Interactive curve modeling techniques and their applications are extremely useful
in a number of academic and industrial settings. Specifically, curve modeling plays
a significant role in multidisciplinary problem solving. It is extremely useful in
various situations like font design, designing objects, CAD/CAM, medical imaging
and visualization, scientific data visualization, virtual reality, object recognition,
etc. In particular, various problems like iris recognition, fingerprint recognition,
signature recognition, etc. can also be intelligently solved and automated
using curve techniques. In addition to its critical importance more recently, the
curve modeling methods have also proven to be indispensable in a variety of modern
industries, including computer vision, robotics, medical imaging, visualization,
and even media.
This book aims to provide a valuable source that focuses on interdisciplinary
methods and to add up-to-date methodologies in the area. It aims to provide the
user community with a variety of techniques, applications, and systems necessary
for various real-life problems in the areas such as font design, medical visualization,
scientific data visualization, archaeology, toon rendering, virtual reality, body
simulation, outline capture of images, object recognition, signature recognition,
industrial applications, and many others.