Volume 21, Number 1, January 1999

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  Kevin W. Bowyer: Editorial. 1-2
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  Kevin W. Bowyer: Associate Editors Join PAMI. 3
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  Mohamad Akra, Louay Bazzi, Sanjoy K. Mitter: Sampling of Images for Efficient Model-Based Vision. 4-11
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  Amit Chakraborty, James S. Duncan: Game-Theoretic Integration for Image Segmentation. 12-30
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  Daniel Keren, Craig Gotsman: Fitting Curves and Surfaces With Constrained Implicit Polynomials. 31-41
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  Bruce Fischl, Eric L. Schwartz: Adaptive Nonlocal Filtering: A Fast Alternative to Anisotropic Diffusion for Image Enhancement. 42-48
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  Tat-Jen Cham, Roberto Cipolla: Automated B-Spline Curve Representation Incorporating MDL and Error-Minimizing Control Point Insertion Strategies. 49-53
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  Gang Xu, Noriko Sugimoto: A Linear Algorithm for Motion From Three Weak Perspective Images Using Euler Angles. 54-57
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  Gabriela Csurka, Olivier D. Faugeras: Algebraic and Geometric Tools to Compute Projective and Permutation Invariants. 58-65
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  Éric Marchand, François Chaumette: Active Vision for Complete Scene Reconstruction and Exploration. 65-72
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  Yuichi Nakatani, Daisuke Sasaki, Youji Iiguni, Hajime Maeda: Online Recognition of Handwritten Hiragana Characters Based Upon a Complex Autoregressive Model. 73-76
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  Wen-Tsong Chen, Paul D. Gader, Hongchi Shi: Lexicon-Driven Handwritten Word Recognition Using Optimal Linear Combinations of Order Statistics. 77-82
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  Stefan Pittner, Sagar V. Kamarthi: Feature Extraction From Wavelet Coefficients for Pattern Recognition Tasks. 83-88
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  Amjad Hajjar, Tom Chen: VLSI Architecture for Real-Time Edge Linking. 89-94

Volume 21, Number 2, February 1999

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  Kevin W. Bowyer: New Members of PAMI Editorial Board. 97-98
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  Krishnamoorthy Sivakumar, John Goutsias: Morphologically Constrained GRFs: Applications to Texture Synthesis and Analysis. 99-113
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  Kalle Åström, Fredrik Kahl: Motion Estimation in Image Sequences Using the Deformation of Apparent Contours. 114-127
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  Régis Clouard, Abderrahim Elmoataz, Christine Porquet, Marinette Revenu: Borg: A Knowledge-Based System for Automatic Generation of Image Processing Programs. 128-144
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  Fu Chang, Ya-Ching Lu, Theodosios Pavlidis: Feature Analysis Using Line Sweep Thinning Algorithm. 145-158
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  Ajit V. Rao, David J. Miller, Kenneth Rose, Allen Gersho: A Deterministic Annealing Approach for Parsimonious Design of Piecewise Regression Models. 159-173
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  Man Leung Wong, Wai Lam, Kwong-Sak Leung: Using Evolutionary Programming and Minimum Description Length Principle for Data Mining of Bayesian Networks. 174-178
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  Tapas Kanungo, Robert M. Haralick: An Automatic Closed-Loop Methodology for Generating Character Groundtruth for Scanned Documents. 179-183
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  Cheng-Yuan Liou, Hsin-Chang Yang: Selective Feature-to-Feature Adhesion for Recognition of Cursive Handprinted Characters. 184-191

Volume 21, Number 3, March 1999

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  Robert Davis, Armand Prieditis: Designing Optimal Sequential Experiments for a Bayesian Classifier. 193-201
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  Dov Dori, Liu Wenyin: Sparse Pixel Vectorization: An Algorithm and Its Performance Evaluation. 202-215
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  Carlos F. Borges: On the Estimation of Markov Random Field Parameters. 216-224
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  Peter Hall, Berwin A. Turlach: On the Estimation of a Convex Set With Corners. 225-234
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  Harpreet S. Sawhney, Rakesh Kumar: True Multi-Image Alignment and Its Application to Mosaicing and Lens Distortion Correction. 235-243
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  Gideon P. Stein, Amnon Shashua: On Degeneracy of Linear Reconstruction From Three Views: Linear Line Complex and Applications. 244-251
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  Ilan Shimshoni, Ronen Basri, Ehud Rivlin: A Geometric Interpretation of Weak-Perspective Motion. 252-257
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  Nei Kato, Masato Suzuki, Shinichiro Omachi, Hirotomo Aso, Yoshiaki Nemoto: A Handwritten Character Recognition System Using Directional Element Feature and Asymmetric Mahalanobis Distance. 258-262
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  Jinhai Cai, Zhi-Qiang Liu: Integration of Structural and Statistical Information for Unconstrained Handwritten Numeral Recognition. 263-270
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  Hui Wang, David A. Bell, Fionn Murtagh: Axiomatic Approach to Feature Subset Selection Based on Relevance. 271-277
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  Afonso Ferreira, Stéphane Ubéda: Computing the Medial Axis Transform in Parallel With Eight Scan Operations. 277-282
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  Jefferey A. Shufelt: Performance Evaluation and Analysis of Vanishing Point Detection Techniques. 282-288

Volume 21, Number 4, April 1999

Empirical Evaluation of Computer Vision Algorithms

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  P. Jonathon Phillips, Kevin W. Bowyer: Introduction to the Special Section on Empirical Evaluation of Computer Vision Algorithms. 289-290
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  Trygve Randen, John Håkon Husøy: Filtering for Texture Classification: A Comparative Study. 291-310
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  Jefferey A. Shufelt: Performance Evaluation and Analysis of Monocular Building Extraction From Aerial Imagery. 311-326
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  Antonio M. López, Felipe Lumbreras, Joan Serrat, Juan José Villanueva: Evaluation of Methods for Ridge and Valley Detection. 327-335
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  Thomas Martini Jørgensen, Christian Linneberg: Theoretical Analysis and Improved Decision Criteria for the n-Tuple Classifier. 336-347
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  Anil K. Jain, Salil Prabhakar, Lin Hong: A Multichannel Approach to Fingerprint Classification. 348-359
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  Christopher Raphael: Automatic Segmentation of Acoustic Musical Signals Using Hidden Markov Models. 360-370
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  Michael T. Goodrich, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Mark W. Orletsky: Approximate Geometric Pattern Matching Under Rigid Motions. 371-379
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  Francesco Ricci, Paolo Avesani: Data Compression and Local Metrics for Nearest Neighbor Classification. 380-384

Volume 21, Number 5, May 1999

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  Multiple Submission: Professionalism, Ethical Issues, and Copyright Legalities. 385
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  Daniel L. Swets, Juyang Weng: Hierarchical Discriminant Analysis for Image Retrieval. 386-401
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  Raffaele Cappelli, Alessandra Lumini, Dario Maio, Davide Maltoni: Fingerprint Classification by Directional Image Partitioning. 402-421
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  Bernard Chalmond, Stéphane C. Girard: Nonlinear Modeling of Scattered Multivariate Data and Its Application to Shape Change. 422-432
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  Andrew Edie Johnson, Martial Hebert: Using Spin Images for Efficient Object Recognition in Cluttered 3D Scenes. 433-449
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  Hichem Frigui, Raghu Krishnapuram: A Robust Competitive Clustering Algorithm With Applications in Computer Vision. 450-465
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  Dinggang Shen, Horace Ho-Shing Ip, Kent K. T. Cheung, Eam Khwang Teoh: Symmetry Detection by Generalized Complex (GC) Moments: A Close-Form Solution. 466-476
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  Andrew W. Fitzgibbon, Maurizio Pilu, Robert B. Fisher: Direct Least Square Fitting of Ellipses. 476-480

Volume 21, Number 6, June 1999

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  PAMI Editorial Board Changes. 481
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  Xavier Descombes, Frithjof Kruggel: A Markov Pixon Information Approach for Low-Level Image Description. 482-494
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  Issam Bazzi, Richard M. Schwartz, John Makhoul: An Omnifont Open-Vocabulary OCR System for English and Arabic. 495-504
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  Ronald-Bryan O. Alferez, Yuan-Fang Wang: Geometric and Illumination Invariants for Object Recognition. 505-536
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  Jesse Bennett, Alireza Khotanzad: Maximum Likelihood Estimation Methods for Multispectral Random Field Image Models. 537-543
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  Jiming Liu, Yuan Yan Tang: Adaptive Image Segmentation With Distributed Behavior-Based Agents. 544-551
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  Patrick C. Teo, Yacov Hel-Or: Design of Multiparameter Steerable Functions Using Cascade Basis Reduction. 552-556
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  Haiyuan Wu, Qian Chen, Masahiko Yachida: Face Detection From Color Images Using a Fuzzy Pattern Matching Method. 557-563
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  Natan Peterfreund: Robust Tracking of Position and Velocity With Kalman Snakes. 564-569
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  Y. S. Hung, H. T. Ho: A Kalman Filter Approach to Direct Depth Estimation Incorporating Surface Structure. 570-575

Volume 21, Number 7, July 1999

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  A. N. Rajagopalan, Subhasis Chaudhuri: An MRF Model-Based Approach to Simultaneous Recovery of Depth and Restoration from Defocused Images. 577-589
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  Wonho Oh, W. Brent Lindquist: Image Thresholding by Indicator Kriging. 590-602
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  Grinnell Jones, Bir Bhanu: Recognition of Articulated and Occluded Objects. 603-613
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  Mikhail J. Atallah, Yann Génin, Wojciech Szpankowski: Pattern Matching Image Compression: Algorithmic and Empirical Results. 614-627
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  Atsushi Marugame, Jiro Katto, Mutsumi Ohta: Structure Recovery with Multiple Cameras from Scaled Orthographic and Perspective Views. 628-633
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  Pascal Matsakis, Laurent Wendling: A New Way to Represent the Relative Position between Areal Objects. 634-643
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  András Antos, Luc Devroye, László Györfi: Lower Bounds for Bayes Error Estimation. 643-645
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  Klaus Voss, Herbert Süße: A New One-Parametric Fitting Method for Planar Objects. 646-651
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  Nick Bennett, Robert Burridge, Naoki Saito: A Method to Detect and Characterize Ellipses Using the Hough Transform. 652-657
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  Isabelle Bloch: Fuzzy Relative Position Between Objects in Image Processing: A Morphological Approach. 657-664
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  John Oliensis, Venu Govindu: An Experimental Study of Projective Structure From Motion. 665-671

Volume 21, Number 8, August 1999

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  Sven J. Dickinson, David Wilkes, John K. Tsotsos: A Computational Model of View Degeneracy. 673-689
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  Ruo Zhang, Ping-Sing Tsai, James Edwin Cryer, Mubarak Shah: Shape from Shading: A Survey. 690-706
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  Marc Pollefeys, Luc J. Van Gool: Stratified Self-Calibration with the Modulus Constraint. 707-724
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  Ian Craw, Nicholas Costen, Takashi Kato, Shigeru Akamatsu: How Should We RepresentFaces for Automatic Recognition? 725-736
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  Tanveer Fathima Syeda-Mahmood: Indexing of Technical Line Drawing Databases. 737-751
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  Mounim A. El-Yacoubi, Michel Gilloux, Robert Sabourin, Ching Y. Suen: An HMM-Based Approach for Off-Line Unconstrained Handwritten Word Modeling and Recognition. 752-760
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  Yan Solihin, C. G. Leedham: Integral Ratio: A New Class of Global Thresholding Techniques for Handwriting Images. 761-768
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  Whoi-Yul Kim, Young-Sung Kim: Robust Rotation Angle Estimator. 768-773
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  Long Quan, Zhong-Dan Lan: Linear N-Point Camera Pose Determination. 774-780
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  A. C. Cem Say: Making Use of Contradictory Behavior Information in Qualitative Reasoning. 781-786
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  Trevor J. Davis: Fast Decomposition of Digital Curves into Polygons Using the Haar Transform. 786-790
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  Hsin-Teng Sheu, Wu-Chih Hu: Multiprimitive Segmentation of Planar Curves-A Two-Level Breakpoint Classification and Tuning Approach. 791-797
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  Yuntao Cui, Juyang Weng: A Learning-Based Prediction-and-Verification Segmentation Scheme for Hand Sign Image Sequence. 798-804
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  Zhengwei Yang, Fernand S. Cohen: Cross-Weighted Moments and Affine Invariants for Image Registration and Matching. 804-814

Volume 21, Number 9, September 1999

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  Michael Elad, Arie Feuer: Super-Resolution Reconstruction of Image Sequences. 817-834
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  Mourad Zerroug, Ramakant Nevatia: Part-Based 3D Descriptions of Complex Objects from a Single Image. 835-848
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  Ihsin T. Phillips, Atul K. Chhabra: Empirical Performance Evaluation of Graphics Recognition Systems. 849-870
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  Simone Santini, Ramesh Jain: Similarity Measures. 871-883
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  Andrew D. Wilson, Aaron F. Bobick: Parametric Hidden Markov Models for Gesture Recognition. 884-900
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  Xilin Yi, Octavia I. Camps: Line-Based Recognition Using A Multidimensional Hausdorff Distance. 901-916
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  Horst Bunke: Error Correcting Graph Matching: On the Influence of the Underlying Cost Function. 917-922
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  Djamel Bouchaffra, Venu Govindaraju, Sargur N. Srihari: A Methodology for Mapping Scores to Probabilities. 923-927
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  Sriganesh Madhvanath, Gyeonghwan Kim, Venu Govindaraju: Chaincode Contour Processing for Handwritten Word Recognition. 928-932
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  Yu-Ping Wang, Ruibin Qu: Fast Implementation of Scale-Space by Interpolatory Subdivision Scheme. 933-939
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  Jérôme Monteil, Azeddine Beghdadi: A New Interpretation and improvement of the Nonlinear Anisotropic Diffusion for Image Enhancement. 940-946
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  Oscar Yáñez-Suárez, Mahmood R. Azimi-Sadjadi: Unsupervised Clustering in Hough Space for Identification of Partially Occluded Objects. 946-950
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  Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Ryan H. Lilien, Clark F. Olson: View-Based Recognition Using an Eigenspace Approximation to the Hausdorff Measure. 951-955
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  Guy Smith: Comments on 'Design of Supervised Classifiers Using Boolean Neural Neworks'. 956
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  Mansur R. Kabuka: Reply to: Comments on 'Design of Supervised Classifiers Using Boolean Neural Networks'. 957-958

Volume 21, Number 10, October 1999

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  Hyeon-Kyu Lee, Jin-Hyung Kim: An HMM-Based Threshold Model Approach for Gesture Recognition. 961-973
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  Gianluca Donato, Marian Stewart Bartlett, Joseph C. Hager, Paul Ekman, Terrence J. Sejnowski: Classifying Facial Actions. 974-989
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  Djamel Bouchaffra, Venu Govindaraju, Sargur N. Srihari: Postprocessing of Recognized Strings Using Nonstationary Markovian Models. 990-999
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  Jeffrey S. Beis, David G. Lowe: Indexing without Invariants in 3D Object Recognition. 1000-1015
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  Richard Pito: A Solution to the Next Best View Problem for Automated Surface Acquisition. 1016-1030
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  Venu Govindu, Chandra Shekhar: Alignment Using Distributions of Local Geometric Properties. 1031-1043
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  Rosa Rodriguez-Sánchez, Jose A. García, Joaquín Fernández-Valdivia, Xose R. Fernández-Vidal: The RGFF Representational Model: A System for the Automatically Learned Partitioning of 'Visual Patterns' in Digital Images. 1044-1073
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  Harold S. Stone, Jacqueline Le Moigne, Morgan McGuire: The Translation Sensitivity of Wavelet-Based Registration. 1074-1081
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  Olivier Y. de Vel, Stefan Aeberhard: Line-Based Face Recognition under Varying Pose. 1081-1088
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  Il-Seok Oh, Jin-Seon Lee, Ching Y. Suen: Analysis of Class Separation and Combination of Class-Dependent Features for Handwriting Recognition. 1089-1094
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  Ke Liu, Yea S. Huang, Ching Y. Suen: Identification of Fork Points on the Skeletons of Handwritten Chinese Characters. 1095-1100
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  Y. S. Hung, H. T. Ho: Errata: Corrections to "A Kalman Filter Approach to Direct Depth Estimation Incorporating Surface Structure". 1101

Volume 21, Number 11, November 1999

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  Marcello Pelillo, Kaleem Siddiqi, Steven W. Zucker: Matching Hierarchical Structures Using Association Graphs. 1105-1120
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  Dorothea Blostein, Lippold Haken: Using Diagram Generation Software to Improve Diagram Recognition: A Case Study of Music Notation. 1121-1136
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  So Young Sohn: Meta Analysis of Classification Algorithms for Pattern Recognition. 1137-1144
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  Christophe Chesnaud, Philippe Réfrégier, Vlady Boulet: Statistical Region Snake-Based Segmentation Adapted to Different Physical Noise Models. 1145-1157
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  Song Chun Zhu: Stochastic Jump-Diffusion Process for Computing Medial Axes in Markov Random Fields. 1158-1169
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  Song Chun Zhu: Embedding Gestalt Laws in Markov Random Fields. 1170-1187
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  Jun Sato, Roberto Cipolla: Affine Reconstruction of Curved Surfaces from Uncalibrated Views of Apparent Contours. 1188-1197
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  Mario Ferraro, Giuseppe Boccignone, Terry Caelli: On the Representation of Image Structures via Scale Space Entropy Conditions. 1199-1203
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  Liyuan Li, Weinan Chen: Corner Detection and Interpretation on Planar Curves Using Fuzzy Reasoning. 1204-1210
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  Guillermo Sapiro: Color and Illuminant Voting. 1210-1215
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  Hassan Qjidaa, L. Radouane: Robust Line Fitting in a Noisy Image by the Method of Moments. 1216-1223
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  Victor Wu, R. Manmatha, Edward M. Riseman: TextFinder: An Automatic System to Detect and Recognize Text In Images. 1224-1229
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  Chu-Song Chen, Yi-Ping Hung, Jen-Bo Cheng: RANSAC-Based DARCES: A New Approach to Fast Automatic Registration of Partially Overlapping Range Images. 1229-1234
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  Chin-Chun Chang, Wen-Hsiang Tsai: Reliable Determination of Object Pose from Line Features by Hypothesis Testing. 1235-1241
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  Quin Cai, Jake K. Aggarwal: Tracking Human Motion in Structured Environments Using a Distributed-Camera System. 1241-1247

Volume 21, Number 12, December 1999

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  Kevin W. Bowyer: Editorial. 1249
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  Philip L. Worthington, Edwin R. Hancock: New Constraints on Data-Closeness and Needle Map Consistency for Shape-from-Shading. 1250-1267
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  Ashok N. Srivastava, Renjeng Su, Andreas S. Weigend: Data Mining for Features Using Scale-Sensitive Gated Experts. 1268-1279
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  Yihong Xu, George Nagy: Prototype Extraction and Adaptive OCR. 1280-1296
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  Alberto Suárez, James F. Lutsko: Globally Optimal Fuzzy Decision Trees for Classification and Regression. 1297-1311
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  Yoram Gdalyahu, Daphna Weinshall: Flexible Syntactic Matching of Curves and Its Application to Automatic Hierarchical Classification of Silhouettes. 1312-1328
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  Anastasios L. Kesidis, Nikos Papamarkos: On the Inverse Hough Transform. 1329-1343
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  Sriganesh Madhvanath, Evelyn Kleinberg, Venu Govindaraju: Holistic Verification of Handwritten Phrases. 1344-1356
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  Michael J. Lyons, Julien Budynek, Shigeru Akamatsu: Automatic Classification of Single Facial Images. 1357-1362
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  Benoit Huet, Edwin R. Hancock: Line Pattern Retrieval Using Relational Histograms. 1363-1370
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  Paul Runkle, Lawrence Carin, Luise Couchman, Timothy J. Yoder, Joseph A. Bucaro: Multiaspect Target Identification with Wave-Based Matched Pursuits and Continuous Hidden Markov Models. 1371-1378