Progress in pattern recognition, image analysis and applications : 9th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2004, Puebla, Mexico, October 26-29, 2004 : proceedings / Alberto Sanfeliu, Jóse Francisco Martinez Trinidad, Jesús Ariel Carrasco Ochoa (eds.).

Title from title screen (viewed November 25, 2004).

Print version originally published in 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Use of context in automatic annotation of sports videos / Iias Kolonias, William Christmas, and Josef Kittler -- Content based retrieval of 3D data / Alberto Del Bimbo and Pietro Pala Clifford geometric algebra / Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano -- Adaptive color model for figure-ground segmentation in dynamic environments / Francesc Moreno-Noguer and Alberto Sanfeliu -- Real-time infrared object tracking based on mean shift / Cheng Jian and Yang Jie -- Optimal positioning of sensors in 2D / Andrea Bottino and Aldo Laurentini -- Computer vision algorithms versus traditional methods in food technology / Andres Caro Lindo [and others] -- Radiance function estimation for object classification / Antonio Robles-Kelly and Edwin R. Hancock -- Detecting and ranking saliency for scene description / William D. Ferreira and Dibio L. Borges -- Decision fusion for object detection and tracking using mobile cameras / Luis David Lopez Gutierrez and Leopoldo Altamirano Robles -- Selection of an automated morphological gradient threshold for image segmentation / Francisco Antonio Pujol Lopez [and others] -- Localization of caption texts in natural scenes using a wavelet transformation / Javier Jimenez and Enric Marti -- A depth measurement system with the active vision of the striped lighting and rotating mirror / Hyongsuk Kim [and others] -- Fast noncontinuous path phase-unwrapping algorithm based on gradients and mask / Carlos Diaz and Leopoldo Altamirano Robles -- Color active contours for tracking roads in natural environments / Antonio Marin-Hernandez, Michel Devy, and Gabriel Avina-Cervantes -- Generation of n-parametric appearance-based models through non-uniform sampling / Luis Carlos Altamirano, Leopoldo Altamirano Robles, and Matias Alvarado -- Gaze detection by wide and narrow view stereo camera / Kang Ryoung Park -- A new auto-associative memory based on lattice algebra / Gerhard X. Ritter, Laurentiu Iancu, and Mark S. Schmalz -- Image segmentation using morphological watershed applied to cartography / Nilcilene das Gracas Medeiros [and others] -- 3D object surface reconstruction using growing self-organised networks / Carmen Alonso-Montes and Manuel Francisco Gonzalez Penedo -- Single layer morphological perceptron solution to the n-bit parity problem / Gonzalo Urcid, Gerhard X. Ritter, and Laurentiu Iancu -- Robust self-organizing maps / Hector Allende [and others] -- Extended associative memories for recalling gray level patterns / Humberto Sossa [and others] -- New associative memories to recall real-valued patterns / Humberto Sossa, Ricardo Barron, and Roberto A. Vazquez -- Feature maps for non-supervised classification of low-uniform patterns of handwritten letters / Pilar Gomez-Gil, Guillermo de-los-Santos-Torres, and Manuel Ramirez-Cortes -- Learning through the KRKa2 chess ending / Alejandro Gonzalez Romero and Rene Alquezar -- One-class support vector machines and density estimation / Alberto Munoz and Javier M. Moguerza -- Fuzzy model based control applied to path planning visual servoing / Paulo J. Sequeira Goncalves [and others] -- A color constancy algorithm for the robust description of images collected from a mobile robot / Jaume Verges-Llahi and Alberto Sanfeliu -- Unconstrained 3D-mesh generation applied to map building / Diego Viejo and Miguel Cazorla -- A model of desertification process in a semi-arid environment employing multi-spectral images / Jorge Lira -- A gesture-based control for handheld devices using accelerometer / Ikjin Jang and Wonbae Park -- A method for re-illuminating faces from a single image / Mario Castelan and Edwin R. Hancock -- Unsupervised font clustering using stochastic version of the EM algorithm and global texture analysis / Carlos Aviles-Cruz [and others] -- Structural pattern recognition for industrial machine sounds based on frequency spectrum analysis / Yolanda Bolea [and others] -- An extended speech de-noising method using GGM-based ICA feature extraction / Wei Kong, Yue Zhou, and Jie Yang -- Spanning tree recovery via random walks in a Riemannian manifold / Antonio Robles-Kelly and Edwin R. Hancock -- Discriminant projections embedding for nearest neighbor classification / Petia Radeva and Jordi Vitria -- Regularization kernels and softassign / Miguel Angel Lozano and Francisco Escolano -- Pattern recognition via vasconcelos' genetic algorithm / Angel Kuri-Morales -- Statistical pattern recognition problems and the multiple classes random neural network model / Jose Aguilar -- New bounds and approximations for the error of linear classifiers / Luis Rueda -- A graphical model for human activity recognition / Rocio Diaz de Leon and Luis Enrique Sucar -- A fuzzy relational neural network for pattern classification / Israel Suaste-Rivas [and others] -- Speaker verification using coded speech / Antonio Moreno-Daniel, Biing-Hwang Juang, and Juan A. Nolazco-Flores -- A radial basis function network oriented for infant cry classification / Sergio D. Cano Ortiz, Daniel I. Escobedo Beceiro, and Taco Ekkel -- On the use of automatic speech recognition for spoken information retrieval from video databases / Luis R. Salgado-Garza and Juan A. Nolazco-Flores -- Acoustical analysis of emotional speech in standard basque for emotions recognition / Eva Navas [and others] -- Scaling acoustic and language model probabilities in a CSR system / Amparo Varona and M. Ines Torres -- Parallel algorithm for extended star clustering / Reynaldo Gil-Garcia, Jose M. Badia-Contelles, and Aurora Pons-Porrata -- Hidden Markov models for understanding in a dialogue system / Fernando Blat [and others] -- Unsupervised learning of ontology-linked sectional preferences / Hiram Calvo and Alexander Gelbukh -- Advanced relevance feedback query expansion strategy for information retrieval in MEDLINE / Kwangcheol Shin [and others] -- Detecting inflection patterns in natural language by minimization of morphological model / Alexander Gelbukh, Mikhail Alexandrov, and Sang-Yong Han -- Study of knowledge evolution in parallel computing by short texts analysis / Pavel Makagonov and Alejandro Ruiz Figueroa -- JERARTOP: a new topic detection system / Aurora Pons-Porrata [and others] -- Fractal-based approach for segmentation of address block in postal envelopes / Luiz Felipe Eiterer, Jacques Facon, and David Menoti -- A proposal for the automatic generation of instances from unstructured text / Roxana Danger [and others] -- An electronic secure voting system based on automatic paper ballot reading / Inaki Goirizelaia [and others] -- A fast algorithm to find all the maximal frequent sequences in a text / Rene A. Garcia-Hernandez, Jose Fco. Martinez-Trinidad, and Jesus Ariel Carrasco-Ochoa -- Refined method for the fast and exact computation of moment invariants / Humberto Sossa and Jan Flusser -- Skeletonization of gray-tone images based on region analysis / Luca Serino -- JSEG based color separation of tongue image in traditional chinese medicine / Yonggang Wang [and others] -- Estimation of high resolution images and registration parameters from low resolution observations / Salvador Villena [and others] -- Automatic lung surface registration using selective distance measure in temporal CT Scans / Helen Hong [and others] -- An enhancement to the constant range method for nonuniformity correction of infrared image sequences / Jorge E. Pezoa [and others] -- Color cartographic pattern recognition using the coarse to fine scale method / Efren Gonzalez-Gomez and Serguei Levachkine -- Cerebral Vessel enhancement using rigid registration in three-dimensional CT angiography / Helen Hong [and others] -- Skeleton-based algorithm for increasing spectral resolution in digital elevation model / Rolando Quintero [and others] -- Landform classification in raster geo-images / Marco Moreno [and others] -- Homotopic labeling of elements in a tetrahedral mesh for the head modeling / Jasmine Burguet and Isabelle Bloch -- Grey level image components for multi-scale representation / Giuliana Ramella and Gabriella Sanniti di Baja -- Performance improvement in a fingerprint classification system using anisotropic diffusion / Gonzalo Vallarino [and others] -- Image thresholding via a modified fuzzy c-means algorithm / Yong Yang, Chongxun Zheng, and Pan Lin Video object segmentation using multiple features / Alvaro Pardo -- Thinning algorithm to generate k-connected skeletons / Juan Luis Diaz de Leon, C.

Yanez, and Giovanni Guzman -- Image processing using the quaternion wavelet transform -- Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano and Miguel Angel de La Torre Gomora -- Improving pattern recognition based pharmacological drug selection through ROC analysis / W. Diaz [and others] -- Adaboost to classify plaque appearance in IVUS images / Oriol Pujol [and others] -- SVM applied to the generation of biometric speech key / L. Paola Garcia-Perera, Carlos Mex-Perera, and Juan A. Nolazco-Flores -- Causal networks for modeling health technology utilization in intensive care units / Max Chacon and Brenda Maureira -- Medical image segmentation by level set method incorporating region and boundary statistical information / Pan Lin [and others] -- Measurement of parameters of the optic disk in ophthalmoscopic color images of human retina / Edgardo M. Felipe Riveron and Mijail del Toro -- Global interpretation and local analysis to measure gears eccentricity / Joaquin Salas -- Two floating search strategies to compute the support sets system for ALVOT / Erika Lopez-Espinoza [and others] -- Feature selection using typical e:testors, working on dynamical data / Jesus Ariel Carrasco-Ochoa, Jose Ruiz-Shulcloper, and Lucia Angelica De-la- Vega-Doria -- Supervised pattern recognition with heterogeneous features / Ventzeslav Valev.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2004, held in Puebla, Mexico in October 2004. The 87 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 158 submissions. All current issues in pattern recognition, image analysis, and computer vision are addressed including applications in areas like robotics, entertainment, space exploration, data mining, document analysis, and natural language processing.

English.