Advances in pattern recognition. Joint IAPR international workshops SSPR 2000 and SPR 2000, Alicante, Spain, August 30 -- September 1, 2000. Proceedings (Q1582969)

The articles of mathematical interest will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Bezdek, James C.; Kuncheva, Ludmila I.}, Some notes on twenty one (21) nearest prototype classifiers, 1-16 [Zbl 0996.68531] \textit{Adorni, Giovanni; Cagnoni, Stefano; Gori, Marco}, Adaptive graphical pattern recognition beyond connectionist-based approaches, 17-27 [Zbl 0996.68565] \textit{De La Higuera, Colin}, Current trends in grammatical inference, 28-31 [Zbl 0996.68569] \textit{Raudys, Šarūnas}, Classifier's complexity control while training multilayer perceptrons, 32-44 [Zbl 0996.68573] \textit{Kittler, Josef}, A framework for classifier fusion: Is it still needed?, 45-56 [Zbl 0996.68577] \textit{Gao, Jiang; Ding, Xiaoqing; Zheng, Jing}, Image pattern recognition based on examples -- a combined statistical and structural-syntactic approach, 57-66 [Zbl 0996.68584] \textit{Freund, Rudolf; Neubauer, Markus; Summerer, Martin; Gruber, Stefan; Schaffer, Jürgen; Swoboda, Roland}, A hybrid system for the recognition of hand-written characters, 67-76 [Zbl 0996.68585] \textit{Mayer, Helmut A.; Somol, Petr; Huber, Reinhold; Pudil, Pavel}, Improving statistical measures of feature subsets by conventional and evolutionary approaches, 77-86 [Zbl 0996.68593] \textit{Giacinto, Giorgio; Roli, Fabio; Fumera, Giorgio}, Selection of classifiers based on multiple classifier behaviour, 87-93 [Zbl 0996.68596] \textit{de Ridder, Dick; Lemmers, Olaf; Duin, Robert P. W.; Kittler, Josef}, The adaptive subspace map for image description and image database retrieval, 94-103 [Zbl 0996.68601] \textit{Messer, Kieron; Kittler, Josef; Haddon, John; Watson, Graham; Watson, Sharon}, Adaptive automatic target recognition with SVM boosting for outlier detection, 104-113 [Zbl 0996.68603] \textit{Haindl, Michal; Havlíček, Vojtěch}, A multiresolution causal colour texture model, 114-122 [Zbl 0996.68607] \textit{Cha, Sung-Hyuk; Srihari, Sargur N.}, Writer identification: Statistical analysis and dichotomizer, 123-132 [Zbl 0996.68614] \textit{López, Damián; Piñaga, Ignacio}, Syntactic pattern recognition by error correcting analysis on tree automata, 133-142 [Zbl 0996.68532] \textit{González, J.; Salvador, I.; Toselli, A. H.; Juan, A.; Vidal, E.; Casacuberta, F.}, Offline recognition of syntax-constrained cursive handwritten text, 143-153 [Zbl 0996.68619] \textit{Héroux, Pierre; Trupin, Éric; Lecoutier, Yves}, Structural classification for retrospective conversion of documents, 154-162 [Zbl 0996.68623] \textit{Lam, Louisa; Fan, Rong; Xu, Qizhi; Suen, Ching Y.}, Segmentation of date field on bank cheques, 163-172 [Zbl 0996.68627] \textit{Bauckhage, Christian; Kronenberg, Susanne; Kummert, Franz; Sagerer, Gerhard}, Grammars and discourse theory to describe and recognize mechanical assemblies, 173-182 [Zbl 0996.68630] \textit{Jiménez, Víctor M.; Marzal, Andrés}, Computation of the \(N\) best parse trees for weighted and stochastic context-free grammars, 183-192 [Zbl 0996.68534] \textit{Fred, Ana L. N.; Leitão, José M. N.}, Partitional vs hierarchical clustering using a minimum grammar complexity approach, 193-202 [Zbl 0996.68639] \textit{Forcada, Mikel L.; Carrasco, Rafael C.}, Encoding nondeterministic finite-state tree automata in sigmoid recursive neural networks, 203-210 [Zbl 0996.68154] \textit{Nishida, Hirobumi}, Retrieval of partially visible shapes through structural feature indexing, 211-220 [Zbl 0996.68509] \textit{Davlea, Laura}, A structural matching algorithm using generalized deterministic annealing, 221-225 [Zbl 0996.68646] \textit{Luo, B.; Hancock, E. R.}, Alignment and correspondence using singular value decomposition, 226-235 [Zbl 0996.68650] \textit{Lazarescu, M.; Bunke, Horst; Venkatesh, S.}, Graph matching: Fast candidate elimination using machine learning techniques, 236-245 [Zbl 0996.68656] \textit{Bergamini, Paolo; Cinque, Luigi; Cross, Andrew D. J.; Hancock, Edwin R.; Levialdi, Stefano; Myers, Richard}, Efficient alignment and correspondence using edit distance, 246-255 [Zbl 0996.68659] \textit{Brun, Luc; Kropatsch, Walter}, Irregular pyramids with combinatorial maps, 256-265 [Zbl 0996.68134] \textit{El-Sonbaty, Yasser; Ismail, M. A.}, A new error-correcting distance for attributed relational graph problems, 266-276 [Zbl 0996.68665] \textit{Alquézar, René; Serratosa, Francesc; Sanfeliu, Alberto}, Distance between attributed graphs and function-described graphs relaxing \(2^{\text{nd}}\) order restrictions, 277-286 [Zbl 0996.68535] \textit{Marchadier, Jocelyn; Michelin, Sylvain; Egels, Yves}, A graph labelling approach for connected feature selection, 287-296 [Zbl 0996.68673] \textit{Ahmadyfard, Alireza; Kittler, Josef}, Region-based representation for object recognition by relaxation labelling, 297-307 [Zbl 0996.68678] \textit{Caelli, Terry}, Shape boundary tracking with hidden Markov models, 308-317 [Zbl 0996.68682] \textit{Bischof, Walter F.; Caelli, Terry}, Parallel techniques for rule-based scene interpretation, 318-326 [Zbl 0996.68686] \textit{Ribeiro, Eraldo; Hancock, Edwin R.}, Curvature estimation using shape-from-texture, 327-336 [Zbl 0996.68550] \textit{Mollineda, R. A.; Vidal, E.; Casacuberta, F.}, Efficient techniques for a very accurate measurement of dissimilarities between cyclic patterns, 337-346 [Zbl 0996.68536] \textit{Imiya, Atsushi; Ueno, Tomoki; Fermin, Iris}, Planar symmetry detection by random sampling and voting process, 347-356 [Zbl 0996.68537] \textit{Michaelsen, Eckart; Stilla, Uwe}, Assessing the computational effort for structural 3D vehicle recognition, 357-366 [Zbl 0996.68698] \textit{Glantz, R.; Kropatsch, W. G.}, Guided relinking of graph pyramids, 367-376 [Zbl 0996.68135] \textit{Vitulano, D.; Vitulano, S.}, Texture indexing by a hierarchical representation, 377-386 [Zbl 0996.68538] \textit{Sanniti di Baja, Gabriella; Svensson, Stina}, Surface skeletons detected on the \(D^6\) distance transform, 387-396 [Zbl 0996.68708] \textit{Myers, Richard; Hancock, Edwin R.}, Selection strategies for ambiguous graph matching by evolutionary optimisation, 397-406 [Zbl 0996.68527] \textit{Ma, Matthew; Zhang, Chi; Wang, Patrick}, Studies of radical model for retrieval of cursive Chinese handwritten annotations, 407-416 [Zbl 0996.68715] \textit{Picó, David; Casacuberta, Francisco}, A statistical-estimation method for stochastic finite-state transducers based on entropy measures, 417-426 [Zbl 0996.68539] \textit{Fuchs, Frank; Le-Men, Hervé}, Efficient subgraph isomorphism with `a priori' knowledge. Application to 3D reconstruction of buildings for cartography, 427-436 [Zbl 0996.68722] \textit{Pailloncy, Jean-Gérard}, Pyramid and interior, 437-446 [Zbl 0996.68725] \textit{Foggia, Pasquale; Genna, Roberto; Vento, Mario}, Prototype learning with attributed relational graphs, 447-456 [Zbl 0996.68726] \textit{Rico-Juan, Juan Ramón; Calera-Rubio, Jorge; Carrasco, Rafael C.}, Lossless compression of surfaces described as points, 457-461 [Zbl 0996.68729] \textit{Flach, Boris; Schlesinger, Michail I.}, A class of solvable consistent labeling problems, 462-471 [Zbl 0996.68225] \textit{Adam, Sébastien; Ogier, Jean Marc; Cariou, Claude; Mullot, Rémy; Gardes, Joël; Labiche, Jacques}, Character recognition, orientation, and scale estimation thanks to the Fourier Mellin transform, 472-481 [Zbl 0996.68739] \textit{Sánchez, J. S.; Pla, F.; Herrero, M. C.}, Using the dual of proximity graphs for binary decision tree design, 482-490 [Zbl 0996.68741] \textit{Copsey, Keith; Webb, Andrew}, Bayesian approach to mixture models for discrimination, 491-500 [Zbl 0996.68540] \textit{Nyssen, Edgard; Van Kempen, Luc; Sahli, Hichem}, Pattern classification based on a piecewise multi-linear model for the class probability densities, 501-510 [Zbl 0996.68541] \textit{Tenmoto, Hiroshi; Kudo, Mineichi; Shimbo, Masaru}, Selection of the number of components using a genetic algorithm for mixture model classifiers, 511-520 [Zbl 0996.68750] \textit{Kitamoto, Asanobu}, The moments of the mixel distribution and its application to statistical image classification, 521-531 [Zbl 0996.68542] \textit{Paschalakis, Stavros; Lee, Peter}, Statistical pattern recognition using the normalized complex moment components vector, 532-539 [Zbl 0996.68757] \textit{Gimel'farb, Georgy; Zhang, Jian Quan}, Initial matching of multiple-view images by affine approximation of relative distortions, 540-549 [Zbl 0996.68759] \textit{Guillamet, David; Vitrià, Jordi}, Local discriminant regions using support vector machines for object recognition, 550-559 [Zbl 0996.68760] \textit{Bhanu, Bir; Lin, Yingqiang}, Stochastic models for recognition of occluded objects, 560-570 [Zbl 0996.68762] \textit{Molina, Andrés}, A vector approach to the analysis of (patterns with) spatial dependence, 571-580 [Zbl 0996.68764] \textit{Rueda, Luis; Oommen, B. John}, The foundational theory of optimal Bayesian pairwise linear classifiers, 581-590 [Zbl 0996.68164] \textit{Han, Xuexian; Wakabayashi, Tetsushi; Kimura, Fumitaka}, The optimum classifier and the performance evaluation by Bayesian approach, 591-600 [Zbl 0996.68543] \textit{Omachi, Shin'ichiro; Sun, Fang; Aso, Hirotomo}, A new approximation method for the quadratic discriminant function, 601-610 [Zbl 0996.68544] \textit{Tortorella, Francesco}, An optimal reject rule for binary classifiers, 611-620 [Zbl 0996.68769] \textit{Barandela, Ricardo; Gasca, Eduardo}, Decontamination of training samples for supervised pattern recognition methods, 621-630 [Zbl 0996.68771] \textit{Skurichina, Marina; Duin, Robert P. W.}, The role of combining rules in bagging and boosting, 631-640 [Zbl 0996.68773] \textit{Wu, Yingquan; Ianakiev, K.; Govindaraju, V.}, Confidence combination methods in multi-expert systems, 641-649 [Zbl 0996.68775] \textit{Choi, Se-Ho; Rockett, Peter}, Reducing the training times of neural classifiers with dataset condensing, 650-657 [Zbl 0996.68778] \textit{Malo, J.; Navarro, R.; Epifanio, I.; Ferri, F.; Artigas, J. M.}, Nonlinear invertible representation for joint statistical and perceptual feature decorrelation, 658-667 [Zbl 0996.68779] \textit{Abe, Naoto; Kudo, Mineichi; Toyama, Jun; Shimbo, Masaru}, A divergence criterion for classifier-independent feature selection, 668-676 [Zbl 0996.68781] \textit{Kudo, Mineichi; Somol, Petr; Pudil, Pavel; Shimbo, Masaru; Sklansky, Jack}, Comparison of classifier-specific feature selection algorithms, 677-686 [Zbl 0996.68783] \textit{Windridge, David; Kittler, Josef}, Combined classifier optimisation via feature selection, 687-695 [Zbl 0996.68786] \textit{Holz, Hilary J.; Loew, Murray H.}, Design choices and theoretical issues for relative feature importance, a metric for nonparametric discriminatory power, 696-705 [Zbl 0996.68788] \textit{Barrios, Dolores; Manrique, Daniel; Porras, Jaime; Ríos, Juan}, Real-coded genetic algorithms based on mathematical morphology, 706-715 [Zbl 0996.68546] \textit{García-Mateos, Ginés; Vicente-Chicote, Cristina}, A new model and process architecture for facial expression recognition, 716-726 [Zbl 0996.68790] \textit{Raudys, Šarūnas; Tamošiūnaitė, Minija}, Biologically inspired architecture of feedforward networks for signal classification, 727-736 [Zbl 0996.68793] \textit{Lipowezky, Uri; Shenkar, Victor}, Optimal threshold estimation using prototype selection, 737-746 [Zbl 0996.68795] \textit{Gimel'farb, Georgy}, Basic and fine structure of pairwise interactions in Gibbs texture models, 747-756 [Zbl 0996.68796] \textit{Patricio, M. A.; Maravall, D.}, Segmentation of text and graphics/images using the gray-level histogram Fourier transform, 757-766 [Zbl 0996.68799] \textit{Pérez-Cortes, Juan C.; Llobet, Rafael; Arlandis, Joaquim}, Fast and accurate handwritten character recognition using approximate nearest neighbours search on large databases, 767-776 [Zbl 0996.68801] \textit{León-Rojas, Juan M.; Moreno, José; Silva, Antonio; Morales, Montaña}, A family of divergences between \(\Phi\)-probabilistic sets with application to handshape recognition, 777-786 [Zbl 0996.68180] \textit{Horikawa, Yo}, Rotated, scaled, and noisy 2D and 3D texture classification with the bispectrum-based invariant feature, 787-795 [Zbl 0996.68804] \textit{Galindo, Pedro L.; Pizarro-Junquera, Joaquín; Guerrero, Elisa}, Multiple comparison procedures for determining the optimal complexity of a model, 796-805 [Zbl 0996.68805] \textit{Won, Yonggwan; Nam, Jiseung; Lee, Bae-Ho}, Image pattern recognition in natural environment using morphological feature extraction, 806-815 [Zbl 0996.68545] \textit{García-Martínez, P.; Arsenault, H. H.; Ferreira, C.}, A statistical matrix representation using sliced orthogonal nonlinear correlations for pattern recognition, 816-822 [Zbl 0996.68809] \textit{Moreno-Seco, Francisco; Micó, Luisa; Oncina, José}, A fast approximately \(k\)-nearest-neighbour search algorithm for classification tasks, 823-831 [Zbl 0996.68811] \textit{Marín, Raül; Sanz, Pedro José; Jimeno, Antonio José; Iñesta, Jose Manuel}, Design of a telerobotic interface system by using object recognition techniques, 832-841 [Zbl 0996.68813] \textit{Juan, A.; Vidal, E.}, Comparison of four initialization techniques for the \(k\)-medians clustering algorithm, 842-852 [Zbl 0996.68815] \textit{Linåker, Fredrik; Niklasson, Lars}, Sensory flow segmentation using a resource allocating vector quantizer, 853-862 [Zbl 0996.68816] \textit{Fumera, Giorgio; Roli, Fabio; Giacinto, Giorgio}, Multiple reject thresholds for improving classification reliability, 863-871 [Zbl 0996.68818] \textit{Saint-Jean, C.; Frélicot, C.; Vachon, B.}, Clustering with EM: Complex models vs. robust estimation, 872-881 [Zbl 0996.68820] \textit{Chen, Dechang; Cheng, Xiuzhen}, A simple implementation of the stochastic discrimination for pattern recognition, 882-887 [Zbl 0996.68822] \textit{Palenichka, Roman M.; Zinterhof, Peter; Ivasenko, Iryna B.}, Adaptive image filtering and segmentation using robust estimation of intensity, 888-897 [Zbl 0996.68824]