Visual Form 2001 : 4th International Workshop on Visual Form IWVF4 Capri Italy May 28–30 2001 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Visual Form IWVF 4 held in Capri Italy in May 2001. The 66 revised full papers presented together with seven invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions. The book covers theoretical and applicative aspects of visual form processing. The papers are organized in topical sections on representation analysis recognition modelling and retrieval and applications