Curvature Scale Space Representation: Theory, Applications, and MPEG-7 Standardization

Farzin Mokhtarian is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. He received his degrees from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He worked for Schlumberger-Doll Research Lab, Ridgefield, CT, and NTT Basic Research Labs, Tokyo. He is well known for his research in the areas of 2-D and 3-D shape representation and analysis. Miroslaw Bober is Principal Scientist at the Visual Information Laboratory of Mitsubishi Electric ITE B.V., Guildford, UK. He received his M.Sc. in electrical engineering from University of Mining and Metallurgy, Cracow, Poland and then M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Surrey, UK. He has been chairing the work of the MPEG-7 Standard, Visual part. His scientific interests include motion analysis, video coding, multimedia signal processing, and pattern recognition.

• 1. Multi-Scale Representations for Free-Form Planar Curves.- 2. Robust Free-Form Object Recognition through Curvature Scale Space.- 3. Image Database Retrieval Based on Shape Content.- 4. CSS Under Affine Transforms / Non-Rigid Deformations.- 5. Free-Form 3-D Object Retrieval from Arbitrary Viewpoints.- 6. MPEG-7 Standardisation of the CSS Shape Descriptor.- 7. Robust Image Corner Detection through Curvature Scale Space.- 8. Fast Active Contour Convergence through CSS Filtering.- 9. Multi-Scale Contour Data Compression and Reconstruction Using CSS.- 10. Multi-Scale Representations for Free-Form Space Curves.- 11. Multi-Scale Representations for Free-Form 3-D Surfaces.- Appendices.- Proofs of Theorems of Chapter 1.- Proofs of Theorems of Chapter 10.- Proofs of Theorems of Chapter 11.- References.