PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS
Volume: 20, Number: 1, January 1999

Learning in a self-organising pattern formation system
T. Hogg, H. Ta/hami and D. Rees 1

A comparative study of neural network based feature extraction paradigms
B. Lemer, H. Guterman, M. Afadj'em and i. Dinstein 7

A note on adaptive 2D-H strings
Y. -1. Chang and H.-Y. Ann 15

. The use of linked line segments for cluster representation and data reduction
E.W. TyreeandJ.A. Long 21

Boundary-based comer detection using eigenvalues of covariance matrices
D.-M. Tsai, H.-T. HouandH.-J. Su 31

Ellipse detection based on symmetry
V'.Lei and K.C.Wong 41

2D object recognition based on curvature functions obtained from local histograms
of the contour chain code
A. Bandera, C. Urdiales, F. Arrebofa and F. Sandovai 49

An adaptive fuzzy C-means algorithm for image segmentation in the presence
of intensity inhomogeneities
D.L.Pham and J.L. Prince 57

Pose estimation using four corresponding points
M.L.UuandK.H.Wong 69

A syntactic approach applied to materials degradation
D. Vituiano 75

Binary text image compression using overlapping rectangular partitioning
-4. Quddus and M.M. Fahmy 81

The role of topographical constraints in face recognition
L. Wiskott 89

Neural networks and fuzzy data fusion. Application to an on-line and real time vehicle detection system
E. Jouseau and B. Dorizzi 97

Color and spatial feature for content-based image retrieval
M.S. Kankanhalli, B.M. MehtreandH. YiungHuang 109

Calls for papers 119

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PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS
Volume: 20, Number: 2, February 1999

Unsupervised fuzzy clustering
N. Zahid, 0. Abouetala, M. Urnouri and A. Essaid 123

A Coupled-ART neural network capable of modularized categorization of patterns
N.tILee 131

A contour detection method: Initialization and contour model
P.C. Yuen, G.C. FengandJ.P. Zhou 141

Analysis of gray level corner detection
Z. Zheng, H. Wang and E. Khwang Teoh 149

Planar shape recognition by directional flow-change method
P. W. Huang, S.K. Dai and P.L. Un 163

Texture classification using multiresolution Markov random field models
L Wang and J. Uu 171

A parallel algorithm of texture analysis for liquid crystal investigation
A. Sanna, B. MontrucchioandA. Sparavigna 183

Fast determination of textural periodicity using distance matching function
<3. Oh, S. Lee and S. Yong Shin 191

Robust detection of significant points in multiframe images
B. Zitova, J. Kautsky, G. Peters and J. Flusser 199

Distance-based functions for image comparison
V. Di Gesu and V. Starovoitov 207

Intelligent pattern detection and compression. An application to very low bit rate transmission
of ship wake aerial images
E. Magli and G. Ofmo 215

Nearly-lossless autoregressive image compression
0. S. Pianykh, J.M. Tyier and Ft. Shaman 221

Bayesian detection of the fovea in eye fundus angiographies
M.V. lbanez and A. Simo 229

List of referees 241

 

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PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS

Volume 20, Number 3, March 1999

Abstracted/indexed in: ACM Computing Reviews, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Computer Abstracts, Current Contents: Engineering, Technology & Applied Science, Engineering index/Compendex, Geographical Abstracts, INSPEC Inf ormation Services, Science Citation Index, SciSearch.

CONTENTS

Recognition of objects with skew distortion based on synergetics H. Dongliang, Q. Feihu and L. Jianfeng 255

An improvement of the NEC criterion for assessing the number of clusters in a mixture model C. Biemacki, G. Celeux and G. Govaert 267

A search technique for rule extraction from trained neural networks R. Krishnan, G. Sivakumar and P. Bhattacharya 273

One-dimensional frequency domain interpretation of compass roof edge and Frei-Chen line masks R.-H. Park 281

Decomposition of Chinese character into strokes using mathematical morphology J.W. Kirn, K.I. Kirn, B.J. Choi and H.J. Kirn 285

Construction of partitioning paths for touching handwritten characters J. Hu, D. Yu and H. Yan 293

A comparison of Gaussian and Pearson mixture modeling for pattern recognition and computer vision applications S. Medasani and R. Krishnapuram 305

Verifying edges for visual inspection purposes W.WenandA.Xia 315

Two-dimensional entropic segmentation E.D. Jansing, T.A. Albert and D.L. Chenoweth 329

Texture segmentation through eigen-analysis of the Pseudo-Wigner distribution G. Cristobal and J. Hormigo 337

Estimation of fractal dimension of images using a fixed mass approach P. Asvestas, G.K. Matsopoulos and K.S. Nikita 347

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PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS
Volume: 20, Number: 5, May 1999

CONTENTS
Motion enhancement for preprocessing of optical flow detection and scientific visualization
H. Make, L. Zhang, T. Sakurai and H. Yamada 451

Training PDMs on models: The case of deformable superellipses
M. Pilu and P.B. Fisher 463

On domain knowledge and feature selection using a support vector machine
0. Barzilay and V.L. Brailovsky 475

Unsupervised segmentation of spaceborne passive radar images
K.B. Eom 485

A simple edge-preserving filtering technique for constructing multi-resolution systems of images
C. Chen and C.-D. Wang 495

A fast and stable snake algorithm for medical images
D.J. Kang 507

Subspace classifier in the Hilbert space
K. Tsuda 513

Recognition of radiopaque markers in X-ray images using a neural network as nonlinear filter
M. Egmont-Petersen and T. Arts 521

A new approach to photometric stereo
J.R.A. Torreao 535

Landmark recognition using invariant features
B. Zitova and J. Flusser 541

Erratum 549

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PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS

VOLUME 20, NUMBER 6, JUNE 1999

CONTENTS

Korean character recognition using a TDNN and an HMM
K.C. Jung and H.J. Kirn 551

Cluster identification with parallel coordinates
S.-Y. Chou, S.-W. Lin and C.-S. Yeh 565

An MIMD algorithm for constant curvature feature extraction using curvature based data partitioning
S. Chaudhury, A. Hoy and L. Dey 573

Detecting three-dimensional rotation of an ellipsoid from its orthographic projections
R. Noumeir

 

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PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS
Volume 20, Number 7, July 1999



CONTENTS


An ISODATA clustering procedure for symbolic objects using a distributed genetic algorithm
T. V. Ravi and K.C. Gowda 659


A reconfigurable processor based on FPGAs for pattern recognition, processing, analysis
and synthesis of images
J. Sotdek and R. Mantiuk 667

Representation and recovery of 3D curved objects using generalized cylinders
and the extended gaussian image
X. Pan and D.M. Lane 675


Accommodating uncertainty in pixel-based verification of 3-D object hypotheses
M. Boshra and H. Zhang 689



Sequential fuzzy cluster extraction by a graph spectral method
K. Inoue and K. Urahama 699


A stochastic optimization approach for roundness measurements
M.-C. Chen, D.-M. TsaiandH.-Y. Tseng 707


Real-time head tracking from the deformation of eye contours using a piecewise affine camera
C. Colombo and A. Del Bimbo 721


A new circle/ellipse detector using genetic algorithms
P.-Y. Yin 731


Diagnosing dynamic systems using trace patterns
G.K. Palshikar and D. Khemani 741




Erratum to "An unbiased active contour algorithm for object tracking" [Pattern Recognition
Letters 19(5-6) (1998) 491-498]
C.L.LamandS.Y.Yuen 755


Erratum to "Unsupervised fuzzy clustering" [Pattern Recognition Letters 20(2) (1999) 123-129]
N. Zahid, ö. Abouelala, M. Limouri and A. Essaid 757


Announcement and call for papers 759

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  1. A new approach to similarity retrieval of 2-D graphic objects based on dominant shapes
    J.H. Park and B.S. Urn 591

    A boundary concavity code to support dominant point detection
    T.M. Cronin 617

    Corner detection via topographic analysis of vector-potential
    B. Luo, A.D.J. Cross and E.Ft. Hancock 635

    Integrating active face tracking with model based coding
    L. Yin and A. Basu 651

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Volume 20, Number 8, August 1999


CONTENTS

A neural-vision based approach to measure traffic queue parameters in real-time
M. Y. Siyal and M. Fathy 761


An MLP using Hough transform based fuzzy feature extraction for Bengali script recognition
S.SuralandP.K.Das 771


Filtering methods for texture discrimination
C.-C. Chen and C.-C. Chen 783


Recognition-based handwritten Chinese character segmentation using a probabilistic Viterbi algorithm
Y.-H. Tseng and H.-J. Lee 791


Interpretation of eight-point discrete cosine and sine transforms as 3x3 orthogonal edge masks
in terms of the Frei-Chen masks
R.-H. Park 807


Optimal linguistic decoding is a difficult computational problem
F. Casacuberta and C. de la Higuera 813


Feature selection for multiple binary classification problems
Y. Shapira and 1. Gath 823


Pattern skeletonization using run-length-wise processing for intersection distortion problem
D.X. Zhong and H. Van 833


Robust estimation of motion, structure and focal length from two views of a translating scene
F. lsgro and E. Trucco 847


Mending broken handwriting with a macrostructure analysis method to improve recognition
J. WangandH. Van 855



 

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PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS

VOL. 20, NO. 9, SEPTEMBER 1999


Fast and robust techniques for detecting straight line segments using local models
R Shpilman and V. Brailovsky 865


Motion tracking of human mouth by generalized deformable models
S. Chan, C.W. Ngo and K.F. Lai 879


Robust motion and correspondence of noisy 3-D point sets with missing data
E. Trucco, A. Fusielio and V. Roberto 889


Histogram clustering for unsupervised segmentation and image retrieval
J. Puzicha, T. Hofmann and J.M. Buhmann 899


Applying genetic algorithms to search for the best hierarchical clustering of a dataset
J.A. Lozano and P. Larranaga 911


An adaptive segmentation and 3-D visualisation of the lungs
J. Dehmeshki 919


Robust algorithms for principal component analysis
T.-N. YangandS.-D. Wang 927


A fuzzy set-based accuracy assessment of soft classification
E. Binaghi, P.A. Brivio, P. Ghezzi and A. Rampini 935


Use of random graph parsing for scene labelling by probabilistic relaxation
M. Skomorowski 949


On strongly normal tesselations
P. Brass 957


Shrinking classification trees for bootstrap aggregation
W. Pan 961

 

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