edited by M Cheriet (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada) & Y H Yang (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

This book contains selected papers presented at Vision Interface '98, held in Vancouver, Canada, in June 1998. It spans a wide spectrum of topics in computer vision and image processing. During the last three decades, the field of computer vision and image processing has grown at a phenomenal rate due to the development of innovative techniques coupled with the advance in hardware that have been made available at lower cost. Numerous practical applications are now being realized to justify the theme of Vision Interface '98 — “Real World Applications of Computer Vision”.

• Preface (M Cheriet & Y-H Yang)
• Adaptive Gabor Filters for Phase-Based Disparity Estimation (B Crespi & G Tecchiolli)
• A Fast Rule-Based Parameter Free Discrete Hough Transform (B M A Genswein & Y-H Yang)
• Unsupervised Segmentation of 3D and 2D Seismic Reflection Data (K Köster & M Spann)
• Extraction of Handwritten Data from Noisy Gray-Level Images Using a Multiscale Approach (M Cheriet)
• Robust Mosaicing Using Zernike Moments (F Badra et al.)
• 3D Image Understanding and Recognition in Virtual Environment (P S P Wang)
• An Integrated Linear Technique for Pose Estimation from Different Geometric Features (Q Ji et al.)
• On the Recovery of Motion and Structure When Cameras are not Calibrated (B S Boufama)
• Towards the Self-Calibration of a Multiview Radiographic Imaging System for the 3D Reconstruction of the Human Spine and Rib Cage (F Cheriet et al.)
• Image Flow Estimation Using Facet Model and Covariance Propagation (M Ye & R M Haralick)
• Robust Motion Trajectory Estimation for Long Image Sequences with Applications to Motion Compensated Prediction (D Gibson & M Spann)
• Image Processing for Internet Applications (P W Wong)