Visual Form 2001

This short paper surveys methods for planar shape recognition and shape smoothing and processing invariant under viewing distortions and possibly partial occlusions. It is argued that all the results available on these problems implicitly follow from considering two basic topics: invariant location of points with respect to a given shape (i.e. a given collection of points) and invariant displacement of points with regard to the given shape.

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