Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition Joint IAPR International Workshops, SSPR 2006 and SPR 2006, Hong Kong, China, August 17-19, 2006, Proceedings

Invited Talks.- Structured Output Prediction with Support Vector Machines.- On the Theory and Applications of Sequence Based Estimation of Independent Binomial Random Variables.- Symmetries from Uniform Space Covering in Stochastic Discrimination.- Structural Inference of Sensor-Based Measurements.- SSPR.- A Multiphase Level Set Evolution Scheme for Aerial Image Segmentation Using Multi-scale Image Geometric Analysis.- Experiments on Robust Image Registration Using a Markov-Gibbs Appearance Model.- Fully Automatic Segmentation of Coronary Vessel Structures in Poor Quality X-Ray Angiogram Images.- Smoothing Tensor-Valued Images Using Anisotropic Geodesic Diffusion.- Diffusion of Geometric Affinity for Surface Integration.- Comparative Study of People Detection in Surveillance Scenes.- A Class of Generalized Median Contour Problem with Exact Solution.- Structural and Syntactic Techniques for Recognition of Ethiopic Characters.- Context Driven Chinese String Segmentation and Recognition.- Support Vector Machines for Mathematical Symbol Recognition.- Bayesian Class-Matched Multinet Classifier.- Bayesian Network Structure Learning by Recursive Autonomy Identification.- Fast Suboptimal Algorithms for the Computation of Graph Edit Distance.- A Spectral Generative Model for Graph Structure.- Considerations Regarding the Minimum Spanning Tree Pyramid Segmentation Method.- A Random Walk Kernel Derived from Graph Edit Distance.- Edit Distance for Ordered Vector Sets: A Case of Study.- Shape Retrieval Using Normalized Fourier Descriptors Based Signatures and Cyclic Dynamic Time Warping.- Poster Papers.- Watermarking for 3D CAD Drawings Based on Three Components.- Hierarchical Video Summarization Based on Video Structure and Highlight.- Direct Curvature Scale Space in Corner Detection.- Aligning Concave and Convex Shapes.- Research on Iterative Closest Contour Point for Underwater Terrain-Aided Navigation.- Image-Based Absolute Positioning System for Mobile Robot Navigation.- An Evaluation of Three Popular Computer Vision Approaches for 3-D Face Synthesis.- Optical Flow Computation with Fourth Order Partial Differential Equations.- Transforming Strings to Vector Spaces Using Prototype Selection.- Shape Categorization Using String Kernels.- Trace Formula Analysis of Graphs.- A Robust Realtime Surveillance System.- Ubiquitous Intelligent Sensing System for a Smart Home.- Object Recognition Using Multiresolution Trees.- A Robust and Hierarchical Approach for Camera Motion Classification.- Time Series Analysis of Grey Forecasting Based on Wavelet Transform and Its Prediction Applications.- A Study of Touchless Fingerprint Recognition System.- Development of a Block-Based Real-Time People Counting System.- A Classification Approach for the Heart Sound Signals Using Hidden Markov Models.- Structure Analysis Based Parking Slot Marking Recognition for Semi-automatic Parking System.- A Fast and Exact Modulo-Distance Between Histograms.- Using Learned Conditional Distributions as Edit Distance.- An Efficient Distance Between Multi-dimensional Histograms for Comparing Images.- Finding Captions in PDF-Documents for Semantic Annotations of Images.- Effective Handwritten Hangul Recognition Method Based on the Hierarchical Stroke Model Matching.- Graph Embedding Using Commute Time.- Graph Based Multi-class Semi-supervised Learning Using Gaussian Process.- Point Pattern Matching Via Spectral Geometry.- Graph-Based Fast Image Segmentation.- Modeling of Remote Sensing Image Content Using Attributed Relational Graphs.- A Graph-Based Method for Detecting and Classifying Clusters in Mammographic Images.- SPR.- A Speedup Method for SVM Decision.- Generalization Error of Multinomial Classifier.- Combining Accuracy and Prior Sensitivity for Classifier Design Under Prior Uncertainty.- Using Co-training and Self-training in Semi-supervised Multiple Classifier Systems.- MRF Based Spatial Complexity for Hyperspectral Imagery Unmixing.- Effectiveness of Spectral Band Selection/Extraction Techniques for Spectral Data.- Edge Detection in Hyperspectral Imaging: Multivariate Statistical Approaches.- Semi-supervised PCA-Based Face Recognition Using Self-training.- Facial Shadow Removal.- A Sequential Monte Carlo Method for Bayesian Face Recognition.- Outlier Detection Using Ball Descriptions with Adjustable Metric.- HMM-Based Gait Recognition with Human Profiles.- Maxwell Normal Distribution in a Manifold and Mahalanobis Metric.- Augmented Embedding of Dissimilarity Data into (Pseudo-)Euclidean Spaces.- Feature Over-Selection.- Flexible-Hybrid Sequential Floating Search in Statistical Feature Selection.- EM Cluster Analysis for Categorical Data.- Two Entropy-Based Methods for Learning Unsupervised Gaussian Mixture Models.- Maximum Likelihood Estimates for Object Detection Using Multiple Detectors.- Confidence Based Gating of Multiple Face Authentication Experts.- Poster Papers.- Diversity Analysis for Ensembles of Word Sequence Recognisers.- Adaptive Classifier Selection Based on Two Level Hypothesis Tests for Incremental Learning.- Combining SVM and Graph Matching in a Bayesian Multiple Classifier System for Image Content Recognition.- Comparison of Classifier Fusion Methods for Classification in Pattern Recognition Tasks.- AUC-Based Linear Combination of Dichotomizers.- Confidence Score Based Unsupervised Incremental Adaptation for OOV Words Detection.- Polynomial Network Classifier with Discriminative Feature Extraction.- Semi-supervised Classification with Active Query Selection.- On the Use of Different Classification Rules in an Editing Task.- Mono-font Cursive Arabic Text Recognition Using Speech Recognition System.- From Indefinite to Positive Semi-Definite Matrices.- A Multi-stage Approach for Anchor Shot Detection.- An Improved Possibilistic C-Means Algorithm Based on Kernel Methods.- Identifiability and Estimation of Probabilities from Multiple Databases with Incomplete Data and Sampling Selection.- Unsupervised Image Segmentation Using a Hierarchical Clustering Selection Process.- Application of a Two-Level Self Organizing Map for Korean Online Game Market Segmentation.- Clustering Based on Compressed Data for Categorical and Mixed Attributes.- On Optimizing Kernel-Based Fisher Discriminant Analysis Using Prototype Reduction Schemes.- Sparse Covariance Estimates for High Dimensional Classification Using the Cholesky Decomposition.- Generic Blind Source Separation Using Second-Order Local Statistics.- Hyperspectral Data Selection from Mutual Information Between Image Bands.- Model Selection Using a Class of Kernels with an Invariant Metric.- Non-Euclidean or Non-metric Measures Can Be Informative.- Merging and Arbitration Strategy Applied Bayesian Classification for Eye Location.- Recognizing Face or Object from a Single Image: Linear vs. Kernel Methods on 2D Patterns.- A Coupled Statistical Model for Face Shape Recovery.- Analysis and Selection of Features for the Fingerprint Vitality Detection.- Recognizing Facial Expressions with PCA and ICA onto Dimension of the Emotion.- An Audio Copyright Protection Schemes Based on SMM in Cepstrum Domain.- Combining Features to Improve Oil Spill Classification in SAR Images.