Special Issue on 3D Image Processing ==================================== . FOREWORD ........................................................ 939 Masao SAKAUCHI INVITED PAPERS ============== . Development of Direct-View 3D Display for Videophones Using 15 inch LCD and Lenticular Sheet ........................................ 940 Shinichi SHIWA, Nobuji TETSUTANI, Kenji AKIYAMA, Susumu ICHINOSE and Tadahiko KOMATSU . Passive Depth Acquisition for 3D Image Displays ................. 949 Kiyohide SATOH and Yuichi OHTA PAPERS ====== . A Method for Solving Configuration Problem in Scene Reconstruction Based on Coplanarity ............................................ 958 Seiichiro DAN, Toshiyasu NAKAO and Tadahiro KITAHASHI . Structure Recovery from Multiple Images by Directly Estimating the Intersections in 3-D Space ...................................... 966 Shinjiro KAWATO . Image Synthesis Based on Estimation of Camera Parameters from Image Sequence ........................................................ 973 Jong-Il PARK, Nobuyuki YAGI and Kazumasa ENAMI . Data Compression and Interpolation of Multi-View Image Set ...... 987 Toshiaki FUJII and Hiroshi HARASHIMA . A Method of 3D Object Reconstruction from a Series of Cross-Sectional Images .......................................... 996 Ee-Taek LEE, Young-Kyu CHOI and Kyu Ho PARK . Reverse Distance Transformation and Skeletons Based upon the Euclidean Metric for n-Dimensional Digital Binary Pictures ..... 1005 Toyofumi SAITO and Jun-ichiro TORIWAKI LETTERS ======= . Shape and Reflectance of a Polyhedron from Interreflections by Two-Image Photometric Stereo ................................... 1017 Jun YANG, Noboru OHNISHI and Noboru SUGIE Regular Section =============== PAPERS ====== [Automata, Language and Theory of Computing] . Some Two-Person Game is Complete for ACk Under Many-One NC1 Reducibility ................................................... 1022 Shigeki IWATA [Algorithm and Computational Complexity] . Exhaustive Computation to Derive the Lower Bound for Sorting 13 Items .......................................................... 1027 Shusaku SAWATO, Takumi KASAI and Shigeki IWATA [Computer Networks] . The Number of Permutations Realizable in Fault-Tolerant Multistage Interconnection Networks ....................................... 1032 Hiroshi MASUYAMA and Tetsuo ICHIMORI [Information Security] . A Two-Key-Lock-Pair Access Control Method Using Prime Factorization and Time Stamp ................................................. 1042 Min-Shiang HWANG, Wen-Guey TZENG and Wei-Pang YANG [Image Processing, Computer Graphics and Pattern Recognition] . One Dimensional-Two Dimensional Dynamic Programming Matching Algorithm for Character Recognition ............................ 1047 Hiroaki SAKOE, Muhammad Masroor ALI and Yoshinori KATAYAMA . ABSTRACTS (IEICE Trans., Vol.J77-D-I, J77-D-II, No.9 in Japanese) ....................................................... 1055