A survey of shape analysis techniques

This paper provides a review of shape analysis methods. Shape analysis methods play an important role in systems for object recognition, matching, registration, and analysis. Research in shape analysis has been motivated, in part, by studies of human visual form perception systems. Several theories of visual form perception are brie y mentioned. Shape analysis methods are classi ed into several groups. Classi cation is determined according to the use of shape boundary or interior, and according to the type of result. An overview of the most representative methods is presented. Shape analysis Shape description Image analysis Object recognition