Progress in Image Analysis and Processing

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• PREFACE
• SPONSORING INSTITUTIONS
• 2-D IMAGE PROCESSING
  • Model-based selective image enhancement by means of adaptive rank order filtering (Invited lecture)
  • Radiometric reference segmentation in thermal images
  • A color image segmentation process suitable for real time implementation
  • Experimenting with region and multiple source segmentation
  • A method for representing and computing immediate texture discrimination in natural images
  • A segmentation method using Voronoï diagrams in a split and merge environment
  • Image analysis applied to arts paintings in a multisource environment
  • A second-order differential operator for multispectral edge detection
  • Comparison of morphological operators for grey tones images
  • Towards Unsupervised Texture Segmentation Using Gabor Spectral Decomposition
  • A comparison of dictionary-based relaxation methods
  • An iterative multispectral image segmentation algorithm
  • Discrete approaches for digital images and patterns of transformations
  • Diagnostic analysis of degradation on ancient buildings using textures
  • Segmentation of Texture Regions Using Points of Sharp Intensity Change
  • Region detection in gray-level images
  • Threshold logic and mathematical morphology
  • How do Variations in Resolution Influence on Gray Tone Spatial Dependence Matrix Method's Capability to Classify Stochastic Textures?
  • A knowledge based approach to image segmentation
• IMAGE CODING AND REPRESENTATION
  • Connected component labeling for arbitrary binary image representations (Invited lecture)
  • Recent results in adaptive image coding
  • A dynamic combinatorial Hough transform
  • An application of binary arithmetic code to colour images
  • Some guidelines for the use and manipulation of colors in visual communication
  • A useful image representation
  • Hardware Implementation of a Connectivity Preserving Shrinking Algorithm
  • Skeletons from Snakes
  • Compress Images Based On Fractal Dimension
  • Image Representation in Nonuniform Systems
  • Contour Processing Distance Transforms
  • Extended neighborhoods in the hexagonal grid: a parallel algorithm to get a line pattern with limited cardinality
  • Application of Delaunay triangulation in image coding
• IMAGE DESCRIPTION AND RECOGNITION
  • Efficient processing of 2-D images (Invited lecture)
  • Feature extraction from biological images
  • 2D Recognition of Partially Overlapped Objects using Photometric Approach
  • A strategy based on fuzzy set theory for similarity judgement between structures
  • Using skeletons for OCR
  • Pictorial entity indexing by shape descriptions
  • Description-based indexing of ECG
  • A structural description method for OCR
  • A heuristic matcher of ARG graphs for object recognition
  • An application-independent knowledge-based framework for complex image recognition
  • Linear features extraction in remotely sensed images using a skeletonization approach
  • The Local Form – a New Method for Contour Segmentation
  • Ambiguous patterns: investigation on their properties
  • Region organization in two-dimensional shapes
  • Isolation and Identification of Abutting and Overlapping Objects in Binary Images
  • Tools for shape complexity evaluation and associated decomposition processes
  • A Similarity Retrieval Method for Line Drawing Image Databases
  • The Application of Dynamic Programming to Object Identification
• 3-D IMAGE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS
  • Development of a trainable machine-vision inspection system (Invited lecture)
  • Object Recognition based on Hypothesis Generation and Verification Strategy
  • 3-D SCENE RECONSTRUCTION FROM MULTIPLE 2-D VIEWS
  • Binocular Motion and Structure from Monocular Motion and Structure
  • Reconstructing Three-Dimensional Shapes Through Euler Operators
  • Object Recognition Using Inexact Matching Of 3-D Graphs
  • Identification of 3-D Surface Primitives using Structured Light
  • Automatic tailoring of vision systems
  • Surface recovering by local shading analysis
  • Visibility Characteristics of Grey-Scale Images
  • Group-Theoretic Analysis of Local Flow Characteristics while Visually Tracking a Textured Surface
  • On Computing Stable Surface Descriptions from Range Data
  • Detection of local symmetries in multi-dimensional images
  • Digitized images and patterns of perspective transformations
  • 3-D surface characterization
  • Matching overlapping objects in 3-D scene to model-base under a heuristic search strategy
  • Computing Optical Flow With Medianess
  • 3D scene modeling based on a generic model
  • LOAS: automatic site localisation and orientation using a 3D model
• IP SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS
  • Document analysis and optical character recognition (Invited lecture)
  • DIMES: Diagnostic imaging in mammography using expert systems
  • Applications of signature analysis by computer and the consequence of its possible misuse
  • Towards an evaluation of an experimental OCR system by means of a complex document
  • An Image Interpretation Management System
  • Automatic method for cloud analysis from monochromatic satellite pictures
  • A new technique to measure the performances of an imaging system
  • An image processing system based on object oriented design
  • Automatic visual inspection of textured textiles
  • Pictorial information retrieval with uncertain knowledge
  • A thin lines based approach to PCB visual inspection
  • Digital integration and analysis of multiple images for mineral resource mapping
  • Segmentation of 3D magnetic resonance data
  • Decision making process in a signature verification system
  • Recent developments of the optical character reading systems
  • The RESEDA Project – a knowledge based approach to extracting environmental information from remote sensor data
  • Computer Identification and Matching of Circuit Diagrams with PC Boards
  • Hybrid processing of images for territory monitoring
• SPECIAL ALGORITHMS AND ARCHITECTURES
  • Massively parallel architectures for cellular logic image processing (Invited lecture)
  • Geometry constraints and limited memory for the generalized-Hough transform
  • Global transforms in real time with the Functional Low Level Image Processor (FLLlP)
  • Parallel implementation of a skeletonizing algorithm on a MIMD multiprocessor system
  • Study of workload partitioning on a PRAM_CREW multiprocessor system performing low_mid level image processing tasks
  • Fast parallel algorithms for image thresholding
  • Using Resolution Pyramids to Efficiently Store Distance Transforms of Arbitrary Size
  • Real-time processing architectures in ground surveillance systems
  • Stereo vision in multi-resolution
  • The medial axis transform on a pyramid architecture
  • Parallel implementation of a region merging algorithm on a pyramid machine
  • Object Recognition Strategy in a Multi-Resolution System
  • A Dataflow Image Processing System TIP-4
  • A multigranularity massively parallel architecture for image understanding
  • Neural network models of perceptual alternation of ambiguous patterns
  • Designing a VLSI Processing Element Chip for Pyramid Computer SPHINX
  • Architectures for Image Coding using Adaptive Vector Quantization
  • Systolic algorithms for VLSI geometry checking
  • String processing algorithms and architectures for digital curves analysis