Advances in Pattern Recognition: Joint Iapr International Workshops, Sspr'98 and Spr'98, Sydney, Australia, August 11-13, 1998, Proceedings (Paperback, 1998)

Error-tolerant graph matching: A formal framework and algorithms.- Semantic content based image retrieval using object-process diagrams.- Pattern recognition methods in image and video databases: Past, present and future.- Efficient matching with invariant local descriptors.- Torah codes: New experimental protocols.- Integrating numerical and syntactic learning models for pattern recognition.- Synthesis of function-described graphs.- Marked subgraph isomorphism of ordered graphs.- Distance evaluation in pattern matching based on frontier topological graph.- Syntactic interpolation of fractal sequences.- Minimizing the topological structure of line images.- Genetic algorithms for structural editing.- The noisy subsequence tree recognition problem.- The path-connectedness in Z 2 and Z 3 and classical topologies.- Object recognition from large structural libraries.- Acquisition of 2-D shape models from scenes with overlapping objects using string matching.- A taxonomy of occlusion in view signature II representations: A regular language for the representation of 3-D rigid solid objects.- Skeletonizing volume objects part II: From surface to curve skeleton.- A survey of non-thinning based vectorization methods.- A benchmark for Raster to vector conversion systems.- Network-based recognition of architectural symbols.- Recovering image structure by model-based interaction map.- An improved scheme to fingerprint classification.- Character recognition with k-head finite array automata.- Using semantics in matching cursive Chinese handwritten annotations.- Concavity detection using a binary mask-based approach.- Structural indexing of line pictures with feature generation models.- Nonlinear covariance for multi-band image data.- A neural network for image smooothing and segmentation.- Prototyping structural descriptions: An inductive learning approach.- Neural network based learning of local compatibilities for segment grouping.- Constrained attribute grammars for recognition of multi-dimensional objects.- Object recognition using sequential images and application to active vision.- Recognizing partially visible 2-D non-rigid wire-shapes.- XFF: A simple method to extract fractal features for 2D object recognition.- Tracking of rotating objects.- Efficient implementation of regulated morphological operations based on directional interval coding.- Clique-to-clique distance computation using a specific architecture.- Algebraic view of grammatical inference.- Remarks on the notation of coordinate grammars.- A structural classifier to automatically identify form classes.- Towards efficient structural analysis of mathematical expressions.- The topological consistence of path connectedness in regular and irregular structures.- Content-based image indexing and retrieval: A syntactical approach.- Knowledge-based recognition of crosshatched areas in engineering drawings.- Information extraction from document images using white space and graphics analysis.- Multi-interval discretization methods for decision tree learning.- Handwritten digit recognition through inferring graph grammars. A first appproach.- Optical character recognition: Neural network analysis of hand-printed characters.- Structural boundary feature extraction for printed character recognition.- Locating segmentation regions of connected handwritten digits.- Recognition on handwritten digits based on their topological and morphological properties.- Perceptual features for off-line handwritten word recognition: A framework for heuristic prediction, representation and matching.- On structural modelling for omnifont and handwritten character recognition.- Image segmentation by label anisotropic diffusion.- Classifier-independent feature selection for two-stage feature selection.- Feature selection for a nonlinear classifier.- Regularization by adding redundant features.- Feature selection expert - User oriented approach.- Structures of the covariance matrices in the classifier de