Extending beyond the boundaries of science, art, and culture, content-based multimedia
information retrieval provides new paradigms and methods for searching through the myriad …

This monograph reviews both the theory and practice of the numerical computation of
geodesic distances on Riemannian manifolds. The notion of Riemannian manifold allows …

We review methods designed to compute correspondences between geometric shapes
represented by triangle meshes, contours or point sets. This survey is motivated in part by …

Inexact graph matching has been one of the significant research foci in the area of pattern
analysis. As an important way to measure the similarity between pairwise graphs error …

" A picture is worth one thousand words". This proverb comes from Confucius-a Chinese
philosopher about 2500 years ago. Now, the essence of these words is universally …

Part structure and articulation are of fundamental importance in computer and human vision.
We propose using the inner-distance to build shape descriptors that are robust to articulation …

Object recognition systems constitute a deeply entrenched and omnipresent component of
modern intelligent systems. Research on object recognition algorithms has led to advances …

In this paper, we examine the main advances registered in the last ten years in Pattern
Recognition methodologies based on graph matching and related techniques, analyzing …

This exploratory paper quests for a stochastic and context sensitive grammar of images. The
grammar should achieve the following four objectives and thus serves as a unified …

The last half century has seen the development of many biological or physical t-ories that
have explicitly or implicitly involved medial descriptions of objects and other spatial entities …