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...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2009, held in Guadalajara, Mexico, in November 2009.
The 64 revised full papers presented together with 44 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 187 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image coding, processing and analysis; segmentation, analysis of shape and texture; geometric image processing and analysis; analysis of signal, speech and language; document processing and recognition; feature extraction, clustering and classification; statistical pattern recognition; neural networks for pattern recognition; computer vision; video segmentation and tracking; robot vision; intelligent remote sensing, imagery research and discovery techniques; intelligent computing for remote sensing imagery; as well as intelligent fusion and classification techniques.
