Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 18

Volume 18, Number 1, January 1997

• Edzard S. Gelsema:
  Editorial. 1
  
• Marcello Pelillo, Anna Maria Fanelli:
  Autoassociative learning in relaxation labeling networks. 3-12
  
• Philippe Cornic:
  Another look at the dominant point detection of digital curves. 13-25
  
• You Yi Zhang:
  Redundancy of parallel thinning. 27-35
  
• Dinggang Shen, Horace Ho-Shing Ip:
  A Hopfield neural network for adaptive image segmentation: An active surface paradigm. 37-48
  
• Jorge S. Marques, Arnaldo J. Abrantes:
  Shape alignment -- Optimal initial point and pose estimation. 49-53
  
• Alan M. N. Fu, Hong Yan:
  Effective classification of planar shapes based on curve segment properties. 55-61
  
• Kuo-Liang Chung, Wen-Ming Yan:
  Vectorizations of randomized matching for run-length coded strings. 63-72
  
• Wen-Jyi Hwang, Biing-Yau Chen, Sen-Shiang Jeng:
  A fast vector quantization encoding method using wavelet transform. 73-76
  
• Heikki Kälviäinen, Petri Hirvonen:
  An extension to the randomized hough transform exploiting connectivity. 77-85
  
• Jen-Hui Chuang, Jui-Man Chiu, Zen Chen:
  Obtaining base edge correspondence in stereo images via quantitative measures along C-diagonals. 87-95
  
• Nickolas D. Gorsky, L. M. Gorskaya:
  Estimation of prior probabilities for numeral recognition. 97-103
  
• Yanghee Nam, KwangYun Wohn:
  Recognition of hand gestures with 3D, nonlinear arm movement. 105-113
  

Volume 18, Number 2, February 1997

• Laurence Boxer:
  On Hausdorff-like metrics for fuzzy sets. 115-118
  
• Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Sankar K. Pal:
  Pattern classification with genetic algorithms: Incorporation of chromosome differentiation. 119-131
  
• G. Phanendra Babu:
  Self-organizing neural networks for spatial data. 133-142
  
• José A. F. Leite, Edwin R. Hancock:
  Iterative curve organisation with the EM algorithm. 143-156
  
• Debranjan Sarkar, Swapnesh Banerjee, Sudip Chattopadhyay:
  Translation and rotation of binary images encoded as minimized Boolean functions. 157-163
  
• W. H. Tsang, Peter W. M. Tsang:
  Suppression of false edge detection due to specular reflection in color images. 165-171
  
• Antanas Verikas, Kerstin Malmqvist, Lars Bergman:
  Colour image segmentation by modular neural network. 173-185
  
• Hung Yuen, Lajos Hanzo:
  Block-run run-length coding of handwriting and bilevel graphics based on quadtree segmentation. 187-191
  
• Denis de Brucq, M. Amara, V. Ruiz:
  On-line handwritten segmentation in linear drawings. 193-202
  
• Daryl T. Lawton, Warren F. Gardner:
  Motion analysis by translational decomposition. 203-211
  

Volume 18, Number 3, March 1997

• James Ching-Yu Yang, Wen-Hsiang Tsai:
  Suppression of moiré patterns in scanned halftone images by double scans with grid movements. 213-227
  
• Alasdair McAndrew, Charles Osborne:
  The Euler characteristic on the face-centred cubic lattice. 229-237
  
• Paul S. Wu, Ming Li:
  Pyramid edge detection based on stack filter. 239-248
  
• Chantal Revol-Muller, Michel Jourlin:
  A new minimum variance region growing algorithm for image segmentation. 249-258
  
• Antony T. Popov:
  Convexity indicators based on fuzzy morphology. 259-267
  
• Wen-Hao Wang, Yung-Chang Chen:
  Image registration by control points pairing using the invariant properties of line segments. 269-281
  
• Leonid I. Perlovsky:
  Cramer-Rao bound for tracking in clutter and tracking multiple objects. 283-288
  
• Hsi-Jian Lee, Jiumn-Shine Wang:
  Design of a mathematical expression understanding system. 289-298
  

Volume 18, Number 4, April 1997

• Paolo Frasconi, Marco Gori, Giovanni Soda:
  Links between LVQ and Backpropagation. 303-310
  
• Tomasz Ostrowski, Vesa T. Ruoppila:
  Genetic annealing search for index assignment in vector quantization. 311-318
  
• Pritimoy Bhattacharyya, L. Ganesan:
  An orthogonal polynomials based framework for edge detection in 2-D monochrome images. 319-333
  
• Amitava Datta, Swapan K. Parui:
  Skeletons from dot patterns: A neural network approach. 335-342
  
• Rafael Cardoner, Federico Thomas:
  Residuals + directional GAPS = skeletons. 343-353
  
• Majid Mirmehdi, Phil L. Palmer, Josef Kittler:
  Genetic optimisation of the image feature extraction process. 355-365
  
• Shih-Chieh Lin, Chuan-Kang Ting:
  A new approach for detection of dimensions set in mechanical drawings. 367-373
  
• Hiroshi Murase, Shree K. Nayar:
  Detection of 3D objects in cluttered scenes using hierarchical eigenspace. 375-384
  
• Angela Rojas, Antonio Calvo, José Muñoz:
  A dense disparity map of stereo images. 385-393
  
• Somnath Sengupta:
  Effects of unequal focal lengths in stereo imaging. 395-400
  

Volume 18, Number 5, May 1997

• Josef Kittler:
  Obituary. 407-408
  
• Wen-Jyi Hwang, Bo-Yuan Ye, Lin-Ying Lai:
  Nonparametric classifier design using greedy tree-structured vector quantization technique. 409-414
  
• Panagiota Bosdogianni, Heikki Kälviäinen, Maria Petrou, Josef Kittler:
  Robust unmixing of large sets of mixed pixels. 415-424
  
• Xiu-Gang Shang, Wei-Sun Jiang:
  A note on fuzzy information measures. 425-432
  
• Hsin-Chih Lin, Ling-Ling Wang, Shi-Nine Yang:
  Extracting periodicity of a regular texture based on autocorrelation functions. 433-443
  
• Rutuparna Panda, B. N. Chatterji:
  Unsupervised texture segmentation using tuned filters in Gaborian space. 445-453
  
• Debranjan Sarkar:
  Operations on binary images encoded as minimized Boolean functions. 455-463
  
• Gunilla Borgefors, Ingela Nyström:
  Efficient shape representation by minimizing the set of centres of maximal discs/spheres. 465-471
  
• Ashok Samal, Jodi Edwar:
  Generalized Hough transform for natural shapes. 473-480
  
• Hung-Pin Chiu, Din-Chang Tseng:
  Invariant handwritten Chinese character recognition using fuzzy min-max neural networks. 481-491
  
• Mahmood Fathy, Mohammed Yakoob Siyal:
  Measuring traffic movements at junctions using image processing techniques. 493-500
  
• Hirobumi Nishida, Olli Silvén: TC 8: Applications in industry: Aims, scope and activities. 501-503
• Laurence Boxer:
  Corrigenda to "On Hausdorff-like metrics for fuzzy sets" [Pattern Recognition Lettes Vol. 18, (1997) 115-118]. 505-506
  

Volume 18, Number 6, June 1997

• José Salvador Sánchez, Filiberto Pla, Francesc J. Ferri:
  Prototype selection for the nearest neighbour rule through proximity graphs. 507-513
  
• Hee-Joong Kang, Kawon Kim, Jin H. Kim:
  Optimal approximation of discrete probability distribution with kth-order dependency and its application to combining multiple classifiers. 515-523
  
• Gunter Ritter, María Teresa Gallegos:
  Outliers in statistical pattern recognition and an application to automatic chromosome classification. 525-539
  
• Isak Gath, Anna Smolyak Iskoz, Bernard Van Cutsem:
  Data induced metric and fuzzy clustering of non-convex patterns of arbitrary shape. 541-553
  
• Chris A. Glasbey, R. Jones:
  Fast computation of moving average and related filters in octagonal windows. 555-565
  
• Jen-Ming Chen:
  Optimal matching of closed contours with line segments and arcs. 567-574
  
• Enrico Puppo:
  On the topological representation of line drawings. 575-582
  
• Beatrice Lazzerini, Francesco Marcelloni, Leonardo Maria Reyneri:
  Beatrix: A self-learning system for off-line recognition of handwritten texts. 583-594
  
• Tzong-Chen Wu, Jason Cheng:
  Retrieving similar pictures from iconic databases using G-tree. 595-603
  

Volume 18, Number 7, July 1997

• Ahmad Fuad Rezaur Rahman, Michael C. Fairhurst:
  Selective partition algorithm for finding regions of maximum pairwise dissimilarity among statistical class models. 605-611
  
• Azriel Rosenfeld, Akira Nakamura:
  Local deformations of digital curves. 613-620
  
• Michael Buckley, Jean Yang:
  Regularised shortest-path extraction. 621-629
  
• Peter W. M. Tsang:
  A genetic algorithm for affine invariant recognition of object shapes from broken boundaries. 631-639
  
• Jong Seung Park, Joon Hee Han:
  Estimating optical flow by tracking contours. 641-648
  
• Franco Bartolini, Alessandro Piva:
  Median based relaxation of smoothness constraints in optic flow computation. 649-655
  
• Young-Sup Hwang, Sung Yang Bang:
  Recognition of unconstrained handwritten numerals by a radial basis function neural network classifier. 657-664
  
• Quen-Zong Wu, Suh-Yin Lee, I-Chang Jou:
  On-line signature verification based on split-and-merge matching mechanism. 665-673
  
• Huei-Fen Jiang, Chin-Chuan Han, Kuo-Chin Fan:
  A fast approach to the detection and correction of skew documents. 675-686
  

Volume 18, Number 8, August 1997

• Henning E. von Gierke:
  Obituary. 687
  
• Horst Bunke:
  On a relation between graph edit distance and maximum common subgraph. 689-694
  
• Corneliu Spinu, Catherine Garbay, Jean-Marc Chassery:
  Edge detection by estimation and minimization of errors. 695-704
  
• Jiulun Fan, Xie Winxin:
  Minimum error thresholding: A note. 705-709
  
• William Puech, Jean-Marc Chassery, Ioannis Pitas:
  Cylindrical surface localization in monocular vision. 711-722
  
• Terry Windeatt, Robert Tebbs:
  Spectral technique for hidden layer neural network training. 723-731
  
• Xose R. Fernández-Vidal, Jose A. García, Joaquín Fernández-Valdivia, Rosa Rodriguez-Sánchez:
  The role of integral features for perceiving image discriminability. 733-740
  
• Iris Fermin, Atsushi Imiya:
  Planar motion detection by randomized triangle matching. 741-749
  
• Xiao Ming Zhou, Chuan-Heng Ang:
  Retrieving similar pictures from a pictorial database by an improved hashing table. 751-758
  
• Yunhan Dong, Bruce C. Forster, Catherine Ticehurst:
  Street orientation detection and recognition in Landsat TM and SPOT HRV imagery. 759-769
  
• Wei Li, Goutao Lu, Yongqiang Wang:
  Recognizing white line markings for vision-guided vehicle navigation by fuzzy reasoning. 771-780
  
• Ahmad Fuad Rezaur Rahman, Michael C. Fairhurst:
  A new hybrid approach in combining multiple experts to recognise handwritten numerals. 781-790
  
• Hsiao-Lin Peng, Shu-Yuan Chen:
  Trademark shape recognition using closed contours. 791-803
  
• Juan Domingo, Guillermo Ayala, Amelia Simó, Esther de Ves, L. Martínez-Costa, P. Marco:
  Irregular motion recovery in fluorescein angiograms. 805-821
  

Volume 18, Number 9, September 1997

• Josef Bigün, Gérard Chollet:
  Special issue on audio- and video-based person authentication. 823-825
  
• Ulrich Dieckmann, P. Plankensteiner, Thomas Wagner:
  SESAM: A biometric person identification system using sensor fusion. 827-833
  
• Benoît Duc, Elizabeth Saers Bigün, Josef Bigün, Gilbert Maître, Stefan Fischer:
  Fusion of audio and video information for multi modal person authentication. 835-843
  
• Josef Kittler, Jiri Matas, Kenneth Jonsson, M. U. Ramos Sánchez:
  Combining evidence in personal identity verification systems. 845-852
  
• Pierre Jourlin, Juergen Luettin, Dominique Genoud, Hubert Wassner:
  Acoustic-labial speaker verification. 853-858
  
• Sadaoki Furui:
  Recent advances in speaker recognition. 859-872
  
• Delphine Charlet, Denis Jouvet:
  Optimizing feature set for speaker verification. 873-879
  
• R. A. Finan, A. T. Sapeluk, Robert I. Damper:
  Impostor cohort selection for score normalisation in speaker verification. 881-888
  
• Jesper Ø. Olsen:
  A two-stage procedure for phone based speaker verification. 889-897
  
• Charles Kervrann, Franck Davoine, Patrick Pérez, Robert Forchheimer, Claude Labit:
  Generalized likelihood ratio-based face detection and extraction of mouth features. 899-912
  
• Ariel Tankus, Yehezkel Yeshurun, Nathan Intrator:
  Face detection by direct convexity estimation. 913-922
  
• Shizuo Sakamoto, Ingemar J. Cox, Johji Tajima:
  A multiple-baseline stereo for precise human face acquisition. 923-931
  
• Massimo Tistarelli, Enrico Grosso:
  Active face recognition with a hybrid approach. 933-946
  
• Mark S. Schmidt, Steve Ironside, Mervyn A. Jack, Fred Stentiford:
  User perspectives on the security of access data, operator handover procedures and "insult rate" for speaker verification in automated telephone services. 947-953
  

Volume 18, Number 10, October 1997

• Jozef Vörös:
  A strategy for repetitive neighbor finding in images represented by quadtrees. 955-962
  
• Yu Jin Zhang:
  Evaluation and comparison of different segmentation algorithms. 963-974
  
• Manish Sarkar, B. Yegnanarayana, Deepak Khemani:
  A clustering algorithm using an evolutionary programming-based approach. 975-986
  
• Ender Ozcan, Chilukuri K. Mohan:
  Partial shape matching using genetic algorithms. 987-992
  
• Jia-Lin Chen:
  A simplified approach to the HMM based texture analysis and its application to document segmentation. 993-1007
  
• Jianning Xu:
  Hierarchical representation of 2-D shapes using convex polygons: A morphological approach. 1009-1017
  
• Cheng-Lin Liu, Jin Hyung Kim, Ru-Wei Dai:
  Multiresolution locally expanded HONN for handwritten numeral recognition. 1019-1025
  
• Alessandra Lumini, Dario Maio, Davide Maltoni:
  Continuous versus exclusive classification for fingerprint retrieval. 1027-1034
  
• Jason M. Nash, John N. Carter, Mark S. Nixon:
  Dynamic feature extraction via the velocity Hough transform. 1035-1047
  
• Timuçin Özugur, Yagmur Denizhan, Erdal Panayirci:
  Feature extraction in shape recognition using segmentation of the boundary curve. 1049-1056
  
• Jose Paumard:
  Robust comparison of binary images. 1057-1063
  
• Andrew Mehnert, Paul T. Jackway:
  An improved seeded region growing algorithm. 1065-107
  

Volume 18, Number 11-13, November 1997

• Edzard S. Gelsema, Laveen N. Kanal:
  Pattern Recognition in Practice V. 1073-107
  
• Vito Di Gesù, Cesare Valenti, Laurent Strinati:
  Local operators to detect regions of interest. 1077-1081
  
• María Elena Díaz, Juan Domingo, Guillermo Ayala:
  A gray-level 2D feature detector using circular statistics. 1083-1089
  
• Ferdinand van der Heijden, W. Apperloo, Luuk J. Spreeuwers:
  Numerical optimisation in spot detector design. 1091-1097
  
• Victor L. Brailovsky:
  An approach to form recognition based on non-linear projections, search and optimization. 1099-1107
  
• M. Mari, Silvana G. Dellepiane:
  A non-linear image processing approach through fuzzy measures. 1109-1115
  
• George Nagy, Yihong Xu:
  Bayesian subsequence matching and segmentation. 1117-1124
  
• Sergio Vitulano, Cecilia Di Ruberto, Michele Nappi:
  Different methods to segment biomedical images. 1125-1131
  
• Paul C. Smits, Silvana G. Dellepiane:
  An irregular MRF region label model for multi-channel image segmentation. 1133-1142
  
• Mohamed N. Ahmed, Aly A. Farag:
  Two-stage neural network for volume segmentation of medical images. 1143-1151
  
• Dietrich Paulus, Joachim Hornegger, Heinrich Niemann:
  A framework for statistical 3-D object recognition. 1153-1157
  
• Robert P. W. Duin, Dick de Ridder, David M. J. Tax:
  Experiments with a featureless approach to pattern recognition. 1159-1166
  
• Lei Xu:
  Bayesian Ying-Yang machine, clustering and number of clusters. 1167-1178
  
• José Salvador Sánchez, Filiberto Pla, Francesc J. Ferri:
  Prototype selection for the nearest neighbour rule through proximity graphs. 507-513
  
• Jan A. Kors, A. L. Hoffmann:
  Induction of decision rules that fulfil user-specified performance requirements. 1187-1195
  
• Kanti V. Mardia, A. J. Baczkowski, X. Feng, T. J. Hainsworth:
  Statistical methods for automatic interpretation of digitally scanned finger prints. 1197-1203
  
• Sameh M. Yamany, Kamal J. Khiani, Aly A. Farag:
  Application of neural networks and genetic algorithms in the classification of endothelial cells. 1205-1210
  
• Dirk Van Dyck, J. Batista Garcia:
  INFOTREE: A new generic method for supervised pattern recognition based on a contextual tree. 1211-1217
  
• Hilary J. Holz, Murray H. Loew:
  Multi-class classifier-independent feature analysis. 1219-1224
  
• Gerd Maderlechner, Peter Suda, Thomas Brückner:
  Classification of documents by form and content. 1225-1231
  
• Suresh K. Choubey, Vijay V. Raghavan:
  Generic and fully automatic content-based image retrieval using color. 1233-1240
  
• Kieron Messer, Josef Kittler:
  A comparison of colour texture attributes selected by statistical feature selection and neural network methods. 1241-1246
  
• Terry Caelli, Craig Dillon:
  Cite - A trainable image annotation system. 1247-1252
  
• Xiaobo Li, Jason Knipe, Howard Cheng:
  Image compression and encryption using tree structures. 1253-1259
  
• Padhraic Smyth:
  Belief networks, hidden Markov models, and Markov random fields: A unifying view. 1261-1268
  
• Ramon Etxeberria, Pedro Larrañaga, Juan M. Picaza:
  Analysis of the behaviour of genetic algorithms when learning Bayesian network structure from data. 1269-1273
  
• Mark L. Williams, Richard C. Wilson, Edwin R. Hancock:
  Multiple graph matching with Bayesian inference. 1275-128
  
• Simon Moss, Edwin R. Hancock:
  Multiple line-template matching with the EM algorithm. 1283-1292
  
• Aarnoud Hoekstra, Robert P. W. Duin:
  Investigating redundancy in feed-forward neural classifiers. 1293-1300
  
• Chester Ornes, Jack Sklansky:
  A neural network that visualizes what it classifies. 1301-1306
  
• Dick de Ridder, Robert P. W. Duin:
  Sammon's mapping using neural networks: A comparison. 1307-1316
  
• Hilbert J. Kappen, Francisco de Borja Rodríguez Ortiz:
  Mean field approach to learning in Boltzmann Machine. 1317-1322
  
• Lorenzo Bruzzone, Sebastiano B. Serpico:
  Classification of imbalanced remote-sensing data by neural networks. 1323-1328
  
• Tamás Szirányi:
  Texture recognition using a superfast cellular neural network VLSI chip in a real experimental environment. 1329-1334
  
• Paulo J. Costa Branco, J. F. Martins, A. J. Pires, J. A. Dente:
  Recognising patterns in electromechanical systems. 1335-1346
  
• Jo Ann Parikh, J. S. DaPonte, J. N. Vitale, G. Tselioudis:
  Comparison of genetic algorithm systems with neural network and statistical techniques for analysis of cloud structures in midlatitude storm systems. 1347-1351
  
• Giorgio Giacinto, R. Paolucci, Fabio Roli:
  Application of neural networks and statistical pattern recognition algorithms to earthquake risk evaluation. 1353-1362
  
• Richard Myers, Edwin R. Hancock:
  Genetic algorithm parameter sets for line labelling. 1363-1371
  
• Josef Kittler, S. A. Hojjatoleslami, Terry Windeatt:
  Strategies for combining classifiers employing shared and distinct pattern representations. 1373-1377
  
• Paul Scheunders:
  A comparison of clustering algorithms applied to color image quantization. 1379-1384
  
• Kurt D. Bollacker, Joydeep Ghosh:
  Knowledge reuse in multiple classifier systems. 1385-1390
  
• Gasser Auda, Mohamed S. Kamel:
  CMNN: Cooperative Modular Neural Networks for pattern recognition. 1391-1398
  
• Raj Bhatnagar, Richard Horvitz, Rob Williams:
  A hybrid system for target classification. 1399-1403
  
• Sridhar Srinivasan, Laveen N. Kanal:
  Qualitative landmark recognition using visual cues. 1405-1414
  
• Jianchang Mao, K. Moidin Mohiuddin:
  Improving OCR performance using character degradation models and boosting algorithm. 1415-1419
  
• Keren Yu, Xiaoyi Jiang, Horst Bunke:
  Lipreading: A classifier combination approach. 1421-1426
  

Volume 18, Number 14, December 1997

• Kuo-Liang Chung, Jung-Gen Wu, Jer-Kuang Lan:
  Efficient search algorithm on compact S-trees. 1427-1434
  
• Josep Lladós, Horst Bunke, Enric Martí:
  Finding rotational symmetries by cyclic string matching. 1435-1442
  
• Qifa Ke, Tianzi Jiang, Songde Ma:
  A tabu search method for geometric primitive extraction. 1443-1451
  
• Javier Martinez-Baena, Jose A. García, Joaquín Fernández-Valdivia, Rosa Rodriguez-Sánchez:
  Scale selection using three different representations for images. 1453-1467
  
• Cheng-Chia Chang, Ling-Ling Wang:
  A fast multilevel thresholding method based on lowpass and highpass filtering. 1469-1478
  
• T. Morita, Kazu. Tanaka:
  Cluster ZTP in the recovery of an image. 1479-1493
  
• Guy Smith, Ian Burns:
  Measuring texture classification algorithms. 1495-1501
  
• M. Kapfer, Jenny Benois-Pineau:
  Detection of human faces in color image sequences with arbitrary motions for very low bit-rate videophone coding. 1503-1518
  
• Kjersti Aas, Line Eikvil:
  Decoding bar codes from human-readable characters. 1519-1527
  
• J. M. Pardo, Diego Cabello, J. Heras:
  A snake for model-based segmentation of biomedical images. 1529-1538
  
• J. G. Campbell, Chris Fraley, Fionn Murtagh, Adrian E. Raftery:
  Linear flaw detection in woven textiles using model-based clustering. 1539-1548
  

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