Visual Form 2001

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Invited Lectures

   1. Invariant Recognition and Processing of Planar Shapes

      • Alfred M. Bruckstein

      Pages 3-10

   2. Recent Advances in Structural Pattern Recognition with Applications to Visual Form Analysis

      • Horst Bunke

      Pages 11-23

   3. On Learning the Shape of Complex Actions

      • Terry Caelli, Andrew McCabe, Gordon Binsted

      Pages 24-39

   4. Mereology of Visual Form

      • Donald D. Hoffman

      Pages 40-50

   5. On Matching Algorithms for the Recognition of Objects in Cluttered Background

      • Josef Kittler, Alireza Ahmadyfard

      Pages 51-66

   6. A Unified Framework for Indexing and Matching Hierarchical Shape Structures

      • Ali Shokoufandeh, Sven Dickinson

      Pages 67-84

   7. A Fragment-Based Approach to Object Representation and Classification

      • Shimon Ullman, Erez Sali, Michel Vidal-Naquet

      Pages 85-100

3. Representation

   1. Minimum-Length Polygons in Approximation Sausages

      • Tetsuo Asano, Yasuyuki Kawamura, Reinhard Klette, Koji Obokata

      Pages 103-112

   2. Optimal Local Distances for Distance Transforms in 3D Using an Extended Neighbourhood

      • Gunilla Borgefors, Stina Svensson

      Pages 113-122

   3. Independent Modes of Variation in Point Distribution Models

      • Marco Bressan, Jordi Vitrià

      Pages 123-134

   4. Qualitative Estimation of Depth in Monocular Vision

      • Virginio Cantoni, Luca Lombardi, Marco Porta, Ugo Vallone

      Pages 135-144

   5. A New Shape Space for Second Order 3D-Variations

      • Per-Erik Danielsson, Qingfen Lin

      Pages 145-154

   6. Spatial Relations among Pattern Subsets as a Guide for Skeleton Pruning

      • Claudio De Stefano, Maria Frucci

      Pages 155-164

   7. Euclidean Fitting Revisited

      • Petko Faber, R.B. Fisher

      Pages 165-175

   8. On the Representation of Visual Information

      • Mario Ferraro, Giuseppe Boccignone, Terry Caelli

      Pages 176-185

   9. Skeletons in the Framework of Graph Pyramids

      • Roland Glantz, Walter G. Kropatsch

      Pages 186-195

   10. Computational Surface Flattening: A Voxel-Based Approach

       • Ruth Grossmann, Nahum Kiryati, Ron Kimmel

       Pages 196-204

   11. An Adaptive Image Interpolation Using the Quadratic Spline Interpolator

       • Hyo-Ju Kim, Chang-Sung Jeong

       Pages 205-215

   12. The Shock Scaffold for Representing 3D Shape

       • Frederic F. Leymarie, Benjamin B. Kimia

       Pages 216-227

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Visual Form, IWVF-4, held in Capri, Italy, in May 2001.
The 66 revised full papers presented together with seven invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions. The book covers theoretical and applicative aspects of visual form processing. The papers are organized in topical sections on representation, analysis, recognition, modelling and retrieval, and applications.

• 3D
• Maxima
• Sage
• algorithms
• approximation
• classification
• computational geometry
• graph representation
• graphical representation
• image processing
• object recognition
• pattern recognition
• segmentation
• shape analysis
• visual information

• Istituto di Cibernetica, Arco Felice (Naples), Italy

  Carlo Arcelli, Gabriella Sanniti Baja

• Dipartimento di Informatica e Sitemistica, Universitá di Napoli “Frederico II”, Naples

  Luigi P. Cordella

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