Data is expressed in a modern computer by encoding it digitally. There are many ways to encode such data and one of the main issues in present day telematics (in view of the need for efficient transmission in computer networks) is how to best achieve it. To determine what "best" encoding means it is necessary to measure the information contents in the data.

In the recent past there have been two approaches to quantifying information: the statistical approach and the algorithmic approach. In the statistical approach championed by Claude Shannon, information is determined assuming that the two extremes of a communication channel have agreed as to the possible interpretation of the basic symbols of the "message" from the start. In spite of the successful application of such an approach, it has been noted that the tacit aprioristic assumptions somewhat curtail its usefulness. Therefore, the algorithmic approach championed by Andrei Kolmogorov has been developed as a viable alternative. Kolmogorov's complexity (or algorithmic information) is subject independent and relies on the fact that any message may be reproduced by a precisely defined algorithm. Algorithmic information is defined, thereafter, as the length of the shortest program achieving this goal. Unfortunately, it has been shown that this program's length is, in general, not computable.

We shall discuss an approximate way to calculate the algorithmic information resorting to evolutionary computation techniques. We will establish the way to approximate Kolmogorov's complexity from Risanen's minimum description length principle by applying a genetic algorithm. We describe the genetic algorithm involved and how its application leads to the purported calculation. We will illustrate by giving an example of lossy compression arising directly from such approximation.

Plenary Lecture II

Prof. Vincenzo Niola

Department of Mechanical Engineering for Energetics

University of Naples "Federico II"

Via Claudio 21, 80125, Napoli

ITALY

vniola@unina.it

http://niola.dime.unina.it

SPECIAL SESSION: Nonlinear Schemes in Image Processing

Chair: Sergio Amat Plata, Sonia Busquier Saez, M. J. Carlos Trillo

Error-control vs classical multiresolution algorithms for image compression	Sergio Amat, J.Carlos Trillo and P.Viala	512-252
Detection, measurement and classification of discontinuities	Sergio Amat, Sonia Busquier and M.Antonia Gómez	512-255
Compression of color image using nonlinear multiresolutions	Sergio Amat, Juan Ruiz and J.Carlos Trillo	512-251
On the stability of a class of nonlinear Interpolatory Wavelet-Packets schemes	Sergio Amat, Sonia Busquier, Antonio Escudero, Julien Lacombe and Jacques Liandrat	512-250
Point values Hermite multiresolution for non-smooth noisy signals II	Sergio Amat, Karine Dadourian, Jacques Liandrat and J.Carlos Trillo	512-249

SESSION: Signal Processing

Chair: Vincenzo Niola, Ming-Hwei Perng, Gongping Wu

The problem of signal denoising for detecting the presence of spikes	Vincenzo Niola,Rosario Oliviero, Giuseppe Quaremba	512-223
Wavelet analysis applied to the study of digitalized bullet striatures for the firearm identification: first evidences	Niola Vincenzo, Buccelli Claudio, Gervasio Luca, Pilleri Michele, Policino Fabio, Quaremba Giuseppe	512-167
Invariant Shape Object Recognition Using B-Spline, Cardinal Spline, and Genetic Algorithm	Pisit Phokharatkul, Skul Kamnuanchai, Chom Kimpan, Supachai Phaiboon	512-465
Image compression in the wavelet domain using an AR texture model with compressed initial conditions	M. H. Perng and H. H. Lin	512-120
Evolutionary Model-based Pose Estimation for Variable Configuration Objects	Claudio Rossi, Mohamed Abderrahim, Jilio Cesar Diaz	512-192
Hierarchical Segmentation Based Watershed for Mine detection	S. Morkos, A. El- Desouki, and H. Kamal	512-150
Hybrid Fuzzy HMM System for Arabic Connectionist Speech Recognition	Sinout D. Shenouda, Fayez W. Zaki and Amr Goneid	512-156

SESSION: Robotics and Automation

Chair: Dorian Cojocaru, Vincenzo Niola

Kinematics and Dynamics Simulation of Inspection Robot for Power Transmission Line	Gongping Wu, Xiaohui Xiao, E Du, Sanping Li	512-148
Modelling and calibration of a camera for robot trajectories recording.	Vincenzo Niola,Cesare Rossi, Sergio Savino	512-229
A Robot Cinematic Calibration Technique	Vincenzo Niola,Cesare Rossi, Sergio Savino	512-231
Perspective Transform and Vision System for Robotic Applications	Vincenzo Niola,Cesare Rossi, Sergio Savino	512-227
ARGOS – ORPHEUS-X2 User Interface	L. Zalud, T. Neuzil, L. Kopecny	512-230
Mobile Robot Global Localization Using Just a Visual LandMark	Armida González-Lorence, Mayra P. Garduño Gaffare and J. Armando Segovia de los Ríos	512-212
Dynamic Modeling and Control in Operationel Space of an Hexapod Robot	C. Mahfoudi , K. Djouani, M. Bouaziz, S. Rechak	512-209
Visual Servoing for a Hyperredundant Robots	Mircea Ivãnescu, Dorian Cojocaru, Nirvana Popescu, Decebal Popescu, Rãzvan Tudor Tãnasie	512-348
Wheels of wheeled mobile robots	Marie Bernard Sidibe, Ma Yulin	512-342
Pseudo-Invariant Diffusive Robust Control and application for a DC Motor	B. Boudjehem, L. Chaabi, H. Tebbikh	512-602

Thursday, February 16, 2006

SESSION: Signal Processing and Applications

Chair: Lucio De Paolis, Amir Nassirharand

Temperature Control Using Autotuning PID Controller for Control Education	Seda Postalcioglu, Emine Dogru Bolat, Kadir Erkan	512-106
A Training Simulator for the Angioplasty Intervention with a Web Portal for the Virtual Environment Searching	Giovanni Aloisio, Lucio T. De Paolis, Luciana Provenzano	512-426
Controller Design For Highly Nonlinear Systems	Amir Nassirharand	512-350
A Fuzzy and Rough Sets Approach for Recognition of Handwritten Thai Characters	Pisit Phokharatkul, Darunee Chatchawalanonth, Chom Kimpan	512-461
Induction Motor Identification Using Elman Neural Network	A.A. Akbari, K. Rahbar and M.J. Mohammadi Taghiabad	512-473
Fingerprint Ridge Orientation Estimation Based on Neural Network	En Zhu, Jian-Ping Yin, Guo-Min Zhang, Chun-Feng Hu	512-355
Multilayer Perceptrons applied to Automatic Microfossil Detection in Somosaguas Sur paleontologic site (Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain)	Nohemi Sala Burgos, Roberto Gil Pita	512-277
Strategic HI-POS, Intelligence Production Operating System: - Applying Advanced TPS to Toyota’s Global Production Strategy -	Hirohisa Sakai and Kakuro Amasaka	512-098
Constructing a Customer Science Application System “CS-CIANS” - Development of a Global Strategic Vehicle “Lexus” Utilizing New JIT -	Kakuro Amasaka	512-099
Real-Time Control of a Remotely Operated Vessel	R. Bachnak, C. Steidley, M. Mendez, J. Esparza, D. Davis	512-312

SESSION: Signal Processing

Chair: Roberto Gil Pita

Quality Control in the Radio Nacional de España Sound Archive Digitization Process	Roberto Gil-Pita, Raúl Vicen-Bueno, Enrique Alexandre-Cortizo,Juan C. Gómez-Cornejo, Miguel J. Rodeno-Arráez	512-253
Optimized Manufacturing Processes in Multimodel PCB Assembly	Kari Salonen, Timo Knuutila, Mika Johnsson, Olli S. Nevalainen	512-254
A Novel Approach for Extending Quantitative Feedback Theory on Nonlinear MIMO Systems	R. Esmaeilzadeh, M.Amjadi, M. Ataei, Gh. Alizadeh, S. B. Araghi, M. Fattah	512-129
Statistical Quality Monitoring of Chemical Processes: An stochastic approach	Alicia Tinnirello	512-210
SUS: Learning of the Categories of Visual Objects	Zbigniew Les, Magdalena Les	512-513
A Novel Nearest Feature Space Classifier for Face Recognition	Yan Chen, Qiong Li, Xiamu Niu, Hongzhi Zhang, Wangmeng Zuo, and Siming Liu	512-420
A hybrid lossless compression technique with segmentation and modified arithmetic coding	Mazhar Tayel, Mohamed Abdou	512-367

SESSION: Filters

Chair: Gulistan Raja, Manuel Utrilla-Manso, Jose Pineiro-Ave

In-Loop Deblocking Filter for JVT H.264/AVC	Gulistan Raja and Muhammad Javed Mirza	512-174
A Computer-Aided Method to Obtain the Actual Maximum Amplitude for Limit Cycles in Recursive Digital Filters	M. Utrilla-Manso, F. López-Ferreras, R. Mallol-Poyato, R.J. López-Sastre, J. Sánchez-Golmayo, R. Jiménez-Martínez	512-204
Estimation Level Fusion in Multisensor Environment	Vladimir Shin, Rashid Minhas, Georgy Shevlyakov, Kiseon Kim	512-341
Increasing multi-trackers robustness with a segmentation algorithm	Marta Marrón, Miguel Ángel Sotelo, Juan Carlos García	512-427
Kalman filtering for drift correction in IR detectors	J. Pineiro Ave, A. Artes Rodriguez, R. Sanchez Montero	512-452
A study on normalized LMS algorithm using refined filtering technique	Yusuke Tsuda,Tetsuya Shimamura	512-440
Wind Velocity Fluctuations Time Series Analysis	Ana M. Tarquis, M.C. Morató, M.T. Castellanos and J.L de Miguel	512-438
Pedestrian recognition in road sequences	I. Parra, D. Fernandez, M. A. Sotelo, P. Revenga, L. M. Bergasa, M. Ocaña, J. Nuevo, R. Flores	512-172
A New Approach on Grain Size Estimation from Airborne Hyperspectral Data	Vicente Bayarri, Elena Castillo, Rafael Ferrer, Javier Viguri	512-282
Use of Kaiser Window For ECG processing	Mahesh S. Chavan, Ra.Agarwala, M.D.Uplane	512-606

SESSION:

Chair: Antoine Abche, Charles Pinto, Thomas Yang

An Approach for the Evaluation of a 3-D Ultrasound Image Reconstruction technique	Antoine Abche, Aldo Maalouf,Elie Karam	512-222
Adaptive traffic road sign panels text extraction	A. Vázquez Reina, R. J. López Sastre, S. Lafuente Arroyo, P. Gil Jiménez	512-238
Experimental evaluation of static stiffness of a spatial translational parallel manipulator	Corral, J., Pinto, Ch., Altuzarra, O., Petuya, V., Del Pozo, D., López, J.M.	512-381
An Event Detection framework in video sequences Based on Hierarchic Event Structure Perception	Congyan Lang, De Xu	512-343
Block ICA for Image Suppression and Carrier Frequency Offset Correction in Diversity BPSK Receivers	Thomas Yang, Wasfy Mikhael	512-336
Relationship between the phase of the ongoing activity at the stimulus time and the N100 detected response using EEG recordings	Javier Diaz, George Zouridakis	512-097

Friday, February 17, 2006

SESSION: Controllers and Robotics

Chair: Rafic Bachnak, Chulhee Lee, Hamidullah Khan Niazi

Accurate Synchronised Position Cross-Coupling Motion Controller for Two-Wheel Mobile Robot	Omar Al-Ayasrah, T. Alukaidey, G. Pissanidis	512-168
The effect of joint movement on the nature frequencies of transmission line inspection robot	Xiaohui Xiao, Gongping Wu, Jun Wang, Jinmu Xie, Sanping Li	512-265
Tests on a real-time acoustic beamformer as a virtual instrument.	T. J. Moir	512-103
Detection by the stochastic classification matched filter	Nicolas Juennard, Bruno Borloz, Bernard Xerri	512-310
Extending MATLAB and GA to Solve Job Shop Manufacturing Scheduling Problems	Hamidullah Khan Niazi, Sun Hou-Fang, Zhang Fa-Ping, Riaz Ahmed	512-374
Objective video quality measurement using various degradation factors	Wonseok Ahn and Chulhee Lee	512-518
Bottom- up Cost Modelling for Bitstream Services in Broadband Access Networks	Klaus Hackbarth, Gabrielle Kulemkampff, Alexia Menendez, Laura Rodriguez de Lope	512-430

SESSION: Signal Processing and Applications

Chair: Shihua Ma, Xiao Xiaohui

The rigid-flexible coupling dynamics simulation of mobile robot and overhang flexible cable under crawling word state	Xiao Xiaohui, Gongping Wu, Li Sanping	512-482
How to measure the logistics capability in supply chain: Calculation model of circulation quantity and response time	Shihua Ma, Xiaoqun Liu	512-456
Models Of Radar Clutter From The Weibull Distribution	R. Vicen-Bueno, M. Rosa-Zurera, L. Cuadra-Rodriguez And D. De La Mata-Moya	512-278
Human Skeleton Proportions from Monocular Data	En Peng, Ling Li	512-600
Using ip datacast technology to make tv mobile	Stanislav Milanovic, Nikos Mastorakis	502-402 pp387-393