A Theory of Shape Identification

by Frédéric Cao, Jean-Michel Morel, Jose-Luis Lisani

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 to detect and recognize shapes is one of the enigmas of perception. The book describes a complete method that starts from a query image and an image...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540684808
• ISBN13: 9783540684800
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"