Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications: 9th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, Ciarp 2004, Puebla, Mexico, Octob (Paperback, 2004)

Use of Context in Automatic Annotation of Sports Videos.- Content Based Retrieval of 3D Data.- Clifford Geometric Algebra: A Promising Framework for Computer Vision, Robotics and Learning.- Adaptive Color Model for Figure-Ground Segmentation in Dynamic Environments.- Real-Time Infrared Object Tracking Based on Mean Shift.- Optimal Positioning of Sensors in 2D.- Computer Vision Algorithms Versus Traditional Methods in Food Technology: The Desired Correlation.- Radiance Function Estimation for Object Classification.- Detecting and Ranking Saliency for Scene Description.- Decision Fusion for Object Detection and Tracking Using Mobile Cameras.- Selection of an Automated Morphological Gradient Threshold for Image Segmentation.- Localization of Caption Texts in Natural Scenes Using a Wavelet Transformation.- A Depth Measurement System with the Active Vision of the Striped Lighting and Rotating Mirror.- Fast Noncontinuous Path Phase-Unwrapping Algorithm Based on Gradients and Mask.- Color Active Contours for Tracking Roads in Natural Environments.- Generation of N-Parametric Appearance-Based Models Through Non-uniform Sampling.- Gaze Detection by Wide and Narrow View Stereo Camera.- A New Auto-associative Memory Based on Lattice Algebra.- Image Segmentation Using Morphological Watershed Applied to Cartography.- 3D Object Surface Reconstruction Using Growing Self-organised Networks.- Single Layer Morphological Perceptron Solution to the N-Bit Parity Problem.- Robust Self-organizing Maps.- Extended Associative Memories for Recalling Gray Level Patterns.- New Associative Memories to Recall Real-Valued Patterns.- Feature Maps for Non-supervised Classification of Low-Uniform Patterns of Handwritten Letters.- Learning Through the KRKa2 Chess Ending.- One-Class Support Vector Machines and Density Estimation: The Precise Relation.- Fuzzy Model Based Control Applied to Path Planning Visual Servoing.- A Color Constancy Algorithm for the Robust Description of Images Collected from a Mobile Robot.- Unconstrained 3D-Mesh Generation Applied to Map Building.- A Model of Desertification Process in a Semi-arid Environment Employing Multi-spectral Images.- A Gesture-Based Control for Handheld Devices Using Accelerometer.- A Method for Re-illuminating Faces from a Single Image.- Unsupervised Font Clustering Using Stochastic Versio of the EM Algorithm and Global Texture Analysis.- Structural Pattern Recognition for Industrial Machine Sounds Based on Frequency Spectrum Analysis.- An Extended Speech De-noising Method Using GGM-Based ICA Feature Extraction.- Spanning Tree Recovery via Random Walks in a Riemannian Manifold.- Discriminant Projections Embedding for Nearest Neighbor Classification.- Regularization Kernels and Softassign.- Pattern Recognition via Vasconcelos' Genetic Algorithm.- Statistical Pattern Recognition Problems and the Multiple Classes Random Neural Network Model.- New Bounds and Approximations for the Error of Linear Classifiers.- A Graphical Model for Human Activity Recognition.- A Fuzzy Relational Neural Network for Pattern Classification.- Speaker Verification Using Coded Speech.- A Radial Basis Function Network Oriented for Infant Cry Classification.- On the Use of Automatic Speech Recognition for Spoken Information Retrieval from Video Databases.- Acoustical Analysis of Emotional Speech in Standard Basque for Emotions Recognition.- Scaling Acoustic and Language Model Probabilities in a CSR System.- Parallel Algorithm for Extended Star Clustering.- Hidden Markov Models for Understanding in a Dialogue System.- Unsupervised Learning of Ontology-Linked Selectional Preferences.- Advanced Relevance Feedback Query Expansion Strategy for Information Retrieval in MEDLINE.- Detecting Inflection Patterns in Natural Language by Minimization of Morphological Model.- Study of Knowledge Evolution in Parallel Computing by Short Texts Analysis.- JERARTOP: A New Topic Detection System.- Fractal-Based Approach for Segmentation of Address Block i