Image Filtering -- Discrete Pulse Transform of Images -- Constrained Unsharp Masking for Image Enhancement -- Discrete Wavelet Diffusion for Image Denoising -- Dynamic Color Texture Modeling and Color Video Decomposition Using Bounded Variation and Oscillatory Functions -- Reinstating Floyd-Steinberg: Improved Metrics for Quality Assessment of Error Diffusion Algorithms -- A Neuro Fuzzy Model for Image Compression in Wavelet Domain -- Image Segmentation -- A People Counting System Based on Dense and Close Stereovision -- Topology-Preserving Discrete Deformable Model: Application to Multi-segmentation of Brain MRI -- A Real Time Human Detection System Based on Far Infrared Vision -- Computer Vision -- Uniqueness Filtering for Local Feature Descriptors in Urban Building Recognition -- Dynamic Human Fatigue Detection Using Feature-Level Fusion -- Real Time Monocular Depth from Defocus -- Dynamic Skin Detection in Color Images for Sign Language Recognition -- Depth Estimation by Finding Best Focused Points Using Line Fitting -- Improved Phase Correlation Matching -- A New Approach to Estimate Fractal Dimension of Texture Images -- Biomedical Applications -- Digital Signal Processing Techniques for Gene Finding in Eukaryotes -- A CAD System for Long-Bone Segmentation and Fracture Detection -- Comparison of Image Restoration Methods for Bioluminescence Imaging -- Texture-Based Multiscale Segmentation: Application to Stromal Compartment Characterization on Ovarian Carcinoma Virtual Slides -- Combination of Image Registration Algorithms for Patient Alignement in Proton Beam Therapy -- Speech Signal Processing Based on Wavelets and SVM for Vocal Tract Pathology Detection -- Feature Extraction -- Pair Correlation Integral for Fractal Characterization of Three-Dimensional Histograms from Color Images -- Accelerating Integral Histograms Using an Adaptive Approach -- Volume Estimation of Small Particles Using Three-Dimensional Reconstruction from Multiple Views -- A Multivariate Hit-or-Miss Transform for Conjoint Spatial and Spectral Template Matching -- Blur Insensitive Texture Classification Using Local Phase Quantization -- An Algorithm to Determine the Chromaticity Under Non-uniform Illuminant -- Transients Detection in the Time-Scale Domain -- SIFT Based Ball Recognition in Soccer Images -- Evaluation Protocol for Localization Metrics -- Pattern Recognition -- Classification of Proteomic Signals by Block Kriging Error Matching -- Grip-Pattern Recognition in Smart Gun Based on Likelihood-Ratio Classifier and Support Vector Machine -- Chirplet Transform Applied to Simulated and Real Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) Calls -- Illumination Invariant Face Recognition under Various Facial Expressions and Occlusions -- A Version of the FastICA Algorithm Based on the Secant Method Combined with Simple Iterations Method -- SVM-Based Face Recognition Using Genetic Search for Frequency-Feature Subset Selection -- Graph-Based Representations -- A Path Following Algorithm for Graph Matching -- Statistically Valid Graph Representations of Scale-Space Geometry -- Hierarchical Matching Using Combinatorial Pyramid Framework -- Motion Detection and Estimation -- Multi-cue Facial Feature Detection and Tracking -- Body Language Based Individual Identification in Video Using Gait and Actions -- Human Hand Gesture Recognition Using Motion Orientation Histogram for Interaction of Handicapped Persons with Computer -- 3D Human Motion Reconstruction Using Video Processing -- New Interfaces -- Personal Recognition Using Single-Sensor Multimodal Hand Biometrics -- Face Tracking for Spatially Aware Mobile User Interfaces -- Markerless Augmented Reality Using Image Mosaics -- Retracted: A Novel Text-Independent Speaker Verification System Using Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm -- Image Retrieval: Color and Texture Combining Based on Query-Image -- Markerless Outdoor Localisation Based on SIFT Descriptors for Mobile Applications -- Document Processing -- Off-Line Arabic Handwritten Characters Recognition Based on a Hidden Markov Models -- Watermarking Based on the Density Coefficients of Faber-Schauder Wavelets -- Arabic Handwritten Characters Classification Using Learning Vector Quantization Algorithm -- A Complete Pyramidal Geometrical Scheme for Text Based Image Description and Retrieval -- Local Orientation Extraction for Wordspotting in Syriac Manuscripts -- Signal Processing -- A Procedure for Efficient Generation of 1/f ? Noise Sequences -- Design and Implementation of an Image CoProcessor -- Wavelet-Packet Identification of Dynamic Systems with Coloured Measurement Noise -- Comparison of the Cross Deleted Wigner Representation and the Matching Pursuit Distribution (Via Adaptive Signal Decomposition) -- Mean Weight Behavior of Coupled LMS Adaptive Systems Applied to Acoustic Feedback Cancellation in Hearing Aids -- Sound Localization Based on Excitation Source Information for Intelligent Home Service Robots -- Voicing Detection in Noisy Speech Signal -- Coherent Synchronization of a Chaotic Communication System Based on a QAM-4 Transmitter -- Joint Multiple Target Tracking and Classification Using Controlled Based Cheap JPDA-Multiple Model Particle Filter in Cluttered Environment -- Correlation, Independance and Inverse Modeling -- A New Approach for Reducing Embedding Noise in Multiple Bit Plane Steganography -- Region-Based Wavelet-Packet Adaptive Algorithm for Sparse Response Identification -- Simulation Method of SAR Raw Echo for Urban Scene -- Underwater Passive Location Technology Using Dummy Time-Reversal Mirror -- Multifractal Analysis on the Sphere -- Erratum -- Erratum: A Novel Text-Independent Speaker Verification System Using Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm.