Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: Third Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2007 Girona, Spain, June 6-8, 2007 Proceedings, Part I (Paperback)

Known Unknowns: Novelty Detection in Condition Monitoring.- Seeing the Invisible and Predicting the Unexpected.- Vision-Based SLAM in Real-Time.- Handwritten Symbol Recognition by a Boosted Blurred Shape Model with Error Correction.- Bayesian Hyperspectral Image Segmentation with Discriminative Class Learning.- Comparison of Unsupervised Band Selection Methods for Hyperspectral Imaging.- Learning Mixture Models for Gender Classification Based on Facial Surface Normals.- Feature Selection Based on a New Formulation of the Minimal-Redundancy-Maximal-Relevance Criterion.- Topological Histogram Reduction Towards Colour Segmentation.- Dealing with Non-linearity in Shape Modelling of Articulated Objects.- Human Motion Characterization Using Spatio-temporal Features.- Fast Stochastic Context-Free Parsing: A Stochastic Version of the Valiant Algorithm.- Supervised Segmentation Based on Texture Signatures Extracted in the Frequency Domain.- Analysis of Relevant Maxima in Distance Transform. An Application to Fast Coarse Image Segmentation.- Performance Analysis of Classifier Ensembles: Neural Networks Versus Nearest Neighbor Rule.- Robust Multiple-People Tracking Using Colour-Based Particle Filters.- Structure Restriction for Tracking Through Multiple Views and Occlusions.- On the Detection of Regions-of-Interest in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI.- Dealing with the Perspective Distortion to Detect Overtaking Cars for Driving Assistance.- 3D Reconstruction on MRI to Analyse Marbling and Fat Level in Iberian Loin.- Epiflow Based Stereo Fusion.- Automatic Segmentation of the Liver in CT Using Level Sets Without Edges.- Spectral Modes of Facial Needle-Maps.- Classifiers for Vegetation and Forest Mapping with Low Resolution Multiespectral Imagery.- A Robust Audio Fingerprint's Based Identification Method.- Development of a Methodology for Automated Crater Detection on Planetary Images.- Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter for Human Appearance and Position Tracking.- Parameter System for Human Physiological Data Representation and Analysis.- Face Recognition in Color Using Complex and Hypercomplex Representations.- A Semi-automatic Approach to Photo Identification of Wild Elephants.- Language Identification Based on Phone Decoding for Basque and Spanish.- Computer Assisted Transcription of Speech.- Word Segments in Category-Based Language Models for Automatic Speech Recognition.- Part-of-Speech Tagging Based on Machine Translation Techniques.- Bilingual Text Classification.- Robust Lane Lines Detection and Quantitative Assessment.- Matrics, a Car License Plate Recognition System.- Automatic Labeling of Colonoscopy Video for Cancer Detection.- Functional Pattern Recognition of 3D Laser Scanned Images of Wood-Pulp Chips.- Hardware Implementation of Moment Functions in a CMOS Retina: Application to Pattern Recognition.- Decimation Estimation and Linear Model-Based Super-Resolution Using Zoomed Observations.- Line Extraction from Mechanically Scanned Imaging Sonar.- Road Signs Recognition by the Scale-Space Template Matching in the Log-Polar Domain.- The Condition of Kernelizing an Algorithm and an Equivalence Between Kernel Methods.- A Probabilistic Observation Model for Stereo Vision Systems: Application to Particle Filter-Based Mapping and Localization.- New Neighborhood Based Classification Rules for Metric Spaces and Their Use in Ensemble Classification.- Classification of Voltage Sags Based on MPCA Models.- On-Line Handwriting Recognition System for Tamil Handwritten Characters.- A New Type of Feature - Loose N-Gram Feature in Text Categorization.- Variational Deconvolution of Multi-channel Images with Inequality Constraints.- HMM-Based Action Recognition Using Contour Histograms.- Locating and Segmenting 3D Deformable Objects by Using Clusters of Contour Fragments.- Development of a Cascade Processing Method for Microarray Spot Segmentation.- Haar Wavelets and Edge Orientation Histograms for On-Board Pedestrian Detection.- Face Recogniti