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1 Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2013 Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis and J. van Leeuwen

2 3 Berlin Heidelberg New York Barcelona Hong Kong London Milan Paris Singapore Tokyo

3 Sameer Singh Nabeel Murshed Walter Kropatsch (Eds.) Advances in Pattern Recognition ICAPR 2001 Second International Conference Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 11-14, 2001 Proceedings 13

4 Series Editors Gerhard Goos, Karlsruhe University, Germany Juris Hartmanis, Cornell University, NY, USA Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Volume Editors Sameer Singh University of Exeter, Department of Computer Science Exeter EX4 4PT, UK Nabeel Murshed Tuiuti University of Parana, Computational Intelligence Group Curitiba, Brazil Walter Kropatsch Vienna University of Technology Institute of Computer Aided Automation, PRIP-Group 1832 Favoritenstr. 9/2/4, 1040 Wien, Austria Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Advances in pattern recognition : second international conference / ICAPR 2001, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 11-14, Sameer Singh... (ed.). - Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York ; Barcelona ; Hong Kong ; London ; Milan ; Paris ; Singapore ; Tokyo : Springer, 2001 (Lecture notes in computer science ; Vol. 2013) ISBN CR Subject Classification (1998): I.5, I.4, I.3, I.7.5 ISSN ISBN Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York a member of BertelsmannSpringer Science+Business Media GmbH Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author Printed on acid-free paper SPIN /

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6 VI Preface

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8 VIII Organization

9 Table of Contents INVITED TALKS Towards Bridging the Gap between Statistical and Structural Pattern Recognition" Two New Concepts in Graph Matching H. Bunke, S. Giinter, X. Jiang... 1 Learning and Adaptation in Robotics T. Fukuda, Y. Hasegawa Image-Based self-localization by Means of Zero Phase Representation in Panoramic Images T. Pajdla, V. I-Ildvac NEURAL NETWORKS & COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE A Cascaded Genetic Algorithm for Efficient Optimization and Pattern Matching G. Garai, B. B. Chaudhuri Using Unlabelled Data to Train a Multilayer Perceptron A. Verikas, A. Gelzinis, K. Malmqvist, M. Bacauskiene A Neural Multi-expert Classification System for MPEG Audio Segmenation M. De Santo, G. Percannella, C. Sansone, M. Vento Pattern Recognition with Quantum Neural Networks A. A. Ezhov Pattern Matching and Neural Networks Based Hybrid Forecasting System S. Singh and,i.e. Fieldsend... 72

10 X Table of Contents Invariant Face Detection in Color Images Using Orthogonal Fourier- Mellin Moments and Support Vector Machines J.-C. Terrillon, M.N. Shirazi, D. McReynolds, M. Sadek, Y. Sheng, S. Akamatsu, K. Yamamoto CHARACTER RECOGNITION & DOCUMENT ANALYSIS Character Extraction from Interfering Background - Analysis of Double-Sided Handwritten Archival Documents C.L. Tan, R. Cao, Q. Wang, P. Shen An Enhanced HMM Topology in an LBA Framework for the Recognition of Handwritten Numeral Strings A. de S. Britto Jr., R. Sabourin, F. Bortolozzi, C.Y. Suen, Segmentation of Printed Arabic Text A. Amin A Time-Length Constrained Level Building Algorithm for Large Vocabulary Handwritten Word Recognition A. L. Koerich, R. Sabourin, C.Y. Suen Preventing Overfitting in Learning Text Patterns for Document Categorization M. Junker, A. Dengel..., Image Document Categorization Using Hidden Tree Markov Models and Structured Representations M. Diligenti, P. Frasconi, M. Gori Handwriting Quality Evaluation V. Kulesh, K. Schaffer, I. Sethi, M. Schwartz

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13 Table of Contents XIII IMAGE FEATURE ANALYSIS & RETRIEVAL 3D Wavelet Based Video Retrieval A. Del Bimbo, P. Pala, L. Tanganelli Combined Invariants to Convolution and Rotation and Their Applications to Image Registration J. Flusser, B. Zitovd Modelling Plastic Distortion in Fingerprint Images R. Cappelli, D. Maio, D. Maltoni Image Retrieval Using a Hierarchy of Clusters D. Stan, I.K. Sethi Texture-Adaptive Active Contour Models T. Lehman, J. Bredno, K. Spitzer A Generalized Local Binary Pattern Operator for Multiresolution Gray Scale and Rotation Invariant Texture Classification T. Ojala, M. Pietikiiinen, T. Miienpiiii Analysis of Curved Textured Surfaces Using Local Spectral Distortion E. Ribeiro and E.R. Hancock Texture Analysis Experiments with Meastex and Vistex Benchmarks S. Singh and M. Sharma TUTORIALS Advances in Statistical Feature Selection J. Kittler, P. Pudil, P. Somol Learning-Based Detection, Segmentation and Matching of Objects N. Duta, A. K. Jain

14 xiv Table of Contents Automated Biometrics N.K. Ratha, A. Senior, R.M. Bolle... ' AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES AUTHOR INDEX

15 Conference Chairman Sameer Singh, University of Exeter ICAPR 2001 COMMITTEE Program Chairs Nabeel Murshed, International University in Germany Walter Kropatsch, Vienna University of Technology Program Committee Adnan Amin, University of New South Wales, Australia Dibio Borges, Federal University of Goias, Brazil Horst Bunke, University of Bern, Switzerland Bidyut Chaudhuri, Indian Statistical Institute, India Luc Van Gool, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Gregory Hager, John Hopkins University, USA John Haddon, DERA, UK Peter Meer, Rutgers University, USA Jean-Michel Jolion, INSA, France Mahesan Niranjan, University of Sheffield, UK Enrique Ruspini, SRI International, USA Jacek Zurada, University of Louisville, USA Organising Chair Nabeel Murshed, International University in Germany Secretaries Miguel Matrakas, Tuiuti University of Paraná, Brazil Iryna Murzinkova, International University in Germany Supported by International Association of Pattern Recognition British Computer Society Sponsors International University in Germany Tuiuti University of Paraná, Brazil VARIG - The Brazilian Airlines National Center for Information Management Development

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