**Meet the editor**

Ricardo López-Ruiz, M.S., Ph.D., works as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Science, University of Zaragoza, Spain. He also serves as an Associate Researcher in Complex Systems at the School of Mathematics, University of Zaragoza. He also worked as a Lecturer in the University of Navarra, the Public University

of Navarra and the UNED of Calatayud. He completed his postdoc with Prof. Yves Pomeau at the École Normale Supérieure of Paris and with Prof. Gabriel Mindlin at the University of Buenos Aires. His areas of interest include statistical complexity and nonlinear models, chaotic maps and applications, multiagent systems, and econo-physics.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Algorithms 3**

**Recognition 21**

Fonseca

**Section 3 Face Recognition 89**

Chih-Wei Lin

**Section 1 Speech Extraction and Recognition 1**

Chapter 1 **Some Commonly Used Speech Feature Extraction**

Chapter 2 **Convolutional Neural Networks for Raw Speech**

**Section 2 Acoustic and Learning Applications 41**

Vishal Passricha and Rajesh Kumar Aggarwal

**Scenarios for Urban Representation 43**

Ramirez and Jocelyn Pamela Garcia-Duran

Chapter 5 **Local Patterns for Face Recognition 91**

Sabur Ajibola Alim and Nahrul Khair Alang Rashid

Chapter 3 **Evaluation between Virtual Acoustic Model and Real Acoustic**

Chapter 4 **Formative E-Assessment of Schema Acquisition in the Human Lexicon as a Tool in Adaptive Online Instruction 69**

Josep Llorca, Héctor Zapata, Jesús Alba, Ernest Redondo and David

Guadalupe Elizabeth Morales-Martinez, Yanko Norberto Mezquita-Hoyos, Claudia Jaquelina Gonzalez-Trujillo, Ernesto Octavio Lopez-
