Note: Lecture Notes in Computer Science -- Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition -- Copyright -- Preface -- SSPR and SPR 2002 -- Table of Contents -- Spectral Methods for View-Based 3-D Object Recognition Using Silhouettes -- Machine Learning for Sequential Data: A Review -- Graph-Based Methods for Vision: A Yorkist Manifesto -- Reducing the Computational Cost of Computing Approximated Median Strings★ -- Tree k-Grammar Models for Natural Language Modelling and Parsing -- Algorithms for Learning Function Distinguishable Regular Languages -- Non-bayesian Graph Matching without Explicit Compatibility Calculations -- Spectral Feature Vectors for Graph Clustering -- Identification of Diatoms by Grid Graph Matching -- String Edit Distance, Random Walks and Graph Matching -- Learning Structural Variations in Shock Trees -- A Comparison of Algorithms for Maximum Common Subgraph on Randomly Connected Graphs -- Inexact Multisubgraph Matching Using Graph Eigenspace and Clustering Models★ -- Optimal Lower Bound for Generalized Median Problems in Metric Space -- Structural Description to Recognising Arabic Characters Using Decision Tree Learning Techniques -- Feature Approach for Printed Document Image Analysis -- Example-Driven Graphics Recognition -- Estimation of Texels for Regular Mosaics Using Model-Based Interaction Maps -- Using Graph Search Techniques for Contextual Colour Retrieval★ -- Comparing Shape and Temporal PDMs -- Linear Shape Recognition with Mixtures of Point Distribution Models -- Curvature Weighted Evidence Combination for Shape-from-Shading -- Probabilistic Decisions in Production Nets: An Example from Vehicle Recognition -- Hierarchical Top Down Enhancement of Robust PCA★ -- An Application of Machine Learning Techniques for the Classification of Glaucomatous Progression. , Estimating the Joint Probability Distribution of Random Vertices and Arcs by Means of Second-Order Random Graphs -- Successive Projection Graph Matching -- Compact Graph Model of Handwritten Images: Integration into Authentification and Recognition -- A Statistical and Structural Approach for Symbol -- A New Algorithm for Graph Matching with Application to Content-Based -- Efficient Computation of 3-D Moments in Terms of an Object's Partition -- A Visual Attention Operator Based on Morphological Models of Images and Maximum Likelihood Decision -- Disparity Using Feature Points in Multi Scale★ -- Detecting Perceptually Important Regions in an Image Based on Human Visual Attention Characteristic -- Development of Spoken Language User Interfaces: A Tool Kit Approach -- Document Image De-warping for Text/Graphics Recognition -- A Complete OCR System for Gurmukhi Script -- Texprint: A New Algorithm to Discriminate Textures Structurally* -- Optical Music Interpretation -- On the Segmentation of Color Cartographic Images -- Projection Pursuit Fitting Gaussian Mixture Models★ -- Asymmetric Gaussian and Its Application to Pattern Recognition -- Modified Predictive Validation Test for Gaussian Mixture Modelling -- Performance Analysis and Comparison of Linear Combiners for Classifier Fusion -- Comparison of Two Classification Methodologies on a Real-World Biomedical Problem -- Evidence Accumulation Clustering Based on the K-Means Algorithm -- A Kernel Approach to Metric Multidimensional Scaling -- On Feature Selection with Measurement Cost and Grouped Features -- Classifier-Independent Feature Selection Based on Non-parametric Discriminant Analysis -- Effects of Many Feature Candidates in Feature Selection and Classification -- Spatial Representation of Dissimilarity Data via Lower-Complexity Linear and Nonlinear Mappings. , A Method to Estimate the True Mahalanobis Distance from Eigenvectors of Sample Covariance Matrix -- Non-iterative Heteroscedastic Linear Dimension Reduction for Two-Class Data -- Some Experiments in Supervised Pattern Recognition with Incomplete Training Samples -- Recursive Prototype Reduction Schemes Applicable for Large Data Sets -- Combination of Tangent Vectors and Local Representations for Handwritten Digit Recognition -- Training Set Expansion in Handwritten Character Recognition -- Document Classification Using Phrases★ -- Face Detection by Learned Affine Correspondences★ -- Shape-from-Shading for Highlighted Surfaces -- Texture Description by Independent Components -- Fusion of Multiple Cue Detectors for Automatic Sports Video Annotation -- Query Shifting Based on Bayesian Decision Theory for Content-Based Image Retrieval -- Recursive Model-Based Colour Image Restoration -- Human Face Recognition with Different Statistical Features -- A Transformation-Based Mechanism for Face Recognition -- Face Detection Using Integral Projection Models* -- Illumination Normalized Face Image for Face Recognition -- Towards a Generalized Eigenspace-Based Face Recognition Framework -- Automatic Segmentation of Speech at the Phonetic Level★ -- Class-Discriminative Weighted Distortion Measure for VQ-based Speaker Identification -- Alive Fishes Species Characterization from Video Sequences -- Automatic Cut Detection in MPEG Movies: A Multi-expert Approach -- Bayesian Networks for Incorporation of Contextual Information in Target Recognition Systems -- Extending LAESA Fast Nearest Neighbour Algorithm to Find the k Nearest Neighbours -- A Fast Approximated k-Median Algorithm -- A Hidden Markov Model-Based Approach to Sequential Data Clustering -- Genetic Algorithms for Exploratory Data Analysis★. , Piecewise Multi-linear PDF Modelling, Using an ML Approach -- Decision Tree Using Class-Dependent Feature Subsets -- Fusion of n-Tuple Based Classifiers for High Performance Handwritten Character Recognition -- A Biologically Plausible Approach to Cat and Dog Discrimination -- Morphologically Unbiased Classifier Combination through Graphical PDF Correlation -- Classifiers under Continuous Observations -- Texture Classification Based on Coevolution Approach in Multiwavelet Feature Space -- Probabilistic Signal Models to Regularise Dynamic Programming Stereo -- The Hough Transform without the Accumulators -- Robust Gray-Level Histogram Gaussian Characterisation★ -- Model-Based Fatique Fractographs Texture Analysis -- Hierarchical Multiscale Modeling of Wavelet-Based Correlations -- Author Index.

Note: Lecture Notes in Computer Science -- Advances in Pattern Recognition -- Copyright -- Preface -- SSPR 2000 Organization -- Table of Contents -- Some Notes on Twenty One (21) Nearest Prototype Classifiers -- Adaptive Graphical Pattern Recognition Beyond Connectionist-Based Approaches -- Current Trends in Grammatical Inference -- Classifier's Complexity Control while Training Multilayer Perceptrons -- A Framework for Classifier Fusion: Is It Still Needed? -- Image Pattern Recognition Based on Examples-A Combined Statistical and Structural-Syntactic Approach -- A Hybrid System for the Recognition of Hand-Written Characters -- Improving Statistical Measures of Feature Subsets by Conventional and Evolutionary Approaches ★ -- Selection of Classifiers Based on Multiple Classifier Behaviour -- The Adaptive Subspace Map for Image Description and Image Database Retrieval -- Adaptive Automatic Target Recognition with SVM Boosting for Outlier Detection -- A Multiresolution Causal Colour Texture Model -- Writer Identification: Statistical Analysis and Dichotomizer -- Syntactic Pattern Recognition by Error Correcting Analysis on Tree Automata -- Offline Recognition of Syntax-Constrained Cursive Handwritten Text -- Structural Classification for Retrospective Conversion of Documents -- Segmentation of Date Field on Bank Cheques -- Grammars and Discourse Theory to Describe and Recognize Mechanical Assemblies -- Computation of the N Best Parse Trees for Weighted and Stochastic Context-Free Grammars★ -- Partitional vs Hierarchical Clustering Using a Minimum Grammar Complexity Approach -- Encoding Nondeterministic Finite-State Tree Automata in Sigmoid Recursive Neural Networks★ -- Retrieval of Partially Visible Shapes through Structural Feature Indexing -- A Structural Matching Algorithm Using Generalized Deterministic Annealing. , Alignment and Correspondence Using Singular Value Decomposition -- Graph Matching: Fast Candidate Elimination Using Machine Learning Techniques -- Efficient Alignment and Correspondence Using Edit Distance -- Irregular Pyramids with Combinatorial Maps -- A New Error-Correcting Distance for Attributed Relational Graph Problems -- Distance between Attributed Graphs and Function-Described Graphs Relaxing 2nd Order Restrictions -- A Graph Labelling Approach for Connected Feature Selection -- Region-Based Representation for Object Recognition by Relaxation Labelling -- Shape Boundary Tracking with Hidden Markov Models -- Parallel Techniques for Rule-Based Scene Interpretation -- Curvature Estimation Using Shape-from-Texture -- Efficient Techniques for a Very Accurate Measurement of Dissimilarities between Cyclic Patterns -- Planar Symmetry Detection by Random Sampling and Voting Process -- Assessing the Computational Effort for Structural 3D Vehicle Recognition -- Guided Relinking of Graph Pyramids ★ -- Texture Indexing by a Hierarchical Representation -- Surface Skeletons Detected on the D6 Distance Transform -- Selection Strategies for Ambiguous Graph Matching by Evolutionary Optimisation -- Studies of Radical Model for Retrieval of Cursive Chinese Handwritten Annotations -- A Statistical-Estimation Method for Stochastic Finite-State Transducers Based on Entropy Measures -- Efficient Subgraph Isomorphism with 'A Priori' Knowledge -- Pyramid and Interior -- Prototype Learning with Attributed Relational Graphs -- Lossless Compression of Surfaces Described as Points -- A Class of Solvable Consistent Labeling Problems -- Character Recognition, Orientation, and Scale Estimation Thanks to the Fourier Mellin Transform -- Using the Dual of Proximity Graphs for Binary Decision Tree Design -- Bayesian Approach to Mixture Models for Discrimination. , Pattern Classification Based on a Piecewise Multi-linear Model for the Class Probability Densities -- Selection of the Number of Components Using a Genetic Algorithm for Mixture Model Classifiers -- The Moments of the Mixel Distribution and Its Application to Statistical Image Classification -- Statistical Pattern Recognition Using the Normalized Complex Moment Components Vector -- Initial Matching of Multiple-View Images by Affine Approximation of Relative Distortions -- Local Discriminant Regions Using Support Vector Machines for Object Recognition -- Stochastic Models for Recognition of Occluded Objects -- A Vector Approach to the Analysis of (Patterns with) Spatial Dependence -- The Foundational Theory of Optimal Bayesian Pairwise Linear Classifiers -- The Optimum Classifier and the Performance Evaluation by Bayesian Approach -- A New Approximation Method of the Quadratic Discriminant Function -- An Optimal Reject Rule for Binary Classifiers -- Decontamination of Training Samples for Supervised Pattern Recognition Methods1 -- The Role of Combining Rules in Bagging and Boosting -- Confidence Combination Methods in Multi-expert Systems -- Reducing the Training Times of Neural Classifiers with Dataset Condensing -- Non-linear Invertible Representation for Joint Statistical and Perceptual Feature Decorrelation -- A Divergence Criterion for Classifier-Independent Feature Selection -- Comparison of Classifier-Specific Feature Selection Algorithms -- Combined Classifier Optimisation via Feature Selection -- Design Choices and Theoretical Issues for Relative Feature Importance, a Metric for Nonparametric Discriminatory Power -- Real-Coded Genetic Algorithms Based on Mathematical Morphology -- A New Model and Process Architecture for Facial Expression Recognition -- Biologically Inspired Architecture of Feedforward Networks for Signal Classification. , Optimal Threshold Estimation Using Prototype Selection -- Basic and Fine Structure of Pairwise Interactions in Gibbs Texture Models -- Segmentation of Text and Graphics/Images Using the Gray-Level Histogram Fourier Transform -- Fast and Accurate Handwritten Character Recognition Using Approximate Nearest Neighbours Search on Large Databases -- A Family of Divergences between Φ-Probabilistic Sets with Application to Handshape Recognition -- Rotated, Scaled, and Noisy 2D and 3D Texture Classification with the Bispectrum-Based Invariant Feature -- Multiple Comparison Procedures for Determining the Optimal Complexity of a Model -- Image Pattern Recognition in Natural Environment Using Morphological Feature Extraction -- A Statistical Matrix Representation Using Sliced Orthogonal Nonlinear Correlations for Pattern Recognition -- A Fast Approximately k-Nearest-Neighbour Search Algorithm for Classification Tasks -- Design of a Telerobotic Interface System by Using Object Recognition Techniques -- Comparison of Four Initialization Techniques for the K-Medians Clustering Algorithm -- Sensory Flow Segmentation Using a Resource Allocating Vector Quantizer -- Multiple Reject Thresholds for Improving Classification Reliability -- Clustering with EM: Complex Models vs. Robust Estimation -- A Simple Implementation of the Stochastic Discrimination for Pattern Recognition -- Adaptive Image Filtering and Segmentation Using Robust Estimation of Intensity -- Author Index.