Accepted Papers

The definitive list of accepted papers for S+SSPR'2000 has been completed.

A total of 54 papers have been selected for oral presentation while 38 papers will be presented in two poster sessions.

The papers have been selected according to referees' comments and considerations about the composition of the final program. The distinction between oral and poster has been made taking into account the contents of the paper and the convenience to
keep oral sessions as homogeneous as possible. Both types of papers will be published exactly in the same way with no distinction at all.

We have tried to maintain the distinction between SPR and SSPR in the papers that have expressed this. Nevertheless, the papers have been reviewed according to the topics preferred by each referee. At the end, we have divided oral papers
into 5 SPR sessions, 5 SSPR sessions and 2 Joint sessions (hybrid methods and applications).

At least one author of each accepted paper has to be registered in order to include the paper in the proceedings. The registration form will be available in this web site immediately.

Further comments and details will be sent to authors via e-mail during this week (today:10 April 2000).


 
Oral communications
Cod. Paper title
26 Syntactic pattern recognition by error correcting analysis on tree automata
27 A vector approach to the analysis of (pattern with) spatial dependence
28 Shape boundary tracking with hidden Markov models
29 On optimal pairwise linear classifiers
30 Knowledge-based recognition of dimensions in engineering drawing images
31 Statistical pattern recognition using the normalized complex moment components vector
32 Retrieval of partially visible shapes through structural feature indexing
34 Bayesian approach to mixture models for discrimination
43 Initial matching of multiple-view images by affine approximation of relative distortions
48 Irregular pyramids with combinatorial maps
49 A structural matching algorithm using generalized deterministic annealing
52 Parallel techniques for rule-based scene interpretation
54 Curvature estimation using shape-from-texture
55 Alignment and correspondence using singular value decomposition
58 Image pattern recognition based on examples - A combined statistical and structural-syntactic approach
60 A new error-correcting distance for attributed relational graph problems
61 Local Discriminant regions using support vector machines for object recognition
66 Decontamination of training samples for supervised pattern recognition methods
69 Off-line recognition of syntax-constrained cursive handwritten text
70 Very approximate and efficient techniques to measure dissimilarities in cyclic patterns
71 A divergence criterion for classifier-independent feature selection
72 Comparison of classifier-specific feature selection algorithms
73 A divide-and-conquer clustering technique for texture segmentation
74 Grammars and discourse theory to describe and recognize mechanical assemblies
76 Computation of the N best parse trees for weighted and stochastic context-free grammars
77 Graph matching: fast candidate elimination using machine learning techniques
78 The role of combining rules in bagging and boosting
79 Pattern classification based on a piecewise multilinear model for the class probability densities
81 Distance between attributed graphs and function-described graphs relaxing 2nd order restrictions
83 The adaptive subspace map for image description and image database retrieval
84 Adaptative automatic target recognition with SVM boosting for outlier detection
85 Combined classifier optimisation via feature selection
87 Partitional vs Hierarchical clustering using a minimum grammar complexity approach
88 A hybrid system for the recognition of hand-written characters
89 The optimum classifier and the performance evaluation by Bayesian approach
90 Selection of the number of components using a genetic algorithm for mixture model classifiers
93 Design choices and theoretical issues for relative feature importance, a metric for nonparametric discriminatory power
95 A new approximation method of the quadratic discriminant function
97 An optimal reject rule for binary classifiers
100 A multiresolution causal colour texture model
101 Improving statistical measures of feature subsets by conventional and evolutionary approaches
104 Encoding nondeterministic finite-state tree automata in sigmoid recursive neural networks
106 A graph labelling approach for connected feature selection
107 Confidence combination methods in multi-expert systems
110 Stochastic models for recognition of occluded objects
111 Fast image classification method using the moments of the Mixel distribution
112 Structural classification for retrospective conversion of documents
116 Region-based representation for object recognition by relaxation labelling
117 Efficient alignment and correspondence using edit distance
119 Writer identification: statistical analysis and dichotomizer
121 Reducing the training times of neural classifiers with dataset condensing
122 Segmentation of date field on bank cheques
125 Selection of classifiers based on multiple classifier behaviour
130 Non-linear invertible representation for joint statistical and perceptual feature decorrelation

 
Poster communications
Cod. Paper title
35 Real-coded genetic algorithms based on mathematical morphology
36 A new model and process architecture for facial expression recognition
37 Biologically inspired architecture of feedforward networks for signal classification
38 Planar symmetry detection by random sampling and voting process
40 A Gurmukhi script recognition system
42 Assessing the computational effort for structural 3D vehicle recognition
44 Optimal threshold estimation using prototype selection
46 Guided relinking of graph pyramids
47 Basic and fine structure of pairwise interactions in Gibbs Texture Models
51 Texture indexing by a hierarchical representation
53 Surface skeletons detected on the D6 distance transform
56 Selection strategies for ambiguous graph matching by evolutionary optimisation
62 Segmentation of text and graphics/images using the gray-level histogram Fourier transform
63 Automatic extraction of bibliographic data from scanned biomedical journals
65 Studies of radical model for retrieval of cursive chinese handwritten annotations
68 A statistical-estimation method for stochastic finite-state transducers based on entropy measures
75 Efficient subgraph isomorphism with 'a priori' knowledge. Application to 3D reconstruction of buildings for cartography
80 Fast and accurate handwritten character recognition using approximate nearest neighbours search on large databases
82 A family of divergences between Phi-Probabilistic sets with application to handshape recognition
91 Rotated, scaled and noisy 2D and 3D texture classification with the bispectrum-based invariant feature
92 Multiple comparison procedures for determining the optimal complexity of a model
94 Pyramid and Interior
96 Prototype Learning with attributed relational graphs
98 Image pattern recognition in natural environment using morphological feature extraction
99 A statistical matrix representation using a sliced orthogonal nonlinear correlations for pattern recognition
102 A fast approximately k-nearest-neighbour search algorithm for classification tasks
105 Lossless compresion of surfaces described as points
108 Design of a telerobotic interface system by using object recognition techniques
109 Comparison of four initialization techniques for the k-medians clustering algorithm
113 Sensory-flow segmentation using a resource allocating vector quantizer
114 A class of solvable consistent labeling problems
115 Character recognition, orientation and scale estimation thanks to the Fourier Mellin transform
118 Multiple reject thresholds for improving classification reliability
120 Clustering with EM: complex models vs. robust estimation
123 Using the dual of proximity graphs for binary decision tree design
126 A simple implementation of the stochastic discrimination for pattern recognition
128 Adaptive image filtering and segmentation using robust statistical estimation of intensity
129 Detection of human faces in video supervised security systems