VOLUME CONTENTS Number 1 SPECIAL ISSUE: IMAGE REGISTRATION A. A. Goshtasby and J. Le Moigne l Image registration: Guest Editors’ introduction K. Rohr Extraction of 3d anatomical point landmarks based on invariance principles D. M. Mount, N.S. Netanyahu 17 Efficient algorithms for robust feature matching and J. Le Moigne C. Shekhar, V. Govindu 39 Multisensor image registration by feature consensus and R. Chellappa D. Fischer, P. Kohlhepp and F. Bulling An evolutionary algorithm for the registration of 3-d surface representations C. Studholme, D. L. G. Hill and 71 An overlap invariant entropy measure of 3D medical D. J. Hawkes image alignment M. Gabrani and O. J. Tretiak Surface-based matching using elastic transformations J. C. Gee On matching brain volumes M. Chen, T. Kanade, D. Pomerleau Anomaly detection through registration and H. A. Rowley H. Lester and S. R. Arridge 129 A survey of hierarchical non-linear medical image registration Number 2 D. Shen and H. H. S. Ip 151 Discriminative wavelet shape descriptors for recognition of 2-D patterns Y. Lei and K. C. Wong 167 Detection and localisation of reflectional and rotational symmetry under weak perspective projection O. Chutatape and L. Guo 181 A modified Hough transform for line detection and its performance P. Scheunders and S. De Backer High-dimensional clustering using frequency sensitive competitive learning J. J. Guerrero and C. Sagties 203 Camera motion from brightness on lines. Combination of features and normal flow Ill IV Volume Contents V. E. Ramesh and 217 Off-line signature verification using genetically optimized M. Narasimha Murthy weighted features E. Bribiesca 235 A new chain code Special Issue: Languages for Image Processing and Pattern Recognition N. G. Bourbakis Languages for image processing and pattern recognition: Preface S. F. Thompson and Parallel array grammars as models for the growth of A. Rosenfeld planar patterns K. Morita and K. Imai Uniquely parsable aray grammars for generating and parsing connected patterns K. Aizawa and A. Nakamura Parsing of two-dimensional images represented by quad- tree adjoining grammars R. Siromoney, Some results on picture languages K. G. Subramanian, V. R. Dare and D. G. Thomas K. M. Hussein, A. Agarwal, 305 A knowledge-based segmentation algorithm for A. Gupta and P. S. P. Wang enhanced recognition of handwritten courtesy amounts N. G. Bourbakis and 317 A fractal-based image processing language: formal C. Alexopoulos modeling Number 3 A. A. Y. Mustafa, L. G. Shapiro 339 3D object identification with color and curvature and M. A. Ganter signatures H.-K. Kong, Y.-C. Myung 357 3-D analysis of projective textures using structural and J.-S. Choi approaches A. Giraldo, A. Gross and 365 Digitizations preserving shape L. J. Latecki A. Laurentini 377 Computing the visual hull of solids of revolution D.-M. Tsai and C.-F. Tseng 389 Surface roughness classification for castings A. Gross and L. J. Latecki 407 Digital geometric methods in document image analysis K. Hattori and M. Takahashi 425 A new nearest-neighbor rule in the pattern classification problem Volume Contents V Special Issue: Colour and Texture Anaylsis A. D. Bimbo 433 Editorial: Special Issue on Color and Texture Analysis S. V. Assche, W. Philips and 435 Lossless compression of pre-press image using a novel I. Lemahieu colour decorrelation G. V. De Wouwer, P. Scheunders, 443 Wavelet correlation signatures for color texture S. Livens and D. V. Dyck characterization T. Gevers and W. M. Smeulders 453 Color based object recognition E. Boldrin and R. Schettini 465 Faithful cross-media color matching using neural networks T. Ojala and M. Pietikdinen 477 Unsupervised texture segmentation using feature distributions D. Chetverikov Texture analysis using feature based pairwise interaction maps J. R. S. Alvarez and Texture frame curves and regions of attention using J. B. Subirana-Vilanova adaptive non-cartesian networks P. Pala and S§. Santini Image retrieval by shape and texture Number 4 W. P. Yu, G. W. Chu and M. J. Chung 529 A robust line extraction method by unsupervised line clustering L. Zhao and Y.-H. Yang 547 Theoretical analysis of illumination in PCA-based vision systems T.-H. Kim, T.-H. Cho, Y. S. Moon and 565 Visual inspection system for the classification of solder S. H. Park joints K. S. Kumar and U. B. Desai 577 Joint segmentation and image interpretation Z. Kato, J. Zerubia and M. Berthod 591 Unsupervised parallel image classification using Markovian models S. Baheerathan, F. Albregtsen and 605 New texture features based on the complexity curve H. E. Danielsen T. Kampke and R. Kober 619 Discrete signal quantization L. Guo and O. Chutatape 635 Influence of discretization in image space on Hough transform A. Ting, M. K. H. Leung 645 Form recognition using linear structure VI Volume Contents M. R. Mahzoun, J. Kim, S. Sawazaki, 657 A scaled multigrid optical flow algorithm based on the K. Okazaki and S. Tamura least RMS error between real and estimated second images M. Flasinski and J. Jurek 671 Dynamically programmed automata for quasi context sensitive languages as a tool for inference support in pattern recognition-based real-time control expert systems D. Zhang and W. Shu 691 Two novel characteristics in palmprint verification: datum point invariance and line feature matching K. Aas, L. Eikvil and R. B. Huseby 703 Applications of hidden Markov chains in image analysis Number 5 D. T. Pham and V. Aslantas 715 Depth from defocusing using a neural network Y. K. Ham and R.-H. Park 729 3D object recognition in range images using hidden markov models and neural networks J.-H. Jang and K.-S. Hong 743 Binarization of noisy gray-scale character images by thin line modeling S. Jaggi, W. C. Karl, S. G. Mallat 753 Silhouette recognition using high-resolution pursuit and A. S. Willsky Y. Chitre and A. P. Dhawan 773 M-band wavelet discrimination of natural textures S. Messelodi and C. M. Modena 791 Automatic identification and skew estimation of text lines in real scene images S. J. Perantonis, B. Gatos 811 Block decomposition and segmentation for fast Hough and N. Papamarkos transform evaluation H. D. Cheng and Y.-H. Chen 825 Fuzzy partition of two-dimensional histogram and its application to thresholding A. I. Bykov, L. G. Zerkalov 845 Index of a point of 3-D digital binary image and and M. A. R. Pineda algorithm for computing its Euler characteristic L. Zhao and Y.-H. Yang 851 An efficient algorithm to compute eigenimages in PCA- based vision systems F. Jurie 865 A new log-polar mapping for space variant imaging. Application to face detection and tracking A. Farina, Z. M. Kovacs-Vajna 877 Fingerprint minutiae extraction from skeletonized binary and A. Leone images Volume Contents Vil O. Tsujii, M. T. Freedman 891 Classification of microcalcifications in digital mammo- and S. K. Mun grams using trend-oriented radial basis function neural network J. Majumdar 905 Corrigendum Number 6 D. Ghosh and A. P. Shivaprasad 907 An analytic approach for generation of artificial hand- printed character database from given generative models Z. Lu, Z. Chi, W.-C. Siu and P. Shi 921 A background-thinning-based approach for separating and recognizing connected handwritten digit strings J.J. Zhou and H. Yan 935 Extracting strokes from static line images based on selective searching G. Agam and I. Dinstein 947 Regulated morphological operations T. K. Dinda, K. S. Ray and 973 Fuzzy relational calculus approach to multidimensional M. K. Chakraborty pattern classification G. Ritter and K. Gaggermeier 997 Automatic classification of chromosomes by means of quadratically asymmetric statistical distributions P.-H. Suen and G. Healey 1009 Modeling and classifying color textures using random fields in a random environment C. Arcelli 1019 Topological changes in grey-tone digital pictures N. Guil, J. M. Gonzalez-Linares 1025 Bidimensional shape detection using an _ invariant and E. L. Zapata apporach Q. Yang and S. D. Ma 1039 Matching using schwarz integrals C. Bahlmann, G. Heidemann 1049 Artificial neural networks for automated quality control and H. Ritter of textile seams J. Han and W. Gao 1061 Robust telephone speech recognition based on channel compensation F. Jurie 1067 Robust hypothesis verification: application to model- based object recognition Number 7 G. Chen and T. D. Bui 1083 Invariant Fourier-wavelet descriptor for pattern recognition N. Zahid, M. Limouri and A. Essaid 1089 A new cluster-validity for fuzzy clustering Vill Volume Contents K.-F. Chan and D.-Y. Yeung 1099 Recognizing on-line handwritten alphanumeric characters through flexible structural matching M. Okamoto and K. Yamamoto 1115 On-line handwriting character recognition using direction-change features that consider imaginary strokes E. A. Maharaj Comparison and classification of stationary multivariate time series N. M. Adams and D. J. Hand 1139 Comparing classifiers when the misallocation costs are uncertain S. Kundu 1149 Gravitational clustering: a new approach based on the spatial distribution of the points C. Brumbley and C.-I. Chang 1163 An unsupervised vector quantization-based target subspace projection approach to mixed pixel detection and classification in unknown background for remotely sensed imagery G. Bebis, G. Papadourakis and 1175 Curvature scale-space-driven object recognition with an S. Orphanoudakis indexing scheme based on artificial neural networks F. Y. Shih and W.-T. Wong 1203 A one-pass algorithm for local symmetry of contours from chain codes R. C. Wilson and E. R. Hancock 1211 Consistent topographic surface labelling G. Borgefors, I. Nystrom and 1225 Computing skeletons in three dimensions G. S. Di Baja J. Miao, B. Yin, K. Wang, L. Shen 1237 A hierarchical multiscale and multiangle system for and X. Chen human face detection in a complex background using gravity-center template T. Pham and M. Wagner 1249 Ambiguity reduction in speaker identification by the relaxation labelling process M. L. Williams, R. C. Wilson 1255 Deterministic search for relational graph matching and E. R. Hancock X. Jiang and H. Bunke 1273 Optimal quadratic-time isomorphism of ordered graphs T. Hogg, D. Rees and H. Talhami 1287 Explicit inversion: an approach to image analysis M. Daoudi, F. Ghorbel, A. Mokadem, 1299 Shape distances for contour tracking and motion O. Avaro and H. Sanson estimation Number 8 K. Kuroda, K. Harada and 1307 Large scale on-line handwritten Chinese character M. Hagiwara recognition using successor method based on stochastic regular grammar Volume Contents IX J. Hu, H. Yan and M. Sakalli 1317 Locating head and face boundaries for head-shoulder images G. C. Charters and J. Graham 1335 Trainable grey-level models for disentangling over- lapping chromosomes C. Nikou, F. Heitz and J.-P. Armspach 1351 Robust voxel similarity metrics for the registration of dissimilar single and multimodal images M. S. Drew, J. Wei and Z.-N. Li 1369 Illumination-invariant image retrieval and video segmentation S. Singh 1389 Noise impact on time-series forecasting using an intelligent pattern matching technique T.-M. Tu, H.-C. Shyu, C.H. Lee 1399 An oblique subspace projection approach for mixed pixel and C.I. Chang classification in hyperspectral images S.-C. Huang and Y.-N. Sun 1409 Polygonal approximation using genetic algorithms L. Zhao and Y.-H. Yang 1421 Mosaic image method: a local and global method P. Foggia, C. Sansone, F. Tortorella 1435 Multiclassification: reject criteria for the Bayesian and M. Vento combiner P. Vasseur, C. Pegard, E. Mouaddib 1449 Perceptual organization approach based on Dempster- and L. Delahoche Shafer theory S. R. Gunn 1463 On the discrete representation of the Laplacian of Gaussian Number 9 SPECIAL ISSUE: RANDOM SETS E. R. Dougherty and I. S. Molchanov 1473 Special Issue on Random Sets. Introduction J. L. Davidson, N. Cressie and X. Hua 1475 Texture synthesis and pattern recognition for partially ordered Markov models N. Friel and I. S. Molchanov 1507 A new threshold technique based on random sets P. Hall and I. S. Molchanov 1519 Corrections for systematic boundary effects in pixel- based area counts J. C. Handley and E. R. Dougherty 1529 Maximum-likelihood estimation and optimal filtering in the nondirectional, one-dimensional binomial germ- grain model 1543 Conditional expectation and martingales of random sets C. Hess W.S. Kendall and E. Thonnes 1569 Perfect simulation in stochastic geometry X Volume Contents G. Last and M. Holtmann 1587 Onthe empty space function of some germ-grain models H. Le and C. G. Small 1601 Multidimensional scaling of simplex shapes T. Lewis, R. Owens and A. Baddeley 1615 Averaging feature maps M. N. M. van Lieshout 1631 Size-biased random closed sets J. Mecke 1645 On the relationship between the 0-cell and the typical cell of a stationary random tessellation M. Nippe and J. Ohser 1649 The stereological unfolding problem for systems of homothetic particles F. Sand and E. R. Dougherty 1657 Robustness of granulometric moments N. D. Sidiropoulos 1667 On the tractability of estimating the germ process of certain germ-grain random set models and related problems W. Weil 1675 _—_—I ntensity analysis of Boolean models Number 10 C. Colombo and A. D. Bimbo 1685 Color-induced image representation and retrieval W-S. Chou 1697 Classifying image pixels into shaped, smooth, and textured points T. Kondo and H. Yan 1707. Automatic human face detection and recognition under non-uniform illumination A. R. Jimenez, A. K. Jain, R. Ceres 1719 Automatic fruit recognition: a survey and new results and J. L. Pons using Range/Attenuation images N. Rajpal, S. Chaudhury 1737 Recognition of partially occluded objects using neural and S. Banerjee network based indexing L. Wiskott 1751 Segmentation from motion: combining Gabor- and Mallat-wavelets to overcome the aperture and correspondence problems C. Knoll, M. Alcaniz, V. Grau, 1767 Outlining of the prostate using snakes with shape C. Monserrat and M. C. Juan restrictions based on the wavelet transform (Doctoral Thesis: Dissertation) G. Bebis, M. Georgiopoulos, 1783 Learning affine transformations N. da Vitoria Lobo and M. Shah P. S. Wu and M. Li 1801 Supervised and unsupervised fuzzy-adaptive hamming net Volume Contents XI Rapid And Brief Communications S. M. Yamany, M. N. Ahmed 1817 A new genetic-based technique of matching 3-D curves and A. A. Farag and surfaces E. N. Zois and V. Anastassopoulos 1821 Fusion of correlated decisions for writer verification I Call for Papers Number 11 SPECIAL ISSUE: FUZZY IMAGE PROCESSING I. Bloch and A. L. Ralescu 1825 Special Issue of Pattern Recognition of Fuzzy Image Processing A. Steudel and M. Glesner 1827 Fuzzy segmented image coding using orthonormal bases and derivative chain coding F. Russo 1843 Hybrid neuro-fuzzy filter for impulse noise removal P. Lambert and T. Carron 1857 Symbolic fusion of luminance-hue-chroma features for region segmentation I. Bloch 1873 On fuzzy distances and their use in image processing under imprecision M. Barni and R. Gualtieri 1897. A new possibilistic clustering algorithm for line detection in real world imagery O. Strauss 1911 Use the Fuzzy Hough transform towards reduction of the precision/uncertainty duality A. L. Ralescu and J. G. Shanahan 1923 Perceptual organization for inferring object boundaries in an image Number 12 J-S. Lee, O-J. Kwon and S-Y. Bang 1935 Highly accurate recognition of printed Korean characters through an improved two-stage classification method H-P. Chiu and D-C. Tseng 1947 A novel stroke-based feature extraction for handwritten Chinese character recognition J. M. Sanchiz and F. Pla 1961 Feature correspondence and motion recovery in vehicle planar navigation B. T. Messmer and H. Bunke 1979 A decision tree approach to graph and subgraph isomor- phism detection XII Volume Contents R. Krishnan, G. Sivakumar and 1999 Extracting decision trees from trained neural networks P. Bhattacharya 2011 Fuzzy feature selection M. R. Rezaee, B. Goedhart, B. P. F. Lelieveldt and J. H. C. Reiber S. Madhvanath and V. Govindaraju 2021 Local reference lines for handwritten phrase recognition J-B. Huang, Z. Chen and J-Y. Lin 2029 A study on the dual vanishing point property M. Yoshimura and S. Oe 2041 Evolutionary segmentation of texture image using genetic algorithms towards automatic decision of optimum number of segmentation areas X-J. Wu, Y-J. Zhang and L-Z. Xia 2055 A fast recurring two-dimensional entropic thresholding algorithm Rapid and Brief Communications P. Klausmann, K. Kroschel and 2063 Performance prediction of vehicle detection algorithms D. Willersinn 2067 Shift detection by restoration K. Voss, H. Suesse, W. Ortmann and T. Baumbach A. Howard and C. Padgett 2069 A generalized approach to real-time pattern recognition in sensed data S. Qiang and A. Chouchoulas 2073 Combining rough sets and data-driven fuzzy learning for generation of classification rules S. Bermejo and J. Cabestany 2077 Adaptive soft k-nearest-neighbor classifiers M. Carozza and S. Rampone 2081 Function approximation from noisy data by an incre- mental RBF network