Plenary Sessions.- Looking for Awareness in the Brain.- Pattern Classification: Fusion of Information.- Database Retrieval Oriented Approach for Model-Based Object Recognition.- Image Processing.- Combined Feature Sets for Texture Classification.- Using CBR Learning for the Low-Level and High-Level Unit of an Image Interpretation System.- Application of the Trace Transform to Change Detection.- Using Natural Language and Video Data to Query and Learn American Football Plays.- Invariant Content-Based Image Retrieval using the Fourier-Mellin Transform.- Performance Assessment of Edge-Based Range Image Segmentation.- Image Variability Decomposition for Recovering Pose and Illumination from Object Tracking.- On Increasing the Objectiveness of Segmentation Results.- Color-Based Moment Invariants for Viewpoint and Illumination Independent Recognition of Planar Color Patterns.- Medical Analysis.- Error and Shape Measurement Tools for Cardiac Projection Images: A Closer Look.- Recent Advances Towards a Model-Based Pattern-Recognition Approach for the Left Ventricle Boundary Estimation.- An Approach to Dynamic Modelling and Topographic Feature Extraction of Wake EEG.- Algorithms for Fuzzy Segmentation.- Neural and Evolutionary Computing.- Unsupervised Learning without Overfitting: Empirical Risk Approximation as an Induction Principle for Reliable Clustering.- Application of Neural Networks to Vehicle Recognition and Tracking.- An Artificial Neural Network Based Encoding of an Invariant Sammon Map for Real-Time Projection of Patterns from Odour Sensor Arrays.- Probabalistic and Other Neural Nets in Multi-Hole Probe Calibration and Flow Angularity Pattern Recognition.- Beyond PaRADISE: Extensions to a Neural Network for Visual Object Recognition.- Parallel Decomposition of Generic Morphological Structuring Elements.- Neural Learning of Spiral Structures.- Ranking Pattern Recognition Features for Neural Networks.- Speech Recognition.- A Hybrid Approach to Pattern Matching for Text-To-Speech Conversion.- Robust Speech Recognition using Fuzzy Matrix/Vector Quantisation, Neural Networks and Hidden Markov Models.- An Experimental Study on Confidence Measures for Robust Speech Recognition.- Refinement of a Structured Language Model.- Document and Character Analysis.- An Adaptative Pre-Processing for On-Line Hand-Written Character Recognition by Blind People.- Categorizing Document Images into Script and Language Classes.- Table Recognition and Labeling using Intrinsic Layout Features.- Recognition of Printed Arabic Text via Machine Learning.- A Deterministic Algorithm for Reconstructing Off-Line Calligraphical Strokes with Priority Rules.- Off-Line Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition Based on Structural Features and Fuzzy ARTMAP.- Agent-Based Text Extraction from Pyramid Images.- Pattern Recognition.- Vector Quantization and Minimum Description Length.- Localized Soft Subspace Pattern Classification.- A Quantum Leap to Advances in Pattern Recognition.- A Comparative Study of String Dissimilarity Measures in Structural Clustering.- Support Vector Machines and Linear Spectral Unmixing for Remote Sensing.- Why Classical Models for Pattern Recognition are not Pattern Recognition Models.- Pattern Discovery in Time-Oriented Data.- Adaptive Graphical Pattern Recognition: The Joint Role of Structure and Learning.- Tutorials.- Classification using Networks of Normalized Radial Basis Function.- Pattern Recognition - A Pillar in the Sensor Fusion Edifice or Vice-Versa?.- Author Biographies.- Author Index.
