This volume covers the most important topics of current interest, presenting a collection of the recent results achieved by leading academic and industrial research groups from several countries. The book contains invited lectures and research papers dealing with the theoretical and applicative aspects of shape perception, representation, decomposition, description and recognition, as well as related topics.
An iconic description of shape, D. Ballard; distance transforms and their uses, G. Borgefors; generalized cylindes - what are they?, J.O. Eklundh; quantitative performance evaluation of thinning algorithms in the presence of noise, R.M. Haralick et al; recognition of graphical objects for intelligent interpretation of line drawings, R. Kasturi; an induced taxonomy of visual form, G. Nagy; context dependent shape perception, T. Pavlidis; a continuous measure of symmetry, H. Zabrodsky and S. Peleg; shapes, shocks, and deformations, S.W. Zucker. (Part Contents).
