Low-level vision : Images and imaging operations ; Basic image filtering operations ;Thresholding techniques ; Edge detection ; Corner and interest point detection ; Mathematical morphology ; Texture -- Intermediate-level vision : Binary shape analysis ; Boundary pattern analysis ; Line detection ; Circle and ellipse detection ; The hough transform and its nature ; Pattern matching techniques -- 3-D vision and motion : The three-dimensional world ; Tackling the perspective n-point problem ; Invariants and perspective ; Image transformations and camera calibration ; Motion -- Toward real-time pattern recognition systems : Automated visual inspection ; Inspection of cereal grains ; Surveillance ; In-vehicle vision systems -- Statistical pattern recognition ; Image acquistion ; Real-time hardware and ystems design considerations ; Epilogue - perspectives in vision