This article surveys deformable models, a promising and vigorously researched computer-
assisted medical image analysis technique. Among model-based techniques, deformable …

Recent developments in techniques for modeling, digitizing and visualizing 3D shapes has
led to an explosion in the number of available 3D models on the Internet and in domain …

Humans perceive the three-dimensional structure of the world with apparent ease. However,
despite all of the recent advances in computer vision research, the dream of having a …

Planning algorithms are impacting technical disciplines and industries around the world,
including robotics, computer-aided design, manufacturing, computer graphics, aerospace …

Stereo matching is one of the most active research areas in computer vision. While a large
number of algorithms for stereo correspondence have been developed, relatively little work …

Model-based vision is firmly established as a robust approach to recognizing and locating
known rigid objects in the presence of noise, clutter, and occlusion. It is more problematic to …

Image Processing, Analysis and Machine Vision represent an exciting part of modern
cognitive and computer science. Following an explosion of inter est during the Seventies …

The problem of tracking curves in dense visual clutter is challenging. Kalman filtering is
inadequate because it is based on Gaussian densities which, being unimo dal, cannot …

This fully revised fifth edition provides comprehensive coverage of flexible multibody system
dynamics. Including an entirely new chapter on the integration of geometry, durability …

Measuring the similarity between 3D shapes is a fundamental problem, with applications in
computer graphics, computer vision, molecular biology, and a variety of other fields. A …