A Theory of Shape Identification

• Main Authors: Cao, Frédéric (Author), Lisani, José-Luis (Author), Morel, Jean-Michel (Author), Musé, Pablo (Author), Sur, Frédéric (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1948
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer graphics.; Image processing.; Game theory.; Visualization.; Geometry.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.

Recent years have seen dramatic progress in shape recognition algorithms applied to ever-growing image databases. They have been applied to image stitching, stereo vision, image mosaics, solid object recognition and video or web image retrieval. More fundamentally, the ability of humans and animals...