Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis First Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2003 Puerto de Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, June 4–6, 2003 Proceedings

The refereed proceedings of the First Iberial Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPria 2003, held in Puerto de Andratx, Mallorca, Spain in June 2003.

The 130 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 185 full papers submitted. All current aspects of ongoing research in computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, and speech recognition are addressed.

First Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis IbPRIA’2003.- Solids Characterization Using Modeling Wave Structures.- A Probabilistic Model for the Cooperative Modular Neural Network.- Robust Learning Algorithm for the Mixture of Experts.- A Robust and Effective Learning Algorithm for Feedforward Neural Networks Based on the Influence Function.- Regularization of 3D Cylindrical Surfaces.- Non-rigid Registration of Vessel Structures in IVUS Images.- Underwater Cable Tracking by Visual Feedback.- A Hierarchical Clustering Strategy and Its Application to Proteomic Interaction Data.- A New Optimal Classifier Architecture to Aviod the Dimensionality Curse.- Learning from Imbalanced Sets through Resampling and Weighting.- Morphological Recognition of Olive Grove Patterns.- Combining Multi-variate Statistics and Dempster-Shafer Theory for Edge Detection in Multi-channel SAR Images.- High-Level Clothes Description Based on Colour-Texture and Structural Features.- A New Method for Detection and Initial Pose Estimation Based on Mumford-Shah Segmentation Functional.- Tracking Heads Using Piecewise Planar Models.- Support Vector Machines for Crop Classification Using Hyperspectral Data.- Vehicle License Plate Segmentation in Natural Images.- High-Accuracy Localization of an Underwater Robot in a~Structured Environment Using Computer Vision.- Determine the Composition of Honeybee Pollen by Texture Classification.- Automatic Word Codification for the RECONTRA Connectionist Translator.- The ENCARA System for Face Detection and Normalization.- Prediction and Discrimination of Pharmacological Activity by Using Artificial Neural Networks.- A Spatio-temporal Filtering Approach to Motion Segmentation.- Annotated Image Retrieval System Based on Concepts and Visual Property.- Multimodal Attention System for an Interactive Robot.- New Wavelet-Based Invariant Shape Representation Functions.- A Feature Selection Wrapper for Mixtures.- Tracking People for Automatic Surveillance Applications.- A User Authentication Technic Using a~Web Interaction Monitoring System.- Recovering Camera Motion in a~Sequence of Underwater Images through Mosaicking.- Best Achievable Compression Ratio for Lossy Image Coding.- Performance and Improvements of a~Language Model Based on Stochastic Context-Free Grammars.- Segmentation of Curvilinear Objects Using a~Watershed-Based Curve Adjacency Graph.- Automatic Keyframing of Human Actions for Computer Animation.- Robust Line Matching and Estimate of Homographies Simultaneously.- Modeling High-Order Dependencies in Local Appearance Models.- An Experimental Evaluation of K-nn for Linear Transforms of Positive Data.- Wavelet Packet Image Coder Using Coefficients Partitioning for Remote Sensing Images.- Generation and Use of Synthetic Training Data in Cursive Handwriting Recognition.- Video-Sensor for Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects.- Estimation of Anti-bacterial Culture Activity from Digital Images.- Robust Extraction of Vertices in Range Images by Constraining the Hough Transform.- Comparison of Log-linear Models and Weighted Dissimilarity Measures.- Motion Segmentation Using Distributed Genetic Algorithms.- Supervised Locally Linear Embedding Algorithm for Pattern Recognition.- Hash–Like Fractal Image Compression with Linear Execution Time.- Learning of Stochastic Context-Free Grammars by Means of Estimation Algorithms and Initial Treebank Grammars.- Computer-Aided Prostate Cancer Detection in Ultrasonographic Images.- Ultrasound to Magnetic Resonance Volume Registration for Brain Sinking Measurement.- Segmentation of Range Images in a~Quadtree.- Associative Memory for Early Detection of Breast Cancer.- Bayesian SPECT Image Reconstruction with Scale Hyperparameter Estimation for Scalable Prior.- Reducing Training Sets by NCN-based Exploratory Procedures.- Probabilistic Observation Models for Tracking Based on Optical Flow.- Simplified Texture Unit: A~New Descriptor of the Local Texture in Gray-Level Images.- Active Region Segmentation of Mammographic Masses Based on Texture, Contour and Shape Features.- Refining 3D Recovering by Carving through View Interpolation and Stereovision.- Chromosome Classification Using Continuous Hidden Markov Models.- Generalized k-Medians Clustering for Strings.- A Quadtree-Based Unsupervised Segmentation Algorithm for Fruit Visual Inspection.- Shape Deformation Models Using Non-uniform Objects in Multimedia Applications.- An Experimental Comparison of Dimensionality Reduction for Face Verification Methods.- Bayesian Image Estimation from an Incomplete Set of Blurred, Undersampled Low Resolution Images.- A Procedure for Biological Sensitive Pattern Matching in Protein Sequences.- An Algebra for the Treatment of Multivalued Information Systems.- Adaptive Learning for String Classification.- Multiple Segmentation of Moving Objects by Quasi-simultaneous Parametric Motion Estimation.- Fusion of Color and Shape for Object Tracking under Varying Illumination.- Extending Fast Nearest Neighbour Search Algorithms for Approximate k-NN Classification.- ART-VENA: Retinal Vaseular Caliber Measurement.- Use of Band Ratioing for Color Texture Classification.- Does Independent Component Analysis Play a~Role in Unmixing Hyperspectral Data?.- Vertex Component Analysis: A~Fast Algorithm to Extract Endmembers Spectra from Hyperspectral Data.- On the Relationship between Classification Error Bounds and Training Criteria in Statistical Pattern Recognition.- Application of Multinomial Mixture Model to Text Classification.- An Empirical Comparison of Stack-Based Decoding Algorithms for Statistical Machine Translation.- Detection of Colour Channels Uncoupling for Curvature-Insensitive Segmentation.- Analyzing Periodic Motion Classification.- Finding Breaking Curves in 3D Surfaces.- Robust Segmentation and Decoding of a~Grid Pattern for Structured Light.- A New Reference Point Detection Algorithm Based on Orientation Pattern Labeling in Fingerprint Images.- Global Motion Estimation in Sprite Generation by Eliminating Local Object Motions.- Automatic Inspection of Wooden Pallets Using Contextual Segmentation Methods.- Gabor Wavelets and Auto-organised Structures for Directional Primitive Extraction.- A Colour Tracking Procedure for Low-Cost Face Desktop Applications.- Local Motion Estimation from Stereo Image Sequences.- A Change Validation System for Aerial Images Based on a Probabilistic Latent Variable Model.- Petrographic Classification at the Macroscopic Scale Using a Mathematical Morphology Based Approach.- On the Efficiency of Luminance-Based Palette Reordering of Color-Quantized Images.- Feature-Driven Recognition of Music Styles.- Multiple Model Approach to Deformable Shape Tracking.- Pixel-Based Texture Classification by Integration of Multiple Texture Feature Evaluation Windows.- Vessel Segmentation and Branching Detection Using an Adaptive Profile Kalman Filter in Retinal Blood Vessel Structure Analysis.- Reconstruction of Quadrics from Two Polarization Views.- Some Results about the Use of Tree/String Edit Distances in a~Nearest Neighbour Classification Task.- Line Detection Using Ridgelets Transform for Graphic Symbol Representation.- Tree-Structured Representation of Musical Information.- Comparative Study of the Baum-Welch and Viterbi Training Algorithms Applied to Read and Spontaneous Speech Recognition.- Skin Lesions Diagnosis Based on Fluorescence Image Processing: Simple Parameters Scanning.- Incrementally Assessing Cluster Tendencies with a~Maximum Variance Cluster Algorithm.- Musical Style Recognition by Detection of Compass.- Subtexture Components for Texture Description.- A 3D Ultrasound System for Medical Diagnosis.- Shot Segmentation Using a~Coupled Markov Chains Representation of Video Contents.- Estimating Confidence Measures for Speech Recognition Verification Using a~Smoothed Naive Bayes Model.- A New Wavelets Image Fusion Strategy.- Quality Assessment of Manufactured Roof-Tiles Using Digi