Visual Form: Analysis and Recognition

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Thinning of Gray-Scale Images with Combined Sequential and Parallel Conditions for Pixel Removal....Pages 1-10
Shape Decomposition Using Structured Light Vision....Pages 11-20
Reversible Skeletonization by (5,7,11)-Erosion....Pages 21-28
Perception of 3-D Objects by a Robotic Stereo Eye-in-Hand Vision System....Pages 29-37
Motion and Structure in Rigid Multi-Surfaced Stationary Environments Using Time-Varying Image Velocity: Linear Solutions....Pages 39-46
Parallel Simulated Annealing for Shape Detection....Pages 47-56
Filling and Analysing Concavities of Digital Patterns Parallelwise....Pages 57-66
Shape from Occluding Contours: a Regularization Method....Pages 67-77
Towards Representation of 3D Shape: Global Surface Parametrization....Pages 79-88
Differential Invariants of Planar Curves and Recognizing Partially Occluded Shapes....Pages 89-98
Three-Dimensional Surface Reconstruction Using Delaunay Triangulation in the Image Plane....Pages 99-108
Multidimensional Indexing for Recognizing Visual Shapes....Pages 109-118
Circular Shape Detection in Remote Sensing Multispectral Images....Pages 119-126
Orthogonal Zig-Zag: An Efficient Method for Extracting Straight Lines from Engineering Drawings....Pages 127-136
Massively Parallel Processing of Image Contours....Pages 137-154
Classifying Character Shapes....Pages 155-164
Detecting Digital Straight Line Segments in O ( N 2 )....Pages 165-174
Computing Egomotion and Shape from Image Motion Using Collinear Points....Pages 175-185
Extraction and Representation of Shape Features for CAD/CAM Applications....Pages 187-196
3-D Object Recognition from Single Perspective Views....Pages 197-204
Search and Replace of 2-D Objects in Digital Images....Pages 205-212
Primitive-Based Shape Modeling and Recognition....Pages 213-229
Qualitative Shape—Some Computational Aspects....Pages 231-248
Fast Thinning Algorithms for Large Binary Images....Pages 249-258
3D Object Recognition by Integration of Associative and Symbolic Techniques....Pages 259-266
A New Approach to Affine Transform Invariant Shape Matching....Pages 267-274
Model-Based Morphology: Simple and Complex Shapes....Pages 275-285
Human Face Motion Analysis....Pages 287-292
A Computational Model of Mathematical Morphology....Pages 293-302
Determining the Symmetry of Polyhedra....Pages 303-312
Depth Data Segmentation Using Robust Estimation in a Hierarchical Data Structure....Pages 313-321
Shape Recognition Under Affine Distortions....Pages 323-332
Entropy Scale-Space....Pages 333-344
A New Contour Generation Thinning Algorithm....Pages 345-353
The Visual Hull and Its Computation in 2-D....Pages 355-362
Shape Description Using Geons as 3D Primitives....Pages 363-377
Shape and Causal-History....Pages 379-388
Shape Representation and Recovery Using Deformable Superquadrics....Pages 389-398
From Voxels to Curvature Features....Pages 399-407
The Dimensions of Shape and Form....Pages 409-419
Shape Classification by Using Associative Memories....Pages 421-430
Applications of Splines to Shape Description....Pages 431-441
3D Medial Surfaces and 3D Skeletons....Pages 443-450
A Review of Hierarchical Representations of Shape and Some Applications....Pages 451-467
Estimating Curvature by Kalman Filters....Pages 469-477
View-Class Representation and Matching of 3D Objects....Pages 479-493
Occulsions and Perspective in an Image Sequence....Pages 495-506
Detecting Round Regions....Pages 507-516
On Symmetric Forms of Discrete Sets of Points and Digital Curves....Pages 517-525
Extraction of Surface Orientation Using Gray Level Difference Statistics....Pages 527-536
Shape Splitting from Medial Lines Using the 3–4 Chamfer Distance....Pages 537-546
Distance Transformation and Skeleton for Shape Feature Analysis....Pages 547-563
Forms Structure Form at Ever “Higher” and “Lower” Levels....Pages 565-581
Human Perception of Affine Equivalent Polygons....Pages 583-592
3-D Pose Estimation by an Improved Kohonen-Net....Pages 593-602
On the Recognition of Articulated Objects (Generalizing the Generalized Hough Transform)....Pages 603-612
Analysis of Straight Homogeneous Generalized Cylinders Under Perspective Projection....Pages 613-622
Invariants and Pose Determination....Pages 623-632
Characteristic Pattern Based on Mathematical Morphology....Pages 633-640
Back Matter....Pages 641-644