Medial Representations Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Siddiqi, Kaleem (Editor), Pizer, Stephen M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: Computational Imaging and Vision, 37
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Artificial intelligence.; Image processing.; Algorithms.; Computer mathematics.; Geometry.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computational Science and Engineering.

The last half century has seen the development of many biological or physical theories that have explicitly or implicitly involved medial descriptions of objects and other spatial entities in our world. Simultaneously mathematicians have studied the properties of these skeletal descriptions of shape...