Pattern recognition and image analysis : third Iberian conference, IbPRIA 2007, Girona, Spain, June 6-8, 2007 : proceedings / Part 1 : third Iberian conference, IbPRIA 2007, Girona, Spain, June 6-8, 2007 : proceedings / Joan Martí ... [et al.] (eds.)

The two-volume set LNCS 4477 and 4478 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2007, held in Girona, Spain in June 2007. The 48 revised full papers and 108 revised poster papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 328 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on pattern recognition, human language technology, special architectures and industrial applications, motion analysis, image analysis, biomedical applications, shape and texture analysis, 3D, as well as image coding and processing. Front Matter....Pages - Known Unknowns: Novelty Detection in Condition Monitoring....Pages 1-6 Seeing the Invisible and Predicting the Unexpected....Pages 7-8 Vision-Based SLAM in Real-Time....Pages 9-12 Handwritten Symbol Recognition by a Boosted Blurred Shape Model with Error Correction....Pages 13-21 Bayesian Hyperspectral Image Segmentation with Discriminative Class Learning....Pages 22-29 Comparison of Unsupervised Band Selection Methods for Hyperspectral Imaging....Pages 30-38 Learning Mixture Models for Gender Classification Based on Facial Surface Normals....Pages 39-46 Feature Selection Based on a New Formulation of the Minimal-Redundancy-Maximal-Relevance Criterion....Pages 47-54 Topological Histogram Reduction Towards Colour Segmentation....Pages 55-62 Dealing with Non-linearity in Shape Modelling of Articulated Objects....Pages 63-71 Human Motion Characterization Using Spatio-temporal Features....Pages 72-79 Fast Stochastic Context-Free Parsing: A Stochastic Version of the Valiant Algorithm....Pages 80-88 Supervised Segmentation Based on Texture Signatures Extracted in the Frequency Domain....Pages 89-96 Analysis of Relevant Maxima in Distance Transform. An Application to Fast Coarse Image Segmentation....Pages 97-104 Performance Analysis of Classifier Ensembles: Neural Networks Versus Nearest Neighbor Rule....Pages 105-112 Robust Multiple-People Tracking Using Colour-Based Particle Filters....Pages 113-120 Structure Restriction for Tracking Through Multiple Views and Occlusions....Pages 121-128 On the Detection of Regions-of-Interest in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI....Pages 129-136 Dealing with the Perspective Distortion to Detect Overtaking Cars for Driving Assistance....Pages 137-144 3D Reconstruction on MRI to Analyse Marbling and Fat Level in Iberian Loin....Pages 145-152 Epiflow Based Stereo Fusion....Pages 153-160 Automatic Segmentation of the Liver in CT Using Level Sets Without Edges....Pages 161-168 Spectral Modes of Facial Needle-Maps....Pages 169-176 Classifiers for Vegetation and Forest Mapping with Low Resolution Multiespectral Imagery....Pages 177-184 A Robust Audio Fingerprint’s Based Identification Method....Pages 185-192 Development of a Methodology for Automated Crater Detection on Planetary Images....Pages 193-200 Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter for Human Appearance and Position Tracking....Pages 201-208 Parameter System for Human Physiological Data Representation and Analysis....Pages 209-216 Face Recognition in Color Using Complex and Hypercomplex Representations....Pages 217-224 A Semi-automatic Approach to Photo Identification of Wild Elephants....Pages 225-232 Language Identification Based on Phone Decoding for Basque and Spanish....Pages 233-240 Computer Assisted Transcription of Speech....Pages 241-248 Word Segments in Category-Based Language Models for Automatic Speech Recognition....Pages 249-256 Part-of-Speech Tagging Based on Machine Translation Techniques....Pages 257-264 Bilingual Text Classification....Pages 265-273 Robust Lane Lines Detection and Quantitative Assessment....Pages 274-281 Matrics, a Car License Plate Recognition System....Pages 282-289 Automatic Labeling of Colonoscopy Video for Cancer Detection....Pages 290-297 Functional Pattern Recognition of 3D Laser Scanned Images of Wood-Pulp Chips....Pages 298-305 Hardware Implementation of Moment Functions in a CMOS Retina: Application to Pattern Recognition....Pages 306-313 Decimation Estimation and Linear Model-Based Super-Resolution Using Zoomed Observations....Pages 314-321 Line Extraction from Mechanically Scanned Imaging Sonar....Pages 322-329 Road Signs Recognition by the Scale-Space Template Matching in the Log-Polar Domain....Pages 330-337 The Condition of Kernelizing an Algorithm and an Equivalence Between Kernel Methods....Pages 338-345 A Probabilistic Observation Model for Stereo Vision Systems: Application to Particle Filter-Based Mapping and Localization....Pages 346-353 New Neighborhood Based Classification Rules for Metric Spaces and Their Use in Ensemble Classification....Pages 354-361 Classification of Voltage Sags Based on MPCA Models....Pages 362-369 On-Line Handwriting Recognition System for Tamil Handwritten Characters....Pages 370-377 A New Type of Feature – Loose N-Gram Feature in Text Categorization....Pages 378-385 Variational Deconvolution of Multi-channel Images with Inequality Constraints....Pages 386-393 HMM-Based Action Recognition Using Contour Histograms....Pages 394-401 Locating and Segmenting 3D Deformable Objects by Using Clusters of Contour Fragments....Pages 402-409 Development of a Cascade Processing Method for Microarray Spot Segmentation....Pages 410-417 Haar Wavelets and Edge Orientation Histograms for On–Board Pedestrian Detection....Pages 418-425 Face Recognition Using Principal Geodesic Analysis and Manifold Learning....Pages 426-434 Optimized Associative Memories for Feature Selection....Pages 435-442 Automatic Construction of Fuzzy Rules for Modelling and Prediction of the Central Nervous System....Pages 443-450 A Clustering Technique for Video Copy Detection....Pages 451-458 Invariant Multi-scale Object Categorisation and Recognition....Pages 459-466 Combination of N-Grams and Stochastic Context-Free Grammars in an Offline Handwritten Recognition System....Pages 467-474 Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation Using Approximate Matching....Pages 475-482 Motion Segmentation from Feature Trajectories with Missing Data....Pages 483-490 Segmentation of Rigid Motion from Non-rigid 2D Trajectories....Pages 491-498 Hierarchical Eyelid and Face Tracking....Pages 499-506 Automatic Learning of Conceptual Knowledge in Image Sequences for Human Behavior Interpretation....Pages 507-514 A Comparative Study of Local Descriptors for Object Category Recognition: SIFT vs HMAX....Pages 515-522 Moment-Based Pattern Representation Using Shape and Grayscale Features....Pages 523-530 Parsimonious Kernel Fisher Discrimination....Pages 531-538 Explicit Modelling of Invariances in Bernoulli Mixtures for Binary Images....Pages 539-546 Computer Vision Approaches to Pedestrian Detection: Visible Spectrum Survey....Pages 547-554 A Decision-Tree-Based Online Speaker Clustering....Pages 555-562 Classification of Continuous Heart Sound Signals Using the Ergodic Hidden Markov Model....Pages 563-570 A Protocol to Cipher Digital Images Based on Cat Maps and Cellular Automata....Pages 571-578 Perceptually-Based Functions for Coarseness Textural Feature Representation....Pages 579-586 Vehicle Trajectory Estimation Based on Monocular Vision....Pages 587-594 A Neural Network Model for Image Change Detection Based on Fuzzy Cognitive Maps....Pages 595-602 Semiring Lattice Parsing Applied to CYK....Pages 603-610 Constrained Monocular Obstacle Perception with Just One Frame....Pages 611-619 Back Matter....Pages - Part of a two-volume set, this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2007, held in Girona, Spain in June 2007. It covers pattern recognition, human language technology, special architectures and industrial applications, motion analysis, image analysis, biomedical applications, shape and texture analysis, 3D, and image coding and processing. Part of a two-volume set, this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2007, held in Girona, Spain in June 2007. It covers pattern recognition, human language technology, special architectures and industrial applications, motion analysis, and image analysis.