Optimization techniques in image analysis

Local parallel processes are a very efficient way of using contextual information in a very large class of problems commonly encountered in Computer Vision. A review of the current approaches to designing and analyzing such processes is presented. Applications to low level vision and symbolic matching are also considered.

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