Deformation Models (eBook)

Preface.-   List of Contributors.-   List of Algorithms.-   Part I Fundamentals and animation applications: Deformable Objects Representation, by Pere Palmer, Arnau Mir, and Manuel González-Hidalgo.-  Free form deformations or deformations non-constrained by geometries or topologies, by Romain Raffin.-  Cage based deformations: a survey , by Jesús R. Nieto, Antonio Susín.-  Image Gradient Based Level Set Methods in 2D and 3D, by Xianghua Xie, Si Yong Yeo, Majid Mirmehdi, Igor Sazonov, and Perumal Nithiarasu.-  A fast geometric deformation method to adapt a foot to a platform, by J.M. Buades, M. González-Hidalgo, Francisco J.Perales, S. Ramis-Guarinos, A. Oliver and E. Montiel.-  Frame-based interactive simulation of complex deformable objects, by Benjamin Gilles, Franc¸ois Faure, Guillaume Bousquet, and Dinesh K. Pai.-  Part II Tracking and computer vision applications: Robust Deformable Models for 2D and 3D Shape Estimation, by Jorge S. Marques, Jacinto C. Nascimento, and Carlos Santiago.-  Deformable Face Alignment via Local Measurements and Global Constraints, by Jason M. Saragih.-  Learning-based Detection and Tracking in Medical Imaging: A Probabilistic Approach, by Yang Wang, Bogdan Georgescu, Terrence Chen, Wen Wu, Peng Wang, Xiaoguang Lu, Razvan Ionasec, Yefeng Zheng, Dorin Comaniciu.-  A Supervised Graph-cut Deformable Model for Brain MRI Segmentation, by Laura Igual, Joan Carles Soliva, Antonio Hern´andez-Vela, Sergio Escalera, Oscar Vilarroya, Petia Radeva.-  Elastic Registration of Edges Using Diffuse Surfaces, by Stefan Furtinger, Stephen Keeling, Gernot Plank, Anton J Prassl.-  Errors in estimates of motion and strain-tensor in ultrasound elastography, by Mehmet Bilgen.