Emerging Topics in Computer Vision

Acknowledgments

I must thank several of my current and former graduate students whose work is directly or indirectly present on every page: Haifeng Chen, Dorin Comani-ciu, Bogdan Georgescu, Yoram Leedan, and Bogdan Matei. Long discussions with Dave Tyler from the Statistics Department, Rutgers University, helped to crystallize many of the ideas described in this paper. Should they be mistaken, the blame is entirely mine. Preparation of the material was supported by the National Science Foundation under the grant IRI 99-87695.