Aspects of Visual Form Processing

This volume covers the most important topics of current interest, presenting a collection of the recent results achieved by leading academic and industrial research groups from several countries. The book contains invited lectures and research papers dealing with the theoretical and applicative aspects of shape perception, representation, decomposition, description and recognition, as well as related topics.

• Recognition of Graphical Objects for Intelligent Interpretation of Line Drawings (J F Arias & R Kasturi)
• Multiscale Spatial Filters for Visual Tasks and Object Recognition (D H Ballard et al.)
• Applications Using Distance Transforms (G Borgefors)
• Quantitative Performance Evaluation of Thinning Algorithms in the Presence of Noise (M Y Jaisimha et al.)
• On the Shape Triangle (B Kimia et al.)
• Generalized Cylinders — What are They? (A Naeve & J-O Eklundh)
• An Induced Taxonomy of Visual Form (G Nagy)
• Context Dependent Shape Perception or Why Machines are Poor Readers (T Pavlidis)
• Continuous Symmetry for Shapes (H Zabrodsky et al.)
• and other papers