COST 2101/2102 Conference 2009: Madrid, Spain

Face Processing and Recognition

• Vitomir Struc, Nikola Pavesic:
  Illumination Invariant Face Recognition by Non-Local Smoothing. 1-8
  
• Abdenour Hadid, Matti Pietikäinen:
  Manifold Learning for Video-to-Video Face Recognition. 9-16
  
• Allen Rawls, Karl Ricanek:
  MORPH: Development and Optimization of a Longitudinal Age Progression Database. 17-24
  
• Andrzej Drygajlo, Weifeng Li, Kewei Zhu:
  Verification of Aging Faces Using Local Ternary Patterns and Q-Stack Classifier. 25-32
  

Voice Analysis and Modeling

• Piotr Staroniewicz:
  Recognition of Emotional State in Polish Speech - Comparison between Human and Automatic Efficiency. 33-40
  
• Anna Pribilová, Jiri Pribil:
  Harmonic Model for Female Voice Emotional Synthesis. 41-48
  
• Carlos Ortego-Resa, Ignacio Lopez-Moreno, Daniel Ramos, Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez:
  Anchor Model Fusion for Emotion Recognition in Speech. 49-56
  

Multimodal Interaction

• Jerneja Zganec-Gros, Ales Mihelic:
  Audiovisual Alignment in a Face-to-Face Conversation Translation Framework. 57-64
  
• Andrew Abel, Amir Hussain, Quoc Dinh Nguyen, Fabien Ringeval, Mohamed Chetouani, Maurice Milgram:
  Maximising Audiovisual Correlation with Automatic Lip Tracking and Vowel Based Segmentation. 65-72
  
• Anna Esposito, Domenico Carbone, Maria Teresa Riviello:
  Visual Context Effects on the Perception of Musical Emotional Expressions. 73-80
  
• Pascual Ejarque, Javier Hernando, David Hernando, David Gómez:
  Eigenfeatures and Supervectors in Feature and Score Fusion for SVM Face and Speaker Verification. 81-88
  

Face and Expression Recognition

• Marios Kyperountas, Ioannis Pitas:
  Facial Expression Recognition Using Two-Class Discriminant Features. 89-96
  
• David Freire, Luis Antón-Canalís, Modesto Castrillón Santana:
  A Study for the Self Similarity Smile Detection. 97-104
  
• Hatice Cinar Akakin, Bülent Sankur:
  Analysis of Head and Facial Gestures Using Facial Landmark Trajectories. 105-113
  
• Rok Gajsek, Vitomir Struc, Simon Dobrisek, Janez Zibert, France Mihelic, Nikola Pavesic:
  Combining Audio and Video for Detection of Spontaneous Emotions. 114-121
  
• Zahid Riaz, Christoph Mayer, Michael Beetz, Bernd Radig:
  Face Recognition Using Wireframe Model Across Facial Expressions. 122-129
  

Body and Gait Recognition

• Arabneydi Jalal, Moshiri Behzad, Bahrami Fariba:
  Modeling Gait Using CPG (Central Pattern Generator) and Neural Network. 130-137
  
• Nikolaos Gkalelis, Anastasios Tefas, Ioannis Pitas:
  Fusion of Movement Specific Human Identification Experts. 138-145
  
• Dimo Dimov, Nadezhda Zlateva, Alexander Marinov:
  CBIR over Multiple Projections of 3D Objects. 146-153
  
• Miriam Moreno-Moreno, Julian Fiérrez-Aguilar, Javier Ortega-Garcia:
  Biometrics beyond the Visible Spectrum: Imaging Technologies and Applications. 154-161
  

Poster Session

Voice Analysis and Speaker Verification

• Yousef Ajami Alotaibi, Amir Hussain:
  Formant Based Analysis of Spoken Arabic Vowels. 162-169
  
• Joshua Alewo Atah, W. Gareth J. Howells:
  Key Generation in a Voice Based Template Free Biometric Security System. 170-177
  

Fingerprint Biometrics

• Julien Bringer, Hervé Chabanne, Tom A. M. Kevenaar, Bruno Kindarji:
  Extending Match-On-Card to Local Biometric Identification. 178-186
  
• Andrés I. Ávila, Adrialy Muci:
  A New Fingerprint Matching Algorithm Based on Minimum Cost Function. 187-191
  

Handwriting Analysis and Signature Verification

• Dimo Dimov, Lasko Laskov:
  Invariant Fourier Descriptors Representation of Medieval Byzantine Neume Notation. 192-199
  
• Muzaffar Bashir, Jürgen Kempf:
  Bio-Inspired Reference Level Assigned DTW for Person Identification Using Handwritten Signatures. 200-206
  
• Desislava Dimitrova, Georgi Gluhchev:
  Pressure Evaluation in On-Line and Off-Line Signatures. 207-211
  

Multimodal Biometrics

• Chaw Chia, Nasser Sherkat, Lars Nolle:
  Confidence Partition and Hybrid Fusion in Multimodal Biometric Verification System. 212-219
  
• Tobias Scheidat, Michael Biermann, Jana Dittmann, Claus Vielhauer, Karl Kümmel:
  Multi-biometric Fusion for Driver Authentication on the Example of Speech and Face. 220-227
  
• K. R. Radhika, S. V. Sheela, M. K. Venkatesha, G. N. Sekhar:
  Multi-modal Authentication Using Continuous Dynamic Programming. 228-235
  

Biometric Systems and Knowledge Discovery

• Aythami Morales, Miguel Angel Ferrer-Ballester, Marcos Faúndez-Zanuy, Joan Fabregas, Guillermo Gonzalez, Javier Garrido, Ricardo Ribalda, Javier Ortega, Manuel Freire:
  Biometric System Verification Close to "Real World" Conditions. 236-243
  
• Marco Grassi:
  Developing HEO Human Emotions Ontology. 244-251
  
• Erik Cambria, Amir Hussain, Catherine Havasi, Chris Eckl:
  Common Sense Computing: From the Society of Mind to Digital Intuition and beyond. 252-259
  

Biometric Systems and Security

• Luis Terán, Andrzej Drygajlo:
  On Development of Inspection System for Biometric Passports Using Java. 260-267
  
• Olaf Henniger, Sascha Müller:
  Handwritten Signature On-Card Matching Performance Testing. 268-275
  
• Alper Kanak, Ibrahim Sogukpinar:
  Classification Based Revocable Biometric Identity Code Generation. 276-284
  
• Javier Galbally, Sara Carballo, Julian Fiérrez, Javier Ortega-Garcia:
  Vulnerability Assessment of Fingerprint Matching Based on Time Analysis. 285-292
  
• Yoshihiro Kojima, Rie Shigetomi, Manabu Inuma, Akira Otsuka, Hideki Imai:
  A Matching Algorithm Secure against the Wolf Attack in Biometric Authentication Systems. 293-300
  

Iris, Fingerprint and Hand Recognition

• Nima Tajbakhsh, Khashayar Misaghian, Naghmeh Mohammadi Bandari:
  A Region-Based Iris Feature Extraction Method Based on 2D-Wavelet Transform. 301-307
  
• Omer Saeed, Atif Bin Mansoor, M. Asif Afzal Butt:
  A Novel Contourlet Based Online Fingerprint Identification. 308-317
  
• Hyun-suk Lee, Hyun-ju Maeng, You-suk Bae:
  Fake Finger Detection Using the Fractional Fourier Transform. 318-324
  
• Javier Burgues, Julian Fiérrez, Daniel Ramos, Javier Ortega-Garcia:
  Comparison of Distance-Based Features for Hand Geometry Authentication. 325-332
  

Signature Verification

• Seiichiro Hangai, Tomoaki Sano, Takahiro Yoshida:
  A Comparison of Three Kinds of DP Matching Schemes in Verifying Segmental Signatures. 333-339
  
• Enrique Argones-Rúa, David Pérez-Piñar López, José Luis Alba-Castro:
  Ergodic HMM-UBM System for On-Line Signature Verification. 340-347
  
• Márjory Cristiany Da Costa Abreu, Michael C. Fairhurst:
  Improving Identity Prediction in Signature-based Unimodal Systems Using Soft Biometrics. 348-356