CONTENTS -- Preface -- International Advisory Committee -- Organizing Committee -- International Programme Committee -- Additional Reviewers -- Sponsors -- Part A Plenary Lecture -- Why Statistical Shape Analysis is Pivotal to the Modern Pattern Recognition? -- Part B Invited Lectures -- On the Interest of Spatial Relations and Fuzzy Representations for Ontology-Based Image Interpretation -- A Technique for Creating Probabilistic Spatio-Temporal Forecasts -- Part C Biometrics -- An Efficient Measure for Individuality Detection in Dynamic Biometric Applications -- Divide-and-Conquer Strategy Incorporated Fisher Linear Discriminant Analysis: An Efficient Approach for Face Recognition -- Ear Biometrics: A New Approach -- Face Detection using Skin Segmentation as Pre-Filter -- Face Recognition Using Symbolic KDA in the Framework of Symbolic Data Analysis -- Minutiae-Orientation Vector Based Fingerprint Matching -- Recognition of Pose Varied Three-Dimensional Human Faces Using Structured Lighting Induced Phase Coding -- Writer Recognition by Analyzing Word Level Features of Handwritten Documents -- Part D Clustering Algorithms -- A New Symmetry Based Genetic Clustering Technique for Automatic Evolution of Clusters -- A Non-Hierarchical Clustering Scheme for Visualization of High Dimensional Data -- An Attribute Partitioning Approach to Correlation Connected Clusters -- Part E Document Analysis -- A Hybrid Scheme for Recognition of Handwritten Bangla Basic Characters Based on HMM and MLP Classifiers -- An Efficient Method for Graphics Segmentation from Document Images -- Identification of Indian Languages in Romanized Form -- Online Bangla Handwriting Recognition System -- Oriya Off-Line Handwritten Character Recognition -- Recognition of Handwritten Bangla Vowel Modifiers.

Template-Free Word Spotting in Low-Quality Manuscripts -- Unconstrained Handwritten Digit Recognition: Experimentation on MNIST Database -- Part F Image Registration and Transmission -- An Adaptive Background Model for Camshift Tracking with a Moving Camera -- Colour and Feature Based Multiple Object Tracking Under Heavy Occlusions -- DCT Properties as Handle for Image Compression and Cryptanalysis -- Genetic Algorithm for Improvement in Detection of Hidden Data in Digital Images -- High Resolution Image Reconstruction from Multiple UAV Imagery -- Image Registration and Object Tracking via Affine Combination -- Progressive Transmission Scheme for Color Images Using BTC-PF Method -- Registration Algorithm for Motion Blurred Images -- Part G Image Segmentation -- Aggregation Pheromone Density Based Change Detection in Remotely Sensed Images -- Automatic Brain Tumor Segmentation Using Symmetry Analysis and Deformable Models -- Edge Recognition in MMWave Images by Biorthogonal Wavelet Decomposition and Genetic Algorithm -- Extended Markov Random Fields for Predictive Image Segmentation -- External Force Modeling of Snakes Using DWT for Texture Object Segmentation -- I-FISH: Increasing Detection Efficiency for Fluorescent Dot Counting in Cell Nuclei -- Intuitionistic Fuzzy C Means Clustering in Medical Image Segmentation -- Remote Sensing Image Classification: A Wavelet-Neuro-Fuzzy Approach -- Part H Multimedia Object Retrieval -- An Efficient Cluster Based Image Retrieval Scheme Using Localized Texture Pattern -- Feature Selection Based on Human Perception of Image Similarity for Content Based Image Retrieval -- Identification of Team in Possession of Ball in a Soccer Video Using Static and Dynamic Segmentation -- Image Retrieval Using Color Texture and Wavelet Transform Moments.

Integrating Linear Subspace Analysis and Iterative Graphcuts For Content-Based Video Retrieval -- Organizing a Video Database Around Concept Maps -- Statistical Bigrams: How Effective Are They in Text Retrieval? -- Part I Pattern Recognition -- Adaptive Nearest Neighbor Classifier -- Class-Specific Kernel Selection for Verification Problems -- Confidence Estimation in Classification Decision: A Method for Detecting Unseen Patterns -- ECG Pattern Classification Using Support Vector Machine -- Model Selection for Financial Distress Classification -- Optimal Linear Combination for Two-Class Classifiers -- Support Vector Machine Based Hierarchical Classifiers for Large Class Problems -- Unsupervised Approach for Structure Preserving Dimensionality Reduction -- Part J Shape Recognition -- A Beta Mixture Model Based Approach to Text Extraction from Color Images -- A Canonical Shape-Representation for a Polygon -- A Framework for Fusion of 3D Appearance and 2D Shape Cues for Generic Object Recognition -- Constructing Analyzable Models by Region Based Technique for Object Category Recognition -- DRILL: Detection and Representation of Isothetic Loosely Connected Components without Labeling -- Pattern Based Bootstrapping Method for Named Entity Recognition -- SCOPE: Shape Complexity of Objects using Isothetic Polygonal Envelope -- Segmental K-Means Algorithm Based Hidden Markov Model for Shape Recognition and its Applications -- Part K Speech and 1-D Signal Analysis -- Automatic Continuous Speech Segmentation Using Level Crossing Rate -- Automatic Gender Identification Through Speech Analysis -- Error-Driven Robust Particle Swarm Optimization for Fuzzy Rule Extraction and Structure Estimation -- HMM Based POS Tagger and Rule-Based Chunker for Bengali.

Non-Contemporary Robustness in Text-Dependent Speaker-Recognition Using Multi-Session Templates in an One-Pass Dynamic-Programming Framework -- Some Experiments on Music Classification -- Text Independent Identification of Regional Indian Accents in Spoken Hindi -- Part L Texture Analysis -- An Efficient Approach for Texture Classification with Multi-Resolution Features by Combining Region and Edge Information Using a Modified CSNN -- Upper Bound in Model Order Selection of MRF with Application in Texture Synthesis -- Wavelet Features for Texture Classification and Their Use in Script Identification -- Author Index.