Editor-in-Chief: CHING Y.

SUEN
Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering
CENPARMI, Concordia University, Building EV,
Suite 3-105, 1455 de Maisonneuve Bld. West,
Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1MB, Canada

Area Editors
ZORAN DURIC SEONG-WHAN LEE
George Mason University, Fairfax, USA Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
EDWIN HANCOCK
University of York, York, UK

Editorial Board Members

MOHAMED ABDEL-MOTTALEB, USA ALES LEONARDIS, Slovenia
MAJID AHMADI, Canada XUELONG LI, UK
BIR BHANU, USA CHENG-LIN LIU, P.R. China
PRABIR BHATTACHARYA, USA MARCO LOOG, The Netherlands
HORST BISCHOF, Austria JIEBO LUO, USA
DJAMEL BOUCHAFFRA, USA BABU MEHTRE, India
PIOTR MIROWSKI, USA
NIZAR BOUGUILA, Canada
VITTORIO MURINO, Italy
LISA BROWN, USA YI LU MURPHEY, USA
CHI H. CHEN, USA FIONN MURTAGH, UK
HENG-DA CHENG, USA TAKESHI MASUDA, Japan
MOHAMED CHERIET, Canada MARCELLO PELILLO, Italy
ATAM DHAWAN, USA TUAN PHAM, Australia
MAHMOUD EL-SAKKA, Canada ANTONIO ROBLES-KELLY, Australia
MAURIZIO FILIPPONE, UK RAIMONDO SCHETTINI, Italy
BILGE GUNSEL, Turkey DINGGANG SHEN, USA
LAURENT HEUTTE, France FRANK SHIH, USA
WILLIAM HOFF, USA PONNUTHURAI N SUGANTHAN, Singapore
JIANYING HU, USA BOAZ SUPER, USA
ATSUSHI IMIYA, Japan REMCO VELTKAMP, The Netherlands
NICOLE VINCENT, France
ROBERT JENSSEN, Norway
RICHARD WILSON, UK
XIAOYI JIANG, Germany HERB YANG, Canada
MOHAMED KAMEL, Canada DIT-YAN YEUNG, Hong Kong
ADAM KRZYZAK, Canada JANE JIA YOU, Hong Kong
LOUISA LAM, Canada PONG YUEN, Hong Kong
LONGIN JAN LATECKI, USA CHANGSHUI ZHANG, P.R. China
CHARLES G. LEEDHAM, Australia JIE ZHOU, USA

Advisory Editors
ROLAND CHIN, Hong Kong
JOSEF KITTLER, UK
LINDA SHAPIRO, USA

Founding Editor
ROBERT S. LEDLEY, USA