WORKSHOP PROGRAM

The conference site will be "La Escuela de Comercio" of the University of Alicante. It is at Alicante downtown (see the map for details).

ORAL PRESENTATIONS: 20 minutes: 15 min talk + 5 min discussion
POSTER PRESENTATIONS: maximum poster size: 120 x 80 cm in portrait format

Time
Tuesday
Time
Wednesday
9:00
        Welcome        
9:30


Plenary talk
Bezdek, J. C.
9:30
Plenary talk
Qian, J. Z.
10:30
Technical
Session
10:30
Technical
Session
11:10
Coffee break
11:10
Coffee break
11:45


Technical
Session
11:45
Technical
Session
12:45
 
Lunch
 
12:45
 
Lunch
 


15:00


Plenary talk
Duin B.
15:00
Technical
Session
16:00
Technical
16:00
Coffee break
Session
16:30
Technical
16:40
Coffee break  
Session
17:00
 
 
Poster sesion



21:00
Reception
 21:00
Conference Banquet 
 
 



Plenary talks
Tuesday, 2 April 9:30 Partitioning the variables for alternating optimization of real-valued scalar fields.
James C. Bezdek and Richard J. Hathaway
Tuesday, 2 April 15:00 Possibilities of zero-error recognition by dissimilarity representations.
Bob Duin.
Wednesday, 3 April 9:30 Information fusion in diagnostic image analysis.
Jian Zhong Qian

 
Technical sessions
 
Tuesday, 2 April  10:30 Theoretical developments
10:30 52 Using pattern recognition techniques to derive a formal analysis of why heuristics work.
B. John Oommen and Luis G. Rueda.
10:50 70 Evaluation of LDA based face verification with respect to available computational resources.
Jacek Czyz and Luc Vanderdorpe.

Tuesday, 2 April  11:45 Image and vision I
11:45 68 Indoor robot navigation with single camera vision.
Giuseppina Gini, Alberto Marchi.
12:05 74 Feature extraction and classification of textile images.
J. M. Valiente, F. Albert, J.M. Gomis.
12:25 78 hand-gesture based film restoration.
Attila Licsár, Tamás Szirányi.

Tuesday, 2 April  16:00 Data mining
16:00 56 Temporal-semantic clustering of news for event detection and tracking.
Aurora Pons-Porrata, Rafael Berlanga-Llavori and José Ruiz-Shulcloper.
16:20 66 Applying data mining methods to toxicology. The case of pesticides data.
Giuseppina Gini, Emilio Benfenati, Alan Katritzky

Wednesday, 3 April  10:30 Data indexing
10:30 73 Automatic resource-aware construction of media indexing applications for distributed processing environments.
Ole-Christoffer Granmo.
10:50 84 Tree-structured representation of melodies for comparison and retrieval.
David Rizo, José M. Iñesta.

Wednesday, 3 April  11:45 Image and vision II
11:45 79 A 3D ultrasound algorithm with alignment and pre-processing compensation.
J. Sanches and J. S. Marques.
12:05 69 Document skew detection based on Haugh-transform.
Adnan Amin.
12:25 71 Iris recognition system for person identification.
christel-loic TISSE, lionel MARTIN, lionel TORRES.

Wednesday, 3 April  15:00 Text processing
15:00 72 Reversing and smoothing the multinomial naive Bayes text Classifier.
Alfons Juan and Hermann Ney.
15:20 62 Binary feature classification for word disambiguation in statistical machine translation.
Jesús Tomás, Francisco Casacuberta.
15:40 75 Text classification based on posterior probability estimation and neural networks.
R. Alaíz-Rodríguez, J. Cid-Sueiro.

Wednesday, 3 April  16:30 Clustering and related techniques
16:30 59 Enhancing prototype reduction schemes with LVQ3-Type algorithms.
Sang-Woon Kim and B. John Oommen.
16:50 67 Clustering based on dissimilarity first derivatives.
Ana Fred.
17:10 76 Representation of 2D objects with a topology preserving network.
Francisco Flórez, Juan Manuel García, José García, Antonio Hernández.


Poster session
 
57 Automatic recognition system of human activities.
José Elías Herrero Jaraba, Carlos Orrite, David Buldain, Armando Roy, Angel Alcolea, Bonifacio Martín del Brío.
64 Segmentation of digital angiograms with the connected elements histogram.
Patricio Guisado, M.A.; Maravall Gómez-Allende, Darío.
77 A distributed architecture for content-based image retrieval in medical applications.
MO Güld, B Wein, D Keysers, C Thies, M Kohnen, H Schubert, TM Lehmann.
81 Analysis of regular textures through spatial point processes.
G. Ayala, M.E. Díaz, J. Domingo, F.J. Ferri, E. de Ves, J. Gutiérrez
83 Handwritten character recognizers that using tree-edit-distance and fast nearest neighbour search.
Juan Ramón Rico-Juan, Jorge Calera-Rubio.
86 Character recognition in containers.
Ismael Salvador, Gabriela Andreu, Alberto Perez.