INVITED TALKS

Towards Bridging the Gap between Statistical and Structural Pattern Recognition: Two New Concepts in Graph Matching

H. Bunke

S. Gunter

X. Jiang

Learning and Adaptation in Robotics

T. Fukuda

Y. Hasegawa

Image-Based self-localization by Means of Zero Phase Representation in Panoramic Images

T. Pajdla

V. Hlavac

NEURAL NETWORKS & COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE

A Cascaded Genetic Algorithm for Efficient Optimization and Pattern Matching

G. Garai

B. B. Chaudhuri

Using Unlabelled Data to Train a Multilayer Perceptron

A. Verikas

A. Gelzinis

K. Malmqvist

M. Bacauskiene

A Neural Multi-expert Classification System for MPEG Audio Segmenation

M. De Santo

G. Percannella

C. Sansone

M. Vento

Pattern Recognition with Quantum Neural Networks

A. A. Ezhov

Pattern Matching and Neural Networks Based Hybrid Forecasting System

S. Singh

J. E. Fieldsend

Invariant Face Detection in Color Images Using Orthogonal Fourier-Mellin Moments and Support Vector Machines

J.-C. Terrillon

M. N. Shirazi

D. McReynolds

M. Sadek

Y. Sheng

S. Akamatsu

K. Yamamoto

CHARACTER RECOGNITION & DOCUMENT ANALYSIS

Character Extraction from Interfering Background - Analysis of Double-Sided Handwritten Archival Documents

C.L. Tan

R. Cao

Q. Wang

P. Shen

An Enhanced HMM Topology in an LBA Framework for the Recognition of Handwritten Numeral Strings

A. de S. Britto Jr.

R. Sabourin

F. Bortolozzi

C.Y. Suen

Segmentation of Printed Arabic Text

A. Amin

A Time-Length Constrained Level Building Algorithm for Large Vocabulary Handwritten Word Recognition

A. L. Koerich

R. Sabourin

C.Y. Suen

Preventing Overfitting in Learning Text Patterns for Document Categorization

M. Junker

A. Dengel

Image Document Categorization Using Hidden Tree Markov Models and Structured Representations

M. Diligenti

P. Frasconi

M. Gori

Handwriting Quality Evaluation

V. Kulesh

K. Schaffer

I. Sethi

M. Schwartz

FEATURE SELECTION & ANALYSIS

Texture Based Look-Ahead for Decision-Tree Induction

M. Dong

R. Kothari

Feature Based Decision Fusion

N.M. Wanas

M.S. Kamel

Feature Selection Based on Fuzzy Distances Between Clusters: First Results on Simulated Data

T.E. Campos

I. Bloch

R.M. Cesar, Jr

Efficient and Effective Feature Selection in the Presence of Feature Interaction and Noise

D. Partridge

W. Wang

P. Jones

Integrating Recognition Paradigms in a Multiple Path Architecture

G. Sagerer

C. Bauckhage

E. Braun

G. Heidemann

F. Kummert

H. Ritter

and D. Schluter

A New Geometric Tool for Pattern Recognition-An Algorithm for Real-Time Insertion of Layered Segment Trees

G. Racherla

S. Radhakrishan

B.J. Oommen

PATTERN RECOGNITION & CLASSIFICATION

Improvements in K-Nearest Neighbor Classifications

Y. Wu

K.G. Ianakiev

V. Govindaraju

Branch and Bound Algorithm with Partial Prediction for Use with Recursive and Non-recursive Criterion Forms

P. Somol

P. Pudil

J. Grim

Model Validation for Model Selection

J. Kittler

K. Messer

M. Sadeghi

Grouping via the Matching of Repeated Patterns

A. Turina

T. Tuytelaars

T. Moons

L. Van Gool

Complex Fittings

T. Kaempke

Application of Adaptive Committee Classifiers in On-Line Character Recognition

M. Aksela

J. Laaksonen

E. Oja

J. Kangas

Learning Complex Action Patterns with CRGst

W.F. Bischof

T. Caelli

IMAGE & SIGNAL PROCESSING APPLICATIONS

Identification of Electrical Activity of the Brain Associated with Changes in Behavioural Performance

A. Salguero Beltran

M. Petrou

G. Barrett

B. Dickson

Automatic Camera Calibration for Image Sequences of a Football Match

F. Szenberg

P.C. Pinto Carvalho

M. Gattass

Locating and Tracking Facial Landmarks Using Gabor Wavelet Networks

R.S. Feris

R.M. Cesar, Jr

Complex Images and Complex Filters: A Unified Model for Encoding and Matching Shape and Colour

T. Caelli

A. McCabe

White Matter/Gray Matter Boundary Segmentation Using Geometric Snakes: A Fuzzy Deformable Model

J.S. Suri

Multiseeded Fuzzy Segmentation on the Face Centered Cubic Grid

B.M. Carvalho

E. Garduno

G.T. Herman

IMAGE FEATURE ANALYSIS & RETRIEVAL

3D Wavelet Based Video Retrieval

A. Del Bimbo

P. Pala

L. Tanganelli

Combined Invariants to Convolution and Rotation and Their Applications to Image Registration

J. Flusser

B. Zitova

Modelling Plastic Distortion in Fingerprint Images

R. Cappelli

D. Maio

D. Maltoni

Image Retrieval Using a Hierarchy of Clusters

D. Stan

I.K. Sethi

Texture-Adaptive Active Contour Models

T. Lehman

J. Bredno

K. Spitzer

A Generalized Local Binary Pattern Operator for Multiresolution Gray Scale and Rotation Invariant Texture Classification

T. Ojala

M. Pietikainen

T. Maenpaa

Analysis of Curved Textured Surfaces Using Local Spectral Distortion

E. Ribeiro

E.R. Hancock

Texture Analysis Experiments with Meastex and Vistex Benchmarks

S. Singh

M. Sharma

TUTORIALS

Advances in Statistical Feature Selection

J. Kittler

P. Pudil

P. Somol

Learning-Based Detection, Segmentation and Matching of Objects

N. Duta

A. K. Jain

Automated Biometrics

N.K. Ratha

A. Senior

R.M. Bolle

Author Biographies

Author Index