International specialists report recent research and development, focusing on new applications: The book records proceedings of the IMA (Institution of Mathematics and Applications) conference co-sponsored with the Institute of Physics and the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Contents: Noise analysis: binary random images superposition: probabilistic image smoothing; Segmentation and pattern recognition; image segmentation; colour pattern recognition: Finger print identification; algorithms of 3-D Iso surfaces; mathematical model of image segmentation 3-D on parametric segmentation method: Artificial intelligence; Automatic satellite target detection; Analysis in light, confocal and electron microscopes; Compression Issues; Artificial neural networks; Coefficient video modelling; Progressive transmission: smoothing facsimile images; Human face identification; Fractals and wavelets; lacunarity; Wavelet processing of coloured images; Optical flow analysis; Computing optical fl