Structural, Syntactic and Statistical Pattern Recognition : Joint IAPR International Workshops SSPR 2002 and SPR 2002, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, August 6-9, 2002: Proceedings Book

	Spectral Methods for View-Based 3-D Object Recognition Using Silhouettes	1
	Machine Learning for Sequential Data: A Review	15
	Graph-Based Methods for Vision: A Yorkist Manifesto	31
	Reducing the Computational Cost of Computing Approximated Median Strings	47
	Tree k-Grammar Models for Natural Language Modelling and Parsing	56
	Algorithms for Learning Function Distinguishable Regular Languages	64
	Non-bayesian Graph Matching without Explicit Compatibility Calculations	74
	Spectral Feature Vectors for Graph Clustering	83
	Identification of Diatoms by Grid Graph Matching	94
	String Edit Distance, Random Walks and Graph Matching	104
	Learning Structural Variations in Shock Trees	113
	A Comparison of Algorithms for Maximum Common Subgraph on Randomly Connected Graphs	123
	Inexact Multisubgraph Matching Using Graph Eigenspace and Clustering Models	133
	Optimal Lower Bound for Generalized Median Problems in Metric Space	143
	Structural Description of Recognising Arabic Characters Using Decision Tree Learning Techniques	152
	Feature Approach for Printed Document Image Analysis	159
	Example-Driven Graphics Recognition	168
	Estimation of Texels for Regular Mosaics Using Model-based Interaction Maps	177
	Using Graph Search Techniques for Contextual Colour Retrieval	186
	Comparing Shape and Temporal PDMs	195
	Linear Shape Recognition with Mixtures of Point Distribution Models	205
	Curvature Weighted Evidence Combination for Shape-from-Shading	216
	Probabilistic Decisions in Production Nets: An Example from Vehicle Recognition	225
	Hierarchical Top Down Enhancement of Robust PCA	234
	An Application of Machine Learning Techniques for the Classification of Glaucomatous Progression	243
	Estimating the Joint Probability Distribution of Random Vertices and Arcs by Means of Second-Order Random Graphs	252
	Successive Projection Graph Matching	263
	Compact Graph Model of Handwritten Images: Integration into Authentification and Recognition	272
	A Statistical and Structural Approach for Symbol Recognition, Using XML Modelling	281
	A New Algorithm for Graph Matching with Application to Content-Based Image Retrieval	291
	Efficient Computation of 3-D Moments in Terms of an Object's Partition	301
	A Visual Attention Operator Based on Morphological Models of Images and Maximum Likelihood Decision	310
	Disparity Using Feature Points in Multi Scale	320
	Detecting Perceptually Important Regions in an Image Based on Human Visual Attention Characteristic	329
	Development of Spoken Language User Interfaces: A Tool Kit Approach	339
	Document Image De-warping for Text/Graphics Recognition	348
	A Complete OCR System for Gurmukhi Script	358
	Texprint: A New Algorithm to Discriminate Textures Structurally	368
	Optimal Music Interpretation	378
	On the Segmentation of Color Cartographic Images	387
	Projection of Pursuit Fitting Gaussian Mixture Models	396
	Asymmetric Gaussian and Its Application to Pattern Recognition	405
	Modified Predictive Validation Test for Gaussian Mixture Modelling	414
	Performance Analysis and Comparison of Linear Combiners for Classifier Fusion	424
	Comparison of Two Classification Methodologies on a Real-World Biomedical Problem	433
	Evidence Accumulation Clustering Based on the K-Means Algorithm	442
	A Kernel Approach to Metric Multidimensional Scaling	452
	On Feature Selection with Measurement Cost and Grouped Features	461
	Classifier-Independent Feature Selection Based on Non-parametric Discriminant Analysis	470
	Effects of Many Feature Candidates in Feature Selection and Classification	480
	Spatial Representation of Dissimilarity Data via Lower-Complexity Linear and Nonlinear Mappings	488
	A Method to Estimate the True Mahalanobis Distance from Eigenvectors of Sample Covariance Matrix	498
	Non-iterative Heteroscedastic Linear Dimension Reduction for Two-Class Data (From Fisher to Chernoff)	508
	Some Experiments in Supervised Pattern Recognition with Incomplete Training Samples	518
	Recursive Prototype Reduction Schemes Applicable for Large Data Sets	528
	Combination of Tangent Vectors and Local Representations for Handwritten Digit Recognition	538
	Training Set Expansion in Handwritten Character Recognition	548
	Document Classification Using Phrases	557
	Face Detection by Learned Affine Correspondences	566
	Shape-from-Shading for Highlighted Surfaces	576
	Texture Description by Independent Components	587
	Fusion of Multiple Cue Detectors for Automatic Sports Video Annotation	597
	Query Shifting Based on Bayesian Decision Theory for Content-Based Image Retrieval	607
	Recursive Model-Based Colour Image Restoration	617
	Human Face Recognition with Different Statistical Features	627
	A Transformation-Based Mechanism for Face Recognition	636
	Face Detection Using Integral Projection Models	644
	Illumination Normalized Face Image for Face Recognition	654
	Towards a Generalized Eigenspace-Based Face Recognition Framework	662
	Automatic Segmentation of Speech at the Phonetic Level	672
	Class-Discriminative Weighted Distortion Measure for VQ-Based Speaker Identification	681
	Alive Fishes Species Characterization from Video Sequences	689
	Automatic Cut Detection in MPEG Movies: A Multi-expert Approach	699
	Bayesian Networks for Incorporation of Contextual Information in Target Recognition Systems	709
	Extending LAESA Fast Nearest Neighbour Algorithm to Find the k Nearest Neighbours	718
	A Fast Approximated k-Median Algorithm	725
	A Hidden Markov Model-Based Approach to Sequential Data Clustering	734
	Genetic Algorithms for Exploratory Data Analysis	743
	Piecewise Multi-linear PDF Modelling, Using an ML Approach	752
	Decision Tree Using Class-Dependent Feature Subsets	761
	Fusion of n-Tuple Based Classifiers for High Performance Handwritten Character Recognition	770
	A Biologically Plausible Approach to Cat and Dog Discrimination	779
	Morphologically Unbiased Classifier Combination through Graphical PDF Correlation	789
	Classifiers under Continuous Observations	798
	Texture Classification Based on Coevolution Approach in Multiwavelet Feature Space	806
	Probabilistic Signal Models to Regularise Dynamic Programming Stereo	814
	The Hough Transform without the Accumulators	823
	Robust Gray-Level Histogram Gaussian Characterisation	833
	Model-Based Fatique Fractographs Texture Analysis	842
	Hierarchical Multiscale Modeling of Wavelet-Based Correlations	850
	Author Index	861