Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 24
Volume 24, Number 1-3, January 2003
Theo Pavlidis: 36 years on the pattern recognition front: Lecture given at ICPR'2000 in Barcelona, Spain on the occasion of receiving the K.S. Fu prize. 1-7
Raúl Enrique Sánchez-Yáñez, Evguenii V. Kurmyshev, Francisco J. Cuevas: A framework for texture classification using the coordinated clusters representation. 21-31
Fred W. DePiero, David K. Krout: An algorithm using length-r paths to approximate subgraph isomorphism. 33-46
Francisco Moreno-Seco, Luisa Micó, José Oncina: A modification of the LAESA algorithm for approximated k-NN classification. 47-53
Anna Tonazzini, Luigi Bedini: Monte Carlo Markov chain techniques for unsupervised MRF-based image denoising. 55-64
Pasi Fränti, Mantao Xu, Ismo Kärkkäinen: Classification of binary vectors by using SC distance to minimize stochastic complexity. 65-73
Kok Seng Chua: Efficient computations for large least square support vector machine classifiers. 75-80
Madasu Hanmandlu, Devendra Jha, Rochak Sharma: Color image enhancement by fuzzy intensification. 81-87

Jong Bae Kim, Hang Joon Kim: Efficient region-based motion segmentation for a video monitoring system. 113-128
Edward Roy Davies: Truncating the Hough transform parameter space can be beneficial. 129-135
Harrie van Dijck, Ferdinand van der Heijden: Object recognition with stereo vision and geometric hashing. 137-146
Yue-Fei Guo, Shijin Li, Jing-Yu Yang, Ting-Ting Shu, Lide Wu: A generalized Foley-Sammon transform based on generalized fisher discriminant criterion and its application to face recognition. 147-158
Jie Wei: Robust recovery of multiple light source based on local light source constant constraint. 159-172
Carlos D. Martínez-Hinarejos, Alfons Juan, Francisco Casacuberta: Median strings for k-nearest neighbour classification. 173-181
Ying Ren, Chin-Seng Chua, Yeong-Khing Ho: Statistical background modeling for non-stationary camera. 183-196
Shaoning Pang, Daijin Kim, Sung Yang Bang: Membership authentication in the dynamic group by face classification using SVM ensemble. 215-225
Dorin Comaniciu, Peter Meer, David E. Tyler: Dissimilarity computation through low rank corrections. 227-236
Lixin Fan, Kah Kay Sung: Model-based varying pose face detection and facial feature registration in colour images. 237-249
U. Pal, Abdel Belaïd, Christophe Choisy: Touching numeral segmentation using water reservoir concept. 261-272
Yoganand Balagurunathan, Edward R. Dougherty: Granulometric parametric estimation for the random Boolean model using optimal linear filters and optimal structuring elements. 283-293
Jacinto C. Nascimento, Arnaldo J. Abrantes, Jorge S. Marques: Using middle level features for robust shape tracking. 295-307
Yaming Wang, George Baciu: Human motion estimation from monocular image sequence based on cross-entropy regularization. 315-325
Faysal Boughorbel, Paul Crilly, Andreas Koschan, Mongi A. Abidi: Estimating 3D camera motion without correspondences using a search for the best structure. 327-337
Ercan E. Kuruoglu, Josiane Zerubia: Skewed alpha-stable distributions for modelling textures. 339-348
Chang-Chou Lin, Wen-Hsiang Tsai: Visual cryptography for gray-level images by dithering techniques. 349-358
Sang-Bong Oh: On the relationship between majority vote accuracy and dependency in multiple classifier systems. 359-363
Sonny Novianto, Yukinori Suzuki, Junji Maeda: Near optimum estimation of local fractal dimension for image segmentation. 365-374
Xavier Muñoz, Jordi Freixenet, Xavier Cufí, Joan Martí: Strategies for image segmentation combining region and boundary information. 375-392
Yong Huang, Kap Luk Chan, Zhihua Zhang: Texture classification by multi-model feature integration using Bayesian networks. 393-401
E. R. Davies, Michael Bateman, D. R. Mason, J. Chambers, C. Ridgway: Design of efficient line segment detectors for cereal grain inspection. 413-428
Terence M. Cronin: Visualizing concave and convex partitioning of 2D contours. 429-443
Nitesh V. Chawla, Thomas E. Moore, Lawrence O. Hall, Kevin W. Bowyer, W. Philip Kegelmeyer, Clayton Springer: Distributed learning with bagging-like performance. 455-471
Jong Bae Kim, Hang Joon Kim: Multiresolution-based watersheds for efficient image segmentation. 473-488
Delie Ming, Jian Liu, Jin-Wen Tian: Research on Chinese financial invoice recognition technology. 489-497
Baofeng Guo, Kin-Man Lam, Kwan-Ho Lin, Wan-Chi Siu: Human face recognition based on spatially weighted Hausdorff distance. 499-507
Yi-Chung Hu, Ruey-Shun Chen, Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng: Finding fuzzy classification rules using data mining techniques. 509-519
Luis Carlos Altamirano, Leopoldo Altamirano Robles, Matías Alvarado: Non-uniform sampling for improved appearance-based model. 521-535
Ye-In Chang, Bi-Yen Yang, Wei-Horng Yeh: A bit-pattern-based matrix strategy for efficient iconic indexing of symbolic pictures. 537-545
Valérie Kaftandjian, Olivier Dupuis, Daniel Babot, Yue Min Zhu: Uncertainty modelling using Dempster-Shafer theory for improving detection of weld defects. 547-564
Ji-Hwei Horng: An adaptive smoothing approach for fitting digital planar curves with line segments and circular arcs. 565-577
Javier Toro, Frank Owens, Rubén Medina: Using known motion fields for image separation in transparency. 597-605
Yasmina Bouaoune, M. K. Assogba, Jean Claude Nunes, Philippe Bunel: Spatio-temporal characterization of vessel segments applied to retinal angiographic images. 607-615
Tamer Ölmez, Zümray Dokur: Classification of heart sounds using an artificial neural network. 617-629
Eva Cernadas, Maria Luisa Durán, Teresa Antequera, Antonio J. Plaza: Corrigendum to "Recognizing marbling in dry-cured Iberian ham by multiscale analysis" [Pattern Recognition Letters 23 (2002) 1311-1321]. 631
Volume 24, Number 4-5, February 2003

Frederic L. Lizzi, Ernest J. Feleppa, S. Kaisar Alam, Cheri X. Deng: Ultrasonic spectrum analysis for tissue evaluation. 637-658
Johan M. Thijssen: Ultrasonic speckle formation, analysis and processing applied to tissue characterization. 659-675
Yan Chen, Ruming Yin, Patrick J. Flynn, Shira L. Broschat: Aggressive region growing for speckle reduction in ultrasound images. 677-691
Chung-Ming Chen, Henry Horng-Shing Lu, Yao-Lin Chen: A discrete region competition approach incorporating weak edge enhancement for ultrasound image segmentation. 693-704
Richard W. Prager, Andrew H. Gee, Graham M. Treece, Laurence H. Berman: Decompression and speckle detection for ultrasound images using the homodyned k-distribution. 705-713
Constantine Kotropoulos, Ioannis Pitas: Segmentation of ultrasonic images using Support Vector Machines. 715-727
Georgia Georgiou, Fernand S. Cohen: Is early detection of liver and breast cancers from ultrasound scans possible? 729-739
M. Alper Kutay, Athina P. Petropulu, Catherine W. Piccoli: Breast tissue characterization based on modeling of ultrasonic echoes using the power-law shot noise model. 741-756
Andrew H. Gee, Richard W. Prager, Graham M. Treece, Laurence H. Berman: Engineering a freehand 3D ultrasound system. 757-777
Djamal Boukerroui, Atilla Baskurt, J. Alison Noble, Olivier Basset: Segmentation of ultrasound images--multiresolution 2D and 3D algorithm based on global and local statistics. 779-790
João M. Sanches, Jorge S. Marques: Joint image registration and volume reconstruction for 3D ultrasound. 791-800
Xavier Pennec, Pascal Cachier, Nicholas Ayache: Tracking brain deformations in time sequences of 3D US images. 801-813
Johan Montagnat, Maxime Sermesant, Hervé Delingette, Grégoire Malandain, Nicholas Ayache: Anisotropic filtering for model-based segmentation of 4D cylindrical echocardiographic images. 815-828
Volume 24, Number 6, March 2003

Roman W. Swiniarski, Andrzej Skowron: Rough set methods in feature selection and recognition. 833-849
V. S. Ananthanarayana, M. Narasimha Murty, D. K. Subramanian: Tree structure for efficient data mining using rough sets. 851-862
Pabitra Mitra, Sankar K. Pal, Md Aleemuddin Siddiqi: Non-convex clustering using expectation maximization algorithm with rough set initialization. 863-873
D. Vijay Rao, V. V. S. Sarma: A rough-fuzzy approach for retrieval of candidate components for software reuse. 875-886
Ning Zhong, Juzhen Dong, Setsuo Ohsuga: Meningitis data mining by cooperatively using GDT-RS and RSBR. 887-894
Amitava Roy, Sankar K. Pal: Fuzzy discretization of feature space for a rough set classifier. 895-902
Jerzy W. Grzymala-Busse, Linda K. Goodwin, Xiaohui Zhang: Increasing sensitivity of preterm birth by changing rule strengths. 903-910
James F. Peters, Zbigniew Suraj, S. Shan, Sheela Ramanna, Witold Pedrycz, Nicolino J. Pizzi: Classification of meteorological volumetric radar data using rough set methods. 911-920
Andrzej Czyzewski: Automatic identification of sound source position employing neural networks and rough sets. 921-933
Volume 24, Number 7, April 2003
Díbio Leandro Borges: Preface. 935-936
Marcel Brun, Edward R. Dougherty, Roberto Hirata Jr., Junior Barrera: Design of optimal binary filters under joint multiresolution-envelope constraint. 937-945
Silvio Jamil Ferzoli Guimarães, Michel Couprie, Arnaldo de Albuquerque Araújo, Neucimar Jerônimo Leite: Video segmentation based on 2D image analysis. 947-957
Azza Ouled Zaid, Christian Olivier, Olivier Alata, François Marmoiton: Transform image coding with global thresholding: Application to baseline JPEG. 959-964
Cláudio Rosito Jung, Jacob Scharcanski: Adaptive image denoising and edge enhancement in scale-space using the wavelet transform. 965-971
Cristiane Bastos Rocha Ferreira, Díbio Leandro Borges: Analysis of mammogram classification using a wavelet transform decomposition. 973-982
Herman Martins Gomes, Robert B. Fisher: Primal sketch feature extraction from a log-polar image. 983-992
Gilson A. Giraldi, Edilberto Strauss, Antonio A. F. Oliveira: Dual-T-Snakes model for medical imaging segmentation. 993-1003
Andrea Gomes Campos Bianchi, Marinilce F. Dos Santos, Dânia E. Hamassaki Britto, Luciano da Fontoura Costa: Inferring shape evolution. 1005-1014
José Salvador Sánchez, Ricardo Barandela, A. I. Marqués, Roberto Alejo, Jorge Badenas: Analysis of new techniques to obtain quality training sets. 1015-1022
Luiz E. Soares de Oliveira, Robert Sabourin, Flávio Bortolozzi, Ching Y. Suen: Impacts of verification on a numeral string recognition system. 1023-1031
Volume 24, Number 8, May 2003

Jean-Michel Jolion: Stochastic pyramid revisited. 1035-1042
Paul Kammerer, Roland Glantz: Segmentation of brush strokes by saliency preserving dual graph contraction. 1043-1050
Laurent Guigues, Hervé Le Men, Jean Pierre Cocquerez: The hierarchy of the cocoons of a graph and its application to image segmentation. 1059-1066
Massimo De Santo, Pasquale Foggia, Carlo Sansone, Mario Vento: A large database of graphs and its use for benchmarking graph isomorphism algorithms. 1067-1079
Markus Hagenbuchner, Marco Gori, Horst Bunke, Ah Chung Tsoi, Christophe Irniger: Using attributed plex grammars for the generation of image and graph databases. 1081-1087
Andrea Torsello, Edwin R. Hancock: Computing approximate tree edit distance using relaxation labeling. 1089-1097

Ciro de Mauro, Michelangelo Diligenti, Marco Gori, Marco Maggini: Similarity learning for graph-based image representations. 1115-1122
Volume 24, Number 9-10, June 2003
In Su Chang, Rae-Hong Park: Range image reconstruction based on robust multiresolution estimation of surface parameters. 1123-1131
M. C. Aranda-Garrido, Joaquín Fernández-Valdivia, Jose A. García: Defining a target distinctness measure through a single-channel computational model of vision. 1133-1142
Qiuming Luo, Jingli Zhou, Shengsheng Yu, Degui Xiao: Stereo matching and occlusion detection with integrity and illusion sensitivity. 1143-1149
Hakan Altinçay, Mübeccel Demirekler: Undesirable effects of output normalization in multiple classifier systems. 1163-1170
Gui Yun Tian, Duke Gledhill, David Taylor: Comprehensive interest points based imaging mosaic. 1171-1179
Haikel Salem Alhichri, Mohamed Kamel: Virtual circles: a new set of features for fast image registration. 1181-1190
Olivier Alata, Christian Olivier: Choice of a 2-D causal autoregressive texture model using information criteria. 1191-1201
Mineichi Kudo, Naoto Masuyama, Jun Toyama, Masaru Shimbo: Simple termination conditions for k-nearest neighbor method. 1203-1213
Ming Dong, Ravi Kothari: Feature subset selection using a new definition of classifiability. 1215-1225
Jean-Charles Noyer, Christophe Boucher, Mohammed Benjelloun: 3D particle tracking using an active vision. 1227-1240
Enver Sangineto: An abstract representation of geometric knowledge for object classification. 1241-1250
H. Isil Bozma, G. Çaklroglu, Çagatay Soyer: Biologically inspired Cartesian and non-Cartesian filters for attentional sequences. 1261-1274
Yen-Hsiang Fang, Hong-Long Chou, Zen Chen: 3D shape recovery of complex objects from multiple silhouette images. 1279-1293
Xue-wen Chen, Thomas S. Huang: Facial expression recognition: A clustering-based approach. 1295-1302
Jong Bae Kim, Hang Joon Kim: Region removal and restoration using a genetic algorithm with isophote constraint. 1303-1316
Aistis Raudys: High speed associative memories for feature extraction and visualisation. 1317-1329
Ahmed El Oirrak, Mohamed Daoudi, Driss Aboutajdine: Affine invariant descriptors for color images using Fourier series. 1339-1348
Yuliang He, Jie Tian, Xiping Luo, Tanghui Zhang: Image enhancement and minutiae matching in fingerprint verification. 1349-1360
Hamed Shah-Hosseini, Reza Safabakhsh: A TASOM-based algorithm for active contour modeling. 1361-1373
Thomas M. Breuel: On the use of interval arithmetic in geometric branch and bound algorithms. 1375-1384
Hyun-Chul Kim, Daijin Kim, Sung Yang Bang: An efficient model order selection for PCA mixture model. 1385-1393
Manuele Bicego, Vittorio Murino, Mário A. T. Figueiredo: A sequential pruning strategy for the selection of the number of states in hidden Markov models. 1395-1407
Ze Wang, Yin Lee, Simone Fiori, Andrew Chi-Sing Leung, Yi-Sheng Zhu: An improved sequential method for principal component analysis. 1409-1415
Juan Ramón Rico-Juan, Luisa Micó: Comparison of AESA and LAESA search algorithms using string and tree-edit-distances. 1417-1426
Filareti Tsalakanidou, Dimitrios Tzovaras, Michael G. Strintzis: Use of depth and colour eigenfaces for face recognition. 1427-1435
Wim D'haes, Dirk Van Dyck, Xavier Rodet: PCA-based branch and bound search algorithms for computing K nearest neighbors. 1437-1451
Huiyu Zhou, Andrew M. Wallace, Patrick R. Green: A multistage filtering technique to detect hazards on the ground plane. 1453-1461
Guangming Lu, David Zhang, Kuanquan Wang: Palmprint recognition using eigenpalms features. 1463-1467
Jose A. García, Rosa Rodriguez-Sánchez, Joaquín Fernández-Valdivia, Javier Martinez-Baena: Rate control optimization in embedded wavelet coding. 1469-1487
Hamid Zouaki: Representation and geometric computation using the extended Gaussian image. 1489-1501
Raúl Enrique Sánchez-Yáñez, Evguenii V. Kurmyshev, Antonio Fernández: One-class texture classifier in the CCR feature space. 1503-1511
Xu-Dong Zhang, Tie-Yan Liu, Kwok-Tung Lo, Jian Feng: Dynamic selection and effective compression of key frames for video abstraction. 1523-1532
Norberto Malpica, Juan E. Ortuño, Andrés Santos: A multichannel watershed-based algorithm for supervised texture segmentation. 1545-1554
David J. Hand, Veronica Vinciotti: Choosing k for two-class nearest neighbour classifiers with unbalanced classes. 1555-1562
Richard J. Hathaway, James C. Bezdek: Visual cluster validity for prototype generator clustering models. 1563-1569
Chao-Shih Huang, Hsiao-Chuan Wang: Bandwidth-adjusted LPC analysis for robust speech recognition. 1583-1587
A. B. Orun, A. Alkis: Material identification by surface reflection analysis in combination with bundle adjustment technique. 1589-1598
David Guillamet, Jordi Vitrià: Evaluation of distance metrics for recognition based on non-negative matrix factorization. 1599-1605
Da-Chun Wu, Wen-Hsiang Tsai: A steganographic method for images by pixel-value differencing. 1613-1626
Nafiz Arica, Fatos T. Yarman-Vural: BAS: a perceptual shape descriptor based on the beam angle statistics. 1627-1639
Volume 24, Number 11, July 2003

Jan-Mark Geusebroek, Rein van den Boomgaard, Arnold W. M. Smeulders, Theo Gevers: Color constancy from physical principles. 1653-1662
Alessandro Rizzi, Carlo Gatta, Daniele Marini: A new algorithm for unsupervised global and local color correction. 1663-1677
Graham D. Finlayson, Ruixia Xu: Illuminant and gamma comprehensive normalisation in logRGB space. 1679-169
Alejandro Ribés, Francis Schmitt: A fully automatic method for the reconstruction of spectral reflectance curves by using mixture density networks. 1691-1701
Moritz Störring, Tomá Koka, Hans Jørgen Andersen, Erik Granum: Tracking regions of human skin through illumination changes. 1715-1723
Mituo Kobayasi, Taizo Muroya: A spatial wave-length analysis of coarseness or fineness of color variation in painting arts. 1737-1749
Andreas Koschan, SangKyu Kang, Joon Ki Paik, Besma R. Abidi, Mongi A. Abidi: Color active shape models for tracking non-rigid objects. 1751-1765
Bogdan Smolka, K. Czubin, Jon Yngve Hardeberg, Kostas N. Plataniotis, Marek Szczepanski, Konrad W. Wojciechowski: Towards automatic redeye effect removal. 1767-1785
Dimitri Van De Ville, Wilfried Philips, Ignace Lemahieu, Rik Van de Walle: Suppression of sampling moire in color printing by spline-based least-squares prefiltering. 1787-1794
Volume 24, Number 12, August 2003
Giorgio Giacinto, Fabio Roli, Luca Didaci: Fusion of multiple classifiers for intrusion detection in computer networks. 1795-1803
Jianwei Yang, Lifeng Liu, Tianzi Jiang, Yong Fan: A modified Gabor filter design method for fingerprint image enhancement. 1805-1817

Yisong Chen, Guoping Wang, Shihai Dong: Learning with progressive transductive support vector machine. 1845-1855
Chiunhsiun Lin, Kuo-Chin Fan: Pose classification of human faces by weighting mask function approach. 1857-1869
Yang Cao, Shuhua Wang, Heng Li: Skew detection and correction in document images bsed on straight-line fitting. 1871-1879
Ronald Marsh: FractalNet: A biologically inspired neural network approach to fractal geometry. 1881-1887
Rastislav Lukac: Adaptive vector median filtering. 1889-1899
Asish Mukhopadhyay: Using simplicial partitions to determine a closest point to a query line. 1915-1920
Xue-wen Chen: An improved branch and bound algorithm for feature selection. 1925-1933
Xuelong Li: Image retrieval based on perceptive weighted color blocks. 1935-1941
Alain Clément, Bertrand Vigouroux: Unsupervised segmentation of scenes containing vegetation (Forsythia) and soil by hierarchical analysis of bi-dimensional histograms. 1951-1957
Xiaofan Lin, Sherif M. Yacoub, John Burns, Steven J. Simske: Performance analysis of pattern classifier combination by plurality voting. 1959-1969
Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed, P. Dubois, Eric Duquenoy: Analysis methods of CT-scan images for the characterization of the bone texture: First results. 1971-1982
Fionn Murtagh, Jean-Luc Starck: Quantization from Bayes factors with application to multilevel thresholding. 2001-2007
Joni-Kristian Kamarainen, Ville Kyrki, Jarmo Ilonen, Heikki Kälviäinen: Improving similarity measures of histograms using smoothing projections. 2009-2019
Richard H. Glendinning, R. A. Herbert: Shape classification using smooth principal components. 2021-2030
Jacques Brochard, Majdi Khoudeir: Estimation of movement parameters of 3D textured surfaces using the autocorrelation function. 2031-2045
Shen-Chi Tien, Tsorng-Lin Chia, Yibin Lu: Using cross-ratios to model curve data for aircraft recognition. 2047-2060
Ramchandra Manthalkar, Prabir K. Biswas, Biswanath N. Chatterji: Rotation invariant texture classification using even symmetric Gabor filters. 2061-2068
José Elías Herrero Jaraba, Carlos Orrite-Uruñuela, Jesús Senar: Detected motion classification with a double-background and a Neighborhood-based difference. 2079-2092
Daekeun You, Gyeonghwan Kim: An efficient approach for slant correction of handwritten Korean strings based on structural properties. 2093-2101
Volume 24, Number 13, September 2003




Kenneth Nilsson, Josef Bigün: Localization of corresponding points in fingerprints by complex filtering. 2135-2144
Cenker Öden, Aytül Erçil, Burak Büke: Combining implicit polynomials and geometric features for hand recognition. 2145-2152
Oscar Déniz, Modesto Castrillón Santana, Mario Hernández: Face recognition using independent component analysis and support vector machines. 2153-2157
Carlos E. Thomaz, Duncan Fyfe Gillies, Raul Queiroz Feitosa: Using mixture covariance matrices to improve face and facial expression recognitions. 2159-2165
Robert I. Damper, Jonathan E. Higgins: Improving speaker identification in noise by subband processing and decision fusion. 2167-2173
James B. Hayfron-Acquah, Mark S. Nixon, John N. Carter: Automatic gait recognition by symmetry analysis. 2175-2183
Volume 24, Number 14, October 2003
Yan Zhang: Experimental comparison of superquadric fitting objective functions. 2185-2193
János Abonyi, Ferenc Szeifert: Supervised fuzzy clustering for the identification of fuzzy classifiers. 2195-2207
Chi-Chun Lo, Shuenn-Jyi Wang: A histogram-based moment-preserving clustering algorithm for video segmentation. 2209-2218
Alexander V. Tuzikov, Olivier Colliot, Isabelle Bloch: Evaluation of the symmetry plane in 3D MR brain images. 2219-2233
Mohammad S. Khorsheed: Recognising handwritten Arabic manuscripts using a single hidden Markov model. 2235-2242
Alexander Kolesnikov, Pasi Fränti: Reduced-search dynamic programming for approximation of polygonal curves. 2243-2254
Hsin-Chih Lin, Chih-Yi Chiu, Shi-Nine Yang: Finding textures by textual descriptions, visual examples, and relevance feedbacks. 2255-2267
Lance M. Kaplan, Romain Murenzi: Pose estimation of SAR imagery using the two dimensional continuous wavelet transform. 2269-2280
Jacek Leski: Ho-Kashyap classifier with generalization control. 2281-2290
Jong Woung Park, Joon Woong Lee, Kyung Young Jhang: A lane-curve detection based on an LCF. 2301-2313
Yue Lu, Chew Lim Tan: A nearest-neighbor chain based approach to skew estimation in document images. 2315-2323
K. C. Lo, Y. H. Chan, M. P. Yu: Colour quantization by three-dimensional frequency diffusion. 2325-2334
Zhiyong Liu, Kai Chun Chiu, Lei Xu: Strip line detection and thinning by RPCL-based local PCA. 2335-2344
Paul L. Rosin, Efstathios V. Ioannidis: Evaluation of global image thresholding for change detection. 2345-2356
Benjamin Bustos, Gonzalo Navarro, Edgar Chávez: Pivot selection techniques for proximity searching in metric spaces. 2357-2366
M. Victoria Ibáñez, Amelia Simó: Parameter estimation in Markov random field image modeling with imperfect observations. A comparative study. 2377-2389
D. S. Guru, P. Punitha, P. Nagabhushan: Archival and retrieval of symbolic images: An invariant scheme based on triangular spatial relationship. 2397-2408
Conrad Sanderson, Kuldip K. Paliwal: Fast features for face authentication under illumination direction changes. 2409-2419
Dae-Hyun Kim, Yong-In Yoon, Jong-Soo Choi: An efficient method to build panoramic image mosaics. 2421-2429
Xuelong Li: Watermarking in secure image retrieval. 2431-2434
Edouard Duchesnay, Jean-Jacques Montois, Yann Jacquelet: Cooperative agents society organized as an irregular pyramid: A mammography segmentation application. 2435-2445
David Guillamet, Jordi Vitrià, Bernt Schiele: Introducing a weighted non-negative matrix factorization for image classification. 2447-2454
Ramchandra Manthalkar, Prabir K. Biswas, Biswanath N. Chatterji: Rotation and scale invariant texture features using discrete wavelet packet transform. 2455-2462
Peter J. Yim, Mark Kayton, Walter Miller, Steven K. Libutti, Peter L. Choyke: Automated detection of blood vessels using dynamic programming. 2471-2478
Lijuan Cao, Heow Pueh Lee, Wai Keong Chong: Modified support vector novelty detector using training data with outliers. 2479-2487
Jeff P. Foster, Mark S. Nixon, Adam Prügel-Bennett: Automatic gait recognition using area-based metric. 2489-2497
Xiangdong Zhou, Qi Zhang, Li Liu, Liang Zhang, Baile Shi: An image retrieval method based on analysis of feedback sequence log. 2499-2508
Volume 24, Number 15, November 2003

Jorge Igual, Andrés Camacho, Pablo Bernabeu, Luis Vergara: A maximum a posteriori estimate for the source separation problem with statistical knowledge about the mixing matrix. 2519-2523
Du-Ming Tsai, Chien-Ta Lin, Jeng-Fung Chen: The evaluation of normalized cross correlations for defect detection. 2525-2535
Vladimir B. Berikov, Alexander Litvinenko: The influence of prior knowledge on the expected performance of a classifier. 2537-2548
Jing-Hao Xue, Aleksandra Pizurica, Wilfried Philips, Etienne E. Kerre, Rik Van de Walle, Ignace Lemahieu: An integrated method of adaptive enhancement for unsupervised segmentation of MRI brain images. 2549-2560
Dae-Won Kim, Kwang Hyung Lee, Doheon Lee: Fuzzy cluster validation index based on inter-cluster proximity. 2561-2574
Gonzalo Pajares, Jesús Manuel de la Cruz: Stereovision matching through support vector machine. 2575-2583
Biswajit Sarkar, Lokendra Kumar Singh, Debranjan Sarkar: Approximation of digital curves with line segments and circular arcs using genetic algorithms. 2585-2595
András Hajdu: Geometry of neighbourhood sequences. 2597-2606
Chang-Woo Lee, Keechul Jung, Hang Joon Kim: Automatic text detection and removal in video sequences. 2607-2623
Md. Khayrul Bashar, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Noboru Ohnishi: Wavelet transform-based locally orderless images for texture segmentation. 2633-2650
Marius C. Codrea, Tero Aittokallio, Mika Keränen, Esa Tyystjärvi, Olli Nevalainen: Feature learning with a genetic algorithm for fluorescence fingerprinting of plant species. 2663-2673
L. Irene Cheng, Anup Basu: QoS based video delivery with foveation and bandwidth monitoring. 2675-2686
Xiao-Yuan Jing, David Zhang, Yong-Fang Yao: Improvements on the linear discrimination technique with application to face recognition. 2695-2701
Jiali Zhao, Yong Su, Dejun Wang, Siwei Luo: Illumination ratio image: synthesizing and recognition with varying illuminations. 2703-2710
Jun Li, Fahima Nekka: The Hausdorff measure functions: A new way to characterize fractal sets. 2723-2730
Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed, A. Bigand: Telemedicine and fuzzy logic: application in ophthalmology. 2731-2742
Marco Bressan, Jordi Vitrià: Nonparametric discriminant analysis and nearest neighbor classification. 2743-2749
Lihua Yang, Zhihua Yang, Xingming Sun: Construction of wavelets for width-invariant characterization of curves. 2751-2760
Paul L. Rosin: Comments on "ground from figure discrimination". 2761-2766
JiaYong Yan, TianGe Zhuang: Applying improved fast marching method to endocardial boundary detection in echocardiographic images. 2777-2784
Chi-Hao Yeh: Wavelet-based corner detection using eigenvectors of covariance matrices. 2797-2806
Yau-Tarng Juang, Kuo-Chang Huang, Ing-Jr Ding: Speaker adaptation based on MAP estimation using fuzzy controller. 2807-2813
Leonid Gelman, Michael Sanderson, Christopher Thompson: Signal recognition: Fourier transform vs. Cosine transform. 2823-2827
Franz Pernkopf, Paul O'Leary: Floating search algorithm for structure learning of Bayesian network classifiers. 2839-2848
Rene Reynaga, Eligio Amthauer: Two-dimensional cellular automata of radius one for density classification task p=1/2. 2849-2856
Ernest Valveny, Enric Martí: A model for image generation and symbol recognition through the deformation of lineal shapes. 2857-2867
Biswajit Sarkar, Sanghamitra Roy, Debranjan Sarkar: Hierarchical representation of digitized curves through dominant point detection. 2869-2882
Yiu-ming Cheung: k*-Means: A new generalized k-means clustering algorithm. 2883-2893
Michael Cowling, Renate Sitte: Comparison of techniques for environmental sound recognition. 2895-2907
Volume 24, Number 16, December 2003
Zhanyi Hu, Fuchao Wu, Guanghui Wang: The impossibility of affine reconstruction from perspective image pairs obtained by a translating camera with varying parameters. 2909-2911
Daniel Keren: Recognizing image "style" and activities in video using local features and naive Bayes. 2913-2922
Chengxin Yan, Nong Sang, Tianxu Zhang: Local entropy-based transition region extraction and thresholding. 2935-2941
Hao Feng, Chan Choong Wah: Online signature verification using a new extreme points warping technique. 2943-2951
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