Advances in structural and syntactical pattern recognition : 6th International Workshop, SSPR '96, Leipzig, Germany, August 20-23, 1996 : proceedings

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.- Relational indexing.- 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 transformations.- Three dimensional computer vision for computer aided design and manufacturing applications.- Using weighted minutiae for fingerprint identification.- Recognizing 2-D rigid and non-rigid wire-shapes.- Structural and syntactic methods in line drawing analysis: To which extent do they work?.- Vector-based segmentation of text connected to graphics in engineering drawings.- Automatic resolution of object features from engineering drawings for 3D reconstruction.- The feedback approach to cartographic areal text placement.- A hierarchical representation for the reference database of on-line Chinese character recognition.- Substructure shape analysis for Kanji character recognition.- Recognition of hand-printed Chinese characters using Ripple Down Rules.- A fuzzy syntactic method for on-line handwriting recognition.