Pattern Recognition Book

	Coherence-Enhancing Shock Filters	1
	Spherical Decision Surfaces Using Conformal Modelling	9
	Median Filtering of Tensor-Valued Images	17
	Edge and Junction Detection with an Improved Structure Tensor	25
	Who's Who? Challenges in Biometric Authentication	33
	Optimal Scale Selection for Circular Edge Extraction	36
	Localization of Piled Boxes by Means of the Hough Transform	44
	Training and Recognition of Complex Scenes Using a Holistic Statistical Model	52
	Combining White-Patch Retinex and the Gray World Assumption to Achieve Color Constancy for Multiple Illuminants	60
	Method of Greating of Functional Invariants under One-Parameter Geometric Image Transformations	68
	Gaze Detection System by Wide and Auto Pan/Tilt Narrow View Camera	76
	Distribution Distance Measures Applied to 3-D Object Recognition - A Case Study	84
	Classification with Controlled Robustness in High-Resolution SAR Data	92
	3D Reconstruction of Human Skeleton from Single Images or Monocular Video Sequences	100
	Shape Preservation during Digitization: Tight Bounds Based on the Morphing Distance	108
	Evaluation of Uniform and Non-uniform Optical Flow Techniques Using Finite Element Methods	116
	Colour Image Analysis in 3D-Polar Coordinates	124
	Pixel Classification by Divergence-Based Integration of Multiple Texture Methods and Its Application to Fabric Defect Detection	132
	A Probabilistic Definition of Intrinsic Dimensionality for Images	140
	Learning Human-Like Opponent Behavior for Interactive Computer Games	148
	Rotationally Invariant Wavelet Shrinkage	156
	Hierarchical Method for Stereophotogrammetric Multi-object-Position Measurement	161
	On Robust Regression in Photogrammetric Point Clouds	172
	A Visual Quality Inspection System Based on a Hierarchical 3D Pose Estimation Algorithm	179
	Using an Active Shape Structural Model for Biometric Sketch Recognition	187
	Domain Decomposition for Parrallel Variational Optical Flow Computation	196
	Fuzzy Modeling Based Recognition of Multi-font Numerals	204
	System Concept for Image Sequence Classification in Laser Welding	212
	3D Parametric Intensity Models for the Localization of Different Types of 3D Anatomical Point Landmarks in Tomographic Images	220
	Comparing Clustering Methods for Database Categorization in Image Retrieval	228
	Locally Optimized RANSAC	236
	Splines and Wavelets: New Perspectives for Pattern Recognition	244
	Robust Camera Calibration from Images and Rotation Data	249
	FFT-Based Disparity Estimation for Stereo Image Coding	257
	Projective Reconstruction of Surfaces of Revolution	265
	Illumination Insensitive Template Matching with Hyperplanes	273
	Robust Orientation, Calibration, and Disparity Estimation of Image Triplets	281
	Fast Feature Selection in an HMM-Based Multiple Classifier System for Handwriting Recognition	289
	Empirical Analysis of Detection Cascades of Boosted Classifiers for Rapid Object Detection	297
	Local Representations for Multi-object Recognition	305
	A Generative Model Based Approach to Motion Segmentation	313
	A New View at Differential and Tensor-Based Motion Estimation Schemes	321
	Real-Time Texture-Based 3-D Tracking	330
	Hierarchy of Partitions with Dual Graph Contraction	338
	One-Class Classification with Subgaussians	346
	A Hybrid Distance Map Based and Morphologic Thinning Algorithm	354
	A Computational Model of Early Auditory-Visual Integration	362
	On the Relevance of Global Knowledge for Correlation-Based Seismic Image Interpretation	370
	Automatic Pixel Selection for Optimizing Facial Expression Recognition Using Eigenfaces	378
	Robust Image Sequence Mosaicing	386
	Gibbs Probability Distributions for Stereo Reconstruction	394
	Partial Optimal Labelling Search for a NP-Hard Subclass of (max,+) Problems	402
	Extraction of Orientation from Floor Structure for Odometry Correction in Mobile Robotics	410
	On Consistent Discrimination between Directed and Diffuse Outdoor Illimunation	418
	Genetic Algorithm-Based Video Segmentation with Adaptive Population Size	426
	Component Fusion for Face Detection in the Presence of Heteroscedastic Noise	434
	Block Matching Integrating Intensity, Hue, and Range	442
	Geometric Segmentation and Object Recognition in Unordered and Incomplete Point Cloud	450
	Real-Time Inspection System for Printed Circuit Boards	458
	Real-Time System for Counting the Number of Passing People Using a Single Camera	466
	Multiple Classifier Systems for the Recognition of Orthoptera Songs	474
	A Region Based Seed Detection for Root Detection in Minirhizotron Images	482
	Image Retrieval Using Local Compact DCT-Based Representation	490
	Variance Component Estimation in Performance Characteristics Applied to Feature Extraction Procedures	498
	A New Distance Measure for Probabilistic Shape Modeling	507
	Generating Rotation-Invariant Texture Features by Randomization of Operator Orientation	515
	Estimation of Skill Levels in Sports Based on Hierarchical Spatio-Temporal Correspondences	523
	Determining Position and Fine Shape Detail in Radiological Anatomy	532
	Solutions for Model-Based Analysis of Human Gait	540
	Robust Hand-Eye Calibration of an Endoscopic Surgery Robot Using Dual Quaternions	548
	Real-Time Recognition of 3D-Pointing Gestures for Human-Machine-Interaction	557
	Post Estimation of Cylindrical Fragments for Semi-automatic Bone Fracture Reduction	566
	Pose Estimation of Free-Form Surface Models	574
	IR Pedestrian Detection for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems	582
	Color-Based Object Tracking in Multi-camera Environments	591
	Improving Children's Speech Recognition by HMM Interpolation with an Adults' Speech Recognizer	600
	Image Sequence Analysis in Environmental and Live Sciences	608
	Author Index	619