June 7

08:00 

Registration

08:45

Opening Session

June 8

June 9

09:00

Invited Talk – David Lowe

Invited Talk – Wiro Niessen

Invited Talk – Isidore Rigoutsos

10:00

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

10:15

Image Analysis I

Pattern Recognition

Image & Video Processing

11:45

Computer Vision I

Video Processing

Statistical Pattern Recognition

13:05

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

14:30

Syntactic Pattern Recognition

Image Analysis II

Computer Vision III

15:30

Applications I

Computer Vision II

Applications II

16:45

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

17:00

Face and Gesture Analysis

Medical Applications

Image Processing

18:00

AERFAI+APRP

meeting

Closing Session

Poster Session

Oral Session

June 7

10:15        SESSION 1 - Image Analysis I     (POSTER)

Segment extraction using Burns principles in a pseudocolor  fuzzy Hough transform

Marta  Penas, María J. Carreira, Manuel G. Penedo, Cástor  Mariño Pérez

Texture interpolation using ordinary Kriging

Sunil Chandra, Maria Petrou, Roberta Piroddi

Spectral methods in image segmentation: a combined approach

Fernando C. Monteiro, Aurélio C. Campilho

Signal subspace identification in hyperspectral linear mixtures

José Nascimento, José M. B. Dias

Automatic selection of multiple texture feature extraction methods for texture pattern classification

Domenec Puig, Miguel Ángel Garcia

Detector of image orientation based on Borda-count

Loris Nanni, Alessandra Lumini

Color Image segmentation using acceptable histogram  segmentation

Julie  Delon, Agnes Desolneux, Jose Luis Lisani, Ana  Belen Petro

Adding subsurface attenuation to the Beckmann-Kirchhoff theory

Hossein Ragheb, Edwin R. Hancock

Multi-scale cortical keypoint representation for attention and object detection

João Rodrigues, J. M. Hans du Buf

Evaluation of distances between color image segmentations

Jaume Vergés-Llahí, Alberto Sanfeliu

An algorithm for the detection of multiple concentric circles

Margarida Silveira

Image corner detection using Hough transform

Sung Kwan Kang, Yong Chul Chong, Jong An Park

Dissimilarity measures for visual pattern partitioning

Raquel Dosil, Xosé R. Fdez Vidal, Xosé M. Pardo

A comparative study of highlights detection and elimination by color morphology and polar color models

Francisco Ortiz, Fernando Torres, Pablo Gil

Algorithm for crest detection based on graph contraction

Nazha Selmaoui

A learning framework for object recognition on image  understanding

Xavier Muñoz, Anna  Bosch, Joan  Martí, Joan Espunya

A roof edge detection model

Qing H. Zhang, Song Gao, Tien D. Bui

A dynamic stroke segmentation technique for sketched symbol recognition

Vincenzo Deufemia, Michele  Risi

Application of wavelet transforms and Bayes classifier to segmentation of ultrasound images

Pawel Kies

Use of neural networks in automatic caricature generation: an approach based on drawing style capture

Rupesh N. Shet, Ka H. Lai, Eran A. Edirisinghe, Paul  W. H. Chung

Compact and robust fingerprints using DCT coefficients of key blocks

Sheng Tang, Jin Tao Li, Yong Dong Zhang

Fingerprint matching using minutiae coordinate systems

Farid Benhammadi, Hamid Hentous, Kadda Bey-Beghdad, Mohamed Aissani

The contribution of external features to face recognition

Àgata Lapedriza, David Masip, Jordi Vitrià

Iris recognition based on quadratic spline wavelet multi-scale decomposition

Xing  Ming, Xiaodong  Zhu, Zhengxuan  Wang

11:45        SESSION 2 - Computer Vision I     (ORAL)

Local single-patch features for pose estimation using the log-polar transform

Fredrik Viksten, Anders Moe

Efficient object-class recognition by boosting contextual information

Jaume Amores, Nicu Sebe, Petia Radeva

A real-time Gabor primal sketch for visual attention

Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor

Matching deformable regions using local histograms of differential invariants

Nicolás Pérez de la Blanca, José M. Fuertes, Manuel Lucena

14:30        SESSION 3 - Syntactic Pattern Recognition     (ORAL)

Comparison of two different prediction schemes for the analysis of time series of graphs

Horst Bunke, Peter Dickinson, Miro Kraetzl

Machine learning with seriated graphs

Hang Yu, Edwin R Hancock

Information theoretic text classification using the Ziv-Merhav method

David Pereira Coutinho, Mário A. T. Figueiredo

15:30        SESSION 4 - Applications I     (POSTER)

Multiple face detection at different resolutions for perceptual user interfaces

Modesto Castrillón Santana, Javier  Lorenzo, Oscar  Déniz-Suárez, J. Isern, Antonio Falcón-Martel

An analysis of facial description in static images and video streams

Modesto Castrillón Santana, Javier Lorenzo, Daniel Hernández, Yeray  Rodríguez-Domínguez

Performance driven facial animation by appearance based racking

José  Miguel Buenaposada, Enrique Muñoz, Luis Baumela

Color distribution tracking for facial analysis

Juan José  Gracia-Roche, Carlos Orrite, Emiliano Bernués, José Elías Herrero

Head gesture recognition based on Bayesian network

Peng  Lu,  Xiangsheng  Huang, Xinshan Zhu, Yangsheng   Wang

Detection and tracking of face by a walking robot

Do Joon Jung, Chang Woo Lee, Hang Joon Kim

PCA positioning sensor characterization for terrain based navigation of Uvs

Paulo Oliveira

Monte Carlo localization using SIFT features

Arturo Gil, óscar  Reinoso, Asunción Vicente, César Fernández, Luis Payá

A new method for the estimation of the image Jacobian for the control of an uncalibrated joint system

Jose M. Sebastian, Lizardo  Pari, Carolina  González, Luis  Ángel

Accelerometer based gesture recognition using continuous HMMs

Timo Pylvänäinen

An approach to improve online hand-eye calibration

Fanhuai Shi, Jianhua  Wang, Yuncai  Liu

Performance analysis of homomorphic systems for image change detection

Gonzalo Pajares, José Jaime Ruz, Jesús M. de la Cruz

Car license plates extraction and recognition based on connected components analysis and HMM decoding

David Llorens, Andrés  Marzal, Vicente  Palazón, Juan M. Vilar

Multi-resolution image analysis for vehicle detection

Cristina Hilario, Juan Manuel Collado, José Maria Armingol, Arturo de la Escalera

A novel adaptive Gaussian mixture model for background subtraction

Jian Cheng, Jie  Yang, Yue Zhou

Intelligent target recognition on based wavelet adaptive network based fuzzy inference system

Engin Avci, Ibrahim Turkoglu, Mustafa  Poyraz

Image processing application development: from rapid prototyping to SW/HW co-simulation and automated code generation

Cristina Vicente, Ana Toledo, Pedro Sánchez Palma

Xilinx system generator based HW components for rapid prototyping of computer vision SW/HW systems

Ana Toledo, Cristina Vicente, Juan  Suardíaz, Sergio Cuenca

2-D discrete cosine transform (DCT) on meshes with hierarchical control modes

Cheong Ghil Kim, Su Jin Lee, Shin Dug Kim

Domain-specific codesign for automated visual inspection systems

Sergio Cuenca, Antonio Cámara, Juan Suardíaz, Ana Toledo

Hardware-accelerated template matching

Raúl Cabido, Antonio  S. Montemayor, Ángel  Sánchez

17:00        SESSION 5 - Face & Gesture Analysis     (ORAL)

Discriminative face recognition through Gabor responses and sketch distortion

Daniel González-Jiménez, José Luis Alba-Castro

HMM-based gesture recognition for robot control

Hye Sun Park, Eun  Yi Kim, Sang Su Jang, Se Hyun Park, Min Ho Park, Hang  Joon Kim

Removing shadows from face images using ICA

Jun Liu, Xiangsheng Huang, Yangsheng  Wang

10:15        SESSION 6 - Pattern Recognition     (POSTER)

Solving particularization with supervised clustering competition scheme

Oriol Pujol, Petia  Radeva

Adaptive optimization with constraints: convergence and oscillatory behaviour

Fernando J. Coito, João M. Lemos

Boosting statistical local feature based classifiers for face recognition

Xiangsheng Huang, Yangsheng Wang

Dynamic and static weighting in classifier fusion

Rosa M. Valdovinos, J. Salvador Sánchez, Ricardo Barandela

A novel one-parameter regularized kernel Fisher discriminant method for face recognition

Wensheng Chen, Pongchi  Yuen, Jian  Huang, Daoqing  Dai

AutoAssign - An automatic assignment tool for independent components

Matthias Bohm, Kurt Stadlthanner, Ana M. Tomé, Peter Gruber, Ana R. Teixeira, Fabian Theis, Carlos G. Puntonet,Elmar W. Lang

Improving the discrimination capability with an adaptive synthetic discriminant function filter

J. Ángel González-Fraga, Victor H. Diaz-Ramírez, Vitaly Kober, Josué Álvarez-Borrego

Globally exponential stability of non-autonomous delayed neural networks

Qiang Zhang, Wenbing  Liu,  Xiaopeng Wei, Jin Xu

Grouping of non-connected structures by an irregular graph Pyramid

Walter G. Kropatsch, Yll Haxhimusa

An adjacency grammar to recognize symbols and gestures in a digital pen framework

Joan Mas, Gemma  Sánchez, Josep Lladós

Graph clustering using heat content invariants

Bai  Xiao, Edwin R. Hancock

Matching attributed graphs: 2nd-order probabilities for

pruning the search tree

Francesc Serratosa, Alberto Sanfeliu

Synthesis of median spectral graph

Miquel  Ferrer, Francesc Serratosa, Alberto Sanfeliu

Feature selection for graph-based image classifiers

Bertrand Le Saux, Horst  Bunke

Time reduction of stochastic parsing with stochastic context-free grammars

Joan Andreu Sánchez, José Miguel Benedí

An utterance verification algorithm in keyword spotting System

Haisheng Dai, Xiaoyan  Zhu, Yupin Luo, Shiyuan  Yang

A clustering algorithm for the fast match of acoustic conditions in continuous speech recognition

Luis Javier Rodríguez, M. Inés Torres

Adaptive signal models for wide-band speech and audio compression

Pedro Vera Candeas, Nicolás Ruiz Reyes, Manuel Rosa  Zurera, Juan C. Cuevas Martínez, Francisco  López Ferreras

Cryptographic-speech-key generation architecture improvements

L. Paola Garcia Perera, Juan A. Nolazco, Carlos Mex Perera

Performance of a SCFG-based language model with training data sets of increasing size

Joan A. Sánchez, José  Miguel Benedí, Diego Linares

Speaker dependent ASRs for Huastec and western-Huastec Nahuatl languages

Juan A. Nolazco, Luis R. Salgado, Marco O. Peña

Parallel perceptrons, activation margins and imbalanced training set pruning

Iván Cantador, José R. Dorronsoro

Automatic segmentation of bilingual corpora: a comparison of different techniques

Ismael García-Varea, Daniel  Ortiz, Francisco Nevado, Pedro A. Gómez, Francisco  Casacuberta

Word translation disambiguation using multinomial classifiers

Jesús Andrés, José R. Navarro, Alfons Juan, Francisco Casacuberta

Different approaches to bilingual text classification based on grammatical inference techniques

Jorge Civera, Elsa Cubel, Alfons Juan, Enrique Vidal

Semantic similarity between sentences through approximate tree matching

Francisco Jose Ribadas, Manuel  Vilares, Jesus Vilares

11:45        SESSION 7 - Video Processing     (ORAL)

Contextual soccer detection using mosaicing techniques

Lluis Barceló, Xavier Binefa

From moving edges to moving regions

Loic Biancardini, Eva Dokladalova, Serge Beucher, Laurent Letellier

A 3D dynamic model of human actions for probabilistic image tracking

Ignasi Rius, Daniel Rowe, Jordi Gonzàlez, Xavi Roca

A framework to integrate particle filters for robust tracking in non-stationary environments

Francesc Moreno-Noguer, Alberto Sanfeliu

14 :30        SESSION 8 - Image Analysis II     (ORAL)

Curvature based clustering for DNA microarray data analysis

Emil Saucan, Eli Appleboim

Mathematical morphology in polar-logarithmic coordinates. Application to erythrocyte shape analysis

Miguel A. Luengo Oroz, Jesús Angulo, Georges Flandrin, Jacques Klossa

Phase unwrapping via graph cuts

José M. B. Dias, Gonçalo Valadão

15 :30        SESSION 9 - Computer Vision II     (POSTER)

An invariant and compact representation for unrestricted pose

Robert Söderberg, Klas Nordberg, Gösta Granlund

Gabor parameter selection for local feature detection

Plinio Moreno, Alexandre Bernardino, José Santos-Victor

Real-time tracking using multiple target models

Manuel Lucena, José M. Fuertes, Nicolás Pérez de la Blanca

Illumination intensity, object geometry and highlights invariance in multispectral imaging

Raúl Montoliu, Filiberto Pla, Arnoud C. Klaren

Dealing with multiple motions in optical flow estimation

Jesús Chamorro-Martínez, Javier Martínez-Baena, Elena Galán-Perales, B. Prados Suárez

Conversion into three-dimensional implicit surface representation from topological active volumes based segmentation

José Rouco, Noelia  Barreira, Manuel G. Penedo, Xosé M. Pardo

Automatic matching and motion estimation from two views of a multiplane scene

G. López-Nicolás, C. Sagüés, J.J. Guerrero

Probabilistic image-based tracking: improving particle filtering

Daniel  Rowe, Ignasi Rius, Jordi Gonzàlez, Xavi Roca, Juan J. Villanueva

A Functional simplification of the BCS/FCS image segmentation

Pablo Martinez, Miguel  Pinzolas, J. L.  Coronado, Daniel Garcia

Polygon optimisation for the modelling of planar range data

Samuel Nunes, Daniel Almeida, Eddy Loke, J. M. Hans du Buf

Stereo vision system with the grouping process of multiple reaction-diffusion models

Atsushi  Nomura, Makoto Ichikawa, Hidetoshi Miike

Registration of moving surfaces by means of one-shot laser projection

Carles Matabosch, David Fofi, Joaquim Salvi, Josep  Forest

A computer vision sensor for panoramic depth perception

Radu Orghidan, El Mustapha Mouaddib, Joaquim Salvi

Probabilistic object tracking based on machine learning and importance sampling

Peihua Li,Haijing Wang

A calibration algorithm for POX-slits camera

Nuno Martins, Hélder Araújo

Vision-based interface for integrated home entertainment system

Jae Sik Chang, Sang Ho Kim, Hang Joon Kim

A proposal for a homeostasis based adaptive vision system

Javier  Lorenzo, Daniel Hernández, Cayetano Guerra, J. Isern

Relaxed grey-world: computational colour constancy by surface matching

Francesc Tous, María Vanrell, Ramón Baldrich

A real-time driver visual attention monitoring system

Jorge P. Batista

An approach to vision-based person detection in robotic applications

Carlos Castillo, Carolina Chang

A new approach to the template update problem

Cayetano Guerra, Mario Hernández, A. Domínguez, D. Hernández

17:00        SESSION 10 - Medical Applications     (ORAL)

Automatic classification of breast tissue

Arnau Oliver, Jordi Freixenet, Anna  Bosch, David Raba, Reyer  Zwiggelaar

On reproducibility of ultrasound image classification

Martin Svec, Radim  Sára, Daniel Smutek

Prior based cardiac valve segmentation in echocardiographic sequences: geodesic active contour guided by region and shape prior

Yanfeng Shang, Xin Yang, Ming Zhu, Biao Jin, Ming Liu

10:15        SESSION 11 - Image & Video Processing     (POSTER)

A new fuzzy multi-channel filter for the reduction of impulse noise

Stefan Schulte, Valérie De Witte, Mike  Nachtegael, Dietrich Van der Weken, Etienne E. Kerre

Enhancement and cleaning of handwritten data by using neural networks

José Luis Hidalgo, Salvador España, Maria José Castro, Alberto José Pérez

Zerotree wavelet based image quilting for fast texture synthesis

Dhammike S. Wickramanayake, Eran A. Edirisinghe, Helmut E. Bez

Semantic feature extraction based on video abstraction and temporal modeling

Kisung  Lee

Video retrieval using an EDL-based timeline

José San Pedro, Nicolas  Denis, Sergio Domínguez

A new secret sharing scheme for images based on additive 2-dimensional cellular automata

Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón, Luis Hernández Encinas, Ángel Martín del Rey

A fast motion estimation algorithm based on diamond and triangle search patterns

Yun  Cheng, Zhiying  Wang, Kui  Dai, Jianjun Guo

A watermarking scheme  based on discrete non-separable wavelet transform

Jianwei Yang, Xinge You, Yuan Yan Tang, Bin Fang

A fast run-length algorithm for wavelet image coding with reduced memory usage

Jose Oliver, Manuel P. Malumbres

Contour-based image registration using mutual information

Nancy A. Álvarez, José M. Sanchiz, Jorge  Badenas, Filiberto Pla, Gustavo Casañ

Improving correspondence matching using label consistency constraints

Hongfang Wang, Edwin R. Hancock

The Euclidean distance transform applied to the FCC and BCC grids

Robin Strand

A global-to-local matching strategy for registering retinal fundus images

Xinge You, Bin Fang, Zhenyu He, Yuan Yan Tang

A model-based method for face shape recovery

William A. Smith, Edwin R. Hancock

Visual detection of hexagonal headed bolts using method of frames and matching pursuit

Pier Luigi Mazzeo, Ettore Stella, Nicola  Ancona, Arcangelo  Distante

A new region-based active contour for object extraction using level set method

Lishui Cheng, Jie  Yang, Xian Fan

Improving ASM search using mixture models for grey-level profiles

Yanong Zhu, Mark Fisher, Reyer Zwiggelaar

Human figure segmentation using independent components analysis

Grégory  Rogez, Carlos Orrite, Jesús Martínez-del-Rincón

Adaptive window growing technique for efficient image matching

Boguslaw Cyganek

Managing resolution in digital elevation models using image processing techniques

Rolando Quintero, Serguei Levachkine, Miguel Torres, Marco  Moreno, Giovanni Guzman

Object image retrieval by shape content in complex scenes using geometric constraints

Agnés Borràs, Josep Lladós

Appearance-based recognition of words in american sign language

Morteza Zahedi, Daniel  Keysers, Hermann Ney

Robust person-independent visual sign language recognition

Jörg Zieren, Karl-Friedrich Kraiss

Extracting motion features for visual human activity representation

Filiberto Pla, Pedro  Ribeiro, José Santos-Victor, Alexandre Bernardino

Modelling spatial correlation and image statistics for improved tracking of human gestures

Rik Bellens, Sidharta Gautama, Johan D'Haeyer

Fast and accurate hand pose detection for human-robot interaction

Luis Antón Canalís, Elena Sánchez Nielsen, Modesto Castrillón Santana

11:45        SESSION 12 - Statistical Pattern Recognition     (ORAL)

Testing some improvements of the Fukunaga and Narendra's fast nearest neighbour search algorithm in a spelling task

Eva Gómez-Ballester, Luisa  Micó, José Oncina

A stochastic approach to Wilson's editing algorithm

Fernando Vazquez, J. Salvador Sánchez, Filiberto Pla

Data characterization for effective prototype selection

Ramón A. Mollineda, J. Salvador Sánchez, José M. Sotoca

Phrase-based alignment models for statistical machine translation

Jesús Tomás, Jaime Lloret, Francisco Casacuberta

14:30        SESSION 13 - Computer Vision III     (ORAL)

Stereo reconstruction of a submerged scene

Ricardo Ferreira, João P. Costeira, João A. Santos

Dynamic texture recognition using normal flow and texture regularity

Renaud Péteri, Dmitry Chetverikov

The MORFO3D foot database

José  García-Hernández, Stella Heras, Alfons Juan, Roberto  Paredes, Beatriz  Nacher, Sandra Alemany, Enrique Alcántara, Juan Carlos González

15:30        SESSION 14 – Applications II     (POSTER)

Spontaneous handwriting text recognition and classification using finite-state models

Alejandro Héctor Toselli, Moisés Pastor, Alfons  Juan, Enrique Vidal

Combining global and local threshold to binarize document of images

Elise Gabarra, Antoine Tabbone

Extended bi-gram features in text categorization

Xian Zhang, Xiaoyan  Zhu

Combining fuzzy color clustering and morphological methods for old documents recovery

João Caldas Pinto, Lourenço Bandeira, João M.C. Sousa, Pedro  Pina

A new Algorithm for pattern optimization in protein-protein interaction extraction system

Yu Hao, Xiaoyan Zhu, Ming  Li

Support vector machines for HIV-1 protease cleavage site prediction

Loris Nanni, Alessandra Lumini

Medial grey-level based representation for proteins in volume images

Ida-Maria Sintorn, Magnus  Gedda, Susana  Mata,

Stina  Svensson

Bayesian reconstruction for transmission tomography with scale hyperparameter estimation

Antonio López, Rafael  Molina, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

Automatic segmentation and registration of lung surfaces in temporal chest CT scans

Helen Hong, Jeongjin  Lee, Yeni  Yim, Yeong Gil  Shin

Breast segmentation with pectoral muscle suppression on digital mammograms

David Raba, Arnau Oliver, Joan  Martí, Marta Peracaula, Joan  Espunya

Semivariogram and SGLDM methods:  comparison for the diagnosis of solitary lung  nodule

Aristófanes C.  Silva, Anselmo C. Paiva, Paulo C. P. Carvalho, Marcelo Gattass

Anisotropic 3D reconstruction and restoration for rotation-scanning 4D echocardiographic images based on MAP-MRF

Qiang Guo, Xin Yang, Min Zhu, Kun Sun

Comparison of feature extraction methods for breast cancer detection

Rafael Llobet, Roberto  Paredes, Juan C. Pérez-Cortés

A text categorization approach for music style recognition

Carlos Pérez-Sancho, José Manuel Iñesta, Jorge  Calera-Rubio

Fast surface grading using color statistics in the CIE Lab space

Fernando López, José Miguel Valiente, Ramón Baldrich, María Vanrell

Quantitative identification of marbles aestethical features

Roberto Bruno, Lorenza Cuoghi, Pascal  Laurenge

Leather inspection based on wavelets

João Luís Sobral

Multispectral image segmentation by energy minimization for fruit quality estimation

Adolfo Martínez-Usó, Filiberto  Pla, Pedro Garcia-Sevílla

Thresholding methods on MRI to evaluate intramuscular fat level on Iberian ham

Mar Ávila, Marisa Durán, Andres  Caro, Teresa  Antequera, Ramiro Gallardo

Automatic mask extraction for PIV-based dam-break analysis

Alberto Biancardi, Paolo Ghilardi, Matteo  Pagliardi

Analysis of  meso textures of geomaterials through Haralick parameters

Margarida Taborda Duarte, Joanne M. R. Fernlund

Decision fusion for target detection using multi-spectral image sequences from moving cameras

Luis López Gutiérrez, Leopoldo Altamirano Robles

Recognition of facial gestures based on support vector machines

Attila  Fazekas, István  Sánta

17:00        SESSION 15 - Image Processing     (ORAL)

Bayesian reconstruction of color images acquired with a single CCD

Miguel Vega, Rafael  Molina, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

Multiscale approach for thinning ridges of fingerprint

Xinge You, Bin Fang, Yuan Yan Tang, Jian Huang

Fast and exact algorithm for total variation minimization

Jérôme Darbon, Marc Sigelle