Recent Issues in Pattern Analysis and Recognition

A fast algorithm to compress grey level images.- Image enhancement by path partitioning.- Boundary approximations in digital geometry.- Parallel computing of line-codings by use of a display processor system and the parallel determination of a discrete curvature.- Fast algorithm for computing fractal dimensions of image segments.- Integration of the cooley, rader and Winograd-Fourier algorithms for a faster computation of the DFT.- A fuzzy approach to cue detection and region merging for image segmentation.- A parallel algorithm for the visibility problem inside a simple polygon.- Parallel matrix multiplication on an array-logical processor.- Experiments on pyramidal segmentation.- An example of integrated circuit design based on silicon compilation: The SCPC1 (Silicon Compiler Pyramidal Chip).- Bit-level systolic arrays for digital contour smoothing.- Design of bit-level systolic convolvers for image processing.- Utilizing fixed-size systolic arrays for large computational problems.- Effective image processing using the special purpose processor GIPP.- Linear image operations on the A6472 image frocessing system by use of residue arithmetics.- Topologic and metric modelling of visual objects.- Data structures and parallel memory organization based on dyadic storage schemes.- Parallel access to rectangles.- Optimal parallel conflict-free access to extended binary trees.- Decomposing a solid object into elementary features.- Recognition of polyhedra by photometric stereo.- Volumetric and pictorial reconstruction of 3D objects from correspondences in moving 2D views.- Automated design of vision systems.- Adapting multi-grid-methods to the class of elliptic partial differential equation appearing in the estimation of displacement vector fields.- An adaptive method for natural scene analysis.- A structural method for handprinted character recognition.- Investigation on a structural solution of merged characters segmentation in OCR.- A spectral analysis-based signature