Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications : 17th Iberoamerican Congress, CIARP 2012, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 3-6, 2012, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2012, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in September 2012. The 109 papers presented, among them two tutorials and four keynotes, were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on face and iris: detection and recognition; clustering; fuzzy methods; human actions and gestures; graphs; image processing and analysis; shape and texture; learning, mining and neural networks; medical images; robotics, stereo vision and real time; remote sensing; signal processing; speech and handwriting analysis; statistical pattern recognition; theoretical pattern recognition; and video analysis. Front Matter....Pages - Optimal “Anti-Bayesian” Parametric Pattern Classification Using Order Statistics Criteria....Pages 1-13 An Introduction to Restricted Boltzmann Machines....Pages 14-36 Human Activity Recognition with 2D and 3D Cameras....Pages 37-37 Smooth Signed Distance Surface Reconstruction and Applications....Pages 38-45 Robot, Pass Me the Scissors! How Robots Can Assist Us in the Operating Room....Pages 46-57 Pattern Recognition in Transportation....Pages 58-58 The Intrinsic Dimensionality of Attractiveness: A Study in Face Profiles....Pages 59-66 A Hybrid of Principal Component Analysis and Partial Least Squares for Face Recognition across Pose....Pages 67-73 Gender Classification in Large Databases....Pages 74-81 Combining Face and Facial Feature Detectors for Face Detection Performance Improvement....Pages 82-89 Randomized Face Recognition on Partially Occluded Images....Pages 90-97 Face Recognition: Would Going Back to Functional Nature Be a Good Idea?....Pages 98-105 Dissimilarity Representations Based on Multi-Block LBP for Face Detection....Pages 106-113 On the Vulnerability of Iris-Based Systems to a Software Attack Based on a Genetic Algorithm....Pages 114-121 On the Robustness of Kernel-Based Clustering....Pages 122-129 An Improved Multi-Class Spectral Clustering Based on Normalized Cuts....Pages 130-137 A Simple Hybrid Method for Semi-Supervised Learning....Pages 138-145 Clustering of Incomplete Data and Evaluation of Clustering Quality....Pages 146-153 A New Classifier Combination Scheme Using Clustering Ensemble....Pages 154-161 Nested Dichotomies Based on Clustering....Pages 162-169 Combining Re-Ranking and Rank Aggregation Methods....Pages 170-178 Extracting Understandable 3D Object Groups with Multiple Similarity Metrics....Pages 179-186 Semantic Representation of Geospatial Objects Using Multiples Knowledge Domains....Pages 187-195 Feature Extraction and Classification for Insect Footprint Recognition....Pages 196-203 Vector Transition Classes Generation from Fuzzy Overlapping Classes....Pages 204-211 Infant Cry Classification Using Genetic Selection of a Fuzzy Model....Pages 212-219 Intention, Context and Gesture Recognition for Sterile MRI Navigation in the Operating Room....Pages 220-227 Facilitated Gesture Recognition Based Interfaces for People with Upper Extremity Physical Impairments....Pages 228-235 A Performance Evaluation of HMM and DTW for Gesture Recognition....Pages 236-243 Human Gait Identification Using Persistent Homology....Pages 244-251 STOP: Space-Time Occupancy Patterns for 3D Action Recognition from Depth Map Sequences....Pages 252-259 Human Activity Recognition by Class Label LLE....Pages 260-267 Fast Non-parametric Action Recognition....Pages 268-275 An Human-Computer Interface Using Facial Gestures for the Game of Truco ....Pages 276-283 Using Word Graphs as Intermediate Representation of Uttered Sentences....Pages 284-291 Image Classification Using Frequent Approximate Subgraphs....Pages 292-299 Using Rough Sets and Maximum Similarity Graphs for Nearest Prototype Classification....Pages 300-307 Hierarchical Elastic Graph Matching for Hand Gesture Recognition....Pages 308-315 On Speeding up Frequent Approximate Subgraph Mining....Pages 316-323 Segmentation of Building Facade Domes....Pages 324-331 Human Relative Position Detection Based on Mutual Occlusion....Pages 332-339 Online Matrix Factorization for Multimodal Image Retrieval....Pages 340-347 Improved HSI Color Space for Color Image Segmentation....Pages 348-354 Wavelet-FFT Filter Applied to Non Uniformity Correction in Infrared Imaging System....Pages 355-363 Concealing Damaged Coded Images Using Improved FSE with Critical Support Area....Pages 364-373 Sketchable Histograms of Oriented Gradients for Object Detection....Pages 374-381 Supervised Biometric System Using Multimodal Compression Scheme....Pages 382-389 A New Morphological Measure of Histogram Bimodality....Pages 390-397 Street Detection with Asymmetric Haar Features....Pages 398-405 Automatic Camera Pose Recognition in Planar View Scenarios....Pages 406-413 Texture Image Retrieval Based on Log-Gabor Features....Pages 414-421 Image Retrieval Using Low Level Features of Object Regions with Application to Partially Occluded Images....Pages 422-429 Continuous Multi-way Shape Measure for Dissimilarity Representation....Pages 430-437 Improving Spider Recognition Based on Biometric Web Analysis....Pages 438-446 Legume Identification by Leaf Vein Images Classification....Pages 447-454 CAR-NF + : An Improved Version of CAR-NF Classifier....Pages 455-462 Recognition of Patterns of Health Problems and Falls in the Elderly Using Data Mining....Pages 463-471 SVMTOCP: A Binary Tree Base SVM Approach through Optimal Multi-class Binarization....Pages 472-478 On the Comparison of Structured Data....Pages 479-486 A Modification of the Lernmatrix for Real Valued Data Processing....Pages 487-494 Automatic Design of Binary W-Operators Using Artificial Feed-Forward Neural Networks Based on the Weighted Mean Square Error Cost Function....Pages 495-502 On Using Asymmetry Information for Classification in Extended Dissimilarity Spaces....Pages 503-510 Improving Convergence of Restricted Boltzmann Machines via a Learning Adaptive Step Size....Pages 511-518 Robust Asymmetric Adaboost....Pages 519-526 Enhancing the Performance of AdaBoost Algorithms by Introducing a Frequency Counting Factor for Weight Distribution Updating....Pages 527-534 Significative Learning Using Alpha-Beta Associative Memories....Pages 535-542 Early Visual Processing for Pattern Recognition in Natural Environments....Pages 543-550 Motor Intention Recognition in EEG: In Pursuit of a Relevant Feature Set....Pages 551-558 Bag of Features for Automatic Classification of Alzheimer’s Disease in Magnetic Resonance Images....Pages 559-566 An Automatic Segmentation Approach of Epithelial Cells Nuclei....Pages 567-574 Evaluation and Selection of Morphological Procedures for Automatic Detection of Micro-calcifications in Mammography Images....Pages 575-582 Detection of Chickenpox Vesicles in Digital Images of Skin Lesions....Pages 583-590 Real-Time On-Board Image Processing Using an Embedded GPU for Monocular Vision-Based Navigation....Pages 591-598 Hardware/Software Co-design for Real Time Embedded Image Processing: A Case Study....Pages 599-606 Dynamic Textures Segmentation with GPU....Pages 607-614 Fast Tracking Algorithm with Borders 1-D Histogram Correlation....Pages 615-623 Disparity Confidence Measures on Engineered and Outdoor Data....Pages 624-631 Speckle Reduction Using Stochastic Distances....Pages 632-639 Automatic Classification of Volcanic Earthquakes in HMM-Induced Vector Spaces....Pages 640-647 Building Change Detection from Uniform Regions....Pages 648-655 Generalized Statistical Complexity of SAR Imagery....Pages 656-663 New Metrics to Evaluate Pattern Recognition in Remote Sensing Images....Pages 664-673 Polarimetric SAR Image Smoothing with Stochastic Distances....Pages 674-681 Recognition and Real-Time Detection of Blinking Eyes on Electroencephalographic Signals Using Wavelet Transform....Pages 682-690 Finite Rank Series Modeling for Discrimination of Non-stationary Signals....Pages 691-698 Quaternionic Analytic Signal Using Atomic Functions....Pages 699-706 Separation and Classification of Harmonic Sounds for Singing Voice Detection....Pages 707-714 Online Signature Verification Based on Legendre Series Representation. Consistency Analysis of Different Feature Combinations....Pages 715-723 Gaussian Selection for Speaker Recognition Using Cumulative Vectors....Pages 724-731 Speaker Recognition Using a Binary Representation and Specificities Models....Pages 732-739 Analysis of the Multifractal Nature of Speech Signals....Pages 740-748 Beam-Search Formant Tracking Algorithm Based on Trajectory Functions for Continuous Speech....Pages 749-756 Multi-level Modeling of Manuscripts for Authorship Identification with Collective Decision Systems....Pages 757-764 Extraction of Stationary Spectral Components Using Stochastic Variability....Pages 765-772 Finding Edges by a Contrario Detection of Periodic Subsequences....Pages 773-780 A Non Bayesian Predictive Approach for Functional Calibration....Pages 781-788 Classifier Combination Using Random Walks on the Space of Concepts....Pages 789-796 Stochastic Approaches of Minimum Distance Method for Region Based Classification....Pages 797-804 Skills Assessment of Users in Medical Training Based on Virtual Reality Using Bayesian Networks....Pages 805-812 New Strategies for Evaluating the Performance of Typical Testor Algorithms....Pages 813-820 Hierarchies and Climbing Energies....Pages 821-828 A Method for Reducing the Cardinality of the Pareto Front....Pages 829-836 Feature Selection by Relevance Analysis for Abandoned Object Classification....Pages 837-844 Fusion of Local and Global Descriptors for Content-Based Image and Video Retrieval....Pages 845-853 Speed Estimation Thanks to Two Images from One Stationary Camera....Pages 854-861 An Algorithm for Highlights Identification and Summarization of Broadcast Soccer Videos....Pages 862-869 Bubble Identification Based on High Speed Videometry Data: Algorithm and Validation....Pages 870-876 Object and Gesture Recognition to Assist Children with Autism during the Discrimination Training....Pages 877-884 Pedestrian Detection Using a Feature Space Based on Colored Level Lines....Pages 885-892 Back Matter....Pages -