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ECCV
2010
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
2010
Springer
The study of 2D shapes is a central problem in the field of computer vision. In 2D shape analysis, classification and recognition of objects from their observed silhouette are e...
PAMI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
—Three-dimensional shape matching is a fundamental issue in computer vision with many applications such as shape registration, 3D object recognition, and classification. However,...
EMMCVPR
2003
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2003
Springer
Abstract. We propose two differential geometric representations of planar shapes using: (i) direction functions and (ii) curvature functions, of their boundaries. Under either rep...
SPATIALCOGNITION
1998
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
1998
Springer
This paper investigates geometric and ontological aspects of shape concepts underlying the semantics of nouns. Considering the German shape nouns Ecke and Knick (corner and kink) w...
EUROGRAPHICS
2010
Eurographics
14 years 3 months ago
2010
Eurographics
We present a real-time algorithm for rendering translucent objects of arbitrary shapes. We approximate the scattering of light inside the objects using the diffusion equation, whi...