Program

Registration
August 16, 17:00-19:00
August 17, 8:30-17:00
August 18, 8:30-17:00

Oral presentations
25 minutes: 20 min. talk + 5 min. discussion
Available equipment: LCD projector, overhead projector,
PC with Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat installed

Poster presentations
Maximum poster size: 980mm (width) x 1300mm (height)

Wireless internet access will be provided at the workshop venue.

Note that this program is still subject to change.
It can be downloaded here as a
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(note that the order of presentation for the SSPR "Image analysis" session in the PDF file is incorrect; see below).
S+SSPR 2006
Joint International Workshops on
Structural, Syntactic and Statistical Pattern Recognition
Hong Kong, China, August 17-19, 2006
PROGRAM
August 17 August 18 August 19
09:00 Opening and welcome 09:00     09:00  
09:15   Facial image Character Invited talk IV
Invited talk I analysis I recognition Robert P.W. Duin
Thorsten Joachims        
        10:00 Coffee Break
10:15 Coffee Break 10:15 Coffee Break
10:30  
10:45     10:45 Recognition & Bayesian  
    classification networks    
Recognition & Image II   Special session on
classification analysis 11:35     graph-based methods
I   TC1 TC2    
    meeting meeting    
           
12:25 Lunch 12:25 Lunch 12:30 Lunch
14:00 Posters and coffee I 14:00 Posters and coffee II 14:00 Posters and coffee III
15:30   15:30   15:30   Similarity &
Invited talk II Invited talk III Clustering feature
B. John Oommen Tin Kam Ho   extraction
        Facial image  
16:30     16:30 Representation analysis II  
Image      
analysis Vision Feature selection 17:10 Closing
   
   
17:45     18:10    
       
18:30 Welcome reception 19:30 Banquet SPR SSPR
Legend
19:30 21:30
Invited talks
Thursday August 17 09:15 Thorsten Joachims (Cornell University, USA)    
  Structured output prediction with support vector machines  
Thursday August 17 15:30 B. John Oommen (Carleton University, Canada)    
  On the theory and applications of sequence based estimation of independent binomial random variables
Friday August 18 15:30 Tin Kam Ho (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA)    
  Symmetries from uniform space covering in stochastic discrimination  
Saturday August 19 09:00 Robert P.W. Duin (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)  
  Structural inference of sensor-based measurements    
SSPR
Image analysis
Thursday August 17, 10:45
10:45 Experiments on robust image registration using a Markov-Gibbs appearance model    
  Ayman El-Baz, Aly Farag, Georgy Gimel'farb
11:10 Fully automatic segmentation of coronary vessel structures in poor quality X-ray angiogram images
  Cemal Köse
11:35 Smoothing tensor-valued images using anisotropic geodesic diffusion
  Fan Zhang, Edwin R. Hancock
12:00 A multiphase level set evolution scheme for aerial image segmentation using multi-scale image geometric analysis
  Wang Wei, Yang Xin, Cao Guo
Vision
Thursday August 17, 16:30
16:30 Diffusion of geometric affinity for surface integration
  Roberto Fraile, Edwin R. Hancock
16:55 Comparative study of people detection in surveillance scenes
  A. Negre, H. Tran, N. Gourier, D. Hall, A. Lux, J.L. Crowley
17:20 A class of generalized median contour problem with exact solution
  Pakaket Wattuya, Xiaoyi Jiang
Character recognition
Friday August 18, 9:00
09:00 Structural and syntactic techniques for recognition of Ethiopic characters
  Yaregal Assabie, Josef Bigun
09:25 Context driven Chinese string segmentation and recognition
  Yan Jiang, Xiaoqing Ding, Qiang Fu, Zheng Ren
09:50 Support vector machines for mathematical symbol recognition
  Christopher Malon, Seiichi Uchida, Masakazu Suzuki
Bayesian networks
Friday August 18, 10:45
10:45 Bayesian class-matched multinet classifier
  Yaniv Gurwicz, Boaz Lerner
11:10 Bayesian network structure learning by recursive autonomy identification
  Raanan Yehezkel, Boaz Lerner
Graph-based methods
Saturday August 19, 10:30
10:30 Fast suboptimal algorithms for the computation of graph edit distance
  Michel Neuhaus, Kaspar Riesen, Horst Bunke
10:55 A spectral generative model for graph structure
  Bai Xiao, Edwin R. Hancock
11:20 Considerations regarding the minimum spanning tree pyramid segmentation method
  Adrian Ion, Walter G. Kropatsch, Yll Haxhimusa
Similarity & feature extraction
Saturday August 19, 15:30
15:30 A random walk kernel derived from graph edit distance
  Michel Neuhaus, Horst Bunke
15:55 Edit distance for ordered vector sets. A case of study
  Juan Ramón Rico-Juan, José M. Ińesta
16:20 Shape retrieval using normalized Fourier descriptors based signatures and cyclic dynamic time warping
  Andrés Marzal, Vicente Palazón, Guillermo Peris
SSPR Posters I
Thursday August 17, 14:00-15:30
Recognition & classification
Ubiquitous intelligent sensing system for a smart home
Jonghwa Choi, Dongkyoo Shin, Dongil Shin
Object recognition using multiresolution trees
Monica Bianchini, Marco Maggini, Lorenzo Sarti
A robust and hierarchical approach for camera motion classification
Yuliang Geng, De Xu, Songhe Feng, Jiazheng Yuan
Time series analysis of grey forecasting based on wavelet transform and its prediction applications
Haiyan Cen, Yidan Bao, Min Huang, Yong He
A study of touchless fingerprint recognition system
Chulhan Lee, Sanghoon Lee, Jaihie Kim
Development of a block-based real-time people counting system
Hyun Hee Park, Hyung Gu Lee, Seung-In Noh, Jaihie Kim
A classification approach for the heart sound signals using hidden Markov models
Yong-Joo Chung
Structure analysis based parking slot marking recognition for semi-automatic parking system
Ho Gi Jung, Dong Suk Kim, Pal Joo Yoon, Jaihie Kim
SSPR Posters II
Friday August 18, 14:00-15:30
Image & video
Watermarking for 3D CAD drawings based on three components
Ki-Ryong Kwon, Suk-Hwan Lee, Eung-Joo Lee, Seong-Geun Kwon
Hierarchical video summarization based on video structure and highlight
Yuliang Geng, De Xu, Songhe Feng
Direct curvature scale space in corner detection
Baojiang Zhong, Wenhe Liao
Vision
Aligning concave and convex shapes
Silke Jä