Pattern Recognition: 25th DAGM Symposium, Magdeburg, Germany, September 10-12, 2003, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2781, Band 2781)

Image Analysis I.- Coherence-Enhancing Shock Filters.- Spherical Decision Surfaces Using Conformal Modelling.- Median Filtering of Tensor-Valued Images.- Edge and Junction Detection with an Improved Structure Tensor.- Invited Paper.- Who's Who? Challenges in Biometric Authentication.- Image Analysis II.- Optimal Scale Selection for Circular Edge Extraction.- Localization of Piled Boxes by Means of the Hough Transform.- Image Analysis III.- Training and Recognition of Complex Scenes Using a Holistic Statistical Model.- Combining White-Patch Retinex and the Gray World Assumption to Achieve Color Constancy for Multiple Illuminants.- Postersession I.- Method of Creating of Functional Invariants under One-Parameter Geometric Image Transformations.- Gaze Detection System by Wide and Auto Pan/Tilt Narrow View Camera.- Distribution Distance Measures Applied to 3-D Object Recognition - A Case Study.- Classification with Controlled Robustness in High-Resolution SAR Data.- 3D Reconstruction of Human Skeleton from Single Images or Monocular Video Sequences.- Shape Preservation during Digitization: Tight Bounds Based on the Morphing Distance.- Evaluation of Uniform and Non-uniform Optical Flow Techniques Using Finite Element Methods.- Colour Image Analysis in 3D-Polar Coordinates.- Pixel Classification by Divergence-Based Integration of Multiple Texture Methods and Its Application to Fabric Defect Detection.- A Probabilistic Definition of Intrinsic Dimensionality for Images.- Learning Human-Like Opponent Behavior for Interactive Computer Games.- Rotationally Invariant Wavelet Shrinkage.- Hierarchical Method for Stereophotogrammetric Multi-object-position Measurement.- On Robust Regression in Photogrammetric Point Clouds.- A Visual Quality Inspection System Based on aHierarchical 3D Pose Estimation Algorithm.- Using an Active Shape Structural Model for Biometric Sketch Recognition.- Domain Decomposition for Parallel Variational Optical Flow Computation.- Fuzzy Modeling Based Recognition of Multi-font Numerals.- System Concept for Image Sequence Classification in Laser Welding.- 3D Parametric Intensity Models for the Localization of Different Types of 3D Anatomical Point Landmarks in Tomographic Images.- Comparing Clustering Methods for Database Categorization in Image Retrieval.- Locally Optimized RANSAC.- Invited Paper.- Splines and Wavelets: New Perspectives for Pattern Recognition.- Calibration and 3-D Shape.- Robust Camera Calibration from Images and Rotation Data.- FFT-Based Disparity Estimation for Stereo Image Coding.- Projective Reconstruction of Surfaces of Revolution.- Illumination Insensitive Template Matching with Hyperplanes.- Robust Orientation, Calibration, and Disparity Estimation of Image Triplets.- Recognition.- Fast Feature Selection in an HMM-Based Multiple Classifier System for Handwriting Recognition.- Empirical Analysis of Detection Cascades of Boosted Classifiers for Rapid Object Detection.- Local Representations for Multi-object Recognition.- Motion.- A Generative Model Based Approach to Motion Segmentation.- A New View at Differential and Tensor-Based Motion Estimation Schemes.- Real-Time Texture-Based 3-D Tracking.- Postersession II.- Hierarchy of Partitions with Dual Graph Contraction.- One-Class Classification with Subgaussians.- A Hybrid Distance Map Based and Morphologic Thinning Algorithm.- A Computational Model of Early Auditory-Visual Integration.- On the Relevance of Global Knowledge for Correlation-Based Seismic Image Interpretation.- Automatic Pixel Selection for Optimizing Facial Expression Recognition Using Eigenfaces.- Robust Image Sequence Mosaicing.- Gibbs Probability Distributions for Stereo Reconstruction.- Partial Optimal Labeling Search for a NP-Hard Subclass of (max,+) Problems.- Extraction of Orientation from Floor Structure for Odometry Correction in Mobile Robotics.- On Consistent Discrimination between Directed and Diffuse Outdoor Illumination.- Genetic Algorithm-Based Video Segmentatio