gene Expression Profiles.- Biological Text Mining for Extraction of Proteins and Their Interactions.- DNA Gene Expression Classification with Ensemble Classifiers Optimized by Speciated Genetic Algorithm.- Web Intelligence and Genetic Algorithms.- Multi-objective Optimization for Adaptive Web Site Generation.- Speeding Up Web Access Using Weighted Association Rules.- An Automatic Approach to Classify Web Documents Using a Domain Ontology.- Distribution Based Stemmer Refinement.- Text Similarity Measurement Using Concept Representation of Texts.- Incorporating Distance Domination in Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm.- I-EMO: An Interactive Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization Tool.- Simultaneous Multiobjective Multiple Route Selection Using Genetic Algorithm for Car Navigation.- Rough Sets, Case-Based Reasoning and Knowledge Discovery.- Outliers in Rough k-Means Clustering.- Divisible Rough Sets Based on Self-organizing Maps.- Parallel Island Model for Attribute Reduction.- On-Line Elimination of Non-relevant Parts of Complex Objects in Behavioral Pattern Identification.- Rough Contraction Through Partial Meets.- Finding Interesting Rules Exploiting Rough Memberships.- Probability Measures for Prediction in Multi-table Infomation Systems.- Object Extraction in Gray-Scale Images by Optimizing Roughness Measure of a Fuzzy Set.- Approximation Spaces in Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition.- A Rough Set-Based Magnetic Resonance Imaging Partial Volume Detection System.- Eliciting Domain Knowledge in Handwritten Digit Recognition.- Collaborative Rough Clustering.- Learning of General Cases.- Learning Similarity Measure of Nominal Features in CBR Classifiers.- Decision Tree Induction with CBR.- Rough Set Feature Selection Methods for Case-Based Categorization of Text Documents.- An Efficient Parzen-Window Based Network Intrusion Detector Using a Pattern Synthesis Technique.