Publishes papers reporting on research and development in optical science and engineering and the practical applications of known optical science, engineering, and technology.

These conference papers on computer hardware and design and testing include coverage of: miscellaneous applications; arithmetic algorithms and architectures; DSP architectures; systolic algorithms and architectures; rapid prototyping; design methodolgies; and compilers."

This volume contains papers presented at the Third International Workshop on Visual Form. It covers the most important topics of current interest in the field, presenting an updated collection of results achieved by leading academic and industrial research groups from several countries. The book contains invited lectures and research papers dealing with theoretical and applicative aspects of shape perception, representation, decomposition, description and recognition, as well as related topics.