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This article deals with the following topics: Spatial Reasoning; Robot Navigation; Helmholtz-Hodge Decomposition;Omnidirectional Optical Flow; Smart Wheelchair Guidance; Optical Flow; Linear Systems; Motion Analysis; Real-Time Correlogram Tracking; Airborne Traffic Surveillance;Tabu Search Optimization; Real-Time Video Tracking ; Digital Elevation Model Accuracy; Alos-Prism Stereo Imagery; Strip-Mining Approach; VQ Image Coding; GPGPU Implementation; Robust Rigid Registration; Image Matching; Arbitrary Extrinsic Photometric Noise;Red Blood Cell Segmentation; SEM Images; Facial Expressions; Quadratic Deformation Model Analysis; Quadratic Deformation Model Synthesis; Face Recognition;Human Face Perception; Generalized Colour Image Segmentation; Kiwifruit Detection; Stereo Accuracy; Collision Avoidance; Multiclass Object Classification; Computer Vision; Linear Genetic Programming; Range Imaging System; Appearance Space Attributes; Texture Synthesis; Bag-Of-Words Speedometer; Single Camera SLAM; Ground-Plane Detection; Stereo Depth Values; Vision Science Experiments; Robot Navigation; Sign Language Analysis; Sign Language Recognition; Model-Based Least-Squares Optimal Interpolation; Sift-Based Object Recognition; Fast Alphabet Creation; Reduced Curse Of Dimensionality; Statistical Method; 3D Image Data Segmentation; Vehicle Pose Identification; Automatic Joint Computation; Automatic Skeleton Computation; 3D Face Feature Segmentation; Medical Imaging; Generic Cameras; Camera Shading Calibration; Spatially Modulated Field;Image Compression Scheme; Huffman Interpolation; Adaptive Interpolation; Improving Image Quality ; Spectral CT Volume Rendering; Human Motion Capture; Boosted Dynamic Active Shape Model; Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Bacteria Segmentation; Motile Cells; Edge Detection; PSO; Matching Road Networks; Mobile Inverted Pendulum Robot; Skin Color Model; Reliable Face Localization; Automatic Lung Segmentation; HRCT Images; Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease; Graph-Cut T- chniques; Sub-Pel Motion Estimation; Contextual Image Filtering; Fuzzy Logic; Multi-Sensor Image Fusion; Knowledge Acquisition; Computer Vision; Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics; Hough Transforms; Automatic Medical Image Categorisation; Support Vector Machine Classifier; Mixed Pixel Restoration; Surface Projection; Edge Strength Evaluation; and Reaction-Diffusion Systems.