This book is primarily a graduate text on 3D imaging, shape analysis, and associated
applications. In addition to serving masters-level and doctoral-level research students, much
of the text is accessible enough to be useful to final-year undergraduate project students.
Also, we hope that it will serve wider audiences, for example, as a reference text for
professional academics, people working in commercial research and development labs, and
industrial practitioners. We believe that this text is unique in the literature on 3D imaging in …