Statistics and Analysis of Shapes

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Krim, Hamid (Editor), Yezzi, Anthony (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Birkhäuser Boston, 2006.
• Series: Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Pattern recognition.; Visualization.; Mathematical models.; Probabilities.; Statistics.; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Pattern Recognition.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.

The subject of pattern analysis and recognition pervades many aspects of our daily lives, including user authentication in banking, object retrieval from databases in the consumer sector, and the omnipresent surveillance and security measures around sensitive areas. Shape analysis, a fundamental bui...