Geometric Level Set Methods in Imaging, Vision, and Graphics (2003. XXIX, 513 p. w. 195 figs.)

Pattern recognition and arti?cial intelligence were the origins of the explorationofthespace ofimages.Simplistic digitaltechniquesusedatthe beg- ning of 60's for gray image processing operations have been now replaced with a complex mathematical framework that aims to exploit and understand images in two and three dimensions.