Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications

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\{The 18th Congress has been reviewed [[msn] MR3160156 [/msn]; [msn] MR3160282 [/msn]].\} \par Papers in this collection include the following: Carlos A.\ Coello-Coello, An introduction to evolutionary multi-objective optimization with some applications in pattern recognition (1--13); Saúl Martínez-Díaz and Saúl Martínez-Chavelas, Rotation-invariant nonlinear filters design (14--21); Kálmán\ Palágyi, Topology-preserving general operators in arbitrary binary pictures (22--29); Jose Bernal, Maria Trujillo and Ivan Cabezas, Evaluating robustness of template matching algorithms as a multi-objective optimisation problem (30--37); Jarmo Ilonen, Tuomas\ Eerola, Heikki Mutikainen, Lasse Lensu, Jari Käyhkö and Heikki Kälviäinen, Estimation of bubble size distribution based on power spectrum (38--45); Maria Santamaria and Maria Trujillo, Edge-based coding tree unit partitioning strategy in inter prediction (46--53); Daniel Miramontes-Jaramillo, Vitaly Kober and Víctor Hugo Díaz-Ramírez, A robust tracking algorithm based on HOGs descriptor (54--61); Norbert Hantos and Péter Balázs, Fast heuristics for eliminating switching components in binary matrices by 0-1 flips (62--69); Roland Levillain, Thierry Géraud, Laurent\ Najman and Edwin Carlinet, Practical genericity: writing image processing algorithms both reusable and efficient (70--79); Susana\ Ortega-Cisneros, Miguel A. Carrazco-Díaz, Adrian Pedroza\ de-la-Crúz, Juan J. Raygoza-Panduro, Federico Sandoval-Ibarra\ and Jorge Rivera-Domínguez, Real time hardware accelerator for image filtering (80--87); J. A. Rentería-Cedano, L. M.\ Aguilar-Lobo, S. Ortega-Cisneros, J. R. Loo-Yau and Juan J.\ Raygoza-Panduro, FPGA implementation of a NARX network for modeling nonlinear systems (88--95). \par Michal Kawulok, Jolanta Kawulok, Jakub\ Nalepa and Bogdan Smolka, Self-adaptive skin segmentation in color images (96--103); E. M. Albornoz, M. Sánchez-Gutiérrez, F.\ Martinez-Licona, H. L. Rufiner and J. Goddard, Spoken emotion recognition using deep learning (104--111); Yasiel Sanchez-Gonzalez, Yasser Chacon-Cabrera and Eduardo Garea-Llano, A comparison of fused segmentation algorithms for iris verification (112--119); Pablo\ Fonseca and Jacques Wainer, A linear time implementation of k-means for multilevel thresholding of grayscale images (120--126); C.\ Camacho-Bello and J. J. Báez-Rojas, Angle estimation using Hahn moments for image analysis (127--134); Antonio Carlos Sobieranski, Rodrigo T. F. Linhares, Eros Comunello and Aldo von Wangenheim, A fast Gabor filter approach for multi-channel texture feature discrimination (135--142); Antonio Carlos Sobieranski, Vito F.\ Chiarella, Eduardo Barreto-Alexandre, Rodrigo T. F. Linhares, Eros\ Comunello and Aldo von Wangenheim, Color skin segmentation based on non-linear distance metrics (143--150); Leonardo Chang, Miguel\ Arias-Estrada, José Hernández-Palancar and L. Enrique Sucar, Partial shape matching and retrieval under occlusion and noise (151--158); A. Fazel Famili, Searching for patterns in imbalanced data: methods and alternatives with case studies in life sciences (159--166); José Luis Oropeza-Rodríguez, Sergio\ Suárez-Guerra and Mario Jiménez-Hernández, The place theory as an alternative solution in automatic speech recognition tasks (167--174); Luis F. Guzmán and Antonio Camarena-Ibarrola, On the use of locality sensitive hashing for audio following (175--182). \par C.\ Castro-Hoyos, F. M. Grisales-Franco, J. D. Martínez-Vargas, Carlos D. Acosta-Medina and Germán Castellanos-Domínguez, Stationary signal separation using multichannel local segmentation (183--190); Marco A. Contreras-Cruz, Victor Ayala-Ramirez and Paola B. Alvarado-Velazco, On the use of evolutionary programming for combinational logic circuits design (191--198); Claudia Bello, Dayana Ribas, José R. Calvo and Carlos A. Ferrer, From speech quality measures to speaker recognition performance (199--206); Gabriel Hernández-Sierra, José R. Calvo and Jean-François\ Bonastre, Temporal information in a binary framework for speaker recognition (207--213); Alvaro D. Orjuela-Cañón, Diego F.\ Gómez-Cajas and Robinson Jiménez-Moreno, Artificial neural networks for acoustic lung signals classification (214--221); Mildred\ Morales-Xicohtencatl, Leticia Flores-Pulido, Carolina Rocío Sánchez-Pérez and Juan José Córdova-Zamorano, RASCNA: radio astronomy signal classification through neighborhood assemblies (222--230); Edgar F. Sierra-Alonso, Oscar Cardona-Morales, Carlos\ D. Acosta-Medina and Germán Castellanos-Domínguez, Spectral correlation measure for selecting intrinsic mode functions (231--238); Gaston Bengolea, Daniel Acevedo, Martín Rais and Marta\ Mejail, Feature analysis for audio classification (239--246); S.\ García-Vega, A. M. Álvarez-Meza and Germán\ Castellanos-Domínguez, Neural decoding using kernel-based functional representation of ECoG recordings (247--254); Renzo\ Angles, Valeria Araya, Jesus Concha and Rodrigo Paredes, Comparison of methods to assess similarity between phrases (255--263); Lázaro J. González Soler, Airel Pérez-Suárez and Leonardo\ Chang, Efficient overlapping document clustering using GPUs and multi-core systems (264--271). \par Priscila Saboia and Siome\ Goldenstein, Assessing cross-cut shredded document assembly (272--279); Rangachar Kasturi and Rajmadhan Ekambaram, Person reidentification and recognition in video (280--293); Manuel S.\ Lazo-Cortés, José Fco. Martínez-Trinidad, Jesús Ariel\ Carrasco-Ochoa and Guillermo Sanchez-Diaz, Are reducts and typical testors the same? (294--301); Anselmo Ferreira and Anderson Rocha, A multiscale and multi-perturbation blind forensic technique for median detecting (302--310); Claudia Mazo, Maria Trujillo and Liliana Salazar, Automatic classification of coating epithelial tissue (311--318); Ruber Hernández-García, Edel García-Reyes, Julián Ramos-Cózar and Nicolás Guil, Human action classification using N-grams visual vocabulary (319--326); A. M.\ Álvarez-Meza, A. E. Castro-Ospina and Germán\ Castellanos-Domínguez, Spectral clustering using compactly supported graph building (327--334); A. M. Álvarez-Meza, D.\ Cárdenas-Peña and Germán Castellanos-Domínguez, Unsupervised kernel function building using maximization of information potential variability (335--342); D. Cárdenas-Peña, A. M. Álvarez-Meza and Germán Castellanos-Domínguez, Kernel-based image representation for brain MRI discrimination (343--350); S. García-Vega, A. M. Álvarez-Meza and Germán\ Castellanos-Domínguez, Estimation of cyclostationary codebooks for kernel adaptive filtering (351--358); Cristianne R. S. Dutra, Matheus Castro Rocha and William Robson Schwartz, Person re-identification based on weighted indexing structures (359--366). \par Alfredo Muñoz-Briseño, Andrés Gago-Alonso and José\ Hernández-Palancar, Using reference point as feature for fingerprint indexing (367--374); Antonio C. Nazare, Jr., Renato Ferreira and William Robson Schwartz, Scalable feature extraction for visual surveillance (375--382); José M. Bande Serrano, José\ Hernández Palancar and René Cumplido, The evaluation of ordered features for SMS spam filtering (383--390); Marisol Flores-Garrido, Jesús Ariel Carrasco-Ochoa and José Fco. Martínez-Trinidad, Graph clustering via inexact patterns (391--398); Thiago Cavalcante, Anderson Rocha and Ariadne Carvalho, Large-scale micro-blog authorship attribution: beyond simple feature engineering (399--407); D. H. Peluffo-Ordóñez, C. Castro-Hoyos, Carlos D. Acosta-Medina and Germán Castellanos-Domínguez, Quadratic problem formulation with linear constraints for normalized cut clustering (408--415); Eduardo Alba-Cabrera, Julio\ Ibarra-Fiallo, Salvador Godoy-Calderon and Fernando\ Cervantes-Alonso, YYC: a fast performance incremental algorithm for finding typical testors (416--423); Alejandro Rosales-Pérez, Jesus\ A. Gonzalez, Carlos A. Coello-Coello, Carlos A. Reyes-Garcia and Hugo Jair Escalante, Evolutionary multi-objective approach for prototype generation and feature selection (424--431); Vladimir\ Ryazanov, Estimations of clustering quality via evaluation of its stability (432--439); Paola Alexandra Castro-Cabrera, Mauricio\ Orozco-Alzate, Andrea Adami, Manuele Bicego, John Makario\ Londoño-Bonilla and Germán Castellanos-Domínguez, A comparison between time-frequency and cepstral feature representations for the classification of seismic-volcanic signals (440--447); Emilio\ Unda-Trillas and Jorge Rivera-Rovelo, A method to build classification and regression trees (448--453). \par Raphael C. Prates, Guillermo Cámara-Chávez, William Robson Schwartz and David\ Menotti, An adaptive vehicle license plate detection at higher matching degree (454--461); D. Osaku, A. L. M. Levada and J. P.\ Papa, On the influence of Markovian models for contextual-based optimum-path forest classification (462--469); José Kadir\ Febrer-Hernández, José Hernández-Palancar, Raudel\ Hernández-León and Claudia Feregrino-Uribe, SPaMi-FTS: an efficient algorithm for mining frequent sequential patterns (470--477); Rodrigo T. F. Linhares, Rogério Richa, Ricardo\ Moraes, Eros Comunello and Aldo von Wangenheim, Local binary pattern matching for fast retina map relocalization using the slit-lamp (478--485); Gabriel Hermosilla, Gonzalo Farias, Hector\ Vargas, Francisco Gallardo and Cesar San-Martin, Thermal face recognition using local patterns (486--497); Alvaro Pardo, Comments on randomly sampled non local means image filter (498--505); Xavier\ Cortés, Carlos Francisco Moreno-García and Francesc\ Serratosa, Learning graph-matching substitution costs based on the optimality of the oracle's correspondence (506--514); Shengnan Cai, Jingdong Wang and Long Quan, How fashion talks: clothing-region-based gender recognition (515--523); Armando Rodríguez-Fonte and José Hernández-Palancar, Discriminating fingerprint images of other images (524--531); Ricardo Ocampo, Marco\ A. de Luna, Roberto Vega, Gildardo Sanchez-Ante, Luis E.\ Falcon-Morales and Humberto Sossa, Pa