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Contrary to perhaps common belief, even after several decades of research, automatic fingerprint recognition is not a solved problem. New fingerprint sensing technologies, algorithmic advances, and abundant computing power continue to drive advances in this area and to open up new realms of possibility. Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Systems thoroughly surveys and examines advances in fingerprint sensing devices and in algorithms for fingerprint image analysis and matching. After an opening chapter on the history of fingerprint recognition, the book moves into new technologies for inkless sensors, fingerprint image analysis techniques, including fingerprint video analysis, filtering and classification and other areas aimed at fully automatic operation. The book also addresses large-scale fingerprint identification system design, as well as standards. Topics and Features: * Covers numerous areas related to modern automatic fingerprint recognition, not just its history or forensic analysis * Examines advances in fingerprint sensing and fingerprint image filtering and preprocessing * Describes fingerprint feature abstraction, as well as compression and decompression of fingerprint images * Develops ideas related to large-scale, large-database fingerprint matching * Assesses new areas such as security in fingerprint matching and the upcoming common criterion protection profile This authoritative survey provides a unique reference for automatic fingerprint recognition concepts, technologies, and systems. Its editors and contributors are leading researchers and applied R&D developers of this technology. Biometrics and pattern recognition researchers, security professionals, and systems developers will find the work an indispensable resource for current knowledge and technology.

Fingerprints --- Data processing. --- Optical pattern recognition. --- Computer graphics. --- Computer vision. --- Pattern Recognition. --- Computer Graphics. --- Image Processing and Computer Vision. --- Pattern recognition. --- Optical data processing. --- Optical computing --- Visual data processing --- Bionics --- Electronic data processing --- Integrated optics --- Photonics --- Computers --- Automatic drafting --- Graphic data processing --- Graphics, Computer --- Computer art --- Graphic arts --- Engineering graphics --- Image processing --- Design perception --- Pattern recognition --- Form perception --- Perception --- Figure-ground perception --- Optical equipment --- Digital techniques --- Dactylography --- Dactyloscopy --- Finger marks --- Finger-printing --- Finger prints --- Fingerprinting --- Anthropometry --- Dermatoglyphics

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Welcome to the proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Computer - sion! Following a very successful ECCV 2002, the response to our call for papers was almost equally strong – 555 papers were submitted. We accepted 41 papers for oral and 149 papers for poster presentation. Several innovations were introduced into the review process. First, the n- ber of program committee members was increased to reduce their review load. We managed to assign to program committee members no more than 12 papers. Second, we adopted a paper ranking system. Program committee members were asked to rank all the papers assigned to them, even those that were reviewed by additional reviewers. Third, we allowed authors to respond to the reviews consolidated in a discussion involving the area chair and the reviewers. Fourth, thereports,thereviews,andtheresponsesweremadeavailabletotheauthorsas well as to the program committee members. Our aim was to provide the authors with maximal feedback and to let the program committee members know how authors reacted to their reviews and how their reviews were or were not re?ected in the ?nal decision. Finally, we reduced the length of reviewed papers from 15 to 12 pages. ThepreparationofECCV2004wentsmoothlythankstothee?ortsofthe- ganizing committee, the area chairs, the program committee, and the reviewers. We are indebted to Anders Heyden, Mads Nielsen, and Henrik J. Nielsen for passing on ECCV traditions and to Dominique Asselineau from ENST/TSI who kindly provided his GestRFIA conference software. We thank Jan-Olof Eklundh and Andrew Zisserman for encouraging us to organize ECCV 2004 in Prague.

Conferences - Meetings --- Computer vision --- Optical data processing. --- Pattern recognition. --- Computer graphics. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Image Processing and Computer Vision. --- Pattern Recognition. --- Computer Graphics. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Automatic drafting --- Graphic data processing --- Graphics, Computer --- Computer art --- Graphic arts --- Engineering graphics --- Image processing --- Design perception --- Pattern recognition --- Form perception --- Perception --- Figure-ground perception --- Optical computing --- Visual data processing --- Integrated optics --- Photonics --- Computers --- Digital techniques --- Optical equipment

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2004, held at ECCV 2004 in Prague, Czech Republic in May 2004. The 19 revised full papers presented together with an introductory overview and an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on human-robot interaction, gesture recognition and body tracking, systems, and face and head.

Computer science. --- Computer graphics. --- Computer vision. --- Optical pattern recognition. --- Computer Science. --- Image Processing and Computer Vision. --- Pattern Recognition. --- Computer Graphics. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Human-computer interaction --- Computer vision --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Computer Science --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Artificial intelligence. --- Image processing. --- Pattern recognition. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Automatic drafting --- Graphic data processing --- Graphics, Computer --- Computer art --- Graphic arts --- Electronic data processing --- Engineering graphics --- Image processing --- Optical data processing --- Pattern perception --- Perceptrons --- Visual discrimination --- Machine vision --- Vision, Computer --- Artificial intelligence --- Pattern recognition systems --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Informatics --- Science --- Digital techniques --- Optical data processing. --- Design perception --- Pattern recognition --- Form perception --- Perception --- Figure-ground perception --- Optical computing --- Visual data processing --- Integrated optics --- Photonics --- Computers --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Optical equipment

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The 7th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2004, was held in Saint-Malo, Brittany, France at the “Palais du Grand Large” conference center, September 26–29, 2004. The p- posaltohostMICCAI2004wasstronglyencouragedandsupportedbyIRISA, Rennes. IRISA is a publicly funded national research laboratory with a sta? of 370,including150full-timeresearchscientistsorteachingresearchscientistsand 115 postgraduate students. INRIA, the CNRS, and the University of Rennes 1 are all partners in this mixed research unit, and all three organizations were helpful in supporting MICCAI. MICCAI has become a premier international conference with in-depth - pers on the multidisciplinary ?elds of medical image computing, comput- assisted intervention and medical robotics. The conference brings together cl- icians, biological scientists, computer scientists, engineers, physicists and other researchers and o?ers them a forum to exchange ideas in these exciting and rapidly growing ?elds. The impact of MICCAI increases each year and the quality and quantity of submitted papers this year was very impressive. We received a record 516 full submissions (8 pages in length) and 101 short communications (2 pages) from 36 di?erent countries and 5 continents (see ?gures below). All submissions were reviewed by up to 4 external reviewers from the Scienti?c Review C- mittee and a primary reviewer from the Program Committee. All reviews were then considered by the MICCAI 2004 Program Committee, resulting in the acceptance of 235 full papers and 33 short communications.

Medicine. --- Radiology. --- Internal medicine. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Computer graphics. --- Image processing. --- Pattern recognition. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Internal Medicine. --- Image Processing and Computer Vision. --- Pattern Recognition. --- Computer Graphics. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Imaging / Radiology. --- Medicine --- Diagnostic imaging --- Data processing --- Computer vision. --- Optical pattern recognition. --- Radiology, Medical. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Clinical radiology --- Radiology, Medical --- Radiology (Medicine) --- Medical physics --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Automatic drafting --- Graphic data processing --- Graphics, Computer --- Computer art --- Graphic arts --- Engineering graphics --- Image processing --- Optical data processing --- Pattern perception --- Perceptrons --- Visual discrimination --- Machine vision --- Vision, Computer --- Artificial intelligence --- Pattern recognition systems --- Medicine, Internal --- Digital techniques --- Health Workforce --- Optical data processing. --- Radiological physics --- Physics --- Radiation --- Design perception --- Pattern recognition --- Form perception --- Perception --- Figure-ground perception --- Optical computing --- Visual data processing --- Integrated optics --- Photonics --- Computers --- Optical equipment

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ICIAR 2004, the International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, was the ?rst ICIAR conference, and was held in Porto, Portugal. ICIAR will be organized annually, and will alternate between Europe and North America. ICIAR 2005 will take place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The idea of o?ering these conferences came as a result of discussion between researchers in Portugal and Canada to encourage collaboration and exchange, mainly between these two countries, but also with the open participation of other countries, addressing recent advances in theory, methodology and applications. The response to the call for papers for ICIAR 2004 was very positive. From 316 full papers submitted, 210 were accepted (97 oral presentations, and 113 - sters). The review process was carried out by the Program Committee members and other reviewers; all are experts in various image analysis and recognition areas. Each paper was reviewed by at least two reviewing parties. The high q- lity of the papers in these proceedings is attributed ?rst to the authors, and second to the quality of the reviews provided by the experts. We would like to thank the authors for responding to our call, and we wholeheartedly thank the reviewers for their excellent work in such a short amount of time. We are espe- ally indebted to the Program Committee for their e?orts that allowed us to set up this publication. We were very pleased to be able to include in the conference, Prof. Murat KuntfromtheSwissFederalInstituteofTechnology,andProf. Mario ´ Figueiredo, oftheInstitutoSuperiorT´ ecnico,inPortugal.

Computer science. --- Text processing (Computer science. --- Computer graphics. --- Computer vision. --- Optical pattern recognition. --- Computer Science. --- Image Processing and Computer Vision. --- Document Preparation and Text Processing. --- Computer Graphics. --- Pattern Recognition. --- Image analysis --- Optical pattern recognition --- Applied Physics --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Text processing (Computer science). --- Image processing. --- Pattern recognition. --- Natural language processing (Computer science). --- Natural Language Processing (NLP). --- Automatic drafting --- Graphic data processing --- Graphics, Computer --- Computer art --- Graphic arts --- Electronic data processing --- Engineering graphics --- Image processing --- Optical data processing --- Pattern perception --- Perceptrons --- Visual discrimination --- NLP (Computer science) --- Artificial intelligence --- Human-computer interaction --- Semantic computing --- Machine vision --- Vision, Computer --- Pattern recognition systems --- Digital techniques --- Optical data processing. --- Design perception --- Pattern recognition --- Form perception --- Perception --- Figure-ground perception --- Optical computing --- Visual data processing --- Bionics --- Integrated optics --- Photonics --- Computers --- Optical equipment