VOLUME CONTENTS Number 1 A. Barrero Inference of tree grammars using negative samples A. Barrero Unranked tree languages S. S. Chitoor, M. N. Murty and A new data structure HC-expression for learning from M. K. Bhandaru examples S. Ranka and T. Heywood Two-dimensional pattern matching with k mismatches Jia-Guu Leu and Hok-Lai Yau Detecting the dislocations in metal crystals from micro- scopic images W. Chen and B. C. Jiang 57 3-D camera calibration using vanishing point concept R. M. Haralick and L. G. Shapiro 69 Glossary of computer vision terms Software Survey Section Number 2 Wen-Hsiang Tsai and 95 Detection of generalized principal axes in rotationally Sheng-Lin Chou symmetric shapes I. Guyon, P. Albrecht, Y. Le Cun, 105 Design of a neural network character recognizer for a J. Denker and W. Hubbard touch terminal L. Likforman-Sulem, H. Maitre 121 An expert vision system for analysis of Hebrew charac- and C. Sirat ters and authentication of manuscripts E. Pietka 139 Feature extraction in computerized approach to the ECG analysis H. Yamada and K. Yamamoto 147 Recognition of echocardiograms by a dynamic program- ming matching method T. J. Majumdar and 157 Extraction of shoreline and drainage patterns from B. B. Bhattacharya aerial MSS thermal IR data over Cambay Basin, India— an attempt to automatize the threshold selection I. Pitas and A. Maglara 165 Range image analysis by using morphological signal decomposition G. Toussaint A counter-example to a convex hull algorithm for polygons Software Survey Section Volume Contents Number 3 Guangzheng Yang On the knowledge-based pattern recognition using syntactic approach F. Yeong-Chyang Shih Decomposition of gray-scale morphological structuring and O. R. Mitchell elements T. Kurita An efficient agglomerative clustering algorithm using a heap Zi-Quan Hong Algebraic feature extraction of image for recognition Tung-Hsin Su and Computing the constrained relative neighborhood Ruei-Chuan Chang graphs and constrained Gabriel graphs in Euclidean plane Tung-Hsin Su and Computing the k-relative neighborhood graphs in Ruei-Chuan Chang Euclidean plane Siu-Leong Iu and Kwangyoen Wohn Recovery of 3D motion of a single particle D. T. Pham and M. Abdollahi Automatic assembly of ocular fundus images O. Nakamura, S. Mathur Identification of human faces based on isodensity maps and T. Minami Software Survey Section Number 4 M. K. Bhandaru and M. N. Murty Incremental learning from examples using HC- expressions V. Valev and J. I. Zhuravlev Integer-valued problems of transforming the training tables in k-valued code in pattern recognition problems L. Dash and B. N. Chatterji Adaptive contrast enhancement and de-enhancement N. Kiryati, Y. Eldar and A probabilistic Hough transform A. M. Bruckstein Zi-Quan Hong and Jing-Yu Yang Optimal discriminant plane for a small number of samples and design method of classifier on the plane S. Spivak Some properties of the multisurface method for pattern classification Qiwen Zhang, Qen Ring Wang A clustering algorithm for data-sets with a large number and R. Boyle of classes Volume Contents Vv Y. Y. Tang, Y.Z. QuandC. Y. Suen 341 Miultiple-level information source and entropy-reduced transformation models Announcement 359 Software Survey Section I Number 5 M. Tiiceryan and T. Chorzempa 361 Relative sensitivity of a family of closest-point graphs in computer vision applications Zen Chen and Shinn-Ying Ho 375 Computer vision for robust 3D aircraft recognition with fast library search Dong-Chen He and Li Wang 391 Texture features based on texture spectrum S. Hazout and N. Q. Nguyen 401 Image analysis by morphological automata A. A. Rodriguez and O. R. Mitchell 409 Image segmentation by successive background extrac- tion P. Gader, B. Forester, 421 Recognition of handwritten digits using template and M. Ganzberger, A. Gillies, model matching B. Mitchell, M. Whalen and T. Yocum M. Maes 433 Polygonal shape recognition using string-matching tech- niques N. Ansari and E. J. Delp 441 On detecting dominant points S. A. Mahmoud, I. AbuHaiba and 453 Skeletonization of Arabic characters using clustering R. J. Green based skeletonization algorithm (CBSA) Software Survey Section Number 6 D. Ziou 465 Line detection using an optimal IIR filter H. Yamada, K. Yamamoto, 479 MAP: multi-angled parallelism for feature extraction T. Saito and S. Matsui from topographical maps Yuncai Liu and T. S. Huang 489 Determining straight line correspondences from inten- sity images S. M. Bhandarkar and Minsoo Suk 505 Sensitivity analysis for matching and pose computation using dihedral junctions J. Hecquard and R. Acharya 515 Connected component labeling with linear octree vi Volume contents M. A. Penna 533 Determining camera parameters from the perspective projection of a quadrilateral M. Aladjem 543 Parametric and nonparametric linear mappings of multi- dimensional data M. C. Fairhurst, 555 Matching structural and implementational models in the H. M. S. Abdel Wahab specification of image classifiers and P. Brittan K. Chidananda Gowda Symbolic clustering using a new dissimilarity measure and E. Diday C. Q. Shu and Y. Q. Shi On unified optical flow field Sei-Wang Chen and A. K. Jain Object extraction from laser radar imagery Announcement Software Survey Section Number 7 A. Kundu and Yang He On optimal order in modeling sequence of letters in words of common language as a Markov chain P. G. De Luca and A. Gisotti Printed character preclassification based on word structure Si Wei Lu, Ying Ren and Hierarchical attributed graph representation and recog- Ching Y. Suen nition of handwritten Chinese characters Chee-Woo Kang, Rae-Hong Park Extraction of straight line segments using rotation trans- and Kwae-Hi Lee formation: generalized Hough transformation G. A. W. West and P. L. Rosin Techniques for segmenting image curves into meaningful descriptions E. Salari and S. Balaji Recognition of partially occluded objects using B-spline representation A. Cumani, A. Guiducci and Image description of dynamic scenes P. Grattoni C. C. Chang and S. Y. Lee Retrieval of similar pictures on pictorial databases Y. Hamamoto, Y. Matsuura, A note on the orthonormal discriminant vector method T. Kanaoka and S. Tomita for feature extraction G. R. Dattatreya Unsupervised context estimation in a mesh of pattern classes for image recognition T. Taxt and E. Balviken Relaxation using models from quantum mechanics Volume Contents S. Kuo and G. R. Cross 711 A two-step string-matching procedure Software Survey Section I Number 8 Lih-Cherng Liu, D. Chiou and A speech recognition method based on feature Hsiao-Chuan Wang distributions Y. F. Wang and A. Pandey 723 A study on using structured lighting to analyze time varying image sequences S. Chaudhuri and S. Chatterjee 739 Motion analysis of a homogeneously deformable object using subset correspondences R. S. Mitra and N. N. Murthy 747 Elastic, maximal matching M. H. Benteftifa and L. Kurz 755 Two-dimensional object detection in correlated noise M. J. Atallah, C. C. Ribeiro 775 Computing some distance functions between polygons and §S. Lifschitz J. C. Bezdek, R. J. Hathaway 783 Numerical comparison of the RFCM and AP algorithms and M. P. Windham for clustering relational data T. Kumamoto, K. Toraichi, 793 On speeding candidate selection in handprinted Chinese T. Horiuchi, K. Yamamoto character recognition and H. Yamada X. Y. Jiang and H. Bunke Simple and fast computation of moments Bing-Cheng Li and Jun Shen Fast computation of moment invariants Software Survey Section Number 9 V. Sridhar and 815 Clustering algorithms for library comparison M. Narasimha Murty M. S. Kamel and S. Z. Selim 825 A thresholded fuzzy c-means algorithm for semi-fuzzy clustering Qiwen Zhang and R. D. Boyle 835 A new clustering algorithm with multiple runs of iterative procedures N. Ansari and Kuo-wei Huang 849 Non-parametric dominant point detection L. Bobrowski 863 Design of piecewise linear classifiers from formal neurons by a basis exchange technique F. Barlach 871 A linear classifier design approach Vili Volume Contents A. Blumenkrans 879 Two-dimensional object recognition using a _ two- dimensional polar transform N. S. V. Rao 891 On similarity between finite sets in plane J. S. Lipscomb 895 A trainable gesture recognizer I. Yoshimura and M. Yoshimura 909 Off-line writer verification using ordinary characters as the object Yi Pan A note on efficient parallel algorithms for the compu- tation of two-dimensional image moments Announcement Software Survey Section Number 10 Jian-Tong Wu, S. Tamura, Neural network vowel-recognition jointly using voice H. Mitsumoto, H. Kawai, features and mouth shape image K. Kurosu and K. Okazaki I. Dinstein, G. M. Landau and Parallel (PRAM EREW) algorithms for contour-based G. Guy 2D shape recognition L. Gupta and A. M. Upadhye Non-linear alignment of neural net outputs for partial shape classification Jia-Guu Leu Computing a shape’s moments from its boundary J. Rubinstein, J. Segman and Recognition of distorted patterns by invariance kernels Y. Zeevi F. Kimura and M. Shridhar Handwritten numerical recognition based on multiple algorithms Qinghan Xiao and H. Raafat Fingerprint image postprocessing: a combined statistical and structural approach M. Spann Figure/ground separation using stochastic pyramid relinking S. Z. Selim and K. Alsultan A simulated annealing algorithm for the clustering problem M. Flasinski and G. Lewicki The convergent method of constructing polynomial discriminant functions for pattern recognition Announcements Software Survey Section Volume Contents Number 11 R. Bornstein and 1019 Finding the kernel of planar shapes A. M. Bruckstein Sheng -Ching Jeng and 1037 Scale- and orientation-invariant generalized Hough Wen-Hsiang Tsai transform—a new approach C. C. Chang, S. M. Hwang 1053 A shape recognition scheme based on relative distances and D. J. Buehrer of feature points from the centroid Y. F. Wang, N. Karandikar 1065 Analysis of video image sequences using point and line and J. K. Aggarwal correspondences Jian-xiong Wu and 1085 Recognition of phonetic labels of the TIMIT speech Chorkin Chan corpus by means of an artificial neural network Chung -Hsien Wu, 1093 A shunting multilayer perceptron network for Jhing-Fa Wang confusing/composite pattern recognition and Wen-Horng Wu Yu Xiaohan, Juha Yla-Jdadéski A new algorithm for texture segmentation based on edge and Yuan Baozong detection N. B. Venkateswarlu Three stage ML classifier and P. S. V. S. K. Raju Software Survey Section Number 12 S. O. Belkasim, M. Shridhar and 1117 Pattern recognition with moment invariants: a compara- M. Ahmadi tive study and new results M. K. Leung and T. S. Huang 1139 Detecting the wheel pattern of a vehicle using stereo images M. G. Albanesi and M. Ferretti 1153 Shape detection with limited memory A. K. Jain and F. Farrokhnia 1167 Unsupervised texture segmentation using Gabor filters D.-C. He and L. Wang 1187 Textural filters based on the texture spectrum C. E. Priebe and D. J. 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