These proceedings provide a state-of-the-art report on all current issues of image analysis and processing. Theoretical aspects are addressed, as well as systems design and advanced applications, particularly in medical imaging.

Texture analysis: Representation and matching.- Region-based segmentation of textured images.- A new approach to image segmentation.- Using Hopfield networks to segment color images.- The watershed transformation for multiresolution image segmentation.- Bounds on the optimal elasticity parameters for a snake.- Efficient attributed graph matching and its application to image analysis.- Matching Delaunay graphs.- An integrated approach to grouping and matching.- An adaptive reject option for LVQ classifiers.- A model based method for characterization and location of curved image features.- Estimation of curvature and tangent direction by median filtered differencing.- Adaptative elimination of false edges for first order detectors.- An image processing library based on abstract image data-types in C++.- Spatial-temporal data management for a 3D graphical information system.- Photopix: An object-oriented framework for digital image processing systems.- Data packing vs processing speed onlow-cost massively parallel systems: A case study.- A new parallel method based on a genetic approach for determination and classification of skin spots.- A VLSI scalable processor array for motion estimation.- Evaluating digital angles by a parallel diffusion process.- A pyramidal approach to convex hull and filling algorithms.- A code based approach to image-processing teaching.- A visual speech model based on fuzzy-neuro methods.- Edge detection filters based on artificial neural networks.- Use of cortical filters and neural networks in a self-organising image classification system.- Occluded objects recognition using multiscale features and Hopfield neural networks.- Automatic video segmentation through editing analysis.- Image retrieval by elastic matching of user sketches.- Finding facial features using an HLS colour space.- A new and fast real-time implementation of 2-D DCT.- A hybrid lossless compression of still images using Markov model and linear prediction.- The impact of aliasing and quantization on motion compensation.- Rule-based method for tumor recognition in liver ultrasonic images.- An understanding of muscle fibre images.- A new plant cell image segmentation algorithm.- Extraction of tumours from MR images of the brain by texture and clustering.- Automatic identification of brain contours in magnetic resonance images of the head.- Analysis of the spatial arrangement of cells in the proliferative breast lesions.- Application of image processing in neurobiology: Detection of low signals with high spatial resolution and a non-uniform variance.- Computer assisted analysis of echocardiographic image sequences.- Tissue segmentation in MRI as an informative indicator of disease activity in the brain.- Analysis of scenes containing multiple non-polyhedral 3D objects.- Fuzzy segmentation and astronomical images interpretation.- Learning how to find patterns or objects in complex scenes.- Adaptive matching using object modes generated from photometric stereo images.- Sensor planning techniques and active visual inspection.- Experimental self-calibration from four views.- Vision-based navigation in service robotics.- Segmenting 3D objects into geons.- Delineation of elongated sub-patterns in a piecewise constant foreground.- On a new basic concept and topological invariant.- Line moments and invariants for real time processing of vectorized contour data.- Restoration of noisy underwater acoustic images using Markov Random Fields.- Plausibilistic preprocessing of sparse range images.- Segmentation/reconstruction of range images based on piecewise-linear approximation.- In-place covariance operators for computer vision.- A new heuristic search for boundary detection.- Sub-pixel registration for super high resolution image acquisition based on temporal integration.- Robust features for textures in additive noise.- Decomposing contours into curves of different families.- A proposal on local and adaptive determination of filter scale for edgedetection.- On the detection of step edges in algorithms based on gradient vector analysis.- Directions analysis in grey-level images.- An unsupervised and non-parametric Bayesian Image segmentation.- A.I. based image segmentation.- Quality enhancement in image enlargement.- Synthesising objects and scenes using the reverse distance transformation in 2D and 3D.- Texture segmentation using local phase differences in Gabor filtered images.- Disparity estimation for stereo sequences based on adaptive size hierarchical block matching.- Matching of stereo curves — A closed form solution.- Multi-polygonal object tracking.- Optimal parameter estimation of ellipses.- A linear discriminator of width.- Binarization of inhomogeneously illuminated images.- Pruning discrete and semicontinuous skeletons.- On commutative properties of halftoning and their applications.- Combining resolution and granularity for pattern recognition.- Line and cell searching in tables or forms.- Describing words by graphs.- Selecting reference signatures for on-line signature verification.- ApOFIS: an A priori optical font identification system.- Extracting words and multi-part symbols in graphics rich documents.- A semi-automatic method for form layout description.- Improving the use of contours for off-line Cursive Script Segmentation.- A method for determining address format in the automated sorting of Japanese mail.- Structural features by MCR expression for printed Arabic character recognition.- Genetic algorithm for thinning gray-scale images of characters.- Blue-print document analysis for color classification.- Document image analysis: What is missing?.- Invariant features for HMM based on-line handwriting recognition.- A robust analytical approach for handwritten word recognition.- Recognition of rotated characters by inexact matching.- Bayesian image reconstruction using a high-order interacting MRF model.- Minimum spanning trees (MST) as a tool for describing tissue architecture when grading bladder carcinoma.- Symbolic indexing of cardiological sequences through dynamic curve representations.- Visual communications.- Generalized square isometries — an improvement for fractal image coding.- A fast algorithm for high quality vector quantization codebook design.- Fast fractal image coding using pyramids.- Hidden MRF detection of motion of objects with uniform brightness.- Motion analysis and segmentation for object-oriented mid-level image representation.- Speckle noise filtering in SAR images using wavelets.- Prediction of short-term evolution of cloud formations based on Meteosat image sequences.- Prototyping of interactive satellite image analysis tools using a real-time data-flow computer.- Simulation of aircraft images for Airport Surface Traffic Control.- Cooperation of knowledge based systems for galaxy classification.- Fuzzy segmentation and structural knowledge for satellite image analysis.- Detection of Lofar lines.- A fast object orientation estimation and recognition technique for underwater acoustic imaging.- Applying contextual constraints to extract symbolic representation for image understanding.- Application of the Hough transform for weld inspection underwater.- Development of an automated bond verification system for advanced electronic packages.- Crack detection by a measure of texture anisotropy.- A vision system for automatic inspection of meat quality.