Pattern Recognition 1994: Vol 27 Index & Table of Contents

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PATTERN
RECOGNITION
THE JOURNAL OF THE PATTERN RECOGNITION SOCIETY
VOLUME CONTENTS AND AUTHOR INDEX
VOLUME 27 (1994)
PERGAMON
PATTERN RECOGNITION
The Journal of the Pattern Recognition Society
Editor-in-Chief: ROBERT S. LEDLEY
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Managing Editor: BLAIRE V. MOSSMAN
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Associate Editors
Kenicu! ABE, Japan Martin A. FISCHLER, U.S.A. C. C. Li, U.S.A. MICHAEL Rosinson, U.S.A.
M. AuMapI, Canada PaTRICK J. FLYNN, U.S.A. X1aop0 Li, Canada A. ROSENFELD, U.S.A.
SHUHE!I Arba, Japan HERBERT FREEMAN, U.S.A. PING LIANG, U.S.A. FRANK H. Rupp te, U.S.A.
YIANNIS ALormonos, U.S.A. JoypEEP GHosH, U.S.A. MICHAEL LINDENBAUM, Israel Denis Rutovitz, U.K.
Masayosu! AOKI, Japan Mark L. GILLENSON, U.S.A. Guy LoretTe, France HANAN Samet, U.S.A.
Ropert H. Asenporr, U.S.A. Lev GoLpFars, Canada Y1 Lu, U.S.A. J. SCHUERMANN, Germany
Nikos AsIMOPOULOS, U.S.A. D. B. GoLpGor, U.S.A. RoBerT MacDOna_bD, U.S.A. IsHwar K. SETHI, U.S.A.
Henry S. BairD, U.S.A. YIFAN GONG, France MICHAEL MAGEE, U.S.A. Musarak Suak, U.S.A.
RicHarD A. BALDock, U.K. NIKOLAI Gorsky, Russia ABHIJIT MAHALANOBIS, U.S.A. Linpa G. SHAPIRO, U.S.A.
Henry M. BEIsNeR, U.S.A. WiiutaM J. Gorsky, U.S.A. HENRI MAITRE, France FRANK Y. SHIH, U.S.A.
R. BERGEvIN, Canada ARDESHIR GOsHTASBY, U.S.A. JOHN W. Martin, U.S.A. YOSHIAKI SHIRAI, Japan
J. Ross BEvERIDGE, U.S.A. James GRAHAM, U.K. PeTeR Meer, U.S.A. B. Suu, U.S.A.
Bir BHANU, U.S.A. ErIk GRANUM, Denmark Ropert A. MELTER, U.S.A. M. SHRIDHAR, U.S.A.
PRABIR BHATTACHARYA, U.S.A. Lait Gupta, U.S.A. RoGeER Monr, France JACK SKLANSKY, U.S.A.
Zuaoai Bian, China ADOLFO GuzMaAN, U.S.A. RICHARD Moore, U.S.A. MICHAEL SPANN, U.K.
CAROLYN M. BJORKLUND, U.S.A. Epwin R. Hancock, U.K. JEAN-VINCENT MorEAU, France SARGUR N. SRIHARI, U.S.A.
RONALD BLANFORD, U.S.A. ANDREW J. HANSON, U.S.A. SHIGEO MorisHIMA, Japan M. D. SrinaTH, U.S.A.
Ruup M. BOLLE, U.S.A.
J. P. HATON, France Ranpy Moss, U.S.A. Loutse STARK, U.S.A.
N. Boursakis, U.S.A.
Tuomas C. HENDERSON, U.S.A. Morton NapDtier, U.S.A. RENATO STEFANELLI, Italy
ALAN C. Bovik, U.S.A.
WivuiaM A. Horr, U.S.A. YASUAKI NAKANO, Japan GEORGE STOCKMAN, U.S.A.
KEviIN W. Bowyer, U.S.A.
Rabu Horaup, France N. NANDHAKUMAR, U.S.A. CHING Y. SUEN, Canada
ERNESTO BriBIESCA, Mexico
James H. Howarp, Jr, U.S.A. RAMAKANT Nevatl, U.S.A. KOKICHI SUGIHARA, Japan
ALFRED BRUCKSTEIN, Israel
JONATHAN J. HULL, U.S.A. LAWRENCE O’GorMAN, U.S.A. SHINICHI TAMURA, Japan
J. BRYANT, U.S.A.
ATSUSHI IMtyA, Japan Patrick L. ODELL, U.S.A. STEVEN L. TANiIMoTO, U.S.A.
Micuae Buas, U.S.A.
ANIL K. Jain, U.S.A. HIpemitsu OGAWA, Japan TORFINN TAXT, Norway
Terry CAELLI, Australia
VIRGINIO CANTONI, Italy RAMESH JAIN, U.S.A. SteLios C. ORPHANOUDAKIS, Greece Goprriep T. Toussatnt, Canada
Homer H. Cuen, U.S.A. R. S. JOHANNES, U.S.A. Masak! OsHIMa, Japan Mouan M. Trivept, U.S.A.
Su-SHING CHEN, U.S.A. MosHeE Kam, U.S.A. David W. PAGLIERONI, U.S.A. Wen-HSIANG Tsal, Taiwan
Ras S. CHIkKARA, U.S.A. RANGACHAR KastTuRI, U.S.A. Y.-H. Pao, U.S.A. LEONARD Unr, U.S.A.
Luici CINQuE, Italy Kara KebeM, Israel CHAN M. Park, Korea JULIAN R. ULLMANN, U.K.
RICHARD W. Conners, U.S.A. H. R. KESHAVAN, U.S.A. M. Paw ak, Canada Scott UmBaAuGH, U.S.A.
KNuT CONRADSEN, Denmark TADAHIRO KITAHASHI, Japan YUN PENG, U.S.A. JOHN W. VAN Ness, U.S.A.
GiusepPe A. DeBIaSE, Italy J. V. Kittver, U.K. MICHAEL A. PENNA, U.S.A. ANDREW M. WALLACE, U.K.
CHRISTIAN H. DEBRUNNER, U.S.A. Jack KopLowitTz, U.S.A. JEROME K. Percus, U.S.A. Harry WECHSLER, U.S.A.
ALBERTO DEL Bimpo, Italy Wa ter G. Kropatscu, Austria Jim Piper, U.K. MICHAEL WERMAN, Israel
Epwarp J. Devp, U.S.A. ADAM KRrzyzak, Canada REJEAN PLAMONDON, Canada ROLAND WILSON, U.K.
Mita D. Desal, U.S.A. James S. J. Lee, U.S.A. TING-CHUEN PonG, Hong Kong YEE-HONG YANG, Canada
MicHeEL DHoME, France REINER LENZ, Sweden N. RANGANATHAN, U.S.A. N. Yoxkoya, Japan
STANLEY DuNN, U.S.A. Jia-Guu Leu, U.S.A. A. RAVISHANAKR Rao, U.S.A. Dean M. Youna, U.S.A.
MaASaAKAZU Epirti, Japan S. LevIALbI, Italy S. Raupys, Lithuania MarsHALL Yovits, U.S.A.
Kurt ENSLEIN, U.S.A. Martin D. Levine, Canada CELso RIBEIRO, Brazil Sotirios G. ZiAvras, U.S.A.
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VOLUME CONTENTS
Number 1
M. Lindenbaum, M. Fischer On Gabor’s contribution to image enhancement
and A. Bruckstein
S.-C. Pei and L.-G. Liou Finding the motion, position and orientation of a planar
patch in 3D space from scaled-orthographic projection
P. W. M. Tsang, P. C. Yuen Classification of partially occluded objects using 3-point
and F. K. Lam matching and Distance Transformation
G. Seni and E. Cohen External word segmentation of off-line handwritten text
lines
G. Z. Yang and T. S. Huang Human face detection in a complex background
C.-M. Lee, T.-C. Pong, J. R. Slagle An experimental study of an object recognition system
and A. Esterline that learns
L. Gupta, J. Wang, A. Charles Three-layer perceptron based classifiers for the partial
and P. Kisatsky shape classification problem
N. Blatt and J. Rubinstein The canonical coordinates method for pattern recog-
nition—II. Isomorphisms with affine transformations
H. K. Sardana, M. F. Daemi Global description of edge patterns using moments
and M. K. Ibrahim
R. Muzzolini, Y.-H. Yang Texture characterization using robust statistics
and R. Pierson
R. D. Zhang and J.-G. Postaire Convexity dependent morphological transformations for
mode detection in cluster analysis
P. Smyth Hidden Markov models for fault detection in dynamic
systems
Q. Chen and J. Y. S. Luh Ambiguity reduction by relaxation labeling
R. S. Ledley Ethical integrity and standards
Announcement
Software Survey Section
Number 2
T. Caelli and A. Dreier Variations on the evidence-based object recognition
theme
Il
IV Volume Contents
W.-T. Chen and T.-R. Chou A hierarchical deformation model for on-line cursive
script recognition
C.-H. Tung, Y.-J. Chen Performance analysis of an OCR system via an artificial
and H.-J. Lee handwritten Chinese character generator
D. S. Doermann, V. Varma Instrument grasp: a model and its effects on handwritten
and A. Rosenfeld strokes
B. Bhavnagri A method for representing shape based on an equival-
ence relation on polygons
C.-C. Han and K.-C. Fan Skeleton generation of engineering drawings via contour
matching
W. E. Higgins and C. Hsu Edge detection using two-dimensional local structure
information
P. K. Saha, B. B. Chaudhuri, Topology preservation in 3D digital space
B. Chanda and D. D. Majumder
M. Ito and A. Ishii A non-iterative procedure for rapid and precise camera
calibration
G. L. De Silva and J. J. Hull Proper noun detection in document images
G. P. Baku and M. N. Murty Clustering with evolution strategies
Software Survey Section
Number 3
S. Tamura, E.-K. Kim, R. Close Error correction in laser scanner three-dimensional
and Y. Sato measurement by two-axis model and _ coarse-fine
parameter search
Qian Huang, J. R. Lorch Can the fractal dimension of images be measured?
and R. C. Dubes
C. Ducottet, J. Daniere, M. Moine, Localization of objects with circular symmetry in a noisy
J. P. Schon and M. Courbon image using wavelet transforms and adapted correlation
S. K. Bhatia and C. L. Sabharwal A fast implementation of a perfect hash function for
picture objects
F.C. D. Tsai Geometric hashing with line features
Yuhong Yu, A. Samal and S. Seth Isolating symbols from connection lines in a class of
engineering drawings
H. Weissman, M. Schenkel, Recognition-based segmentation of on-line run-on
I. Guyon, C. Nohl and D. Henderson handprinted words: input vs. output segmentation
Volume Contents Vv
M. S. Kamel and S. Z. Selim 421 New algorithms for solving the fuzzy clustering problem
R. J. Hathaway and J. C. Bezdek 429 NERF c-means: non-Euclidean relational fuzzy
clustering
R. E. Blake 439 Partitioning graph matching with constraints
H.-J. Lee and M.-C. Lee Understanding mathematical expressions _ using
procedure-oriented transformation
Software Survey Section
Number 4
SPATIAL FILTERING AND NEURAL NETWORKS
Guest Editor: Abhijit Mahalanobis
A. Mahalanobis 459 Editorial
D. DeKruger and B. R. Hunt 461 Image processing and neural networks for recognition
of cartographic area features
J. L. Blue, G. T. Candela, Evaluation of pattern classifiers for fingerprint and OCR
P. J. Grother, R. Chellappa applications
and C. L. Wilson
C. Stewart, Yi-Chuan Lu A neural clustering approach for high resolution radar
and V. Larson target classification
A. Chandola and A. Mahalanobis Ordered rules for full sentence translation: a neural
network realization and a case study for Hindi and
English
B. Javidi, Jun Wang and Qing Tang Nonlinear joint transform correlators
B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar, Synthetic discriminant functions for recognition of
J. D. Brasher, C. F. Hester, images on the boundary of the convex hull of the
G. Srinivasan and S§. Bollapragada training set
M. Rahmati and L. G. Hassebrook Intensity- and distortion-invariant pattern recognition
with complex linear morphology
G. Gheen Distortion invariant Volterra filters
J. D. Brasher and J. M. Kinser Fractional-power synthetic discriminant functions
G. W. Carhart, B. F. Draayer Optical pattern recognition using Bayesian classification
and M. K. Giles
L. M. Novak, G. J. Owirka Radar target identification using spatial matched filters
and C. M. Netishen
A. Mahalanobis, A. V. Forman, Jr., Multi-class SAR ATR using shift-invariant correlation
N. Day, M. Bower and R. Cherry filters
Volume Contents
Number 5
D. A. Mitzias and B. G. Mertzios Shape recognition with a neural classifier based on a fast
polygon approximation technique
A. Held and K. Abe On the decomposition of binary shapes into meaningful
parts
J. Wang and J. Jean Segmentation of merged characters by neural networks
and shortest path
P. Andrey and P. Tarroux Unsupervised image segmentation using a distributed
genetic algorithm
C. Shang and K. Brown Principal features-based texture classification with
neural networks
W. F. Bischof and T. Caelli Learning structural descriptions of patterns: a new tech-
nique for conditional clustering and rule generation
D.-M. Tsai and M.-F. Chen Curve fitting approach for tangent angle and curvature
measurements
A. Shustorovich Scale specific and robust edge/line encoding with linear
combinations of Gabor wavelets
A. Li and G. Crebbin Octree encoding of objects from range images
X. Liu, S. Tan, V. Srinivasan, Fuzzy pyramid-based invariant object recognition
S. H. Ong and W. Xie
E. C.-K. Tsao, J. C. Bezdek Fuzzy Kohonen clustering networks
and N. R. Pal
Number 6
D. J. Park, K. M. Nam Edge detection in noisy images based on the co-
and R.-H. Park occurrence matrix
R. H. Glendinning Signal plus noise models in shape classification
Bingcheng Li and Jun Shen Two-dimensional local moment, surface fitting and their
fast computation
X. Xie, R. Sudhakar and H. Zhuang On improving eye feature extraction using deformable
templates
E. Jungert Qualitative spatial reasoning from the observer’s
point of view—towards a generalization of symbolic
projection
S. A. Mahmoud Arabic character recognition using Fourier descriptors
and character contour encoding
Volume Contents Vil
Su Liang, M. Shridhar 825 Segmentation of touching characters in printed
and M. Ahmadi document recognition
A. Veijanen 841 Unsupervised image segmentation using an unlabeled
region process
Zhenmin Chen and J. W. Van Ness 853 Space-contracting, space-dilating, and positive admiss-
ible clustering algorithms
I.-Chang Jou, Shih-Shien You 859 Analysis of hidden nodes for multi-layer perceptron
and Long-Wen Chang neural networks
Letter to the Editor
I. K. Sethi Comments on “Tracking multiple features using
relaxation”
R. S. Ledley Reply
Number 7
A. Ferreira and S. Ubéda Ultra-fast parallel contour tracking, with applications to
thinning
G. Xu, E. Segawa and Robust active contours with insensitive parameters
S. Tsuji
Wen-Tsuen Chen, Chia-Hsien Wen A fast two-dimensional entropic thresholding algorithm
and Chin-Wen Yang
Seong-Whan Lee and Nonlinear shape normalization methods for the recog-
Jeong-Seon Park nition of large-set handwritten characters
T. Kurita, I. Sekita and N. Otsu Invariant distance measures for planar shapes based on
complex autoregressive model
Dong H. Kim and Rae-Hong Park Analysis of quantization error in line-based stereo
matching
K. R. Namuduri, R. Mehrotra and Efficient computation of Gabor filter based multi-
N. Ranganathan resolution responses
I. K. Sethi and J. H. Yoo Design of multicategory multifeature split decision trees
using perceptron learning
W. Dzwinel How to make Sammon’s mapping useful for multi-
dimensional data structures analysis
Number 8
S.-H. Lee and J.-J. Leou A dynamic programming approach to line segment
matching in stereo vision
Vil Volume Contents
D. Mingyune and F. M. Wahl 987 Using space continuity and orientation constraints for
range data acquisition
. Cortelazzo, G. A. Mian, 1005 Trademark shapes description by _ string-matching
. Vezzi and P. Zamperoni techniques
. Kumar, N. Ranganathan and 1019 Parallel algorithms for circle detection in images
. Goldgof
. Li and T. Chen 1029 Nonlinear diffusion with multiple edginess thresholds
. Sanniti Di Baja and E. Thiel 1039 (3,4)-Weighted skeleton decomposition for pattern
representation and description
S. Philipp and M. Smadja 1051 Approximation of granular textures by quadric surfaces
S. Aeberhard, D. Coomans and 1065 Comparative analysis of statistical pattern recognition
O. de Vel methods in high dimensional settings
T. Sziranyi 1079 Subpixel pattern recognition by image histograms
C.-H. Tung, H.-J. Lee and 1093 Multi-stage pre-candidate selection in handwritten
J.-Y. Tsai Chinese character recognition systems
D. T. Pham and 1103 Self-organizing neural-network-based pattern clustering
E. J. Bayro-Corrochano method with fuzzy outputs
Y. C. Trivedi and L. Kurz A class of robust image processors
Software Survey Section
Software Description Form
Number 9
P. L. Palmer, J. Kittler Using focus of attention with the Hough transform for
and M. Petrou accurate line parameter estimation
Y.-S. Chen Segmentation and association among lines and junctions
for a line image
S. M. Bhandarkar, Y. Zhang An edge detection technique using genetic algorithm-
and W. D. Potter based optimization
A. Datta and §. K. Parui A robust parallel thinning algorithm for binary images
S.-C. Pei and L.-G. Liou Automatic symmetry determination and normalization
for rotationally symmetric 2D shapes and 3D solid
objects
D. Valentin, H. Abdi, Connectionist models of face processing: A survey
A. J. O’Toole and G. W. Cottrell
Volume Contents Ix
A. Pearce, T. Caelli Rulegraphs for graph matching in pattern recognition
and W. F. Bischof
P. W. Huang and Y. R. Jean Using 2D C*-strings as spatial knowledge represen-
tation for image database systems
C.-H. Tung and H.-J. Lee Increasing character recognition accuracy by detection
and correction of erroneously identified characters
S.-W. Lee and H.-H. Song Optimal design of reference models for large-set hand-
written character recognition
C.-I Chang, K. Chen, J. Wang A relative entropy-based approach to image thresholding
and M. L. G. Althouse
Number 10
H. J. Kim and H. S. Yang A neural network capable of learning and inference for
visual pattern recognition
N. Nandhakumar, S. Karthik Unified modeling of non-homogeneous 3D objects for
and J. K. Aggarwal thermal and visual image synthesis
G. K. Matsopoulos and Use of morphological image processing techniques for
S. Marshall the measurement of a fetal head from ultrasound images
D. X. Le, G. R. Thoma and Automated page orientation and skew angle detection
H. Wechsler for binary document images
C. B. Bose and S.-S. Kuo Connected and degraded text recognition using Hidden
Markov Model
T.-Z. Lin and K.-C. Fan Coarse classification of on-line Chinese characters via
structure feature-based method
N. B. Venkateswarlu, S. Balaji, Some further results of three stage ML classification
rs S. V. S. K. Raju and R. D. Boyle applied to remotely sensed images
J. Strand and T. Taxt Local frequency features for texture classification
G. Marola and A. Vaccarelli An algebraic method for detection and recognition of
polyhedral objects from a single image
T. Uchiyama and M. A. Arbib An algorithm for competitive learning in clustering
problems
J.-N. Liaw and R. L. Kashyap A new sequential classifier using information criterion
window
Software Survey Section
Software Description Form
Volume Contents
Number 11
S.-C. Cheng and W.-H. Tsai Image compression by moment-preserving edge
detection
M. Basu Gaussian derivative model for edge enhancement
H. P. Snijder and C. van Leeuwen A minimal architecture for detecting object location and
motion
S.-C. Pei and L.-G. Liou Rigid motion and structure from several sets of parallel
lines in a monocular image sequence
Y. Park A comparison of neural net classifiers and linear tree
classifiers: their similarities and differences
P.-C. Chung, C.-T. Tsai, Polygonal approximation using a competitive Hopfield
E-L. Chen and Y.-N. Sun neural network
J. J. Lee, J. C. Shim Stereo correspondence using the Hopfield neural net-
and Y. H. Ha work of a new energy function
R. Lenz and P. Meer Point configuration invariants under simultaneous
projective and permutation transformations
S.-C. Pei and J.-H. Horng Corner point detection using nest moving average
J. Zhou and T. Pavilidis Discrimination of characters by a multi-stage recog-
nition process
T. Saito and J.-I. Toriwaki New algorithms for Euclidean distance transformation
of an n-dimensional digitized picture with applications
W. Wei and J. M. Mendel Optimality tests for the fuzzy c-means algorithm
Announcement
Software Survey Section
Software Description Form
Number 12
Y. Q. Shi, C. Q. Shu Unified optical flow field approach to motion analysis
and J. N. Pan from a sequence of stereo images
P.-S. Tsai, M. Shah, K. Keiter Cyclic motion detection for motion based recognition
and T. Kasparis
D.-G. Sim, Y.-K. Ham On-line recognition of cursive Korean characters using
and R.-H. Park DP matching and fuzzy concept
Y. Qi and B. R. Hunt Signature verification using global and grid features