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<strong>and</strong> hilights features <strong>and</strong> problems <strong>of</strong> those theories as were studied up to afew years ago, so as to identify the needs <strong>and</strong> obstacles to further developments.Section 3 conta<strong>in</strong>s a summary <strong>of</strong> all mathematical concepts that are needed forthe rest <strong>of</strong> the notes. Section 4 coalesces all the above <strong>in</strong> more precise def<strong>in</strong>itions<strong>of</strong> spaces <strong>of</strong> <strong>curves</strong> to be used as “<strong>shape</strong> spaces”, <strong>and</strong> sets mathematicalrequirements <strong>and</strong> goals for applications <strong>in</strong> computer vision. Section 5 <strong>in</strong>dexesexamples <strong>of</strong> “<strong>shape</strong> spaces” from the current literature, <strong>in</strong>sert<strong>in</strong>g it <strong>in</strong> a commonparadigm <strong>of</strong> “representation <strong>of</strong> <strong>shape</strong>”; some <strong>of</strong> this literature is then elaboratedupon <strong>in</strong> the follow<strong>in</strong>g sections 6,7,8,9, conta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g two examples <strong>of</strong> metrics <strong>of</strong>compact subsets <strong>of</strong> lR n , two examples <strong>of</strong> F<strong>in</strong>sler metrics <strong>of</strong> <strong>curves</strong>, two examples<strong>of</strong> Riemannian metrics <strong>of</strong> <strong>curves</strong> “up to pose”, <strong>and</strong> four examples <strong>of</strong> Riemannianmetrics <strong>of</strong> immersed <strong>curves</strong>. The last such example is the family <strong>of</strong> Sobolev-typeRiemannian metrics <strong>of</strong> immersed <strong>curves</strong>, whose properties are studied <strong>in</strong> Section10, with applications <strong>and</strong> numerical examples. Section 11 presents advancedmathematical topics regard<strong>in</strong>g the Riemannian spaces <strong>of</strong> immersed <strong>and</strong> geometric<strong>curves</strong>.I gratefully acknowledge that a part <strong>of</strong> the theory <strong>and</strong> many numericalexperiments exposited were developed <strong>in</strong> jo<strong>in</strong>t work with Pr<strong>of</strong>. Yezzi (GaTech)<strong>and</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>. Sundaramoorthi (UCLA); other numerical experiments were by A.Duci <strong>and</strong> myself. I also deeply thank the organizers for <strong>in</strong>vit<strong>in</strong>g me to Cetraroto give the lectures that were the basis for these lecture notes.1 Shapes & <strong>curves</strong>What is this course about? In the first two sections we beg<strong>in</strong> by summariz<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>a simpler form the def<strong>in</strong>itions, review<strong>in</strong>g the goals, <strong>and</strong> present<strong>in</strong>g some usefulmathematical tools.1.1 ShapesA wide <strong>in</strong>terest for the study <strong>of</strong> <strong>shape</strong> spaces arose <strong>in</strong> recent years, <strong>in</strong> particular<strong>in</strong>side the computer vision community. Some examples <strong>of</strong> <strong>shape</strong> spaces are asfollows.• The family <strong>of</strong> all collections <strong>of</strong> k po<strong>in</strong>ts <strong>in</strong> lR n .• The family <strong>of</strong> all non empty compact subsets <strong>of</strong> lR n .000 111000 111000 111000 111000 111• The family <strong>of</strong> all closed <strong>curves</strong> <strong>in</strong> lR n .There are two different (but <strong>in</strong>terconnected) fields <strong>of</strong> applications for a good<strong>shape</strong> space <strong>in</strong> computer vision:<strong>shape</strong> <strong>optimization</strong> where we want to f<strong>in</strong>d the <strong>shape</strong> that best satisfies adesign goal; a topic <strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>terest <strong>in</strong> eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g at large;2

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