Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications: 12th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, Ciarp 2007,valpariso, Chile, November 13-16, 2007, Proceedings

Keynote Lectures.- Learning in Computer Vision: Some Thoughts.- Biometric Recognition: Overview and Recent Advances.- A Family of Novel Graph Kernels for Structural Pattern Recognition.- A System Biology Approach for the Steady-State Analysis of Gene Signaling Networks.- Signal Processing and Analysis.- ?-? Background Subtraction and the Zipf Law.- Model-Based Correlation Measure for Nonuniformity Gain and Offset Parameters of Infrared Focal-Plane-Array Sensors.- A Cyclostationary Analysis Applied to Detection and Diagnosis of Faults in Helicopter Gearboxes.- Robust Industrial Machine Sounds Identification Based on Frequency Spectrum Analysis.- Using Adaptive Filter to Increase Automatic Speech Recognition Rate in a Digit Corpus.- SSM – A Novel Method to Recognize the Fundamental Frequency in Voice Signals.- Channel / Handset Mismatch Evaluation in a Biometric Speaker Verification Using Shifted Delta Cepstral Features.- Phone-Segments Based Language Identification for Spanish, Basque and English.- Image Coding, Processing and Analysis.- A New Algorithm to Compute the Distance Between Multi-dimensional Histograms.- Fuzzy Vector Directional Filters for Multichannel Image Denoising.- EZW-Based Image Compression with Omission and Restoration of Wavelet Subbands.- Multi-class Binary Object Categorization Using Blurred Shape Models.- Video Analysis Via Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction.- Graph Cuts Approach to MRF Based Linear Feature Extraction in Satellite Images.- A Multiple Substructure Matching Algorithm for Fingerprint Verification.- Bayesian Edge Regularization in Range Image Segmentation.- Image Segmentation Using Automatic Seeded Region Growing and Instance-Based Learning.- Morphological Distinguished Regions.- Set of Methods for Spontaneous ICH Segmentation and Tracking from CT Head Images.- Shape and Texture Analysis.- Efficient Rotation-Discriminative Template Matching.- Texture Classification Through Combination of Sequential Colour Texture Classifiers.- Deterministic Component of 2-D Wold Decomposition for Geometry and Texture Descriptors Discovery.- Computer Vision.- Robust Feature Descriptors for Efficient Vision-Based Tracking.- Smooth Image Surface Approximation by Piecewise Cubic Polynomials.- An Analysis of Automatic Gender Classification.- A Method for Segmentation of Local Illumination Variations and Photometric Normalization in Face Images.- Computing the Eccentricity Transform of a Polygonal Shape.- Robust Color Contour Object Detection Invariant to Shadows.- An Evaluation of Video Cut Detection Techniques.- Surface–Normal Estimation with Neighborhood Reorganization for 3D Reconstruction.- Weighted Principal Geodesic Analysis for Facial Gender Classification.- Range and Intensity Vision for Rock-Scene Segmentation.- Human Detection in Indoor Environments Using Multiple Visual Cues and a Mobile Robot.- A Method for Estimating Authentication Performance over Time, with Applications to Face Biometrics.- Pattern Recognition Principles.- Generalizing Dissimilarity Representations Using Feature Lines.- FS-EX Plus: A New Algorithm for the Calculation of Typical FS-Testor Set.- Confusion Matrix Disagreement for Multiple Classifiers.- An Empirical Study of the Behavior of Classifiers on Imbalanced and Overlapped Data Sets.- Fast k Most Similar Neighbor Classifier for Mixed Data Based on a Tree Structure.- Conditional Mutual Information Based Feature Selection for Classification Task.- Robust Alternating AdaBoost.- Artificial Intelligence Techniques and Recognition.- Face Recognition Using Some Aspects of the Infant Vision System and Associative Memories.- Two-Stage ACO to Solve the Job Shop Scheduling Problem.- A Novel Hybrid Taguchi-Grey-Based Method for Feature Subset Selection.- On Using a Pre-clustering Technique to Optimize LDA-Based Classifiers for Appearance-Based Face Recognition.- Certainty Measure of Pairwise Line Segment Perceptual Relations Using Fuzzy Logic.- Automatic Image Annotation Using a Semi-supervised Ensemble of Classifiers.- Logical Combinatorial Pattern Recognition.- Object Selection Based on Subclass Error Correcting for ALVOT.- CT-EXT: An Algorithm for Computing Typical Testor Set.- Neural Networks.- Evaluating a Zoning Mechanism and Class-Modular Architecture for Handwritten Characters Recognition.- Median M-Type Radial Basis Function Neural Network.- A Precise Electrical Disturbance Generator for Neural Network Training with Real Level Output.- A New Algorithm for Training Multi-layered Morphological Networks.- Kernel Machines.- Joint Diagonalization of Kernels for Information Fusion.- Support Vector Regression Methods for Functional Data.- Monitoring Nonlinear Profiles Using Support Vector Machines.- MP-Polynomial Kernel for Training Support Vector Machines.- Adaptive ECG Compression Using Support Vector Machine.- Bioinformatics.- Incremental Multiple Sequence Alignment.- Mass Spectrometry Based Cancer Classification Using Fuzzy Fractal Dimensions.- Bayesian Detection of Coding Regions in DNA/RNA Sequences Through Event Factoring.- Coding Region Prediction in Genomic Sequences Using a Combination of Digital Signal Processing Approaches.- Data Mining.- Using Typical Testors for Feature Selection in Text Categorization.- Towards Automatic Generation of Conceptual Interpretation of Clustering.- ACONS: A New Algorithm for Clustering Documents.- Mixed Data Object Selection Based on Clustering and Border Objects.- Modification of the Growing Neural Gas Algorithm for Cluster Analysis.- Bagging with Asymmetric Costs for Misclassified and Correctly Classified Examples.- Natural Language Processing and Recognition.- Distribution-Based Semantic Similarity of Nouns.- Segment-Based Classes for Language Modeling Within the Field of CSR.- TextLec: A Novel Method of Segmentation by Topic Using Lower Windows and Lexical Cohesion.- European Portuguese Accent in Acoustic Models for Non-native English Speakers.- A Statistical User Simulation Technique for the Improvement of a Spoken Dialog System.- Industrial and Medical Applications of Pattern Recognition.- A New Approach for Cervical Vertebrae Segmentation.- Automatic Clump Splitting for Cell Quantification in Microscopical Images.- A Semi-supervised Learning Method for Motility Disease Diagnostic.- Lung Structure Classification Using 3D Geometric Measurements and SVM.- Edge Detection in Ventriculograms Using Support Vector Machine Classifiers and Deformable Models.- Breast Cancer Diagnosis Based on a Suitable Combination of Deformable Models and Artificial Neural Networks Techniques.- Infected Cell Identification in Thin Blood Images Based on Color Pixel Classification: Comparison and Analysis.- Coregistration of Small Animal PET and Autoradiography for in vivo–ex vivo Comparison.- Noise Pattern Recognition of Airplanes Taking Off: Task for a Monitoring System.- Echocardiographic Image Sequence Compression Based on Spatial Active Appearance Model.- Unified Neural Network Based Pathologic Event Reconstruction Using Spatial Heart Model.- Fuzzy Spatial Growing for Glioblastoma Multiforme Segmentation on Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Conformal Geometric Algebra for Endoscope-Traking System Calibration in Neurosurgery.- Quality Controlled Multimodal Fusion of Biometric Experts.- Robotics and Remote Sensing Applications of Pattern Recognition.- Fully Automatic and Robust Approach for Remote Sensing Image Registration.- Robust Local Localization of a Mobile Robot in Indoor Environments Using Virtual Corners.- Document Processing and Recognition.- An Algorithm for Foreground-Background Separation in Low Quality Patrimonial Document Images.- Information Extraction and Classification from Free Text Using a Neural Approach.- Formal Distance vs. Association Strength in Text Processing.- Restoration of Double-Sided Ancient Music Documents with Bleed-Through.- Fuzzy and Hybrid Techniques in Pattern Recognition.- Multiple Assessment for Multiple Users in Virtual Reality Training Environments.- Dynamic Penalty Based GA for Inducing Fuzzy Inference Systems.