Pattern Recognition [electronic resource] : 25th DAGM Symposium, Magdeburg, Germany, September 10-12, 2003, Proceedings /

Image Analysis I -- Coherence-Enhancing Shock Filters -- Spherical Decision Surfaces Using Conformal Modelling -- Median Filtering of Tensor-Valued Images -- Edge and Junction Detection with an Improved Structure Tensor -- Invited Paper -- Who’s Who? Challenges in Biometric Authentication -- Image Analysis II -- Optimal Scale Selection for Circular Edge Extraction -- Localization of Piled Boxes by Means of the Hough Transform -- Image Analysis III -- Training and Recognition of Complex Scenes Using a Holistic Statistical Model -- Combining White-Patch Retinex and the Gray World Assumption to Achieve Color Constancy for Multiple Illuminants -- Postersession I -- Method of Creating of Functional Invariants under One-Parameter Geometric Image Transformations -- Gaze Detection System by Wide and Auto Pan/Tilt Narrow View Camera -- Distribution Distance Measures Applied to 3-D Object Recognition – A Case Study -- Classification with Controlled Robustness in High-Resolution SAR Data -- 3D Reconstruction of Human Skeleton from Single Images or Monocular Video Sequences -- Shape Preservation during Digitization: Tight Bounds Based on the Morphing Distance -- Evaluation of Uniform and Non-uniform Optical Flow Techniques Using Finite Element Methods -- Colour Image Analysis in 3D-Polar Coordinates -- Pixel Classification by Divergence-Based Integration of Multiple Texture Methods and Its Application to Fabric Defect Detection -- A Probabilistic Definition of Intrinsic Dimensionality for Images -- Learning Human-Like Opponent Behavior for Interactive Computer Games -- Rotationally Invariant Wavelet Shrinkage -- Hierarchical Method for Stereophotogrammetric Multi-object-position Measurement -- On Robust Regression in Photogrammetric Point Clouds -- A Visual Quality Inspection System Based on aHierarchical 3D Pose Estimation Algorithm -- Using an Active Shape Structural Model for Biometric Sketch Recognition -- Domain Decomposition for Parallel Variational Optical Flow Computation -- Fuzzy Modeling Based Recognition of Multi-font Numerals -- System Concept for Image Sequence Classification in Laser Welding -- 3D Parametric Intensity Models for the Localization of Different Types of 3D Anatomical Point Landmarks in Tomographic Images -- Comparing Clustering Methods for Database Categorization in Image Retrieval -- Locally Optimized RANSAC -- Invited Paper -- Splines and Wavelets: New Perspectives for Pattern Recognition -- Calibration and 3-D Shape -- Robust Camera Calibration from Images and Rotation Data -- FFT-Based Disparity Estimation for Stereo Image Coding -- Projective Reconstruction of Surfaces of Revolution -- Illumination Insensitive Template Matching with Hyperplanes -- Robust Orientation, Calibration, and Disparity Estimation of Image Triplets -- Recognition -- Fast Feature Selection in an HMM-Based Multiple Classifier System for Handwriting Recognition -- Empirical Analysis of Detection Cascades of Boosted Classifiers for Rapid Object Detection -- Local Representations for Multi-object Recognition -- Motion -- A Generative Model Based Approach to Motion Segmentation -- A New View at Differential and Tensor-Based Motion Estimation Schemes -- Real-Time Texture-Based 3-D Tracking -- Postersession II -- Hierarchy of Partitions with Dual Graph Contraction -- One-Class Classification with Subgaussians -- A Hybrid Distance Map Based and Morphologic Thinning Algorithm -- A Computational Model of Early Auditory-Visual Integration -- On the Relevance of Global Knowledge for Correlation-Based Seismic Image Interpretation -- Automatic Pixel Selection for Optimizing Facial Expression Recognition Using Eigenfaces -- Robust Image Sequence Mosaicing -- Gibbs Probability Distributions for Stereo Reconstruction -- Partial Optimal Labeling Search for a NP-Hard Subclass of (max,+) Problems -- Extraction of Orientation from Floor Structure for Odometry Correction in Mobile Robotics -- On Consistent Discrimination between Directed and Diffuse Outdoor Illumination -- Genetic Algorithm-Based Video Segmentation with Adaptive Population Size -- Component Fusion for Face Detection in the Presence of Heteroscedastic Noise -- Block Matching Integrating Intensity, Hue, and Range -- Geometric Segmentation and Object Recognition in Unordered and Incomplete Point Cloud -- Real-Time Inspection System for Printed Circuit Boards -- Real-Time System for Counting the Number of Passing People Using a Single Camera -- Multiple Classifier Systems for the Recognition of Orthoptera Songs -- A Region Based Seed Detection for Root Detection in Minirhizotron Images -- Image Retrieval Using Local Compact DCT-Based Representation -- Variance Component Estimation in Performance Characteristics Applied to Feature Extraction Procedures -- A New Distance Measure for Probabilistic Shape Modeling -- Generating Rotation-Invariant Texture Features by Randomization of Operator Orientation -- Biomedical Applications -- Estimation of Skill Levels in Sports Based on Hierarchical Spatio-Temporal Correspondences -- Determining Position and Fine Shape Detail in Radiological Anatomy -- Solutions for Model-Based Analysis of Human Gait -- Robust Hand–Eye Calibration of an Endoscopic Surgery Robot Using Dual Quaternions -- Pose Estimation -- Real-Time Recognition of 3D-Pointing Gestures for Human-Machine-Interaction -- Pose Estimation of Cylindrical Fragments for Semi-automatic Bone Fracture Reduction -- Pose Estimation ofFree-Form Surface Models -- Applications -- IR Pedestrian Detection for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems -- Color-Based Object Tracking in Multi-camera Environments -- Improving Children’s Speech Recognition by HMM Interpolation with an Adults’ Speech Recognizer -- Invited Paper -- Image Sequence Analysis in Environmental and Live Sciences.