Preface.
List of Contributors.
1. On Offline Arabic Character Recognition (Muhammad
Sarfraz, Abdulmalek Zidouri, and Syed Nazim Nawaz (Saudi
Arabia).
2. License Plate Recognition System: Saudi Arabian Case
(Muhammad Sarfraz and Mohammed Jameel Ahmed (Saudi
Arabia).
3. Algorithms for Extracting Textual Characters in Color
Video (Edward K. Wong and Minya Chen(USA).
4. Separation of Handwritten Touching Digits: A
Multi-Agents Approach (Ashraf Elnagar (UAE ) and Reda
Al-Hajj (Canada).
5. Prototype-based Handwriting Recognition using Shape and
Execution Prototypes (Miguel L. Bote-Lorenzo, Eduardo
Gomez-Sanchez, Yannis A. Dimitriadis
(Spain).
6. Logo Detection in Document Images with Complex Backgrounds
(Tuan D. Pham and Jinsong Yang (Australia).
7. An Intelligent On-line Signature Verification System
(Bin Li (China) and David Zhang (Hong Kong).
8. Hybrid Fingerprint Recognition using Minutiae and Shape
(Asker Bazen, Raymond Veldhuis, and Sabih Gerez (The
Netherlands).
9. Personal Authentication Using the Fusion of Multiple
Palm-print Features (Chin-Chuan Han ( Taiwan,
R.O.C.).
10. Intelligent Iris Recognition Using Neural Networks
(Muhammad Sarfraz, Mohamed Deriche, Muhammad Moinuddin,
and Syed Saad Azhar Ali (Saudi Arabia).
11. Pose Invariant Face Recognition using Subspaces
Techniques (Mohamed Deriche and Mohammed Aleemuddin
(Saudi Arabia).
12. Developmental Vision: Adaptive Recognition of Human
Faces by Humanoid Robots (Hon-fai Chia and Ming Xie
(Singapore).
13. Empirical Study on Appearance-based Binary Age
Classification (Mohammed Yeasin, Rahul Khare, and Rajeev
Sharma (USA).
14. Intelligent Recognition in Medical Pattern
Understanding and Cognitive Analysis (Marek R. Ogiela and
Ryszard Tadeusiewicz (Poland).
15. The Road Map for Recognizing Regions of Interest in
Medical Images (Sabah M.A. Mohammed, Jinan A.W. Fiaidhi,
and Lei Yang (Canada).
16. Feature Extraction and Compression with Discriminative
and Nonlinear Classifiers and Applications in Speech Recognition
(Xuechuan Wang (Canada).
17. Improving Mine Recognition through Processing and
Dempster-Shafer Fusion of Multisensor Data (Nada
Milisavljevi? (Belgium) and Isabelle Bloch (France).
18. Fast Object Recognition Using Dynamic Programming from
Combination of Salient Line Groups (Dong Joong Kang, Jong
Eun Ha, and In So Kweon (Korea).
19. Holo-Extraction and Intelligent Recognition of Digital
Curves Scanned from Paper Drawings (Ke-Zhang Chen,
Xi-Wen Zhang, Zong-Ying Ou, and Xin-An
Feng(China).
20. Topological Segmentation and Smoothing of
Discrete Curve Skeletons (Wenjie Xie, Renato Perucchio, David
Sedmera, and Robert P. Thompson (USA).
21. Applications of Clifford Valued Neural Networks to
Pattern Classification and Pose Estimation (Eduardo
Bayro-Corrochano and Nancy Arana-Daniel (Mexico).
22. Intelligent Recognition: Components of the Short Time
Fourier Transform vs. Conventional Approaches(Leonid Gelman,
Mike Sanderson, Chris Thompson, and Paul Anuzis
(UK).
23. Conceptual Data Classification: Application for
Knowledge Extraction(Ahmed Hasnah, Ali Jaoua, and Jihad Jaam
(Qatar).
24. Cryptographic Communications With Chaotic
Semiconductor Lasers (Andres Iglesias
(Spain).
Index.