Pattern Recognition, Volume 31
Volume 31, Number 1, January 1998
Yung-Sheng Chen, Tsay-Der Lin: An investigation into the closure process in human visual perception for line patterns. 1-13
D. G. Joshi, Y. V. Rao, S. Kar, Valli Kumar, R. Kumar: Computer-vision-based approach to personal identification using finger crease pattern. 15-22
Rajiv Mehrotra: Establishing motion-based feature point correspondence. 23-30
Jong Seung Park, Joon Hee Han: Contour motion estimation from image sequences using curvature information. 31-39
Gyeonghwan Kim, Venu Govindaraju: Handwritten phrase recognition as applied to street name images. 41-51
Francis Sand, Edward R. Dougherty: Asymptotic granulometric mixing theorem: Morphological estimation of sizing parameters and mixture proportions. 53-61
Stan Z. Li, William Y. C. Soh, Eam Khwang Teoh: Relaxation labeling using augmented lagrange-hopfield method. 73-81
Concettina Guerra: 2D object recognition on a reconfigurable mesh. 83-88
Paolo Bottoni, Luigi Cinque, Stefano Levialdi, Piero Mussio: Matching the resolution level to salient image features. 89-104
Volume 31, Number 2, February 1998
Didier Zugaj, Vincent Lattuati: A new approach of color images segmentation based on fusing region and edge segmentations outputs. 105-113
Tak-Wai Shen, Daniel Pak-Kong Lun, Wan-Chi Siu: On the efficient computation of 2-d image moments using the discrete radon transform. 115-120
Leland Best, Michael Magee: Autonomous construction of three-dimensional models from range data. 121-136
Greg Chungmou Lee, George C. Stockman: Detection of object wings in fused range and intensity imagery. 137-158
Ying Dai, Yasuaki Nakano: Recognition of facial images with low resolution using a hopfield memory model. 159-167
Kun Xu, A. R. Luxmoore, T. Davies: Sewer pipe deformation assessment by image analysis of video surveys. 169-180


Volume 31, Number 3, March 1998
Sam Kwong, Qianhua He, Kim-Fung Man, Kit-Sang Tang: A maximum model distance approach for HMM-based speech recognition. 219-229
Sukhamay Kundu: A solution to histogram-equalization and other related problems by shortest path methods. 231-234
Thien M. Ha, Matthias Zimmermann, Horst Bunke: Off-line handwritten numeral string recognition by combining segmentation-based and segmentation-free methods. 257-272
Shi-Hong Jeng, Hong-Yuan Mark Liao, Chin-Chuan Han, Ming-Yang Chern, Yao Tsorng Liu: Facial feature detection using geometrical face model: An efficient approach. 273-282
Kang Sik Yoon, Young Kug Ham, Rae-Hong Park: Hybrid approaches to frontal view face recognition using the hidden Markov model and neural network. 283-293
Jian Gong, Liyuan Li, Weinan Chen: Fast recursive algorithms for two-dimensional thresholding. 295-300
Satish Kaveti, Eam Khwang Teoh, Han Wang: Efficient algorithms for obtaining algebraic invariants from higher degree implicit polynomials for recognition of curved objects. 301-313
Kuo-Liang Chung, Kuo-Bao Hong: Level compression-based image representation and its applications. 327-332
Soo-Chang Pei, Lin-Gwo Liou: Vehicle-type motion estimation by the fusion of image point and line features. 333-344
Volume 31, Number 4, April 1998
Russell E. Muzzolini, Yee-Hong Yang, Roger Pierson: Classifier design with incomplete knowledge. 345-369
Boaz Lerner, Hugo Guterman, Mayer Aladjem, Its'hak Dinstein, Yitzhak Romem: On pattern classification with Sammon's nonlinear mapping an experimental study. 371-381
Vittorio Murino, Cinthya Ottonello, Sergio Pagnan: Noisy texture classification: A higher-order statistics approach. 383-393
Yoshihiko Hamamoto, Shunji Uchimura, Masanori Watanabe, Tetsuya Yasuda, Yoshihiro Mitani, Shingo Tomita: A gabor filter-based method for recognizing handwritten numerals. 395-400
Fang-Hsuan Cheng: Multi-stroke relaxation matching method for handwritten chinese character recognition. 401-410
Stéphane Buczkowski, Soula Kyriacos, Fahima Nekka, Louis Cartilier: The modified box-counting method: Analysis of some characteristic parameters. 411-418
José Crespo, Victor Maojo: New results on the theory of morphological filters by reconstruction. 419-429
Marc Parizeau, Nadia Ghazzali, Jean-François Hébert: Optimizing the cost matrix for approximate string matching using genetic algorithms. 431-440
Kyoung-Sig Roh, In-So Kweon: 2-D object recognition using invariant contour descriptor and projective refinement. 441-455
Do Hyun Chung, Il Dong Yun, Sang Uk Lee: Registration of multiple-range views using the reverse-calibration technique. 457-464
Subhodev Das, Bir Bhanu: A system for model-based object recognition in perspective aerial images. 465-491
Volume 31, Number 5, May 1998
Jianming Hu, Hong Yan: Structural primitive extraction and coding for handwritten numeral recognition. 493-509
N. V. Subba Reddy, P. Nagabhushan: A three-dimensional neural network model for unconstrained handwritten numeral recognition: a new approach. 511-516
Adnan Amin: Off-line Arabic character recognition: the state of the art. 517-530

Gonzalo Pajares, Jesús Manuel de la Cruz, Joaquín Aranda Almansa: Relaxation by Hopfield network in stereo image matching. 561-574
Xinquan Shen, Michael Spann: 3D Region representation based on run-lengths: operations and efficiency. 575-585
Y. Y. Wong, Pong Chi Yuen, Chong Sze Tong: Contour length terminating criterion for snake model. 597-606
Longin Jan Latecki, Azriel Rosenfeld: Supportedness and tameness differentialless geometry of plane curves. 607-622
Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan, Hong Yan, Eam Khwang Teoh, Dinesh P. Mital: Optimal encoding of graph homomorphism energy using fuzzy information aggregation operators. 623-639
David J. Hand, Jonathan J. Oliver, A. Daniel Lunn: Discriminant analysis when the classes arise from a continuum. 641-650
Volume 31, Number 6, June 1998
Chungnan Lee, Bohom Wu: A Chinese-character-stroke-extraction algorithm based on contour information. 651-663
Chi-Fang Lin, Chi-Wen Chen: A new approach to the verification of chinese signatures with variant orientations and scales using relaxation and state-space search methods. 665-674
Xiaolin Li, Marc Parizeau, Réjean Plamondon: Segmentation and reconstruction of on-line handwritten scripts. 675-684
José Manuel Iñesta Quereda, Mateo Buendía, María Ángeles Sarti: Reliable polygonal approximations of imaged real objects through dominant point detection. 685-697
Dezhong Hong, Thompson Sarkodie-Gyan, Andrew W. Campbell, Yong Yan: A prototype indexing approach to 2-D object description and recognition. 699-725
Hongbin Zha, Hideki Nanamegi, Tadashi Nagata: Recognizing 3-D objects by using a Hopfield-style optimization algorithm for matching patch-based descriptions. 727-741
Saroj Rout, A. G. Seethalakshmy, Pramod Srivastava, Jharna Majumdar: Multi-modal image segmentation using a modified Hopfield neural network. 743-750
Tan Lee, P. C. Ching, Lai-Wan Chan: Isolated word recognition using modular recurrent neural networks. 751-760
Luc Oriat, Eric Lantz: Subpixel detection of the center of an object using a spectral phase algorithm on the image. 761-771
Peter Gvozdjak, Ze-Nian Li: From NOMAD to explorer: active object recognition on mobile robots. 773-790
Antonio Garrido Carrillo, Nicolas Pérez de la Blanca, Miguel García-Silvente: Boundary simplification using a multiscale dominant-point detection algorithm. 791-804
Bruce Mcgregor: Automatic registration of images of pigmented skin lesions. 805-817
Timothy Arndt, Gennaro Costagliola, Shi-Kuo Chang: Comments on "mesh and pyramid algorithms for iconic indexing". 819-820
Alok N. Choudhary, Sanjay Ranka: Comments on "Mesh and Pyramid Algorithms for Iconic indexing": authors' reply. 821-822
Volume 31, Number 7, July 1998
Kuo-Chin Fan, Den-Fong Chen, Ming-Gang Wen: Skeletonization of binary images with nonuniform width via block decomposition and contour vector matching. 823-838
Fionn Murtagh, Jean-Luc Starck: Pattern clustering based on noise modeling in wavelet space. 847-855
H. D. Cheng, Jim-Rong Chen, Jiguang Li: Threshold selection based on fuzzy c-partition entropy approach. 857-870
Wendy L. Poston, David J. Marchette: Recursive dimensionality reduction using Fisher's linear discriminant. 881-888
Sung H. Yoon, Jung H. Kim, Winser E. Alexander, Seong M. Park, Kwang H. Sohn: An optimum solution for scale-invariant object recognition based on the multiresolution approximation. 889-908

Jing-Yi Lu, Kuang-Shyr Wu, Ja-Chen Lin: Fast full search in motion estimation by hierarchical use of Minkowski's inequality (HUMI). 945-952
Joan Batlle, El Mustapha Mouaddib, Joaquim Salvi: Recent progress in coded structured light as a technique to solve the correspondence problem: a survey. 963-982
Volume 31, Number 8, August 1998
Sven Loncaric: A survey of shape analysis techniques. 983-1001
Antonio Garrido Carrillo, Nicolas Pérez de la Blanca: Physically-based active shape models: initialization and optimization. 1003-1017
Steven Gold, Anand Rangarajan, Chien-Ping Lu, Suguna Pappu, Eric Mjolsness: New algorithms for 2D and 3D point matching: pose estimation and correspondence. 1019-1031
Bang-Hwan Kim, Rae-Hong Park: Multi-image photometric stereo using surface approximation by Legendre polynomials. 1033-1047
Kyeong-Hoon Do, Yong-Suk Kim, Tae-Uk Uam, Yeong-Ho Ha: Iterative relaxational stereo matching based on adaptive support between disparities. 1049-1059
Sang Ho Park, Il Dong Yun, Sang Uk Lee: Color image segmentation based on 3-D clustering: morphological approach. 1061-1076
Mark S. Drew, Jie Wei, Ze-Nian Li: On illumination invariance in color object recognition. 1077-1087
Alexander I. Bykov, Leonid G. Zerkalov, Francisco J. Albores Velasco, Mario A. Rodríguez Pineda: New connected components algorithms and invariant transformations of digital images. 1089-1098
Javier Martinez-Baena, Joaquín Fernández-Valdivia, Jose A. García, Xose R. Fernández-Vidal: A new image distortion measure based on a data-driven multisensor organization. 1099-1116
T. N. Tan: From image quadrilaterals to symmetrical trapezia. 1117-1125
Soo-Chang Pei, Chin-Lun Lai, Frank Y. Shih: A morphological approach to shortest path planning for rotating objects. 1127-1138
Pasi Fränti, Juha Kivijärvi, Olli Nevalainen: Tabu search algorithm for codebook generation in vector quantization. 1139-1148
B. John Oommen, Rangasami L. Kashyap: A formal theory for optimal and information theoretic syntactic pattern recognition. 1159-1177
Joseph Modayil, Howard Cheng, Xiaobo Li: An improved piecewise approximation algorithm for image compression. 1179-1190
Volume 31, Number 9, September 1998
Berrin A. Yanikoglu, Luc Vincent: Pink Panther: A Complete Environment For Ground-Truthing And Benchmarking Document Page Segmentation. 1191-1204
Kuo-Chin Fan, Jeng-Ming Lu, Gwo-Dong Chen: A Feature Point Clustering Approach To The Recognition Of Form Documents. 1205-1220
Sridhar R. Kundur, Daniel Raviv: A Vision-Based Pragmatic Strategy For Autonomous Navigation. 1221-1239
Alberto Del Bimbo, Mauro Mugnaini, Pietro Pala, F. Turco: Visual Querying By Color Perceptive Regions. 1241-1253
Ahmad Fuad Rezaur Rahman, Michael C. Fairhurst: An Evaluation Of Multi-Expert Configurations For The Recognition Of Handwritten Numerals. 1255-1273
Kuo-Chin Fan, Liang-Shen Wang, Yin-Tien Tu: Classification Of Machine-Printed And Handwritten Texts Using Character Block Layout Variance. 1275-1284
John Makhoul, Richard M. Schwartz, Christopher LaPre, Issam Bazzi: A Script-Independent Methodology For Optical Character Recognition. 1285-1294
Xinquan Shen, Michael Spann, Peter F. M. Nacken: Segmentation Of 2D And 3D Images Through A Hierarchical Clustering Based On Region Modelling. 1295-1309
David Casasent, Westley Cox: Ri-Minace Filters To Augment Segmentation Of Touching Objects. 1311-1317
John Chung-Mong Lee, Ting-Chuen Pong, Albert C. Esterline: Enhancing Object Recognition Using Recency And Co-Occurrence Huristics. 1319-1336

Jiun-Lin Chen, Hsi-Jian Lee: An Efficient Algorithm For Form Structure Extraction Using Strip Projection. 1353-1368
Anil K. Jain, Aditya Vailaya: Shape-Based Retrieval: A Case Study With Trademark Image Databases. 1369-1390
H. D. Cheng, C. Y. Wu, D. L. Hung: Vlsi For Moment Computation And Its Application To Breast Cancer Detection. 1391-1406
Volume 31, Number 10, October 1998
Stanislav Kovacic, Ales Leonardis, Franjo Pernus: Planning Sequences Of Views For 3-D Object Recognition And Pose Determination. 1407-1417
Ashraf Elnagar, Anup Basu: From 2d Surface Patches To 3d Reconstructed Models: Theory And Applications. 1419-1430
Chiou Peng Lam, Geoff A. W. West, Svetha Venkatesh: Stabilising The Camera-To-Fixation Point Distance In Active Vision. 1431-1442
Virginio Cantoni, Luigi Cinque, Concettina Guerra, Stefano Levialdi, Luca Lombardi: 2-D Object Recognition By Multiscale Tree Matching. 1443-1454
Josef Kittler, Maria Petrou, William J. Christmas: A Non-Iterative Probabilistic Method For Contextual Correspondence Matching. 1455-1468
Bhabatosh Chanda, Malay K. Kundu, Y. Vani Padmaja: A Multi-Scale Morphologic Edge Detector. 1469-1478
Michael A. Brown, Kim T. Blackwell, H. G. Khalak, Garth S. Barbour, Thomas P. Vogl: Multi-Scale Edge Detection And Feature Binding: An Integrated Approach. 1479-1490
Wei Xing Wang: Binary Image Segmentation Of Aggregates Based On Polygonal Approximation And Classification Of Concavities. 1503-1524
Lin Yu Tseng, Rung Ching Chen: Recognition And Data Extraction Of Form Documents Based On Three Types Of Line Segments. 1525-1540
Stephen L. Adler, Ranganathan Krishnan: Similarity And Affine Normalization Of Partially Occluded Planar Curves Using First And Second Derivatives. 1551-1556
Hirobumi Nishida: Matching And Recognition Of Deformed Closed Contours Based On Structural Transformation Models. 1557-1571
Zhenmin Chen, John W. Van Ness: Characterizations Of Nearest And Farthest Neighbor Algorithms By Clustering Admissibility Conditions. 1573-1578
Takahiko Horiuchi: Class-Selective Rejection Rule To Minimize The Maximum Distance Between Selected Classes. 1579-1588
Volume 31, Number 11, November 1998
Ioannis Pavlidis, Rahul Singh, Nikolaos P. Papanikolopoulos: On-line handwriting recognition using physics-based shape metamorphosis. 1589-1600
Yi-Hong Tseng, Chi-Chang Kuo, Hsi-Jian Lee: Speeding up chinese character recognition in an automatic document reading system. 1601-1612
Che-Chern Lin, Amro El-Jaroudi: An algorithm to determine the feasibilities and weights of two-layer perceptrons for partitioning and classification. 1613-1625
Hiroshi Tenmoto, Mineichi Kudo, Masaru Shimbo: Piecewise linear classifiers with an appropriate number of hyperplanes. 1627-1634
Berkant Tacer, Patrick J. Loughlin: Non-stationary signal classification using the joint moments of time-frequency distributions. 1635-1641
Robert Laganière: A morphological operator for corner detection. 1643-1652
Raymond K. K. Yip: A multi-level dynamic programming method for line segment matching in axial motion stereo. 1653-1668
Jerzy Siuzdak: A single filter for edge detection. 1681-1686
John F. Hemdal: One-dimensional digital processing of images for straight-line detection. 1687-1690
Ronen Basri, Adam J. Grove, David W. Jacobs: Efficient determination of shape from multiple images containing partial information. 1691-1703
A. Ardeshir Goshtasby: Three-dimensional model construction from multiview range images: survey with new results. 1705-1714
Guoqing Zhou, Ethrog Uzi, Wenhao Feng, Baozong Yuan: CCD camera calibration based on natural landmarks. 1715-1724
Stephanie R. Fountain, Tieniu Tan: Efficient rotation invariant texture features for content-based image retrieval. 1725-1732
Hung-Hsin Chang, Hong Yan: Vectorization of hand-drawn image using piecewise cubic Bézier curves fitting. 1747-1755
Jeng-Shyang Pan, K. C. Huang: A new vector quantization image coding algorithm based on the extension of the bound for Minkowski metric. 1757-1760
Sameer Singh: Effect of noise on generalisation in massively parallel fuzzy systems. 1767-1775
Andrew M. Finch, Richard C. Wilson, Edwin R. Hancock: Symbolic graph matching with the EM algorithm. 1777-1790
Rosa Rodriguez-Sánchez, Jose A. García, Joaquín Fernández-Valdivia: The RGF pandemonium: a low-level representational model for images. 1797-1810
Sylvie Le Hégarat-Mascle, Isabelle Bloch, D. Vidal-Madjar: Introduction of neighborhood information in evidence theory and application to data fusion of radar and optical images with partial cloud cover. 1811-1823
Volume 31, Number 12, December 1998
Berrin A. Yanikoglu, Peter A. Sandon: Segmentation of off-line cursive handwriting using linear programming. 1825-1833
Donggang Yu, Hong Yan: Separation of single-touching handwritten numeral strings based on structural features. 1835-1847
Hee-Seon Park, Seong-Whan Lee: A truly 2-D hidden Markov model for off-line handwritten character recognition. 1849-1864
Quen-Zong Wu, Suh-Yin Lee, I-Chang Jou: On-line signature verification based on logarithmic spectrum. 1865-1871
Barnabás Takács: Comparing face images using the modified Hausdorff distance. 1873-1881
Stephen J. McKenna, Shaogang Gong, Yogesh Raja: Modelling facial colour and identity with Gaussian mixtures. 1883-1892
Trevor Hogg, Habib Talhami, David Rees: An improved synergetic algorithm for image classification. 1893-1903
David McG. Squire, Thierry Pun: Assessing agreement between human and machine clusterings of image databases. 1905-1919
Aditya Vailaya, Anil K. Jain, HongJiang Zhang: On image classification: city images vs. landscapes. 1921-1935
Vidya Manian, Ramón Vásquez: Scaled and rotated texture classification using a class of basis functions. 1937-1948
Scott F. Thompson, Azriel Rosenfeld: Discrete, nonlinear curvature-dependent contour evolution. 1949-1959
Kuo-Liang Chung, Jung-Gen Wu: Fast implementations for mirroring and rotating bincode-based images. 1961-1967
Tuan D. Pham, Michael Wagner: A geostatistical model for linear prediction analysis of speech. 1981-1991
Junji Maeda, Takuya Iizawa, Tohru Ishizaka, Chiharu Ishikawa, Yukinori Suzuki: Segmentation of natural images using anisotropic diffusion and linking of boundary edges. 1993-1999
Jung-Tae Kim, Sung Yang Bang: A measure of recognition difficulty for a character image database. 2001-2006
B. B. Chaudhuri, Azriel Rosenfeld: On the computation of the digital convex hull and circular hull of a digital region. 2007-2016
Jacopo M. Corridoni, Alberto Del Bimbo: Structured representation and automatic indexing of movie information content. 2027-2045
Roger D. Boyle: Scaling additional contributions to principal components analysis. 2047-2053

Peter Cucka, Nathan S. Netanyahu, Azriel Rosenfeld: "Robotic" estimation: the inefficiency of random-walk sampling. 2091-2102
David J. Marchette, Jeffrey L. Solka, R. Guidry, John Green: The advanced distributed region of interest tool. 2103-2118



