| Invited Talks | |
| Spectral Methods for View-Based 3-D Object Recognition Using Silhouettes | p. 1 |
| Machine Learning for Sequential Data: A Review | p. 15 |
| Graph-Based Methods for Vision: A Yorkist Manifesto | p. 31 |
| SSPR | |
| Graphs, Grammars and Languages | |
| Reducing the Computational Cost of Computing Approximated Median Strings | p. 47 |
| Tree k-Grammar Models for Natural Language Modelling and Parsing | p. 56 |
| Algorithms for Learning Function Distinguishable Regular Languages | p. 64 |
| Graphs, Strings and Grammars | |
| Non-bayesian Graph Matching without Explicit Compatibility Calculations | p. 74 |
| Spectral Feature Vectors for Graph Clustering | p. 83 |
| Identification of Diatoms by Grid Graph Matching | p. 94 |
| String Edit Distance, Random Walks and Graph Matching | p. 104 |
| Learning Structural Variations in Shock Trees | p. 113 |
| A Comparison of Algorithms for Maximum Common Subgraph on Randomly Connected Graphs | p. 123 |
| Inexact Multisubgraph Matching Using Graph Eigenspace and Clustering Models | p. 133 |
| Optimal Lower Bound for Generalized Median Problems in Metric Space | p. 143 |
| Documents and OCR | |
| Structural Description to Recognising Arabic Characters Using Decision Tree Learning Techniques | p. 152 |
| Feature Approach for Printed Document Image Analysis | p. 159 |
| Example-Driven Graphics Recognition | p. 168 |
| Estimation of Texels for Regular Mosaics Using Model-Based Interaction Maps | p. 177 |
| Using Graph Search Techniques for Contextual Colour Retrieval | p. 186 |
| Image Shape Analysis and Application | |
| Comparing Shape and Temporal PDMs | p. 195 |
| Linear Shape Recognition with Mixtures of Point Distribution Models | p. 205 |
| Curvature Weighted Evidence Combination for Shape-from-Shading | p. 216 |
| Probabilistic Decisions in Production Nets: An Example from Vehicle Recognition | p. 225 |
| Hierarchical Top Down Enhancement of Robust PCA | p. 234 |
| An Application of Machine Learning Techniques for the Classification of Glaucomatous Progression | p. 243 |
| Poster Papers | |
| Graphs, Strings, Grammars and Language | |
| Estimating the Joint Probability Distribution of Random Vertices and Arcs by Means of Second-Order Random Graphs | p. 252 |
| Successive Projection Graph Matching | p. 263 |
| Compact Graph Model of Handwritten Images: Integration into Authentification and Recognition | p. 272 |
| A Statistical and Structural Approach for Symbol Recognition, Using XML Modelling | p. 281 |
| A New Algorithm for Graph Matching with Application to Content-Based Image Retrieval | p. 291 |
| Efficient Computation of 3-D Moments in Terms of an Object's Partition | p. 301 |
| Image Analysis and Feature Extraction | |
| A Visual Attention Operator Based on Morphological Models of Images and Maximum Likelihood Decision | p. 310 |
| Disparity Using Feature Points in Multi Scale | p. 320 |
| Detecting Perceptually Important Regions in an Image Based on Human Visual Attention Characteristic | p. 329 |
| Development of Spoken Language User Interfaces: A Tool Kit Approach | p. 339 |
| Documents and OCR | |
| Document Image De-warping for Text/Graphics Recognition | p. 348 |
| A Complete OCR System for Gurmukhi Script | p. 358 |
| Texprint: A New Algorithm to Discriminate Textures Structurally | p. 368 |
| Optical Music Interpretation | p. 378 |
| On the Segmentation of Color Cartographic Images | p. 387 |
| SPR | |
| Density Estimation and Distribution Models | |
| Projection Pursuit FittingGaussian Mixture Models | p. 396 |
| Asymmetric Gaussian and Its Application to Pattern Recognition | p. 405 |
| Modified Predictive Validation Test for Gaussian Mixture Modelling | p. 414 |
| Multi-classifiers and Fusion | |
| Performance Analysis and Comparison of Linear Combiners for Classifier Fusion | p. 424 |
| Comparison of Two Classification Methodologies on a Real-World Biomedical Problem | p. 433 |
| Evidence Accumulation Clustering Based on the K-Means Algorithm | p. 442 |
| Feature Extraction and Selection | |
| A Kernel Approach to Metric Multidimensional Scaling | p. 452 |
| On Feature Selection with Measurement Cost and Grouped Features | p. 461 |
| Classifier-Independent Feature Selection Based on Non-parametric Discriminant Analysis | p. 470 |
| Effects of Many Feature Candidates in Feature Selection and Classification | p. 480 |
| General Methodology | |
| Spatial Representation of Dissimilarity Data via Lower-Complexity Linear and Nonlinear Mappings | p. 488 |
| A Method to Estimate the True Mahalanobis Distance from Eigenvectors of Sample Covariance Matrix | p. 498 |
| Non-iterative Heteroscedastic Linear Dimension Reduction for Two-Class Data (From Fisher to Chernoff) | p. 508 |
| Some Experiments in Supervised Pattern Recognition with Incomplete Training Samples | p. 518 |
| Recursive Prototype Reduction Schemes Applicable for Large Data Sets | p. 528 |
| Documents and OCR | |
| Combination of Tangent Vectors and Local Representations for Handwritten Digit Recognition | p. 538 |
| Training Set Expansion in Handwritten Character Recognition | p. 548 |
| Document Classification Using Phrases | p. 557 |
| Image Shape Analysis and Application | |
| Face Detection by Learned Affine Correspondences | p. 566 |
| Shape-from-Shading for Highlighted Surfaces | p. 576 |
| Texture Description by Independent Components | p. 587 |
| Fusion of Multiple Cue Detectors for Automatic Sports Video Annotation | p. 597 |
| Query Shifting Based on Bayesian Decision Theory for Content-Based Image Retrieval | p. 607 |
| Recursive Model-Based Colour Image Restoration | p. 617 |
| Poster Papers | |
| Face Recognition | |
| Human Face Recognition with Different Statistical Features | p. 627 |
| A Transformation-Based Mechanism for Face Recognition | p. 636 |
| Face Detection Using Integral Projection Models* | p. 644 |
| Illumination Normalized Face Image for Face Recognition | p. 654 |
| Towards a Generalized Eigenspace-Based Face Recognition Framework | p. 662 |
| Speech and Multimedia | |
| Automatic Segmentation of Speech at the Phonetic Level | p. 672 |
| Class-Discriminative Weighted Distortion Measure for VQ-based Speaker Identification | p. 681 |
| Alive Fishes Species Characterization from Video Sequences | p. 689 |
| Data and Cluster Analysis | |
| Automatic Cut Detection in MPEG Movies: A Multi-expert Approach | p. 699 |
| Bayesian Networks for Incorporation of Contextual Information in Target Recognition Systems | p. 709 |
| Extending LAESA Fast Nearest Neighbour Algorithm to Find the k Nearest Neighbours | p. 718 |
| A Fast Approximated k-Median Algorithm | p. 725 |
| A Hidden Markov Model-Based Approach to Sequential Data Clustering | p. 734 |
| Genetic Algorithms for Exploratory Data Analysis | p. 743 |
| Classification | |
| Piecewise Multi-linear PDF Modelling, Using an ML Approach | p. 752 |
| Decision Tree Using Class-Dependent Feature Subsets | p. 761 |
| Fusion of n-Tuple Based Classifiers for High Performance Handwritten Character Recognition | p. 770 |
| A Biologically Plausible Approach to Cat and Dog Discrimination | p. 779 |
| Morphologically Unbiased Classifier Combination through Graphical PDF Correlation | p. 789 |
| Classifiers under Continuous Observations | p. 798 |
| Image Analysis and Vision | |
| Texture Classification Based on Coevolution Approach in Multiwavelet Feature Space | p. 806 |
| Probabilistic Signal Models to Regularise Dynamic Programming Stereo | p. 814 |
| The Hough Transform without the Accumulators | p. 823 |
| Robust Gray-Level Histogram Gaussian Characterisation | p. 833 |
| Model-Based Fatique Fractographs Texture Analysis | p. 842 |
| Hierarchical Multiscale Modelingof Wavelet-Based Correlations | p. 850 |
| Author Index | p. 861 |
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