Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications 10th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2005, Havana, Cuba, November 15-18, 2005, Proceedings

CIARP 2005 (10th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, X CIARP) is the 10th event in the series of pioneer congresses on pattern recognition in the Iberoamerican community, which takes place in La Habana, Cuba. As in previous years, X CIARP brought together international scientists to promote and disseminate ongoing research and mathematical methods for pattern recognition, image analysis, and applications in such diverse areas as computer vision, robotics, industry, health, entertainment, space exploration, telecommunications, data mining, document analysis, and natural language processing and recognition, to name a few. Moreover, X CIARP was a forum for scientific research, experience exchange, share of new knowledge and increase in cooperation between research groups in pattern recognition, computer vision and related areas. The 10th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition was organized by the Cuban Association for Pattern Recognition (ACRP) and sponsored by the Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics (ICIMAF), the Advanced Technologies Application Center (CENATAV), the University of Oriente (UO), the Polytechnic Institute “José A Echevarria” (ISPJAE), the Central University of Las Villas (UCLV), the Ciego de Avila University (UNICA), as well as the Center of Technologies Research on Information and Systems (CITIS-UAEH) in Mexico. The conference was also co-sponsored by the Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition (APRP), the Spanish Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI), the Special Interest Group of the Brazilian Computer Society (SIGPR-SBC), and the Mexican Association for Computer Vision, Neurocomputing and Robotics (MACVNR). X CIARP was endorsed by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).

Regular Papers.- CT and PET Registration Using Deformations Incorporating Tumor-Based Constraints.- Surface Grading Using Soft Colour-Texture Descriptors.- Support Vector Machines with Huffman Tree Architecture for Multiclass Classification.- Automatic Removal of Impulse Noise from Highly Corrupted Images.- Smoothing of Polygonal Chains for 2D Shape Representation Using a G 2-Continuous Cubic A-Spline.- A Robust Statistical Method for Brain Magnetic Resonance Image Segmentation.- Inference Improvement by Enlarging the Training Set While Learning DFAs.- A Computational Approach to Illusory Contour Perception Based on the Tensor Voting Technique.- A Novel Clustering Technique Based on Improved Noising Method.- Object Recognition in Indoor Video Sequences by Classifying Image Segmentation Regions Using Neural Networks.- Analysis of Directional Reflectance and Surface Orientation Using Fresnel Theory.- Lacunarity as a Texture Measure for Address Block Segmentation.- Measuring the Quality Evaluation for Image Segmentation.- Frame Deformation Energy Matching of On-Line Handwritten Characters.- Nonlinear Civil Structures Identification Using a Polynomial Artificial Neural Network.- A Method of Automatic Speaker Recognition Using Cepstral Features and Vectorial Quantization.- Classification of Boar Spermatozoid Head Images Using a Model Intracellular Density Distribution.- Speech Recognition Using Energy Parameters to Classify Syllables in the Spanish Language.- A Strategy for Atherosclerotic Lesions Segmentation.- Image Scale-Space from the Heat Kernel.- A Naive Solution to the One-Class Problem and Its Extension to Kernel Methods.- Nonlinear Modeling of Dynamic Cerebral Autoregulation Using Recurrent Neural Networks.- Neural Network Approach to Locate Motifs in Biosequences.- Free-Shaped Object Recognition Method from Partial Views Using Weighted Cone Curvatures.- Automatic Braille Code Translation System.- Automatic Extraction of DNA Profiles in Polyacrilamide Gel Electrophoresis Images.- The Use of Bayesian Framework for Kernel Selection in Vector Machines Classifiers.- Genetic Multivariate Polynomials: An Alternative Tool to Neural Networks.- Non-supervised Classification of 2D Color Images Using Kohonen Networks and a Novel Metric.- Data Dependent Wavelet Filtering for Lossless Image Compression.- A Robust Matching Algorithm Based on Global Motion Smoothness Criterion.- Dynamic Hierarchical Compact Clustering Algorithm.- A Robust Footprint Detection Using Color Images and Neural Networks.- Computing Similarity Among 3D Objects Using Dynamic Time Warping.- Estimation of Facial Angular Information Using a Complex-Number-Based Statistical Model.- An Efficient Path-Generation Method for Virtual Colonoscopy.- Estimation of the Deformation Field for the Left Ventricle Walls in 4-D Multislice Computerized Tomography.- Edition Schemes Based on BSE.- Conceptual K-Means Algorithm with Similarity Functions.- Circulation and Topological Control in Image Segmentation.- Global k-Means with Similarity Functions.- Reconstruction-Independent 3D CAD for Calcification Detection in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Using Fuzzy Particles.- Simple and Robust Hard Cut Detection Using Interframe Differences.- Development and Validation of an Algorithm for Cardiomyocyte Beating Frequency Determination.- A Simple Feature Reduction Method for the Detection of Long Biological Signals.- A Fast Motion Estimation Algorithm Based on Diamond and Simplified Square Search Patterns.- Selecting Prototypes in Mixed Incomplete Data.- Diagnosis of Breast Cancer in Digital Mammograms Using Independent Component Analysis and Neural Networks.- Automatic Texture Segmentation Based on Wavelet-Domain Hidden Markov Tree.- Reward-Punishment Editing for Mixed Data.- Stable Coordinate Pairs in Spanish: Statistical and Structural Description.- Development of a New Index to Evaluate Zooplanktons’ Gonads: An Approach Based on a Suitable Combination of Deformable Models.- The Performance of Various Edge Detector Algorithms in the Analysis of Total Hip Replacement X-rays.- An Incremental Clustering Algorithm Based on Compact Sets with Radius ?.- Image Registration from Mutual Information of Edge Correspondences.- A Recursive Least Square Adaptive Filter for Nonuniformity Correction of Infrared Image Sequences.- MSCT Lung Perfusion Imaging Based on Multi-stage Registration.- Statistical and Linguistic Clustering for Language Modeling in ASR.- A Comparative Study of KBS, ANN and Statistical Clustering Techniques for Unattended Stellar Classification.- An Automatic Goodness Index to Measure Fingerprint Minutiae Quality.- Classifier Selection Based on Data Complexity Measures.- De-noising Method in the Wavelet Packets Domain for Phase Images.- A Robust Free Size OCR for Omni-Font Persian/Arabic Printed Document Using Combined MLP/SVM.- A Modified Area Based Local Stereo Correspondence Algorithm for Occlusions.- An Evaluation of Wavelet Features Subsets for Mammogram Classification.- A New Method for Iris Pupil Contour Delimitation and Its Application in Iris Texture Parameter Estimation.- Flexible Architecture of Self Organizing Maps for Changing Environments.- Automatic Segmentation of Pulmonary Structures in Chest CT Images.- Blind Deconvolution of Ultrasonic Signals Using High-Order Spectral Analysis and Wavelets.- Statistical Hypothesis Testing and Wavelet Features for Region Segmentation.- Evaluating Content-Based Image Retrieval by Combining Color and Wavelet Features in a Region Based Scheme.- Structure in Soccer Videos: Detecting and Classifying Highlights for Automatic Summarization.- Multiscale Vessel Segmentation: A Level Set Approach.- Quantified and Perceived Unevenness of Solid Printed Areas.- Active Contour and Morphological Filters for Geometrical Normalization of Human Face.- Medical Image Segmentation and the Use of Geometric Algebras in Medical Applications.- Similarity Measures in Documents Using Association Graphs.- Real-Time Kalman Filtering for Nonuniformity Correction on Infrared Image Sequences: Performance and Analysis.- Maximum Correlation Search Based Watermarking Scheme Resilient to RST.- Phoneme Spotting for Speech-Based Crypto-key Generation.- Evaluation System Based on EFuNN for On-Line Training Evaluation in Virtual Reality.- Tool Insert Wear Classification Using Statistical Descriptors and Neuronal Networks.- Robust Surface Registration Using a Gaussian-Weighted Distance Map in PET-CT Brain Images.- Optimal Positioning of Sensors in 3D.- Automatic Window Design for Gray-Scale Image Processing Based on Entropy Minimization.- On Shape Orientation When the Standard Method Does Not Work.- Fuzzy Modeling and Evaluation of the Spatial Relation “Along”.- A Computational Model for Pattern and Tile Designs Classification Using Plane Symmetry Groups.- Spectral Patterns for the Generation of Unidirectional Irregular Waves.- Recognition of Note Onsets in Digital Music Using Semitone Bands.- Tool-Wear Monitoring Based on Continuous Hidden Markov Models.- Hand Gesture Recognition Via a New Self-organized Neural Network.- Image Thresholding of Historical Documents Using Entropy and ROC Curves.- De-noising of Underwater Acoustic Signals Based on ICA Feature Extraction.- Efficient Feature Extraction and De-noising Method for Chinese Speech Signals Using GGM-Based ICA.- Adapted Wavelets for Pattern Detection.- Edge Detection in Contaminated Images, Using Cluster Analysis.- Automatic Edge Detection by Combining Kohonen SOM and the Canny Operator.- An Innovative Algorithm for Solving Jigsaw Puzzles Using Geometrical and Color Features.- Image Dominant Colors Estimation and Color Reduction Via a New Self-growing and Self-organized Neural Gas.- Oversegmentation Reduction Via Multiresolution Image Representation.- A Hybrid Approach for Image Retrieval with Ontological Content-Based Indexing.- Keynote Lectures.- Automatic Evaluation of Document Binarization Results.- A Comparative Study on Support Vecto