Table of contents : Front Matter....Pages - Finding Clusters and Components by Unsupervised Learning....Pages 1-15 Kernel Methods for Exploratory Pattern Analysis: A Demonstration on Text Data....Pages 16-29 The Use of Graph Techniques for Identifying Objects and Scenes in Indoor Building Environments for Mobile Robots....Pages 30-41 Graphical-Based Learning Environments for Pattern Recognition....Pages 42-56 Spectral Analysis of Complex Laplacian Matrices....Pages 57-65 Decision Tree Structures for Graph Database Filtering....Pages 66-75 A Significant Improvement of Softassign with Diffusion Kernels....Pages 76-84 Structural Perceptrons for Attributed Graphs....Pages 85-94 Eigenspace Method by Autoassociative Networks for Object Recognition....Pages 95-103 A Novel Constraint-Based Approach to Online Graphics Recognition....Pages 104-113 Extraction of Skeletal Shape Features Using a Visual Attention Operator....Pages 114-124 Computing the Cyclic Edit Distance for Pattern Classification by Ranking Edit Paths....Pages 125-133 Contour Segments from Spline Interpolation....Pages 134-142 Steady State Random Walks for Path Estimation....Pages 143-152 Learning of Form Models from Exemplars....Pages 153-161 An Optimal Probabilistic Graphical Model for Point Set Matching....Pages 162-170 A New Variational Framework for Rigid-Body Alignment....Pages 171-179 An Error-Tolerant Approximate Matching Algorithm for Attributed Planar Graphs and Its Application to Fingerprint Classification....Pages 180-189 Comparison of Algorithms for Web Document Clustering Using Graph Representations of Data....Pages 190-197 Heat Kernels, Manifolds and Graph Embedding....Pages 198-206 A Syntactic Pattern Recognition Approach to Computer Assisted Translation....Pages 207-215 GIATI: A General Methodology for Finite-State Translation Using Alignments....Pages 216-223 A Coupled Relaxation Method for Finding Perceptual Structures....Pages 224-232 A Comparison of Unsupervised Shot Classification Algorithms for News Video Segmentation....Pages 233-241 Diagnosis of Lung Nodule Using the Semivariogram Function....Pages 242-250 Dictionary-Based Syntactic Pattern Recognition Using Tries....Pages 251-259 Improving Probabilistic Automata Learning with Additional Knowledge....Pages 260-268 Distances between Distributions: Comparing Language Models....Pages 269-277 A New Uniform Translocation Distance....Pages 278-286 Understanding Human-Computer Interactions in Map Revision....Pages 287-295 Multiscale Curvature Assessment of Postural Deviations....Pages 296-303 Modelling Human Shape with Articulated Shape Mixtures....Pages 304-314 Learning People Movement Model from Multiple Cameras for Behaviour Recognition....Pages 315-324 A Comparison of Least Squares and Spectral Methods for Attributed Graph Matching....Pages 325-333 An Auction Algorithm for Graph-Based Contextual Correspondence Matching....Pages 334-342 Segmentation Graph Hierarchies....Pages 343-351 Clustering Variable Length Sequences by Eigenvector Decomposition Using HMM....Pages 352-360 A Kernel View of Spectral Point Pattern Matching....Pages 361-369 Neural Networks for Improved Target Differentiation with Sonar....Pages 370-378 An MCMC Feature Selection Technique for Characterizing and Classifying Spatial Region Data....Pages 379-387 Human Action Recognition by Inference of Stochastic Regular Grammars....Pages 388-396 Optimizing Classification Ensembles via a Genetic Algorithm for a Web-Based Educational System....Pages 397-406 A Structural Approach to Adaptive Inverse Halftoning for Document Images....Pages 407-415 Syntactic Modeling and Recognition of Document Images....Pages 416-424 Symbols Recognition System for Graphic Documents Combining Global Structural Approaches and Using a XML Representation of Data....Pages 425-433 Sketch Recognition Based on Topological Spatial Relationship....Pages 434-443 A Study on the Consistency of Features for On-Line Signature Verification....Pages 444-451 Statistical Structure of Natural 4 × 4 Image Patches....Pages 452-460 Grey Scale Skeletonisation with Curvature Sensitive Noise Damping....Pages 461-469 License Vehicle Plates Localization Using Maximum Correlation....Pages 470-476 Adaptive Context for a Discrete Universal Denoiser....Pages 477-485 Pose Estimation from Airborne Video Sequences Using a Structural Approach for the Construction of Homographies and Fundamental Matrices....Pages 486-494 Temporal Post-processing of Decision Tree Outputs for Sports Video Categorisation....Pages 495-503 A New Method of Polyline Approximation....Pages 504-511 On Extending Symmetry Sets for 2D Shapes....Pages 512-520 Structural Analysis and Matching of Shape by Logical Property....Pages 521-529 Scale Descriptors through Phase Unwrapping....Pages 530-537 Lung Segmentation on Postero-anterior Digital Chest Radiographs Using Active Contours....Pages 538-546 Emotion Recognition from Dance Image Sequences Using Contour Approximation....Pages 547-555 Matching Concavity Trees....Pages 556-564 Control of Sparseness for Feature Selection....Pages 707-715 On Prediction Mechanisms in Fast Branch & Bound Algorithms....Pages 716-724 Fusing Segmentation and Classification from Multiple Features....Pages 601-608 A Classifier Combination Tree Algorithm....Pages 609-617 Bounds for the Average Generalization Error of the Mixture of Experts Neural Network....Pages 618-625 An Effective EM Algorithm for PCA Mixture Model....Pages 626-634 EM Initialisation for Bernoulli Mixture Learning....Pages 635-643 A New Family of Weak Estimators for Training in Non-stationary Distributions....Pages 644-652 Path Relinking Particle Filter for Human Body Pose Estimation....Pages 653-661 Clustering with Soft and Group Constraints....Pages 662-670 Learning from General Label Constraints....Pages 671-679 Solving the One-Class Problem Using Neighbourhood Measures....Pages 680-688 Combining Classifier for Face Identification at Unknown Views with a Single Model Image....Pages 565-573 A Logodds Criterion for Selection of Diagnostic Tests....Pages 574-582 Evaluation of Classical and Novel Ensemble Methods for Handwritten Word Recognition....Pages 583-591 Improving Support Vector Classification via the Combination of Multiple Sources of Information....Pages 592-600 Structures of Covariance Matrix in Handwritten Character Recognition....Pages 725-733 Statistical Machine Translation Decoding Using Target Word Reordering....Pages 734-743 Detection of a Single Texture in Colour Images....Pages 689-697 Clustering Based Under-Sampling for Improving Speaker Verification Decisions Using AdaBoost....Pages 698-706 Classifier Design for Population and Sensor Drift....Pages 744-752 A Cost-Sensitive Paradigm for Multiclass to Binary Decomposition Schemes....Pages 753-761 Cost-Based Classifier Evaluation for Imbalanced Problems....Pages 762-770 A Two-Stage Classifier with Reject Option for Text Categorisation....Pages 771-779 Misclassification Probability Estimations for Linear Decision Functions....Pages 780-787 Generalized Variable-Kernel Similarity Metric Learning....Pages 788-796 Approximate Gradient Direction Metric for Face Authentication....Pages 797-805 The Imbalanced Training Sample Problem: Under or over Sampling?....Pages 806-814 Automatic Preference Mining through Learning User Profile with Extracted Information....Pages 815-823 A Computational Study of Naíve Bayesian Learning in Anti-spam Management....Pages 824-830 Kernel-Based Non-linear Template Matching....Pages 831-839 Analyzing Weight Distribution of Feedforward Neural Networks and Efficient Weight Initialization....Pages 840-849 One-Class Support Vector Machines with a Conformal Kernel. A Case Study in Handling Class Imbalance....Pages 850-858 Automatic Labeling of Sports Video Using Umpire Gesture Recognition....Pages 859-867 Comparison of Two Fast Nearest-Neighbour Search Methods in High-Dimensional Large-Sized Databases....Pages 868-875 A Shallow Description Framework for Musical Style Recognition....Pages 876-884 A Nearest Neighbor Method Using Bisectors....Pages 885-893 Distance Based Strategy for Supervised Document Image Classification....Pages 894-902 Identification of Humans Using Robust Biometric Features....Pages 903-911 Facial Expression Recognition Based on the Two-Dimensional Structure of Affect....Pages 912-920 Clustering Using WCC Models....Pages 921-929 Algorithms for Constructing Min-Max Partitions of the Parameter Space for MDL Inference....Pages 930-938 Preclustering of Electrocardiographic Signals Using Left-to-Right Hidden Markov Models....Pages 939-947 Graph-Based Clustering of Random Point Set....Pages 948-956 Cluster Validity and Stability of Clustering Algorithms....Pages 957-965 Bagging Classification Models with Reduced Bootstrap....Pages 966-973 Multiple Classifier Prediction Improvements against Imbalanced Datasets through Added Synthetic Examples....Pages 974-982 Automatic Design of Cascaded Classifiers....Pages 983-991 Recognition of Handwritten Numerals Using a Combined Classifier with Hybrid Features....Pages 992-1000 Generating Classifier Outputs with Fixed Diversity for Evaluating Voting Methods....Pages 1001-1009 Feature Selection Using Improved Mutual Information for Text Classification....Pages 1010-1017 Feature Subset Selection Using an Optimized Hill Climbing Algorithm for Handwritten Character Recognition....Pages 1018-1025 Feature Shaving for Spectroscopic Data....Pages 1026-1033 Feature Selection by Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling – A Bayesian Approach....Pages 1034-1042 Classifier-Independent Visualization of Supervised Data Structures Using a Graph....Pages 1043-1051 Texel-Based Texture Synthesis with Bunch Sampling....Pages 1052-1060 Towards 3-Dimensional Pattern Recognition....Pages 1061-1068 A General Strategy for Hidden Markov Chain Parameterisation in Composite Feature-Spaces....Pages 1069-1077 Tracking the Evolution of a Tennis Match Using Hidden Markov Models....Pages 1078-1086 Local Features for Speaker Recognition....Pages 1087-1095 Selection/Extraction of Spectral Regions for Autofluorescence Spectra Measured in the Oral Cavity....Pages 1096-1104 Kernel Relative Principal Component Analysis for Pattern Recognition....Pages 1105-1113 Dynamic Character Model Generation for Document Keyword Spotting....Pages 1114-1125 Texture Classification by Combining Wavelet and Contourlet Features....Pages 1126-1134 Distance Measures between Attributed Graphs and Second-Order Random Graphs....Pages 1135-1144 On Not Making Dissimilarities Euclidean....Pages 1145-1154 Content Structure Discovery in Educational Videos Using Shared Structures in the Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models....Pages 1155-1163 Back Matter....Pages -