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.

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.