Image Filtering and Coding -- Facial Parts-Based Face Hallucination Method -- Geometric Image Registration under Locally Variant Illuminations Using Huber M-estimator -- Morphological Sharpening and Denoising Using a Novel Shock Filter Model -- Resolution Scalable Image Coding with Dyadic Complementary Rational Wavelet Transforms -- LMMSE-Based Image Denoising in Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform Domain -- Wavelet-Based Multi-Channel Image Denoising Using Fuzzy Logic -- An Adaptive Multiresolution-Based Multispectral Image Compression Method -- Zoom Based Super-Resolution: A Fast Approach Using Particle Swarm Optimization -- Real Time Human Visual System Based Framework for Image Fusion -- Color VQ-Based Image Compression by Manifold Learning -- Total Variation Minimization with Separable Sensing Operator -- Pattern Recognition -- Circle Location by Moments -- Remote Sensing Image Registration Techniques: A Survey -- Assessment of the Artificial Habitat in Shrimp Aquaculture Using Environmental Pattern Classification -- Speech Recognition System of Arabic Alphabet Based on a Telephony Arabic Corpus -- Statistical and Neural Classifiers: Application for Singer and Music Discrimination in Polyphonic Music Context -- An Adaptive Method Using Genetic Fuzzy System to Evaluate Suspended Particulates Matters SPM from Landsat and Modis Data -- An Efficient Combination of Texture and Color Information for Watershed Segmentation -- New Approach Based on Texture and Geometric Features for Text Detection -- Segmentation of Images of Lead Free Solder -- Grassland Species Characterization for Plant Family Discrimination by Image Processing -- Biometry -- Efficient Person Identification by Fusion of Multiple Palmprint Representations -- A Cry-Based Babies Identification System -- Comparative Testing of Face Detection Algorithms -- On Supporting Identification in a Hand-Based Biometric Framework -- Selecting Optimal Orientations of Gabor Wavelet Filters for Facial Image Analysis -- Human Detection with a Multi-sensors Stereovision System -- Signal Processing -- Efficient Time and Frequency Methods for Sampling Filter Functions -- The Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test and the Sparse Representations Approach -- Frequency Tracking with Spline Based Chirp Atoms -- Improving Performance of a Noise Reduction Algorithm by Switching the Analysis Filter Bank -- On the Choice of Filter Bank Parameters for Wavelet-Packet Identification of Dynamic Systems -- A Signal Processing Algorithm Based on Parametric Dynamic Programming -- Determining Dominant Frequency with Data-Adaptive Windows -- Non-linear EEG Analysis of Idiopathic Hypersomnia -- Classification of Similar Impact Sounds -- Video Coding and Processing -- High Dimensional versus Low Dimensional Chaos in MPEG-7 Feature Binding for Object Classification -- Compensating for Motion Estimation Inaccuracies in DVC -- Multi-sensor Fire Detection by Fusing Visual and Non-visual Flame Features -- Turbo Code Using Adaptive Puncturing for Pixel Domain Distributed Video Coding -- Error-Resilient and Error Concealment 3-D SPIHT Video Coding with Added Redundancy -- Video Quality Prediction Using a 3D Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Structural Similarity Index -- An Efficient 3d Head Pose Inference from Videos -- Fall Detection Using Body Volume Recontruction and Vertical Repartition Analysis -- Watermarking and Document Processing -- A Subsampling and Interpolation Technique for Reversible Histogram Shift Data Hiding -- Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm Optimization for Image Watermarking Based on Singular Value Decomposition and Lifting Wavelet Transform -- Image Hiding by Using Genetic Algorithm and LSB Substitution -- Tone Recognition of Isolated Mandarin Syllables -- A Semantic Proximity Based System of Arabic Text Indexation -- Classification of Multi-structured Documents: A Comparison Based on Media Image -- Computer Vision -- Human Action Recognition Using Key Points Displacement -- Shape Skeleton Classification Using Graph and Multi-scale Fractal Dimension -- Leaves Shape Classification Using Curvature and Fractal Dimension -- Plant Leaf Identification Using Color and Multi-scale Fractal Dimension -- A Novel Polychromatic Model for Light Dispersion -- Content Based Thermal Images Retrieval -- People Reacquisition across Multiple Cameras with Disjoint Views -- Performance Evaluation of Multiresolution Methods in Disparity Estimation -- 3D Head Trajectory Using a Single Camera -- Biomedical Applications -- Artificial Neural Network and Fuzzy Clustering Methods in Segmenting Sputum Color Images for Lung Cancer Diagnosis -- A Multi-stage Approach for 3D Teeth Segmentation from Dentition Surfaces -- Global versus Hybrid Thresholding for Border Detection in Dermoscopy Images -- Unsupervised Segmentation for Inflammation Detection in Histopathology Images -- Scale-Space Representation of Lung HRCT Images for Diffuse Lung Disease Classification -- Correction of Left Ventricle Strain Signals Estimated from Tagged MR Images -- Texture Analysis of Brain CT Scans for ICP Prediction -- Mass Description for Breast Cancer Recognition -- A New Preprocessing Filter for Digital Mammograms -- Classification of High-Resolution NMR Spectra Based on Complex Wavelet Domain Feature Selection and Kernel-Induced Random Forest.