Advances in Structural and Syntactical Pattern Recognition

Efficient recognition of a class of context-sensitive languages described by Augmented Regular Expressions.- Optimal and information theoretic syntactic pattern recognition for traditional errors.- The morphic generator grammatical inference methodology and multilayer perceptrons: A hybrid approach to acoustic modeling.- Two different approaches for cost-efficient Viterbi parsing with error correction.- Bounded parallelism in array grammars used for character recognition.- Comparison between the Inside-Outside algorithm and the Viterbi algorithm for stochastic context-free grammars.- Generalized morphological operators applied to map-analysis.- Derivatives in scale space.- On skeletonization in 4D images.- Extended Cascade-Correlation for syntactic and structural pattern recognition.- A metric of planar self-similar forms.- Including geometry in graph representations: A quadratic-time graph isomorphism algorithm and its applications.- Hierarchical discrete relaxation.- Relationalindexing.- An evidential merit function to guide search in a semantic network based image analysis system.- Inexact graph matching with genetic search.- Automatic recognition of bidimensional models learned by grammatical inference in outdoor scenes.- Signal decomposition with multiscale learning algorithms.- Structural learning of character patterns for on-line recognition of handwritten Japanese characters.- Recognition of hand-printed characters using induct machine learning.- Opponent color processing based on neural models.- Knowledge acquisition by symbolic decision tree induction for interpretation of digital images in radiology.- Invariants and fixed structures lead the way to change.- Representing shape by line patterns.- Recognition of 3D objects from 2D images - Some issues.- Surface skeletonization of volume objects.- Peculiarities of structural analysis of image contours under various orders of scanning.- A structural analysis of curve deformation by discontinuous