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Quoit Filter - A New Filter Based on Mathematical Morphology to Extract the Isolated Shadow, and Its Application to Automatic Detection of Lung Cancer in X-ray CT (Abstract)

Dynamical Morphological Processing: A Fast Method for Base Line Extraction (Abstract)

Automatic Face Recognition via Wavelets and Mathematical Morphology (Abstract)

Algorithms for Feature Selection: An Evaluation (Abstract)

Context-Based Detection of Keypoints and Features in Eye Regions (Abstract)

A Generalized Expansion Matching Based Feature Extractor (Abstract)

Force-Based Registration Method Using Attribute Values (Abstract)

Registration of Multiple Point Sets (Abstract)

Instantaneous Coherence as a Sensible Parameter for Considering Human Information Processing (Abstract)

Probabilistic Object Recognition Using Multidimensional Receptive Field Histograms (Abstract)

Spatiotemporal Signal Analysis: Recognition of Interacting Modes (Abstract)

Two-Class Pattern Discrimination via Recursive Optimization of Patrick-Fisher Distance (Abstract)

Using Spectral Features for Modelbase Partitioning (Abstract)

An Approach to Outlier Detection Based on Bayesian Probabilistic Model (Abstract)

An Optimum Class-Selective Rejection Rule for Pattern Recognition (Abstract)

A Multi-Agent Approach to Edge Detection as a Distributed Optimization Problem (Abstract)

Stochastic Modelling and Analysis of Sub-Pixel Edge Detection (Abstract)

The Use of Hidden Deletable Pixel Detection to Obtain Bias-Reduced Skeletons in Parallel Thinning (Abstract)

Uniformity and Homogeneity-Based Hierarchical Clustering (Abstract)

Grid-Clustering: An Efficient Hierarchical Clustering Method for Very Large Data Sets (Abstract)

Scale-Space Unsupervised Cluster Analysis (Abstract)

Construction of Boolean Decision Rules for ECG Recognition By Non- Reducible Descriptors (Abstract)

Classification with Nonexclusive Patterns (Abstract)

Fast k-NN Classification Rule Using Metrics on Space-Filling Curves (Abstract)

Line Detection Algorithm (Abstract)

A Skeletonization Algorithm Using Chamfer Distance Transformation Adapted to Rectangular Grids (Abstract)

On Contour Invariants: Relationship and Application (Abstract)

Edge Detection Using a New Definition of Entropy (Abstract)

Thinning Noisy Binary Patterns Using Human Visual Symmetry (Abstract)

Robust Detection of Road Segments in Noisy Aerial Images (Abstract)

Modeling Digital Straight Lines (Abstract)

Iterative Spline Relaxation with the EM Algorithm (Abstract)

An EM-like Relaxation Operator (Abstract)

Spatio-Temporal Relaxation Labelling Applied to Segmented Infrared Image Sequences (Abstract)

Robust Relaxation Method for Structural Matching under Uncertainty (Abstract)

Fuzzy Non-Iterative ARG Labeling with Multiple Interpretations (Abstract)

Feature Selection Methods for Hidden Markov Model-Based Speech Recognition (Abstract)

On Feature Extraction for Limited Class Problem (Abstract)

Bhattacharyya Distance Feature Selection (Abstract)

Pattern Recognition with Invariance to Similarity Transformations Based on the Third-Order Correlation (Abstract)

A Comparison Between Continuous and Discrete Density Hidden Markov Models for Cursive Handwriting Recognition (Abstract)

Combining Structural and Statistical Features for the Recognition of Handwritten Characters (Abstract)

Simulation of Closure Process for Line Patterns (Abstract)

Printed PAW Recognition Based on Planar Hidden Markov Models (Abstract)

A Minimum Spanning Tree Approach to Line Image Analysis (Abstract)

A Multi-Channel-Based Approach for Extracting Significant Scales on Gray-Level Images (Abstract)

Efficient Computation of a Reflection Symmetry Measure for Convex Polygons Based on Minkowski Addition (Abstract)

Orthogonal Legendre Moments and Their Calculation (Abstract)

A Hierarchical Description of Digital Grayscale Images Based on Image Dipoles (Abstract)

Extraction of Curved Lines from Images (Abstract)

String Matching with Differences by Finite Automata (Abstract)

Feature Space Design for Image Recognition with Image Screening (Abstract)

Geometric Primitive Extraction Using Tabu Search (Abstract)

On Significant Maxima Detection: A Fine to Coarse Algorithm (Abstract)

Shape Decomposition by (d1, d2)-Weighted Skeletion and Directional Information (Abstract)

Edge Feature Analysis by a Vectorized Feature Extractor and in Multiple Edges (Abstract)

Classification of Irregularly Shaped Micro-Objects Using Complex Fourier Descriptors (Abstract)

A Distance Measure for Structural Descriptions Using Circle Arcs as Primitives (Abstract)

A Recursive Updating Rule for Efficient Computation of Linear Moments in Sliding-Window Applications (Abstract)

Facial Component Extraction by Cooperative Active Nets with Global Constraints (Abstract)

Stochastic Analysis of Scale-Space Smoothing (Abstract)

Pyramid Architecture Classification Tree (Abstract)

Analysis and Synthesis of Deformed Patterns Based on Structural Models (Abstract)

An HMMRF-Based Statistical Approach for Off-Line Handwritten Character Recognition (Abstract)

A Novel Approach to Optical Character Recognition Based on Ring- Projection-Wavelet- Fractal Signatures (Abstract)

Similarity Analysis for Shape Retrieval by Example (Abstract)

Analysis of Detailed Patterns of Contour Shapes Using Wavelet Local Extrema (Abstract)

Adaptive Filter to Detect Rounded Convex Regions: Iris Filter (Abstract)

Migration Processes (Abstract)

A Bayesian Similarity Measure for Direct Image Matching (Abstract)

Relational Matching with Mean Field Annealing (Abstract)

A New Quadtree Decomposition Reconstruction Method (Abstract)

The Reconstruction of Signals and Images from the Noisy Fourier Transform Phase by Means of the Generalized Difference Principle (Abstract)

Rotation-Invariant and Robust Multiple-2D-Object Detection Using Steerable Pyramid Denoising and Optimized Circular Harmonic Filters (Abstract)

Statistical-Mechanical Algorithm in MRF Model Based on Variational Principle (Abstract)

Invariants for Recognition of Degraded 1-D Digital Signals (Abstract)

Hidden Image Separation from Incomplete Image Mixtures by Independent Component Analysis (Abstract)

Dyadic Scale Space (Abstract)

An Efficient Algorithm for Smoothing Binary Image Contours (Abstract)

Anisotropic Enhancement of Mammographic Images (Abstract)

The Cocke-Younger-Kasami Algorithm for Cyclic Strings (Abstract)

Experimental Performance Characterization of Adaptive Filters (Abstract)

A Theory of Image Restoration for Linear Spatial Degradation Using Mulitresolution Analysis (Abstract)

Simplified Gaussian and Mean Curvatures to Range Image Segmentation (Abstract)

Segmentation of Volume Images Using a Multiscale Transform (Abstract)

Segmentation of Multibeam Acoustic Imagery in the Exploration of the Deep Sea-Bottom (Abstract)

Bootstrap Coverage Plots for Image Segmentation (Abstract)

Knowledge-Based Classification of CZCS Images and Monitoring of Red Tides off the West Florida Shelf (Abstract)

Automatic Multi-Thresholdable Image Segmentation by Using Separating Bipoints (Abstract)

Perceptual Grouping on Texture Images Using Non-Cartesian Networks (Abstract)

A Recursive Estimation of Parameters of Straight Lines and Circles: Application to the Segmentation of the Rey's Complex Figure (Abstract)

Restoration of Dendrites and Spines with the Objective of Topologically Correct Segmentation (Abstract)

A Revision of Pyramid Segmentation (Abstract)

Bayesian Range Segmentation Using Focus Cues (Abstract)

Stimulus-Driven Segmentation By Gaussian Functions (Abstract)

A Low Complexity Algorithm for Detecting Rotational Symmetry Based on the Hough Transform Technique (Abstract)

Hand Drawn Document Understanding Using the Straight Line Hough Transform and Graph Matching (Abstract)

The Vector-Gradient Hough Transform for Identifying Straight-Translation Generated Shapes (Abstract)

Randomized Generalized Hough Transform for 2-D Grayscale Object Detection (Abstract)

A Real-Time CAM-Based Hough Transform Algorithm and Its Performance Evaluation (Abstract)

Parallel Hough Transform on a Hierarchical Structure (Abstract)

On the Discretization of Parameter Domain in Hough Transformation (Abstract)

Parallelogram Detection in a Digital Image with the Use of the Hough Transform (Abstract)

An Investigation of the Nature of Parameterization for the Hough Transform (Abstract)

Efficient Circular Object Detection with Hypothesis Filtering Strategy and Hough Transform (Abstract)

Extracting Arbitrary Geometric Primitives Represented by Fourier Descriptors (Abstract)

Introducing the Select and Split Fuzzy Cell Hough Transform (Abstract)

"Ratio Regions": A Technique for Image Segmentation (Abstract)

A Segmentation Method Based on Fuzzy Topology and Clustering (Abstract)

Information Fusion in a Markov Random Field-Based Image Segmentation Approach Using Adaptive Neighbourhoods (Abstract)

Mixed Pixel Classification with the Randomized Hough Transform (Abstract)

Autonomous Grouping of Contour-Segments Using an Adaptive Region-Growing Algorithm (Abstract)

Non-Markov Gibbs Texture Model with Multiple Pairwise Pixel Interactions (Abstract)

Texture Fusion and Classification Based on Flexible Discriminant Analysis (Abstract)

Computerized Classification of Color Textured Perthite Images (Abstract)

Adaptive Gabor Filters for Texture Segmentation (Abstract)

Fuzzy Morphology and Fuzzy Convexity Measures (Abstract)

On a Planar Representation of 3D Figures Commutative with Respect to Set and Morphological Operations (Abstract)

Automatic Reconstruction of 3D Branching Objects (Abstract)

A New Approach to Fuzzy Morphology Based on Fuzzy Integral and Its Application in Image Processing (Abstract)

Properties of Binary Statistical Morphology (Abstract)

Image Compression by Weighted Karhunen-Loeve Transform (Abstract)

Global Planar Rigid Motion Estimation Applied to Object-Oriented Coding (Abstract)

A Compact Representation for Stereoscopic Sequences with NTSC Spectral Compatibility (Abstract)

Coding of Structure in the Region-Based Coder as the Problem of Optimization on Graphs (Abstract)

Tauber Theorems for Dirichlet Series and Fractals (Abstract)

A Metric Unified Treatment of Two-Dimensional FFT (Abstract)

A B-Tree Based Recursive Technique for Image Coding (Abstract)

Data Embedding Into Pictorial Images with Less Distortion Using Descrete Cosine Transform (Abstract)

A Minimum Code Length Technique for Clustering of Syntactic Patterns (Abstract)

Probabilisitic Syntactic Pattern Recognition for Traditional and Generalized Transposition Errors (Abstract)

Business Form Classification Using Strings (Abstract)

Estimating the Bayes Error Rate through Classifier Combining (Abstract)

Visual Analysis of a Set of Function Values (Abstract)

Branch and Bound Algorithm for the Bayes Classifier (Abstract)

A Multiresolution Wavelet Analysis of Digital Mammograms (Abstract)

Hidden Tree-Like Quasi- Markov Model and Generalized Technique for a Class of Image Analysis Problems (Abstract)

Linear Feature Extractors Based on Mutual Information (Abstract)

A Music Scene Analysis System with the MRF-Based Information Integration Scheme (Abstract)

Why Relevant Features May Be Unuseful in Statistical Recognition of Two Classes (Abstract)

Discrimination Properties of Invariants Using the Line Moments of Vectorized Contours (Abstract)

Applying Genetic Algorithms on Pattern Recognition: An Analysis and Survey (Abstract)

A Stochastic Model of Mixels and Image Classification (Abstract)

Minimum Complexity PDF Estimation for Correlated Data (Abstract)

Finding Map Correspondence Using Geometric Models (Abstract)

Gibbs Models for Bayesian Simulation and Segmentation of Piecewise-Uniform Textures (Abstract)

An MRF Model-Based Method for Unsupervised Textured Image Segmentation (Abstract)

Is There any Texture in the Image? (Abstract)

Elliptical Gaussian Filters (Abstract)

Co-Occurrence-Based Texture Analysis Using Irregular Tessellations (Abstract)

Generalized Co-Occurrence Matrix for Multispectral Texture Analysis (Abstract)

Statistical Geometric Features - Extensions for Cytological Texture Analysis (Abstract)

Structural Filtering with Texture Feature-Based Interaction Maps: Fast Algorithm and Application (Abstract)

Rectilinear Structure Extraction in Textured Images with an Irregular Graph-Based Markov Random Field Model (Abstract)

An MLP-Based Texture Segmentation Technique which Does Not Require a Feature Set (Abstract)

A New Set of Multiscale Texture Features Based on B-Spline Image Approximation (Abstract)

The Markov Random Fields in Functional Neighbors as a Texture Model: Applications in Texture Classification (Abstract)

An Efficient and Effective Texture Classifaction Approach Using a New Notion in Wavelet Theory (Abstract)

Cluster-Based Texture Analysis (Abstract)

Directionality Detection in Compositional Textures (Abstract)

Signal- and Image-Component Separation by a Multi-Window Gabor-Type Scheme (Abstract)

Sampling Density for Image Analysis (Abstract)

Understanding the Structure of Diffuse Scale-Spaces (Abstract)

A Multiresolution EM Algorithm for Unsupervised Image Classification (Abstract)

Fractional Box-Counting Approach to Fractal Dimension Estimation (Abstract)

Wavelets and Human Visual Perception in Image Compression (Abstract)

Adaptive Early Jump-Out Technique for Fast Motion Estimation in Video Coding (Abstract)

Algorithms for Pattern Rejection (Abstract)

Expected Error of Minimum Empirical Error and Maximal Margin Classifiers (Abstract)

Building Projectable Classifiers of Arbitrary Complexity (Abstract)

Selection of Classifiers Based on the MDL Principle Using the VC Dimension (Abstract)

Stabilizing Classifiers for Very Small Sample Sizes (Abstract)

Combining Classifiers (Abstract)

Author Index (PDF)