This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2007, held in Valparaiso, Chile, November 13-16, 2007. The 97 revised full papers presented together with four keynote articles were carefully reviewed and selected from 200 submissions. The papers cover ongoing research and mathematical methods for pattern recognition, image analysis, and applications in areas such as computer vision, robotics, industry and health.
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Keynote Lectures.- Learning in Computer Vision: Some Thoughts.- Biometric Recognition: Overview and Recent Advances.- A Family of Novel Graph Kernels for Structural Pattern Recognition.- A System Biology Approach for the Steady-State Analysis of Gene Signaling Networks.- Signal Processing and Analysis.- ?-? Background Subtraction and the Zipf Law.- Model-Based Correlation Measure for Nonuniformity Gain and Offset Parameters of Infrared Focal-Plane-Array Sensors.- A Cyclostationary Analysis Applied to Detection and Diagnosis of Faults in Helicopter Gearboxes.- Robust Industrial Machine Sounds Identification Based on Frequency Spectrum Analysis.- Using Adaptive Filter to Increase Automatic Speech Recognition Rate in a Digit Corpus.- SSM - A Novel Method to Recognize the Fundamental Frequency in Voice Signals.- Channel / Handset Mismatch Evaluation in a Biometric Speaker Verification Using Shifted Delta Cepstral Features.- Phone-Segments Based Language Identification for Spanish, Basque and English.- Image Coding, Processing and Analysis.- A New Algorithm to Compute the Distance Between Multi-dimensional Histograms.- Fuzzy Vector Directional Filters for Multichannel Image Denoising.- EZW-Based Image Compression with Omission and Restoration of Wavelet Subbands.- Multi-class Binary Object Categorization Using Blurred Shape Models.- Video Analysis Via Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction.- Graph Cuts Approach to MRF Based Linear Feature Extraction in Satellite Images.- A Multiple Substructure Matching Algorithm for Fingerprint Verification.- Bayesian Edge Regularization in Range Image Segmentation.- Image Segmentation Using Automatic Seeded Region Growing and Instance-Based Learning.- Morphological Distinguished Regions.- Set of Methods for Spontaneous ICH Segmentation and Tracking from CT Head Images.- Shape and Texture Analysis.- Efficient Rotation-Discriminative Template Matching.- Texture Classification Through Combination of Sequential Colour Texture Classifiers.- Deterministic Component of 2-D Wold Decomposition for Geometry and Texture Descriptors Discovery.- Computer Vision.- Robust Feature Descriptors for Efficient Vision-Based Tracking.- Smooth Image Surface Approximation by Piecewise Cubic Polynomials.- An Analysis of Automatic Gender Classification.- A Method for Segmentation of Local Illumination Variations and Photometric Normalization in Face Images.- Computing the Eccentricity Transform of a Polygonal Shape.- Robust Color Contour Object Detection Invariant to Shadows.- An Evaluation of Video Cut Detection Techniques.- Surface-Normal Estimation with Neighborhood Reorganization for 3D Reconstruction.- Weighted Principal Geodesic Analysis for Facial Gender Classification.- Range and Intensity Vision for Rock-Scene Segmentation.- Human Detection in Indoor Environments Using Multiple Visual Cues and a Mobile Robot.- A Method for Estimating Authentication Performance over Time, with Applications to Face Biometrics.- Pattern Recognition Principles.- Generalizing Dissimilarity Representations Using Feature Lines.- FS-EX Plus: A New Algorithm for the Calculation of Typical FS-Testor Set.- Confusion Matrix Disagreement for Multiple Classifiers.- An Empirical Study of the Behavior of Classifiers on Imbalanced and Overlapped Data Sets.- Fast k Most Similar Neighbor Classifier for Mixed Data Based on a Tree Structure.- Conditional Mutual Information Based Feature Selection for Classification Task.- Robust Alternating AdaBoost.- Artificial Intelligence Techniques and Recognition.- Face Recognition Using Some Aspects of the Infant Vision System and Associative Memories.- Two-Stage ACO to Solve the Job Shop Scheduling Problem.- A Novel Hybrid Taguchi-Grey-Based Method for Feature Subset Selection.- On Using a Pre-clustering Technique to Optimize LDA-Based Classifiers for Appearance-Based Face Recognition.- Certainty Measure of Pairwise Line Segment Perceptual Relations Using Fuzzy Logic.- Automatic Image Annotation Using a Semi-supervised Ensemble of Classifiers.- Logical Combinatorial Pattern Recognition.- Object Selection Based on Subclass Error Correcting for ALVOT.- CT-EXT: An Algorithm for Computing Typical Testor Set.- Neural Networks.- Evaluating a Zoning Mechanism and Class-Modular Architecture for Handwritten Characters Recognition.- Median M-Type Radial Basis Function Neural Network.- A Precise Electrical Disturbance Generator for Neural Network Training with Real Level Output.- A New Algorithm for Training Multi-layered Morphological Networks.- Kernel Machines.- Joint Diagonalization of Kernels for Information Fusion.- Support Vector Regression Methods for Functional Data.- Monitoring Nonlinear Profiles Using Support Vector Machines.- MP-Polynomial Kernel for Training Support Vector Machines.- Adaptive ECG Compression Using Support Vector Machine.- Bioinformatics.- Incremental Multiple Sequence Alignment.- Mass Spectrometry Based Cancer Classification Using Fuzzy Fractal Dimensions.- Bayesian Detection of Coding Regions in DNA/RNA Sequences Through Event Factoring.- Coding Region Prediction in Genomic Sequences Using a Combination of Digital Signal Processing Approaches.- Data Mining.- Using Typical Testors for Feature Selection in Text Categorization.- Towards Automatic Generation of Conceptual Interpretation of Clustering.- ACONS: A New Algorithm for Clustering Documents.- Mixed Data Object Selection Based on Clustering and Border Objects.- Modification of the Growing Neural Gas Algorithm for Cluster Analysis.- Bagging with Asymmetric Costs for Misclassified and Correctly Classified Examples.- Natural Language Processing and Recognition.- Distribution-Based Semantic Similarity of Nouns.- Segment-Based Classes for Language Modeling Within the Field of CSR.- TextLec: A Novel Method of Segmentation by Topic Using Lower Windows and Lexical Cohesion.- European Portuguese Accent in Acoustic Models for Non-native English Speakers.- A Statistical User Simulation Technique for the Improvement of a Spoken Dialog System.- Industrial and Medical Applications of Pattern Recognition.- A New Approach for Cervical Vertebrae Segmentation.- Automatic Clump Splitting for Cell Quantification in Microscopical Images.- A Semi-supervised Learning Method for Motility Disease Diagnostic.- Lung Structure Classification Using 3D Geometric Measurements and SVM.- Edge Detection in Ventriculograms Using Support Vector Machine Classifiers and Deformable Models.- Breast Cancer Diagnosis Based on a Suitable Combination of Deformable Models and Artificial Neural Networks Techniques.- Infected Cell Identification in Thin Blood Images Based on Color Pixel Classification: Comparison and Analysis.- Coregistration of Small Animal PET and Autoradiography for in vivo-ex vivo Comparison.- Noise Pattern Recognition of Airplanes Taking Off: Task for a Monitoring System.- Echocardiographic Image Sequence Compression Based on Spatial Active Appearance Model.- Unified Neural Network Based Pathologic Event Reconstruction Using Spatial Heart Model.- Fuzzy Spatial Growing for Glioblastoma Multiforme Segmentation on Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Conformal Geometric Algebra for Endoscope-Traking System Calibration in Neurosurgery.- Quality Controlled Multimodal Fusion of Biometric Experts.- Robotics and Remote Sensing Applications of Pattern Recognition.- Fully Automatic and Robust Approach for Remote Sensing Image Registration.- Robust Local Localization of a Mobile Robot in Indoor Environme…