Program

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

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

All the sessions will take place at the "Aulario II Building" , in the University Campus.

Time	Wednesday		Time	Thursday		Time	Friday
9:00	Welcome		9:00	SSPR Plenary talk Prof. C. de la Higuera		9:00	P. Devijver lecture Prof. J. Kittler
9:30	SPR Plenary talk Prof. J. Bezdek			SSPR Plenary talk Prof. C. de la Higuera			P. Devijver lecture Prof. J. Kittler
	SPR Plenary talk Prof. J. Bezdek		10:00	SPR Plenary talk Prof. S. Raudys		10:00	Joint S+SSPR Technical Session
10:30	SSPR Plenary talk Prof. M. Gori			SPR Plenary talk Prof. S. Raudys
	SSPR Plenary talk Prof. M. Gori		11:00	Coffee break
11:30	Coffee break		11:30	SPR Technical Session	SSPR Technical Session	11:20	Coffee break
12:00	SPR Technical Session	SSPR Technical Session				11:40	Joint S+SSPR Technical Session


13:20	Lunch		13:10	Lunch		13:00	Conference ending
	Lunch			Lunch			Conference ending

15:00	SPR Technical Session	SSPR Technical Session	15:00	SPR Technical Session	SSPR Technical Session
	SPR Technical Session	SSPR Technical Session		SPR Technical Session	SSPR Technical Session
16:20	Coffee break		16:20	Coffee Break
16:50	SPR Technical Session	SSPR Technical Session	16:40	SPR Poster Session	SSPR Poster Session
				SPR Poster Session	SSPR Poster Session
			18:00	TC1 meeting	TC2 meeting
18:30				TC1 meeting	TC2 meeting

21:00	Reception at City Castle		21:00	Conference Banquet
	Reception at City Castle			Conference Banquet

Plenary talks
Wednesday, 30 August	9:30	Some Notes on Twenty One (21) Nearest Prototype Classifiers Bezdek, J. C. (USA); Kuncheva, L. I. (UK)
Wednesday, 30 August	10:30	Adaptive Graphical Pattern Recognition Beyond Connectionist-Based Approaches Adorni, G. (Italy); Cagnoni, S. (Italy); Gori, M. (Italy)
Thursday, 31 August	9:00	Current Trends in Grammatical Inference De La Higuera, C. (France)
Thursday, 31 August	10:00	Classifier's Complexity Control While Training Multilayer Perceptrons Raudys, S. (Lithuania)
Friday, 1 September	9:00	A Framework for Classifier Fusion: Is it still needed? Kittler, J. (UK)

SSPR

Wednesday, 30 August

12:00

Document Image Analysis

12:00	26	Syntactic Pattern Recognition by Error Correcting Analysis on Tree Automata López, D. (Spain); Piñaga, I. (Spain)
12:20	69	Off-Line Recognition of Syntax-Constrained Cursive Handwritten Text González, J. (Spain); Salvador, I. (Spain); Toselli, A. H. (Spain); Juan, A. (Spain); Vidal, E. (Spain); Casacuberta, F. (Spain)
12:40	112	Structural Classification for Retrospective Conversion of Documents Héroux, P. (France); Trupin, E. (France); Lecoutier, Y. (France)
13:00	122	Segmentation of Date Field on Bank Cheques Lam, L. (Hong Kong); Fan, R. (Canada); Xu, Q. (Canada); Suen, C. Y. (Canada)

Wednesday, 30 August

15:00

Grammar and Language Methods

15:00	74	Grammars and Discourse Theory to Describe and Recognize Mechanical Assemblies Bauckhage, C. (Germany); Kronenberg, S. (Germany); Kummert, F. (Germany); Sagerer, G. (Germany)
15:20	76	Computation of the N Best Parse Trees for Weighted and Stochastic Context-Free Grammars Jiménez, V. M. (Spain); Marzal, A. (Spain)
15:40	87	Partitional vs Hierarchical Clustering Using a Minimum Grammar Complexity Approach Fred, A. L. N. (Portugal); Leitão, J. M. N. (Portugal)
16:00	104	Encoding Nondeterministic Finite-state Tree Automata in Sigmoid Recursive Neural Networks Forcada, M. L. (Spain); Carrasco, R. C. (Spain)

Wednesday, 30 August

16:50

Structural Matching

16:50	32	Retrieval of Partially Visible Shapes through Structural Feature Indexing Nishida, H. (Japan)
17:10	49	A Structural Matching Algorithm Using Generalized Deterministic Annealing Davlea, L. (Romania)
17:30	55	Alignment and Correspondence Using Singular Value Decomposition Luo, B. (China); Hancock, E. R. (UK)
17:50	77	Graph Matching: Fast Candidate Elimination Using Machine Learning Techniques Lazarescu, M. (Switzerland); Bunke, H. (Switzerland); Venkatesh, S. (Australia)
18:10	117	Efficient Alignment and Correspondence using Edit Distance Bergamini, P. (Italy); Cinque, L. (Italy); Cross, A. D. J. (UK); Hancock, E. R. (UK); Levialdi, S. (Italy); Myers, R. (UK)

Thursday, 31 August

11:30

Graph-based Methods

11:30	48	Irregular Pyramids with Combinatorial Maps Brun, L. (France); Kropatsch, W. (Austria)
11:50	60	A New Error-Correcting Distance for Attributed Relational Graph Problems El-Sonbaty, Y. (Egypt), Ismail, M.A. (Egypt)
12:10	81	Distance Between Attributed Graphs and Function-Described Graphs Relaxing 2nd Order Restrictions Alquézar, R. (Spain); Serratosa, F. (Spain); Sanfeliu, A. (Spain)
12:30	106	A Graph Labelling Approach for Connected Feature Selection Marchadier, J. (France); Michelin, S. (France); Egels, Y. (France)
12:50	116	Region-Based Representation for Object Recognition by Relaxation Labelling Ahmadyfard, A. (UK); Kittler, J. (UK)

Thursday, 31 August

15:00

Shape Analysis

15:00	28	Shape Boundary Tracking with Hidden Markov Models Caelli, T. (Canada)
15:20	52	Parallel Techniques for Rule-Based Scene Interpretation Bischof, W. (Canada); Caelli, T. (Canada)
15:40	54	Curvature Estimation using Shape-from-Texture Ribeiro, E. (UK); Hancock, E. R. (UK)
16:00	70	Efficient Techniques for a Very Accurate Measurement of Dissimilarities between Cyclic Patterns Mollineda, R. A. (Spain); Vidal, E. (Spain); Casacuberta, F. (Spain)

Thursday, 31 August

16:40

SSPR Poster Session

38	Planar Symmetry Detection by Random Sampling and Voting Process Imiya, A. (Japan); Ueno, T. (Japan); Fermin, I. (Japan)
42	Assessing the Computational Effort for Structural 3D Vehicle Recognition Michaelsen, E. (Germany); Stilla, U. (Germany)
46	Guided Relinking of Graph Pyramids Glantz, R. (Austria); Kropatsch, W. G. (Austria)
51	Texture Indexing by a Hierarchical Representation Vitulano, D. (Italy); Vitulano, S. (Italy)
53	Surface Skeletons Detected on the D6 Distance Transform Sanniti di Baja, G. (Italy); Svenson, S. (Sweden)
56	Selection Strategies for Ambiguous Graph Matching by Evolutionary Optimisation Myers, R. (UK); Hancock, E. R. (UK)
65	Studies of Radical Model for Retrieval of Cursive Chinese Handwritten Annotations Ma, M. (USA); Zhang, C. (USA); Wang, P. (USA)
68	A Statistical-Estimation Method for Stochastic Finite-State Transducers Based on Entropy Measures Picó, D. (Spain); Casacuberta, F. (Spain)
75	Efficient Subgraph Isomorphism with 'a priori' Knowledge. Application to 3D Reconstruction of Buildings for Cartography Fuchs, F. (France); Le-Men, H. (France)
94	Pyramid and Interior Pailloncy, J.G. (France)
96	Prototype Learning with Attributed Relational Graphs Foggia, P. (Italy); Genna, R. (Italy); Vento, M. (Italy)
105	Lossless Compression of Surfaces Described as Points Rico-Juan, J. R. (Spain); Calera-Rubio, J. (Spain); Carrasco, R. C. (Spain)
114	A Class of Solvable Consistent Labeling Problems Flach, B. (Germany); Schlesinger, M. I. (Ukraine)
115	Character Recognition, Orientation and Scale Estimation Thanks to the Fourier Mellin Transform Adam, S. (France); Ogier, J. M. (France); Cariou, C. (France); Mullot, R. (France); Gardes, J. (France); Labiche, J. (France)
123	Using the Dual of Proximity Graphs for Binary Decision Tree Design Sánchez, J. S. (Spain); Pla, F. (Spain); Herrero, M. C. (Spain)

SPR

Wednesday, 30 August

12:00

Clustering and Density Estimation

12:00	34	Bayesian Approach to Mixture Models for Discrimination Copsey, K. (UK); Webb, A. (UK)
12:20	79	Pattern Classification Based on a Piecewise Multi-Linear Model for the Class Probability Densities Nyssen, E. (Belgium); Kempen, L. V. (Belgium); Sahli, H. (Belgium)
12:40	90	Selection of the Number of Components Using a Genetic Algorithm for Mixture Model Classifiers Tenmoto, H. (Japan); Kudo, M. (Japan); Shimbo, M. (Japan)
13:00	111	Fast Image Classification Method Using the Moments of the Mixel Distribution Kitamoto, A. (Japan)

Wednesday, 30 August

15:00

Object Recognition

15:00	31	Statistical Pattern Recognition Using the Normalized Complex Moment Components Vector Paschalakis, S. (UK); Lee, P. (UK)
15:20	43	Initial Matching of Multiple-View Images by Affine Approximation of Relative Distorsions Gimel'farb, G. (New Zealand); Zhang, J. Q. (New Zealand)
15:40	61	Local Discriminant Regions Using Support Vector Machines for Object Recognition Guillamet, D. ((Spain); Vitrià, J. (Spain)
16:00	110	Stochastic Models for Recognition of Occluded Objects Bhanu, B. (USA); Lin, Y. (USA)

Wednesday, 30 August

16:50

General Methodology I

16:50	27	A Vector Approach to the Analysis of (Pattern with) Spatial Dependece Molina A. (Spain)
17:10	29	The Foundational Theory of Optimal Bayesian Pairwise Linear Classifiers Rueda, L. (Canada); Oomen, J. (Canada)
17:30	89	The Optimum Classifier and the Performance Evaluation by Bayesian Approach Han, X. (Japan); Wakabayashi, T. (Japan); Kimura, F. (Japan)
17:50	95	A New Approximation Method of the Quadratic Discriminant Function Omachi, S. (Japan); Sun, F. (Japan); Aso, H. (Japan)
18:10	97	An Optimal Reject Rule for Binary Classifiers Tortorella, F. (Italy)

Thursday, 31 August

11:30

General Methodology II

11:30	66	Decontamination of Training Samples for Supervised Pattern Recognition Methods Barandela, R. (Mexico); Gasca, E. (Mexico)
11:50	78	The Role of Combining Rules in Bagging and Boosting Skurichina, M. (The Netherlands); Duin, R. P. W. (The Netherlands)
12:10	107	Confidence Combination Methods in Multi-Expert Systems Yingquan, W. (USA); Ianakiev, K. (USA); Govindaraju, V. (USA)
12:30	121	Reducing the Training Times of Neural Classifiers with Dataset Condensing Choi, S. (UK); Rockett, P. (UK)
12:50	130	Non-linear Invertible Representation for Joint Statistical and Perceptual Feature Decorrelation Malo, J. (Spain); Navarro, R. (Spain); Epifanio, I. (Spain); Ferri, F. J. (Spain); Artigas, J. M. (Spain)

Thursday, 31 August

15:00

Feature Extraction and Selection

15:00	71	A Divergence Criterion for Classifier-Independent Feature Selection Abe, N. (Japan); Kudo, M. (Japan); Toyama, J. (Japan); Shimbo, M. (Japan)
15:20	72	Comparison of Classifier-Specific Feature Selection Algorithms Kudo, M. (Japan); Somol, P. (Czech Rep); Pudil, P. (Czech Rep); Shimbo, M. (Japan); Sklansky, J. (USA)
15:40	85	Combined Classifier Optimisation via Feature Selection Windridge, D. (UK); Kittler, J. (UK)
16:00	93	Design Choices and theoretical issues for relative feature importance, a metric for nonparametric discriminatory power Holz, H. J. (USA); Loew, M. H. (USA)

Thursday, 31 August

16:40

SPR Poster Session

35	Real-Coded Genetic Algorithms Based on Mathematical Morphology Barrios, D. (Spain); Manrique, D. (Spain); Porras, J. (Spain); Ríos, J. (Spain)
36	A New Model and Process Architecture for Facial Expression Recognition García-Mateos, G. (Spain); Vicente-Chicote, C. (Spain)
37	Biologically Inspired Architecture of Feedforward Networks for Signal Classification Raudys, S. (Lithuania); Tamosiunaite, M. (Lithuania)
44	Optimal Threshold Estimation Using Prototype Selection Lipowezky, U. (Israel); Shenkar, V. (Israel)
47	Basic and Fine Structure of Pairwise Interactions in Gibbs Texture Models Gimel'farb, G. (New Zealand)
62	Segmentation of Text and Graphics/Images Using the Gray-Level Histogram Fourier Transform Patricio, M.A. (Spain); Maravall, D. (Spain)
80	Fast and Accurate Handwritten Character Recognition Using Approximate Nearest Neighbours Search on Large Databases Pérez-Cortes, J. (Spain); Llobet, R. (Spain); Arlandis, J. (Spain)
82	A Family of Divergences Between Phi-Probabilistic Sets with Application to Handshape Recognition León-Rojas, J. M. (Spain); Moreno, J. (Spain); Silva, A. (Spain); Morales, M. (Sapin)
91	Rotated, Scaled and Noisy 2D and 3D Texture Classification with the Bispectrum-based Invariant Feature Horikawa, Y. (Japan)
92	Multiple Comparison Procedures for Determining the Optimal Complexity of a Model Galindo, P. L. (Spain); Pizarro-Junquera, J. (Spain); Guerrero, E. (Spain)
98	Image Pattern Recognition in Natural Environment Using Morphological Feature Extraction Won, Y. (Korea); Nam, J. (Korea); Lee, B. (Korea)
99	A Statistical Matrix Representation Using a Sliced Orthogonal Nonlinear Correlations for Pattern recognition García-Martínez, P. (Spain); Arsenault, H. H. (Spain); Ferreira, C. (Sapin)
102	A Fast Approximately k-Nearest-Neighbour Search Algorithm for Classification Tasks Moreno-Seco, F. (Spain); Micó, L. (Spain); Oncina, J. (Spain)
108	Design of a Telerobotic Interface System by Using Object Recognition Techniques Marín, R. (Spain); Sanz, P. J. (Spain); Jimeno, A. J. (Spain); Iñesta, J. M. (Spain)
109	Comparison of Four Initialization Techniques for the K-Medians Clustering Algorithm Juan, A. (Spain); Vidal, E. (Spain)
113	Sensory-Flow Segmentation Using a Resource Allocating Vector Quantizer Linaker, F. (Sweden); Niklasson, L. (UK)
118	Multiple Reject Thresholds for Improving Classification Reliability Fumera, G. (Italy); Roli, F. (Italy); Giacinto, G. (Italy)
120	Clustering with EM: Complex Models vs. Robust Estimation Saint-Jean, C. (France); Frélicot, C. (France); Vachon, B. (France)
126	A Simple Implementation of the Stochastic Discrimination for Pattern Recognition Chen, D. (USA); Cheng, X. (USA)
128	Adaptive Image Filtering and Segmentation Using Robust Statistical Estimation of Intensity Palenichka, R. M. (Austria); Zinterhof, P. (Austria); Ivasenko, I. B. (Ukraine)

Joint

Friday, 1 September

10:00

Hybrid and Combined Methods

10:00	58	Image Pattern Recognition Based on Examples -- A Combined Statistical and Structural-Syntactic Approach Gao, J. (China); Ding, X. (China); Zheng, J. (Canada)
10:20	88	A Hybrid System for the Recognition of Hand-written Characters Freund, R. (Austria); Neubauer, M. (Austria); Summerer M. (Austria); Gruber S. (Austria); Schaffer, J. (Austria); Swoboda, R. (Austria)
10:40	101	Improving Statistical Measures of Feature Subsets by Conventional and Evolutionary Approaches Mayer, H. A. (Austria); Somol, P. (Czech Rep.); Huber, R. (Austria); Pudil, P. (Czech Rep.)
11:00	125	Selection of Classifiers Based on Multiple Classifier Behaviour Giacinto, G. (Italy); Roli, F. (Italy); Fumera, G. (Italy)

Friday, 1 September

11:40

Applications

11:40	83	The Adaptive Subspace Map for Image Description and Image Database Retrieval Ridder, D. (The Netherlands); Lemmers, O. (The Netherlands); Duin, R. P. W. (The Netherlands); Kittler, J. (UK)
12:00	84	Adaptative Automatic Target Recognition with SVM Boosting for Outlier Detection Messer, K. (UK); Kittler, J. (UK); Haddon, J. (UK); Watson, G. (UK); Watson, S. (UK)
12:20	100	A Multiresolution Causal Colour Texture Model Haindl, M. (Czech Republic); Havlícek, V. (Czech Republic)
12:40	119	Writer Identification: Statistical Analysis and Dichotomizer Cha, S. (USA); Srihari, S. N. (USA)