Front matter
1-16
Some Notes on Twenty One 21 Nearest Prototype Classifiers
James C. Bezdek and Ludmila I. Kuncheva
17-27
Adaptive Graphical Pattern Recognition Beyond Connectionist-Based Approaches
Giovanni Adorni, Stefano Cagnoni and Marco Gori
28-31
Current Trends in Grammatical Inference
Colin De La Higuera
32-44
Classifier’s Complexity Control while Training Multilayer Perceptrons
Šarūnas Raudys
45-56
A Framework for Classifier Fusion: Is It Still Needed?
Josef Kittler
57-66
Image Pattern Recognition Based on Examples— A Combined Statistical and Structural-Syntactic Approach
Jiang Gao, Xiaoqing Ding and Jing Zheng
67-76
A Hybrid System for the Recognition of Hand-Written Characters
Rudolf Freund, Markus Neubauer, Martin Summerer, Stefan Gruber and Jürgen Schaffer, et al.
77-86
Improving Statistical Measures of Feature Subsets by Conventional and Evolutionary Approaches
Helmut A. Mayer, Petr Somol, Reinhold Huber and Pavel Pudil
87-93
Selection of Classifiers Based on Multiple Classifier Behaviour
Giorgio Giacinto, Fabio Roli and Giorgio Fumera
94-103
The Adaptive Subspace Map for Image Description and Image Database Retrieval
Dick de Ridder, Olaf Lemmers, Robert P. W. Duin and Josef Kittler
104-113
Adaptive Automatic Target Recognition with SVM Boosting for Outlier Detection
Kieron Messer, Josef Kittler, John Haddon, Graham Watson and Sharon Watson
114-122
A Multiresolution Causal Colour Texture Model
Michal Haindl and Vojtěch Havlíček
123-132
Writer Identification: Statistical Analysis and Dichotomizer
Sung-Hyuk Cha and Sargur N. Srihari
133-142
Syntactic Pattern Recognition by Error Correcting Analysis on Tree Automata
Damián López and Ignacio Piñaga
143-153
Offline Recognition of Syntax-Constrained Cursive Handwritten Text
J. González, I. Salvador, A. H. Toselli, A. Juan and E. Vidal, et al.
154-162
Structural Classification for Retrospective Conversion of Documents
Pierre Héroux, Éric Trupin and Yves Lecoutier
163-172
Segmentation of Date Field on Bank Cheques
Louisa Lam, Rong Fan, Qizhi Xu and Ching Y. Suen
173-182
Grammars and Discourse Theory to Describe and Recognize Mechanical Assemblies
Christian Bauckhage, Susanne Kronenberg, Franz Kummert and Gerhard Sagerer
183-192
Computation of the
N
Best Parse Trees for Weighted and Stochastic Context-Free Grammars
Víctor M. Jiménez and Andrés Marzal
193-202
Partitional vs Hierarchical Clustering Using a Minimum Grammar Complexity Approach
Ana L. N. Fred and José M. N. Leitão
203-210
Encoding Nondeterministic Finite-State Tree Automata in Sigmoid Recursive Neural Networks
Mikel L. Forcada and Rafael C. Carrasco
211-220
Retrieval of Partially Visible Shapes through Structural Feature Indexing
Hirobumi Nishida
221-225
A Structural Matching Algorithm Using Generalized Deterministic Annealing
Laura Davlea
226-235
Alignment and Correspondence Using Singular Value Decomposition
B. Luo and E. R. Hancock
236-245
Graph Matching: Fast Candidate Elimination Using Machine Learning Techniques
M. Lazarescu, H. Bunke and S. Venkatesh
246-255
Efficient Alignment and Correspondence Using Edit Distance
Paolo Bergamini, Luigi Cinque, Andrew D. J. Cross, Edwin R. Hancock and Stefano Levialdi, et al.
256-265
Irregular Pyramids with Combinatorial Maps
Luc Brun and Walter Kropatsch
266-276
A New Error-Correcting Distance for Attributed Relational Graph Problems
Yasser El-Sonbaty and M. A. Ismail
277-286
Distance between Attributed Graphs and Function-Described Graphs Relaxing 2nd Order Restrictions
René Alquézar, Francesc Serratosa and Alberto Sanfeiu
287-296
A Graph Labelling Approach for Connected Feature Selection
Jocelyn Marchadier, Sylvain Michelin and Yves Egels
297-307
Region-Based Representation for Object Recognition by Relaxation Labelling
Alireza Ahmadyfard and Josef Kittler
308-317
Shape Boundary Tracking with Hidden Markov Models
Terry Caelli
318-326
Parallel Techniques for Rule-Based Scene Interpretation
Walter F. Bischof and Terry Caelli
327-336
Curvature Estimation Using Shape-from-Texture
Eraldo Ribeiro and Edwin R. Hancock
337-346
Efficient Techniques for a Very Accurate Measurement of Dissimilarities between Cyclic Patterns
R. A. Mollineda, E. Vidal and F. Casacuberta
347-356
Planar Symmetry Detection by Random Sampling and Voting Process
Atsushi Imiya, Tomoki Ueno and Iris Fermin
357-366
Assessing the Computational Effort for Structural 3D Vehicle Recognition
Eckart Michaelsen and Uwe Stilla
367-376
Guided Relinking of Graph Pyramids
R. Glantz and W. G. Kropatsch
377-386
Texture Indexing by a Hierarchical Representation
D. Vitulano and S. Vitulano
387-396
Surface Skeletons Detected on the D6 Distance Transform
Gabriella Sanniti di Baja and Stina Svensson
397-406
Selection Strategies for Ambiguous Graph Matching by Evolutionary Optimisation
Richard Myers and Edwin R. Hancock
407-416
Studies of Radical Model for Retrieval of Cursive Chinese Handwritten Annotations
Matthew Ma, Chi Zhang and Patrick Wang
417-426
A Statistical-Estimation Method for Stochastic Finite-State Transducers Based on Entropy Measures
David Picó and Francisco Casacuberta
427-436
Efficient Subgraph Isomorphism with ‘A Priori’ Knowledge
Application to 3D Reconstruction of Buildings for Cartography
Frank Fuchs and Hervé Le-Men
437-446
Pyramid and Interior
Jean-Gérard Pailloncy
447-456
Prototype Learning with Attributed Relational Graphs
Pasquale Foggia, Roberto Genna and Mario Vento
457-461
Lossless Compression of Surfaces Described as Points
Juan Ramón Rico-Juan, Jorge Calera-Rubio and Rafael C. Carrasco
462-471
A Class of Solvable Consistent Labeling Problems
Boris Flach and Michail I. Schlesinger
472-481
Character Recognition, Orientation, and Scale Estimation Thanks to the Fourier Mellin Transform
Sébastien Adam, Jean Marc. Ogier, Claude Cariou, Rémy Mullot and Joël Gardes, et al.
482-490
Using the Dual of Proximity Graphs for Binary Decision Tree Design
J. S. Sánchez, F. Pla and M. C. Herrero
491-500
Bayesian Approach to Mixture Models for Discrimination
Keith Copsey and Andrew Webb
501-510
Pattern Classification Based on a Piecewise Multi-linear Model for the Class Probability Densities
Edgard Nyssen, Luc Van Kempen and Hichem Sahli
511-520
Selection of the Number of Components Using a Genetic Algorithm for Mixture Model Classifiers
Hiroshi Tenmoto, Mineichi Kudo and Masaru Shimbo
521-531
The Moments of the Mixel Distribution and Its Application to Statistical Image Classification
Asanobu Kitamoto
532-539
Statistical Pattern Recognition Using the Normalized Complex Moment Components Vector
Stavros Paschalakis and Peter Lee
540-549
Initial Matching of Multiple-View Images by Affine Approximation of Relative Distortions
Georgy Gimel’farb and Jian Quan Zhang
550-559
Local Discriminant Regions Using Support Vector Machines for Object Recognition
David Guillamet and Jordi Vitriá
560-570
Stochastic Models for Recognition of Occluded Objects
Bir Bhanu and Yingqiang Lin
571-580
A Vector Approach to the Analysis of (Patterns with) Spatial Dependence
Andrés Molina
581-590
The Foundational Theory of Optimal Bayesian Pairwise Linear Classifiers
Luis Rueda and B. John Oommen
591-600
The Optimum Classifier and the Performance Evaluation by Bayesian Approach
Xuexian Han, Tetsushi Wakabayashi and Fumitaka Kimura
601-610
A New Approximation Method of the Quadratic Discriminant Function
Shin’ichiro Omachi, Fang Sun and Hirotomo Aso
611-620
An Optimal Reject Rule for Binary Classifiers
Francesco Tortorella
621-630
Decontamination of Training Samples for Supervised Pattern Recognition Methods
Ricardo Barandela and Eduardo Gasca
631-640
The Role of Combining Rules in Bagging and Boosting
Marina Skurichina and Robert P. W. Duin
641-649
Confidence Combination Methods in Multi-expert Systems
Yingquan Wu, K. Ianakiev and V. Govindaraju
650-657
Reducing the Training Times of Neural Classifiers with Dataset Condensing
Se-Ho Choi and Peter Rockett
658-667
Non-linear Invertible Representation for Joint Statistical and Perceptual Feature Decorrelation
J. Malo, R. Navarro, I. Epifanio, F. Ferri and J. M. Artigas
668-676
A Divergence Criterion for Classifier-Independent Feature Selection
Naoto Abe, Mineichi Kudo, Jun Toyama and Masaru Shimbo
677-686
Comparison of Classifier-Specific Feature Selection Algorithms
Mineichi Kudo, Petr Somol, Pavel Pudil, Masaru Shimbo and Jack Sklansky
687-695
Combined Classifier Optimisation via Feature Selection
David Windridge and Josef Kittler
696-705
Design Choices and Theoretical Issues for Relative Feature Importance, a Metric for Nonparametric Discriminatory Power
Hilary J. Holz and Murray H. Loew
706-715
Real-Coded Genetic Algorithms Based on Mathematical Morphology
Dolores Barrios, Daniel Manrique, Jaime Porras and Juan Ríos
716-726
A New Model and Process Architecture for Facial Expression Recognition
Ginés García-Mateos and Cristina Vicente-Chicote
727-736
Biologically Inspired Architecture of Feedforward Networks for Signal Classification
Šarūnas Raudys and Minija Tamošiūnaitė
737-746
Optimal Threshold Estimation Using Prototype Selection
Uri Lipowezky and Victor Shenkar
747-756
Basic and Fine Structure of Pairwise Interactions in Gibbs Texture Models
Georgy Gimel’farb
757-766
Segmentation of Text and Graphics/Images Using the Gray-Level Histogram Fourier Transform
M. A. Patricio and D. Maravall
767-776
Fast and Accurate Handwritten Character Recognition Using Approximate Nearest Neighbours Search on Large Databases
Juan C. Pérez-Cortes, Rafael Llobet and Joaquim Arlandis
777-787
A Family of Divergences between φ-Probabilistic Sets with Application to Handshape Recognition
Juan M. León-Rojas, José Moreno, Antonio Silva and Montaña Morales
787-795
Rotated, Scaled, and Noisy 2D and 3D Texture Classification with the Bispectrum-Based Invariant Feature
Yo Horikawa
796-805
Multiple Comparison Procedures for Determining the Optimal Complexity of a Model
Pedro L. Galindo, Joaquín Pizarro-Junquera and Elisa Guerrero
806-815
Image Pattern Recognition in Natural Environment Using Morphological Feature Extraction
Yonggwan Won, Jiseung Nam and Bae-Ho Lee
816-822
A Statistical Matrix Representation Using Sliced Orthogonal Nonlinear Correlations for Pattern Recognition
P. García-Martínez, H. H. Arsenault and C. Ferreira
823-831
A Fast Approximately
k
—Nearest—Neighbour Search Algorithm For Clasification Tasks
Francisco Moreno-Seco, Luisa Micó and José Oncina
832-841
Design of a Telerobotic Interface System by Using Object Recognition Techniques
Raül Marín, Pedro José Sanz, Antonio José Jimeno and Jose Manuel Iñesta
842-852
Comparison of Four Initialization Techniques for the
K
-Medians Clustering Algorithm
A. Juan and E. Vidal
853-862
Sensory Flow Segmentation Using a Resource Allocating Vector Quantizer
Fredrik Linåker and Lars Niklasson
863-871
Multiple Reject Thresholds for Improving Classification Reliability
Giorgio Fumera, Fabio Roli and Giorgio Giacinto
872-881
Clustering with EM: Complex Models vs. Robust Estimation
C. Saint-Jean, C. Frélicot and B. Vachon
882-887
A Simple Implementation of the Stochastic Discrimination for Pattern Recognition
Dechang Chen and Xiuzhen Cheng
888-897
Adaptive Image Filtering and Segmentation Using Robust Estimation of Intensity
Roman M. Palenichka, Peter Zinterhof and Iryna B. Ivasenko
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