Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries; 3. Landmarks; 4. Distance measures; 5. Shape coordinates; 6. Principal axes of shape change for triangles; 7. Features of shape comparison; 8. Retrospect and prospect.

Promotional Information

This first systematic survey of the subject combines multivariate statistical analysis, geometry, and biomathematics.

Reviews

'... will certainly be a landmark volume in this difficult but important field of shape analysis.' K. V. Mardia, ISI Short Book Reviews