Applications of Digital Image Processing XV

Recent advances in digital image processing are addressed, focusing on image representations and models; systems and implementations; image understanding issues; algorithms; nonlinear technology for signal processing, communication, and control; image coding and transmission; innovative applications; and contributions of general interest. Particular attention is given to subpixel resolution for target tracking, endoscopic inspection and measurement, a technique of color image processing to enhance the cytomorphological deformation, improved moment invariants for shape discrimination, model adaptive optimal image restoration, noise reduction for chaotic data by geometric projection, a comparison of image coding techniques with a picture quality scale, a tissue characterization by texture analysis of ultrasonic images, a novel approach to human face recognition, and digital filtering methods used in eliminating diffraction halo of speckle interferograms. (No individual items are abstracted in this volume)