This is the sixth in the survey series of yearly bibliographies on image engineering in China. Considering the current status of the researches on image engineering and the applications of image techniques as well as the distribution of related publications in China

more than 400 research and technique references are carefully selected by counting on their topics from more than 2100 research papers published in a set of 15 Chinese journals. These 15 journals are considered as important journals in which papers concerning image engineering are relatively concentrated. These references are classified into different categories according to their contents. Some analysis and discussions of the statistics made on the classification results are also presented. At this great milestone that we step into the new millennium

some new classes related to emerging research hot points are added. This work shows a general and up to date picture of the progresses of image engineering in China. It also supplies a convenient means of literature searching for readers doing researches and/or applications in this field

and provides a useful reference for the editors of journals and potential authors of papers.