This volume covers the most important topics of current interest, presenting a collection of the recent results achieved by leading academic and industrial research groups from several countries. The book contains invited lectures and research papers dealing with the theoretical and applicative aspects of shape perception, representation, decomposition, description and recognition, as well as related topics.

This volume contains papers presented at the Third International Workshop on Visual Form. It covers the most important topics of current interest in the field, presenting an updated collection of results achieved by leading academic and industrial research groups from several countries. The book contains invited lectures and research papers dealing with theoretical and applicative aspects of shape perception, representation, decomposition, description and recognition, as well as related topics.