Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 16

Volume 16, Number 1, January 1995

• David Harwood, Timo Ojala, Matti Pietikäinen, Shalom Kelman, Larry S. Davis:
  Texture classification by center-symmetric auto-correlation, using Kullback discrimination of distributions. 1-10
  
• G. Phanendra Babu, M. Narasimha Murty:
  Optimal thresholding using multi-state stochastic connectionist approach. 11-18
  
• Luigi Cinque, G. Bongiovanni:
  Parallel prefix computation on a pyramid computer. 19-22
  
• Ming-Sheng Wu, Jin-Jang Leou:
  A bipartite matching approach to feature correspondence in stereo vision. 23-31
  
• David J. Holliday, Ashok Samal:
  Object recognition using L-system fractals. 33-42
  
• Aldo Laurentini:
  Introducing the reduced aspect graph. 43-48
  
• Pinaki Ghosh, Bhabatosh Chanda:
  A fast algorithm for sequential machines to compute pattern spectrum via chess-board distance transform. 49-58
  
• M. Gopalakrishnan, V. Sridhar, H. Krishnamurthy:
  Some applications of clustering in the design of neural networks. 59-65
  
• Chen-Kuei Yang, Wen-Hsiang Tsai:
  Improving block truncation coding by line and edge information and adaptive bit plane selection for gray-scale image compression. 67-75
  
• Yea S. Huang, Ke Liu, Ching Y. Suen:
  A new method of optimizing prototypes for nearest neighbor classifiers using a multi-layer network. 77-82
  
• C. Min Ma:
  A 3D fully parallel thinning algorithm for generating medial faces. 83-87
  
• Dario Maio, Davide Maltoni, Stefano Rizzi:
  Topological clustering of maps using a genetic algorithm. 89-96
  
• Jovisa D. Zunic:
  A coding scheme for certain sets of digital curves. 97-104
  
• Vittorio Castelli, Thomas M. Cover:
  On the exponential value of labeled samples. 105-111
  

Volume 16, Number 2, February 1995

• Wai-Hong Wong, Wan-Chi Siu, Kin-Man Lam:
  Generation of moment invariants and their uses for character recognition. 115-123
  
• Tomasz Ostrowski:
  Computing with genetic algorithms in the context of adaptive neural filtering. 125-132
  
• Pui-Kin Ser, Wan-Chi Siu:
  Memory compression for straight line recognition using the Hough transform. 133-145
  
• Niranjan Mayya, V. T. Rajan:
  An efficient shape representation scheme using Voronoi skeletons. 147-160
  
• Bimal Kumar Ray, Kumar S. Ray:
  A new split-and-merge technique for polygonal approximation of chain coded curves. 161-169
  
• Philippe Delagnes, Jenny Benois-Pineau, Dominique Barba:
  Active contours approach to object tracking in image sequences with complex background. 171-178
  
• Oscar H. Ibarra, Ting-Chuen Pong, Stephen M. Sohn:
  A note on parsing pattern languages. 179-182
  
• Soo-Chang Pei, Fei-Chin Chen:
  Hierarchical image representation by mathematical morphology subband decomposition. 183-192
  
• Kaoru Hirota, Witold Pedrycz:
  D-fuzzy clustering. 193-200
  
• Yu Jin Zhang:
  Influence of segmentation over feature measurement. 201-206
  
• Germano C. Vasconcelos, Michael C. Fairhurst, David L. Bisset:
  Investigating feedforward neural networks with respect to the rejection of spurious patterns. 207-212
  
• Jens Gregor, Robert S. Harris:
  String matching with left-to-right networks. 213-218
  
• P. Nagabhushan, K. Chidananda Gowda, Edwin Diday:
  Dimensionality reduction of symbolic data. 219-223
  

Volume 16, Number 3, March 1995

• Pong Chi Yuen, W. F. Lee, Peter Wai-Ming Tsang, F. K. Lam:
  Localization of dominant points for image coding. 225-232
  
• Henry Soldano, Alain Viari, Marc Champesme:
  Searching for flexible repeated patterns using a non-transitive similarity relation. 233-246
  
• Sg. Ferryanto:
  A Kolmogorov-Smirnov type statistic for detecting structural changes of textures. 247-256
  
• Albert T. P. So:
  Complete object recognition under projection distortion. 257-265
  
• Abdallah Mkhadri:
  Shrinkage parameter for the modified linear discriminant analysis. 267-275
  
• Øivind Due Trier, Torfinn Taxt:
  Improvement of "integrated function algorithm" for binarization of document images. 277-283
  
• Atsushi Nomura, Hidetoshi Miike, Kazutoshi Koga:
  Determining motion fields under non-uniform illumination. 285-296
  
• Gareth Howells, Michael C. Fairhurst, David L. Bisset:
  BCN: A novel network architecture for RAM-based neurons. 297-303
  
• Azriel Rosenfeld, Isaac Weiss:
  A convex polygon is determined by its Hough transform. 305-306
  
• Tetsuo Takeshita, Jun-ichiro Toriwaki:
  Experimental study of performance of pattern classifiers and the size of design samples. 307-312
  
• Silvana G. Dellepiane, Franco Fontana:
  Extraction of intensity connectedness for image processing. 313-324
  
• Babu M. Mehtre, Mohan S. Kankanhalli, A. Desai Narasimhalu, Guo Chang Man:
  Color matching for image retrieval. 325-331
  

Volume 16, Number 4, April 1995

• Ashot Chilingarian:
  Detection of weak signals against background (noise) using neural network classifiers. 333-338
  
• C. Y. Chen, Chin-Chen Chang, Richard Chia-Tung Lee:
  A near pattern-matching scheme based upon principal component analysis. 339-345
  
• Ai-Jia Hsieh, Chin-Wen Ho, Kuo-Chin Fan:
  An extension of the bipartite weighted matching problem. 347-353
  
• Juan F. Arias, Chan Pyng Lai, Surekha Surya, Rangachar Kasturi, Atul K. Chhabra:
  Interpretation of telephone system manhole drawings. 355-369
  
• Th. M. Hupkens, J. de Clippeleir:
  Noise and intensity invariant moments. 371-376
  
• Dov Dori:
  Representing pattern recognition-embedded systems through object-process diagrams: the case of the machine drawing understanding system. 377-384
  
• Zhanyi Hu, Songde Ma:
  The three conditions of a good line parameterization. 385-388
  
• Souheil Ben Yacoub, Jean-Michel Jolion:
  Characterizing the hierarchical Hough transform through a polygonal approximation algorithm. 389-397
  
• Fionn Murtagh:
  Interpreting the Kohonen self-organizing feature map using contiguity-constrained clustering. 399-408
  
• Craig Gotsman, Michael Lindenbaum:
  Euclidean Voronoi labelling on the multidimensional grid. 409-415
  
• Yazid M. Sharaiha, Philippe Garat:
  Digital straightness and the skeleton property. 417-423
  
• Longin Jan Latecki:
  Multicolor well-composed pictures. 425-431
  
• Anup Basu, Sergio Licardie:
  Alternative models for fish-eye lenses. 433-441
  

Volume 16, Number 5, May 1995

• Bijan G. Mobasseri:
  A generalized solution to the quadtree expected complexity problem. 443-456
  
• X. C. Jin, S. H. Ong, Jayasooriah:
  A practical method for estimating fractal dimension. 457-464
  
• Chin-Chen Chang, Tzong-Chen Wu:
  An exact match retrieval scheme based upon principal component analysis. 465-470
  
• L. Ganesan, Pritimoy Bhattacharyya:
  A new statistical approach for micro texture description. 471-478
  
• Han Wang:
  Computational approaches for solving the bas-relief ambiguity under orthographic projection. 479-489
  
• Ujjwal Bhattacharya, Swapan K. Parui:
  On the rate of convergence of perceptron learning. 491-497
  
• W. P. de Waard:
  An optimised distance method for character recognition. 499-506
  
• Antônio de Pádua Braga, Igor Aleksander:
  Geometrical treatment and statistical modelling of the distribution of patterns in the n-dimensional Boolean space. 507-515
  
• Dov Dori, Robert M. Haralick:
  A pattern recognition approach to the detection of complex edges. 517-529
  
• Qin-Zhong Ye:
  A fast algorithm for convex hull extraction in 2D images. 531-537
  
• Rafael C. Carrasco, Mikel L. Forcada:
  A note on the Nagendraprasad-Wang-Gupta thinning algorithm. 539-541
  
• Peter Damaschke:
  The linear time recognition of digital arcs. 543-548
  
• Azriel Rosenfeld:
  "Geometric properties" of sets of lines. 549-556
  

Volume 16, Number 6, June 1995

• Arie Pikaz, Its'hak Dinstein:
  An algorithm for polygonal approximation based on iterative point elimination. 557-563
  
• Francisco Casacuberta:
  Statistical estimation of stochastic context-free grammars. 565-573
  
• Mao-Jiun J. Wang, Wen-Yen Wu, Liang-Kai Huang, Der-Meei Wang:
  Corner detection using bending value. 575-583
  
• P. Ahmed:
  A neural network based dedicated thinning method. 585-590
  
• Du-Ming Tsai, Ming-fong Chen:
  Object recognition by a linear weight classifier. 591-600
  
• Subhash C. Bagui, Nikhil R. Pal:
  A multistage generalization of the rank nearest neighbor classification rule. 601-614
  
• Soo-Chang Pei, Ji-Hwei Horng:
  Circular arc detection based on Hough transform. 615-625
  
• Kah Bin Lim, Kai Xin, Geok Soon Hong:
  Detection and estimation of circular arc segments. 627-636
  
• Jose A. García, Joaquín Fernández-Valdivia, Antonio Garrido Carrillo:
  A scale-vector approach for edge detection. 637-646
  
• K. Chidananda Gowda, T. V. Ravi:
  Agglomerative clustering of symbolic objects using the concepts of both similarity and dissimilarity. 647-652
  
• Du-Ming Tsai:
  A fast thresholding selection procedure for multimodal and unimodal histograms. 653-666
  

Volume 16, Number 7, July 1995

• M. Concetta Morrone, Anacleto Navangione, David Burr:
  An adaptive approach to scale selection for line and edge detection. 667-677
  
• Christophe Vieren, François Cabestaing, Jack-Gérard Postaire:
  Catching moving objects with snakes for motion tracking. 679-685
  
• Andrzej Sluzek:
  Identification and inspection of 2-D objects using new moment-based shape descriptors. 687-697
  
• Kuo-Liang Chung:
  Finding shape numbers in parallel. 699-702
  
• Richard Dybowski, Vanya A. Gant, Peter A. Riley, Ian Phillips:
  Rapid compound pattern classification by recursive partitioning of feature space. An application in flow cytometry. 703-709
  
• Ragnar Nohre:
  Computer vision: Compress to comprehend. 711-717
  
• Lev Goldfarb, John Abela, Virendra C. Bhavsar, Vithal N. Kamat:
  Can a vector space based learning model discover inductive class generalization in a symbolic environment? 719-726
  
• Isak Gath, Dan Hoory:
  Fuzzy clustering of elliptic ring-shaped clusters. 727-741
  
• Il-Seok Oh:
  Document image binarization preserving stroke connectivity. 743-748
  
• Hee Dong Chang, Kwang Ick Kim, Timothy Poston:
  An accurate 3D localization of a camera using a guide-mark. 749-757
  
• N. B. Venkateswarlu:
  Implementation of some image thresholding algorithms on a connection machine-200. 759-768
  
• Chipai Chou, Bong Ho, Jeng T. Sheu:
  Material characterization by ultrasonics using unsupervised competitive learning. 769-777
  

Volume 16, Number 8, August 1995

• Edzard S. Gelsema:
  Editorial Special issue on genetic algorithms. 779-780
  
• M. Prakash, M. Narasimha Murty:
  A genetic approach for selection of (near-) optimal subsets of principal components for discrimination. 781-787
  
• R. Srikanth, Roy George, N. Warsi, Dev Prabhu, Frederick E. Petry, Bill P. Buckles:
  A variable-length genetic algorithm for clustering and classification. 789-800
  
• Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, C. A. Murthy, Sankar K. Pal:
  Pattern classification with genetic algorithms. 801-808
  
• Ludmila I. Kuncheva:
  Editing for the k-nearest neighbors rule by a genetic algorithm. 809-814
  
• Hideo Saito, Masayuki Mori:
  Application of genetic algorithms to stereo matching of images. 815-821
  
• Jean-José Jacq, Christian Roux:
  Registration of 3-D images by genetic optimization. 823-841
  
• Dominique Snyers, Y. Pétillot:
  Image processing optimization by genetic algorithm with a new coding scheme. 843-848
  
• Alexander Toet, Walter P. Hajena:
  Genetic contour matching. 849-856
  
• Jim Piper:
  Genetic algorithm for applying constraints in chromosome classification. 857-864
  
• Edzard S. Gelsema:
  Abductive reasoning in Bayesian belief networks using a genetic algorithm. 865-871
  
• Keshav Dev, C. Siva Ram Murthy:
  A genetic algorithm for the knowledge base partitioning problem. 873-879
  

Volume 16, Number 9, September 1995

• Karl Tombre:
  Graphics recognition -- General context and challenges. 883-891
  
• Jan Flusser:
  Object matching by means of matching likelihood coefficients. 893-900
  
• Kiran R. Bhutani, Abdella Battou:
  An application of fuzzy relations to image enhancement . 901-909
  
• Didier Coquin, Philippe Bolon:
  Discrete distance operator on rectangular grids. 911-923
  
• Ettore Stella, Francesco Paolo Lovergine, Tiziana D'Orazio, Arcangelo Distante:
  A visual tracking technique suitable for control of convoys. 925-932
  
• Jesús Manuel de la Cruz, Gonzalo Pajares, Joaquín Aranda Almansa, J. L. F. Vindel:
  Stereo matching technique based on the perceptron criterion function. 933-944
  
• Louisa Lam, Ching Y. Suen:
  Optimal combinations of pattern classifiers. 945-954
  
• Kuo-Chin Fan, Liang-Shen Wang:
  Classification of document blocks using density feature and connectivity histogram. 955-962
  
• Kuo-Chin Fan, Jeng-Ming Lu, Liang-Sheng Wang, Hong-Yuan Mark Liao:
  Extraction of characters from form documents by feature point clustering. 963-970
  
• Jukka Heikkonen:
  Recovering 3-D motion parameters from optical flow field using randomized Hough transform. 971-978
  
• Gilles Bertrand:
  A parallel thinning algorithm for medial surfaces. 979-986
  
• Changming Sun:
  Symmetry detection using gradient information. 987-996
  

Volume 16, Number 10, October 1995

• Amir Eliaz, Dan Geiger:
  Word-level recognition of small sets of hand-written words. 999-1009
  
• Luigi Bedini, Ivan Gerace, Anna Tonazzini:
  Sigmoidal approximations for self-interacting line processes in edge-preserving image restoration. 1011-1022
  
• Rei-Heng Cheng, Chi-Wei Lee, Zen Chen:
  Preclassification of handwritten Chinese characters based on basic stroke substructures. 1023-1032
  
• Sreeparna Banerjee, Dipti Prasad Mukherjee, D. Dutta Majumder:
  Point landmarks for registration of CT and MR images. 1033-1042
  
• Peter W. M. Tsang, W. H. Tsang:
  An improved interpolative vector quantization scheme using non-recursive adaptive decimation. 1043-1050
  
• Raimondo Schettini, Bruno Barolo, Elisabetta Boldrin:
  Colorimetric calibration of color scanners by back-propagation. 1051-1056
  
• Yue Min Zhu, Robert Goutte:
  A comparison of bilinear space/spatial-frequency representations for texture discrimination. 1057-1068
  
• Marcello Pelillo, Fabio Abbattista, Angelo Maffione:
  An evolutionary approach to training relaxation labeling processes. 1069-1078
  
• Chin-Chuan Han, Yao-Lung Tseng, Kuo-Chin Fan, An-Bang Wang:
  Coarse classification of Chinese characters via stroke clustering method. 1079-1089
  
• W. P. de Waard:
  An optimised minimal edit distance for hand-written word recognition. 1091-1096
  
• Luigi Cinque, Luca Lombardi, Azriel Rosenfeld:
  Evaluating digital angles by a parallel diffusion process. 1097-1104
  
• Kim Shearer, Les Kitchen:
  Filling gaps in the Hough-transform voting locus for N-dimensional parameter spaces. 1105-1109
  

Volume 16, Number 11, November 1995

• Geok See Ng, Sevki S. Erdogan, Ng Pan Wei:
  Contender's network, a new competitive-learning scheme . 1111-1118
  
• C. V. Jawahar, Prabir K. Biswas, A. K. Ray:
  Detection of clusters of distinct geometry: A step towards generalised fuzzy clustering. 1119-1123
  
• Jose A. Ventura, Nain Ling-Ying, Wenhua Wan:
  Optimal matching of general polygons based on the minimum zone error. 1125-1136
  
• Michael Vassilakopoulos, Yannis Manolopoulos:
  A random model for analyzing region quadtrees. 1137-1145
  
• H. Ralambondrainy:
  A conceptual version of the K-means algorithm. 1147-1157
  
• Kuo-Liang Chung, Chih-Jen Wu:
  A fast search algorithm on modified S-trees. 1159-1164
  
• Markus Michaelis, Gerald Sommer:
  A Lie group approach to steerable filters. 1165-1174
  
• Longin Jan Latecki, Frank Prokop:
  Semi-proximity continuous functions in digital images. 1175-1187
  
• M. Har-even, Victor L. Brailovsky:
  Probabilistic validation approach for clustering. 1189-1196
  
• Chew Lim Tan, Min Pang Chium, Worthy N. Martin:
  Transputer implementation of a multiple agent model for object tracking. 1197-1203
  
• Anup Basu, Manoj K. Jain, Xiaobo Li:
  Improving boundary detection using variable resolution masks. 1205-1211
  
• Hirobumi Nishida:
  An approach to integration of off-line and on-line recognition of handwriting. 1213-1219
  

Volume 16, Number 12, December 1995

• Luuk J. Spreeuwers:
  Training neural networks for minimum average risk with a special application to context dependent learning. 1221-1236
  
• Vincenzo Caglioti, Vittorio Maniezzo:
  Mode determination in noisy bimodal images by histogram comparison. 1237-1248
  
• Chongguang Tao, Min-You Wu:
  A modified and parallelized Viterbi algorithm on hypercube machines. 1249-1257
  
• Manuel Lazo-Cortés, José Ruiz-Shulcloper:
  Determining the feature relevance for non-classically described objects and a new algorithm to compute typical fuzzy testors. 1259-1265
  
• Ruowei Zhou, Hiok Chai Quek, Geok See Ng:
  A novel single-pass thinning algorithm and an effective set of performance criteria. 1267-1275
  
• Jun Yang, Xiaobo Li:
  Boundary detection using mathematical morphology. 1277-1286
  
• Quang Minh Tieng, Wageeh W. Boles:
  An application of wavelet-based affine-invariant representation. 1287-1296
  
• Marc Pierrot Deseilligny, Hervé Le Men, Georges Stamon:
  Character string recognition on maps, a rotation-invariant recognition method. 1297-1310
  
• Joanna Lis:
  Genetic algorithm with the dynamic probability of mutation in the classification problem. 1311-1320
  
• Mahmood Fathy, Mohammed Yakoob Siyal:
  An image detection technique based on morphological edge detection and background differencing for real-time traffic analysis. 1321-1330