Advances in Pattern Recognition - ICAPR 2001: Second International Conference Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 11-14, 2001 Proceedings

by Sameer Singh (editor)

INVITED TALKS.- Towards Bridging the Gap between Statistical and Structural Pattern Two New Concepts in Graph Matching.- Learning and Adaptation in Robotics.- Image-based self-localization by means of zero phase representation in panoramic images.- NEURAL NETWORKS & COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE.- A Cascaded Genetic Algorithm for efficient optimization and pattern matching.- Using Unlabelled Data to Train a Multilayer Perceptron.- A Neural Multi -Expert Classification System for MPEG Audio Segmentation.- Pattern Recognition with Quantum Neural Networks.- Pattern Matching and Neural Networks based Hybrid Forecasting System.- Invariant Face Detection in Color Images Using Orthogonal Fourier-Mellin Moments and Support Vector Machines.- CHARACTER RECOGNITION & DOCUMENT ANALYSIS.- Character Extraction from Interfering Background - Analysis of Double-sided Handwritten Archival Documents.- An Enhanced HMM Topology in an LBA Framework for the Recognition of Handwritten Numeral Strings.- Segmentation of Printed Arabic Text.- A Time-Length Constrained Level Building Algorithm for Large Vocabulary Handwritten Word Recognition.- Preventing Overfitting in Learning Text Patterns for Document Categorization.- Image Document Categorization using Hidden Tree Markov Models and Structured Representations.- Handwriting Quality Evaluation.- FEATURE SELECTION & ANALYSIS.- Texture Based Look-Ahead for Decision-Tree Induction.- Feature Based Decision Fusion.- Feature Selection Based on Fuzzy Distances Between First Results on Simulated Data.- Efficient and Effective Feature Selection in the Presence of Feature Interaction and Noise.- Integrating Recognition Paradigms in a Multiple-path Architecture.- A New Geometric Tool for Pattern Recognition - An Algorithm for Real Time Insertion of Layered Segment Trees.- PATTERN RECOGNITION & CLASSIFICATION.- Improvements in K-Nearest Neighbor Classification.- Branch & Bound Algorithm with Partial Prediction for Use with Recursive and Non-Recursive Criterion Forms.- Model Validation for Model Selection.- Grouping via the Matching of Repeated Patterns.- Complex Fittings.- Application of adaptive committee classifiers in on-line character recognition.- Learning Complex Action Patterns with CRGST.- IMAGE & SIGNAL PROCESSING APPLICATIONS.- Identification of electrical activity of the brain associated with changes in behavioural performance.- Automatic Camera Calibration for Image Sequences of a Football Match.- Locating and Tracking Facial Landmarks Using Gabor Wavelet Networks.- Complex Images and Complex A Unified Model for Encoding and Matching Shape and Colour.- White Matter/Gray Matter Boundary Segmentation Using Geometric A Fuzzy Deformable Model.- Multiseeded Fuzzy Segmentation on the Face Centered Cubic Grid.- IMAGE FEATURE ANALYSIS & RETRIEVAL.- 3D Wavelet based Video Retrieval.- Combined Invariants to Convolution and Rotation and their Application to Image Registration.- Modelling Plastic Distortion in Fingerprint Images.- Image Retrieval Using a Hierarchy of Clusters.- Texture-adaptive active contour models.- A Generalized Local Binary Pattern Operator for Multiresolution Gray Scale and Rotation Invariant Texture Classification.- Analysis of Curved Textured Surfaces Using Local Spectral Distortion.- Texture Analysis Experiments with Meastex and Vistex Benchmarks.- TUTORIALS.- Advances in Statistical Feature Selection.- Learning-Based Detection, Segmentation and Matching of Objects.- Automated Biometrics.

496 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 2001