Pattern Anal Applic (2004) 6:257–336

The publishers regret that in volume 6/4 the incorrect year was inserted in the copyright and the source line in the pdf- and print-version. The copyright year and the year in the source line should be 2004 for the following papers:

G. Louverdis, I. Andreadis: Soft Morphological Filtering Using a Fuzzy Model and its Application to Colour Image Processing, 6:257-268, DOI 10.1007/s10044-003-0193-y

M. Haft, R. Hofman, V. Tresp: Generative binary codes, 6: 269-284, DOI 10.1007/s10044-003-0194-x

F. Masulli, G. Valentini: Effectiveness of error correcting output coding methods in ensemble and monolithic learning machines, 6:285-300, DOI 10.1007/s10044-003-195-9

K. Torkkola: Discriminative features for text document classification, 6:301-308, DOI 10.1007/s10044-003-0196-8

C. Wolf, J.-M. Jolion: Extraction and recognition of artificial text in multimedia documents, 6:309-326, DOI 10.1007/s10044-003-0197-7

R. I. A. Davis, B. C. Lovell: Comparing and evaluating HMM ensemble training algorithms using train and test and condition number criteria, 6:327-336, DOI 10.1007/s10044-003-0198-6

The publishers apologise for this error.