Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications: 12th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2007, Valpariso, Chile, No (Paperback)

Keynote Lectures.- Learning in Computer Vision: Some Thoughts.- Biometric Recognition: Overview and Recent Advances.- A Family of Novel Graph Kernels for Structural Pattern Recognition.- A System Biology Approach for the Steady-State Analysis of Gene Signaling Networks.- Signal Processing and Analysis.- ?-? Background Subtraction and the Zipf Law.- Model-Based Correlation Measure for Nonuniformity Gain and Offset Parameters of Infrared Focal-Plane-Array Sensors.- A Cyclostationary Analysis Applied to Detection and Diagnosis of Faults in Helicopter Gearboxes.- Robust Industrial Machine Sounds Identification Based on Frequency Spectrum Analysis.- Using Adaptive Filter to Increase Automatic Speech Recognition Rate in a Digit Corpus.- SSM - A Novel Method to Recognize the Fundamental Frequency in Voice Signals.- Channel / Handset Mismatch Evaluation in a Biometric Speaker Verification Using Shifted Delta Cepstral Features.- Phone-Segments Based Language Identification for Spanish, Basque and English.- Image Coding, Processing and Analysis.- A New Algorithm to Compute the Distance Between Multi-dimensional Histograms.- Fuzzy Vector Directional Filters for Multichannel Image Denoising.- EZW-Based Image Compression with Omission and Restoration of Wavelet Subbands.- Multi-class Binary Object Categorization Using Blurred Shape Models.- Video Analysis Via Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction.- Graph Cuts Approach to MRF Based Linear Feature Extraction in Satellite Images.- A Multiple Substructure Matching Algorithm for Fingerprint Verification.- Bayesian Edge Regularization in Range Image Segmentation.- Image Segmentation Using Automatic Seeded Region Growing and Instance-Based Learning.- Morphological Distinguished Regions.- Set of Methods for Spontaneous ICH Segmentation and Tracking from CT Head Images.- Shape and Texture Analysis.- Efficient Rotation-Discriminative Template Matching.- Texture Classification Through Combination of Sequential Colour Texture Classifiers.- Deterministic Component of 2-D Wold Decomposition for Geometry and Texture Descriptors Discovery.- Computer Vision.- Robust Feature Descriptors for Efficient Vision-Based Tracking.- Smooth Image Surface Approximation by Piecewise Cubic Polynomials.- An Analysis of Automatic Gender Classification.- A Method for Segmentation of Local Illumination Variations and Photometric Normalization in Face Images.- Computing the Eccentricity Transform of a Polygonal Shape.- Robust Color Contour Object Detection Invariant to Shadows.- An Evaluation of Video Cut Detection Techniques.- Surface-Normal Estimation with Neighborhood Reorganization for 3D Reconstruction.- Weighted Principal Geodesic Analysis for Facial Gender Classification.- Range and Intensity Vision for Rock-Scene Segmentation.- Human Detection in Indoor Environments Using Multiple Visual Cues and a Mobile Robot.- A Method for Estimating Authentication Performance over Time, with Applications to Face Biometrics.- Pattern Recognition Principles.- Generalizing Dissimilarity Representations Using Feature Lines.- FS-EX Plus: A New Algorithm for the Calculation of Typical FS-Testor Set.- Confusion Matrix Disagreement for Multiple Classifiers.- An Empirical Study of the Behavior of Classifiers on Imbalanced and Overlapped Data Sets.- Fast k Most Similar Neighbor Classifier for Mixed Data Based on a Tree Structure.- Conditional Mutual Information Based Feature Selection for Classification Task.- Robust Alternating AdaBoost.- Artificial Intelligence Techniques and Recognition.- Face Recognition Using Some Aspects of the Infant Vision System and Associative Memories.- Two-Stage ACO to Solve the Job Shop Scheduling Problem.- A Novel Hybrid Taguchi-Grey-Based Method for Feature Subset Selection.- On Using a Pre-clustering Technique to Optimize LDA-Based Classifiers for Appearance-Based Face Recognition.- Certainty Measure of Pairwise Line Segment Perceptual Relations Using Fuzzy Logic.- Automatic Image Annotation Using a Semi-s