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Close Range Techniques and Machine Vision 
Foreword 
Responsibility for Technical Commission V of the International Society for 
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing was given at the Washington Congress of the 
International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Society to the Australian 
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Society for the period 1992 - 1996. Five distinct 
Working Groups and one Inter-Commission Working Group were established to foster 
research and promote the activities of Commission V throughout the world for this period. 
The Working Groups of Commission V cover the topic areas: 
knowledge based vision metrology 
close range imaging systems and their performance 
structural and industrial measurements including CAD/CAM aspects 
photogrammetry in architecture and archaeology 
biostereometrics and medical imaging 
image sequence analysis 
SCENE. Rex KU A 
In March 1994, the Commission V Symposium was held in Melbourne, Australia and an 
enthusiastic gathering of over 140 delegates heard details from some 90 technical papers. 
The participants were also able to participate in several functions designed to blend social 
activities with the "high tech" theme of Close Range Techniques and Machine Vision. 
The social gathering of scientists is a facet of all international meetings which should not be 
lightly dismissed: many good new ideas come from the mixing of different cultures in a 
convivial atmosphere. One such gathering in a restaurant spawned the most successful 
"From Pixels to Sequences" Workshop which was held in Zurich in February 1995. The 
Workshop may prove to be a turning point in the affairs of Commission V as 60 papers were 
presented and not one of them used film-based cameras - all were video/digital in character! 
Now it is time for the culmination of Commission V's activities for the past four years ... the 
Vienna Congress. The research and development areas encompassed by Commission V 
have attracted approximately 160 abstract proposals and the majority of those have been 
accepted for presentation at the Congress. 'State-of-the-Art' research covering all Working 
Group topics appears in this volume of the International Archives. We commend it to you 
as a statement of the quality of research in this field and as a testament to the hard-working 
scientists from every corner of the globe who strive to further the peaceful goals of 
international co-operation of our society. 
Prof. John G. Fryer A. Prof. Mark R. Shortis 
President, ISPRS, Commission V Secretary, ISPRS, Commission V