Table of contents : Series Introduction......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Contents......Page 10 Contributors......Page 12 Passive Range Sensing Techniques: Depth from Images......Page 14 Optimization Approaches in Computer Vision and Image Processing......Page 40 Motion and Shape from Sequences of Images Under Feature Correspondences......Page 68 Compression and Representation of 3-D Images......Page 103 Omnidirectional Sensing and Its Applications......Page 129 Computational Sensors : Vision VLSI......Page 155 Processing and Recognition of Face Images and Its Applications......Page 175 Document Analysis and Recognition......Page 225 Recent Progress in Medical Image Processing......Page 246 Image Processing for Intelligent Transport Systems......Page 271 Index......Page 290