Volume 10, Number 1, January/February 1988

Introduction to the Special PAMI Issues on Industrial Machine Vision and Computer Vision Technology Jorge L. C. Sanz: Introduction to the Special PAMI Issues on Industrial Machine Vision and Computer Vision Technology. 1-3 Papers Haruo Yoda, Yozo Ohuchi, Yuzo Taniguchi, Masakazu Ejiri: An Automatic Wafer Inspection System Using Pipelined Image Processing Techniques. 4-16 H. Keith Nishihara, P. A. Crossley: Measuring Photolithographic Overlay Accuracy and Critical Dimensions by Correlating Binarized Laplacian of Gaussian Convolutions. 17-30 Sandra L. Bartlett, Paul J. Besl, Charles L. Cole, Ramesh Jain, Debashish Mukherjee, Kurt D. Skifstad: Automatic Solder Joint Inspection. 31-43 Arthur S. Sanderson, Lee E. Weiss, Shree K. Nayar: Structured Highlight Inspection of Specular Surfaces. 44-55 Ahmed M. Darwish, Anil K. Jain: A Rule Based Approach for Visual Pattern Inspection. 56-68 Yasuhiko Hara, Hideaki Doi, Koichi Karasaki, Tadashi Iida: A System for PCB Automated Inspection Using Fluorescent Light. 69-78 Herbert Boerner, Helmut Strecker: Automated X-Ray Inspection of Aluminum Castings. 79-91 Lee Hok Siew, Robert M. Hodgson, Errol J. Wood: Texture Measures for Carpet Wear Assessment. 92-105 Correspondence F. Matthew Rhodes, Joseph J. Dituri, Glenn H. Chapman, Bruce E. Emerson, Antonio M. Soares, Jack I. Raffel: A Monolithic Hough Transform Processor Based on Restructurable VLSI. 106-110 E. Persoon: A Pipelined Image Analysis System Using Custom Integrated Circuits. 110-116 D. B. Shu, C. C. Li, J. F. Mancuso, Y. N. Sun: A Line Extraction Method for Automated SEM Inspection of VLSI Resist. 117-120 Keishi Hanahara, Tsugito Maruyama, Takashi Uchiyama: A Real-Time Processor for the Hough Transform. 121-125 Volume 10, Number 2, March/April 1988

Editor's Notice Steven L. Tanimoto: Editor's Notice. 129-130 Papers Ken-ichi Kanatani: Transformation of Optical Flow by Camera Rotation. 131-143 Kim L. Boyer, Avinash C. Kak: Structural Stereopsis for 3-D Vision. 144-166 Paul J. Besl, Ramesh Jain: Segmentation through Variable-Order Surface Fitting. 167-192 Roland Wilson, Michael Spann: Finite Prolate Spheroidal Sequences and their Applications II: Image Feature Description and Segmentation. 193-203 Hafedh Mili, Roy Rada: Merging Thesauri: Principles and Evaluation. 204-220 Shun-En Xie, Thomas W. Calvert: CSG-EESI: A New Solid Representation Scheme and a Conversion Expert System. 221-234 Robert A. Hummel, Michael S. Landy: A Statistical Viewpoint on the Theory of Evidence. 235-247

Correspondence Patrice Y. Simard, Guy E. Mailloux: A Projection Operator for the Restoration of Divergence-Free Vector Fields. 248-256 John W. Gorman, Owen Robert Mitchell, Frank P. Kuhl: Partial Shape Recognition Using Dynamic Programming. 257-266 Yoshihiko Nomura, Hiroshi Naruse: Reduction of Obscuration Noise Using Multiple Images. 267-270 P. V. Sankar, Leonard A. Ferrari: Simple Algorithms and Architectures for B-spline Interpolation. 271-276 Sverrir Olafsson, Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa: The Capacity of Multilevel Threshold Functions. 277-281 F. D. Garber, Abdelhamid Djouadi: Bounds on the Bayes Classification Error Based on Pairwise Risk Functions. 281-288 Volume 10, Number 3, May/June 1988

Introduction to the PAMI Special Issue on Industrial Machine Vision and Computer Vision Technology-Part II Jorge L. C. Sanz: Introduction to the PAMI Special Issue on Industrial Machine Vision and Computer Vision Technology-Part II. 289-290 Papers David Nitzan: Three-Dimensional Vision Structure for Robot Applications. 291-309 Terry J. Fountain, K. N. Matthews, Michael J. B. Duff: The CLIP7A Image Processor. 310-319 Lorenz A. Schmitt, Stephen S. Wilson: The AIS-5000 Parallel Processor. 320-330 Akio Okazaki, Takashi Kondo, Kazuhiro Mori, Shou Tsunekawa, Eiji Kawamoto: An Automatic Circuit Diagram Reader with Loop-Structure-Based Symbol Recognition. 331-341 Matthew Turk, David G. Morgenthaler, Keith D. Gremban, Martin Marra: VITS-A Vision System for Autonomous Land Vehicle Navigation. 342-361 Correspondence David W. Capson, Sai-Kit Eng: A Tiered-Color Illumination Approach for Machine Inspection of Solder Joints. 387-393 Toshiyuki Gotoh, Takashi Toriu, Shigeru Sasaki, Masumi Yoshida: A Flexible Vision-Based Algorithm for a Book Sorting System. 393-399 Dominik Paul, W. Hättich, W. Nill, M. Sehran Tatari, Gottfried Winkler: VISTA: Visual Interpretation System for Technical Applications-Architecture and Use. 399-407 Cregg K. Cowan, Peter Kovesi: Automatic Sensor Placement from Vision Task Requirements. 407-416 Volume 10, Number 4, July/August 1988

Papers Demetri Terzopoulos: The Computation of Visible-Surface Representations. 417-438 Robert T. Frankot, Rama Chellappa: A Method for Enforcing Integrability in Shape from Shading Algorithms. 439-451 Moshe Porat, Yehoshua Y. Zeevi: The Generalized Gabor Scheme of Image Representation in Biological and Machine Vision. 452-468 Nagaraj Nandhakumar, Jake K. Aggarwal: Integrated Analysis of Thermal and Visual Images for Scene Interpretation. 469-481 Judith F. Silverman, David B. Cooper:

Bayesian Clustering for Unsupervised Estimation of Surface and Texture Models. 482-495 Cho-Huak Teh, Roland T. Chin: On Image Analysis by the Methods of Moments. 496-513 Vishvjit S. Nalwa: Line-Drawing Interpretation: Straight Lines and Conic Sections. 514-529 Luc Devroye: Automatic Pattern Recognition: A Study of the Probability of Error. 530-543 Harry E. Stephanou, Shin-Yee Lu: Measuring Consensus Effectiveness by a Generalized Entropy Criterion. 544-554 Francesco Bergadano, Attilio Giordana, Lorenza Saitta: Automated Concept Acquisition in Noisy Environments. 555-578 Correspondence Hanan Samet, Markku Tamminen: Efficient Component Labeling of Images of Arbitrary Dimension Represented by Linear Bintrees. 579-586 Hsi-Ho Liu, Tzay Y. Young, Amitava Das: A Multilevel Parallel Processing Approach to Scene Labeling Problems. 586-590 Jik H. Chang, Oscar H. Ibarra, Ting-Chuen Pong, Stephen M. Sohn: Two-Dimensional Convolution on a Pyramid Computer. 590-593 Amar Mitiche, Steven Seida, Jake K. Aggarwal: Using Constancy of Distance to Estimate Position and Displacement in Space. 594-599 John E. McFee, Yogadhish Das: A Classifier for Feature Vectors Whose Prototypes are a Function of Multiple Continuous Parameters. 599-606 Volume 10, Number 5, September/October 1988

Editor's Notice Steven L. Tanimoto: Editor's Notice. 609 Papers Axel Korn: Toward a Symbolic Representation of Intensity Changes in Images. 610-625 Tracy L. Faber, Ernest M. Stokely: Orientation of 3-D Structures in Medical Images. 626-633 Seppo Linnainmaa, David Harwood, Larry S. Davis: Pose Determination of a Three-Dimensional Object Using Triangle Pairs. 634-647 Darwin T. Kuan, Gary Phipps, A-Chuan Hsueh: Autonomous Robotic Vehicle Road Following. 648-658 John T. Kent, Kanti V. Mardia: Spatial Classification Using Fuzzy Membership Models. 659-671 Kai-Hsiung Chang, William G. Wee: A Planning Model with Problem Analysis and Operator Hierarchy. 672-675 Keki B. Irani, Suk I. Yoo: A Methodology for Solving Problems: Problem Modeling and Heuristic Generation. 676-686 Monroe M. Newborn: Unsynchronized Iteratively Deepening Parallel Alpha-Beta Search. 687-694 Shinji Umeyama: An Eigendecomposition Approach to Weighted Graph Matching Problems. 695-703 Correspondence Paul Kube, Alex Pentland: On the Imaging of Fractal Surfaces. 704-707

Nasser D. Kehtarnavaz, Rui J. P. de Figueiredo: A 3-D Contour Segmentation Scheme Based on Curvature and Torsion. 707-713 Reimar Lenz, Roger Y. Tsai: Techniques for Calibration of the Scale Factor and Image Center for High Accuracy 3-D Machine Vision Metrology. 713-720 James J. Clark: Singularity Theory and Phantom Edges in Scale Space. 720-727 Keith C. Drake, Eugene S. McVey, Rafael M. Inigo: Sensor Roll Angle Error for a Mobile Robot Using a Navigation Line. 727-731 Hiromitsu Yamada, Cathy Merritt, Tony Kasvand: Recognition of Kidney Glomerulus by Dynamic Programming Matching Method. 731-737 Qin-Zhong Ye, Per-Erik Danielsson: Inspection of Printed Circuit Boards by Connectivity Preserving Shrinking. 737-742 Shigeki Ishikawa, Hideki Kuwamoto, Shinji Ozawa: Visual Navigation of an Autonomous Vehicle Using White Line Recognition. 743-749 Minoru Asada, Hidetoshi Ichikawa, Saburo Tsuji: Determining Surface Orientation by Projecting a Stripe Pattern. 749-754 Ramon López de Mántaras, L. Valverde: New Results in Fuzzy Clustering Based on the Concept of Indistinguishability Relation. 754-757 Stephen P. Smith, Anil K. Jain: A Test to Determine the Multivariate Normality of a Data Set. 757-761 Michael E. Houle, Godfried T. Toussaint: Computing the Width of a Set. 761-765 Steven D. Blostein, Thomas S. Huang: Correction to "Error Analysis in Stereo Determination of 3-D Point Positions". 765 Volume 10, Number 6, November/December 1988

Papers Hiroshi Noborio, Shozo Fukuda, Suguru Arimoto: Construction of the Octree Approximating a Three-Dimensional Object by Using Multiple Views. 769-782 Anil K. Jain, Richard Hoffman: Evidence-Based Recognition of 3-D Objects. 783-802 Vinciane Lacroix: A Three-Module Strategy for Edge Detection. 803-810 Harry Wechsler, George Lee Zimmerman: 2-D Invariant Object Recognition Using Distributed Associative Memory. 811-821 David Lee, Theodosios Pavlidis: One-Dimensional Regularization with Discontinuities. 822-829 Jorge L. C. Sanz, Dragutin Petkovic: Machine Vision Algorithms for Automated Inspection Thin-Film Disk Heads. 830-848 Gunilla Borgefors: Hierarchical Chamfer Matching: A Parametric Edge Matching Algorithm. 849-865 Jan A. Mulder, Alan K. Mackworth, William S. Havens: Knowledge Structuring and Constraint Satisfaction: The Mapsee Approach. 866-879 Carlos A. Berenstein, David Lavine: On the Number of Digital Straight Line Segments. 880-887 Paul W. Baim: A Method for Attribute Selection in Inductive Learning Systems. 888-896 Yves Kodratoff, Gheorghe Tecuci: Learning Based on Conceptual Distance. 897-909

Lloyd A. Fletcher, Rangachar Kasturi: A Robust Algorithm for Text String Separation from Mixed Text/Graphics Images. 910-918 Correspondence Kanti V. Mardia, T. J. Hainsworth: A Spatial Thresholding Method for Image Segmentation. 919-927 Edward P. Lyvers, Owen Robert Mitchell: Precision Edge Contrast and Orientation Estimation. 927-937 Anthony P. Reeves, Richard J. Prokop, Susan E. Andrews, Frank P. Kuhl: Three-Dimensional Shape Analysis Using Moments and Fourier Descriptors. 937-943 Amar Mitiche, R. Grisell, Jake K. Aggarwal: On Smoothness of a Vector Field-Application to Optical Flow. 943-949 Kenneth R. Sloan, James Painter: Pessimal Guesses may be Optimal: A Counterintuitive Search Result. 949-955 Daniel R. Fuhrmann: Quadtree Traversal Algorithms for Pointer-Based and Depth-First Representations. 955-960 E. J. Yannakoudakis, G. Angelidakis: An Insight into the Entropy and Redundancy of the English Dictionary. 960-970 A. Touzani, Jack-Gérard Postaire: Mode Detection by Relaxation. 970-978 L. Duchene, S. Leclerq: An Optimal Transformation for Discriminant and Principal Component Analysis. 978-983 B. John Oommen: Correction to "Recognition of Noisy Subsequences Using Constrained Edit Distances". 983-984 Volume 11, Number 1, January 1989

Editor's Notice Steven L. Tanimoto: Editor's Notice. 1 Papers Andrew Blake: Comparison of the Efficiency of Deterministic and Stochastic Algorithms for Visual Reconstruction. 2-12 Hans-Hellmut Nagel: On a Constraint Equation for the Estimation of Displacement Rates in Image Sequences. 13-30 Frank Yeong-Chyang Shih, Owen Robert Mitchell: Threshold Decomposition of Gray-Scale Morphology into Binary Morphology. 31-42 James J. Clark: Authenticating Edges Produced by Zero-Crossing Algorithms. 43-57 Rangasami L. Kashyap, Kie-Bum Eom: Texture Boundary Detection Based on the Long Correlation Model. 58-67 Radmilo M. Bozinovic, Sargur N. Srihari: Off-Line Cursive Script Word Recognition. 68-83 Correspondence Yi-Tong Zhou, V. Venkateswar, Rama Chellappa: Edge Detection and Linear Feature Extraction Using a 2-D Random Field Model. 84-95 Raghavachari Sriraman, Jack Koplowitz, Seshadri Mohan: Tree Searched Chain Coding for Subpixel Reconstruction of Planar Curves. 95-104 Giovanni Marola: On the Detection of the Axes of Symmetry of Symmetric and Almost Symmetric Planar Images. 104-108 Volume 11, Number 2, February 1989

Papers Rakesh Mohan, Gérard G. Medioni, Ramakant Nevatia: Stereo Error Detection, Correction, and Evaluation. 113-120 William Hoff, Narendra Ahuja: Surfaces from Stereo: Integrating Feature Matching, Disparity Estimation, and Contour Detection. 121-136 Narendra Ahuja, Jack Veenstra: Generating Octrees from Object Silhouettes in Orthographic Views. 137-149 Jean-Marie Beaulieu, Morris Goldberg: Hierarchy in Picture Segmentation: A Stepwise Optimization Approach. 150-163 Basilis Gidas: A Renormalization Group Approach to Image Processing Problems. 164-180 Christian Ronse: A Bibliography on Digital and Computational Convexity (1961-1988). 181-190 Correspondence Jer-Sen Chen, Gérard G. Medioni: Detection, Localization, and Estimation of Edges. 191-198 Frank P. Ferrie, Martin D. Levine: Where and Why Local Shading Analysis Works. 198-206 Chin-Hwa Lee: Image Surface Approximation with Irregular Samples. 206-212 Thor Bestul, Larry S. Davis: On Computing Complete Histograms of Images in Log (n) Steps Using Hypercubes. 212-213 Luigi P. Cordella, Gabriella Sanniti di Baja: Geometric Properties of the Union of Maximal Neighborhoods. 214-217 Xiaolin Wu, Jon G. Rokne: On Properties of Discretized Convex Curves. 217-223 Volume 11, Number 3, March 1989

Introduction to the Special Section on Computer Architectures and Parallel Algorithms Charles R. Dyer: Introduction to the Special Section on Computer Architectures and Parallel Algorithms. 225-226 Papers Richard S. Wallace, Michael D. Howard: HBA Vision Architecture: Built and Benchmarked. 227-232 Hungwen Li, Massimo Maresca: Polymorphic-Torus Architecture for Computer Vision. 233-243 James J. Little, Guy E. Blelloch, Todd A. Cass: Algorithmic Techniques for Computer Vision on a Fine-Grained Parallel Machine. 244-257 Correspondence Robert Cypher, Jorge L. C. Sanz, L. Snyder: An EREW PRAM Algorithm for Image Component Labeling. 258-262 Allan L. Fisher, Peter T. Highnam: Computing the Hough Transform on a Scan Line Array Processor (Image Processing). 262-265 Papers Muralidhara Subbarao: Interpretation of Image Flow: A Spatio-Temporal Approach. 266-278 Andrew K. C. Wong, Si W. Lu, Marc Rioux: Recognition and Shape Synthesis of 3-D Objects Based on Attributed Hypergraphs. 279-290 Anthony S. Acampora, Jack H. Winters: Three-Dimensional Ultrasonic Vision for Robotic Applications. 291-303

Eric Saund: Dimensionality-Reduction Using Connectionist Networks. 304-314 Correspondence David J. Fleet, Allan D. Jepson: Hierarchical Construction of Orientation and Velocity Selective Filters. 315-325 Isaac Weiss: Line Fitting in a Noisy Image. 325-329 Ken-ichi Kanatani: 3D Euclidean Versus 2D Non-Euclidean: Two Approaches to 3D Recovery from Images. 329-332 S. K. Michael Wong, F. C. S. Poon: Comments on Approximating Discrete Probability Distributions with Dependence Trees. 333-335 Volume 11, Number 4, April 1989

Papers Yi Lu, Ramesh Jain: Behavior of Edges in Scale Space. 337-356 Dong-Seok Jeong, Paul M. Lapsa: Unified Approach for Early-Phase Image Understanding Using a General Decision Criterion. 357-371 Chiun-Hong Chien, J. K. Aggarwal: Model Construction and Shape Recognition from Occluding Contours. 372-389 Gongzhu Hu, George C. Stockman: 3-D Surface Solution Using Structured Light and Constraint Propagation. 390-402 Correspondence Anthony P. Reeves, Russell W. Taylor: Identification of Three-Dimensional Objects Using Range Information. 403-410 Carlo Arcelli, Gabriella Sanniti di Baja: A One-Pass Two-Operation Process to Detect the Skeletal Pixels on the 4-Distance Transform. 411-414 Alireza Khotanzad, J. Y. Chen: Unsupervised Segmentation of Textured Images by Edge Detection in Multidimensional Feature. 414-421 Keinosuke Fukunaga, Donald M. Hummels: Leave-One-Out Procedures for Nonparametric Error Estimates. 421-423 Keinosuke Fukunaga, Raymond R. Hayes: The Reduced Parzen Classifier. 423-425 Ben J. H. Verwer, Piet W. Verbeek, Simon T. Dekker: An Efficient Uniform Cost Algorithm Applied to Distance Transforms. 425-429 Fang-Hsuan Cheng, Wen-Hsing Hsu, Mei-Ying Chen: Recognition of Handwritten Chinese Characters by Modified Hough Transform Techniques. 429-439 Yao-Chou Cheng, Shin-Yee Lu: The Binary Consistency Checking Scheme and Its Applications to Seismic Horizon Detection. 439-447 Volume 11, Number 5, May 1989

Introduction to the Special Issue on Visual Motion William B. Thompson: Introduction to the Special Issue on Visual Motion. 449-450 Papers Juyang Weng, Thomas S. Huang, Narendra Ahuja: Motion and Structure From Two Perspective Views: Algorithms, Error Analysis, and Error Estimation. 451-476 Gilad Adiv: Inherent Ambiguities in Recovering 3-D Motion and Structure from a Noisy Flow Field. 477-489 Alessandro Verri, Tomaso Poggio:

Motion Field and Optical Flow: Qualitative Properties. 490-498 Patrick Bouthemy: A Maximum Likelihood Framework for Determining Moving Edges. 499-511 Janet Aisbett: Optical Flow with an Intensity-Weighted Smoothing. 512-522 Correspondence M. A. Snyder: The Precision of 3-D Parameters in Correspondence-Based Techniques: The Case of Uniform Translational Motion in a Rigid Environment. 523-528 Masanobu Yamamoto: A General Aperture Problem for Direct Estimation of 3-D Motion Parameters. 528-536 Thomas S. Huang, C. H. Lee: Motion and Structure from Orthographic Projections. 536-540 Amar Mitiche: A Comment on "On Kineopsis and Computation of Structure and Motion". 540-541 Volume 11, Number 6, June 1989

Papers Michael A. Penna: A Shape From Shading Analysis for a Single Perspective Image of a Polyhedron. 545-554 Jitendra Malik, Dror E. Maydan: Recovering Three-Dimensional Shape from a Single Image of Curved Objects. 555-566 Fred L. Bookstein: Principal Warps: Thin-Plate Splines and the Decomposition of Deformations. 567-585 Petros Maragos: A Representation Theory for Morphological Image and Signal Processing. 586-599 Behzad Shahraray, David J. Anderson: Optimal Estimation of Contour Properties by Cross-Validated Regularization. 600-610 Jack Koplowitz, Alfred M. Bruckstein: Design of Perimeter Estimators for Digitized Planar Shapes. 611-622 Yizong Cheng, Rangasami L. Kashyap: A Study of Associative Evidential Reasoning. 623-631 Correspondence W. Eric L. Grimson: On the Recognition of Curved Objects. 632-643 Naokazu Yokoya, Martin D. Levine: Range Image Segmentation Based on Differential Geometry: A Hybrid Approach. 643-649 Neelima Shrikhande, George C. Stockman: Surface Orientation from a Projected Grid. 650-655 Mark Chao Kuen Yang, Chung-Chun Yang: Image Enhancement for Segmentation by Self-Induced Autoregressive Filtering. 655-661 Zhenyong Lin, Yianni Attikiouzel: Two-Dimensional Linear Prediction Model-Based Decorrelation Method. 661-665 Viktor K. Prasanna, Venkatesh Krishnan: Efficient Parallel Algorithms for Image Template Matching on Hypercube SIMD Machines. 665-669 Volume 11, Number 7, July 1989

Introduction to the Papers on Multiresolution Representation Steven L. Tanimoto: Introduction to the Papers on Multiresolution Representation. 673

Papers Stéphane Mallat: A Theory for Multiresolution Signal Decomposition: The Wavelet Representation. 674-693 Minghua Chen, Ping-Fan Yan: A Multiscanning Approach Based on Morphological Filtering. 694-700 Petros Maragos: Pattern Spectrum and Multiscale Shape Representation. 701-716 Michael Unser, Murray Eden: Multiresolution Feature Extraction and Selection for Texture Segmentation. 717-728 Jorge L. C. Sanz, Thomas T. Huang: Image Representation by Sign Information. 729-738 Correspondence Shmuel Peleg, Michael Werman, Hillel Rom: A Unified Approach to the Change of Resolution: Space and Gray-Level. 739-742 Peter Strobach: Quadtree-Structured Linear Prediction Models for Image Sequence Processing. 742-748 Papers David Shi Chen: A Data-Driven Intermediate Level Feature Extraction Algorithm. 749-758 Yehezkel Yeshurun, Eric L. Schwartz: Cepstral Filtering on a Columnar Image Architecture: A Fast Algorithm for Binocular Stereo Segmentation. 759-767 Correspondence Y. C. Shah, R. Chapman, R. B. Mahani: A New Technique to Extract Range Information From Stereo Images. 768-773 Isak Gath, Amir B. Geva: Unsupervised Optimal Fuzzy Clustering. 773-780 Volume 11, Number 8, August 1989

Papers Leila De Floriani: Feature Extraction from Boundary Models of Three-Dimensional Objects. 785-798 Sridhar Lakshmanan, Haluk Derin: Simultaneous Parameter Estimation and Segmentation of Gibbs Random Fields Using Simulated Annealing. 799-813 Harry Wechsler, George Lee Zimmerman: Distributed Associative Memory (DAM) for Bin-Picking. 814-822 Pierre Parent, Steven W. Zucker: Trace Inference, Curvature Consistency, and Curve Detection. 823-839 Yoram Bresler, Jeffrey A. Fessler, Albert Macovski: A Bayesian Approach to Reconstruction from Incomplete Projections of a Multiple Object 3D Domain. 840-858 Cho-Huak Teh, Roland T. Chin: On the Detection of Dominant Points on Digital Curves. 859-872 Keinosuke Fukunaga, Raymond R. Hayes: Effects of Sample Size in Classifier Design. 873-885 Correspondence Pierre Parent, Steven W. Zucker: Radial Projection: An Efficient Update Rule for Relaxation Labeling. 886-889 Anne M. Landraud, Jean-François Avril, Philippe Chrétienne: An Algorithm for Finding a Common Structure Shared by a Family of Strings. 890-895 Volume 11, Number 9, September 1989

Papers

Nicolas Alvertos, Dragana Brzakovic, Rafael C. Gonzalez: Camera Geometries for Image Matching in 3-D Machine Vision. 897-915 Reimar Lenz, Roger Y. Tsai: Calibrating a Cartesian Robot with Eye-on-Hand Configuration Independent of Eye-to-Hand Relationship. 916-928 Behrooz Kamgar-Parsi, Behzad Kamgar-Parsi: Evaluation of Quantization Error in Computer Vision. 929-940 Imants D. Svalbe: Natural Representations for Straight Lines and the Hough Transform on Discrete Arrays. 941-950 Jean Ponce, David M. Chelberg, Wallace B. Mann: Invariant Properties of Straight Homogeneous Generalized Cylinders and Their Contours. 951-966 Correspondence Chin-Shyurng Fahn, Jhing-Fa Wang, Jau-Yien Lee: An Adaptive Reduction Procedure for the Piecewise Linear Approximation of Digitized Curves. 967-973 Wim L. G. van Warmerdam, V. Ralph Algazi: Describing 1-D Intensity Transitions with Gaussian Derivatives at the Resolutions Matching the Transition Widths. 973-977 B. Kartikeyan, Abhinanda Sarkar: Shape Description by Time Series. 977-984 Zane W. Bell: A Bayesian/Monte Carlo Segmentation Method for Images Dominated by Gaussian Noise. 985-990 John K. Goutsias, Jerry M. Mendel: Simultaneous Optimal Segmentation and Model Estimation of Nonstationary Noisy Images. 990-998 Behzad Kamgar-Parsi, Behrooz Kamgar-Parsi, Nathan S. Netanyahu: A Nonparametric Method for Fitting a Straight Line to a Noisy Image. 998-1001 Estarose Wolfson, Eric L. Schwartz: Computing Minimal Distances on Polyhedral Surfaces. 1001-1005 Eric L. Schwartz, Alan Shaw, Estarose Wolfson: A Numerical Solution to the Generalized Mapmaker's Problem: Flattening Nonconvex Polyhedral Surfaces. 1005-1008 Volume 11, Number 10, October 1989

Editor's Notice Steven L. Tanimoto: Editor's Notice. 1009 Papers Brian G. Schunck: Image Flow Segmentation and Estimation by Constraint Line Clustering. 1010-1027 Bruno Cernuschi-Frías, David B. Cooper, Yi-Ping Hung, Peter N. Belhumeur: Toward a Model-Based Bayesian Theory for Estimating and Recognizing Parameterized 3-D Objects Using Two or More Images Taken from Different Positions. 1028-1052 Chong-Hua Lo, Hon-Son Don: 3-D Moment Forms: Their Construction and Application to Object Identification and Positioning. 1053-1064 David I. Havelock: Geometric Precision in Noise-Free Digital Images. 1065-1075 Yun Xia: Skeletonization via the Realization of the Fire Front's Propagation and Extinction in Digital Binary Shapes. 1076-1086 Keinosuke Fukunaga, Raymond R. Hayes: Estimation of Classifier Performance. 1087-1101 Correspondence Randal C. Nelson, Yiannis Aloimonos: Obstacle Avoidance Using Flow Field Divergence. 1102-1106 Enrico De Micheli, Bruno Caprile, P. Ottonello, Vincent Torre:

Localization and Noise in Edge Detection. 1106-1117 Vishvjit S. Nalwa: Line-Drawing Interpretation: Bilateral Symmetry. 1117-1120 Volume 11, Number 11, November 1989

Papers Rakesh Mohan, Ramakant Nevatia: Using Perceptual Organization to Extract 3-D Structures. 1121-1139 Ting-Jun Fan, Gérard G. Medioni, Ramakant Nevatia: Recognizing 3-D Objects Using Surface Descriptions. 1140-1157 Raghu Krishnapuram, David Casasent: Determination of Three-Dimensional Object Location and Orientation from Range Images. 1158-1167 Radu Horaud, Thomas Skordas: Stereo Correspondence Through Feature Grouping and Maximal Cliques. 1168-1180 Charles D. Hansen, Thomas C. Henderson: CAGD-Based Computer Vision. 1181-1193 Viktor K. Prasanna, Dionisios I. Reisis: Image Computations on Meshes with Multiple Broadcast. 1194-1202 Jonathan Schaeffer: The History Heuristic and Alpha-Beta Search Enhancements in Practice. 1203-1212 Correspondence Dmitry B. Goldgof, Thomas S. Huang, Hua Lee: A Curvature-Based Approach to Terrain Recognition. 1213-1217 Yehezkel Yeshurun, Eric L. Schwartz: Shape Description with a Space-Variant Sensor: Algorithms for Scan-Path, Fusion, and Convergence Over Multiple Scans. 1217-1222 Jan J. Koenderink: A Hitherto Unnoticed Singularity of Scale-Space. 1222-1224 Makoto Matsuki, Teruo Ueda: A Real Time Sectional Image Measuring System Using Time Sequentially Coded Grating Method. 1225-1228 Chaya Gurwitz, Michael L. Overton: A Globally Convergent Algorithm for Minimizing Over the Rotation Group of Quadratic Forms. 1228-1232 Volume 11, Number 12, December 1989

Papers Dorothea Blostein, Narendra Ahuja: Shape From Texture: Integrating Texture-Element Extraction and Surface Estimation. 1233-1251 Warren M. Kruegger, Keith Phillips: The Geometry of Differential Operators with Application to Image Processing. 1252-1264 Michel Dhome, Marc Richetin, Jean-Thierry Lapresté, Gérard Rives: Determination of the Attitude of 3D Objects from a Single Perspective View. 1265-1278 John Y. Hsiao, Alexander A. Sawchuk: Supervised Textured Image Segmentation Using Feature Smoothing and Probabilistic Relaxation Techniques. 1279-1292 Edward P. Lyvers, Owen Robert Mitchell, Mark L. Akey, Anthony P. Reeves: Subpixel Measurements Using a Moment-Based Edge Operator. 1293-1309 Correspondence Thomas S. Huang, Olivier D. Faugeras: Some Properties of the E Matrix in Two-View Motion Estimation. 1310-1312 Ashok K. Goel, Tom Bylander: Computational Feasibility of Structured Matching. 1312-1316 Xinhua Zhuang, Robert M. Haralick, Hyonam Joo:

A Simplex-Like Algorithm for the Relaxation Labeling Process. 1316-1321 Torfinn Taxt, Patrick J. Flynn, Anil K. Jain: Segmentation of Document Images. 1322-1329 George E. Sotak Jr., Kim L. Boyer: Comments, with Reply, on 'Fast Convolution with Laplacian-of-Gaussian Masks' by J. S. Chen et al. 1329-1332 Jer-Sen Chen, Andres Huertas, Gérard G. Medioni: Author's Reply. 1332 Volume 12, Number 1, January 1990

Papers Todd R. Reed, Harry Wechsler: Segmentation of Textured Images and Gestalt Organization Using Spatial/Spatial-Frequency Representations. 1-12 Giulio Sandini, Massimo Tistarelli: Active Tracking Strategy for Monocular Depth Inference over Multiple Frames. 13-27 Yuncai Liu, Thomas S. Huang, Olivier D. Faugeras: Determination of Camera Location from 2-D to 3-D Line and Point Correspondences. 28-37 Ioannis Pitas, Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos: Morphological Shape Decomposition. 38-45 Lide Wu, Zhaohui Xie: Scaling Theorems for Zero-Crossings. 46-54 Alan C. Bovik, Marianna Clark, Wilson S. Geisler: Multichannel Texture Analysis Using Localized Spatial Filters. 55-73 Correspondence Maurice Milgram, Thierry de Saint Pierre: Boundary Detection and Skeletonization with a Massively Parallel Architecture. 74-78 Rachid Deriche: Fast Algorithms for Low-Level Vision. 78-87 V. Salari, Ishwar K. Sethi: Feature Point Correspondence in the Presence of Occlusion. 87-91 Abdelhamid Djouadi, Ö. Snorrason, F. D. Garber: The Quality of Training Sample Estimates of the Bhattacharyya Coefficient. 92-97 Manohar Das, Mark J. Paulik, N. K. Loh: A Bivariate Autoregressive Technique for Analysis and Classification of Planar Shapes. 97-103 M. Kirby, L. Sirovich: Application of the Karhunen-Loeve Procedure for the Characterization of Human Faces. 103-108 Correction to "Image Computations on Meshes with Multiple Broadcast". 108 Volume 12, Number 2, February 1990

Papers Ziv Gigus, Jitendra Malik: Computing the Aspect Graph for Line Drawings of Polyhedral Objects. 113-122 Lefteris M. Kirousis: Effectively Labeling Planar Projections of Polyhedra. 123-130 Franc Solina, Ruzena Bajcsy: Recovery of Parametric Models from Range Images: The Case for Superquadrics with Global Deformations. 131-147 Piet Vuylsteke, André Oosterlinck: Range Image Acquisition with a Single Binary-Encoded Light Pattern. 148-164 Edwin R. Hancock, Josef Kittler: Edge-Labeling Using Dictionary-Based Relaxation. 165-181

Bruce Abramson: Expected-Outcome: A General Model of Static Evaluation. 182-193 Correspondence Soo-Young Lee, J. K. Aggarwal: A System Design/Scheduling Strategy for Parallel Image Processing. 194-204 O. S. Sands, F. D. Garber: Pattern Representations and Syntactic Classification of Radar Measurements of Commercial Aircraft. 204-211 Mihran Tuceryan, Anil K. Jain: Texture Segmentation Using Voronoi Polygons. 211-216 Peter Meer, Jean-Michel Jolion, Azriel Rosenfeld: A Fast Parallel Algorithm for Blind Estimation of Noise Variance. 216-223 Comments Rae-Hong Park, Woo Young Choi: Comments on "A Three-Module Strategy for Edge Detection" (with reply). 223-224 Volume 12, Number 3, March 1990

Papers Theodosios Pavlidis, Yuh-Tay Liow: Integrating Region Growing and Edge Detection. 225-233 Tony Lindeberg: Scale-Space for Discrete Signals. 234-254 W. Eric L. Grimson, Daniel P. Huttenlocher: On the Sensitivity of the Hough Transform for Object Recognition. 255-274 Divyendu Sinha, Charles R. Giardina: Discrete Black and White Object Recognition via Morphological Functions. 275-293 Patrick Constant, Stan Matwin, Franz Oppacher: LEW: Learning by Watching. 294-308 Correspondence Søren I. Olsen: Stereo Correspondence by Surface Reconstruction. 309-315 Sanjay Ranka, Sartaj Sahni: Convolution on Mesh Connected Multicomputers. 315-318 Volume 12, Number 4, April 1990

Papers David Lee: Coping with Discontinuities in Computer Vision: Their Detection, Classification, and Measurement. 321-344 Isaac Weiss: Shape Reconstruction on a Varying Mesh. 345-362 Peter Meer, C. Allen Sher, Azriel Rosenfeld: The Chain Pyramid: Hierarchical Contour Processing. 363-376 Jerry L. Prince, Alan S. Willsky: Reconstructing Convex Sets from Support Line Measurements. 377-389 Per-Ola Forsgren, Peter Seideman: An Interobject Distance Measure Based on Medial Axes Retrieved from Discrete Distance Maps. 390-397 Correspondence Boaz Porat, Benjamin Friedlander: A Frequency Domain Algorithm for Multiframe Detection and Estimation of Dim Targets. 398-401 Hsien-Che Lee, Edwin J. Breneman, Carl P. Schulte: Modeling Light Reflection for Computer Color Vision. 402-409

D. D. Harrison, M. P. Weir: High-Speed Triangulation-Based 3-D Imaging with Orthonormal Data Projections and Error Detection. 409-416 Volume 12, Number 5, May 1990

Papers Hormoz Shariat, Keith E. Price: Motion Estimation with More than Two Frames. 417-434 Tal Simchony, Rama Chellappa, M. Shao: Direct Analytical Methods for Solving Poisson Equations in Computer Vision Problems. 435-446 Philippe Smets: The Combination of Evidence in the Transferable Belief Model. 447-458 Haim Shvayster: Learnable and Nonlearnable Visual Concepts. 459-466 Correspondence Jeffrey J. Rodríguez, J. K. Aggarwal: Stochastic Analysis of Stereo Quantization Error. 467-470 Nirwan Ansari, Edward J. Delp: Partial Shape Recognition: A Landmark-Based Approach. 470-483 Haim J. Wolfson: On curve matching. 483-489 Alireza Khotanzad, Yaw Hua Hong: Invariant Image Recognition by Zernike Moments. 489-497 Petros Maragos, Robert D. Ziff: Threshold Superposition in Morphological Image Analysis Systems. 498-504 Yiannis Aloimonos, Jean-Yves Hervé: Correspondenceless Stereo and Motion: Planar Surfaces. 504-510 Volume 12, Number 6, June 1990

Papers Richard Szeliski: Fast Surface Interpolation Using Hierarchical Basis Functions. 513-528 Lawrence M. Lifshitz, Stephen M. Pizer: A Multiresolution Hierarchical Approach to Image Segmentation Based on Intensity Extrema. 529-540 Ben-Kwei Jang, Roland T. Chin: Analysis of Thinning Algorithms Using Mathematical Morphology. 541-551 Henry S. Baird, Ken Thompson: Reading Chess. 552-559 Billur Barshan, Roman Kuc: Differentiating Sonar Reflections from Corners and Planes by Employing an Intelligent Sensor. 560-569 Roland Kuhn, Renato de Mori: A Cache-Based Natural Language Model for Speech Recognition. 570-583 Correspondence Lisa Gottesfeld Brown, Haim Shvayster: Surface Orientation from Projective Foreshortening of Isotropic Texture Autocorrelation. 584-588 Minghua Chen, Theodosios Pavlidis: Image Seaming for Segmentation on Parallel Architecture. 588-594 William A. C. Schmidt: Modified Matched Filter for Cloud Clutter Suppression. 594-600 A. Namane, Maher A. Sid-Ahmed: Character Scaling by Contour Method. 600-606

Volume 12, Number 7, July 1990

Papers Donald Geman, Stuart Geman, Christine Graffigne, Ping Dong: Boundary Detection by Constrained Optimization. 609-628 Pietro Perona, Jitendra Malik: Scale-Space and Edge Detection Using Anisotropic Diffusion. 629-639 Klaus Arbter, Wesley E. Snyder, Hans Burkhardt, Gerd Hirzinger: Application of Affine-Invariant Fourier Descriptors to Recognition of 3-D Objects. 640-647 Panagiotis Trahanias, Emmanuel Skordalakis: Syntactic Pattern Recognition of the ECG. 648-657 Correspondence P. Werkhoven, Alexander Toet, Jan J. Koenderink: Displacement Estimates Through Adaptive Affinities. 658-663 William I. Grosky, Louis A. Tamburino: A Unified Approach to the Linear Camera Calibration Problem. 663-671 Z. C. Li, T. D. Bui, Ching Y. Suen, Yuan Yan Tang: Splitting-Shooting Methods for Nonlinear Transformations of Digitized Patterns. 671-682 Chuan-Heng Ang, Hanan Samet, Clifford A. Shaffer: A New Region Expansion for Quadtrees. 682-686 Roman Kuc: A Spatial Sampling Criterion for Sonar Obstacle Detection. 686-690 Francisco Casacuberta: Some Relations Among Stochastic Finite State Networks Used in Automatic Speech Recognition. 691-695 Lin-Shan Lee, Chiu-yu Tseng, Keh-Jiann Chen, James Huang, Chia-Hwa Hwang, Pei-Yih Ting, Long Ji Lin, C. C. Chen: A Mandarin Dictation Machine Based Upon a Hierarchical Recognition Approach and Chinese Natural Language Analysis. 695-704 Samir Al-Emami, Mike Usher: On-Line Recognition of Handwritten Arabic Characters. 704-710 Marc Parizeau, Réjean Plamondon: A Comparative Analysis of Regional Correlation, Dynamic Time Warping, and Skeletal Tree Matching for Signature Verification. 710-717 Volume 12, Number 8, August 1990

Papers Ingemar J. Cox, Joseph B. Kruskal, Deborah A. Wallach: Predicting and Estimating the Accuracy of a Subpixel Registration Algorithm. 721-734 Gem-Sun Jason Young, Rama Chellappa: 3-D Motion Estimation Using a Sequence of Noisy Stereo Images: Models, Estimation, and Uniqueness Results. 735-759 Jezekiel Ben-Arie: The Probabilistic Peaking Effect of Viewed Angles and Distances with Application to 3-D Object Recognition. 760-774 John L. Schneiter, Thomas B. Sheridan: An Automated Tactile Sensing Strategy for Planar Object Recognition and Localization. 775-786 Charles C. Tappert, Ching Y. Suen, Toru Wakahara: The State of the Art in Online Handwriting Recognition. 787-808 Correspondence Wolfgang Pölzleitner, Harry Wechsler: Selective and Focused Invariant Recognition Using Distributed Associative Memories (DAM). 809-814 Naoki Saito, M. A. Cunningham: Generalized E-filter and Its Application to Edge Detection. 814-817 Eric Saund: Symbolic Construction of a 2-D Scale-Space Image. 817-830

Corrections M. Ann Piech: Decomposing the Laplacian. 830-831 Volume 12, Number 9, September 1990

Papers Peter T. Sander, Steven W. Zucker: Inferring Surface Trace and Differential Structure from 3-D Images. 833-854 Amir A. Amini, Terry E. Weymouth, Ramesh Jain: Using Dynamic Programming for Solving Variational Problems in Vision. 855-867 Brian Zuerndorfer, Gregory H. Wakefield: Extensions of Scale-Space Filtering to Machine-Sensing Systems. 868-882 Heinrich Niemann, Gerhard Sagerer, Stefan Schröder, Franz Kummert: ERNEST: A Semantic Network System for Pattern Understanding. 883-905 Correspondence Jian Xu, Yee-Hong Yang: Generalized Multidimensional Orthogonal Polynomials with Applications to Shape Analysis. 906-913 Benjamin Bell, Louis-François Pau: Contour Tracking and Corner Detection in a Logic Programming Environment. 913-917 Patrick Kenny, Matthew Lennig, Paul Mermelstein: Speaker Adaptation in a Large-Vocabulary Gaussian HMM Recognizer. 917-920 Pedro Garcia, Enrique Vidal: Inference of k-Testable Languages in the Strict Sense and Application to Syntactic Pattern Recognition. 920-925 Volume 12, Number 10, October 1990

Papers John F. Haddon, James F. Boyce: Image Segmentation by Unifying Region and Boundary Information. 929-948 Michael M. Marefat, Rangasami L. Kashyap: Geometric Reasoning for Recognition of Three-Dimensional Object Features. 949-965 Jian Ho, Brian V. Funt, Mark S. Drew: Separating a Color Signal into Illumination and Surface Reflectance Components: Theory and Applications. 966-977 Rangachar Kasturi, Sing T. Bow, Wassim El-Masri, Jayesh Shah, James R. Gattiker, Umesh B. Mokate: A System for Interpretation of Line Drawings. 978-992 Lars Kai Hansen, Peter Salamon: Neural Network Ensembles. 993-1001 Correspondence Homer H. Chen, Thomas S. Huang: Matching 3-D Line Segments with Applications to Multiple-Object Motion Estimation. 1002-1008 Jun Zhang, James W. Modestino: A Model-Fitting Approach to Cluster Validation with Application to Stochastic Model-Based Image Segmentation. 1009-1017 Bernard W. Silverman, Christopher Jennison, Julian Stander, Timothy C. Brown: The Specification of Edge Penalties for Regular and Irregular Pixel Images. 1017-1024 Volume 12, Number 11, November 1990 Papers Shahriar Negahdaripour: Multiple Interpretations of the Shape and Motion of Objects from Two Perspective Images. 1025-1039 Wilhelm Burger, Bir Bhanu: Estimating 3D Egomotion from Perspective Image Sequence. 1040-1058 Lawrence B. Wolff: Polarization-Based Material Classification from Specular Reflection. 1059-1071

Hong-Chih Liu, Mandyam D. Srinath: Partial Shape Classification Using Contour Matching in Distance Transformation. 1072-1079 Yujiun P. Wang, Theodosios Pavlidis: Optimal Correspondence of String Subsequences. 1080-1087 Correspondence Xiaobo Li: Parallel Algorithms for Hierarchical Clustering and Cluster Validity. 1088-1092 Janet Aisbett: An Iterated Estimation of the Motion Parameters of a Rigid Body from Noisy Displacement Vectors. 1092-1098 Philip Kahn, Leslie J. Kitchen, Edward M. Riseman: A Fast Line Finder for Vision-Guided Robot Navigation. 1098-1102 Doron Sherman, Shmuel Peleg: Stereo by Incremental Matching of Contours. 1102-1106 Robert J. T. Morris, Larry D. Rubin, Henry Tirri: Neural Network Techniques for Object Orientation Detection: Solution by Optimal Feedforward Network and Learning Vector Quantization Approaches. 1107-1115 Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz, Jeré A. Hassberger, John Chung-Mong Lee: Fault Tree Based Diagnostics Using Fuzzy Logic. 1115-1119 Volume 12, Number 12, December 1990

Editorial Steven L. Tanimoto: Editorial. 1121-1123 List of Reviewers List of Reviewers. 1124-1126 Papers David J. Kriegman, Jean Ponce: On Recognizing and Positioning Curved 3-D Objects from Image Contours. 1127-1137 Jeffrey J. Rodríguez, J. K. Aggarwal: Matching Aerial Images to 3-D Terrain Maps. 1138-1149 Charles Jerian, Ramesh Jain: Polynomial Methods for Structure from Motion. 1150-1166 Hervé Bourlard, Christian Wellekens: Links Between Markov Models and Multilayer Perceptrons. 1167-1178 Correspondence Richard S. Weiss, Hiromasa Nakatani, Edward M. Riseman: An Error Analysis for Surface Orientation from Vanishing Points. 1179-1185 Hemant Tagare, Rui J. P. de Figueiredo: On the Localization Performance Measure and Optimal Edge Detection. 1186-1190 Carlos Cabrelli, Ursula Molter: Automatic Representation of Binary Images. 1190-1196 Chinmoy B. Bose, Israel Amir: Design of Fiducials for Accurate Registration Using Machine Vision. 1196-1200 Eric Krotkov, Knud Henriksen, Ralf Kories: Stereo Ranging with Verging Cameras. 1200-1205 Shmuel Peleg, Gad Ron: Nonlinear Multiresolution: A Shape-From-Shading Example. 1206-1210 Luigi Stringa: A New Set of Constraint-Free Character Recognition Grammars. 1210-1217

Saleh Bleha, Charles Slivinsky, Bassam Hussien: Computer-Access Security Systems Using Keystroke Dynamics. 1217-1222 Volume 13, Number 1, January 1991

Papers Ruud M. Bolle, Baba C. Vemuri: On Three-Dimensional Surface Reconstruction Methods. 1-13 Dan Schonfeld, John Goutsias: Optimal Morphological Pattern Restoration from Noisy Binary Images. 14-29 Minghua Chen, David Lee, Theodosios Pavlidis: Residual Analysis for Feature Detection. 30-40 Daniel M. Wuescher, Kim L. Boyer: Robust Contour Decomposition Using a Constant Curvature Criterion. 41-51 Correspondence Yuan-Fang Wang: Characterizing Three-Dimensional Surface Structures from Visual Images. 52-60 Johan Philip: Estimation Three-Dimensional Motion of Rigid Objects from Noisy Observations. 61-66 William J. Wolfe, Donald Mathis, Cheryl Weber-Sklair, Michael Magee: The Perspective View of Three Points. 66-73 Nicholas Ayache, Francis Lustman: Trinocular Stereo Vision for Robotics. 73-85 Ann Bengtsson, Jan-Olof Eklundh: Shape Representation by Multiscale Contour Approximation. 85-93 Volume 13, Number 2, February 1991

Editor's Notice Anil K. Jain: Editor's Notice. 97-98 Papers Charles A. Bouman, Bede Liu: Multiple Resolution Segmentation of Textured Images. 99-113 Patrick J. Flynn, Anil K. Jain: CAD-Based Computer Vision: From CAD Models to Relational Graphs. 114-132 Hemant Tagare, Rui J. P. de Figueiredo: A Theory of Photometric Stereo for a Class of Diffuse Non-Lambertian Surfaces. 133-152 Jianning Xu: Decomposition of Convex Polygonal Morphological Structuring Elements into Neighborhood Subsets. 153-162 Saul B. Gelfand, C. S. Ravishankar, Edward J. Delp: An Iterative Growing and Pruning Algorithm for Classification Tree Design. 163-174 Geoffrey Matthews, James W. Hearne: Clustering Without a Metric. 175-184 Correspondence Marc Richetin, Michel Dhome, Jean-Thierry Lapresté, Gérard Rives: Inverse Perspective Transform Using Zero-Curvature Contour Points: Application to the Localization of Some Generalized Cylinders from a Single View. 185-192 Fernand S. Cohen, Zhigang Fan, Maqbool Patel: Classification of Rotated and Scaled Textured Images Using Gaussian Markov Random Field Models. 192-202 Hussein M. Alnuweiri, Viktor K. Prasanna: Fast Image Labeling Using Local Operators on Mesh-Connected Computers. 202-207 Volume 13, Number 3, March 1991

Papers Esther M. Arkin, L. Paul Chew, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Klara Kedem, Joseph S. B. Mitchell: An Efficiently Computable Metric for Comparing Polygonal Shapes. 209-216 Van-Ban Le, D. T. Lee: Out-of-Roundness Problem Revisited. 217-223 Whoi-Yul Kim, Avinash C. Kak: 3-D Object Recognition Using Bipartite Matching Embedded in Discrete Relaxation. 224-251 Sarunas Raudys, Anil K. Jain: Small Sample Size Effects in Statistical Pattern Recognition: Recommendations for Practitioners. 252-264 David K. Y. Chiu, Andrew K. C. Wong, Keith C. C. Chan: Synthesis of Statistical Knowledge from Time-Dependent Data. 265-271 Correspondence Michael Unser, Akram Aldroubi, Murray Eden: Recursive Regularization Filters: Design, Properties, and Applications. 272-277 Michael Unser, Akram Aldroubi, Murray Eden: Fast B-spline Transforms for Continuous Image Representation and Interpolation. 277-285 Sholom M. Weiss: Small Sample Error Rate Estimation for k-NN Classifiers. 285-289 Witold Pedrycz: Neurocomputations in Relational Systems. 289-297 Yifan Gong, Jean Paul Haton: Signal-to-String Conversion Based on High Likelihood Regions Using Embedded Dynamic Programming. 297-302 Volume 13, Number 4, April 1991

Editor's Notice Anil K. Jain: Editor's Notice. 305-306 Papers Annick Montanvert, Peter Meer, Azriel Rosenfeld: Hierarchical Image Analysis Using Irregular Tessellations. 307-316 Shih-Ping Liou, Arnold H. Chiu, Ramesh Jain: A Parallel Technique for Signal-Level Perceptual Organization. 317-325 Alan M. Thompson, John C. Brown, Jim Kay, D. M. Titterington: A Study of Methods of Choosing the Smoothing Parameter in Image Restoration by Regularization. 326-339 Philip A. Chou: Optimal Partitioning for Classification and Regression Trees. 340-354 David G. Lowe, Andrew Webb: Optimized Feature Extraction and the Bayes Decision in Feed-Forward Classifier Networks. 355-364 Correspondence Craig H. Richardson, Ronald W. Schafer: A Lower Bound for Structuring Element Decompositions. 365-369 Ling-Ling Wang, Wen-Hsiang Tsai: Camera Calibration by Vanishing Lines for 3-D Computer Vision. 370-376 Shinji Umeyama: Least-Squares Estimation of Transformation Parameters Between Two Point Patterns. 376-380 David I. Havelock: The Topology of Locales and Its Effects on Position Uncertainty. 380-386 Radhakrishna S. Valiveti, B. John Oommen: Recognizing Sources of Random Strings. 386-394

Volume 13, Number 5, May 1991

Papers Davi Geiger, Federico Girosi: Parallel and Deterministic Algorithms from MRFs: Surface Reconstruction. 401-412 Valen E. Johnson, Wing Hung Wong, Xiaoping Hu, Chin-Tu Chen: Image Restoration Using Gibbs Priors: Boundary Modeling, Treatment of Blurring, and Selection of Hyperparameter. 413-425 Surendra Ranganath: Image Filtering Using Multiresolution Representations. 426-440 David G. Lowe: Fitting Parameterized Three-Dimensional Models to Images. 441-450 Jill D. Crisman, Jon A. Webb: The Warp Machine on Navlab. 451-465 Curt Powley, Richard E. Korf: Single-Agent Parallel Window Search. 466-477 Correspondence B. S. Manjunath, Rama Chellappa: Unsupervised Texture Segmentation Using Markov Random Field Models. 478-482 Maria Petrou, Josef Kittler: Optimal Edge Detectors for Ramp Edges. 483-491 Joseph H. Nurre, Ernest L. Hall: Positioning Quadric Surfaces in all Active Stereo Imaging System. 491-495 Volume 13, Number 6, June 1991 Papers Ted J. Broida, Rama Chellappa: Estimating the Kinematics and Structure of a Rigid Object from a Sequence of Monocular Images. 497-513 Philippe Saint-Marc, Jer-Sen Chen, Gérard G. Medioni: Adaptive Smoothing: A General Tool for Early Vision. 514-529 Homer Chen: Pose Determination from Line-to-Plane Correspondences: Existence Condition and Closed-Form Solutions. 530-541 Ziv Gigus, John F. Canny, Raimund Seidel: Efficiently Computing and Representing Aspect Graphs of Polyhedral Objects. 542-551 Dan Gutfinger, Jack Sklansky: Robust Classifiers by Mixed Adaptation. 552-567 Henk J. A. M. Heijmans: Theoretical Aspects of Gray-Level Morphology. 568-582 Luc Vincent, Pierre Soille: Watersheds in Digital Spaces: An Efficient Algorithm Based on Immersion Simulations. 583-598 Correspondence Jeffrey A. Barnett: Calculating Dempster-Shafer Plausibility. 599-602 Nahum Kiryati, Alfred M. Bruckstein: On Navigating Between Friends and Foes. 602-606 Volume 13, Number 7, July 1991

Introduction to the Special Issue on Physical Modeling in Computer Vision Takeo Kanade, Katsushi Ikeuchi: Introduction to the Special Issue on Physical Modeling in Computer Vision. 609-610 Papers Shree K. Nayar, Katsushi Ikeuchi, Takeo Kanade: Surface Reflection: Physical and Geometrical Perspectives. 611-634

Lawrence B. Wolff, Terrance E. Boult: Constraining Object Features Using a Polarization Reflectance Model. 635-657 Shoji Tominaga: Surface Identification Using the Dichromatic Reflection Model. 658-670 David A. Forsyth, Andrew Zisserman: Reflections on Shading. 671-679 Qinfen Zheng, Rama Chellappa: Estimation of Illuminant Direction, Albedo, and Shape from Shading. 680-702 Demetri Terzopoulos, Dimitris N. Metaxas: Dynamic 3D Models with Local and Global Deformations: Deformable Superquadrics. 703-714 Alex Pentland, Stan Sclaroff: Closed-Form Solutions for Physically Based Shape Modeling and Recognition. 715-729 Alex Pentland, Bradley Horowitz: Recovery of Nonrigid Motion and Structure. 730-742 Volume 13, Number 8, August 1991

Editor's Notice Anil K. Jain: Editor's Notice. 745 Papers Kwangyoen Wohn, Jian Wu, Roger W. Brockett: A Contour-Based Recovery of Image Flow: Iterative Transformation Method. 746-760 Richard P. Wildes: Direct Recovery of Three-Dimensional Scene Geometry From Binocular Stereo Disparity. 761-774 Josef Bigün, Gösta H. Granlund, Johan Wiklund: Multidimensional Orientation Estimation with Applications to Texture Analysis and Optical Flow. 775-790 Jean-Michel Jolion, Peter Meer, Samira Bataouche: Robust Clustering with Applications in Computer Vision. 791-802 Correspondence Fernand S. Cohen, Zhigang Fan, Stephane Attali: Automated Inspection of Textile Fabrics Using Textural Models. 803-808 John Cardillo, Maher A. Sid-Ahmed: 3-D Position Sensing Using a Passive Monocular Vision System. 809-813 J. R. Parker: Gray Level Thresholding in Badly Illuminated Images. 813-819 Levent Onural: Generating Connected Textured Fractal Patterns Using Markov Random Fields. 819-825 Ari Veijanen: A Simulation-Based Estimator for Hidden Markov Random Fields. 825-830 Thomas H. Reiss: The revised Fundamental Theorem of Moment Invariants. 830-834 Xiao-Jia M. Zhou, Tharam S. Dillon: A Statistical-Heuristic Feature Selection Criterion for Decision Tree Induction. 834-841 Xuanli Lisa Xie, Gerardo Beni: A Validity Measure for Fuzzy Clustering. 841-847 Michael Lindenbaum, Jack Koplowitz: A New Parameterization of Digital Straight Lines. 847-852 Volume 13, Number 9, September 1991

Papers Behrooz Kamgar-Parsi, Jeffrey L. Jones, Azriel Rosenfeld: Registration of Multiple Overlapping Range Images: Scenes Without Distinctive Features. 857-871 Homer H. Chen, Thomas S. Huang: Using Motion from Orthographic Views to Verify 3-D Point Matches. 872-878 Alex Pentland: Photometric Motion. 879-890 William T. Freeman, Edward H. Adelson: The Design and Use of Steerable Filters. 891-906 Yoonsik Choe, Rangasami L. Kashyap: 3-D Shape from a Shaded and Textural Surface Image. 907-919 W. Eric L. Grimson: The Combinatorics of Heuristic Search Termination for Object Recognition in Cluttered Environments. 920-935 Anna Corazza, Renato de Mori, Roberto Gretter, Giorgio Satta: Computation of Probabilities for an Island-Driven Parser. 936-950 Correspondence Ping Wah Wong: On Quantization Errors in Computer Vision. 951-956 Judith Hochberg, Susan M. Mniszewski, T. Calleja, G. J. Papcun: A Default Hierarchy for Pronouncing English. 957-964 Volume 13, Number 10, October 1991

Introduction to the Special Issue on Interpretation of 3-D Scenes-Part I W. Eric L. Grimson, Daniel P. Huttenlocher: Introduction to the Special Issue on Interpretation of 3-D Scenes-Part I. 969-970 Papers David A. Forsyth, Joseph L. Mundy, Andrew Zisserman, Chris Coelho, Aaron Heller, Charlie Rothwell: Invariant Descriptors for 3D Object Recognition and Pose. 971-991 Shimon Ullman, Ronen Basri: Recognition by Linear Combinations of Models. 992-1006 David T. Clemens, David W. Jacobs: Space and Time Bounds on Indexing 3D Models from 2D Images. 1007-1017 Sukhan Lee, Hernsoo Hahn: An Optimal Sensing Strategy for Recognition and Localization of 3D Natural Quadric Objects. 1018-1037 Peter Whaite, Frank P. Ferrie: From Uncertainty to Visual Exploration. 1038-1049 Thomas M. Strat, Martin A. Fischler: Context-Based Vision: Recognizing Objects Using Information from Both 2D and 3D Imagery. 1050-1065 Correspondence Patrick J. Flynn, Anil K. Jain: BONSAI: 3D Object Recognition Using Constrained Search. 1066-1075 Mun K. Leung, Thomas S. Huang: An Integrated Approach to 3D Motion Analysis and Object Recognition. 1075-1084 Yoshinori Kuno, Yasukazu Okamoto, Satoshi Okada: Robot Vision Using a Feature Search Strategy Generated from a 3D Oobject Model. 1085-1097 Louise Stark, Kevin W. Bowyer: Achieving Generalized Object Recognition through Reasoning about Association of Function to Structure. 1097-1104 Volume 13, Number 11, November 1991

Papers M. A. Snyder:

On the Mathematical Foundations of Smoothness Constraints for the Determination of Optical Flow and for Surface Reconstruction. 1105-1114 Gabriel Taubin: Estimation of Planar Curves, Surfaces, and Nonplanar Space Curves Defined by Implicit Equations with Applications to Edge and Range Image Segmentation. 1115-1138 Katsushi Ikeuchi, Kosuke Sato: Determining Reflectance Properties of an Object Using Range and Brightness Images. 1139-1153 Sudeep Sarkar, Kim L. Boyer: On Optimal Infinite Impulse Response Edge Detection Filters. 1154-1171 Yang He, Amlan Kundu: 2-D Shape Classification Using Hidden Markov Model. 1172-1184 Correspondence Zhi-Qiang Liu, Rangaraj M. Rangayyan, Cyril B. Frank: Directional Analysis of Images in Scale Space. 1185-1192 Christian Doncarli, Eric Le Carpentier: An Optimal Approach for Random Signals Classification. 1192-1196 Volume 13, Number 12, December 1991

Papers W. Eric L. Grimson, Daniel P. Huttenlocher: On the Verification of Hypothesized Matches in Model-Based Recognition. 1201-1213 Imants D. Svalbe: The Geometry of Basis Sets for Morphologic Closing. 1214-1224 Hermann Kaindl, Reza Shams, Helmut Horacek: Minimax Search Algorithms With and Without Aspiration Windows. 1225-1235 Correspondence Daphna Weinshall: Direct Computation of Qualitative 3-D Shape and Motion Invariants. 1236-1240 Michael A. Penna: Camera Calibration: A Quick and Easy Way to Determine the Scale Factor. 1240-1245 S. C. Chan, Andrew K. C. Wong: Synthesis and Recognition of Sequences. 1245-1255 Beth A. Carlson, Mark A. Clements: A Computationally Compact Divergence Measure for Speech Processing. 1255-1260 Ömür Bozma, Roman Kuc: Building a Sonar Map in a Specular Environment Using a Single Mobile Sensor. 1260-1269 Volume 14, Number 1, January 1992

Editor's Notice Anil K. Jain: Editor's Notice. 1-2 Papers Hin Leong Tan, Saul B. Gelfand, Edward J. Delp: A Cost Minimization Approach to Edge Detection Using Simulated Annealing. 3-18 Xinhua Zhuang, Tao Wang, Peng Zhang: A Highly Robust Estimator Through Partially Likelihood Function Modeling and Its Application in Computer Vision. 19-35 Sarvajit S. Sinha, Brian G. Schunck: A Two-Stage Algorithm for Discontinuity-Preserving Surface Reconstruction. 36-55 Frederic F. Leymarie, Martin D. Levine: Simulating the Grassfire Transform Using an Active Contour Model. 56-75

Marco Gori, Alberto Tesi: On the Problem of Local Minima in Backpropagation. 76-86 Correspondence Santosh S. Venkatesh, Demetri Psaltis: On Reliable Computation With Formal Neurons. 87-91 Volume 14, Number 2, February 1992

Introduction to the Special Issue on Interpretation of 3-D Scenes W. Eric L. Grimson, Daniel P. Huttenlocher: Introduction to the Special Issue on Interpretation of 3-D Scenes. 97-98 Papers Edward H. Adelson, John Y. A. Wang: Single Lens Stereo with a Plenoptic Camera. 99-106 Michael Seibert, Allen M. Waxman: Adaptive 3-D Object Recognition from Multiple Views. 107-124 Fridtjof Stein, Gérard G. Medioni: Structural Indexing: Efficient 3-D Object Recognition. 125-145 Aaron F. Bobick, Robert C. Bolles: The Representation Space Paradigm of Concurrent Evolving Object Descriptions. 146-156 Régis Vaillant, Olivier D. Faugeras: Using Extremal Boundaries for 3-D Object Modeling. 157-173 Sven J. Dickinson, Alex Pentland, Azriel Rosenfeld: 3-D Shape Recovery Using Distributed Aspect Matching. 174-198 Ernst D. Dickmanns, Birger D. Mysliwetz: Recursive 3-D Road and Relative Ego-State Recognition. 199-213 Yuan C. Hsieh, David McKeown, Frederic P. Perlant: Performance Evaluation of Scene Registration and Stereo Matching for Artographic Feature Extraction. 214-238 Paul J. Besl, Neil D. McKay: A Method for Registration of 3-D Shapes. 239-256 Correspondence Hiroshi Ishiguro, Masashi Yamamoto, Saburo Tsuji: Omni-Directional Stereo. 257-262 Réjean Baribeau, Marc Rioux, Guy Godin: Color Reflectance Modeling Using a Polychromatic Laser Range Sensor. 263-269 Henri Maître, Wei Luo: Using Models to Improve Stereo Reconstruction. 269-277 In-So Kweon, Takeo Kanade: High-Resolution Terrain Map from Multiple Sensor Data. 278-292 Takeshi Shakunaga: 3-D Corridor Modeling from a Single View Under Natural Lighting Conditions. 293-298 Marco Straforini, C. Coelho, Marco Campani, Vincent Torre: The Recovery and Understanding of a Line Drawing from Indoor Scenes. 298-303 Prasanna G. Mulgaonkar, Cregg K. Cowan, Jeff L. DeCurtins: Understanding Object Configurations using Range Images. 303-307 Volume 14, Number 3, March 1992

Papers Peter T. Sander, Steven W. Zucker: Singularities of Principal Direction Fields from 3-D Images. 309-317 Juyang Weng, Thomas S. Huang, Narendra Ahuja: Motion and Structure from Line Correspondences; Closed-Form Solution, Uniqueness, and Optimization. 318-336

Margaret M. Fleck: Some Defects in Finite-Difference Edge Finders. 337-345 James S. Duncan, Tsai-Chia Chou: On the Detection of Motion and the Computation of Optical Flow. 346-352 Radu S. Jasinschi: Intrinsic Constraints in Space-Time Filtering: A New Approach to Representing Uncertainty in Low-Level Vision. 353-366 Donald Geman, George Reynolds: Constrained Restoration and the Recovery of Discontinuities. 367-383 Correspondence Roland Wilson, Abhir Bhalerao: Kernel Designs for Efficient Multiresolution Edge Detection and Orientation Estimation. 384-390 Floriana Esposito, Donato Malerba, Giovanni Semeraro: Classification in Noisy Environments Using a Distance Measure Between Structural Symbolic Descriptions. 390-402 Volume 14, Number 4, April 1992

Papers Shang-Hong Lai, Chang-Wu Fu, Shyang Chang: A Generalized Depth Estimation Algorithm with a Single Image. 405-411 Margaret M. Fleck: Multiple Widths Yield Reliable Finite Differences (Computer Vision). 412-429 Anothai Rattarangsi, Roland T. Chin: Scale-Based Detection of Corners of Planar Curves. 430-449 Yi Lu, Ramesh Jain: Reasoning About Edges in Scale Space. 450-468 Raghu Karinthi, Dana S. Nau: An Algebraic Approach to Feature Interactions. 469-484 Correspondence Julian R. Ullmann: Analysis of 2-D Occlusion by Subtracting Out. 485-489 Iwao Sekita, Takio Kurita, Nobuyuki Otsu: Complex Autoregressive Model for Shape Recognition. 489-496 Nahum Kiryati, Alfred M. Bruckstein: What's in a Set of Points? (Straight Line Fitting). 496-500 Volume 14, Number 5, May 1992

Editor's Notice Anil K. Jain: Editor's Notice. 501 Papers James S. Duncan, Thomas Birkhölzer: Reinforcement of Linear Structure using Parametrized Relaxation Labeling. 502-515 Hirobumi Nishida, Shunji Mori: Algebraic Description of Curve Structure. 516-533 Ruud M. Bolle, Andrea Califano, Rick Kjeldsen: A Complete and Extendable Approach to Visual Recognition. 534-548 Peter D. Holmes, Erland Jungert: Symbolic and Geometric Connectivity Graph Methods for Route Planning in Digitized Maps. 549-565 Correspondence Nasser M. Nasrabadi: A Stereo Vision Technique Using Curve-Segments and Relaxation Matching. 566-572

Yuan-Fang Wang, Jih-Fang Wang: Surface Reconstruction Using Deformable Models with Interior and Boundary Constraints. 572-579 Hong Jeong, C. I. Kim: Adaptive Determination of Filter Scales for Edge Detection. 579-585 Hermann Ney: A Comparative Study of Two Search Strategies for Connected Word Recognition: Dynamic Programming and Heuristic Search. 586-595 Volume 14, Number 6, June 1992

Papers Jan J. Koenderink, Andrea J. van Doorn: Generic Neighborhood Operators. 597-605 James W. Modestino, Jun Zhang: A Markov Random Field Model-Based Approach to Image Interpretation. 606-615 Rakesh Mohan, Ramakant Nevatia: Perceptual Organization for Scene Segmentation and Description. 616-635 Stephen S. Wilson: Theory of Matrix Morphology. 636-652 Liang Ji, Jim Piper: Fast Homotopy-Preserving Skeletons Using Mathematical Morphology. 653-664 Correspondence Behzad Kamgar-Parsi, Behrooz Kamgar-Parsi: Quantization Error in Hexagonal Sensory Configurations. 665-671 Robert A. Boie, Ingemar J. Cox: An Analysis of Camera Noise. 671-674 H. S. Mallikarjuna, L. F. Chaparro: Iterative Composite Filtering for Image Restoration. 674-678 Z. C. Li, Ching Y. Suen, T. D. Bui, Yuan Yan Tang, Q. L. Gu: Splitting-Integrating Method for Normalizing Images by Inverse Transformations. 678-686 Dennis W. Ruck, Steven K. Rogers, Matthew Kabrisky, Peter S. Maybeck, Mark E. Oxley: Comparative Analysis of Backpropagation and the Extended Kalman Filter for Training Multilayer Perceptrons. 686-691 Roland Kuhn, Renato de Mori: Corrections to "A Cache-Based Language Model for Speech Recognition". 691-692 Volume 14, Number 7, July 1992

Papers A. Ravishankar Rao, Ramesh Jain: Computerized Flow Field Analysis: Oriented Texture Fields. 693-709 Stéphane Mallat, Sifen Zhong: Characterization of Signals from Multiscale Edges. 710-732 Michail K. Tsatsanis, Georgios B. Giannakis: Object and Texture Classification Using Higher Order Statistics. 733-750 John B. Hampshire II, Alex Waibel: The Meta-Pi Network: Building Distributed Knowledge Representations for Robust Multisource Pattern Recognition. 751-769 Correspondence Noah S. Friedland, Azriel Rosenfeld: Compact Object Recognition Using Energy-Function-Based Optimization. 770-777 Ramakrishna Kakarala, Alfred O. Hero III: On Achievable Accuracy in Edge Localization. 777-781 Gabor T. Herman, K. T. Daniel Yeung: On Piecewise-Linear Classification. 782-786

Volume 14, Number 8, August 1992

Papers Farzin Mokhtarian, Alan K. Mackworth: A Theory of Multiscale, Curvature-Based Shape Representation for Planar Curves. 789-805 Juyang Weng, Narendra Ahuja, Thomas S. Huang: Matching Two Perspective Views. 806-825 Correspondence Mark Nitzberg, Takahiro Shiota: Nonlinear Image Filtering with Edge and Corner Enhancement. 826-833 Ernest M. Stokely, Shang You Wu: Surface Parametrization and Curvature Measurement of Arbitrary 3-D Objects: Five Practical Methods. 833-840 Chen-Chau Chu, Jake K. Aggarwal: Image Interpretation Using Multiple Sensing Modalities. 840-847 M. Ali Taalebinezhaad: Direct Recovery of Motion and Shape in the General Case by Fixation. 847-853 H. Al-Yousefi, S. S. Upda: Recognition of Arabic Characters. 853-857 Jun Gu, Wei Wang: A Novel Discrete Relaxation Architecture. 857-865 Volume 14, Number 9, September 1992

Papers Louisa Lam, Seong-Whan Lee, Ching Y. Suen: Thinning Methodologies - A Comprehensive Survey. 869-885 James R. Bergen, Peter J. Burt, Rajesh Hingorani, Shmuel Peleg: A Three-Frame Algorithm for Estimating Two-Component Image Motion. 886-896 Robert L. Stevenson, Edward J. Delp: Viewpoint Invariant Recovery of Visual Surfaces from Sparse Data. 897-909 Janusz Konrad, Eric Dubois: Bayesian Estimation of Motion Vector Fields. 910-927 S. H. Joseph, Tony P. Pridmore: Knowledge-Directed Interpretation of Mechanical Engineering Drawings. 928-940 Correspondence Hiroshi Mitsumoto, Shinichi Tamura, Kozo Okazaki, Naoki Kajimi, Yutaka Fukui: 3-D Reconstruction Using Mirror Images Based on a Plane Symmetry Recovering Method. 941-946 Lars Westberg: Hierarchical Contour-Based Segmentation of Dynamic Scenes. 946-952 Adrie C. M. Dumay, Mariëlle N. A. J. Claessens, Cees Roos, Jan J. Gerbrands, Johan H. C. Reiber: Object Delineation in Noisy Images by a Modified Policy-Iteration Method. 952-958 Minas E. Spetsakis, Yiannis Aloimonos: Optimal Visual Motion Estimation: A Note. 959-964 Volume 14, Number 10, October 1992

Papers Juyang Weng, Paul R. Cohen, Marc Herniou: Camera Calibration with Distortion Models and Accuracy Evaluation. 965-980 Steven D. Cochran, Gérard G. Medioni: 3-D Surface Description from Binocular Stereo. 981-994 Gem-Sun Jason Young, Rama Chellappa: Statistical Analysis of Inherent Ambiguities in Recovering 3-D Motion from a Noisy Flow Field. 995-1013

Hussein M. Alnuweiri, Viktor K. Prasanna: Parallel Architectures and Algorithms for Image Component Labeling. 1014-1034 Correspondence Wu Wang, S. Sitharama Iyengar: Efficient Data Structures for Model-Based 3-D Object Recognition and Localization from Range Images. 1035-1045 Hiroshi Murase: Surface Shape Reconstruction of a Nonrigid Transport Object Using Refraction and Motion. 1045-1052 S. J. Wan, S. K. Michael Wong: A Partially Supervised Learning Algorithm for Linearly Separable Systems. 1052-1056 Fionn Murtagh: Comments on 'Parallel Algorithms for Hierarchical Clustering and Cluster Validity'. 1056-1057 Volume 14, Number 11, November 1992

Papers Lawrence H. Staib, James S. Duncan: Boundary Finding with Parametrically Deformable Models. 1061-1075 Derek C. W. Pao, Hon F. Li, R. Jayakumar: Shapes Recognition Using the Straight Line Hough Transform: Theory and Generalization. 1076-1089 Correspondence Mohammed Atiquzzaman: Multiresolution Hough Transform-An Efficient Method of Detecting Patterns in Images. 1090-1095 Yoshihiko Nomura, Michihiro Sagara, Hiroshi Naruse, Atsushi Ide: Simple Calibration Algorithm for High-Distortion Lens Camera. 1095-1099 Daniel DeMenthon, Larry S. Davis: Exact and Approximate Solutions of the Perspective-Three-Point Problem. 1100-1105 Hayit Greenspan, Moshe Porat, Yehoshua Y. Zeevi: Projection-Based Approach to Image Analysis: Pattern Recognition and Representation in the Position-Orientation Space. 1105-1110 V. Venkateswar, Rama Chellappa: Extraction of Straight Lines in Aerial Images. 1111-1114 Xiaoli Wang, Gilles Bertrand: Some Sequential Algorithms for a Generalized Distance Transformation Based on Minkowski Operations. 1114-1121 Kyoon Ha Lee, Kie-Bum Eom, Rangasami L. Kashyap: Character Recognition Based on Attribute-Dependent Programmed Grammar. 1122-1128 Ben-Kwei Jang, Roland T. Chin: One-Pass Parallel Thinning: Analysis, Properties, and Quantitative Evaluation. 1129-1140 Volume 14, Number 12, December 1992

Papers Zhengyou Zhang, Olivier D. Faugeras: Estimation of Displacements from Two 3-D Frames Obtained From Stereo. 1141-1156 Andrea Califano, Ruud M. Bolle: The Multiple Window Parameter Transform. 1157-1170 Joseph Segman, Jacob Rubinstein, Yehoshua Y. Zeevi: The Canonical Coordinates Method for Pattern Deformation: Theoretical and Computational Considerations. 1171-1183 Correspondence Arun P. Tirumalai, Brian G. Schunck, Ramesh Jain: Dynamic Stereo with Self-Calibration. 1184-1189 Francis Chin, Andrew Choi, Yuhua Luo: Optimal Generating Kernels for Image Pyramids by Piecewise Fitting. 1190-1198 Fridtjof Stein, Gérard G. Medioni: Structural Indexing: Efficient 2D Object Recognition. 1198-1204

Krishnan Rangarajan, Mubarak Shah: Interpretation of Motion Trajectories using Focus of Expansion. 1205-1210 Michael P. Eckert, Gershon Buchsbaum, Andrew B. Watson: Separability of Spatiotemporal Spectra of Image Sequences. 1210-1213 Joseph H. Nurre, Ernest L. Hall: Encoded Moire Inspection Based on a Computer Solid Model. 1214-1218 Jing-Fu Fu Jenq, Sartaj Sahni: Serial and Parallel Algorithms for the Medial Axis Transform. 1218-1224 Volume 15, Number 1, January 1993

Editorial Anil K. Jain: Editorial. 1-2 Papers Fatih Ulupinar, Ramakant Nevatia: Perception of 3-D Surfaces from 2-D Contours. 3-18 Robert Bergevin, Martin D. Levine: Generic Object Recognition: Building and Matching Coarse Descriptions from Line Drawings. 19-36 Ken-ichi Kanatani: Unbiased Estimation and Statistical Analysis of 3-D Rigid Motion from Two Views. 37-50 J. Brian Burns, Richard S. Weiss, Edward M. Riseman: View Variation of Point-Set and Line-Segment Features. 51-68 Ling Tony Chen, Larry S. Davis, Clyde P. Kruskal: Efficient Parallel Processing of Image Contours. 69-81 Correspondence Masanobu Yamamoto, Pierre Boulanger, J.-Angelo Beraldin, Marc Rioux: Direct Estimation of Range Flow on Deformable Shape From a Video Rate Range Camera. 82-89 Stephen P. Smith: Threshold Validity for Mutual Neighborhood Clustering. 89-92 Volume 15, Number 2, February 1993

Papers John Ens, Peter Lawrence: An Investigation of Methods for Determining Depth from Focus. 97-108 David W. Eggert, Kevin W. Bowyer: Computing the Perspective Projection Aspect Graph of Solids of Revolution. 109-128 Jens Gregor, Michael G. Thomason: Dynamic Programming Alignment of Sequences Representing Cyclic Patterns. 129-135 Shinji Umeyama: Parameterized Point Pattern Matching and Its Application to Recognition of Object Families. 136-144 Lorenza Saitta, Francesco Bergadano: Pattern Recognition and Valiant's Learning Framework. 145-155 Correspondence Giuseppe Coppini, M. Demi, Riccardo Poli, Guido Valli: An Artificial Vision System for X-ray Images of Human Coronary Trees. 156-162 William B. Thompson, Pamela Lechleider, Elizabeth R. Stuck: Detecting Moving Objects Using the Rigidity Constraint. 162-166 Berthold K. P. Horn, Richard Szeliski, Alan L. Yuille: Impossible Shaded Images. 166-170 Jack-Gérard Postaire, R. D. Zhang, C. Lecocq-Botte:

Cluster Analysis by Binary Morphology. 170-180 Yih-Tay Tsay, Wen-Hsiang Tsai: Attributed String Matching by Split-and-Merge for On-Line Chinese Character Recognition. 180-185 B. John Oommen, Jack R. Zgierski: Breaking Substitution Cyphers Using Stochastic Automata. 185-192 Volume 15, Number 3, March 1993

Introduction to the Special Section on Probabilistic Reasoning H. R. Keshavan: Introduction to the Special Section on Probabilistic Reasoning. 193-195 Papers Robert P. Goldman, Eugene Charniak: A Language for Construction of Belief Networks. 196-208 Robert G. Cowell, A. Philip Dawid, David J. Spiegelhalter: Sequential Model Criticism in Probabilistic Expert Systems. 209-219 Moisés Goldszmidt, Paul H. Morris, Judea Pearl: A Maximum Entropy Approach to Nonmonotonic Reasoning. 220-232 Raj Bhatnagar, Laveen N. Kanal: Structural and Probabilistic Knowledge for Abductive Reasoning. 233-245 Paul Dagum, R. Martin Chavez: Approximating Probabilistic Inference in Bayesian Belief Networks. 246-255 Sudeep Sarkar, Kim L. Boyer: Integration, Inference, and Management of Spatial Information Using Bayesian Networks: Perceptual Organization. 256-274 Correspondence Kristian G. Olesen: Causal Probabilistic Networks with Both Discrete and Continuous Variables. 275-279 Kenneth W. Fertig, John S. Breese: Probability Intervals Over Influence Diagrams. 280-286 Michael P. Wellman, Max Henrion: Explaining 'Explaining Away'. 287-292 David Heckerman, Eric Horvitz, Blackford Middleton: An Approximate Nonmyopic Computation for Value of Information. 292-298 Gregory M. Provan, John R. Clarke: Dynamic Network Construction and Updating Techniques for the Diagnosis of Acute Abdominal Pain. 299-307 Correspondence John Oliensis: Local Reproducible Smoothing Without Shrinkage. 307-312 Wei-Tsih Lee, Manoel Fernando Tenorio: On an Asymptotically Optimal Adaptive Classifier Design Criterion. 312-318 Volume 15, Number 4, April 1993

Papers Yao Wang, Sanjit K. Mitra: Image Representation Using Block Pattern Models and Its Image Processing Applications. 321-336 Naonori Ueda, Satoshi Suzuki: Learning Visual Models from Shape Contours Using Multiscale Convex/Concave Structure Matching. 337-352 Masatoshi Okutomi, Takeo Kanade: A Multiple-Baseline Stereo. 353-363 Michael Unser, Akram Aldroubi, Murray Eden: The L2-Polynomial Spline Pyramid. 364-379

Hiromitsu Yamada, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Katsumi Hosokawa: Directional Mathematical Morphology and Reformalized Hough Transformation for the Analysis of Topographic Maps. 380-387 Chulhee Lee, David A. Landgrebe: Feature Extraction Based on Decision Boundaries. 388-400 Correspondence Massimo Tistarelli, Giulio Sandini: On the Advantages of Polar and Log-Polar Mapping for Direct Estimation of Time-To-Impact from Optical Flow. 401-410 Guido M. Cortelazzo, M. Balanza: Frequency Domain Analysis of Translations with Piecewise Cubic Trajectories. 411-416 Volume 15, Number 5, May 1993

Papers Jasna Maver, Ruzena Bajcsy: Occlusions as a Guide for Planning the Next View. 417-433 Enrico De Micheli, Vincent Torre, Sergio Uras: The Accuracy of the Computation of Optical Flow and of the Recovery of Motion Parameters. 434-447 José Oncina, Pedro Garcia, Enrique Vidal: Learning Subsequential Transducers for Pattern Recognition Interpretation Tasks. 448-458 Robert A. Hummel, Venkataraman Sundareswaran: Motion Parameter Estimation from Global Flow Field Data. 459-476 Correspondence Andrew Blake, D. McCowen, H. R. Lo, P. J. Lindsey: Trinocular Active Range-Sensing. 477-483 Christian Ronse: On Idempotence and Related Requirements in Edge Detection. 484-491 Muhittin Gökmen, Ching-Chung Li: Edge Detection and Surface Reconstruction Using Refined Regularization. 492-499 Stefano Alliney: Digital Analysis of Rotated Images. 499-504 Joseph Gil, Michael Werman: Computing 2-D Min, Median, and Max Filters. 504-507 Predrag Minovic, Seiji Ishikawa, Kiyoshi Kato: Symmetry Identification of a 3-D Object Represented by Octree. 507-514 Alicia D'Anjou, Manuel Graña, Francisco Javier Torrealdea, M. C. Hernandez: Solving Satisfiability Via Boltzmann Machines. 514-521 H. A. Almohamad, Salih O. Duffuaa: A Linear Programming Approach for the Weighted Graph Matching Problem. 522-525 Volume 15, Number 6, June 1993

Introduction to the Special Section on 3-D Modeling in Image Analysis Thomas S. Huang, Peter Stucki: Introduction to the Special Section on 3-D Modeling in Image Analysis. 529-530 Papers Shujun Zhang, Geoffrey D. Sullivan, Keith D. Baker: The Automatic Construction of a View-Independent Relational Model for 3-D Object Recognition. 531-544 Haibo Li, Pertti Roivainen, Robert Forchheimer: 3-D Motion Estimation in Model-Based Facial Image Coding. 545-555 Reinhard Koch: Dynamic 3-D Scene Analysis Through Synthesis Feedback Control. 556-568 Demetri Terzopoulos, Keith Waters: Analysis and Synthesis of Facial Image Sequences Using Physical and Anatomical Models. 569-579

Dimitris N. Metaxas, Demetri Terzopoulos: Shape and Nonrigid Motion Estimation Through Physics-Based Synthesis. 580-591 Correspondence Omar E. Vaga, Yee-Hong Yang: Shading Logic: A Heuristic Approach to Recover Shape from Shading. 592-597 Raj Talluri, J. K. Aggarwal: Image Map Correspondence for Mobile Robot Self-Location Using Computer Graphics. 597-601 Ali Azarbayejani, Thad Starner, Bradley Horowitz, Alex Pentland: Visually Controlled Graphics. 602-605 Kevin W. Bowyer, Maha Sallam, David W. Eggert, John H. Stewman: Computing the Generalized Aspect Graph for Objects with Moving Parts. 605-610 Wen-Chen Huang, Dmitry B. Goldgof: Adaptive-Size Meshes for Rigid and Nonrigid Shape Analysis and Synthesis. 611-616 Papers Frederic F. Leymarie, Martin D. Levine: Tracking Deformable Objects in the Plane Using an Active Contour Model. 617-634 John M. Gauch, Stephen M. Pizer: Multiresolution Analysis of Ridges and Valleys in Grey-Scale Images. 635-646 Correspondence Minoru Maruyama, Shigeru Abe: Range Sensing by Projecting Multiple Slits with Random Cuts. 647-651 Jens Gregor, Michael G. Thomason: Hybrid Pattern Recognition Using Markov Networks. 651-656 Volume 15, Number 7, July 1993

Papers Lingxiao Li, James S. Duncan: 3-D Translational Motion and Structure from Binocular Image Flows. 657-667 Baba C. Vemuri, Ravi Malladi: Constructing Intrinsic Parameters with Active Models for Invariant Surface Reconstruction. 668-681 P. H. Gregson: Using Angular Dispersion of Gradient Direction for Detecting Edge Ribbons. 682-696 Gary Whitten: Scale Space Tracking and Deformable Sheet Models for Computational Vision. 697-706 Sing Bing Kang, Katsushi Ikeuchi: The Complex EGI: A New Representation for 3-D Pose Determination. 707-721 Francis K. H. Quek, Ramesh Jain, Terry E. Weymouth: An Abstraction-Based Approach to 3-D Pose Determination from Range Images. 722-736 Mukkai S. Krishnamoorthy, George Nagy, Sharad C. Seth, Mahesh Viswanathan: Syntactic Segmentation and Labeling of Digitized Pages from Technical Journals. 737-747 Correspondence Wei Qian, D. M. Titterington: Bayesian Image Restoration: An Application to Edge-Preserving Surface Recovery. 748-752 Volume 15, Number 8, August 1993

Papers John M. Gauch, Stephen M. Pizer: The Intensity Axis of Symmetry and Its Application to Image Segmentation. 753-770 Frank P. Ferrie, Jean Lagarde, Peter Whaite: Darboux Frames, Snakes, and Super-Quadrics: Geometry from the Bottom Up. 771-784

Kenneth Rose, Eitan Gurewitz, Geoffrey Fox: Constrained Clustering as an Optimization Method. 785-794 William A. C. Schmidt, Jon P. Davis: Pattern Recognition Properties of Various Feature Spaces for Higher Order Neural Networks. 795-801 Correspondence Yuncai Liu, Thomas S. Huang: Vehicle-Type Motion Estimation From Multi-Frame Images. 802-808 Xiaolin Wu: Adaptive Split-and-Merge Segmentation Based on Piecewise Least-Square Approximation. 808-815 Kyoung Mu Lee, C. C. Jay Kuo: Shape from Shading with a Linear Triangular Element Surface Model. 815-822 James W. Cooper, Svetha Venkatesh, Leslie J. Kitchen: Early Jump-Out Corner Detectors. 823-828 Richard W. Hall: Optimally Small Operator Supports for Fully Parallel Thinning Algorithms. 828-833 Shimon Edelman: On Learning to Recognize 3-D Objects from Examples. 833-837 Xiaofei Huang, Jun Gu, Youshou Wu: A Constrained Approach to Multifont Chinese Character Recognition. 838-843 Anil K. Jain: Editor's Notice. 849 Volume 15, Number 9, September 1993

Papers Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Gregory A. Klanderman, William Rucklidge: Comparing Images Using the Hausdorff Distance. 850-863 Juyang Weng, Narendra Ahuja, Thomas S. Huang: Optimal Motion and Structure Estimation. 864-884 Harpreet S. Sawhney, John Oleinsis, Allen R. Hanson: Image Description and 3-D Reconstruction From Image Trajectories of Rotational Motion. 885-898 Laurent Hérault, Radu Horaud: Figure-Ground Discrimination: A Combinatorial Optimization Approach. 899-914 R. Mahesh K. Sinha, Birendra Prasada, Gilles F. Houle, Michael Sabourin: Hybrid Contextural Text Recognition with String Matching. 915-925 Andrés Marzal, Enrique Vidal: Computation of Normalized Edit Distance and Applications. 926-932 Sanjeev R. Kulkarni, Sanjoy K. Mitter, John N. Tsitsiklis, Ofer Zeitouni: PAC Learning with Generalized Samples and an Applicaiton to Stochastic Geometry. 933-942 Correspondence Isaac Weiss: Noise-Resistant Invariants of Curves. 943-948 Michael Lindenbaum, Alfred M. Bruckstein: On Recursive, O(N) Partitioning of a Digitized Curve into Digital Straight Segments. 949-953 Jean-Jules Brault, Rejean Plamondon: Segmenting Handwritten Signatures at Their Perceptually Important Points. 953-957 András Faragó, Tamás Linder, Gábor Lugosi: Fast Nearest-Neighbor Search in Dissimilarity Spaces. 957-962 Norman P. Archer, Shouhong Wang: Learning Bias in Neural Networks and an Approach to Controlling Its Effect in Monotonic Classification. 962-966

A. C. Cem Say, Selahattin Kuru: Improved Filtering for the QSIM Algorithm. 967-971 Volume 15, Number 10, October 1993

Papers Hillel Rom, Gérard G. Medioni: Hierarchical Decomposition and Axial Shape Description. 973-981 Daniel Keren, Michael Werman: Probabilistic Analysis of Regularization. 982-995 Frantisek Matús, Jan Flusser: Image Representation Via a Finite Radon Transform. 996-1006 Narendra Ahuja, A. Lynn Abbott: Active Stereo: Integrating Disparity, Vergence, Focus, Aperture and Calibration for Surface Estimation. 1007-1029 Roderic Guigó, Temple F. Smith: Inferring Correlation Between Database Queries: Analysis of Protein Sequence Patterns. 1030-1041 Roberto Brunelli, Tomaso Poggio: Face Recognition: Features Versus Templates. 1042-1052 Li Wang, Theodosios Pavlidis: Direct Gray-Scale Extraction of Features for Character Recognition. 1053-1067 Correspondence Tony Lindeberg: Effective Scale: A Natural Unit for Measuring Scale-Space Lifetime. 1068-1074 Christoph Schnörr: On Functionals with Greyvalue-Controlled Smoothness Terms for Determining Optical Flow. 1074-1079 Matthew D. Berkemeier, Ronald S. Fearing: Determining the Axis of a Surface of Revolution Using Tactile Sensing. 1079-1087 Susan S. Chen, James M. Keller, Richard M. Crownover: On the Calculation of Fractal Features from Images. 1087-1090 Maqbool Patel, Fernand S. Cohen: Local Surface Shape Estimation of 3-D Textured Surfaces using Gaussian Markov Random Fields and Stereo Windows. 1091-1098 Volume 15, Number 11, November 1993

Papers Zhenyu Wu, Richard M. Leahy: An Optimal Graph Theoretic Approach to Data Clustering: Theory and Its Application to Image Segmentation. 1101-1113 David W. Eggert, Kevin W. Bowyer, Charles R. Dyer, Henrik I. Christensen, Dmitry B. Goldgof: The Scale Space Aspect Graph. 1114-1130 Laurent D. Cohen, Isaac Cohen: Finite-Element Methods for Active Contour Models and Balloons for 2-D and 3-D Images. 1131-1147 John Daugman: High Confidence Visual Recognition of Persons by a Test of Statistical Independence. 1148-1161 Lawrence O'Gorman: The Document Spectrum for Page Layout Analysis. 1162-1173 Jian-Xiong Wu, Chorkin Chan: Isolated Word Recognition by Neural Network Models with Cross-Correlation Coefficients for Speech Dynamics. 1174-1185 Correspondence Andrew Laine, Jian Fan: Texture Classification by Wavelet Packet Signatures. 1186-1191 Philippe Saint-Marc, Hillel Rom, Gérard G. Medioni: B-spline Contour Representation and Symmetry Detection. 1191-1197

Ali Bani-Hashemi: A Fourier Approach to Camera Orientation. 1197-1202 Jonas Gårding: Direct Estimation of Shape from Texture. 1202-1208 Mei-Hsing Chen, Roland T. Chin: Partial Smoothing Splines for Noisy +Boundaries with Corners. 1208-1216 Volume 15, Number 12, December 1993

Papers Fabrice Heitz, Patrick Bouthemy: Multimodal Estimation of Discontinuous Optical Flow using Markov Random Fields. 1217-1232 Min Gi Kim, Its'hak Dinstein, Leonard Shaw: A Prototype Filter Design Approach to Pyramid Generation. 1233-1240 Chen-Chau Chu, Jake K. Aggarwal: The Integration of Image Segmentation Maps using Region and Edge Information. 1241-1252 David J. Fleet, Allan D. Jepson: Stability of Phase Information. 1253-1268 Jan H. Vandenbrande, Aristides A. G. Requicha: Spatial Reasoning for the Automatic Recognition of Machinable Features in Solid Models. 1269-1285 Dario Maio, Stefano Rizzi: Map Learning and Clustering in Autonomous Systems. 1286-1297 Hirobumi Nishida, Shunji Mori: An Algebraic Approach to Automatic Construction of Structural Models. 1298-1311 Correspondence Peter F. M. Nacken: A Metric for Line Segments. 1312-1318 Brian V. Funt, Mark S. Drew: Color Space Analysis of Mutual Illumination. 1319-1326 Qiaobing Xie, Charles A. Laszlo, Rabab K. Ward: Vector Quantization Technique for Nonparametric Classifier Design. 1326-1330 G. Chiorboli, G. P. Vecchi: Comments on "Design of Fiducials for Accurate Registration Using Machine Vision". 1330-1332 Volume 16, Number 1, January 1994

Papers Fernand S. Cohen, Jin-Yinn Wang: Part I: Modeling Image Curves Using Invariant 3-D Object Curve Models/spl minus/a Path to 3-D Recognition and Shape Estimation from Image Contours. 1-12 Fernand S. Cohen, Jin-Yinn Wang: Part II: 3-D Object Recognition and Shape Estimation from Image Contours Using B-splines, Shape Invariant Matching, and Neural Network. 13-23 Ibrahim M. Elfadel, Rosalind W. Picard: Gibbs Random Fields, Cooccurrences, and Texture Modeling. 24-37 Daniel Keren, David B. Cooper, Jayashree Subrahmonia: Describing Complicated Objects by Implicit Polynomials. 38-53 David A. Cohn, Eve A. Riskin, Richard E. Ladner: Theory and Practice of Vector Quantizers Trained on Small Training Sets. 54-65 Tin Kam Ho, Jonathan J. Hull, Sargur N. Srihari: Decision Combination in Multiple Classifier Systems. 66-75 Correspondence Dario L. Ringach, Yoram Baram:

A Diffusion Mechanism for Obstacle Detection from Size-Change Information. 76-80 Josef Bigün, J. M. Hans du Buf: N-folded Symmetries by Complex Moments in Gabor Space and their Application to Unsupervised Texture Segmentation. 80-87 Alexander M. Taratorin, Samuel Sideman: Constrained Regularized Differentiation. 88-92 Paolo Pellegretti, Fabio Roli, Sebastiano B. Serpico, Gianni Vernazza: Supervised Learning of Descriptions for Image Recognition Purposes. 92-98 Basit Hussain, Mansur R. Kabuka: A Novel Feature Recognition Neural Network and its Application to Character Recognition. 98-106 Comments Kim L. Boyer, Sudeep Sarkar: "On the localization performance measure and optimal edge detection". 106-108 Hemant Tagare, Rui J. P. de Figueiredo: Reply to "On the Localization Performance Measure and Optimal Edge Detection". 108-110 Volume 16, Number 2, February 1994

Papers Martin A. Fischler, Helen C. Wolf: Locating Perceptually Salient Points on Planar Curves. 113-129 Dennis F. Dunn, William E. Higgins, Joseph Wakeley: Texture Segmentation using 2-D Gabor Elementary Functions. 130-149 Aldo Laurentini: The Visual Hull Concept for Silhouette-Based Image Understanding. 150-162 Jiang Yu Zheng: Acquiring 3-D Models from Sequences of Contours. 163-178 Marion Mast, Franz Kummert, Ute Ehrlich, Gernot A. Fink, Thomas Kuhn, Heinrich Niemann, Gerhard Sagerer: A Speech Understanding and Dialog System with a Homogeneous Linguistic Knowledge Base. 179-194 Correspondence Howard J. Schultz: Retrieving Shape Information from Multiple Images of a Specular Surface. 195-201 Tun-Wen Pai, John H. L. Hansen: Boundary-Constrained Morphological Skeleton Minimization and Skeleton Reconstruction. 201-208 Jia-Lin Chen, Amlan Kundu: Rotation and Gray Scale Transform Invariant Texture Identification using Wavelet Decomposition and Hidden Markov Model. 208-214 Jun Ohya, Akio Shio, Shigeru Akamatsu: Recognizing Characters in Scene Images. 214-220 W. A. Hashlamoun, Pramod K. Varshney, V. N. S. Samarasooriya: A Tight Upper Bound on the Bayesian Probability of Error. 220-224 Volume 16, Number 3, March 1994

Editorial Anil K. Jain: Editorial. 225 In Memoriam In Memoriam. 226 Papers Suresh B. Marapane, Mohan M. Trivedi: Multi-Primitive Hierarchical (MPH) Stereo Analysis. 227-240 Ying Sun, Iching Liu, John K. Grady: Reconstruction of 3-D Binary Tree-Like Structures From Three Mutually Orthogonal Projections. 241-248

Ping Liang, Clifford H. Taubes: Orientation-Based Differential Geometric Representations for Computer Vision Applications. 249-258 Carlos Manhaeghe, Ignace Lemahieu, Dirk Vogelaers, Francis Colardyn: Automatic Initial Estimation of the Left Ventricular Myocardial Midwall in Emission Tomograms Using Kohonen Maps. 259-266 Glenn Healey, Raghava Kondepudy: Radiometric CCD camera calibration and noise estimation. 267-276 Raymond K. K. Yip, Peter Kwong-Shun Tam, Dennis N. K. Leung: Application of Elliptic Fourier Descriptors to Symmetry Detection Under Parallel Projection. 277-286 Gabriel Taubin, Fernando Cukierman, Steve Sullivan, Jean Ponce, David J. Kriegman: Parameterized Families of Polynomials for Bounded Algebraic Curve and Surface Fitting. 287-303 Hochong Park, Roland T. Chin: Optimal Decomposition of Convex Morphological Structuring Elements for 4-Connected Parallel Array Processors. 304-313 Correspondence M. A. Wani, Bruce G. Batchelor: Edge-Region-Based Segmentation of Range Images. 314-319 Ken-ichi Kanatani: Statistical Bias of Conic Fitting and Renormalization. 320-326 Volume 16, Number 4, April 1994

Papers John Princen, John Illingworth, Josef Kittler: Hypothesis Testing: A Framework for Analyzing and Optimizing Hough Transform Performance. 329-341 Chang Wen Chen, Thomas S. Huang, Matthew Arrott: Modeling, Analysis, and Visualization of Left Ventricle Shape and Motion by Hierarchical Decomposition. 342-356 Sanghoon Sull, Narendra Ahuja: Integrated 3-D Analysis and Analysis-Guided Synthesis of Flight Image Sequences. 357-372 Andrea Califano, Rakesh Mohan: Multidimensional Indexing for Recognizing Visual Shapes. 373-392 Jairo Rocha, Theodosios Pavlidis: A Shape Analysis Model with Applications to a Character Recognition System. 393-404 Correspondence M. Kisworo, Svetha Venkatesh, Geoff A. W. West: Modeling Edges at Subpixel Accuracy Using the Local Energy Approach. 405-410 Alex Pentland: Interpolation Using Wavelet Bases. 410-414 Gopalan Ravichandran, David Casasent: Advanced In-Plane Rotation-Invariant Correlation Filters. 415-420 Ljubomir J. Buturovic: Toward Bayes-Optimal Linear Dimension Reduction. 420-424 Mehmet Izzet Gürelli, Levent Onural: On a Parameter Estimation Method for Gibbs-Markov Random Fields. 424-430 Evelyne Lutton, Henri Maître, Jaime López-Krahe: Contribution to the Determination of Vanishing Points Using Hough Transform. 430-438 Ronald Jones, Imants D. Svalbe: Morphological Filtering as Template Matching. 438-443 C. Tony Huang, Owen Robert Mitchell: A Euclidean Distance Transform Using Grayscale Morphology Decomposition. 443-448 Volume 16, Number 5, May 1994

Papers

Don Murray, Anup Basu: Motion Tracking with an Active Camera. 449-459 Mark Berman: Automated Smoothing of Image and Other Regularly Spaced Data. 460-468 Guo-Qing Wei, Song De Ma: Implicit and Explicit Camera Calibration: Theory and Experiments. 469-480 Mou-Yen Chen, Amlan Kundu, Jian Zhou: Off-Line Handwritten Word Recognition Using a Hidden Markov Model Type Stochastic Network. 481-496 Ömür Bozma, Roman Kuc: A Physical Model-Based Analysis of Heterogeneous Environments Using Sonar-ENDURA Method. 497-506 Correspondence Alison J. Gray, Jim Kay, D. M. Titterington: An Empirical Study of the Simulation of Various Models used for Images. 507-513 Nir Katzir, Michael Lindenbaum, Moshe Porat: Curve Segmentation Under Partial Occlusion. 513-519 Randal C. Nelson: Finding Line Segments by Stick Growing. 519-523 Vincenzo Caglioti: Uncertainty Minimization in the Localization of Polyhedral Objects. 524-530 Xinming Yu, T. D. Bui, Adam Krzyzak: Robust Estimation for Range Image Segmentation and Reconstruction. 530-538 P. Shanti Sastry, M. A. L. Thathachar: Analysis of Stochastic Automata Algorithm for Relaxation Labeling. 538-543 Ken-ichi Kanatani: Analysis of 3-D Rotation Fitting. 543-549 Jonathan J. Hull: A Database for Handwritten Text Recognition Research. 550-554 Ja-Chen Lin, Wen-Hsiang Tsai: Feature-Preserving Clustering of 2-D Data for Two-Class Problems Using Analytical Formulas: An Automatic and Fast Approach. 554-560 Volume 16, Number 6, June 1994

Papers Finbarr O'Sullivan, Maijian Qian: A Regularized Contrast Statistic for Object Boundary Estimation-Implementation and Statistical Evaluation. 561-570 Cao An Wang: Collision Detection of a Moving Polygon in the Presence of Polygonal Obstacles in the Plane. 571-580 Ronald Jones, Imants D. Svalbe: Algorithms for the Decomposition of Gray-Scale Morphological Operations. 581-588 Dan Schonfeld: Optimal Structuring Elements for the Morphological Pattern Restoration of Binary Images. 589-601 Gary E. Kopec, Philip A. Chou: Document Image Decoding Using Markov Source Models. 602-617 Toru Wakahara: Shape Matching Using LAT and its Application to Handwritten Numeral Recognition. 618-629 Eugene Joseph, Theodosios Pavlidis: Bar Code Waveform Recognition Using Peak Locations. 630-640 Correspondence Rolf Adams, Leanne Bischof: Seeded Region Growing. 641-647

Peter Veelaert: Digital Planarity of Rectangular Surface Segments. 647-652 Vincent Granville, Mirko Krivánek, Jean-Paul Rasson: Simulated Annealing: A Proof of Convergence. 652-656 Peter F. M. Nacken: Openings Can Introduce Zero Crossings in Boundary Curvature. 656-658 Mohamad T. Musavi, Khue Hiang Chan, Donald M. Hummels, K. Kalantri: On the Generalization Ability of Neural Network Classifiers. 659-663 I. S. I. Abuhaiba, Sabri A. Mahmoud, Roger J. Green: Recognition of Handwritten Cursive Arabic Characters. 664-672 Volume 16, Number 7, July 1994

Papers Ming-Haw Yaou, Wen-Thong Chang: Fast Surface Interpolation using Multiresolution Wavelet Transform. 673-688 Jianqing Liu, Yee-Hong Yang: Multiresolution Color Image Segmentation. 689-700 Alexander Reinefeld, T. Anthony Marsland: Enhanced Iterative-Deepening Search. 701-710 Sanjeev R. Kulkarni, Sanjoy K. Mitter, T. J. Richardson, John N. Tsitsiklis: Local Versus Nonlocal Computation of Length of Digitized Curves. 711-718 Correspondence Tsu-Wang Chen, Wei-Chung Lin: A Neural Network Approach to CSG-Based 3-D Object Recognition. 719-726 Piet W. Verbeek, Lucas J. van Vliet: On the Location Error of Curved Edges in Low-Pass Filtered 2-D and 3-D Images. 726-733 Isaac Weiss: High-Order Differentiation Filters that Work. 734-739 David W. Paglieroni, Gary E. Ford, Eric M. Tsujimoto: The Position-Orientation Masking Approach to Parametric Search for Template Matching. 740-747 Cornelia Fermüller, Walter G. Kropatsch: A Syntactic Approach to Scale-Space-Based Corner Description. 748-751 Mark Chao Kuen Yang, Jong-Sen Lee: Object Identification From Multiple Images Based on Point Matching Under a General Transformation. 751-756 Kalavai J. Raghunath, Vladimir Cherkassky: Noise Performance of Linear Associative Memories. 757-765 Nageswara S. V. Rao, E. M. Oblow, Charles W. Glover: Learning Separations by Boolean Combinations of Half-Spaces. 765-768 Volume 16, Number 8, August 1994

Papers David Sinclair, Andrew Blake: Isoperimetric Normalization of Planar Curves. 769-777 Amnon Shashua: Projective Structure from Uncalibrated Images: Structure From Motion and Recognition. 778-790 Correspondence M. Tichem, M. S. Cohen: Sub/spl mu/m Registration of Fiducial Marks Using Machine Vision. 791-794 Ari D. Gross: Toward Object-Based Heuristics. 794-802

T. D. Alter: 3-D Pose from 3 Points Using Weak-Perspective. 802-808 Arie Pikaz, Its'hak Dinstein: Using Simple Decomposition for Smoothing and Feature Point Detection of Noisy Digital Curves. 808-813 Patrick J. Flynn: 3-D Object Recognition with Symmetric Models: Symmetry Extraction and Encoding. 814-818 Xinhua Zhuang, Yan Huang: Robust 3-D-3-D Pose Estimation. 818-824 Shree K. Nayar, Yasuo Nakagawa: Shape from Focus. 824-831 Levent Onural, M. Bilge Alp, Mehmet Izzet Gürelli: Gibbs Random Field Model Based Weight Selection for the 2-D Adaptive Weighted Median Filter. 831-837 Hossam Osman, Moustafa M. Fahmy: On the Discriminatory Power of Adaptive Feed-Forward Layered Networks. 837-842 Shyh-shiaw Kuo, Oscar E. Agazzi: Keyword Spotting in Poorly Printed Documents using Pseudo 2-D Hidden Markov Models. 842-848 Chan Pyng Lai, Rangachar Kasturi: Detection of Dimension Sets in Engineering Drawings. 848-855 Yael Man, Isak Gath: Detection and Separation of Ring-Shaped Clusters Using Fuzzy Clustering. 855-861 Comments P. Sarat Chandran: Comments on "Comparative Analysis of Backpropagation and the Extended Kalman Filter for Training Multilayer Perceptrons". 862-863 Volume 16, Number 9, September 1994

Introduction to the Special Section on Learning in Computer Vision Bir Bhanu, Tomaso Poggio: Introduction to the Special Section on Learning in Computer Vision. 865 Papers Michael S. Lew, Thomas S. Huang, Kam Wong: Learning and Feature Selection in Stereo Matching. 869-881 Correspondence Kyugon Cho, Stanley M. Dunn: Learning Shape Classes. 882-888 Bruce A. Draper, Carla E. Brodley, Paul E. Utgoff: Goal-Directed Classification Using Linear Machine Decision Trees. 888-893 Hayit Greenspan, Rodney M. Goodman, Rama Chellappa, Charles H. Anderson: Learning Texture Discrimination Rules in a Multiresolution System. 894-901 Gerhard Roth, Martin D. Levine: Geometric Primitive Extraction Using a Genetic Algorithm. 901-905 A. J. Katz, P. R. Thrift: Generating Image Filters for Target Recognition by Genetic Learning. 906-910 Antti Ylä-Jääski, Nahum Kiryati: Adaptive Termination of Voting in the Probabilistic Circular Hough Transform. 911-915 Stephen J. Smith, Mario O. Bourgoin, Karl Sims, Harry Voorhees: Handwritten Character Classification Using Nearest Neighbor in Large Databases. 915-919 Papers Takeo Kanade, Masatoshi Okutomi: A Stereo Matching Algorithm with an Adaptive Window: Theory and Experiment. 920-932 Marcello Pelillo, Mario Refice:

Learning Compatibility Coefficients for Relaxation Labeling Processes. 933-945 Correspondence Chiao-Fe Shu, Ramesh Jain: Vector Field Analysis for Oriented Patterns. 946-950 Byeungwoo Jeon, David A. Landgrebe: Fast Parzen Density Estimation Using Clustering-Based Branch and Bound. 950-954 Gerardo Beni, Xiaomin Liu: A Least Biased Fuzzy Clustering Method. 954-960 Volume 16, Number 10, October 1994

Papers Yuyan Wu, S. Sitharama Iyengar, Ramesh Jain, Santanu Bose: A New Generalized Computational Framework for Finding Object Orientation Using Perspective Trihedral Angle Constraint. 961-975 Geir Storvik: A Bayesian Approach to Dynamic Contours Through Stochastic Sampling and Simulated Annealing. 976-986 Kim L. Boyer, Muhammad J. Mirza, Gopa Ganguly: The Robust Sequential Estimator: A General Approach and its Application to Surface Organization in Range Data. 987-1001 Haruo Takeda, Claudio Facchinetti, Jean-Claude Latombe: Planning the Motions of a Mobile Robot in a Sensory Uncertainty Field. 1002-1017 Anna Corazza, Renato de Mori, Roberto Gretter, Giorgio Satta: Optimal Probabilistic Evaluation Functions for Search Controlled by Stochastic Context-Free Grammars. 1018-1027 Correspondence Punam K. Saha, B. B. Chaudhuri: Detection of 3-D Simple Points for Topology Preserving Transformations with Application to Thinning. 1028-1032 John Canning: A Minimum Description Length Model for Recognizing Objects with Variable Appearances (The VAPOR model). 1032-1036 Richard I. Hartley: Projective Reconstruction and Invariants from Multiple Images. 1036-1041 Xiaoping Hu, Narendra Ahuja: Matching Point Features with Ordered Geometric, Rigidity, and Disparity Constraints. 1041-1049 Edward Cohen, Jonathan J. Hull, Sargur N. Srihari: Control Structure for Interpreting Handwritten Addresses. 1049-1055 Volume 16, Number 11, November 1994

Papers Hamid K. Aghajan, Thomas Kailath: SLIDE: Subspace-Based Line Detection. 1057-1073 H. Isil Bozma, James S. Duncan: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Integration of Modules. 1074-1086 Sanjeev N. Trika, Rangasami L. Kashyap: Geometric Reasoning for Extraction of Manufacturing Features in Iso-Oriented Polyhedrons. 1087-1100 Rein van den Boomgaard, Arnold W. M. Smeulders: The Morphological Structure of Images: The Differential Equations of Morphological Scale-Space. 1101-1113 Correspondence Jens Berkmann, Terry Caelli: Computation of Surface Geometry and Segmentation Using Covariance Techniques. 1114-1116 S. Kapoor, P. Y. Mundkur, Uday B. Desai: Depth and Image Recovery Using a MRF Model. 1117-1122 Rafael Molina: On the Hierarchical Bayesian Approach to Image Restoration: Applications to Astronomical Images. 1122-1128

Dane Kottke, Ying Sun: Motion Estimation Via Cluster Matching. 1128-1132 Atul K. Chhabra, Timothy A. Grogan: On Poisson Solvers and Semi-Direct Methods for Computing Area Based Optical Flow. 1133-1138 Martin Bichsel: Segmenting Simply Connected Moving Objects in a Static Scene. 1138-1142 Daniel Keren: Using Symbolic Computation to Find Algebraic Invariants. 1143-1149 Volume 16, Number 12, December 1994

Editorial Anil K. Jain: Editorial. 1153 Papers Qin-sheng Chen, Michel Defrise, Frank Deconinck: Symmetric Phase-Only Matched Filtering of Fourier-Mellin Transforms for Image Registration and Recognition. 1156-1168 K. Raghunath Rao, Jezekiel Ben-Arie: Optimal Edge Detection using Expansion Matching and Restoration. 1169-1182 Steve Sullivan, Lorraine Sandford, Jean Ponce: Using Geometric Distance Fits for 3-D Object Modeling and Recognition. 1183-1196 Toshio Uchiyama, Michael A. Arbib: Color Image Segmentation using Competitive Learning. 1197-1206 Correspondence Jack Koplowitz, Vito Greco: On the Edge Location Error for Local Maximum and Zero-Crossing Edge Detectors. 1207-1212 Malek Adjouadi, Frank M. Candocia: A Stereo Matching Paradigm Based on the Walsh Transformation. 1212-1218 Hiroshi Murase, Shree K. Nayar: Illumination Planning for Object Recognition Using Parametric Eigenspaces. 1219-1227 Eveline J. Bellegarda, Jerome R. Bellegarda, David Nahamoo, Krishna Nathan: A Fast Statistical Mixture Algorithm for On-Line Handwriting Recognition. 1227-1233 Eiichi Tanaka: A Metric Between Unrooted and Unordered Trees and its Bottom-Up Computing Method. 1233-1238 Volume 17, Number 1, January 1995

Editorial. 1 Hochong Park, Roland T. Chin: Decomposition of Arbitrarily Shaped Morphological Structuring Elements. 2-15 Ferdinand van der Heijden: Edge and Line Feature Extraction Based on Covariance Models. 16-33 Long Quan: Invariants of Six Points and Projective Reconstruction From Three Uncalibrated Images. 34-46 David R. Helman, Joseph JáJá: Efficient Image Processing Algorithms on the Scan Line Array Processor. 47-56 Correspondence W. Sohn, Nasser D. Kehtarnavaz: Analysis Of Camera Movement Errors In Vision-Based Vehicle Tracking. 57-61 David J. Fleet, Keith Langley: Recursive Filters for Optical Flow. 61-67 Guillermo Sapiro, Allen Tannenbaum:

Area and Length Preserving Geometric Invariant Scale-Spaces. 67-72 B. B. Chaudhuri, Nirupam Sarkar: Texture Segmentation Using Fractal Dimension. 72-77 Kalle Åström: Fundamental Limitations on Projective Invariants of Planar Curves. 77-81 Peter J. Verveer, Robert P. W. Duin: An Evaluation of Intrinsic Dimensionality Estimators. 81-86 Junichi Kanai, Stephen V. Rice, Thomas A. Nartker, George Nagy: Automated Evaluation of OCR Zoning. 86-90 Yea S. Huang, Ching Y. Suen: A Method of Combining Multiple Experts for the Recognition of Unconstrained Handwritten Numerals. 90-94 Volume 17, Number 2, February 1995

Ju-wook Jang, Heonchul Park, Viktor K. Prasanna: A Fast Algorithm for Computing a Histogram on Reconfigurable Mesh. 97-106 Hermann Ney: On the Probabilistic Interpretation of Neural Network Classifiers and Discriminative Training Criteria. 107-119 Fatih Ulupinar, Ramakant Nevatia: Shape from Contour: Straight Homogeneous Generalized Cylinders and Constant Cross Section Generalized Cylinders. 120-135 John R. Kender, Rick Kjeldsen: On Seeing Spaghetti: Self-Adjusting Piecewise Toroidal Recognition of Flexible Extruded Objects. 136-157 Ravi Malladi, James A. Sethian, Baba C. Vemuri: Shape Modeling with Front Propagation: A Level Set Approach. 158-175 Correspondence Emanuele Trucco, Robert B. Fisher: Experiments in Curvature-Based Segmentation of Range Data. 177-182 Anil Kumar, Yaakov Bar-Shalom, Eliezer Oron: Precision Tracking Based on Segmentation with Optimal Layering for Imaging Sensors. 182-188 Aldo Laurentini: How Far 3D Shapes Can Be Understood from 2D Silhouettes. 188-195 Yacov Hel-Or, Michael Werman: Pose Estimation by Fusing Noisy Data of Different Dimensions. 195-201 Hannu Kauppinen, Tapio Seppänen, Matti Pietikäinen: An Experimental Comparison of Autoregressive and Fourier-Based Descriptors in 2D Shape Classification. 201-207 Michael Werman, Z. Geyzel: Fitting a Second Degree Curve in the Presence of Error. 207-211 Steven M. LaValle, Seth Hutchinson: A Bayesian Segmentation Methodology for Parametric Image Models. 211-217 Hadar I. Avi-Itzhak, Thanh A. Diep, Harry Garland: High Accuracy Optical Character Recognition Using Neural Networks with Centroid Dithering. 218-224 Correction to Previous Paper Correction to 'Analysis Of Camera Movement Errors In Vision-Based Vehicle Tracking'. 224 Volume 17, Number 3, March 1995

Associate Editors Join TPAMI. 225 Ehud Rivlin, Isaac Weiss: Local Invariants For Recognition. 226-238 Kaleem Siddiqi, Benjamin B. Kimia: Parts of Visual Form: Computational Aspects. 239-251

Mark D. Wheeler, Katsushi Ikeuchi: Sensor Modeling, Probabilistic Hypothesis Generation, and Robust Localization for Object Recognition. 252-265 Muralidhara Subbarao, Tae Choi: Accurate Recovery of Three-Dimensional Shape from Image Focus. 266-274 Chi-hsin Wu, Peter C. Doerschuk: Cluster Expansions for the Deterministic Computation of Bayesian Estimators Based on Markov Random Fields. 275-293 Correspondence Davi Geiger, Alok Gupta, Luiz A. Costa, John Vlontzos: Dynamic Programming for Detecting, Tracking, and Matching Deformable Contours. 294-302 Robert J. Holt, Arun N. Netravali: Uniqueness of Solutions to Three Perspective Views of Four Points. 303-307 Xiaobu Yuan: A Mechanism of Automatic 3D Object Modeling. 307-311 Øivind Due Trier, Torfinn Taxt: Evaluation of Binarization Methods for Document Images. 312-315 Hirobumi Nishida: Model-Based Shape Matching with Structural Feature Grouping. 315-320 Correction to a Previous Paper Correction to 'Precision Tracking Based on Segmentation With Optimal Layering for Imaging Sensors. 320 Volume 17, Number 4, April 1995

Kuntal Sengupta, Kim L. Boyer: Organizing Large Structural Modelbases. 321-332 Boaz J. Super, Alan C. Bovik: Shape from Texture Using Local Spectral Moments. 333-343 Marc Soucy, Denis Laurendeau: A General Surface Approach to the Integration of a Set of Range Views. 344-358 Maylor K. H. Leung, Yee-Hong Yang: First Sight: A Human Body Outline Labeling System. 359-377 Stéphane Lavallée, Richard Szeliski: Recovering the Position and Orientation of Free-Form Objects from Image Contours Using 3D Distance Maps. 378-390 Chi-hsin Wu, Peter C. Doerschuk: Tree Approximations to Markov Random Fields. 391-402 David Cubanski, David Cyganski: Multivariate Classification through Adaptive Delaunay-Based C0 Spline Approximation. 403-417 Hadar I. Avi-Itzhak, Jan A. Van Mieghem, Leonardo Rub: Multiple Subclass Pattern Recognition: A Maximin Correlation Approach. 418-431 Toyohide Watanabe, Qin Luo, Noboru Sugie: Layout Recognition of Multi-Kinds of Table-Form Documents. 432-445 Volume 17, Number 5, May 1995

Roland Kuhn, Renato de Mori: The Application of Semantic Classification Trees to Natural Language Understanding. 449-460 Karen L. Oehler, Robert M. Gray: Combining Image Compression and Classification Using Vector Quantization. 461-473 Trevor Darrell, Alex Pentland: Cooperative Robust Estimation Using Layers of Support. 474-487 Pietro Perona: Deformable Kernels for Early Vision. 488-499

Frank Tong, Ze-Nian Li: Reciprocal-Wedge Transform for Space-Variant Sensing. 500-511 Correspondence Daphna Weinshall, Carlo Tomasi: Linear and Incremental Acquisition of Invariant Shape Models From Image Sequences. 512-517 Clark F. Olson: Probabilistic Indexing for Object Recognition. 518-522 Brian V. Funt, Graham D. Finlayson: Color Constant Color Indexing. 522-529 Heinz Breu, Joseph Gil, David G. Kirkpatrick, Michael Werman: Linear Time Euclidean Distance Algorithms. 529-533 Mongi A. Abidi, T. Chandra: A New Efficient and Direct Solution for Pose Estimation Using Quadrangular Targets: Algorithm and Evaluation. 534-538 Farzin Mokhtarian: Silhouette-Based Isolated Object Recognition through Curvature Scale Space. 539-544 Correction to Previous Papers Yacov Hel-Or, Michael Werman: Corrections to 'Pose Estimation by Fusing Noisy Data of Different Dimensions'. 544 Kaleem Siddiqi, Benjamin B. Kimia: Corrections to 'Parts of Visual Form: Computational Aspects'. 544 Volume 17, Number 6, June 1995

Stan Sclaroff, Alex Pentland: Modal Matching for Correspondence and Recognition. 545-561 Ali Azarbayejani, Alex Pentland: Recursive Estimation of Motion, Structure, and Focal Length. 562-575 Stan Z. Li: On Discontinuity-Adaptive Smoothness Priors in Computer Vision. 576-586 Marcel Worring, Arnold W. M. Smeulders: Digitized Circular Arcs: Characterization and Parameter Estimation. 587-598 Steven Salzberg, Arthur L. Delcher, David G. Heath, Simon Kasif: Best-Case Results for Nearest-Neighbor Learning. 599-608 Toru Ishida, Richard E. Korf: Moving-Target Search: A Real-Time Search for Changing Goals. 609-619 Correspondence Wesley E. Snyder, Youn-Sik Han, Griff L. Bilbro, Ross T. Whitaker, Stephen M. Pizer: Image Relaxation: Restoration and Feature Extraction. 620-624 June-Ho Yi, David M. Chelberg: Discontinuity-Preserving and Viewpoint Invariant Reconstruction of Visible Surfaces Using a First Order Regularization. 624-629 Xiangdong Liu, Roger W. Ehrich: Subpixel Edge Location in Binary Images Using Dithering. 629-634 Ron Kimmel, Arnon Amir, Alfred M. Bruckstein: Finding Shortest Paths on Surfaces Using Level Sets Propagation. 635-640 Correction to Previous Paper Øivind Due Trier, Torfinn Taxt: Correction to 'Evaluation of Binarization Methods for Document Images'. 640 Volume 17, Number 7, July 1995

John Y. Ching, Andrew K. C. Wong, Keith C. C. Chan: Class-Dependent Discretization for Inductive Learning from Continuous and Mixed-Mode Data. 641-651

Steve A. Chien, Jonathan Gratch, Michael C. Burl: On the Efficient Allocation of Resources for Hypothesis Evaluation: A Statistical Approach. 652-665 Michael Lindenbaum: Bounds on Shape Recognition Performance. 666-680 Martial Hebert, Katsushi Ikeuchi, Herve Delingette: A Spherical Representation for Recognition of Free-Form Surfaces. 681-690 Eric J. Pauwels, Luc J. Van Gool, Peter Fiddelaers, Theo Moons: An Extended Class of Scale-Invariant and Recursive Scale Space Filters. 691-701 Marc Parizeau, Réjean Plamondon: A Fuzzy-Syntactic Approach to Allograph Modeling for Cursive Script Recognition. 702-712 Correspondence James V. Stone, Stephen D. Isard: Adaptive Scale Filtering: A General Method for Obtaining Shape From Texture. 713-718 Umesh R. Dhond, J. K. Aggarwal: Stereo Matching in the Presence of Narrow Occluding Objects Using Dynamic Disparity Search. 719-724 Seong-Whan Lee, Young-Joon Kim: Direct Extraction of Topographic Features for Gray Scale Character Recognition. 724-729 James L. Hafner, Harpreet S. Sawhney, William Equitz, Myron Flickner, Wayne Niblack: Efficient Color Histogram Indexing for Quadratic Form Distance Functions. 729-736 Volume 17, Number 8, August 1995

Pengfei Zhu, Paul M. Chirlian: On Critical Point Detection of Digital Shapes. 737-748 William J. Christmas, Josef Kittler, Maria Petrou: Structural Matching in Computer Vision Using Probabilistic Relaxation. 749-764 Swarup Reddi, George Loizou: Analysis of Camera Behavior During Tracking. 765-778 Amnon Shashua: Algebraic Functions For Recognition. 779-789 Yizong Cheng: Mean Shift, Mode Seeking, and Clustering. 790-799 Correspondence B. A. Parvin, C. Peng, W. Johnston, F. M. Maestre: Tracking of Tubular Molecules for Scientific Applications. 800-805 François Ennesser, Gérard G. Medioni: Finding Waldo, or Focus of Attention Using Local Color Information. 805-809 Michael Werman, Daphna Weinshall: Similarity and Affine Invariant Distances Between 2D Point Sets. 810-814 Stephen M. Smith, Michael Brady: ASSET-2: Real-Time Motion Segmentation and Shape Tracking. 814-820 Gérard Blais, Martin D. Levine: Registering Multiview Range Data to Create 3D Computer Objects. 820-824 Raghu Sastry, N. Ranganathan, Klinton Remedios: CASM: A VLSI Chip for Approximate String Matching. 824-830 Volume 17, Number 9, September 1995

Sharath Pankanti, Anil K. Jain: Integrating Vision Modules: Stereo, Shading, Grouping, and Line Labeling. 831-842 Qing X. Wu:

A Correlation-Relaxation-Labeling Framework for Computing Optical Flow - Template Matching from a New Perspective. 843-853 Heung-Yeung Shum, Katsushi Ikeuchi, Raj Reddy: Principal Component Analysis with Missing Data and Its Application to Polyhedral Object Modeling. 854-867 Enrico Grosso, Massimo Tistarelli: Active/Dynamic Stereo Vision. 868-879 Hemant Tagare, Frans Vos, Conrade C. Jaffe, James S. Duncan: Arrangement: A Spatial Relation Between Parts for Evaluating Similarity of Tomographic Section. 880-893 Correspondence Raghu Sastry, N. Ranganathan, Ramesh Jain: VLSI Architectures for High-Speed Range Estimation. 894-899 Enrique Vidal, Andrés Marzal, Pablo Aibar: Fast Computation of Normalized Edit Distances. 899-902 Jairo Rocha, Theodosios Pavlidis: Character Recognition Without Segmentation. 903-909 Thomas E. Portegys: A Search Technique for Pattern Recognition Using Relative Distances. 910-912 Louisa Lam, Ching Y. Suen: An Evaluation of Parallel Thinning Algorithms for Character Recognition. 914-919 Adam Hoover, Dmitry B. Goldgof, Kevin W. Bowyer: Extracting a Valid Boundary Representation from a Segmented Range Image. 920-924 Volume 17, Number 10, October 1995

Charles V. Stewart: MINPRAN: A New Robust Estimator for Computer Vision. 925-938 Dileep Kumar Panjwani, Glenn Healey: Markov Random Field Models for Unsupervised Segmentation of Textured Color Images. 939-954 Roberto Brunelli, Daniele Falavigna: Person Identification Using Multiple Cues. 955-966 Art Matheny, Dmitry B. Goldgof: The Use of Three- and Four-Dimensional Surface Harmonics for Rigid and Nonrigid Shape Recovery and Representation. 967-981 Lee A. Iverson, Steven W. Zucker: Logical/Linear Operators for Image Curves. 982-996 Leiguang Gong, Casimir A. Kulikowski: Composition of Image Analysis Processes Through Object-Centered Hierarchical Planning. 997-1009 Correspondence Bennett R. Povlow, Stanley M. Dunn: Texture Classification Using Noncausal Hidden Markov Models. 1010-1014 Xiaoping Li, Tongwen Chen: Optimal L1L1 Approximation of the Gaussian Kernel With Application to Scale-Space Construction. 1015-1019 Volume 17, Number 11, November 1995

Camillo J. Taylor, David J. Kriegman: Structure and Motion from Line Segments in Multiple Images. 1021-1032 Haim Schweitzer: Occam Algorithms for Computing Visual Motion. 1033-1042 Lance M. Kaplan, C. C. Jay Kuo: Texture Roughness Analysis and Synthesis via Extended Self-Similar (ESS) Model. 1043-1056 Dov Dori: Vector-Based Arc Segmentation in the Machine Drawing Understanding System Environment. 1057-1068

Ziad S. Haddad, Santiago R. Simanca: Filtering Image Records Using Wavelets and the Zakai Equation. 1069-1078 Correspondence Senthil Kumar, Song Han, Dmitry B. Goldgof, Kevin W. Bowyer: On Recovering Hyperquadrics from Range Data. 1079-1083 Kok F. Lai, Roland T. Chin: Deformable Contours: Modeling and Extraction. 1084-1090 G. F. McLean, D. Kotturi: Vanishing Point Detection by Line Clustering. 1090-1095 Amol Bokil, Alireza Khotanzad: A Constraint Learning Feedback Dynamic Model for Stereopsis. 1095-1100 Eric J. Pauwels, Peter Fiddelaers, Luc J. Van Gool: Enhancement of Planar Shape Through Optimization of Functionals for Curves. 1101-1105 Åke Wallin, Olaf Kübler: Complete Sets of Complex Zernike Moment Invariants and the Role of the Pseudoinvariants. 1106-1110 Eugenia Montiel, Alberto S. Aguado, María A. Garza-Jinich, J. Alarcón: Image Manipulation Using M-filters in a Pyramidal Computer Model. 1110-1115 Errata Enrico Grosso, Massimo Tistarelli: Active/Dynamic Stereo Vision. 1117-1128 Correction to 'Markov Random Field Models for Unsupervised Segmentation of Textured Color Images'. 1128 Volume 17, Number 12, December 1995

Zhengyou Zhang: Estimating Motion and Structure from Correspondences of Line Segments between Two Perspective Images. 1129-1139 Paul L. Rosin, Geoff A. W. West: Nonparametric Segmentation of Curves into Various Representations. 1140-1153 Hagit Zabrodsky, Shmuel Peleg, David Avnir: Symmetry as a Continuous Feature. 1154-1166 Xiaoguang Jia, Mark S. Nixon: Extending the Feature Vector for Automatic Face Recognition. 1167-1176 Yan Huang, Kannappan Palaniappan, Xinhua Zhuang, Joseph E. Cavanaugh: Optic Flow Field Segmentation and Motion Estimation Using a Robust Genetic Partitioning Algorithm. 1177-1190 Øivind Due Trier, Anil K. Jain: Goal-Directed Evaluation of Binarization Methods. 1191-1201 Hermann Ney, Ute Essen, Reinhard Kneser: On the Estimation of 'Small' Probabilities by Leaving-One-Out. 1202-1212 Correspondence Subhodev Das, Narendra Ahuja: Performance Analysis of Stereo, Vergence, and Focus as Depth Cues for Active Vision. 1213-1219 Daniel Goryn, Søren Hein: On the Estimation of Rigid Body Rotation from Noisy Data. 1219-1220 Thomas S. Huang, Alfred M. Bruckstein, Robert J. Holt, Arun N. Netravali: Uniqueness of 3D Pose Under Weak Perspective: A Geometrical Proof. 1220-1221 Zhengyou Zhang: Motion and Structure of Four Points from One Motion of a Stereo Rig with Unknown Extrinsic Parameters. 1222-1227 Ching-Yao Kao, Soundar R. T. Kumara, Rangachar Kasturi: Extraction of 3D Object Features from CAD Boundary Representation Using the Super Relation Graph Method. 1228-1233 P. V. S. Rao:

A Knowledge-Based Approach for Script Recognition without Training. 1233-1239 Srinivas Gazula, Mansur R. Kabuka: Design of Supervised Classifiers Using Boolean Neural Networks. 1239-1246 Volume 18, Number 1, January 1996

Donald Geman, Bruno Jedynak: An Active Testing Model for Tracking Roads in Satellite Images. 1-14 Philip F. McLauchlan, David W. Murray: Active Camera Calibration for a Head-Eye Platform Using the Variable State-Dimension Filter. 15-22 David W. Jacobs: Robust and Efficient Detection of Salient Convex Groups. 23-37 Paul T. Jackway, Mohamed Deriche: Scale-Space Properties of the Multiscale Morphological Dilation-Erosion. 38-51 Short Papers Jin-Long Chen, George C. Stockman: Determining Pose of 3D Objects With Curved Surfaces. 52-57 Aldo Laurentini: Comments on "Efficiently Computing and Representing Aspect Graphs of Polyhedral Objects". 57-58 Haisong Gu, Yoshiaki Shirai, Minoru Asada: MDL-Based Segmentation and Motion Modeling in a Long Image Sequence of Scene with Multiple Independently Moving Objects. 58-64 John Ostuni, Stanley M. Dunn: Motion from Three Weak Perspective Images Using Image Rotation. 64-69 Il Y. Kim, Hyun Seung Yang: An Integration Scheme for Image Segmentation and Labeling Based on Markov Random Field Model. 69-73 V. P. Kumar, Uday B. Desai: Image Interpretation Using Bayesian Networks. 74-77 Theo Moons, Luc J. Van Gool, Marc Proesmans, Eric J. Pauwels: Affine Reconstruction from Perspective Image Pairs with a Relative Object-Camera Translation in Between. 77-83 Silvano Di Zenzo, Luigi Cinque, Stefano Levialdi: Run-Based Algorithms for Binary Image Analysis and Processing. 83-89 Hadar I. Avi-Itzhak, Thanh A. Diep: Arbitrarily Tight Upper and Lower Bounds on the Bayesian Probability of Error. 89-91 Correction to "Texture Roughness Analysis and Synthesis via Extended Self-Similar (ESS) Model". 92 Volume 18, Number 2, February 1996

Yanhong Li, Daniel P. Lopresti, George Nagy, Andrew Tomkins: Validation of Image Defect Models for Optical Character Recognition. 99-108 Carlo Berzuini, Cristiana Larizza: A Unified Approach for Modeling Longitudinal and Failure Time Data, With Application in Medical Monitoring. 109-123 Brian C. Lovell, Andrew P. Bradley: The Multiscale Classifier. 124-137 Ingemar J. Cox, Sunita L. Hingorani: An Efficient Implementation of Reid's Multiple Hypothesis Tracking Algorithm and Its Evaluation for the Purpose of Visual Tracking. 138-150 Long Quan: Conic Reconstruction and Correspondence From Two Views. 151-160 Ari D. Gross, Terrance E. Boult: Recovery of SHGCs From a Single Intensity View. 161-180 Sugata Ghosal, Petr Vanek: A Fast Scalable Algorithm for Discontinuous Optical Flow Estimation. 181-194

Anil K. Jain, Kalle Karu: Learning Texture Discrimination Masks. 195-205 Short Papers David Slater, Glenn Healey: The Illumination-Invariant Recognition of 3D Objects Using Local Color Invariants. 206-210 Pietro Parodi, Giulia Piccioli: 3D Shape Reconstruction by Using Vanishing Points. 211-217 Jana Novovicová, Pavel Pudil, Josef Kittler: Divergence Based Feature Selection for Multimodal Class Densities. 218-223 Volume 18, Number 3, March 1996

Yali Amit, Augustine Kong: Graphical Templates for Model Registration. 225-236 Mourad Zerroug, Ramakant Nevatia: Three-Dimensional Descriptions Based on the Analysis of the Invariant and Quasi-Invariant Properties of Some Curved-Axis Generalized Cylinders. 237-253 Simon X. Liao, Miroslaw Pawlak: On Image Analysis by Moments. 254-266 Anil K. Jain, Yu Zhong, Sridhar Lakshmanan: Object Matching Using Deformable Templates. 267-278 Konstantinos A. Tarabanis, Roger Y. Tsai, Anil Kaul: Computing Occlusion-Free Viewpoints. 279-292 Marie-Pierre Dubuisson-Jolly, Sridhar Lakshmanan, Anil K. Jain: Vehicle Segmentation and Classification Using Deformable Templates. 293-308 Vo V. Anh, Ji Yu Shi, Hung-Tat Tsui: Scaling Theorems for Zero Crossings of Bandlimited Signals. 309-320 Short Papers Gabriel Taubin, Rémi Ronfard: Implicit Simplicial Models for Adaptive Curve Reconstruction. 321-325 Sateesha G. Nadabar, Anil K. Jain: Parameter Estimation in Markov Random Field Contextual Models Using Geometric Models of Objects. 326-329 David W. Jacobs: The Space Requirements of Indexing Under Perspective Projections. 330-333 Mark D. Wheeler, Katsushi Ikeuchi: Iterative Smoothed Residuals: A Low-Pass Filter for Smoothing With Controlled Shrinkage. 334-337 Philip W. Smith, N. Nandhakumar: An Improved Power Cepstrum Based Stereo Correspondence Method for Textured Scenes. 338-348 Chieh-Min Fan, Nader M. Namazi, Pablo B. Penafiel: A New Image Motion Estimation Algorithm Based on the EM Technique. 348-352 Volume 18, Number 4, April 1996

J. B. Antoine Maintz, Petra A. van den Elsen, Max A. Viergever: Evaluation of Ridge Seeking Operators for Multimodality Medical Image Matching. 353-365 Irene Rothe, Herbert Süße, Klaus Voss: The Method of Normalization to Determine Invariants. 366-376 Steven Gold, Anand Rangarajan: A Graduated Assignment Algorithm for Graph Matching. 377-388 Robert R. Bailey, Mandyam D. Srinath: Orthogonal Moment Features for Use With Parametric and Non-Parametric Classifiers. 389-399

Hirobumi Nishida: Automatic Construction of Structural Models Incorporating Discontinuous Transformations. 400-411 Wei-Ge Chen, N. Nandhakumar, Worthy N. Martin: Image Motion Estimation From Motion Smear-A New Computational Model. 412-425 Short Papers Nicolas Merlet, Josiane Zerubia: New Prospects in Line Detection by Dynamic Programming. 426-431 Weian Deng, S. Sitharama Iyengar: A New Probabilistic Relaxation Scheme and Its Application to Edge Detection. 432-437 Sridhar Lakshmanan, David Grimmer: A Deformable Template Approach to Detecting Straight Edges in Radar Images. 438-443 Douglas DeCarlo, Dimitris N. Metaxas: Blended Deformable Models. 443-448 Fredric Solomon, Katsushi Ikeuchi: Extracting the Shape and Roughness of Specular Lobe Objects Using Four Light Photometric Stereo. 449-454 Jörg Kramer: Compact Integrated Motion Sensor With Three-Pixel Interaction. 455-460 Christophe Parisse: Global Word Shape Processing in Off-Line Recognition of Handwriting. 460-464 Ronen Basri, Daphna Weinshall: Distance Metric Between 3D Models and 2D Images for Recognition and Classification. 465-470 Correction to "Recovery of SHGCs From a Single Intensity View". 471-479 Volume 18, Number 5, May 1996

Todd Law, Hidenori Itoh, Hirohisa Seki: Image Filtering, Edge Detection, and Edge Tracing Using Fuzzy Reasoning. 481-491 François Chaumette, Samia Boukir, Patrick Bouthemy, Didier Juvin: Structure From Controlled Motion. 492-504 Jayashree Subrahmonia, David B. Cooper, Daniel Keren: Practical Reliable Bayesian Recognition of 2D and 3D Objects Using Implicit Polynomials and Algebraic Invariants. 505-519 J. Andrew Bangham, Paul D. Ling, Richard Harvey: Scale-Space From Nonlinear Filters. 520-528 J. Andrew Bangham, Pierre Chardaire, C. Jeremy Pye, Paul D. Ling: Multiscale Nonlinear Decomposition: The Sieve Decomposition Theorem. 529-539 Short Papers Robert Bergevin, Marc Soucy, Hervé Gagnon, Denis Laurendeau: Towards a General Multi-View Registration Technique. 540-547 Magdi A. Mohamed, Paul D. Gader: Handwritten Word Recognition Using Segmentation-Free Hidden Markov Modeling and Segmentation-Based Dynamic Programming Techniques. 548-554 J. Alison Noble: The Effect of Morphological Filters on Texture Boundary Localization. 554-561 Pierre Soille, Edmond J. Breen, Ronald Jones: Recursive Implementation of Erosions and Dilations Along Discrete Lines at Arbitrary Angles. 562-567 Gregory A. Babich, Octavia I. Camps: Weighted Parzen Windows for Pattern Classification. 567-570 Yoshihiko Hamamoto, Shunji Uchimura, Shingo Tomita: On the Behavior of Artificial Neural Network Classifiers in High-Dimensional Spaces. 571-574 Correction to "Dynamic Programming for Detecting, Tracking, and Matching Deformable Contours". 575

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Zoran Duric, Jeffrey A. Fayman, Ehud Rivlin: Function From Motion. 579-591 Michael Revow, Christopher K. I. Williams, Geoffrey E. Hinton: Using Generative Models for Handwritten Digit Recognition. 592-606 Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani: Discriminant Adaptive Nearest Neighbor Classification. 607-616 Toru Ishida: Real-Time Bidirectional Search: Coordinated Problem Solving in Uncertain Situations. 617-628 Short Papers Daniel K. Bogen, David A. Rahdert: A Strain Energy Approach to Regularization in Displacement Field Fits of Elastically Deforming Bodies. 629-635 Yaser Yacoob, Larry S. Davis: Recognizing Human Facial Expressions From Long Image Sequences Using Optical Flow. 636-642 Luan Ling Lee, Toby Berger, Erez Aviczer: Reliable On-Line Human Signature Verification Systems. 643-647 Seong-Whan Lee: Off-Line Recognition of Totally Unconstrained Handwritten Numerals Using Multilayer Cluster Neural Network. 648-652 Michael D. Garris, Darrin L. Dimmick: Form Design for High Accuracy Optical Character Recognition. 653-656 Merrilee Hurn, Christopher Jennison: An Extension of Geman and Reynolds' Approach to Constrained Restoration and the Recovery of Discontinuities. 657-662 Pierre Zakarauskas, John M. Ozard: Complexity Analysis for Partitioning Nearest Neighbor Searching Algorithms. 663-668 B. John Oommen, K. Zhang: The Normalized String Editing Problem Revisited. 669-672 Volume 18, Number 7, July 1996

Adam Hoover, Gillian Jean-Baptiste, Xiaoyi Jiang, Patrick J. Flynn, Horst Bunke, Dmitry B. Goldgof, Kevin W. Bowyer, David W. Eggert, Andrew W. Fitzgibbon, Robert B. Fisher: An Experimental Comparison of Range Image Segmentation Algorithms. 673-689 Richard G. Casey, Eric Lecolinet: A Survey of Methods and Strategies in Character Segmentation. 690-706 Meir Barzohar, David B. Cooper: Automatic Finding of Main Roads in Aerial Images by Using Geometric-Stochastic Models and Estimation. 707-721 Fang Liu, Rosalind W. Picard: Periodicity, Directionality, and Randomness: Wold Features for Image Modeling and Retrieval. 722-733 Dz-Mou Jung, Mukkai S. Krishnamoorthy, George Nagy, Andrew Shapira: N-Tuple Features for OCR Revisited. 734-745 Short Papers Lawrence O'Gorman: Subpixel Precision of Straight-Edged Shapes for Registration and Measurement. 746-751 Javier Cabrera, Peter Meer: Unbiased Estimation of Ellipses by Bootstrapping. 752-756 Giovanni Seni, Rohini K. Srihari, Nasser M. Nasrabadi: Large Vocabulary Recognition of On-Line Handwritten Cursive Words. 757-762 Joseph P. Hoffbeck, David A. Landgrebe: Covariance Matrix Estimation and Classification With Limited Training Data. 763-767

Volume 18, Number 8, August 1996

Digital Libraries: Representation and Retrieval Rosalind W. Picard, Alex Pentland: Introduction to the Special Section on Digital Libraries: Representation and Retrieval. 769-770 Hsinchun Chen, Bruce R. Schatz, Tobun D. Ng, Joanne Martinez, Amy Kirchhoff, Chienting Lin: A Parallel Computing Approach to Creating Engineering Concept Spaces for Semantic Retrieval: The Illinois Digital Library Initiative Project. 771-782 Hanan Samet, Aya Soffer: MARCO: MAp Retrieval by COntent. 783-798 Nalini K. Ratha, Kalle Karu, Shaoyun Chen, Anil K. Jain: A Real-Time Matching System for Large Fingerprint Databases. 799-813 Harpreet S. Sawhney, Serge Ayer: Compact Representations of Videos Through Dominant and Multiple Motion Estimation. 814-830 Short Papers Daniel L. Swets, Juyang Weng: Using Discriminant Eigenfeatures for Image Retrieval. 831-836 B. S. Manjunath, Wei-Ying Ma: Texture Features for Browsing and Retrieval of Image Data. 837-842 Glenn Healey, Amit Jain: Retrieving Multispectral Satellite Images Using Physics-Based Invariant Representations. 842-848 Michael Shneier, Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb: Exploiting the JPEG Compression Scheme for Image Retrieval. 849-853 Regular Short Paper Steve A. Chien, Helen Mortensen: Automating Image Processing for Scientific Data Analysis of a Large Image Database. 854-859 Volume 18, Number 9, September 1996

Bjørn Olstad, Anders H. Torp: Encoding of a priori Information in Active Contour Models. 863-872 Amnon Shashua, Nassir Navab: Relative Affine Structure: Canonical Model for 3D From 2D Geometry and Applications. 873-883 Song Chun Zhu, Alan L. Yuille: Region Competition: Unifying Snakes, Region Growing, and Bayes/MDL for Multiband Image Segmentation. 884-900 Robert G. Cowell: On Compatible Priors for Bayesian Networks. 901-911 Pedro Larrañaga, Mikel Poza, Yosu Yurramendi, Roberto H. Murga, Cindy M. H. Kuijpers: Structure Learning of Bayesian Networks by Genetic Algorithms: A Performance Analysis of Control Parameters. 912-926 Short Papers A. Mark Earnshaw, Steven D. Blostein: The Performance of Camera Translation Direction Estimators From Optical Flow: Analysis, Comparison, and Theoretical Limits. 927-932 W. S. Ng, C. K. Lee: Comment on Using the Uniformity Measure for Performance Measure in Image Segmentation. 933-934 Gordon T. Wilfong, Frank Sinden, Laurence Ruedisueli: On-Line Recognition of Handwritten Symbols. 935-940 Cheng-Yuan Liou, Hsin-Chang Yang: Handprinted Character Recognition Based on Spatial Topology Distance Measurement. 941-945 Anthony C. Kam, Gary E. Kopec: Document Image Decoding by Heuristic Search. 945-950 Joseph M. Reinhardt, William E. Higgins: Comparison Between the Morphological Skeleton and Morphological Shape Decomposition. 951-957

Volume 18, Number 10, October 1996

Tai Sing Lee: Image Representation Using 2D Gabor Wavelets. 959-971 Michael J. Black, Allan D. Jepson: Estimating Optical Flow in Segmented Images Using Variable-Order Parametric Models With Local Deformations. 972-986 Paul Kube, Pietro Perona: Scale-Space Properties of Quadratic Feature Detectors. 987-999 Moshe Shpitalni, Hod Lipson: Identification of Faces in a 2D Line Drawing Projection of a Wireframe Object. 1000-1012 Diane J. Cook, Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz, Lawrence B. Holder: Decision-Theoretic Cooperative Sensor Planning. 1013-1023 Short Papers François Goudail, Eberhard Lange, Takashi Iwamoto, Kazuo Kyuma, Nobuyuki Otsu: Face Recognition System Using Local Autocorrelations and Multiscale Integration. 1024-1028 Philippe Burlina, Rama Chellappa: Analyzing Looming Motion Components From Their Spatiotemporal Spectral Signature. 1029-1033 Graham D. Finlayson: Color in Perspective. 1034-1038 Jianying Hu, Michael K. Brown, William Turin: HMM Based On-Line Handwriting Recognition. 1039-1045 Seong-Whan Lee, Dong-June Lee, Hee-Seon Park: A New Methodology for Gray-Scale Character Segmentation and Recognition. 1045-1050 Jan Strackee: The Slope of a Straight Line: A Phony Estimator. 1051 Michael Werman: Remarks on Strackee's Note. 1052 Volume 18, Number 11, November 1996

Yaorong Ge, J. Michael Fitzpatrick: On the Generation of Skeletons from Discrete Euclidean Distance Maps. 1055-1066 Chahab Nastar, Nicholas Ayache: Frequency-Based Nonrigid Motion Analysis: Application to Four Dimensional Medical Images. 1067-1079 Dario Maio, Davide Maltoni, Stefano Rizzi: Dynamic Clustering of Maps in Autonomous Agents. 1080-1091 Short Papers Zhiqian Wang, K. Raghunath Rao, Jezekiel Ben-Arie: Optimal Ramp Edge Detection Using Expansion Matching. 1092-1097 Stéphane Christy, Radu Horaud: Euclidean Shape and Motion from Multiple Perspective Views by Affine Iterations. 1098-1104 Mengxiang Li, Jean-Marc Lavest: Some Aspects of Zoom Lens Camera Calibration. 1105-1110 Georgy L. Gimel'farb: Texture Modeling by Multiple Pairwise Pixel Interactions. 1110-1114 Warren F. Gardner, Daryl T. Lawton: Interactive Model-Based Vehicle Tracking. 1115-1121 Kyeong-Ryeol Park, Chung-Nim Lee: Scale-Space Using Mathematical Morphology. 1121-1126 Bin Yu, Anil K. Jain:

A Generic System for Form Dropout. 1127-1134 Filippo Neri, Lorenza Saitta: Exploring the Power of Genetic Search in Learning Symbolic Classifiers. 1135-1141 Michael A. Zmuda, Louis A. Tamburino: Efficient Algorithms for the Soft Morphological Operators. 1142-1147 Volume 18, Number 12, December 1996

Associate Editors Join PAMI. 1149 Yasuyo Kita: Elastic-Model Driven Analysis of Several Views of a Deformable Cylindrical Object. 1150-1162 Laurent Najman, Michel Schmitt: Geodesic Saliency of Watershed Contours and Hierarchical Segmentation. 1163-1173 Daniel P. McReynolds, David G. Lowe: Rigidity Checking of 3D Point Correspondences Under Perspective Projection. 1174-1185 Shree K. Nayar, Masahiro Watanabe, Minori Noguchi: Real-Time Focus Range Sensor. 1186-1198 Richard Szeliski, Heung-Yeung Shum: Motion Estimation with Quadtree Splines. 1199-1210 Narendra Ahuja: A Transform for Multiscale Image Segmentation by Integrated Edge and Region Detection. 1211-1235 Short Papers Trevor Darrell, Irfan A. Essa, Alex Pentland: Task-Specific Gesture Analysis in Real-Time Using Interpolated Views. 1236-1242 Massimo Tistarelli: Multiple Constraints to Compute Optical Flow. 1243-1250 Jonathan J. Hull: Incorporating Language Syntax in Visual Text Recognition with a Statistical Model. 1251-1256 Paul D. Gader, Mohamed A. Khabou: Automatic Feature Generation for Handwritten Digit Recognition. 1256-1261 Seong-Whan Lee, Dong-June Lee, Hee-Seon Park: Correction to "A New Methodology for Gray-Scale Character Segmentation and Recognition". 1262 Volume 19, Number 1, January 1997 Thomas Hofmann, Joachim M. Buhmann: Pairwise Data Clustering by Deterministic Annealing. 1-14 Zhongfei Zhang, Richard S. Weiss, Allen R. Hanson: Obstacle Detection Based on Qualitative and Quantitative 3D Reconstruction. 15-26 Dario Maio, Davide Maltoni: Direct Gray-Scale Minutiae Detection In Fingerprints. 27-40 Jonathan D. Michel, Nagaraj Nandhakumar, Vincent J. Velten: Thermophysical Algebraic Invariants from Infrared Imagery for Object Recognition. 41-51 Short Papers Raashid Malik, Taeg Keun Whangbo: Angle Densities and Recognition of 3D Objects. 52-57 Hiroki Nogawa, Yoshikazu Nakajima, Yoshinobu Sato, Shinichi Tamura: Acquisition of Symbolic Description from Flow Fields: A New Approach Based on a Fluid Model. 58-63 Steve R. Gunn, Mark S. Nixon: A Robust Snake Implementation; A Dual Active Contour. 63-68 Douglas R. Heisterkamp, Prabir Bhattacharya:

Matching of 3D Polygonal Arcs. 68-73 Yoshihiko Hamamoto, Shunji Uchimura, Shingo Tomita: A Bootstrap Technique for Nearest Neighbor Classifier Design. 73-79 Klaus Voss, Herbert Süße: Invariant Fitting of Planar Objects by Primitives. 80-84 Thai B. Nguyen, B. John Oommen: Moment-Preserving Piecewise Linear Approximations of Signals and Images. 84-91 Kamran Etemad, David S. Doermann, Rama Chellappa: Multiscale Segmentation of Unstructured Document Pages Using Soft Decision Integration. 92-96 Volume 19, Number 2, February 1997

Daphna Weinshall, Michael Werman: On View Likelihood and Stability. 97-108 Koen L. Vincken, André S. E. Koster, Max A. Viergever: Probabilistic Multiscale Image Segmentation. 109-120 Alberto Del Bimbo, Pietro Pala: Visual Image Retrieval by Elastic Matching of User Sketches. 121-132 Short Papers Richard I. Hartley: Kruppa's Equations Derived from the Fundamental Matrix. 133-135 Matthias Gruber, Ken-Yuh Hsu: Moment-Based Image Normalization With High Noise-Tolerance. 136-139 Joseph Weber, Jitendra Malik: Rigid Body Segmentation and Shape Description from Dense Optical Flow Under Weak Perspective. 139-143 Shigehiro Fukushima: Division-Based Analysis of Symmetry and Its Application. 144-148 Robert Azencott, Jia-Ping Wang, Laurent Younes: Texture Classification Using Windowed Fourier Filters. 148-153 Anil K. Jain, Douglas E. Zongker: Feature Selection: Evaluation, Application, and Small Sample Performance. 153-158 Claus B. Madsen, Henrik I. Christensen: A Viewpoint Planning Strategy for Determining True Angles on Polyhedral Objects by Camera Alignment. 158-163 Changming Sun, Jamie Sherrah: 3D Symmetry Detection Using The Extended Gaussian Image. 164-168 Narendra Ahuja, Jen-Hui Chuang: Shape Representation Using a Generalized Potential Field Model. 169-176 Judith Hochberg, Patrick Kelly, Timothy Thomas, Lila Kerns: Automatic Script Identification From Document Images Using Cluster-Based Templates. 176-181 B. B. Chaudhuri, U. Pal: Skew Angle Detection of Digitized Indian Script Documents. 182-186 Mayer Aladjem: Linear Discriminant Analysis for Two Classes via Removal of Classification Structure. 187-192 Errata Thomas Hofmann, Joachim M. Buhmann: Correction to "Pairwise Data Clustering by Deterministic Annealing". 192 Volume 19, Number 3, March 1997

Peter Whaite, Frank P. Ferrie: Autonomous Exploration: Driven by Uncertainty. 193-205

Conrad J. Poelman, Takeo Kanade: A Paraperspective Factorization Method for Shape and Motion Recovery. 206-218 Kevin J. Bradshaw, Ian D. Reid, David W. Murray: The Active Recovery of 3D Motion Trajectories and Their Use in Prediction. 219-234 A. Lawrence Spitz: Determination of the Script and Language Content of Document Images. 235-245 Short Papers Ken-ichi Kanatani: Comments on "Symmetry as a Continuous Feature". 246-247 Boaz J. Super, William N. Klarquist: Patch-Based Stereo in a General Binocular Viewing Geometry. 247-253 Yoshinobu Sato, Masamitsu Moriyama, Masayuki Hanayama, Hiroaki Naito, Shinichi Tamura: Acquiring 3D Models of Non-Rigid Moving Objects From Time and Viewpoint Varying Image Sequences: A Step Toward Left Ventricle Recovery. 253-259 Sven J. Dickinson, Dimitris N. Metaxas, Alex Pentland: The Role of Model-Based Segmentation in the Recovery of Volumetric Parts From Range Data. 259-267 Michal Irani, Benny Rousso, Shmuel Peleg: Recovery of Ego-Motion Using Region Alignment. 268-272 Anikó Simon, Jean-Christophe Pret, A. Peter Johnson: A Fast Algorithm for Bottom-Up Document Layout Analysis. 273-277 Abdelhamid Djouadi, Essaid Bouktache: A Fast Algorithm for the Nearest-Neighbor Classifier. 277-282 Chanchal Chatterjee, Vwani P. Roychowdhury: An Adaptive Stochastic Approximation Algorithm for Simultaneous Diagonalization of Matrix Sequences With Applications. 282-287 Volume 19, Number 4, April 1997

Karen B. Sarachik: The Effect of Gaussian Error in Object Recognition. 289-301 Anil K. Jain, Lin Hong, Ruud M. Bolle: On-Line Fingerprint Verification. 302-314 Ilan Shimshoni, Jean Ponce: Finite-Resolution Aspect Graphs of Polyhedral Objects. 315-327 Ioannis Matalas, Ralph Benjamin, Richard Kitney: An Edge Detection Technique Using the Facet Model and Parameterized Relaxation Labeling. 328-341 Bruce Fischl, Eric L. Schwartz: Learning an Integral Equation Approximation to Nonlinear Anisotropic Diffusion in Image Processing. 342-352 Guo-Qing Wei, Gerd Hirzinger: Parametric Shape-from-Shading by Radial Basis Functions. 353-365 Gyeonghwan Kim, Venu Govindaraju: A Lexicon Driven Approach to Handwritten Word Recognition for Real-Time Applications. 366-379 Stephen Della Pietra, Vincent J. Della Pietra, John D. Lafferty: Inducing Features of Random Fields. 380-393 Short Papers Vicent Caselles, Ron Kimmel, Guillermo Sapiro, Catalina Sbert: Minimal Surfaces Based Object Segmentation. 394-398 Øivind Due Trier, Torfinn Taxt, Anil K. Jain: Recognition of Digits in Hydrographic Maps: Binary Versus Topographic Analysis. 399-404 Kevin Woods, W. Philip Kegelmeyer, Kevin W. Bowyer: Combination of Multiple Classifiers Using Local Accuracy Estimates. 405-410

Ralph Highnam, Michael Brady: Model-Based Image Enhancement of Far Infrared Images. 410-415 Volume 19, Number 5, May 1997

Peter D. Lauren, N. Nandhakumar: Estimating the Viewing Parameters of Random, Noisy Projections of Asymmetric Objects for Tomographic Reconstruction. 417-430 Dinggang Shen, Horace Ho-Shing Ip: Generalized Affine Invariant Image Normalization. 431-440 Alina N. Moga, Moncef Gabbouj: Parallel Image Component Labeling With Watershed Transformation. 441-450 Juyang Weng, Yuntao Cui, Narendra Ahuja: Transitory Image Sequences, Asymptotic Properties, and Estimation of Motion and Structure. 451-464 Nathalie Giordana, Wojciech Pieczynski: Estimation of Generalized Multisensor Hidden Markov Chains and Unsupervised Image Segmentation. 465-475 Floriana Esposito, Donato Malerba, Giovanni Semeraro: A Comparative Analysis of Methods for Pruning Decision Trees. 476-491 Jim Kay: Comments on Esposito et al.. 492-493 SHORT PAPERS Carey E. Priebe, David J. Marchette, George W. Rogers: Segmentation of Random Fields Via Borrowed Strength Density Estimation. 494-499 Bharath R. Modayur, Linda G. Shapiro: PERFORM: A Fast Object Recognition Method Using Intersection of Projection Error Regions. 499-506 Richard Szeliski, Sing Bing Kang: Shape Ambiguities in Structure From Motion. 506-512 Jiang Yu Zheng, Yoshihiro Fukagawa, Norihiro Abe: 3D Surface Estimation and Model Construction From Specular Motion in Image Sequences. 513-520 Mads Nielsen: Graduated Nonconvexity by Functional Focusing. 521-525 David Z. Gevorkian, Jaakko Astola, Samvel M. Atourian: Improving Gil-Werman Algorithm for Running Min and Max Filters. 526-529 Cordelia Schmid, Roger Mohr: Local Grayvalue Invariants for Image Retrieval. 530-535 Thien M. Ha, Horst Bunke: Off-Line, Handwritten Numeral Recognition by Perturbation Method. 535-539 Ying Liu, Sargur N. Srihari: Document Image Binarization Based on Texture Features. 540-544 Volume 19, Number 6, June 1997

Muhittin Gökmen, Anil K. Jain: lamda-tau-Space Representation of Images and Generalized Edge Detector. 545-563 J. Ross Beveridge, Edward M. Riseman: How Easy is Matching 2D Line Models Using Local Search?. 564-579 Richard I. Hartley: In Defense of the Eight-Point Algorithm. 580-593 Shang-Hong Lai, Baba C. Vemuri: Physically Based Adaptive Preconditioning for Early Vision. 594-607 Thien M. Ha: The Optimum Class-Selective Rejection Rule. 608-615

Tsong-Chih Hsu, Sheng-De Wang: The K1-Map Reduction for Pattern Classifications. 616-622 Bong-Kee Sin, Jin H. Kim: Ligature Modeling for Online Cursive Script Recognition. 623-633 Richard C. Wilson, Edwin R. Hancock: Structural Matching by Discrete Relaxation. 634-648 Peter Sussner, Gerhard X. Ritter: Decomposition of Gray-Scale Morphological Templates Using the Rank Method. 649-658 Short Papers Paul L. Rosin: Techniques for Assessing Polygonal Approximations of Curves. 659-666 Sarunas Raudys: On Dimensionality, Sample Size, and Classification Error of Nonparametric Linear Classification Algorithms. 667-671 Volume 19, Number 7, July 1997

Rangachar Kasturi: Editor's Notice. 673 Face and Gesture Recognition John Daugman: Face and Gesture Recognition: Overview. 675-676 Vladimir Pavlovic, Rajeev Sharma, Thomas S. Huang: Visual Interpretation of Hand Gestures for Human-Computer Interaction: A Review. 677-695 Baback Moghaddam, Alex Pentland: Probabilistic Visual Learning for Object Representation. 696-710 Peter N. Belhumeur, João P. Hespanha, David J. Kriegman: Eigenfaces vs. Fisherfaces: Recognition Using Class Specific Linear Projection. 711-720 Yael Adini, Yael Moses, Shimon Ullman: Face Recognition: The Problem of Compensating for Changes in Illumination Direction. 721-732 Thomas Vetter, Tomaso Poggio: Linear Object Classes and Image Synthesis From a Single Example Image. 733-742 Andreas Lanitis, Christopher J. Taylor, Timothy F. Cootes: Automatic Interpretation and Coding of Face Images Using Flexible Models. 743-756 Irfan A. Essa, Alex Pentland: Coding, Analysis, Interpretation, and Recognition of Facial Expressions. 757-763 Norbert Krüger: An Algorithm for the Learning of Weights in Discrimination Functions Using a Priori Constraints. 764-768 Rolf P. Würtz: Object Recognition Robust Under Translations, Deformations, and Changes in Background. 769-775 Laurenz Wiskott, Jean-Marc Fellous, Norbert Krüger, Christoph von der Malsburg: Face Recognition by Elastic Bunch Graph Matching. 775-779 Christopher Richard Wren, Ali Azarbayejani, Trevor Darrell, Alex Pentland: Pfinder: Real-Time Tracking of the Human Body. 780-785 Regular Papers Matteo Golfarelli, Dario Maio, Davide Maltoni: On the Error-Reject Trade-Off in Biometric Verification Systems. 786-796 Volume 19, Number 8, July 1997

Regular Papers Matteo Golfarelli, Dario Maio, Davide Maltoni: On the Error-Reject Trade-Off in Biometric Verification Systems. 786-796 Optimal local weighted averaging methods in contour smoothing

Legault, R.; Suen, C.Y. Pages: 801-817 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/34.608276 Bias in robust estimation caused by discontinuities and multiple structures Stewart, C.V. Pages: 818-833 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/34.608280 Affine structure from line correspondences with uncalibrated affine cameras Long Quan; Kanade, T. Pages: 834-845 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/34.608285 Wavelet-based affine invariant representation: a tool for recognizing planar objects in 3D space Quang Minh Tieng; Boles, W.W. Pages: 846-857 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/34.608288 A sequential factorization method for recovering shape and motion from image streams Morita, T.; Kanade, T. Pages: 858-867 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/34.608289 A system for recognizing a large class of engineering drawings Yuhong Yu; Samal, A.; Seth, S.C. Pages: 868-890 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/34.608290 Use of Fourier and Karhunen-Loeve decomposition for fast pattern matching with a large set of templates Uenohara, M.; Kanade, T. Pages: 891-898 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/34.608291 On the sequential determination of model misfit Whaite, P.; Ferrie, F.P. Pages: 899-905 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/34.608292 Hough transform modified by line connectivity and line thickness Yang, M.C.K.; Jong-Sen Lee; Cheng-Chang Lien; Chung-Lin Huang Pages: 905-910 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/34.608293 Recognition of 2D object contours using the wavelet transform zero-crossing representation Quang Minh Tieng; Boles, W.W. Pages: 910-916 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/34.608294 Approximating Bayesian belief networks by arc removal van Engelen, R.A.

Pages: 916-920 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/34.608295 Multiresolution analysis in extraction of reference lines from documents with gray level background Tang, Y.Y.; Hong Ma; Jiming Liu; Bing Fa Li; Dihua Xi Pages: 921-926 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/34.608296 Correction to "Ligature Modeling for Online Cursive Script Recognition" Bong-Kee Sin; Jin H. Kim Pages: 926-926 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.1997.608297 Volume 19, Number 9, September 1997

Short Papers A. James Stewart, Michael S. Langer: Toward Accurate Recovery of Shape from Shading Under Diffuse Lighting. 1020-1025 César Silva, José Santos-Victor: Robust Egomotion Estimation From the Normal Flow Using Search Subspaces. 1026-1034 Kanti V. Mardia, Wei Qian, Kevin M. A. de Souza: Deformable Template Recognition of Multiple Occluded Objects. 1035-1042 Kohtaro Ohba, Katsushi Ikeuchi: Detectability, Uniqueness, and Reliability of Eigen Windows for Stable Verification of Partially Occluded Objects. 1043-1048 Shui Hu, Paul E. Lehner: Multipurpose Strategic Planning In the Game of Go. 1048-1051 Joan-Andreu Sánchez, José-Miguel Benedí: Consistency of Stochastic Context-Free Grammars From Probabilistic Estimation Based on Growth Transformations. 1052-1055 Volume 19, Number 10, October 1997

Josef Kittler, Anil K. Jain: Obituary: Pierre Devijver. 1057 Yvette Mallet, Danny Coomans, Jerry Kautsky, Olivier Y. de Vel: Classification Using Adaptive Wavelets for Feature Extraction. 1058-1066 Tin Kam Ho, Henry S. Baird: Large-Scale Simulation Studies in Image Pattern Recognition. 1067-1079 Giorgio Bonmassar, Eric L. Schwartz: Space-Variant Fourier Analysis: The Exponential Chirp Transform. 1080-1089 Behzad Kamgar-Parsi, Behrooz Kamgar-Parsi: Matching Sets of 3D Line Segments with Application to Polygonal Arc Matching. 1090-1099 Robert P. Grzeszczuk, David N. Levin: "Brownian Strings": Segmenting Images with Stochastically Deformable Contours. 1100-1114 Chitra Dorai, Anil K. Jain: COSMOS - A Representation Scheme for 3D Free-Form Objects. 1115-1130 Short Papers Chitra Dorai, Juyang Weng, Anil K. Jain: Optimal Registration of Object Views Using Range Data. 1131-1138 Chitra Dorai, Anil K. Jain: Shape Spectrum Based View Grouping and Matching of 3D Free-Form Objects. 1139-1146 David Slater, Glenn Healey: The Illumination-Invariant Matching of Deterministic Local Structure in Color Images. 1146-1151 Marcel Jackowski, A. Ardeshir Goshtasby, S. Bines, D. Roseman, Clement T. Yu:

Correcting the Geometry and Color of Digital Images. 1152-1158 A. N. Rajagopalan, Subhasis Chaudhuri: A Variational Approach to Recovering Depth From Defocused Images. 1158-1164 Raúl E. Sequeira, Françoise J. Prêteux: Discrete Voronoi Diagrams and the SKIZ Operator: A Dynamic Algorithm. 1165-1170 Jan De Geeter, Hendrik Van Brussel, Joris De Schutter: A Smoothly Constrained Kalman Filter. 1171-1177 Tina Yu Tian, Mubarak Shah: Recovering 3D Motion of Multiple Objects Using Adaptive Hough Transform. 1178-1183 Volume 19, Number 11, November 1997

Papers Kyujin Cho, Peter Meer, Javier Cabrera: Performance Assessment Through Bootstrap. 1185-1198 Didier Demigny, Tawfik Kamlé: A Discrete Expression of Canny's Criteria for Step Edge Detector Performances Evaluation. 1199-1211 Gady Agam, Its'hak Dinstein: Geometric Separation of Partially Overlapping Nonrigid Objects Applied to Automatic Chromosome Classification. 1212-1222 Kenong Wu, Martin D. Levine: 3D Part Segmentation Using Simulated Electrical Charge Distributions. 1223-1235 Song Chun Zhu, David Mumford: Prior Learning and Gibbs Reaction-Diffusion. 1236-1250 Michael Lindenbaum: An Integrated Model for Evaluating the Amount of Data Required for Reliable Recognition. 1251-1264 Gideon Guy, Gérard G. Medioni: Inference of Surfaces, 3D Curves, and Junctions From Sparse, Noisy, 3D Data. 1265-1277 Short Papers Federico Pedersini, Augusto Sarti, Stefano Tubaro: Estimation and Compensation of Subpixel Edge Localization Error. 1278-1284 Walter F. Bischof, Terry Caelli: Scene Understanding by Rule Evaluation. 1284-1288 Ales Leonardis, Ales Jaklic, Franc Solina: Superquadrics for Segmenting and Modeling Range Data. 1289-1295 A. P. Dunmur, D. M. Titterington: Computational Bayesian Analysis of Hidden Markov Mesh Models. 1296-1300 Yali Amit, Kenneth Wilder: Joint Induction of Shape Features and Tree Classifiers. 1300-1305 Sudhir Borra, Sudeep Sarkar: A Framework for Performance Characterization of Intermediate-Level Grouping Modules. 1306-1312 Volume 19, Number 12, December 1997

Papers Gary E. Kopec, Mauricio Lomelin: Supervised Template Estimation for Document Image Decoding. 1313-1324 Aaron F. Bobick, Andrew D. Wilson: A State-Based Approach to the Representation and Recognition of Gesture. 1325-1337 Michael D. Heath, Sudeep Sarkar, Thomas A. Sanocki, Kevin W. Bowyer: Robust Visual Method for Assessing the Relative Performance of Edge-Detection Algorithms. 1338-1359

Short Papers Masahiro Watanabe, Shree K. Nayar: Telecentric Optics for Focus Analysis. 1360-1365 Heung-Yeung Shum, Martial Hebert, Katsushi Ikeuchi, Raj Reddy: An Integral Approach to Free-Form Object Modeling. 1366-1370 Byung Hwan Jun, Chang Soo Kim, Hong-Yeop Song, Jaihie Kim: A New Criterion in Selection and Discretization of Attributes for the Generation of Decision Trees. 1371-1375 Kemal Oflazer: Error-Tolerant Retrieval of Trees. 1376-1380 Toru Wakahara, Kazumi Odaka: On-Line Cursive Kanji Character Recognition Using Stroke-Based Affine Transformation. 1381-1385 Anil K. Jain, Douglas E. Zongker: Representation and Recognition of Handwritten Digits Using Deformable Templates. 1386-1391 Ken-ichi Kanatani: Comments on "Nonparametric Segmentation of Curves Into Various Representations". 1391-1392 Paul L. Rosin, Geoff A. W. West: Response to Kanatani. 1393-1394 Volume 20, Number 1, January 1998

A. C. Cem Say: L'Hôpital's Filter for QSIM. 1-8 Vittorio Murino, Andrea Trucco, Carlo S. Regazzoni: A Probabilistic Approach to the Coupled Reconstruction and Restoration of Underwater Acoustic Images. 9-22 Henry A. Rowley, Shumeet Baluja, Takeo Kanade: Neural Network-Based Face Detection. 23-38 Kah Kay Sung, Tomaso Poggio: Example-Based Learning for View-Based Human Face Detection. 39-51 Isabelle Guyon, John Makhoul, Richard M. Schwartz, Vladimir Vapnik: What Size Test Set Gives Good Error Rate Estimates?. 52-64 David V. Pynadath, Michael P. Wellman: Generalized Queries on Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars. 65-77 Short Papers Ramesh R. Sarukkai, Dana H. Ballard: Phonetic Set Indexing for Fast Lexical Access. 78-82 Chitra Dorai, Gang Wang, Anil K. Jain, Carolyn R. Mercer: Registration and Integration of Multiple Object Views for 3D Model Construction. 83-89 Kimmo Valkealahti, Erkki Oja: Reduced Multidimensional Co-Occurrence Histograms in Texture Classification. 90-94 Erratum Kyuchin Cho, Peter Meer, Javier Cabrera: Correction to "Performance Assessment Through Bootstrap". 94 Volume 20, Number 2, February 1998

John Martin, Alex Pentland, Stan Sclaroff, Ron Kikinis: Characterization of Neuropathological Shape Deformations. 97-112 Carsten Steger: An Unbiased Detector of Curvilinear Structures. 113-125 Jun Miura, Katsushi Ikeuchi:

Task-Oriented Generation of Visual Sensing Strategies in Assembly Tasks. 126-138 Jing Peng, Bir Bhanu: Closed-Loop Object Recognition Using Reinforcement Learning. 139-154 Naoki Asada, Hisanaga Fujiwara, Takashi Matsuyama: Seeing Behind the Scene: Analysis of Photometric Properties of Occluding Edges by the Reversed Projection Blurring Model. 155-167 Arnon Amir, Michael Lindenbaum: A Generic Grouping Algorithm and Its Quantitative Analysis. 168-185 Short Papers Arnon Amir, Michael Lindenbaum: Grouping-Based Nonadditive Verification. 186-192 Jialin Zhong, Thomas S. Huang, Ronald J. Adrian: Extracting 3D Vortices in Turbulent Fluid Flow. 193-199 Kil-Moo Lee, Peter Meer, Rae-Hong Park: Robust Adaptive Segmentation of Range Images. 200-205 Christian Debrunner, Narendra Ahuja: Segmentation and Factorization-Based Motion and Structure Estimation for Long Image Sequences. 206-211 Zhibin Lei, David B. Cooper: Linear Programming Fitting of Implicit Polynomials. 212-217 Giovanni Anelli, Alberto Broggi, Giulio Destri: Decomposition of Arbitrarily Shaped Binary Morphological Structuring Elements Using Genetic Algorithms. 217-224 Volume 20, Number 3, March 1998

Josef Kittler, Mohamad Hatef, Robert P. W. Duin, Jiri Matas: On Combining Classifiers. 226-239 Wai Lam: Bayesian Network Refinement Via Machine Learning Approach. 240-251 Philippe Andrey, Philippe Tarroux: Unsupervised Segmentation of Markov Random Field Modeled Textured Images Using Selectionist Relaxation. 252-262 Gaudenz Danuser, Markus A. Stricker: Parametric Model Fitting: From Inlier Characterization to Outlier Detection. 263-280 Christopher M. Bishop, Michael E. Tipping: A Hierarchical Latent Variable Model for Data Visualization. 281-293 Anil K. Jain, Bin Yu: Document Representation and Its Application to Page Decomposition. 294-308 Andrew W. Senior, Anthony J. Robinson: An Off-Line Cursive Handwriting Recognition System. 309-321 Short Papers Raymond A. Morano, Cengizhan Ozturk, Robert Conn, Stephen Dubin, Stanley Zietz, Jonathan Nissanov: Structured Light Using Pseudorandom Codes. 322-327 Jesse Bennett, Alireza Khotanzad: Multispectral Random Field Models for Synthesis and Analysis of Color Images. 327-332 Carlo Tomasi, Roberto Manduchi: Stereo Matching as a Nearest-Neighbor Problem. 333-340 Dawei Huang, William T. M. Dunsmuir: Computing Joint Distributions of 2D Moving Median Filters With Applications to Detection of Edges. 340-343 Prateek Sarkar, George Nagy, Jiangying Zhou, Daniel P. Lopresti: Spatial Sampling of Printed Patterns. 344-351 Paul T. Jackway: On the Scale-Space Theorem of Chen and Yan. 351-352

Volume 20, Number 4, April 1998

Dong-Gyu Sim, Rae-Hong Park: Robust Reweighted MAP Motion Estimation. 353-365 Nikos Georgis, Maria Petrou, Josef Kittler: Error Guided Design of a 3D Vision System. 366-379 Laurent Younes: Synchronous Random Fields and Image Restoration. 380-390 Short Papers Jairo Rocha, Rafael Bernardino: Singularities and Regularities on Line Pictures via Symmetrical Trapezoids. 391-395 Robert A. McLaughlin, Michael D. Alder: The Hough Transform Versus the UpWrite. 396-400 Stan Birchfield, Carlo Tomasi: A Pixel Dissimilarity Measure That Is Insensitive to Image Sampling. 401-406 Primo Zingaretti, Massimiliano Gasparroni, Lorenzo Vecci: Fast Chain Coding of Region Boundaries. 407-415 Dinkar N. Bhat, Shree K. Nayar: Ordinal Measures for Image Correspondence. 415-423 Liu Wenyin, Dov Dori: Incremental Arc Segmentation Algorithm and Its Evaluation. 424-431 Zhaoyang Lu: Detection of Text Regions From Digital Engineering Drawings. 431-439 Takahiko Horiuchi: Decision Rule for Pattern Classification by Integrating Interval Feature Values. 440-448 Volume 20, Number 5, May 1998

Jezekiel Ben-Arie, Dibyendu Nandy: A Volumetric/Iconic Frequency Domain Representation for Objects With Application for Pose Invariant Face Recognition. 449-457 Joaquín Fernández-Valdivia, Jose A. García, Javier Martinez-Baena, Xose R. Fernández-Vidal: The Selection of Natural Scales in 2D Images Using Adaptive Gabor Filtering. 458-469 Dalit Caspi, Nahum Kiryati, Joseph Shamir: Range Imaging With Adaptive Color Structured Light. 470-480 Thomas C. M. Lee: Segmenting Images Corrupted by Correlated Noise. 481-492 Bruno T. Messmer, Horst Bunke: A New Algorithm for Error-Tolerant Subgraph Isomorphism Detection. 493-504 Marc Pierrot Deseilligny, Georges Stamon, Ching Y. Suen: Veinerization: A New Shape Description for Flexible Skeletonization. 505-521 Eric Sven Ristad, Peter N. Yianilos: Learning String-Edit Distance. 522-532 Short Papers Robert G. Aykroyd: Bayesian Estimation for Homogeneous and Inhomogeneous Gaussian Random Fields. 533-539 Parag Havaldar, Gérard G. Medioni: Full Volumetric Descriptions From Three Intensity Images. 540-545 Sharat Chandran, Ananth K. Potty: Energy Minimization of Contours Using Boundary Conditions. 546-549 Miroslaw Bober, Maria Petrou, Josef Kittler:

Nonlinear Motion Estimation Using the Supercoupling Approach. 550-555 Yuan Yan Tang, Lo-Ting Tu, Jiming Liu, Seong-Whan Lee, Win-Win Lin, Ing-Shyh Shyu: Offline Recognition of Chinese Handwriting by Multifeature and Multilevel Classification. 556-561 Eel-Wan Lee, Soo-Ik Chae: Fast Design of Reduced-Complexity Nearest-Neighbor Classifiers Using Triangular Inequality. 562-566 Abdelhamid Djouadi: On the Reduction of the Nearest-Neighbor Variation for More Accurate Classification and Error Estimates. 567-571 Jörg Bruske, Gerald Sommer: Intrinsic Dimensionality Estimation With Optimally Topology Preserving Maps. 572-575 Volume 20, Number 6, June 1998

Michal Irani, P. Anandan: A Unified Approach to Moving Object Detection in 2D and 3D Scenes. 577-589 Jan Flusser, Tomás Suk: Degraded Image Analysis: An Invariant Approach. 590-603 Jezekiel Ben-Arie, Zhiqian Wang: Pictorial Recognition of Objects Employing Affine Invariance in the Frequency Domain. 604-618 Jia-Ping Wang: Stochastic Relaxation on Partitions With Connected Components and Its Application to Image Segmentation. 619-636 Massimiliano Pontil, Alessandro Verri: Support Vector Machines for 3D Object Recognition. 637-646 Short Papers Jeffrey E. Boyd, Jean Meloche: Binary Restoration of Thin Objects in Multidimensional Imagery. 647-651 Zarina Myles, Niels da Vitoria Lobo: Recovering Affine Motion and Defocus Blur Simultaneously. 652-658 M. Jayakumar, Ravi N. Banavar: Risk-Sensitive Filters for Recursive Estimation of Motion From Images. 659-666 Leonid I. Perlovsky: Conundrum of Combinatorial Complexity. 666-670 Volume 20, Number 7, July 1998

Kin-Man Lam, Hong Yan: An Analytic-to-Holistic Approach for Face Recognition Based on a Single Frontal View. 673-686 Laxmi Parida, Davi Geiger, Robert A. Hummel: Junctions: Detection, Classification, and Reconstruction. 687-698 James H. Elder, Steven W. Zucker: Local Scale Control for Edge Detection and Blur Estimation. 699-716 Zhengyou Zhang: On the Optimization Criteria Used in Two-View Motion Analysis. 717-729 Francesca Cesarini, Marco Gori, Simone Marinai, Giovanni Soda: INFORMys: A Flexible Invoice-Like Form-Reader System. 730-745 Short Papers Rita Cucchiara, Fabio Filicori: The Vector-Gradient Hough Transform. 746-750 T. N. Tan: Rotation Invariant Texture Features and Their Use in Automatic Script Identification. 751-756 Weiguang Guan, Songde Ma: A List-Processing Approach to Compute Voronoi Diagrams and the Euclidean Distance Transform. 757-761

Cédric Lemaréchal, Roger Fjørtoft, Philippe Marthon, Eliane Cubero-Castan: Comments on "Geodesic Saliency of Watershed Contours and Hierarchical Segmentation". 762-763 Michel Schmitt: Response to the Comment on "Geodesic Saliency of Watershed Contours and Hierarchical Segmentation". 764-766 Volume 20, Number 8, August 1998

Yoram Baram: Partial Classification: The Benefit of Deferred Decision. 769-776 Lin Hong, Yifei Wan, Anil K. Jain: Fingerprint Image Enhancement: Algorithm and Performance Evaluation. 777-789 Ulf Grenander, Michael I. Miller, Anuj Srivastava: Hilbert-Schmidt Lower Bounds for Estimators on Matrix Lie Groups for ATR. 790-802 Thomas Hofmann, Jan Puzicha, Joachim M. Buhmann: Unsupervised Texture Segmentation in a Deterministic Annealing Framework. 803-818 Alexander G. Mamistvalov: n-Dimensional Moment Invariants and Conceptual Mathematical Theory of Recognition n-Dimensional Solids. 819-831 Tin Kam Ho: The Random Subspace Method for Constructing Decision Forests. 832-844 Short Papers Qiang Ji, Robert M. Haralick: Breakpoint Detection Using Covariance Propagation. 845-851 Jeffrey L. Solka, David J. Marchette, B. C. Wallet, V. L. Irwin, George W. Rogers: Identification of Man-Made Regions in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery and Videos. 852-857 Ming-Fang Wu, Hsin-Teng Sheu: Representation of 3D Surfaces by Two-Variable Fourier Descriptors. 858-863 Muralidhara Subbarao, Jenn-Kwei Tyan: Selecting the Optimal Focus Measure for Autofocusing and Depth-From-Focus. 864-870 Dan Judd, Philip K. McKinley, Anil K. Jain: Large-Scale Parallel Data Clustering. 871-876 Abdel Wahab Zramdini, Rolf Ingold: Optical Font Recognition Using Typographical Features. 877-882 Joel Ratsaby: Incremental Learning With Sample Queries. 883-888 Jason Tsong-Li Wang, Bruce A. Shapiro, Dennis Shasha, Kaizhong Zhang, Kathleen M. Currey: An Algorithm for Finding the Largest Approximately Common Substructures of Two Trees. 889-895 Volume 20, Number 9, September 1998

Fabrice Moscheni, Sushil Bhattacharjee, Murat Kunt: Spatiotemporal Segmentation Based on Region Merging. 897-915 Stan Z. Li: Close-Form Solution and Parameter Selection for Convex Minimization-Based Edge-Preserving Smoothing. 916-932 Stefano Soatto, Pietro Perona: Reducing "Structure From Motion": A General Framework for Dynamic Vision Part 1: Modeling. 933-942 Stefano Soatto, Pietro Perona: Reducing "Structure From Motion": A General Framework for Dynamic Vision Part 2: Implementation and Experimental Assessment. 943-960 Shahriar Negahdaripour: Revised Definition of Optical Flow: Integration of Radiometric and Geometric Cues for Dynamic Scene Analysis. 961-979 Henk J. A. M. Heijmans, Alexander Tuzikov: Similarity and Symmetry Measures for Convex Shapes Using Minkowski Addition. 980-993

Yoshihisa Shinagawa, Tosiyasu L. Kunii: Unconstrained Automatic Image Matching Using Multiresolutional Critical-Point Filters. 994-1010 Short Papers Peter Bajcsy, Narendra Ahuja: Location- and Density-Based Hierarchical Clustering Using Similarity Analysis. 1011-1015 Pak-Kwong Wong, Chorkin Chan: Off-Line Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition as a Compound Bayes Decision Problem. 1016-1023 Volume 20, Number 10, October 1998

Gregory D. Hager, Peter N. Belhumeur: Efficient Region Tracking With Parametric Models of Geometry and Illumination. 1025-1039 Yu-Ping Wang, Seng Luan Lee: Scale-Space Derived From B-Splines. 1040-1055 Elli Angelopoulou, Lawrence B. Wolff: Sign of Gaussian Curvature From Curve Orientation in Photometric Space. 1056-1066 Takashi Yokomori, Satoshi Kobayashi: Learning Local Languages and Their Application to DNA Sequence Analysis. 1067-1079 William A. Wolovich, Mustafa Unel: The Determination of Implicit Polynomial Canonical Curves. 1080-1090 Short Papers Steve Sullivan, Jean Ponce: Automatic Model Construction and Pose Estimation From Photographs Using Triangular Splines. 1091-1097 Lawrence O'Gorman, Irina Rabinovich: Secure Identification Documents Via Pattern Recognition and Public-Key Cryptography. 1097-1102 Minako Sawaki, Norihiro Hagita: Text-Line Extraction and Character Recognition of Document Headlines With Graphical Designs Using Complementary Similarity Measure. 1103-1109 Juan-Carlos Amengual, Enrique Vidal: Efficient Error-Correcting Viterbi Parsing. 1109-1116 Yoram Baram: Partial Classification Can Be Beneficial Even for Ideal Separation. 1117 Stefano Soatto, Pietro Perona: Correction to: "Reducing 'Structure From Motion': A General Framework for Dynamic Vision Part 2: Implementation and Experimental Assessment". 1117 Volume 20, Number 11, November 1998

Marco Gori, Franco Scarselli: Are Multilayer Perceptrons Adequate for Pattern Recognition and Verification? 1121-1132 Stephen J. Roberts, Dirk Husmeier, Iead Rezek, William D. Penny: Bayesian Approaches to Gaussian Mixture Modeling. 1133-1142 Guo-Qing Wei, Wilfried Brauer, Gerd Hirzinger: Intensity- and Gradient-Based Stereo Matching Using Hierarchical Gaussian Basis Functions. 1143-1160 Tyler C. Folsom, Robert B. Pinter: Primitive Features by Steering, Quadrature, and Scale. 1161-1173 Meide Zhao, Francis K. H. Quek, Xindong Wu: RIEVL: Recursive Induction Learning in Hand Gesture Recognition. 1174-1185 Douglas DeCarlo, Dimitris N. Metaxas: Shape Evolution With Structural and Topological Changes Using Blending. 1186-1205 Chi-Keung Tang, Gérard G. Medioni: Inference of Integrated Surface, Curve, and Junction Descriptions From Sparse 3D Data. 1206-1223

Bea Thai, Glenn Healey: Modeling and Classifying Symmetries Using a Multiscale Opponent Color Representation. 1224-1235 Andrew D. J. Cross, Edwin R. Hancock: Graph Matching With a Dual-Step EM Algorithm. 1236-1253 Short Papers Laurent Itti, Christof Koch, Ernst Niebur: A Model of Saliency-Based Visual Attention for Rapid Scene Analysis. 1254-1259 N. Khaneja, Michael I. Miller, Ulf Grenander: Dynamic Programming Generation of Curves on Brain Surfaces. 1260-1265 Todd A. Cass: Robust Affine Structure Matching for 3D Object Recognition. 1265-1274 Amlan Kundu, Yang He, Mou-Yen Chen: Alternatives to Variable Duration HMM in Handwriting Recognition. 1275-1280 Volume 20, Number 12, December 1998

Yuri Boykov, Olga Veksler, Ramin Zabih: A Variable Window Approach to Early Vision. 1283-1294 Lin Hong, Anil K. Jain: Integrating Faces and Fingerprints for Personal Identification. 1295-1307 Patrick L. Combettes, Jean-Christophe Pesquet: Convex Multiresolution Analysis. 1308-1318 Paolo Magni, Riccardo Bellazzi, Giuseppe De Nicolao: Bayesian Function Learning Using MCMC Methods. 1319-1331 Toru Wakahara, Kazumi Odaka: Adaptive Normalization of Handwritten Characters Using Global/Local Affine Transformation. 1332-1341 Christopher K. I. Williams, David Barber: Bayesian Classification With Gaussian Processes. 1342-1351 Short Papers Adam Hoover, Dmitry B. Goldgof, Kevin W. Bowyer: Dynamic-Scale Model Construction From Range Imagery. 1352-1357 Simon X. Liao, Miroslaw Pawlak: On the Accuracy of Zernike Moments for Image Analysis. 1358-1364 Jesse Bennett, Alireza Khotanzad: Modeling Textured Images Using Generalized Long Correlation Models. 1365-1370 Thad Starner, Joshua Weaver, Alex Pentland: Real-Time American Sign Language Recognition Using Desk and Wearable Computer Based Video. 1371-1375 Farzin Mokhtarian, Riku Suomela: Robust Image Corner Detection Through Curvature Scale Space. 1376-1381 Kwok-Wai Cheung, Dit-Yan Yeung, Roland T. Chin: A Bayesian Framework for Deformable Pattern Recognition With Application to Handwritten Character Recognition. 1382-1388 Yongwha Chung, Viktor K. Prasanna: Parallelizing Image Feature Extraction on Coarse-Grain Machines. 1389-1394 Volume 21, Number 1, January 1999

Kevin W. Bowyer: Editorial. 1-2 Kevin W. Bowyer: Associate Editors Join PAMI. 3

Mohamad Akra, Louay Bazzi, Sanjoy K. Mitter: Sampling of Images for Efficient Model-Based Vision. 4-11 Amit Chakraborty, James S. Duncan: Game-Theoretic Integration for Image Segmentation. 12-30 Daniel Keren, Craig Gotsman: Fitting Curves and Surfaces With Constrained Implicit Polynomials. 31-41 Bruce Fischl, Eric L. Schwartz: Adaptive Nonlocal Filtering: A Fast Alternative to Anisotropic Diffusion for Image Enhancement. 42-48 Tat-Jen Cham, Roberto Cipolla: Automated B-Spline Curve Representation Incorporating MDL and Error-Minimizing Control Point Insertion Strategies. 49-53 Gang Xu, Noriko Sugimoto: A Linear Algorithm for Motion From Three Weak Perspective Images Using Euler Angles. 54-57 Gabriela Csurka, Olivier D. Faugeras: Algebraic and Geometric Tools to Compute Projective and Permutation Invariants. 58-65 Éric Marchand, François Chaumette: Active Vision for Complete Scene Reconstruction and Exploration. 65-72 Yuichi Nakatani, Daisuke Sasaki, Youji Iiguni, Hajime Maeda: Online Recognition of Handwritten Hiragana Characters Based Upon a Complex Autoregressive Model. 73-76 Wen-Tsong Chen, Paul D. Gader, Hongchi Shi: Lexicon-Driven Handwritten Word Recognition Using Optimal Linear Combinations of Order Statistics. 77-82 Stefan Pittner, Sagar V. Kamarthi: Feature Extraction From Wavelet Coefficients for Pattern Recognition Tasks. 83-88 Amjad Hajjar, Tom Chen: VLSI Architecture for Real-Time Edge Linking. 89-94 Volume 21, Number 2, February 1999

Kevin W. Bowyer: New Members of PAMI Editorial Board. 97-98 Krishnamoorthy Sivakumar, John Goutsias: Morphologically Constrained GRFs: Applications to Texture Synthesis and Analysis. 99-113 Kalle Åström, Fredrik Kahl: Motion Estimation in Image Sequences Using the Deformation of Apparent Contours. 114-127 Régis Clouard, Abderrahim Elmoataz, Christine Porquet, Marinette Revenu: Borg: A Knowledge-Based System for Automatic Generation of Image Processing Programs. 128-144 Fu Chang, Ya-Ching Lu, Theodosios Pavlidis: Feature Analysis Using Line Sweep Thinning Algorithm. 145-158 Ajit V. Rao, David J. Miller, Kenneth Rose, Allen Gersho: A Deterministic Annealing Approach for Parsimonious Design of Piecewise Regression Models. 159-173 Man Leung Wong, Wai Lam, Kwong-Sak Leung: Using Evolutionary Programming and Minimum Description Length Principle for Data Mining of Bayesian Networks. 174-178 Tapas Kanungo, Robert M. Haralick: An Automatic Closed-Loop Methodology for Generating Character Groundtruth for Scanned Documents. 179-183 Cheng-Yuan Liou, Hsin-Chang Yang: Selective Feature-to-Feature Adhesion for Recognition of Cursive Handprinted Characters. 184-191 Volume 21, Number 3, March 1999

Robert Davis, Armand Prieditis: Designing Optimal Sequential Experiments for a Bayesian Classifier. 193-201 Dov Dori, Liu Wenyin:

Sparse Pixel Vectorization: An Algorithm and Its Performance Evaluation. 202-215 Carlos F. Borges: On the Estimation of Markov Random Field Parameters. 216-224 Peter Hall, Berwin A. Turlach: On the Estimation of a Convex Set With Corners. 225-234 Harpreet S. Sawhney, Rakesh Kumar: True Multi-Image Alignment and Its Application to Mosaicing and Lens Distortion Correction. 235-243 Gideon P. Stein, Amnon Shashua: On Degeneracy of Linear Reconstruction From Three Views: Linear Line Complex and Applications. 244-251 Ilan Shimshoni, Ronen Basri, Ehud Rivlin: A Geometric Interpretation of Weak-Perspective Motion. 252-257 Nei Kato, Masato Suzuki, Shinichiro Omachi, Hirotomo Aso, Yoshiaki Nemoto: A Handwritten Character Recognition System Using Directional Element Feature and Asymmetric Mahalanobis Distance. 258-262 Jinhai Cai, Zhi-Qiang Liu: Integration of Structural and Statistical Information for Unconstrained Handwritten Numeral Recognition. 263-270 Hui Wang, David A. Bell, Fionn Murtagh: Axiomatic Approach to Feature Subset Selection Based on Relevance. 271-277 Afonso Ferreira, Stéphane Ubéda: Computing the Medial Axis Transform in Parallel With Eight Scan Operations. 277-282 Jefferey A. Shufelt: Performance Evaluation and Analysis of Vanishing Point Detection Techniques. 282-288 Volume 21, Number 4, April 1999

Empirical Evaluation of Computer Vision Algorithms P. Jonathon Phillips, Kevin W. Bowyer: Introduction to the Special Section on Empirical Evaluation of Computer Vision Algorithms. 289-290 Trygve Randen, John Håkon Husøy: Filtering for Texture Classification: A Comparative Study. 291-310 Jefferey A. Shufelt: Performance Evaluation and Analysis of Monocular Building Extraction From Aerial Imagery. 311-326 Antonio M. López, Felipe Lumbreras, Joan Serrat, Juan José Villanueva: Evaluation of Methods for Ridge and Valley Detection. 327-335 Thomas Martini Jørgensen, Christian Linneberg: Theoretical Analysis and Improved Decision Criteria for the n-Tuple Classifier. 336-347 Anil K. Jain, Salil Prabhakar, Lin Hong: A Multichannel Approach to Fingerprint Classification. 348-359 Christopher Raphael: Automatic Segmentation of Acoustic Musical Signals Using Hidden Markov Models. 360-370 Michael T. Goodrich, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Mark W. Orletsky: Approximate Geometric Pattern Matching Under Rigid Motions. 371-379 Francesco Ricci, Paolo Avesani: Data Compression and Local Metrics for Nearest Neighbor Classification. 380-384 Volume 21, Number 5, May 1999

Multiple Submission: Professionalism, Ethical Issues, and Copyright Legalities. 385 Daniel L. Swets, Juyang Weng: Hierarchical Discriminant Analysis for Image Retrieval. 386-401 Raffaele Cappelli, Alessandra Lumini, Dario Maio, Davide Maltoni: Fingerprint Classification by Directional Image Partitioning. 402-421

Bernard Chalmond, Stéphane C. Girard: Nonlinear Modeling of Scattered Multivariate Data and Its Application to Shape Change. 422-432 Andrew Edie Johnson, Martial Hebert: Using Spin Images for Efficient Object Recognition in Cluttered 3D Scenes. 433-449 Hichem Frigui, Raghu Krishnapuram: A Robust Competitive Clustering Algorithm With Applications in Computer Vision. 450-465 Dinggang Shen, Horace Ho-Shing Ip, Kent K. T. Cheung, Eam Khwang Teoh: Symmetry Detection by Generalized Complex (GC) Moments: A Close-Form Solution. 466-476 Andrew W. Fitzgibbon, Maurizio Pilu, Robert B. Fisher: Direct Least Square Fitting of Ellipses. 476-480 Volume 21, Number 6, June 1999

PAMI Editorial Board Changes. 481 Xavier Descombes, Frithjof Kruggel: A Markov Pixon Information Approach for Low-Level Image Description. 482-494 Issam Bazzi, Richard M. Schwartz, John Makhoul: An Omnifont Open-Vocabulary OCR System for English and Arabic. 495-504 Ronald-Bryan O. Alferez, Yuan-Fang Wang: Geometric and Illumination Invariants for Object Recognition. 505-536 Jesse Bennett, Alireza Khotanzad: Maximum Likelihood Estimation Methods for Multispectral Random Field Image Models. 537-543 Jiming Liu, Yuan Yan Tang: Adaptive Image Segmentation With Distributed Behavior-Based Agents. 544-551 Patrick C. Teo, Yacov Hel-Or: Design of Multiparameter Steerable Functions Using Cascade Basis Reduction. 552-556 Haiyuan Wu, Qian Chen, Masahiko Yachida: Face Detection From Color Images Using a Fuzzy Pattern Matching Method. 557-563 Natan Peterfreund: Robust Tracking of Position and Velocity With Kalman Snakes. 564-569 Y. S. Hung, H. T. Ho: A Kalman Filter Approach to Direct Depth Estimation Incorporating Surface Structure. 570-575 Volume 21, Number 7, July 1999

A. N. Rajagopalan, Subhasis Chaudhuri: An MRF Model-Based Approach to Simultaneous Recovery of Depth and Restoration from Defocused Images. 577-589 Wonho Oh, W. Brent Lindquist: Image Thresholding by Indicator Kriging. 590-602 Grinnell Jones, Bir Bhanu: Recognition of Articulated and Occluded Objects. 603-613 Mikhail J. Atallah, Yann Génin, Wojciech Szpankowski: Pattern Matching Image Compression: Algorithmic and Empirical Results. 614-627 Atsushi Marugame, Jiro Katto, Mutsumi Ohta: Structure Recovery with Multiple Cameras from Scaled Orthographic and Perspective Views. 628-633 Pascal Matsakis, Laurent Wendling: A New Way to Represent the Relative Position between Areal Objects. 634-643 András Antos, Luc Devroye, László Györfi: Lower Bounds for Bayes Error Estimation. 643-645 Klaus Voss, Herbert Süße:

A New One-Parametric Fitting Method for Planar Objects. 646-651 Nick Bennett, Robert Burridge, Naoki Saito: A Method to Detect and Characterize Ellipses Using the Hough Transform. 652-657 Isabelle Bloch: Fuzzy Relative Position Between Objects in Image Processing: A Morphological Approach. 657-664 John Oliensis, Venu Govindu: An Experimental Study of Projective Structure From Motion. 665-671 Volume 21, Number 8, August 1999

Sven J. Dickinson, David Wilkes, John K. Tsotsos: A Computational Model of View Degeneracy. 673-689 Ruo Zhang, Ping-Sing Tsai, James Edwin Cryer, Mubarak Shah: Shape from Shading: A Survey. 690-706 Marc Pollefeys, Luc J. Van Gool: Stratified Self-Calibration with the Modulus Constraint. 707-724 Ian Craw, Nicholas Costen, Takashi Kato, Shigeru Akamatsu: How Should We RepresentFaces for Automatic Recognition? 725-736 Tanveer Fathima Syeda-Mahmood: Indexing of Technical Line Drawing Databases. 737-751 Mounim A. El-Yacoubi, Michel Gilloux, Robert Sabourin, Ching Y. Suen: An HMM-Based Approach for Off-Line Unconstrained Handwritten Word Modeling and Recognition. 752-760 Yan Solihin, C. G. Leedham: Integral Ratio: A New Class of Global Thresholding Techniques for Handwriting Images. 761-768 Whoi-Yul Kim, Young-Sung Kim: Robust Rotation Angle Estimator. 768-773 Long Quan, Zhong-Dan Lan: Linear N-Point Camera Pose Determination. 774-780 A. C. Cem Say: Making Use of Contradictory Behavior Information in Qualitative Reasoning. 781-786 Trevor J. Davis: Fast Decomposition of Digital Curves into Polygons Using the Haar Transform. 786-790 Hsin-Teng Sheu, Wu-Chih Hu: Multiprimitive Segmentation of Planar Curves-A Two-Level Breakpoint Classification and Tuning Approach. 791-797 Yuntao Cui, Juyang Weng: A Learning-Based Prediction-and-Verification Segmentation Scheme for Hand Sign Image Sequence. 798-804 Zhengwei Yang, Fernand S. Cohen: Cross-Weighted Moments and Affine Invariants for Image Registration and Matching. 804-814 Volume 21, Number 9, September 1999

Michael Elad, Arie Feuer: Super-Resolution Reconstruction of Image Sequences. 817-834 Mourad Zerroug, Ramakant Nevatia: Part-Based 3D Descriptions of Complex Objects from a Single Image. 835-848 Ihsin T. Phillips, Atul K. Chhabra: Empirical Performance Evaluation of Graphics Recognition Systems. 849-870 Simone Santini, Ramesh Jain: Similarity Measures. 871-883 Andrew D. Wilson, Aaron F. Bobick: Parametric Hidden Markov Models for Gesture Recognition. 884-900

Xilin Yi, Octavia I. Camps: Line-Based Recognition Using A Multidimensional Hausdorff Distance. 901-916 Horst Bunke: Error Correcting Graph Matching: On the Influence of the Underlying Cost Function. 917-922 Djamel Bouchaffra, Venu Govindaraju, Sargur N. Srihari: A Methodology for Mapping Scores to Probabilities. 923-927 Sriganesh Madhvanath, Gyeonghwan Kim, Venu Govindaraju: Chaincode Contour Processing for Handwritten Word Recognition. 928-932 Yu-Ping Wang, Ruibin Qu: Fast Implementation of Scale-Space by Interpolatory Subdivision Scheme. 933-939 Jérôme Monteil, Azeddine Beghdadi: A New Interpretation and improvement of the Nonlinear Anisotropic Diffusion for Image Enhancement. 940-946 Oscar Yáñez-Suárez, Mahmood R. Azimi-Sadjadi: Unsupervised Clustering in Hough Space for Identification of Partially Occluded Objects. 946-950 Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Ryan H. Lilien, Clark F. Olson: View-Based Recognition Using an Eigenspace Approximation to the Hausdorff Measure. 951-955 Guy Smith: Comments on 'Design of Supervised Classifiers Using Boolean Neural Neworks'. 956 Mansur R. Kabuka: Reply to: Comments on 'Design of Supervised Classifiers Using Boolean Neural Networks'. 957-958 Volume 21, Number 10, October 1999

Hyeon-Kyu Lee, Jin-Hyung Kim: An HMM-Based Threshold Model Approach for Gesture Recognition. 961-973 Gianluca Donato, Marian Stewart Bartlett, Joseph C. Hager, Paul Ekman, Terrence J. Sejnowski: Classifying Facial Actions. 974-989 Djamel Bouchaffra, Venu Govindaraju, Sargur N. Srihari: Postprocessing of Recognized Strings Using Nonstationary Markovian Models. 990-999 Jeffrey S. Beis, David G. Lowe: Indexing without Invariants in 3D Object Recognition. 1000-1015 Richard Pito: A Solution to the Next Best View Problem for Automated Surface Acquisition. 1016-1030 Venu Govindu, Chandra Shekhar: Alignment Using Distributions of Local Geometric Properties. 1031-1043 Rosa Rodriguez-Sánchez, Jose A. García, Joaquín Fernández-Valdivia, Xose R. Fernández-Vidal: The RGFF Representational Model: A System for the Automatically Learned Partitioning of 'Visual Patterns' in Digital Images. 1044-1073 Harold S. Stone, Jacqueline Le Moigne, Morgan McGuire: The Translation Sensitivity of Wavelet-Based Registration. 1074-1081 Olivier Y. de Vel, Stefan Aeberhard: Line-Based Face Recognition under Varying Pose. 1081-1088 Il-Seok Oh, Jin-Seon Lee, Ching Y. Suen: Analysis of Class Separation and Combination of Class-Dependent Features for Handwriting Recognition. 1089-1094 Ke Liu, Yea S. Huang, Ching Y. Suen: Identification of Fork Points on the Skeletons of Handwritten Chinese Characters. 1095-1100 Y. S. Hung, H. T. Ho: Errata: Corrections to "A Kalman Filter Approach to Direct Depth Estimation Incorporating Surface Structure". 1101 Volume 21, Number 11, November 1999

Marcello Pelillo, Kaleem Siddiqi, Steven W. Zucker: Matching Hierarchical Structures Using Association Graphs. 1105-1120 Dorothea Blostein, Lippold Haken: Using Diagram Generation Software to Improve Diagram Recognition: A Case Study of Music Notation. 1121-1136 So Young Sohn: Meta Analysis of Classification Algorithms for Pattern Recognition. 1137-1144 Christophe Chesnaud, Philippe Réfrégier, Vlady Boulet: Statistical Region Snake-Based Segmentation Adapted to Different Physical Noise Models. 1145-1157 Song Chun Zhu: Stochastic Jump-Diffusion Process for Computing Medial Axes in Markov Random Fields. 1158-1169 Song Chun Zhu: Embedding Gestalt Laws in Markov Random Fields. 1170-1187 Jun Sato, Roberto Cipolla: Affine Reconstruction of Curved Surfaces from Uncalibrated Views of Apparent Contours. 1188-1197 Mario Ferraro, Giuseppe Boccignone, Terry Caelli: On the Representation of Image Structures via Scale Space Entropy Conditions. 1199-1203 Liyuan Li, Weinan Chen: Corner Detection and Interpretation on Planar Curves Using Fuzzy Reasoning. 1204-1210 Guillermo Sapiro: Color and Illuminant Voting. 1210-1215 H. Qjidaa, L. Radouane: Robust Line Fitting in a Noisy Image by the Method of Moments. 1216-1223 Victor Wu, R. Manmatha, Edward M. Riseman: TextFinder: An Automatic System to Detect and Recognize Text In Images. 1224-1229 Chu-Song Chen, Yi-Ping Hung, Jen-Bo Cheng: RANSAC-Based DARCES: A New Approach to Fast Automatic Registration of Partially Overlapping Range Images. 1229-1234 Chin-Chun Chang, Wen-Hsiang Tsai: Reliable Determination of Object Pose from Line Features by Hypothesis Testing. 1235-1241 Quin Cai, Jake K. Aggarwal: Tracking Human Motion in Structured Environments Using a Distributed-Camera System. 1241-1247 Volume 21, Number 12, December 1999

Kevin W. Bowyer: Editorial. 1249 Philip L. Worthington, Edwin R. Hancock: New Constraints on Data-Closeness and Needle Map Consistency for Shape-from-Shading. 1250-1267 Ashok N. Srivastava, Renjeng Su, Andreas S. Weigend: Data Mining for Features Using Scale-Sensitive Gated Experts. 1268-1279 Yihong Xu, George Nagy: Prototype Extraction and Adaptive OCR. 1280-1296 Alberto Suárez, James F. Lutsko: Globally Optimal Fuzzy Decision Trees for Classification and Regression. 1297-1311 Yoram Gdalyahu, Daphna Weinshall: Flexible Syntactic Matching of Curves and Its Application to Automatic Hierarchical Classification of Silhouettes. 1312-1328 Anastasios L. Kesidis, Nikos Papamarkos: On the Inverse Hough Transform. 1329-1343 Sriganesh Madhvanath, Evelyn Kleinberg, Venu Govindaraju: Holistic Verification of Handwritten Phrases. 1344-1356

Michael J. Lyons, Julien Budynek, Shigeru Akamatsu: Automatic Classification of Single Facial Images. 1357-1362 Benoit Huet, Edwin R. Hancock: Line Pattern Retrieval Using Relational Histograms. 1363-1370 Paul Runkle, Lawrence Carin, Luise Couchman, Timothy J. Yoder, Joseph A. Bucaro: Multiaspect Target Identification with Wave-Based Matched Pursuits and Continuous Hidden Markov Models. 1371-1378 Volume 22, Number 1, January 2000

The 20th Anniversary of TPAMI Kevin W. Bowyer, Patrick J. Flynn, Rangachar Kasturi: The 20th Anniversary of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 1-3 Anil K. Jain, Robert P. W. Duin, Jianchang Mao: Statistical Pattern Recognition: A Review. 4-37 George Nagy: Twenty Years of Document Image Analysis in PAMI. 38-62 Réjean Plamondon, Sargur N. Srihari: On-Line and Off-Line Handwriting Recognition: A Comprehensive Survey. 63-84 James S. Duncan, Nicholas Ayache: Medical Image Analysis: Progress over Two Decades and the Challenges Ahead. 85-106 Alex Pentland: Looking at People: Sensing for Ubiquitous and Wearable Computing. 107-119 Florence Cloppet, Jean-Michel Oliva, Georges Stamon: Angular Bisector Network, a Simplified Generalized Voronoi Diagram: Application to Processing Complex Intersections in Biomedical Images. 120-128 Volume 22, Number 2, February 2000

Max Mignotte, Christophe Collet, Patrick Pérez, Patrick Bouthemy: Hybrid Genetic Optimization and Statistical Model-Based Approach for the Classification of Shadow Shapes in Sonar Imagery. 129-141 Majid Mirmehdi, Maria Petrou: Segmentation of Color Textures. 142-159 Alan L. Yuille, James M. Coughlan: Fundamental Limits of Bayesian Inference: Order Parameters and Phase Transitions for Road Tracking. 160-173 Leo Dorst, Rein van den Boomgaard: The Support Cone: A Representational Tool for the Analysis of Boundaries and Their Interactions. 174-178 Shigeru Ando: Image Field Categorization and Edge/Corner Detection from Gradient Covariance. 179-190 Nicholas J. Redding: Implicit Polynomials, Orthogonal Distance Regression, and the Closest Point on a Curve. 191-199 Steven S. Beauchemin, John L. Barron: The Frequency Structure of One-Dimensional Occluding Image Signals. 200-206 Naonori Ueda: Optimal Linear Combination of Neural Networks for Improving Classification Performance. 207-215 Pui-Kuen Ho, Ronald Chung: Stereo-Motion with Stereo and Motion in Complement. 215-220 Volume 22, Number 3, March 2000

Kevin W. Bowyer: Editorial. 225 Herbert Freeman: Obituary Jean Claude Simon 1924 to 2000. 226

Yassin M. Y. Hasan, Lina J. Karam: Morphological Reversible Contour Representation. 227-240 Andrew Hill, Christopher J. Taylor, Alan D. Brett: A Framework for Automatic Landmark Identification Using a New Method of Nonrigid Correspondence. 241-251 Shigeru Ando: Consistent Gradient Operators. 252-265 Nikos Paragios, Rachid Deriche: Geodesic Active Contours and Level Sets for the Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects. 266-280 Balázs Kégl, Adam Krzyzak, Tamás Linder, Kenneth Zeger: Learning and Design of Principal Curves. 281-297 Michael M. Blane, Zhibin Lei, Hakan Çivi, David B. Cooper: The 3L Algorithm for Fitting Implicit Polynomial Curves and Surfaces to Data. 298-313 Shinichiro Omachi, Fang Sun, Hirotomo Aso: A Noise-Adaptive Discriminant Function and Its Application to Blurred Machine-Printed Kanji Recognition. 314-319 Volume 22, Number 4, April 2000

Kevin W. Bowyer: Editorial. 321 Marco La Cascia, Stan Sclaroff, Vassilis Athitsos: Fast, Reliable Head Tracking under Varying Illumination: An Approach Based on Registration of Texture-Mapped 3D Models. 322-336 Aaron D. Lanterman, Ulf Grenander, Michael I. Miller: Bayesian Segmentation via Asymptotic Partition Functions. 337-347 Shai Avidan, Amnon Shashua: Trajectory Triangulation: 3D Reconstruction of Moving Points from a Monocular Image Sequence. 348-357 Joon Hee Han, Jong Seung Park: Contour Matching Using Epipolar Geometry. 358-370 Xiaolin Li, Marc Parizeau, Réjean Plamondon: Training Hidden Markov Models with Multiple Observations-A Combinatorial Method. 371-377 Arthur Filippidis, Lakhmi C. Jain, N. S. Martin: Fusion of Intelligent Agents for the Detection of Aircraft in SAR Images. 378-384 Yu Zhong, HongJiang Zhang, Anil K. Jain: Automatic Caption Localization in Compressed Video. 385-392 Yiannis Xirouhakis, Anastasios Delopoulos: Least Squares Estimation of 3D Shape and Motion of Rigid Objects from Their Orthographic Projections. 393-399 Jaehwa Park, Venu Govindaraju, Sargur N. Srihari: OCR in a Hierarchical Feature Space. 400-407 Jovisa D. Zunic, Natasa Sladoje: Efficiency of Characterizing Ellipses and Ellipsoids by Discrete Moments. 407-414 Nikos Paragios, Rachid Deriche: Corrections to 'Geodesic Active Contours and Level Sets for the Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects'. 415 Volume 22, Number 5, May 2000

Jian Chen, Yoshinobu Sato, Shinichi Tamura: Orientation Space Filtering for Multiple Orientation Line Segmentation. 417-429 Klaus Köster, Michael Spann: MIR: An Approach to Robust Clustering-Application to Range Image Segmentation. 430-444 Baba C. Vemuri, Yanlin Guo: Snake Pedals: Compact and Versatile Geometric Models with Physics-Based Control. 445-459 Christophe Samson, Laure Blanc-Féraud, Gilles Aubert, Josiane Zerubia:

A Variational Model for Image Classification and Restoration. 460-472 Eugene M. Kleinberg: On the Algorithmic Implementation of Stochastic Discrimination. 473-490 Pei-hsiu Suen, Glenn Healey: The Analysis and Recognition of Real-World Textures in Three Dimensions. 491-503 Sudeep Sarkar, Padmanabhan Soundararajan: Supervised Learning of Large Perceptual Organization: Graph Spectral Partitioning and Learning Automata. 504-525 Leonid V. Tsap, Dmitry B. Goldgof, Sudeep Sarkar: Nonrigid Motion Analysis Based on Dynamic Refinement of Finite Element Models. 526-543 Yu Zhong, Anil K. Jain, Marie-Pierre Dubuisson-Jolly: Object Tracking Using Deformable Templates. 544-549 Volume 22, Number 6, June 2000

Kevin W. Bowyer: AE Introduction. 553 Song Chun Zhu, Xiuwen Liu, Ying Nian Wu: Exploring Texture Ensembles by Efficient Markov Chain Monte Carlo-Toward a 'Trichromacy' Theory of Texture. 554-569 Chengjun Liu, Harry Wechsler: Evolutionary Pursuit and Its Application to Face Recognition. 570-582 David W. Jacobs, Daphna Weinshall, Yoram Gdalyahu: Classification with Nonmetric Distances: Image Retrieval and Class Representation. 583-600 Derek C. Stanford, Adrian E. Raftery: Finding Curvilinear Features in Spatial Point Patterns: Principal Curve Clustering with Noise. 601-609 Chien-Ping Lu, Gregory D. Hager, Eric Mjolsness: Fast and Globally Convergent Pose Estimation from Video Images. 610-622 Rohit Lotlikar, Ravi Kothari: Fractional-Step Dimensionality Reduction. 623-627 Richard Myers, Richard C. Wilson, Edwin R. Hancock: Bayesian Graph Edit Distance. 628-635 Cheng-Lin Liu, Masaki Nakagawa: Precise Candidate Selection for Large Character Set Recognition by Confidence Evaluation. 636-642 Fernand S. Cohen, Walid S. Ibrahim, Chuchart Pintavirooj: Ordering and Parameterizing Scattered 3D Data for B-Spline Surface Approximation. 642-648 Volume 22, Number 7, July 2000

D. Gregory Arnold, Kirk Sturtz, Vincent J. Velten, Nagaraj Nandhakumar: Dominant-Subspace Invariants. 649-662 Jean-Philippe Tarel, David B. Cooper: The Complex Representation of Algebraic Curves and Its Simple Exploitation for Pose Estimation and Invariant Recognition. 663-674 C. Lawrence Zitnick, Takeo Kanade: A Cooperative Algorithm for Stereo Matching and Occlusion Detection. 675-684 John Oliensis: A New Structure-from-Motion Ambiguity. 685-700 Jennifer Pittman, C. A. Murthy: Fitting Optimal Piecewise Linear Functions Using Genetic Algorithms. 701-718 Assessing a Mixture Model for Clustering with the Integrated Completed Likelihood. 719-725 Paul L. Rosin: Fitting Superellipses. 726-732

Marcelo Bertalmío, Guillermo Sapiro, Gregory Randall: Morphing Active Contours. 733-737 Yongmei Wang, Lawrence H. Staib: Boundary Finding with Prior Shape and Smoothness Models. 738-743 Volume 22, Number 8, August 2000

Video Surveilance Robert T. Collins, Christophe Biernacki, Gilles Celeux, Alan J. Lipton, Gérard Govaert, Takeo Kanade: Introduction to the Special Section on Video Surveillance. 745-746 Chris Stauffer, W. Eric L. Grimson: Learning Patterns of Activity Using Real-Time Tracking. 747-757 Lily Lee, Raquel Romano, Gideon Stein: Monitoring Activities from Multiple Video Streams: Establishing a Common Coordinate Frame. 758-767 Robert Pless, Tomás Brodský, Yiannis Aloimonos: Detecting Independent Motion: The Statistics of Temporal Continuity. 768-773 L. Wixson: Detecting Salient Motion by Accumulating Directionally-Consistent Flow. 774-780 Ross Cutler, Larry S. Davis: Robust Real-Time Periodic Motion Detection, Analysis, and Applications. 781-796 Yann Ricquebourg, Patrick Bouthemy: Real-Time Tracking of Moving Persons by Exploiting Spatio-Temporal Image Slices. 797-808 Ismail Haritaoglu, David Harwood, Larry S. Davis: W4: Real-Time Surveillance of People and Their Activities. 809-830 Nuria Oliver, Barbara Rosario, Alex Pentland: A Bayesian Computer Vision System for Modeling Human Interactions. 831-843 Matthew Brand, Vera Kettnaker: Discovery and Segmentation of Activities in Video. 844-851 Yuri A. Ivanov, Aaron F. Bobick: Recognition of Visual Activities and Interactions by Stochastic Parsing. 852-872 Toshikazu Wada, Takashi Matsuyama: Multiobject Behavior Recognition by Event Driven Selective Attention Method. 873-887 Regular Papers Jianbo Shi, Jitendra Malik: Normalized Cuts and Image Segmentation. 888-905 Short Papers Dinggang Shen, Christos Davatzikos: An Adaptive-Focus Deformable Model Using Statistical and Geometric Information. 906-913 Jiang Yu Zheng, Akio Murata: Acquiring a Complete 3D Model from Specular Motion under the Illumination of Circular-Shaped Light Sources. 913-920 Volume 22, Number 9, September 2000

Editorial. 921-922 Daijin Kim, Sung Yang Bang: A Handwritten Numeral Character Classification Using Tolerant Rough Set. 923-937 Yoshiharu Kato, Makoto Yasuhara: Recovery of Drawing Order from Single-Stroke Handwriting Images. 938-949 Olvi L. Mangasarian, David R. Musicant: Robust Linear and Support Vector Regression. 950-955 Michael Boshra, Bir Bhanu: Predicting Performance of Object Recognition. 956-969

Claudio M. Privitera, Lawrence W. Stark: Algorithms for Defining Visual Regions-of-Interest: Comparison with Eye Fixations. 970-982 Clark F. Olson: Adaptive-Scale Filtering and Feature Detection Using Range Data. 983-991 Gideon P. Stein, Amnon Shashua: Model-Based Brightness Constraints: On Direct Estimation of Structure and Motion. 992-1015 Ben North, Andrew Blake, Michael Isard, Jens Rittscher: Learning and Classification of Complex Dynamics. 1016-1034 Short Papers Jong Hwan Lim, John J. Leonard: Mobile Robot Relocation from Echolocation Constraints. 1035-1041 Peter M. Hall, A. David Marshall, Ralph R. Martin: Merging and Splitting Eigenspace Models. 1042-1049 Luc Florack: A Spatio-Frequency Trade-Off Scale for Scale-Space Filtering. 1050-1055 Ge Cong, Bahram Parvin: Shape Recovery from Equal Thickness Contours. 1055-1061 Volume 22, Number 10, October 2000

Editorial. 1065 Janne Heikkilä: Geometric Camera Calibration Using Circular Control Points. 1066-1077 Te-Won Lee, Michael S. Lewicki, Terrence J. Sejnowski: ICA Mixture Models for Unsupervised Classification of Non-Gaussian Classes and Automatic Context Switching in Blind Signal Separation. 1078-1089 P. Jonathon Phillips, Hyeonjoon Moon, Syed A. Rizvi, Patrick J. Rauss: The FERET Evaluation Methodology for Face-Recognition Algorithms. 1090-1104 Lihi Zelnik-Manor, Michal Irani: Multi-Frame Estimation of Planar Motion. 1105-1116 Eitan Sharon, Achi Brandt, Ronen Basri: Completion Energies and Scale. 1117-1131 Nicu Sebe, Michael S. Lew, Dionysius P. Huijsmans: Toward Improved Ranking Metrics. 1132-1143 Shmuel Peleg, Benny Rousso, Alex Rav-Acha, Assaf Zomet: Mosaicing on Adaptive Manifolds. 1144-1154 Hanzhong Gu, Haruhisa Takahashi: How Bad May Learning Curves Be?. 1155-1167 Raul Sánchez-Reillo, Carmen Sanchez-Avila, Ana González-Marcos: Biometric Identification through Hand Geometry Measurements. 1168-1171 Rahul Swaminathan, Shree K. Nayar: Nonmetric Calibration of Wide-Angle Lenses and Polycameras. 1172-1178 Olivier D. Faugeras, Long Quan, Peter F. Sturm: Self-Calibration of a 1D Projective Camera and Its Application to the Self-Calibration of a 2D Projective Camera. 1179-1185 Longin Jan Latecki, Rolf Lakämper: Shape Similarity Measure Based on Correspondence of Visual Parts. 1185-1190 Harpreet S. Sawhney, Yanlin Guo, Rakesh Kumar: Independent Motion Detection in 3D Scenes. 1191-1199 Peter F. Sturm:

A Case Against Kruppa's Equations for Camera Self-Calibration. 1199-1204 Byung-Uk Lee, Chul-Min Kim, Rae-Hong Park: An Orientation Reliability Matrix for the Iterative Closest Point Algorithm. 1205-1208 Volume 22, Number 11, November 2000

Tapas Kanungo, Robert M. Haralick, Henry S. Baird, Werner Stuetzle, David Madigan: A Statistical, Nonparametric Methodology for Document Degradation Model Validation. 1209-1223 Kyong-Ho Lee, Yoon-Chul Choy, Sung-Bae Cho: Geometric Structure Analysis of Document Images: A Knowledge-Based Approach. 1224-1240 Jen-Hui Chuang, Chi-Hao Tsai, Min-Chi Ko: Skeletonization of Three-Dimensional Object Using Generalized Potential Field. 1241-1251 Xiaoyi Jiang: An Adaptive Contour Closure Algorithm and Its Experimental Evaluation. 1252-1265 Zsolt Miklós Kovács-Vajna: A Fingerprint Verification System Based on Triangular Matching and Dynamic Time Warping. 1266-1276 Wey-Shiuan Hwang, Juyang Weng: Hierarchical Discriminant Regression. 1277-1293 Wojciech Chojnacki, Michael J. Brooks, Anton van den Hengel, Darren Gawley: On the Fitting of Surfaces to Data with Covariances. 1294-1303 Yi-Kai Chen, Jhing-Fa Wang: Segmentation of Single- or Multiple-Touching Handwritten Numeral String Using Background and Foreground Analysis. 1304-1317 Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán: Mode-Finding for Mixtures of Gaussian Distributions. 1318-1323 José M. Sanchiz, Robert B. Fisher: Viewpoint Estimation in Three-Dimensional Images Taken with Perspective Range Sensors. 1324-1329 Zhengyou Zhang: A Flexible New Technique for Camera Calibration. 1330-1334 Stan Z. Li, Kap Luk Chan, Changliang Wang: Performance Evaluation of the Nearest Feature Line Method in Image Classification and Retrieval. 1335-1349 Nahum Kiryati, Alfred M. Bruckstein, H. Mizrahi: Comments on: 'Robust Line Fitting in a Noisy Image by the Method of Moments'. 1340-1341 Volume 22, Number 12, December 2000

Kevin W. Bowyer: New Editor-in-Chief Introduction. 1345 Kevin W. Bowyer: New Associate Editor Joins Editorial Board. 1347 Kevin W. Bowyer, Patrick J. Flynn: A 20th Anniversary Survey: Introduction to 'Content-Based Image Retrieval at the End of the Early Years'. 1348 Arnold W. M. Smeulders, Marcel Worring, Simone Santini, Amarnath Gupta, Ramesh Jain: Content-Based Image Retrieval at the End of the Early Years. 1349-1380 Xinquan Shen, Phil Palmer: Uncertainty Propagation and the Matching of Junctions as Feature Groupings. 1381-1395 Yee Leung, Jiang-She Zhang, Zong-Ben Xu: Clustering by Scale-Space Filtering. 1396-1410 Violet F. Leavers: Use of the Two-Dimensional Radon Transform to Generate a Taxonomy of Shape for the Characterization of Abrasive Powder Particles. 1411-1423 Maja Pantic, Léon J. M. Rothkrantz:

Automatic Analysis of Facial Expressions: The State of the Art. 1424-1445 Radu Horaud, Gabriela Csurka, David Demirdjian: Stereo Calibration from Rigid Motions. 1446-1452 Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, Dimitris N. Metaxas: Model-Based Estimation of 3D Human Motion. 1453-1459 Michael K. Reed, Peter K. Allen: Constraint-Based Sensor Planning for Scene Modeling. 1460-1467 Reginald E. Hammah, John H. Curran: Validity Measures for the Fuzzy Cluster Analysis of Orientations. 1467-1472 Volume 23, Number 1, January 2001

Rama Chellappa: Editorial. 1-2 Rama Chellappa: Introduction of New Associate Editors. 3-4 Data Mining Yee Leung, Jiang-Hong Ma, Wen-Xiu Zhang: A New Method for Mining Regression Classes in Large Data Sets. 5-21 Feature Space Reduction and Visualization Kuiyu Chang, Joydeep Ghosh: A Unified Model for Probabilistic Principal Surfaces. 22-41 Face and Gesture Recognition Raphaël Feraud, Olivier Bernier, Jean-Emmanuel Viallet, Michel Collobert: A Fast and Accurate Face Detector Based on Neural Networks. 42-53 Motion Tracking and Analysis Cor J. Veenman, Marcel J. T. Reinders, Eric Backer: Resolving Motion Correspondence for Densely Moving Points. 54-72 Camera Calibration Shai Avidan, Amnon Shashua: Threading Fundamental Matrices. 73-77 Computer Vision and Image Analysis Amit Adam, Ehud Rivlin, Ilan Shimshoni: ROR: Rejection of Outliers by Rotations. 78-84 Image Segmentation and Feature Extraction James Ze Wang, Jia Li, Robert M. Gray, Gio Wiederhold: Unsupervised Multiresolution Segmentation for Images with Low Depth of Field. 85-90 Volume 23, Number 2, February 2001

Ying-li Tian, Takeo Kanade, Jeffrey F. Cohn: Recognizing Action Units for Facial Expression Analysis. 97-115 Isaac Weiss, Manjit Ray: Model-Based Recognition of 3D Objects from Single Images. 116-128 Amnon Shashua, Tammy Riklin-Raviv: The Quotient Image: Class-Based Re-Rendering and Recognition with Varying Illuminations. 129-139 Paul D. Fiore: Efficient Linear Solution of Exterior Orientation. 140-148 Sriganesh Madhvanath, Venu Govindaraju: The Role of Holistic Paradigms in Handwritten Word Recognition. 149-164 Elizabeth Guest, Elizabeth Berry, Richard A. Baldock, Márta Fidrich, Mike A. Smith: Robust Point Correspondence Applied to Two-and Three-Dimensional Image Registration. 165-179 Mohamed Ben Hadj Rhouma, Hichem Frigui:

Self-Organization of Pulse-Coupled Oscillators with Application to Clustering. 180-195 Luis Talavera, Javier Béjar: Generality-Based Conceptual Clustering with Probabilistic Concepts. 196-206 Short Papers Giuseppe Boccignone, Mario Ferraro, Terry Caelli: Encoding Visual Information Using Anisotropic Transformations. 207-211 Long Quan: Two-Way Ambiguity in 2D Projective Reconstruction from Three Uncalibrated 1D Images. 212-216 Nuno Vasconcelos, Andrew Lippman: Empirical Bayesian Motion Segmentation. 217-221 Trevor Darrell, Michele Covell: Correspondence with Cumulative Similiarity Transforms. 222-227 Aleix M. Martínez, Avinash C. Kak: PCA versus LDA. 228-233 Sarunas Raudys, Ausra Saudargiene: First-Order Tree-Type Dependence between Variables and Classification Performance. 233-239 Volume 23, Number 3, March 2001

Rama Chellappa: Introduction of New Associate Editors. 241 Song Mao, Tapas Kanungo: Empirical Performance Evaluation Methodology and Its Application to Page Segmentation Algorithms. 242-256 Aaron F. Bobick, James W. Davis: The Recognition of Human Movement Using Temporal Templates. 257-267 Takushi Sogo, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Toru Ishida: Acquisition and Propagation of Spatial Constraints Based on Qualitative Information. 268-278 Shmuel Peleg, Moshe Ben-Ezra, Yael Pritch: Omnistereo: Panoramic Stereo Imaging. 279-290 James H. Elder, Richard M. Goldberg: Image Editing in the Contour Domain. 291-296 Philip H. S. Torr, Richard Szeliski, P. Anandan: An Integrated Bayesian Approach to Layer Extraction from Image Sequences. 297-303 A. David Marshall, Gábor Lukács, Ralph R. Martin: Robust Segmentation of Primitives from Range Data in the Presence of Geometric Degeneracy. 304-314 Shinichiro Omachi, Masaki Inoue, Hirotomo Aso: Structure Extraction from Decorated Characters Using Multiscale Images. 315-322 Petr Slavík, Venu Govindaraju: Equivalence of Different Methods for Slant and Skew Corrections in Word Recognition Applications. 323-326 Ioannis Patras, Emile A. Hendriks, Reginald L. Lagendijk: Video Segmentation by MAP Labeling of Watershed Segments. 326-332 Volume 23, Number 4, April 2001

José L. Marroquín, Fernando A. Velasco, Mariano Rivera, Miguel Nakamura: Gauss-Markov Measure Field Models for Low-Level Vision. 337-348 Anuj Mohan, Constantine Papageorgiou, Tomaso Poggio: Example-Based Object Detection in Images by Components. 349-361 Jose A. García, Joaquín Fernández-Valdivia, Xose R. Fernández-Vidal, Rosa Rodriguez-Sánchez: Information Theoretic Measure for Visual Target Distinctness. 362-383 Toru Wakahara, Yoshimasa Kimura, Akira Tomono:

Affine-Invariant Recognition of Gray-Scale Characters Using Global Affine Transformation Correlation. 384-395 Zheng Rong Yang, Mark Zwolinski: Mutual Information Theory for Adaptive Mixture Models. 396-403 Carey E. Priebe: Olfactory Classification via Interpoint Distance Analysis. 404-413 Short Papers Tom Chau: Marginal Maximum Entropy Partitioning Yields Asymptotically Consistent Probability Density Functions. 414-417 Fredrik Kahl, Anders Heyden, Long Quan: Minimal Projective Reconstruction Including Missing Data. 418-424 Ulf Grenander, Anuj Srivastava: Probability Models for Clutter in Natural Images. 424-429 Volume 23, Number 5, May 2001

Nicolae Duta, Anil K. Jain, Marie-Pierre Dubuisson-Jolly: Automatic Construction of 2D Shape Models. 433-446 Stiliyan Kalitzin, Joes Staal, Bart M. ter Haar Romeny, Max A. Viergever: A Computational Method for Segmenting Topological Point-Sets and Application to Image Analysis. 447-459 Gabor T. Herman, Bruno M. Carvalho: Multiseeded Segmentation Using Fuzzy Connectedness. 460-474 Stan Sclaroff, Lifeng Liu: Deformable Shape Detection and Description via Model-Based Region Grouping. 475-489 Hemant Tagare, Kentaro Toyama, Jonathan G. Wang: A Maximum-Likelihood Strategy for Directing Attention during Visual Search. 490-500 Sanjay Noronha, Ramakant Nevatia: Detection and Modeling of Buildings from Multiple Aerial Images. 501-518 Ronen Basri, David W. Jacobs: Projective Alignment with Regions. 519-527 Short Papers Michael Werman, Daniel Keren: A Bayesian Method for Fitting Parametric and Nonparametric Models to Noisy Data. 528-534 Philip L. Worthington, Edwin R. Hancock: Object Recognition Using Shape-from-Shading. 535-542 Volume 23, Number 6, June 2001

Rama Chellappa: Introduction of New Associate Editors. 545 John Oliensis, Yakup Genc: Fast and Accurate Algorithms for Projective Multi-Image Structure from Motion. 546-559 Christopher Rasmussen, Gregory D. Hager: Probabilistic Data Association Methods for Tracking Complex Visual Objects. 560-576 Ajith H. Gunatilaka, Brian A. Baertlein: Feature-Level and Decision-Level Fusion of Noncoincidently Sampled Sensors for Land Mine Detection. 577-589 José Manuel Peña, José Antonio Lozano, Pedro Larrañaga, Iñaki Inza: Dimensionality Reduction in Unsupervised Learning of Conditional Gaussian Networks. 590-603 Paulo R. S. Mendonça, Kwan-Yee Kenneth Wong, Roberto Cipolla: Epipolar Geometry from Profiles under Circular Motion. 604-616 Ragini Choudhury, J. B. Srivastava, Santanu Chaudhury: Reconstruction-Based Recognition of Scenes with Translationally Repeated Quadrics. 617-632

Mathews Jacob, Thierry Blu, Michael Unser: An Exact Method for Computing the Area Moments of Wavelet and Spline Curves. 633-642 Athinodoros S. Georghiades, Peter N. Belhumeur, David J. Kriegman: From Few to Many: Illumination Cone Models for Face Recognition under Variable Lighting and Pose. 643-660 Horst W. Haussecker, David J. Fleet: Computing Optical Flow with Physical Models of Brightness Variation. 661-673 Short Papers Mu-Chun Su, Chien-Hsing Chou: A Modified Version of the K-Means Algorithm with a Distance Based on Cluster Symmetry. 674-680 Timothy F. Cootes, Gareth J. Edwards, Christopher J. Taylor: Active Appearance Models. 681-685 Stan Sclaroff, Lifeng Liu: Corrections to 'Deformable Shape Detection and Description via Model-Based Region Grouping'. 685 Volume 23, Number 7, July 2001

Punam K. Saha, Jayaram K. Udupa: Optimum Image Thresholding via Class Uncertainty and Region Homogeneity. 689-706 Alfredo Ferro, Giovanni Gallo, Rosalba Giugno, Alfredo Pulvirenti: Best-Match Retrieval for Structured Images. 707-718 Jisheng Liang, Ihsin T. Phillips, Robert M. Haralick: An Optimization Methodology for Document Structure Extraction on Latin Character Documents. 719-734 Anastasios Tefas, Constantine Kotropoulos, Ioannis Pitas: Using Support Vector Machines to Enhance the Performance of Elastic Graph Matching for Frontal Face Authentication. 735-746 Daniel Keren, Margarita Osadchy, Craig Gotsman: Antifaces: A Novel, Fast Method for Image Detection. 747-761 Short Papers Marco Loog, Robert P. W. Duin, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach: Multiclass Linear Dimension Reduction by Weighted Pairwise Fisher Criteria. 762-766 David Jelinek, Camillo J. Taylor: Reconstruction of Linearly Parameterized Models from Single Images with a Camera of Unknown Focal Length. 767-773 Yan Xiong, Qiang Huo, Chorkin Chan: A Discrete Contextual Stochastic Model for the Offline Recognition of Handwritten Chinese Characters. 774-782 Volume 23, Number 8, August 2001

Rama Chellappa: Introduction of New Associate Editors. 785 Ming Li, Hon-Yuen Tam: Hybrid Evolutionary Search Method Based on Clusters. 786-799 Yining Deng, B. S. Manjunath: Unsupervised Segmentation of Color-Texture Regions in Images and Video. 800-810 Alexander Kadyrov, Maria Petrou: The Trace Transform and Its Applications. 811-828 Chi-Keung Tang, Gérard G. Medioni, Mi-Suen Lee: N-Dimensional Tensor Voting and Application to Epipolar Geometry Estimation. 829-844 John A. Rushing, Heggere S. Ranganath, Thomas H. Hinke, Sara J. Graves: Using Association Rules as Texture Features. 845-858 Ata Kabán, Mark Girolami: A Combined Latent Class and Trait Model for the Analysis and Visualization of Discrete Data. 859-872 Gérard G. Medioni, Isaac Cohen, François Brémond, Somboon Hongeng, Ramakant Nevatia: Event Detection and Analysis from Video Streams. 873-889

Short Papers Eric Jones, Paul Runkle, Nilanjan Dasgupta, Luise Couchman, Lawrence Carin: Genetic Algorithm Wavelet Design for Signal Classification. 890-895 Jie Wei, Ze-Nian Li: On Active Camera Control and Camera Motion Recovery with Foveate Wavelet Transform. 896-903 Nageswara S. V. Rao: On Fusers that Perform Better than Best Sensor. 904-909 Stephen J. Roberts, Christopher Holmes, Dave Denison: Minimum-Entropy Data Partitioning Using Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo. 909-914 Yufei Zhang, Yee-Hong Yang: Multiple Illuminant Direction Detection with Application to Image Synthesis. 915-920 Amnon Shashua, Yonatan Wexler: Q-Warping: Direct Computation of Quadratic Reference Surfaces. 920-925 Volume 23, Number 9, September 2001

B. John Oommen, R. K. S. Loke: On the Pattern Recognition of Noisy Subsequence Trees. 929-946 James Ze Wang, Jia Li, Gio Wiederhold: SIMPLIcity: Semantics-Sensitive Integrated Matching for Picture LIbraries. 947-963 James McNames: A Fast Nearest-Neighbor Algorithm Based on a Principal Axis Search Tree. 964-976 Raffaele Cappelli, Dario Maio, Davide Maltoni: Multispace KL for Pattern Representation and Classification. 977-996 Laurent Bréhélin, Olivier Gascuel, Gilles Caraux: Hidden Markov Models with Patterns to Learn Boolean Vector Sequences and Application to the Built-In Self-Test for Integrated Circuits. 997-1008 John T. Favata: Offline General Handwritten Word Recognition Using an Approximate BEAM Matching Algorithm. 1009-1021 Short Papers Mark W. Powell, Sudeep Sarkar, Dmitry B. Goldgof: A Simple Strategy for Calibrating the Geometry of Light Sources. 1022-1027 Samuel D. Fenster, John R. Kender: Sectored Snakes: Evaluating Learned-Energy Segmentations. 1028-1034 Joost van de Weijer, Lucas J. van Vliet, Piet W. Verbeek, Michael van Ginkel: Curvature Estimation in Oriented Patterns Using Curvilinear Models Applied to Gradient Vector Fields. 1035-1042 Theodore Lim, Jonathan R. Corney, Doug E. R. Clark: Laminae-Based Feature Recognition. 1043-1048 Volume 23, Number 10, October 2001

Graph Algorithms in Computer Vision Sven J. Dickinson, Marcello Pelillo, Ramin Zabih: Introduction to the Special Section on Graph Algorithms in Computer Vision. 1049-1052 Yoram Gdalyahu, Daphna Weinshall, Michael Werman: Self-Organization in Vision: Stochastic Clustering for Image Segmentation, Perceptual Grouping, and Image Database Organization. 1053-1074 Ian Jermyn, Hiroshi Ishikawa: Globally Optimal Regions and Boundaries as Minimum Ratio Weight Cycles. 1075-1088 Stefano Berretti, Alberto Del Bimbo, Enrico Vicario: Efficient Matching and Indexing of Graph Models in Content-Based Retrieval. 1089-1105 Jianzhuang Liu, Yong Tsui Lee:

A Graph-Based Method for Face Identification from a Single 2D Line Drawing. 1106-1119 Bin Luo, Edwin R. Hancock: Structural Graph Matching Using the EM Algorithm and Singular Value Decomposition. 1120-1136 Josep Lladós, Enric Martí, Juan José Villanueva: Symbol Recognition by Error-Tolerant Subgraph Matching between Region Adjacency Graphs. 1137-1143 Xiaoyi Jiang, Andreas Münger, Horst Bunke: On Median Graphs: Properties, Algorithms, and Applications. 1144-1151 Regular Papers Mahmoud I. Khalil, Mohamed M. Bayoumi: A Dyadic Wavelet Affine Invariant Function for 2D Shape Recognition. 1152-1164 Andrew W. Senior: A Combination Fingerprint Classifier. 1165-1174 Rosalind W. Picard, E. Vyzas, Jennifer Healey: Toward Machine Emotional Intelligence: Analysis of Affective Physiological State. 1175-1191 Short Papers Yong Zhu, Tieniu Tan, Yunhong Wang: Font Recognition Based on Global Texture Analysis. 1192-1200 J. Park, James M. Keller: Snakes on the Watershed. 1201-1205 Volume 23, Number 11, November 2001

Papers Graham D. Finlayson, Steven D. Hordley, Paul M. Hubel: Color by Correlation: A Simple, Unifying Framework for Color Constancy. 1209-1221 Yuri Boykov, Olga Veksler, Ramin Zabih: Fast Approximate Energy Minimization via Graph Cuts. 1222-1239 Seong-Whan Lee, Dae-Seok Ryu: Parameter-Free Geometric Document Layout Analysis. 1240-1256 Ko Nishino, Yoichi Sato, Katsushi Ikeuchi: Eigen-Texture Method: Appearance Compression and Synthesis Based on a 3D Model. 1257-1265 Matthew J. Clarkson, Daniel Rueckert, Derek L. G. Hill, David J. Hawkes: Using Photo-Consistency to Register 2D Optical Images of the Human Face to a 3D Surface Model. 1266-1280 Mark A. Ruzon, Carlo Tomasi: Edge, Junction, and Corner Detection Using Color Distributions. 1281-1295 Gunilla Borgefors, Giuliana Ramella, Gabriella Sanniti di Baja: Hierarchical Decomposition of Multiscale Skeletons. 1296-1312 Pierre Soille, Hugues Talbot: Directional Morphological Filtering. 1313-1329 Short Papers Lin Zhou, Chandra Kambhamettu, Dmitry B. Goldgof, Kannappan Palaniappan, Frederick Hasler: Tracking Nonrigid Motion and Structure from 2D Satellite Cloud Images without Correspondences. 1330-1336 Volume 23, Number 12, December 2001

Introduction of New Associate Editors Rama Chellappa: Introduction of New Associate Editors. 1337 Papers Jan-Mark Geusebroek, Rein van den Boomgaard, Arnold W. M. Smeulders, Hugo Geerts: Color Invariance. 1338-1350 Peter Meer, Bogdan Georgescu: Edge Detection with Embedded Confidence. 1351-1365

Ming Tang, Songde Ma: General Scheme of Region Competition Based on Scale Space. 1366-1378 Christopher Raphael: Coarse-to-Fine Dynamic Programming. 1379-1390 Charles Wiles, Atsuto Maki, Natsuko Matsuda: Hyperpatches for 3D Model Acquisition and Tracking. 1391-1403 Behrooz Kamgar-Parsi, Behzad Kamgar-Parsi, Anil K. Jain, Judith E. Dayhoff: Aircraft Detection: A Case Study in Using Human Similarity Measure. 1404-1414 Gerriet Backer, Bärbel Mertsching, Maik Bollmann: Data- and Model-Driven Gaze Control for an Active-Vision System. 1415-1429 Guillermo Ayala, Juan Domingo: Spatial Size Distributions: Applications to Shape and Texture Analysis. 1430-1442 Short Papers Yuan Yan Tang, Feng Yang, Jiming Liu: Basic Processes of Chinese Character Based on Cubic B-Spline Wavelet Transform. 1443-1448 Jochen Triesch, Christoph von der Malsburg: A System for Person-Independent Hand Posture Recognition against Complex Backgrounds. 1449-1453 Jinhai Cai, Zhi-Qiang Liu: Hidden Markov Models with Spectral Features for 2D Shape Recognition. 1454-1458 Eraldo Ribeiro, Edwin R. Hancock: Shape from Periodic Texture Using the Eigenvectors of Local Affine Distortion. 1459-1465 Volume 24, Number 1, January 2002

Papers Dong-Gyu Sim, Rae-Hong Park, Rin-Chul Kim, Sang Uk Lee, Ihn-Cheol Kim: Integrated Position Estimation Using Aerial Image Sequences. 1-18 Quang-Tuan Luong, Pascal Fua, Yvan G. Leclerc: The Radiometry of Multiple Images. 19-33 Ming-Hsuan Yang, David J. Kriegman, Narendra Ahuja: Detecting Faces in Images: A Survey. 34-58 Balázs Kégl, Adam Krzyzak: Piecewise Linear Skeletonization Using Principal Curves. 59-74 Hai Tao, Harpreet S. Sawhney, Rakesh Kumar: Object Tracking with Bayesian Estimation of Dynamic Layer Representations. 75-89 Gregory C. Sharp, Sang Wook Lee, David K. Wehe: ICP Registration Using Invariant Features. 90-102 Juan-Antonio Fernandez-Madrigal, Javier Gonzalez: Multihierarchical Graph Search. 103-113 Georgios Papaioannou, Evaggelia-Aggeliki Karabassi, Theoharis Theoharis: Reconstruction of Three-Dimensional Objects through Matching of Their Parts. 114-124 Short Papers Mohammed Yeasin: Optical Flow in Log-Mapped Image Plane-A New Approach. 125-131 Zhongkang Lu, Zheru Chi, Wan-Chi Siu: Extraction and Optimization of B-Spline PBD Templates for Recognition of Connected Handwritten Digit Strings. 132-139 Ronaldo Fumio Hashimoto, Junior Barrera: A Note on Park and Chin's Algorithm. 139-144 Volume 24, Number 2, February 2002

Papers Joachim Denzler, Christopher M. Brown: Information Theoretic Sensor Data Selection for Active Object Recognition and State Estimation. 145-157 Erhan Gokcay, José Carlos Príncipe: Information Theoretic Clustering. 158-171 Mounim A. El-Yacoubi, Michel Gilloux, Jean-Michel Bertille: A Statistical Approach for Phrase Location and Recognition within a Text Line: An Application to Street Name Recognition. 172-188 Guy Mayraz, Geoffrey E. Hinton: Recognizing Handwritten Digits Using Hierarchical Products of Experts. 189-197 Iain Matthews, Timothy F. Cootes, J. Andrew Bangham, Stephen Cox, Richard Harvey: Extraction of Visual Features for Lipreading. 198-213 Lihi Zelnik-Manor, Michal Irani: Multiview Constraints on Homographies. 214-223 Joshua Gluckman, Shree K. Nayar: Rectified Catadioptric Stereo Sensors. 224-236 Guilherme N. DeSouza, Avinash C. Kak: Vision for Mobile Robot Navigation: A Survey. 237-267 Short Papers Tristrom Cooke: Two Variations on Fisher's Linear Discriminant for Pattern Recognition. 268-273 Luís G. Rueda, B. John Oommen: On Optimal Pairwise Linear Classifiers for Normal Distributions: The Two-Dimensional Case. 274-280 Ludmila Kuncheva: A Theoretical Study on Six Classifier Fusion Strategies. 281-286 Volume 24, Number 3, March 2002

Papers Tin Kam Ho, Mitra Basu: Complexity Measures of Supervised Classification Problems. 289-300 Pabitra Mitra, C. A. Murthy, Sankar K. Pal: Unsupervised Feature Selection Using Feature Similarity. 301-312 Mario E. Munich, Pietro Perona: Visual Input for Pen-Based Computers. 313-328 Scott D. Connell, Anil K. Jain: Writer Adaptation for Online Handwriting Recognition. 329-346 Ali Can, Charles V. Stewart, Badrinath Roysam, Howard L. Tanenbaum: A Feature-Based, Robust, Hierarchical Algorithm for Registering Pairs of Images of the Curved Human Retina. 347-364 Thomas Corpetti, Étienne Mémin, Patrick Pérez: Dense Estimation of Fluid Flows. 365-380 Mário A. T. Figueiredo, Anil K. Jain: Unsupervised Learning of Finite Mixture Models. 381-396 Short Papers Graziano Chesi, Andrea Garulli, Antonio Vicino, Roberto Cipolla: Estimating the Fundamental Matrix via Constrained Least-Squares: A Convex Approach. 397-401 Dario Maio, Davide Maltoni, Raffaele Cappelli, James L. Wayman, Anil K. Jain: FVC2000: Fingerprint Verification Competition. 402-412 Ali Can, Charles V. Stewart, Badrinath Roysam, Howard L. Tanenbaum: A Feature-Based Technique for Joint Linear Estimation of High-Order Image-to-Mosaic Transformations: Mosaicing the Curved Human Retina. 412-419 Albert Ali Salah, Ethem Alpaydin, Lale Akarun:

A Selective Attention-Based Method for Visual Pattern Recognition with Application to Handwritten Digit Recognition and Face Recognition. 420-425 Mårten Björkman, Jan-Olof Eklundh: Real-Time Epipolar Geometry Estimation of Binocular Stereo Heads. 425-432 Volume 24, Number 4, April 2002

Papers Ruth Grossmann, Nahum Kiryati, Ron Kimmel: Computational Surface Flattening: A Voxel-Based Approach. 433-441 Andreas Lanitis, Christopher J. Taylor, Timothy F. Cootes: Toward Automatic Simulation of Aging Effects on Face Images. 442-455 Lluís Ros, Federico Thomas: Overcoming Superstrictness in Line Drawing Interpretation. 456-466 Xiaojuan Feng, Christopher K. I. Williams, Stephen N. Felderhof: Combining Belief Networks and Neural Networks for Scene Segmentation. 467-483 Arnold Meijster, Michael H. F. Wilkinson: A Comparison of Algorithms for Connected Set Openings and Closings. 484-494 Michael A. Greenspan: Geometric Probing of Dense Range Data. 495-508 Serge Belongie, Jitendra Malik, Jan Puzicha: Shape Matching and Object Recognition Using Shape Contexts. 509-522 Alessandro Chiuso, Paolo Favaro, Hailin Jin, Stefano Soatto: Structure from Motion Causally Integrated Over Time. 523-535 Maureen Clerc, Stéphane Mallat: The Texture Gradient Equation for Recovering Shape from Texture. 536-549 Short Papers Z. Y. Hu, F. C. Wu: A Note on the Number of Solutions of the Noncoplanar P4P Problem. 550-555 Daniel S. Yeung, Xizhao Wang: Improving Performance of Similarity-Based Clustering by Feature Weight Learning. 556-561 Zhaohui Sun, A. Murat Tekalp, Nassir Navab, Visvanathan Ramesh: Interactive Optimization of 3D Shape and 2D Correspondence Using Multiple Geometric Constraints via POCS. 562-569 Fabio Dell'Acqua, Robert B. Fisher: Reconstruction of Planar Surfaces Behind Occlusions in Range Images. 569-575 Volume 24, Number 5, May 2002

Editorial Rama Chellappa, David J. Kriegman: State of the Transactions. 577-578 Papers Toshinori Watanabe, Ken Sugawara, Hiroshi Sugihara: A New Pattern Representation Scheme Using Data Compression. 579-590 Alejandro Murua: Upper Bounds for Error Rates of Linear Combinations of Classifiers. 591-602 Dorin Comaniciu, Peter Meer: Mean Shift: A Robust Approach Toward Feature Space Analysis. 603-619 Sung Joon Ahn, Wolfgang Rauh, Hyung Suck Cho, Hans-Jürgen Warnecke: Orthogonal Distance Fitting of Implicit Curves and Surfaces. 620-638 Peter Tiño, Ian T. Nabney: Hierarchical GTM: Constructing Localized Nonlinear Projection Manifolds in a Principled Way. 639-656

Zhuowen Tu, Song Chun Zhu: Image Segmentation by Data-Driven Markov Chain Monte Carlo. 657-673 Kuntal Sengupta, Prabir Burman: A Curve Fitting Problem and Its Application in Modeling Objects in Monocular Image Sequences. 674-686 Short Papers Christopher Geyer, Konstantinos Daniilidis: Paracatadioptric Camera Calibration. 687-695 Rein-Lien Hsu, Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, Anil K. Jain: Face Detection in Color Images. 696-706 Baback Moghaddam, Ming-Hsuan Yang: Learning Gender with Support Faces. 707-711 Keng-Pang Lim, Amitabha Das, Man-Nang Chong: Estimation of Occlusion and Dense Motion Fields in a Bidirectional Bayesian Framework. 712-718 Volume 24, Number 6, June 2002

Erratum Correction to "Unsupervised Feature Selection Using Feature Similarity". 721 Papers George Tambouratzis: Improving the Clustering Performance of the Scanning n-Tuple Method by Using Self-Supervised Algorithms to Introduce Subclasses. 722-733 Pabitra Mitra, C. A. Murthy, Sankar K. Pal: Density-Based Multiscale Data Condensation. 734-747 Aleix M. Martínez: Recognizing Imprecisely Localized, Partially Occluded, and Expression Variant Faces from a Single Sample per Class. 748-763 Yongsheng Gao, Maylor K. H. Leung: Face Recognition Using Line Edge Map. 764-779 Baback Moghaddam: Principal Manifolds and Probabilistic Subspaces for Visual Recognition. 780-788 Venu Govindaraju, Petr Slavík, Hanhong Xue: Use of Lexicon Density in Evaluating Word Recognizers. 789-800 Nafiz Arica, Fatos T. Yarman-Vural: Optical Character Recognition for Cursive Handwriting. 801-813 Douglas DeCarlo, Dimitris N. Metaxas: Adjusting Shape Parameters Using Model-Based Optical Flow Residuals. 814-823 Mi-Suen Lee, Gérard G. Medioni, Philippos Mordohai: Inference of Segmented Overapping Surfaces from Binocular Stereo. 824-837 Short Papers Chew Lim Tan, Weihua Huang, Zhaohui Yu, Yi Xu: Imaged Document Text Retrieval Without OCR. 838-844 Danny Barash: A Fundamental Relationship between Bilateral Filtering, Adaptive Smoothing, and the Nonlinear Diffusion Equation. 844-847 Theo Gevers: Adaptive Image Segmentation by Combining Photometric Invariant Region and Edge Information. 848-852 Clark F. Olson: Maximum-Likelihood Image Matching. 853-857 Chi-Keung Tang, Gérard G. Medioni: Curvature-Augmented Tensor Voting for Shape Inference from Noisy 3D Data. 858-864 Volume 24, Number 7, July 2002

Papers Andrew J. Davison, David W. Murray: Simultaneous Localization and Map-Building Using Active Vision. 865-880 Tapas Kanungo, David M. Mount, Nathan S. Netanyahu, Christine D. Piatko, Ruth Silverman, Angela Y. Wu: An Efficient k-Means Clustering Algorithm: Analysis and Implementation. 881-892 Nicola Giusti, Francesco Masulli, Alessandro Sperduti: Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of a Two-Stage System for Classification. 893-904 Asker M. Bazen, Sabih H. Gerez: Systematic Methods for the Computation of the Directional Fields and Singular Points of Fingerprints. 905-919 Jaehwa Park: An Adaptive Approach to Offline Handwritten Word Recognition. 920-931 Tom Drummond, Roberto Cipolla: Real-Time Visual Tracking of Complex Structures. 932-946 Abdol-Reza Mansouri: Region Tracking via Level Set PDEs without Motion Computation. 947-961 Thomas Bülow, Reinhard Klette: Digital Curves in 3D Space and a Linear-Time Length Estimation Algorithm. 962-970 Timo Ojala, Matti Pietikäinen, Topi Mäenpää: Multiresolution Gray-Scale and Rotation Invariant Texture Classification with Local Binary Patterns. 971-987 Short Papers Michaël A. van Wyk, Tariq S. Durrani, Barend J. van Wyk: A RKHS Interpolator-Based Graph Matching Algorithm. 988-995 Frédéric Jurie, Michel Dhome: Hyperplane Approximation for Template Matching. 996-1000 Song Chun Zhu, Xiuwen Liu: Learning in Gibbsian Fields: How Accurate and How Fast Can It Be? 1001-1006 Erratum Ming Tang, Songde Ma: Corrections to "General Scheme of Region Competition Based on Scale Space". 1007 Volume 24, Number 8, August 2002

Introduction of New Associate Editors Rama Chellappa, David J. Kriegman: Introduction of New Associate Editors. 1009 Papers Sharath Pankanti, Salil Prabhakar, Anil K. Jain: On the Individuality of Fingerprints. 1010-1025 Chad Carson, Serge Belongie, Hayit Greenspan, Jitendra Malik: Blobworld: Image Segmentation Using Expectation-Maximization and Its Application to Image Querying. 1026-1038 Emma Regentova, Shahram Latifi, Shulan Deng, Dongsheng Yao: An Algorithm with Reduced Operations for Connected Components Detection in ITU-T Group 3/4 Coded Images. 1039-1047 Jiqiang Song, Feng Su, Chiew-Lan Tai, Shijie Cai: An Object-Oriented Progressive-Simplification-Based Vectorization System for Engineering Drawings: Model, Algorithm, and Performance. 1048-1060 Ming-Hsuan Yang, Narendra Ahuja, Mark Tabb: Extraction of 2D Motion Trajectories and Its Application to Hand Gesture Recognition. 1061-1074 Wai Lam, Chi-Kin Keung, Danyu Liu: Discovering Useful Concept Prototypes for Classification Based on Filtering and Abstraction. 1075-1090 Jezekiel Ben-Arie, Zhiqian Wang, Purvin Pandit, ShyamSundar Rajaram: Human Activity Recognition Using Multidimensional Indexing. 1091-1104 Sameh M. Yamany, Aly A. Farag:

Surfacing Signatures: An Orientation Independent Free-Form Surface Representation Scheme for the Purpose of Objects Registration and Matching. 1105-1120 Short Papers Xudong Jiang, Wee Ser: Online Fingerprint Template Improvement. 1121-1126 Geoffrey Egnal, Richard P. Wildes: Detecting Binocular Half-Occlusions: Empirical Comparisons of Five Approaches. 1127-1133 Kwok-Wai Cheung, Dit-Yan Yeung, Roland T. Chin: Bidirectional Deformable Matching with Application to Handwritten Character Extraction. 1133-1139 Maxime Lhuillier, Long Quan: Match Propogation for Image-Based Modeling and Rendering. 1140-1146 Jiebo Luo, Stephen P. Etz, Robert T. Gray: Normalized Kemeny and Snell Distance: A Novel Metric for Quantitative Evaluation of Rank-Order Similarity of Images. 1147-1151 Volume 24, Number 9, September 2002

Papers Avinash Jain, Pierre Moulin, Michael I. Miller, Kannan Ramchandran: Information-Theoretic Bounds on Target Recognition Performance Based on Degraded Image Data. 1153-1166 Simon Baker, Takeo Kanade: Limits on Super-Resolution and How to Break Them. 1167-1183 Gunnar Rätsch, Sebastian Mika, Bernhard Schölkopf, Klaus-Robert Müller: Constructing Boosting Algorithms from SVMs: An Application to One-Class Classification. 1184-1199 Anuj Srivastava, Xiuwen Liu, Ulf Grenander: Universal Analytical Forms for Modeling Image Probabilities. 1200-1214 Henrik Aanæs, Rune Fisker, Kalle Åström, Jens Michael Carstensen: Robust Factorization. 1215-1225 Antonio B. Torralba, Aude Oliva: Depth Estimation from Image Structure. 1226-1238 Helena Cristina da Gama Leitão, Jorge Stolfi: A Multiscale Method for the Reassembly of Two-Dimensional Fragmented Objects. 1239-1251 Yixin Chen, James Ze Wang: A Region-Based Fuzzy Feature Matching Approach to Content-Based Image Retrieval. 1252-1267 Short Papers Ezio Malis, Roberto Cipolla: Camera Self-Calibration from Unknown Planar Structures Enforcing the Multiview Constraints between Collineations. 1268-1272 Cor J. Veenman, Marcel J. T. Reinders, Eric Backer: A Maximum Variance Cluster Algorithm. 1273-1280 Carlotta Domeniconi, Jing Peng, Dimitrios Gunopulos: Locally Adaptive Metric Nearest-Neighbor Classification. 1281-1285 Weichuan Yu, Gerald Sommer, Steven S. Beauchemin, Konstantinos Daniilidis: Oriented Structure of the Occlusion Distortion: Is It Reliable? 1286-1290 Jien Kato, Toyohide Watanabe, Sébastien Joga, Jens Rittscher, Andrew Blake: An HMM-Based Segmentation Method for Traffic Monitoring Movies. 1291-1296 Volume 24, Number 10, October 2002

Introduction of New Associate Editor Rama Chellappa, David J. Kriegman: Introduction of New Associate Editor. 1297 Papers Giuseppe Boccignone, Mario Ferraro, Terry Caelli: Generalized Spatio-Chromatic Diffusion. 1298-1309

Dimitris N. Metaxas, Ioannis A. Kakadiaris: Elastically Adaptive Deformable Models. 1310-1321 Ravi Ramamoorthi: Analytic PCA Construction for Theoretical Analysis of Lighting Variability in Images of a Lambertian Object. 1322-1333 Yoav Y. Schechner, Shree K. Nayar: Generalized Mosaicing: Wide Field of View Multispectral Imaging. 1334-1348 Daniel Freedman: Efficient Simplicial Reconstructions of Manifolds from Their Samples. 1349-1357 Huong Quynh Dinh, Greg Turk, Gregory G. Slabaugh: Reconstructing Surfaces by Volumetric Regularization Using Radial Basis Functions. 1358-1371 Ross T. Whitaker, Jens Gregor: A Maximum-Likelihood Surface Estimator for Dense Range Data. 1372-1387 Short Papers Hamed Shah-Hosseini, Reza Safabakhsh: Automatic Multilevel Thresholding for Image Segmentation by the Growing Time Adaptive Self-Organizing Map. 1388-1393 Priya Bharadwaj, Lawrence Carin: Infrared-Image Classification Using Hidden Markov Trees. 1394-1398 Chew Lim Tan, Ruini Cao, Peiyi Shen: Restoration of Archival Documents Using a Wavelet Technique. 1399-1404 Francesco Camastra, Alessandro Vinciarelli: Estimating the Intrinsic Dimension of Data with a Fractal-Based Method. 1404-1407 Volume 24, Number 11, November 2002

Papers Yaron Caspi, Michal Irani: Spatio-Temporal Alignment of Sequences. 1409-1424 Cheng-Lin Liu, Masashi Koga, Hiromichi Fujisawa: Lexicon-Driven Segmentation and Recognition of Handwritten Character Strings for Japanese Address Reading. 1425-1437 Luiz E. Soares de Oliveira, Robert Sabourin, Flávio Bortolozzi, Ching Y. Suen: Automatic Recognition of Handwritten Numerical Strings: A Recognition and Verification Strategy. 1438-1454 Richard Zanibbi, Dorothea Blostein, James R. Cordy: Recognizing Mathematical Expressions Using Tree Transformation. 1455-1467 Luca Lucchese, Gianfranco Doretto, Guido M. Cortelazzo: A Frequency Domain Technique for Range Data Registration. 1468-1484 Jayaram K. Udupa, Punam K. Saha, Roberto de Alencar Lotufo: Relative Fuzzy Connectedness and Object Definition: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications in Image Segmentation. 1485-1500 Euripides G. M. Petrakis, Aristeidis Diplaros, Evangelos E. Milios: Matching and Retrieval of Distorted and Occluded Shapes Using Dynamic Programming. 1501-1516 Short Papers Derek C. Stanford, Adrian E. Raftery: Approximate Bayes Factors for Image Segmentation: The Pseudolikelihood Information Criterion (PLIC). 1517-1520 Neil Muller, Ben M. Herbst: On the Use of SDF-Type Filters for Distortion Parameter Estimation. 1521-1528 Michal Irani, P. Anandan, Meir Cohen: Direct Recovery of Planar-Parallax from Multiple Frames. 1528-1534 Marcello Pelillo: Matching Free Trees, Maximal Cliques, and Monotone Game Dynamics. 1535-1541 Kwang In Kim, Keechul Jung, Se Hyun Park, Hang Joon Kim: Support Vector Machines for Texture Classification. 1542-1550

Volume 24, Number 12, December 2002

Papers Hanhong Xue, Venu Govindaraju: On the Dependence of Handwritten Word Recognizers on Lexicons. 1553-1564 Alexander Vasilevskiy, Kaleem Siddiqi: Flux Maximizing Geometric Flows. 1565-1578 Jianzhuang Liu, Yong Tsui Lee, Wai-kuen Cham: Identifying Faces in a 2D Line Drawing Representing a Manifold Object. 1579-1593 Cherng-Min Ma, Shu-Yen Wan, Jiann-Der Lee: Three-Dimensional Topology Preserving Reduction on the 4-Subfields. 1594-1605 Joseph Gil, Ron Kimmel: Efficient Dilation, Erosion, Opening, and Closing Algorithms. 1606-1617 John Oliensis: Exact Two-Image Structure from Motion. 1618-1633 Michael A. Sipe, David Casasent: Feature Space Trajectory Methods for Active Computer Vision. 1634-1643 Short Papers Jen-Tzung Chien, Chia-Chen Wu: Discriminant Waveletfaces and Nearest Feature Classifiers for Face Recognition. 1644-1649 Ujjwal Maulik, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay: Performance Evaluation of Some Clustering Algorithms and Validity Indices. 1650-1654 Olga Veksler: Stereo Correspondence with Compact Windows via Minimum Ratio Cycle. 1654-1660 Dar-Shyang Lee: Substitution Deciphering Based on HMMs with Applications to Compressed Document Processing. 1661-1666 Nojun Kwak, Chong-Ho Choi: Input Feature Selection by Mutual Information Based on Parzen Window. 1667-1671 Maher Ahmed, Rabab Kreidieh Ward: A Rotation Invariant Rule-Based Thinning Algorithm for Character Recognition. 1672-1678 Volume 25, Number 1, January 2003

Papers Brendan J. Frey, Nebojsa Jojic: Transformation-Invariant Clustering Using the EM Algorithm. 1-17 Alireza Khotanzad, Edmund Zink: Contour Line and Geographic Feature Extraction from USGS Color Topographical Paper Maps. 18-31 Charles R. Tolle, Timothy R. McJunkin, David J. Gorisch: Suboptimal Minimum Cluster Volume Cover-Based Method for Measuring Fractal Dimension. 32-41 Roland Wilson, Chang-Tsun Li: A Class of Discrete Multiresolution Random Fields and Its Application to Image Segmentation. 42-56 Scott Konishi, Alan L. Yuille, James M. Coughlan, Song Chun Zhu: Statistical Edge Detection: Learning and Evaluating Edge Cues. 57-74 Randall K. Fish, Mari Ostendorf, Gary D. Bernard, David A. Castañon: Multilevel Classification of Milling Tool Wear with Confidence Estimation. 75-85 Davi Geiger, Tyng-Luh Liu, Robert Kohn: Representation and Self-Similarity of Shapes. 86-99 Simon Baker, Terence Sim, Takeo Kanade: When Is the Shape of a Scene Unique Given Its Light-Field: A Fundamental Theorem of 3D Vision? 100-109

Short Papers Josef Kittler, Fuad M. Alkoot: Sum Versus Vote Fusion in Multiple Classifier Systems. 110-115 Thomas B. Sebastian, Philip N. Klein, Benjamin B. Kimia: On Aligning Curves. 116-125 Y. C. Cheng, Y.-S. Liu: Polling an Image for Circles by Random Lines. 125-130 Xiaoyi Jiang, Daniel Mojon: Adaptive Local Thresholding by Verification-Based Multithreshold Probing with Application to Vessel Detection in Retinal Images. 131-137 Volume 25, Number 2, February 2003

Introduction of New Associate Editors Rama Chellappa, David J. Kriegman: Introduction of New Associate Editors. 145-146 Papers Kwan-Yee Kenneth Wong, Paulo R. S. Mendonça, Roberto Cipolla: Camera Calibration from Surfaces of Revolution. 147-161 Karsten Hartelius, Jens Michael Carstensen: Bayesian Grid Matching. 162-173 Yusuf Sinan Akgul, Chandra Kambhamettu: A Coarse-to-Fine Deformable Contour Optimization Framework. 174-186 João Maciel, João Costeira: A Global Solution to Sparse Correspondence Problems. 187-199 Mario E. Munich, Pietro Perona: Visual Identification by Signature Tracking. 200-217 Ronen Basri, David W. Jacobs: Lambertian Reflectance and Linear Subspaces. 218-233 Jan Flusser, Jirí Boldys, Barbara Zitová: Moment Forms Invariant to Rotation and Blur in Arbitrary Number of Dimensions. 234-246 Dimitris Samaras, Dimitris N. Metaxas: Incorporating Illumination Constraints in Deformable Models for Shape from Shading and Light Direction Estimation. 247-264 Short Papers Calvin R. Maurer Jr., Rensheng Qi, Vijay V. Raghavan: A Linear Time Algorithm for Computing Exact Euclidean Distance Transforms of Binary Images in Arbitrary Dimensions. 265-270 Manolis I. A. Lourakis, Stavros V. Tzurbakis, Antonis A. Argyros, Stelios C. Orphanoudakis: Feature Transfer and Matching in Disparate Stereo Views through the Use of Plane Homographies. 271-276 Daming Shi, Steve R. Gunn, Robert I. Damper: Handwritten Chinese Radical Recognition Using Nonlinear Active Shape Models. 277-280 Dorin Comaniciu: An Algorithm for Data-Driven Bandwidth Selection. 281-288 Volume 25, Number 3, March 2003

Editorial Rama Chellappa, David J. Kriegman: Editorial - State of the Transactions. 289 Papers Imari Sato, Yoichi Sato, Katsushi Ikeuchi: Illumination from Shadows. 290-300 David Hasler, Luciano Sbaiz, Sabine Süsstrunk, Martin Vetterli: Outlier Modeling in Image Matching. 301-315

Anke Neumann: Graphical Gaussian Shape Models and Their Application to Image Segmentation. 316-329 Hieu Tat Nguyen, Marcel Worring, Rein van den Boomgaard: Watersnakes: Energy-Driven Watershed Segmentation. 330-342 David Windridge, Josef Kittler: A Morphologically Optimal Strategy for Classifier Combination: Multiple Expert Fusion as a Tomographic Process. 343-353 Philip H. S. Torr, Colin Davidson: IMPSAC: Synthesis of Importance Sampling and Random Sample Consensus. 354-364 Short Papers Bon-Woo Hwang, Seong-Whan Lee: Reconstruction of Partially Damaged Face Images Based on a Morphable Face Model. 365-372 Jennifer G. Dy, Carla E. Brodley, Avinash C. Kak, Lynn S. Broderick, Alex M. Aisen: Unsupervised Feature Selection Applied to Content-Based Retrieval of Lung Images. 373-378 Hong Shen, Charles V. Stewart, Badrinath Roysam, Gang Lin, Howard L. Tanenbaum: Frame-Rate Spatial Referencing Based on Invariant Indexing and Alignment with Application to Online Retinal Image Registration. 379-384 Volume 25, Number 4, April 2003

Special Section on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision David W. Jacobs, Michael Lindenbaum: Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Section on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision. 385-386 Jonas August, Steven W. Zucker: Sketches with Curvature: The Curve Indicator Random Field and Markov Processes. 387-400 Ohad Ben-Shahar, Steven W. Zucker: The Perceptual Organization of Texture Flow: A Contextual Inference Approach. 401-417 Tinne Tuytelaars, Andreas Turina, Luc J. Van Gool: Noncombinatorial Detection of Regular Repetitions under Perspective Skew. 418-432 Shyjan Mahamud, Lance R. Williams, Karvel K. Thornber, Kanglin Xu: Segmentation of Multiple Salient Closed Contours from Real Images. 433-444 Erik A. Engbers, Arnold W. M. Smeulders: Design Considerations for Generic Grouping in Vision. 445-457 Anthony Hoogs, Roderic Collins, Robert Kaucic, Joseph L. Mundy: A Common Set of Perceptual Observables for Grouping, Figure-Ground Discrimination, and Texture Classification. 458-474 Eric Saund: Finding Perceptually Closed Paths in Sketches and Drawings. 475-491 Mircea Nicolescu, Gérard G. Medioni: Layered 4D Representation and Voting for Grouping from Motion. 492-501 Andrés Almansa, Agnès Desolneux, Sébastien Vamech: Vanishing Point Detection without Any A Priori Information. 502-507 Agnès Desolneux, Lionel Moisan, Jean-Michel Morel: A Grouping Principle and Four Applications. 508-513 Bernd Fischer, Joachim M. Buhmann: Path-Based Clustering for Grouping of Smooth Curves and Texture Segmentation. 513-518 Short Papers Michelangelo Diligenti, Paolo Frasconi, Marco Gori: Hidden Tree Markov Models for Document Image Classification. 519-523 Eric Granger, Yvon Savaria, Pierre Lavoie: A Pattern Reordering Approach Based on Ambiguity Detection for Online Category Learning. 524-528 Volume 25, Number 5, May 2003

Introduction of New Associate Editors

Rama Chellappa, David J. Kriegman: Introduction of New Associate Editor. 529 Papers Gísli R. Hjaltason, Hanan Samet: Properties of Embedding Methods for Similarity Searching in Metric Spaces. 530-549 Jörg Bredno, Thomas Martin Lehmann, Klaus Spitzer: A General Discrete Contour Model in Two, Three, and Four Dimensions for Topology-Adaptive Multichannel Segmentation. 550-563 Dorin Comaniciu, Visvanathan Ramesh, Peter Meer: Kernel-Based Object Tracking. 564-575 Adnan Ansar, Konstantinos Daniilidis: Linear Pose Estimation from Points or Lines. 578-589 Chi-Man Pun, Moon-Chuen Lee: Log-Polar Wavelet Energy Signatures for Rotation and Scale Invariant Texture Classification. 590-603 Daniel Freedman: Effective Tracking through Tree-Search. 604-615 Short Papers Bir Bhanu, Xuejun Tan: Fingerprint Indexing Based on Novel Features of Minutiae Triplets. 616-622 Sebastian Mika, Gunnar Rätsch, Jason Weston, Bernhard Schölkopf, Alex J. Smola, Klaus-Robert Müller: Constructing Descriptive and Discriminative Nonlinear Features: Rayleigh Coefficients in Kernel Feature Spaces. 623-633 Wai Lam, Yiqiu Han: Automatic Textual Document Categorization Based on Generalized Instance Sets and a Metamodel. 628-633 Wojciech Pieczynski: Pairwise Markov Chains. 634-639 Volume 25, Number 6, June 2003

Special Section on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision David W. Jacobs, Michael Lindenbaum: Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Section on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision. 641 Padmanabhan Soundararajan, Sudeep Sarkar: An In-Depth Study of Graph Partitioning Measures for Perceptual Organization. 642-660 James H. Elder, Amnon Krupnik, Leigh A. Johnston: Contour Grouping with Prior Models. 661-674 Song Wang, Jeffrey Mark Siskind: Image Segmentation with Ratio Cut. 675-690 Song Wang, Jeffrey Mark Siskind: Image Segmentation with Ratio Cut - Supplemental Material. Song Chun Zhu: Statistical Modeling and Conceptualization of Visual Patterns. 691-712 Papers Srinivasa G. Narasimhan, Shree K. Nayar: Contrast Restoration of Weather Degraded Images. 713-724 Chengjun Liu: A Bayesian Discriminating Features Method for Face Detection. 725-740 Assaf Zomet, Doron Feldman, Shmuel Peleg, Daphna Weinshall: Mosaicing New Views: The Crossed-Slits Projection. 741-754 Xiao Han, Chenyang Xu, Jerry L. Prince: A Topology Preserving Level Set Method for Geometric Deformable Models. 755-768 Short Papers Zu Whan Kim, Ramakant Nevatia:

Expandable Bayesian Networks for 3D Object Description from Multiple Views and Multiple Mode Inputs. 769-774 Alan L. Yuille, James M. Coughlan, Scott Konishi: The Generic Viewpoint Assumption and Planar Bias. 775-778 Frank J. Iannarilli Jr., Paul A. Rubin: Feature Selection for Multiclass Discrimination via Mixed-Integer Linear Programming. 779-783 Volume 25, Number 7, July 2003

Special Section on Graphical Models in Computer Vision James M. Rehg, Vladimir Pavlovic, Thomas S. Huang, William T. Freeman: Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Section on Graphical Models in Computer Vision. 785-786 Jian Sun, Nanning Zheng, Heung-Yeung Shum: Stereo Matching Using Belief Propagation. 787-800 Siome Goldenstein, Christian Vogler, Dimitris N. Metaxas: Statistical Cue Integration in DAG Deformable Models. 801-813 Yang Song, Luis Goncalves, Pietro Perona: Unsupervised Learning of Human Motion. 814-827 Matthew J. Beal, Nebojsa Jojic, Hagai Attias: A Graphical Model for Audiovisual Object Tracking. 828-836 Thomas O. Binford, Tod S. Levitt: Evidential Reasoning for Object Recognition. 837-851 Maurício Marengoni, Allen R. Hanson, Shlomo Zilberstein, Edward M. Riseman: Decision Making and Uncertainty Management in a 3D Reconstruction System. 852-858 Papers Amos J. Storkey, Christopher K. I. Williams: Image Modeling with Position-Encoding Dynamic Trees. 859-871 Yanting Dong, Lawrence Carin: Rate-Distortion Analysis of Discrete-HMM Pose Estimation via Multiaspect Scattering Data. 872-883 Mei Han, Takeo Kanade: Multiple Motion Scene Reconstruction with Uncalibrated Cameras. 884-894 Peter J. Giblin, Benjamin B. Kimia: On the Intrinsic Reconstruction of Shape from Its Symmetries. 895-911 Short Papers Nassir Navab, Yakup Genc, Mirko Appel: Lines in One Orthographic and Two Perspective Views. 912-917 Andrea Prati, Ivana Mikic, Mohan M. Trivedi, Rita Cucchiara: Detecting Moving Shadows: Algorithms and Evaluation. 918-923 Michalis K. Titsias, Aristidis Likas: Class Conditional Density Estimation Using Mixtures with Constrained Component Sharing. 924-928 Volume 25, Number 8, August 2003

Introduction of New Associate Editors Rama Chellappa, David J. Kriegman: Introduction of New Associate Editor. 929 Papers Xiao-Shan Gao, Xiaorong Hou, Jianliang Tang, Hang-Fei Cheng: Complete Solution Classification for the Perspective-Three-Point Problem. 930-943 Ana L. N. Fred, José M. N. Leitão: A New Cluster Isolation Criterion Based on Dissimilarity Increments. 944-958 Gareth Loy, Alexander Zelinsky: Fast Radial Symmetry for Detecting Points of Interest. 959-973

Adrian G. Bors, Edwin R. Hancock, Richard C. Wilson: Terrain Analysis Using Radar Shape-from-Shading. 974-992 Myron Z. Brown, Darius Burschka, Gregory D. Hager: Advances in Computational Stereo. 993-1008 Short Papers Marius Tico, Pauli Kuosmanen: Fingerprint Matching Using an Orientation-Based Minutia Descriptor. 1009-1014 Eric Hayman, David W. Murray: The Effects of Translational Misalignment when Self-Calibrating Rotating and Zooming Cameras. 1015-1020 Petko Faber: A Theoretical Framework for Relaxation Processes in Pattern Recognition: Application to Robust Nonparametric Contour Generalization. 1021-1027 Yitzhak Yitzhaky, Eli Peli: A Method for Objective Edge Detection Evaluation and Detector Parameter Selection. 1027-1033 Juyang Weng, Yilu Zhang, Wey-Shiuan Hwang: Candid Covariance-Free Incremental Principal Component Analysis. 1034-1040 Volume 25, Number 9, September 2003

Papers David Zhang, Adams Wai-Kin Kong, Jane You, Michael Wong: Online Palmprint Identification. 1041-1050 Max-Olivier Hongler, Yuri López de Meneses, Antoine Beyeler, Jacques Jacot: The Resonant Retina: Exploiting Vibration Noise to Optimally Detect Edges in an Image. 1051-1062 Volker Blanz, Thomas Vetter: Face Recognition Based on Fitting a 3D Morphable Model. 1063-1074 Jia Li, James Ze Wang: Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures by a Statistical Modeling Approach. 1075-1088 Florence Forbes, Nathalie Peyrard: Hidden Markov Random Field Model Selection Criteria Based on Mean Field-Like Approximations. 1089-1101 Deepu Rajan, Subhasis Chaudhuri: Simultaneous Estimation of Super-Resolved Scene and Depth Map from Low Resolution Defocused Observations. 1102-1117 Yuan Yan Tang, Xinge You: Skeletonization of Ribbon-Like Shapes Based on a New Wavelet Function. 1118-1133 Pedro M. Q. Aguiar, José M. F. Moura: Rank 1 Weighted Factorization for 3D Structure Recovery: Algorithms and Performance Analysis. 1134-1049 Mário A. T. Figueiredo: Adaptive Sparseness for Supervised Learning. 1150-1159 Short Papers Kyong I. Chang, Kevin W. Bowyer, Sudeep Sarkar, Barnabas Victor: Comparison and Combination of Ear and Face Images in Appearance-Based Biometrics. 1160-1165 Ross A. J. Everitt, Peter W. McOwan: Java-Based Internet Biometric Authentication System. 1166-1172 Wojciech Chojnacki, Michael J. Brooks, Anton van den Hengel, Darren Gawley: Revisiting Hartley's Normalized Eight-Point Algorithm. 1172-1177 Sarunas Raudys: Experts' Boasting in Trainable Fusion Rules. 1178-1182 Ralf Plänkers, Pascal Fua: Articulated Soft Objects for Multiview Shape and Motion Capture. 1182-1187 Hanchuan Peng, Fuhui Long, Zheru Chi: Document Image Recognition Based on Template Matching of Component Block Projections. 1188-1192

Jovisa D. Zunic, Paul L. Rosin: Rectilinearity Measurements for Polygons. 1193-1200 Volume 25, Number 10, October 2003

Introduction of New Associate Editors Rama Chellappa, David J. Kriegman: Introduction of New Associate Editors. 1201 Papers Onno Zoeter, Tom Heskes: Hierarchical Visualization of Time-Series Data Using Switching Linear Dynamical Systems. 1202-1214 Ragini Choudhury, Cordelia Schmid, Krystian Mikolajczyk: Face Detection and Tracking in a Video by Propagating Detection Probabilities. 1215-1228 Hisham Othman, Tyseer Aboulnasr: A Separable Low Complexity 2D HMM with Application to Face Recognition. 1229-1238 Svetlana Barsky, Maria Petrou: The 4-Source Photometric Stereo Technique for Three-Dimensional Surfaces in the Presence of Highlights and Shadows. 1239-1252 Mark Girolami, Chao He: Probability Density Estimation from Optimally Condensed Data Samples. 1253-1264 Miguel Segui Prieto, Alastair R. Allen: A Similarity Metric for Edge Images. 1265-1273 Ingo Steinwart: On the Optimal Parameter Choice for v-Support Vector Machines. 1274-1284 Asi Elad (Elbaz), Ron Kimmel: On Bending Invariant Signatures for Surfaces. 1285-1295 Allan D. Jepson, David J. Fleet, Thomas F. El-Maraghi: Robust Online Appearance Models for Visual Tracking. 1296-1311 Short Papers Marco Bressan, Jordi Vitrià: On the Selection and Classification of Independent Features. 1312-1317 Stanislav Sheynin, Alexander Tuzikov: Moment Computation for Objects with Spline Curve Boundary. 1317-1322 Isidro Robledo Vega, Sudeep Sarkar: Statistical Motion Model Based on the Change of Feature Relationships: Human Gait-Based Recognition. 1323-1328 Y. H. Wu, Z. Y. Hu: The Invariant Representations of a Quadric Cone and a Twisted Cubic. 1329-1332 Hiroshi Ishikawa: Exact Optimization for Markov Random Fields with Convex Priors. 1333-1336 Rita Cucchiara, Costantino Grana, Massimo Piccardi, Andrea Prati: Detecting Moving Objects, Ghosts, and Shadows in Video Streams. 1337-1342 Guang Jiang, Hung-Tat Tsui, Long Quan, Andrew Zisserman: Geometry of Single Axis Motions Using Conic Fitting. 1343-1348 Pavel Laskov, Chandra Kambhamettu: Curvature-Based Algorithms for Nonrigid Motion and Correspondence Estimation. 1349-1354 Sohaib Khan, Mubarak Shah: Consistent Labeling of Tracked Objects in Multiple Cameras with Overlapping Fields of View. 1355-1360 Volume 25, Number 11, November 2003

Special Section on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Mário A. T. Figueiredo, Edwin R. Hancock, Marcello Pelillo, Josiane Zerubia: Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Section on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 1361-1363

Jens Keuchel, Christoph Schnörr, Christian Schellewald, Daniel Cremers: Binary Partitioning, Perceptual Grouping, and Restoration with Semidefinite Programming. 1364-1379 José L. Marroquín, Edgar Arce Santana, Salvador Botello: Hidden Markov Measure Field Models for Image Segmentation. 1380-1387 Rein-Lien Hsu, Anil K. Jain: Generating Discriminating Cartoon Faces Using Interacting Snakes. 1388-1398 Sennay Ghebreab, Arnold W. M. Smeulders: Strings: Variational Deformable Models of Multivariate Continuous Boundary Features. 1399-1410 Bernd Fischer, Joachim M. Buhmann: Bagging for Path-Based Clustering. 1411-1415 Alain Crouzil, Xavier Descombes, Jean-Denis Durou: A Multiresolution Approach for Shape from Shading Coupling Deterministic and Stochastic Optimization. 1416-1421 Regular Papers In-Jung Kim, Jin Hyung Kim: Statistical Character Structure Modeling and Its Application to Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition. 1422-1436 Charles S. Kenney, B. S. Manjunath, Marco Zuliani, Gary A. Hewer, Alan Van Nevel: A Condition Number for Point Matching with Application to Registration and Postregistration Error Estimation. 1437-1454 Michael D. Grossberg, Shree K. Nayar: Determining the Camera Response from Images: What Is Knowable? 1455-1467 David J. Miller, John Browning: A Mixture Model and EM-Based Algorithm for Class Discovery, Robust Classification, and Outlier Rejection in Mixed Labeled/Unlabeled Data Sets. 1468-1483 Andrea Bottino, Aldo Laurentini: Introducing a New Problem: Shape-from-Silhouette when the Relative Positions of the Viewpoints is Unknown. 1484-1493 Short Papers Anil K. Jain, Umut Uludag: Hiding Biometric Data. 1494-1498 Ahmed M. Elgammal, Ramani Duraiswami, Larry S. Davis: Efficient Kernel Density Estimation Using the Fast Gauss Transform with Applications to Color Modeling and Tracking. 1499-1504 Volume 25, Number 12, December 2003

Liang Wang, Tieniu Tan, Huazhong Ning, Weiming Hu: Silhouette Analysis-Based Gait Recognition for Human Identification. 1505-1518 Li Ma, Tieniu Tan, Yunhong Wang, Dexin Zhang: Personal Identification Based on Iris Texture Analysis. 1519-1533 Sameer Singh: Multiresolution Estimates of Classification Complexity. 1534-1539 Volker Roth, Julian Laub, Motoaki Kawanabe, Joachim M. Buhmann: Optimal Cluster Preserving Embedding of Nonmetric Proximity Data. 1540-1551 Zhihong Pan, Glenn Healey, Manish Prasad, Bruce J. Tromberg: Face Recognition in Hyperspectral Images. 1552-1560 Sergey V. Beiden, Marcus A. Maloof, Robert F. Wagner: A General Model for Finite-Sample Effects in Training and Testing of Competing Classifiers. 1561-1569 Masashi Inoue, Naonori Ueda: Exploitation of Unlabeled Sequences in Hidden Markov Models. 1570-1581 Kenji Suzuki, Isao Horiba, Noboru Sugie: Neural Edge Enhancer for Supervised Edge Enhancement from Noisy Images. 1582-1596 Jorge Lobo, Jorge Dias: Vision and Inertial Sensor Cooperation Using Gravity as a Vertical Reference. 1597-1608

Marco Carcassoni, Edwin R. Hancock: Correspondence Matching with Modal Clusters. 1609-1615 Terence Sim, Simon Baker, Maan Bsat: The CMU Pose, Illumination, and Expression Database. 1615-1618 Ronan Fablet, Patrick Bouthemy: Motion Recognition Using Nonparametric Image Motion Models Estimated from Temporal and Multiscale Cooccurrence Statistics. 1619-1624 Ming Ye, Robert M. Haralick, Linda G. Shapiro: Estimating Piecewise-Smooth Optical Flow with Global Matching and Graduated Optimization. 1625-1630 Kwang In Kim, Keechul Jung, Jin Hyung Kim: Texture-Based Approach for Text Detection in Images Using Support Vector Machines and Continuously Adaptive Mean Shift Algorithm. 1631-1639 Mausumi Acharyya, Rajat K. De, Malay Kumar Kundu: Extraction of Features Using M-Band Wavelet Packet Frame and Their Neuro-Fuzzy Evaluation for Multitexture Segmentation. 1639-1644 Volume 26, Number 1, January 2004

Regular Papers Pascal Matsakis, James M. Keller, Ozy Sjahputera, Jonathon Marjamaa: The Use of Force Histograms for Affine-Invariant Relative Position Description. 1-18 Alexandre X. Falcão, Jorge Stolfi, Roberto de Alencar Lotufo: The Image Foresting Transform: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications. 19-29 Maria Petrou, Alexander Kadyrov: Affine Invariant Features from the Trace Transform. 30-44 Yin Li, Heung-Yeung Shum, Chi-Keung Tang, Richard Szeliski: Stereo Reconstruction from Multiperspective Panoramas. 45-62 Yufang Bao, Hamid Krim: Smart Nonlinear Diffusion: A Probabilistic Approach. 63-72 Daisuke Miyazaki, Masataka Kagesawa, Katsushi Ikeuchi: Transparent Surface Modeling from a Pair of Polarization Images. 73-82 Zhouchen Lin, Heung-Yeung Shum: Fundamental Limits of Reconstruction-Based Superresolution Algorithms under Local Translation. 83-97 Ben Tordoff, David W. Murray: Reactive Control of Zoom while Fixating Using Perspective and Affine Cameras. 98-112 Short Papers Theo Gevers, Harro M. G. Stokman: Robust Histogram Construction from Color Invariants for Object Recognition. 113-117 Daniel Keren: Topologically Faithful Fitting of Simple Closed Curves. 118-123 Anoop M. Namboodiri, Anil K. Jain: Online Handwritten Script Recognition. 124-130 Jian Yang, David Zhang, Alejandro F. Frangi, Jing-Yu Yang: Two-Dimensional PCA: A New Approach to Appearance-Based Face Representation and Recognition. 131-137 Volume 26, Number 2, February 2004

Special Section on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Mário A. T. Figueiredo, Edwin R. Hancock, Marcello Pelillo, Josiane Zerubia: Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Section on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 145-146 Vladimir Kolmogorov, Ramin Zabih: What Energy Functions Can Be Minimized via Graph Cuts? 147-159 Haili Chui, Anand Rangarajan, Jie Zhang, Christiana Morison Leonard:

Unsupervised Learning of an Atlas from Unlabeled Point-Sets. 160-172 Stella X. Yu, Jianbo Shi: Segmentation Given Partial Grouping Constraints. 173-183 Regular Papers Max Mignotte: Nonparametric Multiscale Energy-Based Model and Its Application in Some Imagery Problems. 184-197 Cheng-Lin Liu, Stefan Jäger, Masaki Nakagawa: Online Recognition of Chinese Characters: The State-of-the-Art. 198-213 Charless Fowlkes, Serge Belongie, Fan R. K. Chung, Jitendra Malik: Spectral Grouping Using the Nyström Method. 214-225 Zhigang Zhu, Allen R. Hanson, Edward M. Riseman: Generalized Parallel-Perspective Stereo Mosaics from Airborne Video. 226-237 Peter J. Giblin, Benjamin B. Kimia: A Formal Classification of 3D Medial Axis Points and Their Local Geometry. 238-251 Short Papers David Coeurjolly, Reinhard Klette: A Comparative Evaluation of Length Estimators of Digital Curves. 252-257 Chunmei Lu, Nicola J. Ferrier: Repetitive Motion Analysis: Segmentation and Event Classification. 258-263 Wojciech Chojnacki, Michael J. Brooks, Anton van den Hengel, Darren Gawley: From FNS to HEIV: A Link between Two Vision Parameter Estimation Methods. 264-268 Daniel Keysers, Wolfgang Macherey, Hermann Ney, Jörg Dahmen: Adaptation in Statistical Pattern Recognition Using Tangent Vectors. 269-274 Lei Wang, Sing Bing Kang, Heung-Yeung Shum, Guangyou Xu: Error Analysis of Pure Rotation-Based Self-Calibration. 275-280 Manuele Bicego, Vittorio Murino: Investigating Hidden Markov Models' Capabilities in 2D Shape Classification. 281-286 Volume 26, Number 3, March 2003

Regular Papers Michael A. Greminger, Bradley J. Nelson: Vision-Based Force Measurement. 290-298 Claus Bahlmann, Hans Burkhardt: The Writer Independent Online Handwriting Recognition System frog on hand and Cluster Generative Statistical Dynamic Time Warping. 299-310 Jie Wei: Markov Edit Distance. 311-321 Chenyu Wu, Ce Liu, Heung-Yeung Shum, Ying-Qing Xu, Zhengyou Zhang: Automatic Eyeglasses Removal from Face Images. 322-336 Yefeng Zheng, Huiping Li, David S. Doermann: Machine Printed Text and Handwriting Identification in Noisy Document Images. 337-353 Yanxi Liu, Robert T. Collins, Yanghai Tsin: A Computational Model for Periodic Pattern Perception Based on Frieze and Wallpaper Groups. 354-371 Eric Klassen, Anuj Srivastava, Washington Mio, Shantanu H. Joshi: Analysis of Planar Shapes Using Geodesic Paths on Shape Spaces. 372-383 Hayit Greenspan, Jacob Goldberger, Arnaldo Mayer: Probabilistic Space-Time Video Modeling via Piecewise GMM. 384-396 Short Papers Tyng-Luh Liu, Hwann-Tzong Chen: Real-Time Tracking Using Trust-Region Methods. 397-402

Nikos Paragios, Olivier Mellina-Gottardo, Visvanathan Ramesh: Gradient Vector Flow Fast Geometric Active Contours. 402-407 Rupert Paget: Strong Markov Random Field Model. 408-413 Pabitra Mitra, C. A. Murthy, Sankar K. Pal: A Probabilistic Active Support Vector Learning Algorithm. 413-418 Richard Szeliski, Daniel Scharstein: Sampling the Disparity Space Image. 419-425 Adrien Bartoli, Peter F. Sturm: Nonlinear Estimation of the Fundamental Matrix with Minimal Parameters. 426-432 Volume 26, Number 4, April 2004

Editorial Rama Chellappa, David J. Kriegman: Introduction of New Associate Editor. 433- Regular Papers Miin-Shen Yang, Kuo-Lung Wu: A Similarity-Based Robust Clustering Method. 434-448 Ralph Gross, Iain Matthews, Simon Baker: Appearance-Based Face Recognition and Light-Fields. 449-465 Harry Wechsler, Zoran Duric, Fayin Li, Vladimir Cherkassky: Motion Estimation Using Statistical Learning Theory. 466-478 Paul Smith, Tom Drummond, Roberto Cipolla: Layered Motion Segmentation and Depth Ordering by Tracking Edges. 479-494 Chung-Hsien Wu, Yu-Hsien Chiu, Kung-Wei Cheng: Error-Tolerant Sign Retrieval Using Visual Features and Maximum A Posteriori Estimation. 495-508 Short Papers Christos-Savvas Bouganis, Mike Brookes: Multiple Light Source Detection. 509-514 Terry Caelli, Serhiy Kosinov: An Eigenspace Projection Clustering Method for Inexact Graph Matching. 515-519 Tapas Kanungo, Qigong Zheng: Estimating Degradation Model Parameters Using Neighborhood Pattern Distributions: An Optimization Approach. 520-524 Bin Zhang, Sargur N. Srihari: Fast k-Nearest Neighbor Classification Using Cluster-Based Trees. 525-528 Volume 26, Number 5, May 2004

Introduction of New Associate Editors Rama Chellappa, David J. Kriegman: Introduction of New Associate Editors. 529 Papers David R. Martin, Charless Fowlkes, Jitendra Malik: Learning to Detect Natural Image Boundaries Using Local Brightness, Color, and Texture Cues. 530-549 Thomas B. Sebastian, Philip N. Klein, Benjamin B. Kimia: Recognition of Shapes by Editing Their Shock Graphs. 550-571 Chengjun Liu: Gabor-Based Kernel PCA with Fractional Power Polynomial Models for Face Recognition. 572-581 Behzad Kamgar-Parsi, Behrooz Kamgar-Parsi: Algorithms for Matching 3D Line Sets. 582-593 Wai-Shun Tong, Chi-Keung Tang, Philippos Mordohai, Gérard G. Medioni:

First Order Augmentation to Tensor Voting for Boundary Inference and Multiscale Analysis in 3D. 594-611 Donato Malerba, Floriana Esposito, Michelangelo Ceci, Annalisa Appice: Top-Down Induction of Model Trees with Regression and Splitting Nodes. 612-625 François Destrempes, Max Mignotte: A Statistical Model for Contours in Images. 626-638 Shinji Umeyama, Guy Godin: Separation of Diffuse and Specular Components of Surface Reflection by Use of Polarization and Statistical Analysis of Images. 639-647 Short Papers Philip H. S. Torr, Andrew W. Fitzgibbon: Invariant Fitting of Two View Geometry. 648-650 Zoran Zivkovic, Ferdinand van der Heijden: Recursive Unsupervised Learning of Finite Mixture Models. 651-656 Jing Peng, Douglas R. Heisterkamp, H. K. Dai: Adaptive Quasiconformal Kernel Nearest Neighbor Classification. 656-661 Xiuwen Liu, Anuj Srivastava, Kyle Gallivan: Optimal Linear Representations of Images for Object Recognition. 662-666 Volkan Isler, Sampath Kannan, Kostas Daniilidis, Pavel Valtr: VC-Dimension of Exterior Visibility. 667-671 Volume 26, Number 6, June 2004

In Memory Rama Chellappa, David J. Kriegman: In Memoriam, Azriel Rosenfeld(1931-2004). 673 Papers Bogdan Georgescu, Peter Meer: Point Matching under Large Image Deformations and Illumination Changes. 674-688 Moshe Ben-Ezra, Shree K. Nayar: Motion-Based Motion Deblurring. 689-698 Carey E. Priebe, David J. Marchette, Dennis M. Healy Jr.: Integrated Sensing and Processing Decision Trees. 699-708 Alessandro Vinciarelli, Samy Bengio, Horst Bunke: Offline Recognition of Unconstrained Handwritten Texts Using HMMs and Statistical Language Models. 709-720 Guang Jiang, Long Quan, Hung-Tat Tsui: Circular Motion Geometry Using Minimal Data. 721-731 Marco Loog, Robert P. W. Duin: Linear Dimensionality Reduction via a Heteroscedastic Extension of LDA: The Chernoff Criterion. 732-739 Kar-Ann Toh, Quoc-Long Tran, Dipti Srinivasan: Benchmarking a Reduced Multivariate Polynomial Pattern Classifier. 740-755 David Nistér: An Efficient Solution to the Five-Point Relative Pose Problem. 756-777 Jiaya Jia, Chi-Keung Tang: Inference of Segmented Color and Texture Description by Tensor Voting. 771-786 Lambert Schomaker, Marius Bulacu: Automatic Writer Identification Using Connected-Component Contours and Edge-Based Features of Uppercase Western Script. 787-798 Short Papers Pascal Martin, Philippe Réfrégier, François Goudail, Frédéric Guérault: Influence of the Noise Model on Level Set Active Contour Segmentation. 799-803 Walter Vanzella, Felice Andrea Pellegrino, Vincent Torre: Self-Adaptive Regularization. 804-809

Iain Matthews, Takahiro Ishikawa, Simon Baker: The Template Update Problem. 810-815 Volume 26, Number 7, July 2004

Papers Gunther Heidemann: Focus-of-Attention from Local Color Symmetries. 817-830 Efstathios Hadjidemetriou, Michael D. Grossberg, Shree K. Nayar: Multiresolution Histograms and Their Use for Recognition. 831-847 Chu-Song Chen, Wen-Yan Chang: On Pose Recovery for Generalized Visual Sensors. 848-861 Leonid Sigal, Stan Sclaroff, Vassilis Athitsos: Skin Color-Based Video Segmentation under Time-Varying Illumination. 862-877 Tolga Tasdizen, Ross T. Whitaker: Higher-Order Nonlinear Priors for Surface Reconstruction. 878-891 Zhengyou Zhang: Camera Calibration with One-Dimensional Objects. 892-899 Petr Somol, Pavel Pudil, Josef Kittler: Fast Branch & Bound Algorithms for Optimal Feature Selection. 900-912 Stephen J. Preece, Ela Claridge: Spectral Filter Optimization for the Recovery of Parameters which Describe Human Skin. 913-922 Jovisa D. Zunic, Paul L. Rosin: A New Convexity Measure for Polygons. 923-934 Short Papers Laurent Wendling, Salvatore Tabbone: A New Way to Detect Arrows in Line Drawings. 935-941 Kar-Han Tan, Hong Hua, Narendra Ahuja: Multiview Panoramic Cameras Using Mirror Pyramids. 941-946 François Goudail, Philippe Réfrégier: Contrast Definition for Optical Coherent Polarimetric Images. 947-951 Huawu Deng, David A. Clausi: Gaussian MRF Rotation-Invariant Features for Image Classification. 951-955 Ruigang Yang, Zhengyou Zhang: Eye Gaze Correction with Stereovision for Video-Teleconferencing. 956-960 Volume 26, Number 8, August 2004

Papers Xuejun Liao, Lawrence Carin: Application of the Theory of Optimal Experiments to Adaptive Electromagnetic-Induction Sensing of Buried Targets. 961-972 Ofer Melnik, Yehuda Vardi, Cun-Hui Zhang: Mixed Group Ranks: Preference and Confidence in Classifier Combination. 973-981 Jieping Ye, Ravi Janardan, Cheong Hee Park, Haesun Park: An Optimization Criterion for Generalized Discriminant Analysis on Undersampled Problems. 982-994 Peg Howland, Haesun Park: Generalizing Discriminant Analysis Using the Generalized Singular Value Decomposition. 995-1006 Mathews Jacob, Michael Unser: Design of Steerable Filters for Feature Detection Using Canny-Like Criteria. 1007-1019 Guy Gilboa, Nir A. Sochen, Yehoshua Y. Zeevi: Image Enhancement and Denoising by Complex Diffusion Processes. 1020-1036 Pei Chen, David Suter:

Recovering the Missing Components in a Large Noisy Low-Rank Matrix: Application to SFM. 1051-1063 Shai Avidan: Support Vector Tracking. 1064-1072 Short Papers Michael H. Lin, Carlo Tomasi: Surfaces with Occlusions from Layered Stereo. 1073-1078 Sohail Nadimi, Bir Bhanu: Physical Models for Moving Shadow and Object Detection in Video. 1079-1087 Bernd Rieger, Frederik J. Timmermans, Lucas J. van Vliet, Piet W. Verbeek: On Curvature Estimation of ISO Surfaces in 3D Gray-Value Images and the Computation of Shape Descriptors. 1088-1094 Erdem Bala, A. Enis Çetin: Computationally Efficient Wavelet Affine Invariant Functions for Shape Recognition. 1095-1099 Hieu Tat Nguyen, Arnold W. M. Smeulders: Fast Occluded Object Tracking by a Robust Appearance Filter. 1099-1104 Volume 26, Number 9, September 2004

Papers Balaji Krishnapuram, Alexander J. Hartemink, Lawrence Carin, Mário A. T. Figueiredo: A Bayesian Approach to Joint Feature Selection and Classifier Design. 1105-1111 Stan Z. Li, ZhenQiu Zhang: FloatBoost Learning and Statistical Face Detection. 1112-1123 Yuri Boykov, Vladimir Kolmogorov: An Experimental Comparison of Min-Cut/Max-Flow Algorithms for Energy Minimization in Vision. 1124-1137 Feng Han, Zhuowen Tu, Song Chun Zhu: Range Image Segmentation by an Effective Jump-Diffusion Method. 1138-1153 Martin H. C. Law, Mário A. T. Figueiredo, Anil K. Jain: Simultaneous Feature Selection and Clustering Using Mixture Models. 1154-1166 Wai-Shun Tong, Chi-Keung Tang, Gérard G. Medioni: Simultaneous Two-View Epipolar Geometry Estimation and Motion Segmentation by 4D Tensor Voting. 1167-1184 Kyung-Won Kang, Jin Hyung Kim: Utilization of Hierarchical, Stochastic Relationship Modeling for Hangul Character Recognition. 1185-1196 Jong-Min Park: Convergence and Application of Online Active Sampling Using Orthogonal Pillar Vectors. 1197-1207 Tao Zhao, Ramakant Nevatia: Tracking Multiple Humans in Complex Situations. 1208-1221 Short Papers Xiaogang Wang, Xiaoou Tang: A Unified Framework for Subspace Face Recognition. 1222-1228 Chi-Man Pun, Moon-Chuen Lee: Extraction of Shift Invariant Wavelet Features for Classification of Images with Different Sizes. 1228-1233 Vincenzo Caglioti: Minimal Representations of 3D Models in Terms of Image Parameters under Calibrated and Uncalibrated Perspective. 1234-1238 Graziano Chesi, Koichi Hashimoto: A Simple Technique for Improving Camera Displacement Estimation in Eye-in-Hand Visual Servoing. 1239-1242 Li Yang: Distance-Preserving Projection of High-Dimensional Data for Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction. 1243-1246 Volume 26, Number 10, October 2004

Papers Kurt Cornelis, Frank Verbiest, Luc J. Van Gool:

Drift Detection and Removal for Sequential Structure from Motion Algorithms. 1249-1259 Xianghua Ying, Zhanyi Hu: Catadioptric Camera Calibration Using Geometric Invariants. 1260-1271 Michael D. Grossberg, Shree K. Nayar: Modeling the Space of Camera Response Functions. 1272-1282 Amir Helzer, Meir Barzohar, David Malah: Stable Fitting of 2D Curves and 3D Surfaces by Implicit Polynomials. 1283-1294 Michael S. Brown, W. Brent Seales: Image Restoration of Arbitrarily Warped Documents. 1295-1306 Ken-ichi Kanatani: Uncertainty Modeling and Model Selection for Geometric Inference. 1307-1319 Andrei Jalba, Michael H. F. Wilkinson, Jos B. T. M. Roerdink: CPM: A Deformable Model for Shape Recovery and Segmentation Based on Charged Particles. 1320-1335 Yasuyuki Matsushita, Ko Nishino, Katsushi Ikeuchi, Masao Sakauchi: Illumination Normalization with Time-Dependent Intrinsic Images for Video Surveillance. 1336-1347 Yizhou Wang, Song Chun Zhu: Analysis and Synthesis of Textured Motion: Particles and Waves. 1348-1363 Short Papers Tomás Suk, Jan Flusser: Projective Moment Invariants. 1364-1367 Luigi P. Cordella, Pasquale Foggia, Carlo Sansone, Mario Vento: A (Sub)Graph Isomorphism Algorithm for Matching Large Graphs. 1367-1372 Robby T. Tan, Ko Nishino, Katsushi Ikeuchi: Separating Reflection Components Based on Chromaticity and Noise Analysis. 1373-1379 Simon Baker, Iain Matthews, Jeff Schneider: Automatic Construction of Active Appearance Models as an Image Coding Problem. 1380-1384 Luca Vacchetti, Vincent Lepetit, Pascal Fua: Stable Real-Time 3D Tracking Using Online and Offline Information. 1385-1391 Volume 26, Number 11, November 2004

Christophe Garcia, Manolis Delakis: Convolutional Face Finder: A Neural Architecture for Fast and Robust Face Detection. 1408-1423 Cheng-Lin Liu, Hiroshi Sako, Hiromichi Fujisawa: Effects of Classifier Structures and Training Regimes on Integrated Segmentation and Recognition of Handwritten Numeral Strings. 1395-1407 Il-Seok Oh, Jin-Seon Lee, Byung Ro Moon: Hybrid Genetic Algorithms for Feature Selection. 1424-1437 Paul M. Baggenstoss: Image Distortion Analysis Using Polynomial Series Expansion. 1438-1451 Richard Nock, Frank Nielsen: Statistical Region Merging. 1452-1458 Hanzi Wang, David Suter: Robust Adaptive-Scale Parametric Model Estimation for Computer Vision. 1459-1474 Shivani Agarwal, Aatif Awan, Dan Roth: Learning to Detect Objects in Images via a Sparse, Part-Based Representation. 1475-1490 Jiqiang Song, Michael R. Lyu, Shijie Cai: Effective Multiresolution Arc Segmentation: Algorithms and Performance Evaluation. 1491-1506 Antonio Adán, Miguel Adán: A Flexible Similarity Measure for 3D Shapes Recognition. 1507-1520

A. N. Rajagopalan, Subhasis Chaudhuri, Uma Mudenagudi: Depth Estimation and Image Restoration Using Defocused Stereo Pairs. 1521-1525 Barend J. van Wyk, Michaël A. van Wyk: A POCS-Based Graph Matching Algorithm. 1526-1530 Alper Yilmaz, Xin Li, Mubarak Shah: Contour-Based Object Tracking with Occlusion Handling in Video Acquired Using Mobile Cameras. 1531-1536 Volume 26, Number 12, December 2004

Owen T. Carmichael, Martial Hebert: Shape-Based Recognition of Wiry Objects. 1537-1552 Ira Cohen, Fabio Gagliardi Cozman, Nicu Sebe, Marcelo Cesar Cirelo, Thomas S. Huang: Semisupervised Learning of Classifiers: Theory, Algorithms, and Their Application to Human-Computer Interaction. 1553-1567 Luis Weruaga, Rafael Verdú, Juan Morales-Sánchez: Frequency Domain Formulation of Active Parametric Deformable Models. 1568-1578 Stephen J. Maybank: Detection of Image Structures Using the Fisher Information and the Rao Metric. 1579-1589 Josef Bigün, Tomas Bigun, Kenneth Nilsson: Recognition by Symmetry Derivatives and the Generalized Structure Tensor. 1590-1605 Yali Amit, Donald Geman, Xiaodong Fan: A Coarse-to-Fine Strategy for Multiclass Shape Detection. 1606-1621 Andrea Bottino, Aldo Laurentini: The Visual Hull of Smooth Curved Objects. 1622-1632 Andrea Fusiello, Arrigo Benedetti, Michela Farenzena, Alessandro Busti: Globally Convergent Autocalibration Using Interval Analysis. 1633-1638 Yi Li, Zhiyan Wang, Haizan Zeng: Correlation Filter: An Accurate Approach to Detect and Locate Low Contrast Character Strings in Complex Table Environment. 1639-1644 Clément Fredembach, Michael Schröder, Sabine Süsstrunk: Eigenregions for Image Classification. 1645-1649 Thomas Bülow: Spherical Diffusion for 3D Surface Smoothing. 1650-1654 Volume 27, Number 1, January 2005

Hakan Cevikalp, Marian Neamtu, Mitch Wilkes, Atalay Barkana: Discriminative Common Vectors for Face Recognition. 4-13 Sriharsha Veeramachaneni, George Nagy: Style Context with Second-Order Statistics. 14-22 Simone Marinai, Marco Gori, Giovanni Soda: Artificial Neural Networks for Document Analysis and Recognition. 23-35 Jiaya Jia, Chi-Keung Tang: Tensor Voting for Image Correction by Global and Local Intensity Alignment. 36-50 Khurram Shafique, Mubarak Shah: A Noniterative Greedy Algorithm for Multiframe Point Correspondence. 51-65 Nageswara S. V. Rao, David B. Reister, Jacob Barhen: Information Fusion Methods Based on Physical Laws. 66-77 Yasushi Yagi, Kousuke Imai, Kentaro Tsuji, Masahiko Yachida: Iconic Memory-Based Omnidirectional Route Panorama Navigation. 78-87 Prateek Sarkar, George Nagy: Style Consistent Classification of Isogenous Patterns. 88-98

Carlo Colombo, Alberto Del Bimbo, Federico Pernici: Metric 3D Reconstruction and Texture Acquisition of Surfaces of Revolution from a Single Uncalibrated View. 99-114 Xiang Sean Zhou, Dorin Comaniciu, Alok Gupta: An Information Fusion Framework for Robust Shape Tracking. 115-129 Laurence A. F. Park, Marimuthu Palaniswami, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao: A Novel Document Ranking Method Using the Discrete Cosine Transform. 130-135 Sang-Woon Kim, B. John Oommen: On Utilizing Search Methods to Select Subspace Dimensions for Kernel-Based Nonlinear Subspace Classifiers. 136-141 Ilaria Bartolini, Paolo Ciaccia, Marco Patella: WARP: Accurate Retrieval of Shapes Using Phase of Fourier Descriptors and Time Warping Distance. 142-147 Son Lam Phung, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Douglas Chai: Skin Segmentation Using Color Pixel Classification: Analysis and Comparison. 148-154 Volume 27, Number 2, February 2005

Introduction of New Associate Editors Introduction of New Associate Editors. 161 Papers Sudeep Sarkar, P. Jonathon Phillips, Zongyi Liu, Isidro Robledo Vega, Patrick Grother, Kevin W. Bowyer: The HumanID Gait Challenge Problem: Data Sets, Performance, and Analysis. 162-177 Robby T. Tan, Katsushi Ikeuchi: Separating Reflection Components of Textured Surfaces Using a Single Image. 178-193 Marta Wilczkowiak, Peter F. Sturm, Edmond Boyer: Using Geometric Constraints through Parallelepipeds for Calibration and 3D Modeling. 194-207 Pedro F. Felzenszwalb: Representation and Detection of Deformable Shapes. 208-220 Leo Dorst: First Order Error Propagation of the Procrustes Method for 3D Attitude Estimation. 221-229 Jian Yang, Alejandro F. Frangi, Jing-Yu Yang, David Zhang, Zhong Jin: KPCA Plus LDA: A Complete Kernel Fisher Discriminant Framework for Feature Extraction and Recognition. 230-244 Dionysius P. Huijsmans, Nicu Sebe: How to Complete Performance Graphs in Content-Based Image Retrieval: Add Generality and Normalize Scope. 245-251 Joshua Gluckman: Visually Distinct Patterns with Matching Subband Statistics. 252-264 Short Papers Jean-Yves Guillemaut, Alberto S. Aguado, John Illingworth: Using Points at Infinity for Parameter Decoupling in Camera Calibration. 265-270 Guang Jiang, Yichen Wei, Long Quan, Hung-Tat Tsui, Heung-Yeung Shum: Outward-Looking Circular Motion Analysis of Large Image Sequences. 271-277 Su Yang: Symbol Recognition via Statistical Integration of Pixel-Level Constraint Histograms: A New Descriptor. 278-281 Tao Zhang, Daniel Freedman: Improving Performance of Distribution Tracking through Background Mismatch. 282-287 Ravi Ramamoorthi, Melissa L. Koudelka, Peter N. Belhumeur: A Fourier Theory for Cast Shadows. 288-295 James Davis, Diego Nehab, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Szymon Rusinkiewicz: Spacetime Stereo: A Unifying Framework for Depth from Triangulation. 296-302 Volume 27, Number 3, March 2005

Papers Iain McCowan, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Samy Bengio, Guillaume Lathoud, Mark Barnard, Dong Zhang:

Automatic Analysis of Multimodal Group Actions in Meetings. 305-317 Tae-Kyun Kim, Josef Kittler: Locally Linear Discriminant Analysis for Multimodally Distributed Classes for Face Recognition with a Single Model Image. 318-327 Xiaofei He, Shuicheng Yan, Yuxiao Hu, Partha Niyogi, HongJiang Zhang: Face Recognition Using Laplacianfaces. 328-340 Philip de Chazal, John Flynn, Richard B. Reilly: Automated Processing of Shoeprint Images Based on the Fourier Transform for Use in Forensic Science. 341-350 Toshiyuki Kirishima, Kosuke Sato, Kunihiro Chihara: Real-Time Gesture Recognition by Learning and Selective Control of Visual Interest Points. 351-364 Antonio Robles-Kelly, Edwin R. Hancock: Graph Edit Distance from Spectral Seriation. 365-378 Arun Qamra, Yan Meng, Edward Y. Chang: Enhanced Perceptual Distance Functions and Indexing for Image Replica Recognition. 379-391 Ryusuke Sagawa, Ko Nishino, Katsushi Ikeuchi: Adaptively Merging Large-Scale Range Data with Reflectance Properties. 392-405 Paolo Favaro, Stefano Soatto: A Geometric Approach to Shape from Defocus. 406-417 Maxime Lhuillier, Long Quan: A Quasi-Dense Approach to Surface Reconstruction from Uncalibrated Images. 418-433 Wai-Shun Tong, Chi-Keung Tang: Robust Estimation of Adaptive Tensors of Curvature by Tensor Voting. 434-449 Short Papers Robert Snelick, Umut Uludag, Alan Mink, Mike Indovina, Anil K. Jain: Large-Scale Evaluation of Multimodal Biometric Authentication Using State-of-the-Art Systems. 450-455 Sang-Woon Kim, B. John Oommen: On Using Prototype Reduction Schemes and Classifier Fusion Strategies to Optimize Kernel-Based Nonlinear Subspace Methods. 455-460 Jaewook Lee, Daewon Lee: An Improved Cluster Labeling Method for Support Vector Clustering. 461-464 Giovanni Marola: A Technique for Finding the Symmetry Axes of Implicit Polynomial Curves under Perspective Projection. 465-470 Mark Fashing, Carlo Tomasi: Mean Shift Is a Bound Optimization. 471-474 Sundar Vedula, Simon Baker, Peter Rander, Robert T. Collins, Takeo Kanade: Three-Dimensional Scene Flow. 475-480 Volume 27, Number 4, April 2005

Introduction of New Associate Editors David J. Kriegman, David J. Fleet: Introduction of New Associate Editors. 481 Papers Bernard Haasdonk: Feature Space Interpretation of SVMs with Indefinite Kernels. 482-492 Kenji Hara, Ko Nishino, Katsushi Ikeuchi: Light Source Position and Reflectance Estimation from a Single View without the Distant Illumination Assumption. 493-505 David Tschumperlé, Rachid Deriche: Vector-Valued Image Regularization with PDEs: A Common Framework for Different Applications. 506-517 Srinivasa G. Narasimhan, Shree K. Nayar: Enhancing Resolution Along Multiple Imaging Dimensions Using Assorted Pixels. 518-530 Eli Shechtman, Yaron Caspi, Michal Irani:

Space-Time Super-Resolution. 531-545 Song Wang, Toshiro Kubota, Jeffrey Mark Siskind, Jun Wang: Salient Closed Boundary Extraction with Ratio Contour. 546-561 Andrew Calway: Recursive Estimation of 3D Motion and Surface Structure from Local Affine Flow Parameters. 562-574 Cem Ünsalan, Kim L. Boyer: A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Graph Theoretical Measures for Land Development in Satellite Imagery. 575-589 Anuj Srivastava, Shantanu H. Joshi, Washington Mio, Xiuwen Liu: Statistical Shape Analysis: Clustering, Learning, and Testing. 590-602 Jian-xiong Dong, Adam Krzyzak, Ching Y. Suen: Fast SVM Training Algorithm with Decomposition on Very Large Data Sets. 603-618 Short Papers Kyong I. Chang, Kevin W. Bowyer, Patrick J. Flynn: An Evaluation of Multimodal 2D+3D Face Biometrics. 619-624 Joost van de Weijer, Theo Gevers, Jan-Mark Geusebroek: Edge and Corner Detection by Photometric Quasi-Invariants. 625-630 Yoav Y. Schechner, Shree K. Nayar: Generalized Mosaicing: Polarization Panorama. 631-636 Jun-Sik Kim, Pierre Gurdjos, In-So Kweon: Geometric and Algebraic Constraints of Projected Concentric Circles and Their Applications to Camera Calibration. 637-642 Gérard Govaert, Mohamed Nadif: An EM Algorithm for the Block Mixture Model. 643-647 Chee Peng Lim, Jenn-Hwai Leong, Mei Ming Kuan: A Hybrid Neural Network System for Pattern Classification Tasks with Missing Features. 648-653 Volume 27, Number 5, May 2005

Papers Joshua Zhexue Huang, Michael K. Ng, Hongqiang Rong, Zichen Li: Automated Variable Weighting in k-Means Type Clustering. 657-668 Tal Steinherz, Ehud Rivlin, Nathan Intrator, Predrag Neskovic: An Integration of Online and Pseudo-Online Information for Cursive Word Recognition. 669-683 Kuang-Chih Lee, Jeffrey Ho, David J. Kriegman: Acquiring Linear Subspaces for Face Recognition under Variable Lighting. 684-698 Yongmian Zhang, Qiang Ji: Active and Dynamic Information Fusion for Facial Expression Understanding from Image Sequences. 699-714 Jiebo Luo, Matthew R. Boutell: Automatic Image Orientation Detection via Confidence-Based Integration of Low-Level and Semantic Cues. 715-726 Cristian Sminchisescu, Dimitris N. Metaxas, Sven J. Dickinson: Incremental Model-Based Estimation Using Geometric Constraints. 727-738 Mircea Nicolescu, Gérard G. Medioni: A Voting-Based Computational Framework for Visual Motion Analysis and Interpretation. 739-752 Michael W. Spratling: Learning Viewpoint Invariant Perceptual Representations from Cluttered Images. 753-761 Luciano Silva, Olga Regina Pereira Bellon, Kim L. Boyer: Precision Range Image Registration Using a Robust Surface Interpenetration Measure and Enhanced Genetic Algorithms. 762-776 Yefeng Zheng, Huiping Li, David S. Doermann: A Parallel-Line Detection Algorithm Based on HMM Decoding. 777-792 Ismail Ben Ayed, Amar Mitiche, Ziad Belhadj: Multiregion Level-Set Partitioning of Synthetic Aperture Radar Images. 793-800

Short Papers Francesco Camastra, Alessandro Verri: A Novel Kernel Method for Clustering. 801-804 Jeong-Seon Park, You Hwa Oh, Sang Chul Ahn, Seong-Whan Lee: Glasses Removal from Facial Image Using Recursive Error Compensation. 805-811 Alice J. O'Toole, Joshua Harms, Sarah L. Snow, Dawn R. Hurst, Matthew R. Pappas, Janet H. Ayyad, Hervé Abdi: A Video Database of Moving Faces and People. 812-816 Dmitri Bitouk, Michael I. Miller, Laurent Younes: Clutter Invariant ATR. 817-821 André F. T. Martins, Pedro M. Q. Aguiar, Mário A. T. Figueiredo: Orientation in Manhattan: Equiprojective Classes and Sequential Estimation. 822-826 Dar-Shyang Lee: Effective Gaussian Mixture Learning for Video Background Subtraction. 827-832 Volume 27, Number 6, June 2005

Introduction of New Associate Editors David J. Kriegman, David J. Fleet: Introduction of New Associate Editors. 833-834 Papers Ana L. N. Fred, Anil K. Jain: Combining Multiple Clusterings Using Evidence Accumulation. 835-850 Theodore Lim, Hugo Medellín, Carmen Torres-Sanchez, Jonathan R. Corney, James M. Ritchie, J. Bruce C. Davies: Edge-Based Identification of DP-Features on Free-Form Solids. 851-860 Jianzhuang Liu, Xiaoou Tang: Evolutionary Search for Faces from Line Drawings. 861-872 Sylvie C. W. Ong, Surendra Ranganath: Automatic Sign Language Analysis: A Survey and the Future beyond Lexical Meaning. 873-891 Ulisses Braga-Neto, John Goutsias: Object-Based Image Analysis Using Multiscale Connectivity. 892-907 Esa Rahtu, Mikko Salo, Janne Heikkilä: Affine Invariant Pattern Recognition Using Multiscale Autoconvolution. 908-918 Bingchen Wang, Sigeru Omatu, Toshiro Abe: Identification of the Defective Transmission Devices Using the Wavelet Transform. 919-928 Jieping Ye, Qi Li: A Two-Stage Linear Discriminant Analysis via QR-Decomposition. 929-941 Giorgio Fumera, Fabio Roli: A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Linear Combiners for Multiple Classifier Systems. 942-956 Balaji Krishnapuram, Lawrence Carin, Mário A. T. Figueiredo, Alexander J. Hartemink: Sparse Multinomial Logistic Regression: Fast Algorithms and Generalization Bounds. 957-968 Yosi Keller, Yoel Shkolnisky, Amir Averbuch: The Angular Difference Function and Its Application to Image Registration. 969-976 Moshe Ben-Ezra, Assaf Zomet, Shree K. Nayar: Video Super-Resolution Using Controlled Subpixel Detector Shifts. 977-987 Short Papers Abhijit S. Ogale, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos: Motion Segmentation Using Occlusions. 988-992 Miguel A. Ferrer, Jesús B. Alonso, Carlos M. Travieso: Offline Geometric Parameters for Automatic Signature Verification Using Fixed-Point Arithmetic. 993-997 Minglun Gong, Yee-Hong Yang:

Fast Unambiguous Stereo Matching Using Reliability-Based Dynamic Programming. 998-1003 Kourosh Jafari-Khouzani, Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh: Radon Transform Orientation Estimation for Rotation Invariant Texture Analysis. 1004-1008 Volume 27, Number 7, July 2005

Special Section on Syntactic and Structural Pattern Recognition Mitra Basu, Horst Bunke, Alberto Del Bimbo: Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Section on Syntactic and Structural Pattern Recognition. 1009-1012 Enrique Vidal, Franck Thollard, Colin de la Higuera, Francisco Casacuberta, Rafael C. Carrasco: Probabilistic Finite-State Machines-Part I. 1013-1025 Enrique Vidal, Franck Thollard, Colin de la Higuera, Francisco Casacuberta, Rafael C. Carrasco: Probabilistic Finite-State Machines-Part II. 1026-1039 Jose L. Verdú-Mas, Rafael C. Carrasco, Jorge Calera-Rubio: Parsing with Probabilistic Strictly Locally Testable Tree Languages. 1040-1050 Yasubumi Sakakibara: Grammatical Inference in Bioinformatics. 1051-1062 Simon M. Lucas, T. Jeff Reynolds: Learning Deterministic Finite Automata with a Smart State Labeling Evolutionary Algorithm. 1063-1074 Roberto Navigli, Paola Velardi: Structural Semantic Interconnections: A Knowledge-Based Approach to Word Sense Disambiguation. 1075-1086 Andrea Torsello, Dzena Hidovic Rowe, Marcello Pelillo: Polynomial-Time Metrics for Attributed Trees. 1087-1099 Marco Gori, Marco Maggini, Lorenzo Sarti: Exact and Approximate Graph Matching Using Random Walks. 1100-1111 Richard C. Wilson, Edwin R. Hancock, Bin Luo: Pattern Vectors from Algebraic Graph Theory. 1112-1124 Ali Shokoufandeh, Diego Macrini, Sven J. Dickinson, Kaleem Siddiqi, Steven W. Zucker: Indexing Hierarchical Structures Using Graph Spectra. 1125-1140 Yakov Keselman, Sven J. Dickinson: Generic Model Abstraction from Examples. 1141-1156 Regular Papers Florent Perronnin, Jean-Luc Dugelay, Kenneth Rose: A Probabilistic Model of Face Mapping with Local Transformations and Its Application to Person Recognition. 1157-1171 Joes Staal, Stiliyan Kalitzin, Max A. Viergever: A Trained Spin-Glass Model for Grouping of Image Primitives. 1172-1182 Volume 27, Number 8, August 2005

Regular Papers Jun Liu, Jim P. Y. Lee, Lingjie Li, Zhi-Quan Luo, Kon Max Wong: Online Clustering Algorithms for Radar Emitter Classification. 1185-1196 Jian Yu: General C-Means Clustering Model. 1197-1211 R. Manmatha, Jamie L. Rothfeder: A Scale Space Approach for Automatically Segmenting Words from Historical Handwritten Documents. 1212-1225 Hanchuan Peng, Fuhui Long, Chris H. Q. Ding: Feature Selection Based on Mutual Information: Criteria of Max-Dependency, Max-Relevance, and Min-Redundancy. 1226-1238 Adrian Barbu, Song Chun Zhu: Generalizing Swendsen-Wang to Sampling Arbitrary Posterior Probabilities. 1239-1253 Aaron Hertzmann, Steven M. Seitz: Example-Based Photometric Stereo: Shape Reconstruction with General, Varying BRDFs. 1254-1264

Svetlana Lazebnik, Cordelia Schmid, Jean Ponce: A Sparse Texture Representation Using Local Affine Regions. 1265-1278 John M. Galbraith, Garrett T. Kenyon, Richard W. Ziolkowski: Time-to-Collision Estimation from Motion Based on Primate Visual Processing. 1279-1291 Oliver M. C. Williams, Andrew Blake, Roberto Cipolla: Sparse Bayesian Learning for Efficient Visual Tracking. 1292-1304 Wen-Yi Zhao, David Nistér, Steven C. Hsu: Alignment of Continuous Video onto 3D Point Clouds. 1305-1318 Short Papers Hong Chen, Anil K. Jain: Dental Biometrics: Alignment and Matching of Dental Radiographs. 1319-1326 João P. Barreto, Helder Araújo: Geometric Properties of Central Catadioptric Line Images and Their Application in Calibration. 1327-1333 Liwei Wang, Yan Zhang, Jufu Feng: On the Euclidean Distance of Images. 1334-1339 George Ostrouchov, Nagiza F. Samatova: On FastMap and the Convex Hull of Multivariate Data: Toward Fast and Robust Dimension Reduction. 1340-1343 Franz Pernkopf, Djamel Bouchaffra: Genetic-Based EM Algorithm for Learning Gaussian Mixture Models. 1344-1348 Volume 27, Number 9, September 2005

Editorial David J. Kriegman, David J. Fleet: Introduction of New Associate Editors. 1349-1350 Regular Papers Kwang In Kim, Matthias O. Franz, Bernhard Schölkopf: Iterative Kernel Principal Component Analysis for Image Modeling. 1351-1366 Nikhil Balakrishnan, Karthik Hariharakrishnan, Dan Schonfeld: A New Image Representation Algorithm Inspired by Image Submodality Models, Redundancy Reduction, and Learning in Biological Vision. 1367-1378 Peter Meinicke, Stefan Klanke, Roland Memisevic, Helge Ritter: Principal Surfaces from Unsupervised Kernel Regression. 1379-1391 Brendan J. Frey, Nebojsa Jojic: A Comparison of Algorithms for Inference and Learning in Probabilistic Graphical Models. 1392-1416 Cor J. Veenman, Marcel J. T. Reinders: The Nearest Subclass Classifier: A Compromise between the Nearest Mean and Nearest Neighbor Classifier. 1417-1429 Yacov Hel-Or, Hagit Hel-Or: Real-Time Pattern Matching Using Projection Kernels. 1430-1445 Ronald H. Y. Chung, N. H. C. Yung, Paul Y. S. Cheung: An Efficient Parameterless Quadrilateral-Based Image Segmentation Method. 1446-1458 Marshall F. Tappen, William T. Freeman, Edward H. Adelson: Recovering Intrinsic Images from a Single Image. 1459-1472 Sidi Mohammed Réda Dehak, Isabelle Bloch, Henri Maître: Spatial Reasoning with Incomplete Information on Relative Positioning. 1473-1484 Short Papers Paul Bao, Lei Zhang, Xiaolin Wu: Canny Edge Detection Enhancement by Scale Multiplication. 1485-1490 Miroslav Hamouz, Josef Kittler, Joni-Kristian Kamarainen, Pekka Paalanen, Heikki Kälviäinen, Jiri Matas: Feature-Based Affine-Invariant Localization of Faces. 1490-1495

Cor J. Veenman, David M. J. Tax: LESS: A Model-Based Classifier for Sparse Subspaces. 1496-1500 Henri Bouma, Anna Vilanova, Lucas J. van Vliet, Frans A. Gerritsen: Correction for the Dislocation of Curved Surfaces Caused by the PSF in 2D and 3D CT Images. 1501-1507 Volume 27, Number 10, October 2005

Alessandro L. Koerich, Robert Sabourin, Ching Y. Suen: Recognition and Verification of Unconstrained Handwritten Words. 1509-1522 Ben Tordoff, David W. Murray: Guided-MLESAC: Faster Image Transform Estimation by Using Matching Priors. 1523-1535 Peng-Yeng Yin, Bir Bhanu, Kuang-Cheng Chang, Anlei Dong: Integrating Relevance Feedback Techniques for Image Retrieval Using Reinforcement Learning. 1536-1551 Ke Chen: Adaptive Smoothing via Contextual and Local Discontinuities. 1552-1567 Caroline Lacoste, Xavier Descombes, Josiane Zerubia: Point Processes for Unsupervised Line Network Extraction in Remote Sensing. 1568-1579 Michael D. DeVore: Estimates of Error Probability for Complex Gaussian Channels with Generalized Likelihood Ratio Detection. 1580-1591 Anil K. Ghosh, Probal Chaudhuri, C. A. Murthy: On Visualization and Aggregation of Nearest Neighbor Classifiers. 1592-1602 Xufei Liu, Tapas Kanungo, Robert M. Haralick: On the Use of Error Propagation for Statistical Validation of Computer Vision Software. 1603-1614 Krystian Mikolajczyk, Cordelia Schmid: A Performance Evaluation of Local Descriptors. 1615-1630 Robert T. Collins, Yanxi Liu, Marius Leordeanu: Online Selection of Discriminative Tracking Features. 1631-1643 Jiangjian Xiao, Mubarak Shah: Motion Layer Extraction in the Presence of Occlusion Using Graph Cuts. 1644-1659 Short Papers Isaac Weiss, Manjit Ray: Recognizing Articulated Objects Using a Region-Based Invariant Transform. 1660-1665 Evgeni Begelfor, Michael Werman: How to Put Probabilities on Homographies. 1666-1670 Peter Rockett: An Improved Rotation-Invariant Thinning Algorithm. 1671-1674 Ko Nishino, Shree K. Nayar, Tony Jebara: Clustered Blockwise PCA for Representing Visual Data. 1675-1679 Li Yang: Building k Edge-Disjoint Spanning Trees of Minimum Total Length for Isometric Data Embedding. 1680-1683 Volume 27, Number 11, November 2005

Editorial David J. Kriegman, David J. Fleet: Introduction of New Associate Editors. 1685 Papers Fayin Li, Harry Wechsler: Open Set Face Recognition Using Transduction. 1686-1697 Slobodan Ribaric, Ivan Fratric: A Biometric Identification System Based on Eigenpalm and Eigenfinger Features. 1698-1709 Huidong Jin, Man Leung Wong, Kwong-Sak Leung:

Scalable Model-Based Clustering for Large Databases Based on Data Summarization. 1710-1719 Andrew Busch, Wageeh W. Boles, Sridha Sridharan: Texture for Script Identification. 1720-1732 Emli-Mari Nel, Johan A. du Preez, Ben M. Herbst: Estimating the Pen Trajectories of Static Signatures Using Hidden Markov Models. 1733-1746 Gang Hua, Ying Wu: Variational Maximum A Posteriori by Annealed Mean Field Analysis. 1747-1761 Sinisa Todorovic, Michael C. Nechyba: Dynamic Trees for Unsupervised Segmentation and Matching of Image Regions. 1762-1777 Yaser Sheikh, Mubarak Shah: Bayesian Modeling of Dynamic Scenes for Object Detection. 1778-1792 Anarta Ghosh, Nicolai Petkov: Robustness of Shape Descriptors to Incomplete Contour Representations. 1793-1804 Zia Khan, Tucker R. Balch, Frank Dellaert: MCMC-Based Particle Filtering for Tracking a Variable Number of Interacting Targets. 1805-1918 Short Papers Maria Cecilla Mazzaro, Mario Sznaier, Octavia I. Camps: A Model (In)Validation Approach to Gait Classification. 1820-1825 Cris L. Luengo Hendriks, Lucas J. van Vliet: Using Line Segments as Structuring Elements for Sampling-Invariant Measurements. 1826-1831 Greg Mori, Serge J. Belongie, Jitendra Malik: Efficient Shape Matching Using Shape Contexts. 1832-1837 Christophe Zimmer, Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin: Coupled Parametric Active Contours. 1838-1842 Volume 27, Number 12, December 2005

Papers Takayuki Okatani, Koichiro Deguchi: Autocalibration of a Projector-Camera System. 1845-1855 Dimitrios Charalampidis: A Modified K-Means Algorithm for Circular Invariant Clustering. 1856-1865 Alexander P. Topchy, Anil K. Jain, William F. Punch: Clustering Ensembles: Models of Consensus and Weak Partitions. 1866-1881 Alessandro Vinciarelli: Noisy Text Categorization. 1882-1895 Ashok Veeraraghavan, Amit K. Roy Chowdhury, Rama Chellappa: Matching Shape Sequences in Video with Applications in Human Movement Analysis. 1896-1909 Ying Wu, John Lin, Thomas S. Huang: Analyzing and Capturing Articulated Hand Motion in Image Sequences. 1910-1922 Changming Sun, Ben Appleton: Multiple Paths Extraction in Images Using a Constrained Expanded Trellis. 1923-1933 Aleix M. Martínez, Manli Zhu: Where Are Linear Feature Extraction Methods Applicable? 1934-1944 René Vidal, Yi Ma, Shankar Sastry: Generalized Principal Component Analysis (GPCA). 1945-1959 Pierre-Louis Bazin, Jean-Marc Vézien: Integration of Geometric Elements, Euclidean Relations, and Motion Curves for Parametric Shape and Motion Estimation. 1960-1976 Short Papers Jongsun Kim, Jongmoo Choi, Juneho Yi, Matthew Turk:

Effective Representation Using ICA for Face Recognition Robust to Local Distortion and Partial Occlusion. 1977-1981 Bo Gun Park, Kyoung Mu Lee, Sang Uk Lee: Face Recognition Using Face-ARG Matching. 1982-1988 Anand M. Narasimhamurthy: Theoretical Bounds of Majority Voting Performance for a Binary Classification Problem. 1988-1995 Pew-Thian Yap, Paramesran Raveendran: An Efficient Method for the Computation of Legendre Moments. 1996-2002 Volume 28, Number 1, January 2006

Introduction of New Associate Editors David J. Kriegman, David J. Fleet: Introduction of New Associate Editors. 1-2 Papers Raffaele Cappelli, Dario Maio, Davide Maltoni, James L. Wayman, Anil K. Jain: Performance Evaluation of Fingerprint Verification Systems. 3-18 Arun Ross, Sarat C. Dass, Anil K. Jain: Fingerprint Warping Using Ridge Curve Correspondences. 19-30 Xiaoguang Lu, Anil K. Jain, Dirk Colbry: Matching 2.5D Face Scans to 3D Models. 31-43 Ankur Agarwal, Bill Triggs: Recovering 3D Human Pose from Monocular Images. 44-58 Graham D. Finlayson, Steven D. Hordley, Cheng Lu, Mark S. Drew: On the Removal of Shadows from Images. 59-68 Olvi L. Mangasarian, Edward W. Wild: Multisurface Proximal Support Vector Machine Classification via Generalized Eigenvalues. 69-74 Salvador Ruiz-Correa, Linda G. Shapiro, Marina Meila, Gabriel Berson, Michael L. Cunningham, Raymond W. Sze: Symbolic Signatures for Deformable Shapes. 75-90 Zhimin Fan, Jie Zhou, Ying Wu: Multibody Grouping by Inference of Multiple Subspaces from High-Dimensional Data Using Oriented-Frames. 91-105 Ben Appleton, Hugues Talbot: Globally Minimal Surfaces by Continuous Maximal Flows. 106-118 Kang Li, Xiaodong Wu, Danny Z. Chen, Milan Sonka: Optimal Surface Segmentation in Volumetric Images-A Graph-Theoretic Approach. 119-134 Short Papers Yulia Gizatdinova, Veikko Surakka: Feature-Based Detection of Facial Landmarks from Neutral and Expressive Facial Images. 135-139 Ferdinand van der Heijden: Consistency Checks for Particle Filters. 140-145 Patrizio Campisi, Stefania Colonnese, Gianpiero Panci, Gaetano Scarano: Reduced Complexity Rotation Invariant Texture Classification Using a Blind Deconvolution Approach. 145-149 Joost van de Weijer, Theo Gevers, Andrew D. Bagdanov: Boosting Color Saliency in Image Feature Detection. 150-156 Carlos E. Pedreira: Learning Vector Quantization with Training Data Selection. 157-162 Teófilo Emídio de Campos, Ben Tordoff, David W. Murray: Recovering Articulated Pose: A Comparison of Two Pre and Postimposed Constraint Methods. 163-168 Volume 28, Number 2, February 2006

Editorial-State of the Transactions David J. Kriegman, David J. Fleet:

Editorial-State of the Transactions. 177 Papers Heesung Kwon, Nasser M. Nasrabadi: Kernel Matched Subspace Detectors for Hyperspectral Target Detection. 178-194 Chew Lim Tan, Li Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Tao Xia: Restoring Warped Document Images through 3D Shape Modeling. 195-208 Michael Felsberg, Per-Erik Forssén, Hanno Scharr: Channel Smoothing: Efficient Robust Smoothing of Low-Level Signal Features. 209-222 Pi-Fuei Hsieh, Deng-Shiang Wang, Chia-Wei Hsu: A Linear Feature Extraction for Multiclass Classification Problems Based on Class Mean and Covariance Discriminant Information. 223-235 Erik G. Learned-Miller: Data Driven Image Models through Continuous Joint Alignment. 236-250 Tamar Avraham, Michael Lindenbaum: Attention-Based Dynamic Visual Search Using Inner-Scene Similarity: Algorithms and Bounds. 251-264 Octavian Soldea, Gershon Elber, Ehud Rivlin: Global Segmentation and Curvature Analysis of Volumetric Data Sets Using Trivariate B-Spline Functions. 265-278 Yang Wang, Kia-Fock Loe, Jian-Kang Wu: A Dynamic Conditional Random Field Model for Foreground and Shadow Segmentation. 279-289 Yanghai Tsin, Sing Bing Kang, Richard Szeliski: Stereo Matching with Linear Superposition of Layers. 290-301 Yasutaka Furukawa, Amit Sethi, Jean Ponce, David J. Kriegman: Robust Structure and Motion from Outlines of Smooth Curved Surfaces. 302-315 Short Papers Ju Han, Bir Bhanu: Individual Recognition Using Gait Energy Image. 316-322 Ibrahim El Rube, Maher Ahmed, Mohamed S. Kamel: Wavelet Approximation-Based Affine Invariant Shape Representation Functions. 323-327 Slobodan Ilic, Pascal Fua: Implicit Meshes for Surface Reconstruction. 328-333 Volume 28, Number 3, March 2006

Papers Sanja Fidler, Danijel Skocaj, Ales Leonardis: Combining Reconstructive and Discriminative Subspace Methods for Robust Classification and Regression by Subsampling. 337-350 Lei Zhang, Dimitris Samaras: Face Recognition from a Single Training Image under Arbitrary Unknown Lighting Using Spherical Harmonics. 351-363 Suyash P. Awate, Ross T. Whitaker: Unsupervised, Information-Theoretic, Adaptive Image Filtering for Image Restoration. 364-376 Martin H. C. Law, Anil K. Jain: Incremental Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Manifold Learning. 377-391 Olcay Taner Yildiz, Ethem Alpaydin: Ordering and Finding the Best of K > 2 Supervised Learning Algorithms. 392-402 Alberto D. Pascual-Montano, José María Carazo, Kieko Kochi, Dietrich Lehmann, Roberto D. Pascual-Marqui: Nonsmooth Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (nsNMF). 403-415 Andreas Opelt, Axel Pinz, Michael Fussenegger, Peter Auer: Generic Object Recognition with Boosting. 416-431 Thomas P. Koninckx, Luc J. Van Gool: Real-Time Range Acquisition by Adaptive Structured Light. 432-445 Jing Wang, Kristin J. Dana:

Relief Texture from Specularities. 446-457 Short Papers Hanhong Xue, Venu Govindaraju: Hidden Markov Models Combining Discrete Symbols and Continuous Attributes in Handwriting Recognition. 458-462 Jacob Goldberger, Hayit Greenspan: Context-Based Segmentation of Image Sequences. 463-468 Leo Grady, Eric L. Schwartz: Isoperimetric Graph Partitioning for Image Segmentation. 469-475 Alberto Muñoz, Javier M. Moguerza: Estimation of High-Density Regions Using One-Class Neighbor Machines. 476-480 Christopher L. Wyatt, Ersin Bayram, Yaorong Ge: Minimum Reliable Scale Selection in 3D. 481-487 Maurizio Martina, Guido Masera: Mumford and Shah Functional: VLSI Analysis and Implementation. 487-494 Volume 28, Number 4, April 2006

Papers Guy Lebanon: Metric Learning for Text Documents. 497-508 Baris Sumengen, B. S. Manjunath: Graph Partitioning Active Contours (GPAC) for Image Segmentation. 509-521 Shihao Ji, Balaji Krishnapuram, Lawrence Carin: Variational Bayes for Continuous Hidden Markov Models and Its Application to Active Learning. 522-532 Michael Laszlo, Sumitra Mukherjee: A Genetic Algorithm Using Hyper-Quadtrees for Low-Dimensional K-means Clustering. 533-543 Guillaume Bouchard, Gilles Celeux: Selection of Generative Models in Classification. 544-554 Thang V. Pham, Arnold W. M. Smeulders: Sparse Representation for Coarse and Fine Object Recognition. 555-567 Ying Shan, Harpreet S. Sawhney, Bogdan Matei, Rakesh Kumar: Shapeme Histogram Projection and Matching for Partial Object Recognition. 568-577 Rong Yan, Jian Zhang, Jie Yang, Alexander G. Hauptmann: A Discriminative Learning Framework with Pairwise Constraints for Video Object Classification. 578-593 Fei-Fei Li, Robert Fergus, Pietro Perona: One-Shot Learning of Object Categories. 594-611 Hisashi Shimodaira: A Shape-from-Shading Method of Polyhedral Objects Using Prior Information. 612-624 Xiaoyun Zhang, Yuncai Liu, Thomas S. Huang: Motion Analysis of Articulated Objects from Monocular Images. 625-636 Short Papers Irina Popovici, William Douglas Withers: Custom-Built Moments for Edge Location. 637-642 Yefeng Zheng, David S. Doermann: Robust Point Matching for Nonrigid Shapes by Preserving Local Neighborhood Structures. 643-649 Kuk-Jin Yoon, In-So Kweon: Adaptive Support-Weight Approach for Correspondence Search. 650-656 Marko Heikkilä, Matti Pietikäinen: A Texture-Based Method for Modeling the Background and Detecting Moving Objects. 657-662 Weiming Hu, Min Hu, Xue Zhou, Tieniu Tan, Jianguang Lou, Stephen J. Maybank:

Principal Axis-Based Correspondence between Multiple Cameras for People Tracking. 663-671 Volume 28, Number 5, May 2006

Papers Pierre Soille: Morphological Image Compositing. 673-683 Li Cheng, Terry Caelli, Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa: Component Optimization for Image Understanding: A Bayesian Approach. 684-693 Zehang Sun, George Bebis, Ronald Miller: On-Road Vehicle Detection: A Review. 694-711 Liana M. Lorigo, Venugopal Govindaraju: Offline Arabic Handwriting Recognition: A Survey. 712-724 Chengjun Liu: Capitalize on Dimensionality Increasing Techniques for Improving Face Recognition Grand Challenge Performance. 725-737 Tsuyoshi Moriyama, Takeo Kanade, Jing Xiao, Jeffrey F. Cohn: Meticulously Detailed Eye Region Model and Its Application to Analysis of Facial Images. 738-752 Ying Wu, Ting Yu: A Field Model for Human Detection and Tracking. 753-765 Maya R. Gupta, Robert M. Gray, Richard A. Olshen: Nonparametric Supervised Learning by Linear Interpolation with Maximum Entropy. 766-781 Carlos Vázquez, Amar Mitiche, Robert Laganière: Joint Multiregion Segmentation and Parametric Estimation of Image Motion by Basis Function Representation and Level Set Evolution. 782-793 Yosi Keller, Amir Averbuch: Multisensor Image Registration via Implicit Similarity. 794-801 Olivier Le Meur, Patrick Le Callet, Dominique Barba, Dominique Thoreau: A Coherent Computational Approach to Model Bottom-Up Visual Attention. 802-817 Short Papers Matthias Zimmermann, Jean-Cédric Chappelier, Horst Bunke: Offline Grammar-Based Recognition of Handwritten Sentences. 818-821 Gunther Heidemann: The Principal Components of Natural Images Revisited. 822-826 Li Yang: Building k-Connected Neighborhood Graphs for Isometric Data Embedding. 827-831 Jiaya Jia, Yu-Wing Tai, Tai-Pang Wu, Chi-Keung Tang: Video Repairing under Variable Illumination Using Cyclic Motions. 832-839 Shih-Schön Lin, Ruzena Bajcsy: Single-View-Point Omnidirectional Catadioptric Cone Mirror Imager. 840-845 Comments Liwei Wang, Jufu Feng: Comments on "Fundamental Limits of Reconstruction-Based Superresolution Algorithms under Local Translation'. 846 Zhouchen Lin, Heung-Yeung Shum: Response to the Comments on "Fundamental Limits of Reconstruction-Based Superresolution Algorithms under Local Translation'. 847 Volume 28, Number 6, June 2006

Introduction of New Associate Editors David J. Kriegman, David J. Fleet: Introduction of New Associate Editors. 849 Papers Yuliang He, Jie Tian, Liang Li, Hong Chen, Xin Yang: Fingerprint Matching Based on Global Comprehensive Similarity. 850-862

Zongyi Liu, Sudeep Sarkar: Improved Gait Recognition by Gait Dynamics Normalization. 863-876 Andy M. Yip, Chris H. Q. Ding, Tony F. Chan: Dynamic Cluster Formation Using Level Set Methods. 877-889 Xavier Hilaire, Karl Tombre: Robust and Accurate Vectorization of Line Drawings. 890-904 Mun Wai Lee, Isaac Cohen: A Model-Based Approach for Estimating Human 3D Poses in Static Images. 905-916 Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Rama Chellappa: From Sample Similarity to Ensemble Similarity: Probabilistic Distance Measures in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space. 917-929 Toni Tamminen, Jouko Lampinen: Sequential Monte Carlo for Bayesian Matching of Objects with Occlusions. 930-941 Hui Wang: Nearest Neighbors by Neighborhood Counting. 942-953 Andrea Torsello, Edwin R. Hancock: Learning Shape-Classes Using a Mixture of Tree-Unions. 954-967 Philippos Mordohai, Gérard G. Medioni: Stereo Using Monocular Cues within the Tensor Voting Framework. 968-982 Konrad Schindler, David Suter: Two-View Multibody Structure-and-Motion with Outliers through Model Selection. 983-995 Short Papers Issam Dagher, Rabih Nachar: Face Recognition Using IPCA-ICA Algorithm. 996-1000 Nicolás García-Pedrajas, Domingo Ortiz-Boyer: Improving Multiclass Pattern Recognition by the Combination of Two Strategies. 1001-1006 Oriol Pujol, Petia Radeva, Jordi Vitrià: Discriminant ECOC: A Heuristic Method for Application Dependent Design of Error Correcting Output Codes. 1007-1012 Constantinos Constantinopoulos, Michalis K. Titsias, Aristidis Likas: Bayesian Feature and Model Selection for Gaussian Mixture Models. 1013-1018 Hui Ji, Cornelia Fermüller: A 3D Shape Constraint on Video. 1018-1023 Volume 28, Number 7, July 2006

Papers Hong Chen, Song Chun Zhu: A Generative Sketch Model for Human Hair Analysis and Synthesis. 1025-1040 Alain Biem: Minimum Classification Error Training for Online Handwriting Recognition. 1041-1051 Greg Mori, Jitendra Malik: Recovering 3D Human Body Configurations Using Shape Contexts. 1052-1062 Richard Beare: A Locally Constrained Watershed Transform. 1063-1074 Irène Gijbels, Alexandre Lambert, Peihua Qiu: Edge-Preserving Image Denoising and Estimation of Discontinuous Surfaces. 1075-1087 Dacheng Tao, Xiaoou Tang, Xuelong Li, Xindong Wu: Asymmetric Bagging and Random Subspace for Support Vector Machines-Based Relevance Feedback in Image Retrieval. 1088-1099 Roberto Paredes, Enrique Vidal: Learning Weighted Metrics to Minimize Nearest-Neighbor Classification Error. 1100-1110

Bogdan Matei, Ying Shan, Harpreet S. Sawhney, Yi Tan, Rakesh Kumar, Daniel F. Huber, Martial Hebert: Rapid Object Indexing Using Locality Sensitive Hashing and Joint 3D-Signature Space Estimation. 1111-1126 Masafumi Miyazawa, PeiFeng Zeng, Naoyuki Iso, Tomio Hirata: A Systolic Algorithm for Euclidean Distance Transform. 1127-1134 Branislav Micusík, Tomás Pajdla: Structure from Motion with Wide Circular Field of View Cameras. 1135-1149 Yasuyuki Matsushita, Eyal Ofek, Weina Ge, Xiaoou Tang, Heung-Yeung Shum: Full-Frame Video Stabilization with Motion Inpainting. 1150-1163 Short Papers Yaser Yacoob, Larry S. Davis: Detection and Analysis of Hair. 1164-1169 Ameesh Makadia, Kostas Daniilidis: Rotation Recovery from Spherical Images without Correspondences. 1170-1175 Isao Miyagawa, Kenichi Arakawa: Motion and Shape Recovery Based on Iterative Stabilization for Modest Deviation from Planar Motion. 1176-1181 Volume 28, Number 8, August 2006

Editorial David J. Kriegman, David J. Fleet: Introduction of New Associate Editors. 1185 Papers Simone Marinai, Emanuele Marino, Giovanni Soda: Font Adaptive Word Indexing of Modern Printed Documents. 1187-1199 Derek Justice, Alfred O. Hero: A Binary Linear Programming Formulation of the Graph Edit Distance. 1200-1214 Yu Chin Cheng: The Distinctiveness of a Curve in a Parameterized Neighborhood: Extraction and Applications. 1215-1222 Richard Nock, Frank Nielsen: On Weighting Clustering. 1223-1235 Jakob J. Verbeek: Learning Nonlinear Image Manifolds by Global Alignment of Local Linear Models. 1236-1250 Mingkun Li, Ishwar K. Sethi: Confidence-Based Active Learning. 1251-1261 Daniel Cremers: Dynamical Statistical Shape Priors for Level Set-Based Tracking. 1262-1273 Manli Zhu, Aleix M. Martínez: Subclass Discriminant Analysis. 1274-1286 Todd Zickler, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Sebastian Enrique, Peter N. Belhumeur: Reflectance Sharing: Predicting Appearance from a Sparse Set of Images of a Known Shape. 1287-1302 Xiaolei Huang, Nikos Paragios, Dimitris N. Metaxas: Shape Registration in Implicit Spaces Using Information Theory and Free Form Deformations. 1303-1318 Deva Ramanan, David A. Forsyth, Kobus Barnard: Building Models of Animals from Video. 1319-1334 Short Papers Juho Kannala, Sami S. Brandt: A Generic Camera Model and Calibration Method for Conventional, Wide-Angle, and Fish-Eye Lenses. 1335-1340 Zhouchen Lin, Junfeng He, Zhicheng Zhong, Rongrong Wang, Heung-Yeung Shum: Table Detection in Online Ink Notes. 1341-1346 Roongroj Nopsuwanchai, Alain Biem, W. F. Clocksin: Maximization of Mutual Information for Offline Thai Handwriting Recognition. 1347-1351

Alban Foulonneau, Pierre Charbonnier, Fabrice Heitz: Affine-Invariant Geometric Shape Priors for Region-Based Active Contours. 1352-1357 Volume 28, Number 9, September 2006

Papers Constantin Papaodysseus, Dimitrios K. Fragoulis, Mihalis Panagopoulos, Thanasis Panagopoulos, Panayiotis Rousopoulos, Mihalis Exarhos, Angelos Skembris: Determination of the Method of Construction of 1650 B.C. Wall Paintings. 1361-1371 Björn Stenger, Arasanathan Thayananthan, Philip H. S. Torr, Roberto Cipolla: Model-Based Hand Tracking Using a Hierarchical Bayesian Filter. 1372-1384 Kenneth E. Hild II, Deniz Erdogmus, Kari Torkkola, Jose C. Principe: Feature Extraction Using Information-Theoretic Learning. 1385-1392 Stéphane Lafon, Ann B. Lee: Diffusion Maps and Coarse-Graining: A Unified Framework for Dimensionality Reduction, Graph Partitioning, and Data Set Parameterization. 1393-1403 Ronen Lerner, Ehud Rivlin, Héctor Rotstein: Pose and Motion Recovery from Feature Correspondences and a Digital Terrain Map. 1404-1417 Yeon-Ho Kim, Avinash C. Kak: Error Analysis of Robust Optical Flow Estimation by Least Median of Squares Methods for the Varying Illumination Model. 1418-1435 Oswald Lanz: Approximate Bayesian Multibody Tracking. 1436-1449 Weiming Hu, Xuejuan Xiao, Zhouyu Fu, Dan Xie, Tieniu Tan, Stephen J. Maybank: A System for Learning Statistical Motion Patterns. 1450-1464 Vincent Lepetit, Pascal Fua: Keypoint Recognition Using Randomized Trees. 1465-1479 Vladimir Kolmogorov, Antonio Criminisi, Andrew Blake, Geoffrey Cross, Carsten Rother: Probabilistic Fusion of Stereo with Color and Contrast for Bilayer Segmentation. 1480-1492 Ismail Ben Ayed, Amar Mitiche, Ziad Belhadj: Polarimetric Image Segmentation via Maximum-Likelihood Approximation and Efficient Multiphase Level-Sets. 1493-1500 Esa Rahtu, Mikko Salo, Janne Heikkilä: A New Convexity Measure Based on a Probabilistic Interpretation of Images. 1501-1512 Fengjun Lv, Tao Zhao, Ramakant Nevatia: Camera Calibration from Video of a Walking Human. 1513-1518 Terrence Chen, Wotao Yin, Xiang Sean Zhou, Dorin Comaniciu, Thomas S. Huang: Total Variation Models for Variable Lighting Face Recognition. 1519-1524 Yunqiang Chen, Yong Rui, Thomas S. Huang: Multicue HMM-UKF for Real-Time Contour Tracking. 1525-1529 Lihi Zelnik-Manor, Michal Irani: Statistical Analysis of Dynamic Actions. 1530-1535 Volume 28, Number 10, October 2006

Papers Bogdan Matei, Peter Meer: Estimation of Nonlinear Errors-in-Variables Models for Computer Vision Applications. 1537-1552 Jamie A. Ward, Paul Lukowicz, Gerhard Tröster, Thad Starner: Activity Recognition of Assembly Tasks Using Body-Worn Microphones and Accelerometers. 1553-1567 Vladimir Kolmogorov: Convergent Tree-Reweighted Message Passing for Energy Minimization. 1568-1583 Ajmal S. Mian, Mohammed Bennamoun, Robyn A. Owens: Three-Dimensional Model-Based Object Recognition and Segmentation in Cluttered Scenes. 1584-1601

Siddharth Manay, Daniel Cremers, Byung-Woo Hong, Anthony J. Yezzi, Stefano Soatto: Integral Invariants for Shape Matching. 1602-1618 Juan José Rodríguez, Ludmila I. Kuncheva, Carlos J. Alonso: Rotation Forest: A New Classifier Ensemble Method. 1619-1630 Alexander Kadyrov, Maria Petrou: Affine Parameter Estimation from the Trace Transform. 1631-1645 Tibério S. Caetano, Terry Caelli, Dale Schuurmans, Dante Augusto Couto Barone: Graphical Models and Point Pattern Matching. 1646-1663 Markos Markou, Sameer Singh: A Neural Network-Based Novelty Detector for Image Sequence Analysis. 1664-1677 Cees Snoek, Marcel Worring, Jan-Mark Geusebroek, Dennis Koelma, Frank J. Seinstra, Arnold W. M. Smeulders: The Semantic Pathfinder: Using an Authoring Metaphor for Generic Multimedia Indexing. 1678-1689 Short Papers Rene Donner, Michael Reiter, Georg Langs, Philipp Peloschek, Horst Bischof: Fast Active Appearance Model Search Using Canonical Correlation Analysis. 1690-1694 Kyong I. Chang, Kevin W. Bowyer, Patrick J. Flynn: Multiple Nose Region Matching for 3D Face Recognition under Varying Facial Expression. 1695-1700 Gang Hua, Zicheng Liu, Zhengyou Zhang, Ying Wu: Iterative Local-Global Energy Minimization for Automatic Extraction of Objects of Interest. 1701-1706 Guillermo Ayala, Rafael Sebastian, María Elena Díaz, Ester Díaz, Roberto Zoncu, Derek Toomre: Analysis of Spatially and Temporally Overlapping Events with Application to Image Sequences. 1707-1712 Volume 28, Number 11, November 2006

Papers Roberto Manduchi: Learning Outdoor Color Classification. 1713-1723 Yu Qiao, Mikihiko Nishiara, Makoto Yasuhara: A Framework Toward Restoration of Writing Order from Single-Stroked Handwriting Image. 1724-1737 Ziheng Zhou, Adam Prügel-Bennett, Robert I. Damper: A Bayesian Framework for Extracting Human Gait Using Strong Prior Knowledge. 1738-1752 Fabien Salzenstein, Christophe Collet: Fuzzy Markov Random Fields versus Chains for Multispectral Image Segmentation. 1753-1767 Leo Grady: Random Walks for Image Segmentation. 1768-1783 Stephane Lafon, Yosi Keller, Ronald R. Coifman: Data Fusion and Multicue Data Matching by Diffusion Maps. 1784-1797 Ludmila I. Kuncheva, Dmitry Vetrov: Evaluation of Stability of k-Means Cluster Ensembles with Respect to Random Initialization. 1798-1808 Waleed A. Yousef, Robert F. Wagner, Murray H. Loew: Assessing Classifiers from Two Independent Data Sets Using ROC Analysis: A Nonparametric Approach. 1809-1817 Amar Mitiche, Hicham Sekkati: Optical Flow 3D Segmentation and Interpretation: A Variational Method with Active Curve Evolution and Level Sets. 1818-1829 Tai-Pang Wu, Kam-Lun Tang, Chi-Keung Tang, Tien-Tsin Wong: Dense Photometric Stereo: A Markov Random Field Approach. 1830-1846 Constantine Butakoff, Alejandro F. Frangi: A Framework for Weighted Fusion of Multiple Statistical Models of Shape and Appearance. 1847-1857 Short Papers Chafik Samir, Anuj Srivastava, Mohamed Daoudi: Three-Dimensional Face Recognition Using Shapes of Facial Curves. 1858-1863

Stefan Munder, Dariu M. Gavrila: An Experimental Study on Pedestrian Classification. 1863-1868 Jaewook Lee, Daewon Lee: Dynamic Characterization of Cluster Structures for Robust and Inductive Support Vector Clustering. 1869-1874 Pasi Fränti, Olli Virmajoki, Ville Hautamäki: Fast Agglomerative Clustering Using a k-Nearest Neighbor Graph. 1875-1881 Alexander Kadyrov, Maria Petrou: The "Invaders' Algorithm: Range of Values Modulation for Accelerated Correlation. 1882-1886 Volume 28, Number 12, December 2006

Papers Andrew Teoh Beng Jin, Alwyn Goh, David Ngo Chek Ling: Random Multispace Quantization as an Analytic Mechanism for BioHashing of Biometric and Random Identity Inputs. 1892-1901 Sarat C. Dass, Yongfang Zhu, Anil K. Jain: Validating a Biometric Authentication System: Sample Size Requirements. 1902-1319 William A. P. Smith, Edwin R. Hancock: Recovering Facial Shape Using a Statistical Model of Surface Normal Direction. 1914-1930 Yixin Chen, Jinbo Bi, James Ze Wang: MILES: Multiple-Instance Learning via Embedded Instance Selection. 1931-1947 Hyun-Chul Kim, Zoubin Ghahramani: Bayesian Gaussian Process Classification with the EM-EP Algorithm. 1948-1959 Zia Khan, Tucker R. Balch, Frank Dellaert: MCMC Data Association and Sparse Factorization Updating for Real Time Multitarget Tracking with Merged and Multiple Measurements. 1960-1972 Alexander Berengolts, Michael Lindenbaum: On the Distribution of Saliency. 1973-1990 Lena Gorelick, Meirav Galun, Eitan Sharon, Ronen Basri, Achi Brandt: Shape Representation and Classification Using the Poisson Equation. 1991-2005 Gianfranco Doretto, Stefano Soatto: Dynamic Shape and Appearance Models. 2006-2019 Short Papers Wan Zhang, Liu Wenyin, Kun Zhang: Symbol Recognition with Kernel Density Matching. 2020-2024 Gerald Schweighofer, Axel Pinz: Robust Pose Estimation from a Planar Target. 2024-2030 Xianghua Ying, Hongbin Zha: Geometric Interpretations of the Relation between the Image of the Absolute Conic and Sphere Images. 2031-2036 Timo Ahonen, Abdenour Hadid, Matti Pietikäinen: Face Description with Local Binary Patterns: Application to Face Recognition. 2037-2041 Saravana Kumar, Sim Heng Ong, Surendra Ranganath, Fook Tim Chew: A Luminance- and Contrast-Invariant Edge-Similarity Measure. 2042-2048 Volume 29, Number 1, January 2007

Papers Hua Li, Anthony J. Yezzi: Local or Global Minima: Flexible Dual-Front Active Contours. 1-14 Anil K. Jain, Yi Chen, Meltem Demirkus: Pores and Ridges: High-Resolution Fingerprint Matching Using Level 3 Features. 15-27 Yu-Hsien Chiu, Chung-Hsien Wu, Hung-Yu Su, Chih-Jen Cheng: Joint Optimization of Word Alignment and Epenthesis Generation for Chinese to Taiwanese Sign Synthesis. 28-39

Shuicheng Yan, Dong Xu, Benyu Zhang, HongJiang Zhang, Qiang Yang, Stephen Lin: Graph Embedding and Extensions: A General Framework for Dimensionality Reduction. 40-51 Hieu Tat Nguyen, Qiang Ji, Arnold W. M. Smeulders: Spatio-Temporal Context for Robust Multitarget Tracking. 52-64 Deva Ramanan, David A. Forsyth, Andrew Zisserman: Tracking People by Learning Their Appearance. 65-81 Stefan Lehmann, Andrew P. Bradley, I. Vaughan L. Clarkson, John Williams, Peter J. Kootsookos: Correspondence-Free Determination of the Affine Fundamental Matrix. 82-97 Margarita Osadchy, David W. Jacobs, Michael Lindenbaum: Surface Dependent Representations for Illumination Insensitive Image Comparison. 98-111 Katherine M. Simonson, Steven M. Drescher, Franklin R. Tanner: A Statistics-Based Approach to Binary Image Registration with Uncertainty Analysis. 112-125 Peer Stelldinger, Longin Jan Latecki, Marcelo Siqueira: Topological Equivalence between a 3D Object and the Reconstruction of Its Digital Image. 126-140 Gang Zeng, Sylvain Paris, Long Quan, François X. Sillion: Accurate and Scalable Surface Representation and Reconstruction from Images. 141-158 Martin N. Huxley, Jovisa D. Zunic: The Number of N-Point Digital Discs. 159-161 Hua-Liang Wei, Stephen A. Billings: Feature Subset Selection and Ranking for Data Dimensionality Reduction. 162-166 Massimiliano Pavan, Marcello Pelillo: Dominant Sets and Pairwise Clustering. 167-172 Robert E. Banfield, Lawrence O. Hall, Kevin W. Bowyer, W. Philip Kegelmeyer: A Comparison of Decision Tree Ensemble Creation Techniques. 173-180 Jan Erik Solem, Henrik Aanæs, Anders Heyden: Variational Surface Interpolation from Sparse Point and Normal Data. 181-184 Volume 29, Number 2, February 2007

Papers David J. Kriegman, David J. Fleet: Editorial-State of the Transactions. 193-194 Xiaoqing Ding, Li Chen, Tao Wu: Character Independent Font Recognition on a Single Chinese Character. 195-204 Thierry Artières, Sanparith Marukatat, Patrick Gallinari: Online Handwritten Shape Recognition Using Segmental Hidden Markov Models. 205-217 Georgios Passalis, Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, Theoharis Theoharis: Intraclass Retrieval of Nonrigid 3D Objects: Application to Face Recognition. 218-229 Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Gaurav Aggarwal, Rama Chellappa, David W. Jacobs: Appearance Characterization of Linear Lambertian Objects, Generalized Photometric Stereo, and Illumination-Invariant Face Recognition. 230-245 Pierre Bayerl, Heiko Neumann: A Fast Biologically Inspired Algorithm for Recurrent Motion Estimation. 246-260 Shai Avidan: Ensemble Tracking. 261-271 Erik R. Urbach, Jos B. T. M. Roerdink, Michael H. F. Wilkinson: Connected Shape-Size Pattern Spectra for Rotation and Scale-Invariant Classification of Gray-Scale Images. 272-285 Haibin Ling, David W. Jacobs: Shape Classification Using the Inner-Distance. 286-299

Christian Siagian, Laurent Itti: Rapid Biologically-Inspired Scene Classification Using Features Shared with Visual Attention. 300-312 Frederic F. Leymarie, Benjamin B. Kimia: The Medial Scaffold of 3D Unorganized Point Clouds. 313-330 Li Zhang, Steven M. Seitz: Estimating Optimal Parameters for MRF Stereo from a Single Image Pair. 331-342 Carlos Hernández, Francis Schmitt, Roberto Cipolla: Silhouette Coherence for Camera Calibration under Circular Motion. 343-349 Arijit Bishnu, Bhargab B. Bhattacharya: Stacked Euler Vector (SERVE): A Gray-Tone Image Feature Based on Bit-Plane Augmentation. 350-355 Hong Hua, Narendra Ahuja, Chunyu Gao: Design Analysis of a High-Resolution Panoramic Camera Using Conventional Imagers and a Mirror Pyramid. 356-361 Oana G. Cula, Kristin J. Dana, Dinesh K. Pai, Dongsheng Wang: Polarization Multiplexing and Demultiplexing for Appearance-Based Modeling. 362-367 Comments Lu Yu, Lenan Wu: Comments on 'A Separable Low Complexity 2D HMM with Application to Face Recognition'. 368 Volume 29, Number 3, March 2007

David J. Kriegman, David J. Fleet: Introduction of New Associate Editors. 369-370 Harro M. G. Stokman, Theo Gevers: Selection and Fusion of Color Models for Image Feature Detection. 371-381 Gil Ben-Artzi, Hagit Hel-Or, Yacov Hel-Or: The Gray-Code Filter Kernels. 382-393 Gustavo Carneiro, Antoni B. Chan, Pedro J. Moreno, Nuno Vasconcelos: Supervised Learning of Semantic Classes for Image Annotation and Retrieval. 394-410 Thomas Serre, Lior Wolf, Stanley M. Bileschi, Maximilian Riesenhuber, Tomaso Poggio: Robust Object Recognition with Cortex-Like Mechanisms. 411-426 David Williams, Xuejun Liao, Ya Xue, Lawrence Carin, Balaji Krishnapuram: On Classification with Incomplete Data. 427-436 David Coeurjolly, Annick Montanvert: Optimal Separable Algorithms to Compute the Reverse Euclidean Distance Transformation and Discrete Medial Axis in Arbitrary Dimension. 437-448 Xiang Bai, Longin Jan Latecki, Wenyu Liu: Skeleton Pruning by Contour Partitioning with Discrete Curve Evolution. 449-462 Yonatan Wexler, Eli Shechtman, Michal Irani: Space-Time Completion of Video. 463-476 Fred Rothganger, Svetlana Lazebnik, Cordelia Schmid, Jean Ponce: Segmenting, Modeling, and Matching Video Clips Containing Multiple Moving Objects. 477-491 Norman Poh, Alvin Martin, Samy Bengio: Performance Generalization in Biometric Authentication Using Joint User-Specific and Sample Bootstraps. 492-498 Hui Zhang, Kwan-Yee Kenneth Wong, Guoqiang Zhang: Camera Calibration from Images of Spheres. 499-502 Michael K. Ng, Mark Junjie Li, Joshua Zhexue Huang, Zengyou He: On the Impact of Dissimilarity Measure in k-Modes Clustering Algorithm. 503-507 Baojiang Zhong, Wenhe Liao: Direct Curvature Scale Space: Theory and Corner Detection. 508-512 Volume 29, Number 4, April 2007

Salil Prabhakar, Josef Kittler, Davide Maltoni, Lawrence O'Gorman, Tieniu Tan: Introduction to the Special Issue on Biometrics: Progress and Directions. 513-516 Sinjini Mitra, Marios Savvides, Anthony Brockwell: Statistical Performance Evaluation of Biometric Authentication Systems Using Random Effects Models. 517-530 Patrick Grother, Elham Tabassi: Performance of Biometric Quality Measures. 531-543 Arun Ross, Jidnya Shah, Anil K. Jain: From Template to Image: Reconstructing Fingerprints from Minutiae Points. 544-560 Nalini K. Ratha, Sharat Chikkerur, Jonathan H. Connell, Ruud M. Bolle: Generating Cancelable Fingerprint Templates. 561-572 Yi Wang, Jiankun Hu, Damien Phillips: A Fingerprint Orientation Model Based on 2D Fourier Expansion (FOMFE) and Its Application to Singular-Point Detection and Fingerprint Indexing. 573-585 Donald M. Monro, Soumyadip Rakshit, Dexin Zhang: DCT-Based Iris Recognition. 586-595 Jason Thornton, Marios Savvides, B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar: A Bayesian Approach to Deformed Pattern Matching of Iris Images. 596-606 Hugo Proença, Luís A. Alexandre: Toward Noncooperative Iris Recognition: A Classification Approach Using Multiple Signatures. 607-612 Pradeep Buddharaju, Ioannis Pavlidis, Panagiotis Tsiamyrtzis, Mike Bazakos: Physiology-Based Face Recognition in the Thermal Infrared Spectrum. 613-626 Stan Z. Li, Rufeng Chu, ShengCai Liao, Lun Zhang: Illumination Invariant Face Recognition Using Near-Infrared Images. 627-639 Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, Georgios Passalis, George Toderici, Mohammed N. Murtuza, Yunliang Lu, Nikolaos Karampatziakis, Theoharis Theoharis: Three-Dimensional Face Recognition in the Presence of Facial Expressions: An Annotated Deformable Model Approach. 640-649 Jian Yang, David Zhang, Jing-Yu Yang, Ben Niu: Globally Maximizing, Locally Minimizing: Unsupervised Discriminant Projection with Applications to Face and Palm Biometrics. 650-664 Peng Wang, Qiang Ji, James L. Wayman: Modeling and Predicting Face Recognition System Performance Based on Analysis of Similarity Scores. 665-670 Chang Huang, Haizhou Ai, Yuan Li, Shihong Lao: High-Performance Rotation Invariant Multiview Face Detection. 671-686 Terence Sim, Sheng Zhang, Rajkumar Janakiraman, Sandeep Kumar: Continuous Verification Using Multimodal Biometrics. 687-700 Marius Bulacu, Lambert Schomaker: Text-Independent Writer Identification and Verification Using Textural and Allographic Features. 701-717 Hui Chen, Bir Bhanu: Human Ear Recognition in 3D. 718-737 Ramaswamy Palaniappan, Danilo P. Mandic: Biometrics from Brain Electrical Activity: A Machine Learning Approach. 738-742 Sébastien Marcel, José del R. Millán: Person Authentication Using Brainwaves (EEG) and Maximum A Posteriori Model Adaptation. 743-752 Volume 29, Number 5, May 2007

Marios S. Pattichis, Alan C. Bovik: Analyzing Image Structure by Multidimensional Frequency Modulation. 753-766 Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán: Gaussian Mean-Shift Is an EM Algorithm. 767-776

Wen-Chieh Lin, Yanxi Liu: A Lattice-Based MRF Model for Dynamic Near-Regular Texture Tracking. 777-792 Yilei Xu, Amit K. Roy Chowdhury: Integrating Motion, Illumination, and Structure in Video Sequences with Applications in Illumination-Invariant Tracking. 793-806 Göksel Dedeoglu, Takeo Kanade, Simon Baker: The Asymmetry of Image Registration and Its Application to Face Tracking. 807-823 Yanlin Guo, Steven C. Hsu, Harpreet S. Sawhney, Rakesh Kumar, Ying Shan: Robust Object Matching for Persistent Tracking with Heterogeneous Features. 824-839 Haibin Ling, Kazunori Okada: An Efficient Earth Mover's Distance Algorithm for Robust Histogram Comparison. 840-853 Antonio B. Torralba, Kevin P. Murphy, William T. Freeman: Sharing Visual Features for Multiclass and Multiview Object Detection. 854-869 Samuel W. Hasinoff, Kiriakos N. Kutulakos: Photo-Consistent Reconstruction of Semitransparent Scenes by Density-Sheet Decomposition. 870-885 Xin Wang: Laplacian Operator-Based Edge Detectors. 886-890 Yanling Chi, Maylor K. H. Leung: Part-Based Object Retrieval in Cluttered Environment. 890-895 M. Asuncion Vicente, Patrik O. Hoyer, Aapo Hyvärinen: Equivalence of Some Common Linear Feature Extraction Techniques for Appearance-Based Object Recognition Tasks. 896-900 Torbjørn Vik, Fabrice Heitz, Pierre Charbonnier: Robust Pose Estimation and Recognition Using Non-Gaussian Modeling of Appearance Subspaces. 901-905 Jayadeva, Reshma Khemchandani, Suresh Chandra: Twin Support Vector Machines for Pattern Classification. 905-910 Volume 29, Number 6, June 2007

Guoying Zhao, Matti Pietikäinen: Dynamic Texture Recognition Using Local Binary Patterns with an Application to Facial Expressions. 915-928 Ranjith Unnikrishnan, Caroline Pantofaru, Martial Hebert: Toward Objective Evaluation of Image Segmentation Algorithms. 929-944 Hossam E. Abd El Munim, Aly A. Farag: Curve/Surface Representation and Evolution Using Vector Level Sets with Application to the Shape-Based Segmentation Problem. 945-958 Hao Jiang, Mark S. Drew, Ze-Nian Li: Matching by Linear Programming and Successive Convexification. 959-975 Limin Shang, Piotr Jasiobedzki, Michael A. Greenspan: Model-Based Tracking by Classification in a Tiny Discrete Pose Space. 976-989 Georgios K. Ouzounis, Michael H. F. Wilkinson: Mask-Based Second-Generation Connectivity and Attribute Filters. 990-1004 Tae-Kyun Kim, Josef Kittler, Roberto Cipolla: Discriminative Learning and Recognition of Image Set Classes Using Canonical Correlations. 1005-1018 Weiming Hu, Ou Wu, Zhouyao Chen, Zhouyu Fu, Stephen J. Maybank: Recognition of Pornographic Web Pages by Classifying Texts and Images. 1019-1034 Yijun Sun: Iterative RELIEF for Feature Weighting: Algorithms, Theories, and Applications. 1035-1051 Andrew J. Davison, Ian D. Reid, Nicholas Molton, Olivier Stasse: MonoSLAM: Real-Time Single Camera SLAM. 1052-1067 Yi Deng, Qiong Yang, Xueyin Lin, Xiaoou Tang: Stereo Correspondence with Occlusion Handling in a Symmetric Patch-Based Graph-Cuts Model. 1068-1079

Levente Kovács, Tamás Szirányi: Focus Area Extraction by Blind Deconvolution for Defining Regions of Interest. 1080-1085 Chengjun Liu: The Bayes Decision Rule Induced Similarity Measures. 1086-1090 Li Yujian, Liu Bo: A Normalized Levenshtein Distance Metric. 1091-1095 Jérôme Boulanger, Charles Kervrann, Patrick Bouthemy: Space-Time Adaptation for Patch-Based Image Sequence Restoration. 1096-1102 Volume 29, Number 7, July 2007

Federico Sukno, Sebastián Ordas, Constantine Butakoff, Santiago Cruz, Alejandro F. Frangi: Active Shape Models with Invariant Optimal Features: Application to Facial Analysis. 1105-1117 Jesse Hoey, James J. Little: Value-Directed Human Behavior Analysis from Video Using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes. 1118-1132 Nicolas Martel-Brisson, André Zaccarin: Learning and Removing Cast Shadows through a Multidistribution Approach. 1133-1146 Thomas Zöller, Joachim M. Buhmann: Robust Image Segmentation Using Resampling and Shape Constraints. 1147-1164 Tomás Werner: A Linear Programming Approach to Max-Sum Problem: A Review. 1165-1179 Thomas Pock, Michael Pock, Horst Bischof: Algorithmic Differentiation: Application to Variational Problems in Computer Vision. 1180-1193 Bastian Goldlücke, Ivo Ihrke, Christian Linz, Marcus A. Magnor: Weighted Minimal Hypersurface Reconstruction. 1194-1208 Sen Wang, Yang Wang, Miao Jin, Xianfeng David Gu, Dimitris Samaras: Conformal Geometry and Its Applications on 3D Shape Matching, Recognition, and Stitching. 1209-1220 Michael M. Kazhdan: An Approximate and Efficient Method for Optimal Rotation Alignment of 3D Models. 1221-1229 Feng Han, Song Chun Zhu: A Two-Level Generative Model for Cloth Representation and Shape from Shading. 1230-1243 Alexia Briassouli, Narendra Ahuja: Extraction and Analysis of Multiple Periodic Motions in Video Sequences. 1244-1261 Marsha Meytlis, Lawrence Sirovich: On the Dimensionality of Face Space. 1262-1267 Zhimin Fan, Ming Yang, Ying Wu: Multiple Collaborative Kernel Tracking. 1268-1273 Vladimir Kolmogorov, Carsten Rother: Minimizing Nonsubmodular Functions with Graph Cuts-A Review. 1274-1279 Sriharsha Veeramachaneni, George Nagy: Analytical Results on Style-Constrained Bayesian Classification of Pattern Fields. 1280-1285 Sotiris Malassiotis, Michael G. Strintzis: Snapshots: A Novel Local Surface Descriptor and Matching Algorithm for Robust 3D Surface Alignment. 1285-1290 Sarif Kumar Naik, C. A. Murthy: Distinct Multicolored Region Descriptors for Object Recognition. 1291-1296 Volume 29, Number 8, August 2007

Ping Yan, Kevin W. Bowyer: Biometric Recognition Using 3D Ear Shape. 1297-1308 Richard I. Hartley, Sing Bing Kang:

Parameter-Free Radial Distortion Correction with Center of Distortion Estimation. 1309-1321 Gozde B. Unal, Anthony J. Yezzi, Stefano Soatto, Gregory G. Slabaugh: A Variational Approach to Problems in Calibration of Multiple Cameras. 1322-1338 Yoav Y. Schechner, Shree K. Nayar, Peter N. Belhumeur: Multiplexing for Optimal Lighting. 1339-1354 Lewis D. Griffin: The Second Order Local-Image-Structure Solid. 1355-1366 Dalila Benboudjema, Wojciech Pieczynski: Unsupervised Statistical Segmentation of Nonstationary Images Using Triplet Markov Fields. 1367-1378 Anna Corazza, Giorgio Satta: Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars Estimated from Infinite Distributions. 1379-1393 Zoran Nenadic: Information Discriminant Analysis: Feature Extraction with an Information-Theoretic Objective. 1394-1407 Dariu Gavrila: A Bayesian, Exemplar-Based Approach to Hierarchical Shape Matching. 1408-1421 Daniel Keysers, Thomas Deselaers, Christian Gollan, Hermann Ney: Deformation Models for Image Recognition. 1422-1435 Nikos Komodakis, Georgios Tziritas: Approximate Labeling via Graph Cuts Based on Linear Programming. 1436-1453 Xianghua Xie, Majid Mirmehdi: TEXEMS: Texture Exemplars for Defect Detection on Random Textured Surfaces. 1454-1464 Cheng-Lin Liu: Normalization-Cooperated Gradient Feature Extraction for Handwritten Character Recognition. 1465-1469 Yogesh Rathi, Namrata Vaswani, Allen Tannenbaum, Anthony J. Yezzi: Tracking Deforming Objects Using Particle Filtering for Geometric Active Contours. 1470-1475 Graziano Chesi, Yeung Sam Hung: Image Noise Induced Errors in Camera Positioning. 1476-1480 Mathieu Salzmann, Julien Pilet, Slobodan Ilic, Pascal Fua: Surface Deformation Models for Nonrigid 3D Shape Recovery. 1481-1487 Volume 29, Number 9, September 2007

Raffaele Cappelli, Dario Maio, Alessandra Lumini, Davide Maltoni: Fingerprint Image Reconstruction from Standard Templates. 1489-1503 Jeffrey Mark Siskind, J. Sherman, Ilya Pollak, Mary P. Harper, Charles A. Bouman: Spatial Random Tree Grammars for Modeling Hierarchal Structure in Images with Regions of Arbitrary Shape. 1504-1519 Yu-Wing Tai, Jiaya Jia, Chi-Keung Tang: Soft Color Segmentation and Its Applications. 1520-1537 Steven C. Gustafson, David R. Parker, Richard K. Martin: Cardinal Interpolation. 1538-1545 Yi Ma, Harm Derksen, Wei Hong, John Wright: Segmentation of Multivariate Mixed Data via Lossy Data Coding and Compression. 1546-1562 M. Sabry Hassouna, Aly A. Farag: MultiStencils Fast Marching Methods: A Highly Accurate Solution to the Eikonal Equation on Cartesian Domains. 1563-1574 Pedro Quelhas, Florent Monay, Jean-Marc Odobez, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Tinne Tuytelaars: A Thousand Words in a Scene. 1575-1589 Partha Bhowmick, Bhargab B. Bhattacharya: Fast Polygonal Approximation of Digital Curves Using Relaxed Straightness Properties. 1590-1602 François Destrempes, Max Mignotte, Jean-François Angers:

Localization of Shapes Using Statistical Models and Stochastic Optimization. 1603-1615 Liang Wang, Ruigang Yang, James E. Davis: BRDF Invariant Stereo Using Light Transport Constancy. 1616-1626 Alice J. O'Toole, P. Jonathon Phillips, Fang Jiang, Janet H. Ayyad, Nils Penard, Hervé Abdi: Face Recognition Algorithms Surpass Humans Matching Faces Over Changes in Illumination. 1642-1646 Chang Yuan, Gérard G. Medioni, Jinman Kang, Isaac Cohen: Detecting Motion Regions in the Presence of a Strong Parallax from a Moving Camera by Multiview Geometric Constraints. 1627-1641 Anat Levin, Yair Weiss: User Assisted Separation of Reflections from a Single Image Using a Sparsity Prior. 1647-1654 Yoav Y. Schechner, Yuval Averbuch: Regularized Image Recovery in Scattering Media. 1655-1660 Hanzi Wang, David Suter, Konrad Schindler, Chunhua Shen: Adaptive Object Tracking Based on an Effective Appearance Filter. 1661-1667 Cyrille Enderli, Laurent Savy, Philippe Réfrégier: Application of the Deflection Criterion to Classification of Radar SAR Images. 1668-1672 Michael A. Penna, Kris A. Dines: A Simple Method for Fitting Sphere-Like Surfaces. 1673-1678 Sinjini Mitra, Marios Savvides, Anthony Brockwell: Correction to "Statistical Performance Evaluation of Biometric Authentication Systems Using Random Effects Models". Donald M. Monro, Soumyadip Rakshit, Dexin Zhang: Correction to "DCT-Based Iris Recognition". Volume 29, Number 10, October 2007

David J. Kriegman, David J. Fleet: Introduction of New Associate Editors. 1681-1682 Yan Tong, Wenhui Liao, Qiang Ji: Facial Action Unit Recognition by Exploiting Their Dynamic and Semantic Relationships. 1683-1699 Dacheng Tao, Xuelong Li, Xindong Wu, Stephen J. Maybank: General Tensor Discriminant Analysis and Gabor Features for Gait Recognition. 1700-1715 Nizar Bouguila, Djemel Ziou: High-Dimensional Unsupervised Selection and Estimation of a Finite Generalized Dirichlet Mixture Model Based on Minimum Message Length. 1716-1731 Sheng Zhang, Terence Sim: Discriminant Subspace Analysis: A Fukunaga-Koontz Approach. 1732-1745 Fabrizio Angiulli: Condensed Nearest Neighbor Data Domain Description. 1746-1758 Ali Rahimi, Ben Recht, Trevor Darrell: Learning to Transform Time Series with a Few Examples. 1759-1775 Shahriar Negahdaripour: Epipolar Geometry of Opti-Acoustic Stereo Imaging. 1776-1788 Alex Rav-Acha, Yael Pritch, Dani Lischinski, Shmuel Peleg: Dynamosaicing: Mosaicing of Dynamic Scenes. 1789-1801 Florent Monay, Daniel Gatica-Perez: Modeling Semantic Aspects for Cross-Media Image Indexing. 1802-1817 Jaume Amores, Nicu Sebe, Petia Radeva: Context-Based Object-Class Recognition and Retrieval by Generalized Correlograms. 1818-1833 Qifa Ke, Takeo Kanade: Quasiconvex Optimization for Robust Geometric Reconstruction. 1834-1847

Ariadna Quattoni, Sy Bor Wang, Louis-Philippe Morency, Michael Collins, Trevor Darrell: Hidden Conditional Random Fields. 1848-1852 Yue Wang, Eam Khwang Teoh: 2D Affine-Invariant Contour Matching Using B-Spline Model. 1853-1858 Michal Haindl, Jirí Filip: Extreme Compression and Modeling of Bidirectional Texture Function. 1859-1865 Kiran S. Balagani, Vir V. Phoha: On the Relationship Between Dependence Tree Classification Error and Bayes Error Rate. 1866-1868 P. Jonathon Phillips, Kevin W. Bowyer, Patrick J. Flynn: Comments on the CASIA version 1.0 Iris Data Set. 1869-1870 Volume 29, Number 11, November 2007

Huaijun Qiu, Edwin R. Hancock: Clustering and Embedding Using Commute Times. 1873-1890 Joshua Broadwater, Rama Chellappa: Hybrid Detectors for Subpixel Targets. 1891-1903 Michael S. Brown, Mingxuan Sun, Ruigang Yang, Lin Yun, W. Brent Seales: Restoring 2D Content from Distorted Documents. 1904-1916 Joseph J. LaViola Jr., Robert C. Zeleznik: A Practical Approach for Writer-Dependent Symbol Recognition Using a Writer-Independent Symbol Recognizer. 1917-1926 Ajmal S. Mian, Mohammed Bennamoun, Robyn A. Owens: An Efficient Multimodal 2D-3D Hybrid Approach to Automatic Face Recognition. 1927-1943 Inderjit S. Dhillon, Yuqiang Guan, Brian Kulis: Weighted Graph Cuts without Eigenvectors A Multilevel Approach. 1944-1957 Alessandro Bissacco, Alessandro Chiuso, Stefano Soatto: Classification and Recognition of Dynamical Models: The Role of Phase, Independent Components, Kernels and Optimal Transport. 1958-1972 Gehua Yang, Charles V. Stewart, Michal Sofka, Chia-Ling Tsai: Registration of Challenging Image Pairs: Initialization, Estimation, and Decision. 1973-1989 Roger Trias-Sanz, Marc Pierrot Deseilligny, Jean Louchet, Georges Stamon: Methods for Fine Registration of Cadastre Graphs to Images. 1990-2000 Gary Atkinson, Edwin R. Hancock: Shape Estimation Using Polarization and Shading from Two Views. 2001-2017 Daisuke Miyazaki, Katsushi Ikeuchi: Shape Estimation of Transparent Objects by Using Inverse Polarization Ray Tracing. 2018-2030 Cristian Sminchisescu, Atul Kanaujia, Dimitris N. Metaxas: BM3E : Discriminative Density Propagation for Visual Tracking. 2030-2044 Eli Shechtman, Michal Irani: Space-Time Behavior-Based Correlation - OR - How to Tell If Two Underlying Motion Fields Are Similar Without Computing Them? 2045-2056 Pew-Thian Yap, Paramesran Raveendran, Seng-Huat Ong: Image Analysis Using Hahn Moments. 2057-2062 Volume 29, Number 12, December 2007

Pranab Mohanty, Sudeep Sarkar, Rangachar Kasturi: From Scores to Face Templates: A Model-Based Approach. 2065-2078 Pushmeet Kohli, Philip H. S. Torr: Dynamic Graph Cuts for Efficient Inference in Markov Random Fields. 2079-2088 Gustavo Carneiro, Allan D. Jepson: Flexible Spatial Configuration of Local Image Features. 2089-2104

Pierre Chainais: Infinitely Divisible Cascades to Model the Statistics of Natural Images. 2105-2119 Feng Tang, Ryan Crabb, Hai Tao: Representing Images Using Nonorthogonal Haar-Like Bases. 2120-2134 Annabella Astorino, Antonio Fuduli: Nonsmooth Optimization Techniques for Semisupervised Classification. 2135-2142 Effrosini Kokiopoulou, Yousef Saad: Orthogonal Neighborhood Preserving Projections: A Projection-Based Dimensionality Reduction Technique. 2143-2156 Datong Chen, Jie Yang: Robust Object Tracking Via Online Dynamic Spatial Bias Appearance Models. 2157-2169 Sergio Hernandez-Marin, Andrew M. Wallace, Gavin J. Gibson: Bayesian Analysis of Lidar Signals with Multiple Returns. 2170-2180 Marc Droske, Martin Rumpf: Multiscale Joint Segmentation and Registration of Image Morphology. 2181-2194 Anupama Jagannathan, Eric L. Miller: Three-Dimensional Surface Mesh Segmentation Using Curvedness-Based Region Growing Approach. 2195-2204 Chen Liang, Kwan-Yee Kenneth Wong: Robust Recovery of Shapes with Unknown Topology from the Dual Space. 2205-2216 John Oliensis, Richard Hartley: Iterative Extensions of the Sturm/Triggs Algorithm: Convergence and Nonconvergence. 2217-2233 Xin Geng, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Kate Smith-Miles: Automatic Age Estimation Based on Facial Aging Patterns. 2234-2240 George Vogiatzis, Carlos Hernández Esteban, Philip H. S. Torr, Roberto Cipolla: Multiview Stereo via Volumetric Graph-Cuts and Occlusion Robust Photo-Consistency. 2241-2246 Lena Gorelick, Moshe Blank, Eli Shechtman, Michal Irani, Ronen Basri: Actions as Space-Time Shapes. 2247-2253 Volume 30, Number 1, January 2008

Liangjia Zhu, Zongtan Zhou, Dewen Hu: Globally Consistent Reconstruction of Ripped-Up Documents. 1-13 Shijian Lu, Chew Lim Tan: Script and Language Identification in Noisy and Degraded Document Images. 14-24 Kenji Hara, Ko Nishino, Katsushi Ikeuchi: Mixture of Spherical Distributions for Single-View Relighting. 25-35 Vittorio Ferrari, L. Fevrier, Frédéric Jurie, Cordelia Schmid: Groups of Adjacent Contour Segments for Object Detection. 36-51 Matthew Mellor, Byung-Woo Hong, Michael Brady: Locally Rotation, Contrast, and Scale Invariant Descriptors for Texture Analysis. 52-61 Jorge M. Santos, Joaquim Marques de Sá, Luís A. Alexandre: LEGClust - A Clustering Algorithm Based on Layered Entropic Subgraphs. 62-75 Kazunori Iwata, Akira Hayashi: A Redundancy-Based Measure of Dissimilarity among Probability Distributions for Hierarchical Clustering Criteria. 76-88 Vassilis Athitsos, Jonathan Alon, Stan Sclaroff, George Kollios: BoostMap: An Embedding Method for Efficient Nearest Neighbor Retrieval. 89-104 Mathias Ortner, Xavier Descombes, Josiane Zerubia: A Marked Point Process of Rectangles and Segments for Automatic Analysis of Digital Elevation Models. 105-119 Gregory C. Sharp, Sang Wook Lee, David K. Wehe: Maximum-Likelihood Registration of Range Images with Missing Data. 120-130

Shubao Liu, Kongbin Kang, Jean-Philippe Tarel, David B. Cooper: Free-Form Object Reconstruction from Silhouettes, Occluding Edges and Texture Edges: A Unified and Robust Operator Based on Duality. 131-146 Rogerio Feris, Ramesh Raskar, Longbin Chen, Kar-Han Tan, Matthew Turk: Multiflash Stereopsis: Depth-Edge-Preserving Stereo with Small Baseline Illumination. 147-159 Hanan Ayad, Mohamed S. Kamel: Cumulative Voting Consensus Method for Partitions with Variable Number of Clusters. 160-173 Mark Culp, George Michailidis: Graph-Based Semisupervised Learning. 174-179 Nicholas Dowson, Richard Bowden: Mutual Information for Lucas-Kanade Tracking (MILK): An Inverse Compositional Formulation. 180-185 Volume 30, Number 2, February 2008

David J. Kriegman, David J. Fleet, Zoubin Ghahramani: Editorial-State of the Transactions. 193-194 David J. Kriegman, David J. Fleet: Introduction of New Editors. 195-196 Dhruv Mahajan, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Brian Curless: A Theory Of Frequency Domain Invariants: Spherical Harmonic Identities for BRDF/Lighting Transfer and Image Consistency. 197-213 René Vidal, Richard Hartley: Three-View Multibody Structure from Motion. 214-227 Anat Levin, Dani Lischinski, Yair Weiss: A Closed-Form Solution to Natural Image Matting. 228-242 Hanan Samet: K-Nearest Neighbor Finding Using MaxNearestDist. 243-252 Riadh Ksantini, Djemel Ziou, Bernard Colin, François Dubeau: Weighted Pseudometric Discriminatory Power Improvement Using a Bayesian Logistic Regression Model Based on a Variational Method. 253-266 François Fleuret, Jérôme Berclaz, Richard Lengagne, Pascal Fua: Multicamera People Tracking with a Probabilistic Occupancy Map. 267-282 Jack M. Wang, David J. Fleet, Aaron Hertzmann: Gaussian Process Dynamical Models for Human Motion. 283-298 Ce Liu, Richard Szeliski, Sing Bing Kang, C. Lawrence Zitnick, William T. Freeman: Automatic Estimation and Removal of Noise from a Single Image. 299-314 Jianzhuang Liu, Liangliang Cao, Zhenguo Li, Xiaoou Tang: Plane-Based Optimization for 3D Object Reconstruction from Single Line Drawings. 315-327 Heiko Hirschmüller: Stereo Processing by Semiglobal Matching and Mutual Information. 328-341 Karthik Nandakumar, Yi Chen, Sarat C. Dass, Anil K. Jain: Likelihood Ratio-Based Biometric Score Fusion. 342-347 Zhe Wang, Songcan Chen, Tingkai Sun: MultiK-MHKS: A Novel Multiple Kernel Learning Algorithm. 348-353 Simone Calderara, Rita Cucchiara, Andrea Prati: Bayesian-Competitive Consistent Labeling for People Surveillance. 354-360 Yaser Sheikh, Mubarak Shah: Trajectory Association across Multiple Airborne Cameras. 361-367 Xin Geng, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Kate Smith-Miles: Correction to "Automatic Age Estimation Based on Facial Aging Patterns". 368

Volume 30, Number 3, March 2008

Jianxin Wu, S. Charles Brubaker, Matthew D. Mullin, James M. Rehg: Fast Asymmetric Learning for Cascade Face Detection. 369-382 Xudong Jiang, Bappaditya Mandal, Alex ChiChung Kot: Eigenfeature Regularization and Extraction in Face Recognition. 383-394 Joachim S. Stahl, Song Wang: Globally Optimal Grouping for Symmetric Closed Boundaries by Combining Boundary and Region Information. 395-411 John Melonakos, Eric Pichon, Sigurd Angenent, Allen Tannenbaum: Finsler Active Contours. 412-423 Akinori Fujino, Naonori Ueda, Kazumi Saito: Semisupervised Learning for a Hybrid Generative/Discriminative Classifier based on the Maximum Entropy Principle. 424-437 Li Yang: Alignment of Overlapping Locally Scaled Patches for Multidimensional Scaling and Dimensionality Reduction. 438-450 Jie Yu, Jaume Amores, Nicu Sebe, Petia Radeva, Qi Tian: Distance Learning for Similarity Estimation. 451-462 Ashok Veeraraghavan, Rama Chellappa, Mandyam Srinivasan: Shape-and-Behavior Encoded Tracking of Bee Dances. 463-476 Jingbin Wang, Vassilis Athitsos, Stan Sclaroff, Margrit Betke: Detecting Objects of Variable Shape Structure With Hidden State Shape Models. 477-492 Abhinav Gupta, Anurag Mittal, Larry S. Davis: Constraint Integration for Efficient Multiview Pose Estimation with Self-Occlusions. 493-506 Liangliang Cao, Jianzhuang Liu, Xiaoou Tang: What the Back of the Object Looks Like: 3D Reconstruction from Line Drawings without Hidden Lines. 507-517 Paolo Favaro, Stefano Soatto, Martin Burger, Stanley Osher: Shape from Defocus via Diffusion. 518-531 Greg J. Bloy: Blind Camera Fingerprinting and Image Clustering. 532-534 Guido Sanguinetti: Dimensionality Reduction of Clustered Data Sets. 535-540 Erno Mäkinen, Roope Raisamo: Evaluation of Gender Classification Methods with Automatically Detected and Aligned Faces. 541-547 Carlos Hernández Esteban, George Vogiatzis, Roberto Cipolla: Multiview Photometric Stereo. 548-554 Amit Adam, Ehud Rivlin, Ilan Shimshoni, David Reinitz: Robust Real-Time Unusual Event Detection using Multiple Fixed-Location Monitors. 555-560 Volume 30, Number 4, April 2008

David J. Kriegman, David J. Fleet, Zoubin Ghahramani: Introduction of New Associate Editors. 561 Seon Joo Kim, Marc Pollefeys: Robust Radiometric Calibration and Vignetting Correction. 562-576 Valentin E. Brimkov, Reinhard Klette: Border and SurfaceTracing - Theoretical Foundations. 577-590 Jian Liang, Daniel DeMenthon, David S. Doermann: Geometric Rectification of Camera-Captured Document Images. 591-605 Jen-Tzung Chien, Chih-Pin Liao: Maximum Confidence Hidden Markov Modeling for Face Recognition. 606-616 Jiaya Jia, Chi-Keung Tang:

Image Stitching Using Structure Deformation. 617-631 Xianghua Xie, Majid Mirmehdi: MAC: Magnetostatic Active Contour Model. 632-646 Onur C. Hamsici, Aleix M. Martínez: Bayes Optimality in Linear Discriminant Analysis. 647-657 Kar-Ann Toh, How-Lung Eng: Between Classification-Error Approximation and Weighted Least-Squares Learning. 658-669 Francesc Moreno-Noguer, Alberto Sanfeliu, Dimitris Samaras: Dependent Multiple Cue Integration for Robust Tracking. 670-685 Ryusuke Sagawa, Katsushi Ikeuchi: Hole Filling of a 3D Model by Flipping Signs of a Signed Distance Field in Adaptive Resolution. 686-699 Ying Shan, Harpreet S. Sawhney, Rakesh Kumar: Unsupervised Learning of Discriminative Edge Measures for Vehicle Matching between Nonoverlapping Cameras. 700-711 Anna Bosch, Andrew Zisserman, Xavier Muñoz: Scene Classification Using a Hybrid Generative/Discriminative Approach. 712-727 Li Zhang, Yu Zhang, Chew Tan: An Improved Physically-Based Method for Geometric Restoration of Distorted Document Images. 728-734 Ludmila Kuncheva, Zoë Hoare: Error-Dependency Relationships for the Naïve Bayes Classifier with Binary Features. 735-740 Martin C. Cooper: A Rich Discrete Labeling Scheme for Line Drawings of Curved Objects. 741-745 Kedar A. Patwardhan, Guillermo Sapiro, Vassilios Morellas: Robust Foreground Detection In Video Using Pixel Layers. 746-751 Volume 30, Number 5, May 2008

Christoph Dalitz, Michael Droettboom, Bastian Pranzas, Ichiro Fujinaga: A Comparative Study of Staff Removal Algorithms. 753-766 Jia Zeng, Zhi-Qiang Liu: Markov Random Field-Based Statistical Character Structure Modeling for Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition. 767-780 Dimitrios Katsoulas, Christian Cea Bastidas, Dimitrios I. Kosmopoulos: Superquadric Segmentation in Range Images via Fusion of Region and Boundary Information. 781-795 Tong Lin, Hongbin Zha: Riemannian Manifold Learning. 796-809 Thomas Landgrebe, Robert P. W. Duin: Efficient Multiclass ROC Approximation by Decomposition via Confusion Matrix Perturbation Analysis. 810-822 Nidhal Bouaynaya, Mohammed Charif-Chefchaouni, Dan Schonfeld: Theoretical Foundations of Spatially-Variant Mathematical Morphology Part I: Binary Images. 823-836 Nidhal Bouaynaya, Dan Schonfeld: Theoretical Foundations of Spatially-Variant Mathematical Morphology Part II: Gray-Level Images. 837-850 Ganesh Sundaramoorthi, Anthony J. Yezzi, Andrea Mennucci: Coarse-to-Fine Segmentation and Tracking Using Sobolev Active Contours. 851-864 Jingyu Yan, Marc Pollefeys: A Factorization-Based Approach for Articulated Nonrigid Shape, Motion and Kinematic Chain Recovery From Video. 865-877 Lorenzo Torresani, Aaron Hertzmann, Christoph Bregler: Nonrigid Structure-from-Motion: Estimating Shape and Motion with Hierarchical Priors. 878-892 Tao Xiang, Shaogang Gong: Video Behavior Profiling for Anomaly Detection. 893-908 Antoni B. Chan, Nuno Vasconcelos:

Modeling, Clustering, and Segmenting Video with Mixtures of Dynamic Textures. 909-926 Xianghua Xie, Majid Mirmehdi: Correction to "MAC: Magnetostatic Active Contour Model". Volume 30, Number 6, June 2008

Lingling Fan, Shuguang Wang, Hongfa Wang, Tiande Guo: Singular Points Detection Based on Zero-Pole Model in Fingerprint Images. 929-940 Faisal Shafait, Daniel Keysers, Thomas M. Breuel: Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Six-Page Segmentation Algorithms. 941-954 Zijian Xu, Hong Chen, Song Chun Zhu, Jiebo Luo: A Hierarchical Compositional Model for Face Representation and Sketching. 955-969 Simon J. D. Prince, James H. Elder, Jonathan Warrell, Fatima M. Felisberti: Tied Factor Analysis for Face Recognition across Large Pose Differences. 970-984 Jia Li, James Ze Wang: Real-Time Computerized Annotation of Pictures. 985-1002 Naif Alajlan, Mohamed S. Kamel, George H. Freeman: Geometry-Based Image Retrieval in Binary Image Databases. 1003-1013 John A. Lee, Xavier Geets, Vincent Grégoire, Anne Bol: Edge-Preserving Filtering of Images with Low Photon Counts. 1014-1027 Sergio Hernandez-Marin, Andrew M. Wallace, Gavin J. Gibson: Multilayered 3D LiDAR Image Construction Using Spatial Models in a Bayesian Framework. 1028-1040 Sergio Escalera, David M. J. Tax, Oriol Pujol, Petia Radeva, Robert P. W. Duin: Subclass Problem-Dependent Design for Error-Correcting Output Codes. 1041-1054 Juliette Blanchet, Florence Forbes: Triplet Markov Fields for the Classification of Complex Structure Data. 1055-1067 Richard Szeliski, Ramin Zabih, Daniel Scharstein, Olga Veksler, Vladimir Kolmogorov, Aseem Agarwala, Marshall F. Tappen, Carsten Rother: A Comparative Study of Energy Minimization Methods for Markov Random Fields with Smoothness-Based Priors. 1068-1080 Julien Lefevre, Sylvain Baillet: Optical Flow and Advection on 2-Riemannian Manifolds: A Common Framework. 1081-1092 Marc Niethammer, Patricio A. Vela, Allen Tannenbaum: Geometric Observers for Dynamically Evolving Curves. 1093-1108 Nidal S. Kamel, Shohel Sayeed, Grant A. Ellis: Glove-Based Approach to Online Signature Verification. 1109-1113 Marco Loog: On Distributional Assumptions and Whitened Cosine Similarities. 1114-1115 Chengjun Liu: Clarification of Assumptions in the Relationship between the Bayes Decision Rule and the Whitened Cosine Similarity Measure. 1116-1117 Jack M. Wang, David J. Fleet, Aaron Hertzmann: Correction to "Gaussian Process Dynamical Models for Human Motion". 1118 Volume 30, Number 7, July 2008

Neila Mezghani, Amar Mitiche, Mohamed Cheriet: Bayes Classification of Online Arabic Characters by Gibbs Modeling of Class Conditional Densities. 1121-1131 Pierre Soille: Constrained Connectivity for Hierarchical Image Decomposition and Simplification. 1132-1145 Chandan K. Reddy, Hsiao-Dong Chiang, Bala Rajaratnam: TRUST-TECH-Based Expectation Maximization for Learning Finite Mixture Models. 1146-1157 Vikas C. Raykar, Ramani Duraiswami, Balaji Krishnapuram: A Fast Algorithm for Learning a Ranking Function from Large-Scale Data Sets. 1158-1170

Doron Feldman, Daphna Weinshall: Motion Segmentation and Depth Ordering Using an Occlusion Detector. 1171-1185 Bohyung Han, Dorin Comaniciu, Ying Zhu, Larry S. Davis: Sequential Kernel Density Approximation and Its Application to Real-Time Visual Tracking. 1186-1197 Tao Zhao, Ramakant Nevatia, Bo Wu: Segmentation and Tracking of Multiple Humans in Crowded Environments. 1198-1211 Kevin Smith, Sileye O. Ba, Jean-Marc Odobez, Daniel Gatica-Perez: Tracking the Visual Focus of Attention for a Varying Number of Wandering People. 1212-1229 Liran Goshen, Ilan Shimshoni: Balanced Exploration and Exploitation Model Search for Efficient Epipolar Geometry Estimation. 1230-1242 Florent Perronnin: Universal and Adapted Vocabularies for Generic Visual Categorization. 1243-1256 Takeshi Mita, Toshimitsu Kaneko, Björn Stenger, Osamu Hori: Discriminative Feature Co-Occurrence Selection for Object Detection. 1257-1269 Jamie Shotton, Andrew Blake, Roberto Cipolla: Multiscale Categorical Object Recognition Using Contour Fragments. 1270-1281 Xiang Bai, Longin Jan Latecki: Path Similarity Skeleton Graph Matching. 1282-1292 Giorgio Fumera, Fabio Roli, Alessandra Serrau: A Theoretical Analysis of Bagging as a Linear Combination of Classifiers. 1293-1299 Yilei Xu, Amit K. Roy Chowdhury: Inverse Compositional Estimation of 3D Pose And Lighting in Dynamic Scenes. 1300-1307 M. N. M. van Lieshout: Depth Map Calculation for a Variable Number of Moving Objects using Markov Sequential Object Processes. 1308-1312 Volume 30, Number 8, August 2008

Yi Li, Yefeng Zheng, David S. Doermann, Stefan Jaeger: Script-Independent Text Line Segmentation in Freestyle Handwritten Documents. 1313-1329 Mehmet Emre Sargin, Yücel Yemez, Engin Erzin, A. Murat Tekalp: Analysis of Head Gesture and Prosody Patterns for Prosody-Driven Head-Gesture Animation. 1330-1345 Xiaoguang Lu, Anil K. Jain: Deformation Modeling for Robust 3D Face Matching. 1346-1357 Matthias Wimmer, Freek Stulp, Sylvia Pietzsch, Bernd Radig: Learning Local Objective Functions for Robust Face Model Fitting. 1357-1370 David Grangier, Samy Bengio: A Discriminative Kernel-Based Approach to Rank Images from Text Queries. 1371-1384 Samuel Dambreville, Yogesh Rathi, Allen Tannenbaum: A Framework for Image Segmentation Using Shape Models and Kernel Space Shape Priors. 1385-1399 Luca Bertelli, Baris Sumengen, B. S. Manjunath, Frédéric Gibou: A Variational Framework for Multiregion Pairwise-Similarity-Based Image Segmentation. 1400-1414 Liam Stewart, Xuming He, Richard S. Zemel: Learning Flexible Features for Conditional Random Fields. 1415-1426 Ofir Pele, Michael Werman: Robust Real-Time Pattern Matching Using Bayesian Sequential Hypothesis Testing. 1427-1443 Xiaolei Huang, Dimitris N. Metaxas: Metamorphs: Deformable Shape and Appearance Models. 1444-1459 Ping Tan, Stephen Lin, Long Quan: Subpixel Photometric Stereo. 1460-1471

Ondrej Chum, Jiri Matas: Optimal Randomized RANSAC. 1472-1482 Takahiro Toyoda, Osamu Hasegawa: Random Field Model for Integration of Local Information and Global Information. 1483-1489 Yi Guo, Junbin Gao, Paul W. Kwan: Twin Kernel Embedding. 1490-1495 Jacob Goldberger, Hayit Greenspan, Jeremie Dreyfuss: Simplifying Mixture Models Using the Unscented Transform. 1496-1502 Weihong Deng, Jiani Hu, Jun Guo, Honggang Zhang, Chuang Zhang: Comments on "Globally Maximizing, Locally Minimizing: Unsupervised Discriminant Projection with Application to Face and Palm Biometrics". 1503-1504 Volume 30, Number 9, September 2008

David J. Kriegman, David J. Fleet, Zoubin Ghahramani: Introduction of New Associate Editors. 1505-1506 Stephan Huckemann, Thomas Hotz, Axel Munk: Global Models for the Orientation Field of Fingerprints: An Approach Based on Quadratic Differentials. 1507-1519 Eric Bruno, Nicolas Moënne-Loccoz, Stéphane Marchand-Maillet: Design of Multimodal Dissimilarity Spaces for Retrieval of Video Documents. 1520-1533 Lei Wang: Feature Selection with Kernel Class Separability. 1534-1546 Tat-Jun Chin, David Suter: Out-of-Sample Extrapolation of Learned Manifolds. 1547-1556 Shen-Shyang Ho, Harry Wechsler: Query by Transduction. 1557-1571 Ido Leichter, Michael Lindenbaum, Ehud Rivlin: Bittracker - A Bitmap Tracker for Visual Tracking under Very General Conditions. 1572-1588 Changki Min, Gérard G. Medioni: Inferring Segmented Dense Motion Layers Using 5D Tensor Voting. 1589-1602 Fredrik Kahl, Richard I. Hartley: Multiple-View Geometry Under the Linfinity-Norm. 1603-1617 Evgeniy Bart, Shimon Ullman: Class-Based Feature Matching Across Unrestricted Transformations. 1618-1631 Frank Moosmann, Eric Nowak, Frédéric Jurie: Randomized Clustering Forests for Image Classification. 1632-1646 Edgar Chávez, Karina Figueroa, Gonzalo Navarro: Effective Proximity Retrieval by Ordering Permutations. 1647-1658 Ester Díaz, Rafael Sebastian, Guillermo Ayala, María Elena Díaz, Roberto Zoncu, Derek Toomre, Stéphane Gasman: Measuring Spatiotemporal Dependencies in Bivariate Temporal Random Sets with Applications to Cell Biology. 1659-1671 Nojun Kwak: Principal Component Analysis Based on L1-Norm Maximization. 1672-1680 Volume 30, Number 10, October 2008

Simon Baker, Jiri Matas, Ramin Zabih: Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Section on CVPR Papers. 1681-1682 Bastian Leibe, Konrad Schindler, Nico Cornelis, Luc J. Van Gool: Coupled Object Detection and Tracking from Static Cameras and Moving Vehicles. 1683-1698 Anat Levin, Alex Rav-Acha, Dani Lischinski: Spectral Matting. 1699-1712

Oncel Tuzel, Fatih Porikli, Peter Meer: Pedestrian Detection via Classification on Riemannian Manifolds. 1713-1727 Yuan Li, Haizhou Ai, Takayoshi Yamashita, Shihong Lao, Masato Kawade: Tracking in Low Frame Rate Video: A Cascade Particle Filter with Discriminative Observers of Different Life Spans. 1728-1740 Kazuyuki Miyazawa, Koichi Ito, Takafumi Aoki, Koji Kobayashi, Hiroshi Nakajima: An Effective Approach for Iris Recognition Using Phase-Based Image Matching. 1741-1756 Edoardo Provenzi, Carlo Gatta, Massimo Fierro, Alessandro Rizzi: A Spatially Variant White-Patch and Gray-World Method for Color Image Enhancement Driven by Local Contrast. 1757-1770 Aravind Sundaresan, Rama Chellappa: Model Driven Segmentation of Articulating Humans in Laplacian Eigenspace. 1771-1785 Li Zhang: In Situ Image Segmentation Using the Convexity of Illumination Distribution of the Light Sources. 1786-1799 Michael H. F. Wilkinson, Hui Gao, Wim H. Hesselink, Jan-Eppo Jonker, Arnold Meijster: Concurrent Computation of Attribute Filters on Shared Memory Parallel Machines. 1800-1813 Fei Yan, William J. Christmas, Josef Kittler: Layered Data Association Using Graph-Theoretic Formulation with Application to Tennis Ball Tracking in Monocular Sequences. 1814-1830 Miao Liao, Ruigang Yang, Zhengyou Zhang: Robust and Accurate Visual Echo Cancelation in a Full-duplex Projector-Camera System. 1831-1840 Nicholas Dowson, Timor Kadir, Richard Bowden: Estimating the Joint Statistics of Images Using Nonparametric Windows with Application to Registration Using Mutual Information. 1841-1857 Georgios D. Evangelidis, Emmanouil Z. Psarakis: Parametric Image Alignment Using Enhanced Correlation Coefficient Maximization. 1858-1865 Arvind Bhusnurmath, Camillo J. Taylor: Graph Cuts via l1 Norm Minimization. 1866-1871 Ke Chen: Erratum to "Adaptive Smoothing via Contextual and Local Discontinuities". 1872 Volume 30, Number 11, November 2008

James Ze Wang, Donald Geman, Jiebo Luo, Robert M. Gray: Real-World Image Annotation and Retrieval: An Introduction to the Special Section. 1873-1876 Yushi Jing, Shumeet Baluja: VisualRank: Applying PageRank to Large-Scale Image Search. 1877-1890 Yoshihisa Shinagawa: Homotopic Image Pseudo-Invariants for Openset Object Recognition and Image Retrieval. 1891-1901 Rouhollah Rahmani, Sally A. Goldman, Hui Zhang, Sharath R. Cholleti, Jason E. Fritts: Localized Content-Based Image Retrieval. 1902-1912 Shijian Lu, Linlin Li, Chew Lim Tan: Document Image Retrieval through Word Shape Coding. 1913-1918 Xin-Jing Wang, Lei Zhang, Xirong Li, Wei-Ying Ma: Annotating Images by Mining Image Search Results. 1919-1932 Roger C. F. Wong, Clement H. C. Leung: Automatic Semantic Annotation of Real-World Web Images. 1933-1944 Tijn van der Zant, Lambert Schomaker, Koen Haak: Handwritten-Word Spotting Using Biologically Inspired Features. 1945-1957 Antonio B. Torralba, Robert Fergus, William T. Freeman: 80 Million Tiny Images: A Large Data Set for Nonparametric Object and Scene Recognition. 1958-1970 Yael Pritch, Alex Rav-Acha, Shmuel Peleg:

Nonchronological Video Synopsis and Indexing. 1971-1984 Dong Xu, Shih-Fu Chang: Video Event Recognition Using Kernel Methods with Multilevel Temporal Alignment. 1985-1997 Leandro Cortes, Yali Amit: Efficient Annotation of Vesicle Dynamics Video Microscopy. 1998-2010 Fei Wang, Baba C. Vemuri, Anand Rangarajan, Stephan J. Eisenschenk: Simultaneous Nonrigid Registration of Multiple Point Sets and Atlas Construction. 2011-2022 Brent C. Munsell, Pahal Dalal, Song Wang: Evaluating Shape Correspondence for Statistical Shape Analysis: A Benchmark Study. 2023-2039 Jeroen Lichtenauer, Emile A. Hendriks, Marcel J. T. Reinders: Sign Language Recognition by Combining Statistical DTW and Independent Classification. 2040-2046 Julian John McAuley, Tibério S. Caetano, Marconi S. Barbosa: Graph Rigidity, Cyclic Belief Propagation, and Point Pattern Matching. 2047-2054 Ajay J. Joshi, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos: Learning to Detect Moving Shadows in Dynamic Environments. 2055-2063 Volume 30, Number 12, December 2008

David J. Kriegman, David J. Fleet, Zoubin Ghahramani: Introduction of New Associate Editors. 2065-2066 Jonghwa Kim, Elisabeth André: Emotion Recognition Based on Physiological Changes in Music Listening. 2067-2083 Qingping Tao, Stephen D. Scott, N. V. Vinodchandran, Thomas Takeo Osugi, Brandon Mueller: Kernels for Generalized Multiple-Instance Learning. 2084-2098 Adrien Bartoli: Groupwise Geometric and Photometric Direct Image Registration. 2098-2108 Eran Borenstein, Shimon Ullman: Combined Top-Down/Bottom-Up Segmentation. 2109-2125 Qiyao Yu, David A. Clausi: IRGS: Image Segmentation Using Edge Penalties and Region Growing. 2126-2139 Timothy M. Hospedales, Sethu Vijayakumar: Structure Inference for Bayesian Multisensory Scene Understanding. 2140-2157 Sinisa Todorovic, Narendra Ahuja: Unsupervised Category Modeling, Recognition, and Segmentation in Images. 2158-2174 Guy Gilboa: Nonlinear Scale Space with Spatially Varying Stopping Time. 2175-2187 Cagri Aslan, Aykut Erdem, Erkut Erdem, Sibel Tari: Disconnected Skeleton: Shape at Its Absolute Scale. 2188-2203 Wim H. Hesselink, Jos B. T. M. Roerdink: Euclidean Skeletons of Digital Image and Volume Data in Linear Time by the Integer Medial Axis Transform. 2204-2217 Yi-Chin Fang, Bo-Wen Wu: Prediction of the Thermal Imaging Minimum Resolvable (Circle) Temperature Difference with Neural Network Application. 2218-2228 Yun Fu, Shuicheng Yan, Thomas S. Huang: Correlation Metric for Generalized Feature Extraction. 2229-2235 JaeMo Sung, Zoubin Ghahramani, Sung Yang Bang: Latent-Space Variational Bayes. 2236-2242 Kwan-Yee Kenneth Wong, Guoqiang Zhang, Chen Liang, Hui Zhang: 1D Camera Geometry and Its Application to the Self-Calibration of Circular Motion Sequences. 2243-2248 Toby P. Breckon, Robert B. Fisher:

Three-Dimensional Surface Relief Completion Via Nonparametric Techniques. 2249-2255 Volume 31, Number 1, January 2009

David J. Kriegman: Introduction of New Editor-in-Chief. 1-2 Ramin Zabih: Editorial. 3-4 Hui Zhang, Kwan-Yee Kenneth Wong: Self-Calibration of Turntable Sequences from Silhouettes. 5-14 Irina Popovici, William Douglas Withers: Curve Parametrization by Moments. 15-26 Mun Wai Lee, Ramakant Nevatia: Human Pose Tracking in Monocular Sequence Using Multilevel Structured Models. 27-38 Zhihong Zeng, Maja Pantic, Glenn I. Roisman, Thomas S. Huang: A Survey of Affect Recognition Methods: Audio, Visual, and Spontaneous Expressions. 39-58 Feng Han, Song Chun Zhu: Bottom-Up/Top-Down Image Parsing with Attribute Grammar. 59-73 Pekka Marttinen, Jing Tang, Bernard De Baets, Peter Dawyndt, Jukka Corander: Bayesian Clustering of Fuzzy Feature Vectors Using a Quasi-Likelihood Approach. 74-85 Dongfang Zhao, Li Yang: Incremental Isometric Embedding of High-Dimensional Data Using Connected Neighborhood Graphs. 86-98 Maxime Taron, Nikos Paragios, Marie-Pierre Jolly: Registration with Uncertainties and Statistical Modeling of Shapes with Variable Metric Kernels. 99-113 Long Zhu, Yuanhao Chen, Alan L. Yuille: Unsupervised Learning of Probabilistic Grammar-Markov Models for Object Categories. 114-128 Federico Tombari, Stefano Mattoccia, Luigi di Stefano: Full-Search-Equivalent Pattern Matching with Incremental Dissimilarity Approximations. 129-141 Iasonas Kokkinos, Georgios Evangelopoulos, Petros Maragos: Texture Analysis and Segmentation Using Modulation Features, Generative Models, and Weighted Curve Evolution. 142-157 Radu Horaud, Matti Niskanen, Guillaume Dewaele, Edmond Boyer: Human Motion Tracking by Registering an Articulated Surface to 3D Points and Normals. 158-163 Ido Leichter, Michael Lindenbaum, Ehud Rivlin: Tracking by Affine Kernel Transformations Using Color and Boundary Cues. 164-171 Hui Chen, Bir Bhanu: Efficient Recognition of Highly Similar 3D Objects in Range Images. 172-179 Chunjing Xu, Jianzhuang Liu, Xiaoou Tang: 2D Shape Matching by Contour Flexibility. 180-186 Volume 31, Number 2, February 2009

Tal Steinherz, David S. Doermann, Ehud Rivlin, Nathan Intrator: Offline Loop Investigation for Handwriting Analysis. 193-209 John Wright, Allen Y. Yang, Arvind Ganesh, S. Shankar Sastry, Yi Ma: Robust Face Recognition via Sparse Representation. 210-227 Manuela Vasconcelos, Nuno Vasconcelos: Natural Image Statistics and Low-Complexity Feature Selection. 228-244 Gonzalo Martínez-Muñoz, Daniel Hernández-Lobato, Alberto Suárez: An Analysis of Ensemble Pruning Techniques Based on Ordered Aggregation. 245-259 Dacheng Tao, Xuelong Li, Xindong Wu, Stephen J. Maybank: Geometric Mean for Subspace Selection. 260-274

Shihao Ji, L. T. Watson, Lawrence Carin: Semisupervised Learning of Hidden Markov Models via a Homotopy Method. 275-287 Yixin Chen, Xin Dang, Hanxiang Peng, Henry L. Bart: Outlier Detection with the Kernelized Spatial Depth Function. 288-305 Pierre-Francois Marteau: Time Warp Edit Distance with Stiffness Adjustment for Time Series Matching. 306-318 Rangachar Kasturi, Dmitry B. Goldgof, Padmanabhan Soundararajan, Vasant Manohar, John S. Garofolo, Rachel Bowers, Matthew Boonstra, Valentina N. Korzhova, Jing Zhang: Framework for Performance Evaluation of Face, Text, and Vehicle Detection and Tracking in Video: Data, Metrics, and Protocol. 319-336 A. M. Peter, A. Rangarajan: Information Geometry for Landmark Shape Analysis: Unifying Shape Representation and Deformation. 337-350 J. Ross Beveridge, Bruce A. Draper, Jen-Mei Chang, Michael Kirby, Holger Kley, Chris Peterson: Principal Angles Separate Subject Illumination Spaces in YDB and CMU-PIE. 351-363 Natasa Sladoje, Joakim Lindblad: High-Precision Boundary Length Estimation by Utilizing Gray-Level Information. 357-363 Daniel Hernández-Lobato, Gonzalo Martínez-Muñoz, Alberto Suárez: Statistical Instance-Based Pruning in Ensembles of Independent Classifiers. 364-369 Graziano Chesi: Camera Displacement via Constrained Minimization of the Algebraic Error. 370-375 Damien Douxchamps, Kunihiro Chihara: High-Accuracy and Robust Localization of Large Control Markers for Geometric Camera Calibration. 376-383 Volume 31, Number 3, March 2009

Tali Treibitz, Yoav Y. Schechner: Active Polarization Descattering. 385-399 Wei Pan, Kaihuai Qin, Yao Chen: AnAdaptable-Multilayer Fractional Fourier Transform Approach for Image Registration. 400-414 Jean-Sébastien Franco, Edmond Boyer: Efficient Polyhedral Modeling from Silhouettes. 414-427 Wei Xiong, Hin-Shun Chung, Jiaya Jia: Fractional Stereo Matching Using Expectation-Maximization. 428-443 Ujjwal Bhattacharya, Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri: Handwritten Numeral Databases of Indian Scripts and Multistage Recognition of Mixed Numerals. 444-457 Rodrigo Palma Amestoy, Edoardo Provenzi, Marcelo Bertalmío, Vicent Caselles: A Perceptually Inspired Variational Framework for Color Enhancement. 458-474 Ajit Rajwade, Arunava Banerjee, Anand Rangarajan: Probability Density Estimation Using Isocontours and Isosurfaces: Applications to Information-Theoretic Image Registration. 475-491 Qingxiong Yang, Liang Wang, Ruigang Yang, Henrik Stewénius, David Nistér: Stereo Matching with Color-Weighted Correlation, Hierarchical Belief Propagation, and Occlusion Handling. 492-504 Saad M. Khan, Mubarak Shah: Tracking Multiple Occluding People by Localizing on Multiple Scene Planes. 505-519 Ahmed M. Elgammal, Chan-Su Lee: Tracking People on a Torus. 520-538 Xiaogang Wang, Xiaoxu Ma, W. Eric L. Grimson: Unsupervised Activity Perception in Crowded and Complicated Scenes Using Hierarchical Bayesian Models. 539-555 Richard J. Gardner, Markus Kiderlen: A New Algorithm for 3D Reconstruction from Support Functions. 556-562 Jorge Silva, Rebecca Willett:

Hypergraph-Based Anomaly Detection of High-Dimensional Co-Occurrences. 563-569 Ali Shahrokni, Tom Drummond, François Fleuret, Pascal Fua: Classification-Based Probabilistic Modeling of Texture Transition for Fast Line Search Tracking and Delineation. 570-576 Volume 31, Number 4, April 2009

Kwang-Ho Bae, David Belton, Derek D. Lichti: A Closed-Form Expression of the Positional Uncertainty for 3D Point Clouds. 577-590 Josef Sivic, Andrew Zisserman: Efficient Visual Search of Videos Cast as Text Retrieval. 591-606 Erik Murphy-Chutorian, Mohan M. Trivedi: Head Pose Estimation in Computer Vision: A Survey. 607-626 Jérome Revaud, Guillaume Lavoué, Atilla Baskurt: Improving Zernike Moments Comparison for Optimal Similarity and Rotation Angle Retrieval. 627-636 Michel Couprie, Gilles Bertrand: New Characterizations of Simple Points in 2D, 3D, and 4D Discrete Spaces. 637-648 Hui Ji, Cornelia Fermüller: Robust Wavelet-Based Super-Resolution Reconstruction: Theory and Algorithm. 649-660 Michael G. Ross, Leslie Pack Kaelbling: Segmentation According to Natural Examples: Learning Static Segmentation from Motion Segmentation. 661-676 Karel Zimmermann, Jiri Matas, Tomás Svoboda: Tracking by an Optimal Sequence of Linear Predictors. 677-692 Siwei Lyu, Eero P. Simoncelli: Modeling Multiscale Subbands of Photographic Images with Fields of Gaussian Scale Mixtures. 693-706 Nina S. T. Hirata: Multilevel Training of Binary Morphological Operators. 707-720 Man Lan, Chew Lim Tan, Jian Su, Yue Lu: Supervised and Traditional Term Weighting Methods for Automatic Text Categorization. 721-735 Simon Dobrisek, Janez Zibert, Nikola Pavesic, France Mihelic: An Edit-Distance Model for the Approximate Matching of Timed Strings. 736-741 Raffaele Cappelli, Davide Maltoni: On the Spatial Distribution of Fingerprint Singularities. 742-448 Heng Lian: Bayesian Nonlinear Principal Component Analysis Using Random Fields. 749-754 Zhifeng Li, Dahua Lin, Xiaoou Tang: Nonparametric Discriminant Analysis for Face Recognition. 755-761 George Nagy, Sharad C. Seth, Mahesh Viswanathan: Comment: Projection Methods Require Black Border Removal. 762 Faisal Shafait, Daniel Keysers, Thomas M. Breuel: Response to "Projection Methods Require Black Border Removal". 763-764 Volume 31, Number 5, May 2009

Partha Bhowmick, R. K. Pradhan, Bhargab B. Bhattacharya: Approximate Matching of Digital Point Sets Using a Novel Angular Tree. 769-782 Carl Olsson, Fredrik Kahl, Magnus Oskarsson: Branch-and-Bound Methods for Euclidean Registration Problems. 783-794 Sunita Nayak, Sudeep Sarkar, Barbara L. Loeding: Distribution-Based Dimensionality Reduction Applied to Articulated Motion Recognition. 795-810 Justin Domke, Yiannis Aloimonos: Image Transformations and Blurring. 811-823

Ashutosh Saxena, Min Sun, Andrew Y. Ng: Make3D: Learning 3D Scene Structure from a Single Still Image. 824-840 Hongjun Jia, Aleix M. Martínez: Low-Rank Matrix Fitting Based on Subspace Perturbation Analysis with Applications to Structure from Motion. 841-854 Alex Graves, Marcus Liwicki, S. Fernandez, Roman Bertolami, Horst Bunke, Jürgen Schmidhuber: A Novel Connectionist System for Unconstrained Handwriting Recognition. 855-868 Herwig Lejsek, Friðrik Heiðar Ásmundsson, Björn Þór Jónsson, Laurent Amsaleg: NV-Tree: An Efficient Disk-Based Index for Approximate Search in Very Large High-Dimensional Collections. 869-883 Soma Biswas, Gaurav Aggarwal, Rama Chellappa: Robust Estimation of Albedo for Illumination-Invariant Matching and Shape Recovery. 884-899 Peter J. Giblin, Benjamin B. Kimia, Anthony J. Pollitt: Transitions of the 3D Medial Axis under a One-Parameter Family of Deformations. 900-918 Bohyung Han, Ying Zhu, Dorin Comaniciu, Larry S. Davis: Visual Tracking by Continuous Density Propagation in Sequential Bayesian Filtering Framework. 919-930 Xudong Jiang: Asymmetric Principal Component and Discriminant Analyses for Pattern Classification. Evan Ribnick, Stefan Atev, Nikolaos P. Papanikolopoulos: Estimating 3D Positions and Velocities of Projectiles from Monocular Views. 938-944 M. Fatih Demirci, Ali Shokoufandeh, Sven J. Dickinson: Skeletal Shape Abstraction from Examples. 944-952 Yuanhong Li, Ming Dong, Jing Hua: Simultaneous Localized Feature Selection and Model Detection for Gaussian Mixtures. 953-960 Volume 31, Number 6, June 2009

Ramin Zabih, Zoubin Ghahramani, Jiri Matas: Introduction of New Associate Editors. 961-963 Guofeng Zhang, Jiaya Jia, Tien-Tsin Wong, Hujun Bao: Consistent Depth Maps Recovery from a Video Sequence. 974-988 Dashan Gao, Sunhyoung Han, Nuno Vasconcelos: Discriminant Saliency, the Detection of Suspicious Coincidences, and Applications to Visual Recognition. 989-1005 Mukund Balasubramanian, Jonathan Polimeni, Eric L. Schwartz: Exact Geodesics and Shortest Paths on Polyhedral Surfaces. 1006-1016 Elzbieta Pekalska, Bernard Haasdonk: Kernel Discriminant Analysis for Positive Definite and Indefinite Kernels. 1017-1032 Anil K. Jain, Jianjiang Feng: Latent Palmprint Matching. 1032-1047 Tibério S. Caetano, Julian John McAuley, Li Cheng, Quoc V. Le, Alexander J. Smola: Learning Graph Matching. 1048-1058 D. S. Guru, H. N. Prakash: Online Signature Verification and Recognition: An Approach Based on Symbolic Representation. 1059-1073 Qiuhua Liu, Xuejun Liao, Hui Li, Jason R. Stack, Lawrence Carin: Semisupervised Multitask Learning. 1074-1086 Marin Ferecatu, Donald Geman: A Statistical Framework for Image Category Search from a Mental Picture. 1087-1101 Hyung-Soo Lee, Daijin Kim: Tensor-Based AAM with Continuous Variation Estimation: Application to Variation-Robust Face Recognition. 1102-1116 Ceyhun Burak Akgül, Bülent Sankur, Yücel Yemez, Francis Schmitt: 3D Model Retrieval Using Probability Density-Based Shape Descriptors. 1117-1133

J. dos Santos Cardoso, Artur Capela, Ana Rebelo, Carlos Guedes, J. Pinto da Costa: Staff Detection with Stable Paths. 1134-1139 Oriol Pujol, David Masip: Geometry-Based Ensembles: Toward a Structural Characterization of the Classification Boundary. 1140-1146 D. Shane Barwick: Very Fast Best-Fit Circular and Elliptical Boundaries by Chord Data. 1147-1152 Volume 31, Number 7, July 2009

Classification Based on Hybridization of Parametric and Nonparametric Classifiers Chaudhuri, P.; Ghosh, A.K.; Oja, H. Pages: 1153-1164 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.149 Combining Slanted-Frame Classifiers for Improved HMM-Based Arabic Handwriting Recognition Al-Hajj Mohamad, R.; Likforman-Sulem, L.; Mokbel, C. Pages: 1165-1177 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.136 A Constant-Time Algorithm for Finding Neighbors in Quadtrees Aizawa, K.; Tanaka, S. Pages: 1178-1183 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.145 Preprocessing of Low-Quality Handwritten Documents Using Markov Random Fields Huaigu Cao; Govindaraju, V. Pages: 1184-1194 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.126 Context-Aware Visual Tracking Ming Yang; Ying Wu; Gang Hua Pages: 1195-1209 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.146 A Fast 2D Shape Recovery Approach by Fusing Features and Appearance Zhu, J.; Lyu, M.R.; Huang, T.S. Pages: 1210-1224 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.151 Minimum Distance between Pattern Transformation Manifolds: Algorithm and Applications Kokiopoulou, E.; Frossard, P. Pages: 1225-1238 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.156 A Novel Algorithm for Detecting Singular Points from Fingerprint Images Jie Zhou; Fanglin Chen; Jinwei Gu Pages: 1239-1250 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.188 An O(N²) Square Root Unscented Kalman Filter for Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Holmes, S.A.; Klein, G.; Murray, D.W.

Pages: 1251-1263 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.189 Sign Language Spotting with a Threshold Model Based on Conditional Random Fields Yang, H.-D.; Sclaroff, S.; Lee, S.-W. Pages: 1264-1277 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.172 A Stochastic Filtering Technique for Fluid Flow Velocity Fields Tracking Cuzol, A.; Memin, E. Pages: 1278-1293 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.152 Supervised Learning of Quantizer Codebooks by Information Loss Minimization Lazebnik, S.; Raginsky, M. Pages: 1294-1309 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.138 3D Shape Recovery of Smooth Surfaces: Dropping the Fixed-Viewpoint Assumption Moses, Y.; Shimshoni, I. Pages: 1310-1324 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.147 A New Distance Measure for Model-Based Sequence Clustering Garcia-Garcia, D.; Hernandez, E.P.; Diaz de Maria, F. Pages: 1325-1331 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.268 Generalized Risk Zone: Selecting Observations for Classification Peres, R.T.; Pedreira, C.E. Pages: 1331-1337 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.269 A Novel Feature Selection Methodology for Automated Inspection Systems Garcia, H.C.; Villalobos, J.R.; Pan, R.; Runger, G.C. Pages: 1338-1344 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.276 Volume 31, Number 8, August 2009

Introduction of New Associate Editors Zabih, Ramin; Matas, Jiri; Ghahramani, Zoubin Pages: 1345-1346 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.130 Efficient Sparse Kernel Feature Extraction Based on Partial Least Squares Dhanjal, C.; Gunn, S.R.; Shawe-Taylor, J. Pages: 1347-1361 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.171 Watershed Cuts: Minimum Spanning Forests and the Drop of Water Principle Cousty, J.; Bertrand, G.; Najman, L.; Couprie, M. Pages: 1362-1374

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.173 Appearance Derivatives for Isonormal Clustering of Scenes Koppal, S.J.; Narasimhan, S.G. Pages: 1375-1385 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.148 Automatic Summarization of Changes in Biological Image Sequences Using Algorithmic Information Theory Cohen, A.R.; Bjornsson, C.S.; Temple, S.; Banker, G.; Roysam, B. Pages: 1386-1403 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.162 Automatic Writer Identification of Ancient Greek Inscriptions Panagopoulos, M.; Papaodysseus, C.; Rousopoulos, P.; Dafi, D.; Tracy, S. Pages: 1404-1414 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.201 Canonical Correlation Analysis of Video Volume Tensors for Action Categorization and Detection Tae-Kyun Kim; Cipolla, R. Pages: 1415-1428 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.167 A Hybrid Feature Extraction Selection Approach for High-Dimensional Non-Gaussian Data Clustering Boutemedjet, S.; Bouguila, N.; Ziou, D. Pages: 1429-1443 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.155 A Novel Knowledge-Based System for Interpreting Complex Engineering Drawings: Theory, Representation, and Implementation Tong Lu; Chiew-Lan Tai; Huafei Yang; Shijie Cai Pages: 1444-1457 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.161 On Symmetry, Perspectivity, and Level-Set-Based Segmentation Riklin-Raviv, T.; Sochen, N.; Kiryati, N. Pages: 1458-1471 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.160 Probabilistic Modeling of Scene Dynamics for Applications in Visual Surveillance Saleemi, I.; Shafique, K.; Shah, M. Pages: 1472-1485 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.175 Synergy between Object Recognition and Image Segmentation Using the Expectation-Maximization Algorithm Kokkinos, I.; Maragos, P. Pages: 1486-1501 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.158 Statistical Hough Transform Dahyot, R. Pages: 1502-1509 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.288

Exploration of Shape Variation Using Localized Components Analysis Alcantara, D.A.; Carmichael, O.; Harcourt-Smith, W.; Sterner, K.; Frost, S.R.; Dutton, R.; Thompson, P.; Delson, E.; Amenta, N. Pages: 1510-1516 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.287 Scale-Space Behavior of Planar-Curve Corners Baojiang Zhong; Kai-Kuang Ma; Wenhe Liao Pages: 1517-1524 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.295 Piecewise Linear Models with Guaranteed Closeness to the Data Latecki, L.J.; Sobel, M.; Lakaemper, R. Pages: 1525-1531 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.13 Comments on “What the Back of the Object Looks Like: 3D Reconstruction from Line Drawings without Hidden Lines” Varley, P.A.C. Pages: 1532-1534 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.159 Responses to the Comments on “What the Back of the Object Looks Like: 3D Reconstruction from Line Drawings without Hidden Lines” Liangliang Cao; Jianzhuang Liu; Xiaoou Tang Pages: 1535-1536 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.58 Volume 31, Number 9, September 2009 Factorial Switching Linear Dynamical Systems Applied to Physiological Condition Monitoring Quinn, J.A.; Williams, C.K.I.; McIntosh, N. Pages: 1537-1551 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.191 Calibration of Cameras with Radially Symmetric Distortion Tardif, J.-P.; Sturm, P.; Trudeau, M.; Roy, S. Pages: 1552-1566 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.202 Detection, Localization, and Sex Classification of Faces from Arbitrary Viewpoints and under Occlusion Toews, M.; Arbel, T. Pages: 1567-1581 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.233 Evaluation of Stereo Matching Costs on Images with Radiometric Differences Hirschmuller, H.; Scharstein, D. Pages: 1582-1599 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.221 Linear Neighborhood Propagation and Its Applications Jingdong Wang; Fei Wang; Changshui Zhang; Shen, H.C.; Long Quan Pages: 1600-1615 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.216

Looking for Shapes in Two-Dimensional Cluttered Point Clouds Srivastava, A.; Jermyn, I.H. Pages: 1616-1629 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.223 Optimal Classifier Fusion in a Non-Bayesian Probabilistic Framework Terrades, O.R.; Valveny, E.; Tabbone, S. Pages: 1630-1644 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.224 P³ & Beyond: Move Making Algorithms for Solving Higher Order Functions Kohli, P.; Kumar, M.P.; Torr, P.H.S. Pages: 1645-1656 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.217 Robust Sequential Data Modeling Using an Outlier Tolerant Hidden Markov Model Chatzis, S.P.; Kosmopoulos, D.I.; Varvarigou, T.A. Pages: 1657-1669 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.215 Toward Accurate and Fast Iris Segmentation for Iris Biometrics Zhaofeng He; Tieniu Tan; Zhenan Sun; Xianchao Qiu Pages: 1670-1684 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.183 A Unified Framework for Gesture Recognition and Spatiotemporal Gesture Segmentation Alon, J.; Athitsos, V.; Quan Yuan; Sclaroff, S. Pages: 1685-1699 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.203 Multistream Articulatory Feature-Based Models for Visual Speech Recognition Saenko, K.; Livescu, K.; Glass, J.; Darrell, T. Pages: 1700-1707 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.303 On Scene Segmentation and Histograms-Based Curve Evolution Adam, A.; Kimmel, R.; Rivlin, E. Pages: 1708-1714 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.21 Rotational Invariance Based on Fourier Analysis in Polar and Spherical Coordinates Qing Wang; Ronneberger, O.; Burkhardt, H. Pages: 1715-1722 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.29 Comments on “Plane-Based Optimization for 3D Object Reconstruction from Single Line Drawings” Varley, P.A.C. Pages: 1723-1725 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.262

Responses to the Comments on “Plane-Based Optimization for 3D Object Reconstruction from Single Line Drawings” Jianzhuang Liu; Liangliang Cao; Zhenguo Li; Xiaoou Tang Pages: 1726-1728 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.118 Volume 31, Number 10, October 2009 Scene Text Recognition Using Similarity and a Lexicon with Sparse Belief Propagation Weinman, J.J.; Learned-Miller, E.; Hanson, A.R. Pages: 1733-1746 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.38 Unsupervised Learning of Probabilistic Object Models (POMs) for Object Classification, Segmentation, and Recognition Using Knowledge Propagation Yuanhao Chen; Long Zhu; Yuille, A.; HongJiang Zhang Pages: 1747-1761 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.95 Human Action Recognition by Semilatent Topic Models Yang Wang; Mori, G. Pages: 1762-1774 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.43 Observing Human-Object Interactions: Using Spatial and Functional Compatibility for Recognition Gupta, A.; Kembhavi, A.; Davis, L.S. Pages: 1775-1789 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.83 A Probabilistic Framework for 3D Visual Object Representation Detry, R.; Pugeault, N.; Piater, J.H. Pages: 1790-1803 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.64 Deformed Lattice Detection in Real-World Images Using Mean-Shift Belief Propagation Minwoo Park; Brocklehurst, K.; Collins, R.T.; Yanxi Liu Pages: 1804-1816 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.73 A Mixture of Transformed Hidden Markov Models for Elastic Motion Estimation Huijun Di; Linmi Tao; Guangyou Xu Pages: 1817-1830 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.111 Robust Multiperson Tracking from a Mobile Platform Ess, A.; Leibe, B.; Schindler, K.; van Gool, L. Pages: 1831-1846 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.109 Discriminative Learning for Dynamic State Prediction Minyoung Kim; Pavlovic, V. Pages: 1847-1861 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.37

Layered Dynamic Textures Chan, A.B.; Vasconcelos, N. Pages: 1862-1879 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.110 Two-Dimensional Multilabel Active Learning with an Efficient Online Adaptation Model for Image Classification Guo-Jun Qi; Xian-Sheng Hua; Yong Rui; Jinhui Tang; Hong-Jiang Zhang Pages: 1880-1897 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.218 View-Invariant Action Recognition from Point Triplets Yuping Shen; Foroosh, H. Pages: 1898-1905 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.41 Shape and Motion Reconstruction from 3D-to-1D Orthographically Projected Data via Object-Image Relations Ferrara, M.; Arnold, G.; Stuff, M. Pages: 1906-1912 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.294 Enhancing Bilinear Subspace Learning by Element Rearrangement Dong Xu; Shuicheng Yan; Lin, S.; Huang, T.S.; Shih-Fu Chang Pages: 1913-1920 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.51 Volume 31, Number 11, November 2009 Bidirectional Texture Function Modeling: A State of the Art Survey Filip, J.; Haindl, M. Pages: 1921-1940 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.246 Discriminative Face Alignment Xiaoming Liu Pages: 1941-1954 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.238 Face Photo-Sketch Synthesis and Recognition Xiaogang Wang; Xiaoou Tang Pages: 1955-1967 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.222 Face Relighting from a Single Image under Arbitrary Unknown Lighting Conditions Yang Wang; Lei Zhang; Zicheng Liu; Gang Hua; Zhen Wen; Zhengyou Zhang; Samaras, D. Pages: 1968-1984 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.244 Rotation Invariant Kernels and Their Application to Shape Analysis Hamsici, O.C.; Martinez, A.M. Pages: 1985-1999 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.234

SemiBoost: Boosting for Semi-Supervised Learning Mallapragada, P.K.; Rong Jin; Jain, A.K.; Yi Liu Pages: 2000-2014 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.235 Signature Detection and Matching for Document Image Retrieval Guangyu Zhu; Yefeng Zheng; Doermann, D.; Jaeger, S. Pages: 2015-2031 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.237 A Statistical Approach to Material Classification Using Image Patch Exemplars Varma, M.; Zisserman, A. Pages: 2032-2047 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.182 Bregman Divergences and Surrogates for Learning Nock, R.; Nielsen, F. Pages: 2048-2059 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.225 A New Algorithm and System for the Characterization of Handwriting Strokes with Delta-Lognormal Parameters Djioua, M.; Plamondon, R. Pages: 2060-2072 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.264 Optimal Decision Rule with Class-Selective Rejection and Performance Constraints Grall-Maes, E.; Beauseroy, P. Pages: 2073-2082 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.239 Optimal Combination of Nested Clusters by a Greedy Approximation Algorithm Dang, E.K.F.; Luk, R.W.P.; Dik Lun Lee; Kei-Shiu Ho; Chan, S.C.F. Pages: 2083-2087 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.75 A Small Sphere and Large Margin Approach for Novelty Detection Using Training Data with Outliers Mingrui Wu; Jieping Ye Pages: 2088-2092 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.24 FINE: Fisher Information Nonparametric Embedding Carter, K.M.; Raich, R.; Finn, W.G.; Hero, A.O. Pages: 2093-2098 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.67 Tailored Aggregation for Classification Mary-Huard, T.; Robin, S. Pages: 2098-2105 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.55 Toward Practical Smile Detection

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