Volume 15, Number 1, January 1993

Editorial

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  Anil K. Jain: Editorial. 1-2

Papers

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  Fatih Ulupinar, Ramakant Nevatia: Perception of 3-D Surfaces from 2-D Contours. 3-18
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  Robert Bergevin, Martin D. Levine: Generic Object Recognition: Building and Matching Coarse Descriptions from Line Drawings. 19-36
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  Ken-ichi Kanatani: Unbiased Estimation and Statistical Analysis of 3-D Rigid Motion from Two Views. 37-50
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  J. Brian Burns, Richard S. Weiss, Edward M. Riseman: View Variation of Point-Set and Line-Segment Features. 51-68
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  Ling Tony Chen, Larry S. Davis, Clyde P. Kruskal: Efficient Parallel Processing of Image Contours. 69-81

Correspondence

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  Masanobu Yamamoto, Pierre Boulanger, J.-Angelo Beraldin, Marc Rioux: Direct Estimation of Range Flow on Deformable Shape From a Video Rate Range Camera. 82-89
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  Stephen P. Smith: Threshold Validity for Mutual Neighborhood Clustering. 89-92

Volume 15, Number 2, February 1993

Papers

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  John Ens, Peter Lawrence: An Investigation of Methods for Determining Depth from Focus. 97-108
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  David W. Eggert, Kevin W. Bowyer: Computing the Perspective Projection Aspect Graph of Solids of Revolution. 109-128
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  Jens Gregor, Michael G. Thomason: Dynamic Programming Alignment of Sequences Representing Cyclic Patterns. 129-135
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  Shinji Umeyama: Parameterized Point Pattern Matching and Its Application to Recognition of Object Families. 136-144
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  Lorenza Saitta, Francesco Bergadano: Pattern Recognition and Valiant's Learning Framework. 145-155

Correspondence

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  Giuseppe Coppini, M. Demi, Riccardo Poli, Guido Valli: An Artificial Vision System for X-ray Images of Human Coronary Trees. 156-162
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  William B. Thompson, Pamela Lechleider, Elizabeth R. Stuck: Detecting Moving Objects Using the Rigidity Constraint. 162-166
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  Berthold K. P. Horn, Richard Szeliski, Alan L. Yuille: Impossible Shaded Images. 166-170
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  Jack-Gérard Postaire, R. D. Zhang, C. Lecocq-Botte: Cluster Analysis by Binary Morphology. 170-180
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  Yih-Tay Tsay, Wen-Hsiang Tsai: Attributed String Matching by Split-and-Merge for On-Line Chinese Character Recognition. 180-185
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  B. John Oommen, Jack R. Zgierski: Breaking Substitution Cyphers Using Stochastic Automata. 185-192

Volume 15, Number 3, March 1993

Introduction to the Special Section on Probabilistic Reasoning

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  H. R. Keshavan: Introduction to the Special Section on Probabilistic Reasoning. 193-195

Papers

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  Robert P. Goldman, Eugene Charniak: A Language for Construction of Belief Networks. 196-208
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  Robert G. Cowell, A. Philip Dawid, David J. Spiegelhalter: Sequential Model Criticism in Probabilistic Expert Systems. 209-219
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  Moisés Goldszmidt, Paul H. Morris, Judea Pearl: A Maximum Entropy Approach to Nonmonotonic Reasoning. 220-232
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  Raj Bhatnagar, Laveen N. Kanal: Structural and Probabilistic Knowledge for Abductive Reasoning. 233-245
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  Paul Dagum, R. Martin Chavez: Approximating Probabilistic Inference in Bayesian Belief Networks. 246-255
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  Sudeep Sarkar, Kim L. Boyer: Integration, Inference, and Management of Spatial Information Using Bayesian Networks: Perceptual Organization. 256-274

Correspondence

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  Kristian G. Olesen: Causal Probabilistic Networks with Both Discrete and Continuous Variables. 275-279
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  Kenneth W. Fertig, John S. Breese: Probability Intervals Over Influence Diagrams. 280-286
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  Michael P. Wellman, Max Henrion: Explaining 'Explaining Away'. 287-292
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  David Heckerman, Eric Horvitz, Blackford Middleton: An Approximate Nonmyopic Computation for Value of Information. 292-298
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  Gregory M. Provan, John R. Clarke: Dynamic Network Construction and Updating Techniques for the Diagnosis of Acute Abdominal Pain. 299-307

Correspondence

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  John Oliensis: Local Reproducible Smoothing Without Shrinkage. 307-312
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  Wei-Tsih Lee, Manoel Fernando Tenorio: On an Asymptotically Optimal Adaptive Classifier Design Criterion. 312-318

Volume 15, Number 4, April 1993

Papers

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  Yao Wang, Sanjit K. Mitra: Image Representation Using Block Pattern Models and Its Image Processing Applications. 321-336
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  Naonori Ueda, Satoshi Suzuki: Learning Visual Models from Shape Contours Using Multiscale Convex/Concave Structure Matching. 337-352
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  Masatoshi Okutomi, Takeo Kanade: A Multiple-Baseline Stereo. 353-363
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  Michael Unser, Akram Aldroubi, Murray Eden: The L₂-Polynomial Spline Pyramid. 364-379
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  Hiromitsu Yamada, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Katsumi Hosokawa: Directional Mathematical Morphology and Reformalized Hough Transformation for the Analysis of Topographic Maps. 380-387
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  Chulhee Lee, David A. Landgrebe: Feature Extraction Based on Decision Boundaries. 388-400

Correspondence

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  Massimo Tistarelli, Giulio Sandini: On the Advantages of Polar and Log-Polar Mapping for Direct Estimation of Time-To-Impact from Optical Flow. 401-410
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  Guido M. Cortelazzo, M. Balanza: Frequency Domain Analysis of Translations with Piecewise Cubic Trajectories. 411-416

Volume 15, Number 5, May 1993

Papers

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  Jasna Maver, Ruzena Bajcsy: Occlusions as a Guide for Planning the Next View. 417-433
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  Enrico De Micheli, Vincent Torre, Sergio Uras: The Accuracy of the Computation of Optical Flow and of the Recovery of Motion Parameters. 434-447
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  José Oncina, Pedro Garcia, Enrique Vidal: Learning Subsequential Transducers for Pattern Recognition Interpretation Tasks. 448-458
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  Robert A. Hummel, Venkataraman Sundareswaran: Motion Parameter Estimation from Global Flow Field Data. 459-476

Correspondence

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  Andrew Blake, D. McCowen, H. R. Lo, P. J. Lindsey: Trinocular Active Range-Sensing. 477-483
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  Christian Ronse: On Idempotence and Related Requirements in Edge Detection. 484-491
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  Muhittin Gökmen, Ching-Chung Li: Edge Detection and Surface Reconstruction Using Refined Regularization. 492-499
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  Stefano Alliney: Digital Analysis of Rotated Images. 499-504
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  Joseph Gil, Michael Werman: Computing 2-D Min, Median, and Max Filters. 504-507
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  Predrag Minovic, Seiji Ishikawa, Kiyoshi Kato: Symmetry Identification of a 3-D Object Represented by Octree. 507-514
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  Alicia D'Anjou, Manuel Graña, Francisco Javier Torrealdea, M. C. Hernández: Solving Satisfiability Via Boltzmann Machines. 514-521
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  H. A. Almohamad, Salih O. Duffuaa: A Linear Programming Approach for the Weighted Graph Matching Problem. 522-525

Volume 15, Number 6, June 1993

Introduction to the Special Section on 3-D Modeling in Image Analysis

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  Thomas S. Huang, Peter Stucki: Introduction to the Special Section on 3-D Modeling in Image Analysis. 529-530

Papers

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  Shujun Zhang, Geoffrey D. Sullivan, Keith D. Baker: The Automatic Construction of a View-Independent Relational Model for 3-D Object Recognition. 531-544
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  Haibo Li, Pertti Roivainen, Robert Forchheimer: 3-D Motion Estimation in Model-Based Facial Image Coding. 545-555
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  Reinhard Koch: Dynamic 3-D Scene Analysis Through Synthesis Feedback Control. 556-568
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  Demetri Terzopoulos, Keith Waters: Analysis and Synthesis of Facial Image Sequences Using Physical and Anatomical Models. 569-579
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  Dimitris N. Metaxas, Demetri Terzopoulos: Shape and Nonrigid Motion Estimation Through Physics-Based Synthesis. 580-591

Correspondence

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  Omar E. Vaga, Yee-Hong Yang: Shading Logic: A Heuristic Approach to Recover Shape from Shading. 592-597
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  Raj Talluri, J. K. Aggarwal: Image Map Correspondence for Mobile Robot Self-Location Using Computer Graphics. 597-601
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  Ali Azarbayejani, Thad Starner, Bradley Horowitz, Alex Pentland: Visually Controlled Graphics. 602-605
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  Kevin W. Bowyer, Maha Sallam, David W. Eggert, John H. Stewman: Computing the Generalized Aspect Graph for Objects with Moving Parts. 605-610
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  Wen-Chen Huang, Dmitry B. Goldgof: Adaptive-Size Meshes for Rigid and Nonrigid Shape Analysis and Synthesis. 611-616

Papers

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  Frederic F. Leymarie, Martin D. Levine: Tracking Deformable Objects in the Plane Using an Active Contour Model. 617-634
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  John M. Gauch, Stephen M. Pizer: Multiresolution Analysis of Ridges and Valleys in Grey-Scale Images. 635-646

Correspondence

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  Minoru Maruyama, Shigeru Abe: Range Sensing by Projecting Multiple Slits with Random Cuts. 647-651
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  Jens Gregor, Michael G. Thomason: Hybrid Pattern Recognition Using Markov Networks. 651-656

Volume 15, Number 7, July 1993

Papers

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  Lingxiao Li, James S. Duncan: 3-D Translational Motion and Structure from Binocular Image Flows. 657-667
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  Baba C. Vemuri, Ravi Malladi: Constructing Intrinsic Parameters with Active Models for Invariant Surface Reconstruction. 668-681
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  P. H. Gregson: Using Angular Dispersion of Gradient Direction for Detecting Edge Ribbons. 682-696
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  Gary Whitten: Scale Space Tracking and Deformable Sheet Models for Computational Vision. 697-706
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  Sing Bing Kang, Katsushi Ikeuchi: The Complex EGI: A New Representation for 3-D Pose Determination. 707-721
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  Francis K. H. Quek, Ramesh Jain, Terry E. Weymouth: An Abstraction-Based Approach to 3-D Pose Determination from Range Images. 722-736
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  Mukkai S. Krishnamoorthy, George Nagy, Sharad C. Seth, Mahesh Viswanathan: Syntactic Segmentation and Labeling of Digitized Pages from Technical Journals. 737-747

Correspondence

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  Wei Qian, D. M. Titterington: Bayesian Image Restoration: An Application to Edge-Preserving Surface Recovery. 748-752

Volume 15, Number 8, August 1993

Papers

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  John M. Gauch, Stephen M. Pizer: The Intensity Axis of Symmetry and Its Application to Image Segmentation. 753-770
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  Frank P. Ferrie, Jean Lagarde, Peter Whaite: Darboux Frames, Snakes, and Super-Quadrics: Geometry from the Bottom Up. 771-784
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  Kenneth Rose, Eitan Gurewitz, Geoffrey Fox: Constrained Clustering as an Optimization Method. 785-794
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  William A. C. Schmidt, Jon P. Davis: Pattern Recognition Properties of Various Feature Spaces for Higher Order Neural Networks. 795-801

Correspondence

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  Yuncai Liu, Thomas S. Huang: Vehicle-Type Motion Estimation From Multi-Frame Images. 802-808
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  Xiaolin Wu: Adaptive Split-and-Merge Segmentation Based on Piecewise Least-Square Approximation. 808-815
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  Kyoung Mu Lee, C. C. Jay Kuo: Shape from Shading with a Linear Triangular Element Surface Model. 815-822
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  James W. Cooper, Svetha Venkatesh, Leslie J. Kitchen: Early Jump-Out Corner Detectors. 823-828
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  Richard W. Hall: Optimally Small Operator Supports for Fully Parallel Thinning Algorithms. 828-833
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  Shimon Edelman: On Learning to Recognize 3-D Objects from Examples. 833-837
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  Xiaofei Huang, Jun Gu, Youshou Wu: A Constrained Approach to Multifont Chinese Character Recognition. 838-843
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  Anil K. Jain: Editor's Notice. 849

Volume 15, Number 9, September 1993

Papers

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  Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Gregory A. Klanderman, William Rucklidge: Comparing Images Using the Hausdorff Distance. 850-863
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  Juyang Weng, Narendra Ahuja, Thomas S. Huang: Optimal Motion and Structure Estimation. 864-884
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  Harpreet S. Sawhney, John Oliensis, Allen R. Hanson: Image Description and 3-D Reconstruction From Image Trajectories of Rotational Motion. 885-898
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  Laurent Hérault, Radu Horaud: Figure-Ground Discrimination: A Combinatorial Optimization Approach. 899-914
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  R. Mahesh K. Sinha, Birendra Prasada, Gilles F. Houle, Michael Sabourin: Hybrid Contextural Text Recognition with String Matching. 915-925
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  Andrés Marzal, Enrique Vidal: Computation of Normalized Edit Distance and Applications. 926-932
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  Sanjeev R. Kulkarni, Sanjoy K. Mitter, John N. Tsitsiklis, Ofer Zeitouni: PAC Learning with Generalized Samples and an Applicaiton to Stochastic Geometry. 933-942

Correspondence

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  Isaac Weiss: Noise-Resistant Invariants of Curves. 943-948
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  Michael Lindenbaum, Alfred M. Bruckstein: On Recursive, O(N) Partitioning of a Digitized Curve into Digital Straight Segments. 949-953
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  Jean-Jules Brault, Rejean Plamondon: Segmenting Handwritten Signatures at Their Perceptually Important Points. 953-957
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  András Faragó, Tamás Linder, Gábor Lugosi: Fast Nearest-Neighbor Search in Dissimilarity Spaces. 957-962
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  Norman P. Archer, Shouhong Wang: Learning Bias in Neural Networks and an Approach to Controlling Its Effect in Monotonic Classification. 962-966
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  A. C. Cem Say, Selahattin Kuru: Improved Filtering for the QSIM Algorithm. 967-971

Volume 15, Number 10, October 1993

Papers

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  Hillel Rom, Gérard G. Medioni: Hierarchical Decomposition and Axial Shape Description. 973-981
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  Daniel Keren, Michael Werman: Probabilistic Analysis of Regularization. 982-995
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  Frantisek Matús, Jan Flusser: Image Representation Via a Finite Radon Transform. 996-1006
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  Narendra Ahuja, A. Lynn Abbott: Active Stereo: Integrating Disparity, Vergence, Focus, Aperture and Calibration for Surface Estimation. 1007-1029
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  Roderic Guigó, Temple F. Smith: Inferring Correlation Between Database Queries: Analysis of Protein Sequence Patterns. 1030-1041
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  Roberto Brunelli, Tomaso Poggio: Face Recognition: Features Versus Templates. 1042-1052
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  Li Wang, Theodosios Pavlidis: Direct Gray-Scale Extraction of Features for Character Recognition. 1053-1067

Correspondence

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  Tony Lindeberg: Effective Scale: A Natural Unit for Measuring Scale-Space Lifetime. 1068-1074
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  Christoph Schnörr: On Functionals with Greyvalue-Controlled Smoothness Terms for Determining Optical Flow. 1074-1079
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  Matthew D. Berkemeier, Ronald S. Fearing: Determining the Axis of a Surface of Revolution Using Tactile Sensing. 1079-1087
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  Susan S. Chen, James M. Keller, Richard M. Crownover: On the Calculation of Fractal Features from Images. 1087-1090
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  Maqbool Patel, Fernand S. Cohen: Local Surface Shape Estimation of 3-D Textured Surfaces using Gaussian Markov Random Fields and Stereo Windows. 1091-1098

Volume 15, Number 11, November 1993

Papers

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  Zhenyu Wu, Richard M. Leahy: An Optimal Graph Theoretic Approach to Data Clustering: Theory and Its Application to Image Segmentation. 1101-1113
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  David W. Eggert, Kevin W. Bowyer, Charles R. Dyer, Henrik I. Christensen, Dmitry B. Goldgof: The Scale Space Aspect Graph. 1114-1130
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  Laurent D. Cohen, Isaac Cohen: Finite-Element Methods for Active Contour Models and Balloons for 2-D and 3-D Images. 1131-1147
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  John Daugman: High Confidence Visual Recognition of Persons by a Test of Statistical Independence. 1148-1161
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  Lawrence O'Gorman: The Document Spectrum for Page Layout Analysis. 1162-1173
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  Jian-Xiong Wu, Chorkin Chan: Isolated Word Recognition by Neural Network Models with Cross-Correlation Coefficients for Speech Dynamics. 1174-1185

Correspondence

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  Andrew Laine, Jian Fan: Texture Classification by Wavelet Packet Signatures. 1186-1191
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  Philippe Saint-Marc, Hillel Rom, Gérard G. Medioni: B-spline Contour Representation and Symmetry Detection. 1191-1197
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  Ali R. Bani-Hashemi: A Fourier Approach to Camera Orientation. 1197-1202
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  Jonas Gårding: Direct Estimation of Shape from Texture. 1202-1208
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  Mei-Hsing Chen, Roland T. Chin: Partial Smoothing Splines for Noisy +Boundaries with Corners. 1208-1216

Volume 15, Number 12, December 1993

Papers

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  Fabrice Heitz, Patrick Bouthemy: Multimodal Estimation of Discontinuous Optical Flow using Markov Random Fields. 1217-1232
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  Min Gi Kim, Its'hak Dinstein, Leonard Shaw: A Prototype Filter Design Approach to Pyramid Generation. 1233-1240
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  Chen-Chau Chu, Jake K. Aggarwal: The Integration of Image Segmentation Maps using Region and Edge Information. 1241-1252
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  David J. Fleet, Allan D. Jepson: Stability of Phase Information. 1253-1268
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  Jan H. Vandenbrande, Aristides A. G. Requicha: Spatial Reasoning for the Automatic Recognition of Machinable Features in Solid Models. 1269-1285
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  Dario Maio, Stefano Rizzi: Map Learning and Clustering in Autonomous Systems. 1286-1297
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  Hirobumi Nishida, Shunji Mori: An Algebraic Approach to Automatic Construction of Structural Models. 1298-1311

Correspondence

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  Peter F. M. Nacken: A Metric for Line Segments. 1312-1318
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  Brian V. Funt, Mark S. Drew: Color Space Analysis of Mutual Illumination. 1319-1326
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  Qiaobing Xie, Charles A. Laszlo, Rabab K. Ward: Vector Quantization Technique for Nonparametric Classifier Design. 1326-1330
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  G. Chiorboli, G. P. Vecchi: Comments on "Design of Fiducials for Accurate Registration Using Machine Vision". 1330-1332