Visual Form 2001

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