Gestalt problems in cognitive psychology: Field theory, invariance and auto-organisation -- Neural network learning in an ecological and evolutionary context -- Trends in pattern recognition -- Computer vision systems: Functionality and structure integration -- On the use of auditory models in speech technology -- Automatic speech recognition with neural networks: Beyond nonparametric models -- New shape from Shading methods -- Orientation-dependent effects in neural networks -- Identification of pattern dimensionality by self-organization -- A Markovian model for perceptual grouping of different shape primitives -- Segmented image reduction -- Design and acquisition of a task-oriented spontaneous-speech database -- Language and ambiguity -- Spatial Logic for image representation and retrieval-by-contents -- Communication among perceiving agents -- Perception of mental states from communication -- Perceptual grouping for scene interpretation in an active vision system -- Using viewer-centered representations in machine vision -- A non-linear integration process for the selection of visual information -- Distributed perceptive paradigms: Preliminary statements -- Anticipatory tracking of a moving object -- A time-to-crash detector based on area expansions: Example of an opto-motor reflex -- "Intelligent" telepresence: Introducing virtual reality in advanced robots.