Front matter
1-10
Solids Characterization Using Modeling Wave Structures
Miguel Adan and Antonio Adan
11-18
A Probabilistic Model for the Cooperative Modular Neural Network
Luís A. Alexandre, Aurélio Campilho and Mohamed Kamel
19-27
Robust Learning Algorithm for the Mixture of Experts
Héctor Allende, Romina Torres, Rodrigo Salas and Claudio Moraga
28-36
A Robust and Effective Learning Algorithm for Feedforward Neural Networks Based on the Influence Function
Héctor Allende, Rodrigo Salas and Claudio Moraga
37-44
Regularization of 3D Cylindrical Surfaces
Luis Alvarez, Carmelo Cuenca and Javier Sánchez
45-52
Non-rigid Registration of Vessel Structures in IVUS Images
Jaume Amores and Petia Radeva
53-61
Underwater Cable Tracking by Visual Feedback
Javier Antich and Alberto Ortiz
62-69
A Hierarchical Clustering Strategy and Its Application to Proteomic Interaction Data
Vicente Arnau and Ignacio Marín
70-79
A New Optimal Classifier Architecture to Aviod the Dimensionality Curse
Paul M. Baggenstoss
80-88
Learning from Imbalanced Sets through Resampling and Weighting
R. Barandela, J. S. Sánchez, V. García and F. J. Ferri
89-96
Morphological Recognition of Olive Grove Patterns
Teresa Barata and Pedro Pina
97-107
Combining Multi-variate Statistics and Dempster-Shafer Theory for Edge Detection in Multi-channel SAR Images
D. Borghys and C. Perneel
108-116
High-Level Clothes Description Based on Colour-Texture and Structural Features
Agnés Borràs, Francesc Tous, Josep Lladós and Maria Vanrell
117-125
A New Method for Detection and Initial Pose Estimation Based on Mumford-Shah Segmentation Functional
Jose Maria Buades Rubio, Manuel González Hidalgo and Francisco José Perales López
126-133
Tracking Heads Using Piecewise Planar Models
José M. Buenaposada, Enrique Muñoz and Luis Baumela
134-141
Support Vector Machines for Crop Classification Using Hyperspectral Data
G. Camps-Valls, L. Gómez-Chova, J. Calpe-Maravilla, E. Soria-Olivas and J. D. Martín-Guerrero, et al.
142-149
Vehicle License Plate Segmentation in Natural Images
Javier Cano and Juan-Carlos Pérez-Cortés
150-157
High-Accuracy Localization of an Underwater Robot in a~Structured Environment Using Computer Vision
Marc Carreras, Pere Ridao, Joan Batlle and David Ribas
158-167
Determine the Composition of Honeybee Pollen by Texture Classification
Pilar Carrión, Eva Cernadas, Juan F. Gálvez and Emilia Díaz-Losada
168-175
Automatic Word Codification for the RECONTRA Connectionist Translator
Gustavo A. Casañ and M. Asunción Castaño
176-183
The ENCARA System for Face Detection and Normalization
M. Castrillón, O. Déniz and M. Hernández
184-192
Prediction and Discrimination of Pharmacological Activity by Using Artificial Neural Networks
M. J. Castro, W. Díaz, P. Aibar and J. L. Domínguez
193-203
A Spatio-temporal Filtering Approach to Motion Segmentation
Jesús Chamorro-Martínez, J. Fdez-Valdivia and Javier Martinez-Baena
204-211
Annotated Image Retrieval System Based on Concepts and Visual Property
Junho Choi, Miyoung Cho, Mijin Yoon, Kyungsu Kim and Pankoo Kim
212-220
Multimodal Attention System for an Interactive Robot
Oscar Déniz, Modesto Castrillón, Javier Lorenzo, Mario Hernández and Juan Méndez
221-228
New Wavelet-Based Invariant Shape Representation Functions
Ibrahim El Rube, Maher Ahmed and Mohamed Kamel
229-237
A Feature Selection Wrapper for Mixtures
Mário A. T. Figueiredo, Anil K. Jain and Martin H. Law
238-245
Tracking People for Automatic Surveillance Applications
Luis M. Fuentes and Sergio A. Velastin
246-254
A User Authentication Technic Using a~Web Interaction Monitoring System
Hugo Gamboa and Ana Fred
255-262
Recovering Camera Motion in a~Sequence of Underwater Images through Mosaicking
Rafael Garcia, Xevi Cufí and Viorela Ila
263-270
Best Achievable Compression Ratio for Lossy Image Coding
Jose A. García, Joaquin Fdez-Valdivia, Rosa Rodriguez-Sánchez and Xose R. Fdez-Vidal
271-278
Performance and Improvements of a~Language Model Based on Stochastic Context-Free Grammars
José García-Hernandez, Joan Andreu Sánchez and José Miguel Benedí
279-286
Segmentation of Curvilinear Objects Using a~Watershed-Based Curve Adjacency Graph
Thierry Géraud
287-296
Automatic Keyframing of Human Actions for Computer Animation
Jordi Gonzàlez, Javier Varona, F. Xavier Roca and Juan José Villanueva
297-307
Robust Line Matching and Estimate of Homographies Simultaneously
José J. Guerrero and Carlos Sagüés
308-316
Modeling High-Order Dependencies in Local Appearance Models
David Guillamet, Baback Moghaddam and Jordi Vitrià
317-325
An Experimental Evaluation of K-nn for Linear Transforms of Positive Data
David Guillamet and Jordi Vitrià
326-335
Wavelet Packet Image Coder Using Coefficients Partitioning for Remote Sensing Images
Su-Young Han and Seong-Yun Cho
336-345
Generation and Use of Synthetic Training Data in Cursive Handwriting Recognition
Muriel Helmers and Horst Bunke
346-353
Video-Sensor for Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects
Elias Herrero, C. Orrite, A. Alcolea, A. Roy and José J. Guerrero, et al.
354-359
Estimation of Anti-bacterial Culture Activity from Digital Images
José Jasnau Caeiro and Armando Ventura
360-369
Robust Extraction of Vertices in Range Images by Constraining the Hough Transform
Dimitrios Katsoulas
370-377
Comparison of Log-linear Models and Weighted Dissimilarity Measures
Daniel Keysers, Roberto Paredes, Enrique Vidal and Hermann Ney
378-385
Motion Segmentation Using Distributed Genetic Algorithms
Eun Yi Kim and Se Hyun Park
386-394
Supervised Locally Linear Embedding Algorithm for Pattern Recognition
Olga Kouropteva, Oleg Okun and Matti Pietikäinen
395-402
Hash–Like Fractal Image Compression with Linear Execution Time
Kostadin Koroutchev and José R. Dorronsoro
403-410
Learning of Stochastic Context-Free Grammars by Means of Estimation Algorithms and Initial Treebank Grammars
Diego Linares, Joan-Andreu Sánchez, José-Miguel Benedí and Francisco Torres
411-419
Computer-Aided Prostate Cancer Detection in Ultrasonographic Images
Rafael Llobet, Alejandro H. Toselli, Juan C. Perez-Cortes and Alfons Juan
420-427
Ultrasound to Magnetic Resonance Volume Registration for Brain Sinking Measurement
David Lloret, Joan Serrat, Antonio M. López and Juan J. Villanueva
428-436
Segmentation of Range Images in a~Quadtree
Robert E. Loke and Hans du Buf
437-444
Associative Memory for Early Detection of Breast Cancer
Francisco J. López Aligué, Isabel Acevedo, Carlos Ga Orellana, Miguel Macías and Horacio G. Velasco
445-452
Bayesian SPECT Image Reconstruction with Scale Hyperparameter Estimation for Scalable Prior
Antonio López, Rafael Molina and Aggelos K. Katsaggelos
453-461
Reducing Training Sets by NCN-based Exploratory Procedures
M. Lozano, José S. Sánchez and Filiberto Pla
462-469
Probabilistic Observation Models for Tracking Based on Optical Flow
Manuel J. Lucena, José M. Fuertes, Nicolas Perez de la Blanca, Antonio Garrido and Nicolás Ruiz
470-477
Simplified Texture Unit: A~New Descriptor of the Local Texture in Gray-Level Images
Francisco J. Madrid-Cuevas, R. Medina Carnicer, M. Prieto Villegas, N. L. Fernández García and A. Carmona Poyato
478-485
Active Region Segmentation of Mammographic Masses Based on Texture, Contour and Shape Features
Joan Martí, Jordi Freixenet, Xavier Muñoz and Arnau Oliver
486-493
Refining 3D Recovering by Carving through View Interpolation and Stereovision
Enric Martin, Joan Aranda and Antonio Martinez
494-501
Chromosome Classification Using Continuous Hidden Markov Models
César Martínez, Héctor García, Alfons Juan and Francisco Casacuberta
502-509
Generalized k-Medians Clustering for Strings
Carlos D. Martínez-Hinarejos, Alfons Juan and Francisco Casacuberta
510-517
A Quadtree-Based Unsupervised Segmentation Algorithm for Fruit Visual Inspection
Adolfo Martínez Usó
518-529
Shape Deformation Models Using Non-uniform Objects in Multimedia Applications
Miquel Mascaró Portells, Arnau Mir and Francisco Perales
530-537
An Experimental Comparison of Dimensionality Reduction for Face Verification Methods
David Masip and Jordi Vitrià
538-546
Bayesian Image Estimation from an Incomplete Set of Blurred, Undersampled Low Resolution Images
Javier Mateos, Miguel Vega, Rafael Molina and Aggelos K. Katsaggelos
547-555
A Procedure for Biological Sensitive Pattern Matching in Protein Sequences
Juan Méndez, Antonio Falcón and Javier Lorenzo
556-563
An Algebra for the Treatment of Multivalued Information Systems
Margaret Miró-Julià and Gabriel Fiol-Roig
564-571
Adaptive Learning for String Classification
Ramón A. Mollineda, Enrique Vidal and Carlos Martínez-Hinarejos
572-579
Multiple Segmentation of Moving Objects by Quasi-simultaneous Parametric Motion Estimation
Raúl Montoliu and Filiberto Pla
580-588
Fusion of Color and Shape for Object Tracking under Varying Illumination
Francesc Moreno-Noguer, Juan Andrade-Cetto and Alberto Sanfeliu
589-597
Extending Fast Nearest Neighbour Search Algorithms for Approximate k-NN Classification
Francisco Moreno-Seco, Luisa Micó and Jose Oncina
598-605
ART-VENA: Retinal Vaseular Caliber Measurement
Antonio Mosquera, Raquel Dosil, Victor Leborán, Fernando Pardo and Francisco Gómez-Ulla, et al.
606-615
Use of Band Ratioing for Color Texture Classification
Rubén Muñiz and José Antonio Corrales
616-625
Does Independent Component Analysis Play a~Role in Unmixing Hyperspectral Data?
José M. P. Nascimento and José M. B. Dias
626-635
Vertex Component Analysis: A~Fast Algorithm to Extract Endmembers Spectra from Hyperspectral Data
José M. P. Nascimento and José M. B. Dias
636-645
On the Relationship between Classification Error Bounds and Training Criteria in Statistical Pattern Recognition
Hermann Ney
646-653
Application of Multinomial Mixture Model to Text Classification
Jana Novovičová and Antonín Malík
654-663
An Empirical Comparison of Stack-Based Decoding Algorithms for Statistical Machine Translation
Daniel Ortiz, Ismael García Varea and Francisco Casacuberta
664-672
Detection of Colour Channels Uncoupling for Curvature-Insensitive Segmentation
Alberto Ortiz and Gabriel Oliver
673-680
Analyzing Periodic Motion Classification
Xavier Orriols and Xavier Binefa
681-688
Finding Breaking Curves in 3D Surfaces
Xavier Orriols and Xavier Binefa
689-696
Robust Segmentation and Decoding of a~Grid Pattern for Structured Light
Jordi Pagès, Joaquim Salvi and Carles Matabosch
697-703
A New Reference Point Detection Algorithm Based on Orientation Pattern Labeling in Fingerprint Images
Chul-Hyun Park, Sang-Keun Oh, Dong-Min Kwak, Bum-Soo Kim and Young-Chul Song, et al.
704-711
Global Motion Estimation in Sprite Generation by Eliminating Local Object Motions
Sungchan Park, Miyoung Kim and Gueesang Lee
712-721
Automatic Inspection of Wooden Pallets Using Contextual Segmentation Methods
MiguelÁngel Patricio and Darío Maravall
722-732
Gabor Wavelets and Auto-organised Structures for Directional Primitive Extraction
Marta Penas, María J. Carreira and Manuel G. Penedo
733-739
A Colour Tracking Procedure for Low-Cost Face Desktop Applications
F. J. Perales, R. Mas, M. Mascaró, P. Palmer and A. Igelmo, et al.
740-747
Local Motion Estimation from Stereo Image Sequences
N. Pérez de la Blanca, J. M. Fuertes, M. Lucena and A. Garrido
748-757
A Change Validation System for Aerial Images Based on a Probabilistic Latent Variable Model
Fernando Pérez Nava
758-765
Petrographic Classification at the Macroscopic Scale Using a Mathematical Morphology Based Approach
Pedro Pina and Teresa Barata
766-772
On the Efficiency of Luminance-Based Palette Reordering of Color-Quantized Images
Armando J. Pinho and António J. R. Neves
773-781
Feature-Driven Recognition of Music Styles
Pedro J. Ponce de León and José M. Iñesta
782-792
Multiple Model Approach to Deformable Shape Tracking
Daniel Ponsa and Xavier Roca
793-801
Pixel-Based Texture Classification by Integration of Multiple Texture Feature Evaluation Windows
Doménec Puig and Miguel Angel García
802-809
Vessel Segmentation and Branching Detection Using an Adaptive Profile Kalman Filter in Retinal Blood Vessel Structure Analysis
Pedro Quelhas and James Boyce
810-820
Reconstruction of Quadrics from Two Polarization Views
Stefan Rahmann
821-828
Some Results about the Use of Tree/String Edit Distances in a~Nearest Neighbour Classification Task
Juan Ramón Rico-Juan and Luisa Micó
829-837
Line Detection Using Ridgelets Transform for Graphic Symbol Representation
Oriol Ramos Terrades and Ernest Valveny
838-846
Tree-Structured Representation of Musical Information
David Rizo, José Manuel Iñesta and Francisco Moreno-Seco
847-857
Comparative Study of the Baum-Welch and Viterbi Training Algorithms Applied to Read and Spontaneous Speech Recognition
Luis Javier Rodríguez and Inés Torres
858-867
Skin Lesions Diagnosis Based on Fluorescence Image Processing: Simple Parameters Scanning
E. Ros, M. M. Rodriguez, S. Mota, J. L. Bernier and I. Rojas, et al.
868-875
Incrementally Assessing Cluster Tendencies with a~Maximum Variance Cluster Algorithm
Krzysztof Rzaḑca and Francesc J. Ferri
876-883
Musical Style Recognition by Detection of Compass
F. J. Salcedo, J. E. Díaz-Verdejo and J. C. Segura
884-892
Subtexture Components for Texture Description
Anna Salvatella, Maria Vanrell and Ramon Baldrich
893-901
A 3D Ultrasound System for Medical Diagnosis
João Sanches, Jorge S. Marques, Fausto Pinto and Paulo J. Ferreira
902-909
Shot Segmentation Using a~Coupled Markov Chains Representation of Video Contents
Juan M. Sánchez and Xavier Binefa
910-918
Estimating Confidence Measures for Speech Recognition Verification Using a~Smoothed Naive Bayes Model
Alberto Sanchis, Alfons Juan and Enrique Vidal
919-926
A New Wavelets Image Fusion Strategy
M. Santos, G. Pajares, M. Portela and J. M de la Cruz
927-934
Quality Assessment of Manufactured Roof-Tiles Using Digital Sound Processing
Vasco C. F. Santos, Miguel F. M. Sousa and Aníbal J. S. Ferreira
935-942
Graph Representations for Web Document Clustering
Adam Schenker, Mark Last, Horst Bunke and Abraham Kandel
943-950
Learning Decision Trees and Tree Automata for a~Syntactic Pattern Recognition Task
José M. Sempere and Damián López
951-961
MOTRICO Project – Geometric Construction and Mesh Generation of Blood Vessels by Means of the Fusion of Angiograms and IVUS
Francisco J. Seron, Elsa Garcia and Jorge del Pico
962-969
Skipping Fisher’s Criterion
A. Sierra and A. Echeverría
970-978
New Class of Filters for Impulsive Noise Removal in Color Images
Bogdan Smolka
979-985
On the Nonparametric Impulsive Noise Reduction in Multichannel Images
Bogdan Smolka
986-993
Robust Hash Functions for Visual Data: An Experimental Comparison
Champskud J. Skrepth and Andreas Uhl
994-1002
Error Concealment Using Discontinuity Features
NamRye Son and GueeSang Lee
1003-1011
Geometric Properties of the 3D Spine Curve
J. M. Sotoca, M. Buendía, J. M. Iñesta and F. J. Ferri
1012-1019
Oriented Matroids for Shape Representation and Indexing
E. Staffetti, A. Grau, F. Serratosa and A. Sanfeliu
1020-1031
Combining Phrase-Based and Template-Based Alignment Models in Statistical Translation
Jesús Tomás and Francisco Casacuberta
1032-1040
The Log-polar Image Representation in Pattern Recognition Tasks
V. Javier Traver and Filiberto Pla
1041-1048
Appearance Tracking for Video Surveillance
Javier Varona, Jordi Gonzàlez, F. Xavier Roca and J. J. Villanueva
1049-1056
Sinusoidal Modelling with Complex Exponentials for Speech and Audio Signals
P. Vera-Candeas, N. Ruiz-Reyes, D. Martinez-Muñoz, J. Curpian-Alonso and M. Rosa-Zurera, et al.
1057-1065
Smoothing Techniques for Tree-k-Grammar-Based Natural Language Modeling
Jose L. Verdú-Mas, Jorge Calera-Rubio and Rafael C. Carrasco
1066-1073
Colour Constancy Algorithm Based on the Minimization of the Distance between Colour Histograms
Jaume Vergés-Llahí and Alberto Sanfeliu
1074-1081
Video Segmentation for Traffic Monitoring Tasks Based on Pixel-Level Snakes
D. L Vilariño, D. Cabello, X. M. Pardo and V. M. Brea
1082-1089
Optimal Detection of Symmetry Axis in Digital Chest X-ray Images
Carlos Vinhais and Aurélio Campilho
1090-1098
Low Complexity Motion Estimation Based on Spatio-temporal Correlations
Hyo Sun Yoon and Guee Sang Lee
1099-1107
Set-Permutation-Occurrence Matrix Based Texture Segmentation
Reyer Zwiggelaar, Lilian Blot, David Raba and Erika R. E. Denton
1108-1116
Semi-automatic Segmentation of the Prostate
Reyer Zwiggelaar, Yanong Zhu and Stuart Williams
1117-1125
Entropy Vector Median Filter
Rastislav Lukac, Bogdan Smolka, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis and Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos
1126-1138
That Elusive Diversity in Classifier Ensembles
Ludmila I. Kuncheva
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