Advances in Pattern Recognition; Object Recognition; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Part A Introduction and Acquisition Systems; 1. Introduction; 2. Stereo Matching and Reconstruction of a Depth Map; Part A --;Summary; Part B Database Creation and Modelling for 3-D Object Recognition; 3. 3-D Object Creation for Recognition; 4. Object Representation and Feature Matching; Part B --;Summary; Part C Vision Systems --;Case Studies; 5. Optical Character Recognition; 6. Recognition by Parts and Part Segmentation Techniques; 7. 3-D Object Recognition Systems; Part C --;Summary; Appendices. A. Vector and Matrix AnalysisB. Principal Component Analysis; C. Optimisation Fundamentals; D. Differential Geometry --;Basic Principles; E. Spline Theory; F. Detailed Derivation of Registration Equations; References; Index.