Ahmed Saoudi - Böcker

This volume contains the papers selected for presentation atthe Second International Conference on Parallel ImageAnalysis (ICPIA '92), held in Ube, Japan, December 21-23,1992. The conference topics are data structures, parallelalgorithms and architectures, neural networks, computationalvision, syntactic generation and recognition, andmultidimensional models. The first meeting with these topicswas theInternational Colloquium on Parallel ImageProcessing, which took place in Paris in June 1991. The aimof the meetings is to bring together specialistsfromvarious countries who are interested in the topics and tostimulatetheoretical and practical research in the field ofparallel image processingand analysis. The volume contains three invited papers, a summary of atutorial lecture, and twenty selected and refereedcommunications.

The research and development of multi-dimensional pattern recognition, scene analysis, computer vision and image processing have progressed very rapidly in recent years. Among various models employed for pattern representation and analysis, the array grammar has attracted more and more attention because it has several advantages over others.This special volume, perhaps the first time ever in the literature, is a collection of 14 papers by prominent professionals and experts, aimed at promoting array grammars, patterns and recognizers. They are grouped in the following categories: (1) Array grammars and pattern generation, (2) Array pattern recognizers, (3) Coordinate grammars and L-systems, and (4) Hexagonal grids, tilings and encryption.

Presents essays on such topics as three-dimensional object representation by array grammars, stochastic puzzle grammars, parallel recognition of high dimensional images, two-dimensional uniquely parsable isometric array grammars, and replicated image algorithms and their analyses on SIMD machines.