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)

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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. Iñesta
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 Jänichen, Petra Perner
Research on iterative closest contour point for underwater terrain-aided navigation
Wang Kedong, Yan Lei, Deng Wei, Zhang Junhong
Image-based absolute positioning system for mobile robot navigation
JaeMu Yun, EunTae Lyu and JangMyung Lee
An evaluation of three popular computer vision approaches for 3-D face synthesis
Alexander Woodward, Da An, Yizhe Lin, Patrice Delmas, Georgy Gimel'farb, John Morris
Optical flow computation with fourth order partial differential equations
Xiaoxin Guo, Zhiwen Xu, Yueping Feng, Yunxiao Wang, Zhengxuan Wang
Document analysis
Finding captions in PDF-documents for semantic annotations of images
Gerd Maderlechner, Jiri Panyr, Peter Suda
Effective handwritten Hangul recognition method based on the hierarchical stroke model matching
Wontaek Seo, Beom-Joon Cho
SSPR Posters III
Saturday August 19, 14:00-15:30
Kernel-based methods
Transforming strings to vector spaces using prototype selection
Barbara Spillmann, Michel Neuhaus, Horst Bunke, Elzbieta Pekalska, Robert P.W. Duin
Shape categorization using string kernels
Mohammad Reza Daliri, Elisabetta Delponte, Alessandro Verri, Vincent Torre
Trace formula analysis of graphs
Bai Xiao, Edwin R. Hancock
A robust realtime surveillance system
Byung-Joo Kim, Chang-Bum Lee, Il-Kon Kim
Similarity & feature extraction
A fast and exact modulo-distance between histograms
Francesc Serratosa, Alberto Sanfeliu
Using learned conditional distributions as edit distance
Jose Oncina, Marc Sebban
An efficient distance between multi-dimensional histograms for comparing images
Francesc Serratosa, Gerard Sanromà
Graph-based methods
Graph Embedding using commute time
Huaijun Qiu, Edwin R. Hancock
Graph based multi-class semi-supervised learning using Gaussian process
Yangqiu Song, Changshui Zhang, Jianguo Lee
Point pattern matching via spectral geometry
Antonio Robles-Kelly, Edwin R. Hancock
Graph-based fast image segmentation
Dongfeng Han, Wenhui Li, Xiaosuo Lu, Lin Li, Yi Wang
Modeling of remote sensing image content using attributed relational graphs
Selim Aksoy
A graph-based method for detecting and classifying clusters in mammographic images
P. Foggia, M. Guerriero, G. Percannella, C. Sansone, F. Tufano, M. Vento
SPR
Recognition & classification I
Thursday August 17, 10:45
10:45 A speedup method for SVM decision
  Yongsheng Zhu, Junyan Yang, Jian Ye, Youyun Zhang
11:10 Generalization error of multinomial classifier
  Sarunas Raudys
11:35 Combining accuracy and prior sensitivity for classifier design under prior uncertainty
  Thomas Landgrebe, Robert P.W. Duin
12:00 Using co-training and self-training in semi-supervised multiple classifier systems
  Luca Didaci, Fabio Roli
Image analysis
Thursday August 17, 16:30
16:30 MRF based spatial complexity for hyperspectral imagery unmixing
  Sen Jia, Yuntao Qian
16:55 Effectiveness of spectral band selection/extraction techniques for spectral data
  Marina Skurichina, Sergey Verzakov, Pavel Paclík, Robert P.W. Duin
17:20 Edge detection in hyperspectral imaging: multivariate statistical approaches
  Sergey Verzakov, Pavel Paclík, Robert P.W. Duin
   
Facial image analysis I
Friday August 18, 9:00
09:00 Semi-supervised PCA-based face recognition using self-training
  Fabio Roli, Gian Luca Marcialis
09:25 Facial shadow removal
  William A.P. Smith, Edwin R. Hancock
09:50 A sequential Monte Carlo method for Bayesian face recognition
  Atsushi Matsui, Simon Clippingdale, Takashi Matsumoto
   
Recognition & classification II
Friday August 18, 10:45
10:45 Outlier detection using ball descriptions with adjustable metric
  David M.J. Tax, Piotr Juszczak, Elżbieta Pękalska, Robert P.W. Duin
11:10 HMM-based gait recognition with human profiles
  Heung-Il Suk, Bong-Kee Sin
Representation
Friday August 18, 16:30
16:30 Maxwell normal distribution in a manifold and Mahalanobis metric
  Yukihiko Yamashita, Mariko Numakami, Naoya Inoue
16:55 Augmented embedding of dissimilarity data into (pseudo-)Euclidean spaces
  Artsiom Harol, Elżbieta Pękalska, Sergey Verzakov, Robert P.W. Duin
Feature selection
Friday August 18, 17:20
17:20 Feature over-selection
  Sarunas Raudys
17:45 Flexible-hybrid sequential floating search in statistical feature selection
  Petr Somol, Jana Novovičová, Pavel Pudil
Clustering
Saturday August 19, 15:30
15:30 EM cluster analysis for categorical data
  Jiří Grim
15:55 Two entropy-based methods for learning unsupervised Gaussian mixture models
  Antonio Peñalver, Francisco Escolano, Juan M. Sáez
Facial image analysis II
Saturday August 19, 16:20
16:20 Maximum likelihood estimates for object detection using multiple detectors
  Magnus Oskarsson, Kalle Åström
16:45 Confidence based gating of multiple face authentication experts
  Mohammad T. Sadeghi, Josef Kittler
SPR Posters I
Thursday August 17, 14:00-15:30
Multiple classifier systems
Diversity analysis for ensembles of word sequence recognisers
Roman Bertolami, Horst Bunke
Adaptive classifier selection based on two level hypothesis tests for incremental learning
Haixia Chen, Senmiao Yuan, Kai Jiang
Combining SVM and graph matching in a Bayesian multiple classifier system for image content recognition
Bertrand Le Saux, Horst Bunke
AUC-based linear combination of dichotomizers
Claudio Marrocco, Mario Molinara, Francesco Tortorella
Recognition & classification
Confidence score based unsupervised incremental adaptation for OOV words detection
Wei Chu, Xi Xiao, Jia Liu
Polynomial network classifier with discriminative feature extraction
Cheng-Lin Liu
Semi-supervised classification with active query selection
Jiao Wang, Siwei Luo
Mono-font cursive Arabic text recognition using speech recognition system
Mohammad S. Khorsheed
From indefinite to positive semi-definite matrices
Alberto Muñoz, Isaac Martín de Diego
A multi-stage approach for anchor shot detection
L. D'Anna, G. Marrazzo, G. Percannella, C. Sansone, M. Vento
SPR Posters II
Friday August 18, 14:00-15:30
Dimensionality
On optimizing kernel-based Fisher discriminant analysis using prototype reduction schemes
Sang-Woon Kim, B. John Oommen
Sparse covariance estimates for high dimensional classification using the Cholesky decomposition
Asbjørn Berge, Anne Schistad Solberg
Generic blind source separation using second-order local statistics
Marco Loog
Hyperspectral data selection from mutual Information between image bands
José Martínez Sotoca, Filiberto Pla
Representation
Model selection using a class of kernels with an invariant metric
Akira Tanaka, Masashi Sugiyama, Hideyuki Imai, Mineichi Kudo, Masaaki Miyakoshi
Non-Euclidean or non-metric measures can be informative
Elżbieta Pękalska, Artsiom Harol, Robert P.W. Duin, Barbara Spillmann, Horst Bunke
Biometrics
Merging and arbitration strategy applied Bayesian classification for eye location
Eun Jin Koh, Phill Kyu Rhee
Recognizing face or object from a single image: linear vs. kernel methods on 2D patterns
Daoqiang Zhang, Songcan Chen, Zhi-Hua Zhou
A coupled statistical model for face shape recovery
Mario Castelán, William A.P. Smith, Edwin R. Hancock
Analysis and selection of features for the fingerprint vitality detection
Pietro Coli, Gian Luca Marcialis, Fabio Roli
Recognizing facial expressions with PCA and ICA onto dimension of the emotion
Young-suk Shin
Multiple classifier systems
Comparison of classifier fusion methods for classification in pattern recognition tasks
Francisco Moreno-Seco, José M. Iñesta, Pedro J. Ponce de León, Luisa Micó
Recognition & classification
On the use of different classification rules in an editing task
Luisa Micó, Francisco Moreno-Seco, José Salvador Sánchez, José Martinez Sotoca, Rámon Alberto Mollineda
SPR Posters III
Saturday August 19, 14:00-15:30
Unsupervised learning
An improved possibilistic C-means algorithm based on kernel methods
Xiao-Hong Wu, Jian-Jiang Zhou
Identifiability and estimation of probabilities from multiple databases with incomplete data and sampling selection
Jinzhu Jia, Zhi Geng, Mingfeng Wang
Unsupervised image segmentation using a hierarchical clustering selection process
Adolfo Martínez-Usó, Filiberto Pla, Pedro García-Sevilla
Application of a two-level self organizing map for Korean online game market segmentation
Sang-Chul Lee, Jae-Young Moon, Jae-Kyeong Kim, Yung-Ho Suh
Clustering based on compressed data for categorical and mixed attributes
Erendira Rendón, José Salvador Sánchez
Applications
An audio copyright protection schemes based on SMM in cepstrum domain
Shenghong Li, Lili Cui, Jonguk Choi, Xuenan Cui
Combining features to improve oil spill classification in SAR images
Darby F. de A. Lopes, Geraldo L.B. Ramalho, Fátima N.S. de Medeiros, Rodrigo C.S. Costa, Regia T.S. Araújo