Ebook: Innovations for shape analysis

Part I. Discrete Shape Analysis. Modeling Three-Dimensional Morse and Morse-Smale Complexes / Lidija Čomić, Leila De Floriani, Federico Iuricich -- Geodesic Regression and Its Application to Shape Analysis / P. Thomas Fletcher -- Segmentation and Skeletonization on Arbitrary Graphs Using Multiscale Morphology and Active Contours / Petros Maragos, Kimon Drakopoulos -- Refined Homotopic Thinning Algorithms and Quality Measures for Skeletonisation Methods / Pascal Peter, Michael Breuß -- Nested Sphere Statistics of Skeletal Models / Stephen M. Pizer ... [et al.] -- 3D Curve Skeleton Computation and Use for Discrete Shape Analysis / Gabriella Sanniti di Baja, Luca Serino, Carlo Arcelli -- Orientation and Anisotropy of Multi-component Shapes / Joviša Žunić, Paul L. Rosin -- Part II. Partial Differential Equations for Shape Analysis. Stable Semi-local Features for Non-rigid Shapes / Roee Litman, Alexander M. Bronstein, Michael M. Bronstein -- A Brief Survey on Semi-Lagrangian Schemes for Image Processing / Elisabetta Carlini, Maurizio Falcone, Adriano Festa -- Shape Reconstruction of Symmetric Surfaces Using Photometric Stereo / Roberto Mecca, Silvia Tozza -- Remeshing by Curvature Driven Diffusion / Serena Morigi, Marco Rucci -- Group-Valued Regularization for Motion Segmentation of Articulated Shapes / Guy Rosman ... [et al.] -- Point Cloud Segmentation and Denoising via Constrained Nonlinear Least Squares Normal Estimates / Edward Castillo, Jian Liang, Hongkai Zhao -- Distance Images and the Enclosure Field: Applications in Intermediate-Level Computer and Biological Vision / Steven W. Zucker -- Part III. Optimization Methods for Shape Analysis. Non-rigid Shape Correspondence Using Pointwise Surface Descriptors and Metric Structures / Anastasia Dubrovina, Dan Raviv, Ron Kimmel -- A Review of Geometry Recovery from a Single Image Focusing on Curved Object Reconstruction / Martin R. Oswald ... [et al.] -- On Globally Optimal Local Modeling: From Moving Least Squares to Over-parametrization / Shachar Shem-Tov ... [et al.] -- Incremental Level Set Tracking / Shay Dekel, Nir Sochen, Shai Avidan -- Simultaneous Convex Optimization of Regions and Region Parameters in Image Segmentation Models / Egil Bae, Jing Yuan, Xue-Cheng Tai -- Fluctuating Distance Fields, Parts, Three-Partite Skeletons / Sibel Tari -- Integrated DEM Construction and Calibration of Hyperspectral Imagery: A Remote Sensing Perspective / Christian Wöhler, Arne Grumpe