1. Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Statistics of Shapes and Textures

   • Mads Nielsen
   • Lars Kai Hansen
   • Jon Sporring

   Editorial Introduction Pages: 87 - 87

2. The Problem of Sparse Image Coding

   • Arthur E.C. Pece

   OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 108

3. Shape Connectivity: Multiscale Analysis and Application to Generalized Granulometries

   • Costas S. Tzafestas
   • Petros Maragos

   OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 129

4. A Deformable Template Model, with Special Reference to Elliptical Templates

   • Asger Hobolth
   • Jan Pedersen
   • Eva B. Vedel Jensen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 137

5. Estimating Overcomplete Independent Component Bases for Image Windows

   • Aapo Hyvärinen
   • Mika Inki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 152

6. Optimal Level Curves and Global Minimizers of Cost Functionals in Image Segmentation

   • Charles Kervrann
   • Alain Trubuil

   OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 174

7. Least Committed Splines in 3D Modelling of Free Form Objects from Intensity Images

   • Kuntal Sengupta
   • Prabir Burman
   • Sumit Gupta

   OriginalPaper Pages: 175 - 186

8. Statistical Shape Features for Content-Based Image Retrieval

   • Sami Brandt
   • Jorma Laaksonen
   • Erkki Oja

   OriginalPaper Pages: 187 - 198