This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition, DAGM 2006. The book presents 32 revised full papers and 44 revised poster papers together with 5 invited papers. Topical sections include image filtering, restoration and segmentation, shape analysis and representation, recognition, categorization and detection, computer vision and image retrieval, machine learning and statistical data analysis, biomedical data analysis, and more.

For Recent Progress in Brain and Cognitive Engineering

Brain and Cognitive Engineering is a converging study field to derive a better understanding of cognitive information processing in the human brain, to develop human-like and neuromorphic artificial intelligent systems and to help predict and analyze brain-related diseases.

The key concept of Brain and Cognitive Engineering is to understand the Brain, to interface the Brain, and to engineer the Brain. It could help us to understand the structure and the key principles of high-order information processing on how...