chapter 1 Neural-Based Target Detectors for Multiband Infrared Imagery -- chapter 2 Passive Infrared Automatic Target Discrimination -- chapter 3 Recognizing Objects in SAR Images -- chapter 4 Edge Detection and Location in SAR Images: Contribution of Statistical Deformable Models -- chapter 5 View-Based Recognition of Military Vehicles in Ladar Imagery Using CAD Model Matching -- chapter 6 Distortion-Invariant Minimum Mean Squared Error Filtering Algorithm for Pattern Recognition -- chapter 7 Electro-Optical Correlators for Three-Dimensional Pattern Recognition -- chapter 8 Three-Dimensional Object Recognition by Means of Digital Holography -- chapter 9 A Distortion-Tolerant Image Recognition Receiver Using a Multihypothesis Method -- chapter 10 Correlation Pattern Recognition: An Optimum Approach -- chapter 11 Optimum Nonlinear Filter for Detecting Noisy Distorted Targets -- chapter 12 Ip-Norm Optimum Distortion-Tolerant Filter for Image Recognition -- chapter 13 Image-Based Face Recognition: Issues and Methods -- chapter 14 Image Processing Techniques for Automatic Road Sign Identification and Tracking -- chapter 15 Development of Pattern Recognition Tools Based on the Automatic Spatial Frequency Selection Algorithm in View of Actual Applications.