| Invited Lectures | |
| Invariant Recognition and Processing of Planar Shapes | p. 3 |
| Recent Advances in Structural Pattern Recognition with Applications to Visual Form Analysis | p. 11 |
| On Learning the Shape of Complex Actions | p. 24 |
| Mereology of Visual Form | p. 40 |
| On Matching Algorithms for the Recognition of Objects in Cluttered Background | p. 51 |
| A Unified Framework for Indexing and Matching Hierarchical Shape Structures | p. 67 |
| A Fragment-Based Approach to Object Representation and Classification | p. 85 |
| Representation | |
| Minimum-Length Polygons in Approximation Sausages | p. 103 |
| Optimal Local Distances for Distance Transforms in 3D Using an Extended Neighbourhood | p. 113 |
| Independent Modes of Variation in Point Distribution Models | p. 123 |
| Qualitative Estimation of Depth in Monocular Vision | p. 135 |
| A New Shape Space for Second Order 3D-Variations | p. 145 |
| Spatial Relations among Pattern Subsets as a Guide for Skeleton Pruning | p. 155 |
| Euclidean Fitting Revisited | p. 165 |
| On the Representation of Visual Information | p. 176 |
| Skeletons in the Framework of Graph Pyramids | p. 186 |
| Computational Surface Flattening: A Voxel-Based Approach | p. 196 |
| An Adaptive Image Interpolation Using the Quadratic Spline Interpolator | p. 205 |
| The Shock Scaffold for Representing 3D Shape | p. 216 |
| Curve Skeletonization by Junction Detection in Surface Skeletons | p. 229 |
| Representation of Fuzzy Shapes | p. 239 |
| Skeleton-Based Shape Models with Pressure Forces: Application to Segmentation of Overlapping Leaves | p. 249 |
| A Skeletal Measure of 2D Shape Similarity | p. 260 |
| Perception-Based 2D Shape Modeling by Curvature Shaping | p. 272 |
| Analysis | |
| Global Topological Properties of Images Derived from Local Curvature Features | p. 285 |
| Adaptive Segmentation of MR Axial Brain Images Using Connected Components | p. 295 |
| Discrete Curvature Based on Osculating Circle Estimation | p. 303 |
| Detection and Enhancement of Line Structures in an Image by Anisotropic Diffusion | p. 313 |
| How Folds Cut a Scene | p. 323 |
| Extraction of Topological Features from Sequential Volume Data | p. 333 |
| Using Beltrami Framework for Orientation Diffusion in Image Processing | p. 346 |
| Digital Planar Segment Based Polyhedrization for Surface Area Estimation | p. 356 |
| Shape-Guided Split and Merge of Image Regions | p. 367 |
| A Rotation-Invariant Morphology for Shape Analysis of Anisotropic Objects and Structures | p. 378 |
| Multiscale Feature Extraction from the Visual Environment in an Active Vision System | p. 388 |
| 2-D Shape Decomposition into Overlapping Parts | p. 398 |
| Fast Line Detection Algorithms Based on Combinatorial Optimization | p. 410 |
| Koenderink Corner Points | p. 420 |
| Dynamic Models for Wavelet Representations of Shape | p. 431 |
| Straightening and Partitioning Shapes | p. 440 |
| Invariant Signatures from Polygonal Approximations of Smooth Curves | p. 451 |
| Recognition | |
| On the Learning of Complex Movement Sequences | p. 463 |
| Possibility Theory and Rough Histograms for Motion Estimation in a Video Sequence | p. 473 |
| Prototyping Structural Shape Descriptions by Inductive Learning | p. 484 |
| Training Space Truncation in Vision-Based Recognition | p. 494 |
| Grouping Character Shapes by Means of Genetic Programming | p. 504 |
| Pattern Detection Using a Maximal Rejection Classifier | p. 514 |
| Visual Search and Visual Lobe Size | p. 525 |
| Judging Whether Multiple Silhouettes Can Come from the Same Object | p. 532 |
| Discrete Deformable Boundaries for the Segmentation of Multidimensional Images | p. 542 |
| Camera Motion Extraction Using Correlation for Motion-Based Video Classification | p. 552 |
| Matching Incomplete Objects Using Boundary Signatures | p. 563 |
| General Purpose Matching of Grey Level Arbitrary Images | p. 573 |
| Many-to-many Matching of Attributed Trees Using Association Graphs and Game Dynamics | p. 583 |
| An Expectation-Maximisation Framework for Perceptual Grouping | p. 594 |
| Alignment-Based Recognition of Shape Outlines | p. 606 |
| Behind the Image Sequence: The Semantics of Moving Shapes | p. 619 |
| Probabilistic Hypothesis Generation for Rapid 3D Object Recognition | p. 630 |
| Modelling and Retrieval | |
| Efficient Shape Description Using NURBS | p. 643 |
| Non-manifold Multi-tessellation: From Meshes to Iconic Representations of Objects | p. 654 |
| Image Indexing by Contour Analysis: A Comparison | p. 665 |
| Shape Reconstruction from an Image Sequence | p. 677 |
| 3D Shape Reconstruction from Multiple Silhouettes: Generalization from Few Views by Neural Network Learning | p. 687 |
| Robust Structural Indexing through Quasi-Invariant Shape Signatures and Feature Generation | p. 696 |
| Fast Reconstruction of 3D Objects from Single Free-Hand Line Drawing | p. 706 |
| Color and Shape Index for Region-Based Image Retrieval | p. 716 |
| Applications | |
| Virtual Drilling in 3-D Objects Reconstructed by Shape-Based Interpolation | p. 729 |
| Morphological Image Processing for Evaluating Malaria Disease | p. 739 |
| A Binocular License Plate Reader for High Precision Speed Measurement | p. 749 |
| Volume and Surface Area Distributions of Cracks in Concrete | p. 759 |
| Integration of Local and Global Shape Analysis for Logo Classification | p. 769 |
| Motion Tracking of Animals for Behavior Analysis | p. 779 |
| Head Model Acquisition from Silhouettes | p. 787 |
| Author Index | p. 797 |
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