Shaping up! Introduction into shape analysis - MISS 2014 (07)

Prof. Guido Gerig (University of Utah, US) was one of the speakers of Medical Imaging Summer School (Sicily, July 28-August 1, 2014), here you can find his lecture 1: "Shaping up! Introduction into shape analysis".

Abstract. The study of shape and structure is a key research topic in image analysis and computer vision, and a crucial component in image processing applications related to biology, medicine, image indexing and searching, industrial inspection and robot vision, just to name a few.

This presentation gives an overview of basic principles and concepts of shape modeling, morphometric analysis, and shape statistics. This includes the discussion of general shape and landmark representations, morphometric shape metrics, morphic transformations, shape descriptors, shape spaces, shape distributions, questions of homology, correspondence-free shape analysis, and concepts of shape recognition and classification.

Shooting: Lorenzo Di Silvestro, Mauro Sodano
Editing and post-production: Lorenzo Di Silvestro, Agata Ventura