Advances in Pattern Recognition - ICAPR 2001 : Second International Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 11-14, 2001: Proceedings Book

	Towards Bridging the Gap between Statistical and Structural Pattern Recognition: Two New Concepts in Graph Matching	1
	Learning and Adaptation in Robotics	12
	Image-Based self-localization by Means of Zero Phase Representation in Panoramic Images	24
	A Cascaded Genetic Algorithm for Efficient Optimization and Pattern Matching	32
	Using Unlabelled Data to Train a Multilayer Perceptron	40
	A Neural Multi-expert Classification System for MPEG Audio Segmenation	50
	Pattern Recognition with Quantum Neural Networks	60
	Pattern Matching and Neural Networks Based Hybrid Forecasting System	72
	Invariant Face Detection in Color Images Using Orthogonal Fourier-Mellin Moments and Support Vector Machines	83
	Character Extraction from Interfering Background - Analysis of Double-Sided Handwritten Archival Documents	93
	An Enhanced HMM Topology in an LBA Framework for the Recognition of Handwritten Numeral Strings	105
	Segmentation of Printed Arabic Text	115
	A Time-Length Constrained Level Building Algorithm for Large Vocabulary Handwritten Word Recognition	127
	Preventing Overfitting in Learning Text Patterns for Document Categorization	137
	Image Document Categorization Using Hidden Tree Markov Models and Structured Representations	147
	Handwriting Quality Evaluation	157
	Texture Based Look-Ahead for Decision-Tree Induction	166
	Feature Based Decision Fusion	176
	Feature Selection Based on Fuzzy Distances Between Clusters: First Results on Simulated Data	186
	Efficient and Effective Feature Selection in the Presence of Feature Interaction and Noise	196
	Integrating Recognition Paradigms in a Multiple Path Architecture	202
	A New Geometric Tool for Pattern Recognition-An Algorithm for Real-Time Insertion of Layered Segment Trees	212
	Improvements in K-Nearest Neighbor Classifications	222
	Branch and Bound Algorithm with Partial Prediction for Use with Recursive and Non-recursive Criterion Forms	230
	Model Validation for Model Selection	240
	Grouping via the Matching of Repeated Patterns	250
	Complex Fittings	260
	Application of Adaptive Committee Classifiers in On-Line Character Recognition	270
	Learning Complex Action Patterns with CRGst	280
	Identification of Electrical Activity of the Brain Associated with Changes in Behavioural Performance	290
	Automatic Camera Calibration for Image Sequences of a Football Match	301
	Locating and Tracking Facial Landmarks Using Gabor Wavelet Networks	311
	Complex Images and Complex Filters: A Unified Model for Encoding and Matching Shape and Colour	321
	White Matter/Gray Matter Boundary Segmentation Using Geometric Snakes: A Fuzzy Deformable Model	331
	Multiseeded Fuzzy Segmentation on the Face Centered Cubic Grid	339
	3D Wavelet Based Video Retrieval	349
	Combined Invariants to Convolution and Rotation and Their Applications to Image Registration	359
	Modelling Plastic Distortion in Fingerprint Images	369
	Image Retrieval Using a Hierarchy of Clusters	377
	Texture-Adaptive Active Contour Models	387
	A Generalized Local Binary Pattern Operator for Multiresolution Gray Scale and Rotation Invariant Texture Classification	397
	Analysis of Curved Textured Surfaces Using Local Spectral Distortion	407
	Texture Analysis Experiments with Meastex and Vistex Benchmarks	417
	Advances in Statistical Feature Selection	425
	Learning-Based Detection, Segmentation and Matching of Objects	435
	Automated Biometrics	445
	Author Biographies	455
	Author Index	475