Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications 11th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2006, Cancún, Mexico, November 14-17, 2006, Proceedings

Skeletonization of Digital Objects.- Maximin Initialization for Cluster Analysis.- Case-Based Object Recognition with Application to Biological Images.- A New Method of Illumination Normalization for Robust Face Recognition.- A Fast Method for Localization of Local Illumination Variations and Photometric Normalization in Face Images.- Gender Classification Using Principal Geodesic Analysis and Gaussian Mixture Models.- Gender Classification of Faces Using Adaboost.- General Pose Face Recognition Using Frontal Face Model.- Approximating 3D Facial Shape from Photographs Using Coupled Statistical Models.- A Comparative Study of Face Representations in the Frequency Domain.- Face Recognition with Region Division and Spin Images.- Extraction of Blood Vessels in Ophthalmic Color Images of Human Retinas.- A Fast Adaboosting Based Method for Iris and Pupil Contour Detection.- In-Vivo IVUS Tissue Classification: A Comparison Between RF Signal Analysis and Reconstructed Images.- Smoothing Segmented Lung Boundary in Chest CT Images Using Scan Line Search.- Automated Ultrasonic Measurement of Fetal Nuchal Translucency Using Dynamic Programming.- A Method for Detection and Modeling of the Human Spine Based on Principal Curvatures.- Linear Radial Patterns Characterization for Automatic Detection of Tonic Intestinal Contractions.- A Machine Learning Framework Using SOMs: Applications in the Intestinal Motility Assessment.- From Lossy to Lossless Wavelet Image Coding in a Tree-Based Encoder with Resolution Scalability.- 3D Mumford-Shah Based Active Mesh.- Fast 2D-3D Point-Based Registration Using GPU-Based Preprocessing for Image-Guided Surgery.- GA–SSD–ARC–NLM for Parametric Image Registration.- Eigenconjugation: An Approach for Computing Image Similarity.- Image Contrast Enhancement Based on Block-Wise Intensity-Pair Distribution with Two Expansion Forces.- Guiding a Bottom-Up Visual Attention Mechanism to Locate Specific Image Regions Using a Distributed Genetic Optimization.- ORIENT-CAM, A Camera That Knows Its Orientation and Some Applications.- Irregular Pyramid Segmentations with Stochastic Graph Decimation Strategies.- Color Texture Segmentation by Decomposition of Gaussian Mixture Model.- Texture Features and Segmentation Based on Multifractal Approach.- Object Segmentation Using Growing Neural Gas and Generalized Gradient Vector Flow in the Geometric Algebra Framework.- A Clustering Based Approach for Automatic Image Segmentation: An Application to Biplane Ventriculograms.- An Image Segmentation Algorithm Using Iteratively the Mean Shift.- A Robust Region Based Level Set Framework for Medical Image Segmentation.- Color Texture Segmentation Based on Quaternion-Gabor Features.- Corner Detection by Searching Two Class Pattern Substrings.- Model-Based Localization Method by Non-speech Sound Via Wavelet Transform and Dynamic Neural Network.- An Application of Neural Networks for Image Reconstruction in Electrical Capacitance Tomography Applied to Oil Industry.- Combining Neural Networks for Gait Classification.- Training of Multilayer Perceptron Neural Networks by Using Cellular Genetic Algorithms.- Combining Neural Networks and Clustering Techniques for Object Recognition in Indoor Video Sequences.- Evaluation of Time and Frequency Domain-Based Methods for the Estimation of Harmonics-to-Noise-Ratios in Voice Signals.- A Combined Classifier of Cry Units with New Acoustic Attributes.- Practical Considerations for Real-Time Implementation of Speech-Based Gender Detection.- On the Processing of Fuzzy Patterns for Text Independent Phonetic Speech Segmentation.- A RLS Filter for Nonuniformity and Ghosting Correction of Infrared Image Sequences.- Correlation Filters for Detection and Localization of Objects in Degraded Images.- Statistical Recursive Filtering Estimation of Detector Offset Nonuniformity in Infrared Imaging Systems.- 3D Vector Directional Filters to Process Video Sequences.- Object Recognition and Tracking in Video Sequences: A New Integrated Methodology.- Conceptual K-Means Algorithm Based on Complex Features.- Spatial Data Description by Means of Knowledge-Based System.- Search Method of Time Sensitive Frequent Itemsets in Data Streams.- Image Compression Algorithm Based on Morphological Associative Memories.- A Novel Approach to Automatic Color Matching.- The Associative Recall of Spatial Correlated Patterns.- Associative Memories Applied to Image Categorization.- Robustness Analysis of the Neural Gas Learning Algorithm.- Feature Selection Based on Mutual Correlation.- Oscillating Feature Subset Search Algorithm for Text Categorization.- Two Step Ant Colony System to Solve the Feature Selection Problem.- Simultaneous Features and Objects Selection for Mixed and Incomplete Data.- Selecting Objects for ALVOT.- Feature Extraction Using Clustering of Protein.- A Theoretical Comparison of Two Linear Dimensionality Reduction Techniques.- A New Approach to Multi-class Linear Dimensionality Reduction.- Automatic Band Selection in Multispectral Images Using Mutual Information-Based Clustering.- Orientation Invariant Features for Multiclass Object Recognition.- On the Design and Implementation of a High Performance Configurable Architecture for Testor Identification.- Proposal for a Unified Methodology for Evaluating Supervised and Non-supervised Classification Algorithms.- Monte Carlo Evaluation of the Hausdorff Distance for Shape Matching.- A Fast Probabilistic Model for Hypothesis Rejection in SIFT-Based Object Recognition.- Diagnosis of Chronic Idiopathic Inflammatory Bowel Disease Using Bayesian Networks.- Learning Variability of Image Feature Appearance Using Statistical Methods.- Probabilistic Shot Boundary Detection Using Interframe Histogram Differences.- A Probabilistic Approach to Build 2D Line Based Maps from Laser Scans in Indoor Environments.- Egomotion Estimation as an Appearance-Based Classification Problem.- Decoding of Ternary Error Correcting Output Codes.- Context-Based Gesture Recognition.- Spectral Median Graphs Applied to Graphical Symbol Recognition.- Deterministic Tourist Walks as an Image Analysis Methodology Based.- Approaches to Classification of Multichannel Images.- Fast Fingerprint Matching Based on the Novel Structure Combining the Singular Point with Its Neighborhood Minutiae.- A New Nearest Neighbor Rule for Text Categorization.- Alignment of Paragraphs in Bilingual Texts Using Bilingual Dictionaries and Dynamic Programming.- Document Mining Based on Semantic Understanding of Text.- Authorship Attribution Using Word Sequences.- Document Representation Based on Maximal Frequent Sequence Sets.- Building an Optimal WSD Ensemble Using Per-Word Selection of Best System.- Pixel-Wise Histograms for Visual Segment Description and Applications.- eVLBI Development in TIGO.- Satellite Tracks Removal in Astronomical Images.- Detection of Coding Regions in Large DNA Sequences Using the Short Time Fourier Transform with Reduced Computational Load.- Time Series Pattern Recognition Based on MAP Transform and Local Trend Associations.- System Classification by Using Discriminant Functions of Time-Frequency Features.- Gabor Kernels for Textured Image Representation and Classification.- Local Linear Approximation for Kernel Methods: The Railway Kernel.- Fusion of Gaussian Kernels Within Support Vector Classification.- Support Vector Machine with External Recurrences for Modeling Dynamic Cerebral Autoregulation.- An Approach to Automatic Target Recognition in Radar Images Using SVM.- Analysis of Algebraic Expressions Derived from Genetic Multivariate Polynomials and Support Vector Machines: A Case Study.- Image Compression by a Time Enhanced Self Organizing Map.