Proceedings IWISP '96. 4–7 November 1996, Manchester, United Kingdom

Content: 
Preface, Pages v-vi, Basil G. Mertzios, Panos Liatsis
IWISP \'96 organizing committee, Page vii
International programme committee, Page viii
Joint optimization of multi-dimensional SOFM codebooks with QAM modulations for vector quantized image transmission, Pages 3-6, O. Aitsab, R. Pyndiah, B. Solaiman
Visual Vector Quantization For Image Compression Based on Laplacian Pyramid Structure, Pages 7-10, Z. He, G. Qiu, S. Chen
Kohonen\'s Self Organizing Feature Maps with variable learning rate. Application to image compression, Pages 11-14, A. Czihó, B. Solaiman, G. Cazuguel, C. Roux, I. Loványi
An Efficient Training Algorithm Design For General Competitive Learning Neural Networks, Pages 15-18, J. Jiang, D. Butler
Architecture Design for Polynomial Approximation Coding of Image Compression, Pages 19-22, Lu Chung-Yen, Wen Kuei-Ann
Application of Shape Recognition to Fractal Based Image Compression, Pages 23-26, S. Morgan, A. Bouridane
Chrominance Vector Quantization for Coding of Images and Video at Very Low Bitrates, Pages 27-30, Maciej Bartkowiak, Marek Domañski, Peter Gerken
Region-of-Interest Based Compression of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data, Pages 31-35, Nikos G. Panagiotidis, Stefanos D. Kollias
Scalable parallel vector quantization for image coding appplications, Pages 37-40, D.G. Sampson, A. Cuhadar, A.C. Downton
Real-Time Image Compression Methods Incorporating Wavelet Transforms, Pages 43-46, D.T. Morris, M.D. Edwards
Custom Wavelet Packet Image Compression Design, Pages 47-52, Mladen Victor Wickerhauser
Two-dimensional directional wavelets and image processing, Pages 53-60, Antoine Jean-Pierre
The Importance of the Phase of the Symmetric Daubechies Wavelets Representation of Signals, Pages 61-64, J.-M. Lina, P. Drouilly
Contrast enhancement in images using the two-dimensional continuous wavelet transform, Pages 65-68, Antoine Jean-Pierre, Pierre Vandergheynst
Wavelets and differential-dilation equations, Pages 69-72, T. Cooklev, G. Berbecel, A.N. Venetsanopoulos
Wavelets in high resolution radar imaging and clinical magnetic resonance imaging, Pages 73-80, Walter Schempp
Wavelet Transform based Information Extraction from 1-D and 2-D Signals, Pages 81-86, Adam Dcabrowski
Computational Methods and Tools for Simulation and Analysis of Complex Processes: (applying ωnk-criteria, ANN and CA), Pages 89-95, V.V. Ivanov
Rare events selection on a background of dominated processes applying multilayer perceptron, Pages 97-100, V.V. Ivanov, P.V. Zrelov
Cellular Automaton and Elastic Neural Network Application for Event Reconstruction in High Energy Physics, Pages 101-104, I. Kisel, E. Konotopskaya, V. Kovalenko
Recognition of tracks detected by drift tubes in a magnetic field, Pages 105-108, S.A. Baginyan, G.A. Ososkov
An unified connective representation for linear and nonlinear discrete-time system identification, Pages 111-114, Jacques Fantini
Predicting a Chaotic Time Series Using a Dynamical Recurrent Neural Network, Pages 115-118, Roberto Teran, Jean-Philippe Draye, Davor Pavisic, Gustavo Calderon, Gaëtan Libert
A New Neural Network Structure For Modeling Non-linear Dynamical Systems, Pages 119-122, Amir Hussain, John J. Soraghan, Tariq S. Durrani, Douglas R. Campbell
A Neural Network for Moving Light Display Trajectory Prediction, Pages 123-126, H.M. Lakany, G.M. Hayes
Recognizing Flow Pattern of Gas/Liquid Two-component Flow Using Fuzzy Logical Neural Network, Pages 127-132, Peng Lihui, Zhang Baofen, Yao Danya, Xiong Zhijie
Adaptive algorithm to solve the mixture problem with a neural networks methodology, Pages 133-136, R.M. Pérez, P. Martinez, J. Moreno, A. Silva, P.L. Aguilar
Process trend analysis and fuzzy reasoning in fermentation control, Pages 137-140, S. Kivikunnas, K. Ibatici, E. Juuso
Higher Order Cumulant Maximisation using Non-linear Hebbian and Anti-Hebbian Learning for Adaptive Blind Separation of Source Signals, Pages 141-144, Mark Girolami, Colin Fyfe
A Robot Vision System for Object Recognition and Work Piece Location, Pages 147-150, Wang Min, Dai Qizhi, Wang Jun
Recognition of Objects and Their Direction of Moving Based on Sequence of Two-Dimensional Frames, Pages 151-154, Božidar Potočnik, Damjan Zazula
Innovative Techniques for Recognition of Faces Based on Multiresolution Analysis and Morphological Filtering, Pages 155-159, Anastasios Doulamis, Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Nikolaos Doulamis, Stefanos Kollias
Partial curve identification in 2-d space and its application to robot assembly, Pages 161-164, Feng-Hui Yao, Gui-Feng Shao, Akikazu Tamaki, Kiyoshi Kato
A fast active contour algorithm for object tracking in complex background, Pages 165-168, Chun Leung Lam, Shiu Yin Yuen
The Two-Point Combinatorial Probabilistic Hough Transform for Circle Detection (C2PHT), Pages 169-172, J.Y. Goulermas, P. Liatsis
Modified Rapid Transform Features in Information Symbols Recognition System, Pages 173-176, J. Turan, K. Fazekas, L. Kovesi, M. Kovesi
Image Data Processing in Flying Object Velocity Optoelectronic Measuring Device, Pages 177-180, Jan Mikulec, Vaclav Ricny
Rotation Invariant Texture Classification Schemes using GMRFs and Wavelets, Pages 183-186, Robert Porter, Nishan Canagarajah
A new method for describing texture, Pages 187-190, D.T. Pham, B.G. Çetiner
Texture Discrimination for Quality Control Using Wavelet and Neural Network Techniques, Pages 191-194, D.A. Karras, S.A. Karkanis, B.G. Mertzios
A Region Oriented CFAR Approach to the Detection of Extensive Targets in Textured Images, Pages 195-198, Carlos Alberola-López, José Ramón Casar-Corredera, Juan Ruiz-Alzola
Generating Stabile Structure of a Color Texture Image using Scale-space Analysis with Non-uniform Gaussian Kernels, Pages 199-202, Satoru Morita, Minoru Tanaka
Approximation of bidimensional karhunen loeve expansions by means of monodimensional karhunen loeve expansions, applied to image compression, Pages 205-208, Nello Balossino, Davide Cavagnino
Blockness Distortion Evaluation in Block-Coded Pictures, Pages 209-213, M. Cireddu, F.G.B. De Natale, D.D. Giusto, P. Pes
A new distortion measure for the assessment of decoded images adapted to human perception, Pages 215-218, F. Bock, H. Walter, M. Wilde
Image Compression with Interpolation and Coding of Interpolation Errors, Pages 219-222, Jian Yi, Ferdinand Arp
Matrix to vector transformation for image compression, Pages 223-226, Djamel Ait-Boudaoud
A speech coding algorithm based on wavelet transform, Pages 227-229, Xiaodong Wu, Yongming Li, Hongyi Chen
Automatic Determination of Region Importance and JPEG Codec Reflecting Human Sense, Pages 231-234, Rina Hayasaka, Jiying Zhao, Yoshihisa Shimazu, Koji Ohta, Yutaka Matsushita
Directional Image Coding on Wavelet Transform Domain, Pages 235-238, Dong Wook Kang
An Universal MPEG Decoder with Scalable Picture Size, Pages 241-244, Ram Prabhakar, Wei Li
The Influence of Impairments from Digital Compression of Video Signal on Perceived Picture Quality, Pages 245-248, Sonja Bauer, Branka Zovko-Cihlar, Mislav Grgić
On scalable coding of image sequences, Pages 249-252, Erwan Launay, Thomson Multimedia R, D France
Image transmission problems between IP and ATM networks, Pages 253-255, Mkrttchlan V.S., Eranoslan A.V., Student Karamyan I.L.
A Scalable Video Coding Scheme Based on Adaptive Infield/Inframe DCT and Adaptive Frame Interpolation, Pages 257-260, Masatoshi Asada, Katsutoshi Sawada
Unified Image Compression Using Reversible and Fast Biorthogonal Wavelet Transform, Pages 263-266, HyungJun Kim, C.C. Li
Subband Image Coding Using Adaptive Fuzzy Quantization Step Controller, Pages 267-270, Peter Planinsic, Franc Jurkovic, Zarko Cucej, Dali Donlagic
EZW Algorithm Using Visual Weighting in the Decomposition and DPCM, Pages 271-275, Laurent Lecornu, Czeslaw Jedrzejek
Efficient 3-D Subband Coding of Colour Video, Pages 277-280, Marek Domanski, Roger Swierczynski
Adaptive Wavelet Packet Image Coding with Zerotree Structure, Pages 281-284, Tsuyoshi Otake, Kouichi Fukuda, Akira Kawanaka
Efficiency of the image morphological pyramid decomposition, Pages 285-288, Dragana Sandic, Dragorad Milovanovic
Optimal vector pyramidal decompositions for the coding of multichannel images, Pages 289-292, Dimitrios Tzovaras, Michael G. Strintzis
Multilingual character segmentation using matching rate, Pages 295-298, Kyung-Ae Moon, Su-young Chi, Jong-Won Park, Weon-Geun Oh
Architecture of an Object-based Tracking System Using Colour Segmentation, Pages 299-302, Rafael García-Campos, Joan Batlle, Rainer Bischoff
Segmentation of Retinal Images Guided by the Wavelet Transform, Pages 303-306, Dr. T. Morris, Mrs. Z. Newell
An Adaptive Fuzzy Clustering Algorithm for Image Segmentation, Pages 307-310, Yannis A. Tolias, Stavros M. Panas
Hy2: A Hybrid Segmentation Method, Pages 311-314, F. Marino, G. Mastronardi
Efficient computation of the 2-dimensional RGB vector median filter, Pages 317-320, Stephen J. Sangwine, Anthony J. Bardos
Image Restoration For Millimeter Wave Images by Hopfield Neural Network, Pages 321-324, Kenichim Yuasa, Hidefumi Sawai, Kenichi Watabe, Koji Mizuno, Masahide Yoneyama
Image restoration of medical diffraction tomography using filtered MEM, Pages 325-328, Kazuhiko Hamamoto, Tsuyoshi Shiina, Toshihiro Nishimura
Directionally adaptive image restoration, Pages 329-332, Xavier Neyt, Marc Acheroy, Ignace Lemahieu
Optimal Matching of images at Low Photon Level, Pages 333-336, Mireille Guillaume, Thierry Amouroux, Philippe Réfrégier
A Method for Controlling the Enhancement of Image Feature by Unsharp Masking Filters, Pages 337-340, E. Cernadas, L. Gomez, A. Casas, P.G. Rodríguez, R.G. Carrión
Image Noise Reduction Based on Local Classification and Iterated Conditional Modes, Pages 341-344, K. Haris, S.N. Efstratiadis, N. Maglaveras, C. Pappas
An neural approach to invariant character recognition, Pages 347-351, Iraklis M. Spiliotis, Panagiotis Liatsis, Basil G. Mertzios, Yannis P. Goulermas
Image segmentation based on boundary constraint neural network, Pages 353-356, F. Kurugollu, S. Birecik, M. Sezgin, B. Sankur
A high performance neural multiclassifier system for generic pattern recognition applications, Pages 357-360, Dimitris A. Mitzias, Basil G. Mertzios
Application of a Neural Network for multifont Farsi character recognition using fuzzified Pseudo - Zernike moments, Pages 361-364, Mehdi Namazi, Ms. Student, Karim Faez
Integrating LANDSAT and SPOT images to improve land cover classification accuracy, Pages 365-368, Alessandra Chiuderi
Classification of bottle rims using Neural Networks - an LMS approach, Pages 369-373, C. Teoh, J. Braham Levy
Data compression, data fusion and Kalman filtering in wavelet transform, Pages 377-380, Q. Jin, K.M. Wong, Z.Q. Luo, E. Bosse
Performance of wavelet packet division multiplexing in timing errors and flat fading channels, Pages 381-384, J. Wu, K.M. Wong, Q. Jin
Time-Varying Wavelet Packet Division Multiplexing, Pages 385-388, T.N. Davidson, K.M. Wong
Co-channel interference mitigation in the time-scale domain: The CIMTS algorithm, Pages 389-392, Sam Heidari, Chrysostomos L. Nikias
Design and Performance of DS/SS Signals Defined by Arbitrary Orthonormal Functions, Pages 393-396, William W. Jones, Jeffrey C. Dill
COFDM, MC-CDMA, and Wavelet-Based MC-CDMA, Pages 397-404, KyungHi Chang, XuDuan Lin
Signal Denoising through Multifractality, Pages 405-408, W. Kinsner, A. Langi
Application of Multirate Filter Bank to the Co-Existence Problem of DS-CDMA and TDMA Systems, Pages 409-412, Shinsuke Hara, Takahiro Matsuda, Norihiko Morinaga
Multiscale Edges Detection by Wavelet Transform for Model of Face Recognition, Pages 415-418, Fan Yang, Michel Paindavoine, Hervé Abdi
Edge Detection by Rank Functional Approximation of Grey Levels, Pages 419-422, J.P. Asselin de Beauville, D Bi, F.Z. Kettaf
Fuzzy Logic Edge Detection Algorithm, Pages 423-426, Sakari Murtovaara, Esko Juuso, Raimo Sutinen
Topological Edge Finding, Pages 427-430, Mark Mertens, Hichem Sahli, Jan Cornelis.
Automatic Parallelization of Full 2-D Block Matching for Real Time Motion Compensation and Mapping into Special Purpose Architectures, Pages 433-437, Nectarios Koziris, George Papakonstantinou, Panayotis Tsanakas
New Search Region Prediction Method For Motion Estimation, Pages 439-442, D.H. Ryu, C.R. Kim, T.W. Choi, J.C. Kim
Motion Estimation by Direct Minimisation of the Energy Function of the Hopfield Neural Network, Pages 443-446, Leszek Ciepliński, Czesław Jcedrzejek
A modified MAP-MRF motion-based segmentation algorithm for image sequence coding, Pages 447-450, Daniel Gatica-Pérez, Francisco García-Ugalde, Víctor García-Garduño
Unsupervised Motion Segmentation of Image Sequences using Adaptive Filtering, Pages 451-454, Olaf Pichler, Andreas Tenner, Bedrich J. Hosticka
Development of a motion compensated coding system for an enhanced wide screen TV, Pages 455-458, Takahiro Hamada, Shuichi Matsumoto
Brain evoked potentials mapping using the diffuse interpolation, Pages 461-464, Djaaffar Bouattoura, Paul Gaillard, Pierre Villon, François Langevin
Computer-aided diagnosis: Detection of masses on digital mammograms, Pages 465-468, Arturo J. Méndez, Pablo G. Tahoces, María J. Lado, Miguel Souto, Juan J. Vidal, Arturo J. Méndez
Model order determination of ECG signals using rational function approximations, Pages 469-474, Joseph S. Paul, V. Jagadeesh Kumar, M.R.S. Reddy
Computation of the Ejection Ratio of the Ventricle from Echocardiographic Image Sequences, Pages 475-478, Andreas Teuner, Olaf Pichler, Bedrich J. Hosticka
Contour Detection of the Left Ventricle on Echocardiographic Images, Pages 479-482, Simone Garçon, FlÁvio Bortolozzi, Jacques Facon
Identification of a stohastic System involving Neuroelectric Signals, Pages 483-486, A.G. Rigas
Design of M band linear phase FIR filter banks with high attenuation in stop bands, Pages 489-492, Takuro Kida, Yuichi Kida
Robustness of Multirate Filters Banks, Pages 493-496, F.N. Koumboulis, M.G. Skarpetis, B.G Mertzios
Designing and Learning Algorithm of Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition, Pages 497-500, Hiroki Takahashi, Masayuki Nakajima
Statistical comparison of minimum cross entropy spectral estimators, Pages 501-505, R.C. Papademetriou
Generalized optimum approximation minimizing various measures of error at the same time, Pages 507-510, Takuro Kida
Determination of optimal coefficients of high order error feedback upon Chebyshev criteria, Pages 511-514, A. Djebbari, Al. Djebbari, M.F. Belbachir, J.M. Rouvaen
Dynamic Codewidth Reduction for VLIW Instruction Set Architectures in Digital Signal Processors, Pages 517-520, Matthias H. Weiss, Gerhard P. Fettweis
Implementation aspects of FIR filtering in a Wavelet Compression Scheme, Pages 521-524, G. Lafruit, B. Vanhoof, J. Bormans, M. Engels, I. Bolsens
Recursive approximate realization of image transforms with orthonormal rotations, Pages 525-530, Gerben J. Hekstra, Ed F. Deprettere, Monica Monari, Richard Heusdens
Radix Distributed Arithmetic: Algorithms and Architectures, Pages 531-534, Mohammad K Ibrahim
Order-Configurable Programmable Power-Efficient FIR Filters, Pages 535-538, Chong Xu, Ching-Yi Wang, Keshab K. Parhi
On speech compression standards in multimedia videoconferencing: Implementation aspects, Pages 541-544, Milan Markovic, Zoran Bojkovic
Multimedia Communication Graphical User Interface Design Principles for the Teleeducation, Pages 545-548, J. Turan, K. Fazekas, L. Ovsenik, M. Kovesi
Image and video compression for multimedia applications, Pages 549-552, D.G. Sampson, E.A.B. da Silva, M. Ghanbari
A Multilayer Image Coding and Browsing System, Pages 553-556, Guoping Qiu
Switched Segmented Image Coding - JPEG Schemes for Progressive Image Transmission, Pages 557-560, C.A. Christopoulos, A.N. Skodras, W. Philips, J. Cornells
Low Bit Rate Coding of Image Sequences using Regions of Interest and Neural Networks, Pages 561-565, Nikolaos Doulamis, Athanasios Tsiodras, Anastasios Doulamis, Stefanos Kollias
Iterated function systems for still image processing, Pages 569-572, J.-L. Dugelay, E. Polidori, S. Roche
Sensing Surface Discontinuities via Coloured Spots, Pages 573-576, Colin J. Davies, Mark S. Nixon
Image analysis and synthesis by learning from examples, Pages 577-580, Sandra Brunetta, Nicola Ancona
A stabilized multiscale zero - crossing image representation for image processing tasks at the level of the early vision, Pages 581-584, Shinji Watanabe, Takashi Komatsu, Takahiro Saito
Finding geometric and structural information from 2D image frames, Pages 585-588, R. Jaitly, D.A. Fraser
Detection of small changes in intensity on images corrupted by signal-dependent noise by using the wavelet transform, Pages 589-592, Yasmina Chitti, Paul Gogan
Deterioration Detection in a Sequence of Large Images, Pages 593-596, O. Buisson, B. Besserer, S. Boukir, L. Joyeux
Segmentation of multi-spectral images based on the physics of reflection, Pages 599-602, N.H. Kroupnova
Using color correlation to improve restoration of color images, Pages 603-606, Daniel Keren, Anna Gotlib, Hagit Hel-Or
Colour Eigenfaces, Pages 607-610, Graham D. Finlayson, Janet Dueck, Brian V. Funt, Mark S. Drew
Colour quantification for industrial inspection, Pages 611-614, Maria Petrou, Constantinos Boukouvalas
Colour object recognition using phase correlation of log-polar transformed fourier spectra, Pages 615-618, A.L. Thornton, S.J. Sangwine
SIIAC: Interpretation System of Aerial Color Images, Pages 619-622, Salim Mouhoub, Michel Lamure, Nicolas Nicoloyannis
Nodular Quantification in Metallurgy using Image Processing, Pages 625-628, Virginia Ballarin, Emiice Moler, Franco Pessana, Sebastián Torres, Manuel Gonzalez
Image Processing in the Measurement of Trash Contents and Grades in Cotton, Pages 629-632, Boshra D. Farah
Automated Visual Inspection Based On Fermat Number Transform, Pages 633-636, J. Harrington, A. Bouridane
Segmentation of birch wood board images, Pages 637-640, D.T. Pham, R.J. Alcock
“Techniques for classifying sugar crystallization images based on spectral analysis and the use of neural networks”, Pages 641-645, Eloisa Susana González Palenzuela, Pastora I. Vega Cruz
Large-scale Electrical Tomography Sensing System to Study Mixing Phenomena, Pages 647-650, M. Wang, R. Mann, F.J. Dickin, T. Dyakowski
Structural Indexing of Infra-red Images using Statistical Histogram Comparison, Pages 653-656, Benoit Huet, Edwin R. Hancock
A Model-Based Approach for the Detection of Airport Transportation Networks in Sequences of Aerial Images, Pages 657-660, D. Sarantis, C.S. Xydeas
Context driven matching in structural pattern recognition, Pages 661-664, S. Gautama, J.P.F. D\'Haeyer
An Efficient Box-Couting Fractal Dimension Approach for Experimental Image Variation Characterization, Pages 665-668, Aura Conci, Claudenize F.J. Campos
An Identification Tool to build Physical Models for Virtual Reality, Pages 669-672, Jean Louchet, Li Jiang
Cue-based camera calibration and its application to digital moving image production, Pages 673-676, Yuji Nakazawa, Tcàiishi Kcmatsu, Takahiw Saito
A Novel Approach to Phoneme Recognition using Speech Image, Pages 679-682, M. Ahmadi, N.J. Bailey, B.S. Hoyle
Modified NLMS algorithm for acoustic echo cancellation, Pages 683-686, M. Medvecký
Matrix Polynomial Computations Using the Reconfigurable Systolic Torus, Pages 687-690, T.H. Kaskalis, K.G. Margaritis
Real-Time Connected Component Labeling on One-Dimensional Array Processors based on Content-Addressable Memory: Optimization and Implementation, Pages 691-694, Eril Mozef, Serge Weber, Jamal Jaber, Etienne Tisserand
A 2-D window processor for modular image processing applications and its VLSI implementation, Pages 695-698, P. Tzionas, Ch. Mizas, A. Thanailakis
Rate conversion of compressed video for matching bandwidth constraints in ATM networks, Pages 701-704, Pedro Assunção, Mohammad Ghanbari
Index of authors, Pages 705-708