Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis

Robust Automatic Speech Recognition Using PD-MEEMLIN.- Shadow Resistant Road Segmentation from a Mobile Monocular System.- Mosaicking Cluttered Ground Planes Based on Stereo Vision.- Fast Central Catadioptric Line Extraction.- Similarity-Based Object Retrieval Using Appearance and Geometric Feature Combination.- Real-Time Facial Expression Recognition for Natural Interaction.- A Simple But Effective Approach to Speaker Tracking in Broadcast News.- Region-Based Pose Tracking.- Testing Geodesic Active Contours.- Rate Control Algorithm for MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC Transcoding.- 3-D Motion Estimation for Positioning from 2-D Acoustic Video Imagery.- Progressive Compression of Geometry Information with Smooth Intermediate Meshes.- Rejection Strategies Involving Classifier Combination for Handwriting Recognition.- Summarizing Image/Surface Registration for 6DOF Robot/Camera Pose Estimation.- Robust Complex Salient Regions.- Improving Piecewise-Linear Registration Through Mesh Optimization.- Registration-Based Segmentation Using the Information Bottleneck Method.- Dominant Points Detection Using Phase Congruence.- Exploiting Information Theory for Filtering the Kadir Scale-Saliency Detector.- False Positive Reduction in Breast Mass Detection Using Two-Dimensional PCA.- A Fast and Robust Iris Segmentation Method.- Detection of Lung Nodule Candidates in Chest Radiographs.- A Snake for Retinal Vessel Segmentation.- Risk Classification of Mammograms Using Anatomical Linear Structure and Density Information.- A New Method for Robust and Efficient Occupancy Grid-Map Matching.- Vote-Based Classifier Selection for Biomedical NER Using Genetic Algorithms.- Boundary Shape Recognition Using Accumulated Length and Angle Information.- Extracting Average Shapes from Occluded Non-rigid Motion.- Automatic Topological Active Net Division in a Genetic-Greedy Hybrid Approach.- Using Graphics Hardware for Enhancing Edge and Circle Detection.- Optimally Discriminant Moments for Speckle Detection in Real B-Scan Images.- Influence of Resampling and Weighting on Diversity and Accuracy of Classifier Ensembles.- A Hierarchical Approach for Multi-task Logistic Regression.- Modelling of Magnetic Resonance Spectra Using Mixtures for Binned and Truncated Data.- Atmospheric Turbulence Effects Removal on Infrared Sequences Degraded by Local Isoplanatism.- Inference of Stochastic Finite-State Transducers Using N-Gram Mixtures.- Word Spotting in Archive Documents Using Shape Contexts.- Fuzzy Rule Based Edge-Sensitive Line Average Algorithm in Interlaced HDTV Sequences.- A Tabular Pruning Rule in Tree-Based Fast Nearest Neighbor Search Algorithms.- A General Framework to Deal with the Scaling Problem in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation.- Recognizing Individual Typing Patterns.- Residual Filter for Improving Coding Performance of Noisy Video Sequences.- Cyclic Viterbi Score for Linear Hidden Markov Models.- Non Parametric Classification of Human Interaction.- A Density-Based Data Reduction Algorithm for Robust Estimators.- Robust Estimation of Reflectance Functions from Polarization.- Estimation of Multiple Objects at Unknown Locations with Active Contours.- Analytic Reconstruction of Transparent and Opaque Surfaces from Texture Images.- Sedimentological Analysis of Sands.- Catadioptric Camera Calibration by Polarization Imaging.- Stochastic Local Search for Omnidirectional Catadioptric Stereovision Design.- Dimensionless Monocular SLAM.- Improved Camera Calibration Method Based on a Two-Dimensional Template.- Relative Pose Estimation of Surgical Tools in Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery.- Efficiently Downdating, Composing and Splitting Singular Value Decompositions Preserving the Mean Information.- On-Line Classification of Human Activities.- Data-Driven Jacobian Adaptation in a Multi-model Structure for Noisy Speech Recognition.- Development of a Computer Vision System for the Automatic Quality Grading of Mandarin Segments.- Mathematical Morphology in the HSI Colour Space.- Improving Background Subtraction Based on a Casuistry of Colour-Motion Segmentation Problems.- Random Forest for Gene Expression Based Cancer Classification: Overlooked Issues.- Bounding the Size of the Median Graph.- When Overlapping Unexpectedly Alters the Class Imbalance Effects.- A Kernel Matching Pursuit Approach to Man-Made Objects Detection in Aerial Images.- Anisotropic Continuous-Scale Morphology.- Three-Dimensional Ultrasonic Assessment of Atherosclerotic Plaques.- Measuring the Applicability of Self-organization Maps in a Case-Based Reasoning System.- Algebraic-Distance Minimization of Lines and Ellipses for Traffic Sign Shape Localization.- Modeling Aceto-White Temporal Patterns to Segment Colposcopic Images.- Speech/Music Classification Based on Distributed Evolutionary Fuzzy Logic for Intelligent Audio Coding.- Breast Skin-Line Segmentation Using Contour Growing.- New Measure for Shape Elongation.- Evaluation of Spectral-Based Methods for Median Graph Computation.- Feasible Application of Shape-Based Classification.- 3D Shape Recovery with Registration Assisted Stereo Matching.- Blind Estimation of Motion Blur Parameters for Image Deconvolution.- Dependent Component Analysis: A Hyperspectral Unmixing Algorithm.- Synchronization of Video Sequences from Free-Moving Cameras.- Tracking the Left Ventricle in Ultrasound Images Based on Total Variation Denoising.- Bayesian Oil Spill Segmentation of SAR Images Via Graph Cuts.- Unidimensional Multiscale Local Features for Object Detection Under Rotation and Mild Occlusions.