Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications

Keynote 1.- An Imaging Architecture Based on Derivative Estimation Sensors.- Image Coding, Processing and Analysis.- Landmark Real-Time Recognition and Positioning for Pedestrian Navigation.- A Binarization Method for a Scenery Image with the Fractal Dimension.- Selective Change-Driven Image Processing: A Speeding-Up Strategy.- Coding Long Contour Shapes of Binary Objects.- Finding Images with Similar Lighting Conditions in Large Photo Collections.- Color Image Registration under Illumination Changes.- A Novel Approach to Robust Background Subtraction.- Automatic Choice of the Number of Nearest Neighbors in Locally Linear Embedding.- K-Medoids-Based Random Biometric Pattern for Cryptographic Key Generation.- A Hardware Architecture for SIFT Candidate Keypoints Detection.- Analysis of Non Local Image Denoising Methods.- Segmentation, Analysis of Shape and Texture.- Texture Characterization Using a Curvelet Based Descriptor.- Improving Fingerprint Matching Using an Orientation-Based Minutia Descriptor.- Morphological Shape Context: Semi-locality and Robust Matching in Shape Recognition.- On the Computation of the Common Labelling of a Set of Attributed Graphs.- Advances in Rotation-Invariant Texture Analysis.- SAR Image Segmentation Using Level Sets and Region Competition under the Model.- A New Segmentation Approach for Old Fractured Pieces.- Segmentation in 2D and 3D Image Using Tissue-Like P System.- Dynamic Image Segmentation Method Using Hierarchical Clustering.- A Study on Representations for Face Recognition from Thermal Images.- Fast Unsupervised Texture Segmentation Using Active Contours Model Driven by Bhattacharyya Gradient Flow.- A Distributed and Collective Approach for Curved Object-Based Range Image Segmentation.- Learning an Efficient Texture Model by Supervised Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction Methods.- A Fuzzy Segmentation Method for Images of Heat-Emitting Objects.- Keynote 2.- Challenges and Opportunities for Extracting Cardiovascular Risk Biomarkers from Imaging Data.- Geometric Image Processing and Analysis.- A New Unsupervised Learning for Clustering Using Geometric Associative Memories.- Airway Tree Segmentation from CT Scans Using Gradient-Guided 3D Region Growing.- Geometric Approach to Hole Segmentation and Hole Closing in 3D Volumetric Objects.- Optimizations and Performance of a Robotics Grasping Algorithm Described in Geometric Algebra.- Homological Computation Using Spanning Trees.- Getting Topological Information for a 80-Adjacency Doxel-Based 4D Volume through a Polytopal Cell Complex.- Circular Degree Hough Transform.- Analysis of Signal, Speech and Language.- Isolate Speech Recognition Based on Time-Frequency Analysis Methods.- Feature Selection Based on Information Theory for Speaker Verification.- Simple Noise Robust Feature Vector Selection Method for Speaker Recognition.- Implementation of Three Text to Speech Systems for Kurdish Language.- Functional Feature Selection by Weighted Projections in Pathological Voice Detection.- Prediction of Sequential Values for Debt Recovery.- A Computer-Assisted Colorization Approach Based on Efficient Belief Propagation and Graph Matching.- Signal Analysis for Assessment and Prediction of the Artificial Habitat in Shrimp Aquaculture.- Document Processing and Recognition.- Learning Co-relations of Plausible Verb Arguments with a WSM and a Distributional Thesaurus.- Handwritten Word Recognition Using Multi-view Analysis.- A Speed-Up Hierarchical Compact Clustering Algorithm for Dynamic Document Collections.- Incorporating Linguistic Information to Statistical Word-Level Alignment.- Keynote 3.- When Pyramids Learned Walking.- Feature Extraction, Clustering and Classification.- A Simple Method for Eccentric Event Espial Using Mahalanobis Metric.- A Combine-Correct-Combine Scheme for Optimizing Dissimilarity-Based Classifiers.- BR: A New Method for Computing All Typical Testors.- Classifier Selection in a Family of Polyhedron Classifiers.- Characteri...