Since several years, methods and entire systems have been developped to evaluate digitized picture data from rather different problem areas such as medicine, geological and earth resource investigations, sa- tellite applications, and industrial automation to name but a few. As is to be expected, methodical approaches are usually first published in the context of the special application for which they have been de- velopped. To intensify the exchange of know-how regarding the various methods across the boundaries of special application areas, the Technical Com- mittee 6 of the Gesellschaft fur...